Kelly Garrett is an entrepreneurial farmer from western Iowa. His business interests include farming, trucking, plant food distribution, ag retail, and now: direct to consumer beef. Kelly joins me to discuss the motivation behind creating GLC Beef and the opportunities for increasing profit margi...

Ever wonder how cowboy boots are made? Join me as we see exactly how it's done. Anderson Bean boots are NOT your ordinary boots, they are hand crafted and over 80 hands help make each boot. This is an episode you don't want to miss!

Cory Atley and Chad Henderson both take a long walk in the fields and talk some serious management education.

Take a stroll with me, Michelle Martin to the Panhandle of Texas.. Perryton, Texas-the middle of nowhere with Farmer Dan. Dan grew up on the farm and it is all he knows. He breathes, bleeds, and sleeps farming. We learn about his practices and how faith and farming make it a success.

Follow along as we spend some time on the farm with Heath Cutrell as he gets the airplanes in the sky. The Ochsners are pulling plants and weighing with Nancy from Pivot Bio at the same time as getting lots of other things done with the family. It’s a fully packed episode!

We’ve been hearing about carbon credits for several years in Agriculture. Finally, the vagueness of the ecosystem marketplace is becoming more clear. In this episode we learn how farmers enroll their acres to get compensation for carbon sequestration and nitrogen reduction. Who pays for these env...

We met up with Wes Reagan of Sarasota, Florida and learned the in's and out's of forage harvesting in the sunshine state.

The Business of Agriculture trades commodities. We produce them, buy them, sell them, and process them to make products for our end users. But who does all this trading and who ultimately, uses the goods we make? Dave Smoldt and Kyle Schrad with StoneX Financial give us a behind the scenes look a...

On this episode, the Bogner farm operation is the winner of "Best Office" in the Top Shops contest. The SF Engineman demonstrates how to do a voltage drop test to diagnose an electrical circuit. Dave Mowitz travels to a farm auction to check out prices on John Deere 319 skid steers. On All Around...

Join Dave Mowitz at a Ritchie Brothers auction in Illinois to see what Challenger track tractors are selling for and what you should look for in price/features before buying one used. In All Around the Farm, we’ll see what an Iowa farmer created to make his combine cab more accessible and learn a...

U.S. net farm income set a record in 2022, up 14% from 2021 to $160.5 billion. To put it mildly, things in Ag are good financially speaking. 2022’s farm income number is double what it was just 3 years ago during the China - U.S. trade spat. What does this mean for those of us who earn our living...

Agriculture has a lot of battles to fight beyond the daily challenges of producing our food, fuel, and fiber. Causes against production Ag have turned into religious movements as well as full-blown business models. Call it what it is, it’s “the conflict industry” and in places like Holland, farms...

In 2022 American farmers produced the fourth largest soybean crop on record at 117 million metric tons or roughly 4.4 billion bushels. The good news: Demand is matching global supply and prices are decent. The challenging news: Our demand for soybean oil is outpacing our demand for soybean meal. ...

Cow farts cause “climate crisis” and climate crisis is reducing crop yields, eating eggs causes high cholesterol, global population growth will cause mass starvation, sunlight exposure is harmful to your health. You’ve likely heard these dire predictions confidently proclaimed by so-called expert...

On this episode of the Machinery Show, Randy and Jesse Lutz show off their huge shop near Mason City, Iowa. The Grand Prize winner of the 2015 Top Shops Contest has plenty of space both inside and out. The SF Engineman, Ray Bohacz, discusses the voltmeter, an essential tool on the farm. Dave Mowi...

Shay Foulk with Ag View Solutions predicts cost of corn production for 2023 will average $5.35 per bushel. That number is an all time high and it’s due to an increase in every crop input from nitrogen to diesel to labor. The story is the same for the other major commodity of soybeans, and presuma...

Farmers love to talk about the weather but in this episode we go deeper and talk about systems, climate, global weather patterns, and the year ahead. My guest is Eric Snodgrass, Senior Science Fellow for Nutrien Ag Solutions. Will we see the sort of devastating dryness we experienced in the west ...