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 11-16-09 Audio

  In this week's AgriCast... Orion and Max visit with each other about the annual meeting of the National Association Of Farm Broadcasting and some of the news they heard there... and Max is on the phone with a number of Northern Illinois farmers to hear about the challenges they have encountered... more

• Agricast 11-09-09 Audio

  In this week's AgriCast... Orion talks about food assistance programs with Kevin Concannon, Under Secretary of Agriculture for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services... Max joins Orion on the phone from Germany where he is attending Agritechnica, billed as the largest farm equipment show in the... more

• Agricast 11-02-09 Audio

  In this week's AgriCast... Max visits with market analyst Mike Chordonnier about the continuing harvest delay in this country as well as weather in Brazil and Argentina where farmers are beginning to plant corn and soybeans... Orion talks with International Dairyman of the Year John Hileman and... more

• Agricast 10-26-09 Audio

  In this week's AgriCast... Max talks with Central Illinois grower Doug Wilson, and with Iowa secretary of agriculture Bill Northey... Orion checks in from the FFA convention in Indianapolis... and horticulturalist Jim Fizzell makes an appearance. more

• Agricast 10-19-09 Audio

  In this week's AgriCast... Orion discusses the challenging dairy economy with Rod Nilsestuen, Secretary of Agriculture in Wisconsin... Max checks in by phone from central Illinois reporting on the major harvest delay in the heart of corn/soybean country... Orion visits with Ed Joyce, President & COO... more

• Agricast 10-12-09 Audio

  In this week's AgriCast... Max covers details of the October Crop Report released in Washington and how US farmers are on track to harvest the largest soybean crop ever produced in this country and the second largest corn crop on record... Orion visits with National 4-H Council president Don Floyd... more

• Agricast 10-05-09 Audio

  In this week's AgriCast... Max talks with Gulke Group grain market analyst Jerry Gulke about the late harvest this year, and with McHenry County pumpkin grower Mel Von Bergen about the smaller than normal pumpkin crop in the area... Orion reports on the 2009 World Dairy Expo held this past week in... more

• Agricast 9-28-09 Audio

  In this week's AgriCast... Max talks with Syngenta Seeds president David Morgan... Orion talks with Darick Franzen of the Antique Tractor, Farm and Construction Equipment Show... Max visits with Allendale Inc market analyst Joe Victor... and horticulturalist Jim Fizzell makes an appearance... plus... more

• Agricast 9-21-09 Audio

  In this week's AgriCast... Max talks with farm broadcaster John Jenkinson at the Husker Harvest Days in Nebraska about crop conditions, and with Case-IH president Randy Baker about the outlook for farm equipment sales... Orion talks with CBOE vice chairman Ed Tilly about the volatility in the... more

• Agricast 9-14-09 Audio

  In this week's AgriCast... Max talks with a couple competitors at the Sandwich Fair, and with Illinois Farm Bureau president Phil Nelson... Orion talks with Jim Bower of Bower Trading... and horticulturalist Jim Fizzell makes an appearance... plus the weekly editions of News & Views from the Dairy... more