Brittany Bartak, CCA

Yield Plus Agronomics-Owner, Agronomist 🌱 Channel SeedPro 🌽
GrowForward Leadership

[Brittany Bartak, CCA @yieldBee]

I get real sick & tired of certain seed companies/dealers holding customers hostage to seed orders by threatening them with losing their discounts if they change their order...but don't do that on ALL customers. 😠

[Brittany Bartak, CCA @yieldBee]

Couldn’t the coops spend their time & energy on providing different products & services?
Same with equipment dealers?
Regen ag talks about diversification being a key driver—there’s still crops and animals that need service and support, equipment, products etc.
Regen ag doesn’t eliminate those things, it shifts them to something different.
I also wonder(and have a good gut feeling about) that if people actually feel good about the services and products their providing, they’ll be happier in their jobs and we’ll have more people wanting to do those jobs, such as ag retail—if the hours aren’t horrendous during April, May, June, July because there isn’t the need to be spraying & spreading thousands and thousands of acres in a short window, leading to LONG days, perhaps more people will be willing to work at coops and get back to caring about the people instead of sitting in some machine…Little own reduce exposure to chemicals etc.
I think my two reposts share other great ideas and thoughts on how Regen can revive rural America—if a person(or society)isn’t willing to even try something different, then hope is lost.
The trend is downward now, how could going a different direction in ag hurt any worse—meaning, what would we have to lose? 😉

[Brittany Bartak, CCA @yieldBee]

X is lit up today on the regen topic & the ABSOLUTELY huge need to get our rural communities back, growing our own food, and thriving and I. AM. HERE. FOR. IT! 🙌

[Brittany Bartak, CCA @yieldBee]

@FVCJeffW @FVCoop Will you run soil nutrient analysis too?
What about running a nutrient analysis on those weeds—see what they’re high, low in?

[Brittany Bartak, CCA @yieldBee]

@FVCJeffW lol Wouldn't that be a site up here! I'd be game for it!
We do have a nice slew of edible beans grown up here and popcorn.
And there's going to be strawberries this year(fruit next year), but not under pivot. ;)

[Brittany Bartak, CCA @yieldBee]

@Garretgraham007 Why don't you think it can revive communities?

[Brittany Bartak, CCA @yieldBee]

AND THIS!!!

[Jason Hanson @JasonHanson2028]

Are we sure this doesn’t scale?

Perhaps we’re talking about the wrong scale?

Sure, a guy can’t run regenerative farms with 10k or 20k acres - but that’s a good thing.

A guy can do it with some help on 2500 acres. Which means 4x the number of farms vs the 10k model and 8x the number of farms vs the 20k operations.

That’s 4x and 8x the numbers of families farming.

In rural, farmable areas.

That’s 4x or 8x the numbers of kids in school. And 4x or 8x the tax base, which should mean 4x or 8x or more investment in infrastructure, making it 4x or 8x more likely a Main Street business is started, incentivizing even more growth.

It’s also 4x or 8x more people involved in nature. And in food production.

Which means 4x or 8x more people that care about their communities, and that are likely to vote in (or at least think about) local, state, and federal elections, which means 4x or 8x more chance that we can actually start fixing things again.

You say regenerative ag can’t feed the world, but I’d argue we’re already starving the entire country by not investing in getting more people involved in agriculture - especially when you look at the demographics and the upcoming societal changes.

There is abundance here on Earth. We were promised abundance. We just have to get out of our own way to make it happen.

[Brittany Bartak, CCA @yieldBee]

THIS!

[Jason Mauck @jasonmauck1]

What is regenerative?

PETA had a billboard that had different animals and basically asked where do you draw the line on what you eat.

Is a CAFO that feeds 1000 acres of corn production every year replacing commercial fertilizer regenerative? I’d say so.

Can you relay crops at scale? Yes

Can alley crop corn with forage alley ways scale that fed feed lot cattle

Yes

The problem isn’t the agronomics

It’s the technology/ equipment and the knowledge / skillset

Small changes would make huge impacts on the environmental impacts of agriculture… but the farmers of farmers have no ambition to actually go down that road

It’s just a lot of greenwashing and feel good stories to create the perception that they are doing all they can

[Jr Burdick @JRcowfarmer]

Hey agtwitter I’m looking for some spring white wheat for a 4 acre experiment. Need it next week. Let me know please repost.

Yes I know I’m in Missouri and we don’t normally raise it here. But I’m not normal to slightly unhinged most of the time!

Will be used on farm for flour.

Repost is appreciated.
#whitespringwheat #poorgrass #plant26

[Brittany Bartak, CCA @yieldBee]

@FaithLois12 @JenaOchsner Thank you!

[Brittany Bartak, CCA @yieldBee]

Needing a recommendation(s) for where I can purchase some beef soup and/or marrow bones online, preferably from Nebraska beef producers.
The handful of people/ranches I've found are all sold out online or don't ship bones.
TIA! 😊

[Brittany Bartak, CCA @yieldBee]

@JerodMcDaniel Our planned blend for grazing under a pivot this summer;
Berseem Clover
Brassica (Winfred)
Buckwheat
Cowpeas
German Millet
Pearl Millet
Prussic Acid Free Sorghum X Sudangrass Hybrid
Peredovik Sunflower

[Brittany Bartak, CCA @yieldBee]

@braunfarm Watch the plants and focus on plant demand nutrient management as well as a big big focus on biology. I love a good soil health analysis but it's not the end all, be all. "what are the plants telling me?" is my focus.

[Brittany Bartak, CCA @yieldBee]

@swksfarmer @X Was happening to me last night; I turned off my phone’s WiFi and it fixed it.

[Brittany Bartak, CCA @yieldBee]

Never in my 38 years of life have I seen a football game go like that and have that sort of ending. What in the world was going on?! 😂

[Brittany Bartak, CCA @yieldBee]

Not sure why we even turned this ridiculous football game on. 🤦🏼‍♀️

[Brittany Bartak, CCA @yieldBee]

@cowbroker Gotcha...makes sense, in a way. 😅
Thanks for the insight!

[Brittany Bartak, CCA @yieldBee]

No, no theory. Only thing is the testimonies of others who use milk or milk replacer within their operations, at that rate, and love what they see and the results they get.
I've talked to people that use milk versus no milk and have seen physical responses from plants, especially grass.
I received a news article the other day from a friend that stated the producer noticed his cows preferred grass 'treated' w/ milk over non-treated....to me that says Brix was higher with the milk. Cattle aren't stupid.

[Brittany Bartak, CCA @yieldBee]

Two hour combine ride this morning w/grower who only had 30-ish lbs of commercial Nitrogen on this field(as starter) w/molasses & milk replacer via fertigation thru the season.
3 years corn on corn
105 day hybrid
Rough math using combine grain tank & row length things should be super close to 200 bushel/acre yield.
Brings his PROFIT per acre up to around $140.
He’s tickled pink.
With education, management & more education this way of growing a monoculture crop is ABSOLUTELY possible.
We brainstormed what next year’s starter is going to be…& it won’t be a commercial fert. 😏

[Brittany Bartak, CCA @yieldBee]

It's all about perspective. This guy aims for highest profitability, not highest yield. There will be somewhat higher yields around him but they've got $150-200/acre MORE into it than he does. And at the cost of natural resources.
There's already corn coming out up here at 200-210 bu/ac under pivot that has 230-240+ lbs of N and lots more irrigation water.