Patrick Halde

Husband. Father. Son to a dry-lander. Opinions are my own.

[Patrick Halde @patrickhalde]

@BantrySeedFarms I’ve seen it in a significant head wind. It busts the pattern up and gets a finer pattern with the wind, larger droplets and less coverage.

[Patrick Halde @patrickhalde]

@QShieldknight Spypoint on a free account will send three pictures a time lapse . battery indicators suck but put good lithium batteries in and they last most of the summer. Can’t remote view into them but if just after water levels is a nice tool. I Use it to watch a pilot light in the winter.

[Patrick Halde @patrickhalde]

Home boys gunna wonder where he left his light after completing that job….

[aka @akafaceUS]

Wish customers would understand how much they will need that access panel

[Patrick Halde @patrickhalde]

@TandTAg It’ll buff. Palmer will be through it in a month. Lol

[Patrick Halde @patrickhalde]

We got to tour the process of how these Jamón’s are developed. At the time there was a family responsible for determining if they were properly cured. It was an absolute delicacy when we were in the south of Spain!

[🚫👁️Drinks on Saturday🇺🇸 @drinkonsaturday]

Jamón de Bellota 50% Ibérico is pure luxury—acorn-fed Iberico pigs roaming freely in the dehesa, their meat marbled with healthy fats that melt at body temperature. The process demands patience: salting (one day per kg), washing, then 12–36+ months of slow curing in natural drying chambers where temperature and humidity fluctuate with the seasons. This transforms the ham into something nutty, sweet, and complex—far beyond ordinary cured meat.

That rarity and effort make it wedding (or Christmas, milestone) territory. A full leg costs hundreds of euros; wasting it on casual nights feels wrong.

Enter the cortadores like Víctor Sanchego, masters who train years to hand-slice paper-thin petals with a long, flexible jamón knife. They carve in a precise spiral, maximizing yield while preserving aroma and texture, often on-site at events. It's theater—knife flashing, fat glistening, guests mesmerized. Sanchego's viral tutorials show the craft: steady hand, perfect angle, respect for the piece.

All this ritual elevates it from food to experience. One leg, shared ceremonially, becomes the heart of celebration. Worth every trained slice.

[Patrick Halde @patrickhalde]

@BenRand10 Not much grass but yeah we’ve got cows!

[Ben Rand @BenRand10]

If your HRW is cooked, I'd suggest getting a claim going.

Claims are now pouring in, PP IRR claims around the corner, as well as other failed first crops.

Just my 2c, but get on the list now.

[Patrick Halde @patrickhalde]

@BrianBledsoe @farmerjim13 We’ve been in the screwed category so far. Snakes on the roads have my hopes up…and your forecasts 😂😂

[Brian Bledsoe 🐊 @BrianBledsoe]

Per usual, there will be haves and have nots with the storm this week. There are ongoing changes with how the models are resolving the complex upper level pattern, which will inevitably determine who sees what...both rain and snow. If you think this is just more "meteorological 🐴💩" in trying to resolve what failure modes exist, you are correct. There are always failure modes in the high desert with storms. That being said, some folks in southeast Wyoming, far west/southwest Nebraska, northeast Colorado, and west/northwest Kansas have potential to jackpot. Stay tuned...#desertfarmers #cowx #kswx #newx #okwx #txwx #nmwx

[Patrick Halde @patrickhalde]

@BrianBledsoe Sign me up!

[Ben Rand @BenRand10]

@FedCropAgency will be hosting a Prevented Planting meeting on Friday, May 1 at 10a in the DeSoto Building at the Logan County Fairground in Sterling Colorado.

This will be open to anyone wishing to attend.

Retweets appreciated. Its short notice trying to get the word out.

[CyrilXBT @cyrilXBT]

A MIT professor gave a 1-hour lecture in 2019 that has 18 million views.

He died 5 months after recording it.

It was his final gift to the world.

Patrick Winston taught at MIT for 50 years.

The smartest engineers on earth sat in his classroom.

And he spent his last lecture teaching them the one skill their degrees never covered.

How to speak.

15 lessons that will change how you communicate forever:

Never open with a joke. Your audience is not ready to laugh yet. Open with a promise of what they will know by the end.

Your ideas are like your children. You are too close to them. What is obvious to you is invisible to everyone else. Explain the obvious.

The 5-minute rule: the first 5 minutes of any talk determine whether people will listen for the next 55. Spend more time on your opening than anything else.

Repeat your most important idea 3 times in 3 different ways. Once is never enough.

Build a fence around your idea. Tell people what it is NOT before you tell them what it IS.

Verbal punctuation. Pause. Let the idea land before moving to the next one.

Ask questions nobody will answer. Then wait 7 seconds. The silence is not awkward. It is processing.

Never read your slides. Your audience can read. They cannot listen and read simultaneously.

Use the board not the slides. Writing forces you to slow down. Slowing down forces clarity.

Inspire before you inform. Nobody learns from someone they are not inspired by.

End with a contribution not a summary. Tell them what you gave them. Not what you said.

Never say thank you at the end. It is weak. End with something that lands.

Stories make ideas stick. Data makes ideas understood. You need both. In that order.

The quality of your communication determines the quality of your ideas in the eyes of the world. Not the ideas themselves.

Practice is not preparation. Practice IS the skill.

Patrick Winston understood something most people spend their entire careers missing.

Your ideas are only as powerful as your ability to transfer them into someone else's mind.

You can be the smartest person in the room and be completely invisible.

Or you can master communication and make average ideas feel like breakthroughs.

He chose to spend his last lecture teaching this.

Watch it tonight.

Bookmark this first.

Follow @cyrilXBT for more lessons from the people who built the future.

[Patrick Halde @patrickhalde]

@russpauls @LowBoomLowDrift Biggest difference I’ve seen is fall applied ppo’s flumi or sulfentrazone. They germinate way sooner than we all think and it’s the carpet they turn into that cause the most issues imo

[Patrick Halde @patrickhalde]

@LowBoomLowDrift It’s a soybean based MSO. I’m not sure what the spicy additive is. Any ppo you want to kill emerged weeds with, works really good with gramoxone, dicamba 24d basically any application that isn’t actively growing things you want to keep. Works well in desiccation apps

[Patrick Halde @patrickhalde]

@LowBoomLowDrift Li700 just lowers the pH and has some nice spread to it. This doesnt have quite the spread but the penetration is way higher. It’ll eat through a syro cup in 5 minutes. We use it at 1% by volume up to 16 oz. These aren’t in the same category. I like 12-15 gallon per acre apps

[Patrick Halde @patrickhalde]

@Mrgunsngear They aren’t on backwards tho. Looks like we are one step in the right direction

[Patrick Halde @patrickhalde]

@BeardedTexan69 6mm creedmoor perfect for deer and anything smalller. Capable at 400 yards plum easy. laser flat to about 250