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[Scotty P @ScottyP4county]

@SkipStyles @zebulousprime The high boys out around Bertrand are doing this with good results. Jason has a guy around Yuma Colorado doing it too. If you’re at all curious reach out to him.
We had him at Gateway farm expo last year. He’s a dynamic dude

[Scotty P @ScottyP4county]

@BBGreatMoments Nolan Ryan’s and anyone on the 93 Phillies roster

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The American deer camp was, between approximately 1880 and 1990, the autumn ritual of every rural family in the upper Midwest, the Northeast, and the Appalachians.

A cabin in the woods. Three or four men, three generations sometimes, who got there on the Friday before opening day, lit the wood stove, drank coffee that had been on the burner since 4am, played cards, told the same stories they had told the year before, and went out at first light on Saturday with rifles their grandfathers had owned.

A buck taken cleanly with one shot. Field-dressed in the snow. Hung in the woodshed. Butchered the next weekend in the garage with the family. Forty pounds of venison in the chest freezer. Steaks for the winter. Sausage made by the grandfather with a recipe nobody had written down. A roast for Thanksgiving. The hide tanned and turned into mittens for the youngest grandson.

The deer was free. The freezer was full. The boys learned to shoot, to clean a rifle, to gut an animal, to butcher it, to thank the woods for the deer, to be quiet for hours at dawn in the cold and notice things.

Roughly 14 million Americans hunted in 1980. By 2020 that number was 11.5 million, and the average hunter age had risen from 35 to 51. The next generation is not coming up.

Suburbanization removed the woods from the back door. Liability fears closed private lands. Public hunting access shrank. Time pressure on working families killed the long weekend at camp. The cultural drift made hunting socially suspect, then unfashionable, then, in some quarters, taboo.

The number of American teenagers who have ever fired a rifle, gutted an animal, or watched their grandfather butcher a deer in the garage on a November Sunday afternoon is, in 2026, statistically vanishing.

The freezer that used to be full of free, lean, grass-fed wild protein is full of ground beef from a Smithfield CAFO in Iowa.

The skill is one generation deep. If the grandfather did not pass it to the father, and the father did not pass it to the son, the chain is broken. YouTube is, at the moment, where the few remaining young hunters are getting most of their training.

A small American tradition that fed families for a century, taught a sequence of practical and moral lessons no textbook can replace, and connected three generations to the land their ancestors lived on, is closing down quietly, camp by camp, season by season.

The cabin is still there. The stove still works. The buck is still in the woods.

The grandfather is in the cemetery on the hill above the cabin. He cannot take the boy himself.

Somebody else has to.

[John M. Bishop @JohnBishop71]

Since 2012 NFL Draft only three Power 4 schools have failed to have a top 50 overall pick.

Kansas
Nebraska
Virginia

[Scotty P @ScottyP4county]

@trentloos Dudes done nothing of significance in 20 years

[Jason Mauck @jasonmauck1]

Made some infographics tonight to explain our relay wheat system.

The main idea is we can grow 70 bushel wheat and 70 bushel soybeans and make about $250 more revenue per acre than pushing wheat yields up over 100 bu/ac and double cropping them.

We also save over $150 ac in costs due to less wheat and soybean seed, less Nitrogen… p+k, less fuel at harvest… and maybe the best thing is we can leave the field after wheat harvest and the soybeans are 2’ tall … not requiring baling/burning/ or tilling the straw

I want 2 tons of that 80 : 1
C : N straw in my soil to build soil tilth and organic matter.

[Scotty P @ScottyP4county]

@mastodonkey @1TrueChurch @Biblicalman Thinking the same thing. More hate than love in that response.

[Blue Lives Matter @bluelivesmtr]

Jeff Foxworthy: "I started leading a Bible study with a group of homeless men.

I asked a simple question… 'What is the Bible?' One man’s answer turned into a story I’ll never forget."

POWERFUL. REPOST this absolutely EVERYWHERE.

#thinblueline #lawenforcement

[Jim Koenigsberger @Jimfrombaseball]

"It is a joke.
The game is becoming a freaking joke because of the nerds who are running it.
These guys played rotisserie baseball at Harvard or wherever the f--- they went and they thought they figured the f---ing game out.
They don't know s---.
A bunch of f---ing nerds running the game.
You can't slide into second base.
You can't take out the f---ing catcher because Posey was in the wrong position and they are going to change all the rules. You can't pitch inside anymore. I'd like to knock some of these f---ers on their ass.
Ryan Braun is a f---ing steroid user.
He gets a standing ovation on Opening Day in Milwaukee.
How do you explain that to your kid after throwing people under the bus and lying through his f---ing teeth?
They don't have anyone passing the f---ing torch to these people.
If I had acted like that, you don't go in that f---ing dugout.
There are going to be 20 f---ing guys waiting for you."
Goose Gossage.
Baseball Ambassador.
Legend!

[Jason Mauck @jasonmauck1]

These are the conversations I like to see. This is from the @ZachLahn post.

Here’s my take… $20,000/ac land won’t cash flow with 🌽 today… maybe if we print money hard for 10 years.. 2037–>

Scale + what “anybody” can do is always a baseline.

If your “in” agriculture you can leverage your existing base and absorb bad economics to a certain % and carry on.

If your “outside trying to get in” 🌽 is kind of like a “redneck yacht club” You gotta start with junk and try to scratch and claw a way in… there isn’t a way to pay 20k/ac you won’t even be able to pay for the interest on that piece of ground. The only play is cheap rent… but no one wants to farm that ground for a reason

Continuing on that train of thought you have to continue to do things other people… old people… lazy out of shape people can’t do.

Wooded lots are everywhere, some are too small to hunt or be monetized in any way. That’s where 🐖 come in.

Restaurants throw away food, breweries have spent grains, food factories have scraps. Pigs have 15 babies

You have to be the interface for new company growth meaning you have to create a customer base 1 by 1 and sell your product with a premium

Doing things other people aren’t willing to do
Using land other people aren’t willing to utilize
Building customers one by one

If you’re not born into farming that’s the only way … and slowly you could turn it into something where you can buy better equipment to wear it out and lose money like everyone else doing it the easy way.

I don’t write these posts because I need to be right… good dialogue sparks some ideas for someone hopefully.

There is opportunity for anything. If farming was great it’ll just reaccellerate towards another cliff.

If you remember the scene in step brothers when they were doing the “boats and hoes” music video

The step dad yelled “who’s driving the boat!!!”

No body is driving the boat. The world is drivin by a bunch of independent people following their own interests and it’ll just crash. No one is driving towards safety. Finding logic is your job

[Jason Mauck @jasonmauck1]

Packaging was everything when I had a landscape business.

Get a rich dude’s lawn. Sell him lawn spraying, mulch, trim bushes, snow…Christmas lights
(Packaging)

Get 3-8 of his neighbors in the same
Culdesac
(Packaging)

Your price is cheaper than the “tiffanies”
You make 3x more per man hr than whoring yourself with bid work for large commercial properties

Double 🍀 clover 🍀 clover leaf strat

Now you can recruit 3-5 white athletes from the college basketball courts as your crew and not have to drive around all day

Packaging is everything in Agriculture today

Alley crop corn or relay wheat is the same economics

Crop yields in footprint are 2-3x due to vertically of ☀️ capture

While that’s there you can parlay @stockcropper or intercrop another cash crop

If you now have some pork and chicken or eggs and pumpkins… whatever to sell to more and more customers

Touchpoints … that you can offer more goods and services to

Maybe use that skid steer or bulldozer to dig them a pond or whatever

This is the agriculture survival playbook

Or just farm 10…20k acres and bully salespeople down on volume knowing the govt will make programs to bail out the losing economics of 80% high cash rent grain farming… either one works

1 requires more community involvement
1 is why our communities are ghosting out

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

Greg Maddux faced 20,421 batters over the course of his career. Only 310 (1.5%) saw a 3-0 count. Of those, over half of them (177) were intentional walks.

[Farm Action @FarmActionUS]

Rep. Thomas Massie is on the brink of securing a huge win for small farmers.

His PRIME Act is officially included in the 2026 Farm Bill.

If this passes, it will deliver a blow to Big Ag’s stranglehold on the meatpacking industry.

“This would make it easier for local farmers to sell directly to local consumers using a local slaughterhouse.”

How?

It would cut the USDA out of inspections for local processing facilities.

“You don’t need the USDA to inspect a facility that has seven employees.”

“So what I’ve proposed is that you could just have the local health inspection… inspecting these slaughterhouses.”

“As long as you don’t cross state lines, you shouldn’t need the federal government’s involvement in this processing.”

“The good news is, I got that in the Farm Bill.”

@RepThomasMassie

[Scotty P @ScottyP4county]

One of the best skits ever!

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

19 years ago today, Peyton Manning taught some local kids how to play football. 😂

[Bussin' With The Boys @BussinWTB]

Time to start the real conversation… Lavonte David is a first ballot Hall of Famer

[Jim in MN @HuskersMN]

Crazy to think that the only reason Lavonte David started in 2010 was because of Fall Camp injuries to Will Compton and Sean Fisher. His first game he had 13 tackles and his 4th game he had 19 tackles and Bo said, “He’s still swimming it”.
Now the greatest LB in both Nebraska and Bucs history

[Scotty P @ScottyP4county]

One of the greatest

[Josh Crysler @josh_crysler]

Throughout his career, Lavonte David performed on par with Bobby Wagner and Luke Kuechly, but earned FAR less national recognition.

One of the most criminally underrated players ever, but he was consistently a steady, elite presence for the Bucs and he deserves his flowers.

[M.A. Rothman @MichaelARothman]

𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗠𝗣 𝗜𝗦 𝗔𝗟𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗗𝗬 𝗕𝗨𝗜𝗟𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟴. 𝗛𝗘 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗛𝗔𝗦𝗡'𝗧 𝗧𝗢𝗟𝗗 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗬𝗘𝗧.

Watch what Trump actually did — not what he said, but what he did.

He put Marco Rubio in charge of the world. And he put JD Vance in charge of finding every dollar that was stolen from the American people. Those aren't random assignments. That's a chess move.

Rubio becomes the face of whatever happens globally — the Iran war, the foreign policy realignment, the restoration of American strength abroad. If it goes well, he owns it. If it doesn't, he owns that too. Either way, by 2028 we'll know exactly what Marco Rubio is made of under real pressure.

Vance gets the domestic mission — fraud, waste, corruption, government theft — and he gets it publicly, relentlessly, case by case. The Minneapolis story alone — billions siphoned from programs meant to feed hungry children — gives the argument exactly what every political argument needs: a villain, a victim, a number, and outrage. Trump even said it almost offhandedly: 𝘪𝘧 𝘸𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘶𝘥, 𝘸𝘦'𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢 𝘣𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘶𝘥𝘨𝘦𝘵. That line isn't accounting. That's the thesis of 2028.

It reframes the entire economic debate. No more painful austerity talk, no more "we have to cut programs." The new message is simple and devastating: 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘺𝘰𝘶. 𝘞𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘵. 𝘕𝘰𝘸 𝘸𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘵.

And then Vance turns to Gavin Newsom — or whoever the Democrat nominee is — and asks the question they cannot answer: before you promise us more programs and more spending, can you explain where the money went the last time? Can you explain why no one in your state stopped it?

This is how you build a successor without naming one. You give them a lane. You give them a mission. You give them the chance to win — and the chance to fail. By 2028 we won't need to speculate about Rubio or Vance. We'll have watched them perform under actual pressure, on an actual stage, with actual consequences.

If the economy holds, the fraud narrative becomes rocket fuel. If both men deliver — Rubio on the world stage and Vance on domestic accountability — we may be looking at the two strongest Republican candidates of a generation.

Trump just put two pieces on the board. Watch them.

[Scotty P @ScottyP4county]

Fix this please

[Ethan Brooks @alt_w_v_g]

Had a parent-teacher conference this morning

My wife told me not to come

I came anyway

She said "please just listen and nod"

I said "I always listen"

She said "you listen like you're sitting in a boardroom looking for something to challenge"

That's how listening works

Nice classroom

Small chairs

I am 6'4" and was seated at a desk designed for someone who still believes in Santa Claus

My knees touched my chest

The teacher introduced herself

Shared her identified pronouns

I shared my identified adjectives

Smart and handsome

My wife closed her eyes

The teacher had a folder

Color-coded tabs

I respected the organization

She said our son is "a pleasure to have in class"

My wife smiled

I waited

That sentence is never the whole report

It's the executive summary before the risk section

She said "however"

There it is

She said he "asks a lot of questions"

I said "good"

She said "during quiet time"

I said "when is quiet time?"

She said "it's when students are expected to work independently and in silence"

I said "so he's the only one trying to get information and you've structured the environment to prevent it?"

My wife put her hand on my arm

I continued

The teacher said he recently told another student that "sharing pencils doesn't make sense if nobody brings their own"

I said "that's an accurate observation"

My wife squeezed harder

The teacher said she's concerned about his "resistance to group activities"

I said "he's not resistant. He just doesn't see the value of doing more work for the same grade."

The teacher said he also corrected her math on the whiteboard

I said "was he right?"

She paused

She said "that's not the point"

I said "it's a little bit the point"

My wife stood up

Sat back down

Compromise

The teacher pulled out an evaluation sheet

Categories like "works well with others" and "follows directions" and "respects classroom norms"

All subjective

Not a number on the page

I asked how these are graded

She said "based on observation"

I said "so one person's opinion with no second review?"

She said "it's professional judgment"

I said "my auditors say that too. Right before I disagree with them."

She looked at my wife

My wife said "I'm sorry about him"

I said "I'm sitting right here"

My wife said "I know"

The teacher said overall he's a bright kid and she just wants to make sure he learns to "collaborate"

I said "collaboration is important. But so is recognizing when you're the only one doing the work. He'll learn that again in college. And again in the real world. Might as well start now."

Nobody spoke

The teacher closed her folder

She said "I think we've covered everything"

I said "one more thing"

She braced herself

I said "his reading is above grade level. His math is strong. He asks hard questions and corrects mistakes when he sees them. I just want to make sure this school knows what it has."

The teacher looked at me differently

My wife looked at me differently

I said "that's all"

We left

In the car my wife was quiet

Then she said "he's turning into you"

I said "is that a good thing?"

She didn't answer

From the backseat he said "dad, why does the teacher count off for asking questions? Isn't that the whole point of school?"

I looked at my wife

She looked out the window

I said "yes. It is."

He said "I don't think she likes when I'm right"

I didn't say anything

Neither did my wife

Small chairs

Color-coded tabs

No follow-up items

But the kid's going to be fine

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