Become A-FAN Blog
Discussions regarding farming and ranching in NebraskaMany may think that winters are dull for farmers, but there is a lot of prep work that goes into planting crops. My first video shows prepping a field to plant corn-on-corn. This means that I will be planting corn on a field that grew corn last year.
In my second video, I want to share planting corn in a soybean stubble field. In this video, you can see my auto-steer tractor and learn about applying fertilizer, using GPS precision technology and conservation practices.
Mark Jagels's Bio
As a fourth generation farmer, I farm with my father outside of Davenport, Nebraska, living on the home place, originally homesteaded in 1885. We are diversified farmers who raise irrigated corn and soybeans, operate a cow/calf operation, custom feed cattle and operate a trucking company.
I am a farmer-director on the Nebraska Corn Board, member of the Nebraska Cattlemen, member of the Executive Committee for the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF), Thayer County Livestock Feeders, Thayer County Farm Bureau, advisory board for Cargill at Carleton and a LEAD XI graduate. I have participated in the Nebraska Governor’s Trade Mission to Cuba, leader of a USMEF Trade Mission to Japan with fellow participants from Nebraska Farm Bureau, Nebraska Cattlemen, Nebraska Cattle Women, and Nebraska Corn Growers Association, participated in USMEF Market Expos to EU/Hungary/Poland & South America, and hosted international trade teams for both USMEF and the U.S. Grains Council.
Under our farm is the Ogallala Aquifer, which has allowed us to help provide research fields for testing new gauges from the University of Nebraska that monitor the amount of water each plant sucks up from the earth around it. That information makes for smarter farming and wiser use of water, and that protects the giant aquifer. I also believe social media in agriculture is important. I enjoy tweeting pictures from the farm (@MarkJagels on Twitter), and putting harvest videos on facebook, which my son, who is an elementary school teacher in Texas, uses to help educate his students about agriculture.
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