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XtremeAg: Cutting The Curve Podcast — 287 episodes

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Used Farm Machinery Buying Guide: Will Prices Come Down?

2

Time To Build an Ark? Decisions After a Half-Foot of Rain

3

To Expand or Not: Grain Storage Decisions in Tough Times

4

Soil Health, Carbon Intensity Scores and the Bottom Line For Your Farm

5

Tested Mettle: How Nelson Rentz has Harvested Success in the Oklahoma Panhandle

6

Early Season Prevention of Corn Nematodes & Crown Rot

7

Beating the Frost: Expert Tips for Early Season Planting Success

8

Bridging The Gap In Sustainable Agriculture: Unlocking Additional Revenue Opportunities

9

Grain Safe: Avoiding Pitfalls & Adopting Best Practices for Grain Storage

10

Resilience in the Rain: Big Lessons That Sam 'of the North' Coutu learned in 2023

11

Making Sustainability Pay Off On Your Farm

12

Maximizing Farm Yields: Essential Strategies to Boost Crop Yields and Overcome Plateaus

13

When it is Time for Tillage? A Deep Dive into Farming Tillage Strategies and Cover Crops with Temple Rhodes

14

Refurbishing a “New” 20-Year-Old Planter with Sam of the North

15

3 Ways To Improve Your Starter Fertilizer Program

16

Corn, Cattle & Cover Crops — An Evolution in Soil Health

17

Grain Gains: Navigating Expansion and Efficiency in On-Farm Storage

18

Is Tile Drainage A Fit For Your Farm?

19

Changing the Crop Rotation — From Corn to Soybeans, to Corn to Cows!

20

Maximizing Agricultural Profits in Tough Times: Lee Lubbers' Expert Strategies for 2024

21

Do You Know Your Soil’s Moisture Level?

22

Maximizing Your Fertility Investment in a Sub - $5 Corn Environment

23

Why You Should Reduce Phosphorous Application Rates & How To Do It Without Sacrificing Yield

24

Fixing Poor Ground: Transforming Marginal Farm Land into Profitable Acreage.

25

Is your Grain Bin Facility Making You Money?

26

Farm, Family, Business and a Lasting Legacy

27

How Autonomous Machinery Will Change Your Farm

28

Maximizing Crop Health in 2024: Achieving Plant Balance and Sustainable Farming

29

Machinery Decisions That Make Money

30

Changing Equipment for Better Farming Results

31

Getting Your Sprayer Ready For Spring with Proper Winterization

32

Is Your Succession Plan Going To Leave A Mess For Your Family?

33

Taking Back Control: Key Farming Decisions For The Upcoming Year

34

Hope Doesn’t Pay the Bills - A Discussion with XA Member Charlie Leager

35

Money Mistakes & Financial Fixes For Your Farming Business

36

Twin Row Versus Single Row: Corn & Soybean Results On Raised Beds

37

Insights and Lessons Learned From 25 Years of Using Plant Growth Regulators

38

High-Tech Grain Carts: How Grain Cart Advancements Are Transforming Harvest

39

Choosing the Right Lime for Your Farm: Tips From Kevin Matthews

40

Overcoming Drought and Boosting Farm Yields

41

What agronomic adjustments can you make to create improved farming outcomes for next year?

42

Is it Genetics or Fertility?

43

Cropping Mix Mastery: How Data Analytics Drives Successful Farming Decisions

44

Making Cover Crops Work On Your Farm

45

Financial Fundamentals for the Beginning Farmer

46

Member Spotlight: How Fresh Ideas Fuel First Generation Farmer James Hepp

47

A Soybean Seed Switch is Coming to Garrett Land & Cattle

48

Grain Bins and Dryers | What To Look For

49

The Mystery of The Missing Soybeans

50

How Does Fall Residue Impact Summer Nutrients?

51

What is The Maximum Attainable Yield on Your Farm?

52

The Hidden Cost of Too Much Fall Nitrogen: Soil Degradation & Reduced Yields?

53

Smart Buying for the Season Ahead: Navigating Input Purchases in High Interest Times

54

Are You Spending Too Much on Fertilizer and Not Seeing The Results?

55

Rescuing A Crop

56

Member Spotlight: Russ Uselton — A First Gen Farmer Carving Out A Business On Rough Ground

57

The Role of Roots in Increasing Organic Matter In Your Soil

58

The Art and Science of Spoonfeeding Soybeans

59

The Cumulative Effect of Biologicals

60

Late Season Applications Clip

61

What Is A Plant Biostimulant?

62

Strategies for Pigweed Control Amid Increased Herbicide Resistance

63

Are You Spoon Feeding Soybeans The Right Stuff

64

Member Spotlight: Greg Dell - Young Maryland Farmer Unafraid of Experimentation

65

Expediting Residue Breakdown

66

Takeaways From Harvest 2023 With Miles Farms

67

How Do You Know If You’ve Gone Too Far?

68

Treating Late Season Corn Smut At Planting Time

69

Used Farm Equipment: What's Hot and What's Not?

70

The Benefits of Applying Biologicals Post-Harvest

71

Strategies and Adaptations For Successful Farming Amidst Urban Sprawl

72

Getting Along With The Neighbor Farmers

73

The ROI of Drones: Why Drones are Becoming Essential Tools for Farming Efficiency

74

What’s Happening In Canada? An Update From Sam of the North.

75

We're Not in Kansas Anymore: Milo in Maryland?

76

Revisiting And Improving In-Furrow Fertility

77

Harvesting Dollars: Channeling Your Crop's Energy into Making Money

78

One Last Pass

79

Understanding And Addressing Nutrient Deficiencies in Cotton

80

Where I See The Future of Agriculture

81

What To Consider When Updating Your Grain Drying System

82

ARE WE TAKING FOOD OUT OF THE PIPELINE?

83

Farming Through The 4th Quarter

84

Making Money Off Of High Moisture Corn

85

How Chad Makes Sustainability Work On His Farm

86

Risk and Reward: The Economics of Big Decision Making

87

Surprising Lessons I Learned From 8 Years of Subsurface Drip Irrigation

88

Is Your Planter Current?

89

Strategies For Stress Reduction

90

Managing Water On Matt’s Worst Field — The Trial Continues

91

Do I Really Need Biologicals?

92

Hidden Costs & Losses

93

Factoring Fungicide Decisions

94

OH HAIL! MANAGING YIELD AFTER A HAIL STORM

95

Cations, Anions & Untying Nutrition

96

Less Time, More Yield?

97

The Benefits of Strip-Tillage

98

4 Tips For Managing Low CEC Soils

99

Are Your Plant Hormones Imbalanced?

100

Building a Fortress of a Plant — Temple’s Focus in 2023

101

MAKING ADJUSTMENTS TO MICRONUTRIENTS BASED ON LAST YEAR’S CROP

102

What You Can Learn About Your Fields With A Drone.

103

Stacking Nodes For Serious ROI on Soybeans

104

Striving For Stress-Free Plants with Kevin Matthews

105

Feeding The Biology of the Soil

106

FARMING IN QUEBEC WITH SAM "OF THE NORTH"

107

Preventing Crop Stress Before It Occurs

108

Looking Beyond Fertility At Time Of Planting

109

Sam "Of The North” Goes To Iowa - What Did He Learn?

110

Why Calcium Should Be A Bigger Part of Your Fertilizer Budget

111

Switching From a Dry Fertilizer Program to Liquid & Making It Profitable

112

Correcting Planter Problems to Save Time & Money

113

Using Data For Better Decision Making

114

Adapting When The Weather Shuts Your Planter Down

115

Creative Thinking About Your Farm Business

116

Drainage AND Subsurface Irrigation Using The Same Pipe?

117

Pushing The Early Planting Envelope in Arkansas

118

Redefining & Repossessing Sustainable Farming

119

WHY DID JOHNNY VERELL TAKE THE 2X2 OFF HIS PLANTERS?

120

Re-Thinking Soil Fertility, Biology & Balance

121

Saving Fertility Inputs & Time with the Right Placement

122

Balancing Your Dry and Liquid Fertility

123

Why You Need This Nozzle In Your Arsenal

124

7 Years with Drip Irrigation: What Has Kelly Learned?

125

Finding Money in The Data

126

Why Seed Fails & What To Do When It Does

127

Is Drip Irrigation Right For Chad's Farm?

128

In-Furrow For A Firm Foundation

129

Targeting Periods of Influence

130

SWAT Soil Mapping: What It Is & Why You Need It

131

Learn Your Crop

132

Cover Cropping For Positive Results & Positive Economics

133

Farming in Quebec With Sam of the North

134

Nutrient Reallocation - Getting The Most Bang For Your Buck

135

Managing Phosphorus In-Furrow

136

Meet the 2022 NCGA Yield Contest Winner and XA Affiliate Heath Cutrell

137

Finding The Key Piece

138

Fixing The Limiting Factors

139

Finishing The Pods

140

Hitting The Right Crop Stages

141

Increasing Phosphorous Uptake From The Start via In-Furrow

142

Meet Caleb Traugh - Georgia Ag Consultant and XA Affiliate

143

Moving Cotton Calcium Into Cotton

144

Cover Cropping — 50+ Years of Practices & Results

145

NUTRIENT DEFICIENT OR IMBALANCE?

146

A 2 IN 1 SYSTEM FOR YOUR PLANTER

147

Why You Should Consider Variable Rate Corn Seeding

148

Spring Applied Biology

149

What Matt & Layne Learned From XtremeAg That Made Them Money

150

Record Farm Income in 2022 - Now What?

151

Managing Fertility For The Short Term (When The Land Is Going Away)

152

Select Shot In-Furrow Product Performance Review with Kevin Matthews

153

What Can We Learn From Illinois Farmer & Agronomy Guy, Matt Swanson?

154

Variable Rate Nitrogen Application — The Proof Is In The Soil!

155

New Opportunities to Make More Per Acre in 2023

156

Johnny’s Potentially Winning Wheat Strategy

157

Results From Kelly’s 2022 Objective of Stress Mitigation

158

How We Produce Big Yield, High Profit Wheat with Temple and Chad

159

Kevin’s Big Takeaways From 2022

160

No More Cotton? Meet Tennessee Farmer Johnny Verell

161

Adjusting The Acreage Mix For 2023

162

Adjusting For The Weather

163

3 Mistakes You Might Be Making With Your Sprayer

164

Farming (Successfully!) In Inflationary Times

165

Is this the future of livestock farming?

166

Maximizing Manure As A Crop Input

167

What The Markets Are Telling Us At Harvest Time & What We Can Learn From It

168

Geographical Differences

169

THE RICE TRIAL

170

Nutrient Stratification — You Have It, Here’s How You Remedy It

171

The Results Are In and Residue Cost Kelly Yield

172

Where To Spend That Last Dollar?

173

Trends Shaping Agriculture Today & Tomorrow

174

Shrinking Grid Size To Diagnose A Soil Problem

175

Do your Soybeans Have Enough Nitrogen?

176

Puts and Calls Explained: Simplifying A Strategy For Your Marketing Success

177

Are you losing yield in your water?

178

Foliar Application to Corn at Black Layer? Send It!

179

Biologicals in Wheat

180

Reaffirming Variable Rate Nitrogen Application

181

Hybrid Agronomy

182

Keeping fertility Rates up with Less Product?

183

UNSTRATIFYING YOUR NUTRIENTS

184

Carbon Farming Practices

185

Nitrogen Punch

186

Seaweed As A Crop Input?

187

Building Skeletal Strength In Soybeans

188

When Too Much Residue Impedes Soybean Emergence

189

BEANS ON BEANS

190

It’s Never Too Early To Look At Your Harvest Marketing Strategy

191

Nitrogen Reduction & Soil Health

192

The 4 Nozzles Chad Always Uses and Why

193

Why Is Carbon More Important Than N, P and K

194

Tile Technology

195

Humics and Fulvics. When, Why and How?

196

Short Cut - So You Wanna Start Tissue Sampling?

197

Strategies For Reviving Soil Biology In A Dead Field

198

Short Cuts - Your Corn Wants Sugar

199

It’s Time to Test For Soil Biology

200

Short Cuts - To Tissue Sample Or Not?

201

2 Ear or Not 2 Ear?

202

Interpreting Mid-Season Reports and Managing Volatility

203

Are Biologicals The Future Of Ag?

204

Farming In A Drought: Practices, Products, and Personal Preparation to Thrive When It’s Dry

205

Perspectives On Prairie Province Farming

206

Aren't All Seed Companies The Same?

207

Are Your Midseason Fertility Practices Making You Money?

208

2022 Disease Pressure - Preventing Profit Loss

209

Short Cuts- Matts Cotton Foliar Program

210

5 BIG Commodity Marketing Mistakes Farmers Make

211

Short Cuts: Uptake! Getting Fertility Into The Plant

212

WEBINAR: CARBON MARKETS DEMYSTIFIED

213

Cost of Compaction and How To Avoid It!

214

Short Cuts: What is a plant health agent and does your crop need one?

215

Farming On The Bay

216

Short Cuts: The Rice Farmer

217

Cattle Marketing and Risk Management Strategies

218

Short Cuts: Finding The Right In-Furrow Program For Cotton

219

Demystifying The Carbon Marketplace

220

Identifying Your Farm’s Business Weaknesses

221

Crop Stress Mitigation Strategies

222

The Highs And Lows of Cotton Farming

223

Why You Shouldn’t Panic Over The Weather….Yet

224

Renewable Diesel: A Fuel That May Just Change Your Crop Rotation

225

How Precise Can You Get With Your Starter Application?

226

Commodity Marketing 101

227

Will The World — And Your Farm — Have The Fertilizer It Needs?

228

EP#64: Electric Vehicles, Sustainable Aviation Fuel & The Future of Corn Ethanol

229

Fixing Limiting Factors By Going Back To The Basics

230

PGR’s — How They Work & Why You Should Use Them

231

Using Drip Irrigation to Improve The Agronomics Of Your Farm

232

Make $100 More Per Acre By Switching Away From Triple Stack Corn?

233

Tile Drainage Explained: From Install to Benefits of The Investment (Part 2)

234

Mo’ Money — Can Your Crop Insurance Company Do That?

235

Uncertainty, Ukraine & Managing Volatility (If Only In Your Head!)

236

Tile Drainage Explained: From Install to Benefits of The Investment (Part 1)

237

Xyway - Do's And Don'ts For Using This Game Changing Fungicide

238

Capitalizing On High Cotton

239

A Seed Treatment for Faster Emergence & Seasonal Stress Protection

240

4 Things You Should Know Before Buying Crop Insurance

241

Increasing Phosphorous Uptake (For An 8 To 1 Return?)

242

Can A Biological Made From Living Fungi Produce Better Crops?

243

Why Did My Corn Mature Too Early?

244

ROI Driving Crop Rotation Decisions

245

4 things Lee Lubbers Learned in 2021

246

Integrating Crop Insurance, Government Programs, And Crop Marketing To Achieve Profitability

247

Nutrient Management With Drip Irrigation

248

What 2021 Taught Chad & Applying It To 2022

249

Perfecting Practices Learned In 2021

250

Tax Management Versus Tax Avoidance

251

Fertility Alternatives in the Face of Availability Issues and Cost Constraints

252

Talking About In Furrow Fertilizer

253

Income Diversification For Your Farm (Using Resources You Already Have!)

254

Releasing Fertility Within Residue Through Biologicals

255

Using Stress Mitigation Technologies To Maximize Return

256

New Biologicals To Reduce Stress On Your Crops

257

First Year Back Home On The Farm

258

Getting The Most From Your Fall Nitrogen Application

259

Seeds Of Doubt — How To Make The Right Seed Decision On Your Farm

260

Lessons Learned & Applied From 2021- Lesson #5- Calcium

261

Lessons Learned & Applied From 2021 - Lesson #4: Stress Mitigation

262

Lessons Learned & Applied From 2021 - Lesson #3: Xyway in the 2x2

263

Lessons Learned & Applied From 2021- Lesson #2: Improved 2x2 Fertility Application

264

Lessons Learned & Applied From 2021 - Lesson #1: Populations

265

Are Your Crops Lacking Boron? Probably.

266

Planting Less, Harvesting More — Results From Soybean Population Reduction

267

Will There Be Ag Input Shortages?

268

Profiting By Utilizing By - Products On Your Farm

269

Switching To No - Till & Making It Work (At Scale!)

270

How To Increase Combine Efficiency (Inexpensively!)and Capture More Yield

271

Residue Management Through Biologicals

272

Biologicals To Make P&K More Available (& Save You $$!)

273

Managing Personalities, Strengths & Weaknesses

274

Understanding & Navigating Crop Input Price Increases

275

The Benefits Of Proper Fungicide Treatment In Soybeans

276

Zinc, Copper, and What??? — Nutrient Management For High Yield Corn

277

Harvesting Data & Maximizing It For Your Farm

278

Gaining Yield With Precision Planting

279

PGRs: Modes of Action, Timing and Benefits

280

Practices, Habits & Failures — Lessons From A 5th Generation Farm

281

Being Equipped to Seize Opportunities

282

The Importance of a Good Working Relationship with Your Banker

283

Farming In The Path Of Progress

284

21st Century Soil Sampling

285

To Till Or Not To Till

286

Plant Growth Regulators Explained (with Teva Corporation)

287

Drip Irrigation — How It Works & The Benefits Of It