Field Posts
Learn about and discuss the cutting edge of the ag industry and explore new perspectives on farming’s old adages. Field Posts is a weekly podcast by DTN/The Progressive Farmer that dives deeper into the most important trends in technology, policy, management, and business to explore the ag industry’s cutting edge.
Episodes
245 episodes
E245: First Look at Summer Weather
Just a few months ago, meteorologists at DTN and beyond were expressing concern about wide swaths of drought across key U.S. growing reasons, and the likelihood of a hot and dry summer set to exacerbate the situation. Now, after an unexpectedly...
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Episode 245
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34:31
E244: Optimistic Results from the Kansas Wheat Tour
Every year for more than six decades, the Wheat Quality Council has sponsored a Winter Wheat Tour that criss-crosses the state of Kansas to get a mid-season update on what conditions look like in the field and what farmers, millers, and everyon...
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Episode 244
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E243: New Crop Madness in the May WASDE
The May WASDE dropped Monday, May 5th, and the market reacted to both predicted records and to a few unexpected surprises. Given the number of acres and the USDA’s trendline yield, the department is officially estimating a record breaking corn ...
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Episode 243
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44:40
E242: The View from the Capitol: Tariffs, Farm Bill, and USDA
The months since President Trump first took office have been marked by executive orders, policy announcement, shakeups, and for many in ag, the hopes that policies will also provide protections from market and political fallout. Just this week,...
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Episode 242
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30:03
E241: Deep Dive with National Wheat Yield Contest Winners
The winners of the National Wheat Yield Contest, hosted by the National Wheat Foundation, represent some of the most progressive and thoughtful wheat growers from across the country. This week, DTN Crops Editor Jason Jenkins takes t...
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Episode 241
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37:47
E240: Precision Sprayers are In the Building
John Deere’s See & Spray technology crashed onto the precision spraying scene a few years ago, making a big splash in the industry long before it was killing weeds in commercial fields. Since then, progress on sense and act technologies has...
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Episode 240
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30:25
E239: The Uncertain Future of Biofuels
Uncertainty and unpredictability in Washington and beyond have made following updates around ethanol, biodiesel, and the ongoing fight around sustainable aviation fuel challenging for farmers and industry watchers alike. As advocates spend time...
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Episode 239
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26:40
E238: Planting, Tariffs, and the April WASDE
The April WASDE dropped Thursday, April 10, bringing with it a raft of bearish and bullish updates for the three major grains. This month’s report came in the wake not only of market-cratering tariff announcements, but also in the week after th...
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Episode 238
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44:02
E237: The State of the Beef Industry
Cattle sellers continue to rule in beef markets, fetching record prices in recent months and weeks as expectations for more growth in the cattle herd come up short. But there’s more than just prices to watch as multiple factors — from pests and...
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Episode 237
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31:32
E236: Celebrating Bin-Busting Wheat Growers
Each year, the National Wheat Yield Contest, hosted by the National Wheat Foundation, attracts top growers from across the country to compete to grow the healthiest, and largest, wheat crop in the nation. The 2024 results are offici...
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Episode 236
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28:50
E235: Quiet March WASDE Riles Jumpy Markets
The March WASDE dropped Tuesday, March 11th, and bullish farmers and traders looking to see upside for corn and possibly soybeans too were disappointed the USDA held pat across the two major U.S. grain balance sheets. Wheat, on the other hand, ...
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Episode 235
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E234: Look Ahead to Spring Planting Weather
We're officially on the cusp of spring, and farmers in the warmer regions are already in the planter, while those further north are raring to get the 2025 season started. But some snap cold weather in February and some roaring blizzards on Marc...
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Episode 234
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E233: Updates from the 2025 Cattle Industry Convention
The 2025 Cattle Industry Convention and NCBA Trade Show took place February 4th through 6th in sunny San Antonio, and by all accounts it was an event where ranchers came together to celebrate a good year in the beef industry, and to put their h...
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Episode 233
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E232: Inside the National Farm Machinery Show
The National Farm Machinery Show attracts more than half a million farmers, ranchers, and ag industry professionals every year to a massive event in Louisville where everything from tractors to precision equipment to drills are on display. But ...
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Episode 232
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24:12
E231: Latin America in the Spotlight in February WASDE
The February WASDE dropped Tuesday, February 11th, and with few updates expected for U.S. balance sheets, the market’s attention was locked on the Southern Hemisphere, where harvest for the major grains is in view. This week, we’re joi...
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Episode 231
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34:41
E230: How Pandemic Connections between Farmers and Consumers Persist
COVID’s impact on American agriculture were legion, but one of the positive changes for the industry is the way it encouraged consumers —who were experiencing supply chain disruptions in empty shelves at the grocery store — to reconnect to wher...
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Episode 230
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E229: AgTech Makes Waves at Annual Electronics Show
CES is the world’s largest showcase of technology and electronics, held every year in sunny Las Vegas. In the last decade or so, ag tech companies, and especially ag equipment companies, have been attending this event to show off their latest h...
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Episode 229
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29:20
E228: Insights on the New Secretary of Agriculture
It has been a hectic eight weeks in Washington since the re-election of Donald Trump. There has been a non-stop torrent of news that will, and is already, affecting American agriculture, from disaster aid to Farm Bill updates to the nomination ...
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Episode 228
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31:42
E227: Ringing in the New Year with a Bullish January WASDE
The January WASDE dropped Friday January 10th, and this blockbuster report left producers, traders, and analysts alike scrambling to respond to major drops in production estimates for corn and soybeans. This news came alongside a quarterly stoc...
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Episode 227
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34:35
E226: 2025 Fertilizer Forecast
A new year is upon us and U.S. farmers are taking to the office, planning for the 2025 season and keeping an eye on critical inputs like fertilizer as they do. It’s been a tumultuous few years for crop nutrient prices, and though there remain a...
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Episode 226
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34:10
E225: 2025's Best Young Farmers and Ranchers, Part 2
DTN’s 2024 Virtual Ag Summit is a wrap, and this year’s event included a gripping conversation between DTN Progressive Farmer’s Senior Editor Dan Miller and a couple of the honorees in the 2025 class of America’s Best Young Farmers and Ranchers...
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Episode 225
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E224: 2025's Best Young Farmers and Ranchers, Part 1
DTN’s 2024 Virtual Ag Summit wrapped up in December, with farmers from across the country convening to discuss what to expect, and how to prepare, for a New Year, New Administration, and New Markets. The event also gave DTN Progres...
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Episode 224
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E223: Cattle Market Forecast 2025
DTN’s 2024 Virtual Ag Summit is officially a wrap, and as is the case every year, a highlight of the event was the trio of forecasts on weather, grain markets, and livestock markets from DTN Progressive Farmer’s industry-leading analysts. ...
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Episode 223
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E222: Ag Weather 2025 Forecast
DTN’s 2024 Virtual Ag Summit has just wrapped up, with farmers from across the country convening virtually to discuss the year that was, the year ahead, and the key issues affecting their operations. Forecasts for weather and market in the year...
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Episode 222
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E221: December WASDE Rocks Expectations
The December WASDE dropped Wednesday December 11th, and this usually quiet report brought with it unexpectedly bullish news for corn markets. As markets and the USDA turn their attention towards the crop in the Southern hemisphere and demand fr...
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Episode 221
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