@ThinkethSo The septuagenarian piloted half million dollar ditch mowing rigs would run 24/7
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Joe Stroman
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Joe Stroman
@strofarm
Farmer, former drainage contractor, shade-tree engineer. Opinions are that of my imaginary friend.
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Before anyone calls me retarded, keep in mind that at $0.50 diesel, every field gets rolled after a snow, every field gets an extra tillage pass, and ethanol plants close
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Would American agriculture be better off with:
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Imagine going to a tiny bar in a tiny town and complaining that they don't have Blue Moon or Heineken.
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@braunfarm It works well if you do it right. But I wouldn't bother unless you're getting better prices than we are
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@serendipitidoda That’s what you get for shopping at a store with a conveyor belt on the wrong side
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@TRFyeomanfarmer @jamesdecker2006 You're telling me that farming isn't just drinking coffee on my front porch and driving around with 4 square bales in the back of my '68 F-100?
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In a practical sense, I'd make the case that in order to get started it's best NOT to own the land.
There is a very steep learning curve and Mother Nature always bats last. And she will beat the hell out of you with that bat.
Pamela@PamelaBies
Advice to the younger generation: Skip the degree. Buy land. Become a farmer.
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Joe Stroman retweetledi
To whom it may concern: stop applying Jena experiment results to crop production.
-Farmers use managed, intelligent species selection; mixtures must beat the best monocultures, not the average of all monocultures as ecology measures it.
-Biodiversity benefits in ecological research take 3–5+ years to emerge in perennial systems; this tells us nothing about annual crops or cover crops.
-Ecological research finds that biodiversity correlates with benefits, not what causes them, and without knowing the mechanism, farmers have no basis for action.
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@MattHintz3 Any time someone puts a useful idiot in charge you know they're up to no good.
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If you took an average of 92,000 Farmers in the U.S. and each chipped in roughly $135,000 dollars a one time payment we could build Ammonia plant in the U.S. That’s If you scale Blue Point’s cost by capacity, a Donaldsonville-sized ammonia complex 1.4 million metric tons per year that would pencil out around $12.4 billion as a rough modern replacement-cost estimate. 🤷♂️
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@SoybeansRus @elonmusk I'd pick the Joker over Bane, still doesn't mean he's gonna save Gotham.
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@agronomistag This is an important point. Your greatest "bang for the buck" happens during the early growth stages of covers. You don't need a ton of biomass on top to benefit, or even a super high population.
@RickBieber81
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If cover crops don’t grow much biomass, they won’t boost soil health, and they can seem like a waste of money. But not every goal needs big growth. Erosion control, for example, takes far less biomass. csanr.wsu.edu/cover-crop-ben…
Ryan Heiniger@FarmrHuntr
Regardless of what tribe you belong to, please take a few minutes to complete this survey missouri.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1A…
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@cowbroker @TheGrainiac @KINGS1973 In my area people like to act like not much can be done about it. As if the hollowing out of our community is just an unfortunate symptom of progress.
And kids these days. They're just lazy, ya know? We were never lazy like that.
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What I see in small town America now is the realization by the older generations that our towns are dying….and the answer is spend government money to attract the kids, “spread the cost out” i.e. socialization….At least in NE, we spend too much money at local and state level “for the kids”….and they leave because the taxes are ridiculous just to live
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@strofarm But then it would look like corporate welfare, best to launder it through the farmer first…
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I'm thinking about setting up my FSA payments to go directly to the fertilizer company's bank account. I'm not getting paid enough to be the middle-man.
The Washington Times@WashTimes
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Friday that a bailout and other fixes under consideration for farmers struggling because of the fertilizer shortage sparked by the joint U.S.-Israel war against Iran. trib.al/jcwDsgE
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@cattleguy92 Temu Steven Seagall here looks like he's more of a danger to himself than he would be to any fighting force.
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@JerodMcDaniel I’ve gotta think crude will be a rocket ship tomorrow night
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What will be the corn price per bushel come fall of 2026?
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@drgurner @hogfarmer98 I was a welder for a while back in the day and I even own a welder currently. However, you won't find me over on welder Twitter arguing with actual welders about the current state of the welding industry.
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@hogfarmer98 @strofarm I literally grew up on a farm. My goodness, people make so many assumptions. It's funny.
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I can count on one hand the farmers I know who are physically fit (I'm not one of them). I'm not calling anyone lazy, but it just isn't an ass busting job like it used to be.
Art Ham@Artfulham
@DMRegister Farmers are outdoors, active and motivated. Too many Iowans are lazy, fat and drink alcohol all the time.
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@sanegrain One of my West river friends told me that the difference between a cowboy and a politician is that the cowboy has bullshit on the outside of his boots.
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@pigwhispererv4 @strofarm Then you have very different equipment than my neighbors do.
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