Around Farm Progress

The Farm Progress Show has long been an important event for companies and farmers to interact over new tools and technologies. And as farming as gotten more complex, the show has taken on a bigger role offering farmers that one-stop shop for new tech from iron to crop protection to software.

This podcast premiers one-month and one-day ahead of the big show, but what will farmers see? Matt Jungmann, events director, Farm Progress, took time from his pre-show craziness to discuss the show in this episode of Around Farm Progress.

No doubt rising interest rates and the impact of inflation have been in the news, but for farmers those two monetary measures are keys to future income. Making sense of it all can help you plan for the future.

Jennifer M. Latzke, Kansas Farmer, talked with Brian Briggeman, ag economist, Kansas State University about those issues. In their talk, he offered some solid tactics farmers can use to deal with rising costs to preserve as much profit as possible.

What’s on the mind of a senator? Plenty it turns out, especially if you’re the second-longest serving member of that legislative body. Sen. Charles Grassley talked recently with Jacqui Fatka, policy editor for Farm Progress.

The conversation started with his perspective of the bipartisan Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act which recently moved out of committee. He explains what drove creation of the measure and the support it has in the Senate.

Have you ever considered the power of the dinner table? Families that make time to dine together keep communication lines open, and that could work in other ways too. Perhaps bringing strangers together over a meal.

Shelley Huguley, Southwest Farm Press recently explored that idea in an editorial column and shared her personal experience with the concept.

There’s a topic gaining growing interest in the country: The rise in placement of solar panels on farmland. Farmers leasing their land to solar companies for often decades raises question about acreage tied up outside of production and other issues. In the latest episode of Around Farm Progress, solar panels on farms get a closer look.

Ginger Rowsey, Delta Farm Press, recently featured farmers who are adding solar panels to their farms, she shares what she's learned.

Do you have a soybean field that for some reason never quite yields as you like? Or do you have yellowing patches across your soybean fields where you’re getting a definite yield loss? Both can be the result of infestations of soybean cyst nematode, an insidious pest that once present is hard to beat.

Recently, Pioneer released information from a survey of 600 farmers, and the company also conducted field sampling research for the pest. To get a better idea of what they found, Farm Progress talked with Mary Gumz, agronomy science manager, at Pioneer to learn more.

During this podcast discussion, Gumz offers insight into resistance management, tactics to push down populations and how new tools can help farmers preserve and improve yields.

The march to using more gene editing tools continues, but what does it mean? And what about the most complex crop farmers raise – wheat? Inari, a Cambridge, Mass., based startup is charting a course to design and develop crops using gene editing tools. To get some insight on that work and where the industry is, we talk Catherine Feuillet (foo-YAY), chief scientific officer, about the work at the company.

Particulates from burning diesel bring a host of environmental and health problems, but renewable diesel and biodiesel could make a difference. A new study sponsored by Clean Fuels America Alliance shows switching to renewable diesel and biodiesel (they're different) would improve air quality, and offer a significant health benefit.

Floyd Vergara, director of state governmental affairs at Clean Fuels America Alliance, discusses the study and the benefits. It's a story farmers can share with folks unaware about bio-diesel based diesel benefits.

Erin Fitzgerald, CEO of U.S. Farmers and Ranchers in Action is just back from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland and shares what she learned.

A big part of her work was explaining the role of modern agriculture as a tool for increasing global sustainability.

The Russia-Ukraine conflict has upended the markets, but what might that mean for your farm? For markets long term? Jacqueline Holland, market analyst, Farm Futures, offers an in-depth look at the long-term impact of the conflict on global markets.

Jacqui Fatka, policy editor, Farm Progress talks with Zach Ducheneaux, administrator of USDA's Farm Service Administration, for an update on a change for Conservation Reserve Program acres, and new about disaster payments.