Darren and Brian Hefty invite you to attend the 2024 Ag PhD Corn Workshop at the Morton Center in Baltic, SD. They also discuss the importance of manganese for your crops, and why you should be using a "yellow" herbicide in your soybean pre-emerge program.

The Hefty brothers help you get the proper copper in your soil and crop.

The Hefty brothers discuss what a farmer can wield with a good yield map, the best practices with the micronutrient copper, and the process for buying supplies overwinter. Plus the Weed of the Week is prostrate vervain, and an Iron Talk on reasons and solutions for fallen corn.

Yield maps not only tell you how you did this year, it's a tool for next season too. Brian and Darren help you turn those colorful diagrams into fertility and planting solutions.

Dodge the lodge, and stop the drop. From disease to drought, Darren talks you through how to get your crops standing better next season.

Brian and Darren invite you to the 2024 Ag PhD Soils Clinic. They also discuss the importance of having iron available for your crops, as well as factors to consider if you're thinking about increasing your corn planting population.

Learn why having the right amount of iron available is important, and how soil pH can affect plant uptake of this critical nutrient.

It's not just the big nutrients like nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium that can make great crops. Find out about two other nutrients that can help soils be more productive.

Brian and Darren Hefty tell you how much, how often, and where to apply zinc in your fields.

If you used Stinger, Flexstar, Pursuit, atrazine, and/or HPPDs this year, the Hefty brothers say you need to be careful about what you plant in that field next year. It's not too late to skip the rotation and keep the crop the same.

Is it better to farm in places with cold or milder winters? Will the herbicide you applied this year hurt the new crop you plant in a few months? And what's the purpose of zinc? The Hefty brothers answer all of this and more, plus they talk buckbrush control and combine winter maintenance.

Find out how farmers can speed up the breakdown of crop residue, biological products you could use to get nitrogen into your crops, and what you should know about testing for and applying boron.

There may be other ways to get nitrogen into your crops besides applying commercial fertilizer. Brian and Darren discuss using biological nitrogen replacement products.

Brian and Darren discuss the importance of boron for your crops.as well as different testing and application methods.

The Hefty brothers talk about saving you money at the register, planting more soybean seeds per acre, and the tricks to getting the most out of your phosphorus. Also, the Weed of the Week is perennial sow thistle, and the hot topic in Iron Talk is engine coolants.

Phosphorus can be a complicated primary nutrient to test for and balance. Don't fear, Brian and Darren clear up the confusion for you, and help you get your amounts just right.

The Mississippi River is low and that’s causing shipping problems for Agriculture. Mark Milam with Independent Commodity Intelligence Services joins Damian to discuss issues of transportation, supply, and distribution of fertilizer for crop year 2024.

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There are many things you cannot control when growing plants, but you can control how much plant food you apply. Darren explains how farmers decide how much fertilizer to put on their fields.

Brian and Darren explain how farmers use technology to apply the proper rates of fertilizer across a field, how to identify and fix a sodic soil, and factors to consider when buying seed corn for next season.

The Hefty brothers explain how farmers use technology to apply fertilizer only where it is needed.

Find out what to look for on your soil test to see if you have a sodic soil, and steps you can take to fix the soil in the long term.

In this episode, Brian and Darren Hefty talk about: how to make all that winter precipitation work for you in the spring, how much Ca you need in your soil, and how to strip-till in a field thick with stalks and leaves. The Weed is roughstalk bluegrass, and protecting your bulk chemicals is the I...

Is a field ever too full of stalks and leaves to properly strip-till? The Hefty brothers say no. They share their advice from 20 years of planting in the black line.

If your base/sat Ca is not between 60-80% your soil structure is suffering say Brian and Darren. This secondary nutrient needs to be in balance with the other elements found in your field.