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@TamithaSkov Absolutely incredible in central nebraska

Indiana weather cams are reporting #aurora high in the sky during this ongoing #solarstorm! Definitely watch your #GPS reception if you are a precision #farmer and working in the fields this week. Tha ks for reporting!

@Amer1can_Barbie Apparently they are migrating down already? That is my favorite road in the area. I don’t live there but visit often and always go straight up to the lake when I get there to look for elk and deer

A story in 3 parts ❤️ I live in the most magical place…

@Dusty42402999 Looks like that one might double as a chicken plucker

@TheNextSummitA1 Lake Isabelle via Pawnee Pass.

You have one weekend to hike in Colorado—what’s the one trail you’d recommend? 🤔🏔️ #BestHikes #ColoradoAdventure

@zoerbfarms Those were about a week from being a supposed delicacy.

Cat scared Dog, dog took out leg on table. Down went 60 heifers in the hatch. I don’t think I will financially recover, thinking of starting a Go fund me.

@ChrisK_Banded Highly encourage everyone to visit the exhibit in Kansas City. The preservation of the artifacts is amazing.

In 1988, Bob Hawley unearthed a 171' long paddle wheeler named the Arabia. She was found a half mile from the Missouri River, 45 feet below the surface of land used for growing corn, wheat, and soybeans for decades. The steamer sank 132 years earlier, in 1856. Coincidentally, the plow also came into increased use in the mid-1800s, notably John Deere's moldboard plow in the 1830s. Once could argue that widespread soil disturbance likely caused increased erosion, potentially enough to move rivers and bury steamships. After all, we're constantly hearing of significant topsoil losses per year from poor land management practices. For examples, search X posts for "snirt." I won't get into the mathematical funny-business around quantifying wind erosion losses here, but you might run across some of my past thoughts in your search. So, plow patented in 1830s. Boat sank 1850s and buried under soil by nature's forces. Keep in mind that the Sante Fe Trail was widened for wagons in the 1820s. The Platte Purchase and Trail of Tears occurred in the 1830s. Dred Scott occurred in 1857. The Civil War shortly followed. Railroads expanded. Industry expanded. Steel shortages during the world wars occurred. Remember, we're not talking about Big Ag machines. Lots of single plows, horses, oxen, mules, donkeys, open cab tractors. In the attached photo of the Arabia location, the rectangle represents the half-mile distance from the river at 171-ft wide (the length of the ship). How much soil was moved since 1856? 0.5-miles x 171-ft x 45-ft deep = nearly 168 million cubic feet of soil, or approx 15.4 billion pounds of soil. If you think of it in terms of 6" acre-slices of topsoil, it would take 7,695 acres of soil to represent this quantity. Per year, that's an average of 60.6 tons of soil, and this is just the rectangle between the boat's "found" location and the river. There's lots more deposited soil there if you look at the map. What's the point? Rivers meander, right? Yes. Silt and sediment come from the riverbanks, flood zones, riverbed, etc. Wind is part of it. Rain is part of it. Loose soil can exacerbate it. BUT, erosion is a natural process. If you do something to a large portion of land and natural forces punish you (or others), it may have been preventable, but personally, I don't know any farmers intentionally destroying productive acres by encouraging erosional forces, but maybe I'm just lucky. I know WAY MORE farmers who have turned land largely unfit for farming into productive acres. The Arabia example is interesting to me because I doubt agriculture or "soil stewardship" had anything at all to do with this soil movement. While some may love that to be the case, especially those who say we're losing our topsoil by tons per year, or some other dire warning of impending doom, Arabia was buried by 60.6 acres (at 6") of soil EVERY YEAR for 132 years to be found where it was found. To find 1-2 tons of dirt in a ditch next to a field, with no clear understanding of the source size or time period of deposition, in no way can be significant compared to even one small area of observable, quantifiable soil deposition. 2T in a ditch represents 1/2,000 of an acre slice. Even if it occurs every year, the deposition that buried the Arabia is at a magnitude of 30,000 times "SNIRT" findings annually. And that's only if the soil all came from 1 acre. Likely, it was deposited from many acres over a prolonged period, making the magnitude much, much higher potentially. I don't know who created the "zero tolerance" thought process regarding erosion in agriculture. Again, I'm not saying erosion is positive, but it is natural. I live in an area of karst topography and gullies, hills, & creeks. These erode. Grass lawns erode and compact. Concrete and asphalt streets and sidewalks erode. Why do people think that vast, open areas used for agriculture should not? AGAIN!!>> If you create a large erosion event, that's on you and you'll be dealing with those you impact. We (people in general) should not be careless, but at the same time, we (people in general) should attempt to understand the signficance (or lack thereof) of our actions. A well-thought out understanding of the severity of identified erosion problems on a farm is quite logical. If it is identified, strategies can be selected to combat the problem. Grass waterways, terraces, ditching, levees, alternate tillage, cover crops, controlled traffic, blah blah blah. Enough companies, university extensions, NRCS, YouTubers, magazines, and others have pushed these concepts for long enough that I'd say most farmers would say "Got It" if asked if they needed more info. If the zero-erosion lobbyists keep pushing their opinions and agendas via insults to the industry at large, farmers' responses to them likely won't stop at "Got It." How do you seriously expect to be listened to if you're demonizing your audience? Special interest groups think they're loud when they're all together yelling into an echo chamber. Anyway, here's a summary: A boat sank. A river moved. Several hundred acres of 50ft deep land was formed in a small area within 130 years. Today, people are freaking out over tiny losses. It's not lost. It's moved. Your decisions might make those movements extreme. Limit that to your best ability, but it's still going to move. If someone is yelling at you online for erosion, they're likely a lobbyist benefiting from grant money or feeling powerful from an affiliation. Or they're just nuts. Good day. #SNIRT #stewards @bandedagllc @RyanPriest11974

@RampCapitalLLC $haggin wagon

If you had a $10M net worth would you spend $5k on a 2003 Astro Van?

@LEAADFarms Same

I’ll take one ship one to Nebraska

@stormchasrbryce @JayPraterKAKE @NWSWichita 68361 as well

Wow, an incredible sunset tonight. 📍Wichita, KS. #kswx @JayPraterKAKE @NWSWichita

@elon_docs An easy 20-30B cut would be to privatize the postal service.

Elon Musk: I want to know from the people how we can make the government more efficient – and then do it. “One thing I want to be clear about is that I am looking for feedback. I'm not just going open loop and doing whatever I want to do [at the Department of Government Efficiency]. I want to know what the people want and what should we do, and then do it. As opposed to me just deciding on my own.” Pittsburgh, October 20, 2024

@cowbroker Ratings weren’t good for the narrator on the audiobook “The Emerald Mile” but the book itself is in my top 10 as a read.

Non-fiction audiobook rec’s? History, politics, sociology, biographical… #AskTwitter

@nhhbbfan Whit and Dave gonna be busy keeping the water out of everything. I’m headed out there this fall for the first time in a while. Can’t wait, it’s one of my favorite places on the planet

Remember the cabin earlier? It snowed since 😉 Hats off to to the guys keeping the 8 mile driveway open all winter

@HunterFarmer70 @YetterFarmEquip We are concerningly dry but the soil is in the nicest condition I have seen in many springs

Talk about a perfect seedbed. @YetterFarmEquip #ridgeplanter #stripfinisher

@nhhbbfan I was just looking the other day. Shows an 80+” base on Ventusky

Bit of snow at the cabin 😉

@FenixAmmunition So was 1 2 & 3

Okay, John Wick 4 was honestly one of the worst movies I've seen in a long time. Sorry guys.

@Filmbeloh20 Clear coat and run it

My grandfather bought this new in 1951. It has 32k miles and all original except the seat cover. When dad died two weeks ago it became mine. It still runs perfectly so should I restore it or turn in to a hot rod?

@sellis_1994 Step up to a Power Wagon, my dream machine!!!

@TheDailyCowman Never seen that color, beautiful

The elusive and rare gray baldy/brockle face Of course it is a bull calf because the Lord would never allow me to have such a beautiful heifer calf... #Calving2023 #Baldyporn #BrocklePorn

@nhhbbfan 2 or 3 id put the smack down on. Talked to Whit the other day, Utah sounds rough with snow

33 bulls on the ridge tonight. Couple dandy’s in there.

Coming to a court near you! #RangerUp