Rated GenX

@ChrisBennettMS kcrg.com/2022/12/29/gut… Real pillar of society. Seems like his life choices will catch up to him in a bad way eventually.

Good way to catch a bullet. Things go sideways…….fast. agweb.com/news/machinery…

@jasonmauck1 Have 25% corn sold for July 27 @ $5 cash. 50% beans sold for Dec 26 @ $11.40 cash with some additional -0.15 basis contacts need to set price on. I’m more sold ahead than normal for March. If/when the shooting stops I think oil & grain tank until reality is sorted out.

How has the war changed your grain marketing plans for the 26 and 27 crop?

@gwiesefarms Engineering degree gave me a high off farm income that allowed me to grow farm operation without inheriting. Bonus is defined benefit pension, large 401k and employer paid healthcare when I reach 55 until Medicare eligibility.

@gwiesefarms Ag Engineering degree. Took ag classes (economics, agronomy etc.) as electives. College doesn’t teach you what you need to be successful (any degree) it gives you tools and understanding how things “could” work. Success will only come if you learn how to apply the tools.

Did anyone attend an ag university and feel they actually learned what they needed to to be successful on the farm? If so, which college and what course or degree?

@Dusty3080467325 Final incarnation of the design layout of the H. Few if any parts interchange after the multiple redesigns, but that’s the lineage. I’d say it had a pretty good run.

PURE !!!

@JasonHanson2028 Idea was to ship grain back to China in containers. Was only feasible for high value crops due to logistics challenges vs bulk ships. At that time China could manufacture containers so cheaply it wasn’t profitable trying to ship grain back in empty containers vs building new.

@JasonHanson2028 I saw this done in the early 2000’s. A 40 ft container is roughly 1900 bushels so you can only fill it a little over 1/2 full and stay under weight restrictions for transport on highways. Another problem was shifting grain inside the container during transport was dangerous.

Surprised someone hasn’t taken shipping containers and built harvesters around that system. Load it. Unload it. Load the next empty. Drop them like a bale and go back and pick them up when you can. Seems any future autonomous systems would use this concept to allow 24/7 ops. Also allows for container trucks to load and unload with a dump trailer or simply drop off the box at the elevator and drive off. Easy to weigh. Easy to access. Could even have self-contained aeration systems that would keep commodities from spoiling. Just seems too simple that it’s surprising nobody has done this.

@DoubleDauwn Joke’s on you Deb. Just a few short weeks of rocks, neighbors road ditch weeds & 40 gallon water tank diet their livestock will be immune to all know parasites and pestilence. At that point they will take over feeding the entire world from that 535 acres. You’re just jealous.

I don't know if there are personalized versions of hell but this makes me want to seek out an evening church service and get right. One day at this place surrounded by homesteaders would feel like a thousand years.

@PlsntVlyFarmer @Dusty3080467325 I appreciate your optimism. Anyone who has ever had to diagnose the electrical system or reprogram a small frame 7x20 series will not share that optimism. I would rather contract herpes and simultaneously catch my manhood in my pants zipper than work on those things.

@Dusty3080467325 Probably still worth it if wiring available?

Good old vermin

@loopholefarms @buperac Inject that straight into my veins. 30 years ago in engineering school no self respecting engineering student had a TI.

@buperac Can’t beat a good calculator. This bad boy is over 30 years old, and still works.

I mean if we are going to have a serious discussion about monopolies I just want to mention a few things………

@sovernTranch Homesteader - GLYPHOSATE BAD, GRAZON BAD!!! COMMERCIAL FARMERS DOUSE THEIR ANIMALS FEED IN THIS!!! Also Homesteader - feed commercially grown carrots and sweet potatoes to their animals and it’s awesome. Me - You might want to check out soil fumigation for commercial root crops

I love how these corn feeders like to throw this in my face… I think most reasonable people can agree that carrots and sweet potatoes and a much more nutrient dense feed for pigs than corn and soy Food waste is a real thing and I do my part to make sure it stays food

@Simon2790588764 @wylfcen It’s actually the inverse of that, as a broad generalization the lower the IQ the more likely they are to be driven solely by biological impulses.

@wylfcen Legit funny, its like crime is an alarm bell telling uss who to kill so they dont reproduce. 70iq's would probably not figure out where to stick it, so no babies there

@gwiesefarms Screw me once shame on you, screw me twice shame on me. I will pay you on time at the agreed price, but my business is earned on every transaction. My loyalty belongs to family, friendships and community.

You can remain loyal to your input provider and still get better prices. Get a 3rd party quote, then run it buy your provider of 20 years to see if they will match. You can be loyal if they will be loyal.

@silvopasturist No it’s not. Every agronomist knows the nitrogen cycle and the role soil biology plays in it. The problem with soil biology is there is both good and bad biology and us mere mortals do not fully understand all of these interactions with plants. My great hope is AI assists this

Agronomy is the science of thinking we live on a dead rock.

@TheLastField As a publicly traded company their only purpose is to generate profits for the shareholders. Looks like they are successful.

Nothing to see here big Johnny, nothing to see here….🤔

@dane_berggren @beefinitiative @JamesOKeefeIII You are correct. Robert Peterson of IBP completely changed the fat cattle market with direct purchasing which has led to the captive supply the big four packets have today.

@beefinitiative @JamesOKeefeIII The last time livestock guys got true market action we were hauling things into Omaha, KC, etc to the stockyards and they had to out bid each other for their daily kill

Undercover footage from @JamesOKeefeIII at Cattle Con. Scott Krusemark of JDR Farms, on camera, says the Big Four beef packers don't need to price fix. They just don't bid against each other. JBS, Tyson, Cargill, Marfrig/National. Four companies. Most of the kill capacity in America. An open secret, he says, inside the industry. Here's the trap ranchers are caught in: cattle hit weight, feed bills keep running, and you have to sell. There's no waiting for a better offer. There is no better offer. Not when the buyers are coordinated. Krusemark knows which side of that equation he's on. On the same tape, he mentions his Rolex — says he loves that he can afford to get it fixed when it breaks. He's doing fine with the deal. The ranchers selling into a rigged market aren't. He said it himself: it's illegal. The DOJ needs to act. So the only question is whether they will… Fat chance since the Trump admin just canned the only trust buster willing to do the job. @gailaslater @modernTman

@creepydotorg Damn glad to hear he didn’t waste his winnings.

In 2002, a 19-year-old British garbage man won nearly £10 million in the lottery. He spent it all on drugs, gambling, and prostitutes and eight years later he was back working as a garbage man.

@DoubleDauwn Not gonna do it. Next thing you’ll be expecting that crusty old dustbin to be rubbed to. I draw a hard line at the anonymous homeless under the bridge needing a fentanyl fix, no way I’m risking exposure with the most famous Subaru owner on Ag X.

It wouldn't kill the rest of you to sing my praises like this some time. Even an old lesbian needs her belly rubbed now and again.

@DoubleDauwn Affirmative. There’s even more skeletons in that closet, that’s just the tame stuff. How does the old saying go? First two gens build it and the third pisses it away….

@DoubleDauwn Deb you have no idea how hard you just hit this “burned a drunk cattle feeder at CattleCon”. Contestant #1 in the video is operating on liver #2. You can’t make this up.

This is hilarious. They didn't have to go undercover to get this video. Could've gotten all this top secret information from my Twitter page. They didn't expose anyone at any of the Big 4. Just burned a drunk cattle feeder at CattleCon.