The Scoop Podcast

Derek Emerine, National Agronomist with Helena, shares what to watch this season with crop fertility management. He highlights how to effectively use tissue sampling to not miss often overlooked deficiencies.

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Raising a big crop requires you to pay attention to the small things that make a difference. Austin Anderson, adjuvant brand manager at Helena, shares his top tips for this year’s spray season and talks about the latest product from Helena, Cohort, which is a spray tank partner advancing the use of AMS.

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Erin Mies and Kristen Ireland of People Spark Consulting offer insights on how to create process and equip people. The duo shares some takeaways for managing a multi-generational workforce. And they share how prepare high performing individuals to take over legacy roles.  

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Veronica Nigh, senior economist at The Fertilizer Institute, shares the indexes she’s watching to gauge the direction of the global fertilizer markets. She discusses a short-term outlook for products as well as some things to watch in the long-term. 

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Ross Bender, director of new product development for The Mosaic Company, references how many are finding success with some new approaches to crop fertility including 4R nutrient stewardship, focusing on crop needs, and finding a fit for biological. 

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ARA’s policy team joins the podcast to talk about the recent Farm Bill developments as well as regulations that directly effect ag retailers and their businesses.

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In his 15-year career Travis Fuller says it’s been amazing to watch the technology develop for the ag retail industry. As a customer success manager for AgWorks, he helps ag retailers deploy software to streamline their business and gain new insights. The biggest thing he’s watching… artificial intelligence.

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As an agronomist and crop consultant with Nutrien Ag Solutions, Jeff Kloucek says working out in the field is where he enjoys his job the most. While the weather was the biggest challenge last year, Kloucek doesn’t expect too much of a reprieve from that unknown this year. However, he and the team are focusing on what they can control. In soil fertility, they are taking a new look at the whole system and how nutrients interact with each other. And for weed control, Kloucek has two pieces of advice: don’t cut rates, and the adjuvants are just as important as the herbicide.

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Kyle Meece, agronomy manager at United Prairie, started as a machine operator when the company had four locations. Today, they’ve grown to 14, and Meece also discusses how the team and the technology they use has changed. Last year, they had 950 acres of side by side drone application trials, which supported the decision to add four more this year. The team is also adding a John Deere See and Spray Ultimate machine to their fleet, which Meece says it an effort to answer the multitude of questions of how the technology fits into their agronomy services.

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Tim Hushon, sustainability and technology director at The Mill, details how sustainability factors into their ag retail business and how to partner with farmers on the technology adoption required. Hushon shares the challenges to find farmers and fields who can qualify for some of the carbon opportunities, while there’s still a lot of potential for nitrogen reduction programs, including they as a retailer realizing a future of potentially selling a lower total amount of bulk fertilizer. Then he shares the new equipment their team is working to deploy in 2024 including section control spreading and drone spraying.

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