I want my "Macro Agriculture" Podcast!!!

Ok, first I guess I should elaborate on what I mean by “Macro Agriculture”, simply put I am referring to “International Agriculture” and since much of the world’s agriculture takes place in the third world I want my International Agricultural Development podcast!

 

I applauded Texas A&M University’s Ag News Weekly and the Kansas extension service’s podcast, Agricast. Both of those podcasts started just a few months (3-4) after podcasts came about (August 2005ish) but I could never get into them, much of my lack of interest was that these podcasts had little to do with me since they were on local issues.

 

Now there are more Agriculture related podcasts and some of them are a bit more my speed but still they still aren’t quite what I am looking for. Given the nature of my work I am intensely interested in agriculture that does or can apply to agriculture in the larger sense, that is, things like new technologies for developed and developing agriculture systems and policies etc. I guess if you took all the farming/agriculture related reports coming out of BBC and NPR then that would be about what I am looking for. I regularly do searches on the NPR and BBC websites to find the latest ag related reports but that’s not nearly as convenient as a podcast. Maybe if they made their site such that they were able to provide podcast feeds of reports that had key words (and no, you wouldn’t have to have some funky voice recognition since their reports are almost always offered as text and audio. Already sites like Yahoo News and Google News offer news feeds based on key words you specify so my idea doesn’t sound so far fetched (at least to me it doesn’t).