All Ag News' Tony St. James at the White House in Washington, D.C. (Tony St. James/FCR)
FLOYDADA, TX – On November 5, 2001, a small AM signal out of Floydada, Texas, flipped the switch on a simple, audacious idea: make a radio station that talked agriculture all the time—and meant it. No jukebox, no filler. Just markets, weather, policy, and people who raise the nation’s food and fiber. It launched with little fanfare, but it didn’t take long for word to spread up the caprock and across the Plains: “All Ag, All Day” had arrived on 900 AM KFLP.
Two dozen years later, the same voice and the same mission carry farther than any of those first-day scribbles imagined. You can catch All Ag on 900 AM KFLP (across the South Plains), 800 AM KDDD (Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles), 1360 AM KWKA (Eastern New Mexico and Southeastern Colorado), and across the nation (Fresno, CA to Utica, NY) through the All Ag Network. The footprint is both boots-on-the-ground local and national in reach, stitched together by affiliates and a daily digital front door at AllAgNews.com.
If the franchise has a through-line, it’s the host. Tony St. James has spent a career turning the day’s noise into the rancher’s “need-to-know,” reading markets with a pen-tap rhythm and tossing the mic to growers, shippers, economists, county agents, and elected officials from home and abroad. He’s taken that craft to national platforms without losing the coffee-shop cadence—evidence that a farm broadcaster can be both neighbor and networker—broadcasting from more than 30 states, Central and South America, and even the White House.
The format’s secret sauce isn’t just information density — it’s the way the show moves. Markets first, always. The weather is never far behind. Then the human stuff: a feeder pencil-pushing on margins, a cotton ginner eyeing classing sheets, a wheat grower counting days to first hollow stem. The topics widen when they need to — biofuels, water, interstate commerce, farm inputs, trade — and narrow when they must, like a foggy morning basis check before trucks roll. And because production agriculture doesn’t keep banker’s hours, All Ag doesn’t either.
What changed over 24 years? The pipes, mostly. What used to be a single West Texas signal is now a quilt of AM dials — 900, 800, 680 — and a syndication web that runs from the cotton country to corn and cattle country, with a clean stream for the tractor cab and the school pickup line. What hasn’t changed is the ethic: if it affects a farm or ranch, it’s airworthy.
There’s also the geography of the show itself—the split life between a hometown studio on the Llano Estacado and a Music Row perch in Nashville — proof that ag radio can keep its roots while showing up where the broader news cycle lives.
Twenty-four years in, All Ag has been the sound of planting days and harvest nights, of rain gauges thudding and windmills whining, of drought updates and miracle-inch mornings.
Here’s to year twenty-five: more acres covered, more miles driven, more conversations that make the work a touch clearer and the road a little shorter. And to the listeners who’ve kept the dial where it is—thanks for letting a little AM signal out of Floydada grow into a coast-to-coast habit.
By the Numbers (and the Miles)
•Launch date: November 5, 2001 — 24 years on air.
•Home base: KFLP 900 AM, Floydada, TX — “All Ag, All Day.”
•Partner stations: KDDD 800 AM (Dumas–Amarillo), KWKA 1360 AM (Clovis, NM)
•Anywhere access: Live stream and daily posts at www.AllAgNews.com.
•Network reach: The All Ag Network syndicates farm & ranch programming to stations across multiple states and even on SiriusXM.
