Farm land prices are up. A lot! So are interest rates, input prices, and diesel fuel. What does all this mean heading into fall and for 2023? Should you buy acres to expand your Ag enterprise in this environment? How will a doubling of operating loan interest rates impact your bottom line. Jarod ...

Biologicals are the newest iteration in Ag inputs but they’ve actually been around for several decades and they still lack consistent results. Consolidation among Ag’s biggest players has left just a handful of huge companies — will they all still be here in a decade? If so, who will they acquire...

During the Summer of 2022, Dutch farmers began protesting extreme environmental legislation poised to force liquidation of livestock and shut down farms. The purpose of Holland's legislation is allegedly for the good of the environment, but upon further analysis, the laws will simply offshore and...

Ken Wall left his post as an attorney and moved his two sons back to the Ontario specialty crop farm he was raised on in the 1990s. Since then he’s expanded the enterprise, gotten in the seed business, built a food processing facility, and created a niche manufacturing company. He explains the bu...

ou’ve likely heard the horror stories about unhealthy Agricultural family business succession. Dysfunctional relationships, favoritism, squandered wealth, sibling rivalry — Elaine Froese, the Farm Family Coach, has seen it all. The sad part: it’s all preventable. Elaine joins me to discuss strate...

A new white paper produced by a team of members of the Association of Equipment Manufacturers outlines 13 trends impacting the future of production Agriculture. In this two-part episode I am joined by an AEM panel to dig into the trends and provide outlook on the rapid changes coming to Ag over t...

Diseases, pathogens, and parasites rob yield from our farms and unfortunately, we usually don’t know we have the problem until the damage is done. But what if a soil analysis — which you are already doing for soil nutrient monitoring — could also predict pathogens so that you could treat the prob...

A new white paper produced by a team of members of the Association of Equipment Manufacturers outlines 13 trends impacting the future of production Agriculture. In this two-part episode I am joined by an AEM panel to dig into the trends and provide outlook on the rapid changes coming to Ag over t...

Wheat prices are in record territory. Russia is reportedly seizing Ukrainian wheat and re-selling it. Africa and the Middle East might very well be starving soon, given wheat shortages. And the USA planted fewer acres of wheat last year than at any time on record, as farmers switched acreage to m...

as price hikes are a daily conversation and the exorbitant price of fuel is literally hyper-fueling inflation. The last time we saw conditions like this was the 1970s which gave rise to a new product — “Gasohol.” From there, came the ethanol boom and biodiesel. But diesel from soybeans never real...

2022 started off with dire predictions for production Agriculture’s financial outlook. But, by mid spring the picture was changing, and by early summer a very profitable year was being predicted. Is that still the case? Are farm balance sheets going to swell? Or will interest rates and inflationa...

The Ochsners spray their crops and scout some damaged corn while the Atleys take a deeper look at theirs.

Dan Luepkes is battling 100 degree temperatures and Chad Henderson is trying to get the machines running. They both take a look at the 2022 crops to see how they look at this point in the growing season.

Luepkes plants corn and explains his farm’s history while the Ochsners deal with a windy season as a family

One month since planting, the crop is up and out of the ground. Now the hard work of keeping the crop happy begins. The sudden onset of extremely hot weather presents a challenge to the young corn plants. Nutrient deficiencies threaten yield.

Follow Kelly Garrett as he attempts to grow the h...

After losing his shot for a big yield last year in the blink of an eye, Kelly Garrett and his team begin the quest to make farming history with the highest yield ever recorded in the state of Iowa. Setting their sights high, the team faces immediate challenges right from the start.

Nate Ihnen hosts a live panel with the stars of Corn Warriors Season 5.

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The Longino Ranch has been around for many decades. Ranch manager Cliff Coddington shows us how diversification, along with thinking outside the box will keep this ranch preserved well into the future.

Just south of Plant City, Florida we visited the largest contiguous strawberry farm in the world. A lot of time, money, and manpower goes into raising this wonderful crop.

Dairy farming is changing as fast as grain farming, and it's becoming just as automated. Dan Venteicher shows us the in's and out's of his robotic dairy farm, and how automation has changed his workload.