Monte Bottens
@montebottens
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I understand this is a spike of the political football, but let’s look at some facts. Solar is 1/2 the cost of Coal, and provides a way to stack enterprises. @GGunthorp is #solargrazing sheep. #agrivoltaics create novel high mounts for cattle grazing, or alley cropping with.
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Maybe that’s why we changed the name to Gulf of America?.
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Policymakers are rearranging the deck chairs on the sustainability Titanic. Why sustain a degraded resource? It’s time to regenerate and have policies that reward improvement and profit versus the Almighty Bushel while our precious soil is sent to the Gulf of America.
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We pride ourselves by our sustainability which is fancy speak for ever increasing inputs and management to squeeze out more yield per ton of lost soil. Today it is “tolerable” to lose 3 tons of soil per ton of grain produced.
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15” of topsoil in 1850. 5.5” in 2000. How much is there in 2025? Likely 4-5”. Soil degradation happens too slowly to affect a politician or a farmer, but it certainly affects our future generations. More in comments.
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Why don’t we grow what we eat? Today’s farm weird is a sweet corn patch on steroids. We are scaling up growing sweet corn without GMO or insecticides. It will be a community patch and we will see what happens. #farmweird @POWER2GRO
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RT @jasonmauck1: Our corn N system. Planter banding.Y drop banding . W/ corn on corn getting some dry AMS, urea pre-plant. This field is P….
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The #farmweird clip of the day is to highlight non conventional things we are doing on our farm to learn, improve and increase sustainability. Today I talk about fattening and direct marketing open cows @GratefulGraze Bottens Family Farm #vacavieja #FeartheSame
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This will provide great benefits this year after dry and windy conditions. Consider adding to your post spray to get the roots growing again.
Plant stresses such as insect and disease pressure, weather events and heat always challenge crop health. Give crops a fighting chance with Ag Solutions Network and our POWER2GRO Crop Production System at
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This was awesome. @jasonmauck1 you are a Ninja according to @grok at the 32 minute mark.
Outside of the box farming calls for a unique guest. AgEmerge Podcast 160 features @montebottens and @grok, a "truth-seeking AI companion for unfiltered answers", as they carry a conversation all about farming with soil health at the forefront.
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I might be one step closer to having 1 of my 2 forbidden things…
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RT @JohnStossel: Rent control CRUSHED Argentina’s housing market. Then libertarian president @JMilei scrapped it. Activists screamed, b….
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RT @CameronABurnett: A current view from the west side of Hugoton, Kansas by George Winger. #kswx
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Looking forward to weekly vids!.
New season of Stock Cropper content kicks off this morning. I've been pretty quiet about things over the last 6 months. this video catches folks up to what's been going on and why I'm juiced for 2025. Will be dropping videos on X, Facebook and YouTube every Saturday morning at
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