Matt Wagenson

Farmer. Corn. Soybeans. Cattle. Husband and father. I share a house with three amazing gingers. Gluten full carnivore.

[Matt Wagenson @MWagenson]

So..... can a steer barn be considered #andyclean? @apasztor82 #wiagproud #BEEF

[Shawn Conley @badgerbean]

@badgercropguy doing a field test to compare the efficacy of a drone versus ground rig for control of FHB! @badgercropdoc

[Shawn Conley @badgerbean]

Enter the 2026 WSA Yield Contest https://t.co/rDkJb8Uwfl via @YouTube

[Shawn Conley @badgerbean]

Biomass Thresholds for Cereal Rye Cover Crop Goals - https://t.co/Ylax1Piy7Y

[Farm Action @FarmActionUS]

“Today, 63 farmers will go out of business.”

“Farmers are going broke.”

“At the same time as … families can’t feed their kids.”

“Yet across agriculture and food sectors, dominant corporations are posting record profits.”

Farm Action’s Joe Maxwell delivered an urgent call to break up corporate monopolies in our food system at a roundtable hosted by @SenSchumer.

The problem is much, much worse than you think.

“When I began farming in 1980, the top four beef packers controlled about 36% of the cattle.”

“Today, it’s 85% of the fat cattle.”

“There were 56 fertilizer companies.”

“Today, there’s three dominant ones.”

“They use supply chain disruptions to gouge the consumer and take advantage of the farmer.”

“And these farmers will be coming here and asking for another bailout from Congress, fourth time in just a little over a year.”

“Companies themselves acknowledged at the time and filings with the SEC that a large share of their pricing is not tied to their cost, but how much a farmer gets paid.”

“The more bailout money you give the farmers, the more the input companies are gonna charge.”

“That’s how monopoly power works.”

“We also need to confront the role of commodity checkoff programs.”

“These programs were created to support farmers.”

“But today, a large share of mandatory farmer funds flows into marketing and policy influencing the Congress.”

“They primarily benefit the processors and dominant firms.”

“For more than four decades, both parties have actually allowed the sliding towards monopoly control.”

[SoybeanResearchInfoNetwork @SoyResearchInfo]

The FY2025 NCSRP annual report is available online. The report includes summaries of funded research projects, a feature on retiring executive director Ed Anderson and introduces Joe McClure as the new director. #USSoy https://t.co/lzY0M1mixA

[SoybeanResearchInfoNetwork @SoyResearchInfo]

Get ready for #plant26, and be sure you caught all the February #SoySnippets, sharing #SoyResearch, resources and videos from #USSoy for tips to improve planting: https://t.co/ShNdfBAbBG.

[Matt Wagenson @MWagenson]

@MattHintz3 @badgerbean @HBWilkens Me too!!

[Shawn Conley @badgerbean]

Congratulations to @HBWilkens for being Wisconsin’s first national winter wheat yield contest winner and top quality award winner!

[Rodrigo Werle @WiscWeeds]

https://t.co/HxOnP5yGNg

[Rodrigo Werle @WiscWeeds]

Honored to have our #WiscWeeds work featured in “Growing the Future,” showcasing UW–Madison’s research stations driving Wisconsin agriculture forward.

Story by Chris Barncard | Photos by Michael P. King | Video by Elise Mahon @UWMadison @UWMadisonCALS

🔗 https://t.co/II04LbNZMB

[Matt Wagenson @MWagenson]

@nut_history Used to be the differences between the NL and the AL

[Shawn Conley @badgerbean]

Out scouting in our @WISoyCheckoff funded @himmelbergbryce drone application trial and found some white mold starting in the non-treated check in some R5 beans. @badgercropdoc

[Matt Wagenson @MWagenson]

@HBWilkens Nope lol

[Matt Wagenson @MWagenson]

All this pasture and no cattle

[Rodrigo Werle @WiscWeeds]

3 POST programs in Enlist E3 #soybean in Wisconsin side-by-side! 👇

🔹 Enlist One + Roundup PM + Group 15
🔹 Enlist One + Liberty
🔹 Enlist One + Liberty + Group 15

[Shawn Conley @badgerbean]

We are getting ready to plant one of our @WISoyCheckoff @SoybeanScience1 soybean cover crop trials. Here are three lessons we learned from our 2024 trials! I hope you all have a TIP TOP day!

[Matt Wagenson @MWagenson]

@MattHintz3 I always forget to edit that out

[Matt Wagenson @MWagenson]

Fair will be here before we know it #4-H

[Matt Wagenson @MWagenson]

@DimTillard What the actual fuck???