Farm-season agronomy with practical table talk.
Tilth Talk Radio turns the growing season into a working conversation. Bill Schaumburg, Todd Schaumburg, and Matt Brugger move from mud, hail, cold snaps, and snowmelt into decisions about seedings, nitrogen, spray water, cover crops, and planter setup.
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Tilth Talk Radio is a farm-season agronomy show built around practical timing. It begins where many crop decisions actually begin: with the weather outside. Rain, hail, mud, worms on the driveway, frozen roads, late snow, and cold air temperatures all become part of the setup. Then the conversation turns toward what growers can do next. Recent episodes have worked through cover crop decisions, alfalfa spring seeding, planter readiness, nitrogen prices, oilseed crops, early planted soybeans, spray tank water quality, and crop production budget tools. The show is structured, but it does not sound scripted. A typical episode moves through the main agronomy topic, a spotlight item, Ag History Minute, Cool Beans, That's Corny, current events, and Field Good Friday. That repeatable format gives the show shape. The panel gives it its texture. Bill Schaumburg, Todd Schaumburg, and Matt Brugger talk in short turns, correcting, agreeing, teasing, and adding examples as they go. Technical details come through in plain speech. Early soybean planting becomes a discussion of cold risk, fungicide seed treatment, emergence, growing points, and how tough beans really are. Spray tank water becomes a comparison of testing, softening, reverse osmosis, mineral removal, equipment cost, and maintenance. Nitrogen prices lead into MRTN history and fertilizer market pressure. Cover crops come with decision tools and the Midwest Cover Crop Council. The show is also comfortable leaving room for field-adjacent life: April Fool's stories, snowmobile trails, plow piles, gas-pump drizzle, and road slush. Those digressions are not filler. They locate the advice in a real growing season, where crop plans meet weather, machinery, budgets, and whatever the moment brings. Tilth Talk Radio works best for listeners who want agronomy that is specific enough to be useful and casual enough to feel like an ongoing shop conversation.
Made for: Tilth Talk Radio is for growers, crop advisers, agronomy staff, and farm-minded listeners who want seasonal crop discussion tied to real field conditions. It fits people who like practical recommendations delivered through conversation rather than polished instruction.
What sets it apart: The show pairs repeatable agronomy segments with informal panel chemistry, so field observations, weather talk, history, equipment notes, and current events all sit in the same working rhythm. Its strength is the quick move from banter to usable farm takeaway.
A weekly podcast about the growing season and what you can look out for this time of year!
Seed guides get judged like menus, and suddenly your spray water has a personality.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Early soybeans, emergence risk, fertilizer disruption, and dairy exports anchor a practical farm-business episode.
Early-planted soybeans give this episode a clear farm-business center, with the hosts working through mud-season moisture, emergence, early-planting stress, and the replant question.
The Tilt Agronomy hosts weigh spray-tank water testing, softening and the costs of reverse osmosis.
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A practical 2026 seed-guide conversation, rounded out by farm news, antique tractors, sports, and local color.
The episode turns 2026 seed guides into its main business thread, with Bill Schaumberg, Todd Schaumberg, and Matt Brugger of TILF Agronomy comparing the books they received this year.
Practical food-growing wisdom from the ground up.
Sustainable agriculture, explained from the field.
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How to perform a 'corn pregnancy test' by shaking a cob to see if silks fall off.
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The Tilt Talk Radio episode discusses a cover crop decision tool, USDA yield forecasting, the history of the Midwest Cover Crop Council, and recent weather events like rain and hail.
The hosts discuss alfalfa spring seeding tips, alfalfa insects, the Van Brunt seed drill, and current weather conditions affecting farming.
A special interview episode with precision planting consultant Dalton Ruechel discussing planter preparation for spring planting.
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Mud season sets the table.
Tilth Talk Radio's "Wat-er My Options" compares rainwater, surface water, conditioners, softened water, reverse osmosis, municipal water, and structured water for farm spray tanks.
Tilth Talk Radio examines how spray-water pH, hardness, mineral content, and tank-mix timing can change herbicide performance.
A discussion on crop production budget tools and weather transitions, with segments on history and current events.
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