Through interviews with leading figures in the world of fine and decorative arts, Curious Objects—a podcast from The Magazine Antiques—explores the hidden histories, the little-known facts, the intricacies, and the idiosyncrasies that breathe life and energy into historical works of craft and art.
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The Cotton Companion podcast is a conversation among the editors and friends of Cotton Grower magazine about all things cotton related.
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The podcast of Scottish Field magazine with the best of all things Scottish - heritage, interiors, antiques, gardens, wildlife, motoring, whisky, food and country news, as well as interviews with famous Scots.
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The curious histories behind board games, at the American Folk Art Museum
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In this week’s episode, Ben Miller speaks with Emelie Gevalt, curatorial chair for collections and curator of folk art at the American Folk Art Museum in New York. On view starting September 13 at the museum is the exhibition Playing with Design: Gameboards, Art, and Culture, an exhibition co-curated by Gevalt, who has brought along one special exa…
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Making Sense of Cotton's Volatile Year
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Confused over this year's ever-shifting cotton acreage and production numbers? We are, too. So, we asked Dr. O.A. Cleveland to explain.Af Jim Steadman
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Tiffany's frog-shaped creamer and pufferfish sugar dish, at the Met
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In this week’s episode, Ben Miller speaks with Annamarie Sandecki, who describes herself as the “semi-retired former director” of the Tiffany Archives, and Medill Higgins Harvey, curator of American decorative arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. On the light table are a curiously shaped creamer and equally curious sugar bowl, the first in the s…
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Ken Legé, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Cotton Specialist in Lubbock, joins the podcast to discuss the high hopes - and potential remaining challenges - regarding this year's West Texas cotton crop after two years of extreme drought.Af Jim Steadman
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In this week’s episode, host Ben Miller speaks with Sarah Margolis-Pineo about a turning chair prototype made at the Mount Lebanon Shaker community. But don’t sit in it. Looking like a Wendell Castle sculpture avant la lettre, its bird-bone-thin spindles and threaded metal swivel mechanism are too delicate to support the weight of a full-grown adul…
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Slumping Prices and the Million Acre Surprise
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Why is the cotton market slump continuing and where did an extra million planted acres over spring projections come from? Dr. John Robinson joins the podcast to explain.Af Jim Steadman
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ANTIQUES has a new editor in chief! Mitch Owens, formerly of World of Interiors, joins Ben Miller on this special episode to give listeners an inside look at his art and design philosophy, and his plans for the magazine. Sneak preview: when Ben asked what would be the salvation of the antiques world, Mitch replied that it’s essential to inspire col…
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The "Confirmed Bachelor" Who Forever Changed American Homes
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In this episode, Ben digs into the history of Beauport, the Gilded-Age mansion perched on a rock ledge overlooking Massachusetts’s Gloucester Harbor. Built by Henry Davis Sleeper, one of the country’s first interior designers, it was conceived as a house-sized Valentine for the statesman and economist Piatt Andrew, the object of Sleeper’s (unrequit…
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Weed Control's Latest Issues, Challenges and Opportunities
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Dr. Larry Steckel, Tennessee Extension weed specialist, joins the podcast in our annual plot-side interview to discuss current weed management issues and challenges, plus some promising new solutions.Af Jim Steadman
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THROWBACK: The WPA Origins of the American Doll, with Allison Robinson
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During the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration funded an interracial labor program in Wisconsin that employed over five thousand women to craft handmade goods: the Milwaukee Handicraft Project. Especially noteworthy among the rugs, quilts, costumes, and books that the women produced is a run of exquisitely crafted and clothed toddle…
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How Banned Cotton Still Muddies Cotton's Supply Chain Transparency
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Two years after legislation banned imports into the U.S. containing cotton from China's Xinjiang region, a recent report shows it's still slipping through in multiple products. Bob Antoshak of Gherzi Textil Organization and MaiLin Wan of Applied DNA Sciences join the podcast to discuss why and steps needed to tighten import monitoring.…
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Whale Teeth and the Pirate Princess
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This week on our Curious Objects podcast, host Benjamin Miller is joined by Marina Wells to discuss scrimshaw. Whalebone, teeth, and other products of the sea adorned with nautical scenes and remembrances of home, scrimshaw is a portal into the lives and daydreams of whalers confined for months at a time aboard bobbing, blood-and-blubber-spattered …
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This week, Ben is joined by Dan Rubinstein, design journalist and host of the Grand Tourist podcast, to discuss TRENDS. But first of all . . . do they even exist anymore? Or are we living in a post-trend world ruled by the math of the algorithm and the magnetism of sui generis celebrities? Ben and Dan consider trends through historical and pop-cult…
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ACSA's 100 Years Serving U.S. Cotton
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Buddy Allen of the American Cotton Shippers Association joins the podcast to discuss the range of work the organization provides to the U.S. cotton industry, plus some history leading up to the group's upcoming 100th anniversary.Af Jim Steadman
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The Secret Code Book at the Independence Seaport Museum
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In Part 2 of a special two-part podcast, host Benjamin Miller speaks again with Peter Siebert, president and CEO of Philadelphia’s Independence Seaport Museum, this time about a Revolutionary War–era naval signal book made for English Admiral Richard Howe. “Prepare to haul to the wind together on the starboard tack when in order of battle, and the …
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Looking at Precision Ag Adoption in Cotton
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Cotton Incorporated recently updated its survey of precision and agricultural technology adoption trends in cotton. Dr. Ed Barnes of CI joined the podcast to discuss the study's findings.Af Jim Steadman
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Discovering a Forgotten Folk Artist at the Independence Seaport Museum
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In Part 1 of a special two-part podcast, Curious Objects’ host Benjamin Miller speaks with Peter Siebert, president and CEO of Philadelphia’s Independence Seaport Museum about a folk art watercolor from the late 1700s that’s been the subject of a major research project. Called Navigation Lesson, the painting is believed to depict the artist, Cornel…
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On this week’s episode, Ben Miller speaks with Elena Kanagy-Loux, lacewear trendsetter and co-founder of the Brooklyn Lace Guild. The focus object is a seventeenth-century Italian handkerchief, but Ben’s and Elena’s conversation also touches on that time she worked for Courtney Love; good (and bad) representations of lace and lace production in cin…
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Riding Cotton's Price Roller Coaster - Again
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Dr. O.A. Cleveland returns to the podcast to explain the recent fall in cotton prices, how current factors continue to impact the market, and share thoughts on what's ahead for this season.Af Jim Steadman
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Rescued by the Romanovs, a Fabergé Treasure Comes to Market
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The Romanov dynasty was wiped out in 1918 . . . but what happened to all their stuff? Well, some of it ended up at Heritage Auctions, whose Imperial Fabergé and Russian Works of Art auction on May 17 hopes to move a treasure trove of ikons, furniture pieces, diaries, and gold-encrusted baubles. To discuss the sale—and in particular a Fabergé bonbon…
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Advice Ep: How to Buy an Antique/Vintage Rug
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In the newest installment of our advice series, Ben Miller speaks with Jordan Heres, co-founder with his wife, Ingrid, of the Charlottesville, Virginia, rug purveyor Weft and Wool. The focus object is a rug from Karaja, Iran, made in about 1900, but Ben’s and Jordan also tackle such subjects as how often a rug should be washed, why you should never…
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Findings from Cotton's Antique Alley
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Ever wonder how old favorite cotton varieties compare to today's high-powered options? Jay Mahaffey of the Bayer Learning Center joins the podcast to discuss his Antique Alley research study and the ways that today's varieties have evolved from the leading standards of the mid-1990s.Af Jim Steadman
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THROWBACK: This Chair Is Made of America
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In this special throwback episode, Benjamin Miller speaks with Ellery Foutch, assistant professor of American studies at Middlebury College, about a “relic Windsor chair” assembled by Henry Sheldon (founder of the Middlebury museum named in his honor) in 1884. This unique piece of furniture was built with fragments of wood salvaged from structures …
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CO Bites: A Pitch-Perfect Vermont Songbook
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In this Curious Objects Bites episode, Benjamin Miller examines an 1830s manuscript tune book from rural Vermont. Bound crudely in leather, this book of sacred music was made by a farmer named Bernard Ward as a gift for his grandson, and many years later passed into the major collection of musical instruments, books, scores, and ephemera assembled …
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Spotlight on the Cotton Foundation
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Chad Brewer, Executive Director of the Cotton Foundation, joins the podcast to discuss the role of the Foundation, what it does, where it fits within the U.S. cotton industry, and what benefits it provides to cotton growers.Af Jim Steadman
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The Book of Dragons (and the Con Artist Who Made It), with Rebecca Romney
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Rebecca Romney, co-founder of rare book dealer Type Punch Matrix and a frequent guest on Pawn Stars, returns to our podcast Curious Objects this week. She has with her a mid-nineteenth-century abecebestiary, or calligraphic treatment of the alphabet with animal motifs, made by Englishman Charles Eduard Stuart . . . except that wasn't really his nam…
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Greg Cerio, editor of The Magazine ANTIQUES, died Saturday. In this special episode, Ben pays tribute to the man who gave Curious Objects the green light, and who foresaw a rich future for objects from the past. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAf The Magazine Antiques
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The recent dicamba ruling put the challenges facing EPA back in the spotlight. University of Georgia Extension Weed Specialist Stanley Culpepper joins the podcast to discuss some of those challenges and what they mean for new registrations and weed management programs for cotton.Af Jim Steadman
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CO Bites: Toshiko Takaezu's "Closed Form," with Glenn Adamson
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This week Glenn Adamson returns to the pod to discuss an exhibition he co-curated at the Noguchi Museum in Queens, New York. Worlds Within: The Art of Toshiko Takaezu focuses on the work of the Okinawan-American ceramicist, which bridges the gulf between art and craft. In this inaugural installment of Curious Objects Bites—bingeable conversations a…
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Honoring 2023 Cotton Achievement Award Recipient Bart Davis
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The Cotton Grower staff was pleased to present the 2023 Cotton Grower Cotton Achievement Award to Bart Davis during a recent luncheon. Listen in to the presentation, including Bart's remarks about the importance of industry involvement.Af Jim Steadman
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Taylor Thistlethwaite Gets Excited About "Brown Furniture"
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Taylor Thistlethwaite, proprietor of Thistlethwaite Americana in Middleburg, Virginia, returns to the pod to defend the merits of “brown furniture.” Whether it’s earthy, richly figured black walnut or the sometimes-overlooked black cherry, it’s important not to “think of wood as just something brown,” Taylor says. “There’s so much life in it. And i…
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If you ever start to feel like history is abstract, spend a little time with an object or two that were actually there. For instance, a silver bowl and a pair of candlesticks that once belonged to New York grandees Pieter and Elizabeth Delancey, which suddenly reappeared recently after being lost for three hundred years. In this special rerun of on…
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Facing Cotton's New and Continuing Challenges
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We're talking about the recent dicamba news and recapping the National Cotton Council annual meeting - including an interview with 2024 NCC Chairman Joe Nicosia.Af Jim Steadman
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Last month Benjamin Miller made a guest appearance on Art Slice, hosted by the podcasting power couple—and artists and art historians—Stephanie Dueñas and Russell Shoemaker, and now available here. The trio’s conversation focuses on a dazzling group of mixed-metal wares made by Tiffany and Company in the latter part of the nineteenth century, inclu…
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Advice Ep: How to Buy a Vintage Engagement Ring
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How much should you spend? What kind of stone should you get? Is antique better than modern? These are just a few of the many questions that any courter must consider when ring-hunting. Here to share his ring lore on this special Valentine’s Day episode is a true jewelry expert, Matthew Imberman of Kentshire Galleries. First things first: don’t wor…
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In 1909, Daisy Makeig-Jones was hired by the Wedgwood firm in Staffordshire, England, to decorate pottery. She would go on to develop the “Fairyland” luster pattern, which combined dazzling iridescent glazes with motifs from fairy tales and would serve to revitalize the Wedgwood brand. Bailey Tichenor, one half of the duo behind Artistoric gallery,…
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Meet the 2023 Cotton Marketer of the Year
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Jason Moss, the 2023 Joseph J. O'Neill Cotton Marketer of the Year, joins the podcast to discuss how an Illinois grain and hog farmer got into the cotton business and how his background in ag marketing consulting allows him to practice what he preaches.Af Jim Steadman
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“Enriching Your Life Through Collecting” at the Winter Show
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In what has become an annual tradition, Curious Objects host Benjamin Miller capped off January with a panel discussion at the Winter Show. This year’s edition was named “Catching the Bug: Enriching Your Life Through Collecting,” and featured three distinguished collectors and the objects they live by and through. The Hawkes bowl belonging to conse…
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In the summer of 1966 the Beatles were in Japan, whirling through the first leg of what would be their final world tour. Hoping to forestall the dangerous excesses of Beatlemania, Japanese authorities confined the Fab Four to their hotel suite at Tokyo’s Hilton Hotel for almost the duration of their one-hundred-hour stay. Casting about for things t…
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New Ag Tech in the Palm of Your Hand
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Cotton Grower colleague and ag tech expert Matt Hopkins joins the podcast to discuss his list of the top apps for agriculture, plus some thoughts on the new John Deere/SpaceX partnership.Af Cotton Grower
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The Marginalia That Made Christie's Value This Book at $1 Million
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In 1543 Andreas Vesalius published a seven-part book that would become the foundational text of modern anatomy: On the Fabric of the Human Body. With it, the Flemish anatomist overturned more than a millennium’s worth of medical dogma, many of his breakthroughs coming while dissecting human corpses—a method of study unavailable to physicians of cla…
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Acreage Projections, Award Winners, and Hot Cotton Headlines
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There's a lot of cotton news to unpack as the new year begins. Join Jim and Beck as they examine the 2024 Cotton Grower cotton acreage survey results, introduce the 2023 Cotton Grower Cotton Achievement Award recipient, and report on new cotton varieties and other news from the Beltwide Cotton Conferences.…
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Advice Ep: Making Your Home a Source of Inspiration, with Tara McCauley
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In this week’s episode, interior designer Tara McCauley gives listeners an inside look at her practice, which she likens, curiously, to a travel agency. She says: “I like to think of myself like I’ve gone into the market and I’ve done the research and I’ve talked to the experts and the locals and I’m bringing you the best kind of experience you’re …
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Over the past couple weeks we’ve been fielding and compiling questions that listeners have put to host Benjamin Miller. A taste: “Has any object ever truly baffled you?” “What’s the best town for antiquing?” and “Will Curious Objects ever do an adults-only episode?” This week’s episode represents a taste of his own medicine for Ben, usually the int…
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END OF YEAR THROWBACK: A Conversation with Luthier Paul Becker
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A top-tier orchestra might well have tens of millions of dollars–worth of instruments on stage. Many of them are antiques. And there are few people who know these instruments more intimately than Paul Becker. He’s the fifth-generation owner and director of Carl Becker and Son, a 150-year-old luthier business in Chicago. He and his family have resto…
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Lewis Littlepage and the Amazing Silk-embroidered Dreamsuit
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“Conservative” by the standards of its day, the three-piece suit worn by American statesman and bon vivant Lewis Littlepage (1762–1802) at the court of Catherine the Great is sewn of silk and embroidered with sprays of blue, white, and grey flowers. Neal Hurst, curator of textiles and historic dress at Colonial Williamsburg, comes on our Curious Ob…
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Wrapping Up 2023; Looking Ahead to 2024
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Dr. Darren Hudson of Texas Tech University joins the podcast for a wide-ranging discussion including predictions for cotton in 2024, opportunities that may be available for growers, an update on the farm bill, and more.Af Cotton Grower
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What makes Thomas Cole’s “Course of Empire” Cycle as Relevant Today as in the 19th Century
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This week Benjamin Miller is joined by filmmaker Rachel Gould, better known on YouTube as the Art Tourist, to discuss Thomas Cole’s Course of Empire cycle of about 1834–1836. A watershed in the genre of landscape painting, Cole’s canvases use an allegory of empire—germination, prosperity, decline—to preach a cautionary tale about environmental and …
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A Met Curator Tells the Strange Story of Louis XIV's Carpets
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This week we travel back to the seventeenth century, to the glorious court of the Sun King, Louis XIV, in France, and his astonishing commission for a suite of ninety-three carpets to cover the 1440-foot-long Grande Galerie at the Louvre, then a royal palace. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is now the proud owner of three of these carpets—the creati…
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Cotton industry veteran Bill Robertson joins the podcast for a wide-ranging (and never boring) discussion on, among other things, the importance of good soil health, cotton production, life on his own farm, and how selling bulls and evaluating cotton varieties are more similar than you might think.Af Cotton Grower
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