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Don't Forget Where We Came From - Jory Hunerdosse

Don't Forget Where We Came From - Jory Hunerdosse3 Sept48 min

<p>Sometimes the best podcast conversations are the ones you never planned.A few weeks after meeting Jory while filming another project in southern Iowa, we found ourselves back at his farm, sitting down to talk about a lifetime in agriculture.Jory grew up riding alongside his dad on an Allis-Chalmers, farming ground shaped by the rivers and rolling hills of southern Iowa. He came home from Iowa State in the early 1980s—just in time to experience one of the hardest periods American agriculture has ever seen.We talk about 20% operating notes, selling land to keep the farm going, raising cattle, the evolution from open-station tractors to GPS and RTK, and eventually making the difficult decision to retire from active farming.But this conversation became about much more than one farm.Jory shares why he believes agriculture has to do a better job telling its story as more generations become removed from the farm—and why remembering where we came from matters just as much as embracing where agriculture is headed.From picking corn by hand to modern precision agriculture, this is a conversation about risk, resilience, family, legacy and a lifetime spent on the land.For this episode and more, check out https://www.humblegroundag.comLearn about Boa Safra at https://boasafraag.com/tim-strathman-xe03</p>