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@DaveDejmal Titan

I need a case sprayer tech. Does anyone in central Kansas work on case sprayers other than Kan Equip?

@FarmrHuntr @OrinRomine The program is government oversight to start with…

@OrinRomine I'm really confused. Your proposal is to kick them out of crop insurance and famr bill programs but then proceed to state it shouldn't have gov oversight? Isn't making them ineligible, more gov oversight? Please explain.

Is it possible to be pro property rights with a but? Is the but when the right of one landowner impedes on the right of another?

@gregm12 @southbranchag @twotthree64 @shanaka86 California already has regular brown outs and blackouts. We simply don’t

@southbranchag @twotthree64 @shanaka86 We have plenty of grid capacity for charging EVs - they're actually a perfect compliment to our existing infrastructure which has peaky demands, and EVs are relatively insensitive to when they charge. Datacenters need massive, constant, firm power, completely inflexible.

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…

@Empty_America @sequesterador If everyone lived like this we could stop bitching about most billionaires

@sequesterador It's about 75% just a matter of genuinely not wanting to live in a suburb. I have some savings and a paid off very cheap house and cheap cars. But if I was instantly taken to $0 net worth, only change to my life would be needing to work somewhat more for a while.

I find the current year USA to be quite easy to live in. But I genuinely like outlying areas, cheap hobbies like fishing and camping, and don't have the physical look or vibe that gets you attacked if you leave UMC bubble. I suppose we all live in different worlds.

@rfhirschfeld Potentially. Or we should have focused on keeping the products made in the USA

Maybe it was a bad idea to spend decades shielding farmers from every market signal that might have incentivized more diversified, resilient systems less dependent on imported chemical inputs.

@smalltown_wife Staring like a bad car wreck….

I had a roommate in college who CONSTANTLY thought everyone was staring at her (in a way like they were wowed by her) and that every man she encountered was checking her out. she wasn’t unattractive, just totally average looking. this phenomenon should be studied.

@cowbroker Or gun fighter if need be.

Support your local Sheriff!!

@BradyD78 @GoddessofGrain Don’t lie. Auto steer does it all

@GoddessofGrain As long as it’s a text, we don’t have time for a phone call right now …. we have wheat to top dress, if it’s still alive that is😉

We should probably ask more people who aren’t farmers or working directly with farmers on decision making what farmers are doing

@GoddessofGrain But we’re to dumb….

@kazama_mama @EruditeTogether @freeisntreally1 You couldn’t figure out your own kid had dyslexia?

@EruditeTogether @freeisntreally1 Books at home play a huge role unless your kid has dyslexia. Dyslexics need structured, systematic phonics. I thank God that our public school recognized this in 2 of our kids and they got professional intervention. They are now big readers (1 mostly audio), and both in college.

I am a Christian, and I have two daughters. Both my daughters attend public school. When my daughters were old enough to go to school I felt so much pressure from the Christian culture to homeschool them. I went to public school and had a really good experience, but everyone was treating public school like it was the devils playground. I tried to homeschool my oldest in preschool and I realized how terribly unequipped I was to teach. I didn’t have the discipline, nor the mental capacity to teach from home. I think public school is great. The teachers are all so intentional, the school counselors are lovely, and their principal remembers their names and things about them. We are very involved parents. We go on field trips, take them to school events, and go to all their conferences. Honestly, public school gets way too much hate.

@rbodyfield @kansasangus Hay only last so long, and quickly degrades. You can only plan ahead so far

@kansasangus You are correct, I will replace it with what I raise this year. I get your point tho, my point is there should be preparations made well in advance of drought showing up on a monitor.

Cattle market is phenomenal but your area droughts out... What you going to do?

@Cornobbe Don’t think it would be -120 degrees….

@mopaksus Strip till dry ice?

Stupid question time. Why aren’t we strip tilling CO2?

@loquitur_ponte @Empty_America Most cars tell you where in the book…. But we’re talking people that can’t even do that

@mopaksus @Empty_America I assume i want it against something that feels... structural? Like a frame? Id look around i figure its probably clear

Probably not. Honestly I get the sense that many younger posters on here don't *have* a father. Or they may have been estranged from an early age. We talk about "fatherless" behavior in women, but there is an equally clear version in males.

@loquitur_ponte @Empty_America You say that till you place the jack wrong and crush your door

@Empty_America Ive never tried changing a tire but honestly it looks pretty easy, im sure i could figure it out

@Empty_America @DFEmme42 Alot of kids don’t even really know what their parents do…..

@DFEmme42 It seems like many of those families don't successfully pass on the ability to make enough money to live that way.

@ExpatAftermath We’re at the point there’s a lot of dads that didn’t know how….

Young men today can't change a tire. Ok, and did their dads try to teach them how?

Or maybe I should say just straight carbon?

@rhofford But I was thinking more compressed like anhydrous

@rhofford Yea I’ve seen that