Tennessee Home & Farm Radio

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Tennessee grain farmers depend a lot on export markets especially for corn and soybeans and recently, the US Grains Council held their Export Exchange Conference in Ft. Worth, Texas and several participants from that conference traveled to Tennessee and Kentucky to see firsthand how the products they buy are produced.

Oct 14, 2024

Export Exchange

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Besides tending to the needs of those that have been impacted by the affects of Hurricane Helene, there’s also an ongoing effort to care for livestock and pets.  That’s part of the reason the University of Tennessee College of Veterinarian Medicine has deployed its mobile small animal care unit along with a large animal ambulatory […]

Oct 11, 2024

UT Sets up Mobile Animal Care Units

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While the South deals with Hurricane Milton, the devastation from Hurricane Helene is still being calculated.

Oct 10, 2024

Calculating Hurricane Helene’s Damage

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October is Pork Month! All month long people are celebrating the commodity that is a part of our diet on a regular basis, and thanking the farmers that produce it.

Oct 9, 2024

Celebrating Pork Month

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Recover continues in Upper East Tennessee following the destruction left behind from Helene. Now the need turns to items to keep folks warm as cooler weather is expected later this week.

Oct 8, 2024

Pulling Together To Help Our Friends East

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The clean up and recovery continues in upper East Tennessee from the massive damage left behind from Hurricane Helene. Farmers in the area detail what they’ve lost and how the recovery will take years.

Oct 7, 2024

Helene Recovery Continues

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Joseph and Meredith Redman of Washington County were recently named this year’s Tennessee Young Farmers & Ranchers Excellence in Agriculture winners. The results were announced at the annual fall educational tour, and the couple was extremely proud to take home the win.

Oct 4, 2024

Redmans Take Home Excellence Honors

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Seth Krantz is a veterinarian for Tosh Farms. He was recently selected to be a member of the National Pork Board. He explains what it means to him to be selected for the Pork Board, and what he hopes to accomplish in his three year term.

Oct 3, 2024

Tennessean Named To National Pork Board

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Damage assessment and clean up continues in Northeast Tennessee as folks there continue to grapple with the devastation left behind from massive flooding from hurricane Helene. Folks on the ground give an update on conditions in the impacted areas and how people how pulling together to help each other.

Oct 2, 2024

Helene Recovery In East TN Continues

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Upper North East Tennessee is trying to make sense of the devastation left behind from hurricane Helene. The more than 30 inches of rain that fell in Western North Carolina sent massive amounts of water down the Nolichicky river, flooding many areas in East Tennessee. People lost homes, bridges were knocked out, and many farmers […]

Oct 1, 2024

Upper East TN Reeling From Helene

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During the Wilson County/Tennessee State Fair two of the grand champion market hogs were purchased by Tosh Farms, they in turn donated the pigs for free processing at Potts Meats and then the meat products were donated to Cul2vate in Nashville that will be distributed to needy families.

Sep 30, 2024

Soil for the Soul

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We’re less than six weeks away from the election, but already one state house race is over. Unicoi County Farmer, Renae Jones, won the republican primary for the district 4 state house seat in the August primary, and she doesn’t have anyone running against her in the November general election. Jones explains what it means […]

Sep 27, 2024

Unicoi County Farmer Heading To Nashville