How Fertilizer Madness Turned Guano Into Gold

When a pair of sisters set out to help the family farm, they didn’t think they’d end up on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list. On the debut of Grow Getters, a podcast about ag’s most creative side hustles, they tell their story.

The company is artificially inoculating tar spot in select field test plots this season to study how corn responds. Researchers say the work will help them advance tar spot tolerance for Dekalb and Channel products.

Standing in a ditch drier than a saltine, Iowa landowner Dan Ward kicks at parched dirt. He cannot build a pond on his 420-acre farm property because government officials consider a dry depression that runs half-a-mile across the land, more than 100 miles from the nearest navigable river, to be “waters of the United States.”

You need to do what you need to do to make your life better. Is it really that simple? Ted Matthews, a mental health practitioner with Rural Minnesota Mental Health Support, told AgriTalk’s Chip Flory that far too many people hear mental health and immediately think mental illness.