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Innovating for Farmers: Building on Legacy at Vylor
Please send us your feedback on the podcast: agriscience-explained@vylor.com In this episode, we look back on the past 100 years, and highlight what will carry over i...
Persistence and Creativity: Unique insights behind herbicide development
Dr. Carla Yerkes joins us to help us tell the story of Rinskor and explain the process of herbicide innovation and the persistence and creativity it takes to develop n...
Precision Unlocks Future Potential: The History and Science of Genome Editing
What is happening in agriscience today that we will be talking about 100 years from now? While it’s impossible to answer that question with certainty, there is a techn...
Making Molecules to Meet Farmer Needs: The Story of Inatreq™ Active
In today’s episode, we’re following a molecule around the world, from being discovered in Japan to being developed in the United States to becoming a solution for farm...
Hybrids Outperform: The History and Science of Hybridization
We celebrate the 100th year anniversary of Pioneer Seeds, and take a look back at the history of hybridization. The process may seem simple: to take two varieties or e...
Farming the Details: Resilience in Soybean Performance
What does it take to break the world soybean yield record? Today we talk to soybean yield record-holder Alex Harrell and soybean breeder Don Kyle. Alex farms in southw...
Plenish in the Ration: Feeding Cows and Communities
In today's episode, we explore how agriscience has created a more valuable soybean. A soybean that gets the farmer more money, a dairy farm who buys it more profit, an...
United Against Corn Rootworm
On today’s episode we uncover some critical details about one of the most destructive and adaptable insect pests in corn: corn rootworm. It has been referred to as the...
Ag Innovation Begins on the Farm
On today’s episode, we celebrate the end of our first full year of the podcast by taking a look back at some previous episodes in order to take a look forward into the...
Southern Rust Surprises the North
On today's episode: Why did we see so much southern rust in the 2025 corn crop? We talk about this foliar disease, where it comes from, the impact it had on the crop ...
Stewarding the Future
Today’s episode dives deep into creating a comprehensive and integrated approach to weed management. Agriscience has proven that we can make effective products, but ca...
From Rum to Revolution: How Spinosyns Changed Pest Control
One scientist's vacation 30 years ago is a big reason why you don’t end up with caterpillars in your lettuce today. The class of chemistry derived from this remarkable...
Using Biology To Protect Your Most Valuable Asset
Termites are not typically considered an agricultural pest, but they are a great example of how science, in particular biology, can be used to create better pest manag...
The Recipe for Protecting Seed Potential
On today’s episode we explore the incredible power of seed applied technology. Seed treatments are incredible tools that help protect the seed and seedling plant in th...
Discovering Tomorrow’s Biotech Traits
On today’s episode, what goes into the traits farmers can purchase with their seed? How are these traits found, developed and ultimately packaged into crop genetics? ...
Unlocking Agriscience Innovation
In today’s episode, we sat down with farmer and podcaster Corey Hillebo and Corteva Agriscience chief technology and digital officer Sam Eathington. Hillebo and Eathin...
Science, Sustainability and the Art of Farming
In today’s episode: agriscience versus nature. The ability to farm land productively and profitably requires that farmers bend nature to their will on some level. But ...
Revolutionary Plant Breeding: Breakthrough Unlocks Hybrid Wheat
In today's episode, the challenge and opportunity of hybrid wheat. We've discussed previously how much hybrid corn has increased corn yields over the past century. Wh...
Crucial Conversations About Biologicals in Agriculture
In today’s episode, we start to unpack the category of biologicals. Are biological products ready for prime time on the farm, or still struggling to prove their return...
Fueling Growth in Winter Canola
In this episode, what would a truly renewable biofuel look like? Well, the feedstock would have to come from a crop that is productive, profitable, and resilient to gr...