This week, the Hefty brothers discuss how many ears of corn can be on a single plant, how to fight corn smut, and how to increase or decrease soil organic matter.

Brian and Darren discuss some possible causes of corn smut and what you could try to reduce it in the future.

Brian and Darren discuss identifying catchweed bedstraw and what products will control it in corn, soybeans, wheat, and lawns.

The average sprayer only sprays about 28% of the total engine hours. Come explore where the efficiency is lost. We evaluate ground speed, boom width, tank size, application rate and loading time along with the cost of operating a sprayer at different efficiencies.

Brian & Darren talk about the mobility of nutrients within your crop, fixing salty soils, and corn on corn management. The Weed of The Week is the awful musk thistle. Plus the Iron Talk concerns how to apply dry seed treatments correctly on your planter.

Many nutrients are mobile in the plant but some are not. You can see what plant food you are short on by looking at where the discolored leaves occur on your crop.

Corn on corn has to be handled much differently than when rotating. You need to take a different approach to fertility, insect, disease and residue management.

This biennial can tower over your fields if you don't get a high-dose to it early. Brian and Darren talk the specifics of musk thistle control for pastures.

Darren Hefty talks about why farmers almost always have different types of corn plants in one field.

Darren and Brian explain what Bt corn is, how to do common fertility conversions when reading a soil test, and how to maximize tonnage and quality in your alfalfa crop.

The Hefty brothers discuss how to identify and control redroot pigweed.

Brian and Darren discuss ways to maximize your alfalfa tonnage.

If you don't want a weedy sunflower field there is one key thing you must do according to Brian & Darren. Plus they talk fertility, insects, and disease in sunflowers.

Brian and Darren Hefty talk about the latest technology in the tractor cab, how to raise the best sunflower crop, and why sulfur is needed even more today than yesterday. Plus johnsongrass is the Weed of the Week, and Iron Talk is all about a new way to adjust your tires to the right rates for t...

This is quite a difficult perennial to stop on your farm. Brian & Darren talk johnsongrass control in soybeans, corn, wheat, and alfalfa.

In 2022 American farmers produced the fourth largest soybean crop on record at 117 million metric tons or roughly 4.4 billion bushels. The good news: Demand is matching global supply and prices are decent. The challenging news: Our demand for soybean oil is outpacing our demand for soybean meal. ...

The Hefty brothers discuss avoiding overlap when planting and spraying, how to test for and apply manganese, and how to keep your broadleaf herbicide and grass herbicide from working against each other.

The Hefty brothers discuss potential problems when mixing broadleaf herbicides with grass herbicides.

Brian and Darren Hefty explain how farmers avoid overlap when applying herbicides or planting seed.

Find out which products work to control wild mustard in crop fields.

How do you know if: your seed will start right this spring, your stored grain will survive the winter, and your soil has enough copper in it? Brian and Darren Hefty answer these questions and talk swamp smartweed and soybean herbicide placement in this episode.

Do you need to till in your pre-emerge soybean herbicides? The answer depends on your product. Some must be instantly incorporated, Darren breaks it down in today's Iron Talk.

Brian & Darren Hefty help you spot this often misidentified weed. This perennial has rhizomes and does well in wet soils, but there is a clear control method.

Copper is the disease nutrient and more. Brian & Darren tell you the Cu ppm you should have and a new ratio with phosphorus.