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We're always looking for ways to consume less resources per acre. Most of our nitrogen comes from the old fashioned source - shit. We use some dry urea and anhydrous ammonia as well, but the goal with nitrogen application is to get it into the plant and avoid or minimize any extra release into the atmosphere. A lot of the bad rap farmers get for nitrogen run-off comes from large livestock integrators who are either not involved in crop production, or only raise crops as a means to dispense of manure. Because they have more manure than land they can responsibly fertilize with it, they tend to over apply, and create the bulk of the nitrogen related issues seen in intensely row-cropped areas. An operation like ours has more farmland than manure, so we can apply the manure we do have in a timely fashion, and an appropriate amount of ground. This helps ensure that the soil absorbs the nitrogen and stores it through the winter to apply to the seed/plant in the spring. A lot of our land will never get manure, and on those farms we either apply anhydrous in the fall, or dry urea in the spring and growing season. Again, all of this is done to maximize absorption by the corn plant and minimize evaporation or run off. At the end of the day, the guys raising corn for ethanol want to capture as much nitrogen as possible and let as little as possible evaporate into the atmosphere or run off into the water system. Because they get more money for growing more corn. The guys raising corn because they need to get shit out of their stock yards or barns are less concerned with this, generally, because they get paid by selling more cows and pigs.

It should really be "milk toast". And I'm glad that Allen Klein hates the fuckin' Eagles because Dead Flowers really ties the room together.

In my experience, pretty much everyone that hates the Eagles was alive in the late 70's/early 80's and listening to a shit ton of punk at the time. Not a put down, because I love a lot of that music too, but it seems like there was a time and place where if you were into a certain thing, hating the Eagles was de rigueur.

Would they even know? My assumption is that his entire audience was born before 1990.

Big 10 football draws well because for the most part it's schools are in large population states that love football. Random sports fans with no affiliation to the league aren't watching it, there are just that many people in it's footprint.

Good songs are good songs, but I agree completely that Frey and Henley were uptight pricks.

This is true, but Woodie's still the right answer. I'm not an Eagles hater, either. Too young to have been caught up in that.

When I first heard Whiskey Myers, I thought of that Silvertide album.

I cranked both of those quite a bit. I was in college at the time. There was definitely a classic rock resurgence in the early 00's. Jack White was probably the biggest thing to come from it, but you had shit like The Strokes getting a ton of love from critics and press, and bands like Queens of the Stone Age putting out their biggest albums too. It was basically the last gasp of guitar driven music being cool with people under the age of 25. This was my favorite off the Jet album

The man has spent the vast majority of his life in 3 places: Cedar Falls/Waterloo, Iowa; Fargo, North Dakota; Manhattan, Kansas. Do you know what the wind is like in these places?

That's crossed my mind. Being a UNI alum, Kleiman probably has a Hawkeye tattoo somewhere that no one knows about. But that could be awhile. Ferentz is PISSED about Brian getting canned, and while I initially thought he'd take his ball and go home after this season/before the new Big 10 schedule hits, I think he now plans to treat the job like a spot on the Supreme Court bench and just stink the place up and force the new AD to fire him or let him ride it into the grave. If Kleiman wants to kick back around 60, I just don't think the Iowa job's a realistic option.

I'd find this hilarious. I just don't think he goes that route. Kleiman's a Midwest guy. He's from Iowa, played at Northern Iowa, and coached at NDSU and KSU. His entire career - shit, his entire life, has been spent being embedded in Midwestern football. I don't see him zagging to Aggy in his 50's or 60's.

There's an Iowa podcaster who's based out of KC and is pretty well connected in the energy world. Some of KSU's largest donors are part of this circle, and said podcaster claims he was told by those guys, who know Kleiman, that he's probably not going to coach at all for much longer. Apparently behind the scenes he's claimed he's not a lifer, and when he hits a certain nut, that he would hit before he finishes the current contract in Manhattan, he plans to ride off into the sunset. Who knows, could be totally full of shit. I'd certainly be just fine with it, so I'm choosing to believe him.

I'm sure those jumpers will land on January 13th. OSU is the only Big 12 school Otz has never beaten in Hilton.

I stumbled onto this recently and just fucking love it

That’s rough. I really like Boynton but it seems like he’s up against it a bit this year. We rolled against a hapless Wisconsin-Green Bay 85-44. Of our two Top 100 freshmen, Momcilovic was by far the star last night. Hit 85% (6/7) from 3. I feel like he’s going to become the kind of guy everyone else hates. Tre King was very efficient in the post, and Keshon Gilbert (combo guard transfer) did a great job driving to the hoop and drawing contact. Lipsey was in complete control running the offense, and even hit both of his 3 point attempts. Defensive intensity didn’t seem to match the last couple years. They were slow off a few rotations. I’m not sure anyone on this team will harass opposing back courts the way Gabe Kalscheur did. Obviously hard to take much from a game like that, but my expectation that we’re top half of the league and a tournament squad seems quite intact.

No. My parents are divorced and we usually go to Thanksgiving Day at my dad’s and Xmas or Xmas Eve at my mom’s. Gotta throw my in laws into the mix too. We have a lot of gatherings to observe a holiday not on the actual day itself. This is very common here and I figured it was pretty universal to do this

We're hosting Thanksgiving dinner the day of the Big 10 championship game. My mom is an Iowa alum. We're planning on eating mid-afternoon so she can be home long before kick off. She's passing it off as wanting to be settled in for the game, but at the end of the day I know it's because she doesn't want to be in the same room as my brother (ISU alum) and I during that snuff film.

If they wait 10-15 years, I think the ratings for that game would be crazy good. I don't watch a ton of Tech OOC games, and I'll almost certainly watch fewer Texas ones than I have just due to them not being on the schedule, but letting that simmer for a decade would be appointment to TV to a lot of uninvested fans.

No, I wouldn't be cool with that. But Iowa/Iowa State is a really different beast than OU/Oklahoma State. We've never shared a conference, and the actions of the University of Iowa have never really put ISU's existence into some kind of potential jeopardy. Iowa's not a national brand that can bring the biggest conferences more value, they were lucky to hook up with Michigan and Ohio State 120 years ago and are grandfathered into the lap of luxury. I'm not sure how I'd feel if I were a Poke. I would think that with the way things have turned out, I'd want to keep playing them in the non-conference once the current OOC obligations were met.

I would 100% be in favor of playing Iowa every other year, for reasons that have nothing to do with the madness that is their entire approach to a program. We actually don't have the history that people assume. The series didn't play from like 1934 until 1977. We skipped the COVID year too, because the Big 10 went in-house only. That was a really, really fun season. I'd love to play that game on a regular, but not annual, basis that allowed us to fill in that P4 non-conference slate with nearby, similar level programs that aren't in the Big 12. Minnesota, Nebraska, Mizzou, Illinois, Wisky, Pig, etc. Give us some close road trips and all that jazz.

I'm not trying to speak for the Pokes, but coming from another school that no longer has any blue bloods on the schedule, we really don't give a shit. Our fanbase has never been one that's just sitting around waiting for the blue blood to come to town to get all amped up. Any of those schools could be a massive game depending on the stakes in a given year. Looking at the new Big 12 schedule, I look at 2026 when we have Utah, KSU, OK State, Cincy, and WVU coming to Ames and think "that's the most entertaining home slate we've ever had". I think playing WVU is fun as hell. I think playing Utah is fun. Cincy? If we're good or they're good, sure, why not. OSU and KSU? Two similar opponents we've been playing forever. Looks like a blast to me, but I'm sure you'd riot if that was a Texas slate. This is one of those things where I think fans of blue bloods and fans of in-betweens look at things really differently. As a fan, it's just more important to your experience to play brands. We're more driven by whether our team is in the hunt or if we have some kind of history with the opponent. Opponent brand is a ways down the list for our fanbase.

I really don't think ISU fans would care one way or another to have Texas come back to Ames. Not in any kind of "fuck you" or bad blood kind of way. Just in that if you aren't in our conference there's no compelling reason to play the game outside of a bowl or something like that. The non-conference games pretty much sell out regardless of opponent because our fanbase is far more driven by whether or not it's going to be a nice day for tailgating and if ISU still has hope than they are the name on the helmet of the opponent. Oklahoma would be a different story due to the lengthy history between the schools.

Yeah, I don't think anyone in Texas is blaming Tech for the UT/Tech series ending, and if this board is any indicator of the Texas fanbase in general, they're giddy about that series ending.