FTC Episode 393: Innovative Crop Techniques to Promote Soil Health and Improve Margins

This week we meet a farmer using a combination of crop techniques to promote better soil health, reduce costs and improve margins. Some of the ideas are time proven methods such as cover crops, but the way this operation seeds those covers and integrates them with livestock provide opportunities to…

FTC Episode 392: How to Navigate Key Trends Impacting the Future of Agriculture

This week we visit with a farmer who is the recently retired secretary of agriculture for his thoughts on key trends impacting the ag industry. What are the important market moving factors that will impact farmers of all types? What are the opportunities to change our operations to increase profits…

FTC Episode 391: Top Tips from the Top Producer Next Gen Winner

Tim Nuss is this year’s Top Producer Next Gen Award Winner. He shares his story of coming back into a family operation and finding ways to take advantage of profit centers by identifying new and changing markets that his farm can help supply. He shares some of his top tips that have worked for his …

FTC Episode 390: Machinery Pete has Never Seen This Trend in His Lifetime. What is it?

Machinery Pete has been logging machinery sale data for over three decades so it’s hard to surprise him with anything that happens in the industry. However, he recently reported a trend that he’s not seen in his lifetime. We discuss how tight crop margins are impacting the new and used machinery ma…

FTC Episode 389: Key Crop Nutrition Decisions in Times of Tight Margins

It may be tempting to try to improve crop margins by cutting your soil fertility program. However, some cost saving measures may wind up hurting ROI in the end. What are the most important decisions to make and how do you allocate your dollars in the best way possible?

FTC Episode 388: Does Wireless Fencing Change the Opportunities for Beef & Crop Farmers?

Wireless fencing is technology being adopted by some farmers and it could make rotational grazing an option for more people since it lowers the amount labor needed to move electric fences. This week I visit with a farmer who is not only rotationally grazing his cows and calves, but he’s also using …

FTC Episode 387: What Proven Strategies Will Gain You More Corn & Bean Bushels?

It’s once again time to take a look at the latest Practical Farm Research (PFR) data. The field trials cover just about anything you’d want to know about growing more corn and soybean bushels, plus there were some new items added to this year’s research. We break down the results and what are some …

FTC Episode 386: How Activists are Targeting Animal Agriculture

Animal agriculture is sometimes the target of activists who want to radically change or even attempt to ban raising animals for food production. What are the latest targets of these groups and how are measures at the ballot box and in the state house seeking to impact the livelihood of farmers and …

FTC Episode 385: Racing the Cannonball Run. Meet a Father/Daughter Who Did It!

To begin the new year we begin with a fun story that might just inspire you to make your own New Year’s resolution. We meet a father and daughter who accomplished something that it is believed no one else has done. They raced the Cannonball Run coast-to-coast race together. Many of us may only know…

FTC Episode 384: Get Big or Get Weird – Best of 2025

We often think that success in farming is measured by the number of acres we farm or the number of  livestock we raise. That isn’t necessarily wrong, but Josh Payne helps us look at agriculture from a  different perspective, maximizing the profit per acre and creating a multitude of opportunities a…