Hosts Brian Schrader and Carl Joern take a moment to look back on five years of the Indiana Pioneer Agronomy Podcast — from its early days discussing dicamba regulations to today’s in-depth field updates and industry insights. Join them for gratitude, agronomic updates, and an open call to help define the evolution of this long-running, award-winning podcast.

It’s draft day on the Indiana Pioneer Agronomy Podcast! Carl Joern and Brian Schrader are joined by fellow agronomists Kyle Quick, Brian Early, Chelsea Whitcomb, and innovation manager Sean O’Malley for their annual product draft.

In this special episode of the Indiana Pioneer Agronomy Podcast, agronomist Brian Schrader sits down with his father, Keith Schrader, to reflect on a lifetime of farming in Blackford County, Indiana.

In this episode, Pioneer agronomists Brian Schrader and Carl Joern welcome back Dr. Dan Quinn from Purdue University to unpack one of the most talked-about agronomic topics of the season—tassel wrap in corn.

In this episode of the Indiana Pioneer Agronomy Podcast, Ben Jacob and Carl Joern dig into an unusual outbreak of southern rust across Indiana, Illinois, and even into the northern Corn Belt. They share how to identify the disease, why its arrival this year is out of the ordinary, and strategies for fungicide timing to protect yield and standability.

In this episode of the Indiana Pioneer Agronomy Podcast, hosts Carl Joern and Brian Schrader are joined by Dr. Darcy Telenko, Field Crops Pathologist and Extension Specialist at Purdue University, for a timely discussion on crop disease management.

Join agronomists Brian Schrader and Carl Joern for the latest Indiana Pioneer Agronomy Podcast. In this episode, they dive into the impact of recent heat waves on Indiana crops, discussing critical temperature thresholds for corn and soybeans, and how high temperatures affect pollination and yield potential.

In this episode of the Indiana Pioneer Agronomy Podcast, host Ben Jacob checks in solo with timely updates from the field. After one of the wettest planting seasons on record, Ben shares insights on how southern Indiana growers are managing through excessive rainfall, delayed planting, and now rising temperatures.

If you're seeing your corn turn purple, don't panic. It shouldn't affect yield.

In this episode, Agronomist Carl Joern talks Brian Schrader and Ben Jacob, also Pioneer agronomists, to unpack a week of wild weather across Indiana—including damaging storms, torrential rainfall, an EF2 tornado and even a Dust Bowl-style “haboob.” The team dives into regional crop conditions, planting progress and field damage assessments following the storm system that swept through on May 16.

In this episode of the Indiana Pioneer Agronomy Podcast, host Carl Joern talks with Dan Quinn, who is a corn crop specialist with Purdue University Extension.

Spring is underway across Indiana, and activity is ramping up in the fields. In this episode, Pioneer agronomists Brian Schrader and Ben Jacob check in from the eastern and southern parts of the state to discuss early season fieldwork progress—including corn and soybean planting, anhydrous ammonia application and the challenges of variable weather conditions.

In this episode, Carl Joern, Brian Schrader, and Ben Jacob are joined by Dr. Tommy Butts, Extension Weed Scientist at Purdue University, to discuss practical and emerging strategies for weed management in the Midwest.

Pat Reeg, field agronomist for Corteva based in Bloomington, IL, joins the show with his top five tips for improving yield in 2025.

During this episode of the Pioneer Indiana Agronomy Podcast, Nick Hedden talks with hosts Carl Joern and Brian Shrader about waterhemp management in soybean fields.

We simply do not have as much sulfur in the soil as we used to. For farmers in the Midwest, its becoming increasingly important to consider adding it to the soil.

The Pioneer Product Draft was created to provide data for farmers about seed hybrids, and the results for the 2024 growing season are here! During this podcast, more info about the Draft itself, as well as which seed varieties won.

Will it overwinter or will it not overwinter? That is the question. Your winter wheat is in the "will" category. As long as it's gotten up out of the ground, never fear. Its cold hearty, and it will be okay.

As you're planning for the 2025 planting season, have you done your homework and read a market analysis for crop demand in your area? On this episode of the Indiana Pioneer Agronomy Podcast, we hear a conversation about demand planning, resource allocation and sustainability.

Hosts Brian Shrader and Ben Jacob talk about the 2024 harvest during this episode of the Pioneer Indiana podcast offering some advice for determining whether products used during the 2024 growing season made a difference.