Agronomy Episodes
Every Ag View Pitch conversation on agronomy — summaries, key takeaways, and full transcripts.
Feb 2020
Canadian Ag Day, from Canada
Alberta brothers Sam and Chad Dykshoorn on six-crop rotations, carbon tax costs, lost canola sales to China, and earning consumer trust on the farm.
Jan 2020
Michigan corn growers, cover crops, and crop insurance: Great Lakes Crop Summit 2020
Three interviews from the Great Lakes Crop Summit: Michigan corn policy clout, why two-way cover crop mixes beat 16-way blends, and crop insurance basics.
Jan 2020
Georgia, Alabama, and Florida producers: extra complexity, longer growing seasons
Three Pioneer agronomists on Georgia's 1.2 million cotton acres, hurricane losses, the shift to corn for 2020, and why collaboration matters there.
Jan 2020
Numb: an American farmer play written by the USDA
Duane Lowry reads the January USDA report: corn carryout down 18 million bushels, bean numbers unchanged, and state yields he finds hard to believe.
Dec 2019
Will harvest ever end in North Dakota?
Marc Cartwright reports 1.75 million acres of North Dakota corn still standing at 20 to 25% moisture, plus $0.50 to $1.25 discounts and where it sells.
Dec 2019
2019 comes to an end; how long will it take to sort it out?
Duane Lowry on keeping physical bushels, reowning sold grain on paper, and what USDA's January resurvey could mean for corn and soybean prices.
Nov 2019
You thought your harvest was tough
Marc Cartwright reports 20 to 25 percent of North Dakota corn harvested, moisture at 27 to 30 percent, and test weights stuck near 50 pounds.
Nov 2019
Sunday night market outlook 11-10-2019
Duane Lowry explains why a USDA report that disappoints bulls and bears alike drains the selling energy, and how basis tells you what the market wants.
Oct 2019
Sunday night market outlook: October 27, 2019
Duane Lowry shows why yields that beat expectations can still be low, and why last year's yield on your own farm beats APH as a comparison point.
Oct 2019
Harvest series: North Dakota, what a mess
North Dakota farmer Mark Belter reports zero acres harvested by late October, corn projected at 25 to 28 percent moisture on December 1, and drying costs.
Sep 2019
Harvest series: Missouri not in misery, yet
LG Seeds manager Cara Meteer reports early Missouri corn at 200 to 220 bushels, a 108-day hybrid at 170, and why fungicided acres will cost more to dry.
Sep 2019
Yield trends and market reaction
Early corn yields are coming in below expectations while funds hold 170,000 short contracts. Duane Lowry explains why basis stays stronger than normal.
Sep 2019
Harvest series: Texas moving north, early yield reports
Russell French reports High Plains yields: dryland corn at 20 to 80 bushels, 300 bushel irrigated corn, spider mite damage, and strong grain sorghum.
Sep 2019
Dad's wisdom: on the farm with Mark Schaffer
Mark Schaffer started with a backhoe and a dump truck in 1977 and grew an 80-person excavating firm that funded 6,000 acres of wheat and soybeans.
Sep 2019
Markets, acres and bears, oh my
Duane Lowry and Brad Downing on China buying again, soybeans 5 to 8 bushels under APH, and a corn yield closer to 160 than USDA's 169.5 bushels.
Aug 2019
Corn and soybeans: how do we finish the growing season?
Pioneer agronomist Eric Zumbach puts numbers on frost risk: 12 to 15% yield loss at half milk line, 25 to 30% at quarter milk line, plus bean node counts.
Aug 2019
Market update: what's up with corn and soybeans this week?
Duane explains why basis and flat price have to be forecast together, and how to rank crops by the return each one earns per bushel of storage space.
Aug 2019
Coffee makes farming possible: special edition Hawai'i
Tour Kona Joe's 18-acre Hawaii farm: trellised coffee trees yield 40% more cherries, CBB control, hand harvest, and an 80% loss to green bean.
Aug 2019
Markets reset for a new week
Duane Lowry on why weekend rains may not break the market, a record Kansas City wheat discount, and when locking in harvest basis makes sense.
Aug 2019
Details on the Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour process
Brian Grete explains the Crop Tour's math: 35 paces in, two 30-foot rows, ears 5, 8 and 11, and why prevent plant acres are never sampled on the routes.
Aug 2019
August 12th USDA pre-report discussion
Chris Barron and Duane preview the August 12, 2019 USDA report: a 1.6 billion bushel corn carryout guess, 80 million harvested acres, and yield risk.
Aug 2019
Missouri agronomist; Don Mario, new player in the seed world North America
Agronomist Dana Harder on tank contamination, gray leaf spot moving north, fungicide payback in 2019, and Don Mario soybeans arriving from Argentina.
Aug 2019
Irrigation, SW crop report
Russell French explains irrigation capacity, split planting dates, LEPA pivots and population choices that keep High Plains corn crops profitable.
Aug 2019
Red to green on the screen; what does it all mean?
Duane Lowry breaks down the week corn fell to $4.10 and beans to lows, why liquidation drove it, and why new crop basis stayed 30 cents strong.
Jul 2019
16 state crop condition report
Chris Barron and Shay Foulk report July 2019 crop conditions across 16 states: prevent plant totals, maturity delays and why soybeans worry them most.
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