Kevin Skunes's guest appearances

Kevin Skunes

American Family Farmer

Agri-Pulse Open Mic Interview

News & Views with Joel Heitkamp

Farm Talk Podcasts

Off The Cob

Roger Johnson

Heidi Heitkamp

Kent Conrad

Joe Donnelly

Pat Roberts

Amy Klobuchar

Rick Berg

Collin Peterson

John Hoeven

Shirley Bloomfield

Mark Schneider

John Deere

Senator Heidi Heitkamp

Tom Vilsack

Joel Salatin

OwlTail

03/22/22 : Joel is broadcasting live from the Fargo Air Museum with Tall Towers Aviation and Toby McPherson. They're joined now by Kevin Skunes, the Director at Large for the North Dakota Corn Growers Association. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

03/22/22 : Joel is broadcasting live from the Fargo Air Museum with Tall Towers Aviation and Toby McPherson. They're joined now by Kevin Skunes, the Director at Large for the North Dakota Corn Growers Association. See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

National Ag Day with Kevin Skunes

This week’s guest on Open Mic is Kevin Skunes, President of the National Corn Growers Association.  Corn farmers have grave concerns over President Trump’s trade agenda as well as EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s actions reducing volume demand for ethanol. In this week’s interview North Dakota’s Kevin Skunes voices farmer concerns over lost corn demand for renewable fuel and the potential loss of export market access.  Skunes says corn farmers applaud the Senate Ag Committee’s approval of a new farm bill and look forward to pending full floor debate of new farm laws.

Kevin Skunes, President National Corn Growers Assn.

KEVIN SKUNES is a vice president at the National Corn Growers Association and a fourth-generation farmer outside Arthur, North Dakota. On his 6,000 acres, he currently raises about 55 percent corn, 45 percent soybeans. This constitutes a big change since Skunes was a child in the 1960s. Back then, the farm was about 2,000 acres of wheat, barley, sunflowers and soybeans, with no corn.Farmers who had long rotated plantings among a diverse group of grains are increasingly turning to a single one. Corn has always been a mainstay of U.S. agriculture, but its increasing profitability has driven up corn's share of total production, while grains such as wheat, oats and sorghum have steadily fallen, according to a Bloomberg analysis of a half-century of crop data. This locks farmers, as well as machinery-makers including Deere &amp; Co., to the rises and falls of one crop, as both domestic and export markets grow more and more tied to the dominant U.S. grain. That exposes farmers to greater volatility and greater trade risk if a major buyer, such as Mexico, were to decide to stop buying U.S. corn.Corn will make up 68 percent of this year’s projected harvest of major U.S. grains and oilseeds this year, according to data the U.S. Department of Agriculture released Wednesday. That’s up from 47 percent in 1968. New markets and technology have made corn more profitable compared to other crops, which is why longtime farmers once devoted to competitive grains have switched to the nation’s number-one source for biofuels and cattle feed.Find out more at www.ncga.com  This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3010081/advertisement

KEVIN SKUNES is a vice president at the National Corn Growers Association and a fourth-generation farmer outside Arthur, North Dakota. On his 6,000 acres, he currently raises about 55 percent corn, 45 percent soybeans. This constitutes a big change since Skunes was a child in the 1960s. Back then, the farm was about 2,000 acres of wheat, barley, sunflowers and soybeans, with no corn. Farmers who had long rotated plantings among a diverse group of grains are increasingly turning to a single one. Corn has always been a mainstay of U.S. agriculture, but its increasing profitability has driven up corn's share of total production, while grains such as wheat, oats and sorghum have steadily fallen, according to a Bloomberg analysis of a half-century of crop data. This locks farmers, as well as machinery-makers including Deere &amp; Co., to the rises and falls of one crop, as both domestic and export markets grow more and more tied to the dominant U.S. grain. That exposes farmers to greater volatility and greater trade risk if a major buyer, such as Mexico, were to decide to stop buying U.S. corn. Corn will make up 68 percent of this year’s projected harvest of major U.S. grains and oilseeds this year, according to data the U.S. Department of Agriculture released Wednesday. That’s up from 47 percent in 1968. New markets and technology have made corn more profitable compared to other crops, which is why longtime farmers once devoted to competitive grains have switched to the nation’s number-one source for biofuels and cattle feed. Find out more at <a href="http://www.ncga" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">www.ncga</a>.com   This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/show/3010081/advertisement" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.spreaker.com/show/3010081/advertisement</a>

Kevin Skunes on The Crop That Ate America