Ryan Heiniger
@FarmrHuntr
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Father, Husband, 4th Gen Farmer, Wildlife Biologist, Executive Director Conservation Technology Information Center, Cyclone, Hunter, Chocolate Connoisseur
Iowa, USA
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For our farm
It isn't about the climate
It isn't about a carbon credit
It isn't about no-till
It is about feeding the soil
It is about water infiltration
It is about weed suppression
It is about recycling nutrients
And most importantly
It is about striving for zero soil loss
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My 74 year young dad and I didnt clean out the bin on a 90° day for you to put ketchup on a steak.
#EatBeef
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My daughter is on the right and washing her calf for the show today
I jokingly asked her friend, who is also showing a calf, why she was helping *the competition
Her reply was "I want to because she is my best friend"
Imagine if politicians acted like 4th graders
#4H
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Our dream home is almost complete with the flooring now done. Last up is the kitchen.
#protip
don't build a house, move in and take five years to finish unless you have a heck of a patient wife.
#Imarriedup
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Inflation? Never heard of her. $7.50 for the lunch special at the local cafe.
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New tradition at the farm
Each kid gets to pick one day to play hooky from school and help with planting or harvest
Today is his day as graincartboy
10 years from now he likely wouldn't remember what he learned in class but I guarantee he will remember this day of
#harvest21
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74 year old quarterback and 14 year old receiver working together like they've done this for years. 🏈🌽
#harvest21
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Opening pheasant season 30 years in the making. Same field. Same single shot Winchester Model 37a that was my dad's first gun. I still remember the feeling that day and hope 3 decades from now he does as well. Tradition
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We received less than 2 inches of rain all of June and I can make a mud ball with the top inch of soil.
#covercrops
#farmweird
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Tell me you don't carry a rifle in the combine without telling me
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It is said you get a chance to buy the neighboring farm once in a generation
Today 3 generations had the chance to scout the farm my great grandfather rented when he moved to Iowa from Kansas in 1930
This farm sells in 8 days
Hoping the banker says I have a chance
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I've said it before but the best time to scout your fields is after a big rain event. We've had 2.5" since midnight. This table top flat corn field was vertical tilled and planted with 1 bushel/acre of cereal rye. Some residue did move.
In the quest for zero soil loss, a thread
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Meet Tank, our newest bottle calf. His momma didn't want him but this little girl did.
#4H
#chores
#FarmHer
#IfBarnWallsCouldTalk
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I commissioned a local artist to do a mural of my grandfather on his original machine shed at his first farm he bought after returning from WWII. I surprised my dad with this tribute last night after he got back from being gone for a week while the painting was being done.
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Had a few rows too wet during
#harvest18
so I decided to fire up the 2 row ear picker today.
#squirrelfood
#farmkids
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Proud dad humble brag
He shot a 46 tonight with my 30 year old
@RemingtonArms
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It's not the plane, it's the pilot
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The first true snow of the winter. Forecast calls for a fire, book and a nap.
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Working on a new patent pending flotation device for corn before the next storm hits
#replant19
#flood19
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Wouldn't 28 degrees feel good about now? Who else is getting birdy?
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I don't know what my neighbor plants but his May 1st corn is 🔥
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Spending 9 hours inside watching 🏐 when it is 65⁰ outside and seeing your baby girl serve for eight consecutive points and watching her team win the tournament
#priceless
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Decided today was finally the day to see if the old McCormick Deering grinder would still work. Good chance it hasn't run for 40 years or more. Restoring the entire grainery with the bucket elevator has been a 4+ year project. Amazing how hard previous generations had to work.
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Driving to the dance tonight my phone rang and it was the kid's bus driver. Very strange to receive a call from him & my first guess was one of kids had not behaved. He proceeded to explain that many of the kids had been unusually loud this week and he had scolded them. 1/
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*checks parts inventory*
Siri, order 100 air filters for the 8rx
I guess they have the unloading figured out for larger headers.
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Planting into 3 foot tall covers has to be one of the most unorthodox feelings a farmer can have during planting.
#TeamMarker
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There is no joy in a post like this. Zero. It isn't about one way of farming vs another.
But let's not pretend it is a few bad apples. We have a major soil erosion crisis in this country that is absolutely destroying future generation's ability to grow food, fuel & fiber.
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Ag: we need more young farmers
Also ag: hey check out my 105 acres/hour rig
#ElephantInTheRoom
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Cut beans until 930 tonight and kid 1 was still up when I got home. I went to his room to tuck him in and he was asking questions about harvest progress.
I leaned over to kiss him goodnight and he said
You smell like combine. I like the smell of the combine.
That's my boy
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Tonight is homecoming and this kid had his choice of going to the football game or staying at the farm for
#harvest2020
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#FarmOn
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Early out of school + last day of teal season + Remington 870 12 gauge = first duck of his lifetime.
#ProudDad
#1shot
#jumpshooting
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This isn't about no till, cover crops or buffer strips
This isn't about more government incentives or regulations
This is about giving a damn about what runs off our fields and taking personal responsibility
Our individual actions is what will or won't make the difference
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When we bought this farmstead to build our forever home, I had 2 goals related to my conservation/hunting interests. One was to be able to walk out the door & crawl into a duck/goose blind. The 2nd was to restore a tallgrass prairie. This is year 3 and the big bluestem is 7' ✅✅
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One of my favorite barns I occasionally drive by. Any Illinois tweeps know the location?
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Cereal rye
#covercrop
broadcast into heavy corn residue on 11/4/22 with no incorporation. No observed germination last fall. Pic taken 2/19/23.
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Got the deadhead back today that my son found while pheasant hunting in the field behind our house
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We need a national conversation about soil erosion & solutions in this country. Droughts and floods are as guaranteed as death & taxes. It is heartbreaking to see what is happening. We have become too accustomed to accepting this as the cost of raising a crop. We must do better.
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Anyone have a good recipe for clay birds? Gonna be eating a bunch of them. Boy went 45/50 tonight.
#ProudDad
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Today was a once in a lifetime experience and memory to watch him harvest his first deer, especially on the farm right next to the house. He showed more composure than I would have been able to as the opportunity literally came down to the last minute.
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Wish we had a few more fields of
#soybeans
like this. Never have broke the triple digit mark before today.
#ItsonlyIowa
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Being without a hunting dog for the last year has been tough after we tragically lost both of our labs in 2018. Today our family regains a hunting dog and a new best friend. My daughter has been dreaming of this day for a year.
#girlsbestfriend
#birddog
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First time since my accident in December I've been in the barn/corral with the cattle. Can confirm cow therapy is legit.
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Louder for those in the back
We have a soil erosion crisis across this country
We have the tech, the equipment, the $$ incentives but lack the collective will
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The bucket elevator restoration project continues and yielded a pretty cool find today. Any guesses on what this is
#AgTwitter
?
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My 80 something neighbor and his winter restoration project
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First time actually driving by the new solar farm in the area
700 acres of farmland, gone. I wonder if those who criticized *food for fuel* will criticize food for electricity?
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I hate to admit it but the kid is a better shot than I am
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I asked the driver to send me a photo of the card with her handwritten note which I will hold onto forever. This was the other part of the card and now I will be trying to live up to the standard my daughter has set.
#ProudDad
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So this happened today. Never would have guessed we would be baling hay on Oct 14. Thankful for 3 days of good drying conditions. Crazy thing is this is by far the best quality hay of the year.
#cowchow
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I am officially at the hunting stage of not caring if I ever shoot another duck because watching him get excited and be successful in the field is so much more enjoyable
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Farming the field next to the house has its perks. Her first words, can I drive?
#FarmGirl
#NoCoolerNeeded
#SnackTime
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My wife and I lived in Nebraska in the early 2000s and I always wanted to come to a 🏈 game but never made it. Pretty surreal experience being at Memorial Stadium with our volleyball playing daughter for
#VBdayinNE
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Easiest conservation win on the farm is to not farm the acres that don't produce a net profit. This buffer is 20 years old and gets burned every 2-4 years. Plus if you enjoy wildlife and/or like to hunt, these acres produce birds and buck$.
Been wanting to do this for awhile. 40’ buffer along river bank and trees. No more shit corn along the tree line, no more vines, no more flushing money down the toilet on these acres, no more yield drag on the field avg. Just a down and back with my 20’
@JohnDeere
bush hog and
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I've been anxiously awaiting this day since last September when the rye was planted. I'd say this counts as
#farmweird
in our neighborhood.
#plant21
#plantinggreen
#soilhealth
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Sure we could grow another 200 bushels of corn on this acre or we can give a little something back to Mother Nature and let her grow pollinators and wildlife.
#FarmersForMonarchs
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It is amazing, but not surprising, what a living root on every acre in every field does for reducing soil erosion.
3.7" since Sunday including 1.2" downpour this afternoon and water is gin clear.
3 inches in March or April would have been chocolate.
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Well that is a pretty cool high school volleyball team pic
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I've now missed 3 weekends of hunting which has been tough
But my son has shown great independence to hunt solo which is fun to see
He got out of bed today with -10 windchills, set the decoys and harvested a goose by himself
In a way, this is almost more rewarding.
#prouddad
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#Corn
harvested yesterday
Dry fert and cereal rye
#covercrops
broadcast today
100% chance rain tonight 🤞
Thx for the quick work
@RVCooperative
and
@DylanDavidson93
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Why is corn belt agtwitter divided on tillage? Because scenes like this are too common & have become normalized as a byproduct of raising a crop. Are we all on the same team? Yes. Can we benefit from discussion? Of course.
But we all lose if farming becomes even more regulated.
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@gavin_spoor
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@SecVilsack
you gave a talk recently during which you highlighted the number of farmers in early 80s compared to today. You repeatedly emphasized wanting to do something to reverse this trend.
Here is a 1st gen farmer losing 400 acres due to
#solarpanels
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On your watch👆
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My son had a buddy stay over last night to hunt together this morning
Fresh snow, small spread & they are old school laying in a ditch w/ snow camo
I'm watching from house
First flock of 20 honkers just hovered over them before they got guns uncased
Hearts pounding. Memories
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For everyone looking for spring, good news is I found her
Bad news is she's in a worse mood than winter
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At the veterinarian office this morning to pick up some AI supplies and got a good laugh at this Bovi-Shield poster. "If she can't stay pregnant, what else will she do?"
Anyone else seen this before?
#BirdsandHerds
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2.5 inches of rain and runoff being filtered thru a
#CRP
buffer area. Cropland is tilled on 2 sides. Any guesses on water quality?
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Farmers: the public needs to be patient with us during harvest
Farm orgs: please be patient with farmers
This guy: Send it
Don't be this guy
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Wheat: as rare in Iowa as the Hawkeyes 🏀 playing in the 2nd round
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This Iowa boy loves driving through parts of Illinois and Indiana and seeing wheat in the rotation
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Going to rename this field Lucky
This kid shoots his first 2 bucks here, finds incredible dead head, limits of honkers and now tonight found an arrowhead in the buffer strip we burned last week.
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Thankful for this amazing memory and food for our family
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You know the difference between a good waterfowl hunt and a great one? A skilled retriever. This goose fell in another zip code and my buddy's dog Buster was on it.
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We all have a few more hours on us but we're still farmin' together 15 years later.
#FathersDay
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Nearly 6.5 years in the making & the kitchen is done. Flooring in 2020, cabinets/countertops this winter, shelves this week
Fellas be sure to find a wife who will move into an unfinished house, use a plastic table for the only countertop for more than half a decade
I married up
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Your farm will never be this excited either
Your boss will never be this excited to see you
Your phone will never be this excited to see you
Your co-workers will never be this excited to see you
Only your family gets this excited to see you
Make sure to prioritize your time accordingly
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Just imagine the challenge of being a YouTube farmer in 1957. Where did they mount the GoPro?
#hay22
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