Father, Husband, Believer, Livestock Aficionado, and a fan of Good Books, Deep Thoughts, Rural Living, and Great Food.
Carpenter, SD
Joined May 2009
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Jared Knock retweeted
All the older successful farmers at the coffee shop who say “it was tough but buying that farm was the best thing I ever did” remind me of this diagram.
You only hear from the ones who made it. You don’t hear from the one who committed suicide in the barn after he couldn’t make a payment. Or the one who added so much stress to his life his marriage crumbled. Or the one who not only lost the newly purchased farm, but also dad’s original quarter.
Planning on future inflation, and more “good times ahead” is nothing but pure speculation.
Farmland prices have nothing to do with the lands actual production value. It’s all propped up by crop insurance, speculation, ethanolc etc. I think at some point this bubble pops. The board needs a reset
Jared Knock retweeted
this is fucking insane
NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV’s AI encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah’s team then privately lobbied the pope’s advisers “to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously.” Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing. thelettersfromleo.com/p/nyt-…
Jared Knock retweeted
The amount of people that will give up on US politics after what transpired with @RepThomasMassie in Kentucky District 4 will go down in history books………
Jared Knock retweeted
This is the fallacy of “we’re only 1-2% of the population”
If you’re running a decent size operation you’re more like .02% of the population… or 1 in 50,000
More people have purple hair and a
my little pony tattoo than you.
Jared Knock retweeted
I think this a true observation. Humans are pretty impressed with what we can build and often dismissive of the innovation and design which is inherent in Creation.
If you invented a machine that could:
- Restore degraded land
- Build topsoil
- Sequester carbon
- Produce fertiliser
- Create complete protein
- Generate its own fuel
- Reproduce itself
- Require zero electricity
You'd win the Nobel peace prize.
Instead, we blame them for climate change.
These cows will be tending to their fields as they always have, while city-based career politicians discuss their impact on national climate agenda.
Jared Knock retweeted
I’m happy to say the very first RCT on a primarily carnivorous beef based diet has been funded and will commence shortly! I’ve been pushing for this to happen for years and it’s finally happening. This will be the first of many!! (Thanks NCBA, Texas, Nebraska, and South Dakota cattleman and a few more donors)
clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT…
Jared Knock retweeted
We live on a farm in the middle of nowhere, and I’m constantly being told that I need to buy crypto.
There’s a lesson here. ⬇️
🤔
Jared Knock retweeted
We already have a strategic beef reserve. First and foremost, what do cattle need?
Grass
We have 24 million acres of grass in CRP
Cattle Restoration Program
Fence it
Drill wells
Let young farmers and ranchers get busy raising beef
Beef prices are at record highs in the US , this is in part due to a huge contraction of our domestic beef supply secondary to prolonged drought and also long term poor policies.
The answer is not to just bring in more cheap beef from South America
The answer is to put policies in place to ensure we build back our domestic herd and enact policies that preferentially help our American beef producers!
We need a robust, decentralized strategic beef reserve!
@SecRollins @SecKennedy @realDonaldTrump
Neighbors, communities, livestock, schools, farm outbuildings, trees, churches. He may be disappointed to find we live in poverty.
Jared Knock retweeted
It’s crazy with today’s cattle market that I’m still seeing pasture getting broke up for grain production
Jared Knock retweeted
GM Secretary Rollins & Staff
Hope you also had a Blessed Palm Sunday.
Know what I was doing on Palm Sunday? I wasn't coloring eggs with the kids after church.
Note palm branches in steel fence posts.
I was up at Charles Maude's on the Cheyenne River in Custer Co. SD.
We (American People) have an employee that has gotten sideways as a Forest Service LEO and decided to make policy instead of keep people safe on our public lands. Inditing a young rancher and his wife for a fence his great-grandad put in and the USDA pre-USFS agreed to - that isn't American nor is it making anything great but the swamp. I know this isn't your idea.
Ma'am, you need to get involved immediately and communicate to the cattle ranchers in western SD what you are doing about this egregious situation.
Jared Knock retweeted
Help me #agx I am in a board meeting with an older group of members. I am trying to stress the importance of social media to spread our message of soil health. Please like or repost so I can show them the impact it can have. #soilhealth
Jared Knock retweeted
Need more cows
The WSJ today reported there is not enough beef tallow to go around if we were to use that for frying instead. Specifically they quoted: "The U.S. produced roughly 15 billion pounds of edible, refined soybean oil last year, compared with about 1 billion pounds of edible tallow, according to the Agriculture Department."
But most of that soy oil is not going into deep fryers. It's used for condiments, ready-to-eat meals, and other frying applications where we can use other fats, including butter, lard, duck fat, and other animals fats.
The only reason we use so much soy oil is that's what we grow. We can grow other, better, healthier foods. And we need to get on that, soon.
So stop the hand-wringing and deal with reality, WSJ.
Jared Knock retweeted
This isn’t justice. It’s targeted harassment. A South Dakota ranching family facing 20 years in prison over a pre-1950 fence? You’ve got to be kidding me.
These are good people, raising kids, feeding communities, and getting steamrolled by the government.
We should ALL be talking about this.
@BrookeLRollins @POTUS @VP @elonmusk @LeaderJohnThune @RadkeAmanda @westriverguy @Sec_Noem @SecRollins
This story really gets to me. We need @POTUS @SecRollins to do something about the Maudes' case. Their trial is April 29.
americaunwon.com/p/mother-of…
Jared Knock retweeted
Do not make fun of people for mispronouncing words.
It means they reading words that the people around them do not say and have been intellectually punching above their weight their entire lives as a result.
Jared Knock retweeted
I see that today the 2013 TED Talk (bit.ly/1gm0HIZ ) I gave explaining man-made desertification, for the first time in history, exceeded 9 million viewers. This talk did more in 20 minutes than anything I have been able to achieve in a life spent trying to first understand, and then solve, the problem of global biodiversity loss and desertification fueling climate change. Climate change that will continue even if burning of all fossil fuels stops tomorrow, because of desertification in the US and globally.
Tragically the talk still carries a disclaimer by TED because as I understand it they were so strongly criticized for even allowing me to talk by the world’s academic experts on desertification and climate change. I hope millions more watch it and perhaps consider acting as I suggest in this blog savory.global/path-to-a-clim…
Jared Knock retweeted
Cow facts
Your periodic reminder that a cow cannot add a single atom of carbon to the atmosphere that wasn't previously removed from the atmosphere by a plant.
So, cows cannot increase atmospheric CO2, they merely recycle CO2. It's not a new source of carbon.
And without cows, bacteria would, over time, rot plant fibers and return the exact same amount of carbon to the atmosphere.
But grazing cows help grass sod fix carbon in the soil, thus increasing soil fertility over time.
The climate crusade is built on scientific fraud.
And many of the proposed solutions, like reducing cows, are directly causing much of the soil degradation and forest fires (because of ungrazed fuel in the forests), which activists and dishonest scientists then blame on "climate change".