On today’s special episode, it is our honour to welcome Jim Schwartz to the podcast! Born and raised in Indiana, after graduating from Purdue University, he has dedicated 36 productive years to agriculture and the seed industry. Currently, he serves as the director of research, agronomy, and PFR (practical farm research) for Beck’s Seed. We are as excited as you guys to discuss the importance of research with Jim so come, tune in and listen!

On today’s episode, Tyler and Nick quizzes Bryce Hunt of Hunt Farms on when he got his first interest in agriculture especially when he started his YouTube channel to promote agriculture. Pretty amazing that he developed the passion at a very tender age of 5, and now at only 9 years old, he gets to share his fun farm stories, vision, and future business goals with us. Come, tune in and listen!

Dr. Mulvaney and Rod will burrow into how we can manage Nitrogen better to transform our farm soils and its fertility. We started on a recommendation made years ago on the amount of Nitrogen needed for every bushel of corn where Dr. Mulvaney narrated an account of when and how the 1.2 theory has been made including the assumption it’s based on. It is our great pleasure to learn from him! Come, tune in and listen!

With the recent ongoing hot topic on Potassium, we are going to dig deeper, the importance of building the right soil levels, the plants’ major role in releasing potassium in between the clay layers, and soil mining. Remarkably, some of you listeners might have the same shift of faith as Dr. Mulvaney had when he discovered things tracing back issues on the

nutrient mobility and availability. You’ll definitely want hear about this issue and surely come in handy to taking better care of your farm soils.

Starting 2021 right, Kayla came up with a couple of ideas to impart insightful farm advice to listeners who would like to start out with just the right farming lessons straight from the authority himself, Rod Livesay. Tune in, listen, and have a grasp of farm wisdom from the man who also learned some things the hard way. This could also be the one mistake you wouldn’t want your farm to live through.

Can the Grinch steal profits through foliar feeding? Rod tells us how.

Rod tells us how to make sure we're giving our plants every advantage so the Grinch can't sneak by and steal our profits.

Is the Grinch stealing your profits through peer pressure? Rod tells us how we can tell on day 9 of How the Grinch Stole Profits Christmas special.

Don't let the Grinch keep you focused on making excuses for your farm based on your soil type. Rod tells us how to get past our soils' problems.

The Grinch doesn't want you to pay attention to how much you are spending per acre so he can steal your profits. Rod tells us what we need to look out for on this Christmas special of A Better Way to Farm.