Tilth Talk Radio: Recent Episodes
Tilth Agronomy Studio
Topic: Field Updates – Soybean Populations
Spotlight: New Tool For Wisconsin Cover Crop Data
Ag History Minute: Jethro Tull – Seed Drill Inventor
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: EPA’s Proposed Rule Potential Game Changer For Farmers/Beef Producers Be Aware Of Dangerous Asian Longhorn Tick Continuing Western Migration
Field Good Friday: Wisconsin Farmers Union Hosts Free Summer Youth Camps
Topic: Matt And Todd Talk With Elizabeth Burns-Thompson, Executive Director Of The Modern Ag Alliance, About Issues Facing Crop Protection Tools In The Ag Industry.
Topic: Soil Crusting
Spotlight: Triple Action Foliar Fungicide Targets Tar Spot, Southern Rust And Frog Eye Leaf Spot
Ag History Minute: The Dust Bowl
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Honda Announces New Fourtrax Multipurpose ATVS For 2026/Lab Capacity Weak Link For African Swine Fever Outbreak
Field Good Friday: Wisconsin Farmer Among First To Use John Deere Autonomous Tractor
Topic: Field Pests
Spotlight: Indiana 4-H Sees Program Growth With Large Project Numbers
Ag History Minute: History Of Economic Thresholds
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: JBS To Build Sausage Facility In Perry Iowa/Glyphosate And Atrazine Noted In MAHA Commission Report
Field Good Friday: Ross Chastain – Race Car Driver And Eighth Generation Farmer
Topic: Wind
Spotlight: National Corn Growers Association Yield Contest
Ag History Minute: Why Is It Windy?
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Bicyclist’s Race For Cheese/Two States Still Haven’t Reached 50% Planted
Field Good Friday: Wienermobiles Will Haul Buns At Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Topic: Planting Depth Myths
Spotlight: Corteva Phases Out BMR, Introduces TonnEdge
Ag History Minute: History Of The National Weather Service
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Corn Farmers Embrace NASCAR/Screwworms Likely To Cross Border This Summer
Field Good Friday: Farm Aid To Kick Off Year-Long 40th Anniversary Celebration
Topic: Updates From The Field
Spotlight: Why The Omega Block Could Have A Major Impact On Drought And Planting Progress
Ag History Minute: History Of The Brown Corn Planter
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Soybean Planting Outpaces Expectations/Many Ag Programs And Policies Could Be Stripped From New Wisconsin Budget
Field Good Friday: 6 Tips For Farmers To Battle Burnout
Topic: Updates From The Field – Soybean Herbicide And Planting Dates
Spotlight: Order Your PEAQ Stick Now
Ag History Minute: History Of The PEAQ Stick
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: No Mow May Is Now Slow Mow May In Appleton
Field Good Friday: Another Week Of Major Planting Progress
Topic: Bill, Matt, Todd And Doug Draft Their Varieties For The 2025 Tilth Trials Fantasy Corn League Plot, Managed By Commissioner Derek.
Topic: What’s Happening In The Field And GDDs
Spotlight: Farm Progress Focuses On Women Shaping Agriculture In May Digital Publications
Ag History Minute: History Of Growing Degree Days
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: More Certainty For E-15 This Summer/Bayer CEO Says Firm May Stop Making Roundup
Field Good Friday: Wisconsin Leads The Charge For Rural Healthcare
Topic: How to Tell If Your Ground Is Fit To Plant
Spotlight: Bushel Expands Platform With Interest Bearing Accounts And Digital Wallet
Ag History Minute: History Of Earthworms In North America
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: USDA Crop Progress Report Farmers In 6 States Have Started Planting Corn/New HPAI Case Confirmed In Wisconsin
Field Good Friday: University Of Wisconsin Offers Help To Growing Food Farm Businesses
Todd and Matt Talk With Leah Duzy, Principal Consultant With Compliance Services International, About The Endangered Specials Act (ESA) And Pesticide Mitigation Strategies.
Topic: Tariffs And Agriculture
Spotlight: Latest And Greatest Farm Tech On Display At The WPS Farm Show In Oshkosh
Ag History Minute: Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: RinoTec Biocontrol Agents Recieves EPA Registration/A Snow Deficit This Winter Leaves Parts Of The North Central US In Drought
Field Good Friday: Why Are Most Barns In Wisconsin Painted Red, Here’s The History
Topic: BMR Phase Out
Spotlight: NASA’s New Satellite Could Change The Way We Farm Forever
Ag History Minute: BMR Corn
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: National Pork Board Announces New Tagline/Eric Snodgrass Dissects What Shift From La Nina Means For Weather This Spring
Field Good Friday: 2025 US Cheese Champion Announced
Topic: Value of Independent Crop Consulting
Spotlight: Iowa Lawmakers Push For Fertilizer Pilot Program To Improve Water Quality
Ag History Minute: History Of CCA Program
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Wisconsin Technical Schools Help Farmers Keep Up With Technology/Randy Dowdy Says Profit Sweet Spot For Soybeans Is 100 Bushels Per Acre
Field Good Friday: Six Finalists Named For Next Alice In Dairyland
Matt, Todd and Bill talk with Jason Fussy from Centrol Crop Consulting about his experience as a consultant in Minnesota.
Topic: High Oleic Soybeans
Spotlight: Doomsday Seed Vault Gets 14,000 New Samples
Ag History Minute: High Oleic Soybeans
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Pioneer Announces High Oleic Beans With E3 Technology/John Deere To Lay Off 119 Workers At Des Moines Works
Field Good Friday: Wisconsin Ag Teacher Of The Year 2024
Topic: Endangered Species Act Mitigation Strategies
Spotlight: The Scoop 2024 Product Of The Year Awaken Flowboost
Ag History Minute: Endangered Species Act Of 1973
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Cows Milk Continues To Remain Superior/Mission Complete-Iowa Man Eats Pork Tenderloin In All 99 Counties
Topic: Soil Testing For Micronutrients
Spotlight: Monarch’s MK5 Dairy Tractor Rolls Out Autonomous Feed Pushing
Ag History Minute: Victor Ernest Shelford
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: More Than 2000 Dairy Products Entered Into Contest/Ag Traders, Manufacturers Report Tough Profit Outlooks
Field Good Friday: Meet Wisconsin’s 2025 Outstanding Young Farmer
Todd, Matt and Bill talk with Ryan Nell from FWR Nell Farms about his early plant soybeans.
Topic: 5 New Things To Look For In 2025
Spotlight: Court Sides Against Deere In AGCO High Speed Planting Case
Ag History Meeting: Norman J. Coleman
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Adopt A Class Cow? How Schools Are Helping Students Understand Where Food Comes From/Wisconsin Grocers React To Rapidly Increasing Egg Prices
Field Good Friday: A Door County Cheese Maker Is Making A Cheese It’s Never Made Before
Topic: Biological Testing
Spotlight: SCN Continues To Spread
Ag History Minute: History Of Soil Health Testing
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: US Soybean Production Tops 2023/Foreign Ownership Of Ag Land Grew 1.6 Million Acres In 2023
Field Good Friday: “Green And Gold” Movie In Theatres January 31st
Topic: Tractor Autonomy
Spotlight: Crop Insurance Changes Present Opportunities
Ag History Minute: History Of Autonomous Tractors
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Nitrogen Optimization Pilot Program Already Helping Farmers For 2025/When Will Over The Top Dicamba Be Available For Soybeans Growers
Field Good Friday: Salentine Named Wisconsin Fairest Of The Fair
Bill, Matt and Todd talk with University of Wisconsin Division of Extension NPM Program Manager Dan Smith about weather, cover crops and more!
Topic: Soil Testing
Spotlight: Rock River Laboratory Expanding Into South Dakota
Ag History Minute: Wisconsin State Lab Of Hygiene
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: EPA Registers NIMAXXA Bionematicide Soybean Seed Treatment/Officials Warn That Agroterrorism Threat Is Real
Field Good Friday: Oklahoma 4-H Member Starts Toy Drive That Now Gives Out 13,000 Toys Each Year
Matt, Todd and Bill Talk With UW Division Of Extension Crops And Soils Educator Kevin Jarek About Alfalfa And Crop Budgets.
Topic: pH And Nutrient Availability
Spotlight: 2024 NCGA Corn Yield Contest
Ag History Minute: USDA America’s Farms And Ranches At A Glance
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Culvers Reaching 1,000th Restaurant/Farmers Remain Concerned About The Lack Of A 5 Year Farm Bill
Field Good Friday: What Happens When A Poultry Processor Flies The Coop
Topic: Grazing
Spotlight: Rotor Unveils Sprayhawk Spray Drone
Ag History Minute: Arthur William Sampson
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Farmer Sentiment Reaches Highest Level Since 2021/Cargill To Terminate 475 Employees In Minnesota
Field Good Friday: Virtual Fencing On Waupaca County Farm Saves Time And Money
Topic: Things For Farmers To Be Thankful For
Spotlight: Get To Know Brooke Rollins, Nominee For Agriculture Secretary
Ag History Minute: First Thanksgiving Dinner
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Cool Bean-Consider Planting Earlier/President Biden’s Pardoned Turkeys Ruffle Feathers
Field Good Friday: White House’s Christmas Tree Is A Symbol Of Resilience For Hurricane Hit North Carolina
Topic: Corn Seed Company Changes
Spotlight: Kansas Farmers Advised To Watch For Wheat-Triticale Hybrid
Ag History Minute: Jung Seed Genetics
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Corteva Announces Breakthrough In Wheat Technology/Critics Slam Absurd Bill That Would Restrict Use Of Bird Feeders
Field Good Friday: New Kubota KATR Farm Robot Concept Wins CES Innovation Award
Topic: Nitrogen Credits
Spotlight: Using Precision Agriculture With Microsoft And FFA Farmbeats For Students
Ag History Minute: Nitrogen Cycle
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Corn Exports – Rocket Ship To Where/AFBF Terminating Illinois Farm Bureau Membership After Dispute
Field Good Friday: Kubota Partners With Boot Campaign To Support Veterans
Topic: How Dry Soils Can Affect Soil Test K
Spotlight: RCI Takes Bale Accumulators To The Next Level
Ag History Minute: History Of The Pumpkin
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Mary Schreiber Of Wisconsin Elected To 2024-2025 National Officer Team/Harvest Prices For Crop Insurance Plunge
Field Good Friday: Over 2500 Pound Wisconsin Pumpkin Breaks Previous State Record
Matt, Todd, Bill and Doug discuss varieties while waiting for Commissioner Derek to reveal the plot details and winning team for the 2024 Fantasy Corn League Season. Check out the results on Facebook and online at www.tilthtrials.com!
Topic: Top 6 Quick Fixes To Your Budget For 2025
Spotlight: EPA Approves Next Generation Glufosinate Based Herbicide
Ag History: GDU Update
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: 65% Of US Corn, 81% Of US Soybeans Harvested/2024 Could Go Down As Worst Financial Year For Farmers Since 2007
Field Good Friday: NCGA Fields Of Corn Contest
Topic: Herbicide Carryover Considerations
Spotlight: Reinke E3 Precision Center Pivot System
Ag History Minute: Center Pivot Irrigation
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: NAICC Wisconsin Farm Tour Focuses On Finding Common Ground/Abrupt Closure Of Pure Prairie Poultry Processing Plant Has Wisconsin Farms Scrambling
Field Good Friday: Northwest Wisconsin Farmers Donate To Hurricane Relief
Topic: Compaction
Spotlight: National Weather Service Will No Longer Issue Wind Chill Warnings And Advisories
Ag History Minute: History Of Wind Chill
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Farmers Looking To Weed Robots As Herbicide Resistance Solutions/Hurricanes Deliver One Two Punch To Florida Phosphate Production
Field Good Friday: World Forage Analysis Superbowl Winners Honored
Topic: Goss’s Bacterial Wilt
Spotlight: AgWagon Farm Truck Kits
Ag History Minute: Spelt
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Meat And Corn Export Sales Up On The Week/Hurricane Helene Does Billions In Damages
Field Good Friday: Drone Rescue As Farmers Find Helene Victims And Deliver Supplies
Topic: Slugs
Spotlight: New GPS Datum Coming In 2026
Ag History Minute: Silos
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Above Average Harvest Pace Continues In Wisconsin/Farmer Fights County’s Fine For Housing Worker Onsite
Field Good Friday: Michigan FFA Receives $4 Million From State Budget
Topic: Fall 2024 Priorities
Spotlight: Potential Strike Looms At East Coast And Gulf Ports
Ag History Minute: Western Bean Cutworm
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: UW River Falls Professors Given National Science Foundation Grant/Commerce Department Add Duties To 2,4-D Imports
Field Good Friday: Cheese And Nonfat Dry Milk Move To New Multi-Year Highs
Topic: Hessian Fly Free Date
Spotlight: GDU Update
Ag History Minute: Hessian Fly
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Drone Helps Rescue 3 Year Old Lost In Wisconsin Corn Field/Fertility Costs Have Farmers Considering Cutting Back
Field Good Friday: Grape Growers Desperately Need You To Drink More Wine
Topic: Alfalfa Burndown In Spring Or Fall
Spotlight: 10 Teams Vie For 100,000 Ag Innovation Challenge
Ag History Minute: Corn Silage
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Winter Wheat Planting Underway In 8 Top Growing States/More Than 50 Ag Economists Now Think US Ag Economy Already In Recession
Field Good Friday: NY State Fair 800 Pound Butter Sculpture Recycled For Energy On Dairy Farm
Todd, Matt and Bill Discuss Planning For Variable Quality Forages With Dr. John Goeser, Director Of Nutritional Research And Innovation With Rock River Labs.
Topic: Tar Spot
Spotlight: Battle For Milk Supplies Likely To Grow
Ag History Minute: Wisconsin Milk Strikes Of 1933
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: New Soybean Yield Record Set At 218 Bushel/EPA Probes Biodiesel Supply Fraud
Field Good Friday: A Record Breaking $25,000 Bid For A Ham Pushes WI Meat Products Auction Sales To $130,000
Matt And Todd Discuss Emergency Forages Options And Recommendations From Tom Kilcer’s Recent Visit To Wisconsin With Nick Guilette From Ebert Enterprises And Brent Petersen From Brown County LCD.
Topic: Liberty Herbicide Options
Spotlight: GDU Update
Ag History Minute: History Of Liberty Herbicide (Glufosinate)
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Iconic Butter Cow Display At Ohio State Fair Celebrates Athletes/Agco Sells Grain And Protein Brands
Feel Good Friday: 4-Her Sells Market Lamb For $27,000 To Help Friend In Need
Topic: Determining The Value Of Straw
Spotlight: Landus Secret Weapon With Military Grade AI Tech
Ag History Minute: History Of Wheat In WI
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Weinermobile Crashes But Hotdoggers OK/91% Of North Carolina Corn Is Fair Condition Or Worse
Field Good Friday: Hogs For Hunger Makes Strides At The Local Level
Topic: How Long Can Crops Survive Underwater
Spotlight: Purdue Develops Antibiotic Free Avian E. Coli Treatment
Ag History Minute: National Ice Cream Sundae Day
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: 2024 Wisconsin State Fair Dairy Products Contest Winners Selected/Grain Prices Hitting Lowest Levels Since 2020
Field Good Friday: Vermont Dairy Farmer Turned Epic Track Star Heading To Olympics Again
Topic: Matt, Bill and Todd Talk Current Crop Conditions, Struggles And Prevent Plant With UW Division Of Extension Agent Crops And Soils Kevin Jarek.
Topic: Having A Disease Plan For Your Crops
Spotlight: How To Time Fungicide To Combat Tar Spot
Ag History: Knee High By The 4th Of July
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Farm Rescue Adds Wisconsin To It’s Service Area/Flooding Across The Midwest May Have Wiped Out 1 Million Acres Of Crops
Topic: Increased Use Of Drones In Ag
Spotlight: John Deere Names Chief Tractor Officer
Ag History Minute: History Of Spray Drones
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Possible DJI Drone Ban In The US
Field Good Friday: Waupaca County Family’s Farm Legacy Of Dairy And Berries Will Continue Into The Future
Topic: Sandhill Cranes
Ag History Minute: History Of Mozzarella Sticks
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Wisconsin Students Can Now Enroll In Virtual FFA Chapter/Corn Belt Expects Very Warm July And August
Field Good Friday: Dairy Means Good Health
Topic: Alfalfa Weevil, JDM Challenge #2
Spotlight: New Biotech Trait Designed To Take A Bite Out Of SCN
Ag History Minute: How Greek Yogurt Is Different From Regular Yogurt
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Iowa Has No Drought For The First Time In Four Years/Bull “Party Bus” Who Jumped Rodeo Fence Injuring People Forced To Retire
Field Good Friday: Big Turnouts For Breakfast On The Farm
Topic: Feeding On Plants, June Dairy Month Challenge #1
Spotlight: Corteva Unveils New Corn Herbicide Formulation
Ag History Minute: History Of Cheese
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: New Corn Rootworm Biological Receives EPA Approval/Pork Industry Focused On H5N1 Prevention
Field Good Friday: Iowa Farm Family Turns Small Dairy Herd Into Multi-Product Business
Topic: Issues From The Field – Wheat Fungicide, Prevent Plant, Alfalfa Disease, Soybean Planting
Spotlight: 2024 Shaping Up To Bring Out Corn Rootworm
Ag History Minute: The Milk Tradition At The Indianapolis 500
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Culver’s Pledges $25,000 To FFA And Supports Dairy Farmers/China Blocks Beef From US Plant Over Detection Of Ractopamine
Field Good Friday: Cows, Conservation On Display June 9th At Outagamie Breakfast On The Farm
Topic: Field Report – Switching Maturities And Making Hay Vs. Planting Corn
Spotlight: Promising Bioherbicide Pipeline In The Works
Ag History Minute: Humus Theory
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: What’s In The Farm Bill For Dairy Farms/Canadian Wildfires Never Fully Died
Field Good Friday: Sticky New Glue Spray Kills Pests Without Chemicals
Topic: Boron Deficiency And Toxicity For Fertilization
Spotlight: College Entrepreneurs Develop Solution To Japanese Beetles
Ag History Minute: History Of Plant Nutrition
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Former USDA Undersecretary For Food Safety Says Negative Beef Tests For H5N1 Came As No Surprise/17 Month Review Process Likely For New Dicamba Label
Field Good Friday: Indiana Dairy Farmers Take Part In Indianapolis 500 Tradition
Topic: Fungicide On Alfalfa
Spotlight: Bayer Ramps Up Tar Spot Research
Ag History Minute: History Of The Drought Monitor
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Florida Bans Sale Of Lab Grown Meat/Storms Interrupt Planting In Nebraska And Iowa
Field Good Friday: New Packers Draft Pick Jacob Monk Asks For Cheese Recommendations
Topic: Doug, Matt, Todd and Bill draft their 2024 corn varieties with Commissioner Derek.
Topic: RT of SMART, Rate and Timing
Spotlight: DJI Launches New Ag Spray Drones
Ag History Minute: Law of The Minimum
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Goodbye El Nino, Hello La Nina?/Wild Pigs Kill More People Than Sharks
Field Good Friday: Special Delivery – UPS Driver Delivers Calf At Wisconsin Farm
Topic: Breaking Down Source, Method and Assessment (SMA) of SMART.
Spotlight: Brock Purdy Leads John Deere Search For Chief Tractor Officer
Ag History Minute: History Of The 4R’s
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: USDA Report Shows Soybean Planting Underway In 10 States/Infrastructure Woes Watch “Potholes” That May Impact Global Trade
Field Good Friday: Farm Bill Vote In Committee By Memorial Day Says House Ag Committee Chairman
Topic: Considerations For Early Planting Soybeans
Spotlight: Herbicide Carryover Concerns In Soybeans
Ag History Minute: Emergence And Evolution Of H5N1 Bird Flu
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Corn Planting Underway In 7 States/Bird Flu Pushes U.S. Dairy Farmers To Ban Visitors And Chop Trees
Field Good Friday: 2024 Wisconsin Dairy Breakfasts Are Out
Topic: USDA Introducing SMART System
Spotlight: Twelve Cases Of HPAI In Dairy Cattle Confirmed In 5 States
Ag History Minute: History of Biosecurity
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: First Soy Based Fire Suppressant Hits The Market/Kwik Trip Discontinues Bagged Milk After 40 Years
Field Good Friday: Two Pennsylvania Sisters Created Super Fast Growing Yogurt Company
Topic: Planting Prep For Dry Conditions
Spotlight: New Enversa Herbicide Introduced By Corteva
Ag History Minute: Peeps
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: State Farm Bureaus Work To Join Successful Healthcare Coverage Program/Will Baltimore Bridge Collapse Impact Agriculture?
Field Good Friday: WPS Farm Show Wraps 62nd Year
Topic: Winter Wheat N Fertilization
Spotlight: John Deere, Kinze and Ag Leader Announce Collaboration Agreement
Ag History Minute: Origins Of Easter Egg Tradition
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: New Technology To Increase Carbon And Sunlight Capture In Corn/PETA Tells White House Easter Egg Roll Can Still Be Egg-citing With Potatoes
Field Good Friday: New Farming Museum Seeks To Connect Public With Wisconsin Agriculture Industry
Topic: Bill, Matt and Todd talk cover crops with Daniel Smith, UW Madison Division of Extension NPM Program Manager.
Topic: Seed Lubricants With Additives
Spotlight: “Gustnado” Hits Southern Wisconsin
Ag History Minute: Wisconsin #1’s
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: 2024 Alice In Dairyland Finalists/Texas Ranchers Lose Thousands Of Cattle To Wildfires
Field Good Friday: Paul Bunyan Flavor Wins Cedar Crest 4-H Ice Cream Contest
Topic: Corn Rootworm Beetle
Spotlight: Why Are Farmers In Europe Protesting
Ag History Minute: Leap Year And Weather
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: New John Deere 9RX Does Not Need DEF/Number Of Grain Dust Explosions Remain Unchanged
Field Good Friday: Georgia Dairy Farm Teaches NBA Superstars To Milk Cow By Hand
Topic: Biologicals – Beneficial Microbes vs. Biostimulants
Spotlight: AMVAC New Herbicide Registered For Use In Soybeans And Cotton
Ag History Minute: FFA
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: EPA Issues Existing Stocks Order For Dicamba Products/Census Shows Fewer Wisconsin Farmers Have Internet Access
Field Good Friday: National FFA Week
Topic: Nitrogen – Liquid or Dry
Spotlight: New Holland Introduces New Pickup Head
Ag History Minute: History Of LandSat
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Weed-Killing Robot Dog Could Become A Farmers Best Friend/Antler Madness – Deer Shed Thieves Poach Farmland, Private Property
Field Good Friday: Pluto TV Super Bowl Spot
Topic: In-Furrow or “Pop Up” Fertilizer
Spotlight: Will The Super Bowl Grass Hold Up This Year?
Ag History Minute: Sod Farms
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Why Economists Say Cattle Prices Will Soar/Court Rules Dicamba Was Unlawfully Approved, EPA Halts Use
Field Good Friday: Pete’s Pick International Harvester 3588
Topic: High Corn Yields And Residue Management
Spotlight: New Holland Launches Autonomous Baling Technology
Ag History Minute: Jethro Tull and The Seed Drill
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: State Destroys Farmers Yields, Pays $810,000 In Damages/Agronomists Worry Moisture Deficit Will Contribute To Herbicide Carryover
Field Good Friday: Hoewisch Family Named Wisconsin’s Outstanding Young Farmers
Topic: Endangered Species Act and The Rusty Patch Bumblebee
Spotlight: Precision Planting New Planter System
Ag History Minute: History Of Endangered Species Act
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: John Deere and Space X Announce Starlink Deal/Truth Behind Wisconsin Losing 455 Dairy Farms
Field Good Friday: 314 Bu Corn On Field Only Getting 7″ Of Rain In Minnesota
Matt, Todd and Bill Interview Jeff Smudde, Director Of Environmental Programs For NEW Water.
Topic: Todd, Matt and Bill Talk Through Highlights From The Top 5 Most Downloaded Episodes for 2023
Topic: Agronomy Goals/Resolutions For 2024
Spotlight: Two Takeaways From Nitrogen Stabilizer Research
Ag History Minute: History of Milk And Cookies For Santa
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: South Dakota Winter Wheat And Soil Moisture Improve/Wisconsin Starts 2024 Mostly Snow And Frost Free
Field Good Friday: How Feeding Calves Helped 33 Year Old Farm Mom Recover From Devastating Brain Tumor
Topic: In Season Communication Pitfalls
Spotlight: High Oleic Traits Expand This Winter
Ag History Minute: First Christmas Tree Farm
Cool Beans/Bonus Cool Beans: David Hula Hit A New Corn Growers Record/UW Madison Anniversary Ice Cream Flavor
Field Good Friday: Ag Economist Says Fed Could Lower Interest Rates In ’24
Topic: Chemical Updates
Spotlight: 2024 Land Influencers By Region
Ag History Minute: Alfred Rehder
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Growmark Pilots Innerplants Fluorescent Soybeans/It’s So Dry In Brazil Some Farmers Have Replanted 3 Or 4 Times
Field Good Friday: New Gene Discovery Will Help Combat Soybean Cyst Nematode
Topic: Winter Hardiness Zones Changes
Spotlight: Stine and Pattern Ag Collaborate On Corn Rootworm
Ag History Minute: History of Winter Hardiness Zones
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Farmer Shocked After Lost iPhone Circles Globe And Returns Home/Nearly Three Quarters of Louisiana Facing D4 Drought
Field Good Friday: Four Recognized for Excellence At Wisconsin Farm Bureau Conference
Topic: How Fertilizer Price Is Determined
Spotlight: AMVAC GreenSolutions Launches BioWake Prime
Ag History Minute: History Of Home Milk Delivery
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Lamers Dairy Reaches 110 Years In Business/S.C. Truck Driver Accused of Stealing Chicken Delivery
Field Good Friday: Wisconsin’s 1,387 Christmas Tree Farms
Topic: Bill, Todd and Matt Talk To Barry Bubolz About Soil Health, Cover Crops And No-Till.
Topic: High Oleic Soybeans
Spotlight: John Deere Wins Patent Lawsuit Against Kinze, Ag Leader
Ag History Minute: Soybean Oil
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Cost Of Thanksgiving Dinner Down For 2023/Biggest Loser In America’s Weight Loss Obsession
Field Good Friday: Harvest 2023 Update
Topic: Matt, Todd, Bill, Doug and Derek discuss the results from this year’s Fantasy Corn League Plot.
Topic: Seed Production, Where and How Corn and Bean Seeds Are Grown
Spotlight: New Research Finds Hope For Battling Tarspot
Ag History Minute: History of Seed Production
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Wisconsin Cranberry Yields Looking Good/Farm Bill – There Will Be An Extension Says Vilsack
Field Good Friday: Kids And Cows Helps Prepare Next Generation For Agriculture
Topic: Bill, Todd, Matt and Derek evaluate the varieties in the Fantasy Plot trial prior to harvest!
Topic: Seed Industry Updates
Spotlight: Largest Ag Tech Deal Ever
Ag History Minute: The Wallace Family
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: BASF’s New Revylok Fungicide/High Interest Rates, Strong Dollar Take a Toll On Ag Economy
Field Good Friday: Life Saving Find: How Missouri Soil Unearthed Golden Medical Discovery 75 Years Ago
Topic: Matt, Bill and Todd interview Kevin Jarek, UW Division of Extension Crops and Soils Educator For Outagamie and Winnebago Counties.
Topic: Corn Black Layer
Spotlight: Nick Offerman’s Ad For Regenerative Agriculture
Ag History Minute: Harvest Moon
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Case IH Breaks Through It’s Own Horsepower Threshold/Kansas Farmers Soybeans Are In Poor Or Very Poor Shape
Field Good Friday: Iowa State Football Players Go Viral With Purchase Moore Hamann Bacon Campaign
Todd, Matt and Bill interview retired Meteorologist Dale Raymakers about this past seasons weather and more!
Topic: The Milk Line
Spotlight: Enlist Traits More Utilized Than eXtend In Soybeans
Ag History Minute: First Day Of Fall
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Agco Announces Sustainable Test Farm Partnership In North Dakota/Low River Levels Sequel No One Wants To See
Field Good Friday: Dramatic Grain Bin Rescue Inspires R3 – First Of It’s Kind Rescue Trailer
Topic: How Dry Condition In 2023 Could Impact The 2024 Growing Season
Spotlight: Solar Grazing
Ag History Minute: Corn Rootworm Beetle
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Silage Harvest Picking Up In Wisconsin As Dry Conditions Continue/Two Likely Dicamba Resistant Waterhemp Populations Found In Iowa
Field Good Friday: Sweet Corn Life And Legacy On An Arkansas Farm
Topic: Soybean Cyst Nematode
Spotlight: Root Activated Phosphate Fertilizer
Ag History Minute: Story Of The First IH 1086
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Illinois FFA Chapters Eligible For $1,000 Mental Health Grants/After Record Breaking Labor Day Humidity Sticks To Appleton and Green Bay
Field Good Friday: Wenzel’s Farm Set Guinness World Record 314 Foot Meat Snack Stick
For the 200th Episode of TTR, we look at the top 20 downloaded episodes from the past 199 episodes!
Topic: What To Expect In The Field As Droughty Conditions Continue
Spotlight: Flash Drought In The Green Bay Area For The Month Of May
Ag History Minute: Irrigation
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Supreme Court Rules Against EPA In WOTUS Case/Heat Going In To June Will Increase Soil Moisture Troubles
Field Good Friday: Enrollment Filling Fast For New Farm And Industry Short Course
Topic: Continued Discussion Of How Plant 2023 Is Going
Spotlight: GDU Update
Ag History Minute: No-Till Legend Dave Brandt Passes Away
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Ford Bringing Back AM Radio In Vehicles/Monitor And Scout Troubled Corn Stands
Field Good Friday: 14 Year old Holstein Sets Lifetime Milk Production Record
Topic: Plant 2023 Progress and Challenges
Spotlight: Dusty Conditions Limit Foliar Applied Herbicide Control
Ag History Minute: Morrow Plots
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: UW-Platteville Collaborates With John Deere To Create Customized Class/Oscar Meyer Weinermobile Name Has Changed
Field Good Friday: June Dairy Month Is Almost Here With Several June Dairy Breakfast Options
Topic: Ideas For Managing Your Cover Crop When Mother Nature Doesn’t Cooperate
Spotlight: 76th Alice In Dairyland Finals
Ag History Minute: Mammoth Bones Under Soybeans
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Midwest Cattle Farmers Embrace Pea Crop/Bayer Announces 10 Regional Seed Brands Will Move To Channel
Field Good Friday: Colorado’s Right To Repair Law Could Save Farmers Time And Money
Topic: Prioritizing Planter Components
Spotlight: FBN Releases AI-Powered Ag Advisor
Ag History Minute: Loesch Brothers
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: U.S. Farmers Planting Soybeans At Record Pace/Illinois Dust Storm Blinds Drivers And Causes Fatal Chain Reaction Crashes
Field Good Friday: Minnesota Pig Farmer Represents U.S. At G7 Ag Minister’s Meeting In Japan
Topic: Top 10 Qualities of A Great Corn Planter Operator
Spotlight: Omega Block Has Our Weather Cold And Wet
Ag History Minute: Kinze Planter
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: El Nino Coming Back This Summer/Illinois Gets Lethal Frost
Field Good Friday: Aubrey Plaza Wood Milk Got Milk Ad
Topic: Imbibitional Chilling Injury In Corn
Spotlight: Appleton City Council Denies Request To End No Mow May
Ag History Minute: Allis-Chalmers No-Till Planter
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Corn And Soybean Planting Now Underway In 16 States/Suspects Caught In Unbelievable Milk Scandal In Miami
Field Good Friday: Krebs Dairy Farm – Connecting A “Field of Dreams” With Farming
Matt, Max, and Todd interview Dr. John Goeser: Animal Nutrition Rock River Labratories, Adjunct Assistant Professor UW Animal & Dairy Science, and Consultant with Cows Agree Consulting.
Topic: Timing For First Crop Alfalfa
Spotlight: Food and Ag Economy Surpass Pre-Pandemic Levels
Ag History Minute: Alfalfa
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Planters Rolling In Some Parts Of The U.S./Prevent Plant Concerns Heat Up In Upper Midwest
Field Good Friday: Wisconsin Farmers Honored In Oshkosh
Topic: Planter Considerations For #Plant2023
Spotlight: Helena Introduces Two New Sustainable Brands
Ag History Minute: Norman Borlaug Awards
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Next Generation Fuels Act Reintroduced In US House/Bayer Sues 6 Missouri Farmers Over Saved Seed
Field Good Friday: NFL Player Goes From Football Field To Farm Field
Topic: Short Stature Corn
Spotlight: First Ever Solid Encapsulated Corn Herbicide For Pre and Post Weed Control
Ag History Minute: Norman Borlaug
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Five Major Fertilizer Prices Trend Lower/California Flooding Forces Dairies To Move Cattle to Higher Ground
Field Good Friday: New Ag Day Anthem Celebration Video
Topic: Alfalfa Overwintering
Spotlight: Corteva Introduces 4 New Crop Protection Products
Ag History Minute: Alfalfa
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: UW Farm and Industry Short Course Returns/Tyson To Close Poultry Facilities In Virginia and Arkansas
Field Good Friday: Alice In Dairyland Finalists Named
Topic: P And K Removal Numbers
Spotlight: Herbicide Carryover Issue In New Seeded Alfalfa
Ag History Minute: Canadian Potash
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Mississippi River Levels Rebounding/PETA Offers To Repair Weinermobile If It Becomes Vegan
Field Good Friday: 13 Year Old Pennsylvania Holstein Claims Lifetime Milk Record
Topic: Considerations For Your Fertility Program In 2023
Spotlight: Contest Offers Grain Bin Rescue Equipment
Ag History Minute: History Of UW Recs
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Corn And Soybean Planting Has Started In Arkansas/Wheat Crop Ravaged By Derecho In Texas
Field Good Friday: FFA Chapters Benefit From Precision Ag Simulator Donations
Topic: A Look At Envita, Pivot Bio and Utrisha N
Spotlight: 2022 Trivolt Product Launch
Ag History Minute: Snake Oil
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Dicamba On Soy Cut Off Dates In 2023 Same For WI So Far/Parts Hard To Find As Supply Chain Issues Continue
Field Good Friday: Wisconsin Takes Silver In US Cheese Championship
Topic: Managing Sulfur For Your Crops
Spotlight: Case-IH Introduces A Half Dozen New Steiger Models
Ag History: History of The Football
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: DOJ Weighs In On Right To Repair Case/Super Bowl Slippery Turfgrass
Field Good Friday: Kansas Dairy Farmer’s Manure Mural For KC Chiefs
Topic: What Grid Is The Right Grid For Sampling
Spotlight: Multi-State Data Project Aims To Help Soybean Growers
Ag History Minute: Super Bowl Weather Records
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: No Farms, No Super Bowl/Egg Shortage Breeds Chicken Feed Conspiracies
Field Good Friday: Illinois Farmer To Be Featured In Super Bowl Ad
Topic: State Of The Farm Address
Spotlight: Growmark Acquires Allied Seed
Ag History Minute: Ethanol
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: United Airlines Taps Corn To Bring Ethanol Based Jet Fuel To Market/US Rejects Mexico Proposals On GMO Corn Trade
Field Good Friday: Kickstarter Helps Launch Small Pennsylvania Dairy Farm
Topic: Emerging Technologies
Spotlight: Bayer Announces Collaboration With Oerth Bio
Ag History Minute: GPS
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Industry Leaders Optimistic About Ag Transportation For 2023/USDA Reports Have Big Surprises Regarding Demand
Field Good Friday: Dryland Corn Yield Record Shattered With 459.51 Bushel Harvest
Topic: The Tilth Bros talk Corn Row Spacing.
Spotlight: Precision In Furrow Starter
Ag History Minute: The ‘Bill Pick’
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Farm Bureau Makes Deal on Right to Repair / High Egg Prices
Field Good Friday: Oats are Back.
Topic: Different Glyphosates And Figuring Out Use Rates
Spotlight: First Of Seven Ag-Specific Satellites Goes Into Orbit
Ag History Minute: History Of Round Up
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Agriview Celebrates 50 Years Of Ag Friendship/Fires Destroy Buildings At Watertown, Sun Prairie Farms
Field Good Friday: New Years Eve Celebrations Include Many WI Agricultural Products
Topic: Herbicide Prices Increases For 2023
Spotlight: Novozymes and Chr. Hansen Merge
Ag History Minute: Christmas Tree Farming
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Research Shows Cover Crops Carbon Negative/Blaze Destroys 3 Million Bushel Grain Storage Dome in Saginaw County
Field Good Friday: Have a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays
Topic: Ways To Improve The Land And Your Relationship With Your Landlord
Spotlight: French Based Insect Ingredient Maker Expands Into North America
Ag History Minute: The Plow
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: FUMzyme Now Available For Use In Poultry And Swine/100 Acre Herbicide Costs Won’t Be Unusual Next Season
Field Good Friday: Vilsack To Meet With Mexican Officials Friday To Discuss GM Corn Decree
Topic: Farmer’s Agronomy Christmas List
Spotlight: Agricultural Scholarship’s Available
Ag History Minute: Urea
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Midwest Cover Cropping At an All Time High/Pelicans Dying From Bird Flu in Venezuela
Friday Field Good: Young Farmer Makes History Using Video Games and YouTube To Buy $1.8 Million Land