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Michigan retailers have until December 31st to transition to selling only cage-free eggs. That change is the result of 2019 legislation that banned eggs from birds raised in cages at farms with over 3,000 egg-laying hens.

Today, translating campaign rhetoric into real talk about trade and tariffs. Also, the grinding hard work of modern agriculture, and an innovation that might be enough to keep one Michigan family in the game. Plus, an elegant and insightful history about the utopian vision of Detroit’s Shrine of the Black Madonna.

Today, we talk about things to think about as Michigan contemplates changes with minimum wages for tipped workers. Also, writer Michael Spradlin on adapting the political run-up to the Third Reich into a story young people can grasp. Plus: chef Abra Berens has ideas about what to do with the insanely prolific bounteous harvest of Michigan fruit available at your grocery or farmers’ market.

Extreme weather patterns, fruit flies, and decay have impacted Michigan's sweet cherry crop this year. Governor Gretchen Whitmer sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture asking them to declare a federal disaster for the region, which would make emergency funding available for the state's cherry farmers.

Today, we talk to a Michigan cherry farmer after a tough growing season. Then, an endangered wolf . . . in Michigan? IPR's Points North tells us the story. Later, a University of Michigan professor talks about an Indiana Jones style discovery.

What Michigan farmers are up against in the changing climate and growing seasons. Also today, what’s wrong with Michigan’s housing stock. A discussion on a new study of statewide housing needs. Growing interest in native plants. Then, a short history of Gerrymandering in the United States and Michigan lessons about reclaiming representation.

On today's Stateside, what to know about avian flu, how Ann Arbor Public Schools administrators plan to handle the budget deficit, and a new Detroit art installation tackles environmental racism.

Ottawa County announced that two new farms have been accepted into a program intended to preserve farmland.

Analyzing Michigan's "Uncommitted" vote from this week's presidential primary, new ways to connect small farms to city consumers, and celebrating Grand Rapids' Latino history.

Leadership of the Michigan GOP still unclear, the best way to watch this weekend's Lions NFC championship game, urban farms and their surprisingly high carbon footprint and a chat with the singer who belts out the Detroit Lions' fight song.