WAG in Focus: The Tech savvy interns

🎯 Episode Overview:It’s a cloudy, breezy Tuesday in North Dakota, and Weather & Ag in Focus is bringing the sunshine through insightful ag chat, weed control tips, and a standout conversation with the MyAgData summer interns. Bridgette and Dean unpack the region’s hit-or-miss rain patterns, dish on leafy spurge strategies, and dive deep into the future of precision agriculture with three bright young minds who are shaping it.

🔑 Episode Highlights & Timestamps:

🌦️ 0:00 – Forecast & Field Prep

Light showers with a chilly high near 70°F

Breezy north winds make it feel like fall

Bridgette prepares to literally do

 

🎯 Episode Overview:
It’s a cloudy, breezy Tuesday in North Dakota, and Weather & Ag in Focus is bringing the sunshine through insightful ag chat, weed control tips, and a standout conversation with the MyAgData summer interns. Bridgette and Dean unpack the region’s hit-or-miss rain patterns, dish on leafy spurge strategies, and dive deep into the future of precision agriculture with three bright young minds who are shaping it.


🔑 Episode Highlights & Timestamps:


🌦️ 0:00 – Forecast & Field Prep

  • Light showers with a chilly high near 70°F

  • Breezy north winds make it feel like fall

  • Bridgette prepares to literally do tomorrow’s show from a wheat field

“I’m packing my umbrella lawn chair. What could go wrong?”


🌾 5:41 – Yellow Flower Field Guide (aka Not All Sunshine is Good)

  • Canola? Sunflowers? Nope — it might be leafy spurge, a noxious weed

  • Identification tips and herbicide timing

"We're hitting the tail end of effective application season right now."


🧪 7:01 – Weed Control 101

  • Control methods include:

    • 2,4-D + Tordon (picloram)

    • Plateau (imazapic – Group 2)

    • Sharpen (saflufenacil – Group 14)

  • Bridgette nails the pronunciation on air:

“Saf-lu-FEN-a-cil… try spelling that during trivia!”


🎓 9:46 – Intern Spotlight: MyAgData’s Next Gen
Meet the trio helping digitize ag:

  • Micah Lundblad (Precision Ag/Crop Science @ NDSU)

  • Haylee Frizzell (Ag Science @ SDSU, grew up farming in WA)

  • Paul Olson (Info Systems @ NDSU, now MBA student)

Key intern insights:

  • 12:56 – Paul: “Ag people are the happiest folks I’ve ever worked with.”

  • 18:09 – Micah: “Reputation is everything. One bad interaction spreads fast.”

  • 19:25 – Haley: “Before this, I didn’t even know how acreage reporting worked!”

A great real-world look at how tech + ag are coming together.


📋 22:16 – Acreage Reporting Deadline: TODAY!

  • MyAgData simplifies multi-county reporting

  • Visit myagdata.com — there's still time (barely!)

“We’ve got the manpower to knock out a few more reports before 6pm!”


🚜 24:20 – Ag Tech & Auto-Steer Lessons

  • Micah compares MyAgData to early skepticism of GPS auto-steer

“Now nobody farms without it—this tech will be the same.”


🧵 30:33 – Cotton Crisis in the U.S.

  • Texas cotton hit by both drought & flooding

  • Domestic demand plummeting (6.7M bales → 1.7M)

  • Competing with synthetic fibers + global trade war

“A new cotton picker? $1.3 million. Yikes.”


🦠 35:00 – White Mold Watch

  • Fungicide spotlight: Rev by Summit Agro (tea tree oil + systemic blend)

“Rev disrupts spore membranes before they can take hold.”

 

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