Jason Mauck
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109 appearances
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first heard Sep 2024
last heard Sep 2024
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If I can produce the same amount of wheat bushels as bean bushels in that 70, 70, 80, 80, then each bushel that I sell as a commodity is worth 2x of that of corn. So if I do 150 collectively, that's the same as 300 bushel corn, and I can grow this for half the cost of 300 bushel corn.
david so tanner what i really gotta know is the juice worth the squeeze and tanner all right it's about time to wrap this baby up they're my favorite like farm for fun it's time to put aside the stress of the work boots sit down grab your favorite adult beverage and listen to the boys from farm for profit yay it says applause
Thanks. I've just been looking forward to this my whole life.
Okay. Who's Jason is a 43-year-old white male, lost 24 pounds this summer, eating clean. I've Yeah, so I'm a family farmer. I think I'm the fifth generation. I get curious. Sometimes it hurts me a little bit. I did a meat company deal a few years back. But we've got about 3,000 acres we farm, a lot of pigs, a lot of manure.
What makes me weird, if you will, is my mom said, hey, there's no money in farming. Go get a real job. So I got a marketing degree, went to the city, suit and tie, learned how to sell, started a business, and then my dad passed of cancer, and they just ripped me right out of that world into the farm world.
So it's just 10 years of different experience brought into that, just probably the root of the weirdness.
Yeah. When I was, I mean, I was a pretty hardcore landscape contractor in my twenties. I took my sales skills and I got people on paper and I built a pretty decent business with a lot of college kids employment. I had a lot of horsepower and we did a lot of landscapes. And then, like I said, I just, I was ripped out of, I had about a
$600,000 book of business with a group of friends and then they said, hey, farm 3,000 acres. And dad was here and gone and it was my crop. And pain teaches, that's the thing. And I think a lot of times we meet at places like this, hey, crops look like crap, everything looks good or bad. And I had some really bad crops that I was responsible for early on from weather.
And intercropping, relay cropping to me is a way to use my useless skills of landscaping and farming. And as I've became experienced in it, I really feel like I have a somewhat of a handle when mother nature goes crazy a little bit. So that's why I love it. And just the productivity and efficiency that I see in a lot of things, a lot of things.
So when was it that you came back and took over the farm? 2010 was when we found out my dad and he was, he passed April of 2011. So over the course of that fall and then, uh, 2011 back home, just short story. It was like the worst monsoon ever.
We got like 50 inches of rain and, uh, I, I couldn't get a wheel turned and I ended up planting in the mud and the people that like waited had a decent crop and then 12 was a drought. Uh, so it was just like, You know, I helped out on the farm. I was the dumb cowboy sort board guy in the pig barn. So that was kind of my skill and helped out.
But it was just my crop to screw up or whatever because my dad was such a leader. He was such an asshole in a good way. But he kept everyone like if you screwed up, you would know about it from my dad. And he was gone. So they kind of looked at me to figure it out.
Yeah. I mean, Constant Canopy is basically the Twitter-like manifestation of the relationships and stuff like that. And I met a guy locally. And the name actually came from Joe Bassett when we were first kind of drinking beer and hanging out and stuff. And it was part of another. I was going to call it Occupy, this idea of cover crops and cash crops always kind of occupying the space.
And it was constant canopy unleashes progress. And he's like, constant canopy, that's it. So that's just kind of how that started. And now I talk about like making gaps so it has some, it's not a full canopy all the time.
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I'm a dork. Like my oldest is a dork like me. I would lock myself in the room and like remember baseball cards and stuff. And then as the internet came along, you know, I'm that rare age where I had the old school, like castrate pigs and throw testicles at your cousin to like, we're like AI everything. Now this election cycle is crazy with all the AI and everything.
Anyway, like I came on when the internet was coming. So I came in love with computer models for weather. And I just became so dorked out on predicting my own forecast.
And that manifested into the cropping system where I enjoy chaos and I like to look at chaos and I like to look at the response of not just the plant, but the soil and the grasshoppers and the winds and the sun angles and the shadows and like where the frost melts off and how the shadow. And I'm just always in this, my own little,
weird dorky world and i found twitter as like i'm gonna get really weird on you here but when i was little i had an imaginary friend named poe that lived at my belly button and when i was doing my dorky shot poe i think the twitter thing is like my poe okay i'm like i'm out here thinking about this stuff i might as well make a video yeah and my wife was like when i first got on twitter she's like you are doing this all wrong no you are weird
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