USDA just like any gov agency is about making money and the people working there are only concerned with keeping their jobs. They couldn't give a rusty nail about things like this.
@@mirsidorov5112 the sad thing is most of our farmer isn't cash plus. If you do the numbers most of it is heavily subsidized and exist as that. Can't afford the road, can't afford most of It's operated as quietly secret lost leader. I remember as a kid farming in a city. Working for this guy and we had farm kids come out work in the city who own all that land and what not. They'd say takers and makers and laugh at us. Then the guy I was working for explain that most city farms have to run extremely cash plus. It has to make sense on the books because we don't get a lot of the crop insurance and all the programs they did. When point of fact takers and makers stuff was cruel ebcause they were basically talking about themsevles poorly. It stuck with me all my life. One we have to think about farming differently than we have been and look past the "tag lines" and two being cruel for cruel sake is stupid. To the point about "only concerned with keeping their jobs" I started farming at like 16 for my schools farm. Who would feed the actual school in cali. What I learn from that is that the USDA that isn't a part of the (sellers market for farming) has been begging land owners and producer who lease to change for more than 20 plus years. Part of the issue is that the electoral college empowers rural communities in certain states to use there voting power poorly. Multi generational poorly. And that voting power wants to keep spraying and keep tilling until they put themsevles out of biz depending on the current price of oil because they already bought all the stuff. And expect to be bailed out promptly every time it goes bust. not a lot of change we can do until folks admit what is happening.
I've seen some of the GMO-hybrid corn as low as 3% protein. Meanwhile, conventionally tillage grown Ried's Yellow Dent at 9% and red/blue flint corn as high as 14%. I wonder if Brandt tried Bloody Butcher/Blue Hopi if he could boost it higher yet.
Why would Dave be looking into compost tea when he says he does not use biological if a field has had cover crop usage for 2 years, and since he has been cover-cropping for many years? Unless he is acquiring new ground on regular basis.
It wasn't much for many... But it was honest work and more for us. RIP.
This guy doing the lords work. I wish that the USDA did a better job support guys like him.
USDA just like any gov agency is about making money and the people working there are only concerned with keeping their jobs. They couldn't give a rusty nail about things like this.
@@mirsidorov5112 the sad thing is most of our farmer isn't cash plus. If you do the numbers most of it is heavily subsidized and exist as that. Can't afford the road, can't afford most of It's operated as quietly secret lost leader. I remember as a kid farming in a city. Working for this guy and we had farm kids come out work in the city who own all that land and what not. They'd say takers and makers and laugh at us. Then the guy I was working for explain that most city farms have to run extremely cash plus. It has to make sense on the books because we don't get a lot of the crop insurance and all the programs they did. When point of fact takers and makers stuff was cruel ebcause they were basically talking about themsevles poorly. It stuck with me all my life. One we have to think about farming differently than we have been and look past the "tag lines" and two being cruel for cruel sake is stupid.
To the point about "only concerned with keeping their jobs" I started farming at like 16 for my schools farm. Who would feed the actual school in cali. What I learn from that is that the USDA that isn't a part of the (sellers market for farming) has been begging land owners and producer who lease to change for more than 20 plus years. Part of the issue is that the electoral college empowers rural communities in certain states to use there voting power poorly. Multi generational poorly. And that voting power wants to keep spraying and keep tilling until they put themsevles out of biz depending on the current price of oil because they already bought all the stuff. And expect to be bailed out promptly every time it goes bust. not a lot of change we can do until folks admit what is happening.
Well this comment aged poorly, but may the Lord reward him forever...
@@seronymus naw lord just called him up. when you have real good work. it keeps working dead or live. lord knows that
@@seronymus plus i saw a few videos of him recently talking about his wife who past when you ready to go sometimes you ready to go.
rest in peace
Great man and innovator
You know a tree by its fruit and his life produced much fruit
It was a life well spent
He will be missed
May he rest in peace
Rest in Peace, goodsir.
I was just at brandt family farm
All those cover crops giant fields of compost tea .
What a legend
God rest his soul.
Rest in peace mate
So what was the reason you planted through green cover and not rolling before?
I've seen some of the GMO-hybrid corn as low as 3% protein. Meanwhile, conventionally tillage grown Ried's Yellow Dent at 9% and red/blue flint corn as high as 14%. I wonder if Brandt tried Bloody Butcher/Blue Hopi if he could boost it higher yet.
I kind of wonder if his the guy next door is going to get help from him sometime soon. pull up that tile someday.
RIP
Why would Dave be looking into compost tea when he says he does not use biological if a field has had cover crop usage for 2 years, and since he has been cover-cropping for many years? Unless he is acquiring new ground on regular basis.
Any additional biology will help the soil no matter what you grow
Rip
This was 2 months before he died.
RIP
RIP