Episodios

  • The Soybean Sniff Test

    The Soybean Sniff Test
    May 3 2025
    Here’s how it works: “Dig up the soybean and hold it up to your nose. If it smells like earth, you’re good. But if you can squeeze it and a liquid comes out and it smells rotten? Guess what, it’s rotten.” That’s how Brad Mason, a field agronomist for Pioneer Seeds in Western Illinois describes […]
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  • The Pickle Capital of the World

    The Pickle Capital of the World
    Mar 25 2025
    In 1978, the Illinois State Legislature proclaimed St. Charles, Illinois, “Pickle Capital of the World.” It didn’t matter that not one pickle is produced in the city on the Fox River. The designation was solely because Pickle Packers International, a non-profit focused on educating consumers about the benefits of pickles, was located there until it […]
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  • DOJ opens investigation into high egg prices

    DOJ opens investigation into high egg prices
    Mar 10 2025
    In the audio clip below, Farm Action co-founder Joe Maxwell tells WGN’s Steve Alexander he believes the Department of Justice’s launch of an investigation into egg prices on March 6 was due to Farm Action’s letter to the DOJ and the Federal Trade Commission urging the departments to investigate and take action to restore competition […]
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  • Remodeling your kitchen? Here’s how to get the most for your money

    Remodeling your kitchen? Here’s how to get the most for your money
    Mar 6 2025
    With many homeowners deciding to hang on to their 3% mortgages and stay put, remodeling the kitchen is gaining popularity. A lot has changed in kitchen styles (if you still have avocado-green appliances, seek help), and in the audio clip below, Sarah Leonard, owner of Legacy Properties tells WGN’s Steve Alexander things to do to […]
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  • You can’t milk an almond

    You can’t milk an almond
    Feb 26 2025
    One of the reasons people switched from cow’s milk to fake milk made with things like almonds, oats, and soy, was calories. Milk, even skim milk, had more calories than the fake ones. Now, though, the Dairy Farmers of America, a co-op made up of nearly 5,500 family dairy farms, has produced Milk 50, real […]
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  • A dairy farm that has no cows

    A dairy farm that has no cows
    Feb 21 2025
    One would expect Jones Dairy Farm, a seventh-generation farm in America’s Dairyland, Wisconsin, to be all about milk and other dairy products. It isn’t, and hasn’t had cows on its farm since the 1980s. But it’s big in bacon and other pork products and is one of the vendors passing out samples of bacon at […]
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  • Chicago bakery starts an ‘Egg GoFundMe’

    Chicago bakery starts an ‘Egg GoFundMe’
    Feb 20 2025
    We’re all feeling the pain of egg-flation but it’s one thing to wince when we buy a dozen every week or two. The House of Cakes Bakery in NW Chicago buys 90 dozen a week in order to make the fresh, made-from-scratch pastries, donuts, pizza bread, coffee cakes, their famous cheese sticks, cookies, and more […]
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  • Another home kitchen-to-CEO story

    Another home kitchen-to-CEO story
    Feb 19 2025
    Stefania Marzelia has these words of advice for kitchen creators who want to turn their creations into a business: “Just go for it.” She went for it, working as a barista in Chicago coffee shops, starting at age 16 at Starbucks, and later at Cafe Umbria, where she learned about making coffee syrups. When the […]
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