Jason Mauck
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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 Mauck1,171,648 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten
*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 Mauck81,819 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten
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 Mauck30,803 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
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 Aufrufe • vor 8 Monaten
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 Aufrufe • vor 7 Monaten
Checking the spacings. From Chalkboard to Reality. "Life is a garden, dig it." Joe Dirt
Jason Mauck43,039 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr
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 Mauck46,669 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr
How can we 10x the revenue per acre in the corn belt? What if the product was sold and consumed locally? We're sharpening our pencils trying to make farming profitable... If we spend $990 /acre to make $10 Where does the $ spent on inputs go? Sure cash rent stays to the landowners but what about Seed $'s ? Fertilizer $'s? Chemical$'s Equipment$'s? What if corn was just looped right back into the mono gastric livestock Each acre produced 8 fat hogs 200 chickens 4 lamb and walked off the acre and too the local abattoir And to the local grocery store This may not be your exact cup of tea. It may not exactly be the solution... but it is close. We need someone like Thomas Massie to slash the red tape to make local food trade a reality again. Zack Smith
Jason Mauck49,592 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr
Pardon my French here. The things that I share on SM are for the best interest of the farmer. Not the farmers of farmers. The math of getting more with less...or creating venues where weeds don't grow to begin with should be a priority. It's not as sexy as 623.84 bu/ac 🌽
Jason Mauck55,009 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr
Anybody can #plantgreen You have to Harvest while striping green if you want to be gaining an edge.
Jason Mauck31,405 Aufrufe • vor 11 Monaten
Today vs March 21 Little tangent here. Scared dogs don’t make puppies… I’ve been farming my whole life. In 2011 I lost my dad to cancer and the family looked at me to put out the crop. My dad made decisions. He was a leader. When I became responsible to seed, fertilize, spray, etc… 3,000 acres I knew I had 1 talent from when I was a kid. I have a memory like no other. I can tell you what hybrid I plant, pop, rate, day the last 14 years because I am engaged. When everyone was telling me exactly how to do things. I was more curious of what happens when I change a variable here or there. What was the elasticity of that decision or management. In weather forecasting they have a similar system that I was somewhat inspired by called ensemble forecasts where they change variables slightly and see how weather systems behave differently as time progresses. I could lean on my memory. I was bored AF quite honestly to do the same thing over and over again. What happens to corn if you skip a row or 2 or plant it thin or thick? Beans…can you broadcast them? Can you plant wheat with a shit tank? Can you run it over? When it’s 4” tall… what about 6” what about 13” Could you rotationally graze inside a cash crop and empower edge effect elasticity and fertilize simultaneously? It would drive some people crazy as they would wonder if you should plant 160,000 or 176000 beans per acre? What’s the difference…nothing. What’s the difference between 20” corn and 2040” corn? Full season likes the latter….early yields best crowded. Fuck around and Find out isn’t just some tic tok deal. It’s how you don’t become a scared dog. It calms your nerves as most people freak out about things that don’t really matter. Because they never had the balls to try anything else than what their dad did. I always felt like I needed to learn why and how things worked if I was ever going to become a better farmer. What matters are the derivatives, the 1st principles. There is a lot more we can do in production agriculture. It’s not all about winning the yield contest. Sometimes it’s about learning what you don’t need. That creates freedom.
Jason Mauck54,348 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren