The last twenty years have been very good ones — financially speaking — for American Agriculture. The last three years 2021, ’22, and ’23 are the highest farm income years ever in both nominal and inflation adjusted, real dollars. Now, in 2024, we face a revenue downturn. While commodity prices a...

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In production Agriculture we tend to over manage for some pathogens — corn root worm for instance — while under managing for others such as Fusarium. Mike Tweedy with PatternAg cites his company's recent finding in a certain geography where Fusarium — a disease for which we generally under manage...

Join me as we travel to 4 different states (Arkansas, Virginia, South Carolina, and Mississippi and test Syngenta's "Better Yield Better Deal" on corn, soybeans, and rice. Will the product hold-up to the test? Guess you'll have to find out.
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4/8/24 | After a long week of spreading litter, Matt and Andy are closing in on the finish line. However, when a once in a lifetime opportunity comes along, Matt and Andy take a break to observe the eclipse. Matt talks about his grain marketing plans for 2024.

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4/1/24 | With the rain out of the way, Matt and Andy still have tons of chicken litter to apply. Matt explains his fertilizer strategy when utilizing chicken litter. Carter helps out when Andy has jury duty.

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3/29/24 | With rain overnight and a storm system bearing down on them, Matt and Andy get back on repairing some equipment. Just when he thought he was about to get a major repair done, Matt finds far more damage than he expected. But first some troublesome cows have to be carried off to slaught...

3/28/24 | With the rest of the spring chicken litter finally delivered, Matt and Andy start sinking up the neighborhood applying chicken litter with their new Salford spreader. But before they can even start, they have some problems to overcome..

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3/23/24 | While Matt finishes up strip spraying, Kelly heads to Missouri to pick up @ChroniclesofKayla to go to South Dakota to pick up their new GSI paddle sweep. But before she gets far down the road, she has a mishap that threatens to derail the trip...

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3/21/24 | While Matt continues his strip spraying on corn and cotton ground, Andy gets started ripping some ground. But his equipment might surprise you...
Matt shows off his aerial seeded cover crops and later asks for your prayers and talks about the evil perpetuating society.

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On March 31, 2023, an EF3 tornado destroyed multiple farm buildings and structures on Doug Knoblett's farm near Palestine, IL. Several pieces of equipment were also heavily damaged in the storm. Without the use of some essential planting implements, Doug was referred to Farm Rescue for assistance...

Ron Donohue is from Blakesburg, IA, and is no stranger to agriculture. After a childhood spent on the farm, Ron continued working the fields through early adulthood and has been raising cattle for more than 25 years. He also spent more than four decades working in the seed industry. A close frien...

Al Bryce is a no stranger to agriculture. He has been involved in farming all of his life and takes great pride in his family operation near Glenwood, MN. Despite the many demands on his own farm, Al continues to make time each year to serve other families through the work of Farm Rescue. He has ...

Like many farmers and ranchers, Clifford and Karen Froslie have always taken pride in being self-sufficient in their operation. Throughout the past four decades, they’ve worked together to raise many wheat, soybean and corn crops on their Rothsay, MN farm. The growing season of 2022 began in the ...

March 31, 2023, is a day Clint Whetstine and his family won’t soon forget. After spending most of the morning and afternoon vaccinating hogs with his uncle Ed on the family’s homestead farm, Clint and his son returned to their nearby home to get cleaned up for the evening. The threat of severe we...

Wildfire smoke reduces the sunlight reaching Temple's crop. Kevin Matthews surveys the damage from golf-ball sized hail. Matt Miles gets stuck on a pipe. Tune in to Episode 9 of the XtremeAg Show.

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Money was pouring into Agricultural startups a few years ago. What’s the investment climate look like now? Damian Mason is joined by Business Transaction Attorney Max Bremer on this episode of The Business of Agriculture. They discuss money flow into Ag, the pace of mergers and acquisitions, and ...

Temple & Matt take a visit to Iowa to learn more about Kelly's farm operation and learn a few secrets along the way.

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Most people don’t hold investment money in the Ag commodity space. That may be changing as investing in things like corn is made easier via ETFs — exchange traded funds. Jake Hanley with Teucrium explains the oftentimes complex commodities trading industry and how his company is simplifying — or ...

3/18/24 | The new farm makeover continues...with some bulldozer work! Matt works on smoothing up the cleared ground and reshaping some of the slopes so that they can be planted. Kelly and Andy work on getting some nitrogen applied to the wheat crop using variable rate prescriptions. Matt apolo...

3/15/24 | After a good run in the field, Matt, Andy, Kelly, and Carter are back in the shop trying to get the planter put back together. The correct disc openers showed up and Matt explains the comparison of the different disc openers he's trying from Wear Parts LLC to test the longevity.

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3/14/24 | Logan and Bobby Hanks, hosts of the "Talk Dirt To Me" podcast, invite Matt and Kelly on their show to talk about a wide range of subjects incuding urban expansion, chicken litter wars, their Hollywood experiences, and high yielding low cost soybean production. See a few segments on thi...

3/13/24 | With the dry spring so far spring fieldwork is under way. The crew at Griggs Farms is pulling double duty as Kelly and Andy spray wheat while Matt sprays burndown strips in his cover crop. Matt talks about the difficulties farmers are facing this year with low commodity and high input...