Brian Petty

@melvynx I see the posts, dont get it either, the worst is the max plan I made 1 request and hit limits crowd. Is it just click bait or what? I try to burn through my max 20x and can't touch it. Effectively unlimited.

I just use non-stop my Claude code sub all day, didn't even reach 100% of session usage. People are lying so much on X.

@shanaka86 We have no shortage of grain. The 4 million acres he's worried about is normal crop mix changes. This is pure rage bait and looks ridiculous to a farmer. Typical news pushing something they have no clue about.

A law written for energy independence is now the mechanism for food dependence. The Renewable Fuel Standard mandates that 15 billion gallons of corn ethanol be blended into American transportation fuel annually. That volume consumes approximately 43 percent of the US corn crop. The mandate was established by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and expanded by the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. It was designed for a world where corn was abundant and America wanted to reduce reliance on foreign oil. That world no longer exists. Corn acres are falling to 94 million from 98.8 million because urea at $610 makes the nitrogen economics impossible. The RFS takes its 15 billion gallons from a shrinking harvest. The percentage of remaining corn available for feed, food, and export compresses with every acre that switches to soybeans. The mandate does not flex. The biology does. Waiving the RFS requires the EPA Administrator to make a formal determination that implementation would cause severe economic or environmental harm. The process involves a public comment period, regulatory review, and potential legal challenges from the ethanol industry. The EPA proposed 2026 and 2027 RFS volume requirements in June 2025 and has been targeting Q1 2026 for the final rule. The rulemaking machinery was designed for normal agricultural cycles. It was not designed for a war that closed the world’s most important fertiliser transit route during planting season. Even if the EPA Administrator initiated a waiver today, the timeline from announcement to implementation stretches weeks to months. The corn planting window closes in three to four weeks. The legal process cannot outrun the biological calendar. By the time a waiver could take effect, the acreage decisions it was meant to influence would already be irreversible. The RFS is the transmission belt that converts a fertiliser crisis into a food crisis. Without the mandate, a shrinking corn crop would still produce less total output, but the available supply could be allocated flexibly between feed, food, and fuel based on market signals. With the mandate, 43 percent of whatever corn exists is legally spoken for before a single hen eats a kernel or a single tortilla is pressed. The flexibility that markets provide is overridden by the rigidity that law imposes. The cattle herd is at 86.2 million head, a 75-year low. Poultry operations rebuilt from the 2025 avian flu but face rising feed costs. Dairy herds are contracting. Every animal that eats corn competes with a fuel pump that has legal priority. The protein cascade, from corn to feed to meat to eggs to dairy to the grocery shelf, begins at the point where the RFS takes its cut. Corn Belt legislators who championed the RFS to support their farming constituents now face a perverse outcome: the law they wrote to help farmers is the law that prevents the market from adjusting to a crisis their farmers are living through. The ethanol industry will resist any waiver. The livestock industry will demand one. The consumer will pay the difference. And the EPA rulemaking process was designed for annual adjustments, not emergency response during a 21-day-old war. Fifteen billion gallons. Written into statute. Consuming 43 percent of a crop that just lost 4.8 million acres to a fertiliser price that originates in a strait the law never contemplated. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

@iamyourfarmer **but ai HaS nO use in aG!** How many times I've heard this nonsense...Claude code is highly underestimated...by many in ag. Like you said if you can dream it you can build it now. Some will, some won't. But its a force that will give advantages.

Built a system for tracking spray applications and inventory, off of that I built a pw protected site that my crop consultant can see application data and planting records. Now I’m building a system that uploads crop consulting reports & gives me summaries and creates field logs

@_TheMizzouTiger As for spreadsheets you probably have one you like right? Give it to it. And just chat. You will be surprised. Tell it about your farmand how you use the spreadsheet, ask it what it needs. Tell it your goals.

@_TheMizzouTiger Pro plan $20/month. Screenshot a yield map (background imagery too). Pair it with soil tests. And, just ask it what it sees. The more years of yield maps the better start with one field. Ask it to add weather to insights. It will steer you. You will steer it.

Efficiency not intellect. AI is a scam.

@_TheMizzouTiger Claude can does this right now for very little. Instead of cursory using articles to form your opinion try it. Take a couple complicated spreadsheets, pdfs, or other docs you have farm related. Feed it in a conversation and see the insights. Just try it no hype.

@brianppetty What would you pay for something that does that?

@BeetfarmerDave I dunno if you bought FSD or if you still can...you'll tell yourself you dont need it. Then once you use it...you can't live without it. Modern versions of it are well....ridiculous in an awe inspiring kind of way.

@BeetfarmerDave We have an X. Literally will skip past my F-150 to drive it. Most fun you will ever have in a vehicle. You'll get naysayers but you'll drive it around and have your mind blown from the software/engineering alone. We can never go back. Enjoy.

Did a thing

@JoshDarwin8 @NickHorob @exolabs It can be as simple as claude code or claude desktop. MCP server or lately skills...and chat. Then its not to much different for openclawd although they have some nice pre made skills ready to roll...just enable them and point to the database and have your mind blown.

@JoshDarwin8 @NickHorob @exolabs Honestly, this will scare most people but if you have backups...unrestricted is where the cool things start to happen. The AHA moments (what trends do you see in this data for fun). Thats why I wanted to local to keep data locked...but the power just isn't to potential...yet.

One of my missions going forward is to become a world-class expert on OpenClaw (both on its own and via FarmClaw). I think it has a ton of potential in ag. And for any small/mid-sized business. They hype is real! I've deployed an awesome set of agents but I still have plenty to learn.

@NickHorob @JoshDarwin8 @exolabs Yes. Ive got most farm data i can think of in PostgreSQL databases. Hacked together some API scrape to automate our grain inventory, contracts, etc flow. Started UI. But connected openclaw...wow. Its a whole different thing than opening the UI. Just asking is next level.

@brianppetty @JoshDarwin8 @exolabs Are you using OpenClaw Brian?

@NickHorob @JoshDarwin8 Its bad. And not documented well. It works well with the right harness (Qwen code) and its bleeding edge through claude code. Latest ollama builds work. But its just not worth it yet. Another gen or 2 and 100tps local inference and im all in.

@brianppetty @JoshDarwin8 I ran a Qwen model locally and I didn’t have the patience to get the tool calling set up in a way that made it even close to the UX I’m used to

@JoshDarwin8 @NickHorob Ive got a 5090rtx on a linux build. Have eyed @exolabs to have it handle the big load and apple stuff for token gen but honestly its all a generation to early...its all a compromises so far. Now for openclaw yes its doable IMHO. Deep codebase is an exercise in frustration.

@brianppetty @NickHorob Awesome Great to know! What kind of hardware you running on?

@JoshDarwin8 @NickHorob Ive been DEEP down the local models rabbit hole. GLM 4.7 flash is best I've found. Qwen coder 30b is 2nd but a big gap. None of them are on par with frontier models honestly and have various tool calling issues and tons of config time.

@NickHorob Have you done much testing with open source models? I’m using Ollama and just starting to try Qwen Coder.

@_TheMizzouTiger @FoulkShay You said it yourself AI is efficiency not intellect. It merely leverages what you put in. Dont put in garbage you won't get back garbage...thats on the user not the AI. Legally, that sprayer won't follow. But that tender will now mix according to a recipe. Doing that too.

@brianppetty @FoulkShay So I can make my sprayer follow my spray tender with AI? Please show me the way. I’m game. As for business decisions. Just remember junk info in junk info out. AI is efficiency not intellect. And as less people think and society info shifts the worse AI gets.

Practical farm use for all of the nerds saying "hOW caN ai AcshUlLy HAlP mUh faRm?" Build a custom weather dashboard- could add locations etc. Can make it an app. I tied in scouting recommendations based on future GDU's. At your fingertips, just use your brain. Prompt --> Results "I want to build a weather dashboard specific to my farm operation. I want to use current data, that refreshes from key weather sources every time I access. I want the dashboard to include the Current temp, wind, and weather outlook for the day. i want a two day outlook hour by hour with wind direction, speed, and gust, and barometric pressure, heat, humidity, and dew point. I want a 5 day, 14 day, and 30 day outlook. I also want a tab for historical date for my address by each year (updated daily as year to date). Also build in a tab for tracking heat units (GDU accumulation). Add in the ability to put crop, variety/hybrid, planting date, GDUs accumulated. Have an alert based system that tells me when to monitor for weeds, insects, and disease pressure based on weather considerations ad GDU's accumulate, and corresponding to the location. The address for this location is [redacted] The county is Marshall County, IL. Use the bets and most up to date available information. Take the time to ultrathink and do the best job possible. It doesn't need to be cute and animated- I just want the data displayed in an easy format. Also on the dashboard, include any critical weather alerts, and maybe an area fo r the most relevant map of the day. Use any and all noaa, NWS, or other public data to create this tool!"

@_TheMizzouTiger @FoulkShay The value is what you make of it. If I want to build an autonomous tractor I can. If I want to build a whole farm automation system I can. If I want help with marketing, insurance, or purchasing decisions I have a council to assist. The value is in how you choose to use it.

@brianppetty @FoulkShay So we are justifying AI’s value by recreating the wheel?

@_TheMizzouTiger @FoulkShay Sure, but his point is it built it for him just by knowing how to ask. And there is no limit in software as to what you can ask for, if you know how to ask. And you can't do that with climate. And you dont have to give away data to get what you want.

@FoulkShay Yea climate does all this for free. Plus a bunch more. And I’m not a fan of climate.

@TheChadColby @Tesla What year? We have an X. Every day will blow your mind. You won't ever wanna go back. Funnest vehicle you can own. I could do without the doors the way they are but other than that love ours.

Little different to get used to, but no complaints 👇 #FirstTesla @Tesla