The FARMSMART Podcast, presented by Nutrien Ag Solutions

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The FARMSMART Podcast, presented by Nutrien Ag Solutions artwork

With the FARMSMART Podcast, we’re not just talking change. We’re making change. We are focused on helping growers evolve their sustainability practices, and we use trusted agronomic proof to keep these solutions grounded in the here and now. We have the courage and care to challenge what we think we know, and we’re here to help you embrace sustainability at every level of your operation.  Join us each month for invaluable insights from agricultural and environmental professionals about sustainable agriculture and the changes that are paving the road to our future.

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49. 2024 Ag Weather Outlook: Everybody Needs Something from Mother Nature, with Eric Snodgrass

Apr 10 2024 31 mins  
Let's start with the good news about the North American climate outlook for the 2024 growing season: drought conditions are significantly better than they were last year. However, maybe it's force-of-habit, but growers seem to have more anxiety than usual about weather in the coming growing season, according to Nutrien Ag Solutions science fellow and principal atmospheric scientist

48. What Enhanced Efficiency Fertilizers Bring to the Sustainability Toolbox, with Loveland Products' Ron Calhoun

Mar 20 2024 38 mins  
Nitrogen, Phosphorous and Potassium. Every grower knows that these three nutrients are at the heart of every successful cropping plan. But in 2024, the tools to manage those nutrients are so much more potent and complex than they used to be. And cutting back on fertilizer inputs—discerningly and purposefully—can be a powerful opportunity to reduce costs and improve an operation

47. How Indiana Soybean Farmers Are Benefitting From Our New Sustainability Practices Incentive Program, with Danny Carmony Jr.

Feb 07 2024 27 mins  
In the heart of soybean country, you'll find Indiana farmers who have been utilizing sustainable best practices since long before it was called "sustainability." But a new Nutrien Ag Solutions incentive program with Bunge is making it possible for these growers to actually be compensated for these practices. And that's changing the game, both in terms of environmental impact AND th

46. New Features in Agrible That Improve Sustainable Ag Outcomes, with Ryan Adams

Jan 10 2024 32 mins  
Most growers have reached the point in their year when it's time to look back on what they've accomplished, review the records, and start looking for ways to improve their operations in the new year ahead. Nutrien Ag Solutions can help connect growers to programs that pay farmers for their sustainable agriculture practices. But it's going to take carefully collected and curated dat

45. A 50-Year History of Agriculture and Sustainability, with Tom Daniel

Dec 20 2023 44 mins  
Agriculture has been around for more than 10,000 years. But you can argue that in the last 50 years, it’s changing and evolving faster than ever before. That evolution has included the growing relationship between agriculture and what we now call “sustainability.” And someone who's been along for almost that entire ride is our very own Tom Daniel, Nutrien Ag Solutions' Direct

44. North of the Border: Canadian Sustainable Agriculture Insights, with Crop Consultant Dani Kerr

Dec 06 2023 30 mins  
Sustainability doesn't stop at the border. In fact, Nutrien Ag Solutions supports thousands of growers across Canada, and many of them are well along the path in their sustainability journey. But while the overall goals and ideas are the same, like so much about the relationship between the U.S. and Canada, things are a little different north of the border. So in this episode, we'r

43. Selecting the Right Seed for the Right Acre: Ag Inputs As Sustainability Tools, with Todd Pester

Nov 15 2023 31 mins  
You can have all the agronomic tools in the world. But if you don't have a plan to place the right seed on the right acre, both your margins and your sustainability footprint will suffer. Plans take insight. Insight takes data. And our seed product management team is working harder than ever before to provide our crop consultants with both. So in this episode, we're talking to Todd

42. Simplifying the Sustainability Conversation, with Sustainable Ag and Retail Strategy VP Matt Marshall

Sep 27 2023 36 mins  
When you talk about sustainable agriculture, you could be talking about greenhouse gas reduction, practice changes, nutrient management, or any number of other pieces of the sustainability puzzle. Our mission at Nutrien Ag Solutions has always been to support farmers in their operations, helping them minimize their environmental impact while maximizing their margins. But starting t

41. Growers in Montana Embrace Sustainable Nitrogen Outcomes, with Lyle Benjamin and Andrew Pritchard

Jul 26 2023 31 mins  
From painfully dry weather across much of North America, to record high temps in the South and West, to massive wildfires in the North, weather extremes have had an impact on growers across the continent this year. So in this episode, we're going to start with a weather update from Nutrien Ag Solutions senior meteorologist Andrew Pritchard. He'll explain how an emerging El Nino pat

40. Launching a Strategic Alliance with Bunge to Pay Growers for New and Existing Sustainability Practices, with Fernando Candia

Jun 14 2023 34 mins  
Climate change is an issue that's global in scale. So when two companies that are global leaders band together to address the problem, it's sure to make some real headway. Bunge, the world leader in oilseed processing, and Nutrien Ag Solutions are launching a strategic alliance and commercial agreement to support U.S. farmers in the implementation of sustainable farming practices t