In this episode:-What to know about corn pollination-Is there a correlation between shorter corn plants and yield?-How will the haze from the Canadian wildfires affect yield?

Golden Harvest Agronomy Manager Steve Wilkens answers questions like:What factors play into whether or not to apply fungicide?Due to the dry May and June, is a fungicide application throwing good money after bad?And more!

The month of April brought us a dry early planting window in West Central Illinois but also cool temperatures. Today, we’re talking with our Golden Harvest Agronomist Brad Koch about what what he’s seeing as far as crop conditions, agronomic issues that need to be front of mind right now, and how the week ahead is critical for corn replant decisions.

In today's episode, we are joined by Illinois Farm Bureau Assistant Director of Policy Development and Advocacy Allie Speer. Allie shares how IFB policy is developed, its importance to our legislators, and other topics surrounding IFB policy.

Today's episode features a Zoom meeting between Brad and Justin from mid-December discussing the 2022 growing season and the corn products in our line-up. Topics covered include performance, product placement, proper management, and more.

October 2nd -8th is National 4-H week! In this episode we chat with Beth Chatterton, 4-H Program Coordinator with McDonough County 4-H and Shelby Carlson, our local 4-H Youth Development Coordinator.

In this episode we’re discussing Inflation, Interest Rates and how it affects you. Our guest is Aaron Leary, a loan officer at Compeer Financial here in Monmouth. We recorded this conversation on September 23rd, 2022, shortly after the Federal Reserve announced that they would be raising interest rates. During these economic times that we are witnessing, we wanted to get Aaron’s perspective on what is causing inflation and how rising interest rates affect the housing market, and farmers who a...

This episode was recorded the week of August 22nd, 2022, and as we approach the end of August our agronomists are fielding calls about soybean disease symptoms that are occurring. In this episode we discuss Sudden Death Syndrome, but also other diseases that look similar. For corn, we address how this August weather will affect yields and touch on what corn diseases are present.