A Better Way To Farm Podcast

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 … 😉

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 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 mos...

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...

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! 😉

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...

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 far...

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...

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! 😉

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 te...

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...

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!

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 m...

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...

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 toda...

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 i...

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...

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. C...

This episode will be tackling a topic that has been debatable at some point in time and that is, about photosynthates, a fancy word for “sugar”. We are going deep in this episode as Rod discusses what it does, what does it when we apply it, and are we applying enough to move the needle as far as the sugar in the plant? Come and listen to what he has to teach us, Tune in NOW …

Today, we are having a little chat with one of our newest partners in this farming advocacy to teach other fellow farmers ways to grow better crops and make more money for the family. We have Adam Johnson here who will share with us his learnings from the time he and his wife decided to join our team at A Better Way to Farm and some of the things he has implemented and plans to improve on moving f...

Today is an unprompted, unscripted podcast with Rod and he wants to share with us thoughts on how the world of agriculture is rapidly growing with new learnings and discoveries coming out. What can we say? We live in an interestingng world and Rod here is going to enlighten us on the importance of knowing the fundamentals in whichever way we decide how to best increase our farm profits. So, tune i...

We have for today a very interesting interview with one of our farmer partners from the east of the Mississippi, Rick Meyers. How many times have you truly worked on ways to increase your farm yields and make more profits? The fact of the matter is, we need profits to grow our farms, right? How do we push a whole new system to fit an existing cover crop structure we have already started? This is w...

This week’s episode is an awakening for all of us who only wants what’s best for our farm operations and our lives in general. Rod will be giving us the 5 rules or ways to ensure we only employ efficient practices in our farm management and though these are basics, it is better if we do a little introspection with ourselves so we stop making the same mistakes all over again and make things even ha...

Today’s forage field day, we’d be able to better think about the decisions that we have to make for our respective farms, and also particularly on the choice of equipment to use for us to be able to not only increase yield and improve profits but also to develop forage quality. Rod is going to delve deeper into the nitty-gritty parts of this subject and give us first-hand the kind of products that...

This episode is going to teach us a thing or two on ways to be drought-resistant or drought-tolerant. We are going to delve deeper on the steps that Jim Wacker did for his farm, from Downstate Illinois. We will know exactly why drought tolerance is created April 1st and not July 1st, according to Rod. In this episode, we aim to help somebody get through this drought and maybe improve things for ne...