Made for Agriculture co-hosts Adam Jones and Cameron Horine interview MFA’s Jason Worthington and Matt Hill as they introduce MFA Connect. The new system MFA is launching helps customers do everything from manage their accounts, to search products and interact with key MFA personnel. March 18, 2024 is the official customer release of MFA Connect.
Program key:
2 min – Intro of guests, Matt Hill & Jason Worthington
3 min – Ag needs more than a payment portal
6 min – The uniqueness of Agriculture allows and requires a personal touch
7 min – Network of trusted advisors 
8 min – The flexibility of acting when you want 
9 min – MFA Connect in a nutshell
11 min – Communication tools included
13:50 min – Practical examples of MFA Connect usage includes communication & record keeping 
15 min - request a quote for products or more info on services
17 min – searching for products 
18 min – bids, advice & service available  
20 min – one business day quotes
22 min – MFA Connect offers business efficiencies for MFA locations
23 min – Speed up service with timely communications 
24 min – Record-keeping access, follow-up, time savings
26:30 min – Smooth reporting creates efficiencies
27 min – Other efficiencies for custom applicators like AgSync 
29:45 min – The launch map: What’s next?
30 min – Updated launch date is March 18
31 min – Employees have been training on the MFA Connect since December.
33 min – Record keeping simplified.
34 min – App & Desktop logins make invoice review easy and improved tool.
35 min – Closing & thanks  
March 18, 2024 is the official customer launch of MFA Connect. Learn more at: https://mfa-inc.com/connect

Contact the team with questions or ideas via email here: podcast@mfa-inc.com

MFA Connect - A New Ag Business Tool - MFA episode #60

Made For Agriculture podcast hosts, Adam, Cameron and Emily team up to discuss the latest in Dicamba ruling news with MFA’s Central Staff Agronomist Scott Wilburn and MFA Director of Crop Protection and Seed Jordan Tomlinson. They talk about product availability and substitutions. The agronomy team discusses the best ways to control weeds in your row crop fields this year. 

Intro
1 min – Guest intros
2 min – Summary of Dicamba ruling.
3:30 min – Existing stock order by EPA.
4:30 min – What’s legal Dicamba use for 2024?
5:20 min – If you have Dicamba in stock….
5:50 min – How much product in stock?
6:40 min – Max dates in pipeline ruling.
7:10 min – Have a plan B and plan C.
9 min – Dicamba use pre and post. 
9:30 – Boothill uses diacamba for Palmer 
10:40 – Waterhemp plague in the North.
11:25 – The Waterhemp challenge by Scott.
13:30 – The loss of an effective tool.
17:00 – Resistance growth.
18:50 – Other tools are targeted.
21:00 – Group 15’s are not bulletproof.
22:00 – Who was behind the lawsuit?
23:00 –The process EPA has to navigate for label approval is a challenge.
25:00 – Lawsuit was a procedural challenge.
27:00 – Future possible record keeping & processes we’re heading toward.
29:00 – We need to educate the public & policy makers about need for crop protection.
32:00 – Challenges center around preventing Waterhemp from germinating – using everything from CP, to cover crops, to tillage.
35:00 – Tillage and soil loss will increase when chemistry is taken away.
37:00 – How has this affected the Liberty & generic glufosinate market? 
39:00 – The 2025 Seed production plans
42:00 – Product distribution challenges.
42:50 – What overlapping control means. 
44:30 – A few best practices spelled out
45:30 – Don’t assume you killed the weeds that you’ve sprayed.
47:30 – AMS tricks
48:20 – Thanks

Find the audio version of Made For Agriculture on Spotify, Google, iHeart Radio and Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/made-for-agriculture/id1087148300

Dicamba court ruling & weeds - Made for Agriculture podcast #61

Made for Agriculture Podcast co-host Emily Beck interviews two folks with experience with the Missouri Department of Conservation and conservation land management. 

MDC’s Private Lands Program District supervisor Jordon Beshears and MFA District Sales Manager Matt Hill.

Introductions
3:00 min – Previous podcasts on NRCS.
3:55 min – History of Missouri Department of Conservation.
5 min – MDC the envy of other states.
6 min – MDC resources for private land owners from native forages to management plans.
7 min  – MFA and conservation practices.
7:40 min – MDC and expertise they offer.
8:50 min – Ninety plus percent of land in Missouri is private.
10 min – Increasing production for both ag and wildlife habitat is important.
11 min – From Buffer zones to native grasses, small changes make large impacts.
12 min – Private lands make real impact.
13 min – Example of farmer who improved profit by enrolling field borders with CP33 program, planted warm-season grass . . . 
17:08 min – using precision to conserve.
18:45 min – Nutri-Track helps reduce tillage, use fertilizer efficiently.
20:00 min – There is still a lot to learn about cover crops.
20:45 min – Field day description. 
21:30 min – Jordan talks about his team’s field day. 
23:00 min – How MDC works with FSA, NRCS are more. 
24:00 min – Installing pollinator habitat, stream bank stabilization and other funded conservation practices. 
29:00 min – prescribed burns and other activities work best when you know your goal.
36:00 min – Programs for deer encroachment. MRAP vs. DMAP.
38:00 min – Crop loss from wildlife & deer management.
39:00 min – Shoot more Doe & Share The Harvest.
42:00 min – The Grassland Summit is April 9 – 11th in Jefferson City – more info here: https://confedmo.org/grasslands/.
44:50 min – Contact MFA for conservation advice.
46:30 min – Recent Made for Agriculture Podcasts, Today’s Farmer Magazine issues.

Private land conservation programs - MFAPodcast#62

Made for Agriculture co-hosts Adam Jones and Cameron Horine double down on their Agronomy backgrounds with a timely roundtable on rust and wheat. This episode is the first of this growing season’s series that we call “In Season Insights,” named after the weekly newsletter that only Crop-Trak Complete customers get. Once corn and soybeans are in the ground, this podcast will be every other week, sometimes every week, depending on just what these Crop-Track agronomists are seeing in the row crop fields across the MFA and Ag Choice territory.

Intro
50 seconds – Shannon talks about the wheat crop in Southeast Kansas.
1:40 – Stripe Rust is starting to show up already just south of the territory
2:45 – How Rust robs yield
3:30 – Weather conditions for rust is forecast over next weeks
5:20 – Scott Wilburn, central Missouri, talk about fungicides.
6:00 – systemics work well early, discussion on types of fungicides.
8:00 – How fast can Stripe Rust spread?
10:00 – Frost damage on advance wheat might be a concern.
10:30 – difference between Stripe Rust and other rusts?
12:00 – Frost damage a concern changes with growth stage of wheat.
14:00 – Rust in the north not an issue yet but very high near Stillwater, OK.  Could be a problem if a high wind event occurs.

The regular In-season podcast Insights series will start Friday April .

Here is the video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GDL_jeHrSA

ALERT- Stripe Rust & Wheat - InSeason Insights

The Made for Agriculture podcast co-hosts Adam and Cameron discuss the start of the row crop growing season with Crop-Trak agronomists around the MFA territory. The team discusses planting & planning for corn, soybean, wheat, and alfalfa in Missouri, Southern Iowa, Eastern Kansas, the Boothill and northern Arkansas. They also do a quick Stripe Rust update.

This week's podcast outline is in the show notes here: https://www.todaysfarmermagazine.com/blog/2254-mfaapril12

In-Season Crop Report for April 12th - An early season starts dry with pressure to plant crops

Adam and Cameron discuss the early crop growing season in the MFA territory with Crop-Trak agronomists Shannon, Kevin, Jesse and Scott. They talk wheat, corn, soybeans, alfalfa and the pests who love them. Jesse talks a bit about cotton and rice in the Bootheel / Mid-south. The InSeason Crop-Trak report is a growing-season series within the Made For Agriculture podcast from MFA Incorporated, a farm supply and service cooperative serving farmers in Missouri and the surrounding states.

April 26th InSeason Crop - Trak REPORT

The last two weeks have brought a lot of moisture to a dry MFA territory. Made for Agriculture podcast co-hosts Adam and Cameron talk replants, weed control, cover crops & crop reports from around the territory with MFA Agronomists Scott Wilburn, Shannon McClintock, Kevin Moore & Jesse Surface.  #cropprotection #rowcrop

From drought to water logged - May 10 InSeason Crop-Trak REPORT

Made for Agriculture Podcast co-host Emily Beck interviews two experts in regenerative agriculture from the University of Missouri. 

Kelly Wilson and Bethany Bedeker discuss 8 different programs that Missouri farmers and ranchers can participate in while earning some money for their farming practices. MFA livestock specialist Lane Groce discusses the benefits of rotational grazing to Missouri’s livestock and row crop farmers.

Regenerative grazing, cropping & incentives - MFAPodcast#67

MFA's agronomists review current crop conditions and discuss what's next in the growing season. Cameron leads the discussion over the variability from Kevin in the north, to Scott in the Central to Jesse in the Boothill & southeast. What's next? Listen now.

Planting, variability, pests & climate trends -May24InsightsReport

Hosts Adam and Cameron speak with the MFA agronomy team about crop conditions around the territory and how farmers are doing this growing season. They also discuss a few new pests and diseases that are showing up a bit earlier than usual.

Podcast#68 - June7th Crop Report

Made For Agriculture co-host Emily Beck talks about food insecurity and ag education with Missouri Farmers Care Executive Director Ashley McCarty. Then MFA Ag Experience interns Makenna Stundebeck, Allie Norton, Emily Hoyt and Karson Calvin speak a bit about their summer projects and what motivates them as they work toward their ag careers. MFA’s recruiter, Scott Morfeld talks about managing a program of 21 interns and how MFA contributes to ag education and training the best ag professionals in the territory.

MFAPodcast#69 - MoFarmersCare & MFA's Ag Experience Internships

Join hosts Adam, Cameron and Emily as they discuss Agricultural topics with MFA expert nutritionists, precision agronomists, veterinarians, and farmers about best practices and the latest products & services in production Agriculture. Find on Spotify, Apple iTunes, Google Podcast, AgriAmerica, Podcast Addict, YouTube and Soundcloud. MFA Incorporated is a farm cooperative based in Missouri and serves farmers in MO and surrounding states.

MFA Connect - A New Ag Business Tool - MFA episode #60

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