Corey
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
I think Dave witnessed that first thing this year. It's first-year farming, and his field's wet. Yeah. Very wet, and he realizes that installing tile is going to be extremely beneficial to him to hit that water equilibrium.
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
Where the fun show today, we're going to spend our time getting to learn more about an individual and maybe pull away some techniques or some tips just through casual conversation.
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
I do love the comments. Don't forget to send us a text message if you've got an idea or a guest, 515-207-9640. Those are fun. I get to see them first before I send them on to these guys, so it's kind of a little fun game for me to play.
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
We are having a little bit of fun, if you can't tell. Corey, why don't you jump into introducing our guests today? We're going to have to imagine our music. I'll overlay this when we get started. Drum roll, please.
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
That show's not out yet. That's one of those you need to stay tuned. There's going to be some great value coming at the end of the month.
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
Tax credit, yeah, when you make money. Yeah, we do need to connect him with Jason. I think that would be a pretty easy connection. But, yes, here in about a month there will be a good episode that comes out. You're going to really like that, Listers.
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
You did a lot of maybe you still do a lot of posting with a chalkboard, right? Yeah. In the kitchen.
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
We have a packed crowd. Not a single one of them.
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
I saw a red box the other day next to a McDonald's, and I couldn't believe that it was still there and still operational. Who had a DVD player? It is quite interesting when you look at, how you can take a failure and learn from it and build and continue to push forward on things that are working. It allows you to reinvest that energy and push and continue to grow what you've got going on.
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
You said 108 bushel soybeans. Is that the best soybeans you've ever grown?
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
Well, Jason, we had you speak at our conferences before we actually started recording a podcast. And then we had you on when we were audio only. We had to do a phone call, which those weren't super prime content. It's been, what, four years? Probably four years. Four years back. Yeah. Why don't you reintroduce yourself to our listeners? Who's Jason?
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
Typically, since the way it's spread now is it's through a tarragator and then lightly tilled in the fall. So we don't necessarily care so much about having a great germ because we're putting out more bushels per acre than what we need to. I could see somebody around here being able to grow rye as a cover to get to seed for those that want more cover.
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
Well, just a couple more minutes here sitting in the sun. Dave, why don't you ask that question you were laughing at?
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
Yes. So as you golf in the backyard, is that your favorite course to play?
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
What's your handicap, Tanner? I'm down to an eight now. That's pretty good. Yep. It took me. That was a slow start. What's your weakness? My weakness? Putting. Really? Yeah. You should see him putt. It's weird. You hold the shaft weird. I just reverse grip. Oh, you got like the claw. Left hand low. Okay.
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
It just seems like I'm great at putting it within a foot of the hole, and I just don't make the birdie putts. Oh. Hmm. Huh. Quite interesting. Well, let's wrap up with one of the questions we've been asking all of our guests. And you alluded to a little bit of the answer already. We're wanting to give our listeners a little bit of perspective and maybe some security in their thought process.
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
But how do you juggle work and personal or family life?
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
So before we wrap up, did we miss anything? Is there anything else you want our audience to know as we've reintroduced him to Jason?
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
And how'd they find you? It's X is where you spend Jason mock one on X. Okay.
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
Well, thanks again for spending some time here sitting in the sun. Now let's go enjoy ourselves a field day.
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
But that's the evolution. Yes. That's how, because I'm curious if your dad passed, that's most of the time these farmers, their mentor is their parent.
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
And you didn't have that. So how have you taught yourself? I mean, you were looking at the clouds earlier, making sure we didn't start this recording until they came over and cooled us off a little bit. But you understand weather. You understand agronomics. You understand the finance side, the marketing side. Obviously, you've got a degree in marketing.
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
But how have you learned the rest of it?
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
And listeners, welcome back to the Farm for Profit podcast. We got Tanner sitting here on a trailer. Corey's here. Dave's here and a special guest. That's right. We are excited to do a live on the site recording out here at the Stock Copper Field Day. And we are probably now the first time recording off the flatbed of a trailer.
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
Planes, trains and automobiles. I like this. Andrea, this is exciting. We're excited to have you guys tune into us. We thank you so much for listening. We appreciate all that you've done for this podcast. Continue to share this with your friends, especially if this is the first time that you found us. We have two different show formats. Today, we're going to have a farm for fun conversation.
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
I was going to ask, I wanted to save that question for a little bit later as to how many people have started doing what you've been doing. But I want you to step through for the listener that doesn't know and hasn't seen it. So you have the right geographical location that allows you to grow wheat and you're seeding winter wheat? Yes. Explain what your process looks like.
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
Typically, we crack a couple of beers. And we're sitting here without a beer in our hand. Maybe that comes a little bit later today. But we also have profit shows that come out on Monday or every other show in your queue. And those are a little bit more focused on something to help your farm make more money.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
I thought he was supposed to be good at racing. I was thoroughly disappointed. I don't think he had enough corn that day.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
Yeah, that's pretty brutal. It was kind of funny, when we first got here to the hotel, the lady's like, so where are you guys from? And we're like, well, from Montana. She's like, okay, well, welcome to hell.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
I don't believe you there. I'm sorry. I'm going to call BS on that one.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
Well, I mean, we've tried to make it happen, but just schedules just never worked out until today.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
So yeah, basically as the fourth generation, it's always been a part of my life that I wanted to be able to pass the farm on because I know it went from him to me. And seeing that legacy being passed on, I think we all have this understanding that we're here to just take care of it. And we could be very selfish and try to milk it for whatever we can, but that is not part of what we do.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
We want to make sure that we can make it thrive and make it succeed. And so we work very hard to try to In our area, which is a very harsh inclinement, to give you an idea, it's basically a desert. But the only thing that makes it different from a desert would be the winter months, basically. So we have like really harsh winters, it's really cold.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
But then there's times it gets kind of warmer and then we have a lot of wind, but it's very dry. So when we say dry snow, the snow doesn't stick. It blows away. The only thing that really has stayed in our area is rocks because they don't seem to blow away. So that kind of gives you an idea what it's like. An average rainfall, what would you say?
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
Probably about seven to eight inches roughly on a good year. But we've been growing crops on like four inches of rain. So we're very different. So now to give you an idea, we're like closer to 11,000 acres now. And so you're thinking, oh my goodness, how can three of you guys run 11,000 acres? Like that's insane.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
Well, it takes a whole lot more acres to produce the same amount as somebody that has 1,000 acres. So if you think about, like, the amount of quantity, if we're making 18 bushels an acre, let's just say some guy's making 100 bushels an acre on 1,000 acres, and we're doing that on 5,000 acres, I mean, you can kind of do the math, kind of roughly throw it out.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
Well, in this environment, you have to farm like each year is going to be a drought. You just have to keep that in your mind. And it's sad to think it that way, but that's just the way our climate is. Now, we've been here for 100 years, and it's only by the grace of God we're still here. So that's pretty neat to have.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
So one thing, too, to consider is you are one of the first YouTubers out there that was using drones and cameras and sticking it to things and doing cinematic. And that was before YouTube was even making any kind of money or anything like that. So he's one of the grandfathers, I would say, for that generation. He doesn't like to say that. You can call me Gramps.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
But if we did... Well, one thing we're concerned about, too, is fire hazard and the wind. So if you happen to get a fire that starts blowing just a little breeze, it'll get out of control. and you have nothing to stop those fields from going to the bitter end. So we try to be careful and take that consideration. The other thing, too, is we don't want to blow any topsoil.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
So if you kind of have strips, at least it might catch in some of the stubble. And so there's reasons behind that.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
Yeah, there we go. Some of those are mine that you guys are crying about too much rain. And we're crying about too little.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
I don't think you understand what rock is when you come out to our area. We got a lot of rock. Our rock is like round more so because the glacier's enrolling throughout the years. And so it's, but we have a lot of rocks anywhere from like baseball size to, I mean, it varies. I mean, you got to be careful. And we have bowling balls too that hit our headers once in a while.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
Just think, seven bucks a piece. There we go.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
So you're saying you don't do a car hood with a chain tied to a four-wheeler and people walking alongside throwing rocks on it?
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
Yes. It's technically the third one ever built from our understanding.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
It's very, very close. Everything that I've come to understand and talked to a bunch of other guys, it is the first... big bud with the 70,000 pound Clark axles on it. So there's areas that show the, that, yeah, it's, at least that's the story.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
Here's the thing about big buds. When they started building them, it was actually designed after a Wagner tractor. And Wagner was the first articulating tractor that had two straight axles and pivots in the center. That's what a big bud was designed after. When Wagner closed their doors, and weren't able to make anymore, they were sold a lot of those things out in Montana.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
Well, in Havre, Montana, they were selling them, and they were also kind of modifying tractors along. This dealership was making conversion kits and stuff for different tractors. They thought, well, shoot, we don't have a tractor to sell. Why do we make our own? So they started to make their own Big Buds after the Wagner tractor.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
Now, here's the thing what's different about the Big Bud is they said for every horsepower you put on that tractor,
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
we will build a hundred pounds of weight on the tractor so that way you can if you have 400 horsepower engine it'll be a four like about a 40 000 pound tractor roughly but they built them a little heavier because the problem was you couldn't actually apply that horsepower to the ground without slippage and then you start having this hopping effect so they actually put more weight on it and the other thing too is like well what's components that are easy to use well truck engines and truck transmissions and
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
They started putting all this together. Well, there's not a tractor today that I'm aware of that the cab tilts back. Now, here's another thing that's thinking about. When they first built the first Series 1 and Series 2, they made a skid with the engine, transmission, and radiator all on that skid. And then with six bolts pulling the driveline, a fuel line, a couple other things.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
you could pull that skid out of the front of the tractor, put it on a trailer, take it to the dealership. They might even have a skid ready to go to slap right back in. So within a few hours, you could actually have a tractor run again.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
So they were thinking so far ahead, they were thinking, well, how can we make something that can be repowered, something that can be long-term use, for the farmer, pretty much built by the farmer. So HN, if you look at the HN on the side, it says Bud Nelson and Willie Hensler. Those are the two guys that really started the Big Buds. So you look at that legacy back in the day.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
Now, Versatile and you've got Steiger and you've got John Deere and all these other guys, they had to up their game because all of a sudden you're seeing like 500 horsepower tractors and plows are getting bigger because of Frigstad. I mean, it was a big push. That's why they're such a legend is because that was kind of the start of the big tractors. And they look cool.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
We have a Series 1, Series 2, and Series 3. Now, the other thing you can think about is they were known for whatever was on the shelf, they built the tractors. There's not really one big bud if that's the same as any other. They're all different.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
So we were looking at, like, making a hood and all that, and Nick's like, well, hang on a second.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
We were over there with cutting torch, cutting off the bolts, and we're sitting there like, this feels wrong.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
But we knew it was going to go for a good cause. We knew that, but we're just like, oh, I can't believe we're doing this.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
Really? Are they trying to tell you something? Do you have a draper that's bent? No.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
That's impressive. So one of the things that I guess for us is we recognize that If somebody has created it or built it, what's stopping us from trying to rebuild it or making it better or fixing it? So I think there's this thing that we all have that is fear of failure. And we all have a choice.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
Are we going to let this fear that I can't do it, that I'm not going to be able to make it happen, overcome us? We look at it and say, you know what? We're not going to be good at it. We don't know exactly how to do it, but we're going to figure it out. And especially where we live, we don't necessarily have the means to all the parts in the world.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
So we actually have to innovate and make new things. And so when he finally decided to buy a lathe, which at first I didn't think we were going to use a lathe or an end mill, when we finally started using that, now we machine and make and do all sorts of things because we kind of have to. Yeah. So that's something I think that we've come to understand. We'll just figure it out as we go.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
It was a meet and greet at Case IH.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
So are we going to make it into like a Tesla truck, you know, all battery powered? Yeah, we should.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
Edison Motors, yeah. Oh, we've interviewed them.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
The problem is the cold winters, if you can figure out how to not.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
Well, it varies. It can go to Canada or it can get shipped on a rail car and then that rail car could either go to the west coast or it could maybe go to the east or... It's hard to say. It's whoever buys it and then they try to get it to those people.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
Well, the other thing, too, is where we're located at is we have a major train facility that goes through, and it can get on the tracks and just send it straight to the coast. And so it's an easy way of shipping it, and that's the most efficient way of shipping it is by trail car. So if you think about one rail car, it could be 3,000 to 4,000 bushels. And you got a hundred and some cars.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
I mean, yeah, that's that's why they just say, hey, let's just send it over there and put it on a barge. Yeah.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
Well, we can't even put that combine to the full test with our product. I mean, our crops, there's just no way to feed it. But it gave us a whole new perspective of like, wow.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
No, have not. No, have not.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
You know, you realize the mother bin would be basically our whole entire store.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
And cut down on trucking.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
We'll buy another mother bin. Do you have aeration on that mother bin? Because that'd be fantastic. I think you could pretty easily.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
So you just hook up all three buds. All right, let's take it to the elevator and barrel smoke down the hill.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
we have a couple of farms that are not too far from us that are, they're pushing like, what would you say? Close to 70,000 some areas. Yeah. They're, they're, they're a big kind of, um, investor farms. Let's put it that way. Yeah. It's a massive, I don't even want to, I don't even know how you would, uh, make that work to me.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
And if you see the opportunities, even they might not be very well or great, you still say, you know what, at the end of the day, could I live with myself without trying? I think we all want to be able to at the end of the day say, I gave it my best. So I think that's, we'll just see how it goes when we get there, I guess.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
has succeeded is the Big Bud tractor. And the reason why I say that is we have not made payments on new tractors. These things just keep running and they've paid for themselves.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
We find stuff that usually people don't really...
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
want or don't really see the need to put it invest time in it and then we're able to make it work for our application so we can afford that so we're trying to be smart about how do we use our the money that we have to grow the farm without putting the farm at risk and that's that's something that why we do a lot more hands-on work i think i think our biggest struggle now and our biggest resource that is getting short is time oh i thought it was just going to be your your ambition to keep going
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
But you have to understand, we don't get the high input, or we don't get the amount of dollars per acre that you guys get.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
No, no, he was like, They're like, holy crap, that guy's got big arms. And other friends are like, they're basically legs.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
And then he started calling me that. And then it just stuck. And it's like, I didn't ask for this. So now he's got to maintain it. And then my wife is like, well, you need a name for yourself. So she made the shirt. And she does all the graphing design for us. She made the first Welker Farms logo. And I was like, no, I don't need that. And she's like, no, no, you need it.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
And it's like, all right, if you say so. So now I'm like selling a brand of my own, which is weird. But anyways, yeah. So the pressure's on to maintain it. Yeah. How come Bob didn't get one?
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
She's very on the ball. When she needs to get something done, she wants to get it done now, even if it's two years in advance. Yeah, she definitely doesn't like us then.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
Oh, my. That's a tough one.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
I think for me, that's a tough question. I'm very, very, very blessed that my wife gives me the grace to put up with me for spending those long hours. And I understand that there's only a certain amount of time per year that we have the opportunity to provide for the rest of the year. And so I try to take the initiative. I try to work hard.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
As a father and a husband, one of the ways that I feel that I'm blessing my family is knowing that I can provide for them. So I try very hard to do that, but I've also been trying to spend more time with my kids and with my wife. And so if there's any freedom that I have I spend it with them.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
I don't do any fun things for myself besides like in the morning I get up at 5 and then I get on the elliptical and then I go in my own gym and work out and that's my own time. Do you trial? I trial. Well, I'm working on it after breaking my arm. It's been an interesting struggle. It's a special elliptical. I lift the elliptical up and down.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
But no, I think we all have struggles in our lives, and each stage of life, you have battles, and sometimes it takes a little bit to figure it out, but you'll get there. And I think if people can have grace with you, and you can have grace in them, you'll get there. You'll figure it out.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
Just say yes. Yeah, absolutely yes.
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F4F - River Klass - Host of Ranch America
david so tanner what i really gotta know is the juice worth the squeeze and tanner all right it's about time to wrap this baby up they're my favorite like farm for fun it's time to put aside the stress of the work boots sit down grab your favorite adult beverage and listen to the boys from farm for profit yay it says applause one two three here we go
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Always nice to have you. Yep. Good friend of ours. Nothing like having to sit up here and nobody's watching you. Yeah.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
They are all here for Jackson. Yep. So, Jackson, why don't you reintroduce yourself to our listeners. Who's Jackson?
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
All right. Are you a farm kid?
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
You would say so, yeah? You think? Absolutely. What's been your favorite thing that you've done the last couple of days on your way out here to the Farm Progress Show?
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Man, you are living, I think, everybody in this crowd's dream to be able to not only go see those places, but you got to see them with nobody else in your way. What was your favorite thing you saw?
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
So this is Brad Peterson, and you are the vineyard manager for Silver Oak Cellars. And what's the other cellars? To know me?
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Okay. What was cool about the blacksmith shop?
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Did you get to take it home?
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Wow. Very cool. Is that where they made the plow?
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
a cooler on the back they were uh they were in good form yep for the fourth of july so jackson last time we did our interview with you we had two of your cousins on with us yes yeah and we had to connect through them to get to you but tony is the person who told us you have to go check out jackson can you believe that kind of you can why do you think tony spotted you out so early
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Do you remember the first TikTok of his that you saw?
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
So as you guys sit here together, is this the first time you've met each other, or did you have the opportunity to meet before this?
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Yeah, Louisville Farm Show. I bet that was a riot.
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Yep. Look at that. Everywhere you go, they just roll out the red carpet for you. Shut places down. I bet you next thing that happens, you get a police escort all the way home on the interstate.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
You're homeschooled, right?
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And your mom weaves agriculture into your lessons. Yes.
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There you go. So you do have a large collection of owner's manuals, right?
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So are your parents going to have to add on to the house to put a room to store all of your collection in?
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What are they interested in?
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That's a big enough age gap you probably don't need to know. That's really good. I think we should get you to help Tony harvest some crops this fall.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Get them out there.
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Jump in it and go. Have you ever gotten to run a combine before?
Farm4Profit Podcast
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So as you sit here next to Tony Jackson, is there anything that you want to ask him? You've got the mics to yourself sitting next to Tony.
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How'd the wheat do?
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And they've got the 7700 combine. How many of those do they have now?
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There you go. Oh, wow. Yep. You know, there was a lot of those hooked up to feed wagons. Get that tight turning radius, be able to go up and down the rows of bunks.
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Have you been able to work on your farm display? Have you kept growing that? Or have you just been too busy?
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Okay. You get those tractors and the 32-row planters and the 164th scale. Okay, yeah. And you unfold that. You've got to have a nice enough space because those are still pretty big.
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So you said you're building a display for the Lafayette Farm Show.
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And how big can your display be?
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Why is your mom shaking her head no?
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
So as you put your display together, what's it going to include? What's going to be on your display?
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
So you're going to have a farmhouse on it?
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
You got a shop? You got fields? Do you have an elevator to take the crop to?
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You got grain bins?
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I was talking to my parents, Jackson, this last weekend, and I had a farm table, and my mom made it for me in the shape of a U. So it was two foot wide, and they were six foot long pieces of plywood. So I went six foot up, six foot across, six foot down.
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If I wanted to take the long way around the farm, you went all the way around the table, and it was only about two and a half feet off the ground. So a perfect height for a kid.
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Never. Brad is batting 1,000 when it comes to opening bottles of wine.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
So I asked my mom if she still had it, and she said no. I could have sent that your way. Where'd it go? She said it got burnt. Like, on purpose?
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Wanked the whole table out. Shouldn't have left it plugged in.
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You know what I think you need to do? I think you need a TV show, and instead of going around and looking at farm shops and mansions, you need to look at other kids' toy displays. Ooh, I like that.
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Oh, that's good. We need to make him have you design us a farm for profit pickup. So we can have a farm for profit truck. There you go. Pulling in the driveway.
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I'll ask Brad. I'll put it in my notes.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Do they let you watch TikTok? He's shaking his head no.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Oh, my gosh. What a cool experience. So as you've gotten to travel, right, we talked about what you just did in the last three days. Do you have a favorite trip or are those three the top of the mountain right now?
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
So where else do you want to go?
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Hey, that's a pretty good spot to be in. Not very many people get to feel that excited about an experience that they had that they don't know how they're going to top it.
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Okay, so the studio is set at 69 degrees, so we're going to be just outside of that. Look at you. I actually think that corkscrew is older than you are. Ooh.
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Oh, shoot. Yeah. We missed the special. We got out of the 0% margin time. So you sit here and get to talk to a lot of kids because we even had a family come by the Sioux Cup booth before we got over here and they said, is this where the interview is happening? And their kids wanted to come meet you. Do you get that a lot? A lot of other kids come up to you?
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Everybody that remembers acting like you except they were 13? Yeah. You got your signature down?
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No, I wouldn't do that. I wouldn't do that. So you've got a can sitting in front of you there. And it's a sweet tea, but it says tractor across the top. I've never seen that before.
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It tastes like it.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Because is sweet tea still your favorite drink?
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Just a couple. All right, Brad, explain to us what a vineyard manager is.
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You're a good kid. Yep. So, Tony, I think one of the last times that we chatted, we talked about a scholarship that you had put together. That would have been last spring? Yes.
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Do you have an intention to do that again this year?
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Well, there's somebody online saying Corey needs to raise money by shaving his mustache off. Yeah.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Got to just start over fresh once in a while. Yep. So when you were growing up, did you go to college? I did not. Nope. Did you go to a trade school? Nope.
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stick with with that not always but for the most part yeah so so as you continue to expand i mean your social media following isn't nothing to talk about it just so happens to be uh paling in comparison to jackson's yep but you've built a lot of really cool relationships through absolutely and some you didn't even realize but they're in your backyard yes yep sure enough yep yeah i've met just tons of good i mean that list goes on and on and on and that's
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Jackson, have you made any new friends through your social media account?
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
That's interesting because you took time out of harvesting to do this segment. So are you mechanized harvesting or is it still done by hand?
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Yeah? It's kind of neat. The other thing that I love about you is you're already collecting hats like all of us farmers do. I don't know if you're going to be able to see this, but hit play for them. You're going to have to put some hats on the wall like we did in our studio. Look at all them hats.
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And that's only like a quarter of them.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Well, so there's three, just that wall alone, there's three boards and on each board is 42 hats. So that's 126. And then we just started another wall. We just started another wall. And Corey, I feel like every time Corey shows up, he brings me another hat.
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See, you are one person. That's Corey and me together, and Dave, too. So you've got us licked. You've got more hats than we do. Do you have a favorite one?
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
The deer one sitting right there.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
We should have ordered shirts a lot smaller so you could have had one. We don't have anything that small. Are you still rocking the same boots that you had when we interviewed you?
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How do you like them? Good? Nice. All right, Dad approves. Are those going to be the new Moen shoes? Ooh. But they're not white. You've got to be able to get grass stains on them.
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Ask my manager. Yeah. Look at that. Your manager's selling shoes right now. Oh, wow. She's getting another deal done. Well, it's been a long time, Jackson, since we've played a game on any one of our Farm for Fun shows. Do you remember us playing a game with you, with your cousin?
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Yeah. So we're going to play Would You Rather. So I'm going to give you two choices, and you and Tony get to pick which one you would rather have, okay? Would you rather live on a dairy farm or a pig farm?
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
That's a whole different breed of people. My hat's off to them. Yep. All right, Jackson, what about chocolate milk or orange juice?
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Chocolate milk the whole way? Chocolate milk all the way. You guys are the same person. You're just a couple of years apart. Yeah. Exactly. So what about classes, math or science?
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
I'm science. Oh, the first time. But what's your favorite class?
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
It is math. I think the last time we talked, you said history.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
I feel like history, math was my favorite, but I think history was the most enjoyable because it was the football coach. And pretty much all football season, you either watch game tape or a movie.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Is that just a thing? Do all coaches just teach history? Yeah. Or football coaches. Or football coaches. Yep. Because you really don't have to teach it? Yep.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Cheeseburger. Okay.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
What do you dip your chicken strips in?
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
At the same time?
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Does McDonald's still give honey as an option for a dipping sauce? Because that's what I grew up with. You'd go through and they'd ask you which sauce you wanted, and I'd get honey for my chicken nuggets.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Do your parents make you mow the yard?
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
So do they have to make you do any chores, or do you just love doing all the chores?
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Well, there we go. Those are things we need to get you. Yep. That way you can go out and clear the driveway. Yep.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Oh, that's true.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Good point. Yeah. So when you talked about your mower, you said a plug-in. So you have an electric push mower?
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Elon Musk. I was talking with my brother-in-law the other day, and we were reflecting on the mowers that we grew up with. I sat in the first mower I rode and drove was a snapper with the handlebars.
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And I parked it behind the combine and dad had backed over it. So the handlebar got bent down in the front, but that still worked. Didn't kill it. So we had to bend it back into place. And now you just had to turn really hard. Yeah.
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Yeah, we got to go up. Then I got into a zero turn, but it was a grasshopper deck out front and trailing wheels. It took me a long time to get to a mid-mountain. I'd never go back.
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half track pulled up the sled and then it wouldn't they put it in park to get it hooked up and it wouldn't come out of park they literally had to get a crane to lift it out in front of the sled oh man yeah the number of the number of deer fans coming out of the woodwork after that yeah it's still sitting there too they haven't been able to move
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Well, if you were a farmer and you got that ask from the local polling committee or whatever, you're like, ah, I do want to help you out. But if anything goes wrong, Corey, you said it best. It's a lose-lose for the farmer.
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Because you're putting hours on your machine. Yep. You're only going to break something. If it goes well, great. You still put hours on your machine. Yep. If it don't go well... You need to quick get something fixed before harvest.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Oh, probably. It's got a lot of weight. Yeah.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
So were you the one that had to calibrate the sled over here for all the other kids? Be the Jackson meter?
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Do you feel the pressure, like you have to get a full pull?
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Yeah. As you get to be here and hang out, we're pretty sure the answer to what do you want to be when you grow up is going to be a farmer.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Do you think you'd ever work for John Deere?
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
No. Farming's in the blood. Farming's the way it's going to be.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
But you'll be buying John Deere.
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A nice horse lady parked us, and somebody must have parked in the wrong spot because they told me to box them in. I'm like, I'm going to leave more room than what you're telling me because... Yeah, they're going to want out. You know, a horse lady told me to park there. Yeah. And I didn't drive my Buick.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Yeah, you will. We know that Jackson's gotten a lot of things, like we talked about, and the gifts that he gets, but you also have gotten a lot of things from listeners and fans that have watched you. Has it filled up your house yet?
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Yep. So you're going to have to take a U-Haul to Jackson's house. I know. Exactly. Nope. Mom says no. Yep.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Yeah, because you were telling us on one of your other episodes that you get a lot of letters. I do. People write you a lot.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
What do they write about?
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Jackson, you also get some messages from people that same thing. You brighten their day. You make them feel better. But your dad was telling me that even John Deere factory workers reach out and talk about how they just love your passion.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Makes them proud to go to work. Somebody like you is just as excited about that brand as they are every day they go to work to make it.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Don't tell everybody your number. Don't tell my kids that.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Oh, yeah. That's interesting.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
That's true. I didn't even notice. I figured, yeah, my girls have a gizmo watch, so at least I can know where they're at and send them a message it's time to come in or stay out of the house or whatever it is.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
So as you go about your role, we've talked before, every growing season is different. Every growing season creates different challenges. How was this year's growing season?
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She doesn't have any fun people on.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
You should. You should add Tony Reid to your daughter's watch. Oh, God. No?
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
She'll probably be fine. That's too bad. Yeah. So as we sit here and think about the relationship that we've all made on social media, Jackson, I want to say thank you because I do think that you're doing a lot of good for the agriculture community, one, because your audience is going to reach more people that are not farming than our audience will.
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I think there's a lot of people that are going to watch you because you're entertaining, your content is unique, you're a cute little kid, and you have the power to To tell more people about how we do this thing the right way.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
That's a better attention span than my kids would have been able to. You are the man. Thank you for taking time out of your day. Oh, definitely. There's so much going on around you. Appreciate you listening to us and patronizing our audience. But keep it up. You're the man. We respect the heck out of you.
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Tony, thanks as well. Always a pleasure.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
That's good. I hope Harvest goes well for you.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Jeez. That's the second time I've done that. Jeez. I get excited. Okay, can we drink this? Yes, we can. That's actually what I'm moving my mic out for. So as we drink this, you've had this wine before, correct?
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Oh, this is a drier wine.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
No, but overall... How would you describe this cab? Right? That's short. Did I use the right slang? A cab? Yeah.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
It is good, and like I said, it's drier on my tongue than – uh, I don't drink a lot of wine.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
The fruity taste is still there. It is very smooth. It's not harsh to drink at all.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
I was just getting ready to say, if we, If we had a wine cellar onto the studio, I don't know if the bottle would last long enough to age appropriately.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
But the trickiest part, like Brad's going to probably tell us, is this year's grapes were different than last year's grapes. So even if it's a 10-year-old versus only a couple years old, that would be hard.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
So can we get this wine anywhere? Do we order it direct shipped to us?
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Well, that's a good point. I didn't think about that. You said you had a glass last night. What's it pair best with meal-wise?
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Absolutely. Good. Well, Brad, have you always worked in vineyards, or is that something that you gained an affection for as you continued to get your experience?
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Okay. Oh, really?
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
That is very cool. Well, we don't want to keep you from harvest, especially since you've already been up for about 12 hours.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Oh, Corey, it's one of my favorite times of the day. It's Friday. It is. It's wine day. It's wine day.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Well, it was our pleasure to have you on the podcast. And hopefully we can come out. We really want to come out in February. And meet all of the folks that we get to interview on the podcast in person and come check out the vineyards themselves. Have some of this wine in person and get to share that. Do you have a way that our listeners could connect with you guys online or through social media?
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
This is one of the best lunches we're going to have all harvest ourselves. Thanks again, Brad. We appreciate you hanging out with us.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
I do. I like your wine shirt.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
That's right. We're always up for some good fun. Cool.
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Lead the field with DXT carts from Brandt. Visit brandt.ca for more information. Well, everybody that's hanging around here at the Farm Progress Show, this is the moment you've all been waiting for. Isn't it too sad that within the first two hours of the entire Farm Progress Show, the best thing of the entire show is going to be over?
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But even better than that, we're making a new friend today from Sonoma County. And why is that important? Because there's two bottles of wine sitting on the table right next to us. I see more than Sonoma County. I see lots of different stuff, but we'll get into that. Yes. Well, Brad, first ever time on a podcast. Welcome.
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If this is the first time you've ever come across the Farm for Profit podcast. We do a lot of different things on our podcast. We put content out every Monday and every Thursday, and we focus on helping farmers achieve higher levels of profitability.
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We also like to have a little bit of fun while we do that, and that's what we're here doing today, is we try to incorporate entertainment and education without you realizing you actually learned something. But you can find us anywhere you listen to a podcast. YouTube, take a look. This is certainly going to be an episode you're going to love to reflect back on.
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We're excited because we get to have a guest on that introduced us to the other guests, and they've both become really good friends of ours, and we're hoping that they become really good friends of yours. So, Corey, what do you say?
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
That's a secret, though. That allows the salesman to get him a cornet. They're trying.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
And then the house just sat empty?
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
That was nice. I actually live in town now. I'm about nine minutes from the farm. So it has to be, it is kind of nice when it's not busy season. Cause I have this separation of work and home. Yeah. So it has to be a big enough event that I need to leave and travel, you know, nine minutes. So that's kind of nice. I can shut some things off. It's hard with the cell phone, you know.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
I don't do it as well as I should. I'm always bothering you, so you go from one work to another work. Then you put no notifications on. Then I go to bed. So you got brothers and sisters, you said?
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
Are any of them wanting to be in the farming dynamic? No. Oh, really?
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
So where did you get adopted from? Do you know that?
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
That sounds like an adoption store. Like, I just went shopping at CSI for this kid. Crime Scene Investigators. Yeah.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
Have you ever found anything out about your parents? I know both of them. You know your parents? Yeah, I have a group chat with them.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
I bet they get a nice sense of fulfillment. Oh yeah.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
Did they have any connection to agriculture? Huh? So they probably just like wild. Yeah.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
Are you ready to rock? No, no. Before we go, please go like, rate, review. That really helps our validity online. So go to Spotify, Apple, YouTube, all that kind of stuff. Leave us a review. Five stars. You can say whatever you want. Tanner's got a big nose. I do. His ears look flaky or whatever.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
So they must have decided that at a young age. Because you've got an older sister.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
The new Traverses are much nicer than the old ones. Yeah, I drove it. It's got Super Cruise. Oh, dude, isn't that cool?
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
You know what Super Cruise is, Dave? What? It's AI, not kind of AI, but it's like driving a Tesla in GM vehicles, and I think other ones have it. And if you're on a highway or interstate, a road that it knows, you can hit Super Cruise and it watches your eyes.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
And it'll drive for you. Yeah. And if you're on the interstate, like, I want to go 74, and if someone's going slower in front of you.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
It'll actually put the turn signal on, look for cars. It doesn't adapt. Go over and then go around and pass them. It's very cool.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
I bought my wife's vehicle in Minneapolis, and I used it in Minneapolis, and I was just freaking out. It's the coolest thing.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
Are you still running old Duramaxes?
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
And you can call or text us, 515-207-9640. But you can also, that comes to me, so you can. Yeah.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
I've heard that. I've heard that. Some more mistakes that you learn the hard way.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
Yeah. Don't drink and drive. Don't do it.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
How did you get into social media?
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
That's what's cool about agriculture, right? Like, you know it's go time.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
You're the one that has to do the introduction. All right. You ready? I'm ready. Today on the Farm for Fun show, we are at the 2024 Husker Harvest Days, out on our mission trip to help the Nebraskans grow better corn. Yeah. From Iowa. Yeah. I've said that twice now, so that's going to get old. But we meet up with a man that was a brief guest of the podcast. Very brief.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
Yeah. So you just kind of grew apart and wasn't seeing it.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
I mean, don't take this the wrong way, but I think you do a really good job at, like...
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
being weird oh yeah right like being awkward no i'm a weird dude yeah that's that's general information right like i think that's kind of the secret sauce yeah like i don't know you're like take weird angle photos of yourself of like yeah like and like go up here all the time yeah talking yeah falsetto yeah dude no i mean i'm a weird dude i've been told that more recently than ever in my life and i'm not sure how to feel about it i think it's good i think it's good because i don't really care
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
Way back in the days of the Tratter Gang. This guy has a unique, refreshing humor in the ag industry. He has a secret to growing social media accounts. Because I don't know how many times he has grown his TikTok account to over a million to get it taken down. But a bunch of just... Also, 36,000 subs on YouTube, over 166 on Instagram. And as I said, over a million on TikTok.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
Right. Uniquely weird. You can't just be the same as everything else or you just have, you know, 80,000 followers like me. Five years ago. Or 30 like Tanner or whatever.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
So I think when I was 25, I started realizing I could not have vodka Red Bulls at like 10 o'clock at night anymore at the bar. Yeah. And then all of a sudden I would know if I had one at 5 o'clock in the afternoon because, like, I can't go to sleep. Yeah. So now I'm that old guy that's, like, no caffeine after 3.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
It's like a kid, dude. I know. It's weird.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
Like, it never used to affect me what I ate or drank or anything. And somehow Dave's, like, 40.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
one two still sucking down vodka red bowls stuff and somehow sleeps i don't understand you drink enough of them it puts you to bed is that sleeping though like is that quality sleep no no you uh as it gets so when you went to college you didn't go to college to play sports but you were an athlete yeah because you're always like i said playing ball with your dog yeah what do you what sports you play
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
Have you ever been to Kale Carlson's shop?
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
He has his own podcast as well. Please welcome from Nebraska, Mr. Zach Richard, a.k.a. TikTok's favorite farmer. I should have asked. Is it actually Richard?
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
That's true. That is true. I will be injured.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
I did get an award from Pioneer when I worked there called the Hitchpin Award. The Hitchpin. Yeah. It's in the studio. It's actually a legit chrome hitchpin.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
He just did a lot of hooking up. So I was in research, and I was kind of in this role called the impact trials. And basically the hitchpin between – without the hitchpin, a trailer is no good, right?
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
That's what it actually is, right?
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
And without the truck – You can't pull the trailer. But the hitch pin is what links them all together. So that's what the award was about. I linked up sales and research. You're our hitch pin. So did I bring the award? That's one thing I haven't brought to the studio yet. Yeah, it's in there. The hitch pin is in there. Oh, okay.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
So we were all wrong. Every day. Yeah. We literally spent... hundreds of dollars on these signs and they were wrong. They were wrong like four times. And on the social posts. Oh my god. We switched we fixed it though but anyway welcome to the show Zach. Thanks man. Good to be here. Thanks for having me.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
It's like a sample shower. Tanner got the old calamity Jane from Cactus Jacks yesterday. Recurgitated. Baby bird.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
That's probably why you're not really looking for a girlfriend either.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
So we like to on these Farm for Fun shows to get like your whole history so let's go back to little Zach and oh man how growing up was and what'd you do?
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
price yeah yeah no money no well i mean there's yeah no there's that but like i don't know i just want to be letting smarter smarter with the money yes that's why i said not anyone's going broke yet but they're coming off of some good years yeah but they see that the it's going to get real tough yeah i'm just trying to like plan a little whereas before you would have been like dollar here dollar here dollar here now you got to go okay this dollar's gonna pay me back the best yeah i better not you know buy this and i'm
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
I think we need to enforce him. And then we just interviewed Jason Mock out in Indiana. He's got... We've got to make sure nobody clips that comment out of context. Yeah.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
What did Jason say he has? He's got like 14-foot reel mowers or something like that. He can row fairways in two beers, he said.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
blue grass so i can keep it short you're gonna level with the sand yeah i want to do my backyard is our grass though like because our mainly blue grass and rye like that'll actually grow through the sand and all that every i mean any grass will it'll be fine you do that and then you know whatever equipment you rent i want to borrow it yeah because i'd like to do that my my house needs it bad yeah it's stupid it's a newer house and it was never smooth from the get-go land plane need a land plane
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
land plane yeah thanks and like aerating it'll help too because it kind of breaks up the compaction i did do that last fall my grass was the some some of the best on the street it helps that i got a guy that does not give a crap right next to me so it looks really good so mine still looks it looks really good but i swear they were supposed to be they were supposed to put eight inches of topsoil on it and i swear you dig down and two inches and it's clay yeah yeah it's like
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
It'll burn up real quick if you don't get it.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
Dude, Vine was awesome, wasn't it? Vine was great, yeah.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
Rick's flicking us off and just handing out his meat.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
He's going to cook some for us. He said he would. All right. Do you ever play games on your podcast? No, we haven't started any yet. Tanner's a game guy.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
Our listeners might see it on YouTube and chime in. What is that thing?
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
Yeah. It was pretty badass. I just can't imagine. how much of a loser you were. Tanner was really trying hard to be cool. Hey, ladies, come watch me get this tattoo.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
Get one that's below my beltline so only when I'm cracking you could see it.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
Yeah. I'm the same way. I'm not that I have any.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
Have you ever thought about doing comedy?
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
What about Bush Light, Coors Light, or McUltra?
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
I just wish... I probably got a warm one back there. I wish Mic Ultra had a different option than the skinny can. I wish they just had a fat can.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
I mean, otherwise you got to go to a bottle. Or you can get it in a tall boy, I guess. Do you feel insecure when you hold the skinny can? Yeah, it's just like... I don't know if it's insecure. It reminds me of standing over the urinal. It doesn't fit your koozie. It doesn't feel right in the hand. Man. I just want girth. Yeah. Oh. Yeah.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
There's a time and place, so you've got to get the work in. That's what's cool about agriculture, right? You know it's go time.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
yeah thank you you could have just like sorry dude i didn't have service i couldn't find you yeah you know so i wanted to get here i wanted to do it i've never been a guest on another show besides this one once really no yeah you called in with that that was uh well we've been on the greatest podcast it's hard to do any other podcast and i know we talked to you last year when we're out here at uh
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
Laura's, is that? You're at Winchester's. Winchester's. Yeah. Said we need to do a podcast with you, but we're not willing to do it virtually. Yeah. Right? You need to be in person. Yeah. Because it's way better in person. It is. We can do some good virtual ones, but it's way better in person.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
Can't read emotions. No. So thank you for being patient. Yeah. Come on. Yeah, you guys too.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
Are you still irrigating now? In spots, yeah. It is the 9-11. Yeah.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
What does the farming dynamic look like? Is it with your dad?
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
I think all school really is is just to teach you how to learn. Basically. And make sure that you can take orders and finish the job that you maybe don't want to do.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
I think everyone meets their spouse in college or something. I was going to say, brother. No. I'm just saying. Well, you dropped out. Provide that opportunity.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
I feel like no one's really looking for someone until they're in their 30s now.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
Right, but it's not all about looks. Sometimes it's how many acres your family owns.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
I told him to. I dated a senior when I was a freshman and I was on top of the world. She wasn't the hottest. She was pretty because she was friends with the hottest. There you go. She's also one of our listeners and now she's going to write in. I doubt it. I think I was revenge at her ex-boyfriend so she was like, I'm going to go big and I'm going to go really piss him off and go with a freshman.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
Hey, I'll take it however I can get it. Oh, there's Buck Me. There's Buck Me. Man, look at you, all sponsored out. And add gear. The rest of them. Golly. All right, got to get back on track. Yeah. Girls. Yeah, what's your go-to? So, like, you've just given up? No, I haven't given up by any means. What's your go-to move? Like, you slide into the DMs?
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
Cheaper taxes. Sometimes, though, if you try too hard, I think you force it along.
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F4F - AJ Wiechmann Trucker and Pilot - after we try some wine!
Awesome. Please come visit.
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F4F - AJ Wiechmann Trucker and Pilot - after we try some wine!
That's a big time. That's great. I love it. Gentlemen, thank you so much for hanging out with us.
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F4F - AJ Wiechmann Trucker and Pilot - after we try some wine!
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F4F - AJ Wiechmann Trucker and Pilot - after we try some wine!
I've made several trips out to Schuyler with cattle and it's just, it's actually kind of like this flight.
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F4F - AJ Wiechmann Trucker and Pilot - after we try some wine!
That's very cool. And you guys are brothers or related?
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F4F - AJ Wiechmann Trucker and Pilot - after we try some wine!
I know I'm making Corey wait. I keep asking questions instead of letting him taste it. There's no one stopping. I can just stick. You could, you could. So you'd mentioned and kind of described your crop this year as a vintage. Do you ever go back and compare the year that you're growing in to years in the past to see if it's going to yield the same types of wines?
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F4F - AJ Wiechmann Trucker and Pilot - after we try some wine!
But we always reserve 600 to 1,000 acres that we harvest for the feed yard.
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F4F - AJ Wiechmann Trucker and Pilot - after we try some wine!
And how are you supposed to taste wine? Are you supposed to swirl it and then drink it? I mean, I know when we taste bourbon, you swirl it and you sniff, get a nose feel for it. Do you do the same thing with wine?
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F4F - AJ Wiechmann Trucker and Pilot - after we try some wine!
Definitely get some fruity notes. I had like a pear note almost.
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F4F - AJ Wiechmann Trucker and Pilot - after we try some wine!
We printed off like 65 pages of paper, and I haven't looked at any of them yet, so no.
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F4F - AJ Wiechmann Trucker and Pilot - after we try some wine!
I did a little bit.
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F4F - AJ Wiechmann Trucker and Pilot - after we try some wine!
Yeah. It is good.
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F4F - AJ Wiechmann Trucker and Pilot - after we try some wine!
I don't drink a lot of wine. This is why it's exciting for me to be able to get some exposure through Sonoma County. What would you pair this with meal-wise?
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F4F - AJ Wiechmann Trucker and Pilot - after we try some wine!
It's kind of spicy. Got some leftovers. This would be great.
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F4F - AJ Wiechmann Trucker and Pilot - after we try some wine!
Oh, what a new segment, Corey. We don't get to do this very often. What a fun relationship we made when we went out to the World Ag Expo. We got to talk to the Sonoma County Wine Growers Association. Yeah, not our normal path, but I tell you what, it's pretty good wine and I'll accept.
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F4F - AJ Wiechmann Trucker and Pilot - after we try some wine!
This may bring out my naiveness when it comes to wines. I didn't realize when you pick up a Chardonnay that that was the type of grape. I just thought you could put any grapes in and make a Chardonnay just by aging it or processing it or whatever it was. I didn't realize it was variety. Very naive. Did you know that? Yeah. No way.
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F4F - AJ Wiechmann Trucker and Pilot - after we try some wine!
Yeah, you're saying that now.
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F4F - AJ Wiechmann Trucker and Pilot - after we try some wine!
It is going to pay off huge dividends for us because they have shipped us two bottles of wine and we're going to taste one today and meet the actual wine growers.
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F4F - AJ Wiechmann Trucker and Pilot - after we try some wine!
Wow. That's cool. Can we get this in Iowa?
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F4F - AJ Wiechmann Trucker and Pilot - after we try some wine!
Wow, but direct shift's close enough.
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F4F - AJ Wiechmann Trucker and Pilot - after we try some wine!
Yeah. Which I think I will.
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F4F - AJ Wiechmann Trucker and Pilot - after we try some wine!
So I totally caught my wife off guard. You know, right. Wine gets shipped to the house. It's in a beautiful box and it's encased in a very good fashion. And the UPS truck driver says, you know, you really shouldn't buy and ship wine this time of year. Our trucks get so hot, and that's just not good.
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F4F - AJ Wiechmann Trucker and Pilot - after we try some wine!
You just start going through the education of what we're supposed to do and when we're supposed to buy wine. And my wife goes, oh, well, my husband's going to drink it. And he just kind of went, oh, well, tell him to put it in the basement and let it chill before it gets started. It was all about educating until he realized that I was the one drinking it.
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F4F - AJ Wiechmann Trucker and Pilot - after we try some wine!
grape growers themselves so welcome to the podcast gentlemen how you doing we're doing great yeah we're excited to be here we've got steve and mike and uh i'm going to put their name in the show notes but it is pronounced san jacomo if i did that correctly first try yeah that's right yeah we had a little coaching before we got on camera i'm just gonna say that because it does not sound like it looks wine grower and partners how's things going for you guys
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F4F - AJ Wiechmann Trucker and Pilot - after we try some wine!
No. Oh, boy. Uh-oh. Somebody just got in trouble. I'm going to tell you right now, though, it's still pretty good. It's great. Yep. We chilled it.
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F4F - AJ Wiechmann Trucker and Pilot - after we try some wine!
Yep. As instructed, we chilled it before drinking. It has been an absolute pleasure to not only try the wine but to meet the two of you. I hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.
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F4F - AJ Wiechmann Trucker and Pilot - after we try some wine!
We went to World Ag Expo Farm Show in Tulare, and then we got to meet – The representatives from the. Yep.
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F4F - AJ Wiechmann Trucker and Pilot - after we try some wine!
We would love that. I think that's the plan this night. If we get to go back out next year is to grab a couple of days and head your direction. Sure. A couple hours away from Tulare.
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F4F - AJ Wiechmann Trucker and Pilot - after we try some wine!
We're excited to be back out there, and now, over this series of interviews, we're going to get to make a lot of friends, and we're probably going to end up with a really happy couple of days while we're out there. Love it. Exactly.
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F4F - AJ Wiechmann Trucker and Pilot - after we try some wine!
Yeah, I love it. So if our listeners want to find you, what's the best way for them to look you up?
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
Oh, yeah. Right? I mean, instant success. Kind of like riding a bike. You just know how to do it.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
So can I play your game? What game? So normally Tanner plays a Would You Rather game or something like that. I'm just thinking agronomy. So, like, would you rather be a soil scientist, like, I don't know, let's say normal agronomist and give me a recommendation of what I should do, or would you do microbiologics?
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
All right, Corey, I need another one. What's another would-you-rather agronomy question?
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
I would be in the cab. Every time we go on site, like today at the John Deere booth, it's much more fun. Yeah.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
Yep. So would you rather harvest Nebraska corn or Iowa corn?
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
We tell that story so different. Do you? How do you tell it? What would you change about it? We don't have time for the whole thing. It's just shorter and faster.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
Tanner came to me one day and says, hey, let's start a podcast. I'm like, what's a podcast? He's like, whatever, you're too old. And so we started a podcast. He's like, you got the equipment. I'll do the rest. Goes in my basement. We start a podcast. We did it for, I don't know, 10 episodes or so.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
then tanner says hey let's bring cory in and he's going to be a guest on it so he does well cory has a big following cory had the bush light combine cory also says you guys are boring you need to be more relatable like let's just drink beer and talk about farming so then that is when we incrementally started farm for fun so we have two two sides to this farm for profit farm for fun so one is hey we're still going to be serious get a message but the other is how about be relatable farmer drink beer sure let's drink beer talk about farming and the rest is history yeah i
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
And if we fast forward to today, it's no longer farm for profit podcast. It's farm for profit media. So we've now got our hands in all kinds of stuff. Just like hefty. Yeah. Yeah.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
So are you, as I think of media, so I'm a drone pilot. Are you doing anything with drones and your stuff?
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
We get it. We were just looking for the clip on Insta that just says, uh... That's all we really want.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
I compare it to auctioneering. Everybody thinks it's all about talking fast for five seconds. That might be 3% of the job. The other 97% is the marketing, the brochures, the talking with the customers, the lining up the job, cleaning the equipment, et cetera, et cetera. There's like this much, but every new person that wants to get into it says, oh, I just want to talk fast.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
They need like a sky lift from one side to the other. You need to do an interview today. So my local, my son, the Ballard FFA gets to come up here. I heard they're coming today. So they're all coming today. So he is like all pumped. And he asked me last night, he's like, can I get one of those shirts to wear tomorrow forever? Oh. And I was like, I don't have any that will work for you, buddy.
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And he's like, well, all the kids want to come and they want to know what they're supposed to do at the progress show. So I wonder if there's somebody that has a deal that says here's what all the kids should do. Did you give them our schedule? They could follow us around like groupies. That could be good.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
I was thinking they're all going to go get a bucket because everybody gets a bucket to haul stuff around, and every kid's going to grab.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
And if all farmers are introverts, not all of them are because there's some that want to be social, then they're out on social media. But when we get to meet them, I just never know their names. I need a name tag that says, here's your user handle. And then, oh, that's who you are. That's your real name because I just know you as. We didn't buy any name tags.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
We could get some stickers and a Sharpie pretty quick. That's what we need. Because if you know Iowa Land Guy, you might not know it's David Whitaker. Yeah. Right? I'm sure everyone knows who you are, Dave. That's the first year. When we were there, I just recognized people from TikTok or recognized people from X or, well, Twitter.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
And everybody says, you know, they have a proving ground, right? Well, there's one just south of town here that literally that's what they're doing the entire time. Like he said, we missed the opportunity to actually do some of the cool stuff. But we even got in on some of the construction equipment that they have because John Deere is not just agriculture. It's also construction equipment.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
And we got to see some of those construction guys. Man, when you talk about, like, smoothness in running an excavator or running something –
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
They weren't there the day that we were there, but they have people in all the time that basically is farmer input. So any good company has input, and they're like, well, what should we change? How can we make it better? You know, innovation.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
Don't be afraid to jump in because... I was the guy that had been in it. So we're all sure everybody here is shirttailed to agriculture somewhere, right? One in five jobs in Iowa is agriculture. With that being said, just because you're in agriculture doesn't mean you know how to do it. And so I've learned some hard lessons this year of like, why do they do that that way? So totally ask questions.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
But then when you get the chance to do it and somebody's like, hey, you want to hop in and try? Every time. Hop in and try. Because that's different than just hearing about it. Like I hear about all the ag tech and I geek out on tech. Hey, that's great. But now I get to play with it and press the button and do it. Different world. Yes, sir.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
Dave did not make it. It was good because these guys talked to the staff to move the ball. You've got to slide a couple dollar bills to make sure Dave doesn't succeed.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
Yeah, you've got to knock them back a peg or two. The problem was everybody just sits in it, and they have, like, one lever, right? Like, you can go left or right. Well, I run an excavator, so I turn up the volume on it.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
I throw all this thing up, and they're like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. And I'm like, let's go.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
They went on a golf tournament the other day and didn't even invite me. I just learned about it.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
I think one of the coolest things is we got to interview the CTO. The new CTO, that was awesome. So we've recorded a lot of different places. And on a golf course was a first for us there. But in the realm of going to a golf tournament, I've been to pro football games. I've been to pro baseball games. And you see the people, but you can't get close.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
This one, if they miss, like I'm asking Tanner, I'm like, what if they miss? They'll be like two feet from us. And they're like right there. Like, hey, there's the pro golfer right there. And he's like three feet away from us. Yeah. That, and just like our shirts, they have all kinds of cool drip or swag that is there. And people were asking, like, where'd you guys get your shirts?
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
Like, yeah, you can't buy these yet. So that was cool.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
edit and to post stuff all the time and so that's been a real learning process people don't realize how much that takes yeah it's a lot and i feel terrible like when i'm sitting staring at my phone and my dad and my brother are looking at me like let's go let's get this truck loaded let you know it's like okay i i compare it to auctioneering everybody thinks it's all about talking fast for five seconds that might be three percent of the job the other 97 is the marketing the brochures the talking with the customers the lining up the job cleaning the equipment etc etc
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
There's like this much, but every new person that wants to get into it says, oh, I just want to talk fast. I would relate the social media and the podcast side to that. And farming, really.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
And people have short attention spans now. Are they going to last more than two or three days?
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
Yeah. We always joke about our hotel in Decatur.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
What was it, a Ramada? Corey's like, my window doesn't shut, and there's a knife through the screen.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
A little rough, but hey, we survived. Hey, we go out to Rapid City. They got like a quad aquatic center there. Quad Aquatics. Yeah, there's like four hotels that all tie into like one aquatic center. It's a nice place. Yeah. How far is that?
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
I was going to say. It's just South Dakota and the one spot I could think of.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
I think we'd start writing music on the bus. It'd be a tour bus.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
Everyone comes to them. Did you see the air tractor that's supposed to be here? We need to go see that yet. The spray-in plane? Yeah. Like on the ground or in the air? It's here. It's got like... I don't know. It's right over there. I just wanted to go look at it again as we were talking planes.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
So being from Montana, I'm thinking weed harvest. I'm thinking larger, wide-open spaces as you go to South Dakota. How much of yours is, like, what's the average farm? 160 acres? Or are you talking like... Farm size, like field size? Yeah, field size. Or are you talking like 1,000 acres or 500 acres? No, they're about that size.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
And Sioux Falls is just south of town. You guys got a big livestock auction, Sioux Falls Regional Livestock there. And I thought a packing plant. Do you know of a packing plant? I was just thinking the beef side of the world.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
We've talked to them a couple times, but maybe we should start with going to the field day. We've been trying to do deeper relationships because, you know, as a social media person, there are so many brands here. Yeah. So many. We've got to like it. We've got to back it. We've got to believe in it. They've got to believe in it.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
And so a lot of the folks that we have, and maybe it's because we haven't had a chance to talk, but we like face-to-face.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
I really enjoyed it. It did. I'm distracted, though. Did you see just a Jackson thing? One of the John Deere employees just handed him a set of keys, and he ran over towards that X9. So I don't know what's going to happen here. Sorry, I digress. I like it.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
wait on it because then you might have to do it at night and that's just not not the right time for doing work stuff you know unless you're dave dave works all night yeah you do the things you need to do when you need to do them then someday you can do the things you want to do when you want to do them that sounds we just get addicted to it it is
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
I saw it on a bank teller somewhere when I was getting some cash out of an ATM.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
I would relate the social media and the podcast side to that. And farming, really.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
Zach, he said in the opening that you want to blaze your own trails. So you went agronomy. We know about your parents and uncle. What are you going to do?
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
So if we put a bow on it or parentheses around it, influencer.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
So we're here at the 2024 Farm Progress Show, one of the biggest shows in the land at the John Deere booth. You are surrounded by agronomy. Like, I don't care where we go. You've got to be a kid in a candy store right now.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
Hopefully you brought your camera. It makes it educate.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
Because that's all I can think about when I'm looking at Zach. I'm like, it's Prince Harry. It's Prince Harry and Meghan. Where's Meghan? Prince Hefty.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
So what's a while to you? Because I dated six months and I was married. Corey dated for like nine years and then he was married.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
So, Prince Hefty, you have an Ag PhD shirt on.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
Do you really moderate Tony Reed? How does that work? You try to contain. Just contain air quotes on the outside?
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
he will talk and say whatever he wants like on tiktok but he's he's a super nice guy yeah well that's good did you do a whole lot of so coming up did you follow like your ancestors i'll say or your family or did you learn to like that in college like where you went to college did you take speech classes and or do you just like talking to people
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
So what does your rotation look like? You mentioned the small grains, and I know when I talked to you two weeks ago, that's what you guys were doing was harvesting.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
I'm starting to care what you type. Oh, you do? I'm starting to care what you type. We'll get into that during the show.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
If any Iowa State grads from the 2005 to 10 era, they would probably know exactly who I'm talking about. I swear, that agronomy class was supposed to be about everything, and all we learned about was triticale, something we don't grow in Iowa. Right. Yeah.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
Is that something you're looking to grow for?
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
This will be a nice break between Farm Progress and Husker, you know, because I know our content gets really long. We do a lot of the content at the shows, but we're back in studio to break it up a little bit. So that'll be nice, a little bit refreshing.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
Yep. I think they said – I don't know what the oat market is right now, but I think they said they'd guarantee – if you're an investor at a certain level, they'd guarantee you like $6.50 a bushel for three years.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
like put a crop after the oats at all or a cover crop?
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
How long have you been doing the cover crops?
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
absolutely well do you want to introduce our guest today yeah do you ever i need to trim my mustache you ever get a mustache hair that goes up into your nose yeah i feel like i've been like you know like looks like one of them guys that just shoving stuff up my nose sometimes you haven't haven't maintained the nose and sometimes those hairs will turn into your mustache turn into your mustache just bothering the crap out of me okay i'm a professional we'll get this done that's funny
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
Oh, there goes Dave. He's off. He doesn't even like cover crops.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
He's like, yep, there he goes. Trying to sneak out of here. He's like, yep, I'm done. So it must have been about the same timing that you started cover crops that you did strip-till? Is that the same time?
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
So that was my experience in 2016. We tried cover crops in front of beans and in front of corn, had some flown on and it was the year that they come out of dormancy and they were four foot tall and it was rubbing paint off the rock bucket on the 8420. And, and I tried the tillage thing too. And it was like, Just coming up in just big clumps because of those roots, you know.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
And then it's like, well, we tried vertical till, disking, probably ripping. And the best thing we found was that those acres, we just no-tilled it. But I had to go really slow, you know, in that. You could have bailed it off. Yeah. Yeah. Where am I going to take it? That's the problem is we don't have the cattle around us. So then you have to haul it all somewhere. Right.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
Yeah, cattle are – I do think cover crops are the answer if you have – Oh, yeah. Because it's a feed source of some, or a roughage at a minimum.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
And then all your small grains even, right? Like, even if, like, you don't hit grade on one of your small grains – Boom.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
Yep. Yep. We get people telling us all the time down here in Iowa, you guys quit needing to grow. Stop growing the monocrops, the corn and soybean rotation, or just corn, whatever. And it's like, we want to grow something else, which is why I'm excited about this Green Acres deal, because they said they'd start pulling some oats down to Des Moines area.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
Today on the Farm for Fun show, we are back in studio. In between Farm Progress and Husker Harvest Days, we head up to Iowa's Hat. Is that a thing, Tanner? The state of Minnesota to meet up with a third-generation farmer that is out to try to do more with less to hopefully preserve his family's farm legacy.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
Yep. But it's like, we just don't have a market. Without putting it on it, finding a rail, trucking it to, you know, way beyond the cost of what it should be, you know, it works. So, it's nuts.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
Yep. So how does your strip-till process look? Because I'm a strip-tiller myself for the last three years. It's been rocky, up and down. I really enjoy it. Three years stripping? Three years stripping, yep. It's been the first year we had to abandon our strips.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
in the spring but we got a soil warrior um tried some like it's a liquid one uh but mainly we've been just making strips and putting anhydrous down with it in the fall okay okay but i kind of wanted to start incorporating some uh cover crops but i haven't got to that point yet okay yeah and we yeah i we run a soil warrior as well um the shank we do all the what the shank or the colters no we run the colters okay yep we started with a shank one
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
A fellow strip tiller, this man farms corn, soybeans, small grains, hay, cattle with his uncles and brother. Please welcome from Laverne, Minnesota, Mr. Sean Fikerman.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
How do you get the corn on corn acres? How do you get the corn stover to flow through in the fall? I've always had problems with that.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
I should have asked. Did I say that right? Is it Ficama?
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
When you got 250, 260 bushels of corn, that's a lot of stover out there. And that's a lot of stuff. You're bailing it, you know?
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
And then what do you do with the big old fricking beaver hut that you made out in the field? It just, you get so pissed.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
And are you guys pumping your own, that all that hog manure or have a customer?
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
You're going to cost me a lot of money. My dad wants to do that. And we're still, that's our only tillage that we're really doing, full tillage is behind the manure.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
Which does scratch the tillage itch a little bit. It's kind of nice. Yeah, right. But yeah, I think they could, I think we could strip behind our manure. I just got to have to get Kyle on board.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
Remember the ages of what are the telecallers or what was it? Telemarketers. They'd call the house and if they got your last name wrong, mom would just hang up. That's how it was. That's how it was at my place anyway.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
Yep, we're going to clip that and send it to Kyle, my manure applicator.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
There we go. Is it? All right. We have something we have to address. And I messed up. I messed up, I will say. So, Sean, you're coming into this blind. I'm sorry about that. But we have a review. They did leave five stars, right?
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
Oh. Yes. And are you done? Do you want me to explain why it affects you? I think we get the gist. I think we get the gist. And, yeah, I should not have said that. It does affect me. I meant to say it in a lighthearted fashion to Sherry to not feel bad because I like eating shrimp and scallops too, you know. I guess I don't get directly affected because I get paid the same per space every year.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
There is a podcast in Iowa. Phone for profit was named by the face startup.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
Now, I am smart enough to know that if you don't eat pork, I will not have a contract and I will not have the manure from those pigs. So I should be more... considerate of my words there, and I'm sorry. Go eat some pork chops. I had some pork ribs last night to make up for it. That's right.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
Thank you for that. Thank you for listening. Thank you for the five-star review. I am sorry. I will be better with my words. Everyone, please go eat some pork this weekend, and we'll make up for my mistake. I'm sorry about that.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
I mean, if anything, we need pork to go up in price because it is so cheap. It's such a value compared to all the other meat. I mean, I love a good steak. But if you go, I got my freezer full of, I got a whole hog and I got a half a beef, which is great. Those are both great values. But if you go buy a steak at the store, have you bought one? Oh, my gosh. Nope. I won't do it.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
We needed to address it. No, I'm not fired up. I'm not fired up. I feel bad. I feel bad that I said that in passing. I didn't even think about it.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
There you go. So what I was going to go into was you got all these crops and you're doing all this stuff. We talk a lot about, we've just been doing this series of combine setting tips from Estes Performance Concaves. And it's crazy to think, if you've ever changed combines in a combine, I can't imagine changing combines between all of your different crops, your small grains.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
The concaves into the combine. Are you doing that? Are you changing your concaves?
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
I had a 92 or 3 Buick LeSabre. But that was what my parents had given me to drive to school. The old family car with 175,000, 200,000 miles, whatever. But the first pickup or first vehicle that I bought myself was a 1999 Chevy 1500.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
So, and that's the shining point of the, what I believe the XPR threes are is you don't have like that. You don't have to put any coverage or nothing. Are you putting any coverage on?
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
I think the moral of the story is like, we can do better than OEM, right? The OEM is, is, is just an, they're not that they're bad. They're just meant for a lot of different things. And so.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
I'm going to say we got an S780 as well, and Maya Cornhead's asked us to go up and demo their head at Farm Progress Show. And then Estes heard we were doing that. I had XBR2s in it. They said, oh, we'll come throw the XBR3s in if you're going to be demoing it. And I kind of got nervous because I know there's a little break-in period, you know, with them and all that. Yep.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
Yeah. And we're throwing these things in the day before we take it up there. And then it's going to be the first day of harvest, which is like always never runs smoothly. Never runs good. Right. And we go out there and all these other combines that are have different heads on them and different colors, all that.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
They're stopping in the middle and like there's grain everywhere on the ground because this we put a really early hybrid in up there.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
um planted early early and then they sprayed it with default twice to get it so they could do demos so these cobs are real spongy little kind of crappy little ears and we're just like cruising through and not having a problem at all and i'm just like wow they got something figured out here because i know i had a little bit of a break-in period with my twos
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
Yep. I will give it to the deer employees and engineers. We pulled in up there at Farm Progress, and they had already been out pulling off the end rows and all that. And they said, hey, this is the cob size. This is what you should have your rotor speed. This is what you should have your concave set at, your sieves, all that. And I'm like, why are you telling us this?
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
We have a different color head on the front of the combine. And they're like, we want all the John Deere combines to look good.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
Yep. Yep. So like they were very helpful, but like their settings of what they told us to do, they kept coming over during the demos and were like, Hey, you need to, you need to do this. That's what we're running. And it's like, well, no, it's different concaves in here. And they're like, Oh, well, it looks good. It looks good. So, yep. Yep. They were trying to be helpful. Yep.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
Well, you've got a very nice John Deere gun safe behind you.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
uh outlines outlines how we could keep all of our sd cards all the way that's right it could start our what are they it's the archives archives of farm for profit yep there you go yeah there's too many other people that use this studio for me to feel comfortable for our guns to be in there yeah that's probably true yeah so what's next what are you guys getting ready for now
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
It's a different group of people, isn't it? Because we went to a True Terra field day in Wisconsin last year, and we're like, oh, yeah, a field day. That's right up our alley. No, it was a field day for people coming to see how carbon credits and things like that work. And so it was Nike and General Mills and a bunch of different companies like that. And so it was just a cool experience.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
Very cool. Well, normally we don't get off the rails that early, but Sean, the show is for you. I kind of do. I gave a little, tiny little snippet in my intro. Who is Sean and what do you do? Well, and who is that?
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
You're just out here running feral and feeding cows and going stuff. Yep. So what's the documentary called? From the Heartland. And where can you find that? YouTube.
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Making Buffet was their first goal, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy Soon may the farmers come to bring us guests and beer and fun One day when the recording's done, we'll take our mics and go Before we knew, conversations grew, growing corn even said FU So won't you join tenor day coring crew, please like, share with you Soon may the farmers come to bring us guests and beer and fun One day when the recording's done, we'll take our mics and go
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
In Fickema. Sean Hollywood Fickema. There we go. I love it.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
So did you start your own YouTube channel or anything like that now that since you're an influencer?
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
I need to be on Delta Airlines podcast list, I guess. You know, I don't know. I...
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
I mean, you're old school social media-wise, but you're kind of new school everything else.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
One of the only people that opens a magazine.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
That's why it hasn't completely died, I guess.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
I think it'd be a very cool farm. to tour and meet, come up there and meet everyone sometimes.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
You know, it's always better live, but I think this has been a pretty good virtual show. I had a great time, and I know I got stuff here that we haven't covered. I think you could make some Farm for Profit episodes, not just Farm for Fun episodes.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
Small grains, there's the employee aspect, and all that. That'd be kind of cool. Yeah, absolutely.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
That's why we started – when Tanner started that question, he used the word balance, and it's not. It is not a balance. That's why we use juggle because – Some of it's not a 50-50 mix. It isn't.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
Yeah, the employees go, see you doing that? Like, oh, it's Friday.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
See, they have a CFO. Yeah. I need a CFO. Is that a your employee CFO, or do you have like a fractional CFO?
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
That's the first I've heard of that. I've never heard of it either. You've heard of it? Really?
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
Right? Like that's kind of our mission. Yeah.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
I always find that interesting when farms pick up and move. Yeah. Because it seems like such an undertaking to do, no matter whether it's 50 years ago, 100 years ago, now. I mean, it's so much infrastructure, the land, access to land, and it's just like... I don't even know how it would happen.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
I also think of the aspect of... moving your community, right? Like usually farmers are so involved in the community. Maybe it's a good thing. You get to start over fresh, clean, you know, maybe.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
Well, it is Friday. That's when we should be recording it. That's right. It is like 9 in the morning, though. It is. We're drinking coffee. Coffee, not ale. Other good stuff. Exactly. That's right.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
What would it be if you went to Minnesota from Nebraska?
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
So you guys fight rocks just like I do, huh?
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
So you say solid, like it's just one giant rock. It's not like just a bunch of small rocks.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
And that's mined for, like, tabletops or kitchen countertops or what?
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
Yeah. I have, yeah. Yeah. Probably makes pretty good roads, I would imagine.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
Maybe that just happens to me. So how long have you had Sukup grain bins and dryers and that kind of stuff?
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
Yeah. We put in a 1609 last year. We were worried about length. So we went a little shorter and I knew it was going to be tall. There's nothing that prepares you for how tall that thing is. Right. Oh, you have two more sections to go up? Yeah.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
Okay. Just a, what would you call those, just a continuous flow. Yeah, continuous flow. Cut out into a Sukup air system. That's what you said, right?
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
I know I was talking to you last year about the sizing of the motors and all that and Do you have a VFD on yours? We do now, yeah. Okay, and you didn't have that before? We added it two years ago.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
You can actually kind of have a conversation.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
It's a variable frequency drive, so the old way of blowing grain would have been just all the power all the time. And it just is loud. There's no way about it, no way to get around it. And now you can actually, variable frequency, turn that power down. So maybe you don't have to run, I think it's 60 Hertz or whatever.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
Now you can take it down to, and I'm probably, I'm not an electrical guy, but you can run three quarters of that. And it takes the decibels way down.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
No, I just found out right now. Really? Awesome.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
It's a pretty cool setup they have there, isn't it? It is, yeah.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
Yeah. And the way that, uh, Eugene set it up was like, there's so many different buildings and they said when we were going on the tour that they did that. So for like fire prevention and all that kind of stuff. So like all one big building would, if there was a issue would burn down or whatever, like kind of risk mitigation, I guess, in a sense.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
I saw on Twitter last week that they actually had a successful rescue a fire department did. I can't remember where it was. I'm sure our listeners would probably correct me, but I think a guy was trapped up to his chest or waist for five or six hours, but they successfully did it.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
I mean, it's so good to start seeing that kind of news come out instead of the opposite because, man, it was a lot there for a while.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
Really cool. So another safety thing that Sukup has is their paddle sweep. Do you have any paddle sweeps now?
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
You're not supposed to have any corn right now. It's supposed to be empty. It's supposed to be sold a long time ago.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
I will tell you, you will very much love that paddle sweep when you get to the bottom. Don't even have to go in, get that thing set. You might as well just transfer it to another bin so you can get to the bottom. Just to test out the paddle sweep. So we've never held over grain. We never had the capacity until now on our farm to the next year. You said that's something you normally would do.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
So do you think about that any differently when you're drying or anything like that?
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
So then maybe you'll, when you start hauling next time, you'll start pulling out of that older corn. Yeah, we'll blend it all off just to keep it moving. You have the ability to blend?
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
That was one thing we did on our bin project last year. We used to have to move an auger around to the outside. All the augers faced towards the driveway. We turned everything around, put it in the middle, and now we have the ability to blend. And we didn't think we'd use it that much.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
I think we used it the first time that we did it because we had quite a bit of fines in that really big bin we were blowing to. So we had to kind of trickle it out of that so we weren't getting docked.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
And that's not even counting the marketing side of things. That's our core message. Farming for profit. These are ways that you could make yourself the elevator. Now you can do that kind of stuff and blend. That's what the elevator's doing. That's exactly what they're doing.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
No, it's not that. Nope. The co-op was still using something like that up until a year or two ago.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
Do you love your ag banker, though? Most of the time, yeah.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
What have land prices done in your area, looking at a short crop and commodities?
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
Yep. All right, Corey, introduce our guests. Here's the music, the drum roll. Today on the Farm for Fun show, we have a great friend and multi-time guest of the podcast, but it's his first time on the Sukup manufacturing stage here at the 2024 Farm Progress Show. This man is the gold standard in ag content creators, and we are humbled to have him again.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
And then it'd probably no-sell because everyone has too high of expectations. You've been dealing with that, right, Dave? I've been dealing with that, yeah. You've got to manage the expectations.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
Maybe you should move it to the other side of the day and be the coffee shop instead of the after hours. Maybe. Is that why you guys do it at 9.30, not 9 p.m.? Yeah. Those ones, yeah, it's tough.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
One big thing that I think has happened since the last time we talked was probably about a year ago that we talked. You're over a million followers now on YouTube. Yeah. Congratulations. Yeah, thank you.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
That's the gap. There's no like 250, 500?
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
Please welcome from West Central Minnesota, Mr. Zach Johnson, a.k.a. the Millennial Farmer. The Millennial Farmer.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
If you don't follow Zach on TikTok, that's my favorite Zach.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
You haven't met him yet? I haven't met him. He's running around here somewhere.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
I think he's coming to the party tonight.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
Who's the YouTuber that has all the influencers come in and race? You went down to Bristol. Cletus McFarlane. Yeah. Do you follow him quite a bit?
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
I could. We should do that. We could do an ag talk, farm talk, wrestling event.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
He didn't say that. He didn't say that. He's fangirling out.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
Yeah. I've never shot trap. I've shot skeet when I was like 14, but never. That's harder. That's even harder. And sporting clays.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
Some of those is like almost self-defense. Like, if you don't shoot this thing, it's going to hit you.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
That's true. All right, so in two years, when we're back here with Sukup, we'll have a wrestling ring in the middle. Perfect. Oh, that would be great. We'd line up different content creators. Yeah. That would be fun. I've never tried that before. Could you do that, Dave? It's like the rap battle.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
Are they going to take me to Lowry, Minnesota? Rob Sharkey has an extra bedroom. I don't know if you saw that tweet he had last night. With the bat? Yeah, with the bat. I did see that. I'll be fine.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
I have driven a horse, yes. Okay, awesome. You heard it here first. Yeah, I think someone gave me a ride when I was little, and I don't want that. You've never ridden a horse? I've been on one. I haven't physically rode it or steered it in a direction. You were the passenger? No, I was the passenger. I even bought him a cowboy hat. How are you a passenger on a horse?
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
And, you know, and then I chased a couple horse girls, and they put bad taste in my mouth, and then I got stiffed by a horse person selling hay to, and I was like, you know what, I'm just done with horses. Done with horses. There goes the horse portion of our audience. I'd try to ride one, like a bronc. I'd try to do that. You've never been on a horse, but you would ride a bronc.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
Well, yeah, because you don't know where you're going with that. You're going to the ground. You don't need to know how to drive one. You just hold on. You keep saying drive.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
I guess it's probably ride because you don't drive a bicycle. It doesn't have a motor.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
A ride and drive. A horse ride and drive. A demo. Take it for a demo. That's what we're going to go do at Polaris. Guaranteed. Is Polaris your second favorite partner behind Sukup?
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
You think? He said it 30 times in 30 seconds.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
So welcome back to the show, Zach. As I said, you've been on what? Hey, Ballard FFA.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
Baseball's first, okay. You like to watch it or play it? Both. You still watch baseball?
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
So you've been on the show three or four times. I'm sure all of our listeners have heard you on here. I'm sure, unless they're living under a rock, but for those who are living under a rock, who are you? What do you do?
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
That's what we need. We need to throw sharp things in the studio. Yes, we do. We do have a golf simulator next time you come. You do? Tanner does.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
We have a lot of nice lakes. There's a lot of stuff we don't even know about.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
All right, how about bush light, Coors light, or Miller light? Well, I'm starting the Miller light.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
Fair enough. Probably had to take a pee or something. Yeah, I probably did, yeah.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
Yeah, I bet it was Kibble Man Sam. I think he would do that.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
Yeah, that'd be really cool. I think that's a great idea.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
Yeah, I got all nervous last year because we were pushing into harvest to get it running and had the holding bin full and we were, all right, now we're going to fill it and do all that. And some other stuff during that, we had to move a couple bins, didn't go as according to plan. Of course. The dryer was seamless. Oh, good.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
I mean, we had that thing dialed in and after that, it was like a whole weight off my chest. Yeah. Yeah, so. And it ran great all fall. So I'm looking forward to using it again. Do you control it with your phone? So we never got Wi-Fi to the site last year. So it was just on the touchscreen in the shack. Do you have it for this year now? Yes, we are.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
It's crazy. We've got the capacity that we were actually just able to shut it down, like run until 10 or 11. And then shut it down instead of having, cause the old one, you know, it's like 500, 600 bushel an hour. Like we had to run that thing all night. And we got a little bit bigger holding bin and that really helped us. So with the big game changer there, yeah.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
And the wife, is she with you here? Is she back home? She's back home. Wow, you made that sound like she's...
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
So now we just need to figure out how to dump trucks faster. That's our pinch point now. That's next on the list.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
No, it's not automated. You've got to pull the cables. Okay, gotcha. Because Sukup's got a pretty cool new big distributor. Probably a little bigger than what you need. Probably. Yeah, it's sitting out here. It's a big chunk of steel. Yeah, that's way bigger than what we need. It's very cool.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
I'll be there. You got a few minutes to stick around and talk to some of your fans? Yeah. Zach will be up here. Come talk to him. I'm sure he'll take some pictures.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
It is crazy the amount of influence you have. There was only one boy sitting in here when you walked in early for the show and physically started jumping up and down when he saw you, got all embarrassed, went over to his dad. And it's like, that is such, that's the coolest thing to see that.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
I get it. It is crazy. I think that doesn't happen anymore, right? Social media is that. And it used to be in the paper, I found a bunch of old papers from our small town back in the 30s, and it literally reported on who went over to whose house on Sunday for a birthday party after church.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
Yeah. 30 people tried to go to Zach Johnson's house.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
30 people tried to go over to Zach Johnson's house and were stopped by a sign at the end of the driveway.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
He thinks it's a ground meat or a ground beef sloppy joe.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
No, my uncle has an old cyclo sitting in the shed. I mean, probably put it away. Ran when put away. Yeah, in 1992. Probably earlier than that. I think he quit farming in the 80s.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
Ran when parked. And then is that Minneapolis Moline the tractor that Ryan Kelly came to interview your dad on? It is, yeah.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
That's cool. I ran one Minneapolis Moline. It was an LP tractor. I don't know what model it was. But I used to work for a seed company, and guys would want me to plant their plots for them. They're like, yeah, here's the four row and all that. And I planted, down by Winterset, a 38-inch row plot with an old Minneapolis Moline. I didn't know how to drive it. I figured it out.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
That's the best way to learn. Yeah. Yep. What's different about them? Gosh, that was over 15 years ago, but it was just, I don't know, I've always ran deer. I've always known the 40-20 style, and I didn't know how to run it, but I figured it out. It was pretty easy.
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
Chief idea officer. That would be scary. So can anyone just pull in off the interstate and shoot, or does it have to be an event that's going on?
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F4F - Zach Johnson - Millennial Farmer
Holy cow. Oh, man. You must be an important person. No, they're just trying to sell a membership or something. Oh, it's actually Donald Trump who's trying to call him right now. He's calling now. Here, we'll patch him into the soundboard. Have you ever raced here in Boone?
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Yeah.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Strategic Succession Planning & Profit Growth with Brain Trust Ag
Great. That's good. I mean, you are talking to two guys here in the state of Iowa. And probably my only complaint about a Wix filter is it is Hawkeye colored and not Cyclone colored. We need some cardinal and gold packaging instead of that black and gold.
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That's fine. We'll get over it. We'll still go buy our Wix filters. But if a listener wants to look you guys up because for some odd reason they've never bought a Wix filter before, what's the best way for them to figure out where to get one close to them?
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Well, is there anything you want to share with our audience before we close out?
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Hey, we appreciate you sharing some insights I learned in a short 15 minutes. And I know our listeners are going to learn, too. So thank you for your part.
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Strategic Succession Planning & Profit Growth with Brain Trust Ag
Well, Corey, we had Todd Dale on here from Estes Concaves to talk to us about getting our combine set for soybean. Yep. But now let's jump into those that are starting corn harvest.
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If our listeners want to learn more about the XPR-3s and what you guys have in store, how best do they look you up?
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Strategic Succession Planning & Profit Growth with Brain Trust Ag
Awesome. Well, thank you much for your time. So let's get into our guest today. Excited to have this conversation that should be timely for you as a listener and probably the best way to consume this content is listening by yourself and sharing it with somebody else. So excited here to have Clint Fisher. Clint like Clint Eastwood without the Eastwood Fisher. Welcome to the podcast.
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Sorry you had to deal with our long long intro.
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This is actually our shirt. We just had these custom designed. These are farm for profit, labeled, tagged. This is our shirt.
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I know. It's pretty baby butt smooth there. I'm not a very hairy individual.
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As we get these soil samples, what do our listeners need to do with those results after they come back?
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The fun part about your discovery is the same thing we've discovered here on Farm for Profit. We've learned through social media and through listeners that Farmers, I don't know if isolated is exactly the word I would use, but definitely don't have the connections with their next door neighbors like their grandparents did with their grandparents' neighbors.
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If somebody wants to learn more about nitrogen stabilizers, how best do they do that?
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So as you, oh, sorry, go ahead.
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I like that you led into where my question was going. You started hinting at some of the things that get discussed. So what have you witnessed? What are the most common things that these groups end up chatting about once they get comfortable and develop those relationships?
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And listeners, welcome back to the Farm for Profit podcast. You got Tanner sitting here. Corey's here too. You're really close to me.
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What's the value? What do they get out of it? Right. Right. What, what is the value of sitting there besides feeling like you have a network of being included, you know, feeling like there is a group of people like-minded with you. Yep. Outside of that, how many times has somebody walked away from those meetings?
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He does now. He's living in the moment, kind of like you. Are you ready to do this? I am.
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I will tell you our partner, Dave loves going to those meetings and feels like he gets all kinds of value out of those. But he's got a different perspective. He wants a little piece of information that can pursue and ask more questions outside of coffee.
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So you did go a little bit generic there, Clint. And that's not what we do for our listeners. We want some free insights.
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What's an example of something that has been extremely valuable to your members when they've discovered it in these conversations?
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Strategic Succession Planning & Profit Growth with Brain Trust Ag
Okay. I like that. Right? We've got a great guest ahead of us, one that we've been tracking both our direction and his direction for a little bit. Listeners, kind of like you, I'm glad that you are listening to our podcast, especially if this is the first show. I know we say that every once in a while, but truly, thank you.
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I like that. I think we should graze sheep on your corn stalks. You might want to upgrade the fence.
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Whoever told you about us or however you discovered us, make sure you tell them thank you. Or if it's a social media platform, you spend more time there because obviously you discovered something great.
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Yeah. We've shared on here before that my dad will custom graze corn stalks and he's partnered up with a local rodeo outfit. So he's not grazing cattle or grazing sheep. He's grazing Broncos.
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And yeah, it was, it's a simple ROI equation and I shouldn't use simple because sometimes they can be complicated to, to some folks is what did it take to make that fence horse tight, being able to provide water and then, uh, generate that revenue or that partnership or whatever it ends up looking after the fact.
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I know Corey, you and I've talked about a lot of this, that when we see something on social media, we typically send it to each other and it's like, Oh, do you see what's happening here? Do you see, but when you do that, you don't have the details, right? You don't get the details. It sounds like when you're able to establish a peer group like this, like you said, you can get extremely granular.
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Strategic Succession Planning & Profit Growth with Brain Trust Ag
It's also nice.
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Hey listeners, did you know that October 7th is National Propane Day? I didn't, but I also didn't know that there's actually renewable propane. It's got the same great features as conventional propane of being reliable, portable, creating that power with reduced carbon emissions. It's made from camelina, a member of the mustard family and a relative of cabbage, kale, and cauliflower.
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How clean can renewable propane be? Renewable propane made with domestic, non-rendered, used cooking oil has a carbon intensity score of 20.5, and that is compared to the conventional propane, which has a carbon intensity score of 79. So the more you know, if you want to check out more information, head over to the PERC website today. It's also nice to have an outside perspective.
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Having somebody that isn't a farmer themselves can sit back and put that entrepreneurial hat on to remind some of your participants that this has to make sense. You can do it because it's fun, but you have to understand that you're doing it because it's fun rather than doing something to provide a positive ROI for your operation.
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Yeah. You can send us text messages, 515-207-9640. I do like getting those. Been interacting with a couple of you this last week. Really good guest suggestions, and that's what we like to see because the content right now is going to be just as important as we can. Yeah, we should really plug this in. Somebody's calling us right now. Wow. Take a live call. It is. Oh, my gosh.
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It's going to go on Twitter, yeah.
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I don't know if this is... Do it. Do it. Do it.
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Well, you get an instant gratification if your hands are dirty. You get an instant gratification if you just laid down a field of hay. You get instant gratification when you knock out an 80 of harvesting corn. You get that. And then our culture also makes fun of those that
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Strategic Succession Planning & Profit Growth with Brain Trust Ag
don't get their hands dirty and truly are a farm manager and haven't operated a piece of machinery because we've been around those conversations to where, well, why are salesmen even talking to you because you never run that tractor?
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Well, they need to talk to you because you're the one that is independently thinking about the value that this piece of equipment is going to bring to the farm, not necessarily if it's got the massaging seat in it and all the creature comforts.
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So sorry, I interrupted his question.
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We just told our guests today we were going to put our phones down and stop dealing with that. Thank you. That's the type of stuff that makes this show entertaining. But now, the last thing I can say is every advertisement that we put out, go buy their stuff.
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Oh, wait. I can't say that. Thank you. Support them. Thank you. That's how our podcast continues to do what we do, upgrading equipment, upgrading content, exposure, and opportunities. So thanks for bearing with us.
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And Clint, we've said from the beginning, right? Farm for profit was created to help farmers achieve higher levels of profitability. Why? Because profitable businesses are the ones that can expand, grow, thrive, and survive. You know, they're, They can take downturns like this and they don't complain about low commodity prices because they've already got a plan in place.
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And I know that it is extremely painful right now, but this is why our listeners need us now more than anything. I don't know why, but I feel like in the last 30 days, and obviously we're recording this a little bit before it's actually going to come out. I would say the middle of 2024, that switch flipped even harder. That breaker went down for farm for profit and said,
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These messages are going to be extremely critical over the next six months. And talking to you is a part of that mission to make sure that our listeners don't freak out. I was talking to somebody this morning that said her husband is losing sleep because he just doesn't know how he's going to survive this. We don't want our listeners to be in a position to where they feel the same way.
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And I know that's a lot. That's hot air coming out of my mouth. I don't have a farm that I own. My wife and I own a third of a group of pigs every single turn. That is the amount of the ownership that I have. But we very closely network. You're involved in a lot of the daily decisions. Absolutely. That's the point of when we have these conversations, we talked about building that advisory team.
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One of the first episodes we ever did. And maybe we need to do it again because our quality of work is much better now than it was in 2020. Mm-hmm. that advisory team is who you can rely upon to answer the questions.
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Just like the peer groups that you're putting together, you now have somebody that you can trust to go about providing you advice, whether you take it or not, giving you that perspective. But I want to know something that you said during that comment section is transferring management before transitioning wealth. How have your clients successfully left a management role as the older generation?
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Because it seems like our listeners struggle sometimes to get dad or grandpa to let things go.
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I kept them all, but none, nonetheless. All right. It's time for a what's working in ag segment. And I think the topic we're going to talk about today is working, whether we realize it or not. Oh yeah. You think so? Is that we should be working when we don't think we're working?
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No, I think the item that we're going to talk about is extremely important to all of our listeners' operations, and it's working every day for them even though they don't realize it.
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That's right. Our pleasure to have our guest joining us virtually today. We've got Donald here. He's coming to us as the Director of Product Management for North America in regards to Wix filters. Welcome to the podcast.
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Marriages, family, businesses, it's all bigger than you. Yep.
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I think that this is ultimately a make-a-choice situation. because we've done motivational episodes. We pull TikTok clips and we get fired up. And typically we put those types of shows out right after a holiday because we know holidays can be tough. We also know that holidays are tough for us to schedule interviews around. So it works both ways.
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But ultimately right now, there's a choice that our listeners get to make because we've got vices. People are going to get into the booze more. People are going to find those methods that are going to take their attention away from something that is painful. They're going to do something to ease their pain. We know that divorce rates are going to go up.
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Donald, where are you coming from today?
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We also know, unfortunately, that farmer suicides, which is already a high number, are going to go up when economy and farm times get more difficult. But we can consciously make a choice. It may not be the right choice. We may not be going down the right path, but we can make a choice to do something. We can grow in our knowledge. We can
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grow in our understanding of businesses we can grow in our network of people that can support us or build our advisory team we can grow in the number of farm for profit podcast episodes that you listen to to help our ratings and oh no sorry that's sidetracked try a little humor in the middle of a very serious point that we have a choice are you as a person going to grow or are you not
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I go back to some of the advice I got when my wife and I were going through birthing classes. A long time ago. We did. We went. Really? Me? You think I would not go? Yeah, I suppose. Yeah. You probably got the breathing down and everything. I went. Yeah. Never needed any of it. But they said, you will never be ready for a baby. Whatever preparation you can have, you are never going to be ready.
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You think you are at an income level to where you can support your child, and you never expect how much that child's going to cost. You will never be at a fully ready position to before this child comes, but you will figure it out. It's going to be painful because you're going to not know why the baby's crying. You're going to not know why formula is so expensive.
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You're going to have opportunities during that time period that is just like where we're sitting in the ag economy right now. If you make that decision and you go at it a hundred percent with your gumption, it may hurt, but you stick with it and you figure it out.
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So Clint, as far as this episode goes, we've covered a lot of things. I'm going to try and do my best to summarize it. But I want you to be thinking about the payoff question that we've been asking our guests for this time period. How have you been juggling work and personal life? So think about that as I kind of go through the topic that we had today. We had Clint Fisher here.
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Uh, just sounds like it's spelled. There's no, no worry about that. Clint without the Eastwood Fisher. Well, I don't know. There is a C in there. Fisker. Oh yeah. We already got corrected. We can't say, can't say that, but he's CEO of brain trust ad. He's an attorney from Brookings, South Dakota.
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And we talked a lot about how he's taken his professional understanding from the legal side and his desire to learn and provide more input to the ag side to put a comprehensive approach into a peer group that can bring value from across the country. Right now, I think in my notes here, you've got members from 34 or more states that are participating on doing this.
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We're helping battle the feeling of isolation. We're focusing in these peer group conversations on ag business management, not the things that we can't control like the weather and the markets. You're coming at these discussions from an entrepreneurial mindset to be able to help your participants grow, to be able to grow in either knowledge or business size or whichever it is.
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Wow. So we're literally talking filters today and why they're important. Yeah. Why this is something that we need to think about as we go through every day of our operation, not just peak season. but ultimately making sure that we understand the importance of having a quality filter to protect our engine.
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I thought it was neat how you put the life cycle of a farm employee or family member on a farm. And to complete that cycle, you said you started as a laborer, you go into a manager, you become a leader, you become an owner. And then I would say that hopefully you're still physically able to then, after being an owner, become a laborer again as you transition it to the next generation.
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So that was a really interesting thing that I'd put down. We talked about how you've identified some of your successful operations transitioning the management ability, the ability to give up control. And it starts with willingness. And you have to show that there's a desire to take over.
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So if you have willingness to give up control and someone who's willing to take over control, then you have to demonstrate your capacity, your responsibility, your skill level, and be trained for that next step in that farming life cycle. But ultimately, the farms that transition the best that Clint has noticed is there's buy-in from all sides and all generations.
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They've successfully transitioned management before they transition wealth. And those farms that run it more like a business and have a written plan transition better than the others. So those are the key takeaways that I had from today, Clint.
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So as you think about that, Donald, when you start off a conversation with somebody, how do you get it going?
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We appreciate that. Thank you. Yeah. Listeners, we appreciate you. We appreciate the guests that you send us like Clint. And we appreciate having guests like him provide value for you to take in and put into your operation. So what do you say?
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And until next time, have a good one.
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No, not the case. We will be running all Wix filters after this conversation because I dug into this a little bit more, and that is one of the things you take pride in is the quality of filter that you produce.
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I think they need a t-shirt that's like earth, wind, and fire because they do air, oil, and fuel. There you go. Yeah.
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Yeah, all the science that goes into it. How do you test to make sure that this is top quality?
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That's right. That's a great opportunity. I didn't realize that your filters even come with a limited warranty.
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Yeah, I can imagine that that's something that is a very scientific method and approach because I even return stuff to Amazon when it probably shouldn't be returned. I certainly assume that those types of situations help with Wix. But is it something that we go strictly and directly to a Wix supplier or are you distributing these filters across the country through a different network?
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So here to talk nitrogen stabilizers with a great representative from Corteva, I've got Andrew Luzum here. And welcome back to the podcast. Thank you. Appreciate it. We also know that that soil profile is extremely complex. So do you have any suggestions this fall as we go through harvest as to what our listeners should be doing soil sampling wise?
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I didn't think about that, being sold outside of the U.S.,
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If our listeners want to learn more about the XPR3s and what you guys have in store, how best do they look you up?
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If this is the first time you're tuning into us, we try to have a little bit of fun and make learning entertaining. I was going to say entertaining. Really? You haven't heard that before? I've heard of that, but I think we're a little bit better than edutainment. Okay.
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But yes, we certainly like to have a little bit of fun while discovering something that might help your farm or business make a little bit more money. That's the goal here behind Farm for Profit. So we're excited here to feature Pattern Ag and their partners, Earth Optics. So we're going to have a great conversation to learn a little bit about how we can use predictive analytics
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in and around your farm. So we've got two guests today to join Corey and I up here on stage. We've got Mike and Britt, and we're going to let them introduce themselves. And of course, ladies first. Britt, why don't you start?
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All right. So that was Britt.
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So you've got an Earth Optics hat on and a Pattern Ag shirt on. What's the relationship between the two of them?
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Okay, so now we're going to have to get the background of both companies so we can try and dive into what that synergy is. So who wants to tackle the Pattern Ag side of this? I'll take Pattern Ag.
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So soil biology, and I think of soil, I think of soil samples and things like that. Are you guys doing soil samples and all that?
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So, okay, before we get to the next one, I'm kind of geeking out here. Like, I know the normal soil tests, and then you got your Haney's and things like that. So, like, when I get a soil sample back from you, what's on the page?
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Yeah, I wonder if all of our producers realize how important it is to have nitrogen in the ammonium form.
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18 bushel an acre. That's a lot more than any one product could actually ever say. It's a lot of three and fours and fives.
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So are you very familiar with the soils right here around the Farm Progress Showgrounds? We are. Can I take a stab at one of our biggest yield drags in soybeans? Sure. Cis nematode?
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That's 100 bucks an acre. Yep. I'm going to write that down because I feel like we're leaving the other side of it out, but I do want to come back to that. Oh, she's very patient. I know, I know, but I want to back up. We'll get back to it, right? So earth optics, how does that come into the picture?
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That's interesting because I know that there's a lot of push lately as far as conservation practices go and the talks about carbon credits to reduce tillage or go to strip till, but to fully understand where that compaction layer in your field is key because that's going to help you make some management decisions, but it goes beyond that.
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Right. That makes sense because, you know, typically if we go set a ripper or field cultivator or something, you set the depth to how you like it and you cover 100% of the field, right? But yet we treat every other acre differently. We have prescriptions for seed and fertilizer and all that kind of stuff. Why aren't we doing that? So that makes me think that we need a special tillage tool.
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Wouldn't that be wild? You're going through the field and you've got your ripper buried and then you hit one of these zones to where it says not and it just automatically lifts out of the ground. And the tractor automatically speeds up to 9, 10 mile an hour to get to the next spot before it... Puts itself back into the ground.
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It really brings it full circle because we've seen the technology and the tillage pieces, right, come from John Deere especially, one of our partners, that it's hard to like, okay, that's cool that you can do that, but how do we implement, right? Because data is great or this tool is great, but if you don't have one or the other, you have to be able to implement it.
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time labor, but time on the equipment too, right?
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Because you're not releasing the carbon in the soil and all that. And I suppose that's where the carbon piece comes into play because you can actually track that.
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So are we ready to get into the carbon piece or what else do we want to dive into about this relationship here?
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Well, Corey, it's time for a What's Working in Ag segment. Right now, we want to know what the commodity markets are up to. We got an early start, it feels like, on harvest across the Midwest, and we know a lot of our friends in the South have been going for quite some time. I even got a Snapchat saying, Southern Illinois, they're already done with corn harvest. Really?
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So what's the sensor look like?
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And this is mounted typically to a side by side or?
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Oh really on so it could be done potentially in the future on a piece of equipment that's already making the pass? That's right. Like the combine?
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So typical, like you said, is two and a half acre grids probably taken every four years or so. Are we doing this every year?
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Yeah. Which Illinois goes a ways down there.
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This is a lot. I don't know why I haven't heard of this before. It is. Besides talking to you. What's up, Snark? That's a Dave question. Oh, maybe talking to the mic a little bit.
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Okay, so one of the things that we advertised this episode of being about was using predictive analytics. So we've talked about how we're gathering this data and how we can write some prescriptions or we can get that feedback from all these data points. But what does predictive analytics mean to you guys?
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It does. It does get down there. But we've got a good friend on the podcast here. We've got Andrew Cubbish. Yes. Because it rhymes with rubbish. It's one of those things that if you can introduce yourself that way, you rarely get forgotten.
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Is predictive analytics or predictive agronomy and AI the same?
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We are using machine learning, for sure.
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And are you seeing more and more producers adopt the use of this predictive analytics? Or are we still relying on yield performance from the past year and we're going to continue to use data from historical crops?
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That's a nice feature. I think Dr. Fred Velo talks about weather is one of the largest percentages. I'm not going to say the percentage because I'd be wrong, but it's larger than anything else that affects your crop yield performance. How do you guys account for the things you can't control Like weather.
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Are you going to say that every time? I think you've said that every time, Andrew.
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Mother Nature cooperates almost as well as the timing of this tractor getting started. Have we done a recording yet to where... No, every recording is how the tractor started. That's the only way we know that it's truly a Farm Progress show.
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That's the way. That's exactly how you described it, wasn't it, Andrew?
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Yeah. Our mics are good enough. They'll hear us. So one of the things that we've been talking to our audience about is certainly as margins get tighter is we want to make sure that they have at least exposure to the latest technology, the latest abilities to make the best decisions possible.
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And I didn't expect this interview to tell us so much so early on the value and the data that you can provide. When you look at the cost of this, Is this something we need to reallocate from another portion of our operation, or is there a solid ROI that comes with addressing the cost of working with the two of you?
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Remind our listeners who you work for and what your position is.
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So I've said it multiple times on the podcast that having the data, and you know it's good, solid data, it's not clouded by anything else, the decision is so much easier. Even if you don't want to make that decision, it's so much clearer, and having that is so important.
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So do you have anybody using it and making in-season choices, decisions?
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That's right. So we're recording this Friday, September 20th, so right close to the airing date. Give us a once-over. What are the corn and soybean markets? Hold on, hold on.
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Putting myself in Dave's position here, he sells farms for a living. You know, all we have to go off of is yield monitor and old soil samples. Could that be a value of someone? Like, I'm looking at this farm and you could actually, maybe you don't do the whole field, but you could grab a, like, hey, that field is terrible. You're going to have so much disease and it's deficient in this and that.
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Because in Iowa, we have CSR, CSR2, that tells you how good the soil is. You might have a 90 CSR2 ground, which everyone wants, right? That's the best soil, but it could have been, it could have the most pathogens in it and all that. Maybe you don't pay that much.
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We have to first say, look at that shirt he's got on. I was trying to draw the least amount of attention to it. We always give Nebraska crap. We've got to give credit where credit is due. 400 starts in their football stadium sold out today on the 20th. Congratulations, Nebraska. They're having a great season so far. And they have not had that for a while, so good job, guys.
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There you go, Corey, as you're chasing. is you're chasing more ground, especially, what do they call it, ambulance chaser? You know what kind of cash rent bid you can put out with more data. There you go.
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What's the turnaround? I tell you that, hey, call you up, need this field done. What are you looking at?
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No. I don't know what I was expecting it to be. I mean, a normal soil sample would probably be about in that same realm.
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So, Britt, is there an ideal farm size to where it makes sense to start working with either one of the two of you, or is it something farms of all sizes can do?
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Who's a normal dealer? Is it like a co-op retailer or can it be a farmer dealer?
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Absolutely. We've done a couple of interviews. One of them that we did was with Boa Safra, and they have a tax credit that you can use to deduct the nutrient value of your soils. Is that a partner of yours, or has your testing been used within that type of a project?
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Very good. Let's get into the carbon side of things then. Like how does, obviously I can see how it works, but how does it?
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I don't like this Corey. We'll see you when Iowa goes there.
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So no longer is it an algorithm based or math equation based like you reduce your tillage by this percent or you quit tilling, you get this much carbon credits.
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You're well on the way. What, you've got three wins, four wins now?
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So you're like the behind the scenes for A-Carbon. You're not paying people for... That's right.
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Congratulations on that, and that's enough talk, and that is the most talk about Nebraska positively that we will ever do.
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And I imagine that's pretty important probably more to the end user or the buyer of the carbon credit, right? Like they want to know that this is actually what we're buying, right?
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Yeah, the rest of this episode.
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The logo is going to be blurred out on his shirt.
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So is that part of your service? If they're just out there for the agronomic and want you to partner up, are you already just seeing what the carbon capture is?
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All right. Well, that's probably better talking about that than the market, so let's talk markets.
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I love this. Then I want to be able to put that, all right, I have 200 tons of carbon that I captured and put it on Facebook marketplace. Someone come, I want $50 a ton, you know, or whatever, or auction it off. Have Dave auction it off instead of signing up with just one.
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Yeah, I've always said that blockchain needs to be, and also just cryptocurrency in general, there needs to be a Chicago border trade for the carbon marketplace, just because it's the wild west right now.
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Yeah, it's even more wild than the world of podcasting. That's pretty wild. Really no rules here, exactly.
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I want to back up and go, well, if we're going to get off the carbon side, I wanted to ask my, my question about the, uh, red crown rot and like, how do you know that obviously that's a, is that a bacteria? What are you looking at? It is a fungal pathogen. Okay.
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All right. Give us a rundown, Andrew.
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And is that like a pathogen that's in a lot of soils and then once it gets to a certain level, you're like, oh, you guys better do something about it?
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I mean, there's so many microbiologicals or microbes in the soils and pathogens and all that. Like, how did you guys learn all this?
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And then I imagine the seed companies would get in and maybe start selecting for natural selection and things like that.
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So as you're sitting here on the forefront of this, how are you guys seeing what your partnership's doing, what Pattern Ag's been doing with that predictive insights, the predictive agronomy? Where's this going? What's next?
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So walk me through the process. If I wanted to do this on my farm this fall, I would call one of your dealers, probably go to your website and find a dealer close to me, call one of them. But then am I gonna have to get them the information like, hey, I'm gonna grow corn on this farm next year or soybeans or wheat or whatever.
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So you're not changing anything that you're looking for in the soil based on crops.
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That's cool. So how many of these dark matters do you discover every year? Like actually go, oh, this is what this is now.
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So we had lows, but we did bounce up off the lows, right, a little bit? We're higher than those now?
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No, trade secret. I can't tell you.
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It would have been funnier if it would have been belly-to-belly because I'd want to know who else said that. I just want to know how much dark matter is in you.
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Make Better Farm Decisions with Predictive Analytics
Corey's pretty special. So this has been eyeopening and I hope our listeners, I know they're going to have a lot more questions. They're probably shouting at their radio saying you should have asked this or why didn't you go deeper? Well, we kind of got caught off guard. Like it was, it went more in depth than I think we were anticipating.
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So if they have questions, how best do they reach out to the two of you or somebody that can help get those answered?
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That's good. You got any more questions?
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Make Better Farm Decisions with Predictive Analytics
No, I don't. I'm just generally interested. I want to come out when you guys are sampling a field around the area. I want to see some of the deliverables and that kind of stuff. I think that'd be kind of cool.
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Make Better Farm Decisions with Predictive Analytics
We'd be happy to sit down and go through some stuff with you. That's great. Well, folks, thanks for coming over and hanging out with us this warm day. I know it can zap it out of you, but you hung out, delivered some great information.
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Make Better Farm Decisions with Predictive Analytics
It's the best we've had all day. That's absolutely great. So thanks again for hanging out, listeners. We appreciate you listening as well. So until next time, have a good one.
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Make Better Farm Decisions with Predictive Analytics
Remember, if you aren't farming for profit, you won't be farming for long.
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We expected better than expected, right?
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He's going to physically make the markets go down himself just from the show. I know. We've got to put ourselves in perspective. Having extra bushels to sell is great. I know that there's a lot of producers that are looking for what could be positive news to send grain markets up. What we got this week is the Fed cut interest rates. which ultimately should weaken the U.S.
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dollar, which ultimately should have an effect on commodities eventually, correct?
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So here to talk nitrogen stabilizers with a great representative from Corteva, I've got Andrew Luzum here. And welcome back to the podcast. Thank you. Appreciate it. We had a great conversation with Taylor earlier this fall focusing on fall applied nitrogen. What types of insights do you have to share with us on that side, Andrew?
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Is there any other areas of news that could potentially come out and have a positive effect on the market?
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So we're looking at a large crop.
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So as you think about that, you might have to cut bait on some of your crop this year. But Andrew, are you already working with folks for 2025 crop?
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So the market almost has to have this huge yield priced in right now then.
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Any big dates or reports we should be looking forward to?
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So we know our listeners are always looking for partners, strategic alliances to be able to help their businesses get better. We appreciate you taking 2024 to share your insights, whether they've been rosy or not so. We're just sharing the facts this season. If they want to work with you or other folks at Lighthouse, how best do they reach out?
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Awesome. Well, thanks again for hanging out with us.
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Well, Corey, we had Todd Dale on here from Estes Concaves to talk to us about getting our combine set for soybean. Yep. But now let's jump into those that are starting corn harvest.
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Revolutionizing Ag Equipment: Behind the Scenes with Strobel, Terraplex, and Brandt
We're going to interview with our next guest from Brandt right out of Canada. It sounds like a couple of our guests are coming. If you'd like to hear the story and learn more about the company, come on to the Farm for Profit podcast.
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Revolutionizing Ag Equipment: Behind the Scenes with Strobel, Terraplex, and Brandt
I pitch it a little bit. Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
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Revolutionizing Ag Equipment: Behind the Scenes with Strobel, Terraplex, and Brandt
So what do you think, Dave? I think if you are not familiar with Farm for Profit podcast, we do two kind of episodes. We do one kind of episode that is all about profitability. How can you make more money on your farm? What to watch for, et cetera, et cetera.
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And then later in the week, we come out with Farm for Fun, where we might just interview a random guest, learn something about them, drink some beer, and that's the way it works.
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Revolutionizing Ag Equipment: Behind the Scenes with Strobel, Terraplex, and Brandt
And if somebody ever wants to visit Regina, if you ever want to go there, Corey, Western Canadian Agribition is right there in town, been up there, auction contest, of course. It was a great time. It's almost like this event we're at today, but more livestock-based and even bigger when you talk agriculture in Canada.
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Revolutionizing Ag Equipment: Behind the Scenes with Strobel, Terraplex, and Brandt
We need somebody with a plane. That's what we need. I'll get a pilot's license. We get a plane. We'll fly anywhere anybody wants.
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Revolutionizing Ag Equipment: Behind the Scenes with Strobel, Terraplex, and Brandt
So I didn't know you for 90 years. Okay. That's awesome. And I didn't know you had anything to do when I didn't live for 90 years. Yeah, exactly. And I didn't know you had anything to do with construction side of the world. The question I was going to ask is what is the piece of your guys' brand that flies off the shelf that everybody would know?
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Revolutionizing Ag Equipment: Behind the Scenes with Strobel, Terraplex, and Brandt
Yeah, let's go agriculture first.
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Revolutionizing Ag Equipment: Behind the Scenes with Strobel, Terraplex, and Brandt
I got you. And what about the construction side? So is it attachments?
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Revolutionizing Ag Equipment: Behind the Scenes with Strobel, Terraplex, and Brandt
So are you making attachments for tractors or, like, skid loaders or, like, stump grinders and that kind of stuff? Or go deeper. Yeah, for sure.
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So even a little bigger machines. Okay, great.
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Revolutionizing Ag Equipment: Behind the Scenes with Strobel, Terraplex, and Brandt
I'm going to disagree, though, man. There is a lot of construction that goes over into A. Absolutely.
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Revolutionizing Ag Equipment: Behind the Scenes with Strobel, Terraplex, and Brandt
Is that something you see in U.S. sales as one of the bigger products, or is it grain handling all around?
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Revolutionizing Ag Equipment: Behind the Scenes with Strobel, Terraplex, and Brandt
stiff yeah and this these long sticks come down and you just have to just just look that way about right at the door pretty much i remember your tiktok video you were making with the joystick and just talking about it because you guys upgraded your combine so you have more more capacity more volume then you needed some more capacity to get it back to the farm yep and then now you still have a pinch point in the middle but you kind of were solving all of those pinch points in the middle and this was one of those solutions right yeah yep and what i learned also is you guys actually make these in the u.s absolutely where at
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People like to work with people they trust all day long and brands. And so what better way to establish that than relationships?
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Revolutionizing Ag Equipment: Behind the Scenes with Strobel, Terraplex, and Brandt
We do, yeah.
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Revolutionizing Ag Equipment: Behind the Scenes with Strobel, Terraplex, and Brandt
As you guys are building this stuff, I know Corey and I, I geek out on equipment even if I don't know what it does. And so we kind of love to go around shows like this. And he's like, what do you think that does? And I say, well, I don't know, but I would have built it this way or done this. And I wouldn't have used pop rivets there. I might have bolted that or et cetera, et cetera.
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Revolutionizing Ag Equipment: Behind the Scenes with Strobel, Terraplex, and Brandt
I don't think the flow would be as easy. How about supply chain? So it was away. Now it's back. I know Corey kind of alluded to it on the front. But are you having trouble?
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Gotcha. And then the second part of that is, just like I'm talking, we walk around and whatnot, and farmers, there's a lot of farmers, are very innovative. They know this is not going to work because of this. Do you guys have some kind of internal checks and balances? Like, well, hey, Dave gave us a suggestion on this. It actually was a good idea, but how do we implement it?
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Is there a tie with the community of agriculture and construction on that?
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Gotcha. And then just a random question. Yeah. Regulatory. Corey was just asking about being U.S. built. Every time I go to Canada, of course, we go through security, et cetera. And do we have this or did we bring this? And there's duty-free stuff there. Is it easier to bring equipment from U.S. to Canada or from Canada to U.S. ?
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What's the regulatory body on that? I'm just curious.
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I didn't know if there was tariffs and bring stuff in or whatnot. I know you guys want the relationship and U.S. made, which is awesome. Yeah. Yeah.
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As we've got the opportunity to interview people from across the country, there's different brands in different places, and a lot of it is that I can service it. It is that I have parts for it. We were talking with some dealers last night about that. How much inventory do I need to keep, and what parts do I need to keep, and et cetera.
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Revolutionizing Ag Equipment: Behind the Scenes with Strobel, Terraplex, and Brandt
Sometimes we as decision makers, that's a big portion of the decision decision. So as you guys have moved into that, that I'm sure has helped grow the business to have those dealer networks with parts.
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Revolutionizing Ag Equipment: Behind the Scenes with Strobel, Terraplex, and Brandt
So you guys have an outlook for the next five to 10 years for, let's start with Brandt. What's the outlook?
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Revolutionizing Ag Equipment: Behind the Scenes with Strobel, Terraplex, and Brandt
So coming from Canada, you know, I will say we Americans in the United States get a little tunnel vision that it's our crop, it's our everything and our equipment. But having just gone on vacation out of country, there's a world perspective here. And, you know, so I'm thinking Regina, I'm thinking canola, nothing to do with we're in the heartland here, corn and beans all day long.
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But when I think of canola, you know, we might be having our prices a little lower right now or our markets a little lower.
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Batch recorded.
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I'm going to try something new here. We haven't done this, but I'm going to try it. What I want you guys to do is elevator pitch. Okay. So a short answer and then a short reason why. So we're rolling into harvest. So I'll go, Kurt, you answer first. What is one product you think that our listeners need and why?
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Let's move forward. Let's go to just after harvest. What do you got?
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That's good. How about you?
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Okay, so if that's the case, I can't pull it with my little engine that could. How much John Deere tractor do I need to pull...
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Okay, very good. So he gives roller in spring. Is there anything else you're thinking on the U.S. market for spring?
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Revolutionizing Ag Equipment: Behind the Scenes with Strobel, Terraplex, and Brandt
Okay, now let's change from season to money-wise. So we're Farm for Profit. If you had one piece of your equipment that would help me be more profitable, save money, save time, whatever we want to value money, what's your thoughts?
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How about for the, and I don't know, so correct me if I'm off here, but not looking at your website yet, do you have any hay equipment? No. Is there anything that goes into that side of the world?
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As we move forward in evolution, farming, geez, years ago we were horse and plow, okay? Look where we are today. We've got billions of dollars worth of equipment sitting here. What's the future look like? And I'm going to go specifically automation-wise. Is there anything that Brant's doing automation-wise that will help us?
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And you made me think of that because you were talking about the capacity, and I think we're almost to capacity because of infrastructure of roads and how wide we can go and how big we can go and weight limits that I tend to think towards the future as we expand our operations and get other acres and hectares, other places, we might just need multiple sets of equipment. Right.
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Now we're multiple sets, and maybe they're smaller, but they're all automated to, hey, let's harvest at the same time simultaneously on seven different farms. My prediction is we're going to go that way, smaller, more efficient, because they're all operating at the same time. So hence my question. But, yeah, thanks, guys.
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So if Canada is America's hat, what is America to Canada like in reverse? Is there a red-headed stepchild south of the line?
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Yeah, exactly. One more thing. I need to know where to find you guys. Every listener, where do they go? What's easy?
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Tech-Driven Agriculture: Insights from a Panel of Farmers
Ladies and gentlemen, farmers, ranchers, and distinguished guests, thank you for listening to the Farm for Profit podcast, where we discuss the latest ideas, methods, trends, and techniques available to help your farm achieve higher levels of farm profitability. Remember, if you aren't farming for profit, you won't be farming for long.
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Tell you what you can do. It makes us... We have a new employee, Emily, or no, Rachel. Here we go. Just kidding. I did that on purpose. Rachel is our new employee, and you need to go and just ask questions about her, and then she can comment on social and tell you all about herself.
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Well, there you go. You don't know what you don't know until you don't know.
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And even talking about it for the last five years on the podcast, lots of people, and maybe that's all of agriculture, because as I've walked around, people are like, well, I know that. It's almost faux pas, like I should know this because I'm a farmer. And so they don't ask questions. I just inherently ask a lot of questions and talk with a lot of people. Well, why'd they build it that way?
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Why is the side of it plastic? Why is this? Why is that? But that's how I learn.
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Even take that statement. If you're not uncomfortable, you're not growing. My wife wasn't all on board for buying the farm.
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But I saw it as an opportunity to understand my customers, understand where their position is, and have a little dabble into what they feel every day, right? And so that gives me better decision making. But to borrow another X amount of money makes you uncomfortable. Yeah. But I do think we're growing bigger, even conversations with locals like, hey, you're in the club. Now you're farming.
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You feel it just like we do, and we got 390 corn, and that's what it is. We're going to go down together. It makes for a more relatable conversation, though, where I'm not a sales guy. I'm just one in the club.
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And I'm still there because I don't know if we're going to make any money.
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So back up one step. You're in like Vanderbilt territory down Murray, Kentucky area. And there's a lot of medical devices, a lot of meds. So you were kind of going pre-med. Was that just a decision to help people just to go back even a little farther?
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And a lot of medical people have a lot of wealth, so transition right to your wealth management. And there's a lot of ways to do wealth management, from consulting, advisement, selling insurance, et cetera. Did you go down a certain path? No.
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I manage wealth for Corey every time he wants to buy a new watch. I'm like, Corey, that might not be a good idea. Or a pin. Geez. Well, that one's got gold in it, so you're good. That one's good. That one's good. Order straight from Germany. Yeah.
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Not to dig too deep, but I'm a serial entrepreneur. You went startup ways. Was it your startup? You had an idea and went that route? Yeah.
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And that's how you're probably able to adapt to agriculture pretty quick. I mean, you got to learn and get, because there's a lot of every old boy at the coffee shop would like to tell me how I'm doing it wrong, but you got to take the good with the bad, with the ugly and the pizzas and cream with liver and onions.
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I think we can answer that with the whole title of this podcast is choosing a good partner, identifying good partners. So I hitched my wagon with Corey. Why? Because I know he knows more than I do in that field and will tolerate me asking questions. Yeah, I think he's advised me right and to make those decisions because my finances depend on it.
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And when we talk about the suppressed market or depressed market a little bit, you know, do I need I've been asking him, do I need to upgrade my I want to I like tech, I'm with you. So I want to upgrade a planner because I think it's cool. And he's pumped the brakes, Dave. You need to do this first. You need to do that first.
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So I think anybody to win the Super Bowl, sometimes you're not the quarterback.
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Especially when you're an entrepreneur.
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If our listeners want to learn more about the XPR-3s and what you guys have in store, how best do they look you up?
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It's time for a Nitrogen News Minute. Here we go. We're back with Taylor Ferguson. We've got another tip that we want to provide you this fall. As you think about your application process, we have been sharing these tips with you about making your fall fertilizer applications. But ultimately, I want to dive into it.
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Taylor, how do we get the most benefit out of fall applied versus spring applied nitrogen?
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Tighter margins means we need to preserve all of those assets that we have, including the ones that we put in the soil. How does the product work in providing us that guarantee?
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Awesome. Well, thank you much for your time.
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I like that. And this has been a great set of segments for us to share with our listeners this fall, especially sharing your expertise. But if they are concerned or want to learn more about what to do with spring applied nitrogen, how should they do that?
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Thanks again, Taylor. Thank you.
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So, Corey, as we talk what's working an egg, I always want to talk with a farmer that has this product. You have this product, right? So let me interview you for a second. Of course, you can buy concaves that come with a combine. So for our listeners that haven't listened to previous events and they're like me. and maybe don't know what a concave is first.
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Explain to me, what does the concave do for my combine?
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Gotcha. Gotcha. And so necessity breeds invention. And so you saw a way to do it quicker, better, faster, and more efficiently. So you're the total package as a CEO. You're not just the financial CEO. You're the, I listened to the customer. I figured out what's wrong, repatented it, made it better. Corey, you bought this. So now you have these in your combine. And so how better, worse?
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owner as a business person that you should be worried about getting all the bushels in the grain tank when it's seven dollars the same as this when it's three well and brian if i take your example so you were wealth management you had a company in your portfolio that was 30 percent down kind of like our market right now cory yeah and you got to spend money to make money he invested marketing farm shows is what i just heard previously and all of a sudden you were up
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Yes. You made money. You've got to spend money to make money. You've got to make those decisions, though.
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And that might be a good segue right into how to choose partners. So you said it, Brian. Hold on. I want some of the numbers. He's got numbers for us. Very good. Well, let's go into numbers then. We are going to get into Tanner's.
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And let me, let me tie it into, uh, we're, we're here at the John Deere booth and of course, uh, our great partner. Um, and there's concave sitting right in front of us and there's a combine sitting right in front of us. And I know I've asked you this before, Corey, I'm like, well, If stuff's so much better, why don't they put it in the factory unit?
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You told me it's because most of the time when an OEM is building something, great partner, they're building it to cover lots of different areas, maybe not just the guy doing seed beans or just the guy doing this. And that's where both companies work symbiotically together, where you assist for certain things, correct? I mean, different small grains and big grains?
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There it is. And another person that we've interviewed on the podcast, Tractor Zoom. I use Tractor Zoom Pro as an auction company. And so they're studying those analytics to where it might be somebody to talk to because they're telling me that as soon as I hit...
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right at about 1800 sep hours on the combine it that the bell curve so it's like uh yeah and then I mean it just crashes right at about that time because then it's almost where guys don't want to buy it and it's worth just buying the new one or you know upgrading from there so they have a lot of data on that of course that's their their data there's just so many moving parts
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I mean, I could talk all day, but we can move on. Let me give you a couple of these, and they tie into everything, and that is, boy, I love the progression of how we got there to now we're not just— That's a great story. We're an engineer now. We're not only an engineer but running a company and trying to still improve for farmers. What's next? So we've got new models of Estes concaves.
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What's the next portion for Estes?
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Well, and that's what people, if you had a heart attack right now, Corey, you would not Google general practitioner. What do you think you'd Google? Cardiologist, right?
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Everybody wants the expert in that field. I mean, that's why I specialize in just farmland. not even other real estate, farmland specifically, because people want to hire the expert in that field, and you guys are the expert there. So being that expert, I'm guessing, Corey, you have data. I know you're John Deere Ops. You're using other things to get that.
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Does that help you, Brian, if they bring their data? So new customer, never used you. Hear our podcast. they're like, hey, wait a minute, this is cool, let's try it. Testimonial from Corey here. And they're like, all right, we're going to dump the clutch. Do they bring their data to you and say, we've done this, here's our yields, here's our that? Or do you just give them like, here's our product?
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Oh, never thought about that.
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Perfect. And one more question that I just thought of before we go Tanner's way. So at a show, I'm a salesman. There's always naysayers that, well, you can't sell my farm or should I sell it at auction? There's got to be naysayers. What's the biggest naysayer when they come up to your booth here? What do they say? And what's the answer to the question?
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You need a sign that says, the juice is worth the squeeze. The juice is worth the squeeze.
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Corey, is that the way it works? When I sell your farm, you're like, can you do this cheaper, cheaper, cheaper?
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Relatable. Are they relatable to you as your customer? I mean, I do business with people that look, feel, act like me, you know, so relatable.
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Corey, I'd say this is a great argument that I make all the time. for when you're picking a partner. So you might pick a partner to sell your farm, right? Well, when you do, there's big companies. There's $900 million companies and then there's smaller companies too. I like being the smaller company because just what Brian's saying is when you want to turn the boat,
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and you see something that can help your customer, we can pivot really quick. And my fishing boat can turn a whole lot faster than their cruise liner. And so when it takes them time to implement, look at Amazon and how quick they can make a change and how forward they are. There's the Kmart's of the world. They got a good product. They've been here forever. Great.
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You've been here around 90 years and you're huge. But look at how Amazon, the world's changing and we need to be able to pivot.
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Maybe that's the answer to this question. Do you, Brian, have advice for our listeners? How do they pick the right partners that they're going with to boost their farm income? So you've done it with a couple different businesses from startups to where you're at now. What advice do you have for our farmers?
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And that's why everybody is at the show. The middle word, farm progress. To make progress, everyone here has new something. And I don't think it's all just sales pitch. It's like, can this work for your operation? Can this work with what you're doing? You know, et cetera. Yep.
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And you know how we went computers where, I mean, I'm older than you, but I remember when we bought the first PC that you got from Best Buy and, you know, dad didn't want to touch it.
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Yeah, Oregon Trail, and you had nothing else than AOL and, you know, long phone modems and et cetera. And look at how fast that has duplicated. I think we're set up, I mean, horse and buggy, now X9 combine sitting right here. How much faster is it going to duplicate now with technology? I think we're just setting up to go even faster.
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And having gone down that game a little, the thing is you don't think about, Corey, is you want to write a patent in my world that I know about it is broad enough that you cover all of the basis, but specific enough that the patent office says that this has a function to what you're trying to accomplish.
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But if you go too broad, then it'll come back and it'll say, ah, that's like, I own a company, Virtual Auction. They're like, well, virtual is a thing and auction is very broad. You need to narrow that like what it is to specifically what you're trying to accomplish here, you know.
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But we didn't want to write it too narrow that somebody could just change a widget, a fidget, a something, and then they have the same thing that we were doing, just they used a different, you know, meter or something. Yeah, because you have some patents, right? We did one when we wrote virtual auction software, yeah.
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And they don't come overnight. There's like a provisional patent, but they can take like the ones that I did anyway, two years. two, three years to go through the process. Have you seen the same thing?
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Work and home life. And while you're thinking of that, I'll give you a second to think on that. So juggle work and home life. Listeners, one of my takeaways from this, as Brian's thinking of his answer, is do they care about my success?
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I kind of wrote that down on my paper, and I was thinking, man, as we are thinking of somebody to identify or choose a partner with, I know wholeheartedly that Corey wants me to be successful on my farm. and so he's giving me the right advice.
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When you pick your partners, whoever those partners are, when we on Farm for Profit are studying this, we're trying to put you with people that we think and feel care about your success.
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Corey, do you find this? So my wife and I have been married 20 years now and, uh, We'll go out to eat. We used to have stuff to talk about. I say used to. Now we go talk about it. Of course, we talk about business. And we've tried to keep business out of the conversation. And we'll go out to eat. And we're just sitting there staring at each other thinking, man, I want to ask her about this.
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What do we talk about if we don't talk about business? Because we are intertwined into that. I don't know what everybody else talks about when they go out to eat. It's like, well, all right. Maybe you just take cards and play card game or something. Yeah, but it's like, well, I know everything about you, and you know everything about me, and it's this old hat.
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So now we just started judging people. What do you think they do? It does take a certain ability to get out of that mindset.
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Oh, my goodness. We would have derailed. Yeah.
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Yeah, we'd be talking about Starlink.
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Yeah. Well, thanks for being our guest there, Brian. Appreciate it. And again, if our listeners want to check your service out, give us the website one more time.
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Well, Corey, we had Todd Dale on here from Estes Concaves to talk to us about getting our combine set for soybean. But now let's jump into those that are starting corn harvest.
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Thanks, guys. Thank you. And listeners, welcome back with the Farm for Profit podcast. This is David Whitaker and Corey Hillibose here.
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I think you're all right. Yeah, it has been a wonderful show. Of course, we're here at the John Deere booth and always glad to have a proud partner there with John Deere. They set us up awfully nice. And we get to interview all types of people on all different types of subjects. And, of course, one thing, Corey, on Farm for Profit podcast.
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that we talk about just a what's working right now, what's working in ag, and that might just be one product specific.
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
Rocky Mountain doubles. They're lucky.
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
Oh.
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
Yeah.
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
Corn. Corn. We're not giving you the pig unless you give me the potash. Maybe that's an Iowa thing.
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
I've always heard the white is better. Yeah, it's like dyed diesel. Can't use the red stuff. What? Or like DEF. Yeah, it gets expensive.
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Right? Right.
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
That would change Corey's emotions. That would change my emotions. New tractor it is!
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
It's a crystal ball that's cloudy.
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
I love that.
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Closing the Yield Gap: Protecting Farmers’ Profits w/ Acre Shield
Yeah, a lot more high value than especially corn, right?
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Yeah, that does seem like we always get into a point mid to late harvest of soybeans that they're just drier than you want them to be. And they're shelling at the head and they're hitting the windshield and all that kind of stuff. So I imagine you kind of maybe back off on your tightness and speed once you get to that point.
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So this isn't a new concept, though.
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Before we go to the next thing, I put this distributor away. That thing's way up in the air, right? It is. And you're saying electronics. Like, it's electronically. Me, as a farmer, I'm like, oh, boy. How do I service that? How do I make sure that doesn't? I mean, what does that look like?
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It's touch-free control. Is that something we can put into our touchscreen that runs the dryer and all that?
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There you go. I think you guys can help us out with that. You know what? I've never talked about my paddle sweep yet. Mainly because we just started using it. You know, we just got to the bottom of the bin. We should have got to the bottom of the bin a long time ago, you know, if we were good marketers. But we just got to the bottom of it. And let me tell you what. It is amazing.
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We had to adjust a few things just to get started. But it is like no kernels on the ground. I mean, a few. Like you could go sweep them up or blow them if you wanted to. Yeah. And Tanner alluded to our blending deal. It keeps up, and I mean, I'm going to tell you this right now. We only have one paddle sweep, and we have three other power sweeps.
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We actually didn't get back in and sweep behind the other power sweeps because we're just going to put a paddle sweep in.
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sells the product i can step away let him talk to the the customers because they believe him you know they might not believe me but they certainly believe you're just a dirty crooked salesman that's right that's right okay for a fee we won't have cory do any more interviews we'll just have him stand next to the paddle sweep and talk about his experience what i was trying to get you on the blending side like normally if you're in the bin sweeping you're in that bin that's the bin you're hauling you're pulling from i can actually blend when we're down in the bottom and have multiple bins running because i know i don't have to sit there and babysit the thing right
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Gotcha. But you don't have to have, you know, the Sucup unload system. You can actually retrofit one in, correct?
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I think we generally know that as farmers, if we're upfitting a planter that's 12 years old, that, you know, hey, you know, is we better do our due diligence, say, is the frame good? Are the hinge points good or the hydraulics, you know, all that kind of stuff. Exactly.
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single receiving system and then a reclaim system like underneath the grain bin where we can reclaim the grain come out and dump it right into a bucket elevator so if I could put it into my farmers terms like I see this and it's gonna be my pit right like I pull a semi up over and I can dump both hoppers at the same time that come into one
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And now you got to have something that can take the grain away from that. That sounds like a lot.
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I'm going to say double run now, which is like, I don't know, a lot of people will call them a grain pump or something like that. Can you take enough away with that?
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When you start getting over acres and you've got to get so many acres, so many bushels a day, time is what you need. You need to be able to turn trucks, turn wagons, whatever you're doing. It's a logistics problem. right? So you need to be able to get back to the farm and only be there for X amount of minutes.
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If you're there for 15 minutes, well, if you're pulling 4,000 bushel an hour out of your combine, kind of do the math there. All right, now I need more trucks, more labor, whatever, or you could speed it up and I'm only there for three minutes or four minutes.
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Closing the Yield Gap: Protecting Farmers’ Profits w/ Acre Shield
travel and quit a distance i mean it's yeah more that you you know you want to get them turned around quicker so there was a lot of firsts on our farm last year we uh it was our first we went to a class 8 combine a john deere s780 from a from a class 7 went to a 12 row head from an 8 row head got the brand new sukep dryer bin all that kind of stuff but what we didn't do and we did plan we did plan to we just ran out of money uh was the receiving side of it that is now our pinch point so
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Closing the Yield Gap: Protecting Farmers’ Profits w/ Acre Shield
Now we rent an extra trailer, try to get an extra guy, have a third truck, when normally we could have done it with two. Well, you're at the right place. We've got a lot of stuff out here, Corey, we can hook you up with. Still a lot of money. I'm putting you to work.
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Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
We have a mixed flow dryer on our farm. We went up to Sukup last fall, went through, what do you guys call that, dryer school? Yeah. Yeah. And I tell you what, that was really, really helpful because there's so much new technology. No longer is it heat and flow and all that. There's a lot more going into it.
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Hang them up, take them to the closet. Yeah. I just want to say. Last fall, not everything went smoothly on our bin site upgrade, and it wasn't Sukup's fault. Oh, we moved some old bins and had taken a crib down, things like that. And so it just got to the point where you just expected a problem, and we're like, all right, now it's time to start the dryer. This could be an issue.
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There's a lot of stuff going on. It was the smoothest thing we did all fall. I mean, we had that thing cooking and dialed in in less than a couple hours.
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I mean, a big shout out to our electrician. I mean, their bill came in about three times what they said it was going to be. But I think it's worth it because they have stuff, like, if we want to go put in automation and down the road, like, we're ready to go.
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We don't have to worry about it. So they really made that thing run smooth.
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Like we could add a pit, we could add another leg, all that, the blending capabilities, all that kind of stuff. I mean, we have three phase power there and every motor is set up on timers and things like that. So not everything is surging at once. So there's just, it's crazy. You can just keep adding and adding, adding to it.
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You know we're live. We're going tractor pulling. We're going tractor pulling.
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So everything has tradeoffs. So I imagine what you're gaining from dumping hot is capacity.
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I mean, it's going to be a less expensive dryer because it's just heating and not as tall, I would imagine, because that cooling portion of the mix flow is pretty tall.
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But I will say we have the cooling on our mix flow and dump into that big 60 foot, 100,000 bushel bin. It was nice having the peace of mind that that went in cool and we probably didn't have any hot spots and things of that nature and it was good quality all the way down the bottom.
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Ladies and gentlemen, farmers, ranchers, and distinguished guests, thank you for listening to the Farm for Profit podcast, where we discuss the latest ideas, methods, trends, and techniques available to help your farm achieve higher levels of farm profitability. Remember, if you aren't farming for profit, you won't be farming for long.
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Unless it was last fall.
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So typically we try to get to around 15%. If you were going to hold longer than a year, what would you recommend?
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Everything has trade-offs, Dave, like I said. So you're giving up some weight, which is your bushels, to dry another percent or two, but you're gaining length and time.