Look at any bag, jug, or fertilizer label, and you will see three numbers separated by hyphens; these numbers represent nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium content. This seems pretty straightforward, but how do you calculate how many actual pounds of nutrient is applied, and how does that calcula...

The Hefty brothers discuss your best options for applying nitrogen in the fall.

Brian and Darren Hefty explain harvest loss and how to calculate how much income could be lost per acre.

Timely rains and missed storms are leading Nebraska Panhandle farmer Glenn Miller to be optimistic about this year's harvest yields.

His wheat crop performed above average and he anticipates the same will be true for corn. Miller said it will still be two to three weeks before they'll be harves...

Weed control is a constant battle so this year, we've employed a new method to fight back against sericea lespedeza - burning in the fall! Watch us experiment with lighting green grass and noxious sericea ablaze! Also, my 5'4" frame climbs back onto a soapbox to address divisiveness in food marke...

VRAFY is what the Hefty brothers now use to manage fertility and so much more. VRAFY automatically generates prescriptions for your soil, and finds your yield-limiting nutrients.

Darren Hefty talks about the value of corn residue, and why it's important to next year's crop.

How heavy is your soil? Brian and Darren Hefty explain the science of soil and why CEC affects almost everything on your farm.

This big grass is difficult to identify and kill. The Hefty brothers help you control it in your corn, wheat, and soybeans.

The Hefty brothers discuss why a farmer would burn in and around their fields, measuring how 'heavy' soil is, and they share their tricks about putting in drainage tile. The Weed of the Week is broadleaf signalgrass, and Iron Talk is all about VRAFY.

Hear for yourself how new TriVolt™ herbicide for corn from Bayer performed in 2022.

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In the latest episode of Fridays in the Field, Clay Patton returns to southwest Nebraska to check in with Steve Rice of SR Farms Alfalfa Company in Wilsonville.

Rice discussed the 2023 hay season and shared an update on the third and fourth cuttings of alfalfa. He is hoping to get a fourth cutti...

Join me in the tractor as I navigate spraying pasture solo and we discuss a new proposed legislation to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions in the next Farm Bill.

Comet Bio is a technology-enabled food ingredient company that, after eight years, is finally ready to churn out food ingredients. The company extracts fiber — arabinoxylan to be specific — from wheat straw and turns it into an ingredient for food companies to use in food for human consumption. T...

Drive across the state and you'll see dozens of combines already cutting soybeans due to this year's dry conditions.

But one farmer in south central Nebraska said he still has two to three weeks before his crop will be ready for harvest.

Don Batie, who farms in Dawson County, said timely rains...

Mature soybeans can be discolored for a whole rainbow of reasons. Brian and Darren walk you through the possibilities from weather to disease.

The Hefty brothers talk why they always spray after harvest for winter annuals and perennials. They list the best products and all the advantages of getting your weeds under control months before planting.

If your soil has a pH of 7 or above, don't give up hope, the Hefty brothers say you can bring it down. Brian and Darren lay out all the techniques to put that field back to normal.

What if your soybeans turn out purple, or your soil pH is 8, or you have a lot of perennial weeds after harvest? The Hefty brothers have these answers, and also talk prostrate pigweed, and corn shatter loss in this episode.

After multiple years of no till and intensively managed cover crops, Matt goes to the field to dig up some cotton and soybean plants and see if Matt's efforts and building up his soil without using tillage are paying off or are there any restrictions that plants with taproots can't penetrate.

We...

After multiple years of no till and intensively managed cover crops, Matt and Dylan Joyce of Joyce Brothers Farms go to the field to dig up some corn plants and see if Matt's efforts and building up his soil without using tillage are paying off.

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09/17/23 from Episode #1328

Much of eastern Nebraska was in a D3 extreme to D4 exceptional drought the entire 2023 growing season. Consequently, the combines have started rolling much earlier than normal across the area.

Despite a few rains, the dryland corn and soybeans in the region matured very quickly.

The September 5...

Soil sampling is fundamental to getting the best yield for your farm. The Heftys probe with orderly grids, but finding zones in each acre could be a more accurate way to see your fertility.