Jason Mauck

Farmer | Collaborator | Keynote Speaker | [email protected] #farmweird

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@cass_gilmore No

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The space between the wheat is the fish bowl that soybeans have to live in.

More narrow gaps force soybeans to live in a ziplock bag…with a hole in the bag. Limiting the time, size, future value potential.

Wider gaps increase the size from a sandwich baggie to a 5 gal aquarium.

This in turn can facilitate a 80-100 day life before the harvest of the cereal where the intercrop can grow, root in, and express the sequence.

My point here is that we have to think about the collaborative or competitive nature of plurality.

The relationship is the research. Something that is lost in nearly every agriculture research study sponsored by industry because collaboration is the #1 enemy of cornering customers into conforming good consumers of product.

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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.

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@KLeinenn20130 Tires of combine go in a special wider wheat lane

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@KLeinenn20130 See my blockers they go where the beans go

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@NickEhlers01 @zebulousprime Yes.

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60” block of 4 rows
60” gap
Corn plot

Corn is 10’ tall… with 14-20 sets of leaves

Does giving 60% of the plants more sun lower in the plant, more cooling, and a little more water increase total corn yield?

Lot of ulterior motives here as well. Mostly revolving autonomy

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@PlowboyPodunk 33.3k

56k on edge rows
44k middles

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@braunfarm 20”

4 20” rows is 60” wide

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I had a speaking engagement north of Toronto last year and stopped for the night in Grand Bend. Told my wife that we should bring the kids someday.

Some days are only for the makers

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@corn2crypto There are a lot of people doing it. Check out the relay cropping FB group.

Point I’m trying to make is that giving up wheat bushels for beans bushels is a double paying scenario in revenue and costs but most people can’t give it up and pay for it

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@DavidDavidweave Doesn’t matter much with cereal and soybean
With corn alleys it matters especially if you’re intercropping

You have to let the light in through the mid - late summer

I harvest the cereal June 25th - July 4th in this so it’s gone

[Jason Mauck @jasonmauck1]

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.

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@chrissmithgle It happens naturally anyway… but different hybrids would make that happen

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@jasonmauck1 My grandpa Blake shucking corn in the 1940s just across the Delaware/Madison county line half a mile south of St Rd 28/35. He couldn’t have believed how much farming has changed. A relative is still farming the land in our family since 1837.

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1 thing you miss when people pass on is the things you did to make them happy.

Shelling great corn always felt like an early Christmas present for my grandpa who shelled most of our corn during the day. I don’t get that same feeling I once had knowing this would give him joy a few months from now.

It was better than a blue pill for my old man’s old man

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The 2026 version of the Mauck Farms sign

5 minutes every 5 days of weeding and deadheading, removing or planting.

Around 15 different plant species will grow and bloom in this space over about a 270 day season from March - December. Many will come back as volunteers the next year.

Plant sequencing goes hand in hand with plant expression, but you have to be cognizant of each plants environment you create for it. The “blooming” or fruiting season for all of them are slightly different…. But all also depend on the space they are allowed to grow in.

My idea of agriculture focuses on this idea of growing more than 1 thing in a year on an acre of farm ground… because the potential is far greater than a
100 -150 day season in time and space.

Relay cropping is one way. Alley cropping is another way with crops such as corn. What’s hypercritical is the design and understanding of where to put things so that they can thrive for their unique time to shine.

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3 weeks since wheat harvest doing a little foliar feeding tonight

A whole field of edge rows… or the outside row overyielding phenomenon is what I try to do with relay wheat | soybeans

4/9 planted, group IV beans will live until October. Allowing more “coats of paint” or growing point with leaves jockeying for position for sun capture and co2.

Canopy closure is taking a little longer this year, but we should create Golden Arches of 1.618

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@Farmin4Ganja Here a video from this spring planting beans with the Hiniker

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@Farmin4Ganja They’ll plant them. Kind of like any drill, a big rain gets the party started… if not they’ll take a few weeks to all come up