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This week highlights key farming decisions, markets, equipment maintenance, hedging and more. Feb 13, 2021 Max Armstrong and Mike Pearson discuss key farming programs, program enrollments, tax changes and more. Mike talks with Matt Bennett, AgMarket.net, about supply and demand estimates, markets, feed costs and acreage mix. Chad Colby’s technology segment takes a look at the cabin class heater. Chad is back with guidance about fluid scans for your equipment. Also, a look at updates/upg...

Jan 23, 2021 Jean Payne, Pres., IL Fertilizer & Chemical Assoc., joins Max Armstrong and Mike Pearson to discuss dicamba and what options farmers have for this coming year. Another hot topic in the discussion is the changes in administration and how that may affect 2021 season. Mike talks markets with Elaine Kub, Mastering the Grain Markets. Chad Colby’s technology segment takes a look at the cordless electric chainsaw. Max is joined by farm broadcaster, Alan Watts, WKDZ Radio- Cadiz, Kentuck...

Tom J. Bechman PREPARE TO LAUNCH: A technician checks final settings on this autonomous Dot fertilizer applicator before turning it loose to apply fertilizer on 40 acres at the Farm Progress Show site near Boone, Iowa. Ag engineers from across the country look at the opportunities and challenges associated with robots in agriculture. For someone who once rode on a Massey-Harris 44 tractor with a two-row mounted cultivator with his dad, it was an almost unbelievable s...