michael van beek

Agronomist , outdoor enthusiast and researcher of interesting things. All views & thoughts expressed are my own.

[michael van beek @agronomike]

I couldn’t find a market
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Farmers want alternative crops; They want to innovate and create value.

A good Farmer can grow anything that’s environmentally suitable, but that’s not the problem.

You can raise a valuable product and have nowhere to sell it.

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There should be a polymarket for urea. I should be sitting at a fertilizer meeting and hearing what polymarket says is going to be the bottom at NOLA and when that bottom is going to hit.

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@Matt_Pinner If it aligns with their talents and goals, how could you argue with it.

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@CoverCropCoach My hayfever says you should have a trigger warning on this post.

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@JB1401777 This… is a part of Iowa I have not been to.

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Quizzing Ai with outlandish agronomy questions extension has no answer for AMA.

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@Foxyle_com The welds on these things are 👌

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Use glyphosate…
use glyphosate plus a group 4…
use glyphosate a group 4, 27 and 15…
Become Dr Evil

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@farmandrail @MichaelWSpike Some people are slow.

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@eichstadt_jay I don’t let them in the house.

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@PetersenFarms Strip till?

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@MaxROIFarmer Price is wrong bob!

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These are the types of situations I get into while writing a herbicide rec and filling my friends propane cylinder at the elevator.

I’m still not 100% sure, but I will stick with Bradyrhizobium elkani or japonicum.

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Peat inoculant for soybeans was a little short this year, so there were some guys were questioning “for soybeans” “for peas & lentils” “for chickpeas” on the bags… I heard the following rumors:

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Or is it not as precise as the labels would have you believe and certain rhizobium have a more broad range of hosts than what is conventionally known?