Plants like it hot. Darren Hefty explains how crops can thrive in extreme heat.

The Hefty Brothers discuss how the weather can effect your lawn, how to increase your yield and quality of your wheat, and how they control corn diseases on their farm. Plus they talk buffalobur and windrowers.

Different grasses do better in different weather. The Hefty brothers talk about the importance of grass seed mixes to keep your yard green through the entire growing season.

Learn how farmers and ranchers maximize grass production in pastures.

It's another dry year. Brian and Darren Hefty discuss hybrids, planting, fertility, and more to help your crop survive the heat.

Brian and Darren talk about nutrients for trees, how to prepare for lack of rain, and why the mites do well in the drought. The Weed of the Week is common knotweed and Iron Talk is about slowing down your sprayer.

It's an annual more likely found in in your yard than in your field. Brian and Darren list the products needed to stop common knotweed wherever you find it growing.

Trees provide protection from the weather and a lifetime of beauty. The Hefty brothers give you a checklist to creating a healthy hedgerow on your farm.

The Hefty Brothers say this could be a bad year for spider mites. Find out what they do to prevent and eliminate these tiny pests.

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.

“We cut some hay on May 20 trying to build some inventory and 5 days later it ...

The proliferation of biological crop inputs over the last several years has been almost overwhelming. I personally believe soil biology — understanding it and working with the soil versus against it — is the next frontier for production Agriculture. That said, the world of biological soil and cro...

Jeff Baker, a dryland farmer, elaborates on various decisions he has made to keep steady crop production.

“We’ve been dry, we’ve been hot, to this point though it's been alright and things look decent.”

Baker discussed his approach to weed control, especially water hemp. Baker concludes with h...

An inquiry into the way food is labeled is underway at USDA/FSIS - let's talk about labeling! Also, we get our new herbicide-resistant and drought tolerant forage sorghum in the ground. Will it rain in a timely fashion for crop?

The Supreme Court recently upheld Prop12 in California which has significant implications for pork, poultry and veal farmers nationwide and, potentially, farmers of other food crops in the future. We got a new sprayer and annihilate some weeds as Brandi geeks out about farming practices.

This is the most damaging bug to corn and he's hard to discover until it's too late. Darren Hefty explains how the science of Bt's help stop rootworms.

Darren gives the calculations and the exact ways to add N to your soybeans once the crop gets big. Late nitrogen could be just what your beans need.

Grasshoppers, corn leaf & soybean aphids, spider mites, and gall midge can be found in your fields each summer. The Heftys talk about scouting, spraying, and economic thresholds for controlling those bugs late.

This winter annual is in the mint family and has four-sided stems. Brian and Darren talk about controlling this henbit-type weed in lawns, no-till, and strip-till.

A central Nebraska farmer is conducting various field trials this year, including one trial to study the impact of "good" nematodes on his field's soil.

Don Batie said the "good" insect-eating nematodes eat insect larvae in the soil.

The nematodes were diluted in water and injected through the...

Follow the XtremeAg Planter vs. Planter Showdown featuring the Fendt Momentum planter versus the JD 1770 NT on Kelly Garrett's farm in the rugged hills of Western Iowa. Watch the first episode of Kelly Garrett's head-to-head corn yield contest.

According to the June 15 U.S. Drought Monitor, Eastern Nebraska is in a D4 exceptional drought - the worst rating the monitor gives.

Polk County farmer Randy Smith said this is the earliest he has put out pipe irrigation to keep is corn and soybeans growing. He said he utilizes no-till and ridge...

A devastating new corn disease is spreading across the northern United States. There's still a lot you can do to help prevent your corn being decimated by tar spot.

Those little purple flowers on soybean plants are triggered by the summer solstice. The Hefty brothers talk about this critical stage of development in today's Farm Basics.