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Zack Smith...Dad, Husband, Farmer, Entrepreneur, Co-creator of Stock Cropping, “Can’t died in a cornfield.”
Scarville, IA
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First attempt at whole field strip intercropping getting closer to maturity. Setting this field up for 20' ClusterClucks down the road with goal of whole field of Stock Cropping production.
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Took out my 60” single row hybrid plot Friday. Planted at 16,000 seeds/A. 8 Pioneer hybrids. Goal for the plot was to see hybrid expression in gaps. Yield range was 135-246 bu/a across products. 246 on 16k. To quote the great Ruth Langmore, “We don’t know fuck about shit.”
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The idea of the STOCK CROPPER was born out of a Twitter DM on February 7th. On September 10th, the ClusterCluck 5000 walked on it’s own electric power for the first time in front of 75 people. Get busy living...
#stockcropper
@SoMN_Stripper
@PetersenFarms
@JuiceNewton62
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Breakfast is served. Solar powered autonomous multi species grazing move to kick off a weekend of celebrating freedom and American ingenuity.
#ClusterCluckMe
@JoeatDawn
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First attempt at whole field 20ft strip intercropping starting to tour the facility and picking up slack.
#farmweird
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First measurement of 4 row Stock cropper intercrop corn strips fueled by last years ClusterCluck manure and the free contribution of arrangement 303 bu/A.
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If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to run multiple species of livestock inside a corn field, welcome to Stock Cropping. Click on YouTube the link below to see the unveiling of our mobile barn unit and our new system in its entirety.
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Corn farmers who thought they were going to get paid by an ethanol plant without having to change practices this morning…
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Zero commercial fertility outside of supplemental N here for 3 years. 18 inches of rain. Fed by sheep, pig and chicken intestinal fortitude coupled with edge row expression. Build the wall.
#stockcropper
#farmweird
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Take chances…you never know when you might just make contact. Get busy living…oh yeah that’s me saying it to Morgan Freeman.
#farmweird
#stockcropper
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We filled the tanks. This is the best day in the history of precip.
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Every rural public school in Iowa should show up for North Linn on Friday at the Well.
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MaX9 launched into the wild and exploring the space this afternoon. New video to come in the morning with the details. Happy 4th of July weekend to everyone!
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STOCK CROPPER YEAR 4 RESULTS. It shouldn’t bother. Get busy living…
#stockcropper
#farmweird
@SoMN_Stripper
@PetersenFarms
@jasonmauck1
@JoeatDawn
@VanceCrowe
@RickBieber81
@PfanstielJunior
@strofarm
@KeatonKrueger
@OldBobRecker
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Corn planted for 8 days in Northern Iowa. Doing big work.
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Last years Stock Cropper barn pass on the right vs non-barn pass on the left. Pics are 20 ft apart. Get busy living.:.
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Thanks to one and all who came to our Stock Cropper Field Day yesterday. Record turnout from folks traveling from 8 states and as far away as Virginia to see the
#farmweird
concepts we’ve been working on for the last 5 years.
Special thanks to
@VanceCrowe
@jasonmauck1
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1 acre of land, 6 different species of plants, 4 different species of animals, 2 turn tables and a microphone. This is fun.
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My 15 year-old daughter runs her own small business called Sweet E’s Bakery. This is her latest princess production for today’s birthday delivery. Tastes even better than it looks. Saturday morning dad brag post complete.
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Yesterday was also first sale delivery of a ClusterCluck Nano II heading to
@jasonmauck1
and his new regenerative demonstration farm north of Indianapolis near Muncie. Jason has been an incredible supporter of this project and I’m thrilled to get this in hands.
@JoeatDawn
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Big morning at Stock Cropper Inc. Executed our first autonomous preprogrammed barn lift and forward movement in the field. Controlled by the ClusterCluck iPhone app. Next move scheduled for 11 AM. If goes well we will add animals later today.
@DawnEquipment
@UndergroundAgri
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Was trying to remember where the ClusterCluck Pico ran last fall. Found it.
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Finally at home in our yard. 6 months in the making. The ClusterCluck Pico. Feeds a family.
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2023 Stock Cropper first brunch is served. Good to be back in the field makin bacon.
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If you tweet about the glories of tillage reduction,cover crops, infiltration...you must tweet about the curb stomp frost susceptibility stuff as well. This was my nice stand of 35k-37k into strip-tilled rye. Take the good with the bad.
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Today was a great day. Our new ClusterCluck Nano barn walked under the power of the sun at
@jasonmauck1
Field Day with great design and execution from
@JoeatDawn
and his team
@UndergroundAgri
. Video to come Monday. Now tonight, Mr and Mrs StockCropper get to enjoy Farmapalooza.
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I planted a couple oak trees yesterday. If I don’t have shade by September, I’ll know that oak trees are a hoax. I’ll go back to what I know…growing corn on government assistance.
Ok, going to be brutally honest here. I seeded some cover crop with no government assistance. If it works economically I'll do it again. If not I'll continue with the good farming practices I've done for years.
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Today’s the day. Looking forward to the exchange of ideas today with innovative people at our Stock Cropper Field Day at 2 PM program start time @ 41972 40th Ave Buffalo Center, IA. All outdoors...socially distanced. Come on down and get busy living...join us.
@jasonmauck1
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My apple trees are ready to be unburdened by what has been.
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Intercrop harvest is coming soon… I can feel it in my plums.
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Imagine if water infiltration rates were as sexy of a farmer metric to judge one another off as picket fence stands/planting at speeds that require rooster tail suppression technology...
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Dragging in our 10-way summer annual mix into the 72” twin gaps today. Hotter than a sack of balls on a furnace top but we’re having fun. Rains coming Saturday. So let it be written…
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Just got .9”. Good time to move the barn before next wave comes in. Wonder if it will move when it’s wet?
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Things not on my 2023 bingo card… Joni Ernst explaining over beers what a ClusterCluck is to Ron DeSantis.
#farmweird
#stockcropper
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Stock Cropper was introduced today to it’s first US Senator with
@SenJoniErnst
stopping by to learn about how our ClusterClucks and the Stock Cropping production system and can turn challenges like Prop 12 into opportunities for Iowan’s. And she left with some swag to boot!
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Take chances, observe, fail, laugh at yourself, iterate, and share the journey with others. This is what success looks like. We need more Jason’s.
Year 8 of relay cropping is in the record books. Our first 100 bushel 60" wheat crop planted with healthy early April planted full season soybean full of blooms and pods between.
#farmweird
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Because pigs on soil are worth the toil… official STOCK CROPPER 2024 field day announcement coming later today.
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Checking out my good old college buddy
@CalebAkin2
new deep winter greenhouse with vegetables and fruit trees southeast of Ames. 80 degrees inside, zero outside.
@jasonmauck1
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Celebrating the freedom to
#farmweird
. Turns out the roof water collection gutter drain hole is a perfect American flag holder. Like a glove…🌋🤘🇺🇸
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In Ames today for our first college visit at ISU with oldest. Pretty amazing walking around thinking of all of the life happenings and relationships that stemmed from this place. Iowa is next week. I’m rooting for Ames.
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Multiple species of manure and gut biomes spreading itself into a living forage crop that will take the nutrients up and store til next year. After 3 summers of experience and observation, I couldn’t be more excited about the future evolution of the Stock Cropper system.
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Super Bowl Ribs by Stock Cropper. Raised on soil, slaughtered, cut, seasoned and smoked all in house. Personal meat autonomy going to taste pretty good at kickoff. Get busy living…
#SKOL
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16x42 long by 45k plants/A on edge rows of Stock Cropper plot. 425 bu/A estimated row yield. 0 fancy potions applied. 0 dry fertilizer. Nitrogen applied has use efficiency of about .33 lb of N/bushel. Arrangement is free. Baste your own biscuit.
@jasonmauck1
@JoeatDawn
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46x14x43k = 414 bu/a corn on outside row not counting the double ear contribution. Didn’t have to buy special cocktails to create this yield increase. Didn’t have to subscribe to high yield group. Arrangement is free. Come see different ways to arrange crops/livestock to
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1st day of having 2 high schoolers. To my friends with young kids, blink and you’ll be here.
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The ClusterCluck Pico with automatic door by Run Chicken to allow for controlled free grazing. We program the door on our phone app to open at 6 PM and shut 20 min after sunset to keep birds protected from predators like hawks and fox more likely to attack during the day. Feeds
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Big day today in South Milwaukee as
@JoeatDawn
and his
@DawnEquipment
team made the Stock Cropper Nano execute 15 preprogrammed autonomous 8 ft moves through this industrial lot. Powered by the sun and a new 24 volt electrical system. Get busy living…
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Melon collie and the infinite spacing possibility madness. Gaps galore…Oh my. 2023 going to be fun. More details to come. Get busy living.
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SNIRT nutrient test results are in from what I harvested from the pics I posted a few weeks back.
#carbondebits
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As promised, here's the 2022 Stock Cropper 60 and 90" Twins vs 30"Conventional Results. There's several points of context to take into consideration when looking through the data so check out the video I'll attach into the thread. Lot of work went into this...enjoy.
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Also what used to be referred prior to 2008 as parenting.
High schools should scrap classes like calculus & require courses focused on thriving in real life: ie dating, cooking, filing taxes, fixing a broken sink, changing a tire, mowing, doing laundry, investing, & how to schedule a dentist appointment
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After seeing the Climate Smart Ag grant recipient winner list this week and then listening to the President of the Iowa Farm Bureau describe the sweeping success of voluntary ag conservation efforts, I shotgunned 3 Busch Lights and made this video. Click
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@RepThomasMassie
. Here’s when we invented it in 2020. Scalable regenerative ag system. Multi species autonomous grazing barn in concert with self supporting feed stuff production. Stock Cropping.
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2.5 years ago, 3 dudes hatched an idea to make a solar powered autonomous multi-species barn walk through the middle of a cornfield controlled with an iPhone. This last week, that concept became a working reality in a corn field in Iowa. Click the link.
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Some of my favorite pics so far from Stock Cropper 2023 Field Day with the kids enjoying the debut of of our autonomous backyard chicken tractor, the ClusterCluck Pico after hours. Thanks to all who came from near far to get busy living….
@VanceCrowe
@jasonmauck1
@RickBieber81
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That feeling when you successfully incorporate parts of a 1977 Polaris snowmobile onto a ClusterCluck.
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Intercrop soya coming out today. Encouraging results out of the beans. Details in next Stock Cropper YouTube video early this week.
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Beautiful morning doing chores. Enjoyable to just pause and observe the beauty of the evolution of this system over the last 4 seasons.
@jasonmauck1
@JoeatDawn
@SoMN_Stripper
@PetersenFarms
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2.5 years of grinding on a dream…Yesterday was a pretty great day exploring an alternative version of farm progress with some incredible people. Thanks to all who came the distance! If you couldn’t make it, I’ll have footage on YouTube tonight. Stay tuned….get busy living.
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You can have enough wind and graphite on a day like today.
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After an amazing day yesterday, I woke up on one of
@jasonmauck1
golf greens this morning....630 miles later, made it home just in time to watch
@JuiceNewton62
move the barn tonight. Life is good.
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Soundtrack of independence…converting sunshine into protein. Happy 4th. Eat some meat.
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US Agronomy Sciences Lead for Corteva/Pioneer
@obrienk1
stopped in to walk through the Stock Cropper and Gap Corn Plots this morning. Iowa Sec of Ag
@MikeNaigIA
comes next week for a a visit. Oh my……get busy living.
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Graduation Sunday StockCropper Seeding completo. 120” twin row sweet corn, popcorn and Indian corn With pumpkins or soybeans in between. 60 inch twin row high and low rate comparisons and 120 inch twin row corn with soybeans in between. Come see it all at our August 24 field day
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2023 STOCK CROPPER FIELD DAY ANNOUNCEMENT!!!! SATURDAY AUG 26TH 10 AM-1 PM. 5 CLUSTERCLUCKS, GAP TWINROW CORN PLOTS, KEYNOTE ADDRESS BY
@VanceCrowe
. SPONSORED BY
@practicalfarmer
. ALL ARE WELCOME. RSVP on this link for lunch count.
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Sunday morning choring sounds of earth infused bacon. Come see why it’s a risk worth taking at our Stock Cropper Field Dayz August 26th. Rsvp here
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STOCK CROPPER CLUSTERCLUCK NANO AUTONOMOUS BARN DEBUT!!! Click the link for excerpts from our trip to
@jasonmauck1
Constant Canopy Field Day where Stock Cropper Inc along with
@undergroundagri
@joeatdawn
debuted our solar powered autonomous mobile barn.
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Morning afterglow. Thank you to all who came and the effort and distances you invested in yesterday. There is an undertow of enthusiasm in this space that is contagious that inspires me to keep going. If you missed it, I hope to have edited YouTube footage uploaded this week.
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Sunrise sauntering ahead of Stock Cropper Field Day today at 2 PM. Join us. 4284 Hwy 9 Buffalo Center IA.
@jasonmauck1
@VanceCrowe
@Farm4ProfitLLC
#farmweird
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This is what I’m excited about for 2022. Empowering people to enjoy self sufficient protein from start to finish. Because these are the best chicken wings I’ve ever had. Grew them in a ClusterCluck. Butchered them with my family. Enjoying on New Years. Get busy living…
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60” twins on strips. 4 different hybrids at 18000 vs 38000 broad acre pop.
#GAPTILLA
. Steady hand camera work by the Juice Newton.
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Hogs into Sudangrass and the shade. No smell….just sounds of summer satisfaction.
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72” twins canopied with covers underneath. This just may be the ticket. Come see this schematic and others live 7 days from now at our Stock Cropper Field Day. Get busy living…
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STOCK CROPPER Field Day. Tomorrow morning 10 AM. 4284 Hwy 9 Buffalo Center IA. 3 autonomous ClusterClucks, a taco truck, 6 unique agronomic concepts, lots of cool people to interact with over what’s possible for the future of agriculture. See you there!!!
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The morning sounds of energy transfer. Sun to plants to rumen to soil with some brisket to boot. Glorious stuff.
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Always wanted to run a drill through V4 corn shave and a haircut style. Dreams come true…Low pop 60” and 90” corn with 8” soybeans off to the races before the dome of fire is upon us.
@PfanstielJunior
@jasonmauck1
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Thanks to everyone who came and participated in our STOCK CROPPER Field Day. Special thanks to
@jasonmauck1
and
@RickBieber81
for their fantastic contributions to the program as well. I will have a video of our program posted tomorrow on YouTube. Onward...
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Better lucky than good. The nest is three months from being empty. I’m looking forward to the next chapter that I have entitled the “pants optional” phase of my life.
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I am proud to be a part of
@jasonmauck1
new property project moving forward and having STOCK CROPPER barns deployed there next spring. This venue is going to be a premier destination for those interested in an alternative future path of agriculture.
Officially closed on our adjacent property today. 192 acres 45 miles north of Indianapolis off of I69. (Exit 241)
We’re not going to tell why we’re raising each food item as we do.
We’ll be inviting the community to see, smell, and taste how interconnected it can all be.
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The only kid I ever looked up to in high school who was younger than me hosts Weekend Edition this morning on NPR. Congrats
@titonka
…you make the land of the Buffalo proud.
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Imagine if this guy or others got 1/1000th of the $ that the Big Ag Inc got for the Climate Smart $20 billion fund for nonsense carbon programs trying to solve the riddle to get paid for the status quo. No funding here. Just his brain, his dick and the Tubes.
#kennypowersag
Ample supply of water across the Midwest this spring…but the demand is either 0 or minimal.
I have grown 100 or even 120 bu wheat in fat 60’s … but it over reaches in ☀️ and 💧 affecting the 2:1 $ commodity it’s sharing 90 days with.
Leaning into plasticity and proxy I
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