Topic: Our Top 10 Ag Stories of 2020 and Some Honorable Mentions
Topic: Record Keeping-Tracking Profitability
Spotlight: Male Waterhemp and Palmer Amaranth May Hold Key To Their Demise
Ag History Minute: History of Yield Monitors
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: John Deere Donates $1 Million to National FFA/Tyson Foods Fires Seven in Covid Betting Pool
Ag Idiom: Born in a Barn
Topic: Managing Risk When Making Changes to Your Operation
Spotlight: Michigan Farmer Tops NCGA Yield Contest
Ag History Minute: Gregor Mendel
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Wisconsin Farmer Plants Soybeans in December/Brazil to Raise Tariff on US Ethanol
Ag Idiom of the Week: “Don’t Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth
Topic: Time Management on the Farm
Spotlight: Cloud-Ag Measuring Carbon from the Air
Ag History Minute: NAFTA 1992
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Vilsack Officially Tapped to Return to USDA/Dean Foods Seeks to Get Back Money Paid to Dairy Farmers
Ag Idiom of the Week: Take the Bull by the Horns
Fantasy Corn League Draft for 2021
5 Teams
Mother Shuckers – Matt
Rougher Than a Cob – Bill
Doug’s Best Corning Team – Doug
Cornhole Warriors – Max
Todd’s Tilthies – Todd
Disclaimer: THIS IS FOR FUN AND EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES. We are independent crop consultants, which means we don’t sell agricultural products and recommend products on the basis of merit and value. We feel all seed companies have many good varieties to offer. We work hard to not have company bias and pick based on past field experience with varieties and plot data. We let the Farmer pick which seed company they want to work with and then work with them to pick varieties from that seed company. If a seed company or farmer has a variety that we should try, we would love to take a look at it. Again this is for fun, the winner gets a trophy and a charity will get some money.
How to Interpret Seed Guides
Spotlight: New Syngenta Insect Control
Ag History Minute: First Hybrid Corn
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: John Deere to Host Benefit Concert/Farmers Earn 11.9 Cents Per Thanksgiving Food Dollar
Ag Idiom: Don’t Have a Cow
Planning for 2021
Spotlight: John Deere Autopath
Ag History Minute: Federal Farm Loan Act of 1916
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: President to Pardon Turkeys/Denmark to Cull 17 Million Mink
Ag Idiom: Like A Bull in a China Shop
Dicamba Drift
Spotlight: Update on Herbicide Tolerant Sorghum
Ag History Minute: History of US Sorghum
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Rakr App/Beef Exports Fall
Ag Idiom: Make Hay When The Sun Shines
Matt talks to Himself
Spotlight: B-Wrap Bale Wrap
Ag History Minute: Invention of the Bale Knotter
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: USDA Infiltrating Murder Hornet Nests
Ag Idiom: Don’t Count Your Chickens Before They Hatch
Soybean Cyst Nematode
Spotlight: Crop Dusting Drone
Ag History Minute: Halloween and Agriculture
Cool Beans/That’s Corny: Xtend Products Re-Registered/Phase One of the Chinese Trade Deal Not on Track
Ag Idiom: Rough as a Cob