Chris Von Holten

@Cornfrmr My LDL is 110, HDL 55 and Triglycerides 121 and my doc recommended start on a statin 3 months ago again. Sitting here with bad muscle cramp from the statin had the same cramp 2 years ago and quit taking them then. Done with them again this time and probably the doc too.

Checked cholesterol today. The last check was 6 weeks ago. LDL down 20 points to 119 HDL up 24 points to 96 Triglycerides up 13 points to 59 The only change I made was, I ate a lot of sardines during planting. 🤷‍♂️

@MaxROIFarmer Sunn hemp has a hick of a woody stem after it’s dead can play havoc with spicked row cleaners

Anybody planted Faba beans or sunn hemp as a companion crop in corn?

@dmblack55 This, this or this?

Today's treasure find. Kinda of boring

Get the call. Mount up. Seed production field prep.

@panotiller 140k on beans and 800k on twin row wheat. Beans survived 2 frosty mornings

#relaycropping. 130k on beans 1.2 million on wheat... I could call both of these 50% stands from "Recommendations from seed company's "

@Bkitch1Bodie Deleted ours on corn planter in late 1990 and bean planter 10 years ago.

Our corn planter has had no til coulters on it its entire life. I’d like to have row cleaners but not yet. I took the no til coulters off and so far on the 184ac of corn on corn I have in the ground I have way less hair pinned residue in seed trench then when I had the coulters

@MaxROIFarmer Went away from spiked row cleaners and closing wheels after having to clean out every one after planting in heavy cover.

Plant green guys , have you studied row cleaners vs no for emergence etc?

@FoulkShay Hopefully not the line that needs the cab to come off to repair. Shop in town fixed one by snaking a hydraulic hose under the cab.

That’s hydraulic fluid.

@FoulkShay That a Status measuring cup your using to drink out of. Wife caught me doing that with new one and she told me no more. She said what if kids grab a used one she had valid point.

Spray day. My wife hates the mustache and she will definitely not like this video but I am glad she loves me

Wheat/beans planted. #relay #soybeans #plant26

@MaxROIFarmer Luckily all my tanks are full of dyed or road from late January. Hopefully fuel prices settles down by the time they need filled.

$5.30 road diesel will add a few cents to grain shipping cost

@JasonHanson2028 @jasonmauck1 Sickle mower works great first mowing not so good after that. Cut off grass will just bunch up as sickle tries to cut it.

Question small farm folks: Will be setting up similar 60” strips this spring for summer annuals. Plan is to plant native grass strips in the middle of two annual flower/vegetable strips, and cut those grasses periodically using either a sickle bar or a flail mower (haven’t decided on which yet) - which is my question. Would you prefer to mulch with tall grass cuttings post-sickle, or take up the flail cuttings, which will also break down faster when applied on the other rows? Or are we best doing both at some point (which means more equipment). This chop-n-drop method will to set up to use green mulch on our rows, with all the benefits mulching provides. The simple concept is 1/3 of the land feeding the other 2/3 while our chicken tractors will be servicing the grass strips between during the season and on the rows over winter. Combined with biochar and compost applicatoon starting this fall, I think this system can work well out here in eastern NC, especially in our sandy soils. Thoughts?

@bigaljack Would rather have hailed off corn at that stage than frosted off corn. Will be hard for growing point to push through those leaves.

It was 95 degrees on Sunday. Tuesday morning, freeze. Back in mid 90s by the weekend.

@CanadianCowMan That video brings back memories. I was turning left with planter in a left turn lane and a semi passed me on the left. Scared the 💩 out of me .

This is why I will merge into the left lane if safe to do so when I turn left with farm equipment so people don’t try to pass me when I’m half way thru a turn.

@gwiesefarms @MaxROIFarmer Blackhawk East got a Ag production associate’s degree made a lot friends and learned a little too.

Did anyone attend an ag university and feel they actually learned what they needed to to be successful on the farm? If so, which college and what course or degree?

@MaxROIFarmer Singleton’s has excellent seafood and it’s right next to the ferry that crosses St. John’s river.

Anybody have some “must do” things in the Jacksonville Florida area? Headed down this week and have most of a day open. Military museums, beaches, sights?

@thefarmerslife Had a neighbor in the 80’s producing his own ethanol in bulk milk tank. He used it in all fuel 2 cylinder tractor for about a year till it burned the valves out. That ended that experiment.

Should this be a bigger story than the 540hp tractor?

@Bkitch1Bodie I remember that age would take son along on whatever runs to keep me awake.

Got the new elevator manager trained today! Pros: works cheap. Says he’s having a blast. Just need snacks for labor exchange Cons: he can’t have any silence. Wouldn’t have it any other way!

@sf28430 Only if there would ever be livestock in that field is what my grandfather told me.

Those of you that do a fair amount of trap shooting over the same corn/bean field.. any affects to the crop? Or it this just an old wives tale

@Bkitch1Bodie No only what the soil provides. My trial had 20 lbs N down with planter and 125 side dress. 0 rate was 185, 125 - 262, 105- 258

@4010chris Doing anything foliar when you back the soil N down further

Worked on fine tuning fertility plan over the weekend & making some tweaks. We cut 45# of soil applied N out of our program last year, and looking at trying to take some more. Yields were strong & soils responded well with big improvements in our Weoc & plant available nutrients