On this episode of Successful Farming, Dave Mowitz travels to Tahlequah, Oklahoma, to visit Bill Rosener's shop. The shop was primarily designed for woodworking, but features a plethora of other great ideas that anyone can appreciate when building a shop. Dave also visits a Ritchie Bros. auction ...

We did the best we could! Not perfect, but still worth it. Come along to see how our old square baler did for the first time it’s been used in about 15 years.

Over 7" of rain the past week - not sure if that's why the beans are struggling. Too much of a good thing? Finally getting the pool leveled, filled (and tied 👀). Never a dull moment. We appreciate you being here! Until next time, Farm Hard Live Well, The Bernards

As you’ve likely heard me say, we in Agriculture suffer from commodity mindset. When we think of growing margins, we think of reducing costs, getting bigger, and making more with less. But what happens when there’s almost no efficiencies to be gained, or worse yet when we make so much stuff that ...

5/19/23 | With a decent stretch of weather before the next arriving storm system, Matt, Kelly, and Andy race to finish up planting the 2023 cotton crop. But as they finish, Matt takes a look at some of the earlier planted cotton and is dismayed at what he sees. Matt has a close encounter on the...

5/16/23 | With yet another weather delay, Matt and Andy get the old cotton picker ready to send off and finish up a special project for Kelly. When the skies finally clear, it's GO time to hurry to finish cotton planting before the insurance deadline!

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5/15/23 | With the calender quickly closing on cotton planting season, Matt makes the decision to plant in some questionable conditions. After half a day, his worst fears come true.

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5/10/23 | The perfect cotton planting conditions quickly come to an end with an impending storm. But while Matt and Andy race the rain, Matt has a breakdown at the worst possible time...

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5/9/23 | Cotton Planting 2023 is in full swing...and early too! But Matt gets a call about a foreign group interested in his cotton picker and has to switch gears quickly in order to get it sold...

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5/8/23 | A couple days after finishing planting corn, Matt, Kelly, and Andy get an earlier than normal start to planting the 2023 cotton crop. But Any's got a very difficult new job to learn...Matt shows the benefits of his strip kill system and talks about a biological plot he's putting in.

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Just when he thought he was going to have one of his best years yet, Steve Rice of SR Farms Alfalfa Company in Wilsonville said one storm brought over 9 inches of rain and another brought hail for 48 straight minutes.

“We cut some hay on May 20 trying to build some inventory and 5 days later it ...

Finished up seeding beans while the kids were gone, but not without a few headaches (and backaches). And Lawrence got a taste of the spreader good life - or a few minutes, anyway. We appreciate you being here! Until next time, Farm Hard Live Well, The Bernards

5/5/23 | With another storm system bearing down on them, Matt, Kelly, and Andy race to get the rest of the 2023 corn crop planted. Kelly does some field cleanup and finds some strange objects...

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5/4/23 | Corn Planting is progressing quickly and Matt finally gets to do something he hasn't done in a long time, plant some ground that's been plowed up! Later in the day breakdowns begin to plague Kelly and Matt

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The proliferation of biological crop inputs over the last several years has been almost overwhelming. I personally believe soil biology — understanding it and working with the soil versus against it — is the next frontier for production Agriculture. That said, the world of biological soil and cro...

Jeff Baker, a dryland farmer, elaborates on various decisions he has made to keep steady crop production.

“We’ve been dry, we’ve been hot, to this point though it's been alright and things look decent.”

Baker discussed his approach to weed control, especially water hemp. Baker concludes with h...

After almost 5" of rain, there was a chance of 70mph wind, rain and large hail. So, we did our best to prep and get ready. Watch to see what happened. As always, we appreciate you being here! Until next time, Farm Hard Live Well, The Bernards

An inquiry into the way food is labeled is underway at USDA/FSIS - let's talk about labeling! Also, we get our new herbicide-resistant and drought tolerant forage sorghum in the ground. Will it rain in a timely fashion for crop?

The Supreme Court recently upheld Prop12 in California which has significant implications for pork, poultry and veal farmers nationwide and, potentially, farmers of other food crops in the future. We got a new sprayer and annihilate some weeds as Brandi geeks out about farming practices.

"Some days you win, some days you lose and some days it rains." - Lawrence Bernard

That about sums this one up. 😅 As always, we appreciate you being here! Until next time, Farm Hard Live Well, The Bernards

Mike Way started his Ag career selling citrus upon graduating from Fresno State. A few years later, he hopped over to vegetables with a few partners. Today he is the CEO and half owner of Prime Time — a California-based grower / shipper / packer of produce specializing mostly in peppers. Mike exp...

5/3/23 | With things rolling along smoothly planting corn, Matt explains the importance of variable rate planting and how he does it and also explains the problem with the high dollar crop input products that are commonly being sold. Kelly does some heavy lifting after being shut down from spray...

Hank Hamilton is a man of many hats. From flowers to broken down tractors and everything in between. He has a social media business creating "Will It Start" videos. Finding old tractors and heavy equipment and trying to get them to crank. His wife and him also run a flower farm where you can pick...

A central Nebraska farmer is conducting various field trials this year, including one trial to study the impact of "good" nematodes on his field's soil.

Don Batie said the "good" insect-eating nematodes eat insect larvae in the soil.

The nematodes were diluted in water and injected through the...