Equipment & Tools

Equipment & Tools

From the biggest combines to the smallest wrenches and parts, agriculture is full of specialized gear needed to keep everything rolling. And farmers have to know it all. Learn more here about the right tools for every job on the farm.

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  • Re-Entry Intervals, Herbicide Carryover, Pasture Fertility Programs | Ag PhD

    The Hefty brothers talk pesticide safety for humans, animals, and next year's crop. Soil sampling is the key to great pasture grasses. The Weed of the Week is fall panicum and Iron Talk covers cleaning up after a downed corn harvest.

  • Life After Downed Corn | Ag PhD

    Down but not out. Darren Hefty explains how to deal with this season's fallen corn, and prevention tips for next year.

  • Trail Boss: Grooming Snowmobile Trails with Fendt

    Scott Schneider grew up on a dairy in northern Wisconsin, but the farm economy of the 1980s altered his career plans. After spending 35 years as a firefighter, though, he still feels a connection to that farm life. And, he is still climbing into the cab of a tractor. It’s just that not all tracto...

  • Cone Bottom Bins | Ag PhD

    Darren Hefty talks about the value of adding heavy duty cone bottom bins to your farm.

  • Combine Fire Prevention | Ag PhD

    Darren Hefty goes over some steps to take to keep you and your family safe from a combine fire this harvest season.

  • Grain Bin Preparation | Ag PhD

    Learn about the steps to take to properly prepare your grain bins for this harvest season.

  • Warm vs. Cool-Season Grasses, Test Weight and Protein, Tar Spot Disease | Ag PhD

    The Hefty Brothers discuss how the weather can effect your lawn, how to increase your yield and quality of your wheat, and how they control corn diseases on their farm. Plus they talk buffalobur and windrowers.

  • Make Hay the Best Way | Ag PhD

    Darren Hefty talks about getting the most out of your alfalfa cuttings with a fast and efficient windrower.

  • The Advantages of Strip-Tilling | Successful Farming

    On this episode of Successful Farming, Jessie Scott looks at strip-tilling and examines the risks and rewards of using it. Dave Mowitz attends a Minnesota auction to see a Mack truck sell on Steel Deals. Then on All Around the Farm, we feature a farmer-built calving corral that was put together f...

  • Air Conditioner Maintenance | Ag PhD

    Darren Hefty goes over some tips to make sure your tractor's air conditioner keeps you cool this summer.

  • Starting Shelterbelts, 2023 Drought Tips, Spider Mite Management | Ag PhD

    Brian and Darren talk about nutrients for trees, how to prepare for lack of rain, and why the mites do well in the drought. The Weed of the Week is common knotweed and Iron Talk is about slowing down your sprayer.

  • Fungicide Mistakes | Ag PhD

    Darren Hefty addresses the weather, the pH, and especially the speed of your ground rig to help you get the most out of your fungicide sprayings.

  • GTS X10 Cornhead Review | Griggs Farms

    Watch as we test the new GTS X10 12 row corn head out for a day and a half on our Case IH 7120 combine during the 2020 corn harvest on Griggs Farms LLC in Humboldt TN.

  • Seeding Cover Crops | Ag PhD

    Darren Hefty talks about achieving an even cover crop stand.

  • A Farm Ahead of Its Time - Barnard Farms Converts to Fendt

    Learn why Matt Barnard of Barnard Farms Partnership converted to a progressive fleet of Fendt equipment and how Fendt's total farm management solution delivered more efficiencies and productivity for his operation.

  • Prop12 Affects All of Agriculture & We Break in a New Sprayer! | Buzzard's Beat

    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.

  • XtremeAg's Planter Showdown Update - Fendt Momentum Planter

    Watch the second episode of the XtremeAg planter trial with the Fendt Momentum planter to see why Kelly Garrett, Temple Rhodes, and Matt Miles are impressed with the uniformity, healthy roots, and one leaf stage advantage of the Fendt corn.

  • XtremeAg's Planter Showdown with Fendt

    Follow the XtremeAg Planter vs. Planter Showdown featuring the Fendt Momentum planter versus the JD 1770 NT on Kelly Garrett's farm in the rugged hills of Western Iowa. Watch the first episode of Kelly Garrett's head-to-head corn yield contest.

  • Cleaning Out Poly Spray Tanks | Ag PhD

    Darren Hefty explains how to get all the residue out of your poly spray tank so you don't damage your next crop.

  • SoilWarrior Ride Along - Brad Spinler | ETS SoilWarrior

    Ride along with Brad Spinler, a corn and soybean farmer from Morristown, Minnesota, as he runs his 2nd SoilWarrior and explains why he made the switch from ridge-till to strip-till.

  • The Modern Farm Shop | Ag PhD

    You spend so much time in your shop on the farm. Today Darren shows us everything the Heftys look for in their farm shops.

  • Soybean Flowering, Satellite Imagery, Tar Spot is Coming | Ag PhD

    Brian and Darren Hefty talk about why June 21st is significant in soybeans, plus a great new way to study your fields, and what is being done to stop the latest corn disease headed your way. The Weed of the Week is smallflower buttercup. And state of the art farm shops are shown.

  • Satellite Imagery | Ag PhD

    They say a picture worth a thousand words... and now maybe higher yields. The Heftys talk about how 365 satellite snapshots can identify trouble spots in your fields in-season.

  • Spray Boom Cleanout | Ag PhD

    Darren talks about two products from Pentair that can help you keep the ends of your spray boom clean and to avoid crop injury.