Jason Mauck
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first heard Sep 2024
last heard Sep 2024
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No one wants to listen to you for two minutes and 20 seconds. And I just kept doing it.
Yeah. It's very effective journaling.
Just seeing.
Or were you weird and then Twitter? No, I didn't really have any social media. And then I started doing that. Okay. And then I started meeting all you yahoos and traveling around and. It's just been fun.
So the definition of relay cropping is basically starting another crop while another crop is growing. Relay. I mean, poly is growing basically two at once. And, you know, it's a sequencing. And from a marketing degree or economics degree, you know, I loved economics, the supply and demand curves.
And I think a lot of our problems are we're not reflecting on our landscape, what's happening with the weather and our precipitation and our heat and everything like that. So for me, relay cropping is being in position. I may be too colorful for this, but I hate being a bitch, if you will. I feel out of place if I don't have a crop that's rooted into the ground to kind of play off of.
And when I was a landscaper, you know, I had hundreds of acres of turf and beds and And I had to keep everyone's place upkeeped. And I see what happens with waterhemp, especially the last three or four years. It's like our tools are just turning into like air BB guns anymore. And I think it's going to go back to the basics of longer rotations, of canopy, of suppression.
And we've got to kind of solve these problems like old school because... Our new school only lasts like three or four or five or six years, and then it's like nothing.
And in a way, it makes all of this stuff, a lot of this stuff that you'll see today that you can scale easier because, I mean, look at that. You can spray dicamba 2,4-D, Roundup. You can spray metrotrion on beans soon. Mezotrion, yeah. Yeah, like the corn herbicide.
So this stuff isn't really that complicated, but it goes back to harvesting the water and the sunlight, these free things that there's no reason why you should have a field day to sell air. or time or space or water or hog shit or how to use it more effectively. But to me, um, going back to my story, my family is the most conservative family, like squeeze the Buffalo and make it fart.
You know, like anything I spend any money with grandpa, it was just impossible. So I just learned how to, you know, ask for forgiveness way more before permission cause it would never happen. So, um, The relay cropping is like, I have an idea to solve a problem, whether it's not have the water wrecker crop or stop the water hemp from spraying.
I'm going to go out on a limb and try this and figure it out. And then eventually the people that, especially my direct family or locals, they'll eventually start doing it. And we're seeing that.
So ideally how we set it up, we grow primarily corn and soybeans and we've got wheat acres. But we'll plant an earlier maturity corn. We're 20-inch corn, and we found that we can raise a little bit earlier corn at higher densities and get that yield right up there with a full-season corn. So we try to get that off at 23%, 25%, shell it off late September, and then we're planting wheat and strips.
And I've done a million different ways. We primarily drill the wheat. We're going to be planting it with a planter this year, but I've planted it also with our hog manure tank and planted it. above the manure, which I think is a fantastic idea. I just need Bill Gates or somebody to cut me a check to actually design a manure seeder.
But basically what we can do with our hog manure is we have a static, very fertile soils. You know, even if we don't put manure on it for 10 years, our P and K levels are going to be up. So we can basically just put nitrogen where we want to kind of foster tillering of the wheat. Sometimes we follow manure, but most of the time not. And we plant reduced populations.
And that's a big thing that I learned as a marketer. And I think America is this, sorry if this hurts anybody's feelings, but the whole marketing circus is just with holidays and everything. It's just to corral people to exploit, you know, fireworks and just up the valuation of everything. Just make sure everyone does their routine. And agriculture is no different.
And we meet at all these field days and figure out, you know, how can we gain five to seven bushels with a monocrop? And what you can do with slope curve is you can do exactly what you can do with selling fireworks of saying, I'm going to buy this cheap Chinese piece of crap firework for two dollars.
And I get people horny enough June 31st to come here, June 30th and spend, you know, 500 percent more than I paid for it and exploit that. And we can do that with a single seed where if we plant like 25% of the wheat, I can get about 75, 80% of the yield. But what I am more interested in is consuming and getting ahead on the demand curve of water.
And I know I'm getting way ahead of your simple question here, but I can get ahead on the water curve to where I have a water equilibrium. And that's what actually makes plants grow well is balance much more than throwing the kitchen sink at things.
we would rather be on the edge of dry yes not not drought but edge of dry yeah so you're short season corn and then you plant lower population wheat in strips and we've been on 60s i might change that up a little bit more narrow i think 30 is too narrow and it's all a shadow effect where i'm you know six foot tall my shadow is going to cast so far so wheat's only about 32 inches tall or whatever it is so it's going to cast so big of a shadow
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