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.

Brian and Darren Hefty tell you what stops this tough perennial in your corn, beans, wheat, pasture, and turf.

Brian and Darren Hefty talk about why June 21st is significant in soybeans, plus a great new way to study your fields, and what is being done to stop the latest corn disease headed your way. The Weed of the Week is smallflower buttercup. And state of the art farm shops are shown.

Join us as we visit Schuler Red Angus, a ranch located in the panhandle of Nebraska, known for its flagship seed stock of Red Angus cattle.

David Schuler shares the progress made with their diversified agriculture production.

The bread and butter of their operation focuses on Red Angus cattle...

Extreme drought has made for a tight hay supply, and SR Farms Alfalfa Company in southwest Nebraska is doing everything they can to get quality hay to customers.

SR Farms is a family owned and operated business nestled in the Beaver Valley near Wilsonville.

Owner Steve Rice said he strives to ...

Brian and Darren Hefty explain all the great things in Field Day, how to avoid hurting future crops with previous year's sprays, and what your wheat wants at both flag leaf and heading stages. The Weed of the Week is yellow foxtail and the Iron Talk is about air inversions.

Darren Hefty explains how trees suffer through droughts like all other plants.

If your grass weed has hairy ligules - you've got yellow foxtail. Brian and Darren Hefty help you identify and control it in corn, wheat, and soybeans.

If your emergence doesn't look quite right it could be last year's weed control products lingering on this year's crops. Brian and Darren help you identify and avoid future issues with herbicide carryover.

Brian and Darren Hefty talk about spraying wheat at both flag leaf and heading. Fungicides, fertilizers, insecticides, and biologicals can all go into the tank to give your wheat a late boost.

Ag PhD Field Day is July 27th, 2023. It's free, there's something for everyone, and over 10,000 people will be on the Hefty farm that Thursday.

For 150 years, the Batie family has defied the traditional norms of farm inheritance.

"We don't do the traditional 'oldest son gets the farm,'" said Don Batie. "Our motto has always been whoever wants to farm is the one who should be farming."

This philosophy has shaped the Batie family farm fo...

Kelly is kicking the tires on the Fendt Momentum Planter this spring. Engineered with innovative features that promise to increase planting uniformity, he is putting the Fendt Momentum Planter up against his John Deere 1770 NT in a head to head yield contest in the rugged hills of Western Iowa. S...

Matt shows off the advantages of his strip kill practice, killing strips of cover crop with a herbicide with his hooded sprayer, rather than using a strip till machine to till strips into the cover crop to plant into.

Glenn Miller stays busy on his operation, raising cattle, corn, dry edible beans, alfalfa, and winter wheat.

Miller, who farms in Sioux County in Nebraska, shares how he balances his time among those commodities.

He said he'll plant pinto beans in a few weeks and, thanks to recent rains, be ab...

Johnny Verell does things a little different than most when it comes to laying down a side dress solution on his corn. He talks about how he uses his sprayer and how he mitigates the burn.

In this episode the Hefty brothers talk about helping those new to farming, biologicals that you may not have heard of yet, and applying N, S, and B after your crop has come up. The Weed of the Week is compass plant. Plus Darren talks about paying $640/hr to spray fields!

These biologicals naturally occur in your soil and can help you reach a higher yield. Brian and Darren explain all you need to know about this new trend in agronomy.

Brian and Darren talk in depth about the best way to apply nitrogen, sulfur, and boron once your crop is up.

Brian and Darren invite everyone to attend this year's Scouting and Scholarships event at the Hefty farm. There will be hands-on learning and hundreds of college scholarships given out.

This perennial forb is not usually a terrible threat to your crop, but Brian and Darren can help you understand the best ways to handle compass plant.

There are three ways farmers help preserve precious soil from disappearing. Darren Hefty says now erosion is not as bad as it once was.

“Our industry is going to require 60,000 4-year college graduates and we’re around 38,000 students graduating from the Ag curriculum currently.” So says Dr. Tom Paulson, department head at Morningside U’s Applied Agricultural and Food Studies. Dr. Paulson is joined by Tom Moss and Liz Zoebel, two...

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We get a planting update from one local producer and get the latest details on the Nebraska Beef Passport as well as some upcoming tractor safety training sessions offered by Nebraska Extension and UNMC. Heartland Farm Partners President Jeff Peterson joins us in s...