Eng. Farmer Kim

Farmer | Businessman | Engineer |

Live Large, You only live Once

[Eng. Farmer Kim @Martinibo2]

@moneyacademyKE What's the point of reference? Grades? Opinions tend to be wrong most times, especially the public

[Eng. Farmer Kim @Martinibo2]

The most obvious starting point is biodiesel.
Governments should really dedicate as much resources as possible to nuclear energy.
I'm not buying the solar hype and the wind craze. We should be aiming for a 50% and above efficiency.
We'll come to ICE's later.

[Eng. Farmer Kim @Martinibo2]

Working on how to reduce the costs of energy and fuel. Strikes me as the most important variables affecting prices of consumer products.
Note: Consumerism is not all evil, excessive is!

[Eng. Farmer Kim @Martinibo2]

There's no way, absolutely none, that living long and healthy is expensive. If anyone tries to push this narrative to you, CIT THEM OFF!
It's all about the FOOD you eat and how you TAKE CARE OF YOUR BODY.
Golden rule to live by is USE IT OR LOSE IT!

[Eng. Farmer Kim @Martinibo2]

@africaceoforum @googleafrica Kindly change your tweet format to something more appealing to read. Too many icons... Why start with a hashtag?

[Jean Claude NIYOMUGABO @jcniyomugabo]

Growing up, I often heard the story of how my father saved my life.

I was only four years old when I fell terribly ill.

It happened so suddenly that my mother panicked, unsure of what to do.

My father was teaching gospel, just a mile away from home, when my mother called to tell him I was dying…

[Eng. Farmer Kim @Martinibo2]

@AgInfluencersRw This is the most level headed advise I have ever heard in farming. Continue the good work!

[Eng. Farmer Kim @Martinibo2]

@StuartBarden Hello, I've been looking to come visit your farm but seems that you're not open at the moment, kindly advise on when a farm visit would be possible to learn more about min till and no till. Thanks in advance

[Eng. Farmer Kim @Martinibo2]

@Kenya_Agron How long have you guys been practicing no till. Has it allowed you guys to move away from granulated fert for phosphorus and nitrogen? If you still apply, what are the going rates per acre? Keen on this as I'm preparing my farm for min till. Thanka

[David Senra @FoundersPodcast]

I read Ogilvy on Advertising for the 3rd time

A list of ideas from the book:

1. The beginning of greatness is to be different and the beginning of failure is to be the same.

2. Down with committees. Committees can criticize, but they cannot create.

3. Search the parks in all your cities; you’ll find no statues of committees.

4. Advertising which promises no benefit to the consumer does not sell. (That is the most important sentence in this book.)

5. The more you tell the more you sell. Long copy sells more.

6. Long copy conveys the impression that you have something important to say, whether people read the copy or not.

7. You aren’t advertising to a standing army; you are advertising to a moving parade.

8. Include the price of your products in your ads.

9. Consider how you want to position your product. Positioning answers (1) what the product does and (2) who it is for.

10. Have humility in the presence of a good idea.

11. At the beginning good ideas are fragile. Nuture — don’t kill.

12. Make the product the hero.

13. Make the product different.

14. If you and your competitors all make excellent products, don’t try to imply that your product is better. Just say what’s good about your product – and do a clearer, more honest, more informative job of saying it.

15. Repeat your winners. If you write a good advertisement repeat it until it stops selling. (Most campaigns are abandoned far too early)

16. The good ones know more. I asked an indifferent copywriter what books he had read about advertising. He told me that he had not read any. This willful refusal to learn the rudiments of the craft is all too common. A blind pig can sometimes find truffles, but it helps to know that they are found in oak forests.

17. It is not uncommon for a change in headlines to multiply returns ten times over.

18. Poets see an ad as an end. Killers as a means to an end. If you are both killer and poet you get rich.

19. You are a human being writing to another human being. Neither of you is an institution. Be personal, direct and natural.

20. Friction polishes you.

21. Pressure refines you.

22. Write down your principles.

23. Don't put profit before service. (Money comes naturally as a result of service)

24. Focus on value not price.

25. Be upfront about your weaknesses. People will like you — and your product — more.

26. Five times as many people read the headlines as read the body copy. Unless your headline sells your product, you have wasted 90% of your money.

27. The headlines which work best are those which promise the reader a benefit – like a whiter wash, more miles per gallon, freedom from pimples, fewer cavities.

28. Do not address your readers as though they were gathered together in a stadium. When people read your copy, they are alone. Pretend you are writing each of them a letter on behalf of your client. One human being to another.

29. Your ads must be entertaining and informative. You can’t save souls in an empty church.

30. You cannot bore people into buying your product.

31. It pays to write short sentences and short paragraphs. Avoid difficult words.

32. Promise is the soul of an advertisement.

33. Don’t waste time on problem babies. Back your winners. Abandon your losers.

34. Concentrate your time, your brains, and your money on your successes.

35. Pricing is guesswork.

36. The higher you price your product the more desirable it becomes in the eyes of the consumer.

37. Advertising is a production cost, not a selling cost. It should not be cut back on when times are hard.

38. Study the history of your industry. Get to know the pioneers.

39. Advertising is salesmanship in print. If you can write copy that sells your product nothing else is needed.

40. Great achievements are generated in an atmosphere of dynamic tension.

41. Believe in the dogmatism of brevity. We are both in a hurry.

42. Human nature hasn’t changed for a billion years. It won’t even vary in the next billion years. Only the superficial things have changed. It is fashionable to talk about changing man. A communicator must be concerned with unchanging man.

43. Steep yourself in your subject, work like hell, and love, honor, and obey your hunches.

[Koi @cajunkoi]

A "cognitive bias" is a systematic error in your thinking that ruins decision-making.

The 7 most powerful cognitive biases I've found:

[Eng. Farmer Kim @Martinibo2]

@UjuziKilimo how do I get your soil pal?

[Senje 🌸 @Tettyanaa]

Thankfully I have some experience with this so let’s do a 🧵

First, Kairo is right. You can open a US company from anywhere in the world without breaking the bank.

[Soul @SoulFairy3]

The banks are screwing people over on loans with terms and interest rates.

Let me try to help with something old skool annd FREE, but most people dont use it📢📢📢

Open Microsoft Excel

File, New

Type in "Loan Amortization" in the search bar

[Chief Jogoo Castrator, Hen Inseminator, Egg Thief @Maina_Poultry]

Young Kenyans who wish to do animal and plant agriculture as a source of income, here are possible resources for you, and I can guarantee the officers in these facilities will be of help:
1. For fish rearing, processing, and value addition, including selecting quality feeds and fingerings, talk to Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute @KmfriResearch https://t.co/WQFTxRdiqB. They have stations in Sagana, Naivasha, Mombasa and other stations serving the country.
2. For goat and bovine semen, that is well acclimatized for Kenya. Talk to @KAGRC_KE https://t.co/PKRwbvbrqN. By the way, not all import semen is for breeds that make sense in Kenya. There is no point in importing a pure Holstein to a tropical environment that is low on feed resources and high disease incidence (story for another day).
3. For rabbits, all breeds: Hybrid rabbits include New Zealand White, California White, and Flemish Giant and their crosses. talk to the National Rabbits Breeding Centre Ngong FTC and Veterinary Farm are under the Livestock Department, and you can call them at [phone].
4. For beef and dairy cattle, indigenous and improved poultry, beekeeping and new tech talk to KALRO @kalromkulima https://t.co/VaKvcUNCsp. Do not fear them; go to their offices and stations and request help, and you can be sure they will help you.
5. For fruit trees, if you are in Mt Kenya Region, go to @DiscoverJKUAT; if you are in counties surrounding Machakos (ASALs), visit https://t.co/55WKAHdCVd Katumani. KALRO also has other Rift Valley and Western/Nyanza centers.
6. When I visited the Perkerra Irrigation Scheme at Marigat, they had some highland rice that didn't need a lot of water and some nice fruiting tree seedlings, including pawpaws, peaches, etc. I am not sure whether they still have that rice variety, but you can reach out to them @Irrigation_Auth
7. For youngsters who want to do training for diplomas and short-term certs in animal health and affiliated courses, dairy tech visit @AhitiKabete and Dairy Training Institute Naivasha [email protected] respectively.
8. For biological plant pest management, visit @icipe. They have some very nice pest management methods for crops.
Social media has a lot of young men and women doing wonderful stuff, talk to them when you can and learn from each other.
For animal nutrition purposes, talk to graduate students from our universities @egertonunikenya @DiscoverJKUAT @uonbi @KenyattaUni @EmbuUniversity among others (please be generous in your renumeration for services rendered and give them feedback on what to improve on).
@shobanes @CalebKaruga @TuJadili @wmnjoya @akams_ @LegalEzra

[Eng. Farmer Kim @Martinibo2]

If you want to do anything in the world, just do it.
Don't wait for; the right time, mentors, experience, better markets etc.
Just do it! It will work if you're determined enough, you will figure it out. You need nothing to start, just you, so...
JUST DO IT!

[Eng. Farmer Kim @Martinibo2]

Hopeless and desperate people make bad choices, the African problem is a political one borne of desperation and hopelessness. A person in a position where they aren't pushed against the wall would make better choices,assumingly.The solution would be to bring them to such a place.

[Landscape Alliance @TheLandAlliance]

📚 This trainer's guide by @RegreenAfrica supports grassroots actors such as non-governmental organizations, community-based organizations, farmers, and pastoralists to successfully establish #trees on degraded lands.

Download a copy:↪️ https://t.co/4t5M23ILdC

#Trees4Resilience

[Julians Amboko @AmbokoJH]

There is a Nuts & Oil Crops Development Bill of 2023.

It covers the production & processing of Coconut, Cashew nut, Macadamia, ground nuts, Castor beans, Sunflower, oil seed jojoba, shied safflower, sesame, linseed, oil palm, bambara nut & any other seed that may be gazetted by the Cabinet Secretary for agriculture.

Sec24(1) of the bill provides that a person or entity SHALL NOT carry out the business of a nut or oil crop grower, nursery operator, cooperative society or association UNLESS they are registered by the respective county government.

[Eng. Farmer Kim @Martinibo2]

@wapp56 What's your take away from this? Should no-till be combined with tillage after a couple of years or is tillage year after year better? (All in respect to yields)