201 | Seeds of Ambition
Top Crop: Season 2
As the season begins, Hedrick plants the seed for what will be his most ambitious crop yet. With every farmer gunning for a profitable year, the stage is set for anything to happen. The Fite crew takes a minute to enjoy the solar eclipse as they wait for a window to plant?
202 - Root of the Matter
Top Crop: Season 2
It’s time to dig deep—literally. Atley finishes up all planting for the season but ends with a hydraulic breakdown. Luepkes does an aerial drone application, works the cattle, reviews some products and tests the soil with a new fancy soil probe.
203 - A Growing Rivalry
Top Crop: Season 2
As the crops begin to sprout, the sun heats up. Hedrick gets a visit from a special guest and flies some drones while Dan demos a drone, plants, and checks crops.
204 - The Battle For The Fields
Top Crop: Seaon 2
With multiple crops on the line, it’s a showdown across the fields. Galloway is growing corn, beans, cotton, wheat and rice. He is set to spread risk and stay profitable This episode is all about strategy, stamina, and the sheer will to stay diverse.
205 - Wheat Wars
Top Crop: Season 2
The Fites / Manns start planting and check some early planted wheat. From planting to harvest, farmers must face the challenges of unpredictable weather, pests, and timing to produce the highest yield. Hedrick visits the lab and gets a visit from AgX.
206 - Green Thumbs, Red Face
Top Crop: Season 2
Atley dances while Luepkes does some tissue tests with Brad, the agronomist.
207 - Rice and Shine
Top Crop: Season 2
In this water-heavy episode, Galloway takes a closer look at rice farming. Timing, irrigation, and soil management all play a critical role in this episode as he works towards a profitable rice crop. Hedrick takes a look at some corn and tests the new soil probe with some special guests
208 - Grain To Glory
Top Crop: Season 2
It’s all about knowing what the crop is doing on a nutrient level. Whether it’s wheat, corn, or soybeans, Dan closely monitors the crop in order to know how to feed it. Atley gets a visit from AgX and sends the airplanes to the fields.
109 - Weathering The Storm
Top Crop: Season 1
Shelby Fite gets a visit from Gunther of AgXplore and they walk some bean and corn fields to check health of the crop before spraying. Dan walks double crop corn and talks about a relay cropping trial that he is trying out.
110 - Sun, Soil Success
Top Crop: Season 1
Cory gets a visit from Troy Putnam of Pioneer seed to talk a wide variety of hybrid trials being done at Atley Farms. Troy gives a talk about tar spot to a local field day. Russell walks some dried up corn and talks about the floods that hit hard this year. He also checks some early ears plus gives some useful tips and reveals a secret about nickel-sulfate for soybeans.
111 - A Tile of Two Fields
Top Crop: Season 1
Shelby and Ethan talk combine maintenance before harvest and head to the fields for some fall tiling with their new tile plow. Shelby also takes a look at some beans to see how they are coming along. Troy Putnam is talking tar spot and more at a field day with Cory Atley. We hear from a BASF rep at Farm Progress show. Russell Hedrick reveals the Top Crop Soil Challenge for any farmer to participate in.
112 - Cornicopia Chronicles
Top Crop: Season 1
Cory Atley gets a visit from a new company with some yellow tillage equipment and gives a year end review of the crops from the combine. It has been quite a year.
113 - Harvest Hustle
Top Crop: Season 1
Dan Luepkes is in the combine talking about what he is trying and learning this year. He has some great words of advice for those that listen. Dan also walks a bean field and talks more about his double cropped twin row and how it did so far this year.
114 - Market Matters
Top Crop: Season 1
Shelby Fite is giving a year end review from the bean fields. Ethan gives us an inside look and more intel on how things are going at the end of the year. He also gets a special visit from the tire company CEAT and they talk about some SprayMax tires for his sprayer. Shelby gives more review from the grain cart and talks about what she is learning.