Matt Swanson
@MaxROIFarmer
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Don’t Talk About It, Be About It.....Farm Kid turned Farm Dad of 3, Abrams Tanks once upon a time, 2019 NCGA Champion
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@PatDonahoeArmy
I’m sorry sir, but from where I’m sitting you were in the wrong
Regardless of opinion on vaccine, he asked a legitimate question about the suicide epidemic we have seen since GWOT began
On top of that, it’s completely beneath the office you hold to respond in that way
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A bunch of old dudes hating on a 20 something young woman for double clutching an old Mack that’s probably close to 15 years older than she is is peak holiday twitter
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I know some of y’all will make fun of me for taking a victory lap…but 11 months ago I walked back into a classroom for the first time in 11 years, since then I’ve knocked out 58 sem. hours, survived a horrendous farming year, and got a long ways towards rebuilding my marriage...
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I think I’ve been duped....wife said we were going to look at some grain bins....
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Anybody else despise sending 10 texts back and forth or 3 emails when a 45 second phone call would be enough
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I’ve never been a terribly religious person, surely don’t deserve it, but I’ve felt some mighty conviction and/or comfort at just the times I needed it more than once
When my first marriage ended I happened to have dinner with a friend from HS…I was lost, a new single dad
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Regardless of which side of the aisle is giving the State of the Union, do we really want our representatives to refuse to stand for anything the other side talks about, regardless of wether it’s a mutual interest or not? Look like a bunch of bitter teenagers
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Some farms take their snack fridges a bit more serious than others
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It if you’re struggling don’t look for a bottle or a pill or a smoke or any number of other things that are only going to take the pain away for a moment…or a gun that you think will take it away for good…
Find Your Knees, Ask For Help, it may not be quick, but it’ll come
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Everybody has that first land lord that gives you your first break....mine passed away this morning....always worth an hour or two conversation on the patio when I was around...this year has been so hectic I didn’t get much time to stop, I’ll Miss the conversation
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Just did something I’ve done rarely if ever in the middle of a busy season, quit in the middle of a nice afternoon with rain in The forecast and the help still working to spend time with my kids
Probably should’ve started doing that awhile ago
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I just set up an automatic wifi cutoff for the boys devices for bedtime and they are currently trying to figure out why the wifi died
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Friend of mine is dealing with the loss of a 2year old little girl to drowning, add them to your prayer lists if you are so inclined
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Reported kill count of the “Ghost of Kiev” is 6
2x Su-35, 1x Su-27, 1x MiG-29 and 2x Su-25
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Found pictures of my first truck cleaning out files today
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AG companies please for the love of God stop dispatching trucks for farm deliveries that don’t have a pallet Jack
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I realize many have moved on, but my wife put up this little display week before last; they are only gone if you quit talking about them
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Only 3 months after originally promised but there’s a planter in the premises anyway
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If you are going to charge the labor rates and service fees we see today in the ag space, this is what I expect, tech came with almost every part he might need and is equipped to complete shop level work onsite, no running back and forth 3 times, was prompt and ready
@AltorferCat
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Here it is folks, special thanks to
@jana_knupp
for helping me work through the process of writing my first blog post and the one or two special folks I had read ahead of time
Baghdad and Back: Survivors’ Guilt and the Healing Power of Agriculture
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Builders, please make your garages large enough to get two full-size vehicles in
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Not to kick a beehive here....but some of these “show” animal people I think have forgotten the point of breeding for herd improvement
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At some point, we have to admit that locking away our elders in the nursing home and making them quarantine for two weeks with every trip to an outside care facility is detrimental to both their and their loved ones health
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Walking down the hall at my kids preschool....some of y’all should’ve quit drinking before you filled out your child’s birth certificate
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@JohnWitter_Ag
@coladoggxxx
Yeah the only defense is he was surprised, but even that is hard to defend.
It’s your job and they clearly saw something, but we see this repeatedly with school shooters etc with law enforcement not being up to the task.
Without seeing the shooting angle and assuming the
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Perhaps if we taught economics in high school we wouldn’t find our kids so drawn to socialism
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Took a few years to find the right opportunity and get it figured out, but with the help of a great partner I'm excited to announce that starting in 2021 we are going to be farming in the Delta in addition to Illinois, haven't been this excited for spring in quite a long time
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4 months ago when we were vehicle shopping my wife was convinced she could get by with less than a full size SUV....this morning I got to hear those 4 words that every husband covets hearing more than anything else....”Honey, you were right”
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I realize dealers make their margin on parts and service vs new iron, but some of the markups on parts are getting out of hand
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I’m not usually a truck guy, but every time I see a picture of one of this outfits’ trucks I get jealous
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Ready to skip the part where we have to finish getting it ready and get straight to the harvesting part
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Folks, with loan renewal season coming up, if you are struggling and thinking of suicide please reach out....I’ve been there for other reasons and I’m more than happy to help, it’s not weakness and you shouldn’t be embarrassed to reach out
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Assuming that the reporting is accurate and it has kicked off…
Remember there are young men and woman on both sides who are going to lose their lives over the coming days and nights, likely in large quantity
At the end of the day they are all just like you and me
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Make sure you take stock of how good your life is, you never know when it might just end without warning.
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So in the end we 1. Subsidized producers not making prudent grain marketing decisions(again) 2. Further reinforced the idea that we should continue to produce out the wazoo every year 3. Further incentivized getting something planted over PP 4. Took away ammunition to drop land $
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Still not used to the sight of store shelves like this, Aisle after aisle, what have we done to ourselves with public policy in the last 18 months and how long will it take to repair it?
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If you are right or left right now, and claiming this politician or that politician is responsible…
Kindly GFY
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Calm down folks…no nuclear meltdown tonight and if there was…you couldn’t do anything about it anyway
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Everything remains awesome and I can’t think of any place I’d rather be
As they say…on the roughest of days the sun still rises the next day…lot of work ahead.
Sad to see the shed I raked orderly lines in the gravel, pretended I was big stuff on a tricycle 450 Farmall, and grew up in practically, fall, but such is life.
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In case you’re wondering, traditional US opponents flexing all at once isn’t a good sign
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Think the men who laid these planks 100-150 years ago thought they’d be the floor of a wedding venue instead of the drive through to unload wagons?
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Local restaurant in Arkansas has hit the labor wall and started to close down on certain days due to staffing challenges...going to be some long term community impacts across the country if we continue to face the shortage of unskilled labor due to government payment availability
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Sounds like some folks are having issues with the link so here are screenshots of the same
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Tried to trade for a bigger planter his spring, couldnt find the right one....looks like 30’ is happening
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Acoording to the Bayer employees/contractors in my DMs I will be reported to Bayer for talking negatively about outcome-based pricing....perhaps Bayer should bring in some operators of different sizes and risk tolerance and TALK to us instead of just moving trying to ram it thru
For those that feel the suppliers are taking a too large chunk of gross revenue, are pricing schemes like
@Bayer4CropsUS
outcome based pricing make you more or less likely to do business with
@Asgrow_DEKALB
@ChannelSeed
and other branded companies? Will you still use
@FieldView
?
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Props to my faulty bookkeeping practices…thought I had 10 tons of carryover 32% prepaid and it was 100…
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What is so damn hard about just showing tweets in the order they were tweeted....I don’t need “likes” and “tweets by people who you don’t follow” screwing up my timeline
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Took a little grunt to get it here, but AgTwitter came through with a solid set of furniture for new office at a fraction of the cost of new
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If you don’t have legitimate questions about who is at the helm of United States right now you are purposefully and unforgivably ignorant.
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I realize a lot of you followed recently for Ukraine info…but I generally try to unplug a bit on the weekend and watch some racing.
Back on the beat in a cpl hours.
Biden pivot to Venezuela is…laughable
Doing anything to not pump oil here in the US.
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2 hours until closing, Fulton Co IL Cash Rent Auction, 126 PI,
$507/acre after auction fees
3 year deal
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Wife and I picked a repurposed 15’ grain bin for our Christmas accommodations
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Elephant in the room(or dm or group chat)
Life is hard, sometimes it’s your fault, sometimes it’s not , sometimes it’s both
Look out for your fellow humans, you never know when they might need you
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Quick video I shot about our No-Till CoC system...
Yield✔️
Time Savings✔️
Soil Conservation ✔️
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It’s Monday…
Presidential palace in Baghdad has been stormed
Ukraine has launched a heavy counter offensive near Kherson
Getting western with electricity prices in Europe
Round landed 100 meters from reactor at ZPP
Your morning in 🇺🇸 was likely much less stressful, enjoy it
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Guys that would’ve never bought a Soil Warrior before will now buy them because they are JD Green
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Congrats to
@AlexHarrell21
on his new soybean world record!!
New soybean yield record set at 206 bushels
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Ukrainian SM reporting that a Mig-29 pilot has become an ace today, a spectacular achievement at anytime, but on Day 1? outnumbered in lost airspace?
He’s got heart for sure
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Summary from the overnight
Ukrainian forces continue to hold in large part
Several new videos and pictures overnight of abandoned Russian equipment
One captured Russian soldier admitted that his unit had beaten their commander and then walked off
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To the 29 members of the Regulars I counted as comrades in arms, the handful of local kids, and my cousin who used to pick me up and take me to the weight room early in the morning and who was killed in 2003.
Today I remember you and count you among the thousands of my own
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Yesterday I got to take her to the beach for the first time since we got married , it always seemed like a minor deal to me, but after seeing her face when she walked back up the beach, I was most certainly wrong
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As they say…on the roughest of days the sun still rises the next day…lot of work ahead.
Sad to see the shed I raked orderly lines in the gravel, pretended I was big stuff on a tricycle 450 Farmall, and grew up in practically, fall, but such is life.
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You don’t have to be a supporter of left or right to see that corporations are increasingly picking sides and becoming more brazen about it
Not a good road we are on
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I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m ready for a farming season which doesn’t require me to run my body like a rented mule, last few have been real sucky
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The idea that you can affect the war by dumping out Vodka and declining applications of everyday overseas Russian students and workers looking to get away from Russia is flawed at best
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The first peanut field I've ever harvested makes 2.6 ton/acre, by the time I account for extra seed cost and a little extra crop protection, as well as the fixed costs of owning specialized eq. Amortized over 5 years, that puts us at roughly 100bpa soybean equivalent
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Thanks to the LaHarpe, Blandinsville, Terre Haute and Ft. Green Fire Departments for helping us out this morning
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Small start up trucking company realities…can’t afford an in house mechanic and you ain’t making money sitting still so evening repairs so it won’t miss a run
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Sorry I wasn’t there brother, but thank you for always being there for me, it was one of the great honors of my life knowing you
Never forget our last conversation and your fashion advice
Until Valhalla
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Found out today that after 2.5 years of
@WIUAg
I'll be able to walk across the stage and accept both my Undergraduate and Graduate degrees in May of 21; assuming I don't screw it up, it'll be as a Summa Cum Laude and University Honors Scholar...light at the end of the tunnel
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Alright folks, this is the most personal thing I’ve ever posted… apologize for the link but it was the only way…this is some of my recollection of the War In Iraq and how it has colored my perception since then..thanks
@jockowillink
for your inspiration
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Capstone exam for my MBA completed today…celebrated with a nice NY strip
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Never really sure that people fully appreciate
#MemorialDay
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