Dusty Kieffer

Farmer here. 100% grass fed is unnecessarily boutique and wastefully luxurious. A 100% grass fed beef tasted like a starved 5 year old deer. Gamey, dry and tough. Plus, it takes a pile of additional time to finish the animal. Most importantly - it’s not healthier for the animal. We tried 100% grass fed sheep. The ewes were unhealthy, we lost several moms during lambing and the lambs were poorly developed. Grass feed and pasture the animals. Absolutely. 100%. But they need to be carefully and thoughtfully supplemented with grain. We use non-GMO milo and barley that we grow right on our own operation plus field peas for protein. This cancerous unicorn of a bar that’s being set of 100% grass fed or nothing is hurting the animals, hurting the farmer and isn’t getting the consumer any improved health benefits.

The marketing term, "Grass-fed", is fairly meaningless now days. Kerrygold butter was recently unsuccessfully sued for not disclosing that their grass-fed cows also ate grains. It's not a lie. It's just not the complete truth. Opt for 100% grass-fed or grass-fed/grass-finished if you want the real deal. "Grass-fed" by itself, is just noise. Source: parkerpasturesgrassfed (IG)

I’m getting more interested in humic acid. But what’s bonkers is I can buy totes of raw, dry humic for about $0.60/lb-humic. Nutrien and Helena sell humic solution for $8-10/lb-humic. There’s an insane margin there. You’re buying water. PGR is the same situation. PGR in a jug is mostly water. The active ingredients literally cost pennies per acre. Yet, the product costs the farmer $5-12/ac. We’re getting bent over a barrel.

Have you noticed the only ones promoting and pushing biologicals and magic nitrogen are the ones selling the VooDo potions.

@FarmChicJodi Zucchini. You can’t screw up zucchini.

Seeing all these folks that want to garden. Couple of things to start with: 1. Soil test. Know what your soil needs . 2. Amend the pH 3. Use proven seeds 4. Grow easy veggies the first year. 5.Have a plan to deal with weeds and bugs.

Good bye farm pond for spray water. We drilled a well this week. Hit some strong water at 80 gallon per minute. Next step is finding out the pH. Water looks dirty here because the drill is working.

Reason #42 to lift at home: Your kids see you lift.

This will be epic

@Whale_Guru I call fear mongering bullshit on this. It’s March 21. Planting is but 3-6 weeks way. There’s zero chance 25% of operators haven’t done anything related to buying fertilizer.

@gwiesefarms 100% grain. Recently expanded it from 12 months.

@DustinKieffer That’s great. Are you 100% livestock? Why 18 months?

While Working Capital ratios are the most important to me, you shouldn’t track them daily. Depending on the time of the year, your WC will shrink as expenses pile up without anything to show for those expenses yet (think before harvest for a row crop operation or before calving season, you don’t have much to show for your work on the balance sheet). Farmers need to do an annual balance sheet. They could do a quarterly one to keep an eye on things but anything more than that isn’t helpful. If you want to track something daily, it should be on your cash flow. Keep all expenses updated and make adjustments to yield/price potential as you move through the season. This ideally would include the living expenses as well. If you are in the cash flow statement every day, and being active to improve the bottom line margin, it would be hard to not make a profit every year.

Shawn Ryan Show talking big ag. Excellent!

Zach Lahn Official Preview “Right now there’s three big companies that control 85% of the agriculture input market. When I was growing up in Iowa, there were over 300 companies. They’ve bought up and bought up and consolidated and sold it this way. Farmers have the illusion of choice. And one of those companies is called Syngenta, which is 100% owned by the state of China.” @ZachLahn

@gwiesefarms @Farm4ProfitLLC The plain sect are pretty handy at buying ground, too.

Experienced commercial property and business owners in cities have many creative ways to buy and finance real estate. They can out maneuver 99% of farmers when it comes to buying properties if they choose. Study commercial real estate transactions and you can find new ways to buy farm ground.

Everyone says land is “too high.” But it keeps selling. The truth? There’s still more money chasing acres than acres available. Where do we go from here? How do we play chess when everyone else is playing checkers?

@TSmith1867 I was trying to see how may puns I could fit in one reply. Brush up your dad jokes. 😉

@DustinKieffer Nope. This is from a great industrial supply shop in my small town. They have an incredible stock, usually have what I need and dont charge afterhours if I need a hyd hose made up Sunday evening.

This cost over $50.00.. 🫠💸

@DrDRD21 @gaughen Exactly. The article and fear mongering makes people think their pomegranates were sprayed with Gramoxone. There’s no evidence that the tree pulls paraquat up from the soil and translocates it into the fruit.

@DustinKieffer @gaughen Paraquat is used for weed control in orchards, not on the fruit trees themselves

This is peak ignorance and fear baiting. Paraquat sprayed on pomegranate trees would kill them.

@LucasBotkin @Tekeee The Chicago Mercantile Exchange needs a futures contract for 556 NATO

@Tekeee Weapons. Lots of weapons.

Gold is crashing. Silver is crashing. Crypto is crashing. Stocks are crashing. The dollar is crashing. Real talk what should we buy now?

@corn_porkNbeans It’s not for the faint of heart

Nobody tells you this about farming: You can nail the agronomy, the method, the purchasing the marketing, the timing, the whole plan…and it can all be ripped away from so many factors outside of your control. That alone is a mind fvck.

@GlyphosateGirl Show operators a profitable market and they’ll educate themselves pretty quickly on how to get it done. We don’t need extension agents telling us how to plant cover crop.

@DustinKieffer One of several issues is that the price of educational programs for farmers is astronomical. We need the education piece funded so that the farmers can respond to the demand that we hopefully create on the market side.

If we put several billion into regenerative ag, the chemical treadmill would stop and we wouldn’t be killing ourselves. This call is extremely ill-informed. Continuing to double down on pesticides, which the pests will become resistant to, to further destroy natural resistance and human health, is America last.

@AlpacaAurelius Hearing that makes me want to leave farming and pursue farming. It sounds so easy.

The year is 2035. You wake up in your brand new country you started by crowdfunding 1000 acres with health nuts you met on the internet. Everything went to shit in the mainland around 2026, and you escaped just in time. Now you wake up to raw milk on your front doorstep, steak and eggs for breakfast, cows mooing in your backyard, and your kids getting homeschooled with other like minded families. News? The only news is your 4th kid on the way. Time to sun your genitals. Life is good.