2023 is a great year to start careful planning for our farm operations and that includes setting our goals right! So, we have for today a very interesting interview with Kacee Bohle who is filling a need that is essential for our industry to thrive, through personal and professional development. She encourages and empowers others to level up through goal setting and that is exactly what our farm operations can incorporate to begin leveling up this year! We will learn this today, so tune into thi...
Jan 09, 2023•26 min•Ep. 163
Our 12-day series focuses on the 12 days of nutrients and although today it has come to an end, we are still excited all throughout this year as we share not only about macros and micros but are going to tackle deeper focus into agricultural innovations and further into soil health so you’ll see what it can do to better our yields. You shouldn’t miss the last of this series now, so listen, learn, and apply! It’s the 12th and last day today and we are going to deal with all things related to Zinc...
Jan 05, 2023•16 min•Ep. 162
Now, we are on the 11th day special of a 12-day feature on the 12 days of nutrients and we are as excited to share not only about macros and micros but are going to dig deep into agricultural science, and proven methods, and see how they can help grow well our crops. You better be sticking to the last few of this series, listen, learn, and apply! Today we’re going to be talking about Moly and Chlorine so, let’s go right in … 😉
Jan 03, 2023•20 min•Ep. 161
Now, we are on the 10th day special of a 12-day feature on the 12 days of nutrients and we are as excited to share not only about macros and micros but are going to dig deep into agricultural science, and proven methods, and see how they can help grow well our crops. You better be sticking to this series, listen, learn, and apply! It is Manganese day so, let’s go right in … 😉
Jan 02, 2023•15 min•Ep. 160
Now, we are on the 9th day special of a 12-day feature on the 12 days of nutrients and today we're going to talk about iron. Let’s dig deep into agricultural science, and proven methods, and see how they can help grow well our crops. You better be sticking to this series, listen, learn, and apply! Let’s go right in …
Dec 29, 2022•17 min•Ep. 159
Our 12-day series focuses on the 12 days of nutrients and we are so excited to share not only about macros and micros but are going to dig deeper into agricultural science based on the best agricultural books and references and see what it can do to better our yields. You shouldn’t miss this series, so listen, learn, and apply! It’s the 8th day today and we are going to deal with all things related to Copper! Let’s go … 😉
Dec 27, 2022•18 min•Ep. 158
We are on the 7th day special of a 12-day feature on the 12 days of nutrients and today we start in on the micronutrients. The first micro we're going to talk about is boron. Let’s dig deep into agricultural science, and proven methods, and see how they can help grow well our crops. You better be sticking to this series, listen, learn, and apply! Let’s go right in …
Dec 26, 2022•33 min•Ep. 157
Now, we are on the 6th day special of a 12-day feature on the 12 days of nutrients and we are as excited to share not only about macros and micros but are going to dig deep into agricultural science, and proven methods, and see how they can help grow well our crops. You better be sticking to this series, listen, learn, and apply! It is Sulphur day so, let’s go right in … 😉
Dec 22, 2022•22 min•Ep. 156
Our 12-day series focuses on the 12 days of nutrients and we are so excited to share not only about macros and micros but are going to delve deep into agricultural science and what it can do to better our yields. You shouldn’t miss this series, so listen, learn, and apply! It’s the 5th day today and we are going to deal with all things related to Magnesium! Let’s go … 😉
Dec 20, 2022•22 min•Ep. 155
Now, we are on the 4th day special of a 12-day feature on the 12 days of nutrients and we are as excited to share not only about macros and micros but are going to delve deep into agricultural science, and proven methods, and see how they can help grow well our crops. You better be sticking to this series, listen, learn, and apply! It is Calcium day, let’s go right in … 😉
Dec 19, 2022•18 min•Ep. 154
Our 12-day series will focus on the 12 nutrients of Christmas and we are so excited to share not only about macros and micros but are going to delve deep into agricultural science and what it can do for our row crops. This series better not be missed, so listen, learn, and apply! It’s the 3rd day today and Phosphorus day has arrived!. Let’s go right in … 😉
Dec 15, 2022•22 min•Ep. 153
Now, we are about to bring you the special 12-day features on the 12 days of nutrients and we are as excited to share not only about micros but are going to delve deep into agricultural science and what it can do for our crops. You better be sticking to this series, listen, learn, and apply! Listen up because today is Potassium day. Let’s go right in … 😉
Dec 14, 2022•31 min•Ep. 152
Now, we are about to bring you special 12-day features on the 12 days of nutrients and we are as excited to share not only about micros but are going to delve deep into agricultural science and what it can do for our crops. You better be sticking to this series, listen, learn, and apply! First up, N-I-T-R-O-G-E-N. So, let’s go right in … 😉
Dec 13, 2022•32 min•Ep. 151
This episode is sort of a breakup story, but one that is good for our farms. We welcome once again our crop doc Preston to share with us how we can successfully break up stalk residue and make those nutrients more available quicker in the springtime. This is a very exciting episode because they will briefly share with y’all some stuff we only share during our fundamentals of agronomy program (case in point: our famous proprietary stalk digester recipe). Come and listen to what they have to share...
Dec 05, 2022•13 min•Ep. 150
In this episode, Rod will be sharing with us a lot of insights especially if you have been planning on applying fall nitrogen at this time of year. Knowing that everything that we do on our farm matters, hear the 3 things we need to know first when planning that fall nitrogen application because these are the things our retailer doesn’t tell us about but are very essential knowledge to get the most out of our soil and crops. So you better tune into this episode now!
Nov 28, 2022•15 min•Ep. 149
This week’s episode features an old-timer friend of ours, Preston Grobe who will stir the soil for us and talk about the questions we need to ask before applying dry broadcast this fall. Of course, we only want what’s best for our farm operations so we need to ensure we only employ efficient practices in our farm management. We need to do a little introspection with ourselves so we stop making the same mistakes all over again and make things even harder than it already is. What are you waiting f...
Nov 21, 2022•27 min•Ep. 148
Now, we do have a special guest on this episode as we tackle more about agricultural advances and technologies and get to know more about Ag Leader with one of their product sales specialists, Brett Buehler. Precision agriculture has opened the door for all sorts of improvements across all farms and so we are going to learn more about it. Are you ready? Let’s go! Tune in and listen! 😉
Nov 14, 2022•21 min•Ep. 147
In this episode, Rod will be asking you to give this topic some hard thinking. Since this is a business decision we have to make, he will be digging onto three things you have to consider first. 1st up, think about the value of the nutrients in the Stover. Secondly, what does selling the stocks off of the field do as far as reducing organic matter? And lastly, ask yourself, what does it do to your soil health? Rod has further steered the factors for each of these considerations so this is where ...
Nov 09, 2022•6 min•Ep. 146
So this week we are going to explore Ag tech and the benefits we can reap from precision farming and how it can better help our farming operations. We have with us this week the CEO and founder of Ryse Air Technologies, Mick Kowitz, who will guide us on the several advantages of agricultural innovation to get from point A to point B during crop scouting and other farm activities we have in our farms. So, let’s go, tune in and listen!
Nov 07, 2022•26 min•Ep. 145
We are here once again to tackle one of the buzzwords in the Ag industry and one of those is the use of drones in managing our farm activities. Now we are fortunate to have with us in this episode one of the people who help our fellow farm owners in their farming operation, Mr. Sam Rockwell from Rocoza Drones. Are drones really the future of farm tech? We are going to find out here in this episode so tune in, let’s go!
Oct 31, 2022•18 min•Ep. 144
Now, we do have a comeback guest on this episode as we tackle more about the importance of getting the right soil samples for your farm and the 7 reasons why the right systems might just make the changes needed to get your farm on the right track to your targeted yield goal. Are you ready to learn? Let’s go! Tune in and listen! 😉
Oct 24, 2022•26 min•Ep. 143
Our episode today is a real treat because we have with us someone who’s very competent in the Ag field. Straight from Midwest Labs, Mr. Jim Fasching would be sharing with us the various detailed methods and practices of Midwest Labs throughout his 20 year-stay with its innovations and careful but timely recommendations which have helped a lot of our farmers/ producers in dealing with their soil tests. Come on, stick up and dig in today! 😉
Oct 17, 2022•24 min•Ep. 142
This episode is not your usual type because we are joined by 2 of our own experts in the A Better Way team, Tyler and Rod. Our topic for this week is focused on tending to our soil’s cry for help and maximizing the benefits given by proper soil testing and using it to our farm’s advantage when it comes to our goal of increasing our yields and giving our plants the right nutrition it needed so come and listen to what they have to teach us, Tune in NOW …
Oct 10, 2022•27 min•Ep. 141
At the moment, we want to give you something to think about when it comes to effective strategies being used for soil testing. Have you ever thought about or tried grid sampling? Is this for your farm and will it be worth it to try? Rod will give us a thing or two to consider as we're making our decisions so don’t miss this episode!
Oct 03, 2022•14 min•Ep. 140
In today’s episode, Rod is going to dive through the three steps we can implement on our farms on improving our silage production. What’s really interesting to look at are the multiple studies and extensive work done to back up some proven methods we are going to tackle in this episode. This is another special discussion where a lot of discoveries are still ahead of us because we are bringing in more information so let’s go, tune in and listen!
Sep 26, 2022•11 min•Ep. 139
Today is a little different from our usual episodes because today we are going to talk about the other side of farming which is livestock operation. We have with us Abe Karels from Alta Vista, Iowa who grew up farming but found the opportunity to raise cattle along the way. This is an interesting episode because we are going to tackle animal health with proper nutrition so that it could add up to our farm’s profitability. Come on and let’s dig in! 😉
Sep 19, 2022•23 min•Ep. 138
If you have been following our past few episodes, you’d be excited today to discover more about these series we have on wheat production. So now we have with us Chris from Oklahoma who does a great job of raising wheat. He is going to share with us an idea or two which could help us move forward in the right direction of being an accomplished wheat grower one day. Come on, stick up and dig in today! 😉
Sep 12, 2022•15 min•Ep. 137
For another special series on wheat production, we have with us today a new grower to the team from Amp’d Up Ag, Larna Schnitker, a fourth-generation farmer from Middletown, Missouri. She will be sharing with us some of her secrets about her successful wheat farming and will walk us through her and her family’s process and test products since joining the A Better Way to Farm team. Let’s go, tune in and listen! 😉
Sep 05, 2022•19 min•Ep. 136
So today is a start of a special series because we are going to tackle solid information about various aspects of wheat production with a major focus on fertility improvement. We are going to start this series with our very own Rod discussing the basics we need to know especially if we are to start wheat production on our farms. The insights and studies have been thoroughly reviewed and tested for our added learning consumption so stick up and dig in today! 😉
Aug 29, 2022•20 min•Ep. 135
In this episode, we are excited to pick out the brain of a relatively new team member who’s been very successful in his foliar feeding methods in his field and give our listeners some ideas on making the most out of being a part of the A Better Way to Farm team and community. Travis Dixon decided to join the team in the quest to learn more, better ways to manage his farm and increase his yields. Come and listen to what he has to share with us, Tune in NOW …
Aug 22, 2022•22 min•Ep. 134
