Railey Silhan

I finished a 30 day carnivore diet on Sunday! 🥩 3 days off, and I already feel gross. It’s been very eye opening for how good I felt while consuming only animal based foods. I’m definitely a believer and will be getting back on it! Worth a try if you’ve been considering it.

@OGTCHedger We’re going to get a good rain sooner or later in Cochran county. Yesterday was just a tease

WTX 24 hour Precipitation Map. Reasonable coverage, good totals (for some). Good enough to get the cotton crop started (maybe). Much, much more will be needed this summer. Long ways from making a crop.

@TheeGrainLady This app hasn’t been as fun since all of the click bait and random low quality content started flooding the algorithm. I think it’s pushed a lot of Ag Twitter off the app. I know it has turned me of from scrolling and engaging like I used

When did AgTwitter/AgX start sucking? I have a theory; It's when we stopped respecting the other side of the trade. I'll poke a little fun at my friends for having a different opinion on markets, but some of ya'll are ruthless. And heaven forbid someone ask a question!

Allsup’s corndogs should not taste as good as they do!

@therealbiztang @steveconaway1 One of these days I’m coming down to wrangle a few kangaroos with you!

@RaileyKayBrown @steveconaway1 Like me I’m trying to chase 150BPA or (10t/ha wheat for us Mertic ppl) on dry land, best I’ve achieved is 130BPA

Stop chasing yield and start chasing profit. Too many farmers are still focused on yield yield yield this year instead of whether or not they’re over using inputs in order to have the bigger looking crop against their neighbor.

@OrinRomine @scottwestacre @jacob_silhan But I’m seeing a lot of farmers not thinking that way in our area. There’s always a balance of where the return will end and at some point you can’t out produce the environment you’re given by Mother Nature. Maybe the corn belt has more room to push yield with their bottom dollar

@OrinRomine @scottwestacre @jacob_silhan I could be completely wrong, but being half dry land acres and less than 2 inches of rain YTD I have a hard time finding justification for dumping multiple fertilizer apps, high $ seed, etc into the field when lack of rain is going to be the biggest hinder to upward yld potential

@korngrower It’s obviously a balance

@RaileyKayBrown You know what gets cheaper with higher yield? Cost of production. Does it the planter cost more to plant 100 or 200 bu corn? Does herbicide get more expensive on one or the other? All those things get cheaper with more bushels. Your sentiment is accurate, but misses some things

@stationmum101 Maybe not the sole or direct affect on fertility by itself, but I think it generally has negatively influenced socialization in young adults + dating/marriage culture which does eventually trickle down into fertility rates.

Correlation ≠ Causation

@steveconaway1 That’s so cool y’all are open enough to compare numbers like that!

I have a college buddy in Ohio who absolutely pushes his yield potential trying to get a “record” yield. He babies his corn, doing everything right, biologicals, numerous timely fertilizer passes, tissue sampling, etc. He is trying to hit 400 bushel yield average over several acres, mostly to price to himself it can be done. We compared numbers once and his profitably per acre would be the equivalent of conventionally managed 140-150ish bushel corn “here”. Which is a very realistic yield potential for dryland corn for the area most years. That’s not even accounting for all his additional time/labor managing it, just inputs and production costs. Decreasing marginal returns happens earlier than many may think…

@GHarvester1 I can get down with that!

@RaileyKayBrown Stop chasing yield or profit and start chasing wealth

@bwhite70 I feel that 😵‍💫. We can’t out produce our environment which was kind of my original thought when I typed this

@RaileyKayBrown For some reason my limiting resource 99% of the time H2O🤔

@OrinRomine @scottwestacre Don’t tell them anything, pull up next to them in a brand new truck instead 🤣 kidding

@RaileyKayBrown @scottwestacre But,.. buuttt, what will I tell my buddies to make them know I’m the best farmer in the county?? 🤣

@BradySchro Yes! There’s a balance but some farmers are still missing the forest for the tree

@RaileyKayBrown The best farmers push revenue. There is of course a law of diminishing returns which I think you’re referring too. But farmers need to continue to push revenue through yield and RM. The top 50% of producers manage cost… But the top 10% increase revenue AND manage cost.

@APS56 @scottwestacre Exactly! There is always a point on a farm where the cost of that extra fertilizer application, pesticide, etc may outweigh the value of any yield gain from it.

@RaileyKayBrown @scottwestacre Law of diminishing returns!

@KsStockton Fixed costs are obviously a must for consideration, but if you’re not calculating how much potential ROI each input decision actually makes you vs just chasing a potential higher yield you’re flying blind with your breakeven.

@RaileyKayBrown Largest line item you will have is your fixed costs. If you're leaving yield on the table, you're limiting yourself in paying for your overhead. Period.

@Godfather_530 There are a lot of things farmers can do to stay in business before going to the unrealistic thought process that we all must simultaneously plant less acres in order to ‘survive’

@RaileyKayBrown The problem is the answer is to plant less acres so supply drops but which farmer is going to do that?

@LDAMAX1 Terrible conditions. I looked up our local YTD rainfall the other day and we were at 1.57

The south plains of Texas is in severe drought, and it’s the middle of planting season. Desperately need rain to germinate seed. The last two days have had storms develop and move across. Each had more sand, wind than sprinkles. Just shows how dry the area is. It’s critical!

@QShieldknight Thomas Massie has turned into such a disappointment and clown

WE HAVE ROUNDUP FREE WHEAT. 37 years I’ve been around our farm and not one time was roundup applied and then the grain harvested.