A soil caretaker who believes our soils are ALIVE. We should treat them with the same respect as we'd treat everything else that's alive.
Trail City, SD
Joined February 2016
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RickBieber8 retweeted
A lot of people are looking at next year's numbers right now and thinking about trimming fertility.
I get it. I'd be thinking the same thing.
Here's the thing though. Cutting back is easy. Anybody can write a smaller check. Cutting back with confidence is a different deal. That takes knowing what your ground is actually holding, field by field, and what the crop actually hauled off this year.
So before you cut, ask yourself one question. Do I know which acres can take it and which ones can't?
If you're not sure, that's okay. Most of us aren't. Ask your retailer what data is behind their recommendation. And ask them if they use Next Level Ag.
“If God thinks you deserve it, it’ll be there when you get back to it “ - ‘Bertha Bieber’ (my grandmother)
RickBieber8 retweeted
Everyone needs a 100 cows and a hundred less acres of corn and the world might balance out.
RickBieber8 retweeted
Starting two new businesses can be humbling - especially when you’re used to getting paid every two weeks by the USDA - but I have a favor to ask those that will see this:
Does anyone have work they need help with? Remote, part-time, full-time, contract, consulting, or even something that might require relocating? I’m open to just about anything.
I spent 14 years working with USDA NRCS and have extensive experience in agriculture, conservation, land management, and working directly with farmers, ranchers, and landowners. I’ve successfully written grant applications for projects up to $250,000, and I’m currently building a new nonprofit, @YieldUnlimited, while also operating a small landscaping and construction business we started earlier this year.
I’m not afraid of hard work, learning something new, getting my hands dirty, or taking on responsibilities well outside my traditional experience. I’m willing to do just about anything if there’s an opportunity to learn, contribute, and earn a living along the way.
The reality is that building something like Yield Unlimited takes time. I’m not particularly worried about the money long-term when it comes to YU because I believe wholeheartedly in what we’re building and the opportunities it can create. But we’re still in our infancy, and we’ve made the decision to volunteer 100% of our time without taking any income from the organization until we’ve raised at least $10 million to support its mission. That’s an ambitious goal, and it may take a while to get there, although I’m hopeful we can reach it sometime in 2027.
In the meantime, life doesn’t stop, bills don’t stop, and families still need to be supported. I’d love to spend that time helping someone else build something meaningful, solve problems, tackle projects, or grow their business while continuing to build Yield Unlimited in my own time.
I’m available most hours, have a flexible schedule, and am willing to put in the time and effort necessary to provide real value. I’m also happy to provide a resume, professional references, examples of previous work, or anything else that might be helpful.
Yield Unlimited is my future. I genuinely believe it can become something that makes a lasting difference for farmers, ranchers, landowners, and rural communities across America. But I also believe there’s tremendous value in helping other people pursue their own visions along the way.
If there’s an opportunity for us to work together, build something worthwhile, solve problems, and help each other succeed, I’d genuinely love to connect. Whether that’s for a few hours a week, a specific project, or something much bigger, I’m interested in having that conversation.
If you have an opportunity, a project that needs attention, or know someone who could use an experienced, dependable, hardworking person, please reach out.
My DMs are open, and I’d sincerely appreciate any shares, introductions, or conversations that might come from this.
RickBieber8 retweeted
Ran into a neighbor today. Owns and farms 240 acres very well. Just upgraded to a nice 1680 combine ($8,000). He almost seemed embarrassed to have gotten something so “extravagant”. Anyhow he has record or near record yields this year. I see tax problems as his biggest issue.
RickBieber8 retweeted
Soil Health Field day November 11!
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RickBieber8 retweeted
They attacked lard. We got Crisco, cottonseed oil hardened with hydrogen, made from what the cotton gin threw away.
They attacked butter. We got margarine, out of the same vats as the soap, with the vitamins added back by law so it would pass for food.
They attacked dripping. We got chips fried in oil that breaks down into aldehydes, the compounds a laboratory buys to damage a cell on purpose.
They attacked whole milk. We got the skimmed, with the vitamins poured off in the cream and sold back to us separately.
They attacked the egg yolk. We got egg whites in a carton, with the choline, the vitamin D and every fat-soluble nutrient left in the bin.
They attacked sugar. We got aspartame, which keeps the craving running on an empty stomach and now carries a possible cancer grade from the WHO.
They attacked breast milk. We got formula built on vegetable oil, mixed with whatever water the mother had, and a generation of babies in the poorest countries died of it.
They attacked the stockpot. We got a cube of salt and palm fat with no bone, no marrow and no gelatine in it.
They attacked wool. We got polyester, which is oil, which keeps the sweat in, and which melted into the skin of sailors on HMS Sheffield.
They attacked leather. We got polyurethane shoes that crack in one winter and sit in landfill for 500.
Now they are attacking beef. We are getting pea protein with eighteen ingredients, a cartoon cow on the box, and a third of the iron.
The original came from a field and a kitchen. The replacement came from a refinery and a patent.
Not one of the originals has ever been improved on. Every one of them has been replaced.
RickBieber8 retweeted
“Crackheads” is what plants become without carbon or sunlight… which falls in the hands of dealers. Fertilizer and seed sales. Rippers.
It’s like chaining a dog up vs letting it roam free and loving on it. Different dog
It’s pretty obvious but many people will worry about it getting hit on the road.
RickBieber8 retweeted
Adding to my little rant yesterday.
Wheat. For most just seems like a pain in the ass. It combines slow, takes up lake time. Isn’t worth anything.
Wheat in strips and intercropping harvests 2-3x faster… and when you leave you’re done.
We basically do most the work in the fall, we plant the beans 1st in the spring as it helps dry it out faster… and the canopy takes out a late spring sprayer pass or 2.
Its value proposition is that it dies… without intervention… and its existence, attributes makes more room for beans on more valuable days, when they are making fruit.
I have tomato plants in my garden that were the size of my fist this spring that are now 15’ wide cause I don’t stake them.
Soybeans will do the same thing but we don’t let them because we’re so brainwashed by all the “data” that we don’t add context to the equation.
Plants behave like a city.
In the 1800’s the aristocrats built homes around downtown…where the $$ was
They left and now the crackheads live in those same homes that the mayors lived a century before
When you prune you make bigger plants
When you thin you make bigger plants
When you can collaborate multiple plants you can shade the ground faster taking out chemical costs
The equity built from growing between wheat with the beans means your
1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 55 89 144 233 377
Sitting at 377 and next week your at 610
They’re growing fast.
I’m called a little crazy because my math is weighted, includes context, motive, and momentum. Something institutional education or AI can’t really grasp because all wealth is created in the shadows of enlightenment. You can pull apart any artist with specialization and statistics.
Planting our weed / wheat control for next years soybeans.
Wheat is the easiest crop to establish. The soil is usually warm and dry this time of year.
Once a wheat strip is established. It can be weaponized… and the science is in the different environment created in the proximity of it.
The wheat will grow upward and outward at the same time in the shape of the golden angle.. 137.5” meaning basically that even 15”… 20”… gaps will close since that angle goes upward approximately 35-40”
We need gaps of 30-40” between the wheat strips to allow enough sunlight into the crop canopy for soybeans to co exist for 80-100 days.
The math is both understanding the natural geometry and physics
Every 4 bu/ac of wheat drinks 1 acre inch of water. Shuttering seeding population, adjusting spacing, and regulating the amount of nitrogen applied governs the yield of the wheat.
Our goal is to reduce cost of goods sold on wheat production by at least $100/ac … sometimes up to $200/ac based on soil test fertility in place.
The math of reducing $150/ac creates a lower break even point that can be calculated by dividing by the price of wheat.
The 2nd order science is understanding that wheat has a competitive/collaborative relationship with soybeans. Pushing wheat yields not only cost significant more per acre, but simultaneously lowers soybeans yield potential.
Years of messing with the variable has put us in a position where we plant about 1/4-1/3 of the recommended seeding rate of wheat, apply 1/2-2/3 the N to get us around 75 bu wheat instead of 100-120 that can be attained with more intense management including more seed, pk, n, growth regulators, fungicide, etc.
Why? Because soybeans are worth twice as much. So when you spreadsheet it out
70/70 beans 100/40 (double crop soybeans) by up to $300/ac based on the revenue gains + subtraction in costs of goods sold
Getting good at this practice has created a more profitable acre than even great corn production as we can create similar or usually more revenue per acre with less costs.
The only limiting factor is being timely and doing a great job at all the tasks…but most importantly understanding the relationships… the math… and all the ancillary benefits… and leaning into them with reduced inputs.
I think there are many other systems that enjoys the same polymath, but from an equipment perspective we’re still a decade or 2 away from making as scalable and profitable as a cereal /soybean capturing light and water for 380 days
RickBieber8 retweeted
We’ve got some dry pens, an exceptionally amazing attitude and a little feed gathered up if you are super sparkly excited about buying calves this coming week. 100 day minimum. For a good time message me. I’ll get back to you when I can.
RickBieber8 retweeted
What are you working so hard for?
The early mornings? The last nights? The stress you carry home?
Most of us would say it’s for the family or the legacy and that might be true.
But if I’m being honest and saying what most probably won’t, I’m doing this mostly for myself. Because if it was all for the family, there are lots of other jobs that pay better and allow more hours at home.
That might sound selfish. But I think we'd all be better off if we stopped kidding ourselves and answered that question honestly.
So what are you doing it all for? Drop it below.
“Every moment is a memory, so pick your moments to make THEIR memories sweet” — Bertha Bieber (my grandmother)
Things you never knew:
Someone had a terrible crush on you and never told you
A stranger noticed you and smiled, you never saw it
Someone remembers a kindness you did to them many years ago
Someone tried very hard not to disappoint you but you never knew it
Your name has come many times in conversations you will never hear
Someone verbally defended you when you weren’t around and you would never guess who it was
There is someone who checks your messages every day, you’ve never heard of them
But now you know. Get some sleep Hawlets 😎😌😌😜
RickBieber8 retweeted
I think this is a tremendous idea for our rural communities
REVEALED: A think tank co-founded by Facebook’s founding president wants an entirely NEW visa category to repopulate struggling American communities with foreign workers.
It’s called the HEARTLAND VISA.
They’ve already mapped roughly 1,700 potentially eligible counties—home to 58 MILLION Americans.
The Economic Innovation Group, co-founded by Sean Parker, wants at least 100,000 visas a year.
The pitch is explicit:
“In exchange for living in a Heartland Visa community, workers with sufficient earnings will gain permanent residency”
American communities become the destination. Green cards become the incentive.
The proposal targets places struggling with population decline, including rural communities and former industrial centers.
Foreign workers would have to live in a participating area—but could work for an employer located elsewhere.
The think tank also proposes replacing labor certification with an earnings test for the green-card pathway. That would remove the usual labor-market test from this proposed route to permanent residency.
The idea has already reached Capitol Hill.
Republican Senator Todd Young and then-Senator Joe Manchin introduced a version in December 2024. Supporters included AOL co-founder Steve Case, Americans for Prosperity and the Niskanen Center.
County officials would decide whether their communities participate.
EIG continued lobbying for the proposal in 2026.
This is an organized push to turn population decline into a justification for a new immigration program.
RickBieber8 retweeted
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RickBieber8 retweeted
From a regenerative agronomy perspective I think we cracked the code this year.
Alleys were sown in wheat last fall.
Clover was droned on in February
12 way cover was droned on when the wheat was in dough stage and pushed down with a cultipacker letting the wheat and clover live
No tillage
No chemistry
Just sequencing of plants and the impact of livestock
The science of @stockcropper is plants feeding animals and animals feeding plants… rotating crops and forage that turns biomass into fertilizer. Add the “edge effect” or overyielding of the edge rows of corn and this system is untouchable for acre profitability. It’s been proven and improved upon now for 6 years by me and @zebulousprime and backed up with 3rd party research from @PrecisionPlant
What’s funny about #farmweird is that no matter how great it gets… it’s “not feasible” because it doesn’t scale across the corn belt… but most importantly (in the lens of industry) we’ve decoupled the need and reliance for farm inputs.
I’ve always said “don’t study the ants, study the crumbs”
Response tells the truth.
So why continue to do it? Because happiness isn’t about how to get rich by selling products.
Happiness is a math formula
Quality of life + fulfillment - envy
We’re going to ride around the sun hopefully another 40 or 50 years… and get better and better at designing systems… and every year we gain more people that want to stop being a manager of death and start creating more life with more life.
RickBieber8 retweeted
As a younger guy full of energy and ambition, I thought “success” was getting bigger. I fully understand and embrace that success is “getting better”, now. While I can learn some things by watching the big guys, I learn more from watching the guys that do it “small but very well”
RickBieber8 retweeted
APH doesn’t mean shit when it comes to telling the whole picture. You can grow 250 and be a high cost producer or grow 150 and be a low cost producer depending on your area and cost structure.
If you farm for insurance it won’t be for long.
RickBieber8 retweeted
My dad had some poorly timed health issues right at planting season when I was 25. Had to put the crop out without him and he turned it all over after that. We are still partners and he still is here at least half the day most days, but management is entirely my baby. I’m thankful that he was so willing to let me make small mistakes and learn so young in life. His dad died in his early 60s and had never let him make a decision of his own, it’s honestly incredible he was able to run with it and be so successful. So many operations have retirement age adults that have never made any decisions and they are set up to fail. It’s a shame