Jason Mauck
@jasonmauck1 • 36,368 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 Mauck1,171,650 views • 5 months ago
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 Mauck111,552 views • 26 days ago
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 Mauck50,467 views • 3 months ago
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 views • 1 month ago
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 views • 3 months ago
Organic relay from a farmer just east of me in OH. Planting beans over crimped space.
Jason Mauck10,914 views • 1 month ago
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 Mauck16,299 views • 2 months ago
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 views • 9 months ago
Something I learned when I was 10 years old. People will pay twice as much for sweet 🌽 and you could sell twice as much if you were 1st to the market. Something that drives my nuts is that farmers and universities fail to study Slope Curve. We grow Annuals. They live They die I think it’s funny how the no till / cover crop farmers seem like they go to the church of Glypho Saint The organic guys make their hay preaching how it’s poison The conventional guys need a 7 way stack of chemicals that thunder kills waterhemp from dysfunctional soil This system uses wheat control to create a more even distribution of water across the field… and never grow weeds to begin with. I’m not here to piss off everyone. I just don’t understand why we have to look at every “crop” like 1 crop is going to pay handsomely and cover all our overhead costs and leave money in the bank. Maybe we could use cash crops like cover crops… except we don’t kill them We let them live We let them die We just do the math backwards and find how we can grab the ancillary benefits of their existence to our advantage We get more bushels per seed and unit of Nitrogen We stack entities based on slope curve. It starts with messing with the variables and challenging yourself to think differently Instead of just doing what the salesman or the tribe or the university says is the bmp Maybe they just want to continue status quo because your loyalty and lack of seeking truths are their profit center
Jason Mauck31,945 views • 9 months ago
Checking the spacings. From Chalkboard to Reality. "Life is a garden, dig it." Joe Dirt
Jason Mauck43,039 views • 1 year ago
For 3 summers we raised a group of pigs in the woods. We moved them every 5-10 days depending on impact. The meat was of a different quality. Yes it is work..but at best 2-3 hrs week if close by..like your home. Start them in the spring we're making bacon for Thanksgiving.
Jason Mauck46,677 views • 1 year ago