Brittany Bartak, CCA

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

[Brittany Bartak, CCA @yieldBee]

I really think we underestimate(d) the lack of subsoil moisture at the beginning of the season(even now too) and how that impacted things.
Gravity fields up here are whooping up on pivots and I think it's because we could 'recharge' those lower soils w/ the gravity water.
Pivots I had probes on weren't hurting by any means in the top 3 foot, but theres a LOT of things happening below 3 foot that most likely played a part as well..a BIG part we'll never be able to confirm.

[Brittany Bartak, CCA @yieldBee]

@Growit_Keller Tough to pick the thing that impacted stuff the most up here. 🫣
I'd like to blame July's obscene heat and dry weather but other than a few fields, kernels still formed and filled pretty well, considering. I feel like majority of hybrids nowadays handle that extreme heat well.

[Brittany Bartak, CCA @yieldBee]

Anyone have experience with using an aerator on their corn and/or bean field after harvest(or pre-planting)?
What did you see, notice, field/crop response etc?
TIA!

[Brittany Bartak, CCA @yieldBee]

@FVCJeffW We’ve got a good slew of velvetleaf up here on and around fields. It never went away. 😆

[Brittany Bartak, CCA @yieldBee]

I’ve done one almost every year(this spring it didn’t happen) but I do mine in March; stays away from irrigation season, chopping, harvest etc. in March guys are finally mentally prepping for the upcoming season so they seem to stay focused and actually attempt to apply what they learned to the next crop. I do a couple hours of some agronomy education, maybe a guest speaker then a meal. Success for me is # of acres represented as well as questions & comments that come prior to planting & during the year.

[Tara LaRosa @TaraLaRosa]

Greatest new song to come out of the World Cup! ⚽️❤️🇺🇸 Welcome To The Land Of The Free!🇺🇸❤️⚽️

[Brittany Bartak, CCA @yieldBee]

@cowbroker WILD! 😱

[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