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.
Farm4Profit Podcast
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.
Farm4Profit Podcast
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?
Farm4Profit Podcast
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.
Farm4Profit Podcast
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
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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.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
And there was, what, maybe 30, 40 people that were there and got it, which was kind of cool, right? Got us there. Yeah. And the haters on Twitter and other platforms, quite frankly, and we've had it throughout the years that we've been doing this. But really, I think it's a... telltale sign of the times that people are starting to get squeezed a little bit.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
Cause they just got frustration and they want to put it out on somewhere, but they're calling you and us. I wouldn't put us as the influencers that like you are, but that we're not real farmers. We're actors that are out there not doing it. And it's like, what are your thoughts on that?
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
I have actually heard someone complain after you bought one of your pieces.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
And they don't know you, didn't even know your name. They just said, heard some YouTuber bought the farm ground that they made from the money that they made on YouTube. And they're just pissed.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
They don't know what time it is. They don't know what time it is.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
They didn't work hard for that. And meanwhile, I'm like, I know Grant. Grant's a great dude. And he worked hard, just maybe not in your definition of hard.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
And let's be honest, these opportunities are equal, right? Like anyone could have went and started a YouTube channel and thought of that. They just didn't.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
So what is, what is the secret to being a YouTuber that actually could make full time?
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
You can gold mine on farm sim?
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
Like a John Deere tractor or –
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
south america even compared to farm and slayer so it's it's kind of taking reins in a different aspect that one that we saw opportunity in have you ever played cory i have never played either one i've never played either i've watched people i never have and i've never like so not that i didn't play video games like i played call of duty yeah and uh Way, way beyond your time.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
Counter-Strike before that. But I was like at first-person shooter games in college. But I farmed all my life, and I never had the – I mean, I loved farming, but I just never had that drive to go, you know what, after this day of helping Dad on the farm this weekend, I want to go back and farm some more in the video game. But I've always been that way.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
I've never been able to keep a garden because – Why would I want to go home and play in the dirt more when I just did that all day? I just farmed 1,000 acres. Why would I want to go home and farm a tenth of an acre?
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
So we cut Rachel's mic off because she was getting mouthy in the last episodes, but she did insert a question in the chat. She wants to know, how do you have time to do real farming when you're making all the content on FarmSim?
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
You've got it down to a science. 10 hours actual farming and then you've got editing and stuff.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
So you have a full team that's full time on this?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
Holy cow. Just think, full-time people, six, that are just... You, from just playing a video game... Wow, way to... A farming video game. I'm laying it down, and I'm going to build it up here. This is why we're professionals.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
So, and then you got all these Twitter trolls, or trolls in general, that was not just at you, but influencers as a whole. You are creating... wealth for yourself and wealth for so many other people, probably more than what the actual farm is doing directly.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
Let's do it in the show. Let's do it in the show.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
I think so many people look at – say you're farming and you see these big farmers and they got a goal. I got 1,000 acres now and I want to go to 5,000 or 10,000 acres. And they think that they're just going to get there by just working that extra hour, talking to the landlord. And they can. They certainly can. But if you look at any of these big farms –
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
that are ultra successful didn't just grow for the wrong reason but like there's usually something else that they were doing on the side supporting the farm yeah that they were throwing money back at it you know supporting their habit and uh that's all this is
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
Everyone can make money at $7 corn, right? And times are good. But if you can thrive... because of either decisions you made on the farm or off the farm, you know, through the bad times, that's the opportunities, man. I know.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
I'm excited about it.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
Even though the Land Expo didn't quite say that, but there's a lot more moving off, not on auctions, and there's a lot more no sales I've seen.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
I do want to go into that with him sometime because I was like, at what point did reserves come into the history of auctions? Because I thought normally you had an auction and it's like, this is going to sell. And that's why I literally heard – It was Steffes at the Farm for Profit Conference. Oh, yeah, a long time ago. I literally heard him say, why do people go to an auction?
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
Because they think they're going to get a deal. And now they started using auctions as, no, because you're going to get the highest price. And if it doesn't sell for the price that you want, then, oh, we'll just won't sell it because we have a reserve. We're going to sit back and wait. It's like, well, then why did I come?
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
So I want to dive into that with him sometime. the history of auction.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
Yeah. Places that we've all been invited to. I know. Go free of charge. I know. And yet we're not going. We haven't said yes yet. And I don't even have pigs until for like three more weeks. So you're saying let's go to Brazil? We could go.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
So yeah, your brother has a separate YouTube channel.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
He's doing a great job of explaining it. So not only do I not play...
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
video games or farming simulator i don't i'm i don't consume i consume podcasts i don't consume like youtube videos like long i consume shorts and things like that so i've never sat down and watched you know a full zach johnson millennial farmer video right i've watched parts of it here and there i actually have sat down and watched your brothers yes and and i did not intend to what was it
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
I think it was Soybean Harvest or something while you guys were doing it. It literally popped up while I was doing something and I'm like, I'll watch a little bit of this. I will always watch a little bit, but I just don't ever have 30 minutes or whatever. I watched the whole damn thing.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
I'll tell Zach. I'll call him right now. I'll be like, dude, I've never seen one of your shows. But I thoroughly enjoy Zach as a person. I thoroughly enjoy his content on the shorts and all that. Oh, my God.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
I love Zach, and I love his content. It's great. What is that? There's got to be a word for that. I'm fully aware of how important and how awesome he is, but I just don't consume anybody's. It's not because it sucks.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
It is, but he has some explanation at the beginning or whatever. Yeah.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
So do you have to buy that ad spot?
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
It's part of the free equipment, right?
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
It's truly, um, I mean, yes, your family, but the mentality of not trying to tear someone down, like if we can just all succeed together, right. That rising tide raises all boats. Like, Once you get that mentality, I mean, the options and the sky is the limit, right?
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
It's crazy. So I love to hear that. My brother needs to help me out like that. Yes, he needs to come in and start editing. They dropped me off here because I wasn't going to get here on time, and they went and got my truck and brought it back for me.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
So revenue streams, YouTube inserts ads. If you just get a lot of viewers, they're inserting ads. That's a big one. We all know that, right? Yep. the American farming, I would say, is that a subscription yearly?
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
You want to launch into it? While you're getting a song, you can always call or text us. 515-207-9640. Let us know how we're doing. Guest suggestions. Those who don't like Tanner. Are we playing?
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
And with that, does that come like brand? Is there brand partnerships in there?
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
So if someone... What am I trying to think of? There's a certain brand of grain cart that wants to be in the game. Yep. Do they have to pay you to get in the game?
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
Maybe. Maybe. I was just thinking even, like, how did the Bush Light Combine get in there? Like, someone had to put that in there, right?
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
Yeah, you sent it to me, because I'm pretty sure it was even a 9770, wasn't it? Yep, yep. Because there's several other non-9770... I was the only 9770 Bush Light Combine. And he sent that to me. I'm like, this is awesome. You guys were going to the dealership and all that. Role playing. That's kind of cool.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
Never thought of that.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
What we found with John Deere is it's usually just getting past the gatekeepers, and then once you're there, it's way easier. Yeah, we haven't gotten past that gate yet. We'll get you there. We'll get you there. What about... I've always had this question. I think I might have asked you last time here. Is there music? Like, can you listen to the radio?
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
So you're... Yeah, you're mobile. So say you got, like, your AirPods or your Beats in. What are you... Is it, like, tractor sounds?
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
It's pretty cool. What are you doing today? Oh, we're just recording tractor sounds. All I'm doing is revving it up and putting it down.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
Today on the Farm for Fun show, we are live back in studio before we hit the, what do you call it, TST, the trade show trail. Yeah. We got a past guest of the show. He's got millions of followers. He blazed his trail playing Farm Simulator, has a game himself called American Farming. Am I correct? Correct. American Farming.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
What if... I'm trying to think. You don't want to give away licensing for a song, but I'm just trying to think. If you already had a Spotify subscription, could you run that through the game and it just goes through Spotify or something like that?
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
Yeah, but I've got to go this way.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
Well, what I think of, so like I said, I do consume podcasts. And when I'm out in the fields, right, I love music. I have literally TRL, Tractor Request Line, and I will play music. But there's a certain point where, like, I have spent 16 hours here. I'm tired of music, and I need to exercise my brain and just listen to people's thoughts. Sometimes it's on farming. Sometimes it's Joe Rogan.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
Sometimes it's something completely out there, and it's Call Her Daddy or something ridiculous.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
Sometimes it's just you need something in your brain that you can think about that just doesn't turn your brain to mush. Yeah. Yeah, so why would it not be the same when you're playing hours on end of Farming Simulator?
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
Or a lot of people go live now. Like that Kyle on TikTok? Oh, yep. Or what is the live streaming gaming platform? Stitcher?
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
That's the definition of passive income, right?
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
It has to just be every minute of the day while you're not doing that. Yeah. But if it's while you're sleeping, it's even better. It feels better.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
He's a landowner, and we are going to get an update of everything about his life. We run into all these trade shows. It's going to be awesome. Please welcome Mr. Grant Hilbert.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
We may not even know the full extent of it at this point or when this airs, but we can guess.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
I mean, there's been – all TikTok is right now is just my thread is flooded with people saying, oh, sorry. It's been great. It's been kind of cool to see some of the flashbacks. Right, right. But like Justin Danger Nunley and Shiloh and all that, like – And they're all kind of down and out, but really we all know they're winners, right? Like even if TikTok does go away, they're going to be fine.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
That's what they're saying. In the last 24 hours, we've even had ups and downs because Rachel sent us a KCCI, or no, you sent us a KCCI deal last night that said Biden administration is just going to let the Trump administration, they're not going to ban it, they're just going to let the Trump administration handle it. They're not enforcing the penalties.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
I think it was a couple years. I mean, because it was back at Dave's office. Yep, yep. And it was you and your brother. We did two shows back-to-back. So Spencer, your brother. Yep. And we wanted him to come today. He couldn't be here, so it's not like we're cutting him out.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
Gotcha. I think my favorite content spurring from all this is the saying goodbye to your Chinese spy.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
Gotcha. If X put some emphasis on the short form content and long form, which they have, it's just not TikTok-esque, but kind of like YouTube shorts and Instagram Reels, I think Twitter would be a pretty dang good place again.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
I do think it was way too big of a player in U.S. politics on both sides of the aisle that it's like – I mean, I get it. We don't need Chinese spying on us, but at the end of the day, if they're not doing it, our own country is on meta and everything else. People are spying, no matter what. So, it's... Kind of scary, really.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
But it's what also gives us our livelihood to be able to do some of the stuff by ground and weather these down times. So we don't want to set the precedence that we can just tear this away.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
He does love playing in it.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
Is it the same excavator he had when you guys were here two years ago?
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
Yeah. And you could go get it. You have skills to go get a job. Oh, absolutely. This is a force multiplier of network and just experiences. Like, we get invited to the table of things that we would never have ever gotten invited to. Yeah. We would have never been down at the Land Expo if we weren't doing that.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
I mean, maybe. And business is done with being an Ankeny kid. We probably would have crossed paths, but boy. And business is done with relationships. I mean, you could be a freaking astronaut. It doesn't matter if I don't like you.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
It literally is going to be one-dimensional, right? Like you're going to go get paid a really good salary, which is fine. If you want that for your life, there is nothing wrong with that because you can go home and shut it off at the end of the day. We can't.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
No, he hasn't quite got that piece of the puzzle yet.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
Honestly, that's probably the piece that you don't want to get because if you could just keep getting favors, then you don't have to deal with the DOT, the wide loads, you know.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
We beat it hard. Did we?
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
I mean, TikTok was a... It wasn't what made us, but it certainly was a trajectory. It helped us. It's no question that... We were on Twitter and Facebook, Instagram. We weren't on Instagram. We weren't on Instagram. I didn't know how to do that until Rachel showed up. But we were on there, and we didn't have that much traction.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
And we went to TikTok because we knew it from our personal channels, and it did help us kind of get to that next level.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
I actually had a question on getting paid on YouTube. Yeah. So they call it KPM, which is cost per 1,000 views. Right, since that makes a lot of sense.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
And I was just looking at ours the other day, and it's a different number. It's a lot bigger number for long form than it is for the shorts.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
Is that a set rate, or can you affect that?
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
And so when you say content, it's more based like what genre?
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
Yeah, you're in because obviously investing would be people with money. And so if you did an ad there, maybe...
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
And he's taking out a house every time or just other people?
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
What is the process? Is that a county thing, a state thing of like, you can dig a hole and push this house into the hole? Or you can light it on fire?
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
But we never created the shorts to make revenue. It was always just to tease the episode.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
Yeah, and to get people back to listen to the full show. Exactly.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
It's a wild world. And you shouldn't hate because of it. It's just something that someone we figured out. You can do it too.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
Yeah, no, that won't be the killer.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
Perfect. You just don't ask questions.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
Do you have a TerraClear in your game?
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
Did you see that they just got on Farm Sim?
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
So you and Spencer need to have them out to your farm. Just for content? We'll help you out with that. It's so cool.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
Yeah, they yeet rocks, that's all I can say. But it is so cool, that technology. Yeah. Turning something so dumb as a rock into using technology to yeet it into the bucket. Yeah.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
All right, I know how to do that. So you're into... Bitcoin.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
So we haven't even talked about that. When did, when did the cryptocurrency come, come into play for you?
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
Now, the best to do there is you call the non-emergency line and tell them you're going to be having a fire at this address and to not be alarmed. But see, with my family...
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
So before you started doing all the content on YouTube.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
And so you started just buying, mining.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
So we had... So were you in with... JP.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
Well, that and whatever. They might want to establish a don't ask, don't tell policy of what they're burning. Those are the fires that get lit at night is what you're saying. Right. Boy, there's so many different directions that could go.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
yeah but luckily it was like maybe rachel it was like half the mine i think rachel says she needs this dumbed down how does one even mine a bitcoin that is a whole nother show actually go back and listen to jp jp barracks now i need yeah we need to circle back you guys had vance vance crowe on too which probably explained it pretty well so i want i do want to say on the vance crowe's new project um what does he call it the uh the news show
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
Yeah. So I want to say I am the mastermind behind the Bitcoin per acre segment. Yeah, I saw that. Yeah. He never gives me credit for it. He never gives me credit for it. So I always like jab him on Twitter.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
No, because I think Bitcoin, if it continues like everyone says it's going to, right, to a quarter million, like 250, right? That's kind of the – I think that will appreciate faster than land. Land's a long-term tredge forward higher. Okay.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
Denominated to Bitcoin. Until Bitcoin reaches its finality or whatever.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
And then only at that time could we ever know the true ratio, right? And track it. Yep, yep. Because they're moving at different speeds right now with inflation and all that. Yeah. It is very interesting to look at things like that. We looked at Rolex per acre. We looked at some popular Rolex watch. a hedge against inflation versus land. Yep.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
And it is crazy that like the Rolex Submariner, um, actually outperform land there for, for a while, right. Going up. Like, so you look at certain like hedges against inflation and things like that. It's, it's, it's nuts, but yeah, Bitcoin's hard to fricking wrap your mind around.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
We just get her reactions. So anyway, you have these Bitcoin miners. The mine is gone now.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
But you're not going to reinvest?
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
That makes sense, yeah. It's like farming. It's literally like farming in a little bit of a way. You've got to take your inputs and get them extremely low, lower than anybody else can get them. And you got to be able to do it when it's a high price.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
So do you own any altcoins then?
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
Well, I think we learned that. Yeah. 2016, right? An altcoin could go up 100% or 200%, 300% in a day or two. Yeah, yeah. You know? So...
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
I don't think it's a coin. But blockchain, the technology, right?
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
Farm for profit. Why don't we talk to the ag world? Pump a dope. Yeah. Are you prepared to disappear? No. No. That's just an interesting concept. But the technology, I think, for ag and the tracking of commodities and... meat and all that, like it's there. And it just, I think I'm excited for that side of it. How do you take profits? Do you take profits or are you just a hold forever?
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
Because there's only a finite amount of Bitcoin.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
Yeah. I mean, if you're playing the computer in chess, right, you can kind of – if I move here, that is going to trigger the – computer to move this here, and then I'm going to checkmate, you know, whatever. But what I found interesting when we were hanging out with our buddy Kyle Bass earlier this week, he didn't have too many good things to say about
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
crypto and wasn't it wasn't the other guy though or was kyle that way i kind of i guess it was a theme like it felt like that whole morning session was like where they were against uh green energy they were for nuclear and they weren't very friendly crypto
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
From the movie Big Short or from the Land Expo? He was the story. The story of the Big Short, the movie, was on that guy. Yeah, Tanner wasn't there.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
But anyways – I have a picture of the agenda. I'll get it.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
Was he the before launch or after launch?
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
What do you got left on your little notebook there? Uh... Where's the future going? Are you just going to keep doing what you're doing and just buy all the land, or you got other things up your sleeve? Hoddle. Hoddle? Hoddle? Hoddle.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
I think, you know, if you wanted to ride this wave, you should just rent your land to them and get in on the actual YouTube side, and that's where the money's at. That's true. It would be, like, opposite. Like, they want to come and just make money on the... And Corey wants to be the agent in the middle. Yeah. I don't care how the money gets in the account, I guess. Just get in there.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
You didn't. Hour 16 on Rachel's timer.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
No, I don't. I did get asked to do a comedy bit one time.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
Yeah, and where your fields are that I know of. Should we give an exact location? It was a very – man, that area. I had some seed customers in that area that were just, I mean, way better than us even down here. Yeah. And I'm like, holy cow, guys. Like, that is crazy for what we had for the spring. Yeah, yeah. If you do want to hear that, I think that was on Snark's podcast, Farm Yourself.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
It's not even GoFarm. It's just Farm Yourself podcast. That was one of his – Not the first, but one of his first guests that he had. So he's interviewing some cool people.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
But you've got a tile plow now, right?
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
Wow. You know, we have a tile plow as well, and we still haven't used it for seven, eight, probably nine years now at this point. And it is, it is like, why you look at that thing sitting there and shit, like, why are we not, you know, and it comes down to, uh, labor and timing, but like, like you said. We should just make the time and get the labor to do that.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
I think part of our problem is we just never have a plan, right? So, like, I think our next step on the farm is to just bring someone in to help us literally if we were going to pattern tile every field. You know, we want to know our outlets. We want to know, you know, what our grade is. What is the plan, right? And we're going to have to pay for that. And then, yes, hire out the big stuff.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
Get it done. Get the professionals to come in and put that in, and then we can go have a plan of attack. And then I guarantee you we would get X amount in per year or whatever we had time for, right? If you have a week, two weeks, three weeks, you just go get it done.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
so we should rewind i'm sure all the regular listeners that have been with us from the beginning know your story but we have picked up a lot and i can't tell you guys the amount of times i get you should have this person on or you should cover that topic and i'm like actually in 2022 we did you know so they just haven't made we've we've put out a lot of shows how many shows have we put out
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
It's truly, I mean, yes, your family, but the mentality of not trying to tear someone down. Like if we can just all succeed together, right, that rising tide raises all boats. Like once you get that mentality, I mean, the options and the sky is the limit.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
Well, 104 a year. I think we're up to like 560. Holy crap. So yeah, it's no question why things get buried and someone might not have made it back to your original show. So let's not spend as much time as we did in the first one. But you got a pretty unique story. Because you're not a farm kid. Go back to Little Grant.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
But you, before we started recording, you said you graduated in 2020.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
I literally just told my wife, she's like, what do you want to do? I was like, I don't know, but I can't figure it out until five, until we're done. And she's like, why? Because I'm busy. That's okay, is what she said.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
So you're what, 26? So he's got an extra level of eligibility. Yep. And you own farmland. Yeah. And you owned it pretty early in your time from doing the squad and all that, right?
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
But a 20-some-year-old kid, I mean, even if you're making a little bit of money on YouTube, not very many of them can go out and buy land. So you must have monetized and found something that worked.
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Grant Hilbert - From Farming in a Game to Farming in Real Life
I have not done that. I have not done that. But that's just amazing because last week we were at FarmCon together, and there was a big old Twitter storm of haters coming on, and maybe the award could have been called something different, but everyone that went got the top influencer award for FarmCon.
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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.
Farm4Profit Podcast
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.
Farm4Profit Podcast
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.
Farm4Profit Podcast
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?
Farm4Profit Podcast
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.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
Oh, my. That's a tough one.
Farm4Profit Podcast
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.
Farm4Profit Podcast
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.
Farm4Profit Podcast
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.
Farm4Profit Podcast
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.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
Just say yes. Yeah, absolutely yes.
Farm4Profit Podcast
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
Farm4Profit Podcast
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.
Farm4Profit Podcast
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
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Do you remember the first TikTok of his that you saw?
Farm4Profit Podcast
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.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
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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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
And your mom weaves agriculture into your lessons. Yes.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
There you go. So you do have a large collection of owner's manuals, right?
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
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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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
What are they interested in?
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
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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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Jump in it and go. Have you ever gotten to run a combine before?
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
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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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
How'd the wheat do?
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
And they've got the 7700 combine. How many of those do they have now?
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
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.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Have you been able to work on your farm display? Have you kept growing that? Or have you just been too busy?
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
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.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
So you said you're building a display for the Lafayette Farm Show.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
And how big can your display be?
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
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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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
You got grain bins?
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
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.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
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.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Never. Brad is batting 1,000 when it comes to opening bottles of wine.
Farm4Profit Podcast
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?
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Wanked the whole table out. Shouldn't have left it plugged in.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
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.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
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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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
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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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
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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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
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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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Everybody that remembers acting like you except they were 13? Yeah. You got your signature down?
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
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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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
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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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
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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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
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.
Farm4Profit Podcast
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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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
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
Farm4Profit Podcast
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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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
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.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
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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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
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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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
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?
Farm4Profit Podcast
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.
Farm4Profit Podcast
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.
Farm4Profit Podcast
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?
Farm4Profit Podcast
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?
Farm4Profit Podcast
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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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
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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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
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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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
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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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
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.
Farm4Profit Podcast
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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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
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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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
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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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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?
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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.
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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?
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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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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
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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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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
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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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
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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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
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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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
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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Right. Yeah, so when people are talking, well, he's not getting to be a kid. Well, he be's what he wants to be. He's being a kid.
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Had a beer with him in 89. Great kid. That's the type of comments that you were talking about.
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He picked me up on the side of the road in 87 and took me to work. Yeah.
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Chief tractor kid. It's crazy, because stuff moves really, really slow in a large corporation like that. They should have had him literally... months before they did. Yeah, I would agree. Finally, they made the right decision.
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No. There you go, Ian.
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I mean, I'm not going to say they're not going to, but I think Chief Tractor Kid is a specific, like...
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build of a kid or knowledge of a kid there's not they can't just go we're finding another one because you won't find another just a jackson thing i don't think so and the next the next one might not be just a jackson type it might be something other else crazy that has a lot of knowledge but oh i crack myself up i forgot i copy and pasted the next comment for you cory oh yeah how many acres does your family own cory
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Yeah, I don't know who they're talking to, really. Camp Pfeffler.
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That's a business expense, though. Just do it.
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No. Camp Pfeffler. How many acres your family owns is the... Corey spelled wrong. Corey spelled wrong. Well, I don't know who they're talking to. Oh. And acres owns. It doesn't make sense. You don't? Do you ask how many acres someone owns or they farm?
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Foreshadowing a little bit?
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dave still hasn't figured that out oh i got i got in my phone right it's you did but when we were golfing at our christmas party i forgot him a he he even he even goes to ann i've really got to spell this right because it's going to be up on the board and he spells my first name right and he's like literally pounding his chest going around and he completely butchered my last name h-i-l-l-a-b-o is how you spelled it that's funny yeah
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What do you wish you would have gotten, Tanner?
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That's how it sounds.
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Yeah, and I answered, and now what do you wish you would have gotten?
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But you can't buy up to 100. I mean, you're talking insurance. Yeah. Correct. But the farmer themselves can have 100% protection, like on the Board of Trade or whatever. You can have hedges and things of that nature.
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If you... Allie. Allie actually listens.
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If you had no risk, what would you do? That's bad enough at 85. I've seen a couple things in the last month of a lot of people get in trouble in farming because we have such easy access to capital. It's so easy to get a loan.
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I don't know. It's like one of them things like once you're in, right?
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How much do you look at a credit score besides like the first time you bank someone?
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Like, strategically do stuff?
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I've had it, and it didn't get me a better rate, or no one, you know.
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Should you get cheaper car insurance? Because it was the same rate. Not crop insurance, on my operating loan, than it was the year before.
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No, I was in the 700s and I went to eight, you know, whatever. It's like it didn't change. It went up because that's the way the rates were going. But also, I think credit scores are bull crap because, what, you pay a loan off too early and that's a problem? Yeah.
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I made more money. Dave Ramsey told me to pay it off. Told you? Told me to pay it off.
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I wish I probably would have not loaded hogs because I got hogs starting to load right after Christmas, right before and right after Christmas.
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I don't know about that. If they did away with crop insurance, these huge corporations... Huge corporation farms. He says if they did away with crop insurance, these huge corporations would go away. I thought you said he was afraid of if they got away from. Sure.
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I think maybe like hogs might be that way. Well, it's clear. I mean, I don't know if I'd consider them a corporate farm. There's very large farms that have been playing the insurance game. Oh yeah. In the news. Right. But I mean, it's not them. It's not just them. I know I've heard stories of others, right? Like, so I do wonder, and I would also argue maybe not crop insurance.
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It's the subsidized portion of it. Right. That makes it so cheap. Yeah. You get rid of that. I mean, it's got fricking suck. They're in there for a reason, but it would be really interesting to see who would win. Right. Who, who is actually the better person at risk adverse and managing and all that. Yeah, that's a good point.
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Farmers Say the Funniest Things: Listener Comments of 2024
I'd also say how steep and what is on the front of the skid loader. Because I did both this week. And I would rather drive on the trailer that I'm driving on because it's longer and I want my weight set.
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Your tongue weight's going to be everything. But I only had, I didn't have my bucket on, which is a few hundred pounds heavier. So then your tip kept going up. Yeah, really tippy going up. I'm like, eh, I'm going to back it on next time. Yep. I wasn't going that far. So would you back on and turn around? No. No. No. You never turn around on a trailer?
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I mean, you can, but it's too much moving on the truck.
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Because especially on the trailer I'm at, I'm parking in between wheel wells, so it wouldn't work. I'd have to go up and have all the weight on the tongue. Yeah, I could see that.
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This was like last year.
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How come I didn't hear about this? Did I call you? No. Oh. But...
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And the trailer was on the trailer? Mm-hmm. Trailer was on the trailer.
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I did start the dishwasher this morning. It doesn't look like they're any cleaner than they were last time. I mean, I think they're clean.
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pretty young yeah that's too young brook and jubel in the morning that's what he needs to listen to that is funny that uh i get i get that mentality though i mean this world has become so weird in the day i can't imagine dating right now and i've said this several times like it's so much access to dating apps and connected to everyone it's
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They never make a pass at me.
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No, you're only a creeper if you weren't the one that they wanted.
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Yeah, yeah. That's fair. I'm glad I'm not in that pool. I mean, I've told my wife if something ever happened to her or whatever, I ain't getting married again. Screw that. At this day and age, too much work.
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She knew it was coming. Sorry, Matt, but she knew.
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I'm glad you're fine. What a comment to leave. Yeah, I'm glad you're here to make that comment because there's a lot of people that have gotten into those and aren't here to say that.
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Yeah. Go back to my comment about network is your net worth.
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it's huge. The relationships you have and all that, like it's, it's, it's big. Like, and I'll be honest, I felt like we should have that we're recording this in the, before Christmas, but I feel like we should have been at Lincoln this week because there's sure. Not that it's a big show that anyone wants to be there, but just going to see everybody. Right. It's kickoff of farm show season.
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Like I, I miss that. And I realized that when we get into middle of February, we're going to be like, thank God we didn't do that, but still have a little bit of FOMO.
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That's the, what do you want to call that?
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That is not good, but it's.
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And that's fine. I forgot. It's toxic. Ah. The ones that are negative, Nancy's, and bitching about everybody else that are too busy. That goes back to quit being mad about someone's success. Sure. They're out there trying to make it. Yep. Because they don't feel that they have the time to be in there or haven't got ahead. And I'm guessing the old guys that are there, like...
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They've had their time, right?
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Have you ever picked up a job from the coffee shop?
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So I didn't put the QR code in, but I have made videos for myself. Just the most recent one is hooking up to the strip-till bar. There's so many different ways to hook up and how you want your outlets all set up and your flows and things of that nature. Not only is it good for myself, but then if something happens to me or I want my brother to take... the reins, then boom, here you go.
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This is how you do it. Or I think I sent you one on how to unfold the Brandt Roller.
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Right? Yep. Because I feel like every roller has this different cadence of, all right, you're going to twist. You're going to go out, unlock. You're going to twist the wheels.
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Now you have to drive. Now you've got to back up. Like, make sure this is in float or you're going to break everything. You know, like, it's just this standard operating procedure.
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It was good. I feel like it did not get the traction that it deserved because it was very fun.
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most of the people don't know what keyboard warriors and i i think he was commenting that was on the welker show and everyone was saying you know they're not real farmers and all that kind of stuff like yeah and there there were some like if anything they like they make their own parts and things because they don't like they took a draper apart because it was bent they bought it bent because they knew that they could fix it not very many farmers would take on that task that's right that's right now if you guys think about this where where do you find yourself commenting a lot at
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This morning I did. Yeah. Once. Which he had a take. Do you have data behind that? No, I don't. His take this morning was you thought you're beginning to think that 5% of auction sales, so I'm guessing like items like farm equipment.
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Consignment sales. are actually going to the end user. That's correct.
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Nice. So I'm curious about that. I've always thought farmers own their vineyards and that's what they farm, but it makes sense here in the Midwest, we rent or lease or crop share ground from absentee landowners and all that. So you guys are doing kind of the same thing.
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So the auction is just a big game of everyone taking a percent.
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Farmers Say the Funniest Things: Listener Comments of 2024
Or is it the investor's not the end user, is it?
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Farmers Say the Funniest Things: Listener Comments of 2024
So in taxes, is that considered a commission? No, it'd be a short-term capital gain. Short-term capital gain. But you never owned it.
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Take the cream off the top, yeah. But then would that be a commission?
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Farmers Say the Funniest Things: Listener Comments of 2024
It'd be like winning the lottery. It would. So it'd be like a gambling... I don't know.
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Yeah, you just have... You got everything you need.
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Because you can't say Happy Christmas. Why can't you? That sounds weird. It's all about sound.
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All grapes that you farm?
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wine actually drip irrigated?
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No, probably not. I mean, I'm not just supposed to drink it right out of the bottle. No, you got to share.
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I thought we each just got a bottle.
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Farmers Say the Funniest Things: Listener Comments of 2024
We tried the cab first. Is that where we're supposed to go lighter first? I kind of feel like that was probably the way we're supposed to go.
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How would the professionals say this tastes?
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Wow. And a pretty cool label. What, where's the label come from?
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So I cleaned my palate.
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Coffee and wine. He's just like, you guys are crazy.
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Okay. So before we go to this one on this cab, what would that pair nicely with like food wise?
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I just said it's easy. There is nothing that sticks out to you that's too much of anything. It's almost perfect.
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Ding dong. I don't even want stuff anymore because my wife will tell you, if I want something, I buy it for myself.
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I don't know if there's enough money in the commodity of corn or soybeans to do that.
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Farmers Say the Funniest Things: Listener Comments of 2024
Yeah, the wives would drink this at 14%. And this one's almost 15%.
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Farmers Say the Funniest Things: Listener Comments of 2024
That was a lot of wine. That was a lot of wine.
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I do the older I get. Yeah. I want to try the new wine opener that you got that we didn't have on the segment. Yeah. It's like a pump up your basketball.
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I got to buck one. I think it's like $9.99. You know, we could probably do like a couples plan.
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They'll figure that out. Don't you think they'll figure that out?
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That was not a, you did not share my password. You just played my playlist. Yes. And that is on you. You should know better, Dave.
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I don't think you could say it the other way. How would you say it, Dave? No, don't. He was born with a 700 credit score and two payments left on a 2002 F-250.
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I would, if you can go back to all of those Just a Jackson clips from Farm Progress Show, the comments are gold. They are. And we get dozens a day still.
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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.
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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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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
I was also the night that Tanner decided I can't touch the equipment anymore. Oh.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
Yes. After you guys left, I was putting it away. What did you do? You left. I didn't leave. I left the room because you shit your pants.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
There had to be at least a little bit of residual. That was bad. And he left, and I was like, well, I don't know where he went, but I guess I'll just put all this stuff away. And I did not put it away correctly.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
I don't mind it. I still don't touch stuff. I'll touch the cameras. That's all I do.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
Do you guys fart in front of each other now? Oh, that's a good question. Yeah, we do. We're getting the tough questions answered. Sure do. I bet you didn't think you were going to be talking about that today, did you?
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
All right. And I got this new wine opener, so everyone can... It came off the TikTok shop, so everyone can... It's like a basketball pump. Have you seen one of these?
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
Because it's what? Five hours?
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
It's four and a half. Yeah. Nice. Someone can still beat the GPS, I guess. Right.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
It, like, puts a needle down. We'll see if it works.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
So was that 2023, early 23 that we had them on?
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
So what have you guys been doing for the last two years? If people are living under a rock, I guess.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
Still not tired of each other, huh?
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
Is that your only grain cart? Yep. Has your farming operation expanded in the last two years?
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
Gotcha. So just trying to consolidate a little bit.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
What? On TikTok? Oh, no! Whoa. Wow.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
How do you decide, like, if you guys both have harvest to do, how do you decide who goes where?
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
Yeah. You guys had amazing yields, at least in Missouri. How was Kentucky's yields last year?
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
That's crazy. So was the secret just the weather? Yep, 100%. Yep.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
That's kind of the last. I thought that was a drone flying out the window. It's just a plane. I was like, oh, boy, here we go. That would be kind of cool. Yeah. Yeah, that's what we do in Iowa, right? Like, oh, below break even, and then 250 bushel. At least we made some money, I guess. But those years that you don't and it goes down, we were just average where we were.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
So it's kind of hurting a little bit. Don't have that extra 20, 30 bushels to sell. It would help out a lot right now.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
Are you still growing popcorn?
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
Right. When you're selling it by the ear, right?
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
I don't know if it's the machine or your popcorn, but I feel like we don't get a... good pop. Or if we do get a good pop, it has to stay in there too long and it's a little burnt. Gets a little bit past it? Yeah. I think it's the oil. That could be.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
I do think we need better oil, though. What's the best popcorn oil? Do you know what that is?
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
Yep. So we're doing canola oil right now. Does it taste like coconut? No, it's pretty good. I'm not a big fan of coconut.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
Like when they sprinkle the coconut sprinkles on like chocolate or something. I'm like, why? You're not an Almond Joy fan? No. Ew.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
Yeah. I mean, I guess I drink, like, Body Armor has coconut water, I think, in it. What is he, a hypocrite?
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
I don't do that. Nope. It's just a community popcorn kettle.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
So we need to find out where they're going to supper tonight so you can sit near them somewhere. We can double it up in Kansas City. That's right. Tanner's now new gig is engagement photos. Engagement photos.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
Creepy engagement photos. He just tries to find out where you're getting engaged and doesn't actually talk to you beforehand. Yeah.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
You don't get any of the important parts. There's no setup. Yeah.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
So, Rachel, our chief marketing officer that we brought on the team, she was, like, creeping in her fiancé, now fiancé's boyfriend's, like, email trying to figure out, like, when she was going to get divorced. Oh, really? Do you want to know, like, how or when, like, or do you want to be completely surprised?
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
I want to make sure I have makeup on. Make sure I'm not in my sweatpants. And so she was analyzing. I think it's going to happen at Thanksgiving because the family said, don't wear sweatpants. No sweats. Because we're going to take pictures. And she's like, I think it's going to happen.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
Yeah. She was just... I think she ruined it. I mean, that's what she got, what she wanted, but like... Oh, you can't ruin it. They're happy. Yeah. They are happy.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
Oh, gosh. You've been extra ornery lately telling people lies. Not lies.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
I don't tell lies. You've told people lies. You said that my wife is pregnant. She is. Congrats. She's not pregnant. Oh, she's not. If she is, it's got a problem.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
I didn't say it. Yeah. Literally, someone the other day asked me, or they were like, hey, congratulations. I'm like, for what? Aren't you guys expecting? I'm like, no. What? And it's him. Straight-faced. I got enough crap in my life. I don't need to deal with that.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
Yeah? Yeah. It makes your life easier, but if you run a rock through the combine, like, how expensive is that?
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
They got a cool, or have they told you about their cool ground rig to take pictures? Like they don't need drones anymore. Really? They still can use drones. But the problem with it is from the time they fly it and the, what did they say? Five millimeters? Five millimeters per pixel from the drone height. So it's such a huge file. It takes three days to get a map back of your rocks.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
Now they can literally, they can go on anything, go on your tractor, but they have it on like a gator. And it's just big like antenna looking thing with cameras on it. They can literally drive it and be picking it within an hour. Yeah.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
Wow. Yeah. Because it's one millimeter per pixel. One millimeter per pixel. But the fact that you don't have to upload to a cloud and, you know, do all this kind of stuff, like with huge files, they can actually just do it right there.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
You were in a tractor skid loader?
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
Yeah, I just bought a track skid loader, and I was kind of thinking I want one of those box blades or whatever. They look kind of nice. But I've also heard you don't want to go cheap on those because if you don't have the spring trip edge or whatever, it'll put you through the windshield.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
Yeah. Yeah, you can find them for $2,000. Those are not the spring trip ones.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
I don't like pushing snow at our studio because there's no great spots to put it.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
I guess it started at like 8 a.m.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
It was nice because people really made it to work. Like you had to get up at 4 a.m. and make sure people get to work type of deal. Yeah. It was no question, though, that they did not know how to handle snow down here as much. Because we stopped at the Walmart in Cameron, and there was just piles of snow everywhere. But then you looked over, and I don't think they got that much snow in Cameron.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
Like, you could see the grass still.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
So did you make it a content opportunity?
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
Because do you have a YouTube channel? So you just give your stuff to Grace for that.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
So you don't just whip out the camera and just record.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
That's kind of neat. Yeah. So the Mac thing, did they ask for it to go to the museum? Did they ask for that?
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
Well, and I'm sure the content's been doing well.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
It's all part of the journey, like they said this morning, right? Just going to make it that much more special. Yep. If you just had the truck at the end, it wouldn't be that special, right?
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
There's a few people on Twitter that really just kind of do all the poking of the bear, right, and just get everything riled up. And then there's a couple others that kind of jump on. And we just learned last week that Corey's one of those.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
Yeah, Damien had me blocked out. We had to call him out because I literally don't know why. I cannot.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
Damien was saying that it was because he was literally... Have you seen his hands?
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
I'm kidding. What did he say? He was like, I know two people that I've actually physically blocked and I would have thought I would have remembered you. But maybe I was on some rant back in the day or something. He's like, I don't need to see that. So, gone.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
Do you try to respond to any of the trolls on Twitter?
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
They're just mad. Like, you got a fancy new, you know, vent tractor or planter or whatever, like, that you wouldn't have otherwise. Yeah.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
I don't know why we all just want to throw good money at bad and just go lose money farming. It's a freaking disease.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
I don't know if we'll get that out of our blood, right? No.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
It won't. Yeah. So Tanner wanted, wants to do a show on it. I want to ask you right now, have you changed anything knowing that we're going into a downtime for this year?
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
You don't need a $60,000 tractor to farm 40 acres. You could go on the comedy circuit.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
Will YouTube penalize you like TikTok? Well, if you don't feed TikTok... You know, it takes a while to get back to that. Does YouTube do that too?
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
Yeah. I mean, we try to put something out, what, daily, right? Yeah. And it's expensive for us because we've got to pay to have good content.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
Yep. And is your sister helping you farm?
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
It's going to be a tough time getting cattle because they're still pretty high, aren't they?
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
Yeah? Cow-calf, feedlot, what are you looking at?
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
Maybe we could fry the popcorn in beef tallow. Oh.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
Well, what's the other one that's kind of like carnivore? Like you can scavenge it. If you could find it out in the wild or whatever, you could eat it. Yeah, who was telling us about that? So just figure that you walked through this wild popcorn field.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
It is kind of crazy to think, like, you put a cup of popcorn and it's just kernels. And then it turns into this big bowl. And then to think that if you ate that whole bowl, you just ate that whole cup of kernels.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
I like the old maids. I love the old maids. Those are the best.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
If you could breed a variety that just popped like that,
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
Are you Googling it? Do you have internet here?
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
Yep. Better get a my corn head. Be gentle. There you go. Boom. Look at this. Good boy. Just laying it on. Yeah. Huh. Are you going to get any cool new equipment this year?
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
I just sold a John Deere 7008 row.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
Sold it last spring because it was my replant planter. And it just pissed me off. It was so dang wide.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
so mine's got that kelderman fold so it's like super narrow i can put that behind my 1066 pull it up on a gooseneck and go anywhere with it and and so we're pretty close to town and it's just traffic so bad and i gotta have two tires of that thing in the dang ditch and some of the ditches are you can't yeah so i got so pissed i just literally listed on facebook marketplace
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
And there was a lot of replant this year. A guy just came, bought it the next day, and hauled it away.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
Yeah. So now I've got to find another replant planter.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
I was really thinking like a Kinsey twist fold would be nice. But my God, those things are gold.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
You got one for sale, don't you? Or did you sell it?
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
Why are they so expensive? Just convenience?
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
Did you know you could get a John Deere twist fold like Kinsey?
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
That's kind of cool. I saw that.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
I've never seen one in the field, but I've seen them.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
in in their brochures or whatever those like their db8s or whatever the eight row or i don't know i don't know what it would be but i need her i need a replant planter but then then my mind goes to well if i'm gonna buy one it'd be nice just to have a second planter so maybe i should just get a little bit bigger so then it could be my bean planter yeah right or whatever and then you start looking at the 16 rows or yeah yeah and it's like oh yeah i don't want to spend that much
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
Yeah. Yeah. That's a lot of row units back there. I bet that thing's heavy.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
I literally was wanting to, I was like, oh, I'll throw a bid at that. And someone else had a higher bid. And so then that's why auctions work, right? Like I was like, oh, I wonder how high they're. And so I went up like $2,000 more just trying to figure it out. I'm like, oh, that's where he's at. And then like three minutes left, no one else ever bid. I'm like, oh, shoot.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
Yeah. Freaking dumb. That's why I like to bid at the last minute because someone might be on the phone. Yep. Words.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
If that truck shows up in his driveway, I'm taking it.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
Yes. I'm over my Peterbilt disease. I had one. I had to have one. A 379, you know, 2006 and no emissions, all that. And I loved it, but it had so many issues. And I'm like, why is that truck so expensive? And it breaks down just as much as the crappy Freightliner or whatever. So I sold it.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
There's two things I don't enjoy about mechanics of any diesel motor. It's sucking air and electrical. I hate electrical.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
I think because you know, especially if you're wiring new construction, but you know where stuff's going and all that. When something happens on a truck and they just got these wiring harness wires going over it, I don't know where to start.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
Gavin and us will have a boys party. Yeah. Damn right.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
What, was he going to go to yours?
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
Yeah. I've just never been to a show that starts on a Sunday. I'm not excited that it's in Denver because normally it's fun to look forward to a little bit warmer temperatures at that time. But I guess we'll just have to figure it out. Yeah.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
They probably put too much promotion into it and then they realized they double booked or something. That's true. Which... That happened to me at my wedding. My wife and I booked our venue. And the next week they go, oh, crap. Someone else has a wedding that night. And so they gave it to us for half price to do it on a different date.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
And we were cheapskates. We didn't have money at the time. So I think we got the Vittoria Lodge in Ankeny for $400. Whoa. Dang, that's nice.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
Yep, and I think you could bring your own food and beer there, right? So that was cheap, too, if you don't have to pay $300 a keg.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
I think I was at a wedding that same day, and I remember I was almost late because of that game.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
Yeah, because it went into overtime, didn't it?
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
It'd be like the corn at Dave's farm versus the corn at my farm.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
Yeah. I don't think we're going to be camped out there. Right. We might just pop in.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
It stinks when you're like you have to stay here or you have to be there. It's so much better to go float around. Yeah. So. Yeah. When is the show coming out?
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
Let me find that schedule. Anyone in the Indianapolis area or interested in drainage tile and conservation will be in Indianapolis.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
Do you guys have tile in Missouri?
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
Yep. Gotcha. Nice. You don't farm anywhere where all this McBee ground is coming up?
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
Holy cow. It's like every day I get a thing from, what is that, Common Ground or whatever? Like, oh, 11,000 acres. Here's 6,000. Yeah. What's going on there? Yeah, we know what's going on there.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
I mean, we didn't have to do this. Yeah, thank you. You didn't have to do this. But, man, when we're together, what better time to do it?
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
Yeah. That's right. So at the end of 25, we want to see Grace with cattle. And a ring.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
And a ring. What kind of cattle?
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
For the first time, he's backed out of it. So have you guys looked at ring styles? Do you know what she likes? I get hints all the time.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
It's that farmer's legacy, right?
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
Yeah. Start the right way. It would be very exciting to start a new grain site. I'm just going to say that right now because I'm very thankful that my grandpa had the forethought to put grain storage up. But things are so different now than they were then. But now, if you could start over, you could. It's endless. I think about it every day. It's endless what you could do.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
You're preaching to the choir. Well, when you're ready, talk to us, and we'll get you hooked up with our friends at Sukup and at least get you a quote. I mean, there's a lot of good companies out there, but they've been tremendous, and they've helped a lot of our friends out. So, yeah, they've got dealers everywhere. I love it. Well, this has been fun.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
The initial thing I notice is the corks are different. Does that have anything to do with it?
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
The Lambert Bridge has what I would call a more natural cork. Traditional. Traditional, and then this one is – Darker brown cork. This one I would say is not fake, but man-made or white.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
Maybe it is more natural. It's just different. They're definitely different.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
Dave, when you make your millions and you start your own vineyard and your own wine company, I do want you to make a bottle, though, that your whole finger can go up into.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
What you said about easier – It is. It's just like, this is a wine that get me in trouble. It just, it goes down.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
I don't know why we all just want to throw good money at bad and just go lose money farming. We all, it's a fricking disease.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
It is. I mean, we get a drink and we get to drink wine and we don't even know what we're talking about because we've never been big wine drinkers. We didn't have to buy the wine.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
I like this one better. I like the Nori.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
If we were talking bourbons, I would call it smoother. Okay. I call it smoother, right? Yeah. But this one was an easy drinker, though, too. It just had a little bit more sharpness. There you go. Sharpness.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
We drink it whenever we want to drink it.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
And bingo. And the experts just get a laugh at us.
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Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
Yeah, noriawines, N-O-R-I-A, wines.com. Perfect.
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F4F - AJ Wiechmann Trucker and Pilot - after we try some wine!
Awesome. Please come visit.
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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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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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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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But we always reserve 600 to 1,000 acres that we harvest for the feed yard.
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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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Definitely get some fruity notes. I had like a pear note almost.
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We printed off like 65 pages of paper, and I haven't looked at any of them yet, so no.
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I did a little bit.
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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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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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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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Yeah, you're saying that now.
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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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Wow. That's cool. Can we get this in Iowa?
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Wow, but direct shift's close enough.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
I mean, out of all the people I follow, I mean, you're some of the most reserved.
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
Did you have any hate when you were doing your CTO stuff?
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
Well, I think you're fighting two battles, right? So I think there's already a hate for influencers.
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
Right? We saw that at FarmCon last week, especially on Twitter.
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
Yeah, Twitter does not like lists of things. It goes all the way back to Rob Sharkey days when he was starting. Someone made a list of something, and I don't know. You think Facebook is bad. Twitter can have some of the worst as well.
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
yeah so the second battle that you're fighting so let's talk about the influencers then the woman part like you said I think you're probably spot on like you're triggering something that is involuntary of there is a lot of
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
Are you tired of sifting through a shoebox full of receipts? Sick of battling long spreadsheets? Tanner?
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Yep. All you have to do is visit their website, www.terraclear.com, place your order for rock mapping and or rock picking services, and then complete your financial application. The entire process only takes about 10, 15 minutes, and you can have your plan for rocks this season taken care of while not worrying about payments until next year.
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
Rock still in your field making farming a challenge? TerraClear understands that and has the solution for you. Introducing TerraClear's Deferred Payment Program. TerraClear now offers their customers potential deferred payments until January 15th of 2026. The program is quite simple.
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
It's capitalism at its best. I mean, there's ultra-rich. That's why there's so many tax laws out there.
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
It's not what he told me. He was happy you were going to be here all week. No, he's not.
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
Yep. All you have to do is visit their website, www.terraclear.com, place your order for rock mapping and or rock picking services, and then complete your financial application. The entire process only takes about 10, 15 minutes, and you can have your plan for rocks this season taken care of while not worrying about payments until next year.
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
So I would say Rachel is more traditional. That is the traditional husband-wife farm. And I'm on the side with Zoe. But my wife didn't grow up on a farm. She's a nurse. She wants to know if we're buying a farm, obviously.
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
My joke is always divorce papers. It's like, no, it's for a farm or whatever. But besides what I talk to her at night, she has no involvement in the farm. And I enjoy that.
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
You know, I find myself sometimes feeling alone when, like, Farm Bureau or the Soybean Association of Corn Growers are like, you and your spouse come to this big agriculture getaway and all that. And my wife's like, I don't want to go hang out with those. You know?
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
Are you tired of sifting through a shoebox full of receipts? Sick of battling long spreadsheets?
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
But I feel like every time they're given an award, it's the farm couple of the year. And it's like, bring your spouse that doesn't really give a crap about that. So I do feel like there's a little bit of a...
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
Tanner? Ah, never.
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
And clunky software? Join thousands of American farmers and ranchers on Ambrook.
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
Ambrook makes financial management easy. It automates your bookkeeping, helps you track your profits and losses by enterprise or by location and more. Quickly export your data for the Schedule F, snap pictures of your receipts, and even mail checks and send invoices.
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
It's time to wrangle your books. Visit ambrook.com slash profit today for a 30-day free trial. That's A-M-B-R-O-O-K dot com slash profit. We are back at NACADE, and we're having a Farm for Fun show without Tanner, so it is the most fun type of fun shows. And we actually have Rachel filling in for him.
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
I think it's a good thing that you're... I love your channel so much because it's... You're showing the good and the bad. It's not just a highlight reel. Like, you're taking us through this whole process of you taking over the farm, buying drones, and your thought process of why. I think being open to partnering with other people and, you know... Like, we've always preached. What is it?
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
Have your network... Advisors. Advisors. Your advisory committee. You know, whatever. Like, surround yourself with smart people because... Us as farmers always try to do everything ourselves. And sometimes it's okay to go, hey, it ain't worth me pulling my own samples, right?
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
No, Dave doesn't care. 17 calls.
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
I'm dealing with my own problem.
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
Welcome, Rachel. She's freezing, though, so I don't know if she's going to chatter the whole time. Yeah, I mean, it's extremely cold outside, and it's slightly cold in here. Yeah. I think the heater's broke. Dave's got a coat on. Rachel has mine on her legs. Yep. Our guest has a coat on.
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
What did bring you here? I mean, we're at the drainage conference, right?
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
I was going to say you're partnered with one of our partners as well. Yeah. I just had the biggest deja vu. Wow. What? Wow. Wow.
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
I'm serious. Oh, my gosh. You've been here before. I have.
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
Wow, isn't that weird?
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
Okay. Quite a bit now. I would say a lot of it is, right? That's why we're going to bigger equipment and things like that. It feels like we have smaller windows to get the task done. And I don't know if that's a reality or if we have the data saying if we don't plant by X or if we don't harvest by X, like this could happen, right?
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
But if you can get in there earlier, right? I mean, we know that after May 1st, Iowa State puts out the average for Iowa, right? Like we lose half a bushel per day or whatever it is of yield potential, right? So if we can't get in there before that. That's a big deal. So we need to have the tile, right? Because we hate wet springs. Was your dad doing tile his whole farming career as well?
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
I didn't give it to you.
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
So did you, how does that work with your, obviously your dad is the landlord, but does the landowner have to pay for it or do you have to pay for it?
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
Because what do you see Dave as a is it a landowner problem or
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
I do. I mean, you probably have a little bit of a unique situation. You're not going to lose the ground.
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
I do think you've got to protect yourself if you're the tenant and you're doing it on a leased piece. Someone could die and they could decide to sell the ground or rent it to someone else for way more. If you want to go pattern tile, it's over $1,000 per acre in a lot of situations. I don't care if you get a 50 bushel yield bump. It's going to take quite a few years to pay for that.
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
It's kind of like putting lime on the ground, right?
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
Yeah, you don't just get it in the first year. So we should do a show on that sometime and how to structure.
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
I didn't pick it out. So it was kind of a satire gift. because you always wore your cashmere or whatever, your beige. What was that? What is it?
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
Probably the best way to handle it, which, again, going to be a problem with 80-year-olds, is flex lease, right? Like, okay, I'm going to benefit from higher yield. Now I will pay you X amount more on my rent. I don't want to guarantee you, but... We're both going to win in this.
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
So you don't make money on it, but it's better.
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
What I've gone to in my contracts is I pay on planted acres, basically. So if I have row shutoffs, right, I'm paying for row shutoffs. Now I'm not planting through the waterway and all that. So it actually seems fair to me.
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
Yeah, but you always wore it. Every day of the week.
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
Yeah, he's turned over a lot of decisions, and he's tried to turn over some, which he's not out yet. And I've kind of gone, actually, you know, you keep doing that one. I'll keep, you know.
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
Do you think you would have been willing to come back to the farm if your dad wasn't willing to start the transition process?
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
So if he was one of the guys that was, I'm going to farm till I'm dead, you'd still be there. Like, I want to be in charge and tell them.
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
Your guy's name is Mickey, right?
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
I want to, I want to interview him sometime and I want to interview, there's several people I want to interview that are in his, that decided, you know what, I'm going to retire. I'm going to step back. I'm going to start this transition process while I'm still an asset.
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
Our friend Elaine Fraze would say fair is not equal and equal is not fair. There's a lot of... Ultimately, it's just like farms, right? If you want to split it up 50-50, whatever, fine. That's what's going to make you happy. But that's what tears farms up too, right?
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
Yeah, and you wore it the four days before that. I was like, did you wash that?
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
There's off-farm siblings that go make six figures or whatever, but yet someone has a lot of sweat equity into keeping this, managing and all that. I think they should be paying for it. Do you hope for that?
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
I think you could do a percent of average.
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
Yep, yep. Fair enough. We should say you can always like, comment, review any platform that we're on. You can also call Texas, 515-207-9640.
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
The best thing is you guys have a plan. And you've talked. And so that's the first thing.
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
We don't, yeah. We got to do it. No, we're long enough in it. I got two other ones before my fun one. So have you ever heard of Boa Safra?
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
Very good. I was going to say, that could possibly be a good, when you said purchase farm, like, there we go.
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
Don't do that. The last one I got is fun. So we learned a thing this morning. Rachel forgot her curling iron.
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
And she came out of the hotel with her hair curled. I'm like, how did you curl your hair? How did you curl your hair, Rachel?
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
Socks. And she's like explaining it with socks to us. And Zoe's eating breakfast. And I go, Zoe. Can you curl your hair with socks?
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
Oh, yeah. No problem. It's well known. This is a known thing.
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
So how do you do it?
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
Oh, you did it at night.
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
Glad you did that for a really large audience. I know, right? Anyway, we should get into it. I should do my intro and then we can get into our guest. All right. And then we don't have any music because Tanner's not here. So I'll just do it. Just do it organically.
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
Yeah, charisma, right?
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
Are you into the beef tallow?
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
Yes. Today on the Farm for Fun show, we are live at the NACAID 2025 conference in frigid Indiana. Indianapolis?
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
Well, that's good. Tanner's going to need to use that, too, because he doesn't quite have the strength. Dainty hands. He's just a tiny little guy.
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
We're in the fridge. That's what this place is called today. We've got a past guest. This gal is one of the best in the game. She's doing it the right way where she takes you on her daily journey taking over her family's farm and managing it. Please welcome, from Ohio, Farm with Zoe.
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
a rock stock so i can try that technique because yeah that sounds a lot easier there's technique to anything yep that's why they call it experience we are certainly long in the tooth and we've got into skin care and curling hair hacks like probably should put this we can try to curl your hair tonight it's not long enough i just got a haircut
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
What should we, at the end of 2025, what should we look for on Zoe's channel? Are you going to try anything new this year? Anything new on the farm?
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
Well, I'm sure you'll take us along for the ride. It'll be fun watching.
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
All right. Let's wrap it up. Well, I say, oh, thank you for watching. Crack a cold one. You deserve it.
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
I wasn't going to talk about it at all.
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
Visit Sukup.com to learn more and see you out in Denver.
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
I just want to see your beautiful face. Why have they not brought you on the plane?
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
They tried to schmooze Corey. Yeah, they did. I told the guy, I was like, look, I'm not buying it. I'm not selling it. But, hey, if you want to give me a trip and I get to go on a Learjet, like, that'd be fun. And so I got to go and meet Scott Beck and let's watch him talk and, you know, go through their whole deal.
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
They did have good food. They had, like, a whole lunch area there. I felt like I was, like, in college again, you know, going through, like, the mess hall or whatever, you know. Buffet style. Yeah, you can go get your chicken strips over here. You can go get salad over here, you know. It was kind of nice. Yeah.
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
What's the secret to Facebook?
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
Posting ghosts.
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
Posting ghosts. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like I've kind of done that a lot more. I used to be a consumer of socials and spent way too much time. And now I am like post and then gone. We've talked about that before.
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
Right, right. So yeah, it was probably two years ago that we had you on last?
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
I remember making jokes about Tanner and Tanner.
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
Rachel and Rachel. Yeah. What else is new? You were starting the transition of the farm at that time.
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
You bought a field.
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
I don't. I should. I should do that. Maybe you should. Just slip it in there. Slip it in there. In the fine print.
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
So are you happy with the price that you got it for?
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
Did you do any special financing to getting farmer loans or anything like that?
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
I wish that more sellers, I mean, sometimes you got to just got to figure out like what's, what's motivating you to sell it. Do you need the money now? Or do you just want to sell it and not manage it? Like if they would sell or finance, right? Like you could a lot of times get it for way less than what they're asking, but over the course of the loan,
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8th-Generation Farmer Zoe Kent on Running a Farm & Owning Her Story
Like if they wanted $10,000 an acre, you go, well, I'll give you $7,000, but I'll pay you 3%, 5%, whatever. Over the course of the loan, you'd actually pay them $15,000 or $17,000.
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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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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.
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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.
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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 –
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
I think we'd start writing music on the bus. It'd be a tour bus.
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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.
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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.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
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"
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.
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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 - Julio Bravo - A Look Inside Brazilian Agriculture
That's cool. Here's a random question.
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F4F - Julio Bravo - A Look Inside Brazilian Agriculture
Who? I do. Oh, you do. Who? Who is that?
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F4F - Julio Bravo - A Look Inside Brazilian Agriculture
Yeah. Yeah, Louisville, the liquor store, right off of, yeah, whatever that liquor store was that we about got jumped.
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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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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
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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Damian Mason - Agriculture Unfiltered
Dave is actually up working, speaking. I know.
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Damian Mason - Agriculture Unfiltered
Making some money. Isn't that fun? We're down here at FarmCon.
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Damian Mason - Agriculture Unfiltered
Who was your inspiration? Obviously, you were funny growing up, but at what point did you go, oh, I could actually go make money at this, and then who did you look at, like Steve Martin? Yeah.
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Damian Mason - Agriculture Unfiltered
Yeah. So let's introduce this first guest. You want to get right into the first one? As he's getting a song up, you can always call or text us. 515-207-9640. Yeah. I like this. This is one of my favorite ones, but I hate waiting for it to come. Today on the Farm for Fun show, we are live in FarmCon in snowy Kansas City.
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Damian Mason - Agriculture Unfiltered
I bought an enclosed trailer. Right. Because I had the pickup and everyone I moved so many of my friends. I finally just I bought an enclosed trailer and I said, just take the trailer. And that's my you can go move yourself. But you didn't get the pizza. No, that's right. I had enough pizza. There was gosh, I got tired of moving. Oh, man.
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Damian Mason - Agriculture Unfiltered
Yeah, no. We're going to drag our feet on that one for a long time. So what was the first thing? You quit your corporate job. Was the first gig going to corporate, some corporate place?
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Damian Mason - Agriculture Unfiltered
I was just going to say that. It's funny because Tanner and I do the same thing, but with two people. He is the business, and I'm just the creative and F-off guy.
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Damian Mason - Agriculture Unfiltered
Yeah, and Dave just comes in on two wheels.
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Damian Mason - Agriculture Unfiltered
Boy, they got a few inches of snow and they don't know how to drive or move it or nothing. We take that for granted up in Iowa. We've got a guest that we wanted on several years ago, but he had me blocked. And you're going to hear that story. Stick around to the end because he's not sitting here actually right now. He's a writer. He's an author. He's a comedian. He does corporate events.
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Damian Mason - Agriculture Unfiltered
He's Extreme Ag's podcast guy. He does a little bit of everything. Please welcome Mr. Damien Mason. Yeah.
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Damian Mason - Agriculture Unfiltered
Yeah. I finally broke down and I grabbed a hat out there. I wear a hat all the time. I did get blue to match my suit jacket, I guess.
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Damian Mason - Agriculture Unfiltered
It's in the meal. I've had people kind of get mad at me, too, for the same thing. The traits in corn and the genetics that we've done, we've come so far. It's allowed them to raise corn without as much water on the marginal lands. And right here in the heart of the Corn Belt, our yields have gone up, but nowhere near the percentage that they've gone up.
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Damian Mason - Agriculture Unfiltered
I hope you're right in we're going to find more nutrient-dense type stuff. A, it's probably healthier, but B, we're going to have options, right? One of my biggest deals is I can only really grow corn or soybeans, maybe hay. I can't grow wheat because there's... Nowhere to take it in central Iowa.
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Damian Mason - Agriculture Unfiltered
But we don't have a market for non-GMO corn. We don't have a market really for this or that unless you want to truck it halfway across the country.
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Damian Mason - Agriculture Unfiltered
I mean, in a way, they're kind of, they grow white corn.
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Damian Mason - Agriculture Unfiltered
corn oil it is crazy what you can do with corn though did you know that corn is in lululemon i didn't know that yeah starch we learned that no it's a what they call it it's some it's a new actually new technology that they spin out of it and it's something to do with like the stretchy spandex side of things so yeah actually it's a great invention yeah yoga pants i mean yeah i know you probably wear them around i i appreciate other people wearing it yeah it's fair it's very fair
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Damian Mason - Agriculture Unfiltered
Yeah. I actually, after we learned that, I'm a consumer of Lululemon. I gave my wife a gift card there because I have no idea what she would like. But you want to see her in yoga pants. Yeah. She got a pair last week, made her model for me. That's good. Very nice.
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Damian Mason - Agriculture Unfiltered
I've got a question before we let him go. So this should have happened... Years ago. I came on the podcast. He started in 19. I came on in 20 when there was nothing to do during COVID. And we're brainstorming guests. Like, who should we have? I'm like, Damien. I saw him speak. I enjoyed that. Everyone was laughing.
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Damian Mason - Agriculture Unfiltered
I think he made a joke about my beer that I had with your book or something like that afterwards.
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Damian Mason - Agriculture Unfiltered
And you never had me on the show. So this is where the question is going to be. I go to Twitter to go, I'm going to get Damien. And DM, I go to your deal. You got me blocked. What did I do? I did? You blocked me on Twitter. Man, I don't know about that. This goes back to his reciprocation. Like, I must have, like, just...
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Damian Mason - Agriculture Unfiltered
I must have just got in collateral damage or something. He's fat-fingered. I even asked Kelly Garrett's good friend of mine, and I'm just like, what the hell? Has Damon ever said anything about me? He's like, no, I don't understand.
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Damian Mason - Agriculture Unfiltered
You need to tell them to spend a little less on Facebook ads because they've got to have half a million dollars dumped on Facebook.
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Damian Mason - Agriculture Unfiltered
What do you buy? Just go... with everything. Seat sacks. This pen is like a 70s.
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Damian Mason - Agriculture Unfiltered
Well, I was... Well, I had a wagon out. A Parker wagon.
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Damian Mason - Agriculture Unfiltered
And on the side of it, probably from the 70s, it says, Charity of the... No, it was the 80s. Charity of the 80s. And I'm like... Who has that forethought to go, this is the chariot of... No one's putting that on the side of a Brent grain cart or a Brandt grain cart. Like, this is the chariot of the 2020s.
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Damian Mason - Agriculture Unfiltered
This is the grain cart of the 2000s. And then I just found myself, what happened to Parker? Where'd they go? Who bought them up?
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Damian Mason - Agriculture Unfiltered
Was it cleansing? Yeah. Well, I mean, it's been sitting around like, God, he's got me blocked. I've got to figure this out.
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Damian Mason - Agriculture Unfiltered
I think I tried to DM you. I couldn't even DM you.
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Damian Mason - Agriculture Unfiltered
Well, I mean, it's why podcasts are big, right? Like, farmers spend a lot of time alone in a semi doing chores in a combine tractor, whatever. Like, instead of listening to the radio, heck, you might as well be learning something. Yeah.
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F4F - Jared Flinn - Bulk Loads
That's awesome. What year would that have been that you...
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F4F - Jared Flinn - Bulk Loads
Yeah. Awesome. I got a completely random question. Tanner saw that I drew a picture of it.
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F4F - Jared Flinn - Bulk Loads
Do you guys – so say bulk material. Bulk materials. I see those trailers going down the road that looks like three or four bins with like tubes connecting to the bottom. I think they're a pneumatic trailer.
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F4F - Jared Flinn - Bulk Loads
Yeah. So there's a town about 15 miles away and there's a trucker over there that probably has a dozen of those. And I've seen them and I've just never thought to ask, you know, what the heck they were. I figured that was what it was, but they're just a really unique trailer.
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F4F - Jared Flinn - Bulk Loads
Today on the Farm for Fun show, we are heading to a parallel industry. This man is a fellow podcaster. He started at the Kansas City Board of Trade in 2005. That's where he got his start in the grain industry. Then he started his own load board, a company called Bulk Loads in 2011, where he has had several spinoffs, including the Bulk Loads podcast in 2018.
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F4F - Jared Flinn - Bulk Loads
Well, he's got one right behind him. You think he's going to say anything else?
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F4F - Jared Flinn - Bulk Loads
We're actually seeing EBs around here now because they're making them 20 minutes north of us in Story City.
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F4F - Jared Flinn - Bulk Loads
Yeah, perfect. Pretty sharp truck. I remember seeing the first one down at our state fair, and I think it was all stainless, mirrored. And you could literally just go take a selfie in it. It was kind of cool. Yeah.
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F4F - Jared Flinn - Bulk Loads
Yeah, my dad tells stories about going down to ADM and going up on the hoist. Oh, yeah? Yeah. They would dump the whole truck. That'd be a ride.
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F4F - Jared Flinn - Bulk Loads
Think of how long that would take now with the amount of stuff that we have to move and the extra effort and power and breakdowns, hydraulics, all that.
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F4F - Jared Flinn - Bulk Loads
He has one of the best podcast backdrops in the industry. And I am saying that with this in the background. Please welcome from Missouri, Mr. Jared Flynn of Bulk Loads.
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F4F - Jared Flinn - Bulk Loads
Yeah, I didn't even make a joke about it, but there Tanner goes.
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F4F - Jared Flinn - Bulk Loads
I haven't done a good one for a while. but I thought about the next time that the, you know, we're in here recording. If you hear the sirens fire up and they start going, I was like, Nope, I gotta go. Follow the ambulance.
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F4F - Jared Flinn - Bulk Loads
So what other topics are you covering? Obviously, we're loads, right? But you got one show per week. How do you come up with your content? What are you talking about?
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F4F - Jared Flinn - Bulk Loads
That's good. It's a good time of year to do that. Things have slowed down a little bit in the ag world. Still doesn't seem like a lot, though. So in this week... You're ready to go to the field again. I'm ready to go to the field. We're going to have a tiny little window here to maybe get some anhydrous and maybe some tillage done because...
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F4F - Jared Flinn - Bulk Loads
I think you can get some of that out of the trash talking, too. If you want us to say something bad about someone, we can do that.
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F4F - Jared Flinn - Bulk Loads
We were waiting for moisture and temperature to drop after harvest because it was so dry. And we got it and it never stopped.
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F4F - Jared Flinn - Bulk Loads
Nice. What's some of the biggest challenges you have in the trucking industry right now?
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F4F - Jared Flinn - Bulk Loads
And then you brought up technology, so we got to talk it. I mean, there's Teslas out there driving themselves. There's super crews and GM vehicles that's somewhat self-driving. Is that coming in the trucking industry? And is that part of what you think is going to make it safer?
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F4F - Jared Flinn - Bulk Loads
Yeah. I gotta say I've, I've been in the super crews on the GM side of things and Never, I mean, two years ago, I said, why the hell would you need that? And you get in it, and it's like, oh, this is nice. It's not just keeping you between two lines.
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F4F - Jared Flinn - Bulk Loads
It's sensing if someone's next to you, and if someone's slower in front of you, it'll turn your turn signal on and go ahead and pass it, you know, on the interstate. It's nuts. So it's kind of cool. That's awesome.
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F4F - Jared Flinn - Bulk Loads
We all like to see them classic panty droppers coming down. I mean, that's what Tanner drives. He has to because he has to compensate for it. Not being so good looking.
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F4F - Jared Flinn - Bulk Loads
vetting system yeah yeah marketing no it's good yeah i got one more um in agriculture if you don't if you're not born into it it's extremely hard to start i know it's a little bit true if you're owning like a bigger trucking company but you know at the end of the day a guy if you got the knowledge can go out and get a loan hopefully and
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F4F - Jared Flinn - Bulk Loads
buy a truck and pull someone's trailer or buy a trailer maybe too. So what is the best way for someone to get into the trucking industry?
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F4F - Jared Flinn - Bulk Loads
So is that someone that say they did get started, they got the truck, all that, but they don't have the reputation. Is that something you can help them with?
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F4F - Jared Flinn - Bulk Loads
So I think I sent Tanner a clip of your podcast. Oh gosh. It was a while ago, wasn't it? Yeah.
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F4F - Jared Flinn - Bulk Loads
Yeah. And what caught me was, Not not just your awesome content, but was your background as one of the coolest backgrounds that I've ever seen in a podcast. And I thought, how freaking cool is that? And so for the people that are just listening, I'm going to describe it to you. It is the back of a what looks like a hopper bottom trailer. I don't know what brand.
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F4F - Jared Flinn - Bulk Loads
Yeah. We can't have the back of a hopper. We're going to have something else.
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F4F - Jared Flinn - Bulk Loads
You're going to want the front of a hopper? It kind of almost looks the same.
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F4F - Jared Flinn - Bulk Loads
They are like four or five grand, but they are badass.
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F4F - Jared Flinn - Bulk Loads
What I got is she's throwing it back at me now, and she's like, we need this giant 15-foot inflatable pumpkin for –
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F4F - Jared Flinn - Bulk Loads
for halloween and i was like no it's three hundred dollars that's stupid it's gonna blow away she's like it's an investment it's investing in what yeah and her happiness that's not an investment all right jared uh we appreciate you hanging out with us if our listeners want to follow you or or track along with what you've got going on how best do they do that
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F4F - Jared Flinn - Bulk Loads
Probably he's going to, he's going to tell us, but he's got corn Husker. Okay. And so that, that's cool. Got the rivets, got the reflective tape. I mean, everything, the ladder, it, the detail is perfect. I imagine it came right from the factory.
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F4F - Jared Flinn - Bulk Loads
And it's, it's painted. It's not stainless or, you know, not a shiny hiney. So, but that wouldn't probably be best for, for the lights and cameras that you got going.
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F4F - Jared Flinn - Bulk Loads
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F4F - Jared Flinn - Bulk Loads
And what I've learned this year is agriculture and farming, it's just a big logistics problem. Yeah, we talk agronomy and soil and different crops, but at the end of the day, when you're in the heat of the battle... It's trying to figure out how many loads are coming off that field, how long it's going to take them to dump and get them back. How many employees am I going to need?
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F4F - Jared Flinn - Bulk Loads
We are standing here. We're outstanding in our studio.
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F4F - Jared Flinn - Bulk Loads
How much fuel do I need? It's just a big logistical nightmare. And so that's all we're trying to solve. It's a logistics problem.
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F4F - Jared Flinn - Bulk Loads
When you've been here long enough, you gotta just stand up. You gotta go swing at golf club.
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F4F - Jared Flinn - Bulk Loads
Right. And, you know, obviously everyone would like to move it with a boat or a rail, but you guys are what picks up the slack in between.
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F4F - Jared Flinn - Bulk Loads
So would you say most of your loads is longer hauls?
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F4F - Jared Flinn - Bulk Loads
Yep. And the older we get, the more dad noises we've got to make.
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F4F - Jared Flinn - Bulk Loads
And the way you get paid is that percentage there, or you know where the loads need to move and you get a percentage of that.
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F4F - Jared Flinn - Bulk Loads
And then the scope of your customer, is it mom and pop owner operators? Is it the ADMs? Could a farmer call you up and- You know, want to move grain?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I hate to say it, but I actually did enjoy sitting down the other night. I don't know if it's just because it was something new, but I put in one of my credit cards into your guys' system and it brought all of my purchases for the whole year. And that process of what I did, I had everything sorted out, divvied out to what buckets it went to and all that probably in an hour or two.
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And I think that would have taken me... Probably by the time I procrastinated and swiped through TikTok and all that, printed off all my sheets and went through that, went to my banking statement, it would have taken me all day. I know it would have.
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Yeah, it is a business meeting in Orlando, Florida. Yeah.
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Yeah. I would say probably a condensed version because we just got to the point of bringing your accounts in, your bank accounts, credit cards, things of that nature. And that's probably about as far as I got. And that's really all the further I was wanting to go because I'm preparing for the end of the year. Mm-hmm.
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I am interested in the rest of it, but they have a billing system, an invoicing system, all the charts and everything performance-wise that you were talking about. I'll get into those more, but I've got to get all this other stuff done since I'm late to the game.
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Yeah. Basically, farming is a big habit. Or not a habit. It's a bad habit in some cases. I think we're one of the only industries that we want to farm so bad that we have to have all these other entities and jobs. So maybe you go cut lawns, or maybe you push snow in the winter, or maybe you go in town and just get a wage. That's right. You talked about W-2 income. Yeah. And I have all of that.
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You know, we've all, we've all got this sickness that we want to farm so bad that it's just not as straightforward. Whereas a spreadsheet probably would be just okay. If it was just, you were a corn and soybean farmer and you have your inputs and going out and income, you're selling grain coming in, but it's not that easy.
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Uh, just the airport. Is that Charlotte? Yeah, that's that's the only place time I've been there. So I know I don't consider that me being in North Carolina.
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Very interesting. So we had our onboarding. And, you know, a lot of farms are in rural areas and we use small banks. And one of the, not your guys' fault, but one of the issues that we did have was my bank did not like the third party source that you use to input that.
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Right. Right. Because at that point it makes it living and breathing.
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Yeah, my Chase credit card went right to, you know, almost like it was their website. You know, it went really well. And so I don't know. I mean, look, I could still upload, go download my CSV file from my bank and upload it, and it worked great. It came in seamlessly, and I've got it up right now with all my expenses. Oh, let me look. And debits and credits. But yeah, it's not your guys' deal.
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But how do we get some of these smaller banks to come on board with it? Because I appreciate it if it's an extra layer of security. I'm not a fan of it if they just go, no, sorry, you're out of luck.
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I don't think so. Besides that, this is just another one of those shows that to me is an extremely boring topic, but very necessary. What a great way to leave. We're here to bring value to your farm. This is not one of the things that I consider fun. So we're going to try. This should be fun by the end of this.
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What do you think, Tanner, was their concern with it? Because the third party is well known. Everyone's heard of it. Yeah.
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One thing that I was kind of thinking in the back of my mind as I was going through and connecting my bank account and my credit cards and all that, I'm like, boy, I'm putting a lot of my information out here to my life. And farmers, as much as anybody, care about their data. We got economy data, we got yield data, we got application data, a lot of stuff. Now we have financing data.
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Is there any merit to my concern of where my data is going? Is it getting sold off somewhere? I mean, I already know like our credit cards are selling our stuff off, right? Because as soon as you buy a Lululemon deal for your wife, I mean, you got an ad that pops up on Facebook. So...
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Well, you have access to a lot of farmers are just very personal or, you know, they don't even want to tell their neighbors, you know, what their yield was, let alone here's all of my life.
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So you guys, you mentioned your wallet. So you can hold funds on Ambrook and you can get a yield and obviously there's gotta be a reason you're holding funds there. What does that allow you to do?
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What is that app called? Because I looked for it the other day. I didn't see it.
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Oh, I didn't. I must put my hand down on the paper or the ink. To me, I was like, oh, gosh, I hate numbers so much.
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This is stressing me out. That is weird. I think I set my... Feel down on the ink on the paper. We're going to review the footage. Yeah, you can review it. Throw your challenge flag. You'll find that I did not physically do that to myself.
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Where are you at right now?
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Software. Farm financing software. So easy that Corey could do it. The caveman could do it. Yeah.
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Yeah. I do have a question on, so a lot of the stuff we've talked about is focused around schedule F farm income. Is there much of a personal or the QuickBooks side of the financing process? I mean, I was coming across medical expenses and, you know, stuff my wife buys or whatever that it needs to go somewhere.
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That's, that's something I'm actually excited about. Cause it's a lot of times something that I've pushed off to the side. Like I'm going to do my farm stuff, but there's a lot of things that, you know, I office out of home, right? It's 25% of the house. According to the square footage and office out of the basement. Yeah. The whole basement. So it should be half really.
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Yep. So that's what I'm excited about. Cause I've usually just ignored a lot of that stuff just because I have a tough enough time getting everything else that I need to done. So, Yep. Got that, got daycare expenses, you know, all that kind of stuff that there's a lot.
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I mean, what have we always said that during your week as a farmer, you should spend... a couple hours or half a day in the office, at least depending on your business. I think if once you get everything set up and it's living and breathing and you just got to go select what this transaction was for or upload this receipt, I bet you could almost do it on the fly.
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From your app or correct. Yep. Totally.
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I just tagged and automated my utilities for my house while we were on the – earlier on in the show. It took me 30 seconds. And all 12 of those transactions, I did not have to go click 12 times. I only had to click once. So it was pretty nice. Great. Saving time because time is money. I mean, it's the most valuable asset. Yep.
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So you are in all of these places that there's not a lot of ag, but I would say, or that I typically associate with ag. So how does that come into, how does Ambrook come into play into ag?
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So if someone's wanting to give this a try, what is the best process for them to go about it?
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We're in Iowa. No, we don't. That is rude. We would never. You just use the finger. When you honk at someone, you might as well tell them, you know, F off. I hate your family. Yeah. That's bad. So I did, while we were sitting here, I did decide that my Spotify premium is education. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. It's work one way or the other. Right. It saves me time because I don't have to listen to ads.
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It's research. Yeah. Podcasts are very educational.
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You'd be losing money if you didn't listen to us.
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So you got into ag that way. But on my sheet, it also says that you went to film school, which seems to be now you're in finance, which seems to be the complete opposite of what you went to school for there. Talk to us about that.
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You know, that would probably help us.
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Oh, you have to watch three movies a week? Is that like a Redbox thing? What do they even send them to you now?
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I think they went under. Like Blockbuster?
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Yeah. Pretty soon you got $200 wrapped up in all these subscriptions that you cut cable to go to these smaller subscriptions. Do you know what?
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You see if I can stay here. Apprehensive. Well, my stomach maybe doesn't feel so well from that food we ate on the way here. Already? Yeah. Oh, man.
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So I was going to go into that and I am, I feel like a major hypocrite because I am on the Farm for Profit podcast and we are always preaching that you need to run your farm like a business and You know, do all this stuff that businesses do. And I am probably one of the worst. So you just farm for fun? I am a farm for fun type of guy. That's why I like the farm for fun shows.
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But the way I described it on our call earlier with Eric, he was walking us through this stuff, is my process is a dumpster fire.
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Like the sirens they might be going to put out.
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That's why the sirens are going. And I just had a spreadsheet is all I used. Now, I will preface that I myself am a small farm. And then my dad and what I am an employee of, Hillable Family Farms, is a little bit larger. So I'm not talking on that side of things has ran very well. I'm transitioning into that.
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But that's why I need a company like Ambrook because I think a lot of farmers use QuickBooks.
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I don't know, 20, 30% from what it seems like when I talk to farmers, but it's not set up for agriculture and Schedule F. So that's why we're here to talk to these guys to hopefully make things nicer because the stuff that my dad is using, although it is very good and effective, I can't stand it because it feels like it came off a floppy disk.
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Then you got to go to like coding school just to figure out how to get through it and insert your name, you know?
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Yeah. And I think what you could also see in ag is there's a lot of companies that are doing a pretty good job at your agronomy side. And, you know, like John Deere, like John Deere Ops, and like they're starting to integrate a lot of, I'm going to say QuickBooks-esque easiness to your agronomy. And it even has a financing side to it.
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But none of it is tailored towards really helping you with your taxes that you can take to your CPA. It has some aspects of it. It's just – so it's like that's what really is kind of irks me. It's like we've got – I feel like we've got the stuff at our fingertips. It's just not quite been made readily available to take to your CPA.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Soybean Cyst Nematode: The Silent Threat Stealing Your Yield
It's a parasite. So it's a nematode parasite.
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So I'm still interested in the trait that was or the gene that was entered, the PI88788. And now it's the new one I think that I've seen is like peaking. Is that what we talk about? Correct. How does that deter? Does the nematode not like the taste? Does it kill it? How does that work?
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Soybean Cyst Nematode: The Silent Threat Stealing Your Yield
So you said there's seven of them, but I've only seen two in my seed selection. So where's the other five?
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Now, you did mention as well the seed treatments. We should probably talk about that. I've known, I'm guessing like Elevo and like Saltro and things of that nature. Are you talking about those or are there others?
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Soybean Cyst Nematode: The Silent Threat Stealing Your Yield
So same question as how the peaking works. You said it in nematocytes. Is that killing the nematode?
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Soybean Cyst Nematode: The Silent Threat Stealing Your Yield
Is there certain soil types or regions that these things thrive in, or are they just pretty much anywhere where you grow soybeans?
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Soybean Cyst Nematode: The Silent Threat Stealing Your Yield
What about life cycle? I mean, you said moving around. How far is this little microscopic worm moving in its lifetime and how long does it live?
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Soybean Cyst Nematode: The Silent Threat Stealing Your Yield
It is. I can actually feel the warmth from the sun actually coming in. It's a nice week this week.
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Soybean Cyst Nematode: The Silent Threat Stealing Your Yield
I mean, I'm pretty sure we had to pay for my soil samples that we had and we sent to Iowa State, but it was very economical. It was less than $30 a sample, and when you really start to think about how much we spend on soil samples for nutrients and other things like that, and you spread that across all your acres, it's very, very cheap to know, just so you can start... Get a game plan, right?
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Soybean Cyst Nematode: The Silent Threat Stealing Your Yield
That's what we want to do.
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Soybean Cyst Nematode: The Silent Threat Stealing Your Yield
So let's go through the sampling process. When is the best time of year to get samples?
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Soybean Cyst Nematode: The Silent Threat Stealing Your Yield
Yeah. So I know on mine, I was sampling ahead of soybean planting, fields that I planned to go to soybean. So it was mostly corn coming out of corn because that's when I'm going to be growing them, right?
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Soybean Cyst Nematode: The Silent Threat Stealing Your Yield
I'm pretty sure that's what the rules said to do was actually we were going to go sample our other co-host who's not here, David's field, and he's been corn on corn, and he was planning to grow corn again, and it said plan to sample ahead of soybean, planting soybeans. I said, oh, we're not going to go to your field because you're not even growing soybeans. Yeah.
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Soybean Cyst Nematode: The Silent Threat Stealing Your Yield
Yeah. And today we're talking about soybean cyst nematode. But I know that it takes a lot of yield away from my soybeans.
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Soybean Cyst Nematode: The Silent Threat Stealing Your Yield
Yep. So I sampled six fields. And the reason I sampled them was because it was kind of a cross section of our farm, like my trout field. It had a pretty long history of corn on corn. It was corn on corn for probably nine or 10 years until like 2018. And then we've been in a kind of a normal rotation since then. And then...
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Soybean Cyst Nematode: The Silent Threat Stealing Your Yield
Uh, let's see home and Harmon and bills 80 and Chad's were kind of our normal rotation, I would say. So I just kind of wanted to get a cross section of like, what does it look in our coins, corn, soybean, 50, 50 rotation. And then this crumb one, uh, it was a brand new field.
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Soybean Cyst Nematode: The Silent Threat Stealing Your Yield
to me and uh my landlord purchased it and it's kind of 30 acres that's uh kind of in the middle of a bunch of houses and i think it's just been weeds for several years in fact uh before he purchased it they actually had to mow like six seven foot weeds down and so i i just thought it would be interesting to go take a sample there that hasn't been cropped for
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Soybean Cyst Nematode: The Silent Threat Stealing Your Yield
at least a couple years so and that is kind of interesting the results that we got there compared to everything else i would say my ranges were anything from zero to 350 eggs per 100 cc's of soil which i have no idea is that high or low 300 sounds like a lot
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Soybean Cyst Nematode: The Silent Threat Stealing Your Yield
So I've farmed all my life and probably and then I went to college at Iowa State University from 2006 to 2010. And that's probably when I started to learn about it and my internships and through my schooling there. And as I got out, I spent most of my normal career before I came back farming full time in the seed industry.
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Soybean Cyst Nematode: The Silent Threat Stealing Your Yield
So maybe we should do a follow-up following some, these soybean fields in the same fields that I did this fall and see if they went up or, you know, how, how they were. I would imagine they would go up just growing soybeans there.
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Soybean Cyst Nematode: The Silent Threat Stealing Your Yield
Yeah. So I will say that 30-acre field that was weeds, that was the one that was zero. Had no egg count or anything in it. So I thought that was interesting.
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Soybean Cyst Nematode: The Silent Threat Stealing Your Yield
Yeah. I would say that our recipe for higher yielding soybeans that we have found is following corn on corn several years, the longer the corn on corn, the better our soybean yields. And, uh, I think some of that is, has to do with, uh, just nutrients in the soil and you got the carbon mixing, but I, I think I've always attributed it to, it's probably just less cyst in there. Well,
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Soybean Cyst Nematode: The Silent Threat Stealing Your Yield
Yeah. The podcast is probably not a normal career path. And maybe I should say professional career, my short professional career. Um, that's when I really learned about it and, uh, how much it affects yield. And then one year we had sudden death syndrome and I've heard that that's, uh, uh, can cause that.
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Soybean Cyst Nematode: The Silent Threat Stealing Your Yield
Oh, yeah, high sixes, six and a half to seven. Try to keep it in there. Okay.
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Soybean Cyst Nematode: The Silent Threat Stealing Your Yield
Okay. So does pH actually play a role in soybean cyst nematode?
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Soybean Cyst Nematode: The Silent Threat Stealing Your Yield
Not a ton of sand. I mean, there's a little bit of sand, but never like, I would never say I have a Sandy field.
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Soybean Cyst Nematode: The Silent Threat Stealing Your Yield
4.8 yield or loss. Yep. Bushel yield loss. So it's $48, right, at $10 soybeans. So in all years, that's a big deal.
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Soybean Cyst Nematode: The Silent Threat Stealing Your Yield
And, uh, when you have 40 bushel soybeans and you're expecting, uh, 55, 60 plus, it's not a good deal.
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Soybean Cyst Nematode: The Silent Threat Stealing Your Yield
You say on the sand, that's where they thrive. Is it purely because they like sand, or is it because of drainage? If we just have really well-drained non-sandy soil, do they thrive there as well?
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Soybean Cyst Nematode: The Silent Threat Stealing Your Yield
So what's the future look like? What are you guys excited about? Got anything coming down the pipeline? Major breakthroughs with this?
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Soybean Cyst Nematode: The Silent Threat Stealing Your Yield
Yeah, when I look at a whole seed portfolio and say there's 30 under this one company from real short to up to 5, 5.0 maturity, you might find one or two. It's almost about the same number that you find just roundup ready now. It's getting down there. Yeah.
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Soybean Cyst Nematode: The Silent Threat Stealing Your Yield
This is important, but I know you've got one more question. This is important. This is out in the weeds. Everything that we talk about in ag, it seems like it's just a bandaid trying to get to the next technology. It's, you know, we're just trying to kick it down the road. So hopefully in eight years, we know that this gene is coming or this trait or whatever.
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Soybean Cyst Nematode: The Silent Threat Stealing Your Yield
What about dealing with the actual source? You said these are an animal, right? We've been able to breed animals for years. Can we harvest these things and manipulate them and maybe make like a sterile male or something like that to release back and actually just get rid of these things?
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Soybean Cyst Nematode: The Silent Threat Stealing Your Yield
I was thinking of like, can we do that with like the bot fly or like, you know, something in cattle that we'd actually, you know, we've gotten rid of a lot of really bad things.
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Soybean Cyst Nematode: The Silent Threat Stealing Your Yield
Yes, we were out at the NACAD conference last week, and we interviewed several people, and it's always the Ohio State University. So, yes, we get it. You're important.
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Soybean Cyst Nematode: The Silent Threat Stealing Your Yield
Oh, that's the filter. The top is the filter.
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Soybean Cyst Nematode: The Silent Threat Stealing Your Yield
I think we better connect this fall when I take my samples on these fields and see how we did.
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Soybean Cyst Nematode: The Silent Threat Stealing Your Yield
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Soybean Cyst Nematode: The Silent Threat Stealing Your Yield
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Soybean Cyst Nematode: The Silent Threat Stealing Your Yield
What's the history of it? So you said it's not native. How did it get here if it just –
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Soybean Cyst Nematode: The Silent Threat Stealing Your Yield
So is the yield loss coming from damage of cells or turning the cells into doing something that they're not supposed to be doing?
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Soybean Cyst Nematode: The Silent Threat Stealing Your Yield
Isn't that like the definition of a virus that changes cells and does that, isn't it?
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Soybean Cyst Nematode: The Silent Threat Stealing Your Yield
That's what I was looking for. It's a parasite. So it's a nematode parasite, kind of. Right.
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Soybean Cyst Nematode: The Silent Threat Stealing Your Yield
Does the damage to the root allow for that SDS fungus to get into the root easier?
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Soybean Cyst Nematode: The Silent Threat Stealing Your Yield
So let's talk through some of the ways we can control this or maybe the history of controlling. I know there's been several things through seed traits or genetics and that kind of stuff. Who can talk about that the best? I'll talk about it.
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Soybean Cyst Nematode: The Silent Threat Stealing Your Yield
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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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Revolutionizing Ag Equipment: Behind the Scenes with Strobel, Terraplex, and Brandt
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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Revolutionizing Ag Equipment: Behind the Scenes with Strobel, Terraplex, and Brandt
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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Revolutionizing Ag Equipment: Behind the Scenes with Strobel, Terraplex, and Brandt
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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Revolutionizing Ag Equipment: Behind the Scenes with Strobel, Terraplex, and Brandt
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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Revolutionizing Ag Equipment: Behind the Scenes with Strobel, Terraplex, and Brandt
Is there a tie with the community of agriculture and construction on that?
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Revolutionizing Ag Equipment: Behind the Scenes with Strobel, Terraplex, and Brandt
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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Revolutionizing Ag Equipment: Behind the Scenes with Strobel, Terraplex, and Brandt
What's the regulatory body on that? I'm just curious.
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Revolutionizing Ag Equipment: Behind the Scenes with Strobel, Terraplex, and Brandt
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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Revolutionizing Ag Equipment: Behind the Scenes with Strobel, Terraplex, and Brandt
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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Revolutionizing Ag Equipment: Behind the Scenes with Strobel, Terraplex, and Brandt
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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Revolutionizing Ag Equipment: Behind the Scenes with Strobel, Terraplex, and Brandt
Batch recorded.
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Revolutionizing Ag Equipment: Behind the Scenes with Strobel, Terraplex, and Brandt
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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Revolutionizing Ag Equipment: Behind the Scenes with Strobel, Terraplex, and Brandt
Let's move forward. Let's go to just after harvest. What do you got?
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Revolutionizing Ag Equipment: Behind the Scenes with Strobel, Terraplex, and Brandt
That's good. How about you?
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Revolutionizing Ag Equipment: Behind the Scenes with Strobel, Terraplex, and Brandt
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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Revolutionizing Ag Equipment: Behind the Scenes with Strobel, Terraplex, and Brandt
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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Revolutionizing Ag Equipment: Behind the Scenes with Strobel, Terraplex, and Brandt
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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Revolutionizing Ag Equipment: Behind the Scenes with Strobel, Terraplex, and Brandt
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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Revolutionizing Ag Equipment: Behind the Scenes with Strobel, Terraplex, and Brandt
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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Revolutionizing Ag Equipment: Behind the Scenes with Strobel, Terraplex, and Brandt
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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Revolutionizing Ag Equipment: Behind the Scenes with Strobel, Terraplex, and Brandt
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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Revolutionizing Ag Equipment: Behind the Scenes with Strobel, Terraplex, and Brandt
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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Direct to Consumer: Amy Hay - Former Engineer Driving The Future of Beef Sales
So they're getting some grain and they're just foraging it themselves type of a deal.
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Direct to Consumer: Amy Hay - Former Engineer Driving The Future of Beef Sales
Consumers think, you know, grass fed, grass finished is just this cow out on a grass pasture. Yeah. you know, that, that they see on the side of the interstate is, is probably what they think of, but it's not really.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Direct to Consumer: Amy Hay - Former Engineer Driving The Future of Beef Sales
I just think of logistics, like whether you believe that that's a healthier or better tasting or whatever. But like the fact that you don't have to handle tons of grain and pay for it or farm it and harvest it, it makes sense. Even if it does take a little bit longer, right? Like as far as the business wise goes. Yeah. A little bit longer.
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Direct to Consumer: Amy Hay - Former Engineer Driving The Future of Beef Sales
Wow.
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Direct to Consumer: Amy Hay - Former Engineer Driving The Future of Beef Sales
Yeah. Oh, we've been doing that for as old as time. Farming is not where it should be or supplementing. Well, I've got this off-farm job, so I can continue to lose money farming. We're good at that.
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Direct to Consumer: Amy Hay - Former Engineer Driving The Future of Beef Sales
Have you ever told someone, you might just be better off just buying your beef instead of trying to raise it?
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Direct to Consumer: Amy Hay - Former Engineer Driving The Future of Beef Sales
You might as well just buy it from me and let me do it.
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Direct to Consumer: Amy Hay - Former Engineer Driving The Future of Beef Sales
thousand times more interesting than someone who works in an office right so when you guys quit to go farm cattle did you have this sellbeefdirect.com in your head too or no never that come out of like hey we should probably do this because we had to go through this we knew we wanted to do this to sell direct to consumer and this was what we wanted to do for our family um so
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Direct to Consumer: Amy Hay - Former Engineer Driving The Future of Beef Sales
What does that stand for?
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Direct to Consumer: Amy Hay - Former Engineer Driving The Future of Beef Sales
So you're physically delivering it yourself?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Direct to Consumer: Amy Hay - Former Engineer Driving The Future of Beef Sales
We have several friends now that are going direct to consumer, and I feel like they're either... They are doing more of the smaller packs. I don't know if they would sell you a single cut like you said, but I do know they are. I mean, shoot, we got a corporate box from our friends at Barn Talk.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Direct to Consumer: Amy Hay - Former Engineer Driving The Future of Beef Sales
Well, isn't the biggest burden the ground beef, right? Half the roughly is ground beef. You got to get rid of it.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Direct to Consumer: Amy Hay - Former Engineer Driving The Future of Beef Sales
Sounds like you need Dr. Price.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Direct to Consumer: Amy Hay - Former Engineer Driving The Future of Beef Sales
that's just shows you the cost that people are willing to pay for convenience. If they're willing to go to Walmart and buy, buy it for that much more. Yeah.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Direct to Consumer: Amy Hay - Former Engineer Driving The Future of Beef Sales
Is that the biggest thing driving this? Do you think the demand?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Direct to Consumer: Amy Hay - Former Engineer Driving The Future of Beef Sales
She knew that pretty quick.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Direct to Consumer: Amy Hay - Former Engineer Driving The Future of Beef Sales
I got a couple rapid fires. Sure. I'm nervous. What if... What if they don't want to? They understand they want to grow beef. They want to sell direct to the consumer. They understand they need to be on socials, but they just don't. They want to focus on the raising the beef. Like, can someone run their socials for them and still sell directly?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Direct to Consumer: Amy Hay - Former Engineer Driving The Future of Beef Sales
so you weren't totally wrong you were catching the canadian little little twinge mannerism yeah there we go that's funny so that is uh wow new zealand scott scotland and canada that's the that's a trio that's uh not normally normal what province i'm in bc
Farm4Profit Podcast
Direct to Consumer: Amy Hay - Former Engineer Driving The Future of Beef Sales
Okay. And my next one is, let's say I just want to get into cattle. Maybe I have a few cattle and I want to get into this, but I want to start maybe using you to help. What's the best process? Where should I start?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Direct to Consumer: Amy Hay - Former Engineer Driving The Future of Beef Sales
I want you to help me sell my beef direct to consumers. Maybe I've sold a couple of beef to some friends or maybe I'm just thinking about buying some. What's the best place to start?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Direct to Consumer: Amy Hay - Former Engineer Driving The Future of Beef Sales
I want to know your pitch. We're to that point. We've learned enough about it. Like, okay, I'm intrigued. Where should I start?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Direct to Consumer: Amy Hay - Former Engineer Driving The Future of Beef Sales
We're looking forward to that.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Direct to Consumer: Amy Hay - Former Engineer Driving The Future of Beef Sales
But if we can have a mindset of looking forward or just turn the bad situation into a good situation, you could have upcharged for that load of beef because it was extra tenderized. Yeah.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Direct to Consumer: Amy Hay - Former Engineer Driving The Future of Beef Sales
Finger on a map?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Direct to Consumer: Amy Hay - Former Engineer Driving The Future of Beef Sales
Pretty straightforward and simple.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Direct to Consumer: Amy Hay - Former Engineer Driving The Future of Beef Sales
You're both caught equally in as much when you have to go back home. That's how that goes?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Direct to Consumer: Amy Hay - Former Engineer Driving The Future of Beef Sales
That would be kind of cool. Yeah, we do a lot of skiing and snowboarding.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Direct to Consumer: Amy Hay - Former Engineer Driving The Future of Beef Sales
I saw a baby snowboarding the other day on TikTok. Some guy was just holding it up while it snowboarded. That's how you learn. Nobody did that for me.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Direct to Consumer: Amy Hay - Former Engineer Driving The Future of Beef Sales
I'm still just intrigued by this finger on a map situation. Like, okay, obviously you went to the spot in the middle, but wouldn't it have been just a little bit easier to slide it a little bit more south into Montana where it's just a little bit warmer in the United States? Or did you just feel like Canada was the place to go?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Direct to Consumer: Amy Hay - Former Engineer Driving The Future of Beef Sales
You know, it's interesting. We've kind of had this feeling that it's not a great system at times. And especially, you know, what was it when Obama was in presidency and called Obamacare and all that kind of stuff. Yeah.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Direct to Consumer: Amy Hay - Former Engineer Driving The Future of Beef Sales
you know, you can hear people talk about it, but then when you hear a case like this of someone that literally was looking to move somewhere and had a choice, I mean, can't argue with that, right? It would have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to literally move, you know, several hours South.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Direct to Consumer: Amy Hay - Former Engineer Driving The Future of Beef Sales
Yeah, because if it wasn't like that, people would literally go, I'm not going to do this last job and get that last 30 grand because it'll kick me back to taxes all the way back to zero. That makes sense to just do it above.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Direct to Consumer: Amy Hay - Former Engineer Driving The Future of Beef Sales
They look so cuddly though.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Direct to Consumer: Amy Hay - Former Engineer Driving The Future of Beef Sales
It's always nice when they do that. But how can they text us, Corey? 515-207-9640 is the text line, or you can leave us a voicemail. We always love getting those.
Farm4Profit Podcast
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.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Tech-Driven Agriculture: Insights from a Panel of Farmers
Remember if you aren't farming for profit, you won't be farming for long.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
That's why you need a good agent. Holy smokes. Right. And the reason why you might do one over the other, isn't there different premiums for different counties? Because of, you know, some counties might be a magnet for hail or, you know, have a different soil type that is, you know, more prone to drought.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
While we're explaining some things, APH, annual production history.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
Can you explain... how you calculate that and then how you guys use that in your, uh, calculation, like say 85%. Yep.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
Does that go the other way though? What if you have an abnormally amazing year and it's 350 bushel?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
Are you tired of sifting through a shoebox full of receipts? Sick of battling long spreadsheets? Tanner?
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Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
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Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
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Farm4Profit Podcast
Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
So I'm just going to read this here. So we have, since we're talking about ARC, so agriculture risk coverage provides payments when the actual revenue for a farm is less than a guarantee set based on historical data and market conditions. PLC, price loss coverage, provides payments when the effective price for a covered commodity falls below its effective reference price. Yep.
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Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
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Farm4Profit Podcast
Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
Yeah, we've gotten a lot of people asking. I feel like most people have been leaning ARC.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
Am I correct in saying if you don't elect ARC or PLC, it just stays with your previous election?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
And it can, so I mean, you can only get up to 85% through the government, but with these products, you can get above that.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
It looks like some of the subsidy is increased for ECO and 25.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
Yeah. The subsidy is, is something we constantly get comments on and on all the socials from people outside and inside of ag. But it seems like the really nasty ones come from outside. Like, you know, we should quit propping you guys up and all that, but it's essential, right?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
Well, we're growing a commodity, right? Which commodities are people want cheap, right? And we're really good at it. So we'll hurt our own self by overproducing. So we're really not in control of the price. We're not in control of the weather.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
If we get a couple bad years or one bad year that knocks us out and we don't have insurance that we can afford, you're not going to have very many, at least small farmers left. Right. You know, so it's kind of crazy.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
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Farm4Profit Podcast
Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
We've all heard those horror stories, you know, combine starts a fire and then gets, you know, if it's windy and gets to the neighbors and, you know, who's, you know, at fault for that. It wasn't an act of God. It was someone not doing maintenance or, you know, type of deal. It's like... Boy, you can get into the weeds and you can rack up a lot of money quickly in a hurry.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
And you've got to have a good agent to explain all that and knows the system well to explain it.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
And the other thing you mentioned was crop in the bin. That's one thing we don't think about crop insurance or regular insurance on. That bin site sitting there empty compared to full, that's a huge value change. How do you insure that?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
So Tanner has this thing in his vehicle for car insurance that tells him whether he's driving better or not and he gets a better rate. can I get a better rate because I got a Sukup grain dryer and full air floors and all that opposed.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
And I, and, and yeah, and sensors and, and know that my grains in good condition instead of that person going, I'm going to put this 20% corn on this Y aeration floor. You can just say me and, and hope that it goes. And then all of a sudden it's gone and there's a fire. Can I get a better rate?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
It is crazy, though, the amount of data that you can have and how AI is coming into all this. I mean, you guys, I mean, 1197 screwed the wind and screwed your guys' wind product, right? One hybrid, one hybrid did. Now, we have all this data from all these seed companies and independent sources. You could almost insure for better agronomic products, right?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
Hey, we are doing a subject that isn't the most sexy, so we've got to make it sexy. Are we doing accounting again? No.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
I don't think he did, but I think he mentioned something about getting a better rate or maybe something with his APH. Better trend adjust? Yeah, or whatever with his agent.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
It is, but not by much. Not by much.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
Who determines whether you're a beginning farmer? Is that FSA?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
No, it's that time of year again. We've got to start thinking about our insurance, crop insurance on the farm. Yeah. We probably do. A necessary, I'm not going to call it evil. It's not evil, but just maybe people like doing it. I'm not a fan of it. To me, it's like going to a restaurant that the menu's too big, and I can't make my mind up. Like, what is it?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
Yeah, it's hard to hide anything, you know. If you've got redundancy, you've got your yield monitor, you've got scale tickets, you've got scale on your cart, you know, and good record keeping, it's like, you can automate, here you go, you know.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
So I have enjoyed the technology, this integration of technology. I don't think I've been into an FSA office for three years, you know, to certify acres. That used to be a whole day process to go, you know, do that. And now that is so nice. And I pay rent off of what I plant, not what they say the field size is.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
Yeah, and it's hard. Some landlords have been disconnected long enough. They've got 110 acres, but you only plant 95. They don't get why they're not getting, well, it's trees. I'm not logging. So why would I pay you money for that?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
I know all this stuff is good, but which one do I want to eat?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
So last year we discussed what would we call it? The, I don't even, the past year, past year. Is that still a thing?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
Well, I mean, we're not in that realm of the country, but there's a lot of people that didn't know about it last year. So just go through it.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
That's because you've had bad experiences, and I haven't.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
I can confirm that from the spray side of things, from running custom fungicide and doing all that.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
I do love me some honey. Oh yeah.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
That brought up one thing in my mind. Like, is there still discounts on crop insurance if you're doing cover crops?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
You're using your cover crops for an actual crop, though. Not all of them. Not all of them?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
Okay. Yeah. Worth something to look into.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
We're going to have this done. Let's see. It's probably different for, north-south, but for a Corn Belt here, when do we need to be signed up?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
Even if you think you're doing the right crop insurance, I think it's always good to brush up. Anything you do just once a year, it's hard to be an expert on it. So it's always good to listen and see what you're missing.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
The Farm for Profit team is heading to Denver for a commodity classic, and we'll be at the Sukup booth each day.
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Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
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Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
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Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
Yeah, they're seeing up to 25% more power, better fuel efficiency, all with smarter injector duration and not altering the rail pressure for safe and reliable performance.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
So you guys are back because you did a show with us. Was it last year? I almost broke the internet. Yeah, you almost broke the internet with a... I don't know why. I mean, I guess I do know why. It was something that people hadn't heard of before, and that was the pasture and rangeland option that you guys had. And how many views did that have? Millions? Millions of views all over social media.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
And you're back because, obviously, it was a value to you.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
Absolutely. Yep. So welcome. Well, thanks. Thanks for having me. It's awesome to be here.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
Basically, we're making insurance sexy.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
So we have to make decisions on our farm for crop insurance this spring, actually very soon. Um, if something gets changed in the farm bill, you said it gets kicked to September. If something gets changed then that would affect your products, it's not going to affect anything for this year.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
February is a pretty important time for crop insurance. What are we doing right now in the month of February?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
Yeah, as we're recording this, is it going off December and November is a new crop? Correct.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
So today it is 466 and a half on corn. And let's see. Make sure I'm on the right one. 1056 and three quarters on soybeans. So probably a non-factor day. We are down nine in beans and three in corn.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
I've heard several people talk about it. So the way we like to look at it is this is crop insurance is subsidized, correct? Correct. This is the cheapest hedge that we can have for our marketing plan, right? So what is the most subsidized option here?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Making Smart Crop Insurance Decisions for 2025
So you said it's available by crop, but is it also available by county?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
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.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
Well, there you go. You don't know what you don't know until you don't know.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
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?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
Why is the side of it plastic? Why is this? Why is that? But that's how I learn.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
Even take that statement. If you're not uncomfortable, you're not growing. My wife wasn't all on board for buying the farm.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
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.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
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.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
And I'm still there because I don't know if we're going to make any money.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
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?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
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.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
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.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
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.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
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.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
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.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
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.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
So I think anybody to win the Super Bowl, sometimes you're not the quarterback.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
Especially when you're an entrepreneur.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
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?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
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.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
Taylor, how do we get the most benefit out of fall applied versus spring applied nitrogen?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
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?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
Awesome. Well, thank you much for your time.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
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?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
Thanks again, Taylor. Thank you.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
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.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
Explain to me, what does the concave do for my combine?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
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?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
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
Farm4Profit Podcast
Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
Yes. You made money. You've got to spend money to make money. You've got to make those decisions, though.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
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.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
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?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
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?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
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...
Farm4Profit Podcast
Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
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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Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
What's the next portion for Estes?
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Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
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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Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
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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Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
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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Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
Oh, never thought about that.
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Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
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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Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
You need a sign that says, the juice is worth the squeeze. The juice is worth the squeeze.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
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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Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
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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Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
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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Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
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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Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
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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Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
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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Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
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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Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
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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Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
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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Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
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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Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
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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Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
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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Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
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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Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
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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Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
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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Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
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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Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
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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Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
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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Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
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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Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
Oh, my goodness. We would have derailed. Yeah.
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Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
Yeah, we'd be talking about Starlink.
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Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
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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Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
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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Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
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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Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
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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Overcoming Adversity: Kevan Hueftle "Flea Speaks"
Remember if you aren't farming for profit, you won't be farming for long.
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Overcoming Adversity: Kevan Hueftle "Flea Speaks"
Here we go. 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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Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
Every day is a good day to work.
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America. America. Farm for profit style. That's right. I do feel like I should be flipping burgers on a hot summer day after a round of golf.
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Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
Well, and I will say an argument for the farmer, especially when you get into soybeans, maybe they want to stay within this company's market. realm because right. They have, they're spraying with a certain kind of product, right? Like I might be willing to give up a bushel or two here because I'm not going to switch my sprayer, you know, to a different chemical or whatever. That's just that.
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Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
And I also was going to say on the top or, okay, this is my favorite hybrid. So I've been a big believer in plots. I worked with plots with Corteva and saw that like my biggest argument now that I've been a seed dealer for 10, 11 years is like, I've got these ones that rise to the top and they're the big hitters, right?
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Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
Every year in my plot, my just normal seed plot, nothing fancy, you know, but where, where does seed plots go? Usually on a pretty good, even piece of ground, right? Like you're never going to put it on your tough acre a, because it's not fun to farm and you're already taking time to stop and slow down and do it. But B it's like, well, I want to see what it's, what it's capable of. And yeah,
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Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
I have a hybrid that I know if I put it on 1,000 acres and then I go put this big new dog that won the plot last year over 1,000 acres, I could almost guarantee you that my one that goes all over all the acres, right, is going to rise to the top, right? Yeah. You'll see the big, my dad's going through the field, looking at the yield monitor, hollering, oh, 300 bushel, 300 bushel.
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Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
And this other one's just sitting here doing 250, 255. And then at the end of the day, well, he never told me about the big one swinging down to 210, 200. And all of a sudden, 245 and 250. Old steady Eddie went over my wet ground, my dry ground.
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Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
my crappy ground yeah so that that's hard to replicate in a plot scenario very hard right so then you really have to lean on what your was it the law of averages and you know just get a lot of plots out there yeah a lot of data yeah it back to replications so on average we will have 10 replications we go up to 65 replications of the same number yep across you know the 13 and that's what i don't get in a normal seed dealer plot right i might have a few checks right that's it
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Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
Yeah.
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Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
You know what was fun about the Garmins, though, that were sitting up on the dash, is you could try to beat the time.
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Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
And no longer do you need a fuzz buster, right? People are reporting the speed traps on the interstate and all that.
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Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
You can share like cop ahead, cop ahead.
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Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
On a bad run. Don't they take your license at some point? I always heard three.
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Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
Where do you need to be going so fast? Everywhere.
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Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
It's cold. It's lonely.
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Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
Do you not use your cruise control?
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Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
Yeah, but are you tying that into the acre shield? Are you tying the economical, not only agronomic, but economical, this cost with the performance? Are you tying that together?
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Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
Well, and there's even in the seed industry, there's different zone pricing. Oh, yes. Right? Like you can go buy the same hybrid cheaper across this line.
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Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
Yeah.
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Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
Yeah.
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Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
It's really easy to lean on the relationships when corn $6, right? Like it's, yeah, I'm making money. I'm going to give Dave the business when it gets down to, if I don't cut my cost by 50 or 75 or a hundred dollars, wherever you're sitting. And that's the difference between me making money and absolutely losing money. I'm sorry about the relationship.
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Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
Like, I got to do what's right for my business. But I hate that. Right? But now I'm getting shopped around like crazy. Way more this year on Seed from... And it's not even a price thing. It's the gimmicks. It's the free fuel trailer type stuff. You know who I'm talking about? It's like... You don't get anything for free. It's good marketing.
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Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
I'm going to tell you right now, you're not getting anything for free.
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Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
You're locked in for three years. The price isn't that bad. Change isn't bad this year, but you're going to pay for it one way or another. But I digress.
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Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
On our farm, I feel like we were already kind of set up for this. Dad's been through some tougher times and all that kind of stuff. We bought the sprayer. We started buying our own chemicals and managing that side of things, whereas that's a huge savings there. So if you don't have a sprayer... Or you don't even need to own one.
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Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
You can just find someone that sprays right on the side and they'll do it for whatever. And then you can buy your own chemicals, right? For you can save 40, 50 bucks an acre, boom, right off the top from not, not going to the co-op. Right. It's crazy. Like what you can save there. Um, but I'm focusing on knowing my numbers way, way more granular. Um, and,
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Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
actually hiring some people like a, a fractional CFO and things like that to really start like diving in. Cause what can I do with my time? Knowing time is probably the biggest factor that I've, I've found throughout doing this podcast is my biggest asset. Cause farmers are notorious for not valuing their time.
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Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
But if I can not have to sit in the office eight hours a week, 15 hours a week, whatever it is, and I can actually go and, work on my relationship with my landlords, clean up this farm, maybe possibly gain some acres here or there. What is that value? I can actually work on the farm.
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Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
It's just not doing... Yeah, I'm not eliminating it, but I'm eliminating the stress that I just can't sit there and just... deal with the numbers constantly for myself. There's a lot of people that might, if you like that, by all means, that is worth your time to do that.
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Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
That is the other thing we've been really trying to focus. I feel like our grain marketing has been a lot on feel, a lot of feelings, and I don't like... I've been trying to separate feelings out of the farm. I want to have data to make good decisions.
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Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
Yeah, we will. We could all put the shirts on afterwards and smack a few around.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
Well, A, to go to Harvard. He had to have some money to go to Harvard and to have an investment, a speculative investment at 31 on real estate. He had to have some money, right?
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Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
Yeah. But what I hear is that's amazing. There's a lot of 31 year olds that don't have any of that to lose. Right. Yeah. Right. At the time. But what I'm, what I'm hearing is you're young, take your risk. Cause look what you can, you can, you can lose everything. Right. And rebuild. No problem. Yeah. Yeah.
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Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
So which one's going to a trillion?
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Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
$25 is like, put it in for a product in. Sure.
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Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
Yeah, I hate these times as farmers, or most farmers, I think, do, right? Like, you were cheering $10 soybeans. Two years ago, we would have been cussing $10. Like, we're not going to $10. We can't make $10. No, we can't. It's... I don't know, but I'm trying to get myself in a mindset looking at it differently.
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Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
So I want to know if you can't spell agronomy. Neither can Dave. Well, I got a funny story about that too. I actually, when I worked for a co-op coming right out of college, I actually made signs that said agronomy and I didn't, I spelled it right, but I didn't proof the sign people and it spelled agromony. So I can't spell it either, apparently. And I still have one of those signs.
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Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
It's kind of funny.
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Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
Exactly.
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Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
No regrets? None? You're self-proclaimed non-agronomist, and you haven't even started testing these yet. How did you even know where to start? And how do you know that there's not something that might give you 50 to 60 bushel out there?
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Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
So I'm going to commend you for that because out of that sheet that we said, that web, I don't know of any others that would actually put their money where their mouth is. No, we're actually going to at least stand behind this. I think some companies try to do that with seed. several years ago. Right. And I don't think they're doing that anymore.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
So let's say you have 10,000 acres of corn. And you do your check block that you guys are applying to, right? So you're basing it off of that. Four check blocks per farm. Right. But the rest of the acres, the farmer is probably required to put it on?
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Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
Yeah, what are the rules and the process to make sure, like, that they actually applied it correctly, you know, and go, hey, I got a claim, it didn't work, you know, how hard is it going to be to jump to the hoops?
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Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
Like, hey, if I listen to Farm for Profit podcast and I'm a good farmer and I implement some of the things that they do, like there's going to be opportunities here, right? Like, so I'm trying to get myself into that mindset. Like, yes, it's going to be painful, but if we're a good manager, we have the right tools. We do some of the good stuff that these guys tell us to look into, right?
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Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
So it doesn't matter if he, the farmer, didn't do it right and it doesn't get it, as long as those four check. Right. Check show.
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Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
Hey, maybe the cream can rise to the top.
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Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
And that's all built into your models. I mean, right?
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Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
You're getting it. You did take it to silage. I know.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
I want to use your 0% for tile. Right? Like, that should give me 25, 30 bushel. Yes.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
It's crazy because I remember talking to you a couple years ago and you're like, the cash in accounts is amazing. Amazingly high. Like it's an all-time high. Where did it all go? Groceries?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
I mean, every time you bought a new house, yeah, sure, you sold your old one, but... Yeah, so how does it get fixed? Or is this just the new normal?
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Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
I fell for the fuel trailer.
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Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
And some courage. Yes, and they all feed off of each other in my mind. If one's off, all the others kind of go out of whack. Yeah, they do.
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Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
It could be like, what's that one seed company? I'm not going to say their name, no free ads, but like, hope your combine's hungry for this hybrid. Oh, yeah. Well said. Better build another bin. Yeah.
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Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
I think it's because... Like seed treatments have become just such the norm, right? Yeah. Yeah, we just do it, right? We've spent 20 years proving that, you know, more times than not, having a fungicide and insecticide and whatever on the seed, you know, is going to probably be beneficial to my farm. So I don't need to know whether it's going to work anymore.
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Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
That's the challenge I think I could see you having is there's so many different ways for – there's so many different microbiologicals or biologicals, and there's so many ways to apply them, right? In-furrow, two-by-two, over-the-top, with your post-pass, with your funericide, with your side dress, on the seed. It's like – So you're going to have to rigorously get it.
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Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
We haven't heard anything yet. Haven't heard anything. I think Mitchell's going to be down in Kansas City. He is. We should dive into that with him as well. I think on the biological thing and what I've said, because I've tried several on the farm and I can't tell you that I have seen... I like to see it over all my acres, right? I could go to a spot in a field that shows you 15 bushel, right?
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Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
You know, that's why they always want your data, so they can go pick that up. Look, look right here. But... I've never said it doesn't work. What I've said is it's not my limiting factor. I do believe in the technology of some of this stuff, but maybe we're not doing some of the basics or some of the other things that we needed to be taking care of as a farmer first.
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Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
Maybe we need lime on the ground or change our tillage practice or get a better seed or whatever type of a deal.
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Trying New Farming Practices with Your Risk Mitigated - Billy Rose AcreShield Guarantee
I did that once. We did. During the Christmas show. Yeah. Yeah.
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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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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
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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Closing the Yield Gap: Protecting Farmers’ Profits w/ Acre Shield
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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Closing the Yield Gap: Protecting Farmers’ Profits w/ Acre Shield
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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Closing the Yield Gap: Protecting Farmers’ Profits w/ Acre Shield
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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Closing the Yield Gap: Protecting Farmers’ Profits w/ Acre Shield
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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Closing the Yield Gap: Protecting Farmers’ Profits w/ Acre Shield
And now you got to have something that can take the grain away from that. That sounds like a lot.
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Closing the Yield Gap: Protecting Farmers’ Profits w/ Acre Shield
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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Closing the Yield Gap: Protecting Farmers’ Profits w/ Acre Shield
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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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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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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Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
So you have to go through a little bit of the pain before you can come and get the easy way with me or something like that. I don't know. Maybe it's not right, but I thought you worked with a good agronomist. Yeah.
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Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
So my farm, we've been cash and carry. We have sprayed all of our crops since I was coming up. That was one of the first things I did on the farm that meant more than just a 40-20, you know, tearing down trees, you know. It was sitting in the 7800 back in the early 2000s when aphids come in, and Dad put me in the 7800 pulling a hardy sprayer, you know, like 60 or 80-foot boom, and boom.
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That was my first experience with it, and stay off the rose, right? So cash and carry, we like to do all of our planning, budgeting, and purchasing of all the inputs that we can, either late December or early January, depending tax-wise. We really like to know where our costs are going to be because we are a numbers-driven business, and we're farm-for-profit podcasts, right?
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So we need to know that instead of making a decision that's based off emotion in season. So that's what we're getting into. It's middle of December right now. Dad has typically done this. He is a guy that likes to sit in the office and will be in there for what seems like weeks, right? Doing all the research on this stuff. And he's stepping back from that.
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Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
So it is my brother and I's opportunity to do that. I've always had a hand in it and know it well. I probably won't be as thorough as my dad was. So I would like to go through what I'm going to do and where AgExplore could insert themselves. I just don't know that we should just jump in and just start talking products, though.
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Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
I'm going to say it's in my decision-making and it's no specific product or placement of product or anything like that that I have a goal to change. It's I am looking for simplicity. Okay. And let's see. A lot of times you can go simple and maybe not as effective. I want effective and simple, right? You want all the things. I want all of it. But us as farmers... We don't take less on our plate.
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That you learned something.
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It seems like we're the plumber, we're the marketer, we're the electrician, we're the grain hauler, we're everything, right? We're trying to be a jack-of-all-trades. And what I've tried to do on our farm, and the podcast has helped me see this, is we only have so many hours in a day. And our time is our most precious thing. Asset, not the money in the bank account. That helps.
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You can buy time with money, but we need the time. And as the podcast pulls me this way and seed sales pull me this way and farming is my main job is still pulling me harder because as I said, my dad's stepping back. Family's in there somewhere too because 11 years, right? Right, 11 years with my wife and my kids are wanting to go to Disney and travel and all this stuff. We need time, right?
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So I want... I want to surround myself with a great team of people that are smart, and I want to make things more simple. Dad, I'm not saying that you did things wrong in this aspect, but he had the time to sit there and research and pinch pennies and save. I remember in mid-2000s, we were saving $18,000. just by not buying our chemicals from the co-op, from our local retailer.
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And we like to work with our co-op, right? It's not to cut them out and not do business locally. It's just we're not paying for their service because we're knowledgeable. We all went to college at Iowa State University, and we have the ability to educate ourselves. So... I'm not going to sit in the office and pinch pennies like that.
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I'm going to surround myself with a guy like maybe price a few people and go, that's who works with me best. Maybe they're not the cheapest. They provide me the most value. Let's go. So that's what I'm looking for. Simple. Got it. But not cheap. Simple is not, what is it? Cheap is not cool. Cool is not cheap. Something like that.
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I don't know.
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Tanner is very cheap.
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Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
And you've come a long ways of finding that necessarily the cheapest thing isn't always the best quality of product. So there is some mixture in there of obviously we're below cost of production in a lot of production agriculture. But going to the cheapest thing necessarily isn't.
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That would be an extremely boring show, but probably valuable. I am guessing it would be valuable.
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Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
Yeah. And I just want to preface again, I'm not trying to shit. Retails, like the local co-op is very valuable to people. There's a lot of people that don't own the spray rig that need that agronomist. That's not what your advice was to me. No, it was. It was. I told you to go with it because I wanted you to learn, right? There is a value to their service. I'm just saying we own a sprayer.
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Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
It's like get two fungicides, right? That's exactly it. One of the best ROIs on the farm is only... Is two fungicides. Is... Is owning a sprayer, is putting in tile, is owning a grain bin. Like there's simple things that like, okay, yes, I can easily pencil that. The banker will give me a loan for that tomorrow. Right. But if you don't own one, then yes, there. Very valuable. Don't get me wrong.
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I use the co-op for fertilizer. I use the co-op for grain marketing and things of that nature.
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Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
Right. And so we shook things up probably in the last five years where we went – Typical Midwest farm, especially right here in Central Iowa, was either a fall or spring anhydrous application of nitrogen. And they would put it all up front. Maybe, just maybe, you would get a side dress, but not normally.
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And it would be a dry map and a potash application that is either a removal or a removal plus, you know, type application. Works, right? Yeah. We know that. That's like the basics, right? When you're going to basketball camp, learning how to dribble and jump stop, not travel. That's the basics. But in the last five years, we've went to strip till.
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Not for the... I call myself... What do I call myself? Not a real strip tiller. Like...
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Trying to think which one that was. You played a couple voicemails for me.
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the the fancy strip tillers kind of the wish version put their yeah i'm the wish version of strip till the fancy strip tillers put put their nose up at me because i'm not doing like a dry fertilizer or a liquid fertilizer in furrow i'm doing it for the logistics farming is like to me is a big logistics game and it's to i'm killing two birds with one stone i'm putting my my some of my nitrogen on my base layer and i'm making my uh soil my my seed bed in the soil
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So I'm eliminating the field cultivator and a nitrogen pass in the spring. So when I go through in the fall, Ready to plant, hopefully, as long as everything goes good. So that's changed things up to where I tried some liquid in the furrow, kind of gone away from that because that's gotten to be a logistical nightmare as well.
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Too many things going on at once to where we're still putting on dry fertilizer. So that's kind of how our nutrition looks like. Planter, I am doing a – so nitrogen-wise, putting 100 to 140 units on. with anhydrous planter 2x2x2 I'm doing a mixture of 32 and ATS to get some sulfur
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and some more nitrogen, and then we do have Y-drops that were coming in, try to push that to V10, V15, a late-season application. I like that pass. We really don't necessarily need those units usually, but if we know it was a wet year like this last year, we kind of know that we lost some nitrogen that we can actually call late-season audible and do that.
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Oh, and how you advocate.
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You haven't seen Tony Reed's TikTok?
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Here we go. I'm going to do it for the camera here. Here's your soil surface and your planter is coming through and planting the seed two to two and a half inches deep. We're talking corn here.
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Right? So your seed's right here. But we're talking soil surface. You're two inches over. And two inches down. So really, you're right next to the seed. Now, two by two by two would be on both sides of the seed. Ah. I thought Dave was a second-year farmer. Shouldn't you know this, Dave? Come on. Right.
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And so you have basically, well, there's several ways, but the two main ways that you can apply fertilizer with your planter, Dave, is you can do in-furrow, which would be like on or under the seed. Correct. In the furrow where the seed's going right here would be... Right around there. We've got to be really careful because there's certain different loads of salt.
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There's certain products that you don't want on seed because seed can be messed up. So that's where you put your high-load fertilizers like nitrogen, whatever. You're getting it away from the seed but still in that region.
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We have. And not because we're not into it, but... Just been a policy. That's not saying that we shouldn't or can't have a spinoff show. That is ag policy, right?
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So. You're talking in every application, right? I'm doing a try to do a fall. This year will be fall and spring and hydrous. And then we're doing some 28 or 32 UANs. And that would be with the planter and with Y-drops. So you're talking both applications there? You can, yes.
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We have used nitrogen stabilizers. Gosh, it was a while ago, right? So you can probably...
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know what product it was um you know injected on an anhydrous bar um that was just a pain in the button itself right is the injection process working it's a very uh corrosive product um so you're constantly rebuilding pumps every year um just something else right it's not in the tank simplicity that's not simple um so that that would be my downfall of my experience with it.
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And that's, I think we've used some stuff in the UAN in the past. Seemed pretty easy. Just mixed in there. Had no complaints over that.
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And I need to preface this. You've got to be careful with that word, too. You probably need to slide this way for the camera. Oh, you're on that camera. Okay. I need to preface this as well, right? I made a recommendation of anhydrous is the cheapest form per pound of nitrogen. Okay. Right? Yeah.
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You did split it up and put... You had a base of anhydrous last fall, and you did some with your pre-emergent herbicide, UAN. Right? So you split it up kind of, right? You didn't do any in-season. Nope. What we found out was when Dave... was disking doing a little tillage spring in March. We got back from commodity classic and he's like, I gotta go. I gotta do something.
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People are out in the field. All the BTOs are going. I gotta go. I gotta do something. I'm like, all right, yeah, get your disc out there. Whatever. We'll start what, you know, you gotta, you gotta scratch that itch. Uh, we found, and we were in a drought. We had, it had not rain coming out of winter. We had a little bit of snow, not much. It was muck four inches down. Right.
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I'm like, Ooh, we're, we're wet sitting wet when it's dry. Uh, And then we had a really wet spring. And then we come to late July, and we're firing. And when I'm talking firing, we're firing yellow up the plant almost to the ear leaf. And I'm like, we lost nitrogen, Dave. This ain't good. I like anhydrous, but I think our mild winter hurt us. Yeah. And so it's – I told Dave to go away from –
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My typical plan because of his field that sits, I mean, that's why it's field by field basis, right? Like it's sitting in a river. Correct.
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Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that sat, and I think we lost nitrogen because it sat saturated.
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So is this a case? I didn't recommend a stabilizer. I recommended a management change. Is that something that I should have done or should I have recommended a stabilizer?
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And the naysayers would always say, well, why wouldn't I take that money and just put 10 more pounds on?
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I'm going to ask this. I think I know the question, but I want to go down to your elementary level, Dave, for some people. We put a stabilizer on an anhydrous or on a UAN. It is working because it is keeping it in a form that is not leachable.
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So you're not changing the form or holding the form.
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But the other stuff that is holding the form, it's still in a form that the plant can use.
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And that would just go in the anhydrous tank?
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But you just won't have to rebuild the pump.
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I mean, we took the dang thing off because we didn't want to be tempted to use it anymore because it was such a pain in the butt. Yeah. You made me choke on that area.
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And that was the other reason we took that off. It's like, we're talking about all these microbiologicals and all that. Like, why would we put something that is negative against them? Yeah.
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Okay. Yeah. I mean, I would like to go, I, what I kind of want to do, and I've wrote this down as I want to go through a typical Midwest farm. What, and then what I do is, And I would like to know where Ag X can insert itself. So actually before, sometimes before the planter would roll, maybe after is actually pre-emergent herbicide.
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Well, not after this morning's meeting. That is not the case. No.
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Anyway, so yes, let's go before the planter, say we're going out there putting some pre-emergent herbicides down. Is there something that we should be doing? I've seen a lot of things like with humics or some nutritionals along with the ride. Is that something where AgX could help?
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Maybe it would be a burndown. I should say, I should say burndown too. There's a lot of no tillers and we actually have gotten into that on the strip till side, throwing in some 240 or whatever, because we're not getting rid of the early weeds with tillage. So
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Why is that? What does humic and fulvic do?
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We're going to get into that. We're going to get into that. I mean, is that everything on the pre-emerge and burn down side?
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I mean... As soon as you make an input purchase for the next season is when the season starts. Growing season, like physiologically growing a plant, goes when soils warm up and you're actually doing applications for 2025. It might be March. It might be April.
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Yeah, 100%. We made input purchases for next year before the combine.
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What do we call that, accrual?
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technically a cruel we're a cruel agronomy yeah this is 25 but we're still dealing with 24 over here yeah yeah and you can deal with 26 and i mean you can go as far as i mean it's all about management so now this is going to get really drawn out if we don't just stay pointed so planter a lot of planters do not have a liquid infra or two by two by two or two by two system so let's talk just a bare planter we're planting seeds
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Is there something that AgExplorer can help me with just planting my seeds?
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How much technology can you put in a powder?
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You got to put graphite or talc on your seed right for flowability. Yep. Um, a lot of guys do an 80, 20 blend or whatever. And so this is just something that you're putting it on there. You might as well have some goodies.
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And I have in furrow on my planter. Haven't used it the last two years because it's not simple. And I chose to put my eggs into the two by two basket, right? I felt like I got more value. It was easier. I knew how many units of nitrogen I was getting my sulfur felt like even when I was using some starters in furrow, that if I had a deficiency, it was always sulfur visually in the plant. Right.
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So I decided, and what we were doing before I did the two by two was we were doing most of our sulfur with our side dress application. Well, we pushed that too late into the season. We weren't getting it in time.
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That's what I said. Are you deaf? Did you not hear the man? All right. So what kind of product? Are we talking nutritionals? Are we talking something that's going to help things stick around? Are we talking biologicals? What are we looking at?
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So it's like a seed treatment or like in-furrow?
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A couple things in common that I've heard is this humic and fulvic of we always need a food source. I will say we have moved to that of always having a quart or two of a humic source with our 2x2x2, with our Y-drops, just to have that. We felt like we've seen consistent results with that. We are a big... uh, data driven farm.
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Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
Uh, like I said at lunch today that we have a third party company that sets up all of our trials and we throw a lot of trials in on them and make their life a living hell, but analyze like they don't have a skin in the game of, uh, I don't care if this product works or doesn't.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
And when you can take the emotion out of that decision and you can see this works four out of five times, this ROI is 3.4 times to one. Because that is one thing I also want to, the stigma in ag of fungicide. Well, that's an ROI. It paid for itself. No, that costs you money if it just paid for itself, right? Because no one's valuing their dang time and the application to go do it.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
That thing needs to at least be two, if not three X of what you paid for that product as a farmer. Like I said in the beginning, I need it simple and my time is worth more than ever. Yep. If I'm just doing this to pay myself back, you're losing money. You're losing money, right? So, all right. In-furrow and two-by-two, that's what we got for that.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
Our next thing that we would do is a post-emergence pass on corn or beans, right? So we all need to go spray some herbicide unless you're organic. Obviously, that's a trip across the field. Are we doing something there? Is there something that can help our herbicides? And then there is their nutritional... Or technology. I hear technology. I think of little computer chips and this stuff.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
Or a drone.
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Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
So I got to throw you the softball here because your agronomist avoided it too. You're talking about stress on the plants and nutritionals and all that. But like you guys have in your portfolio things that help herbicides work better that are every farmer, every agronomist knows that we need a crop oil or we need an MSO or we need this or that. Like, right. So. Yep.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
Just talk about that a little bit.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
If you would have done this, Dave, with your fungicide, you would have doubled and applied.
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Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
Yeah. College kids what?
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Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
For your fungicide or for your herbicide?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
Even though the college kid was maybe doing the application or the younger guy was doing it. Oh, somebody else did the – The co-op is usually doing a program, right, that has – and they have to have their commercial pesticides applicator's license. They have to read the labels. It's a big deal. You have to stay on label. You cannot go double apply –
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Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
a herbicide, because there's only so much that you can put on at one time and through the season. So when you go through your applicator's license, you learn all that. The bigger deal is... you mentioned earlier is weeds and the pressures that are increasing and the resistance that is increasing to like, uh, weeds that we cannot kill. And so a lot of this is driven by what did you have packaged?
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Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
Like the chemistry can only go so far, but if it can't get into the plant, right. Cause if your pH of your water is wrong, If it didn't burn through the leaf cuticle like it should. And I'm going to tell you what, from the seed industry, we don't have a new technology coming for seven or eight years. So we're stuck with Enlist. And if you still do dicamba and then you got drift issues there.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
So like we're stuck here. So we better start getting some effectiveness right now.
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Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
Yeah, that waterhemp up here is getting ridiculous. Yeah. And there's nothing more frustrating than when you sprayed something and it doesn't die.
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Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
Do it again. Yeah.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
Okay. So jumping on now, we did our post-emergence herbicide. Now we're probably looking at on the corn side of a side dress application. So usually we're looking at nitrogen. Last year I actually did some potassium because I missed a couple dry applications because it got so dang wet. I was planning to do early and. So what are we looking at there? I'm guessing humic and fulvic again.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
I mean, so our farm would be V10 to V15, but I would say people would start side dressing with a normal side dress coulter bar right around the time of herbicide or right after.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
Do you think that every in-season nitrogen application should have some sulfur in it?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
Cause don't they kind of go hand in hand a little bit?
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Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
Right. I would agree. Yeah. And that's why we're doing, we're splitting it up, you know? So I've even, I didn't even say it at the beginning. I've even started playing around with AMS as a dry product before planting. Um,
Farm4Profit Podcast
Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
Soybeans need nitrogen too. They only produce about 60% of their nitrogen that they actually need from nodulation.
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Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
I love the manure play on... So you're talking cattle, I'm assuming. On both sides. I'm talking hogs. I like to put it in front of corn, right? Get some nitrogen and the micros and P and K, sulfur. But then I don't have to apply because I got such a heavy load on the next year for beans.
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Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
Yeah, because it's not all available the first year. So that's been our go-to for our manure acres, but obviously not everyone has manure. I wish I could have it on every acre, but that's the good stuff. So, all right, we just side-dressed. Now we're kind of sitting around. I mean, you could go do a nutritional, but most farms would probably be looking at a fungicide and insecticide on corn.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
maybe just fungicide, and then a couple weeks later, maybe some fungicide, insecticide on soybeans. So where do you fall in helping there?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
Yep. Seems like there can be a lot of stress there. And sometimes we get a benefit out of fungicide, even though there's not a disease presence, it seems like. And I think it's a stress thing. Would it not be that?
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Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
Do you know what PGR is, Dave? I don't. I know we talked about it last time. Not the bar. It's a good beer. Yeah.
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Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
Yeah. I would like to do, I don't even want to dive into PGRs today. I want to do a show on PGRs this coming because I feel like that word gets thrown around a lot. I think we said this last time we were together, Zach. And there's some that do completely separate things. Yeah.
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Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
For the generic farmer that's just trying to be simple like myself out there. I'm not trying to be NCGA, you know. I would like to dive into that sometime because I'm not doubting that there's a value. I just want to understand it and where it could work on my phone. Are you saying your Walmart brand?
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Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
I'm trying to do things simple. Look, I love the high-yield guys. It's cool. We learn a lot from them, but also it's not practical when you're trying to do things simply and grow –
Farm4Profit Podcast
Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
farms under cost of production or grow crops under cost of production on thousands of acres so what you're saying is stay tuned for the pgr yes okay because we would never be done we would not be done today big topic we would not be done today and i have a sneaking suspicion gunny would need to be here for that yes as well so all right so we got that late season nutritionals
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Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
Going back to the high-yield guys, they all would. I've heard them say. Going back to the Helobo farms, right? Yeah. Helobo farms. Usually, once I do Funderside, I'm done. I'm done for the year. I've sat in the sprayer long enough. But the high-yield guys go, no, you've got to do another pass.
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Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
It does seem like if I could go back 10 years – It was so much driven by how many kernels are on that ear of corn, right? We need to have plants and we need to have ears and consistency in kernels is what we're talking about. I've gotten some pretty dang, some of my best yields on stuff that I, if you kernel counted, it was like, ah, it's going to be average. Yeah.
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Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
And then all of a sudden it's 50 bushels over that. Well, and then you look at the depth of the kernel and all that. We had the right end of the season between rainfall, products that were out there, mineralization. So I do think there's a spot for that late-season nutrition to really pack the pounds on, get some test weight out there. So, yeah, I would agree.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
Post-emergence, side dress, fungicide is my four. Yeah. Okay. Four with a sprayer, right? And if you want to count planting, I guess.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
And strip-till.
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Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
Yeah. You don't want to start getting into how many products we spray during bean application like the tender sprayer.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
Right. So, yes, I think we did a good job of not really diving into just products. I just wanted to go through where... You guys could insert yourself on my farm because I'm coming into a decision season, a purchasing season of what I'm going to do on my farm for next year. So thank you for doing that. I think AgExplorer is going to be a tremendous partner and value because.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
I think you would tell me when I don't need a product. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. Right? Like, you don't just want to sell me a product. Anyone can do that. Like I said, I need partners to make my life simpler. It's not necessarily I need to use simpler products or whatever. I just need someone to help me out.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
Cool. Do you want to highlight at all what we're going to be looking at with... These guys in 25 to look forward to?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
I don't believe Dave had a girl over at the house to have blankets in the state. In the basement.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
Yep. I'm just excited because I've said this in other shows and back channels of talking with Zach, but I sold proprietary products and nutritional products in 2010 for a competing company. And these guys were a huge thorn in my side then. So they've been around, and I think that gives so much validity. It's not one of these companies that have just popped up over the last five years.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
You see that web chart of people in this space, and that's a lot. It's a lot. So I love that you guys have the boring adjuvants to go along with the cool technology. So I'm excited. I think it's going to be pretty cool. Got a cool story.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
I'm excited to bring you guys to people. uh, everyone that we've talked to of, and in your, your, even your employees of like, why, why, why ag X, why ag explore? And it's, it's the people. And we saw that when we came down to Missouri and met with you guys, it's the relationship. I'm talking earlier, people buy from people, right? Everyone's probably got a good product here or there. Uh,
Farm4Profit Podcast
Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
I just love the relationship that we've established already and that we're going to develop going through the next year and hopefully years to come. So, like, we need to get a dog together to see how everybody... I was going to say, have you stated a VRBO with Corey yet?
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Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
Yeah. So it's not just about pushing, push, push, push. It's about why, and I'm excited for that.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
Yeah, but it got hot in here a little bit ago.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
It's crazy. It can be freezing outside, but the sun is an amazing power, right? Like it can come in and greenhouse effect. And just, I was sweating a little bit ago. Maybe it was a little bit of the bourbon.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
got repeat guests, Zach and Brent, here on the podcast. And before we dive into anything of why you guys are here, let's just get the whole overview, who you are, what do you do with AgX, and go from there. Brent, you want to start? Yeah, I'll start.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
Say that again, Dave. Concierge. What's the definition? Rachel, what's the definition of concierge?
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Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
So to go through that, I kind of need to back up and say how my farm operates a little bit and how Dave's farm operates because he's a first-year grower. Well, actually, you're planting for your second season. So no longer are you a first-year grower. That's right.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Inside the Farm Plan: Corey Talks Growing Season Strategies w/ AgXplore
So to preface that a little bit, I made Dave go all through the co-op last year, even though I have a sprayer and we cash and carry our own chemicals and things like that. I wanted Dave to get that retail experience and know why, because I wasn't going to be able to provide as much clarity as a retail agronomist would, right?
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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.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
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.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
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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Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
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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Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
We don't have to worry about it. So they really made that thing run smooth.
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Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
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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Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
You know we're live. We're going tractor pulling. We're going tractor pulling.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
So everything has tradeoffs. So I imagine what you're gaining from dumping hot is capacity.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
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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Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
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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Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
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Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
Unless it was last fall.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
So typically we try to get to around 15%. If you were going to hold longer than a year, what would you recommend?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
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.
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Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
I wonder if it's John down there in Yuma. Yeah, we might friend John. We've got a good friend down there that grows lettuce. Yes. If not, we'd love to talk to him for sure.
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Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
Maybe we'll have a sponsor for that. A little bit of Corey's keeping.
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Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
Yeah.
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Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
Yeah, I noticed right after the report and I didn't get to see the stuff because we're, like Tanner said, recording. But I saw beans were up like 15 plus-ish and corn was up seven or eight cents at one point. The board's still green, but not what it was.
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Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
So I know you talked a little bit about the report, but do you have the numbers that came out? Or I mean, can you run through some of that stuff and what they mean?
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Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
I was going to say, it sounds governmental.
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Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
On Facebook.
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Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
Just Facebook. Who uses Facebook?
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Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
I mean, you bring up a good point this week, uh, Was the election and a new administration got voted in the Trump administration that has been in office before. So we kind of have a knowledge of what his policies are going to be going forward. Is that going to have a big effect on trade and these commodities, you think?
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Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
I think the reviews on Spotify and Apple are probably the most important.
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Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
Yeah.
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Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
I mean, I am getting back to more of a 50-50 rotation, just logistically wise on our own farm. But still, if you run the numbers, there's not a whole lot of reason to grow beans compared to corn. If you can grow corn on corn decently. Is that what you're going to try, Dave?
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Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
That's good for loans, right?
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Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
Yeah. So. I mean, look at my Robin Hood from just this week. Yeah. I'm up like two grand on my, I mean, that's kind of my spec account. He made two grand on $5.
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Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
They did.
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Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
So interest is still higher, even though they cut rates. I mean, still higher than the last five years. Is that playing a factor in coming into your guys' marketing decision? I mean, I know there's a little bit of carry in the market, but not a ton. Yeah.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
So are you guys making those suggestions to your customers right now?
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Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
I just always like to throw in, you can call or text us 515-207-9640. That's another way you can connect with us on a more personal level. It goes right to Tanner. He filters all those and then he sends them on to Dave and I sometimes and then we never respond.
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Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
If you're not taking, say, your cash, like you said, Dave, you could – be taking that cash and putting it to work for you right in the bank and the CD and interest in the other way.
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Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
So our operation might be a little unique. So yeah, we didn't turn the dryer on on our operation this year. The wettest corn we harvested was 16 and a half to 17%. Went right in the bin to put a fan on it. It was warm enough at the time that we could dry it down to the 15 that we wanted. but a majority of our corn was harvested under 15%. Yeah, 11%, 12%. That's the driest we've ever harvested.
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Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
I don't think it made our decision on where we went with it, but it certainly affected... Our yield, right? Just in moisture alone, right? Because we're selling weight. 15, 15 and a half percent is ideal. You take the moisture down to 11%. You have just physically lost weight of the kernel, right? Weight of the bushel that you're the opportunity to sell water. So that hurt yields.
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Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
And then the agronomic factor of just a dry yield. cob, a dry kernel is going to head shell more. You're going to lose more harvest loss.
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Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
It's still hard to do. Yeah. Probably can, but.
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Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
When does the acres discussion, the fight between corn, soybeans, wheat, and all that get started or has it already started?
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Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
I'm just thinking about South America and how we've just become a second fiddle, really. I mean, they produce more than we do.
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Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
Yeah, we actually have some planned already on our farm. And I tell you what, we got done with harvest like 10 days ago. And I think I've been busier in these last 10 days than we were during harvest because we push everything aside that we need to get done, even though it's a priority. But harvest is the main priority.
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Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
corn seed if i remember correctly so there is some probably some yield drag there there is advantages access to ground um they got cheap cheaper ground they got more ground they can develop and then get three crops a year in a lot of places right or two or three or whatever they can double crop they always have something growing some sugar cane and some soybeans something you know yeah yeah Cool.
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Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
What's our next thing that we should be looking at report-wise for marketing?
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Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
Yep. Carbon intensity score. Yep. Yep. That'll be interesting to see because that's really wasn't slated to come out until like Q2, I think, next year, 2025.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
So they lowered corn yields slightly, but I have seen a lot of emergency corn piles in a lot of places. How is that going to affect or what's the basis outlook?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
And now it's all this planning that we're trying to get done because there's a lot to handle for next year and there's a lot on the line.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
I need to find out where this, uh, female is. It's paying 40 cents.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
And that's the job of basis, right? It should be higher and pull grain from a further...
Farm4Profit Podcast
Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
And isn't Iowa like a net importer anyway, even on a good year of corn?
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Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
Yeah, I have several consultants, a lot of people on our team. I've probably never like physically set up the actual consulting, you know, like the whole meeting of everyone. But yeah, I got way too many phone calls every day between our group and then several of our peers and people that we keep close.
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Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
Good. Well, the next, okay, let's say till the end of the year, you got one thing, what would you tell tell guys to be, to be doing what they're green in the bins?
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Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
So we're not that far off. Crazy.
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Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
I mean, I wish I would have sold last year for this time, you know, $5 type stuff, but five plus. Yeah. Why not? But. Yeah. I still feel that way, I guess.
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Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
No, not necessarily. Some of them are not.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
And then if you piled it on the ground, like an emergency ground pile, like they weren't planning on it. They have to file for a permit to get it done there. And like you have ground moisture that could come up. And the days that the co-ops are flooding the ethanol plants with their ground piles and cleaning them up.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
I get docked for some musty smell or high moisture or something, and these guys are rolling in, and I'm talking chunks of just rotten corn are coming in and sitting on top of the grates. And I'm like, I wonder how much they're getting docked. Probably not at all.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
Lots, but I would also say that most of the guys sold a year in advance. I doubt it. Okay. Maybe if they did is a little bit.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
And I would say in those years that were, I'm going to call this last year, like a slow bleed, right? Like just keeps going down, never feels like it's going back up. And when we were looking, when it was 2023, spring of 23, and we were looking at fall of 24, like I'm pretty sure it was lower. Right. So you were looking at six dollar corn that you could sell now.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
And well, next year out of the field, five, five dollars or five, five fifty even.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
Why do I sell anything cheaper?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
Yeah. And so that's just very tough. And that's probably why we're behind. Gotcha. You know, so I will go a year to two years out. So I have corn and soybeans sold for twenty, twenty five crop. And I had offers for 26 that never hit. So that's my extent. I mean, you got to have some cojones, you know, that you're going to still be farming in two or three years out, right?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
Depends on what kind of position you're in.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
That's how it works.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
And where are you coming from today?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
Business unusual. Business. I wrote that down. I love that. Yeah. And it's funny. I was just going through some of our comments on social media this morning, and you had the clip about going to college and how you have to come get some of those skills. And there's a lot of farmers that don't, and that's fine.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
But it's absolutely hilarious to think of the people that just get up in arms thinking that you don't need some of these skills to be a good farmer. Yeah. there's a hundred ways to skin this cat, right? A lot. But my gosh, these skills certainly don't hurt it, right?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
You're too old. I don't feel so young anymore.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
You're either a leader or you're not. I'm middle-aged.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
Yeah, what is that? Middle-aged crisis group? It would be a popular one, I'm sure.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
I did.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
And is this a by service? Is it a flat fee? Is it a per acre fee? How does that work?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Breaking Down the November WASDE Report: Andrew Kaabes - Lighthouse Commodities
Before I let you go, I'm curious about scope. Is this a regional thing? Is it a state thing? Is it United States, worldwide?
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
I know what you're talking about. Yeah. I'm cool.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
Chilling, ready to come. She's in the studio chilling right now. Just chilling. That's the one I'm waiting for. Yo, dog. She chilling right now. When she pop out, though, I think it's going to be something.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
I also think it's probably going to be something.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
The EP was hard. It was hard. I didn't hear you. See when that album drop.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
We ain't keeping it low no more, yo. If I fucking hit it out the park and you can help my rep, I'm up in it.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
I ain't gonna hold y'all the other day, pause, for telling y'all. The other day, I'm trying to fucking, I put one leg in my little new Lululemon fucking boxer briefs. And I tried to put the other leg in and got caught in the elastic-y part. Nigga, I fell right the front.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
Why you procrastinate on your fucking ass hair treatment? It burn. Go back, yo.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
You should go to George Jefferson. You should look nice, Is.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
Playing around. Yeah. Oh, my God. Shout out to the ladies listening out there.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
Put your tongue back in your mouth. Oh, man, yo. Fuck you, man.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
Nigga was shy sitting in this shit. You had to put the mumps. All right, man. Don't.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
Where's the stupid fucking song? All right, here we go. All right, here we go, bitch. All right. Oh, my God, yo. Wow.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
Couldn't do it without y'all. Couldn't. This show is not possible without y'all. Actually, this show is dedicated to y'all.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
Yo, y'all so corny. These are the same niggas said they was looking for three stacks.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
Nigga stealing. More Dr. Bars on this. In love with your clavicle.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
Absolutely fire. Popping out for that for sure. Shout out to Drama.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
That's bullshit. Sorry. Trying to get my man itch this week.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
I'm there for you, yo. Like, whatever it is. And I love you.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
I have to fight this nigga if I hug him. He won't take the hug. All right, I'm going. I ain't got nothing else to say. Fuck these niggas.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
I'm sorry. And that was rude. I'm sorry. Totally inappropriate. That was funny. And not true.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
Nah, don't make my... Yo, we coming back for that, nigga. We ain't ending like that.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
Blood in the water. Yo, watch your fucking mouth talking. He talking to my man.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
King Corso's in the dog park. Hey, hey, oh, the Raiwai is in the town.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
I wanted to get into that shit too, but I didn't care about the topic.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
Young Clem, we in here. Nine o'clock in the morning. It might be three, though.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
I said I'd see some ladies in here tonight, I might marry Stone off the Beryan throne is too scary Baby, you can have whatever you like The two Beryans, they took you in the night But you said, I do, I do, I do, I do, you know I do I do, I do, I do, I do, you know I do I do, I do, I do, I do, you know I do I do, I do, I do, I do, you know I do Shout out to wherever you might be listening from.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
All the dope boys and the dope girls out there. And you say New York City. It's us against the world, you know, we both hustling so hustling is our word So all the ladies repeat after me because it's the g-code You come and play my bond if you hit some niggas plotting on me you ring the alarm And that's how you get to me. It's gonna be after the first and last
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
I'd do anything to leave it at night, but you scared.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
Be honest. I'm going to learn something. Yes. I would. I'm going to learn something from you. One of the best niggas on the planet? Yeah, I'm going to get on the record. No, that's not true. You're crazy.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
So now I look like a dick, but I'm driving over there. Drive over there. Drive over there, big boy. I'm in your shit, you bro. Look, you pompous fuck. Look at your butt.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
And now... I've been on the phone with Issh in the club.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
They was in there that night. Okay. So anyway, long story less long, the manager or one of the managers comes over to me and says, yo, dog, the cops is outside. The hip-hop police are outside.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
I know. It's crazy, though. That's my man, boy. He care of himself.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
That's right. All right. Yeah, don't cough over my prize picks. Let my prize picks breathe. Why not?
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
There you go. There you go, champ. I'm not champ. They be saying champ in Cali, too. OG. I'm not champ. I'm not OG. What is your job? No, just Joseph.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
I got to do it. That shit sound whack. Joseph? Yes. Joseph? Nah, man.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
What the fuck are you talking about? Shout out to my thing. Get into it.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
Rest in peace, George Foreman. Rest in peace. Rest in peace, George. On the next Rest in Peace, we got it. I thought you did a great job. I thought you did an amazing job, my nigga.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
Yeah, ship all that Mahomes shit over there.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
Oh, man. Yo. What happened? What happened, Cliff? What's going on? You got another seven hours of work.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
Don't cut me off again. We got at least another seven hours. Stop cutting me off mid-combo. No, I couldn't believe Free said that.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
I think it's fly, too. Like, living with shit. All right. Shit.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
I got a bunch of those. I don't agree with a lot of that shit. What do you disagree with about Parks? Tell him. Tell his ass. Let's set him straight real quick. It's not necessary.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
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The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
Then at 16, you ain't know nobody, no other woman could cook but your mom. My mom ain't cooking. Start venturing out in the world, boy. That good little piece of pussy you bumped into starts screaming to you from the other room.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
Nigga. A couple of them happened. Well, y'all thought it was sweet playing around.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
All right. Let's get to it. All right. We here now, man. I see what type of vibe y'all want today. Everybody had a good move? Let me check the temperature. Great move. Great move. I'm fucking wonderful. Flip, what's up? You good? I feel good, man.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
When you was giving trouble, nigga. Let's go ahead and take the smack.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
No jewelry. No jewelry. It's over for that jewelry. It's over.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
That's not how I want to come off. That's not how I want to present myself.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
Yeah, yeah. Sit here while I go out there and die. Yo, you stupid, yo. Yeah, I'm chilling. You go home, your ear bleeding. You can't hear me.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
That takes your arrogance levels to a new world.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
Tell me how y'all feel when girls smack y'all ass during sex. But when they have in the past?
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
Nigga got a shit, two of them booty ass niggas. Fuck you too. Hey yo, hit me right here, babe. Stupid mother, don't do that. Watch y'all fucking mouth on my man like that.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
No, he gotta watch his mouth. Y'all can laugh. But he can just laugh? Never. Because a white girl ain't gonna laugh.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
I think we should move on. I'll try to figure it out. We can get the sleepers.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
I probably shouldn't do that. Shout out to you, Ish. Defend your queen.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
So I'm done cutting you off. I'm shutting up. I can't read it.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
Okay, so. Mark's enemy tried to stab him. That's a good one. What you got, Ish? Why did he try to stab you? Or is that too much? It don't even matter if you try to stab me, nigga.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
I don't know if I have a worse enemy today. Not to my knowledge, anyway. I don't know. Yesteryear? Yesteryear, shit. Pull out the book. Pull out the book. Hey, back in the day, niggas got great reasons to have Joe Bundy's enemy. Just not recently. And by recent, I mean like 15 years.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
That shit happened with Tanya. You'll never get it.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
But if you're ever this way, man... I don't know about having an old ball and chain. If I wrote Butter Love, man. If I wrote Butter Love, I got a tour of the world, yo. All right, y'all want to talk about Trey Songz' fighting stance, right?
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
I ain't gonna lie. I'm sick of it. That's become a trend. Too much of a thing lately.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
And some of them niggas was hitting the parlay on themselves.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
Some of them niggas was betting on the streaker.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
Throwing shit at a concert, I can't lie. Parks is right. That's really, really bad, too.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
It is. That shit is annoying, but you do understand it.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
If y'all are artists, and I hate asking y'all shit like this because y'all are bums, but if y'all were artists, when would you like your fucking best album to be?
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
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The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
You're going to be right happy. Yesterday at the daytime, she tried to sneak in, but it was such an awkward comment. You know, it's been a while since we had sex in the nighttime.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
You're stealing from the people. If you spent $7 billion on your shit, go pay the 13.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
Ice got a lot of issues, yo, that grandparents didn't fix up.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
You can't do that with a girl on a Saturday night. You at the bar just fucking. You can't. His girl down. You at the bar. And you made eye contact with somebody. I'm about to say, that's what he doing.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
Ish went to his seat. They helped him to his seat. He hopped into his seat. They left the bike parked by me. I started taking pictures.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 811 | "Blood In the Water"
Catching the vibe, chilling. He on a ruptured Achilles. He's standing, look. Checking it out. Yeah, what's up?
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 803 | "One More Dance"
I meant everybody in this room. I don't drive to New York. Don't do that. I've been working here too long. Yeah, I was about to say.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 803 | "One More Dance"
Some niggas get belligerent. Some niggas can't handle their coke, right?
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 803 | "One More Dance"
I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. That's why you ain't mermaid, nigga. You got mermaid? You got mermaid?
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 803 | "One More Dance"
Get it out. No, no. You got to get it out. Dude. We got a ticket to the bank, nigga. I need that. I got a rent.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 803 | "One More Dance"
Well, I mean, I ain't mad at you, but, uh. Oh, shit. That was funny. Looks like we've, uh. Let me stop, man. Oh, shit. Head to the road.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 803 | "One More Dance"
It ain't cheap. I had to get the big band, the extra large band. It came like $1,100 or something.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 803 | "One More Dance"
Why you cut it off, nigga? That shit was a mistake. You know what I mean? That shit was kind of going. Wait, hold up. Holy shit.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 803 | "One More Dance"
Oh, my God. Yo, no. Leave me alone today. I'm not doing it.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 803 | "One More Dance"
Yo, only on podcasts. I would talk to them. Niggas, but I don't. Yo, who talks to their kids, yo? If Flip Kids wasn't his cameraman, he wouldn't talk to them. Talk to them, motherfucker.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 803 | "One More Dance"
We need a couple dollars. That's your call, man. How you feel inside?
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 803 | "One More Dance"
I like Bad Blood. Y'all trippin'. Y'all trippin'.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 803 | "One More Dance"
That's the game now. I hate. That's what all lists are made for. I hate music journals and that.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 803 | "One More Dance"
I will sit in a bar with this nigga tomorrow. Suit me up. And you won't. Suit me up.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 803 | "One More Dance"
You got your wings to go. Mermaid's got them shits expressed. Flew out of there. Flew out of there.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 803 | "One More Dance"
My name's something 25 years in the business. She know Seal, too.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 803 | "One More Dance"
Look at Mark. She was driving, Mark. She wasn't doing shit. She was working.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
You just messed up by saying if, but you know. Yeah.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
I'm going to go to Far Rock. This is King Street's Cut the Stove On.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
That was Cut the Stove On by King Streets. That's off of his project. Sacrificed a lot to get here, too. And your phones, DSPs, all that good stuff.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
And that's when he was scorching everything.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
I hate how hip-hop rewrite their history on cannabis, too.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
Nah, it's just, you know, once that shit happened with the battle and he became, they kind of treated cannabis like a joke, like he wasn't ever ill.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
If you was there, you knew. You better shut the fuck up. You knew. Any mixtape, anything, if it said cannabis, niggas was running right there.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
They wasn't there for it. So, yes, they can't. That's how they doing it.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
Damn. Yo, he might have had one of the greatest rookie seasons ever.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
No, no, not at all. In the house. I stayed in the house all weekend. Binging TV shows.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
Yo, what? Nine-year-olds, bro? They're not going to call a walk.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
One more time, we're going to have to ask you to leave.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
They got the African-American parade in Harlem.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
Well, all these people here, y'all are shooting.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
They don't give a fuck. They want you to get the kid. $30 to get it done, right? What you don't realize is what that $30 gets you. Niggas always want to go to the rental and get the fly shit. No, nigga, that's $70 a day, nigga.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
I don't need to come out now. You heard what Nick told us. She don't leave the house. How much it cost for her to leave the house?
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
You know they caught Mariah and told her who was doing the tribute. They gave her the whole shit to get her out of her bed.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
Not to pop out, though. I could be fly with you.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
Some of these niggas can't tribute. Like today? They can't do the tune. Because again, you want to get names that are going to attract viewership. Exactly. and a lot of these motherfuckers can't sing. They can't sing to the songs that they trying to.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
Come on, bro. They can't sell. Now, again, it's business. We can't sell that to the advertisers. But we can sell, I got this name, this name, this name, this name. I got Trace Ho doing Prince.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
And I got the person that they doing the tribute to sitting here in the crowd. That's what they selling.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
They always leave out a word. They always leave out a word. They support fine black women.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
That's not what he says. Isn't that Usher? That is Usher. I don't care who that is.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
No, we didn't. You're not going to Mandela effect me on this one. He trying to T-Pain us. He trying to T-Pain us. He saw T-Pain got it off, so he said, let me switch mine up too. All I do is wing. No, not that one. It was that one too.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
Everybody's hands go up and they stay there and they say, yeah. And we was just saying that they stay there. He's like, no, I say something else. Oh, he's saying something else. I don't give a fuck.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
Yes. Oh, no, no, no, no. Usher went back and redid some of these shits, too. He went back and redid some of these shits, too. You can hear the new vocals.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
Look at the one little thing that'll give us time. We'll do something else.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
All right. And the last one, I'll give you Nuggets-Lakers.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
I've been the other person already that had walked in the house and saw your shit fucked up.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
So, yeah, I'll take the other side. You're saying a little asshole, but it ain't so bad. Yeah, I'm going to take the other side. You said you'd be the who?
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
So your choice is to get beat up or get your house fucked up. I'm picking to lose the fight versus having my house be ransacked. He didn't switch it. He didn't switch it. He's saying the same thing.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
No, we shouldn't. We shouldn't be seeing these things. We shouldn't be hearing everybody's thoughts either. Facts.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
And that says... It depended on... Well, anywhere. No, just anywhere.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
I know where you're going to be, and I know what time you're going to be there.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
They couldn't do that, rest in peace, over at Christian Love either. He knew where to do it at.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
No, you couldn't do that there. What's Christian love? I don't know. That was a church. It's in Rome, rest in peace. That was his church. You're not walking in there like that.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
Yo, man. Yo, man. Yo, man. Yo, man. Yo, man.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
He said Hov. Yeah, I got Hov on my list. A.I. is on my list. Snoop is on my list. A.I., like, obviously. These are people that... That makes sense. Yeah, been a lot to me through childhood and shit. Hey, hey, yeah. I'm just saying. It's people. If something happens to them, it'll fuck me up for a minute. How long though, like a month? Nah, nah. No, no.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
Yeah, if I don't have no personal relationship with you.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
When Mike died, you said, check over with Prince.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
Oh, no. I think I'd rather the paper shit. Yeah. Watch my show and then I'm fucked up.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
I got a problem with that. Talk about families getting nasty with the obituaries, too. Yeah. Leaving people out.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
We was beeping with her. We don't like her. Her name ain't going in here.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
Mark was like this. He was in the front too.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
Oh, they ain't Freeway out no pictures, did they?
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
That'd have been even worse. Like, yo, I was there.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
I just think it's creepy for kids. It's creepy for everybody.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
It's some funerals I've been to. It allowed you to, it's like that last bit of closure.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
But see, the problem now is because everybody ain't got it, so you're doing it all in one shot.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
And then the funeral was the next day. Right. I just went to one. Shit started at 1 p.m. I'm like, wait, it's starting at 1? And that was the wake.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
Yeah, some, yeah. What really pissed me off, though, is when they start taking pictures. Well, that's some new shit.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
That, I don't care. That really pissed me off when I started seeing somebody walking up to the casket. Yo, fam, fam.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
Flip, you said you believe that person doing that is being selfish.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
So they're the ones that want to leave. So I think it's really, it'd be us who still, we don't want to mourn them.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
That's the selfish part. That's the selfish part.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
It's a tribute, fam. It's symbolic and meaningful.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
Yeah, I'm the opposite. Once I get to a point where I can't do anything for myself, y'all can let me go. I don't want to be a burden on nobody.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
Position on me. UMG clapped back. They sued him. And they're trying to get out of the lawsuit. I mean, the verbiage in the lawsuit was crazy. Talk about ice.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
That's pretty... Yeah, I just don't... I don't understand the... I don't understand Drake's suit. I never understood it. Because... It was a battle. Nah, not even just that. You're suing them for... doing the same thing they did for you. Right. That's the part that you benefited from this for years. And now it's, oh, wait. If it's true, y'all promoting the song.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
I don't like that song, though. It's about me. It makes me look bad. I'm going to sue you. It's all been bad. That's the part I just don't get. And I hear a lot of people saying, oh, you're taking the side of the machine. I'm not taking the side of nothing in this. I just don't understand... It's cool as long as it works for me.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
I didn't even think about that. I'm listening to what they play on the radio. They play Nokia and give me a hug. Yeah.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
No, that's what he's saying. Yeah, they don't have. They don't have. Party. Party.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
Never mind. Baby girl. I know Kia's hard though.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
Like, damn, that is kind of fire. I'm going to use that one, though.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
That's what I'm saying. That's all I care about.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
I don't think you ever get that. I think you've never gotten that. True. And nor will he ever do that because his fan base is just too big for that. I just want a Drake album. I don't give a fuck. As long as it's, I don't want an experimental Drake, like the dance album, I don't need none of that. Give me Drake that I've been a fan of since fucking 08.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
I'm sure. And it's rumored that it ain't going to be long.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
Same way he did with the party album. That's what I'm afraid of. Go get one producer or something and do it. We've seen that trick a bunch of times. The producer album where it's his album featuring you or y'all together, but now it's over there.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
No. I don't think he's getting off at all. I think he's a patsy, and they're going to make sure he don't get off.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
Or it could have been planned. He could have been coached through it. Like, it wasn't just his idea. You were led to do this.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
It just makes me question things. Like, the amount of planning that went into doing that... And then the movement afterwards, they just don't match.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
You would think the person that lays out that plan walks around with the evidence on them? Eyebrows.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
You damn right. You damn right we kill him immediately.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
Yo, Bill. Watch enough shit, man. They be telling you about this shit. Wait, hold up. If you were a juror, what would you juror?
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
And even the people that's on the side of that, because he killed the CEO of the, what company was it? United Healthcare. Okay, guess what they did? They were denied. No, no, guess what they did? Put a new CEO in. They sure did. With the same outcome. Guess what? Nothing changed. You're right.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
And then they said if the family is under 100K, you get free room and board.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
Education is still a barrier. Trying to keep folks out. We get too serious. I can feel it.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
Well, in other news, Dreamville announced their final lineup. They did. It's April, I want to say, 5th and 6th in North Carolina. And let me get the lineup up real quick for you guys.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
J. Cole. Once he said J. Cole, J. Cole, Erykah Badu, Tims, Glorilla, On Down.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
Why he's touring or why they walking off on him? Both. I think it's business that we got to do this show together, but we don't really fuck with you like that. Yeah. I'm doing my contractual part here. This is... Yo, niggas need bread.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
And not just that. If our business... Look, look, look. If our business was right, I might not have to do this tour. Like... Birdman robbed them niggas for years, according to them. So if my business was right, I wouldn't even be happy to be out here.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
Turk, BG, Juvie. Yes, yes, I'm agreeing with you. Now, what happens is, and this is most hip-hop, that's that initial deal. I'm putting you on. Yes. Now might come time where, all right, I've become a bigger star than we might have imagined. I may want to restructure this deal now. Or I may want, I want to make more money now. Yes. No. No. And that's where the beefs come in a lot of times.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
I want to own my shit now. Oh, okay. Yo, Wayne was going to leave and go to Rockefeller with Hov.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
Okay, allegedly. They told him, yo, stay here. We'll give you your own label. Gave him young money. What he didn't know, they gave him 49% of young money. Jesus. So you think you got your own label, but you don't because I got 51% of what we gave you.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
As you find out these things, you start to think the person that I looked up to that was my friend, that was my mentor, that I caught my father really did not have my best interest in mind.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
Just using Lil Wayne alone, I think it's safe to assume. You recouped. He recouped.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
Agree. You have to protect yourself. Webb told Joe the best. You put it the best, even though it's not good. That's where the problem comes. Both sides are trying to protect themselves. And then you start to realize, oh shit, well, we kind of married at this point. I really can't get XYZ without you. And here we go with them on tour together.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
And shit, a lot of contracts are designed so you can't recoup.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
But I could understand that is what I'm saying. Got it. This is just business.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
A lot of times it's I didn't really know I was signing this. I thought it was that. Oh, shit, I signed this. And now I want to rectify it. Hey, she's doing it the right way because she got lawyers involved and stuff. She said this is normal where they'll lowball offer you for a settlement. And I'm not even mad at that. Not taking the company side, but I'm never mad at the attempt.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
And I'm with you. That part is fucked up. I'm just talking about people signing bad deals and then regretting the deal later on. Or had I known this, I would have never signed that. Well, in... That's on you.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
Yeah. It's a predatory industry. Exactly. And that's the problem. I made this example to make it where a regular person might understand who don't sign record label contracts. We made the jokes before about the used car lot.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
Nah, not a lemon. Oh, okay. Yo, you want this car? Cool. We'll put you in this car. Give us five grand down. Your interest rate is 27%. You don't even know what that means. Yeah, I understand. You just so glad. All right, cool. I got the car. I can afford to pay. Then you realize you go home and look at it. Wait, the car is worth how much?
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
And if I pay this off, I've bought this car three times over. Oh, they fucked me. No, they didn't fuck you. You don't know what you were signing, and now you're on the hook.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
The first deal they got offered was trash, and the only thing that stopped him from doing it was the parents getting lawyers.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
But you heard what he told him. As soon as y'all got 18, you went and signed your own deal without us looking at it. Right.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
But see, now today, I'm only speaking today. I think if you end up in that first deal today that's kind of on you with all the information and stories we got now, you should be skeptical of any deal that comes across your desk. You should have it looked at by... It's the money, man. It's needing money.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
And they hit you with the, yo, I got a bag of money right here and a diamond chain for you, but you got to sign right now. This offer expires when I walk out the door. Niggas are going to sign. Yeah, I mean, that's capitalism.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
Just slightly fucked up. But once you set the bar of making deals that are, as you said, generous to everybody, you fuck the entire industry up doing that. They're not trying to do it because now a new bar is set. Yeah, that's a good thing. Niggas ain't trying to change that. Yo, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Let's remove it.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
Broke to who? Let me ask you a question, Mark. Let's remove every artist that's... I'm talking about as the business, as the company. Cool, you smart enough to not sign this deal. Salute to you. I'm going to go give it to him.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
I think they owe whatever you agree on in your contract. All right. And if you agree on some bad terms, then you got some bad terms.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
So I don't really be seeing, I don't see shit.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
People keep tagging me and Paul's, he's on a tweet rant again, going off about a whole bunch of shit. And one of the things that stood out, he said, fuck Jim Jones. And I'm like, wait, what?
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
Yeah, but Jim went out there to Japan, hung out, bigged them up. Gave them the jeans and the belt. Kanye tweeting the diplomat piece and all that. And then this.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
But if this is going to make you say, hey, Kanye said fuck Jim Jones. Let me go listen to his album now. I don't think that would do that.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
That's some more of his tweets was about that, too. He's up here... Basically defending the Cassie video.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
Yeah, but that don't mean that this person that you're talking to is recording it. That means that... It means that anything can happen.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
But the prison recording it don't mean we're going to give it to the shade room either. That's just saying, if you say some shit on this call...
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
I think anybody that talks or texts Kanye should expect it to go out. Yeah, that too. That's just anything. I was making that joke with my girl yesterday. I'm like, Kanye is the dude that if he texts you, you don't even respond. You got to voice note him. Like, you might not even want to do that. Like, you just, nah, I'm cool.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
I said that the last time. I was like, all right, enough. Block mute. I don't want to see this shit no more. He just said, fuck everybody.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
There's more because on Playboi Carti's album, she's on the album and Kanye was supposed to have been on there and he was taken off.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
All right, let me ask you, because that album came out before all the other shit started. Yeah, that's true. So if he had an album coming out next month, would you allow your child on that album?
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
Well, I'm going to read a couple of tweets on that. Because the first one is, I held my tongue about not being on a Cardi album. Him going to my ex to ask my daughter to be on a song two days later was too far. Nobody fitting to play with me. Who's him? To my Cardi. Cardi. Because Cardi had to hit Kim to get... That's funny though.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
And then he says, so Kim got the name and likeness over my black children. So a white woman has control over the name and likeness of my black children. And then speaks to Cardi about putting my daughter on a song with him. These dumb ass celebrities be trying to play with me in my face.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
He's doing a lot of bullshit. He's been doing bullshit for a while. He's doing bullshit. And not caring how it affects anybody else. God's not finished with him. Or you. No, for real. God not done with you. God not done with you either.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
Yeah, but that's where... Y'all gonna say it, but that's where family and kids come in, bro. Your hope now transfers into that.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
So that can get depressing, too. You're going to die no matter what.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
I just told you, yes, I still have hope. Now the hope transfers into my kid. But hope for what? That I can bring her up to be a proper functioning adult in fucking society. I can give her the things that I didn't have coming up. It's almost like I'm giving her a life that... I just couldn't have. Access to schools, access to these things, I get a kick out of that. That's my joy.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
Do you have hope for anything outside of your kids or your family related stuff? Like personal hope?
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
Any hope. Just hope. That is my source of hope. It's hard to have hope in the world at large, I will say that.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
But if you're sitting there saying, damn, I could have did that differently and you harbor on it.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
Do you believe that we're kind of responsible for what we consume? Yes.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
So it's like your outlook. If you're watching the news, you watch the news more than my grandmother. Like you watch a lot of news. It's what, 85, 90% negativity on the news? Almost 100%. Yeah.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
No, but I'm just saying it puts you in the mindset.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
It's better than it's been years ago. And that's why I put the news in there. Because if you're consuming and you're getting all the negativity, all the negative reports, you'll think it's much, much worse than it is. It's bad, be clear. But it's been worse years ago. What year? For most of the years. Yeah, for the most part. It's been, bro, you say all the time you wish you was in the 60s, 70s.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
If you really think about it, you really think you wanted to be around in the 60s and 70s? Like, it was worse.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
Hey, Joe, I'm with you. Bobby was supposed to have been...
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
Hey, fair. Hold on. Get the fuck out. Yo, Mark, let me. Hold on. Give me two seconds.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
Jesse come home. There's a hole in the bed where we slept. Now it's growing cold. Jesse, your face in a place where we lay by the hearth all apart. It hangs on my heart. Your face in a place. Hey, Jesse, it's lonely. Come home. Jesse was putting it down, boy.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
Hey, you a Knicks fan? Tell me about what's going on with Tracy Morgan, man.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
He made jokes off of that. He was like, yeah, they want to know. when I threw up on the court.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
You're not wrong. He might not have got hit in the chest either, though. But I get it, though. I get it.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
Throwing up on the court side like the boss. That was like a cartoon. That was like... They added that on video? Yeah. That shit looks like a cartoon.
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Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
I've had too much to drink and had to throw up so I can get back to drinking.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
No, I didn't stick my finger in my mouth. I know I got to throw up. Like, all right, you know what? I'm feeling sick. I can't drink no more.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
What was your little throw up move? I'm like, I'm feeling it, niggas. It's feeling yucky, right?
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Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
Bulimic. Y'all need problems. Y'all got problems.
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Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
We good. Okay, good. Yo, if you open your Patreon and see Joe sitting here on live.
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Episode 809 | "Willfully Obtuse"
No, we're not. No, he not. I don't care. Black excellence. No, he not. Mark. No, he not.
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Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
Flip is out of here. That really fucked him up. Where can people see you? Where can people find you?
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Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
And the book, you said?
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Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
All right. And that book is banned in America.
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Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
Be quiet. Oh, man. Okay, for me, my final question.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
He's right. The same way you have this gift.
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Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
Flip, flip, flip, flip. Again, shout out to our sister Mel here with us in spirit always. What episode is this? 18. Welcome to episode 810 of the Joe Budden Podcast brought to you by, powered by, fueled by, Pride Speaks, Pride Speaks gang. Yeah. I'm your humble, grateful, gracious, happy to be here, fully dressed, smoke free host Joe Budden here with some really amazing people to my right.
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Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
I am playing NTG. This record is called Whatever For You.
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Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
Queens get the money, Queens get the money, big Queens flip is in the building.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
All right, that's brand new music. That's NTG featuring Bass Swag. That record is called Whatever For You, available in your phone and on where?
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
Kevin Gates, come up here, bro. Come up here, man. Get these questions.
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Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
It's a what record?
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Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
Big Freeze is in the building. Yes, sir. Freeze is of them all. Brother Ice, Mr. Take It Further, don't make him do it.
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Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
All right, listen, man.
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Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
Hopefully y'all have enjoyed this podcast as much as we enjoyed delivering it to you. Keep us in your prayers. Lord knows we need to be there until the next time. I bid you adieu. Farewell. Adios. Arrivederci. Hasta la vista. Au revoir. Hey.
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Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
Oh, Parks is here. Hey guys. Hey guys. Elmira's Fighters, Poe is here, Corey is here, Keeb is here, Ian is here, maybe, I don't know.
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Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
They are bodying it.
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Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
It could be as easy as it sounds. You coming on a show that has been active for 15 years, 13 years, however, not only active, but probably somewhere around number one for most of the time that they've been there.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
That two women in the same place, two Cain Corso's, you put them in the same cage, you got to take account for them.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
Also, I think Jess is mistaken, and again, this is me saying it, I think she's mistaken in calling it her segment.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
Gossip for life. Yeah, but I mean, it's the hot topic portion. Wendy does it. Everybody.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
You did not. You are not the one. You are not the one.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
Yo, when somebody is coming to you and asking for honesty, sometimes it's best to be honest. Yes. Yeah.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
She can get her great producing ass. to where she was.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
And that's the trick. To be team player, you have to be a team player.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
And this girl is good, and this girl is attractive, and she can read, and she got a background, and she's winning over public perception by just doing the job, and she's non-threatening, like, could fit in.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
No, no, no. And I'm glad you said that.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
He's trying to make the show fun. I think he was being a professional. Yeah. I think he was being a professional.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
He's in the lead of uncomfortable media moments. I think this was another uncomfortable media moment, and we are watching a professional try to navigate through something that I tried to work through before it got here.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
I was like, that's some shit Joe would've said. But also, if you understand me, then you know that I tried to avoid us getting to this exact moment way before we got to this moment.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
A whole bunch of money came into the content space. And now we're dealing with a whole bunch of just humans in the content space.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
Yo, you know where it's okay to not think show?
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
When you are here or not here, but you know, you are on company time.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
You are on art time.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
Joe Budden won't shoot. You will shoot today. You'll shoot that nigga without guns.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
No, nigga, we hot right now.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
I didn't say no color.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
So you're right. They could be Filipino, whoever they are.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
That is some of the worst logic. I'm sure that there are women out there that think like that, so I'm shutting up.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
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The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
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The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
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The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
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The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
Boy, sounds good. Yeah, he does. Real good.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
When was I wrong?
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
Yeah, the pit is good.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
With the short hair.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
Listen, I'm not trying to say I didn't miss anything either. But I haven't heard that yet.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
You was on the phone?
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
What has happened differently since Ish has been gone?
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
Sometimes the people that come from different belief systems- Yo, can y'all stop doing that thing where y'all just pussied so I can't just talk? I thought he said clip. No, he said flip. Oh, I'm sorry. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Not taking it back. My fault.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
Like, when you talk to people from, even in this Jewish, you talk to people that's just from wherever they're from, they might say some shit, and you be like, hey, I agree with some of that. And then they get to a point, and it's like, oh, OK. I got to take it a step back.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
It's again, back to street taxes.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
He wasn't playing.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
I think it's a good time. Let's go!
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
All right, mic check, mic check.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
But somehow he found the time.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
He found the time and the love in his heart to come bless us.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
Good movie. That's a good movie right there. That's an excellent movie. Callback right there.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
I'll be honest with you.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
No, I'm not saying that. I'm not saying that. That's what I thought.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
Yeah, I feel like.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
This is some type of intuitive gift that he has. And I'm assuming he's had it since young.
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
How has it helped you in your romantic life?
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
So you're aware who your competitors are?
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
So, back to you and your competitors. I guess if you all don't succeed as a collective,
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
Where do you stand on ayahuasca?
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
How many days out the year are you going?
The Joe Budden Podcast
Episode 810 | "Where The Magic Happens" (feat. Oz Pearlman)
That's a fake call. I'm so upset that he won here.
The Ramsey Show
Building Wealth Happens One Baby Step at a Time
So we live comfortably as we are and as we're saving and our kids, Colleges are taken care of and our goals are set. And we know we'll achieve our goals. The question is, when do we stop building our wealth and when do we start giving it away?
The Ramsey Show
Building Wealth Happens One Baby Step at a Time
We sat down and we've paid off our properties. We're saving 35% of our income. And we still are comfortable. So we're realizing that we have an excess.
The Ramsey Show
Building Wealth Happens One Baby Step at a Time
We're maxed out. We have a child that's going to be leaving daycare, going into kindergarten. That's when we kind of really sat down. What do we do with this additional money? So we're trying just to figure out, do we continue investing? Do we keep building wealth? Or at what point do we start to share?
The Ramsey Show
Building Wealth Happens One Baby Step at a Time
I'm trying to figure out how to budget my money to get out of debt.
The Ramsey Show
Building Wealth Happens One Baby Step at a Time
Car payments, house, and a lot of small debts, a couple credit cards, and a student loan.
The Ramsey Show
Building Wealth Happens One Baby Step at a Time
$12,000 for my truck, $3,000 for my wife's car, about $2,000 on a student loan, and then two different credit cards are $1,700 and $1,600. Okay.
The Ramsey Show
Building Wealth Happens One Baby Step at a Time
None. I just sold a four-wheeler to afford tires for both of our vehicles because we live paycheck to paycheck.
The Ramsey Show
Building Wealth Happens One Baby Step at a Time
I think it's a lack of budgeting because, I mean, we buy our groceries. We eat most of our meals at home. We eat about one meal out a week. You know, it's kind of like a date. It's just we live, you know, our bills take most of our paychecks. We don't really have much income.
The Ramsey Show
Building Wealth Happens One Baby Step at a Time
week by week and it's just I feel suffocated and I got a baby on the way that's due in about three weeks and I don't know how I'm going to afford child care alright let's figure this out so what is your income and what do you do and then tell us your wife's income and what she does my income is like I want to say $32 to $35 and I don't know exactly I make about $17 an hour what do you do I am a water plant operator
The Ramsey Show
Building Wealth Happens One Baby Step at a Time
What does your wife do? She works for the courthouse, and she makes about $1,550.
The Ramsey Show
Building Wealth Happens One Baby Step at a Time
It's a massive chunk, and we don't even owe that much. I think it's because we're so young.
The Ramsey Show
Building Wealth Happens One Baby Step at a Time
It's $330. Okay, I'm going to start there.
The Ramsey Show
Building Wealth Happens One Baby Step at a Time
I also got the two credit cards, which is $1,300 for both.
The Ramsey Show
Building Wealth Happens One Baby Step at a Time
Well, my biggest issue is I'm unlicensed, but I'm supposed to be licensed in April, and that should be a little bit of a pay raise. And then I've been picking up odd jobs like crazy and working 16-hour shifts about four days a week.
The Ramsey Show
Building Wealth Happens One Baby Step at a Time
Hello, and thank you for taking my call.
The Ramsey Show
Building Wealth Happens One Baby Step at a Time
Well, I'm expecting to get married in the next year and a half. And the person I'm expecting to get married to comes from a lot of money.
The Ramsey Show
Building Wealth Happens One Baby Step at a Time
And as someone that's in school and I'm expecting to have a stable career, I'm a little nervous because I don't think I can match that lifestyle that she's been exposed to.
The Ramsey Show
Building Wealth Happens One Baby Step at a Time
Her father's an entrepreneur, and he makes a lot of money. And I know that type of wealth that she comes from is only available if you're an entrepreneur or a businessman or have your own thing going on. And honestly, I'm not too confident that I could match that. You can't.
The Ramsey Show
Building Wealth Happens One Baby Step at a Time
Well, I don't know her too well is the issue. It's sort of an arranged marriage type of situation. Okay, hold up.
The Ramsey Show
Building Wealth Happens One Baby Step at a Time
What are we doing? Well, she's from Morocco, as Fred mentioned. My cousin married her sister, actually. And, um, this is actually, we went to the wedding and things of that nature. And the way it works is she asked her dad and her dad came to me and her dad said, are you married? And I said, no, I'm not. I'm actually 19 years old. I'm not married. And, um, we kind of hit it off from there.
The Ramsey Show
Building Wealth Happens One Baby Step at a Time
Yes, we went through them and paid everything off. Exactly.
The Ramsey Show
Building Wealth Happens One Baby Step at a Time
Is it really an arranged marriage? Yes, sir. Not this. My mom and dad, or mainly my mom, I actually have seven siblings, and my mom tried to get each of us arranged together. And I'm the last one. And she always wanted, she always talked about all this. And when she came in contact with her parents, like done deal, they didn't like the word arranged. We use the word insisted.
The Ramsey Show
Building Wealth Happens One Baby Step at a Time
Well, for me, honestly, I understand that. I've talked to her here and there.
The Ramsey Show
Building Wealth Happens One Baby Step at a Time
Why'd you call us? I... And I believe I will marry this girl. In all honesty, I saw it set up, saw it basically set in stone. Okay.
The Ramsey Show
Building Wealth Happens One Baby Step at a Time
It doesn't matter that you called us.
The Ramsey Show
Building Wealth Happens One Baby Step at a Time
Yes, sir. So... How can we help? Well, I don't know if I've mentioned that. Well, I'm set up for a stable career later on down the road. And I... Again, I... I don't know how to, I can't match this lifestyle. I really, I don't know her. But hold on. Listen, Adam.
The Ramsey Show
Building Wealth Happens One Baby Step at a Time
I was born in America, raised in America, but my father's from Yemen and we're Muslim. They're Moroccan, so there's obviously some differences.
The Ramsey Show
Building Wealth Happens One Baby Step at a Time
My parents weren't arranged. My dad's parents were arranged, and their parents were arranged.
The Ramsey Show
Building Wealth Happens One Baby Step at a Time
Okay. Well, just kind of tap onto that. Would you give smaller or would you invest and then give later in larger amounts?
The Ramsey Show
Building Wealth Happens One Baby Step at a Time
Thank you for taking my call. You bet. What's going on? My wife and I are kind of trying to think in the future, and we know that our wealth is going to be significant, and we're just trying to figure out when do we start to give.
The Ramsey Show
Building Wealth Happens One Baby Step at a Time
We're currently at around $900,000. And my wife and I are teachers, so we have a pension as well. We have about $320,000 in Roths. We have $210,000 in our 457th. We currently max out our Roth, our 457s every year. And then we have two additional properties besides our single residence.