Farm Dog podcast: Aaron Steele, rural dogs and listening guide

Key facts

Host

Aaron Steele

Presenter

Goats On The Go

Format

Audio podcast with rural working-dog conversations

Listening access

Publisher page and Apple Podcasts; publisher also names Spotify

Episode selection below

Based on published descriptions, not a review of complete recordings

What is Farm Dog about?

The programme brings several rural dog roles into one conversation archive. Its published scope includes breed history, training and experience on farms. This makes it relevant when your interest crosses the usual boundaries between herding, protecting livestock and other work around a rural property.

Choose a question before choosing an episode. A breed interview is a different starting point from a conversation about a particular farming operation. If you want to understand a job, record the work setting, stock involved and handler responsibilities as you listen. Those details make a discussion easier to compare with your own circumstances.

Who hosts it, and what is the rural connection?

Aaron Steele is identified as both host and founder of Goats On The Go. The business’s own history places its origins near Ames, Iowa, in 2012, with the Steele and Steenhoek families, and describes a network of local targeted-grazing businesses. That background explains the programme’s agricultural setting.

For readers exploring employment, use interviews to identify the tasks and experience you would like to investigate further. Follow those questions into a role description or a conversation with an employer. The library’s farmhand guide provides a separate route into duties, dog arrangements and applying for work.

Where can I listen?

The official Farm Dog page offers an embedded Apple player and directs listeners to podcast apps, naming Apple Podcasts and Spotify. The linked Apple programme is titled Farm Dog and identifies Aaron Steele. Use those identity details when searching because the words farm dog also describe a broad subject.

The references below retain the official page and programme listing. Open the episode description to check the guest and subject, then use your preferred available player. This profile verifies audio discovery; it does not establish a matching YouTube edition for each interview.

Three topic-based starting points

For stockdogs working alongside livestock guardians, the archive lists episode 145 with Catie Maclennan-Dobson, Adventure shepherding with stockdogs and LGDs. For a herding-breed conversation, episode 148 features Billie Richardson in a rebroadcast about the Australian Shepherd. For terriers and hunting interests, episode 147 is an Airedale discussion associated with Hunting Working Airedales.

These are navigation suggestions from the published titles and descriptions. They do not summarise everything said in the recordings. Where a listing says rebroadcast, retain that label in your notes: the listing date alone does not identify when the original conversation took place.

Turn an interview into useful working notes

Keep a short record with the show, episode number, guest, subject and timestamps. Divide your notes into observations about that operation, questions for your own situation and factual claims to verify. For example, a discussion may prompt you to ask how dogs are introduced to stock or what facilities a worker needs, without providing a complete plan for your property.

For dog history, connect each claim to the named animal and speaker. For competition records, look for the event and year. For a breed comparison, record the work being discussed rather than applying one guest’s experience to every dog of that breed. These notes provide a useful route back to the original conversation.

Explore related subjects in the library

Use the Australian Shepherd and Airedale breed pages for a separate breed overview, and the wider media guide to compare programmes by subject and format. DogTorque offers another route into working-dog interviews. The oral-history guide explains how to retain a speaker’s identity and context when recording rural experience.

This is an independent WORKING DOG guide to finding and using the programme. The publisher controls its recordings and access. Credit the host and guest when drawing on an interview, and follow the original recording for the full conversation.

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