Ryan Heiniger

My wife is now 4 for 4 hitting deer with every vehicle she has owned since we've been married

@PetersenFarms Funny how tillage tuesday crowd gets kinda quiet this time of year. Weird.

Need more of them #BlackDirtMafia posts to see the tillage in action ❤️ #agroneverstops 🌽🇺🇸🌽🇺🇸

There’s just nothing we can do in this former prairie that receives 36”+ of rainfall. It’s just farming. You’re just going to have to deal with it. It’s just a few days a year. It’s just a little dust. We are feeding the world dontcha know. This is satire, for clarity. I can’t even think of anymore fake things to say, much less real things.

There is no excuse for those fans running on a day like today and blowing all that dust around. And they claim to be green energy. Wonder what power company that is?

Must be the urban lawns and golf courses...those sand traps get worked like 3x a day with zero residue left.

@deutmeyer_troy Curious Troy if you see any diff in crusting between full tillage, min till, no till and covers?

Hoe before your know!!! Battle cry for saving corn seedlings BEFORE crust gets impenetrable. Stopped by a few of the rare fields that have been planted. Most had numerous hard pounding rains on them. Significant crust has formed and with near 80 degree's and wind coming, crust will only thicken. My "pointy" finger rule. If you have a hard time pushing your index finger thru the soil surface, coleoptile will likely not penetrate it either. If any concern at all.... rotary hoe now rather than "giving it a couple days".. If you have corn fields planted prior to the rain... recommend checking!

Neighbor planting green with old school cool iron #plant26

@TaylorRMarshall You can still do this, all of this, in a small town

I'm watching the film “Sandlot” with our kids and just realized that the film’s version of America with baseball, public pools, county fair, block parties, etc is almost extinct.

@JoeAilts It is for sale, not on sale. I know what I have and what your dreams are made of

@FarmrHuntr This is on my short list for a crop scouting cruiser and giant pumpkin hauler

Do you tip your seed guy if he delivers you seed in this rig?

If you're a landowner, and your land is being targeted by any entity, whether state/local/energy company, etc...Fill out a detailed report at USDA.Gov/lawfare There is a team looking at every report to determine what can be done. We must protect American farm/ranch land.

Weather underground is predicting this will be the coldest May in 15 years.

@rclaypool56 @SamaHoole Obviously...I just always laugh when anybody suggests a whitetail deer (or other game) in the Midwest is organic and pure as if they aren't munching on corn/soy the same way a pig in a CAFO is...just not thru a grinder.

@FarmrHuntr @SamaHoole Really anything they want, they can jump a fence to whatever they desire!

The American deer camp was, between approximately 1880 and 1990, the autumn ritual of every rural family in the upper Midwest, the Northeast, and the Appalachians. A cabin in the woods. Three or four men, three generations sometimes, who got there on the Friday before opening day, lit the wood stove, drank coffee that had been on the burner since 4am, played cards, told the same stories they had told the year before, and went out at first light on Saturday with rifles their grandfathers had owned. A buck taken cleanly with one shot. Field-dressed in the snow. Hung in the woodshed. Butchered the next weekend in the garage with the family. Forty pounds of venison in the chest freezer. Steaks for the winter. Sausage made by the grandfather with a recipe nobody had written down. A roast for Thanksgiving. The hide tanned and turned into mittens for the youngest grandson. The deer was free. The freezer was full. The boys learned to shoot, to clean a rifle, to gut an animal, to butcher it, to thank the woods for the deer, to be quiet for hours at dawn in the cold and notice things. Roughly 14 million Americans hunted in 1980. By 2020 that number was 11.5 million, and the average hunter age had risen from 35 to 51. The next generation is not coming up. Suburbanization removed the woods from the back door. Liability fears closed private lands. Public hunting access shrank. Time pressure on working families killed the long weekend at camp. The cultural drift made hunting socially suspect, then unfashionable, then, in some quarters, taboo. The number of American teenagers who have ever fired a rifle, gutted an animal, or watched their grandfather butcher a deer in the garage on a November Sunday afternoon is, in 2026, statistically vanishing. The freezer that used to be full of free, lean, grass-fed wild protein is full of ground beef from a Smithfield CAFO in Iowa. The skill is one generation deep. If the grandfather did not pass it to the father, and the father did not pass it to the son, the chain is broken. YouTube is, at the moment, where the few remaining young hunters are getting most of their training. A small American tradition that fed families for a century, taught a sequence of practical and moral lessons no textbook can replace, and connected three generations to the land their ancestors lived on, is closing down quietly, camp by camp, season by season. The cabin is still there. The stove still works. The buck is still in the woods. The grandfather is in the cemetery on the hill above the cabin. He cannot take the boy himself. Somebody else has to.

@bandedagllc @agrimodis @ChrisK_Banded Good data What species and what was average termination height? Cc @JoeAilts

If you grow cover crops and are interested in just what is being brought up through the system, here are what my values are for cycling through the cover crops. This was accomplished in a very easy test through @agrimodis. @ChrisK_Banded

Precisely same logic as seatbelts and airbags. Don't need the armor, until you do.

@AdamLasch1 Can't manage what you do measure and can't put soil fertility on balance sheet and not really on P&L either

I really don't understand this....... Are these the same guys who say they can't afford fertilizer but are more than happy to watch soil blow or erode into the waterways from land that is valued at all time highs? Seems counter intuitive.

Hey @SteaknShake in case you need to reverse course 👇

Is dessicating oats common?

@ZachLahn Thanks for the reply and more detail. On organic, are you full tillage, min or no till? As I'm sure you know organic does not equal regen ag, esp if the soil health principles aren't applied. Glad you are adding livestock...this is a national security item and main street too.

Correct. We grow corn, soybeans, oats, and alfalfa. All of our acres are either organic or transitioning to organic. It’s a process as I’m sure you know. We are moving more acres into pasture for rotationally grazed beef and will continue to increase that share for a number of years. We used no synthetic products. Just chicken litter and hog manure. We own our acres.

Listened to @ZachLahn on @ShawnRyan762 podcast on round trip to sale barn this morning. A few thoughts and questions for you. First, for the love of all things, please don't refer to Iowans as "my people". Save that for your family. Full stop. 1/

Leaving to see country isn't bad. I was surprised to hear your statement early about it is impossible for young people to farm. Hard, hell yes. Not impossible. Last but not least, do you eat @caseysgenstore pizza and if so, what score do you give? Hope to hear back from you.

On the non-organic acres, do you use any synthetic pesticides? If so, which ones? Switching gears. Losing young people. Didn't you leave the state for a bit? I did for 15 years and moved home in 2013. Would encourage you to add message for people to move back & raise family. 3/