About Farm Tales Unplugged
Farm Tales Unplugged — Daily Farm Brief is agriculture news for people who want the information without sitting through a lecture.
Hosted by Rick Portanova, each episode delivers the stories farmers, ranchers, truckers, growers, and rural businesses actually care about — fast, lively, useful, and with a healthy dose of humor.
Rick has a way of taking serious topics like crop progress, commodity markets, diesel prices, freight, weather, ag technology, planting, harvest, and rural business and turning them into something you actually want to listen to. He keeps the pace moving, finds the funny side of farm life, and isn’t afraid to say what everyone else is already thinking.
Most episodes run only 9 to 13 minutes — short enough to hear over your morning coffee, during the first few miles of a haul, in the cab of a tractor, or before the workday gets rolling.
The goal is simple: give you valuable agriculture information quickly, make it entertaining, and send you into the day knowing something you didn’t know ten minutes earlier.
The Daily Farm Brief covers agriculture news, grain and livestock markets, crop conditions, planting and harvest updates, diesel and fuel prices, trucking and freight, ag technology, farm history, the Farmer’s Almanac, unusual rural stories, and the occasional story that sounds too strange to be true.
And because farming and trucking are hard enough already, we believe the news doesn’t have to be.
So grab the coffee, fire up whatever you’re driving, and join Rick Portanova, Farm Nation, and Truck City for a daily farm report that moves fast, keeps you informed, and usually gives you something to laugh about along the way.
Farm Tales Unplugged — Daily Farm Brief
Useful information. Fast delivery. Farm reports with a chuckle