Whew! What a week. From a quick trip to South Dakota for Ag PhD Field Day and back to the hay field, it's been a busy one. Watch to see some awesome drone footage, a really cool field day and very hot hay day. We appreciate you being here! Until next time, Farm Hard Live Well, The Bernards

This one is all over the place, y’all. Even though I reckon that’s kind of normal here, isn’t it? We start with me cooking beef tongue for the first time. Who loves it? Who’s never tried it? Who would be willing?!😛 Then we go to a very hard day, but by God’s grace we made it through. He’s so, so...

5/22/23 | All the crops are planted and now is the time to tend to them. A lot of weed spraying and some bug control are needed that Kelly and Andy get started on. But when Matt looks at his recently planted cotton crop, he finds out not all is well with it..

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If you’re in modern day production Agriculture, you are in business. Probably to the tune of millions of dollars of allocated capital. Yet, many farmers don’t flex their money mindset or think like entrepreneurs. This could make for real on-farm struggles moving into an era of high interest rates...

The Doldrums of summer usually bring a change within the cattle, but this summer they are doing good.

On this week's Cattle Call, Brad Kooima with Kooima, Kooima, Varilek looks at the north cash, weather concerns, the inventory report of last week and this last full trading week of July.

Join us while we prep for planting season in Missouri and get to know us a little bit!

Grayce and Gavin. Two young, American farmers building their operations and their relationship. Oh yeah, and they live five hours apart. Grayce’s family has been farming for well over 200 years. Gavin… Well, h...

Every Summer we begin to analyze crop reports, look at the markets and ask the question, “Will Ag make money this year? And if so, which sectors?” Jarod Creed of JC Marketing & Ag Financial Services joins Damian to discuss farm income, recent ag economic history, political winds shaping or shifti...

A special Let's Get Cucumbers episode. Randy goes to a cucumber field and rides along with a cucumber farmer.

In a matter of six weeks, parts of central and eastern Nebraska transitioned from battling severely dry conditions to receiving timely, consistent rainfall.

Becca Monroe, owner of West Mill Flowers near Raymond, said the rainfall allowed her cut flower crop to bloom and flourish for all of her s...

Finishing up 2nd cut hay and emptying a grain tank that equaled a big workout (and even shed some blood. 🤪) Hope things are well with y'all and you're staying cool as possible in this heat! We appreciate you being here! Until next time, Farm Hard Live Well, The Bernards

We produce a LOT of agricultural output here in the United States and the trend line for increased productivity isn’t letting up. So what happens when we run out of places to sell our output or creative ways to burn through our crops as we’ve done with ethanol or renewable diesel? Will we see cal...

On this episode of Successful Farming, Dave Mowitz travels to Tahlequah, Oklahoma, to visit Bill Rosener's shop. The shop was primarily designed for woodworking, but features a plethora of other great ideas that anyone can appreciate when building a shop. Dave also visits a Ritchie Bros. auction ...

We did the best we could! Not perfect, but still worth it. Come along to see how our old square baler did for the first time it’s been used in about 15 years.

Over 7" of rain the past week - not sure if that's why the beans are struggling. Too much of a good thing? Finally getting the pool leveled, filled (and tied 👀). Never a dull moment. We appreciate you being here! Until next time, Farm Hard Live Well, The Bernards

As you’ve likely heard me say, we in Agriculture suffer from commodity mindset. When we think of growing margins, we think of reducing costs, getting bigger, and making more with less. But what happens when there’s almost no efficiencies to be gained, or worse yet when we make so much stuff that ...

5/19/23 | With a decent stretch of weather before the next arriving storm system, Matt, Kelly, and Andy race to finish up planting the 2023 cotton crop. But as they finish, Matt takes a look at some of the earlier planted cotton and is dismayed at what he sees. Matt has a close encounter on the...

5/16/23 | With yet another weather delay, Matt and Andy get the old cotton picker ready to send off and finish up a special project for Kelly. When the skies finally clear, it's GO time to hurry to finish cotton planting before the insurance deadline!

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5/15/23 | With the calender quickly closing on cotton planting season, Matt makes the decision to plant in some questionable conditions. After half a day, his worst fears come true.

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5/10/23 | The perfect cotton planting conditions quickly come to an end with an impending storm. But while Matt and Andy race the rain, Matt has a breakdown at the worst possible time...

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5/9/23 | Cotton Planting 2023 is in full swing...and early too! But Matt gets a call about a foreign group interested in his cotton picker and has to switch gears quickly in order to get it sold...

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5/8/23 | A couple days after finishing planting corn, Matt, Kelly, and Andy get an earlier than normal start to planting the 2023 cotton crop. But Any's got a very difficult new job to learn...Matt shows the benefits of his strip kill system and talks about a biological plot he's putting in.

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Just when he thought he was going to have one of his best years yet, Steve Rice of SR Farms Alfalfa Company in Wilsonville said one storm brought over 9 inches of rain and another brought hail for 48 straight minutes.

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Finished up seeding beans while the kids were gone, but not without a few headaches (and backaches). And Lawrence got a taste of the spreader good life - or a few minutes, anyway. We appreciate you being here! Until next time, Farm Hard Live Well, The Bernards

5/5/23 | With another storm system bearing down on them, Matt, Kelly, and Andy race to get the rest of the 2023 corn crop planted. Kelly does some field cleanup and finds some strange objects...

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