Michele’s passion and ability to translate farm to food is appreciated by media professionals looking for an insightful interview. She has shared her expertise internationally in connecting farm and food, mental health in agriculture, science communication, advocacy, nutrition, and overcoming food myths.
Articles & Features
- A bad day doesn't mean a bad life
- Manage stress to reduce its negative effects
- AgDaily: Monthly mental wellness articles written by Michele
- How is stress management part of your business plan?
- Understanding a broken brain: FFA members challenge you to change the conversation
- Stop, look and live gratefully
- Hoard's Dairyman: Everyday reminders can help mitigate stress
- Brownfield Ag News for America: Don't let yourselves be food bullied
- Salisbury Post: Author, agricultural advocate explores pitfalls of food marketing
- LNP Lancaster Online: Stress is top health issue for farmers; author urges mental health advocacy, self care
- MSU Spartan Newsletter: No More "Food Bullies"
- Seattle Times: Are you bullied for your food choices?
- Hoosier Ag Today: Food Bullying as Trade Policy
- Successful Farming: Food Bullying Part 1
- Successful Farming: Food Bullying Part 2
- Indiana Connection: Looking for the Bully in Food
- FFA News. On the Record: Michele Payn
- Fighting Back Against Food Bullying
- Engaging with food consumers
- Sharing breaks mental health stigma
- New book shines light on bogus nutritional claims
- Dealing with 'food bullying'
- Local author writes about 'food bullying'
- Hoard's Dairyman. Stop the Food Fights!
- Consumer Food Trends in 2019 Will Impact Farmers
- Hoosier Ag Today. Food Bullying Needs to Stop
- Growing America. Advocates: Who are They?
- Part of Agriculture is Pink
- Author Encourages Farmers to Engage Consumers
- Stop Infighting within Agriculture
- Food Truths book Named to 2018 IPPY Awards (See Health, Medicine, Nutrition Category 57)
- Trust In Food Q&A: Michele Payn On Consumer Mistrust Of Agriculture
- Explaining Agriculture to Consumers Using Emotions, Not Science
- Consumers Want to Know You Share the Same Concerns
- Documentary film maker uses fear mongering to turn consumers away from processed meats.
- Talking Food Truths
- Foodies Fight Hunger
- Food Truths debuts
- Payn pens 25 food truths in new grocery store guidebook
- Eat Well To Be Well
- Food Truths - from Farm to Table
- Telling ag's story on social media
- Building a Longer Table
- The Soul of Food
- How to Run a Successful Twitter Chat
- 15 Twitter Accounts Every Ag Professional Must Follow
- Winning on the Web
- 50 Under 50: Farm, Rural Advocates Plant Seeds of Passion and Commitment
- Ag Literacy Starts in the Home Room
- #harvest13: Farmers use social media
- Michele Payn - Standing up and speaking out for agriculture!
- Farms are All a-Twitter
- Social media: Focus on possibilities that work for farmers
- Faces of Innovation: Michele Payn
- Michele Payn, No More Food Fights!
- No More Food Fights: Understanding Farmer and Foodie Perspective
- New book urges farmers and foodies to focus on conversation
- No More Food Fights! Can Foodies and Farmers Get Along?
- 20 Must-Follow Twitter Accounts for Agriculture
- Expertise can be sexy
- Today, agriculture is war of words, but we can end the food fight
- 5 Ways to Know Where Your Food Comes From
- 3 Open Minutes with Michele Payn
- Kansas Ag Issues Podcast
- Book Review: No More Food Fights! by Michele Payn an Effort to Balance the Dialogue About Food
- No More Food Fights! Can farmers, consumers reach across the table to find a common ground?
Michele's live video interviews with food & farm experts
- Registered Dietitian & Culinary Dietitian Kim Galeaz talks about overcoming food confusion and guilt in the grocery
- Montana rancher Dusty Hahn on caring for cattle, why antibiotics help animals and raising a healthy steak
- Indiana farmer Paul Hodgen explains planting, soil care, and the importance of science in environmental care
- Minnesota pork and organic grain farmer Carolyn Olson on the "right" way to farm - and farmers working together
- Veterinarian Leah Dorman discusses antibiotics, animal welfare and food safety
- Registered Dietitian Janet Helm highlights how to evaluate nutrition and food fad claims
- Family business expert Jolene Brown on farm legacy, the business of farming and sustainability concerns
- Idaho wheat grower Joseph Anderson discusses gluten, chemicals and other wheat myths
- Iowa farm family Justin & Jennifer Dammann discuss how they make choices, raising corn for tortillas and sustainability.
- Wisconsin farmer Kevin Hoyer talks about soil practices, water quality and GMO soybeans
- Iowa farmer Beth Baudler shares how connecting with farm & food is a hit with kids and community
- Nebraska farmer Ryan Weeks shares why his family farms both organically & conventionally
- Scientist Dr. Kevin Folta talks genetics in produce, GMOs & food safety
- Minnesota hog farmer Wanda Patsche discusses animal welfare
- Registered Dietitian Cara Harbstreet connects dietitians & farmers
- Oregon grass seed farmer Marie Bowers on growing grass seed, soil care and cover crops
- Meat scientist Jennie Hodgen talks food safety & labels in the meat case
- Illinois farmer Matt Boucher discusses drones & environmental farming
- Oregon women farmers group discussion on agriculture, west coast issues & how ladies farm
- Indiana farmer Brian Scott highlights intellectual property in the field
- Oregon hazelnut & grape grower Anna Scharf discusses her farm
- Michigan apple grower Jeff VanderWerff explains why chemicals are used
TV & Video
North American Ag
GMOs & Antibiotics - What's Fact, What's Fiction & Combatting Ag Marketing Mistruths
WTHR Channel 13 Indianapolis
What is food bullying?
Farm Marketer
Food Bullying: How to Avoid Buying. B.S.
RealAgriculture
Food Truths from Farm to Table addresses food guilt, shares farmers' stories
Video Player
What can farmers do to overcome consumer misunderstanding?
Farm survival depends on food conversations
The History of #AgChat
Farm Factor, February 3, 2015: Kansas Soybean and KDA Beef Genetics
Lewis at Large–Michele Payn–No More Food Fights!
Michele Payn on Across the Fence
Michele Payn and No More Food Fights!
Michigan State Spartan Saga on Michele
Engaging Farmers in Social Media to Tell their Story - Michele Payn
Louisiana Farm Bureau: Michelle Payne-Knoper ISG
Radio & Podcasts
Progressive Dairy
How stress impacts your farm and what you can do about it
MSU Today with Russ White
Spartan foodies say food should connect, not be contentious
WKAR-MSU Today
Alumni's Award-Winning Book Exposes, Combats 'Food Bullies'
Inside THE BARN
Michele Payn, Cause Matters Corp discussing her latest Book, "Food Bullying" and much more...
Successful Farming
The misrepresentation of our food supply is becoming the bully on the playground
Tips with Toni
Are you buying BS? Uncovering truths behind non-GMO, Hormone & Antibiotic free claims
Farm Traveler Podcast
Food Bullying and How to Avoid Buying B.S. with Michele Payn
Sound Bites A Nutrition Podcast
Food Bullying-How to Avoid Buying B.S.
MSU Today WKAR Radio
Ever been bullied about your food choices? Most of us have, writes MSU alumna in new book
UpliftFit Nutrition Podcast
Food Bullying & Food Marketing Nutrition Myths with Michele Payn
Ag State of Mind Podcast
Author of the newly released book "Food Bullying"
Talking Biotech Podcast
How food bullying spreads unjustified fears about GMOs, animal welfare, & food safety
Radio Oklahoma Network
It's time to stand up to food bullies
Inside the BARN Radio
Michele Payn discusses "Food Bullying" and much more
RFD Radio Network
Michele introduces Food Bullying to listeners
Radio Oklahoma
It's Time for Farmers and Ranchers to Stand Up to Food Bullies
The Potato Podcast
Food Bullying removes choice in the store and on the farm
Farm Food Facts
Michele Payn, Jocelyn Schlichting Hicks, New Organic Research
What The Farm
Real life conversations about agriculture and how it affects the consumers food
Your Food, Your Farmer
Chef, Vivian Howard with Michele Payn
XM Radio Food Bullying Interview
The Health Files Podcast
The Kitchen Counter Podcast
Food Truths from Farm to Table
Sound Bites with 25 Food Truths to Shop & Eat Without Guilt Melissa Joy Dobbins, RDN
25 Food Truths to Shop & Eat Without Guilt
Greening of the Great Lakes with Kirk Heinze
New book dispels myths about food and proffers 25 truths to eating "without guilt"
Leadership Happy Hour with the Unconventional Leader, Chip Lutz, CSP
Leading From Gate to Plate With Michele Payn, CSP
AgInfo.net with KayDee Gilkey
Professional speaker and author Michele Payn provides an informed voice of reason in Food Truths from Farm to Table.
Talking Biotech Podcast with Kevin Folta
Food Truths-Debunking Myths, Celebrating Abundance
The Ranchcast with Lem Lewis
Exposing Pecksniffery &
Debunking Common Food Myths
Conversations with Phil Gerbyshak
Food Truths from Farm to Table with Michele and Phil
Reinvention Radio with Michele and Steve Olsher
Get Food Clarity: Buy & Prepare Food Without Guilt & Confusion
The Ingles Information Aisle
Michele talks with Leah McGrath about food and farming
Cool Things Entrepreneurs Do
Michele interview with Thom Singer on an Entrepreneurs Journey
The Story of Agriculture Podcast
Connecting People to Food
Talking Biotech Podcast
Michele interview with Dr. Kevin Folta on Talking Biotech
Ag Producers: Have a Conversation
Michele interview with Kaydee Gilkey
Farmscape Online: Responding to the Rhetoric
Michele interview at Banff Pork Seminar
Michele Payn: Connecting the Farm Gate to the Consumer Plate
Michele on Greening of the Great Lakes
Michele on Oklahoma Farm Report:
Ag Media Conversations with Truffle Media
Audio series on Agriculture's Use of Social Media, sponsored by Michigan Soybean on Michigan Farm Radio Network:
Social Media's Value to Agriculture
Facebook+Ag=Business Opportunity
Talking Twitter & #agchat
Farm Use of Smart Phone & Text Messaging
Farming You Tube
HSUS & Sierra Club Telling Your Story through Social Media
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