Orion Samuelson & Max Armstrong

• Orion & Max

  Orion Samuelson and Max Armstrong bring WGN Radio 720 listeners comprehensive news on current financial and agricultural trends. From up-to-the-minute market reports and coverage of trading action to agricultural developments at local, state, national and global levels, Orion and Max deliver the... more

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  Max Armstrong Joins Farm Progress as Director of Broadcasting

  Farm Progress announced today that veteran agriculture broadcaster Max Armstrong will join the company as the Director of Broadcasting effective July 6, 2009. Armstrong will oversee Farm Progress' recent addition of a new broadcast business unit providing radio, television and enhanced web... more

Agri-Cast Podcast

• Agricast 2-8-10 Audio

  In this week's AgriCast... Orion talks with Jeff Martin about the Chicago Farmers Farmland Investors Fair in Joliet, and with US Grains Council president Tom Dorr about grain exports to Asia and the Middle East... Max reviews a new report on organic farming just released by the US Department of... more

• Agricast 2-1-10 Audio

  In this week's AgriCast... Max talks with MANA senior marketing manager for herbicides David Downing, with Bunge Corporation grain merchandiser Darren Moody, and with Daughhetee & Parks accountant Phyllis Parks... plus the weekly edition of Samuelson Sez. more

• Agricast 1-25-10 Audio

  In this week's AgriCast... Max visits with Lincoln Land Agri-Energy mManager Randall Metheny about his ethanol plant that has survived the weaker ethanol market... Orion visits with candidate for IL governor Sen. Kirk Dillard about the importance of agriculture to the Illinois economy... Max talks... more

• Agricast 1-18-10 Audio

  In this week's AgriCast... Orion visits with Chicago Farmers festival chair Jeff Martin... Max visits with Illinois Pork Producers Association president Phil Borgic... Orion checks in with Washington Farm Bureau president Steve Appel, American Farm Bureau Federation president Bob Stallman, and... more

• Agricast 1-11-10 Audio

  In this week's AgriCast... Max talks with Wisconsin Agriculturist magazine editor Fran O'Leary, with Indiana Prairie Farmer magazine editor Tom Bechman, with BASF technical marketing manager Dan Westberg, with Farm Futures magazine analyst Bryce Knorr... plus the weekly edition of Samuelson Sez. more

• Agricast 1-4-10 Audio

  In this week's AgriCast... Max shares visits with four farm broadcasters (from Colorado, Minnesota, Ohio and Pennsylvania) to get their views of how farmers were treated in 2009 and what their thoughts are now as we enter a new year... and Orion presents an interview with Secretary of Agriculture... more

• Agricast 12-28-09 Audio

  In this week's AgriCast... Orion visits with Risk Management Agency at USDA administrator Bill Murphy about changes in the Federal Crop Insurance program in 2010... and it's the annual Christmas on the Farm program, this year including a holiday story from Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack... and... more

• Agricast 12-21-09 Audio

  In this week's AgriCast... Max visits with Harvard IL farmer Harry Alden Jr. about the Illinois Specialty Growers Association and its convention in Springfield in early January... Orion visits with University of Illinois Professor of Agricultural Policy Dr. Bob Thompson about the impact of Cap &... more

• Agricast 12-14-09 Audio

  In this week's AgriCast... Max talks with John Harvey about the 2010 Classic Tractor calendar... Orion discusses health care legislation and climate change ideas with former Secretary of Agriculture, now Nebraska Senator, Mike Johanns during his visit to the Senator's office in Washington, DC... Max... more

• Agricast 12-07-09 Audio

  In this week's AgriCast... Max talks with Bob Lawless of Syngenta, with Greg Grow of Archer Financial Services, and with Illinois Farm Bureau president Phil Nelson... plus the weekly editions of News & Views from the Dairy Industry, and Samuelson Sez. more