How do no till farmers eliminate "super weeds" like marestail and dandelions? Darren Hefty explains strategies for weed control in fields without tillage.

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.

Gregg reviews the top six things that drove yields in Central Illinois in 2022 and what we can do to try to replicate them.

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.

Kevin and Matt talk with Mark Coots from Teva about correcting nutrient deficiencies while maintaining balance in your soil.

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.

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. ...

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.

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.

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.

Are suckers good or bad? Brian and Darren say tillering in grass crops is not necessarily a negative and may actually improve your yield.

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.

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.

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.

Brian and Darren Hefty talk about how to stop winter damage on your roads, how much molybdenum your crops need, and exactly how thick or thin you should plant your corn and soybeans. Tough puncturevine is the Weed of the Week and the Germinator Closing Wheel is discussed in this week's Iron Talk.

What's the ideal planting population for corn and soybeans? Brian and Darren give you the equations and ideas so you don't plant too thick or too thin.

How early is too early to plant? Darren Hefty talks about the many factors that need to be considered before you put the seed in the soil.

This summer annual is a sharp weed found in crops and lawns. Brian and Darren give you the two product choices they recommend to eliminate puncturevine.

You don't need much "moly", but all your crops must have some molybdenum. Brian and Darren tackle this hard to say and hard to to measure micronutrient in this episode.

A shovel full of soil contains billions of microbes, thousands of bacteria, and a biological complexity we’re only beginning to understand. With the advent of soil sampling, we’ve generally tossed out macronutrients in large quantities and started to look at micronutrients. But we’ve not done muc...

Join us as agronomic field representative Ashley Babl, walks us through the impact of CEC, Organic Matter, soil pH and Buffer Index on your soil fertility and irrigation management.

I’ve been hearing the complaint, “it’s hard / impossible for a young person to start out in farming these days” for decades. Recently, an interviewer went down this road about the struggle of young people to get into farming and blamed the phenomenon on “corporate-ization.” You’ve no doubt heard ...

Brian and Darren Hefty discuss tiling and ditching, their trials with silica, and weed control and more in dry beans. The Weed of the Week is crabgrass. Plus we talk about how drought can actually help you prepare variable rate planting maps.

Brian and Darren are no fan of crabgrass in their lawns, corn, soybeans, and wheat. They talk about how you can eliminate this always growing weed problem.