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@mopaksus

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Farmer, Husband, Father to 4, Homeschool, Cover crops, No-Till, Tillage, Field Graze, Kstate Alum. Agronomy Degree

Kansas, USA
Joined December 2022
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@mopaksus
Morgan
1 month
@wingod @ObtainerOf Homework needing to be assigned after a 8 hour school day is a good example of how inefficient the school system is
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1 year
Kansas passed a bill that allows homeschooled kids to participate in their local schools electives and sports programs with no requirements of attendance hours. Big win
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1 year
Neighbor killed in a four wheeler roll over chasing cows. Be safe on those damn things
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3 months
Everyone complaining about solar panels. 2000+ acres of grass going to hunting. No cattle. All the bottoms getting planted to food plots…. Virtually no money will be brought in locally
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9 months
Had a long time landlord pass away this week. 2nd one this year. Really puts the future up in the air. This landlord did a lot for me. He gave a 19 y old kid with a junk combine a chance to harvest his crops in my second year doing so.
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2 years
@dane_berggren @stillnotadvice How do you think the nutrients get from the stomach to the meat…?
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1 year
For the love of god. If you want to be a farmer do not get an agronomy degree. It’s basically worthless out here….
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1 year
Some people just have different problems in life…
@WadeDavisFarms
Wade Davis
1 year
For sale, hard to get 2023 Yukon Denali XL 4X4 Ultimate package w/super cruise 3.0 Duramax 68 miles. Ordered wrong color for wife. 7 year 150000 mile warranty available, if wanted. serious injuries only. DM for price.
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4 months
I’ve got 8 planter passes where I can go a full half mile and not go over a terrace. I look forward to it every year and enjoy every minute of it.
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6 months
Sub 4 dollar corn? Plant it all to grass….
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5 months
2” of rain in the forecast a week ago to zero in the 10 day. Are we living the modern dust bowl? 32 inches of rain below normal in past two to three years
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1 year
@RustySherwood1 Wife didn’t like it huh…
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1 month
@clemycali @wingod @ObtainerOf College is pretty well expected based on class structure. I’d allow some on the high school level for certain projects. Zero reason for any before that
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11 months
Well a flat tire led us to a cracked rim. Trip to mikes equipment and now we have an orange rim….
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1 month
@Empty_America Just consumerism….they want to consume and they post about all they consumed on instagram so they can brag about it to their peers who then have to one up the consuming
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9 months
@5x5enjoyer @Attractiveincel @wanyeburkett I think peoples definition of “alpha” when it comes to marriage needs to curve back to reality a bit. A guy who provides a stable marriage, and a good home life while popping out kids, IS the alpha…..
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6 months
@Xuxubruh @GigaBasedDad Which is why everyone is so blind to what actually goes on…..
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4 months
Brim full 2” in 30 minutes last night. Over an inch fell in 5 minutes. Made a mess of things but ponds got water.
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1 year
Farmers running millions in equipment with hundreds of thousands of government monies in their pocket playing Oliver Anthony’s song to their drone videos is pretty amusing….
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4 months
Your planting tractor doesn’t have a bale monitor in it. We are not the same
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1 year
Amazing wheat harvest. Spraying out my 45 bu wheat. #wheattour
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4 months
How many small towns today are simply dying because everyone is waiting for the government to fix everything? This isn’t a lefty righty problem. It’s everywhere.
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1 year
@Kyle_Hiebert @apasztor82 @WheatPete Good case for a riparian buffer…
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11 months
@lhlabb @Eric_Conn @piper4missouri To be fair most schools can’t either
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3 months
Last load of harvest. Another one in the books.
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3 months
Who is running those old machines and racking up hours? Let’s see em!
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11 months
If the government shuts down, I identify as a Ukrainian farmer.
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1 year
@PaulHammelNE This is a “my body my choice” kinda thing….. But for the wrong side I guess
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1 year
@Empty_America Rural America, especially farming ones have been telling their kids this for 2 generations. I have a neighbor that wouldn’t even let their kid come back. They payed for his education and now he makes meager wages slaving away, like it’s somehow better then farming
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@mopaksus
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2 years
@NebGradDubDub Is that why Nebraska has done so well in the Big Ten
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10 months
@wanyeburkett Yup. It’s easy to tell when we have given our kids to much screen time. They start whining or getting attitude problems about being told to get off or they can’t have it.
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2 years
“Doing it for generations” doesn’t make you anymore qualified…
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1 year
@clintwfischer I’m struggling to see how a 200 head cow operation is profitable with that kind of debt….
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3 months
@nealjclark1 @dysangelistes How can you inspire yourself when you’re trapped for 8 hours a day with no ability to go anywhere else? It’s a death trap. Literally
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@SaysSimulation I live in a rural area. Under 4000 in the county. Virtually everyone that is here is having kids. Very few that are single over 30. If single maybe divorced but most have kids. Social economic status means zero. EVERYONE has kids if they can. Ivf/adoption for a lot that can’t
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10 months
All I really want is a nice lineup of equipment for my bankruptcy auction
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5 months
@Inv3ntive15 There is something happening in densely populated areas that just can’t be described. I don’t even mean 100s of thousands of people. Even just thousands. Their viewpoints on life become so skewed from reality it’s scary
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1 year
Got along way to go, but it’s better
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1 year
@Serenity3000 @EzraFBridgers One of the most straight forward answers there is. I have yet to meet a homeschooler who isn’t more advanced for their age. They can communicate with all ages, they handle adversity better and are better problem solvers. They are more individualistic and don’t rely on others
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4 months
@clintwfischer Government employees says alot….
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6 months
When I hear the phrase “empower farmers” I hear money leaving their pockets
@drich82
Dusty Rich 🇺🇸
6 months
During our What’s New in Ag session at the @ComClassic my friend and elite agronomist @sean_nettleton delivered the why behind Baseline RX and how we use it to empower farmers to make more educated decisions with crop nutrition. Come see us today, 3rd floor Booth 7739!
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4 months
@Empty_America Most of the reason they hold out till 40 is due to early divorce
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1 year
@TheDailyCowman Can sell all you want until the bushels aren’t there
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8 months
@tylersmith7422 @GuyDealership And most of that is labor to get to what ever needs fixed
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9 months
Then when finished he asked “your coming back next year aren’t you” My first consistent customer. I harvested his crops for several years until he decided to hang it up. Then he asked me to farm his ground. It was a huge step for us. One of our biggest farms at the time.
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1 year
@TravisLeeTucke1 Lol no. They did it because they could save billions using artery slop called seed oils.
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1 year
@clintwfischer It’s sitting there because they will never sell it…
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8 months
@MaxROIFarmer And neither one of them are necessarily wrong either
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9 months
One thing about trying to do it al yourself….your house looks like this. 6 years since it was built
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1 year
@silagechopper I’m selling ground and may cut back rented acres this fall. Sign goes up this week. Can’t wait for all the rumors to start floating around. I’m only 33, but I’ve been farming since I was 18, all the way through college. Now my dad is 75, no hired hands and I’ve got 4 kids. Tired
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10 months
@thefarmbabe That’s a hybrid…..there’s no gmo trait for tornados….
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1 year
@PlsntVlyFarmer Ya, people don’t get this. Grasses are meant to grazed. Simple as that. It’s why crp is such a failure of a program. And the bureau of land management
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3 months
@leondems @dereksback @politico Sounds like public schools. Except they are guaranteed the money for ever….
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6 months
@Qcconfidential @dominbydigdug @I35virtual “I need others to entertain me”
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2 months
GMC Denali in front of FSA office. If only wheat were worth more….
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1 year
@Empty_America If she is a future potus we are screwed….
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1 year
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2 years
@dane_berggren @ksufearless @RobSomerville1 Net is a chronic killer, not usually acute. Small pieces of net accumulate over time and reduce rumen capacity.
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9 months
@clintwfischer It’s as bad as selling hay to horse people
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9 months
I spent about an hour with him a couple weeks ago wouldn’t have known at the time it would be the last. Sucks I’m already not a fan of dealing with the next generation. They are so apathetic towards the land and what their parents accomplished.
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1 year
And people think they have the dinosaurs right….
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1 year
@MrBissell_917 It’s McDonald’s….what did he expect
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9 months
@dr_benner @Empty_America A few tater tots with meat and cheese isn’t “high carb”
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4 months
@frances_wanders @geekhomestead @tvisgreat That doesn’t make anyone else interested in what you do…
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1 year
3 year old brought me a tractor house magazine. Said- look I found you some balers to fix your burned one.
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1 year
@electMikeHarvey @Davis_Hammet So your kids don’t get yearly physicals? They are required for sports….
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1 year
Switching up my modes of action.
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3 months
So far working hard has gotten me three years of failed crops…. When does it start paying off?
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10 months
People who feel entitled to bring their dogs everywhere they go are the worst….
@wanyeburkett
wanye
10 months
I’m honestly so tired of dogs. On the way to the park today we passed a yard with two large dogs barking insanely at us on the other side of a broken, nearly toppled fence (that they’d no doubt already half-destroyed themselves). Then we get to the park and some lady is holding a
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1 year
@JoelSchneekloth @iamyourfarmer Bahahaa like ethanol? Crop insurance…. That’s just a wow take
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7 months
Now imagine paying John Deere subscription services….
@jsmith4966
AppPatriotgirl 🇺🇸
7 months
Just paid my property taxes on my house. Yes, the one I paid tax on when I bought it 30 years ago. My house is paid for, but I still have to pay taxes on it every year and if I don't, they will take it from me. Do you get it? It's never really yours.
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9 months
@alxcharlesdukes @wanyeburkett Actions have consequences It’s just you think your actions are superior
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10 months
Even just a few years ago if you’d told me I could multiplayer farming simulator with my 3 year old son. I’d have chuckled and shrugged it off…. But here I am cussing him out because he’s not in the right spot with the grain cart….
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1 year
@thedanware @janetmjennifer @Mijcan57Jim @mhdksafa How is the generosity of the community any different then paying more in taxes?
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1 year
I’m 4th generation. But I’m the first generation to not have to buy the previous generation out and start from scratch.
@gwiesefarms
Grant Wiese
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Which generation of farmer are you?
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9 months
@steveconaway1 Isn’t that usually the case? Smaller piece means less total dollars on the table means more interested parties willing to participate.
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1 year
@alltimeyolow After paying for a thousand dollar iPhone that can take some of the best pictures in the history of man kind
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2 years
@dane_berggren More then enough research out there that proves chopped net wrap is decreasing animal longevity.
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1 year
@TornadoNate Big companies LOVE regulation. If it takes an extra 2 years and millions to do, they don’t care. It further reduces the amount of competition that is able to proceed….
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Since then I’ve spent almost a decade chatting with him on the front porch. I got married, moved three times and had four kids.
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1 year
@AMillershaski That’s all? I had 2000 done by noon
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1 year
@bl_ag_inc I don’t think it’s an “ag” problem. Small business owners in general go through this problem
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10 months
@Empty_America I assume most people think that option A would result in less deaths. And since a lot of people now have a sense of superior duty to humankind as a whole they would feel this to be correct decision.
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9 months
Word of advice….if you build a house or install an instant water heater. DO NOT put it on an interior wall. It will rattle your whole house. Working on moving it to the concrete outer wall today.
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1 year
@GrntNicholson @jlkurtz Hate to tell ya but kids already are required to get physicals, which requires inspection….
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6 months
Idk why people think opposite, but cattle have never given me the amount of stress that owning equipment does…..
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4 months
@frances_wanders @geekhomestead @tvisgreat And taking about a job is….interesting?
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1 year
@PlsntVlyFarmer We just had a sealed bid rent auction. Winning bidder is double going rate. I couldn’t even fathom it. What’s worse is when all the absentee landowners hear what the bid was….
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@Empty_America @sputnikfloydwho Virtually every higher education profession around here is becoming dominated by women. To the point you wonder where the heck the men are…. Veterinarian, doctors, salespeople, boards, research and extension….
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1 year
@RealBrettWeaver @TylerDreiling They are tied with themselves?
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1 year
@Nebr_Agron078 I pay taxes….I believe that gives me the right to decide
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8 months
@Empty_America Problem with laptops and phones is the tech has evolved so fast. You can buy a car and drive for a decade and it’s just fine. A decade old computer is almost worthless in its computing power compared to new software.
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1 year
@jkholland89 Because your estimates suck
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1 year
@SDHighwayPatrol Road pirates
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2 months
We’ve given up almost all the work to chemical and equipment manufacturers. What exactly are we getting paid for?
@4720john
John Schlessiger
2 months
A quick Google search tells me that KC hard red winter wheat was $4.32 a bushel in 1980....... The US inflation calculator tells me that that same bushel of wheat today should be $16.47 a bushel...... What are we doing....this is stupid.
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@Empty_America Most small towns around here have now allowed Utvs on the streets. There are clubs that go cruising backroads all in their 30k side by sides. People that can’t paint their house have one.
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Some times you need a subtle reminder…..
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1 year
How big is homeschooling in Kansas? Public schools are playing homeschool sports teams….
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