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The International Plowing Match & Rural Expo officially opens today in Walkerton, Ontario, he event combines elite plowing competitions, farm equipment displays, rural education, entertainment, and community celebrations.

Lane Selman is the founding director of the Culinary Breeding Network based in Portland, Oregon. She is also a professor of practice at Oregon State University and the author of the brand new book Radicchio: A Celebration of the Beloved Italian Vegetable.

In this episode, Lane and I talk about the origin story behind the Culinary Breeding Network. We get into the importance of connecting plant breeders and farmers with chefs. And we talk about the importance of good open pollinated varieties in a shifting landscape where your favourite hybrids can suddenly disappear.

And then it is Radicchio time: we unravel the confusing nomenclature that surrounds this deliciously bitter vegetable, the precision of planting dates to get these plants to head up the right way, and the art and science of forcing Raidicchio.

I also gush quite a lot about Lane’s new book. I really loved reading it and it answered so many chicory questions that I’ve had for the longest time and so many questions I hadn’t even considered formulating.

Enjoy the conversation!

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Episode links

Get the book Radicchio: A Celebration of the Beloved Italian Vegetable https://www.culinarybreedingnetwork.com/radicchio-book

Culinary Breeding Network website https://www.culinarybreedingnetwork.com/

Culinary Breeding Network on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/culinarybreedingnetwork

Culinary Breeding Network on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@CulinaryBreedingNetwork

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Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture released the American Biofuels Trade Outlook, a plan that builds upon 2025’s record U.S. ethanol export performance, removes restrictions to American biofuels, and secures new market opportunities for U.S. farmers. “2025 marks the strongest year for ethanol exports in the history of the U.S., supporting our great American farmers. This record setting 2.2 billion gallons of U.S. ethanol shipped across the world this past year representing $4.7 billion is not by accident, it reflects the hard work of America’s farmers and the powerful leadership of President Trump,” said U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins. “This milestone demonstrates how American innovation and rural investment can deliver prosperity for consumers and producers at home and around the globe. American farmers are fueling the future, and the American Biofuel Trade Outlook outlines the USDA’s exact plan to ensure that success continues, and America’s producers continue

Jaylor Introduces 6000 Series Single-Auger Stationary TMR Mixers

Amid concerns that advances in agricultural technology could spell doom for the farmworker economy, researchers have found the opposite may be true: adopting new technology requires humans as much as tools and can provide greater opportunities for people.

Seed Farming is about building a relationship with different crops. Learning how they grow, what they want, how to work with them … and it can take many years to build this relationship. Sometimes you think you figured them out but then you realised you hadn’t. Other times, you think you figured them out, you realise you didn’t, and then you discover you actually had figured them out.

This is a story about an open pollinated Chinese Cabbaga I was trying to figure out.

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A look at how diesel costs have increased over recent years

The 2013 Case IH 600 sold after 253 bids

Corn and soybean harvest is when months of management decisions finally come together.

A new report finds artificial intelligence is already improving farming and food systems. Experts say policy updates and infrastructure investments are needed to support future growth.