2025 vs 2021 Karen Adam’s (same field) Year #10 of chasing the dragon

If I could get 9 seconds of your attention to show the value we’ve created on our farm. I came to the farm full time because my father died of pancreatic cancer in the Spring of 2011. I had always helped out on the farm… I could have represented the USA if there was a hog

Jason Mauck Sometimes yes it’s about making a lot of small one percent changes that then collectively over time compound into big changes on both the cost and production side. But you have to be independent and think for yourself and be a creative problem solver. Most people just want

These questions are hard to get a response for… Have you noticed when you go out and murder plants with wheel traffic mid season how the adjacent plants respond positively? Big corn ears. 300 pod bean plants… right next to the void Why? What if you recreated this by

7” soybeans between 45” twin row wheat 3 rows between most 5 between the tram rows for interseeding 4 on the edges … cause you can’t divide 3 by 1.5 The word of the day is Phenotypes If you remove wheat like a surgeon You create space for ☀️ on the side leaves This is

2018 After 2 years of trial and error I figured the most profitable play was cheapening wheat production to the fullest and using it to hack our way to higher soybean yields Wheat was planted with manure tank w/ Gandy box on 60” centers Soybeans interseeded in April 108/bu ac

32 bushel wheat 108 bu beans @ $5/$10 $1240 108 bu wheat 32 bushel beans $860. (-$380/ac) on revenue + $150+ more expensive an acre You’re going to get between 125-150 total bushels on a normal year in my area with wheat and beans If you push wheat yields to to moon… your

I break all the rules that make me a good tribe member. I no till but also do a lot of tillage. I’m not organic but I don’t like to use a lot of chemical. I’m “high yield” but it’s multi entity… and I’m cheap. I have nothing to sell. I’m here for the views and the sensory.

New turf

We’re officially D3 drought Wheat was planted down 3-3.5”

Are lawns and golf courses why the water quality sucks in Iowa? Let’s paint by numbers…

Chalk talk of 60” wheat If you have irrigation like Brad Wingfield this is a dynamic way to be aggressive with yields of both wheat and soybeans… you just have a 40” gal to fill in with the beans We’ve pushed wheat above 100 and with water you could grow exemptional beans 108