Mark Heisner

@robert_j_r @AustinHoney30 It’s not true color, it’s just those colors so you can see the river easier

@AustinHoney30 How is it so green already in 26?

Grand River. 2025 vs 2026

this is not southern Illinois. not even close. allow me to illustrate via this helpful guide.

@iamyourfarmer Dry is good

This is a little frog pond in my pasture that must get fed by a seep. Its not big or deep but always has water in it. I have lived here 20 yrs. Only other time it has went dry was 11/12.

@w_firm @JonasGwin There’s new pickups for sale for $35,000. Half ton, 4 wheel drive, regular cab

@JonasGwin 50k pickups? Where? If I want to replace my 2018 truck with the same spec 2026, MSRP is newly $94,000.

I honestly don’t get how so many small holders are buying these things and driving around in a couple 50k pickups for the household. They’re pretty expensive. The hobby farm is definitely mass affluence meets a high level of comfort with big debts.

Had someone tell me once that conventional farmers don't care about the land. I asked him how long his family had farmed it. He didn't farm. The ground we're on has been in rotation for 6 generations. We don't care about the topsoil? We're going to be in that dirt long after the critics have moved on to the next cause.

@PlantNativeWI If you don’t mow it trees will grow up and block the view

The thing that drives me absolutely crazy are places like these that have no reason to exist as mowed lawn. Truly a waste of space that could be prairie.

Trump declaring the war over every time the market is predicted to tank is one of the stupidest strategies I've ever seen. Yet it has worked every single time so I can't even blame him at this point.

@tnertz One of the fine miles under the care of the Will Township Road District

The 320th southern block of Western Ave is a gravel road

@gwiesefarms How many people have a friend from college with hundreds of thousands of dollars to put down on a piece of land and will be happy with a 2.5% return on their money?

Fred farms 6,000 acres which are all leased through many landlords. He is well known as a top-notch producer and regularly must turn down offers to rent acres from new and existing landlords as those farms don’t fit within his operational goals. For his first opportunity to buy out a small parcel from a landlord, he had the ability to make the entire purchase on his own. His understanding of the importance of cash to keep his risk levels down and how much cash is needed to scale the operation led him to pursue a different option. Instead of buying the entire property, he found a friend from college who ran his own business. These two bought the ground on 50% shares. The ability to bring in a like-minded investor and preserve cash will allow Fred to buy ground each time a landlord approaches him wanting to sell.

@iamyourfarmer A push button start probably costs the manufacturer less than a key start

Farmers: we need fewer features lower entry price point tractor JD: Screw that, how about push to start?

Will County, IL

@_TheMizzouTiger Same here south of Chicago except it’s 10’s instead of 20’s

@iamyourfarmer A few people still combining corn in northeast Illinois, 45 miles south of Chicago

Corn still standing in the field North of Lucas Ks. I assumed it was in a pocket of drought and left it standing. Got over the hill and a combine was out in what looked like a freshly picked field. Different level take on store and ignore

One of the most prized possessions in our household hails from Ripon, Wisconsin. Manufactured there since 1908. I hope they are never hollowed out by private equity.

Still better than a screen

@EudaimoniaEsq Not many people care about college football in Illinois either

@rustbeltkid1 Looks like a great place

Just a bizarre reality of the I-states is that there are entire townships with - 0 non-farm businesses - 0 surface water - less than 300 people and you likely can't afford to live there

@Devinjbaker What are zones?

Doing a tile project on a farm we just bought, hard to convince me zones aren’t the answer!

@Cornfrmr I would love roads like that. Ours are flat and hold water

I'm getting really sick of the roads in Adams County Nebraska. It is getting dangerous for semis with the crown they are putting on the roads. It is BS when it lifts the trailer wheels off the ground at intersections, not to mention what it does to the trailer when full.

Went to an insurance meeting today. We shouldn’t be able to insure 95% of a crop. We need to be able to fail so we can actually succeed. To me, it looked like a great way to bid out every ounce of profit from the farm sector and concentrate production even more.