Laney Alicia

Name: Laney Alicia
Address: Saint Paul, OR, US
Telephone: +15035595175

Portrait and editorial photographer. Agriculture advocate. Photography | Design

11/14/2022

shootin’ my shot with Busch Beer

08/28/2021

Cloddy with a chance of dirt clods

08/27/2021

Someone told me recently that you never want to meet your heroes because it’ll ruin your image of them. I looked at them and laughed. Thankful to be raised by this man of unwavering character. Grateful for the time well spent as his right hand man.

08/09/2021

Home team.

It’s a concept taught me.

With this internet world always within grasp, it’s easy to reach for it instead of our nearest + dearest.

The people within this app aren’t my home team. They aren’t the people who hold me in their arms when I’m celebrating or grieving. Our faces aren’t squeezed together in a tiny circle frame within my phone contacts.

Don’t get me wrong- I’ve met incredible people online and some have turned into my absolute favorite humans, but most of you are, ultimately, strangers living within my phone screen.

So, home team—

In the last year, I’ve tried really hard to ask myself before I post: “have I checked in with my home team lately? Have I checked in with myself?” If the answers are no, I try to carve out time to invest time and focus towards those.

As I’ve gotten older, my home team has gotten smaller. I’ve learned that my heart and my time and the way I love should be nurtured and valued, so I share less on this app and I head straight into the arms of the people who see me clearly. The people who let me show up as a broken woman with faults and scars. The people who let me show up dancing and cheering. The people I hope get the same comfort from me.

Someone taught me years ago to imagine a small row boat— while Jesus loved all, he had twelve disciples. Twelve people he chose to have in this boat with him.

I hope you find some relief in the idea that our world is meant to be smaller than 5 thousand or 20 thousand followers on an online platform. It’s meant to be much much smaller than that, and real life, outside these app screens is a beautiful place to exist honestly and genuinely with your home team.

08/06/2021

My Great-Uncle Harold at 88 years old, Garlic Harvest 2020 | My favorite photo from any garlic harvest. After the crew goes through, it was typical that my uncle would glean the field. We were driving by and I hollared “smile!!” out the window, grabbing this shot.

07/24/2021

The infamous hat toss at the end of our grass harvest!

07/21/2021

I’m scared of there not being enough time.

Enough time to learn the stories, to memorize the history, to be taught the lessons.

To take the photographs. To video the way people laugh. To record the sound of their voice.

To hold my best friend’s hand. To hug my parents. To learn the lines on faces.

To blueprint where the water lines are all buried. The property lines. The easements. The way a ground settles after a flood.

Where do the stories go when time runs out?

Small communities and agriculture are raised on the stories, the history, the lessons.

Time goes so fast.

07/14/2021

I believe in the goodness of people. You’ll probably hear me say that often. Or in this case, read it.

Rural America is good at it’s roots.

Our morals are generations deep.
Our callused hands a given.
Our wealth is in the pride of our everyday life.

Rural America is at work.
We’re harvesting. We’re caring for livestock. We’re tending to soil.

This year is devastating to many in agriculture. From drought, to heat damage, to crop failure, to fires, to water shut offs, to prices, to even grasshoppers.

But we’re still at work. We’re still hoping. We still believe in good.

06/01/2021

AgTech is constantly changing and growing as farmers and ranchers need to increase production levels and efficiency to feed a growing world population. If you know someone in Ag, you know we’re always on our phones. Like says, because it’s a real, everyday part of our lives! Between talking to family, employees, neighbors, agronomists, technicians, salesmen, and now, apps we’re able to use to be more progressive than the handy dandy notebook we keep in our shirt pockets, our phones are a vital part of our operations!

Here are a few apps we use in our day to day lives:

AgSense — we use this to control and monitor our irrigation pumps and linears. it allows us to watch in real time the water pressure, percentage, footage and more on our machines.

AgWorld- a crop management software that stores historical data of yield, chemical inputs, and can be shared with agronomists for them to suggest certain prescriptions for crops they are monitoring.

Nutrien Spray Smart- I use this to check wind levels whether I’m on the farm watching for irrigation, spraying, or even flying the drone.

John Deere Operations- we can see where our tractors are parked, working ground, what their fuel or DEF levels are, any error codes popping up. Theoretically, I can plan jobs out on the app for each tractor, implement and field, but it’s not something we’ve yet applied to our farm.

Monosem- with planting season upon us, we can use this app to adjust seed population, fertilizer rates.

Fields Area Measure- we use this measure out fields and map out our irrigation sets.

Picture this- just shared this with me and I’m having a blast with it. You are able to snap an image of a plant, and it’ll identify + give you all kinds of insight into the plant. Nerd alert for anyone wanting to know scientific names and etc, but it’s so cool!

Phone calls, texts, emails, weather, Google sheets and Google docs, with Zello (a walkie talkie app) being the exception, are technologies we use the heck out of. Obviously, seeing how those are my actual scary notification numbers! 😅

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