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@jasonmauck1 youtube.com/shorts/5abqLc2… For the academics

“Being a good dad is exercising the right amount of negligence” Tony Reed

@InnovationFarm7 @jasonmauck1 What's the cost for 100 collars?

@jasonmauck1 Go with virtual fence... nofence.no/en/

*Unpopular opinion* Cover crops are easier to make work if you A. Don't have to kill them B. Harvest them for cash C. Can use harvest loss to reseed them D. Can graze in fall/winter/spring... or in season

@jasonmauck1 @thefarmerslife In the next 10 years we will. Autonomous. I'm not sure 100hp tractors are most efficient, depends on field size. Probably maximize 200-250hp

Question I always have in my head. Why can't we just farm with 10 4020's and 6 9600's @thefarmerslife

@kiptom When is Trump planning to announce your cabinet position?

Could you imagine a world where most people said that about farming and food industry? Farming is a noble calling but rarely prosperity for all in the industry.

@silvopasturist @jasonmauck1 The commodity groups have only done what the farmers have asked for … easy The blame is solely on us, farmers. We have looked for easy and we got easy. With easy comes existence only. Once we learn to thrive with diversity and intensity, commodity groups will weaken.

I have 2 goals in the years to come. 1. Stay Sober 2. Stay Hungry I may have an occasional beer or 2 but I'm getting lean and mean. I love the way I feel fasting during the day and eating meat and vegetables at night. The main thing with the sobriety is stop caring about conformity. I don't need anyone specifically. If it is to be it is up to me doing it. That's another level of freedom along with being lower body fat, more clarity and energy to think, and actually pull off ideas I see value in.

@jasonmauck1 @LorenBorntrager A present dad that nutures and leads is what kids need. I don't see anything that violates those fatherly responsibilities here. Too many pharacies out there raising weak conformist kids that needlessly shifts the overton window.

@LorenBorntrager My children have a pretty good life. Sorry if the language was offensive. I probably need to not post that.

The comedian Ron White had a bit once on calling the front desk at a Hotel and asking for a wake up call at 7 after a drunken bender @ 8 a.m The man says "It's past 7" Which Ron Replies "the next one" ... meaning 7 pm The point. People's eyes... and really industry or academia can't perceive the value of 3 things that IMO are of upmost importance in poly cropping 1. Side light. The ability of plants to grow in a half circle. 1.57... but in reality it's 1.618 as they strive towards the 🌞 hence the shape isn't perfectly symmetrical 2. The corresponding overyielding that occurs when we allow this to happen and how we can account for that 3. The sequences that be created when we arrange for plants to be able to grow both vertically, horizontally, and diagonally... To Add to that ... where we need to arrive Using cash crops to do jobs for us that otherwise would require additional inputs such as more herbicides. Banding nutrients underneath N loving grasses to begin excited and then thrive off of 🌞 That can be 💩 just the same. It's a 🌎 nearly undiscovered. Because the world thinks we only can wake up at 7am.

Gotta feed the (shrinking) world! cnn.com/2024/06/25/inv…

@GGunthorp @jasonmauck1 Not always intentional, but it happens so often one has to ponder whether it is intentional or just complete ignorance. Either way, it's not good and doesn't warrant participating in the organized chaos as a farmer.

@jasonmauck1 I think the moral of the story is the land grants can miss a few vital elements and very easily make regen, sustainable, pastured, organic, etc look very non feasible. It’s not always intentional.

Let’s take a moment this morning to compare my work for 9 years on relay cropping wheat and soybeans compared to this study from Purdue university 25 years ago. (The latest I can find) * it didn’t work*. Why? Let’s begin with an overview of difference between Forcing 2 linear minded mngmt techniques vs a more conservative approach growing the best crops for both…in time and space By changing the spacing from solid seeded wheat or even narrower rows of 15”, 20” etc 2 major things work against soybeans ability to produce a substantial yield 1. Water. The proximity to the wheat that is much further ahead in its lifecycle and water rights/ wants/ needs A narrow spacing forced the young bean roots to compete with a much heavier boxer. 2. Sunlight. A narrower spacing changed the angle of incident of the solar rays being absorbed into the solar corridor Wheat reaches heights of around 30-40” a corridor of a few inches blocks nearly all the light A corridor stretched 30-45” allows that angle to go from 10 degrees only during high sun angle hours To beyond 100 degrees especially the adjacent rows of soybeans This creates both the perception of ample —> abundant 🌞 for the soybeans and the space creates a 💧 reservoir that the wheat roots can’t reach but the biomass blocks the drying wind to the surface, and blocks the heavier storm downpours keep 💧 in place on every square ft of farmland. Also. A realistic yield goal can be achieved by following good agronomic principle but only farming 1/3 - 4/9 of the lateral footprint. This can facilitate banding of nutrients and using proxy for weed control. As I have eluded to before @360yieldcenter and their Y drops uses the corn stalk itself to make a rubber hose an intelligent instrument for spoon feeding Nitrogen The wheat can provide similar proximity attributes by growing soybeans off of 10” and filling the center we find an area they can live well. An organic guy can splash dirt against in April and May and get bean going mid to late month Conventionally we can keep herbicide off of the wheat with a hooded spray. Pretty easy to design a machine that plants beans, sidedressed wheat, and band sprays the area above the beans only to make it to wheat harvest )then you might just hire / have a drone) The point is We can achieve 70-95% wheat yields on reduced input costs We don’t need to thread the needle with traffic a 60” schematic makes room for the combine and tractors to make passes The expedited canopy, water mngmt, and the attributes of this system could make the cost of production for a bushel of wheat and soybeans much lower. Let’s do another study.

@jasonmauck1 You must have more tile and deep rip more often. Those are the only 2 things a farmer can do for better drainage.

Drive around after 1” rain in 30 minutes and tell me how this is weird.

@jasonmauck1 If you don't fail at something every once in a while, you're not trying hard enough. What you learned is priceless. Just don't be scared to try again.

2023 wasn’t the greatest of years for me. The farm crop was great, family great, but I had to shut down the company I bought in 2020 that grew to over 40 employees, and many other relationships that I worked hard to develop….long story…the short… the meat biz is hard. 2024 is about Focusing on what I know and creating confidence by putting in the work. I loved a piece on Jack Nicklaus where he said that he believed that he out prepared his competition when he arrived at a major. In life we don’t get what we deserve, we get what we earn. Every year I go to Michigan…this year Wisconsin with a group of friends to play in the Ron Jeremy Invitational. Usually ⛳️ is something I do for an excuse to drink beer. This year I just want to put in intentional work, get better…and have that feeling that it’s mine to win. I might only go to a “real” course a couple times as life is pretty packed most days. Thank you @SagutoGolf for the free content online. My swing used to get better after a few beers…or at least I thought. Today I can swing 50% or 110% on a string from staying on my front foot and keeping it tucked in. I’m trying to make it instead of hoping.

@rickmurdockagc Bust out the row crop cultivator

@NDubuc Teff

@jasonmauck1 That's a platform I can get behind

I am voting today, and yea I value that right, but… All the sm posts about the price of gas, groceries, etc… “remember when you vote” You vote everyday with your actions and your dollar. Support those you believe in. I don’t believe your vote is going to keep those people from running up the scoreboard. That’s the goal…in fact. I don’t think a vote will keep people you don’t like from changing why you don’t like them. I don’t think you should waste your time arguing on sm about politics. Work on your 6’ circle like an expressed plant…that I talk about. You take care of your family, raise good humans, care for your neighbors and they’ll have your back. Life will be just fine no matter what garbage they put in front of you to incite rage. I’m not doing it. We are all people making decisions every day.

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@VanceCrowe You are young enough you missed the war over seatbelts and the one that followed for babies car seats. Yes. Car seats for kids was communism. But when they take your rights away a bit at a time you don’t even notice. Bet you have a couple of car seats 😉

How big will the fight about Cattle RFID tags get?

@GGunthorp @GunthorpFarms Advertising weed & bacon!

This month’s group of 50 new gilts that we sorted out yesterday.

@FarmChicJodi @steve_m_bees Sometimes vehicles break down. And sometimes they have to go to the shop. Sometimes parts take a long time to get here.

@steve_m_bees It's not been fun. He thinks he can drive and he cannot. He gets super angry with my mom. She just let him go tonight because it wasn't worth stopping him.

My dad with dementia decided to go to the farm & find his vehicles. He hasn't walked more than 30 steps at a time since October .We've hidden all the keys. Suggestions for putting something in his shoes to track him?