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Episode 310: Hints of Bullishness in the September WASDE

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Episode 309: Harvest Weather Forecast in Focus

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Episode 308: 50 Years in the Ag Industry with Pamela Smith

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Episode 307: Beef Labeling Heats Up

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Episode 306: DTN 2026 Digital Yield Results: Drought Takes Its Toll

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Episode 305: August WASDE Overdelivers on Surprises

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Episode 304: From the 1980’s Farm Crisis to Autonomous Tractors, The Making of an Ag Journalist

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Episode 303: Farm Bill Running Out of Runway

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Episode 302: Cattle Posts with Jennifer Carrico

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Episode 301: Acreage Updates Unsettle the July WASDE

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Episode 300: The Rise of the American-Made Drone

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Episode 299: Strategies for Flexibly Rebuilding Your Cow Herd

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Episode 298: Celebrating America’s Forefarmers (and Other Ag Policy News)

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Episode 297: Uncertainty and the Quiet June WASDE

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Episode 296: Strategies to Stay Ahead of Weeds with Jason Jenkins

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Episode 295: Super-El Niño Shapes Summer Forecast

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Episode 294: Will 2026 Be the Year of E15?

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Episode 293: Boots-on-the-Ground View of Planting 2026

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Episode 292: Trump in China vs. the May WASDE

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Episode 291: Uncovering Yield with 2025 National Wheat Contest Winners

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Episode 289: War Shapes Planting in April WASDE

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Episode 288: How Rural America is Surviving (and Thriving)

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Episode 287: How to Use Dicamba in 2026

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Episode 286: Boots on the Ground in Brazil

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Episode 285: The War in Iran Meets the March WASDE

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Episode 286: Fertilizer, War, and the Farm Bill: A U.S. Farm Policy Update

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Episode 284: Tractors Rule at 2026 Commodity Classic

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Episode 283: First Look at Spring Weather Forecast

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Episode 282: New World Screwworm, Plant Closures and Beef in the Food Pyramid

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Episode 281: E15, Farm Aid and Immigration

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Episode 280: Winter Storm Redux and What’s Ahead for Ag Weather

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Episode 279: Ag Equipment Leads with Autonomy and AI at Electronics Show

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Episode 278: January WASDE Stuns Markets

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Episode 277: 2026 Fertilizer Forecast with Russ Quinn

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Episode 276: Top Ag Stories of 2025

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Episode 275: 2026 Best Young Farmers and Ranchers

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Episode 274: Last Minute Farm Tax Planning for 2025

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Episode 273: Unpacking the Final WASDE of 2025

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Episode 272: First Look at the 2026 Ag Weather Forecast

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Episode 271: What’s New for the 2025 DTN Ag Summit

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Episode 270: After a Lost October, WASDE Returns in November

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Episode 269: The Government Reopens: What’s Next for Farmers?

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Episode 268: Looking Beyond Chaos in the Cattle Markets

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Episode 267: View from the Cab with Stuart Sanderson

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Episode 266: Need to Know: New World Screwworm

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Episode 265: Dive Deep on Financing the Farm

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Episode 264: How The Government Shutdown is Impacting Farmers

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Episode 263: Biofuels and the Giant Corn Crop

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Episode 262: USDA Reorg, Looming Shutdown, and More Ag Policy

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Episode 261: National Wheat Yield Contest Almost Here!

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Episode 260: New Acres Materialize in the September WASDE

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Episode 259: Kicking Tires and Weighing Tech at Farm Progress

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Episode 258: Harvest Weather Outlook 2025

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Episode 257: 2025 DTN Digital Yield Tour Results

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Episode 256: Stunned, the August WASDE Story

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Episode 255: Spring Wheat Tour Results Are In

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Episode 254: Managing Farm Risk Differently (DTN Yield Tour Preview)

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Episode 253: H-2A and the Farm Labor Crisis

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Episode 252: A Mixed Bag from the July WASDE

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Episode 251: Help Wanted, The State of Ag Labor

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Episode 250: Consequences for Ag as Trade Deadline Looms

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Episode 249: Cattle Market Outlook for What’s Left of 2025

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E248: Biofuel Updates Power Market Moves

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E247: June WASDE Sets the Summer Stage

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E246: Farm Business Management in Uncertain Times

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E245: First Look at Summer Weather

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E244: Optimistic Results from the Kansas Wheat Tour

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E243: New Crop Madness in the May WASDE

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E242: The View from the Capitol: Tariffs, Farm Bill, and USDA

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E241: Deep Dive with National Wheat Yield Contest Winners

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E240: Precision Sprayers are In the Building

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E239: The Uncertain Future of Biofuels

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E238: Planting, Tariffs, and the April WASDE

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E237: The State of the Beef Industry

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E236: Celebrating Bin-Busting Wheat Growers

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E235: Quiet March WASDE Riles Jumpy Markets

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E234: Look Ahead to Spring Planting Weather

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E233: Updates from the 2025 Cattle Industry Convention

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E232: Inside the National Farm Machinery Show

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E231: Latin America in the Spotlight in February WASDE

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E230: How Pandemic Connections between Farmers and Consumers Persist

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E229: AgTech Makes Waves at Annual Electronics Show

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E228: Insights on the New Secretary of Agriculture

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E227: Ringing in the New Year with a Bullish January WASDE

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E226: 2025 Fertilizer Forecast

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E225: 2025's Best Young Farmers and Ranchers, Part 2

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E224: 2025's Best Young Farmers and Ranchers, Part 1

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E223: Cattle Market Forecast 2025

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E222: Ag Weather 2025 Forecast

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E221: December WASDE Rocks Expectations

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E220: Farmland Market 2025: A Look Ahead

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E219: Post-Election Outlook for Agriculture

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E218: November WASDE Knocks Down Record Crop

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E217: The Political Pulse of Rural America 2024

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E216: Get Ready for November 5th Cattle EID Tag Rules

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E215: Quiet October WASDE in a Loud News Cycle

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E214: Cattle Markets Rebound after August Slump

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E213: Ag Drones, From Interesting to Essential

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E212: A Lifetime of Lessons on Ag Markets with Todd Hultman

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E211: What to Know About Ag Policy for the 2024 Election

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E210: First Look in the Field with September WASDE

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E209: Seed Brands Retired Due to Industry Consolidation

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E208: Harvest Weather Outlook 2024

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E207: DTN Digital Yield Tour 2024

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E206: All-Time Record Soybean Crop in August WASDE

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E205: Celebrating Voices for Agriculture

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E204: In the Jumpseat of View from the Cab

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E203: Biofuels Breakdown: Latest on RFS, Biodiesel and SAF

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E202: Surprises Abound in July WASDE

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E201: As the Election Looms, Where’s the Farm Bill?

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E200: Who’s Eating Your Extra Soybean Yield?

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E199: Everything We Know About the 2024 Cattle Markets

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E198: Slow Planting Dogs June WASDE

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E197: View From the Cab with Quint Pottinger

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E196: What to Know: Planning Your Dream Farm Shop

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E195: The Promising 2024 Winter Wheat Tour

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E194: Taking Care of Rural America’s Mental Health

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E193: May WASDE Brings Optimism

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E192: The Coin Flip of the April Cattle Markets

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E191: Farmer Entrepreneurs Find New Revenue Opportunities

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E190: Planting on the Horizon with the April WASDE

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E189: New Ag Census Flashes Warning Light for US Ag

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E188: Planting Weather Outlook 2024

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E187: Happy National Ag Day!

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E186: Commodity Classic Redux

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E185: Bears Overtake USDA’s 2024 Commodity Outlook

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E184: Battening Down the Hatches with the March WASDE

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E183: Latest Dicamba Updates for 2024

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E182: No February Lull for the Cattle Markets

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E181: Latin America Worries in February WASDE

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E180: Get Paid for Cover Cropping with Farmers for Soil Health

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E179: Ag Technology Takes Las Vegas

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E178: Rags to Riches for the 2023 Crop in January WASDE

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E177: The State of US Farmland in 2024

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E176: America’s Best Young Farmers and Ranchers 2024

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E175: 2024 Winter Weather Outlook For US Agriculture

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E174: 2024 Corn and Soybean Market Outlook

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E173: Latest Farm Tech at Germany’s Agritechnica

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E172: Fall Fertilizer Update with Russ Quinn

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E171: Record Corn Crop Predicted in November WASDE

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E170: On the Cutting Edge of Equipment with Dan Miller

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E169: Announcing the 2023 DTN Ag Summit

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E168: Checking in on the Farmland Market

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E167: October WASDE in an Uncertain World

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E166: What’s Driving the Cattle Market?

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E165: Ag Braces for a Season of Uncertainty in Washington

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E164: View from the Cab with Chandra and Mike Langseth

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E163: The September WASDE and the Near-Record Crop

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E162: Harvest Weather Ahead

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E161: Putting the Success in Farmland Succession

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E160: Corn Crop Comeback with the 2023 Digital Yield Tour

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E159: Farmer Perspectives in the August WASDE

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E158: Hopeful Signs on the 2023 North Dakota Wheat Tour

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E157: The Bull in the Cattle Markets

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E156: View from the Cab with Zach Grossman

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E155: What to Expect with DTN’s 2023 Digital Yield Tour

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E154: The Quirky July WASDE

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E153: Summer Weather Surprises

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E152: Game Changing Tech Under the Crop Canopy

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E151: Farmer Forecasts for the 2023 Season

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E150: One Month Turn Around in the June WASDE

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E149: Look Inside USDA’s Facility for Fighting Extreme Animal Diseases

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E148: 2023 Kansas Wheat Tour Reveals Drought Impacts

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E147: Looking Back, Looking Ahead with May WASDE

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E146: Wonky Cattle Markets, Explained

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E145: Planting Progress and the 2023 Crop Upside

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E144: The Lawsuits Shaping the Ag-EPA Relationship

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E143: ChatGPT Comes to Agriculture

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E142: Wheat Yield Winners and Agronomy Updates

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E141: New Year, New Farm Tech

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E140: Corn Exports Stumble in March WASDE

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E139: USDA Forecasts Yield and Acreage for 2023

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E138: What’s Shaping Policy Ahead of the Farm Bill?

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E137: Eyes on Planting with February WASDE

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E136: Tune in to Mental Health on the Farm

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E135: Ag Confidence Index: Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop

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E134: Growing the Farm with Best-in-Class Financials

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E133: New Year, New WASDE

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E132: Custom Distilling at Flyover Whiskey

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E131: Cattle Markets Look to 2023

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E130: 2023 Best Young Farmers and Ranchers

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E129: A Very Merry December WASDE

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E128: Fuel Markets Meet Cold Winter

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E127: Cold, Hard Winter in Focus

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E126:The 2022 Midterms and Agriculture

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E125: The WASDE of Change

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E124: Get Smart on Climate Smart

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E123: View from the Cab with Marc Arnusch

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E122: Fruits of The October WASDE

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E121: Farm Business Issues to Watch

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E120: Hurricanes, Harvest, and the Winter Ahead

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E119: Meat Packing Aims to Expand

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E118: Announcing the 2022 DTN Ag Summit

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E117: Surprises and Expectations: September WASDE

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E116: Cattle Market Eyes on the Long Term

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E115: The Sprayer Drones of Summer

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E114: 2022 Yield Surprises in DTN Digital Yield Tour

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E113: Dog Days of August WASDE

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E112: Fueling Harvest in an Energy Drought

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E111: DTN Digital Yield Tour on Deck

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E110: Hot, Dry American Summer

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E109: Staying on Top of Succession Planning

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E108: Farmers Cope with Forever Chemicals

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E107: Can You Believe It's Already the June 30th Report?

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E106: What's Happening at Boerson Farms?

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E105: Help Wanted in Agriculture

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E104: The WASDE Before the Storm

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E103: Capitol Hill Standstill on Cattle Price Transparency

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E102: Winter Wheat Woes

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E101: A Watershed Summer for Ethanol

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E100: | May WASDE and an Uncertain 2022

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E99: Soybeans are Crushing It, Literally

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E98: Light at the End of the Chute for Cattle Markets

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E97: Planting Intentions Meet the April WASDE

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E96: Ag Weather Forecast: 2022

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E95: State of US Agriculture: 2023

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E94: Celebrating National Ag Day

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E93: Wheat Yield Winners and Commodity Classic Tech

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E92: March WASDE Keeps Eyes on Ukraine

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E91: The Russia-Ukraine War and the State of Grains

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E90:Tech Talk Part II: Farm Drones

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E89: Autonomous is in the Field

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E88: South America in Focus for February WASDE

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E87: 2022 Ag Policy to Watch

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E86: Changes Come for Pesticide Use

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E85: Deere Goes Autonomous in 2022

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E84: A Quiet New Year with January WASDE

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E83: Meet America's Best Young Farmers and Ranchers

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E82: Managing Through a Hot Ag Labor Market

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E81: Unwrapping the December WASDE

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E80: Ag Confidence Slips on High Input Costs

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E79: Fertilizer Prices Hit Record Highs

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E78: Can't Put a Price on Farmland

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E77: The WASDE of Confusion

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E76: Farm Machinery vs. Supply Chains

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E75: Ag Summit in Focus

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E74: Staying Ahead of Cyber Threats in Ag

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E73: Waking the Bears with October WASDE

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E72: Soybean Surprises in Quarterly Stocks Report

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E71: Looking Ahead on Hay Markets

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E70: Power Up Your Farm Business

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E69: September WASDE Surprises

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E68: 2021 Pre-Harvest View from the Cab

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E67: Celebrating a Career in Ag Weather with Bryce Anderson

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E66: Secrets of the DTN Yield Tour 2021

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E65: Harvest in Focus in August WASDE

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E64: Eyes on the Future of Ethanol

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E63: Get Ready for the DTN Digital Yield Tour!

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E62: Keep the Good Times Rolling

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E61: Wheat Takes the July WASDE

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E60: 20 Inch Rows with Scott Wallis

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E59: The Future of Rural America's Infrastructure

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E58: The Trust Edge with David Horsager

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E57: Changes for the Beef Industry on the Horizon

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E56: Small Surprises in the June WASDE

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E55: Havoc in the Cattle Markets

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E54: Hard Winter Wheat Tour Predicts Top Yields

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E53: May the WASDE Be With You

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E52: How to Use Dicamba in 2021

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E51: Autonomous Machines Take to the Field

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E50: The Most Important Farm Input

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E49: The 2021 Weather Wild Card

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E48: April WASDE Brings May Questions

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E47: Harvesting the Wind

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E46: Where are the Millions of Missing Acres?

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E45: The Early Farmer Gets the Wheat

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E44: Happy Cattle, Happy Markets?

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E43: Finally, A Quiet WASDE...?

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E42: Deja Vilsack

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E41: Best of Big Iron

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E40: The Future of Farming is Data

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E39: Those Are Some Tight Stocks You've Got There

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E38: Not Your Father's Tillage

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E37: Predicting 2021 on the Farm

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E36: Two Farmers Walk Onto a Podcast

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E35: January WASDE

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E34: The Pulse of Rural America

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E33: A (Not So Quiet) Winter WASDE

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E32: America's Best Young Farmers and Ranchers 2020

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E31: What Biden Means for Farmers

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E30: 2021 Goals: Invest in You

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E29: Unwrapping November WASDE Surprises

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E28: Thinking About Buying Farmland?

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E27: The Pulse of Rural America: 2020

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E26: Your Ticket to the 2020 DTN Ag Summit

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E25: What Does Good News in the October WASDE Mean for 2021?

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E24: Farmers Rate Their Combines and Planters

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E23: Unpack Your Corn Seed Stacks

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E22: Deep Dive on the 2020 Crop with GRO Intelligence

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E21: Insight on 2021 from September WASDE

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E20: Where to Store Grain After a Derecho?

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E19: Farming like it's 2120

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E18: Hijacked Cattle Markets

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E17: The State of the U.S. Grain Crop

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E16: DTN 2020 Yield Tour; A Record Crop on the Way?

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E15: Preview: DTN Yield Tour 2020

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E14: Farmers and Families Ford the Digital Divide

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E13: Unanswered Questions in the July WASDE

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E12: The Heartbreaking Rise in Grain Bin Deaths

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E11: Dicamba: Where We Go From Here

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E10: Strategies for the Dog Days of Cattle Backlogs

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E9: How Veterans Start Successful Farms

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E8: Secrets of the June WASDE

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E7: American Farmers Rate Their Tractors

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E6: How to Derail 2020s Record Crop

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E5: Do Yield Guarantees Protect Farmers or Retailers?

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E4: May WASDE Competes with COVID to Move Markets

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E3: Ag's Trillion Dollar (Federal Aid) Question

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E2: Let's Not Jinx Planting Weather with a Podcast

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E1: The Bottom Line on Meat in a Crisis