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Good Eats, Good Times & Farmer Table Talk || This Farm Wife
Hey y'all! It's been a little quiet here since last time, but we've eaten good, made some core memories and got Lawrence to answer some hay baling questions. (He really was smiling on the inside, I promise!) Thanks so much for all your support, we appreciate you so much! Until next time, Farm Har...
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Who’s Paying Farmers To Adopt Regenerative Ag, Why & For How Long?| Damian Mason
We’re several years into various programs looking to sign up acres for such things as carbon sequestration, nitrogen reduction, cover crops, and other regenerative practices. Yet, there are still not very many acres signed up. Why is that and what will it take to get more acres involved with ecos...
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Whatever It Takes... Wheat Harvest #6 | Griggs Farms
6/15/23 | The end of wheat harvest is approaching fast and with Andy helping Kelly get the planter fixed, Matt and Carter continue to get the wheat crop out themselves. Then with the planter finally up and going after a days worth of frustrations, Matt and Kelly work late into the night in a rac...
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Third Time's A Charm!! Wheat Harvest #5 | Griggs Farms
6/15/23 | After being rain delayed 3 times, the crew at Griggs Farms finally get back in the fields! But then they start having massive problems with the planter...
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Revenge Of The Deer!! Wheat Harvest #4 | Griggs Farms
6/13/23 | With thrips wearing the cotton out, Kelly and Andy have to take a break from wheat harvest to spray cotton leaving only Matt and Carter to get the wheat out But with Matt having to pull double duty hauling the wheat out of the field, Carter gets his chance to run the combine and quickl...
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It's A Family Affair!!! Wheat Harvest #3 | Griggs Farms
6/10/23 | With the crew at Griggs Farms racing to get as much wheat harvested as possible before the impending storm system arrives, Paige comes home from Chattanooga with her boyfriend and helps out with wheat harvest.
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Boom Or Bust??? Wheat Harvest #2 | Griggs Farms
6/9/23 | After a mishap at the grain bins the day before, wheat harvest is in full swing! But will the yields match up to Matt's expectations and can Kelly overcome GPS problems to get the soybeans planted right behind the combine??
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It's GO Time!!! Wheat Harvest #1 | Griggs Farms
6/8/23 | After a planting season full of spending money, it's finally harvest time in Crockett County Tennessee with the 2023 wheat crop ready to be cut! Matt thinks he's got a good wheat crop, what will the verdict actually be???
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An Uphill Battle: Raking, Baling & Hauling Sudan Hay || This Farm Wife
We've finished up the sudan and got it out of the field - but it was a bear to get up the hill! Watch to see how that went and why my raking job was the wildest ever.😳 As always, we appreciate you being here! Until next time, Farm Hard Live Well, The Bernards
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Old And Lazy! New Grain Bin Equipment! | Griggs Farms
6/5/23 | Matt and Kelly make an overnight trip to South Dakota to pick up a new bin sweep for grain bin #2. But this isn't any ordinary bin sweep, it's a new paddle sweep that should eliminate almost all grain scooping inside the grain bin when unloading!!
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Ready To Go!!! | Griggs Farms
5/29/23 | After the disastrous week of replanting and spraying, the crew at Griggs Farms turn their attention to the upcoming wheat crop and making sure all the equipment is ready to go. But Matt encounters a combine problem that stumps him...And the neverending project finally comes to an end! ...
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Memorial Weekend Mahem! | Griggs Farms
5/26/23 | With yet more cotton replanting to do and lots and lots of spraying to do, the crew at Griggs Farms are plagued by breakdowns on Memorial Day weekend, when the parts stores they need are closed down...
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So Many Things To Do, So Little Time! | Griggs Farms
5/25/23 | While Andy and Kelly continue to spray the crops and have a mishap with some atrazine, Matt finds out that the cotton crop continues to get worse and struggles over the decision whether to continue replanting.
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Bringing the Heat : From Ag PhD Field Day to First Cut Sudan || This Farm Wife
Whew! What a week. From a quick trip to South Dakota for Ag PhD Field Day and back to the hay field, it's been a busy one. Watch to see some awesome drone footage, a really cool field day and very hot hay day. We appreciate you being here! Until next time, Farm Hard Live Well, The Bernards
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This Has Never Happened : Weighing Calves || This Farm Wife
This one is all over the place, y’all. Even though I reckon that’s kind of normal here, isn’t it? We start with me cooking beef tongue for the first time. Who loves it? Who’s never tried it? Who would be willing?!😛 Then we go to a very hard day, but by God’s grace we made it through. He’s so, so...
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Starting Over From Scratch | Griggs Farms
5/22/23 | All the crops are planted and now is the time to tend to them. A lot of weed spraying and some bug control are needed that Kelly and Andy get started on. But when Matt looks at his recently planted cotton crop, he finds out not all is well with it..
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Bridging The Farmer / Entrepreneur Mindset | Damian Mason
If you’re in modern day production Agriculture, you are in business. Probably to the tune of millions of dollars of allocated capital. Yet, many farmers don’t flex their money mindset or think like entrepreneurs. This could make for real on-farm struggles moving into an era of high interest rates...
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Beef Cattle Herd Shrinks to Lowest in 52 Years | Cattle Call
The Doldrums of summer usually bring a change within the cattle, but this summer they are doing good.
On this week's Cattle Call, Brad Kooima with Kooima, Kooima, Varilek looks at the north cash, weather concerns, the inventory report of last week and this last full trading week of July.
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Dirt Poor Pilot
Join us while we prep for planting season in Missouri and get to know us a little bit!
Grayce and Gavin. Two young, American farmers building their operations and their relationship. Oh yeah, and they live five hours apart. Grayce’s family has been farming for well over 200 years. Gavin… Well, h...
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Is Agriculture Gonna Make Money in 2023? | Damian Mason
Every Summer we begin to analyze crop reports, look at the markets and ask the question, “Will Ag make money this year? And if so, which sectors?” Jarod Creed of JC Marketing & Ag Financial Services joins Damian to discuss farm income, recent ag economic history, political winds shaping or shifti...
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Florida Cucumber Harvest | Randy the Farmer
A special Let's Get Cucumbers episode. Randy goes to a cucumber field and rides along with a cucumber farmer.
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Long-Awaited Moisture Brings Bountiful Blooms at West Mill Flowers | Rural Radio
In a matter of six weeks, parts of central and eastern Nebraska transitioned from battling severely dry conditions to receiving timely, consistent rainfall.
Becca Monroe, owner of West Mill Flowers near Raymond, said the rainfall allowed her cut flower crop to bloom and flourish for all of her s...
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That Was a Workout || This Farm Wife
Finishing up 2nd cut hay and emptying a grain tank that equaled a big workout (and even shed some blood. 🤪) Hope things are well with y'all and you're staying cool as possible in this heat! We appreciate you being here! Until next time, Farm Hard Live Well, The Bernards
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Is Supply Management in America’s Ag Future? | Damian Mason
We produce a LOT of agricultural output here in the United States and the trend line for increased productivity isn’t letting up. So what happens when we run out of places to sell our output or creative ways to burn through our crops as we’ve done with ethanol or renewable diesel? Will we see cal...