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[Jerod McDaniel @JerodMcDaniel]

Interesting math comparing row crop revenue to cattle revenue.

Visiting with some very good wheat farmers in the area, taking their irrigated yields and today’s cash price

It takes 9.5 6wt steers to equal the revenue generated from a 120 acre circle of irrigated wheat

[ATLAS @XavilonguiF1]

🧵 HILO: Nadie te está contando lo que va a pasar con la comida en 2027. Yo si

1/ Ormuz lleva 2 meses efectivamente cerrado. Todo el mundo habla del petróleo. Nadie habla de lo que de verdad te va a afectar en el supermercado el año que viene.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Chloe woke up at 6:45am and immediately felt proud of herself.

She had, after all, not eaten a single animal product in four years. The planet was healing. She could feel it.

6:52am - Applied her morning SPF. The SPF contains beeswax. Chloe does not know this. Moving on.

7:10am - Breakfast: a smoothie containing avocado. The avocado was grown in Michoacán, Mexico, on land where a pine forest was until 2019. It required approximately 320 litres of water to produce. It was flown to the UK. Chloe sprinkled hemp seeds on top. The hemp seeds came from China. Chloe felt connected to the earth.

8:00am - Got dressed. Polyester leggings, derived from crude oil. A bamboo top that was processed using carbon disulphide in a Taiwanese chemical plant. Trainers with a recycled plastic upper that sheds microplastics into waterways with every wash. Chloe's outfit today had a higher carbon footprint than a ribeye steak. Chloe does not know this either.

9:30am - Posted on Instagram about choosing compassion. The phone was manufactured in a Shenzhen factory using cobalt from the DRC, where mining operations have displaced local communities and killed an unknowable number of small mammals, reptiles, and insects. The algorithm served Chloe an ad for oat milk. Chloe liked it.

12:00pm - Lunch: tofu stir-fry. The soy was grown in Brazil. Brazil produces more soy than almost any country on earth. The primary reason is soybean oil: one of the most widely used industrial and culinary oils on the planet. The soymeal left over after oil extraction is fed to livestock as a byproduct. Chloe is aware of the livestock connection and finds it outrageous. She has not looked into why the soy was grown in the first place. The answer is the oil. The oil is in her salad dressing.

1:30pm - Drove to the garden centre. The car runs on petrol. Chloe has a Just Stop Oil sticker on the bumper. This is not being commented on further.

3:00pm - Bought a monstera. The monstera was grown in a Dutch greenhouse using natural gas heating. Chloe put it next to the pothos that is slowly poisoning the neighbourhood cats.

6:00pm - Dinner: pasta with cashew cream sauce. The cashews were processed in Vietnam, often by workers in conditions that would prompt significant commentary if they were in an abattoir.

8:00pm - Watched a documentary about factory farming. Wept. Posted about it. Caption: "We have to do better."

Chloe is, by every measure she has chosen to measure by, doing brilliantly.

By some of the others, the picture is more complicated.

Chloe has not chosen to measure by those.

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Kent Pavelka Nebraska’s play by play announcer for 41 years had the best call you’ll hear today.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The farmer has been watching Doris predict the weather for three years and has not yet told anyone except Brian because he knows how it sounds.

It sounds like this:

When Doris grazes toward the east wall by midday, it rains that afternoon. Not sometimes. Every time. The farmer checked this against the Met Office records for eighteen months and found a correlation that he doesn't know what to do with and has not submitted to any journal and does not intend to.

When Doris lies down in the morning, the afternoon is dry.

When Doris takes the high route to the 400-metre contour at first light, there is wind by 9am.

The farmer mentioned this to the agricultural meteorologist who came to look at the farm's microclimate in 2022. The meteorologist said that sheep have been observed to respond to changes in barometric pressure and humidity cues that precede weather events, that the behaviour is not fully understood, and that in theory a fell sheep in a single location for multiple years could develop reliable behavioural responses to local atmospheric patterns that are earlier and more localised than any available forecast.

The farmer: "So she knows."

The meteorologist: "She responds. Whether she 'knows' is a philosophical question."

The farmer: "She went to the east wall at noon last Tuesday."

The meteorologist checked his records.

It rained from 3pm.

The meteorologist was quiet for a moment.

The meteorologist: "I'd watch her."

The farmer has been watching her for three years.

The farmer checks Doris before he checks his phone.

Doris is more reliable than his phone.

Doris is currently heading to the east wall.

The farmer is putting his waterproof on.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Let's check in on Gerald's water consumption.

Gerald woke up this morning and did the following:

6am - drank from his trough. Approximately 30 litres. In British beef cattle, this is 100% of Gerald's actual blue water use for the day.

6:15am - it rained on him. This has been counted in the statistics as Gerald consuming water. Gerald did not decide it would rain. Gerald did not apply for the rainfall. Gerald has not been asked whether he endorses the accounting methodology.

8am - Gerald ate grass. The grass required rainfall to grow. This rainfall has also been attributed to Gerald. The rain fell on the field in 1742 as well, when there was no spreadsheet.

10am - Gerald produced manure. The manure will go into the soil. The soil will grow more grass. The grass will need more rain. The rain will fall regardless of Gerald's continued employment on this farm.

Gerald's daily blue water use: about 30 litres. The same as a moderately long shower.

The headline figure: 15,000 litres per kilogram.

The gap between those two numbers is rain.

Gerald is not a drought. Gerald is what happens when you point rain at a field and give it a biological purpose.

This is, broadly, what farming is.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Let's check in on Gerald the Planet Killer.

Gerald is a four-year-old Hereford cross in a field near Ledbury. He weighs about 600 kilograms. He has been busy this morning.

6:14am - Woke up. Began destroying the planet by eating grass.

7:02am - Continued environmental catastrophe by walking slowly toward the water trough.

8:45am - Committed a war crime against the atmosphere by exhaling.

9:30am - Did a pat. In a field. Where it will become part of a complex nutrient cycle that has been running successfully since before humans existed.

11:00am - Grazed a section of meadow, inadvertently aerating the soil with his hooves, spreading seeds in his dung, creating habitat for dung beetles, and sequestering carbon through the root systems his grazing stimulates.

Noon - Had a lie down.

The scientists monitoring Gerald's methane output have calculated that this methane, derived from grass pulled from British soil, is part of a carbon cycle that has been net neutral for ten thousand years of continuous cattle domestication.

They have not been asked to present this finding anywhere.

Gerald is unavailable for comment. He is destroying a particularly threatening patch of ryegrass on the south side of the field.

Someone stop him.

[Jason Mauck @jasonmauck1]

What all small forests have in common is most of their photosynthetic capacity comes from the verticality of the edge, hence most of the nuts fall close by.

When we’re growing annuals with shorter life cycles IF we leave a gap comparable to the height of the crop, we can grow what’s next with enough ☀️ to grow well.

IF you’re going to block the sunlight anyway you might as well plant multiple rows in that space to equal 33-50% of the width of that height.

The system’s goals dictate the levers to pull to facilitate the outcomes desired.

What most miss with this thought is how nature works. Plants adapt to better venue, more ☀️ per plant = more excess sugar to feed the bugs = more vibrant healthier soil = over yielding plants

Overall yielding plants = less inputs

Empathy sounds like a weak word in the minds of reductist chasing top yields of 1 crop.

Empathy of how one’s actions affect EVERY other living thing is actually much more of a leveraged mindset. When you can predict the expression and the synergies your omissions become your profit.

What is exciting about the spring birds chirping this morning is that all these thoughts and actions of year’s past are greening up, and we’re going to be learning more about this #farmweird way of looking at things.

[Edie Creek Angus @EdieCreekAngus]

Here is our silage pile grazing - we are about a week into it.

We use a single hot wire at both ends of the pile with fibreglass posts holding it up.

[UNWON | Keely Covello @americaunwon]

If you think the idea that some in the elite want to eradicate American beef as a means of controlling a free people is too far fetched…

Consider that the extermination of the buffalo meant the Plains Indians were forced to rely on the U.S. government for rations.

[Jerod McDaniel @JerodMcDaniel]

The longer the border stays closed, the more apparent it is those imports have always been used as leverage to lower prices paid to domestic producers…

Middle men having to pay to fill the pen space void is karma with interest on this behavior that’s went on for decades.

[Chip Redmond @wx_chip]

Do yourself a favor and unfollow all the hype weather maps showing feet of ice and yards of snow. Then, use this webpage to really answer your question of: How much snow could I get? https://t.co/TerayNhGyB

It is awesome!

[Jason Schley @JasonSchley]

First of all, adding a gallon or half gallon of any carbon won’t change soils. Humic and fulvic acids, are ORGANIC compounds from decomposed plant and microbial matter, differ fundamentally and drastically from the INORGANIC carbon in lime (like calcium carbonate), which originates from mineral sources and primarily corrects soil acidity by raising pH and supplying calcium or magnesium.

Humic acid, with its larger molecular structure, enhances soil aggregation, water retention, and long-term nutrient holding via increased cation exchange capacity, while fulvic acid’s smaller, more soluble form excels at chelating micronutrients for better plant uptake, stimulating microbial activity, and improving root growth in diverse soil types. In contrast, lime’s inorganic carbon reacts quickly to neutralize acids, unlocking macronutrients like phosphorus but potentially locking up micronutrients in high-pH conditions, with no direct role in organic matter buildup or biological stimulation—making humic/fulvic ideal for sustainable soil health in variable.

Weoc and the carbon from Lime cant even compare in any angle of the conversation.

I had this post screen shotted and people asking what the differences were. So thought this was the easier way to give my perspective.

[Sam Costner @samuel_costner]

If you explain the medical industry to any person of sound mind, but swapped the name of the field with another line of work, they will condemn the thing wholesale without hesitation.

Imagine a plumber who charges $100 cash to replace a standard valve—planned, routine work.
If the job goes through a home-service plan or insurance, he bills $1,000 instead.
As more customers use the plan, premiums rise to cover “increased costs.”
Eventually, the plumber drops the cash price altogether.
Now the valve replacement costs $1,000 out of pocket,
and the insurer is billed $10,000—for the same ten-minute job.

Then the government steps in.
It mandates that every homeowner carry a plumbing service plan,
requires plumbers to perform the work regardless of ability to pay,
and subsidizes the plans so people can “afford coverage.”

Prices don’t fall.
Instead, service plans raise premiums again,
plumbers raise billed rates to cover compliance and paperwork,
and the $100 valve replacement becomes legally unreachable.

The homeowner is told plumbing is now more accessible than ever—
even as the cost is higher, the bill is invisible, no one involved is allowed to price the job honestly anymore, and gross amounts of money are multiplied into 3rd party coffers.

It's obscene.

[Blake Albers 🥩 @blakealbers]

As a Catholic one thing I have never thought to pray for is that we have more priests able to deliver messages like this.

Really seems like we should be praying for more leaders in the church to have the talent to connect with people and bring them closer to God.

[kstate_MAN @kstateman14]

Tonight was going bad, then I saw this tik tok. 🥰

[Riley Sides @riley_sides]

@JonathanDansel Or wheats just early season weed control for the real cash crop.. cow feed😎😂 farmers have it all backwards!

[Adam Jones @kansasangus]

"...they've really bred a lot of what we liked, except for the black hide, out of Angus..." -Corbitt Wall

Angus breeders better quit screwing around chasing these paper cattle before we've handed market share back to the Herefords and everybody else.