MNcuriously

Literally just built an entire nonprofit with ChatGPT and Grok in an evening. The idea has been nearly a decade in the making, but the rough documents took only a few hours! Unreal how easy some of this stuff is nowadays. Cannot wait to earn our initial funding. We’re going to change the conservation ballgame. We’re going to marry ideas the SCS/NRCS should have done generations ago, but they never did. So now it’s our turn. Change is hard. But we’re going to make it Easy. And that’s the name, too. The Easy Company, Inc. Coming October 1, 2025. Please consider donating after Oct. 1. (still working on that part). Even a dollar or two will help. We’re going to try to accomplish true “soil health”, one land-rental contract at a time. But we’re also going to do it longer. We’re talking 10, 20, or even 30 year terms (the longer, the better!). That’s right. Generational change. Made really, really Easy. We’re registered in North Carolina for now, but our goal is all 50 states by 2030 (and if we can raise some money, we’ll get it done by the end of 2026). This change will be made Easy. Pick up to five NRCS Conservation Practices (the best product the NRCS offers besides its people): CPS 328 - Conservation Crop Rotation CPS 329 - Residue Mgmt, No/Strip-Till CPS 340 - Cover Crop CPS 528 - Prescribed Grazing CPS 590 - Nutrient Management OK, that was simple, right? So simple, you could say it was… Easy?! Now that you selected your Conservation Practices (selecting all five pays the best!), then select your term (10, 20, or 30 years) and we’ll tell you exactly what we’ll pay you to implement and maintain those practices on your cropland acres. And the best part - if you decide to convert your cropland acres to pasture and you selected and continue to implement CPS 528 - Prescribed Grazing and CPS 590 - Nutrient Management on your newly converted pasture, then you get to keep your payment(s). We want to encourage grazing - both on pastures and on cropland - and this gives you the flexibility to do exactly that! Again, we want to make change Easy. I never figured out why the NRCS didn’t merge their best product - their science based Conservation Practices - with easements or land rental contracts, but their inaction made my decision to leave the USDA-NRCS (dare I say it again?!) Easy, too! OK, time to wrap this up now… My next step is to get the banking portion completed, and to set up the website and donation options, but we’ll have that live by Oct. 1. And remember, your donations may be tax-deductible, too, so long as you’re eligible to make charitable donations, but please consult your tax advisor for more information. Once we get rolling, our goal is to operate efficiently (<3% administrative overhead once funded and <1% long-term) so we can cover as many acres as possible. With 350m cropland acres in the U.S. it would take $700b to cover them all (@$2k/ac), but talk about true national security! I know those numbers may sound crazy, but when we start seeing real results, then I truly think it’s achievable in our lifetimes. I have to believe that - and I do believe it - and it’s my mission to figure out how to accomplish the goal - to achieve true “soil health” across every acre of American cropland (and to return a bunch of it back to pasture)! Thank you! There is going to be a lot more to come! Enjoy the day! 🇺🇸 Godspeed.

I cannot stress enough that we (rural America) need to have a real conversation about growing commodities for other countries, for them to process (that’s where the real money is), while our small farms end up bankrupt and Main Street businesses fold. I think we need to take a step back, and we need to ask what people want to eat. Because what they want to eat, they’ll buy, and that means we need to stop growing the cheap commodities, and we need to start growing real food, and putting the other unnecessary cropland acres back to pasture or trees. What do we need? We need to rebuild our cattle herd. We need cleaner air and water. We need to keep our soils from moving. And we need to grow the foods people are going to be eating. That means high quality beef, chicken, lamb, and hogs. That means real vegetables and fruit trees. That also doesn’t compute with X9’s and massive equipment, but it does take more labor, more people planting, tending, and harvesting, and it also means local food security. But perhaps even most importantly, it means national security, both in the military sense, and in the lense of future production. We need to have a real conversation about where we want to go, rather than constantly fighting about how to get back to where we were. Just my $0.02 of course, but I’m tired of seeing small farms disappearing, and I know that having one for ourself is the best thing we’ve ever done (besides welcoming our daughter). Enjoy the day! 🇺🇸 Godspeed. rrfn.com/2025/09/03/nd-soybe…