Jason Mauck
@jasonmauck1 • 36,753 subscribers
Farmer | Collaborator | Keynote Speaker | [email protected] #farmweird
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31 years ago my dad brought home 15 sheets of plywood to make a better floor in the hay mount… after a few weeks of polar weather, I am missing the daily 1 v 1 with the sons so I decided we’re going to finish the project left 1/2 done. Many games with the “old man” up here, many memories to come
Jason Mauck1,171,768 görüntüleme • 7 ay önce
I think we’re going to flirt with $1500/ac in this field with $200 in inputs. Agronomy’s next dimension is how we make crops play nice with one another. The wheat manages spring moisture like living pattern tile to allow earlier more fit planting, weed control. The soybeans grow well with a disciplined 80/20 wheat crop. The space allows for equity accrual 80-90 days gets us to 12-14 nodes with young pods at wheat harvest Harvest opens up sunlight for the beans acting like a turbo on a diesel engine… and the wheat also acts as a trellis to support expansive branching. Year #11 and we’re always learning… lots of people trying this out and making it work on their operation. If this is of interest come to my farm this Saturday and walk the fields yourself #farmweird
Jason Mauck111,924 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce
Stick with me here. I explain my viewpoint about yield…and how arrangement shapes plant architecture..which later sets up a more efficient plant. I think many miss the mark with relay cropping because they’re focused on growing 2 crops instead of growing bigger plants twice. What’s delusional about industrial agriculture is that growing 1 crop at a time dilutes the value of each seed, input, resource, and time.
Jason Mauck22,883 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce
I’ve been sharing the evolution of this system for 11 years. Posts that get a lot of traction will begin to attract the critics who will always say “Half the wheat and soybean yield on twice the work!!! What an idiot” I’ve done some idiotic things in life but never 11 years strait. The reason we continue to expand our acres is that this system exploits the plasticity of plants, keeps a living root in the soil, and increases soybean profitability quite a bit. The key have been to continually revise the system. Where we have arrived is a system that maximizes “footprint yield” You’re looking at 250 bu wheat on 1/3 of the footprint of the acre in space But also a time footprint of the 1st half of the season. You can store that value 15-40” high off of the surface of the soil and then BEND 20-30” tall beans and grow as good or better soybeans than alone. We’ve done it many different times in different ways. Reallocating our seed, thinking about where each crop will be at different days AND the adaptations we get in the plant from those corresponding arrangements is what creates the profit. This isn’t an attack of the critics. It’s just shows our lack of imagination… and understanding of the value of time, space, and plant dynamics. They don’t teach you this. You have to discover through trial and error.
Jason Mauck49,912 görüntüleme • 3 ay önce
*unpopular opinion* If you knew how valuable / important water will be in 20 years you wouldn’t be gung hoe about pattern tiling every farm on 30’ centers but instead designing the way you farm / landscape to capture every drop you get and keep it on the farm.
Jason Mauck81,873 görüntüleme • 7 ay önce
In 2018 I realized that I can grow higher yielding soybeans with wheat than without and just soybeans. I proved it to myself for 3 years straight growing 17 varieties of soybeans monocrop vs relay. While most people were worried about the junk combine I bought just to do it well… or a small head. I had my eyes on the prize. Using something of value as a tool to mitigate the main liabilities of soybean production. Weeds and water and the strain on the soil… from the lack of significant root mass with soybeans alone. There are a lot of analogies I use to describe different aspects of this but the main thing that always gets my attention wheather it’s this practice… or something like Stock Cropper For anything to be significantly better… and not just be another $10 investment to get another 3-5 bushels (we hope) You have to turn the attributes of something that will naturally just happen and figure out how to weaponize it. In other words just use it to your advantage That takes 1 very important step. You can’t give 1 once of fuck about what the industry BMP is for anything. You have to place things in the system in a way that allows the system to be better. Agronomy has to start in a garden scale where you’re not constrained by equipment spacing, traffic, etc. You can do some amazing things with your hands and your mind… then take that and figure out how to make the equipment and systems to scale. I watch so many universities do the same damn thing year after year. No revisions… you’re not innovating. Your hoping. Adapting, revising is the only path to success. You can’t just hope.
Jason Mauck50,668 görüntüleme • 4 ay önce
10 years ago my focus was growing “400 bushel corn” … it gets a lot of attention, but it’s unpractical. The laws of diminishing returns cost you more than it gains you. Today I focus on capturing more value from free things. Attributes are assets if you can employ them. We’re finishing up our relay beans with the last pass here. For you to be in the right frame of mind you have to leave the mindset of maximizing monocrop yields and instead maximizing acre yield efficiently. Each day is hyper critical in the profitability of this system… that’s why even when we reach that peak ultimate practice efficiency… we’ll still be maxed at maybe 30-40% of our acres. I can only do things great within the constraints of time. I lay out all the specifics here but this is some truths I’ve learned from chasing high yields.. to conventional… no till… strip till… relay… alley… organic… grazing … Intergrazing… silvopasture Less plants require less inputs, especially nitrogen Soil temperature and WEOC drive plant growth Weed pressures come with bare soil You can index… or reallocate anything from fertilizers, chemistry, seed, etc You can cheat any system by leaning on the constraints to make the system work best Here in this specific system Follow early corn. The attributes of corn canopy, residue, N scavenge is an asset Plant wheat early. Every day in late September is worth 10x of those in late October Control weeds in the fall cheaply with good timing before you have them Control weeds in the spring and summer with timing and expedited canopy closure A great harvest plan for the wheat and the pruning of it, the straw, and the ☀️ is 10x more effective than any soil amendment or spray fertilizer. Account for the capability of single plants. They can yield 10x of a bunch of them slammed in a field competing with one another Sequencing plants allows you to stage different plant perceptions to get expressions, let live, and use their natural death to your advantage.
Jason Mauck33,657 görüntüleme • 4 ay önce
99.9% of the corn belt grows one crop at a time. Because we've always done it that way. This shouldn't be that weird.
Jason Mauck171,133 görüntüleme • 3 yıl önce
Everyday tens of millions are spent to convince you that your headache is caused by the lack of advil… your weeds..crops need more cides, yields are a direct result of nutrients applied. What’s interesting about agriculture… what can be derived from Shay Foulk statistic shared last week. We have roughly 50,000 larger operations that decide how/what to apply to 80% + of the roughly 250 million acres of industrial farm land. There are MORE people that make commission..a living selling these products to US than there are… US That 500k seed bill… trickles down to 20% commission That 1 million in fertilizer 350k chem bill … This isn’t saying we don’t need any of it What I’m saying is there is very few that are looking at this whole ag economic engine with the motive to create better systems for the prosperity of the typical large scale production agriculture operator. What we do have are substantial subsidized crop insurance programs with rules attached to them… to keep you stuck in this system to benefit all of those companies that employ all of those people that are deriving commission off of your conformity. What you’re seeing here… what I’m talking about is taking these same 80/20 principles I just described and using the market of nature to sequence plants … and animals in a way that gives us a chance to farm with less advil.. because we address the root or the headache. Relying on getting your answers from your dealer instead of creating your own system
Jason Mauck31,070 görüntüleme • 5 ay önce
The #1 thing I like about relay cropping…you can walk away from the field. I think future equipment will band apply seed, chemistry…and fertilizer in 1 pass and use plants to reduce inputs. I also believe there is a huge value in doing it well…better. By modeling these attributes created with poly crop arrangements. With the depressed price of 🌽 , price of nitrogen and phosphorus I can’t grow enough bushels..cheap enough to compete with a good wheat crop and a full soybean crop.. the challenge that could be easily engineered is creating the equipment to make this less total work than Monocropping. Because of canopy management and indexed inputs in relevant time and space.
Jason Mauck16,708 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce
I may piss off about every tribe in Ag with this video… that’s not the goal. I think every “way” has a place. Einstein was quoted “I have never let my schooling interfere with my learning” I never let the dogma of belonging to any tribe in agriculture interfere with what I do. We no till a lot, relay crop, mono crop, have livestock, and are always learning. My goal is to make our soils better… which sometimes in my opinion takes a full reset…. But not just bare soil
Jason Mauck35,339 görüntüleme • 11 ay önce
What is 2nd order thinking? It’s considering the reactions of your actions. Relay cropping is done wrong 100% of the time when 2nd order thinking isn’t considered. Plant wheat at 25% population in wider blocks and retain more soybean yield… with SIGNIFICANTLY less costs. That’s the whole point. If you want to glitch the minds of folks saying that wheat is cheap… agree with them. Right now with our seed costs… and low amounts of fertility we’re sitting at $40/ac. If I can cut $150-$200/ac in wheat crop costs by doing everything agronomically sound, planting early, and intentional I can give up 30-40 bu/ac and be in the same economic position. The difference is the soybean crop has $300-$400 more profitable potential from yield and weed control.
Jason Mauck27,256 görüntüleme • 8 ay önce
With the technology on today’s planters if the ground is fit and warm the corn seed has no idea whether the ground was “worked” or not…these better conditions usually take until the trees are leafing out… and sometimes we want to go a little early to get everything in timely. My preference is a stale seedbed because of how I can retain moisture around the seed longer. The last few years our goal has been to get all our fields perfectly level to do more of this every year.
Jason Mauck16,361 görüntüleme • 4 ay önce