From the business and science of ag to the people of ag, from technology to trends, from coast to coast – the Grow Smart™ with BASF podcast covers it all. Listen in as host Willie Vogt interviews growers, researchers, educators and agronomists on the latest topics and stories. Always read and follow label directions. Grow Smart is a trademark of BASF. © 2018 BASF Corporation. All rights reserved.
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Smart thinking for challenging times: 2019 seed and disease outlook
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Smart growers know it starts with the right seed. And that diseases can sneak up and ruin a season’s worth of work. Our two experts weigh in on what to know.By BASF Ag Products USA
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The two most unpredictable things in farming: markets and weather.
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Sharp insights, smart thinking and crystal-ball prognosticating from a grain market analyst and a meteorologist on what might happen in 2019.By BASF Ag Products USA
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A new solution for piercing and sucking insects.
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We go coast to coast to learn about the latest tool to control piercing and sucking insects that are sucking the profits out of your soybean and citrus crops.By BASF Ag Products USA
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Find out what’s brewing in the evolving world of barley.
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North Dakota barley grower Gary Beck and Pat Hayes, Professor at Oregon State, discuss how this ancient grain is evolving with new traits and growing practices.By BASF Ag Products USA
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One state. 6,800 almond farms. 2.27 billion pounds of almonds.
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Almond grower Christine Gemperle and Leigh Ann Harrison of BASF come out of their shells and talk about the 2.27 billion lb. almond crop in California.By BASF Ag Products USA
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BASF broadens its portfolio with acquisitions from Bayer.
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Big news in the ag business as Paul Rea, Senior Vice President of Agricultural Solutions at BASF, updates us on BASF’s acquisition of some assets from Bayer.By BASF Ag Products USA
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We’re serving up an informative dish of potato talk.
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Kasia Duellman of the University of Idaho and Curtis Rainbolt of BASF talk about the leading vegetable crop in the U.S., the humble, yet complex potato.By BASF Ag Products USA
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Target Spot: If you wait, is it too late? The experts weigh in.
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Plant Pathology Professor Dr. Bob Kemerait and John Schultz of BASF discuss the disease that can cause big trouble in a hurry, and what you can do about it.By BASF Ag Products USA
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Engenia® herbicide stewardship, part two: The word from the field.
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A cotton grower in Texas and a soybean grower in Minnesota weigh in on how Engenia herbicide worked for them last year, and how they plan to use it this year.By BASF Ag Products USA
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Engenia® herbicide stewardship, part one: Know before you go spray.
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Chad Asmus, BASF Technical Marketing Manager, and Jeff Spencer, BASF Digital Farming Group Development Lead, give us the scoop on Engenia herbicide stewardship.By BASF Ag Products USA
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Rice news, weather talk and social media musing
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Donnarie Hales, BASF Product Marketing Manager, discusses new rotation options for rice growers, her new gig, and the changing social media landscape.By BASF Ag Products USA
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This guy can grow just about anything…including chufa.
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Cotton? Check. Corn and Soybeans? Sure. Peanuts and pumpkins? Yep. Wheat? Why not? Chufa? Of course. North Carolinian Donny Lassiter can grow it all.By BASF Ag Products USA
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Paul Rea of BASF talks acquisitions, natural disasters, innovations– and the most unusual crop he’s seen
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Paul Rea, BASF Senior Vice President for Crop Protection, North America, reviews 2017 and talks acquisitions, innovation, natural disasters, and the most unusual crop he’s ever seen.By BASF Ag Products USA
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Nobody talks and walks it like Twitter star, grain goddess and hot mess mom in ag Angie Setzer
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She runs a grain trading operation, co-hosts the popular “Girls Talk Ag” podcast, wrangles a husband, a son and four dogs as a hot mess ag mom – and still has time to talk ag, and market grain. Buckle up for Angie Setzer.By BASF Ag Products USA
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Meet the number-crunching wheat queen of the North
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Up near the Canadian border, Betsy Jensen and her husband grow a variety of crops. But her heart is in wheat. And number crunching. And her table from the Minneapolis Grain Exchange.By BASF Ag Products USA
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Can Donnarie get ag podcast king Rob Sharkey to break down and reveal his softer side? Listen in as they recap their summer Dirt Road Tour.By BASF Ag Products USA
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Hand-harvesting a ton of grapes a day. Disease control. Heading off spontaneous fermentation. And a $500,000 bottle of wine. When it comes to growing grapes, Jason Yeager of Nine Wine Estates tells all.By BASF Ag Products USA
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From getting in on the forefront of growing hemp, to setting up an exporting business from scratch, to growing half of the U.S. supply of cranberry beans – it’s all in a day’s work for North Dakota grower, Chris Adams.By BASF Ag Products USA
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Bread, pasta, cookies, crackers, pizza – you can’t spell “wheat” without “eat.” We talk to Phil McLain, a North Carolina wheat grower who’s also the Board Chairman of the National Wheat Foundation.By BASF Ag Products USA
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You say “almond,” she says “am-mend.” As Almond Girl Jenny, this hull-splitting, tree-shaking, fourth-generation nutty farm girl talks about the crop that’s our favorite go-to snack.By BASF Ag Products USA
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From on-farm research to breaking yield records, James Wray is following in big footsteps in a big way in Arkansas.By BASF Ag Products USA
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Farmer dad Doug Luther of Nebraska talks row crops, carpet farming, sandblasted pickups, faith and wrangling 10,000 acres and five kids.By BASF Ag Products USA
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Weeds, wine, sand-fighting season, turn row meltdowns – all part of Mike Lass’ story, from California to growing cotton in the South Plains of Texas.By BASF Ag Products USA
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Ag moms rock! Hear how Meredith Bernard went from corporate to cattle. She's at her happiest balancing family and farming.By BASF Ag Products USA
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Rice farming in the Arkansas Delta, socialism, Ernest Hemingway, duck hunting – and Donnarie rapping. Yep, it’s all here.By BASF Ag Products USA
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Ag is becoming more progressive and offering new career opportunities beyond the farm. Donnarie dishes with Tim Hammerich of AgGrad and college student, Derek Doeing about the Future of Ag.By BASF Ag Products USA
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Listen in as Dr. Larry Steckel of the University of Tennessee runs an Engenia™ Herbicide demo with the hopes of having no results.By BASF Ag Products USA
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What’s the outlook for soybeans in 2017? David Widmar, an ag economist with Purdue University, gives us his outlook on market ups and downs.By BASF Ag Products USA
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Drones are taking off. Literally.Chad Colby of Colby AgTech discusses what you need to know before you takeflight.By BASF Ag Products USA
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A Tennessee grower and his Innovation Specialist discuss their run at a National Wheat Yield Contest.By BASF Ag Products USA
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Diseases Forecasting: What To Know, What To Do
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Diseases – who you gonna call? We called Caren Schmidt, BASF Technical Marketing Manager and disease/plant health expert for tips on what to look for throughout the season to keep your crops healthy.By BASF Ag Products USA
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Luke Bozeman, BASF Field BiologyTeam Leader, talks sustainability and Living Acres, a BASF research initiative that shows how you can plant milkweed to establish monarch butterfly refuges innon-production areas.By BASF Ag Products USA
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One of the foremost experts on weeds, Dr. Bryan Young, Professor of Weed Science at Purdue University, tells us what's going on now, and what to expect in the future.By BASF Ag Products USA
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Corn Fungicides and Northern Corn Leaf Blight
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Hear how a grower in Illinois worked with his BASF Innovation Specialist to tackle disease pressure.By BASF Ag Products USA
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The 100 Bushel Per Acre Soybean Challenge
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Chasing the yields in Indiana, aiming for the magic 100 bushel/acre mark. Listen in as a grower in Indiana discusses how he took on the challenge with help from BASF.By BASF Ag Products USA
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