About this podcast
Eggheads helps curious people in agriculture understand how the egg industry really works and where it might be headed.
Episodes
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- The Former Green Beret Reinventing Eggs with Patrick Samuels · 32 min · Episode 62From a career in Special Forces to raising 300 chickens, Patrick Samuels has taken an unconventional path into the egg industry. Now, as CEO of Sunnyside Egg Co., he's…
- How Eggs Unlocked Travis Bybee’s Farm Dream · 33 min · Episode 63🎥 Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/jexU5-Qo_E0?is=BqH4iXcb-4DddkqV Travis Bybee spent 25 years in banking, all while quietly building toward the life he actually…
- Steve Sukup on Building the Infrastructure Behind our Grain · 30 min · Episode 61In rural America, grain bins are so ubiquitous that you might not even notice them on the landscape. But if you were to stop on your drive home and take a closer look at one…
- How One Family Built Canada’s Egg Powerhouse with Margaret Hudson of Burnbrae Farms · 33 min · Episode 60Burnbrae Farms first got into egg farming in the 1940's, when Joe Hudson, who was just 13 years old at the time, brought home 50 chickens to establish a backyard flock. Today…
- Genetics: The Engine Behind Egg Production with Neal Martin of Hendrix Genetics · 31 min · Episode 59It doesn't matter how hard-working you are as a farmer, if you don't have the right genetics in your flock, it's going to be difficult to have success in the egg game. But as the…
- Recent Trends in Modern Egg Processing with Bill Bretschneider of MOBA · 24 min · Episode 58Over the last few decades automation has completely changed the way eggs are processed. And with robots now assuming many of the jobs handled previously by humans, producers can…
- The Deviled Egg Co. Story with Raechel Van Buskirk · 30 min · Episode 57When Raechel Van Buskirk served up some creatively-flavored deviled eggs at her dive bar in Omaha, Nebraska, she had no idea that it would change her life. And what started as a…
- Building a Brand on Being First with Jasen Urena of NestFresh · 31 min · Episode 56In an industry where it would be easy to treat an egg as just an egg, one brand has built its entire identity on finding the next big thing. Jasen Urena is the Executive Vice…
- More Eggs, More Often with Emily Metz of the American Egg Board · 33 min · Episode 55Egg prices are sitting near all-time lows, and that's not because of weak demand, but because supply has outpaced it. Emily Metz, President and CEO of the American Egg Board…
- The Scramble: If Everyone Wants In-Ovo Sexing, Why Hasn't It Scaled? · 43 min · Episode 54In-ovo sexing has the potential to end the practice of male chick culling — and the technology seems to have finally caught up to the ambition. Greg hosted a panel on the topic…
- Will Low Prices Cure Low Prices? with Brian Moscogiuri · 34 min · Episode 53In early 2025 HPAI outbreaks had egg prices sitting at record highs; just one year later they're hitting inflation-adjusted historic lows. And while that may be great for…
- The Global Expansion of Big Dutchman with Bernd Meerpohl · 33 min · Episode 52In 1985, Bernd Meerpohl watched his father take a risk in purchasing a struggling farm equipment company. That company was called Big Dutchman, and today it operates in 174…
- HPAI Response: 45 Minutes vs. 3 Days with Erik Tyrrell-Knott of Alveo · 31 min · Episode 51From the time you start to suspect you might have an HPAI outbreak on your farm, to getting lab confirmation, can take between 1 and 5 days. And while producers wait for those…
- Lighting a Chicken House Isn’t What You Think with Max Obers of HATO Lighting · 31 min · Episode 50Most people would figure that lighting a hen house is a question of screwing in some bulbs and turning them on. But as it turns out, the type of lighting you use can have a…
- When the Egg Industry Has to Work Together with Chad Gregory of the UEP · 36 min · Episode 49There are so many different types of egg-farmers: traditional caged operations, cage-free, free-range organic...the list goes on. But one organization strives to represent all of…
- Managing Egg Production From 40 Million Birds to Off-Grid Farms with Bruce Dooyema · 29 min · Episode 48Bruce Dooyema's career in poultry began in the 7th grade, when his parents bought him a dozen chickens to raise in the backyard. Now, as Director of Strategic projects at…
- How Rose Acre Manages Food Safety Across 9 States with Kim Rice · 35 min · Episode 47There are so many different ways to introduce contaminants during the egg production process: improperly used chemicals, dirty equipment, poor handling techniques, the list goes…
- From Belt Drives to EC Motors: Ventilation Innovation in Eggs | Craig Morley & Ross Demerly · 26 min · Episode 46Finding the right ventilation solution can be make or break for your layer operation. And especially now with the emergence of cage-free farming, making sure air is circulating…
- Ag Labor Challenges and Immigration Pathways Explained with Kyle Farmer · 30 min · Episode 45Sometimes people have this idea that farmers shouldn't use immigrant workers at all, and that there are enough people looking for work domestically to staff their operations…
- From Manual Candling to Machine Vision: 40 Years of Egg Processing Innovation with Craig England · 28 min · Episode 44The last few decades have seen an incredible amount of change in the egg industry. That's especially true of egg grading, where we've gone from machines that can process 200…
