Agronomy
How do you achieve better plant health and higher yields? Agronomy is the science of soil management and crop production, and these videos feature a wide array of topics that help protect and improve crops all throughout the season. If you want to build better crops, this is the place to start.
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Grain Marketing, Cover Crops, Soil Health, and Wheat Marketing Center
If you're new to the marketing game, it can seem intimidating at times. At this year's women in ag event, Britany Wondercheck, also known to her followers as "The Farm Girl Next Door", led a workshop titled take the intimidation out of grain marketing.
Earlier this year the Market Journal team ...
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Working to Understand How Cover Crops Fit in Our Operation
Gregg shares the successes and challenges that he's encountered as he has incorporated cover crops into his operation.
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Twenty Years of Vertical Tillage
Over the years Gregg knew that to continue to push yields, root structure was going to need to be improved. See his journey to vertical tillage.
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Mid-Season Report Card
Gregg returns to the field mid-season to evaluate his nitrogen program and plant health.
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Row Spacings, Fungicides at Planting in Corn, Jump Start Your Pasture
Brian and Darren Hefty discuss setting wide or narrow row crops, how putting a fungicide in-furrow can improve yield, and the best way to get your pasture thick and lush. Plus they give advice on spotted spurge weeds and planter opening discs.
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Spotted Spurge
This summer annual can be nuisance in your yards and landscaping during the hottest parts of the year. Brian and Darren tell us how to easily control spotted spurge in corn, soybeans, wheat, and your lawn.
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Planting Report Card
Gregg spends a lot of time evaluating planter performance once the corn emerges. Walk with him through the summer to find what he looks for as he grades his planter performance.
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Jump Start Your Pasture
If you want a great lush pasture this year, start now. Brian and Darren Hefty talk pasture soil sampling, gibberellic acid, fertility, weeds and more.
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Row Spacings
Some fields have wide rows and others are narrow. Brian and Darren Hefty talk about the reasons behind the variety of row spacings.
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Fungicides at Planting in Corn
Putting fungicides in-furrow is a relatively new trend in farming. Brian and Darren tell you exactly how to do it and the new benefits it can bring to your crop.
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No Till Weeds
How do no till farmers eliminate "super weeds" like marestail and dandelions? Darren Hefty explains strategies for weed control in fields without tillage.
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Our Four-Year Transition to Banding Nutrients
With today’s input prices, growers are looking to save money without sacrificing yields. Gregg reviews his farm's transition to banding nutrients and how that reduces input costs and boost yields.
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Six Things I Learned From This Growing Season
Gregg reviews the top six things that drove yields in Central Illinois in 2022 and what we can do to try to replicate them.
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The XtremeAg Show - Pilot Episode
The XtremeAg farmers talk about fungicide applications, beans after beans, how to use tissue sampling to improve crop health, corn diseases and more in the pilot episode of The XtremeAg Show. Full season begins in January 2024.
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Nutrient Deficient or Imbalance?
Kevin and Matt talk with Mark Coots from Teva about correcting nutrient deficiencies while maintaining balance in your soil.
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A 2 in 1 System for Your Planter
Kevin and Kelly talk about the versatility of the CapstanAg SelectShot system they trialed last season and how it can be used as a modified 2x2 system.
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Why You Should Consider Variable Rate Seeding on Corn
Integrated Ag Solutions’ Mike Evans began writing variable rate seeding prescriptions when both he and Kelly Garrett realized they were wasting money on seed. Too much seed was being planted in low performing soils that couldn’t possibly produce the yield necessary to justify high seeding rates. ...
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Spring Applied Biology
Kevin Matthews and Matt Miles talk about biologicals and their plans for spring applied biology with Concept AgriTek's Mark Glastetter while at the 2023 National Farm Machinery Show in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Super Early Pre-Emerge Spraying
How early is too early? Can you spray on frozen ground? Brian and Darren share their tricks in applying your first herbicides as early as possible.
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Tillering in Crops, Super Early Pre-Emerge Spraying, Nutrient Stratification
In this episode, Brian and Darren Hefty talk about suckers in wheat and corn, the earliest you can spray before you plant, and where the fertility should be in the different layers of soil. Volunteer corn is the Weed of the Week. And Darren discusses field cultivators in the Iron Talk segment.
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Tillering in Crops
Are suckers good or bad? Brian and Darren say tillering in grass crops is not necessarily a negative and may actually improve your yield.
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Volunteer Corn
Volunteer corn is the worst yield robber among all weeds! Brian and Darren think this year will be a difficult one for unwanted corn. All the control answers for your crops in this episode.
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Nutrient Stratification
Where exactly is all your fertilizer? Brian & Darren talk the importance of having your P, Zn, Cu, K at the right layers of the soil.
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Seed Bed Preparation
It takes the perfect seed bed to get the perfect crop. Today Darren talks about tillage and soil conditions to get the seed off to a good start.