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Ranae Dietzel

2 months

Our @GldnHarvest Agronomy in Action Research Review has been out for almost a month and has a ton of good stuff from the 30+ experiments we ran last year. Starts out with a nice section on soil health too! Download here:

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3 years

Thought I heard my husband come in, but no, it was not.

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4 years

@heads0rtai1s @LaurasaurdeBoer Lifesaver: .

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2 years

Last week I was in an area where the cows had grazed and stomped everything except one clump of grass.

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7 months

A few weeks ago this girl poked her head in and ate a month’s worth of milk collection data. Hungry for more data, she regularly returns and licks the wall where the clipboard used to hang.

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3 years

@cultureddairy She instantly knew she’d made a huge mistake. Backed on out of there.

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3 years

Glad you were all as pleased as I was! This is Shenti, she is 7 months old, the nose piercing is fake and painless, she will be a dairy cow when she grows up. And yes, my husband does sound like a wild heifer when he enters the house.

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2 years

Was such a beautiful August evening here in Iowa.

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3 years

I’ve been slacking on cheese photos. This Emmentaler is getting ready to head to market tomorrow!

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3 years

At the Iowa State Fair, our Cheddar took 1st place cows milk cheese and runner-up Best in Show (a milk won). Congrats @lostlakefarmer ! Iowa Alpine tied for 3rd. I submitted Lost Lake Blue before it turned blue😳, but should be perfect for display this week.

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4 years

This is what it means to get bawled out. These two took a day trip and didn’t tell their moms.

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7 months

Ten+ years of tillage on the left and the same soil in ten years of pasture on the right. If you have a jar and an onion bag, the slake test is a great way to get a feel for the structure of your soil.

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4 years

After stopping at all 374 towns of NE IA, was nice of @JDScholten to visit our farm. Wasn’t sure how he knew about us, but turns out he knows the whole 4th district and would like to see more rural businesses like ours starting up.

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3 years

As for everyone speculating this might actually be my husband through some magic, you'll be happy to know he was turned into a wheel of cheese years ago. @lostlakefarmer

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4 years

Hey @lostlakefarmer , how many likes on this photo to get a video of you playing cello in this make room? Acoustics are great out here!

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3 years

Then to add to the magic of this evening, someone just stopped by, gave $100 towards our friend getting better, AND apologized for not doing so sooner because they have been in the combine all week.

Buy a Farmer Time to Heal, organized by Ranae Dietzel

One of the unfortunate realities of being a farmer is that there is no medical leave for the s… Ranae Dietzel needs your support for Buy a Farmer Time to Heal

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1 year

The start of this field season marks 20 consecutive years of agricultural research for me!

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6 months

A Lost Lake Farm cheese/farm announcement thread for those of you that have been following along and/or follow my husband @lostlakefarmer . After 7 years of commercial production, we are going to pause cheese-making until 2025. All livestock is leaving the farm while we reset.

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Ranae Dietzel

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5 years

Today is my last official day at Iowa State and on Monday I'll be starting a new job as Agronomy Data Scientist for Syngenta in Slater (just south of Ames). Big move for me as I've been doing ag research in academia for 17 years and have been at ISU for the last 10 years.

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4 years

Just passed the biggest ear of corn in our county. Arnold Crop Service south of Webster City. @GldnHarvest

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4 years

This is not how soils work. I wish this GIF would stop going around. Carbon sequestration IS a difficult concept that is still not well understood.

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Some feel that carbon sequestration is a difficult concept - but is it really? Here is what grasslands do. @RoelClement

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7 months

Looks like a physical test, but has biological implications. Root and microbial exudates create strong aggregation and tiny channels for water infiltration, allowing the soil on the right to stay together and not burst under pressure. Ideal chemical environment helped biology.

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@RanaeDietzel

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Ten+ years of tillage on the left and the same soil in ten years of pasture on the right. If you have a jar and an onion bag, the slake test is a great way to get a feel for the structure of your soil.

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6 years

For the first time ever, a stranger smiled and said hi to me on campus. It was definitely the shirt. There should be an International R-shirt Day. October 15th. Wear your R-shirt and leave your office at least once. #rstats

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3 years

Bought this 20 lb Gouda beauty from Frisian Farms today. Gathering some Iowa cheese to bundle with ours in the Lost Lake Farm online store. Starting with this wheel and seeing how it goes!

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3 years

@ipedaltahoe She has been taking care of the yard for us.

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3 years

Just another day at my big corporate tech job. ❤️

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2 years

Perfect place with clouds on top of us, but no rain. #iawx

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6 months

What an amazing Iowa day. Hard to believe it’s almost November.

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7 years

5 years on #stackoverflow .🎉 Having never coded, you taught me almost all my #rstats . Made me a #tidyverse believer. Thanks everyone!

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3 years

Feel like I did a pretty good job watching the farm while my husband visited his parents. Five heifers are MIA somewhere in Hamilton County. Otherwise not bad.

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3 years

@m_herbert It’s like you’ve met her.

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3 years

Burrnt Oak returning to Des Moines and Ames farmers’ markets tomorrow morning. Made from our own tree. 😀

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7 years

And today in Central Iowa. . .

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3 years

Happy Anniversary @lostlakefarmer ! Fifteen years! Miss those dogs.

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3 years

Dolly is pleased.

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3 years

Love it when a wheel comes out even.

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6 years

We thought they would grow into these troughs, but they keep getting wider instead of taller.

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3 years

Look who’s back in stock.

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3 years

June.

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4 years

When C goes into the soil, C also comes out. It's tough to determine the balance between the two. Sometimes adding carbon to the soil can even result in losing more than you put in. For some soils we can predict if C gain is possible, but the predictions are not great.

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Ranae Dietzel

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3 years

Des Moines, 7:15 am. Woman ties so many bags of greens to the back of her stroller that it tips over backwards. Child screams, but fall is cushioned by bed of lettuce. Market resumes.

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1 year

POV: Walking beside a large cow.

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Ranae Dietzel

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6 years

I had a really great time teaching a 1-credit #rstats / #tidyverse course with #R4DS this semester! I think it is something more people could do, so I wrote some notes on it here:

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3 years

Someone ran away from home and decided she belongs in the big girl group.

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5 years

. @lostlakefarmer giving the herd new oats last night. They were pleased. #Iowa is looking good these days.

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3 years

Gina and her big baby Ghadir.

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6 years

Check out @lostlakefarmer ! #IowaStateFair 1st Place in cow cheeses AND Best of Show with our pasta-filata, Ingrid's Pride! Our ashed Camembert, Burrnt Oak took third. Cheese display next to the Butter Cow!

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Ranae Dietzel

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4 years

Ames friends (and future Ames friends) - we are starting up a cheese CSA with downtown pick up! 0.75 lbs of cheese per week for 10 weeks. Sign up for more info here: . (If you're already on our email list, DM me or @lostlakefarmer .)

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Ranae Dietzel

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4 years

A glacier sat and melted a while on this part of the farm, leaving us a little hill that has never been plowed. Like to pretend I am @TheHornedBeefCo trying to find our cows in the wild.

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2 years

Welp.

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3 years

Tonight’s cheese assistant, finishing a few things for market tomorrow!

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3 years

My husband snapped this one looking east, just north of Jewell at 4:41. #iawx

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3 years

@KelleyDior When Barbara McClintock was their age, she was already taking grad-level genetics courses. She doesn't care what they think.

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My position as Agronomy Data Scientist at Syngenta was among those recently eliminated and I am looking for my next step. I have a MSc in Soil Ecology, PhD in Sustainable Ag and Crop Production & Physiology, 5 years in cropping systems modeling, 5 years in commercial agronomy.

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1 year

Welcome to the world little buddy

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3 years

Very fierce cornstalk fighters.

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3 years

That time of the week again!

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5 years

I rarely get the chance to speak as a scientist AND farmer, so this is a great piece from @hellokatepayne addressing a lot of what I think about in many aspects of my life.

Greenhouse Gas Scientist Questions How To Cut Emissions On Her Own Farm

Researchers and advocates have billed agricultural soil management as a powerful tool to capture and sequester carbon from the atmosphere and counteract…

www.iowapublicradio.org

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Ranae Dietzel

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6 years

I am teaching a 1-credit #rstats course based on #r4ds next semester. Crazy how many emails I've gotten with "I'm getting a PhD in [science], can I *really* take this course?" Yes, you can. Profs and postdocs welcome too.

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Ranae Dietzel

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4 years

New guy. Gave it a shot. Got tired.

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3 years

‘Tis the season.

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3 years

Just another day at my big corporate tech job. ❤️

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Ranae Dietzel

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3 years

Lost one of my market regulars - almost 80 years old. Told me she found love and moved to NC to be with her prom date from 60 years ago. Practically skipped away.

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Ranae Dietzel

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3 years

Got the gang together. Aged Gouda from Frisian Farms, Prairie Breeze from Milton Creamery, and our own Burrnt Oak. All bundled together in our online store and ready to ship out.

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Ranae Dietzel

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4 years

Grabbed this from the mailbox on my way to go check heifers and while I felt a little corny tromping around with a book, ended up reading under a tree in a gentle rain surrounded by the sound of munching bovines.

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Ranae Dietzel

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3 years

Ending this year feeling grateful for so much (including this fuzzball) and it’s all up from here. Might be all uphill, but we’ll get there. 😄

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Ranae Dietzel

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3 years

Comparing daily total photosynthetically active radiation during the last two weeks of July 2021 to the average of the same period in the previous six years. Blue indicates below-average solar radiation due to clouds or smoke.

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Ranae Dietzel

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2 years

Super stoked about this. @dracoaestas just knocks it out of the park writing about this piece of land we get to live on. Pick up a copy if you can! @lostlakefarmer

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Ranae Dietzel

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4 years

Letting the cows into their new paddock tonight. Fresh grass! You can tell they haven’t eaten in . . . at least five minutes.

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Ranae Dietzel

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2 years

Thought I was calling the vet out here to help me pull a dead calf, but instead we have our first Ayrshire heifer! Wild night.

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3 years

How am I supposed to work in this environment?

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Ranae Dietzel

@RanaeDietzel

3 years

Our research team’s cover crop near Slater. We’re going to test if some hybrids do better than others following a cover crop. Anyone already factor cover crop response into their hybrid selection? @GldnHarvest #covercrops

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3 years

It’s happening.

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@RanaeDietzel

3 years

Square paper + cylinder = pinwheel wrap. Cheese heading to @wheatsfield in the morning!

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3 years

Bringing a little Dill Garlic White Cheddar to Ames and Des Moines farmers' markets tomorrow. Plus, I am still lacking sense of taste and can't test new cheese batches, so I have pulled some of the Alpines marked "special" off the shelf.

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3 years

This description of our soil is one of the highest compliments we’ve received. Superb crumb structure! @lostlakefarmer

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3 years

Guess what.

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2 years

She’s got it all figured out.

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1 year

Dolly took her kids out for a stroll this evening.

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Ranae Dietzel

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3 years

Our first year here my 2yo ran to the end of the driveway and the (total stranger) farmer stopped planting and carried the kid out to the tractor and kept him for 30 minutes. Nice guy.

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3 years

Here’s the calf scene today.

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3 years

. @lostlakefarmer bringing the cows to the milking parlor this morning. Some just along for the fun.

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2 years

So happy to welcome this one to the herd!

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3 years

On the lake bottom here with the shoreline of Lake Cairo in the background, Portia had a little bull calf. Pep talk from friends to figure out the drinking thing. @lostlakefarmer

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2 years

A couple of golden sights from the cheesery this evening. “Last” Des Moines market of the season tomorrow morning!

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3 years

Just got a spam call where a lady read me my basic info and told me date of second vaccination was changed. Then she tried to get a lot more info. I told her it was terrible to lie to people about their vac dates just to phish for data and she hung up immediately.

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2 years

Crooked tree cam of moving to the next paddock for the night.

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Ranae Dietzel

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6 years

Why did the midwestern US shift from growing small grains to growing soybeans? How did we end up with corn/soy rotations? Interested in facts AND opinions! Please RT for reach.

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Ranae Dietzel

@RanaeDietzel

3 years

Lost Lake Blue coming to @DTFarmersMarket tomorrow! Will still be another week until we make it to Ames, but all worth the wait.