Jason Mauck
speaker
109 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard Sep 2024
Jason Mauck’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsNo recordings in the last 12 months.Older appearances are listed below; set an alert to hear about the next one.
Appearances
Now, when you put it in the big wide strips, it changes its motive because no longer it has to grow up to compete against all the other wheat, it can grow laterally sideways. And that's where we create the additional yield is capturing the drivers in different shapes and lengths of time.
So the wheat is, each plant is gonna tiller and the tillers in the competition of field can't go up and actually reach that sun So it actually drags energy down where the tillers can go out and figure out a way to capture light. And then that brings that back to the plant. So, you know, I'm only putting like $15 worth of wheat out there.
And then it all works off of a proxy system where it's like our mics. If you went out there 200, 300 yards, you couldn't hear me anymore. I want to put that bean right off that big root mass so far. So the wheat isn't the beans aren't the bitch again of the wheat. Right. But it's in a.
favorable position where it can breathe but then have access to more of a reservoir of water so that's just taking time of messing with the densities messing with the how much i push the wheat because all this stuff if you get too aggressive of one thing you can have your ego ruins it because you're so worried about impressing someone on the first part but then you the bed on the second part so there's no reason to do it in the first place we plant the beans in between there we get a big solar corridor
And that's changed over the years. Early as of cereal as possible, the better. Full season beans, big splits. And, you know, we've raised really good soybeans this way. And if I was in a yield contest, I would start with strips of cereals, if nothing else, just to reflect the sunlight off the ground.
Or are we making more money? We spend a lot less money on the makers and we produce just as much or more revenue than high yielding corn that gives everyone boners. Gotcha. So like you get, It has to be the perfect year to get that field average of corn up there to 50 to 75. Like you can't have holes. You can't have yellow spots. You can't have deers procreating in the corner.
And if I go out there and I put $15 a week, I can lower my herbicide. I get good full season, full yield beans. Then you add those two togethers and I do all my costs. The other thing with corn that people rarely talk about and it's getting worse and worse is, You know, we had a feed mill two miles north and we take most of our corn, but that's kind of going away.
A lot of people have to truck their corn 20 miles. And you take the logistics of drying all those bushels, moving all those bushels multiple times and all the work. I mean, that can add up to 50 to 100, $150 an acre and less bushels. What I, my formula is, is 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. So $200 to $300 per acre pretty easily.
Yep. Well, no, I was actually injecting a knife. Really? I took off every other knife. So I was taking 60 inches – And just driving as fast as I can, blowing as much as I can. But the wheat was coming off the splash plate. And I had a, yeah, I had a Gandhi box that was dropped, and I splashed it into the closing wheels. Yep.
12 inches?
Planted, yeah. So it'll be just a single row of wheat? Well, no, it'll be 15 inches wide.
Right now it's 60 and 22 inches wide with my drill.
Yep, yep, and we're probably going to go to zero space soybeans to where this is all an evolution of eventually, and it might take two or three years... to where we do it. If you remember, I think it was Chuck Woolery on Love Connection. You guys are probably too young. I don't know that. Nope. Okay.
You always say I'm back in two and two and I always like two plus twos, but basically making a machine that seeds, sprays, tills, side dresses all in one pass. Because looking at this, I can, if I design the right equipment, I can make this less work than monocrops simply because I'm managing the landscape with plants. Seeds, sprays, tills, and what was the fourth one? Back rubs. Back rubs.
It fertilizes all the time. Imagine you've got these wheat strips. You come out there. You're doing...
like a little concave disc out ahead that cuts up right up to the wheat, and you have some kind of hoe drill that places the soil in the ground and does a little bit of shallow cultivation behind it, a little bit of ETE leveling, and then you've got a Y-drop that's putting nitrogen on your wheat and then your hood spraying behind your beans.
So if you zero-space them and you plant zero space in only like 45%, 50%, 60% of the landscape, then those plants will expedite canopy closure. It'll have the ancillary benefits of the wheat, and then that'll make you to harvest, and then we're clean slate.
Because my problem is I'm spraying my beans, my monocrop beans, at least three times, if not four times, because I'm trying to get a baby from birth, from the fetus to the baby, and it's six weeks before I have anything significant out there as far as defending the soil surface. So that's the whole point to me on these multiple crops is let's get
Reduce densities, but things out there to manage what?
Showing 41–60 of 109 · page 3 of 6
← Previous
Next →