Carl Peterson

@ryanfromfargo Good information, good approach. One gap: Every field is different, but also each year is different. So farm data needs to cover multiple years. And multiple hybrids per environment. Very difficult to generate at a single farm scale.

Dropping a white paper on seed variety performance. Variety yield reports are just fancy pivot tables and miss getting deeper on intricate associations. acrealmanac.com/white-papers

For you? Of course! And only the best—you’ve three kids in college!

You first!

Our fearless leader and GM, Scott Sanders, is attending the Independent Professional Seed Association's annual meeting this week as he wraps up his year as association president. For us, @IndieProSeed is about sharing ideas, strengthening our industry and turning collaboration into better products, smarter decisions and more bushels for growers.

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This is from a while back, but still relevant...

@sanegrain Frosting looks a little thicker in the lower right hand corner…

@bmreadel @SarahLovas1 @weedgirl24 @ktangen19 But do you fall into the degeneracy of Nutella on lefse? Like a gateway to all kinds of bad culinary behavior…

@PFSCarl @SarahLovas1 @weedgirl24 @ktangen19 I don’t understand any of it!

May the 4th be with you. (And the Lutheran in me wants to say, “and also with you.”)

@SarahLovas1 @weedgirl24 @bmreadel @ktangen19 That is a sacrilege! This needs to be made with cinnamon swirl bread! That, I think, is in the scriptures!

@weedgirl24 @bmreadel @ktangen19 It takes a truly sophisticated pallet (or something). Here’s the recipe. Take half a bun, spread cheez-wiz on the top. Then decide if you want 1 slice of green olive on top. But just one. With or without said olive is appropriate, but the olive is highly debated.

@blonglet Or maybe these two?

Trying to find 1 inch bore sprockets in fargo and no one has anything. Grainger and motion industries dont have anything in stock. Who else carries sprockets in Fargo?

@bmreadel Well, just looking at me, you can tell I am not real fussy about what I eat! And your reputation is pretty spectacular in food as well as agronomy!

@PFSCarl Any requests?

When someone retires from canning, their jars come to my house

@AdamSpelhaug That’s one way to empty out the buddy seat!

New tractor snack

@AdamSpelhaug @brim006 Online classes were not even thought up yet! And maybe "attend" was a poor choice of words.

@PFSCarl @brim006 Didn’t think you attend online classes…😆

In order, where have you lived? Fargo, ND (Born) Devils Lake, ND Crookston, MN Cando, ND Devils Lake, ND Grand Forks, ND Bismarck, ND (Baldwin, ND)

@AdamSpelhaug @brim006 Just stayed there while attending one of the world's premier agricultural universities. Didn't "live" there. Residency remained at Prosper!

@PFSCarl @brim006 Ames?

@AdamSpelhaug @brim006 Prosper, ND Prosper, ND Prosper, ND Prosper, ND Have I lived in Prosper my whole life? Not yet...

@brim006 Kindred, ND Fargo, ND (NDSU) Grandin, ND Casselton, ND Lincoln, ND Kindred, ND Davenport, ND Kindred, ND

@untappedgrowth Systematic fragility…good grief. Look at the chart, nearly linear improvement. Burning up the soil and farming elswhere? Where are you from, the 1600s? There hasn’t been a somewhere else in the US for a century! Which, BTW, is how long my family has been farming my home farm!

@untappedgrowth What-a-boutism! A never ending game! Fuel, capital, maintenance. Yes. Negative externalities. By the environment is getting cleaner. Don’t forget positive externalities. Cheap, safe, and abundant food. Millions of people released from backbreaking labor.

Does it measure fuel as an input? Capital cost of equipment and maintenance? Price of negative externalities created? What about systemic fragility or systems resilience? Are we measuring that?

@trapdoor1873 @NickHorob Proving the point. Labor use declined by 74%! The labor employed is better paid to do easier work! Looks like an incredible success story to me! And yes, we can, should, and will continue to improve our use of resources. But the whole "agriculture is broken" message is bunk!

@trapdoor1873 @NickHorob That is a great chart! But important to note that this is absolute terms, not per unit of production. So while intermediate inputs have increased (fertilizer, pesticides, purchased services by 126%), land use declined 28%. And output more than tripled--from the original chart.

In the past 76 years, American farmers have tripled production while using about the same inputs--meaning that inputs per unit of production are about 33% of 1948. Lots of talk about sustainable agriculture. This looks pretty sustainable to me! And we will continue to improve!