Daniel John

Grain Farming Corn and Soybeans in the beautiful American Midwest

[Daniel John @MeDanielJohn]

We need to reverse deforestation happening in the Amazon Forest

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Cattle perform alchemy. They convert grass (inedible to humans) into:
- Meat, milk, butter, cheese
- Tallow, leather, bone tools
- Manure for fertilizer

This transformation built civilizations.

Humans can't eat grass. Grass grows on 70% of agricultural land.

Without ruminants, that land is useless for food.

The anti-cattle narrative ignores this.

"Land used for cattle should grow crops!"

65% of cattle grazing land is marginal terrain unsuitable for crops. Too steep, rocky, dry, poor soil.

You cannot grow soy on Scottish highlands. You can graze cattle.

Cattle aren't competing with crops. They're utilizing land that can't grow crops.

Historical civilizations that thrived all utilized ruminants:
- Nomadic herders (Mongols, Bedouins)
- Pastoral societies (Maasai, Plains Indians)

All converted marginal land into nutrition.

Modern policy wants to remove cattle, "rewild" land, import food from industrial agriculture.

Less efficient, not more.

Using cattle to convert grass to food on land that can't grow crops is optimal resource use.

Leaving land idle while importing Amazon soy is environmental destruction.

The grass-to-nutrition conversion is irreplaceable. Plant agriculture can't do this.

Humans evolved eating ruminants that converted grass to meat.

Not eating soybeans from cleared rainforest.

[Ag PhD @AgPhDMedia]

Reducing the stress on a plant is extremely important.

[Ag PhD @AgPhDMedia]

Did you know Group 4 chemicals can be considered plant growth regulators?

[Ag PhD @AgPhDMedia]

Here’s how to avoid compatibility issues in your spray tank.

[Ag PhD @AgPhDMedia]

Let’s break down the three components in this herbicide.

[Jason Mauck @jasonmauck1]

Just because something doesn’t scale across every acre of the corn belt doesn’t mean that it isn’t real… and way better.

@stockcropper plot. 3 ring animal circus.

Plants feed the animals
Animals feed the plants

Animals graze between alleyways of corn impacting multiple times in the same growing season.

This system didn’t just break @PrecisionPlant corn yield records. This system won the ROI by a long shot.

The problem? Its complexity requires more thinking, more labor, and local meat processing.

The reason it’s not supported by the industry… it replaces too many things on the cost side of a farmer and the revenue side of our supplier.

So cool for a guy like me that loves growing all these things dance in rhythm with nature.

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Don’t look for scientific explanations… this is just the universe having a little fun at our expense.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

In the forests of Madagascar the leaf-tailed gecko makes itself almost invisible

[C @CedricMakes]

Got a ~$3,700 hospital bill, asked if I could pay less to settle it, they offered 70% discount if I pay now.

American Hospital billing is CrAzY 🤪

[Banana @banana_baeee]

Guys look Claude helped me - a random guy in his basement - build a wetlab and do vibe genomics!

I sequenced my whole genome despite zero lab experience, without my DNA leaving home!

I put together my notes and a step by step guide here:

https://t.co/T5x6PKkwjW

It was a lot easier than I was expecting!

Ultimately I hit ~16x coverage and compared my results against my 600k raw 23andme SNPs, and it held up!

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

The most accurate futurist in world history is Ray Kurzweil. Amazing prescience.

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

I've instructed my chef to make meals that are exactly 700 calories. But they're more than 700 calories. You know how I know? My resting heart rate is elevated by 3 beats per minute. I'm 1,000+ reps (days) in knowing how food impacts my heart rate.

[Jason Mauck @jasonmauck1]

I’m not trying to sound pompous or arragant when I say this but the #1 thing that I struggle with is that the positions that I strive to arrive at… the concepts… the systems aren’t understood by most people inside and outside of Agriculture.

Plants aren’t driven by fertilizer
They are driven by CO2 and sunlight above the surface of the soil… and oxygen, carbohydrates, and proteins below.

I think… and learn analogously. The arrangements or venues that I create in fields work very similar to markets.

The best analogy is the value of beer
What is the value of a single can of miller lite in a case at CostCo vs the value of a beer at a football game or concert?

10x…25x?

Thats what we can do with plants if we’re cognizant of venue.

Sure you need good agronomics and maybe a little N to get things growing, but what’s most important are the real drivers of plant growth.

The other piece to this is America 🇺🇸 wouldn’t be America 🇺🇸 if we weren’t the largest consumer economy in the world.

That is our identity. To be consumers of stuff to impress people that really don’t give a shit … but you think they do.

The economy only works if the rest of the world covets and want to participate in this ecosystem and get a piece of it to themselves.

Therefore… the think tanks of more of a “off grid” holistic thinking has no purpose in Academia or Industry. It’s more of a threat.

You want to fast and eat 🥩 and be healthy without our medication? You want to drive a truck with a carburetor? You value family more than impressing your friends with consumerism? You’re weird… weirdo.

[Night Sky Today @NightSkyToday]

🚨: There have been thousands of generations of humans, and you are alive to witness the first photo of a Sunset on another World.😮

This is a real photo of the sunset on Mars.

[Ag PhD @AgPhDMedia]

#AgPhDRadioUpdate | Too Much Nitrogen Lowers pH

Too much nitrogen lowers pH!

Nitrogen is a tricky nutrient. If your crop is ever short on nitrogen, yield suffers. However, if you apply too much you’ve overspent, especially since nitrogen can be lost through leaching, denitrification, and volatilization. Today we’ll focus on the leaching piece and how that can negatively impact your soil, in addition to your pocketbook. We often have Neal Kinsey, soil fertility expert, on our radio show. He’s said many times that roughly 85% of all nitrate nitrogen converts to nitric acid before it leaches, stripping calcium out. Less calcium means soil pH goes down, which then requires the use of lime to raise both pH and calcium levels back to where they should be. This is why we encourage you to dial in your nitrogen as closely as you can. Use variable rate applications, and try to avoid excess. Too much nitrogen can hurt your soil and cost a lot of money to fix your ground in the long-term.

[Jason Mauck @jasonmauck1]

This leads to 3 things

Intelligent automation
Controlled traffic
Priming, priming, stacking of enterprise

The same acre could produce corn, small grain, forage for chopping or grazing, a venue for calving, and several bee hives thriving off of summer clover

[Marioo 🤝 @hs1marioo]

This is a BIG year for Handshake:

👉 Namebase rebirth
👉 Handycon white
👉 The halving that makes $hns deflationary
👉 More & more integrations
👉 Censorship increasing around the World

and most importantly, it's still working as in day 1, no matter the drama 🤝 #IYKYK

[ecomchigga @ecomchigga]

girl sitting next to me at a coffee shop had her laptop open

saw she was in a gumroad dashboard. couldn't help myself.

"you sell stuff online?"

"yeah templates"

she looked maybe 20. hoodie. airpods. nothing special.

"how's that going"

"pretty good"

"like a side hustle thing?"

"i mean it pays my rent"

"how much you making if you don't mind"

"last month was like $19K"

i actually laughed. thought she was joking.

"from templates?"

"yeah. canva templates for real estate agents."

"real estate agents?"

"they need social media content but don't know how to make it. i made 50 templates they can edit. charge $47."

"and that makes $19K?"

"i have three packs now. different styles. they buy one then come back for the others."

"how'd you even find this"

"my mom's a realtor. she asked me to make her some posts. her realtor friends saw them. they all wanted them. figured i'd just sell it."

"how many followers you got"

"like 1,900"

"you make $19K with 1,900 followers?"

"i don't sell on twitter. i post in realtor facebook groups. there's like 200 of them. i just share free tips and mention my templates."

"you're in 200 facebook groups?"

"took a weekend to join them all. now i just copy paste the same post in 10 groups a day. takes 20 minutes."

"that's the whole strategy?"

"that's the whole strategy."

she went back to her laptop.

i sat there doing math in my head.

this girl found where realtors already hang out. made exactly what they need. posts in groups they're already in.

no algorithm. no viral content. no "building an audience."

just showing up where buyers exist with something they want.

i've been trying to crack twitter for 14 months

she skipped the whole game and went straight to revenue

the buyers already exist somewhere

you don't need to attract them

you need to find them

[Namebase @NamebaseHQ]

UPDATE: Withdrawal limits for HNS and BTC on https://t.co/t1kuqTJGL7 are lifted. There are no withdrawal limits before Feb 1st.

If you’d like to withdraw before the scheduled downtime (see post below), you have until Feb 1st.

Your coins and names are safe if you desire to do nothing and will be available when we return.🤝
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[Dr. Priyam Bordoloi @DocPriyamMD]

The "Survival" Protocol ✅

If you are bitten:

1️⃣Freeze: Keep the victim still. Movement pumps venom faster.
2️⃣Splint it: Immobilize the limb like a broken bone.
3️⃣Remove Jewelry: Rings and watches become "strangle-wires" during swelling.

[Ag PhD @AgPhDMedia]

#AgPhDRadioUpdate | P to Zn Ratio

What is the correct phosphorus to zinc ratio? 

We’ve been comparing soil test levels to yield for many years.  One of the things that really stands out is the phosphorus to zinc ratio.  Phosphorus and zinc compete with each other in plants.  If you get too much of one, it negatively impacts the other and yields go down.  If you want to maximize production, your best bet is to get the ratio of phosphorus to zinc in the right ballpark.  What we’ve found is it doesn’t have to be exact, but it also can’t be 300% off.  Now, this all depends on the lab you use and which phosphorus and zinc tests you’re running, but we like a ratio somewhere around 8 to 1 or 10 to 1 in most crops.  So for every 8 or 10 parts per million of phosphorus you have roughly 1 part per million of zinc.  Having the right fertility program is critical if you want great profits, so look at your phosphorus to zinc ratio.