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Episode 296: Strategies to Stay Ahead of Weeds with Jason Jenkins
Weeds are always a problem for American farmers. But a warm spring and recent burst of wet weather in many parts of the country has created ripe conditions for everything from waterhemp and Palmer amaranth to Kochia and newly arrive...
Episode 295: Super-El Niño Shapes Summer Forecast
While a hectic spring season brought with it welcome rainfall, it also brought an unruly mix of record heat and late local cold snaps that has set some farmers back in their planting efforts.But as May makes way for June and a Super-El N...
Episode 294: Will 2026 Be the Year of E15?
The debate over year round E15 has become a perennial battle ground for biofuel interests, but farm state lawmakers are increasingly optimistic that 2026 will be the year. With the extraordinary market pressures farmers are facing a...
Episode 293: Boots-on-the-Ground View of Planting 2026
Coming into the 2026 planting season, many expected a significant crop shift thanks to the war in Iran.Little sign of this shift has been seen so far, but with less than half the crop in the ground and weeks left for farmers to finalize ...
Episode 292: Trump in China vs. the May WASDE
The May WASDE dropped Tuesday, May 12th, offering some bullish surprises for the wheat market, and giving the whole grain complex a boost in advance of President Trump’s long-awaited trip to visit American agriculture’s most important trading p...