@jasonmauck1@thefarmerslife In the next 10 years we will. Autonomous.
I'm not sure 100hp tractors are most efficient, depends on field size. Probably maximize 200-250hp
Could you imagine a world where most people said that about farming and food industry?
Farming is a noble calling but rarely prosperity for all in the industry.
@silvopasturist@jasonmauck1 The commodity groups have only done what the farmers have asked for … easy
The blame is solely on us, farmers. We have looked for easy and we got easy. With easy comes existence only. Once we learn to thrive with diversity and intensity, commodity groups will weaken.
I have 2 goals in the years to come.
1. Stay Sober
2. Stay Hungry
I may have an occasional beer or 2 but I'm getting lean and mean. I love the way I feel fasting during the day and eating meat and vegetables at night.
The main thing with the sobriety is stop caring about conformity. I don't need anyone specifically. If it is to be it is up to me doing it. That's another level of freedom along with being lower body fat, more clarity and energy to think, and actually pull off ideas I see value in.
@jasonmauck1@LorenBorntrager A present dad that nutures and leads is what kids need. I don't see anything that violates those fatherly responsibilities here.
Too many pharacies out there raising weak conformist kids that needlessly shifts the overton window.
The comedian Ron White had a bit once on calling the front desk at a Hotel and asking for a wake up call at 7 after a drunken bender @ 8 a.m
The man says "It's past 7"
Which Ron Replies "the next one" ... meaning 7 pm
The point. People's eyes... and really industry or academia can't perceive the value of 3 things that IMO are of upmost importance in poly cropping
1. Side light. The ability of plants to grow in a half circle. 1.57... but in reality it's 1.618 as they strive towards the 🌞 hence the shape isn't perfectly symmetrical
2. The corresponding overyielding that occurs when we allow this to happen and how we can account for that
3. The sequences that be created when we arrange for plants to be able to grow both vertically, horizontally, and diagonally...
To Add to that ... where we need to arrive
Using cash crops to do jobs for us that otherwise would require additional inputs such as more herbicides. Banding nutrients underneath N loving grasses to begin excited and then thrive off of 🌞
That can be 💩 just the same.
It's a 🌎 nearly undiscovered. Because the world thinks we only can wake up at 7am.
@GGunthorp@jasonmauck1 Not always intentional, but it happens so often one has to ponder whether it is intentional or just complete ignorance. Either way, it's not good and doesn't warrant participating in the organized chaos as a farmer.
@jasonmauck1 If you don't fail at something every once in a while, you're not trying hard enough. What you learned is priceless. Just don't be scared to try again.