Do farmers -- like parents -- sometimes give themselves too much credit for their kids' good traits then blame their bad characteristics on nature? Yep! The guys from @XtremeAg and our friend from @Nachurs discuss nature vs. nurture as it pertains to crop production.

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The biggest thing for guys our age is time. Farming and building a farming enterprise takes a lot of it. So much of my dream will materialize when a ripple ignites all that was laid out and set up over decades and decades. Boom, a star is born in its full glory as it flickers in to its main sequence of chain reactions. To get there took a lot of work, frustration, heart ache, successes and losses. Roading all over the top 3rd of an entire state. Buying land that isn’t convenient to the rest of the operation, but it will accomplish hedging against runaway pricing. So when something does open up in a better location, it’s a swap out. Forming an ag REIT, grooming relationships, investors, the largest single transfer of farmland is coming, where will we be when the music stops? I’d say I am ok for the next 20 yrs, but this could be a 30-40 year deal before the dust settles. I won’t live that long. Therefore, I am content, no magic genie please. Let me just enjoy the day to day, relish in now, everything else will come together when the time is right, and I want time to go slower as a 53 year old man.

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That residue needs incorporated into the soil for at least a year to break down. Soybeans will work pretty good and put Nitrogen into the Soil for your Wheat. Planting 2 different Nitrogen needy crops back to back doesn't give your Soil a break.

Followed, and everyone reading this should too

It is important to be creative. think out side the box these days. Agriculture has changed and there are lots of opportunities for young people today. Vegetable production has been a wise choice for me getting into AG

Enjoyed the sit down. Perused the video list and kinda looking forward to checking some of them out. Part of our family tree includes farmers and ranchers and I still find it interesting but worry sometimes when I hear disagreeable news. As much as to our service members I would like to say thank you too. Some of us know how many long hours are put in to feed Americas families.

I love this show

Funny how here in the rolling hills of western IL the “crappy ground” is selling north of 7500/acre. Bought our farm around 500/acre in 97. Pretty cashy ground for white dirt, but the recreational side of it and our hunting has added plenty of value. Even if our politics suck.

Each generation has made it easier for the next

I don’t find the Granary very entertaining guys. Just being honest.

Tell us about the details ! Why can’t we hear from the farmer ! Why is AgLiquid folks in this ??

We each stand on the shoulders of giants, who came before us.

Strip till seems like the perfect scenario by creating an oxidized zone and a zone of less oxidation in every row.

Always looking over My shoulder bless his heart but I'm going to turn my son lose, right r wrong god will led him

Men I am 61 been up n down this ladder, old GENERAL PATTON

Very good content...Get some of them young boys to hype on social media a little, haha.

He misspoke right? 2x2 fungicide?

What get you the most tax breaks. Farmers r 80 percent scum bags

Been corn on corn for 15 years, because of bottoms and irrigation. Took the early fungicide out 7 years ago, no yield loss. Save the money and go 20 gallons of water lots of pressure and good fungicide late if your able to do that.

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35 minutes of arguing what the meaning of bad ground is?

I thought the I-States didn't have any crappy ground. Anything that isn't tillable can be converted to pasture livestock or be sold off as a building site.

We have what's called 12 00 ground in my part of northern Ohio. Before 12 is too wet, then after 12 it's too hard.

I'm not a farmer, but a home gardner living in an area where farming is the norm, so to me, listening to these discussions is important. You guys are awesome. I never fail to learn something

as always valuable insight from top notched host and farmers

There no crappy ground just crappy farmers i bought a sandy wore out soil tobacco farm and start dairy and within 4 years i wrnt from 80bushel corn to over 200.

I'm walking away from all of it in 25. The field that I am keeping the perimeter that is always low yielding up against trees and swamps and that's where the water runs off the field too is it going to hey production for cows There is zero margin of error on crop ground for 25 so you eliminate the ground that is an error to begin with

Another point… ground is ground. It might not be where you want it, or do what you want it to, but when you own it, you can sell it and buy those acres that are in closer to a bigger cluster of ground your you are operating in when that land becomes available. You are hedging against price increases by having it. But yes, it does suck roading all over the place. I’m not all on tracks for the traction, the duals are a nightmare to go down the road with around here.

Even in the black earth top 1/2 of Illinois, we have veins of pure sand here and there. They have silica plants all over the place. I used to fly over Kansas a lot. When I was a kid, you saw wheat and sorghum. They grow a lot of corn and beans out there now. KS, OK was full of DIRT cheap land. I almost started there myself. I saw land selling for $400 / acre. It’s gone up in price more than Illinois ground as far as percentages are concerned. I think finding balance has been the reason for my survival, and don’t ever discount luck. I’ve always had something that was a total home run. This year it’s been calf prices, a really good custom grown organic wheat crop, nothing fancy, just conventional genetics grown according to organic guidelines, and the financial maneuvering of drawing on a huge line of credit at a set rate, and getting twice the interest I was paying by churning it in short term treasuries. In years prior, I was paying debt down, cattle prices sucked, but organic premiums were huge. I’m very fortunate that in 24 yrs, all the holes in the Swiss cheese never lined up at once and sank me. I digress, one tactic I have is putting alternative crops on bad patches. Ancient grains are a prime example if it’s an area out in a field. They do better on those spots. Way less likely to lodge. Along tree lines, I put in Mint, Lavander, tree starts, I’ll line up hoop houses and do early start veg production, my legendary $25k/acre organic luffa plot runs right along a treeline. Unfortunately, the market will only bear 2.5 acres of them. 😂 I do some dairy, and beef on dairy. All my dairy infrastructure is concrete road barriers, metal military surplus runway materials, and tensioned fabric structures. I can move them, and pound an area with animal impact for 3-5 years to bring fertility up. I’m just not big on infrastructure, it will be outdated and useless in 10 yrs. A cement truck made a wrong turn in to my driveway and I had to breath into a paper bag for a while to calm down because I thought my GM snuck a project by me. Of course, always go for the obvious. If you can dig a drainage trench, do a little dirt work, put in a tile, do it.

That statistical term is referred to as regression to the mean.

Without subsidized crop insurance, truly crappy ground would no longer be row crop farmed.

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Not a bad discussion. Not a lot of specifics. What defines crappy ground other than disappointing yields? Low organic matter, soil texture, rocks, drainage, fertility?

Field size would be a better discussion than farm size. Average field size in my area is 3.5 acres. You make it bigger it runs to the bottom of the hillside when it rains. I run all out just to cover 300 acres in a year.

I had 30 acres at the far end of my 200 acres dairy farm that was seeded down to a hay crop when I was a young kid. I plowed it up and with the 3 runs through the fields I could never get it planted. It was just waste ground to me.

“Potash crash”

For a million dollars it damm sure ought to be impressive

Maybe you could have made a pass over the cornstalks and then broadcast the seed.

wow farmers jobs are so hard

Greed and technology know ball starts rolling 😂

Greed in one hand, jealousy in the other. Try and justify it anyway you want, but you dont have to be a mega farmer to make a living. Spend less than you make. Spreading your income over a loss is the dumbest idea ive heard of to farm more acres

And this is why we needed Usda meaningful payment limits no LLCs or any other BS

I would love that for small subcompact tractors. I have modernized farmall cubs and super c.

My brother and I use to farm 700 acres and work other jobs. Big farms made rent go sky high in our area. We both tried to keep our family farm going. With loosing money and feeling like a failure My brother took his life. Farming was his life and it was gradually slipping away and he couldn't take it. I'm still trying to keep it going. It's tough. Wish farming was like it was 60 yrs ago when neighbors helped each other out instead of being greedy and bragging that I'm bigger than you. On the other hand I have one neighbor that helped me through this hard time. God bless them. It's a real cut throat In my area. Don't know how long I can keep it going.

Don't know where you farm, conditions vary. Wheat after corn is a no no. Both are grasses - the alleleopathic effect will encourage a variety of wheat diseases. Wheat needs fertilizer, mostly N and P, in furrow with seed.

That is really cool

I have worked off farm for years, now i farm 350a and farm full time,. Live like a pulpper , nothing new, can't find more land. Big farms purchase there products at a better rate and can sell at a better price due to scale, we diversify and make a living. Size is only get bigger due to economics .

What a pile of baloney Nice guys but the justification of the extremely common problem of pure greed and pride in farming could not have been exemplified better