In this lively and laugh-filled episode, Bridgette hosts a roundtable of seasoned ag professionals who dive into the current crop conditions across the Midwest—with plenty of detours into farming folklore, Midwest weather antics, and underground butter trades. 🌽🌦️🧈
🔥 Highlights:
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The Great Tassel Wrap Mystery: A planting window + heat dome = messed up pollination in the I-states. Yep, it's a thing.
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Butter Smuggling & Sweet Corn Side Hustles: One guest admits to shady butter runs to Southern Minnesota. Another's planning a sweet corn coup at a family rebellion.
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Crop Check-In: Wheat is so-so, canola’s average, corn’s catching up, and soybean iron chlorosis is throwing shade (literally).
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Fertilizer Fails & CSI Agronomy: From sulfur mix-ups to potassium ghost towns—how nutrient deficiencies are affecting yield, and how tissue testing is the new crime scene investigation.
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Fungicide Forecast: Tar spot and white mold are knocking. Agronomists say: spray now, regret never.
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Throwback Time: The gals flip through Dakota Farmer magazines from the 1970s and laugh at how little has changed. Rural development, tariffs, and even sourdough recipes? Still hot topics.