Want to hear what it sounds like when selling our neighbor's 123.8 acre farm for $41,500 an acre?

Our bigger wheat is fine. Smaller wheat got dinged a little. Headed towards some low 20’s the next couple of days😬

Farming is checkers. Ranching is chess.

Interesting thread, makes you wonder if agronomists are trained the same way. Selling us what solves an issue vs learning how to keep your soil healthy and farm profitable without inputs you may not need?

In reality, ours soils get worse every year. Farmers today are farming 1/2 the topsoil their grandfathers farmed. Most farms are still losing above the tolerable loss rate annually. You'd be hard pressed to find a row crop operation building soil. 1 in 50,000 farmers is a builder

I have never in my life had wheat look this good in March.

I’m not trying to sound pompous or arragant when I say this but the #1 thing that I struggle with is that the positions that I strive to arrive at… the concepts… the systems aren’t understood by most people inside and outside of Agriculture. Plants aren’t driven by fertilizer They are driven by CO2 and sunlight above the surface of the soil… and oxygen, carbohydrates, and proteins below. I think… and learn analogously. The arrangements or venues that I create in fields work very similar to markets. The best analogy is the value of beer What is the value of a single can of miller lite in a case at CostCo vs the value of a beer at a football game or concert? 10x…25x? Thats what we can do with plants if we’re cognizant of venue. Sure you need good agronomics and maybe a little N to get things growing, but what’s most important are the real drivers of plant growth. The other piece to this is America 🇺🇸 wouldn’t be America 🇺🇸 if we weren’t the largest consumer economy in the world. That is our identity. To be consumers of stuff to impress people that really don’t give a shit … but you think they do. The economy only works if the rest of the world covets and want to participate in this ecosystem and get a piece of it to themselves. Therefore… the think tanks of more of a “off grid” holistic thinking has no purpose in Academia or Industry. It’s more of a threat. You want to fast and eat 🥩 and be healthy without our medication? You want to drive a truck with a carburetor? You value family more than impressing your friends with consumerism? You’re weird… weirdo.

Trying to become a capable man in 2026 feels like an impossible load sometimes. You’re supposed to crush it financially, stay jacked, grow your faith, learn to fix everything, have an interesting hobby or two and still have time for family. Most days you feel like you’re failing at half of it.