Jason Mauck

Relay Cropping Adds $300+

Our relay system that is around $300+ more profitable per acre than our normal soybean production acres..but it took a decade to “dial in” Here a video from this year vs 2016, 2020, and 2022 Farmonous balance. Too wet or too dry is always the reality. How can we design our system to reduce risk? I get questions a lot and they’re usually centered around what we normally do for either wheat production or soybean production. Why do I do things different? Why do we follow corn? Weed control, N scavenging, aggressive nutrient cycling… we’ve found we can “glue” the stalks and wring out nutrients + speed our residue breakdown with little if any tillage. Mix N with chemistry and spray Why the thin planting of wheat? Wheat is competitive… if you’re too aggressive with it your bean yields will suffer, and it’s worth twice per bushel. Time is your friend to economics. If we plant the wheat in late September, we can plant it deep… letting the planter cut through to corn residue and get great establishment Adding a little N with that heat and time allows each wheat plant to get big and reproduce This system is all about exponentials. Like a sow having 15 babies in 3 months 3 weeks and 3 days… facilitating multiple entity exponentials is the ag cheat code. Expression + Empathy = exponentials Why do we make 2 sets of tram lines? To make it fast and easy Why do we plant such crazy bean rows? Triple 7” beans … and quintuplets in the inner tram reallocates all the seed into a 33% indexed space IN THE RELEVANT space. Letting the wheat do its thing and planting 2-3x the beans in that relevant space to speed canopy KNOWING the wheat will die… well cut it down to 6-8” tall straw and spread the 80:1 C over the legume beans. Side light is the gasoline of this engine along with Oxygen below the soil surface and CO2 above Water is the physical math equation You have to have it all to make it work… you have to do the actuarial science yourself for your location and soils.