Vance Kraeger

Husband, Father of 3, Nurse, Farmer and Christ's follower

[Michael Ring @RingFamilyAg]

A cow’s flight zone is ten feet when she’s calm and two hundred when she’s scared. Same animal and same day. If someone in your life suddenly needs distance, ask what changed in their environment, not in them.

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

When I was Muslim, Eid al-Adha was my favorite holiday.

Every year: the sacrifice. A lamb or goat slaughtered to commemorate the day Allah ransomed Abraham’s son with a substitute.

And the Quran’s own words haunted me for years after I left.

Surah 37:107 goes “And We ransomed him with a GREAT sacrifice.”

Great? An animal caught in a bush is “great”? Rams are not rare. There is nothing great about a ram… unless the ram is pointing at something.

Go back to the original account. Genesis 22. Isaac asks his father, “where is the lamb?” And Abraham answers with one of the most loaded sentences in the Bible:

“God will provide FOR HIMSELF the lamb.”

Not “God will provide A lamb for us.” God will provide HIMSELF the lamb.

And it happens on a mountain in “the region of Moriah,” the exact region where the Temple would later stand (2 Chronicles 3:1), walking distance from a hill called Calvary.

Stay with me now…

Abraham even names the place “The LORD Will Provide,” and Genesis adds: “on the mountain of the LORD it WILL BE provided.”

Future tense. The story itself says the real provision hadn’t happened yet.

Two thousand years later, John the Baptist sees a man walking toward him and says the sentence Isaac’s question had been waiting for:

“BEHOLD, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.”

There’s the great sacrifice.

Islam slaughters an animal every year and calls the substitute “great” without ever asking what it was a substitute FOR.

The ritual survived. The meaning didn’t.

I found the Lamb.

PRAISE THE LORD, I’M FREE

[Vance Kraeger @Proverbs2_6Dad]

@MachineryPete Wow indeed.

[Tyne Morgan @Tyne_Ag]

A new study by @NationalCorn found:

-U.S. corn seed prices averaged 68% higher than Brazil’s
-Insecticide prices averaged 87% higher
-Some fungicides cost more than double what Brazilian farmers paid
-Many herbicide comparisons also approached double Brazilian price levels

For NCGA President Jed Bower, an Ohio farmer, the findings confirm concerns many growers have held for years: “It sure doesn’t look like we’re the low-cost producer anymore,” Bower says. “The study shows the American farmer is really paying for all the innovation and research for the rest of the world to take advantage of.”

https://t.co/YJsSw7oNVJ

[DNI Tulsi Gabbard @DNIGabbard]

Today, on my final day as Director of National Intelligence, I’m releasing never-before-seen communications and documents exposing how Dr. Fauci provided millions in US taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, worked with politicized elements within the Intelligence Community to suppress the truth about his actions and hide the virus’ lab-leak origins, and lied to Congress while under oath in 2024. It’s time you know the truth.

https://t.co/3YJSstB7d4

[Peter St Onge, Ph.D. @profstonge]

Washington is now spending $2 for every $1 collected in taxes.

As in they would have to double taxes just to cover what Congress already spends.

The last time this happened was World War 2.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The year is 1949.

The Nobel Prize in Medicine has just gone to the man who invented the lobotomy. Your doctor suggests one for your sister, who has not been herself since the baby came. It is the most celebrated advance in psychiatry of the age, and he is simply current. By the time the prize curdles into an embarrassment, close to twenty thousand Americans have had the operation, and proportionally more here in Britain.

The year is 1956.

Lay the baby down on his front, the doctor says. So does the most trusted childcare book ever written, the one on every new mother's shelf. On his back he might choke, the reasoning goes. Millions obey. The advice holds for nearly thirty years, long after the evidence has quietly turned, and a generation of cot deaths is counted before anyone thinks to roll the babies over.

The year is 1966.

A bestselling book informs your wife that menopause is a disease, that she is, in the author's word, a castrate, and that a small daily pill will keep her youthful and tolerable to live with. Her doctor agrees. The drug becomes one of the most prescribed in the country. Nobody mentions that the author sat on the payroll of the company that made it. That detail surfaces decades later, in the same year the landmark trial is halted early for raising rates of breast cancer, stroke and clots.

The year is 1979.

Your ulcer is caused by stress and sharp food, the doctor explains. Calm down, drink milk, take the antacid that happens to be the best-selling medicine on earth. Two Australians are about to prove that most ulcers are caused by a bacterium and cured by a fortnight of antibiotics. The profession laughs. One of them eventually drinks a beaker of the stuff to settle the matter. The establishment takes the better part of twenty years to stop laughing. The Nobel lands in 2005.

The year is 1985.

Butter is dangerous, the doctor says. Switch to margarine, it is modern, it is heart-healthy, the experts are united. The spread he nudges you toward is loaded with trans fats, which the next decade will identify as the genuinely dangerous one, and which will eventually be banned outright. The butter goes quietly back in the fridge. No correction is ever printed at the volume of the original warning.

The year is 1992.

There is a pyramid on the surgery wall, and the very same one in your grandchild's classroom. Bread, cereal, rice and pasta form the broad virtuous base, up to eleven servings a day. Fat is exiled to the tiny tip. The chart was reportedly held back a year while the relevant industries had their say. It is wrong at the bottom and wrong at the top.

Now it is today.

Your doctor has new guidelines, new studies, a fresh consensus, delivered with precisely the steady confidence of every guideline above. He believes it, and he has good reason to. So did every doctor in this thread. None of them were villains. Each was sincere, most were kind, and all were certain, reading from a map that somebody else had drawn and handed them. That is the part worth sitting with.

So when the man in the white coat tells you what to eat, what to fear, and what to swallow every morning for the rest of your life, you are allowed to ask. Who paid for the study. What the evidence says beneath the headline. What he was just as certain about thirty years ago, and where that advice sits now.

Then make up your own mind. Call it scepticism, or call it whatever your grandmother called it when she ignored the advert, kept the butter where it was, and lived to ninety-one.

It has outlasted every consensus on this list. It will outlast this one too.

[wanye @xwanyex]

One of the things that seems so stupid and infantilizing about modern culture is that you can’t just talk to people like an adult now and reason through things and make the case for this or that and encounter people with agency to do anything about it. There’s nobody at the company to whom you can give a firm handshake and the sales pitch. In its place as a process. You follow the process. And then a decision is made in the background. Everything is like applying to college.

So for example I ordered a water heater and I guess I didn’t notice that there was a separate option to have the guys carry it in for you. I got one of these fancy new heat pump water heaters and it’s much heavier than a normal water heater, which is already pretty bulky and heavy, and I can’t get it downstairs by myself. So I called to see if we can’t get the guys back out here to get it down into the basement. But of course there’s no making that happen. There’s no amount of money I could offer, no sweet talking. You can’t get anybody on the phone who has any agency to make this happen. There’s a process. And what I want is not part of the process.

So instead what we have to do is I’m returning the original water heater and I ordered a new one and this time I checked the box to have the guys carry it into the basement.

So later today, some people will come in a truck to take the original, perfectly fine water heater away. And then later different people will deliver a different water heater and carry it into my basement, because this time I checked the box that says they’re allowed to do that.

This is all completely absurd. I am capable of understanding that everything is optimized for the more common case and that this is probably more efficient at scale. I can understand the benefits of that just fine.

It’s just that the society it creates when things go wrong is one that feels very stupid and unsatisfying to normal people. And that’s a downside that actually does need to be registered.

[Vance Kraeger @Proverbs2_6Dad]

@ESPNMcGee In my area of Nebraska I no longer get Nebraska events on the radio. Need to purposely search for online broadcasts. Without passive availability of information I am loosing interest quickly

[Vance Kraeger @Proverbs2_6Dad]

@Gibbsfield4430 @zebulousprime Have you done an in season soil test in your previous time to see how much of that biomass nitrogen you have available in July or August?
Does shredding it have the rye decomposed by harvest?

[Vance Kraeger @Proverbs2_6Dad]

@Verizon is the worst. 3 hrs in a store yesterday and 1 hour on the phone today just to be told my account is locked for 5 days before the morons try and fix my issue again. 22 yr customer means nothing!

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

We used to be a proper country.

[Vance Kraeger @Proverbs2_6Dad]

@MaxROIFarmer I don't run row cleaners or coulters but have not run a test. My agronomy consultant initially shook his head at me when I started a few years ago but then complimented my stand.

[Vance Kraeger @Proverbs2_6Dad]

@MaxROIFarmer Does that represent good soil condition or if you had the old planter it would be to wet?

[Vance Kraeger @Proverbs2_6Dad]

@DDFalpha How about we just have the government spend less.

[Vance Kraeger @Proverbs2_6Dad]

@CBKimbrell How do you know financially sound?

[Chris Bennett @ChrisBennettMS]

This is happening over and over to farmers, @SecRollins. Whatever happened to the 6th Amendment? Bill of Rights? This couple faces almost $1M in fines, but is denied an independent judge and jury.

https://t.co/ibJYXTh1fJ

[Vance Kraeger @Proverbs2_6Dad]

@Sojourningsince @corn_porkNbeans I would love to do some specialty crops or beef supplier but direct to consumer is more than I want to take on. My father tried organic in the 80s and I remember the incontinence of those markets then and whether tge checks would clear.

[Vance Kraeger @Proverbs2_6Dad]

@Sojourningsince @corn_porkNbeans Where are these niche opportunities? How many of them require me to become a retail salesman?

[Sean McDowell @Sean_McDowell]

Only one religion is based on a single, testable, historical event. If you haven’t at least considered the evidence for the resurrection, NOW is the time.