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F4F - Ben & Morgan Evers - Farm Focused
Nailed it. There it is. Can't even see it, guys, but I'm telling you. I like those shirts.
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F4F - Ben & Morgan Evers - Farm Focused
Thank you. I like that. I think you look great.
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F4F - Ben & Morgan Evers - Farm Focused
Where Squints goes in the sandlot. So he was the Squints of whatever town.
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
So you started off with the manure tank, and you were putting a strip of – because it was a splash plate, right?
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
And so how wide of strip was that wheat? 60-inch. 60 inches between, but the actual row was probably of wheat.
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
Yeah, it was wider. Yeah, it was about 20. Okay. And now you're, you said you were at 30-inch wheat. Yeah. So now I'm going to probably 45. But planted?
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
Okay, and then you've got a bean plant on either side of that?
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
Makes me spend money. So zero spacing you mean like so in between your 45 inches of wheat and
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
Today on the Farm for Fun show, we are up in north central Iowa, Buffalo Center, to be exact, at the Stockcropper Field Day. We meet up with a friend of the podcast.
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
You can't write it off. You have a tax credit on your whole farm.
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
What's the biggest pushback you have from people on the socials that are saying, you can't do that because of this or whatever? Easy times.
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
as is evil dr evil as it sounds i'm kind of excited about it being a little tougher maybe sometimes i i so i found myself getting down too but that's like no this is what we want right if we're the best managers that there's opportunity in this yeah because yeah right but i think the biggest i'm not gonna say pushback but when i look at your comments and things it's always questions about how do you harvest it how do you harvest the wheat if there are beans out there yeah so that's
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
like i said here at the farm farm weird field day this man has a brain that's constantly ticking outside the box where he constantly fills twitter or x with his ideas about his business constant canopy from relay cropping to yard golf this guy is one of the best follows on twitter please welcome from gaston indiana mr jason mock you're supposed to clap out there Vance.
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
But you brought some of that to you because you have a golf course at your place.
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
We were doing this before the field day actually starts, so no one's here. Just Vance Crowe. It's a test run on the equipment. Jason's biggest fan. Tanner's biggest fan. So welcome to the show, Jason. Back to the show, I should say.
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
What I thought the coolest part of that was you had meat vending machines.
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
And that worked very well. That was cool. Yeah. I think you were almost ahead of your time, Porter, because I think that would work right now.
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
So what got you started with the farm weird guys here?
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
It might make more money than anything. There you go. What about – I know you and I talked about this earlier. Because we don't have a wheat market really here in Iowa. We'd have to truck it or get it on a rail somewhere, and we just can't grow that good a quality of wheat. We've talked about oats.
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
Is there any other things that are similar to this that could happen in other regions of the country?
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
But is it too late? Because rye is a later crop, right? If you want to harvest for seed, it's like mid-July. Yeah.
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
justify going out there and just stripping the heads off the top and using as weed control i've also seen the old uh oh what do you call them the belt drive look like corn head but it's a row crop header some people use some of those yeah those are pretty slick was that a john deere 612a yeah yep yep we actually i used to work for pioneer and we actually used to run that for our research bean trials it's fun so pretty slick yeah that's good right
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
It's warm enough here. Your clouds went away.
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
Someone sent me a golf course in North Dakota the other day that just looks amazing. It's on TikTok.
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
Get a bunch of big sponsors. Big prize pool. That'd be fun.
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
And probably the biggest follow that most people know you for, at least in the Twitter sphere, or sometimes you're on Facebook and other places too, but would be your relay cropping. right? You're always constantly talking about that and different angles of light and trying to make the most of space.
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
But it's also kind of like your diary as well. Like you can keep notes that way.
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
So were you on Twitter before you started the weird stuff? No.
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
So for people who aren't on Twitter or haven't seen your videos, what is relay cropping? What mostly do you do?
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
Yeah, it's coming so fast. I was at a seed day, and they were talking about technology that's coming not next year, 10 years down the road. And we were talking about Enlist for, you know, so we could use 2,4-D on spraying on beans. And now we're going to be able to spray it in corn and all that. And they're like, guys, we know this is already being a problem, not solving it.
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
We have to get by for the next eight to ten years before the next technology is here. So I was like, that's not good. That's too long. Yeah. And now a quick word from one of our sponsors, Brandt Agricultural Products.
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Farm4Fun - Jason Mauck - Constant Canopy
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
I beat his butt, too. It was pretty easy. That was awesome.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
Now, you were too light. You couldn't hold in the corners.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
I guess as the story gets older and older, every one of us could have won, right?
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
I think I got pictures on my phone. What have you guys been up to?
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
If we would have held this last week at this time, it would have been like 70s, amazing, no rain, you know, it would have been great.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
Very cool. Well, we've been a podcast for five years, and I think we've tried to get you on a couple times, and it never works out because we knew we wanted to do it in person.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
And when you live that far away, it's tough. So we only see each other passing by at farm shows and all that stuff. So I know probably most of our listeners know who you are, but let's go back, start with Bob and just get a background, who you are, what you do and why you're here.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
It really upsets one of us. Who thinks? Show of hands. Nick?
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
There is a podcast in Iowa Fought for profit was named by they They stirred up a banker near Then quick came an auctioneer Making profit was their first goal Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy Soon may the farmers come Well, I'm excited about our fall lineup of content, Corey. We have a lot of great shows. We have a lot of great conversations at
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
Did you tell Zach about that? He doesn't like people coming down his driveway.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
About 3 o'clock in the morning and then 4 o'clock and then 5 o'clock. So, Bob, what did you think when this all came to about? I got to imagine it was a different deal for a dad looking at this.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
We got our business lady here, Rachel. I mean, is this something that we can do? This kind of looks like a John Deere. No, we... Are you sure?
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
So is it just you three on the farm? You got some help?
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
What's an average size field for you guys out there?
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
That's crazy. I would have thought it would have been bigger fields.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
And you just use a bigger animal than a deer as the logo. So does that mean it's better? Uh-oh.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
Yeah, those are always cool when I see them online. I've never, I mean, I've seen one in person, but never going. But like, do you put it like anhydrous or anything, pull another tank with it at all? I can see those huge tanks.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
We need to get rid of the water, so we need to get a pipeline and pipe it over to you.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
Yeah, Rachel, is this okay? Can we do something with this?
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
Everything's great. All the seed technology has really gone to like the fringe acres where it's drier and things like that. And so, yeah, in a dry year, we can do really well because we can hold so much soil.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
And then just just the must be the reserve just down on the ground that right here in central Iowa, the glaciers did as well and dropped five foot of topsoil and clay underneath and that
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
clay caps it there and then you just won't let it leave you know you can brag a little bit more that'd be cool and we got rocks we're so flat that we we can't get the tile to you know get it out our drainage districts are overworked so put in old clay tiles my brother-in-law does a lot of things to on the farm but then he also started buying storage units and selling stuff on ebay and he was going across ebay and he found a rock
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
More than a bushel of grain. I have a vendetta against rocks. I have a claw on the front of my John Deere 9520 that can pick them up and put them in the bucket. That's awesome. That's pretty slick. That's awesome right now. And then I had the TerraClear guys go through and map my fields and give me the most efficient map. What do you call it, Tanner? Slurping rocks up out of the field? Yeah.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
I called it yeeting it into the end.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
We kind of give them exclusivity, right? They're our go-to partner, right?
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
job any kind of work or fix anything so it's just amazing that you can get that much openness yeah inside a tractor and the weight thing makes sense too i guess that's why that uh new john deere 830 horsepower tractor is like mid 80 000 pounds and they have to take it off weight with the forklift to ship it down the road the ratio has been pretty much the same since yeah yeah that's crazy how many big buds do you guys have
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
And one of them was, did I see spraying or...
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
The owner's name was James Moose.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
Do you guys frequent the tractor pull scene, or was that just a one-off deal?
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
My dad ran one into a stump, and it actually turned the combine and didn't bend it. Yeah, it was a custom favor deal, and they cut the stumps off this high on the edge of the field, and it wasn't good. But it didn't bend.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
Yeah, luckily I don't have to do pig chores this week. My brother's on that.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
At least it's just B-O, not pig smell.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
It had a C15 in it. That was good. That was about the only thing that anyone wanted. There you go. Yeah.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
I mean, it's just a bigger deer. A moose is just a bigger deer. But they don't see very good, I don't think.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
That's pretty cool tech, isn't it?
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
We actually owe him, probably owe him an interview after harvest. Yes, we do. Do you ever get into something like that?
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
well so i what i like about it is like the performance of the electric motors we all know is is great right now is amazing but then you have the power plant with you so you don't have to worry about charging or anything like that yeah it's like locomotive you just think about it i'm going to floor it the engine's just still idling yeah i'm like yep yeah but i'll ride around in a golf cart that's gas powered and then you get an electric one and you're like oh yeah this is kind of nice
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
It looks like an old John Deere. But it's not. It's not. I mean, what's the features? Why is it so much better than a John Deere?
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
What kind of crop rotation? You said four crops. What does that look like?
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
And that's why you get pulled out by a John Deere tractor in your videos here that I'm looking at.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
That's where my next question was going to go. How do you market that? Do you put these in a bin or store them in a flat storage or does someone just pick them up out of the field?
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
So can you load train cars on your farm or you got to go to a
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
If it wasn't for that, it would have worked fine.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
Right. Well, and that's part of the, I mean, being the grassroots, right? You're kind of like, you're leading the edge here.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
So is tech like that, you know, getting bigger, is that what's helping you farm that many acres, get over that many acres?
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
I don't think it's meant to be moved full. I bet you'd make a good YouTube video.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
So we were talking about acres and efficiency earlier, and we interviewed a couple weeks ago a farm that was in Canada that farmed 40,000 acres. And they got it broke down to the acre. If they can't grow by 8,000 acres at a time, and it's different for everyone, but they won't do it because that's a whole set.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
That's however many combines, that's one sprayer, that's so many trucks, that's so many people.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
That just seems, you're not going that way. You just want to grow and keep it a family deal.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
I'm glad you said you're going to be profitable this year. That's why we had to fly you in because everyone around here hasn't been talking profit for a while, and that's what our show is all about.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
I want to know, before we let you go, how did the nicknames come along? Did you give them to yourself?
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
Yeah, Scott, your wife has been helping us with some logos, too.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
Because she works for Farm Focus? Yes, she does. And, yeah, we've recently got on there and started putting out some swag. Oh, wow. Yeah, she probably doesn't like us very much. We're very slow to work with. And indecisive.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
That's true. Yeah, we can't ever make a decision. We're going to be better at that going forward.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
Notice it's juggle. It's not balanced. It doesn't have to be perfect.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
Yeah, I love that. Great answers by all of you. I had to retire.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
Pick a favorite. I got a soft spot for Nick's because I loved hunting as well, and I had to physically tell my friends, like, I am retired from hunting. Like, they wanted to go duck hunting all the time. And now the only hunting I will do, I will have my bow with me during harvest, and if we get rained out, and I don't have anything else to do, and the kids are in school.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
I could actually go sit in a tree stand. I don't need anyone else to help me. And you know I haven't been shooting, so I will miss. But it's more of a therapeutic thing. Yeah, absolutely.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
Crack a cold one. You deserve it. I'm going to get a water.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
That's true. Probably $399,000. Yeah, $400,000.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
I mean, that's probably about double the price of a 4450 back in the day.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
In my CTO campaign, I did say I wanted to bring back the simplicity of tractors for John Deere and make a 4440 and a 4020, but just new. That makes sense.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
Pretty good numbers. Oh, yeah. Probably more than Zach Johnson gets on most of his videos, I would say. Not quite as many as Welker. Doubt it.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
We're talking about it. Okay. How else are you promoting this? Who are you working with? Tanner said you got merch?
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
Yep, we are. Yeah, you took me out of the field, actually. Thank you for that. I know. We've got to get jobs done, right?
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
That's great. So you're great at making songs. We actually need to get our song freshened up at some point since we're doing this deal. So, yeah, we should throw that in on the back end. We'll go the right way about getting that done. Yeah, we'll go the right way. But you make a song for this? I know you like to make songs.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
I thought you were sending us the gift.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
Well, I mean, business is business, and we're going to just bury it and bury the hatchet here. Sounds great. Square it up.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
Wait, what do you say? You got some slogan with this, right?
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
Pull it up. Pull it up. Oh, Randy. Hello.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
My phone's been blowing up because there's that auction over there. My dad and brother have been watching. And they're like, oh, should we buy this? Should we buy that?
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
Yes. I'm a little busy, guys.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
Absolutely. Yes, if you're walking out there, it is actually way cooler in here and there's a nice breeze. So come on in, take a seat. This will be what? 45 minutes of pure entertainment.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
We're actually recording right now.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
All right, you ready? I'm ready for you. All right. Today on the Farm for Fun show from the 2024 Farm Progress show here at the Sukup Manufacturing booth, we finally catch up with one of the premier farm content channels known for their great personalities, farm content, and awesome farm machinery, including the Big Bud tractors.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
They farm spring wheat, winter wheat, yellow peas, garbanzo beans, anything else?
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
No, we're good. We like to take live calls.
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
Oh, gosh. North from North Central Montana, please welcome third-generation farmer Bob and fourth-generation farmers Nick and Scott, a.k.a. Leg Arms Welkers. Yeah. Hey. Hey. What's up, boys?
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F4F - Welker Farms & Special Guest Randy from Fieldrows
Yes. This has been a long time coming.
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F4F - River Klass - Host of Ranch America
It's amazing to me. They don't even know how old they can get because they die from toppling trees. Or storms or a fire or something like that, right?
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F4F - River Klass - Host of Ranch America
That's right. And, yeah, thanks for being here. Hopefully we had a good time at Farm Progress Show. I think we did. I think we did. I think we did. We've got to talk about that in the future. It's kind of weird. But hopefully our after party on Wednesday went really well. Right. And there wasn't any fights or anything like that.
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F4F - River Klass - Host of Ranch America
Right. Right? We wouldn't be smart enough to not do that to ourselves. Yeah.
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F4F - River Klass - Host of Ranch America
And if you missed us there, couldn't make it, come see us at Husker Harvest in a couple weeks. We're going to be out there. I don't think we have an after party set up yet, but last time we did. I don't know. Maybe Kale will open us up. Maybe Laura's Bar. Just down the road would be good. So we could do something there, do some hanging out.
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F4F - River Klass - Host of Ranch America
I don't know what the code is to crack Instagram when you don't have a nice set or, you know, like that. That's right up. You know, that's the easy route. Yeah.
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F4F - River Klass - Host of Ranch America
I want to know because I don't get much time to consume media, even though I'm in media, I don't get much time to even get on YouTube or, uh, watch Netflix or the outdoor channel, even though I love hunting and farming and all that kind of stuff. Is this all filmed on, on your ranch or do you go around?
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F4F - River Klass - Host of Ranch America
It's been a long time. I haven't done one forever. And an intro. Let's see if I can get the music figured out. We're going to see if AI did me good. I tried something new. Today on the Farm for Fun episode, it is packed with stories of ranching, culinary adventures, and outdoor life. We're diving into the rich heritage of Calaveras County, California. What? You saying something over there? Yeah.
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F4F - River Klass - Host of Ranch America
So who's running your ranch and your restaurants when you're gone doing that?
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F4F - River Klass - Host of Ranch America
As long as you have more at the end of the month than when you started.
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F4F - River Klass - Host of Ranch America
Where our guest runs an 800-head cattle operation alongside his wife, Marcy. You might know him as the host of Ranch America on the Outdoor Channel, where he showcases the true grit of American farming. And ranching from bison roundups to the world of highland cows. He's got a second season coming this September. That's like a couple days away from now when this comes out.
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F4F - River Klass - Host of Ranch America
Anyone can sell the fillet and the ribeyes. To be successful at selling direct-to-consumer ordered restaurants, you've got to get rid of the ground.
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F4F - River Klass - Host of Ranch America
Sounds like a shirt. Tail to tongue. Tail-to-tongue, that's what we need.
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F4F - River Klass - Host of Ranch America
Cheek-to-cheek. Do it. We always had, I always grew just FFA 4-H cattle growing up, showed a pen of three, pen of five down at the county fair, and we always had, one of my friend's moms grew up on tongue and liver. And all that. She would take it out of everything because no one ever wanted it. Yep. She would take it. Yep. Loved it.
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F4F - River Klass - Host of Ranch America
And you're about to get an exclusive sneak peek. Hold on tight as we welcome a cowboy, chef, and all-around ranching legend, River Klass. Yeah. All right. Welcome.
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F4F - River Klass - Host of Ranch America
Um, how did you get started with a TV show? And was this your first TV show?
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F4F - River Klass - Host of Ranch America
So you're coming from California, though, right?
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F4F - River Klass - Host of Ranch America
But you had aspirations of that? You weren't there thinking that?
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F4F - River Klass - Host of Ranch America
See? I tried something. I said I tried something. I had chat GPT write that intro.
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F4F - River Klass - Host of Ranch America
I said it before we started recording. You got the hats for 800 cattle in the background.
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I apologize for that. No. Yeah, like I said, I've never – I think I've dabbled with the chat once in a while, and I'm like, I want to try something new and see if it could do it better. And I prompted it like three or four times, and I didn't catch that. And every time it added more cattle? Is that what it was? Maybe that's... I should go back and look at the edits.
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You're good. That's the cool part about this.
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I mean, that's what's so cool about media in general, social media, whatever, this, you know, your show. You're learning from people across the country that you would have never had a chance to before.
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So you've got a new season coming out. Obviously, the first season is out. What can we look forward to this season?
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It went from eight to 80 to 800 real quick.
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So you said you're filming season three right now?
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Give us an exclusive. So we're talking about season two right now. That's what we're promoting.
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Yeah, we've actually got David, our co-host that isn't here, he's actually in the Dominican Republic right now swinging on the swing with his wife. I don't know, he just posted a picture of it. He got us into some cowboy hats when we were down in Houston for the Commodity Classic, and it's a felt one. We both need to get straw ones now for the summertime. Yes.
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We've heard about them. Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
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Yeah, and then if you come out here for the world champion... auctioneer stuff, you'll have to get with David.
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I'm looking forward to it. I want to get together with you when you come out to Iowa.
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Exactly. And it ain't cool to be cheap either. So what brand do you go with?
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I prefer gravel. More grip. More grip.
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No, kind of. More play. There you go. It depends on if it's icy or not.
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I love that message. I love what you said. You said you have grass-fed finished beef, and you said it doesn't matter. The people that do grain-finished, whatever, it takes all kinds. I love that because I hate seeing on the Facebook, someone will put like,
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$1,000 beaver. Uh-huh. I watched – no comment. I watched a TikTok. I sent it to Dave, actually, of a – I'm going to call him a hat. What did he call a person that makes a hat?
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Rivers, words of wisdom. Don't touch a man's hat and don't taste the tongue. I don't try to taste a man's tongue. There you go. If you're married.
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A shaper? Because I was going to almost call him an artisan or an artist, hat artist or whatever.
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Yeah, this TikTok I watched, they took the felt. I mean, it was kind of shaped like a hat, but they cut the edges. They did that for this lady. They rolled the edges. They shaped everything and tailored it to her. I mean, what a cool experience.
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That's amazing. And, yeah, the education that just David gave us. Yeah. was what every little bend and curve means. You know, you're a roper, you're a rancher, you know, like it's crazy.
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You wear your hat this way. You're single. You wear your hat this way. You're married.
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Wow. I like that. We're learning the education. Man, I think that hat shaper that I saw on TikTok was out of Denver. Oh, yeah.
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I think that's where Commodity Classic is this winter. Yep. So we should definitely do that.
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dave would love to participate he was just out in pittsburgh wasn't it pennsylvania yeah and there's several world champion uh auctioneers because there's there's uh different classes and you know so there's because he said there was the uh just the livestock guys got together and he was doing like i can't remember what he was doing but yeah that's the one that i was that was the was the livestock where they it was the world livestock auction championship auctioneer championship so
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Yeah. See, I used to be like that, and I've gotten to the point where I don't like it really tight on my head, so it will. They made me turn my hat around backwards on the big slide at State Fair last year. Oh, really? Yeah. You better turn that around.
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Reach farther and work smarter with Brandt XT grain carts.
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from your area, you guys have this competition?
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There we go. Beckett, we could be on to something. Yeah. I mean, we need more people in here and maybe not to have a virtual guest. You know, it would sound cooler. But, yeah, this is another Farm for Fun episode here coming out right during Farm Progress Showtime. So maybe you're catching this on your drive home from Farm Progress. Yeah. Because this would be the Thursday of that, right?
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How do you tell them apart? Do they have little frog jerseys or something?
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Okay. Wow. Because when we were down at the World Ag Expo, we went up and saw General Sherman. Yeah. And my lord. It is. Anyone should do that. Everyone should. It's amazing.
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Oh, okay. Well, let's do every place then. What?
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Okay. Did you get to play around?
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Uh-huh. Yeah. Okay. Then where did you go?
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Oh, dude, those 110s are cool, aren't they?
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Okay. Oh. I just got introduced to the 110 game, I'm going to call it. I got some buddies down the road that have just been buying them up and restoring them, making them look like little 4020s. They came bobbing and weaving down the street during the Fourth of July, had a mini hay rack, even replicated John Deere hay rack with it.
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You probably didn't have to deal with all the state troopers coming in, did you, trying to get parked?
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They sent us around the whole showground.
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Yeah, it was. So where do you gain all this knowledge? It obviously has to come from somewhere. Was it a grandpa, your dad?
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Wow. Cabernet Sauvignon. That's what we have here. This is an elegant bottle. I love how simple but beautiful it is. Got a picture of what would you call that structure?
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Probably by way of chores, maybe.
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You're just on John Deere Ops watching everyone else probably farm? He's going through old owner's manuals.
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So you have other siblings, correct?
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So they weren't that interested in tractors?
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Wow. Interesting.
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We'll fix that. You don't get in the simulator?
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Doesn't your cousin?
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He doesn't let you in that?
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Yeah? Is that pretty cool?
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What cab is that made out of?
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That's a water tower and a tree looks like out in a vineyard. This looks like it's a 2020. You got to do Dave's method of how deep does the finger go in the hole. I have a plethora of corkscrews here. I didn't know what tool you wanted. I mean, you'd think we do this segment pretty regularly now that we would have like one of them, you know, you push the button and it just opens it for you.
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So he's got two of them now?
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I think this heat might zap a little bit out of the finish. Oh, wow, Dave went and got some big guns.
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Oh, there you go. Is that project done?
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You've just been too busy on the influencer circuit.
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That's right. Does it have a loader on it that you'd want to put one on it maybe to use? You'd have to get another tractor and put a loader on it.
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Yeah, you can't have too many tractors.
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You are really interested in tractors. Are you interested in livestock at all?
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But no, you're going to make me struggle. But I've actually pushed the cork in before all the way when I couldn't get it open and I didn't have one. Then you'd have to drink the whole bottle. Right. Do you not drink the bottle when you open it? Isn't that the point?
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That's probably cheaper anyway.
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How big are we talking?
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Like every square inch is an acre?
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Yeah. Andy can do some math for us. So 164th of 43,560 square feet. What is that in square inches? Come on, you're Canadian.
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Doesn't your cousin get into some 3D printing as well?
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Does he make you any farm toys?
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That's pretty cool. I've still yet to see one work. Oh, yeah. I haven't either.
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You just get the product.
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Does he charge you for it?
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This was probably printed a week ago. So it's probably more than that now. Tony only got 612. What the heck?
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So this is not chilled. So I'm assuming we drink Cabernet Sauvignon warm?
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And it did. Who comes up with the content? Is it yourself or your mom, your cousins?
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
That's probably because of people like me. Have you ever seen any of Tony's videos? No.
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I'm sure if they did just shut it down for them and take them through like everything else. Yeah, that's kind of what I thought. Make sure all the safety things are there. You've gotten a lot of pretty cool gifts from a lot of different people as well. What's some of your coolest gifts you've got?
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
That's crazy. And it did. Who comes up with the content? Is it yourself or your mom, your cousins?
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We were leaving. We were setting up here yesterday. We might have seen, did you get anything from John Deere when you came? All right, well, then you're not getting anything, I guess, so I'm not going to ruin that.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Oh, you probably at the John Deere store.
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That's pretty cool. Well, when you put a picture of that online and you tag us in that, because we're about fun and farming. This is called Farm for Fun.
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Have you had to sign any autographs?
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We should get his signature for something in the studio. That would be kind of cool. That would be great. I did bring a Sharpie. I did, too. Yeah, I figured you brought yours for autographs. No, I've got to get Tony's signature and all these influencers. We just interview them. That's right. And I can sell them on eBay. Yeah.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
He talks like he likes sweet tea. I know. I know. So as you go forward, where do you see yourself in 10 years?
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Do you think you're still going to be doing the social media thing if you can? Maybe start your own podcast.
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maybe i don't i really don't know i really don't know just don't call it farm for fun because you'll run us into the ground okay good idea i will call it that yeah we're gonna have to lawyer up a year so a year ago you weren't even on social media at all no i know i wasn't did you ever think that this could blow up into this kind of thing
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Yep. So what's some other things you want to see here at the show besides the John Deere booth?
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Is this your first time ever at a Farm Progress show?
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You came to the furthest one. Decatur's probably a lot closer to you.
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It's a little rougher town, though, we found out. Judging by the hotel we stayed in last year. Are you here all three days? Yeah. You going to come to our after party on Wednesday night? Is Mom going to let us come? Are you guys going to come to our after party on Wednesday night?
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If anybody wants to come to that, just hit us up after the interview.
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My kids will be there.
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The first couple hours.
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They'll have a nice band, free food. Yeah, it'll be good.
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That is the nicest thing about social media. You have that safety net, I guess, right? And I don't know if that's always been there or just social media just amplified it.
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And just having general problems. Like, you know, I've got this 1770 planter and this is doing this. You know, you literally go talk to a tech that maybe hasn't seen it in your area, but someone out in Ohio or Indiana or whatever has. And, yeah, that's what you need to do. We had that on our 9520. We've got a crack in the gudgeon is what they call it. That's right behind the pivot point.
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And our guys are like, yeah, we haven't seen that before. And then it turns out it's a pretty common thing. Sure.
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So, yeah. Yeah, kind of felt lost there for a while when I was like, okay, you're telling me that we broke this 20-year-old tractor? The only one to ever do it. Yeah, in 5,000 hours, like what?
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I think that's where we got the... We were trying to figure out something to do for sound and... Yeah, that's what I did it for and plus it was like, well, it's all just laying here in boxes or whatever.
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Yeah. Just wait until you get a wife that she'll be happy to get rid of them. They were so happy to get rid of all our hats, go to the studio.
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Yeah. This one was a funky one we got from the John Deere Classic Golf Tournament. I thought, oh, that would be nice. It looks like a golfing. If I'm set up like it looks like I'm golfing, I could wear that.
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What brand are those? Rockies. They're not the new John Deere Skechers I saw they had?
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To show you actually did something? Yeah. That was my CTO promise. I was going to have a shoe company, and we were going to make Moen shoes. Keep them clean.
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Corey, would you rather have a dairy? No, I have to say pig because I do live on a pig farm. I love the dairy people. I don't know how they do. They are the hardest working bunch.
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Mine was my football coach, too.
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Just tell the kids, go read it. Cheeseburger or chicken strips?
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So starting that early, is that a temperature thing, a time of day thing that you have to harvest or just you need that many hours in the day?
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Going with the yard bird.
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What about a zero-turn lawnmower or a push lawnmower?
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Like old school, like real? Have you seen those that have lawnmowers?
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You got one of them 110s tuned up with a deck on it? You don't mow with one of those?
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Oh, so that would be kind of cool.
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And those are like a 60s, I think.
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Mid-60s mower, yeah. What do you do with your little John Deere? You drive them around or you put a plow on them?
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I can't remember what model it was, but it was a John Deere three wheel. There was two wheels in the front and the one in the back and the deck kind of up front with a steering wheel. And then when I mowed my grandparents yard, it was a 425. Yeah. Okay.
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Yeah. Yep. I still push them out. You still push mow? I do. I actually live in a small town in between our hog farm and the farm. My brother actually lives out on the farm. When I mow out of the farm, it's a John Deere zero turn. Yeah.
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Acres and acres. I don't like mowing because all my mind does is think about all the other stuff I have to do.
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Have you upgraded the mower for her? I thought you did. Yeah, I got a zero turn. It's got a hood. Yeah, a year or two ago, we got it. Still got the other one, though. Yeah?
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The boy hop on that one.
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He was just truck pulling, it looked like. Yeah, yep, yep. Or tractor pulling.
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And that was the first time ever doing that?
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It was kind of funny. Our local pull last week was supposed to have a John Deere 8RX pull against a Pro Stock, and something happened. Farmer didn't want to bring the John Deere, so they went to the local red dealer, and they pulled that thing up to the sled. Half track. Half track.
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Wow. But the best part was it was a red tech that was driving it, and so he couldn't even figure it out.
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Yeah. What do you think would win though in that? So you say you had a 8RX, like a 410 or 400 horsepower versus a 2,500 horse actual pulling tractor.
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They get the momentum.
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Yeah. Yeah. It would be interesting. Have you been to tractor pulls, Jackson?
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He's probably won some pedal pulls. You ever done that? The pedal tractor pull?
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I always felt uncomfortable. I was always taller for my age, and I felt like I couldn't fit on them very good.
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Yeah, you got long legs too. Yep. Yeah. So it's kind of tough. The little short stocking kids have the advantage in that department.
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You get that low center of gravity.
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Have you seen the new gleaners?
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There you go. There you go. Are you going to go out and see any of the field demos or anything like that? Yeah. I got a combine running out there. Got that set up yesterday. So, yeah, that's 780. Yeah, it was not the best yielding stuff. A little spongy cobs, but they've put an 85-day hybrid in here to make it so. But it's like 22%, so it was doing a good job. Doing a good job.
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So why do you have 10% that's hand harvested?
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Tony's got this, is it an image thing that you drive this Buick on all these cars?
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Well, the AC must work in it. It does. It works. Actually, it works really good. Really? That was my first vehicle was a 1993 Buick LeSabre.
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What do you think you're going to drive when you grow up?
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Square body Chevy. There you go.
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Yeah, better send a couple of them with all the grain bin stuff. Yeah, exactly.
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I tell you what, those battery-powered ones, though, are pretty nice. Yeah.
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We'll spray with, like, the Gator and have the big tank in the back with 240 and stuff for the ditch, but then I'll have a little roundup in that thing sitting right next to me.
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The cork says life is Cabernet.
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People are looking forward to that. Does that feel like you have an extra set of pressure on you to actually put content out every day?
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Do you have a cell phone?
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Mine wanted one, and she got it, but then we limit on who she can talk to, and now she doesn't wear it because she can't talk to us.
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She doesn't have Tony Reid on her watch. Mom and dad. Yeah. Grandpa and grandma.
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I don't think she can watch TikTok on there. Yeah.
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I've had more non-ag people go, is that that little kid that knows everything about tractors? And they don't know a lick. They wouldn't know who Tony Reed is. Yeah. You know, like... I think that's pretty dang cool. I do, too. So I hope you keep it up.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Because it's fun now, but it's a long road. You've got a long time ahead of you. Yeah, I do. And if you ever feel like you need to take a break, take a break. You don't always have to be putting stuff out and all that. And that's to the parents, too. So sometimes it's very healthy to take a break.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Absolutely. He's got machinery to climb all over. Heck, yeah. We can be done. Yeah, he sat here long enough.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Not won't be the last time. I know that. Yep.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Yeah, same for you guys. And we'll be in touch. Corey, what do you say? I say a crack cold one or I'm going to drink a bunch of water because it's hot. You deserve it.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
That's all she wrote. There we go.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Oh. You just get it right out of the barrel?
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Yeah. We're not wine reviewers here, but I do get that fruity.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Yeah. It smelled like when I smelled the cork, I was like, it reminded me of like communion. Like, Oh, I got some grapes, you know, a little bit, but it, it's dry, but it's not like where it's like bitter, you know, it's, it's actually very elegant.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
This was probably printed a week ago, so it's probably more than that now. Tony only got 612. What the heck?
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
But you said this will age for another 10 to 15 years. And what will change about the wine? Or do you even know?
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
We just need to get the Snowmobile County wine growers to send us one that's 10 years old and then one that's, you know, four years old of the same vintage or the same kind. Right. And compare.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
I was just thinking a good pasta would be really good with this.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Congratulations. That's awesome. Do you still dabble in cars at all?
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
What's your favorite?
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
It looks like Instagram, Silver Oak Cellars and then Tumi Cellars would be a good place to go to.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
We should. Friday should be wine day. I got my wine shirt on.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Well, I can't wait to try them. Well, look for their wine in your restaurant and find wine shops. If you can't get it, go online to silveroak.com. Get it shipped, direct to you. Thank you to Sonoma County Wine Growers for putting this together. It's been amazing. And this bottle is not going to last very much longer. No, it won't.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Brand new from Tradement. Got fish on it and stuff and birds.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
And now a quick word from one of our sponsors, Brandt Agricultural Products.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
I don't know. It's going to get real hot today, so let's get it out of the way. Get the best thing done because people might be going home later.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Let's get into it. You ready for the intro? Let's do it. All right, no music intro. Today on the Farm for Fun show from the 2024 John Deere booth here at the Farm Progress Showgrounds, we have a friend that's been on the podcast a lot. He's a past guest, but we can't get enough of him.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
He's a foul-mouthed, straight-shooter, lovable guy from Strasburg, Illinois, and sometimes Farms Corn in Fairbanks, Alaska, Mr. Tony Reed. But wait. There is more. Joining Tony today is also a guest that came to us late in 2023 that Tony actually suggested.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
He's a kid that just busted onto the Farm Talk scene, came to us, and just... Actually, people didn't even know you were on our show because we got you so early. You've blown up, been on all the new circuits, going around Farm Talk, talking tractors. He's a nine-year-old going on 68. Please welcome from Indiana, just a Jackson thing. Yes!
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
welcome to the show this is different from the last time right yeah the last time we were a little virtual you know we had to do what we had to do yeah right but so this will be like the first time we'll just call it that right this yeah this should turn out a little better Should turn out a little better. Tony, welcome to the show as well again.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
There is a podcast in Iowa, fun for profit was named by they. They stirred up a banker near, then quick came an auctioneer. Making profit 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
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F4F - AJ Wiechmann Trucker and Pilot - after we try some wine!
And now, a quick word from one of our sponsors, Brandt Agricultural Products.
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F4F - AJ Wiechmann Trucker and Pilot - after we try some wine!
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F4F - AJ Wiechmann Trucker and Pilot - after we try some wine!
So the growing season's been good so far, no major issues?
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F4F - AJ Wiechmann Trucker and Pilot - after we try some wine!
That's what you need.
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F4F - AJ Wiechmann Trucker and Pilot - after we try some wine!
And you guys are in Sonoma Valley, is that correct?
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F4F - AJ Wiechmann Trucker and Pilot - after we try some wine!
And are grapes the only thing you guys grow?
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F4F - AJ Wiechmann Trucker and Pilot - after we try some wine!
It smells like a good time. I don't know.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - AJ Wiechmann Trucker and Pilot - after we try some wine!
A little acidity. It does stick around.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - AJ Wiechmann Trucker and Pilot - after we try some wine!
We just had some shrimp jambalaya for lunch, and I think it would have been fine with it.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - AJ Wiechmann Trucker and Pilot - after we try some wine!
So. Wow. So 1600 acres. I imagine you guys are growing more than one variety of grapes.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - AJ Wiechmann Trucker and Pilot - after we try some wine!
So more than just this Chardonnay.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - AJ Wiechmann Trucker and Pilot - after we try some wine!
So we have the first two bottles. And we have the first two bottles and we can order more.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - AJ Wiechmann Trucker and Pilot - after we try some wine!
And the UPS driver that delivered was giving Tanner. Yeah, I got to tell you this.
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F4F - AJ Wiechmann Trucker and Pilot - after we try some wine!
I think I got a guy that has a house out by Sonoma. Oh, so maybe we could Airbnb that for. Oh, yes. Our cook has a guy. I do have one question for you guys before we do let you go. What does the Sonoma Valley Wine Growers mean to you, you know, for helping move your product and promote you?
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F4F - AJ Wiechmann Trucker and Pilot - after we try some wine!
That's awesome. I will tell you, most of the flyover states still use the Napa word, but what we learned from Carissa when we were out there that you guys supply Napa with most of the wine is That's going in.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
Swing a baseball bat. It takes a lot, and there's even times to where I watch us back or listen to it back, and I'm like, God, you suck at this, and still want to improve or do something different. Actually, what's probably more common is Corey sends me a text and says, God, you suck at this. Yeah, I can only be critical of you, not myself. Nice to have people to keep you humble.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
And we're excited because I didn't think this guest would say yes. You didn't?
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
Oh, boy, you really should have thought this out a lot sooner before.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
No, I didn't. It's intimidating. One of the biggest names we've ever interviewed. It's a big name. It is. But listeners, we do, if you are new to the podcast, put out two shows a week, so there's no shortage of content. You can also follow us on all of our social media channels. But it's bright, early, second day of the Farm Progress Show, and the energy is second to none.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
We kind of make, we can, whoa. Right? What about you?
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
Maybe you should listen to one of our shows. He is. He's going to go back to Elaine's show and Junkin's show, and he's going to send all these to his dad and say, hey, I met these guys. They're legit. You need to listen to this. What?
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
Or you can go farm yourself. That's right. You could. I mean, it's kind of interesting when you think about the perspective of media is even less labor-intensive than farming is to where we've got some ag broadcasters that I thought should have been done a long time ago, and they still are. Ag broadcasting and loving it because they love the social aspect of it.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
I'm looking forward to an episode I think we're going to record in December. And it's a father that turned over the farm to his son at age 62 or 63. And we want to share that perspective that he thinks it's the best thing he's ever done. Still gets to be involved, but turned over the decision-making. Yeah. And it just makes him so proud and all.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
I mean, I don't want to take the thunder away from that episode. But it is kind of neat when you think about the longevity of farmers and media folks these days being able to say – My kid's doing a good job.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
Yeah, so it started initially for Dave and I to differentiate ourselves in our professional careers. Auctioneer, realtor, getting his start. Ag lender, getting his start. It's hard to pick a client. Both not from the area. Yeah, both not from the area. Moved into the Ames area and kind of wanted to make a name for ourselves.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
We knew we weren't going to be able to learn everything and be the expert. So it was our goal to meet all the experts. So if you needed something, we had somebody that we could introduce you to and put that together. So it started as a conference. Did that for four or five years. It kept getting bigger and bigger and more popular.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
And then all of a sudden we went, let's take the speakers off the stage and put them on a podcast. I'd been trying to get Corey's business for years, and he'd been attending those conferences because the information was extremely valuable. And just as COVID kicked off, he goes, you guys are boring. Yep. Love your mission, but you suck at entertainment.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
Being in bed by 10 last night was kind of nice. We're getting old, aren't we? I didn't fall asleep right away, but I was in my own bed at 10 o'clock.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
He said, let me come in and show you how to do it. And that's when we started Farm for Fun.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
Tonight will be a completely different story. But he sat there in silence for long enough. Corey, why don't you bring him into the podcast?
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
It's wild. We found a hole and we filled it, and it feels like the hole keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger. So we keep stretching our stuff.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
That's very old for podcasts. Most podcasts last three months or nine episodes, and then people are done. How many episodes are you guys up to now? 300 or 400. Yeah, 400.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
The reason we do these interviews at a farm show like this, whether it's Farm Progress or Commodity or wherever we are at... is the people we want to talk to are physically here. And it is so much better to do it in person.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
So, yeah, we may have shows that string out, but the conversation was going to happen whether or not we did it here or virtually. And this, I can already tell, is way more fun than any Zoom call would have been.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
All right, so now we've got him warmed up and buttered up. Corey, you missed a really good opportunity to ask the question you've been dying to ask. When he said he was here moderating a panel and he had two guests on stage. It was too early. That's right. We're warmed up. You want to ask it or are you scared? The top five?
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
I don't care about if you go to the bathroom, but if I miss lunch, we got problems. It is. You got to feed the Tanner.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
Oh, yeah. I went and got lunch for everybody yesterday.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
Yesterday was fun. They're helping me come out of my rigidness. I did. I stood here, and we had some really great conversations. But I'm looking at my watch going, it's 15 minutes until we're supposed to be someplace else. And we're still standing here, and I'm kind of like, hey, we got to move. And then it's four minutes until we got to be to where we're supposed to be.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
That's a pretty fancy purple shirt he's got right there. I like that.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
Oh, we struck Farm Show Gold last night. We tried to get to the exit, and then it rained, and we got stuck at Maya. Oh, that's a terrible place to get stuck, right? And every time it kind of stopped raining, it rained again, and so we were late out of the show. And Corey walks past the truck and goes, do you want one of those – Jesus walking sticks. He's laying right there on the ground.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
Throw it in. You were blessed. I was. I was. Did you use it today to walk in here? I didn't because I was carrying a speaker. I had the speaker and the tripod. That was my walking in.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
I'll be there. He's going to have to now. He's FOMO. Yeah. I was telling you about it.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
I love it. This is awesome. We didn't know if Corey was going to make it through traffic, so I had written an intro. It wasn't nearly as good, I'm guessing.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
The number of virtual interviews that we do, and we finally get to see them in person. And everybody is busy at this show, whether you're an attendee or you are here under a contract or an agreement. Everybody has an agenda and a place to go. This is hours. We don't even put it end time. It's a question mark. I think this is hours of time to where you don't have to do anything.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
So Dave and I got to go. Correct? You didn't make it. I was sick.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
Dave and I got to go, and we missed the ride and drive day, which I think would have been even cooler. But it is fascinating to see the technology that they are continuing to build in and the number of passes that they do to test this technology. And 8RX on a field cultivator, and it's part of their pathway to autonomy, and it runs all day long.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
I was going to, and right before I was going to say, and fellow ginger. Welcome, Zach Hefty.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
There's a lot of time and money invested into what goes into these products.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
It started, actually, that relationship for the site that's right here started with a custom harvesting crew that they wanted to put acres on combines. And they wanted an operator that is a professional combine driver. It's a custom harvester. To be able to tell them this is working, this isn't working, this is I'm picking up productivity, I'm not. So that's really kind of a neat exposure.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
Actually, it only took a far-for-profit koozie.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
Oh, you should have seen the volunteer's eyeballs. Oh, yeah, he just revved it up.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
If you're not a golf fan and you're a fan of agriculture, you're a fan of agronomy, period, show up at 10 o'clock, noon, Maybe eat before you go because it was fairly spendy for the food. But if you want the whole experience, show up for lunch, for a night of a concert, watch the golf through the afternoon, stay, watch the concert, and make that your experience.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
Because the fairways, you know, seeing grass like that that is completely manicured, seeing grass that is six inches tall doesn't look like it is because it's absolutely beautiful. But you drop a golf ball in it, you're like, where did it go? Where did that go? And the equipment and making sure that everything's graded properly and then the event in itself. So it was an experience.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
I'm excited to do it again next year. I think we'd do a couple of things differently ourselves, but I enjoyed it.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
Which is funny, right? Because the planter is not going to be in the field and the corn look like that at the same time.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
We got to talk very briefly with one of the grounds crew and it was just fascinating. The passion that they have, the dedication they have and, This is their Super Bowl.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
Now we're going to scour the internet to find someone that used to work there and pay way too much for one of their hats.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
Let's have some of what we need. Well, first of all, we've never been invited to go. Yeah. So Mark's never been to Ag PhD Days. Yeah.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
Is that what you went to college for or did you switch it when you got there?
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
I had an open sucker. Someone licked the sucker and put it on the shelf. And I had like a candy bar in my hotel.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
I'm watching it. I know we've moved some of our audience people away from the chairs because they were getting rained on. But, yeah, very interesting the way that you sit there and chat about a farm show at your farm. I think we need to get a giant motorhome camper. And don't worry about the hotel or whatever.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
We've done the Airbnb thing, and that was handy. That was nice because you got a place to powwow. It wasn't a hotel lobby. Yeah. And you had your own bedroom to go to. We'd cook steaks instead of having to go get reservations at a restaurant. I think that's going to be our mode of travel from here on out. With a plane? Oof. Jeez, you guys have a big budget. Yeah. A plane, an RV.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
So as you think about blazing your own trail, helping create a direction in which agriculture can learn, especially from you and the Hefty brand, what are some ideas you have?
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
We're just like that pretty girl at the dance. We're playing hard to get. Rumors are bad.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
Yeah. Hopefully it kicked your day off with the right kind of energy. It certainly did for me.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
We've been wrapping up all of our shows here with the same question. We want to know how our guests juggle their work and personal life.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
That's why we do the after party. Yeah. We can see them all in one spot.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
Well, that's great, Zach. If people want to follow you, they want to touch base and connect with you, how do they do that?
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
That's all they knew. That's great. That was even better than the way I was going to end it. I was going to say, and we've got some Farm Profit sunscreen there if you need it for the rest of the day. I will. We have sunscreen? No, I'm kidding. I was going to say, God, you guys have air fresheners. We have air fresheners?
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
I mean, that's what I'm going to the after party smelling like is one of our air fresheners. It's just going to get rubbed all over after. Oh, I brought like two things of deodorant.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
What's in your bag? That's great. Awesome. Thank you for doing this. It was a pleasure, and I look forward to everything that we get to do together going forward. Yeah, thank you guys. Appreciate it.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
How many words could we just say here? I don't know. It's like synonyms for all of the things that he wants to do.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
Why am I looking at a picture of Prince Harry, David?
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
Prince Hefty. That's the title of the episode. Prince Hefty right here. I'm sorry, but that might catch on if it hasn't already. Yes. So, Prince Hefty, is there a princess?
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
He's like me. It was three. Ginger looks like a prince. Two years.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
Yes. I love that question. Take it. So it originally started with one of our partners, Steinbauer. And Sherry is one of the most beautiful people that we know. Inside and out. She has such a caring soul and saw that through her client base, she was seeing way too many clients commit suicide.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
So she partnered up because Steinbauer's originally from Australia, New Zealand area, and partnered up with a team called Trade Mudge. And Trademutt is a mental health awareness organization that does that through wild print shirts. So your company can put a logo on it. Your company can have a way to represent and remind them that everybody is worth something.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
But the cool part is she was wearing one of those shirts during an interview with us. It went viral. People are like, where do you get that shirt? I want a shirt just like she's got on. So Trademount sent us some clothes and we started wearing them in our podcast and we had more clips get really good views. So then they embroidered our logo on a couple of them.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
But the point is to get the question that you're asking, to be able to tell people that, hey, if you need something, we might not be the best person to have the conversation with, but we're still going to tell you you're valuable. The back of the shirt says it's a conversation starter, and then the flap has a QR code.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
right we thought that there was something that we could start doing as farm for profit and these are our first two attempts at designs that these guys are wearing to go down our own line of hey let's put on a shirt let's be funky and then make sure that that message gets out there if you're wearing one of our shirts and somebody asks you say hey got it from the farm for profit podcast their story is trying to help bring more awareness to mental health issues yeah
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
We probably need to tell it more often. You know, that's one of the things that we have the privilege to do. And the same thing with you guys. You know, on your platform with your dad and your uncle, we know margins are getting tighter.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
And one of the two things that we're doing on this podcast this fall is we're making sure our content is extremely valuable right now to help farmers with tight margins. But we're also going to make sure it's extremely fun because we know that they're going to need a mental break, something like this conversation, just to kick back and not have to worry about life for an hour.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
People in the comment section will say it looks dumb, and other people will be cool. You just shut it all out because you've got a purpose.
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
except we didn't get the sleeves we need the full sleeves that's right you know so yeah we should my ear was peeling from we've started making uh conversations with people that we work with and companies that are out there and we we should start making designs as partnerships we should get a hefty we have our own like mass car shirts with all the right yeah we need the the spf especially for me and tanner because i don't want to apply sunscreen all the time yep
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
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F4F - Zach Hefty AKA "Prince Hefty"
Everything comes from a base. That's for sure.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
No. If I'm wrong, you don't tile at a very fast speed. So that's still impressive that, oh, crap, I hit that rock.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
The only time we've ever grown it at the feed yard is when we were taking advantage of the...
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
and the government reimbursed you for planting cover crops but you had to explore a new species oh yeah so we included triticale as a new species but ultimately it got mowed off in june baled or chopped yeah yeah we had a instructor at iowa state in agronomy that just i mean he loved triticale i mean just love to talk about it lance i think was his name i can't think of his last name but uh
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
Okay. We do. But share this with your friend. If you're going through harvest this fall and you really enjoy this episode or other ones, please pass those along. We appreciate all of that.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
Who are that husband and wife that are opening an oat plant?
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
I bet there were no fecal jokes in high school. I bet there was none. None.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
He'll be pissed. So you've got all these crops. Go ahead. Before you get into that question, I've got to ask him, Sean, what's your favorite snack? My favorite what? Snack. Snack.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
Cashews. Cashews. Hey, we are. Cashews is one of my favorite snacks, too. But I brought in some beef jerky and I brought in some leftover chicken wings. But I didn't bring in any pork today into the studio.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
I know, Corey, that's probably offensive to you since you raise hogs.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
Yeah. We always like to feature our listener reviews. So we have a record longest review ever left. But it was left under a five-star rating.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
So I will read this. It starts off extremely emphatic. Guys, I never miss an episode of your podcast. Thank you. I love what you do. I do not always agree with sometimes. And sometimes you really piss me off. That's definitely Dave. That's how it starts.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
During one of our episodes most recently, this is going to probably be a couple months old by the time this episode airs, we talked with Sherry from Steinbauer. And Sherry apologized to Corey for not cooking pork for our lunch. Corey proceeded. I grow pigs. Contract grower. That's all right. It doesn't affect me at all. I don't own the pigs.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
And this listener went into a very thorough answer as to why it does affect Corey.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
I'm pretty sure the first pickup that I bought
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
Yeah, we know that livestock production is what drives the corn and soybean market. Obviously, there's a lot of byproducts that get fed. We fully get that. And he did. It was just Corey's owning up to misspeaking. So what was his name? Or does he say that? Oh... I'd go all the way to the bottom, and it was from Purdue 94. So I assume somebody graduated from Purdue in 1994.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
No, it certainly is. So, sorry, I cut you off.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
You know what I should do is I should go back and cut it out because now everybody that wants to go listen to it, it could just be gone forever.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
And always nervous. You didn't get a little bit nervous. Like, I don't know if I've ever seen Corey that nervous before. No.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
I was just going to say, you're still running a green combine.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
That's the next thing we need to add in studio is a gun safe. Yeah. What are you going to store in that?
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
Yeah. My first one was a dad's old F-250, regular cab. And then I had a Grand Am, but the first one that I bought was that F-150 from Laverne.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
And that makes you kind of an influencer. You're there talking to the bigwigs. Now, do they bring, like, gift baskets? So when Nike shows up, you get a new pair of shoes?
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
That's where I think I watched it. I think we have heard that, yeah.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
Really cool. I didn't know we were interviewing a movie star.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
It's going to be in the title. Sean, however you spell his last name, Finkel... Fickema? Fickema. Movie star.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
So how do we reach more farmers that are like you and don't have social media?
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
Because how do you learn about new things? You learn about them from other people?
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
Look at this. We're just connected from the beginning, Sean.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
We could do that. We could maybe figure out a way to get up and see them.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
So the last question we ask our guests when we close out an episode, and if you did your homework, you already know what it's going to be. He probably didn't listen to the end. He probably didn't go to the end. There's only six people.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
No cheating then. How do you juggle personal and work life? Poorly.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
I think you're spot on. Well, Sean, this has been a pleasure. I'm glad that we were able to do this. I can't wait until we do the next one. I do think there will be another one.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
Next time we won't do it at 9 o'clock in the morning.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
That's good. But no, thank you again. And Corey, what do you tell the listeners? Crack a cold one. You deserve it.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
And listeners, welcome back to the Farm for Profit podcast. You got Tanner here. Corey's here. And David's here. Wow. I think for once, I was one of the louder ones. We're going to have to get... When you're in studio, you can kind of control the volume. Yeah. Control the input. But maybe I just started off a little bit too excited. For this Farm for Fun episode.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
Yeah. And as a lot of bankers, it was always pitched. They wanted to sell to our customers through us. So they'd always send up marketing flyers and want you to leave a brochure on your bulletin board. But that's probably the only reason I knew of it.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
We talked to Justin about what it was like farming in Ukraine. And he said, you didn't have, you had to bring everything with you.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
Here we have a sense of community and yeah. What's it like when you don't have that community anymore?
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
If you were in Nebraska and you moved to Iowa, it would be like going to heaven. Yeah.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
Just be a colder heaven. It still wouldn't be Nebraska.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
Oh, that's good. We had a great Farm Progress show. We had a great Husker Harvest Days. We got to dive here into the studio to get to meet a good, hopefully, new friend of ours. Hopefully.
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F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms
That's interesting. So you said the fields are great if you can have tile in them. But if you've got all this rock, I bet being a tile installer is absolutely atrocious up there.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
Do you still have the Bitcoin?
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
We do. We are not the same person. So I'm writing down grocery list. I need to know what I've got to go to the store to get.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
We haven't even gotten to the end of it yet. I know.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
One of my favorite episodes is the one that we did with you on negotiations. Actually, I should say two of my favorite episodes are on negotiations. Maybe I just like the topic in general. But we had Miles Schraner on, former FBI lead hostage negotiator, one time. And we had you the other time.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
And I felt like both interviews were extremely valuable to not only the way we run Farm for Profit, but the way my families run their farms. And hopefully our listeners think the same way.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
That's been a lot of fun. It's cool to interact with you on a one-on-one basis.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
So director of millennial engagement was almost not a millennial.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
I feel like you're winging this one just a little bit. I wrote it down. I wrote it down. I didn't want to screw it up. But I don't have my teleprompter. All right. No teleprompter. Straight off of the handwritten notes. By the way, great job on the studio.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
I'm cruising their website, Corey, because I know that their mission changes on a frequent basis. So they're talking about right now their biggest focus is on middle-income countries and what they can learn from America. That's on their homepage three times about how they're going to develop and engage the middle-income countries. We're not talking about poverty. We're talking about middle income.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
How can we take them and raise their, I'm assuming, GDP to where they can repay what has been put in together?
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
Yeah, they can buy bonds. Interesting. You didn't expect to learn that today, did you? No.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
That's good. I love that. You got a question or do you want me to jump to the one that I think is on both of our minds?
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
Did you ever have long hair?
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
I like that. You had long hair, too, didn't you? Oh, no, not that long.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
Yeah, I remember doing, you know, the little head whip. I got straight hair, so I was never any fun. It's not like I had a curl or whatever.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
Oh, not quite, no. But I still can't grow a beard. All I can grow is a mustache.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
That's what we need to do. I need to go down to a mustache.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
All right. I want to attack it because to me it sounded familiar, Corey. What does Director of Millennial Engagement sound eerily similar to? John Deere's Chief Tractor Officer. Doesn't it?
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
You were the chief agronomic... What would they have called... It doesn't sound like chief tractor officer.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
He literally went in there with the, there's nothing to lose mentality.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
What was the... That's the same thing to work in family discussions.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
We talk about intergenerational of dad doesn't let me do something, but if you can open up your idea and get them to see, you know, figure out why they don't want to implement it, if it's fear or finance or whatever it is, if you can open that up a little bit, it gets that conversation propelled and that relationship builds and trust builds and the whole, whole aspect. Sorry to cut you off.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
I don't know. I enjoyed it. I do think that the amount of banter that you're able to have rather than just smoking right through the headlines does bring some value and a little color to it.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
I don't know. Did you put your name on that class action lawsuit for Roundup or for whatever it was?
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
Yeah. And we did and never saw a dime.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
Okay. So going back to your, your role as director of millennial engagement, You turned to PR on their heads saying, I don't want your money. I'm going to go do these talks. How did they determine you were successful?
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
Where do you even go from there? I can go a lot of different ways. He said man crush in the introduction. But I've had immense respect from you from the first time we connected. I mean, you have a perspective on life, problems, agriculture, corporate business that a lot of people don't have. You've got the ability to ask questions in a very unique way.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
And I didn't realize it stemmed clear back to forever. You've just always been a curious person himself. I just know that we've had a very strong partner, have and will have in John Deere. And I like Rex as the CTO as an individual. Rex is a very cool dude. We got to spend time with him at the John Deere Classic.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
And we expressed our concerns on the podcast for how Ag had treated him coming into his role. But boy, I almost think a mentorship with Vance would be extremely valuable.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
Director of Gen Z Engagement would have been a great title.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
If he's got half the personality that you do, absolutely.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
It's just great when you get to meet the people. Like you said, the people inside the World Bank, there's awesome people over the last three years we've connected with that You can see why they just love working there. They literally bleed green. They really enjoy that position. There's others that are there because it's a job. And maybe some with some cynical nature.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
Yeah, I felt like we had more time than I was anticipating, so that was something that I enjoyed out of it. I felt like I overused your word tribes, but I think it's very fitting because it was definitely a lot of the perspective I shared is what's coming from our audience, what the Farm for Profit listeners are telling me or sending me or emailing us about.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
So is this what you meant by your phrase earlier that said, I've got an idea, which is a common thread throughout your entire life?
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
I feel like that was a basis for a lot of the information that I was able to share. Do you want to know what he was going to call it? What were you going to call it?
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
I saw something the other day that said the food insecurity is not that we don't grow enough food. It's that we don't grow enough food where the people who have the insecurities are at. It's the transportation. It's how do you get it to them effectively, cost effectively, ultimately. And that's the struggle.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
The areas that are impoverished and are struggling with food don't have the climate or the appropriate soils or whatever it is to grow the food that they need.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
It's not fence row to fence row anymore. It's not... But when you go through... We talked about it today. It's going to be climate smart agriculture, which is going to decrease yield.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
Wasn't Bergen, Mennonite, was like 14 kids or something like that? I think that's Mennonite.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
And if you crack the egg, you're a bad parent.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
Because I was thinking when you started that, I heard a lot of battling your internal demons, wrestling with yourself. But you're right. As soon as you can make something not seem human, it's a lot easier to go against it.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
That was the comment I was getting ready to say is the number of women that we know that would prefer to not work outside of the home and be a mother. The number of fathers that would prefer to be fathers instead of work outside the home. And you can't because we're now in a dual income household or dual income economy that you both have to work just to pay the bills.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
You don't get ahead if only one of you works. And that's sometimes really pushing ends to make sure everything meets. Some people got to have podcasts on the side.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
Yeah, I never thought of it that way. But exactly, I was just going back to my high school days of... home ec we don't have home ec anymore but oh yeah sex ed yeah home ec you learned everything from i could stitch a pillow to i could i had to carry a baby around to i had to write a check and balance a checkbook and all these things that you learned in home ec they don't have that anymore
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
I remember that. Yeah. I just think it's interesting as, you know, we were, I was talking with one of the older guys on the farm, my in-laws that they hire. And, you know, he was told that his generation would never make it from his parents and his parents' friends. And he said the same thing to his kids, that their generation would never make it.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
And they're saying the same thing about the kids now in school that, well, they're never going to amount to anything. And we've all been okay. The world looks different. It's always going to look different. But ultimately, we all get through life fine. We find a way. Yeah.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
You don't yell when they start mowing the yard at 5 o'clock at night.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
I've got to have him mowed. He's showing up tomorrow morning. If my grass ain't cut, Dad's going to be all over me. That's good. I have two questions. I have three questions left. I have two for Vance and one for you. Oh, what do you got left? I've got a few. Okay. How do you like sitting in my chair? I don't. I don't like sitting in yours either. It's too prim and proper.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
I've been doing this the whole show. Yeah, we just put it together yesterday. This is annoying. I don't know how you... I can't sit still. This just... Because I like multiple positions, and I like to lean back and really get this angle at you. We switched chairs because this is where I sat when Vance and I did Ag Tribes, and I wanted my chair because I just... Yeah.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
I feel like I'm... You got a good posture? I feel shorter when you sit in my chair. Is that good? No. I don't like being shorter. I'm taller. That means I'm taller. Okay.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
That was my question for you. I want to know, since you're on the podcast tour today and your third podcast stop, what was the best question that Tork asked you today? See, I got to pass this off my list. Oh, you had it on yours, too? Oh. Yeah.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
I like how you added loins in there.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
I have heard that and I love history podcasts. And now that you mentioned that, historically, you're right. There's usually a, I'm not going to say anti-personification, but just in a position to where you're no longer dealing with humans. You're dealing with the enemy or whatever class you're going to talk about. But also some of these professions that you wonder, how does someone do that job?
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
You do call me daddy every once in a while.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
Here we go. If I didn't say it, you were going to say it. Probably. Probably. Okay. So that was my one question.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
And we don't turn it over to the next generation of podcasters.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
Like a mortician? That's creepy to me. That's weird. But they're able to compartmentalize it as This is a dead human. And I am doing a job that's going to, you know, do a necessary portion of our current culture to get them buried or cremated or whatever it is. And they make bank.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
You're never going to do that. Families are so much further spread apart now than they ever used to be. Which technology is great.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
Well, so many of my memories are passive memories too. You don't realize you're getting told a story or learning about them because you're in an action. You're doing something, whether it's hitting wiffle balls in the front yard or digging in the garden or whatever it is. If it's a scheduled 2 o'clock call every Saturday afternoon, you check the box.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
thing but i always said i wish i could have went to work four years and then came back and known what i wanted to learn and i would have been just i mean it's an assassin of learning my in-laws had a foreign exchange student from italy and the reason you get so many foreign exchange students from italy is they do they are forced to take two or three or four years off after high school
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
After they call it completing university, but whatever that gap is. And so that's why most of them come to the U.S. as a foreign exchange student is they come and they do their senior year of high school. They're already done with school. This is their time to go explore and do everything before they pick what avenue they want to go into and actually complete their further education.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
I thought that was a fascinating theory because, you know, my wife went back to get her master's. And she had a better grade point average during her master's program than she ever did during regular college because she didn't care, didn't have a why. She wasn't chasing you. Right. I was already caught. Are you kidding me? I did the chasing. I wasn't going to get chased. You don't need to beg.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
She didn't need to beg you. No, she didn't have to ask for my attention. No. She got it. She demanded it.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
I pay her a lot of money. It was mail order. She listens to every show, too, so I wonder if she's going to catch that. No comment. I'm just not even going to go there. You're just going to let that one lie?
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
Yes, I do have a very beautiful wife. I got very lucky.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
Yeah. She just needed somebody that was halfway sane, and I fooled her. She's a good girl. Yeah. But it is. It's an interesting demographic right now that goes through college. And we don't know where we're going. Very few people at 18 know what they want to be when they grow up.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
My high school graduation ceremony, if you didn't go to college, you put yourself as undecided in the program. Everybody's like, I'm going to Iowa State and I'm going to AIB and I'm going. If you weren't going to go, you listed undecided because that didn't mean that you weren't going. Just for the fear of being judged.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
Well, Vance, we jumped right into this. Typically on our Farm for Fun episodes, we make the guests kind of give us their background. Corey gave an introduction, but how did you get from where you were to running what you're doing now? Yeah, start with little Vance.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
But I didn't have that idea formulated when you brought up the... We went to Branson on a short family vacation this summer. Nothing elaborate or whatever it was, but there's a gal that led us on the zip line. And I always thought, you know, that's cool, right? She's free-flowing, hippie-ish, just...
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
living life whatever it was too we came back the next day and she was the one on the rope score no she was doing a job she just found a job that she could enjoy but she gets to meet people every single day and learn perspective and you are stuck with her for 12 zip lines i mean you spend an hour and a half with her she gets to learn about you i mean the she was doing it right because i know that there's people in those jobs that deal with the public and people that just hate it and dread it
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
She wanted to know what we were up to and why we were there and how we figured this out and where we're from. And that was pretty cool. I'm sure she was getting more value out of it that maybe she didn't realize. But it certainly caught my attention.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
He's not a rapper in the UK?
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
I knew this was going to be a long episode, which is awesome. Makes me happy. But we close every one of our episodes with the same question periodically. You've answered payoff questions before, but the question that we're running through right now is, how have you been balancing work and personal life? Work and family time. And he doesn't like the word balance.
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Juggle. Because it doesn't have to be balance on the scale. Correct. It shouldn't be. It should not be a 50-50. And I don't care what way you think. It shouldn't be 50-50. Can be.
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Yeah. I would, my experience with the girls at the age that my girls are at is you've got a couple of years and they get more and more fun. I haven't reached that stage with my daughters yet to where they resent me or, oh, Gabby's almost finding me embarrassing. But I am a pretty embarrassing guy. Yeah. You're very embarrassing. So it just, it gets better and better and better.
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And I'm fearful of the day that it turns out to be. disassociated or they don't have any interest in thinking their dad's cool anymore or how that works. It's an interesting question. It'll be cool to put a compilation episode together with the answers.
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I've seen those people that say that they gave birth to their best friend. And I'm like... That's a weird relationship. Is that the way that you should be parenting your child?
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If that's the case, then I'm very fortunate because I don't feel like my resent phase was very long.
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There's probably times around money, you know, when I was working hard, but it was, I viewed it now as looking back that that was a way of teaching me to work hard.
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Go get it. Go do this. You put in the effort in and you get rewarded for it. When some of my friends were just getting an allowance. Well, that wasn't the way I was probably resent in that phase of, why don't you just give me money like everybody else? But I can't think of anything off the top of my head more than just that. Right.
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Just wait until this episode is done. You asked us what we were writing down. I'll show you. It's just interesting to see how everybody analyzes things and what they think.
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All right. I appreciate you coming up. I know we talked about it six, eight months ago, coming up and seeing the studio. I'm glad that this is the timing that we had. I always enjoy talking with you, and I think that that's no secret. Obviously, it's been a pleasure of ours.
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F4F - Vance Crowe - Agriculture Through Storytelling
Yeah. How often have you got to eat Casey's Pizza in a Casey's?
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That's right. Okay, so for our listeners, if they don't know who Vance is, how do they find you?
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All right. That's perfect. Thanks again for joining us. Corey, what do you tell the listeners? We're going to crack a cold one. You deserve it.
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How did I not know that either?
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Is this like the Viking River Cruises that I see?
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And listeners, welcome back to the Farm for Profit podcast. This is Tanner here. I don't think I changed my shirt. Did you need to? You stink? No, but they're going to think I don't ever do on our podcast. We've been political free for five years until now. I just mentioned it. Maybe.
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We could. We certainly could. How are you doing today?
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Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
And that's going to be one of the things we're going to help focus ourselves on today is we really want to make sure that you have the tools and all of the connections available to help manage the risks that this market is going to put forth.
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I feel like we need a black one that's wrapped in Farm for Profit and has the Iowa State black uniforms on it.
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So just remember, if there's something that you're thinking about, you want to learn more about, or a guest that you think would be great to provide the rest of our listeners feedback, reach out. FarmForProfitLLC at gmail.com. Send us a message. Drop us a line. 515-207-9640. Last show we recorded, someone was calling.
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That's impressive. That's great. Well, this has been a lot of good insights on grain carts. And I know there's more that we could talk about. So I'm going to send them to brant.ca. Yeah. Click on the grain cart tab, and we were just cruising the website here watching and having this conversation. Is that the best way, you think, for them to get a hold of you?
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I love it. Well, thanks again for hanging out with us, Tom. We appreciate it. Thank you, guys.
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They did. I haven't checked it yet. I didn't get it plugged in fast enough. I was going to answer it live on air. So if you guess when we're recording, you might just get put live on the podcast. Yeah. That's it.
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No need for any more of this introduction. Thank you for listening. We appreciate that. And now we get to talk to two wonderful ladies that we met at the Iowa Ag Expo. Our nose took us there. Yeah, their perfume was just – oh, no, it wasn't perfume.
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Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
I think you got three refills of popcorn while we were sitting there. Maybe. Maybe. I do like popcorn. And we set this meeting up thinking, hey, we're going to do a virtual recording. They're miles away from us.
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And it turns out that they are literally a couple miles away from us.
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We thought they were going to be a state away, and they are ten miles from us. But nonetheless, I can't wait to get the message from them. We have two ladies from ever.ag here to enlighten us today. Welcome. Welcome.
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There you go. I was actually going to ask you. I feel like when we walk into the studio now, it doesn't smell like new studio anymore. It has a fruity, flowery aroma. I don't smell that. You don't smell that?
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I wondered if you, like, placed an air freshener someplace.
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Your wife.
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That's right. There you go.
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Certainly could be.
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Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
The nose always knows. Especially your nose. My nose is pretty big. He can smell a lot. I can smell a lot. All right. Introduce yourselves. How about Kristen, you go first. Let us know who you are, what your role is with Ever.ag. And after we do that, we'll jump into what Ever.ag is.
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Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
It is.
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Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
Yeah, you think if a guy's pulling into the elevator right now or the ethanol plant, he's saying that this was forward contracted.
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Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
That's what he's saying in a coffee shop. That's exactly.
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Yes.
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Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
That's right. And what do we always say? If you give us five stars, we really don't care what you type. Right.
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That would be about perfect. The number of comments we've gotten on that has been astounding. And I'm still, maybe that should be my Peter Thiel con, whatever it is. Yeah. For Vance Crowe. Yeah. I like that. Tavern. Yep. Huh. That's a good one. Anyway. Hey Taylor, as the Nutrient Maximizer Strategic Account Manager, we're sitting here in the fall. Our farmers are getting their equipment ready.
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Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
Our listeners have heard from commodity brokers on our podcast. They've heard from those that specialize in using hedges. They've heard from those that specialize in using volume and buying groups. And we've presented market commentary conversations probably five or six times over the last five years. But this episode is going to be different because it's a different environment that we're in
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Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
And what you've said is risk management over and over, and you talk about how you're going to help farmers market their grain. Our listeners most recently have heard an episode about a, I'm going to call it a master's type class, a master's level on grain merchandising. Now, in that episode, they didn't get the class curriculum.
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Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
They got access to the individuals and the importance as to why that needs to be instrumental in some of our listeners' operations. So let's talk about how you guys, over the last couple of years, have been helping your clients successfully market their grain.
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What's the next step that they need to take on?
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Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
Yeah, when you did your grain facility upgrade, you put in the ability to blend. Yeah. To be able to blend off and try to capture some of the value of, you know, maybe you got delayed in harvest or you went a little bit earlier.
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Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
Okay, so the equipment's ready. What do we need to think about next?
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Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
carry so it's an education piece that we spend a lot of time with producers our client base talking about yeah you don't actually capture it until you sell it bingo right a profit isn't a profit until you actually sell it yeah right so you mentioned identifying the risks on a farm if you approach one of our listeners first time meeting them what is the step to identifying risk because if we're going to manage it we have to know what it is sure
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Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
Is that going to be different for our producers all across our listening base?
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And if our listeners have more questions for you or want to learn more about the products that they can put in during these application processes, tell them what those are and how they can find out that information.
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Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
How do you identify how many bushels you have before the crop gets harvested? Yes.
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Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
I love it. Thanks again for jumping on with us, Taylor, and providing our listeners with a little bit of value this fall.
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Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
Well, Corey, coffee shop, sitting at the bar, whatever you want to call it, this is a What's Working in Ag segment. And it's fall. And one of the things that I think probably works the hardest on anybody's harvest operation is the grain cart.
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That's hard, though. Because I still remember the feeling that I had when Corey suggested I needed to turn over the editing of this podcast to somebody else. And that was my baby, right? I had control. I knew exactly where I was going to cut, what I was going to take out, what part I wanted to use at the beginning of the podcast.
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Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
That's the same feeling, Corey, that farmers have got to have with, no, I want to have control. All right.
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Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
It's going to have to be. I mean, if the USDA says as many bushels are out there, that grain cart's going to work overtime.
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Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
So you need to have a good one.
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Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
Well, Corey, we had Todd Dale on here from Estes Concaves to talk to us about getting our combine set for wheat harvest, small grains. Yep. Let's do the same thing for soybeans.
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And I think we've got one of our earliest fans. to join us today on this podcast. Certainly one of the loudest champions of Farm for Profit, and we appreciate him. Mr. Tom, welcome.
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If our listeners want to learn more about the XPR3s and what you guys have in store, how best do they look you up?
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Awesome. Well, thank you much for your time.
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We appreciate your support, the years of support.
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Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
more phone calls per month some guys are like call me once a month i just leave me alone yeah that'd be poor cory's pretty needy he'd be wanting he wants to wake up call every morning yeah good morning sunshine yeah here's what the markets are doing good morning the markets are down again have a good day yep so are you using any special tools when you're analyzing these charts is there is there things that
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Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
a regular producer doesn't have access to, or is it the standard and you're relying on your experience and understanding?
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Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
It has. And I think you do a good job of picking companies with quality products, which is why it makes it easy to transition into putting farm for profit content together.
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Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
Yeah. So explain to us now what your role is with Brandt.
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Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
into algorithms you can't control those right and and you made a good point there i wonder if anybody has tried turning the grain markets off and turning it back on just to see if it would reset it you know kind of like the whole like america needs a break have you tried unplugging and replugging yes yes same concept right okay so for the last couple of minutes that we have together if we've got a listener that is like cory and feels undersold
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Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
What are you going to do with them when they come on board? How's that look?
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Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
Right. I was going to say, if you're growing your own feed, it's not the same. If you can go buy your own feed, you take advantage of a lower market like this.
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Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
Well, I hate to wrap it up as quickly as we are, but you've provided a lot of good insights. And you've provided a clear path as to how folks can do something. That's the plan, right? Inactivity is still a choice, and it's not the right choice right now. We want to do something. So I'm going to try and summarize a little bit about what we talk about.
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Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
But I want you both – we try to put a question together for every one of our guests to compile what the answers look like. And the one that you guys get to answer in this episode is – How do you juggle work and personal life?
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Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
We want to provide a compilation for our listeners to understand that they're not alone in the way they feel and others either do it well or don't do it well right alongside them. So think about your answer for how do you juggle work and personal life. I'm going to try and summarize. We had the ladies here from ever.ag. And it's an awesome organization that has a lot of different services.
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Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
But what we were talking about today was risk management. We're working this fall to put episodes together that are really going to provide you with the tools and the resources to make your farm the best that it can be in a time that might not be the best it's ever been. We look at how working with some risk management group is great and even better when you can have an individualized plan.
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Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
And that's what's being offered now. knowing what your break-evens are, making sure that you understand what your cash flow needs are. I think we've probably said that a dozen times. And it's important that that doesn't go unrepeated because it's something that you need to continue to focus on. Large corporations hedge every bushel.
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Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
So why don't you as a farmer have protections in place for your entire operation? I love the analogy about insuring your house. You don't just insure the bathroom. We insure the whole house. So Make sure you've got a plan in there. Inactivity kills operations. We need to build the foundation to remove the worry.
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Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
There are opportunities when you work with folks like these ladies that you can get ongoing information, whether it be through alerts or weekly webinars or touch points, like Corey wants a wake-up call every morning, to be able to put that together. But ultimately, have a plan and have a partner that you can trust, and you still remain in the driver's seat
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but hopefully you get a little more sleep at night. Cover it. Nice. Good. All right, ladies. I like it. Yes. I can keep my job. That's good. My podcast sales here, you know, everything's just kind of ensure the downside risk on the podcast. Yeah. All right. So how do we manage personal and work life?
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Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
i like that one too that is good that is good that's i feel like that's what we're doing right now is uh we are batching ahead of harvest because we know that when busy season comes up we still want that family time even though it might come at weird hours and weird stretches for sure uh still still doing our best about farming is
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Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
Good. We'll come and make sure we get popcorn.
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Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
Yes. Popcorn at the beginning, in the middle, any end of our day. You guys need to come out.
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Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
Yeah, that'll be good. That's right. And Lord knows, Nebraskans need all the help they can get. I don't know.
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Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
So as you think about the grain cart, what's your favorite part about a grain cart?
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Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
Mm-hmm. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Awesome. Well, thank you. It's been our pleasure to finally connect here after meeting you ladies at Iowa Ag Expo. And we do look forward to connecting with you last week at the Farm Progress Show.
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Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
And all the other times that we get to connect, knowing that you guys are only going to be a couple miles away from us every once in a while. So. Thank you so much for doing that. Listeners, we also thank you for tuning into the podcast. Hopefully you found some value in this. And if you did, let us know what it was or if you want more clarity on some of the portions that we talked about today.
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Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
So, Corey, I think that's about it. Yeah. Have a good one. Have a good one.
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Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
It just drops?
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And listeners, welcome back to the Farm for Profit podcast. I am Tanner Winterhoff. You are? I am. Glad you are. Today. That's who I am.
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Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
But now what are the odds of that opening when it shouldn't open?
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Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
Yeah, because that would really suck if you were running through the field and all of a sudden the combine operator says, you're leaving a train of grain.
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Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
Five years ago, I got to participate on a keg. So I got to be one of the, I'm going to call them a panelist. It felt like a panelist, but we got to jump on conference calls. Unfortunately, we got it right into COVID. So we didn't get to come see the finished product. because that's something that you work with on these teams.
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Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
This is Corey here, too. It's a very taxing, I wouldn't want to be Corey. No. No one wants to be me. See? You give it out, I'll give it right back.
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Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
If you have farmer input, the farmer gets to see this product and the results of their input all put together before anybody else does. But it was a lot of fun because I used to spend a lot more time in the grain cart. Now I spend a lot more time in the semi because we've got grain carts that are a lot easier to run. It's a feature that is a hinge point in most operations.
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Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
But it was cool to know that there was a company that existed that cared at all what it was like running the cart. Cause that's all I was. I didn't buy the cart. I didn't work on the cart.
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No, I would run it. I had ran it for the in-laws. That was my job. Not the brand. Oh, not the brand. You ran a grain cart. That's correct.
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Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
Absolutely. That's a good point. I didn't realize that at the time, but yeah, I was running a different grain cart and was talking about what I wanted different.
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We record this just in case it didn't go up.
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Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
So the XT, that stands for?
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Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
Okay. But then the DXT, that's your dual augers. What's the letters X and T stand for?
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Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
I'm like, it's not extended reach because extended starts with an E. I don't know, Corey. You got to run one last fall.
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Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
And what did you like about it?
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So if you think about it right now, are you ready to go to the field? Is your equipment ready to go?
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Remember, if you aren't farming for profit, you won't be farming for long.
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Ladies and gentlemen, farmers, ranchers, and distinguished guests, thank you for listening to the Farm for Profit podcast, where we discuss the latest ideas, methods, trends, and techniques available to help your farm achieve higher levels of farm profitability. Remember, if you aren't farming for profit, you won't be farming for long.
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Revolutionizing Ag Equipment: Behind the Scenes with Strobel, Terraplex, and Brandt
We had absolutely great weather out at Husker Harvest Days in Grand Island, but it was breezy. So we're going to get us a little bit more clear audio today and talk about what we got to see. So when we first started our chat, we were standing next to your line of seed tenders. Why don't you tell us a little bit about that lineup as we move into this conversation?
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That is good to hear that you mentioned an affiliate program because scaling a business is always one of the most difficult things to do, and finding good partners is a way that you can do it a lot quicker. Yeah, very much so. Yeah, no question. So you're open to more affiliates. So if somebody's interested in being a part of that, they can reach out to you guys.
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Yeah, I know one of the first things that we talked about in our interview is your experience. If you've got your first drone and it's completely different than the experience that you're providing those of our listeners that just get their first drone, you're fully training them.
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You're fully making sure that this is going to be maximized its use and all of the things that we can put together on a farm. That's a lot to do in a growing company, so a great model there as well.
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Sue, have you been able to put any data together on not only the effectiveness of getting into a field when it's too wet to get in with a rig, but the profitability or the cost savings measures of using a drone versus an alternative method?
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So one of the things that I loved was the personal perspective that you have and the story that you have throughout your entire process of owning drones and now a drone company. How did you use them on your operation this year?
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So the benefit of you spraying your hay four times a year with the drone is there's no tire tracks, there's no wheel marks?
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I do think control will continue to be key because I just saw a headline. I think the EPA is considering potential rewriting the rules for endangered species and spray. Is that right, Sue?
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Yeah, so there's more to come on that. Obviously, they're announcing that it's in consideration, but even more of a reason, like he said, if he's around bees to be able to have full control over that product. Yeah, so it fascinates me. We've got the inside track. We've got to have conversations with you. Of course, we've been following along with the business.
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Our listeners are the same way, getting some of the latest exposure. As you see this moving forward, I know you've got a goal in mind, Ryan. Do you think there'll be a drone on every farm?
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I don't think you're wrong. I think that's the right route that it's going to go. But maybe it ends up being further down the road because the capacities have already continued to increase. What's new on the technology side in the drone world?
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Yeah, I even used the one that you guys repaired for me this year because we had side-dressed urea. And the elevator had a small window of time between rains that made it a useful process, but they had to sub some of that out and drove over a lot of corn. So we went up just to show proof saying, hey... We got a claim. It's as simple as that to make an instant ROI on your operation.
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And that's the bare minimum. That's just using the camera and taking a picture.
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Yeah, that's right. Rachel, you got any questions for them as they continue to impress you?
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Yeah. That's a good point. I appreciate the open-mindedness because that's what it takes to push companies like this forward is taking different levels of expertise, putting them all together, and pushing forward on a general mission and a concept. So what else did we miss today before we wrap up and make sure that they all reach out and get a hold of you guys?
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That's great. I appreciate you guys being a partner of us and taking the time here at the show. Hopefully you can get back to another full booth. Maybe the heat's going to weed people out a little bit.
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I love it. Thanks again, everybody. Make sure you go check out terraplexag.com, and we will hopefully have more conversations later this fall. Keep our listeners up to date.
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Yeah, it was nice to stand next to those. And as I sit here in the studio, I'm looking at a poster on the wall. Corey tipped a box of seed over this spring and felt so bad about it that we commemorated it with a picture with the eclipse.
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How does Tanner usually start? And welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
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Yeah, it was not a good day. So it's good to hear that that's part of the innovation in your seed tenders. As you were walking through me, having me walk around those, there's a lot of additional features. Like you talked about the way those boxes sit on the trailer, the way that they lock into place.
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Dave and I are off the rails again on our own. I can't believe anyone lets us do that and trusts us to do that. And we are here at Farm Progress Show for another beautiful, hot day. Not much air moving. But I tell you what, if you were here the day before on setup, it was 12 degrees warmer. And, yeah, I about fainted that day. Yeah, it was brutal. It was a good one.
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So, as always, we want you guys to go like, rate, review. Please leave us some reviews. Five stars only. Then you can type whatever you want. Anything you want. Yep. And then you can also call or text us. Leave us a voicemail, 515-207-9640. And Tanner gets that. So please blow him up, especially like in the middle of the night.
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And you got that little option to, you know, it says notification silenced. But you can notify anyway. Yeah, hit that. Definitely. So it definitely notifies them.
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Yeah. So today, we have two guests from Brandt, Kyle and Kurt. Welcome, guys, to the show. Let's start with Kyle. Give us a little background about who you are, what you do for Brandt, and how you got there.
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Seven and a half years? Yeah. Okay. And you live where now?
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Okay. So you're not Canadian?
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What did you do before Brandt?
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So you've been around, you know, no thing to do. Yeah. All right.
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Of course, we compared how high it was compared to my hip for your low profile, but they're in line. They're not side by side. They're in line. So it's a narrow transport too.
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Yeah, and we've been invited by a lot of our listeners. We have a lot of listeners in Canada that want us to come north of the border, but haven't been invited by anybody to get us up to a show yet. We've been invited to Sheer Sheep. Oh, yeah. And just a lot of people just want us to come drink beer for some reason. Of course, plenty. Yeah, but never to a show.
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So maybe that's a show that we should go to.
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There you go. So I am genuinely interested. You mentioned the brand portfolio. And when I think of brand, I think of grain carts and augers and belts and rollers and things like that, tillage tools. But you said portfolio. And when I went to the website once, I'm like, oh, this is way bigger than I ever thought it was. Just give us a 30,000-foot view of what that is.
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Got it.
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All right, let me do Tanner and let's reel back into agriculture now because I think that's the lane that we're trying to stay in. We are at the Farm Progress Show.
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There is a great crossover. But last time we talked to you, I think it was a while ago, and crop prices were a lot higher than they are now. And if you ordered something, you'd have to wait months, maybe years for stuff. How's the current demand looking in this environment?
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And then so with demand, we need to talk supply. Has supply been well?
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Prices down, up, flat? Where are we looking at from a couple years ago?
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Okay. As I will say, I just bought a Brandt 1545 top drive. Top drive, yep. Haven't picked it up yet. But the reason that I pulled the trigger on it was because it was older pricing. It was on the lot already and came with a motor and all that. Even though it's a single phase, I want to go three phase on the farm.
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But I could actually get that, use that motor on some other stuff and put my own on there. And it's already wired. And, yeah, it'll be great. So it was like a couple grand cheaper than what he quoted me for a new one. Yeah, absolutely. Savvy buyer.
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so that's that's tilly belt style right a what belt i call it tilly belt or just a belt driven rather than an auger driven that's a yeah yep and i'm planning to use that we've had seed beans for years we always have to pay 15 cents a bushel to hire a grain vac to come in because our grain vac would not meet the needs of the trackers that are hauling it out it's just going to be more gentle on your seed beans correct and not bust them up yeah
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you know if you're just taking beans to get crushed it doesn't really matter if you split a couple of them or you know a little rough but seed beans they need a whole bean to plant the next year yeah so every auger every piece of metal that touches that bean coming out of the field you know they don't like to see it go through they'd rather see a draper head than an auger head they'd they'd rather see no no freaking augers on the combine but you can't yeah um but what what they like is like the corner augers they don't like dual augers um and the bigger ones because anytime you can have beans on beans flowing through and not on metal
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It helps. Once it goes in the bin, it's a belt or a vac that they want.
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I like decisions that you can put data behind it really easy and just write it out on, you know, it's a math problem. It's like, yeah, yeah. Makes sense. Two years. Bankers like that. Dad likes that. It's a no-brainer.
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There's your biggest fan, Dave. Yeah. Oh, man. I want to talk a little bit about the grain cart that I had last fall. It was pretty dang cool. You got my picture. I didn't know you guys were going to do that. That was about 20 pounds ago. You got me looking a little thick up there. But that thing was awesome.
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uh i didn't think i was gonna need that joystick on there i'm like i don't need that and all of a sudden all my grain cart operators if that wasn't working or something or had to go back to the old cart they're like nah i ain't running it yeah nice it's got that long stick on it comes up out of the corner and instead of but dave you would never know this you haven't been ran a grain cart you used to have to crank your head past 45 degrees back behind you and at the end of the day your neck would be
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Yeah, and I also noticed, too, the unload capability, the options to be able to fill a box planter, to be able to fill a bulk mill planter or a drill or an air seeder. Your auger and the equipment that you have attached to those seed tenders make that functional for all types of seeding.
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Even the ones in Canada?
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Why did a Canadian company decide to come manufacture in the U.S. when there's U.S. companies that are going elsewhere?
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Do you guys give tours there?
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We'll have to get you guys over there.
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I try to stay out of Illinois as much as I can, and Nebraska, but I guess I could come over for that.
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They try to keep me out. They have a river in between us. That's right. They know I can't swim.
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So 10 years ago, I maybe would have seen a blue auger around here and there. Knew what it was, didn't know anything else. So now, I mean, it's hard to drive by five farms and not see something that's brand. How has that growth been?
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Yeah. Yeah. What changed it?
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Yep. One thing me as a farmer, and I don't mean to call you guys a short line dealer, but maybe not one of the major, you know, you don't have an X9 sitting on your lot, right? Right. I get worried about resale. How's resale been? Has it been holding up compared to everything else?
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See, I knew that. I'm just a good podcast host because I actually just sold a brand auger for a neighbor. And I didn't even have it on there for a day. And I had three people that were willing to give full price.
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I said, hey, that's too low, and I raised the price 1,000 bucks.
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So the blue one, the drive-over? Yeah, the drive-over. Yeah, that's not mine. That was the neighbor's. Yep. And so he actually messaged me today and said, ah, the first guy was a scam. Went to the next guy. Yep, I'll get him a check tonight.
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And that's something else that we learned. You mentioned over the years. Strobel's a company that's been around for a long time. There's a long family history. There's a lot of research and a lot of listening to farmers that goes into all the products you have.
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Yep. So this show probably won't air for a while since we've... Done so many shows here.
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Yeah. So it's going to be down a ways. Is there anything that's coming in the next few months that you could, like, hint that's something new, a new feature? Give us a little nugget.
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Earmuffs. Yeah, no.
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What about looking into spring?
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Yep. I will. And you do that. I will echo the roller. You run over your beans all the time. I've used a few different kinds of rollers, and this thing is built. I'm going to tell you that right now. It screams confidence that nothing is going to break.
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their roller you know it's not that it's not pulling it's stopping yeah yeah okay how much weight do i need in front of it yeah probably a 7 series or better huh oh you know my chevy 2500 actually pulled it down the road will it okay i'm a while away so yeah i mean that right around that 200 horse okay is you know usually enough um like you said main thing is just stopping it so
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Hey, listeners, welcome back to the Farm for Profit podcast. We've got a great episode here that combines a couple of conversations that we've had this fall. Excited to share with you some technology-forward companies to let you know what they have coming down their pipeline and how you best can prepare for that next growing season. So stay tuned. Check it out.
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How about your favorite or easiest sale? Which piece?
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They are cool.
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So what's been getting the most traffic at the show?
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Yeah, that was one thing that I was excited to see out at the trade show. Having heard and seen some of Cale Carlson's videos was to be able to see that equipment in person. And I remember stating that I was impressed with how heavy duty it looked like everything was built. The steel is significant when you look at that dirt moving equipment.
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Great, great. Well, boys, what did we miss? Anything else? Give us your final thoughts on what you want to get out there.
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I wonder if that's the same answer when he goes north. I don't know. They might change at 7 o'clock tonight.
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That's right.
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Very crucial. Well, Kyle, Kurt, thanks for joining us, coming down on this hot day. It was great.
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Awesome. Listeners, have a good one.
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Yeah, I did find that interesting to see that you literally had a scraper of all sizes. Everything that looked like I could just fill in my irrigation pivot track to I could move a ton of earth and get ready for my next building to go in place.
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Yeah, I know when you got a box blade on a farm, it's one of those things that you keep finding different and more uses for it. Whether you're a feedlot and you should scrape your lots with it or use it for snow or moving your silage or earlage or just keeping your driveway level and flat.
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But I also know that you are having a program right now that allows even maybe more opportunities for growers to put strobel equipment on their farms. What's that program look like?
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Dave and Corey get a little off the rails towards the end of this one, so it's worth sticking around. Again, if you have questions for us or topics, farmforprofitllc at gmail.com. We appreciate each and every one of you as listeners. Please head over there to Apple and leave us some reviews. We've had a couple of folks there. Leave us a bad one.
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Well, that's great. And all they have to do is contact their local dealer. This isn't a special promotion. This is going through the same network that you have built for them to utilize.
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Well, that's exactly what we like for all of our listeners, Larry. We appreciate you taking the time. It's great to catch up with you because last time we talked about your cattle shates. And those are still important, but we're adding depth to the perspective and understanding of strobel.
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That's great. Remind them again of that phone number and the website before we let you go.
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Awesome. Well, as I said in the beginning, it's always a pleasure to chat with you, Larry. Thanks for joining us.
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Now we're going to talk with one of our great partners, TerraPlex, and learn more about what innovation has continued to happen, but then also where the direction of the future of agriculture is headed. We put out two types of shows where we meet with farmers, have a conversation, learn about how their operation's growing and multi-generations are working together.
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Remember, five stars, you can type whatever you want. There's one stars. That's not what we're looking for. So help us out. If you wouldn't mind, get that rating boosted back up. But thanks again for listening to the podcast. Let's get right to those conversations right now. And what a great time to have a What's Working in Ag segment. We love inviting former guests back onto the podcast as well.
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And then we also get to talk to some of the most innovative companies in the agricultural world. And that's what we're doing today. It's my pleasure to have three. We got a little surprise. Got to have three of you sit up here, but that is one of those things, more the merrier. Right, Rachel?
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I also want to welcome Rachel to her first podcast interview, so we'll see if we can actually get a question out of her today or not, or if she's going to help us here with the ratings on our visual content. So guys, how's the Farm Progress show been for TerraPlex?
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You're right. It started off really, really nice itself, but I'm excited. We've had both of you on the podcast before, but Rodeo, why don't you remind our listeners who you are and what your role is, and then we'll just kind of move down the line as far as position goes.
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And that's something that's changed since our very first conversation as well. So explain your pathway into the CEO position.
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So Sue, as we dive into the way this growing season is shaped up, it seemed to be almost imperable to have a partner with a drone because it feels like it's rained and rained and rained and really killed some of our opportunities.
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We've got Larry with Strobel coming back to tell us more about what we saw out at Husker Harvest Days. Welcome back.
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Yeah, I feel like we almost saw that coming, the conversation that we had talking about the opportunities that existed. But it's nice to know that we had a partner that fully understood this. Dave, not in on this interview, got to use a drone service. and learned a lot about the process itself.
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But he also got to learn about how effective it's been and how it's not the only limiting factor that you can't run out of nitrogen and just spray fungicides. So it's neat to see that there's continuing evolution of the way drones get used in the field, even more than what we had talked about the first time in our conversation.
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Ryan, as you've sat here and observed your company's growth, and you had a great appearance at the Iowa Ag Expo, and now you're at Farm Progress Show, what has been the excitement at your booth as producers come through it?
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I am mechanically retarded, and I can install them. I'm not ashamed to say that because a lot of people were, well, how hard? I'm like, literally, if I can work out how to install it, you are golden.
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The instructions are just terrible.
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We're in the process of doing that. So in the U.S. market, because primarily what we do is agro-construction machinery, I'd like to say, if I can say this in a nice way, car people are simple.
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There is the engine. You lift the hood. Ag is different. Things move around. You need patches. And so we've started here in the U.S. that we actually have been making our own install guides, and we do have a live video install help. So if you need help installing a Steinbau product, you can call the office, and the technical guys will call you back and do a live video call.
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On yours, it's two plugs.
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Yeah, it is. The design for plug and play, it was designed that way. It was designed that it was easy to install and easy to remove. It's just... Unfortunate now as the machines get more complicated, the hardest thing that we have is trying to find a true ground. True ground is sometimes a difficult thing to find. You know, normally you would think alternator ground is a true ground.
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Well, no, maybe it's not because it has some voltage running through it. Or battery ground sometimes is not even a true ground. Or the engine block, if it's got, you know, goop and oil and paint, it's got to be right to the block. It can't have a whole lot. You've got to grind it off.
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It's not an exact science, but that's literally, I would say, conservatively, about 70% of our technical help calls are literally just power and ground.
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You can, as long as the customer is aware of power and ground. I've literally done troubleshooting with customers where I've gone through every possible step And then I literally go right back to the start going, okay, so you unpacked the module and the harness. Yes.
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And you plug the harness in and we did everything. Okay. Where do you have the module mounted? What are the lights doing? What module? So the little black box thing that you got, can you like take a picture and show me?
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And I've had that on more than one occasion where people have literally just plugged in the wiring harness and like, I don't have any extra power. It's not working. that little black box that you need to plug that in works great.
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Cost, you know, is it very much? It's, I mean, if you, from a scale, if you look at the difference between horsepower ranges of machinery, I think it's negligible. Um, where we run at an average cost, 2235 to 2480 is pretty much where around 70% of what we sell. So it's, And it's a safe place to be. And people ask, and I get asked a lot, why aren't you cheaper? Why are you so expensive?
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Okay, I pay stuff. I pay liability insurance. We're a registered US company. I have liability risk. We have warranty that we stand behind. We actually have a warranty. It's not like you call us and say, well, you know, you can send it in and maybe we'll get back to you. Our turnaround at the moment, we're not fully into harvest yet. It's just kind of on the cusp of starting.
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We're at 48 hours turnaround. Wow. So you send a product in to our support guys. Within 48 hours, you have an answer and it's coming back to you. So our warranty is a three-year warranty. But I like to call it – it's kind of like being a vegetarian where you're really flexible, like a flexitarian kind of deal. So we have a flexible warranty deal. I get it.
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People will buy stuff in December to run for planting season. We get that. We're not a big corporation that doesn't understand how farming works. I get that people buy stuff before they need to use it. So we're always very conscious and aware of, I'm sorry, a farmer in northern Wisconsin has bought a module for a chopper in December. Well, yes, he needs to spend money before the end of the year.
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I know he's not going to run that module or install it for months afterwards. So when customers call us for warranty, we're always understanding as to how they use the machine, where they're located, when they purchased it.
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It's a warranty on the module.
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Not on the tractor it's going on. Unfortunately, no. I mean, I can say in all the time I've been at Steinbauer, I've literally had two engine failures twice. And both of those engine failures were at manufacturer. So literally they came back and were like, well, you had a Steinbauer and it's got to be Steinbauer's fault. And we had an independent engineer go in.
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And both of them ended up being a manufacturer error that was known by the manufacturer. It was like a long outstanding issue from a range. One was a Quadtrack. Another one was a John Deere. So two different manufacturers. But we've not had anything that's actually come back at us.
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How bad is that? I don't even know the number.
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You can put it in the show notes. 269-2300400.
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I am... I'm super protective about my customers and my dealers' privacy. So, I am, you know, we have a lot of customers that send us patches and, you know, hey, put me on the internet. No, I won't do that because that literally, you know, can open them up to questions from either the manufacturer or whatever. So it's, yeah, I'm pretty careful with that. That's why we like people to call in.
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And it's also, for us, it's important that when you call in, we ask you questions to make sure you really need a module.
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Because not everyone needs one. You know, we get a lot of customers every day who call in. They don't need one for what they do. Right. You know, I spoke to a guy yesterday who has a 6 Series John Deere on his horse farm, two lift bales of hay.
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And he wanted a module. And that was great because he could clearly afford one, but it wasn't essential that he had one. He just, it was never going to turn on. And he's like, yeah, no, but I really need one. I'm like, no, really?
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You're just like, what else are you doing? Like, are you, you know, do you have a bucket on the front? Are you moving manure? You know, give me a scenario. And he's like, no, I just move hay for the horses.
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I know. I mean, I'm still not sure Dave actually exists. I think he's like a blow-up creature.
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He doesn't actually exist. He's just like a figment of my imagination.
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It does. I will see you boys at Fun Progress Show. Yes.
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I didn't realize you guys had guards here. It's like your neighbor's like, who's this sketchy Australian who's rocking up here? It's fine.
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I'm sorry. I didn't include pork in the lunch. That's all right.
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I mean, it's a slippery slope. Tuning's been around since you could literally take a screwdriver to a mechanical engine and boost the fuel. It's been around for a long time. The difference is there are safe ways to do it and there are stupid ways to do it. And I say stupid in the nicest possible way because it's unfair for the end user, the customer, to know the difference.
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And it's like everything else from a pair of shoes to a shirt to a car. There's a lot of fancy marketing that goes behind the sales pitch. At Steinbauer, when we first came here, this is now year 16. Wow, I'm old. I'm so old. Yeah, I am. I'm really old.
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Outside of me being although 16 years here in the US, we've been very careful with our marketing that if somebody asks us, you know, what can I do? You know, this is what I use my tractor for. You don't need a Steinbauer. I'm sorry. You're not using it to its full potential. I'm not going to sell you anything. And that's always been our principle.
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We like to ask questions and find out how you use your machine. Do you really need the extra power? Is it safe for what you're doing? If I've got some guy with a tractor that's got 9,000 hours and it's got multiple engine issues, I'm not going to sell him a module. You would know that's not a good thing to do. But other people will do that. And this is, I guess, in the U.S. market where I struggle.
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is that that, and you know, I grew up on a farm and I like to call it like the gentleman's agreement. That gentleman's agreement of honesty is gone. And it's literally what can I sell you or should I sell my own grandmother to make money? And I really, I don't care if you need it or if it's to your machine's benefit. Right.
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So we've always – our principle has always been injector duration performance. So we don't want to inject fuel pre or post because that just places an additional load on your fuel system. You don't need that. The fuel system of these modern diesel engines – you know, is delicate. It's a delicate balance. It's like, I like to think of it like a garden hose.
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So you have a garden hose with a nice fountain on the end of it. If you're, you know, pushing well water out of there and it's got stuff in it and it's not very efficient, it's going to clog up those little things and you're going to end up with, you know, instead of your nice big fountain of 10 shoots of water, you're going to end up with two. It's out of balance.
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And this is how the different, the other technology. So you have a rail pressure if they're just injecting rail and They're doing pre, post and main. So you're injecting fuel the whole time. This is bad. We just want to inject extra fuel. Extra fuel means extra power.
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You can't get one without the other. I don't care what anyone says. That's how it works. We want to do that just at main injection and just when the engine is under load. And we don't want to turn off any of the safety settings for manufacturers because these are important. You know, your oil pressure, your temperatures, these are things which you need to know about.
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I guess this is the difference between, I would call it an us and them thing. We're an engineering company. We look at it from the engineering perspective. What's safe for you and what's safe for your machine? I mean, I don't know, what's a new 8R run at now? Like mid-range 8R? I don't know.
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You're not getting out of a good new 8R for under $300,000. Right. So why would you risk your $300,000 investment for something which is, yes, it's known, but there's nothing behind it? Right. It maybe works. It maybe doesn't. It switches off things. It doesn't. It's a problem.
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It's literally hundredths of a millisecond.
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You don't want to touch that.
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No, and I guess then what most people fail to understand is people think that, oh, I need more power. I just want it now because everyone wants more power. I mean, you both know... You put your button in the seat and throw a piece of equipment on the back. You don't always need more power. Maybe you're moving down the road, going across. Maybe you're doing some light till.
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You don't need that power. It's not going to kick in until you hit. And it's machine dependent. It's a little bit different. But around that 60% load is when you really need the more torque. And that's when we come in. And we call it like a ramp. So think of it driving up like an incline. So we want to come in slowly. You don't want to sit there and get that. That is awful.
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I've been in machines that do that and it's literally like whiplash. You literally get in and you start and you're like, wow, you don't want to do that. You want it to come in nice and slow and be smooth and deliver power when you really need it. You don't need it before or after. You don't need it moving down the road. You don't need it moving around the farm.
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You need it when you're dropping a tool in the ground, pulling a grain cart, or you're harvesting. I mean, some areas of Michigan at the moment, we have corn that's insane. Other areas, not so much. But we've got huge corn. These guys are struggling. You know, they're really struggling.
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Yes. I mean, I don't like to say that anyone saves fuel because I don't know what your dirt is like. I don't know what implement you have on the back, what your crop is like. We look at a net effect. We look at the overall benefit. So for me, it's important that you save overall.
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So instead of you being in a field for 10 hours and your butt sitting in a seat for 10 hours, if we can get that done in nine or eight and a half hours, As you know, machines run on hours. So we can save you an hour every day, rough estimate of machine time, engine hours, an hour less you have to sit in the seat, which means an hour less of fuel, an hour less of def consumption.
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It's not about people going, I'm going to save you 20% fuel. I saw that at Farm Progress Show last year, and I literally wanted to headbutt the person who was touting it because I don't know what you do. Right. Your land can be flat, and the next farmer, he's on incline. It's completely different. Right.
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Yeah. And that's why we call it a net effect. So we look at the net effect. You have to look at your overall productivity in a day. How many acres can I normally do what speed can I normally harvest at or plant at? So last year I was up in Montana and they were in the new 640, 9R640. We could barely make two mile an hour stock standard out of the gate.
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You can't pull a hundred foot planter at two mile an hour. It just doesn't work. And by the time we finished and we did have to do some adjustments because the fields that we were in in Montana were quite unique. There was a lot of long
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rolling hills so you had no power and then you were on the decline and then no power and towards the end we were averaging four and a half miles an hour which is where the customer needed to be at they for their efficiency they had to sit between four and a half to 4.8 that's where they needed to sit with that planner on now at two to two and a half on on the decline they couldn't make that they were literally throwing money yep out the window
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So I guess that's the difference is that if people look at it just from one perspective, am I going to save fuel here? Well, you're not going to save it just there. You have to calculate everything.
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No, we don't touch that. And I would really, I can't stress how important it is to not touch the emissions system. And one of the main reasons, you know, everyone's like, well, you know, deaths, you know, it's annoying. It's a pain. Yeah, I get all of that. But the minute that you delete emissions, you have taken out a huge chunk of troubleshooting ability for a technician.
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You literally cannot diagnose anything that may happen if that system crosses over into the emissions diagnostic, which in the modern diesel engines is literally everything. So now, you know, maybe you have a problem and you're down for half a day. Well, now you're down for three weeks because the technician can't troubleshoot. That's if that technician is even allowed to work on the machine.
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I'm not sure what it's like here in Iowa. I know Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, like our direct area around where the office is, most of the dealers now will refuse to work on a machine that's had the emissions deleted. They will just literally put their hands up and go, can't help you, and walk away.
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Everything's here. So this is year 16 in the U.S. for us. I have been here for all 16 years, normally flying in and out. I'm now permanently here in the U.S., and we're – I'd like to call it BFE Michigan. So we're in that little southwest Michigan corner. But I love it there. We're surrounded by farmers. These are our people. It's great. I get out of bed in the morning and I can look at the beans.
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We have beans in our field this year. We don't have many acres, but our local farmer uses our field. And it's nice that we're really connected with the people that we sell to. I have a lot of customers that I can jump in the car and go visit. And we've got corn starting to top out in Michigan now. If I come out of the property and head east, I've got corn topping out.
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If I go west, it's literally not even to my waist because it's really all over the shop. But for us, this is nice. Because we've invested in being in the U.S. For us, it's we've got to have skin in the game. That was always our principle. Be here, have skin in the game, have staff on the ground. For us, this is important.
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Both. Both. I mean, if I can say this in the nicest possible way, we're somewhat choosy with the dealers that we work with. So we get a lot of applications. You know, I want to be a Steinbauer dealer. But for us, it's very important that you can actually service the local network. You have to have a good industry reputation. You need to be able to take care of the people that you're selling to.
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So we have both. We have great dealerships who look after, you know, areas of farmers. In Iowa, we've got some really great dealers, some long-term dealers. Okay. Joe Bush AgriPay is actually our longest. They did. But Joe Bush AgriPay was actually our second invoice here in the U.S. Really? Yeah. So, you know, and these are great people with a really good reputation.
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And so, you know, for us, if I can sell through a dealer, I would prefer that. But if you're in an area that we don't have somebody that can help you, you can also buy direct.
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Overcoming Adversity: Kevan Hueftle "Flea Speaks"
Hey listeners, welcome back to the Farm for Profit podcast. This podcast is going to have two introductions. It's going to be a little bit different than normal, but we want to share with you ahead of this episode that we had a great conversation. Husker Harvest Days, this is going to be one of the most amazing stories that we get to share. Two things. It's probably going to get turned off.
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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. You are in your role with Corteva. You get a lot of pushback. Maybe not pushback, but maybe there's a lot of myths that are created. What are some other things that you can help debunk for our audience as we talk today?
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Like I said, an addictive personality. That's 100% what I have.
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So I want to keep on the story because your story is fascinating. We still haven't gotten to a piece that I did talk about in our introduction. You're an Olympic athlete. Paralympic athlete, yes, that's correct. So you get sober. Yep. And you're like, all right, I'm going to go to the Olympics?
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That's a good point. What about the myth around it's harmful for the soil?
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Overcoming Adversity: Kevan Hueftle "Flea Speaks"
Some of you are never going to get all the way to the end of this episode. Don't. And I would encourage you, listen. Stick it out. But two, I want to give you a warning. Between the 10-minute mark and the 20-minute mark of this episode, if you are a person that gets queasy, doesn't like potential gruesome stories, there are no visuals.
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If somebody wants to learn more about nitrogen stabilizers, how best do they do that?
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Overcoming Adversity: Kevan Hueftle "Flea Speaks"
It sounds familiar. You're in the hospital after your gunshot, and no, sew this thing back together. Yeah, just let's go.
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Overcoming Adversity: Kevan Hueftle "Flea Speaks"
How old will you be then? 43 years old. And what's the average age of an Olympian? 24.
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We are. What an absolutely beautiful couple of days that we've had. It could have been terribly miserable. Corey and I have sweat through our shirts. Just the back. Because we are finally... I'm still in the sun. But we are absolutely enjoying ourselves. What a great set of interviews that we've had here on the second day. This one, I predict, is not going to disappoint either.
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Overcoming Adversity: Kevan Hueftle "Flea Speaks"
It would be bad if you predicted that it would. I know. It would be kind of rude, wouldn't it? I mean, we wouldn't tell them if it's up. Yeah, this is actually going to be one of our worst interviews. That's right. So this would be the time to go like, rate, review, and share. Because after this point, you're probably going to be disappointed. No, just kidding.
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Overcoming Adversity: Kevan Hueftle "Flea Speaks"
My assumption. is that we have listeners that are going to have a very tough time. I think they're going to spend this fall in the combine or in the harvest process trying to mentally forget about where their cash flow is, where their profit margins truly are because that's the favorite part is harvest time.
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Overcoming Adversity: Kevan Hueftle "Flea Speaks"
In true sense of humor, we do profit shows on Monday and then we have fun shows on Thursday. But we try to make the profit shows just as fun and the fun shows just as educational.
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Overcoming Adversity: Kevan Hueftle "Flea Speaks"
For most people, getting that crop in and there's going to be a couple of different areas in which I predict. Not everybody's going to be in this position because we know there is great crops out there. We know there are some folks that do some really good marketing. But I also know we've got the flip side.
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Overcoming Adversity: Kevan Hueftle "Flea Speaks"
We're going to have areas of our listener base that were still in a drought this year or they had too much rain and their crop is going to be less than average or they don't have enough sold and they're going to be underpriced and their profit margins aren't going to look good. And a lot of people are scared to have tough conversations. Yeah.
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Overcoming Adversity: Kevan Hueftle "Flea Speaks"
I hate asking long questions like this, but I'm trying to provide perspective for our listeners as to why this interview is important. And in my opinion, Once harvest is over, we're going to have some listeners that are in a very tough spot and we are farm hard. Yep. We're not going to want to talk about it. Yep.
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Overcoming Adversity: Kevan Hueftle "Flea Speaks"
And if this podcast can get into their ears and we get to share some of the perspective in the rest of this episode from you as to what we can do to identify, because we might lie to ourselves and say, no, it's not me. What we can do to get help, give ourselves some help and grace and, And come back and take frickin' 2025's crop year by storm and get out of a funk.
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Overcoming Adversity: Kevan Hueftle "Flea Speaks"
So I don't know if that's too harsh and maybe I'm offbeat with my assumptions. But that's my hope with the rest of this episode is your story is f***ing awesome. Thank you. And I hope you get to speak and tell it over and over again. And I think there's things that we can do to help you get your message out. But now I want to know, as you look back, and it's a shitty time. Mm-hmm.
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Overcoming Adversity: Kevan Hueftle "Flea Speaks"
What's the first thing we should do to realize it is and move past it?
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Overcoming Adversity: Kevan Hueftle "Flea Speaks"
We just like to have a couple of different titles. Maybe we just start releasing two shows a week and they're all just regular shows.
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Overcoming Adversity: Kevan Hueftle "Flea Speaks"
Oh. Yeah, but that's boring. And it's fake. And we're not boring.
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Overcoming Adversity: Kevan Hueftle "Flea Speaks"
Nobody watches the news, so we can't be every day. What do you want from us? Because if you want something every day, farmforprofitllc at gmail.com or... find our social media, subscribe on YouTube. All of the absolutely great spots. Or 515-207-9640. Call us. Yes.
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Overcoming Adversity: Kevan Hueftle "Flea Speaks"
And what a great opportunity we have to interact with our audience because some of the topics that we, most of the topics that we talk about come from them. We want to know what you guys want to hear. And this is one that I'm most excited about because ultimately we understand how important of what we say is. And that probably hit me a lot more seriously here towards the end of the summer.
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Overcoming Adversity: Kevan Hueftle "Flea Speaks"
I would assume you'd get that question a lot. It is, quite often. So for the listeners, as you think about, again, the perspective that we're sitting in, what advice do you have to motivate them to keep going?
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Overcoming Adversity: Kevan Hueftle "Flea Speaks"
I hope there's as much impact to our listeners as what you said to me. You have to find something that you can be proud of. And whether that's physical activity or a mental exercise, you're writing a memoir or a book or something along those lines.
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Overcoming Adversity: Kevan Hueftle "Flea Speaks"
And I realized that, hey, we're not having the margins that we've been used to having over the last three or four years in agriculture. And things are starting to come to a point to where we've got to batten down the hatches. And some of those hatches we have to make sure we take care of and don't just shut things out that don't matter. You're not alone. You're listening to this podcast.
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Overcoming Adversity: Kevan Hueftle "Flea Speaks"
We're here with you. One of the listeners is also there with you. And I'm excited to explore the conversation with this gentleman, get his story, and help share that message even further that things can be awesome.
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Overcoming Adversity: Kevan Hueftle "Flea Speaks"
They are. Is that literally the most time we've mentioned somebody who's not been a guest on the podcast?
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Overcoming Adversity: Kevan Hueftle "Flea Speaks"
Every episode, we keep shouting out, he's kind of like our mascot in Nebraska. That's great. Our cheerleader. Oh, my God. He's the snark of Nebraska. No, our mascot. I do appreciate your openness. Vulnerability. Your willingness to share your story, and I do hope that it pays dividends.
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Overcoming Adversity: Kevan Hueftle "Flea Speaks"
I didn't know how this episode was going to provide value to our audience, but I knew that we needed to have the conversation. And for us and our show styles, because our listeners know who we are, to label this a fun for fun episode is tough. But I had a ton of fun. Mm-hmm.
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Overcoming Adversity: Kevan Hueftle "Flea Speaks"
Yeah, that's exactly what proves the theory. It's not one way for every single farmer.
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Overcoming Adversity: Kevan Hueftle "Flea Speaks"
And this episode is not going to resonate the same way with every single farmer. Nope. It will get turned off. This episode, I bet you we have a lower completion rate all the way through to the end of the episode. And that's fine. I hope they go back and pick it up. Yep. I do. Why don't you start the episode with that clip then? Dave teased it.
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Overcoming Adversity: Kevan Hueftle "Flea Speaks"
We have been asking all of our guests the same question. You got a little bit of a privilege if you paid attention while you were sitting here the last time to get an idea of what it's going to be. How do we juggle work and personal life? How do you do it?
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Overcoming Adversity: Kevan Hueftle "Flea Speaks"
If you're watching this on YouTube, there is no visual that is going to cause any of this. But there is a portion of this story that... If your stomach is weak, we want you to know it's between the 10-minute mark and the 20-minute mark. You're welcome to fast-forward through that. You're not going to miss the meaning behind this episode. But I know that because I sometimes get that way.
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Overcoming Adversity: Kevan Hueftle "Flea Speaks"
Very cool. So if our listeners want to follow you, want to look you up, hire you to speak.
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Overcoming Adversity: Kevan Hueftle "Flea Speaks"
That's great. I appreciate your perspective. Appreciate your time. Appreciate you hanging out with us here at Husker Harvesting. Yeah, this has been great. And listeners, we appreciate you as well. Yes, we do. I want you to write in, farmforprofitllc at gmail.com if you need anything. We're not experts. We can get you in contact with experts. But if there's anything, 515-207-9640, text us.
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Overcoming Adversity: Kevan Hueftle "Flea Speaks"
That's right. But no, thank you again. And I want to wrap it for our listeners. I want to thank them for listening and until next time, have a good one.
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Overcoming Adversity: Kevan Hueftle "Flea Speaks"
He brought us this guest and I'm pretty excited for it. Thank you, Cody. Also, big thanks to Maya Kornitz for facilitating this, giving us this beautiful spot to be in. We are proud to present to you a U.S. Paralympic athlete. We have an Olympian. An Olympian. On the podcast. Also rancher. He doesn't have his medal on. Also a rancher. Also a father. He's known as Fleet.
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Overcoming Adversity: Kevan Hueftle "Flea Speaks"
And I can't wait to figure out why. Yeah. Why. But ultimately, he is probably the first guest that we've had on that has lost a limb. Yeah. Well, lost. Lost.
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Overcoming Adversity: Kevan Hueftle "Flea Speaks"
That's right. I do like a good mustache. Kevin, welcome to the podcast.
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Overcoming Adversity: Kevan Hueftle "Flea Speaks"
Or do we call you Flea? Flea. Everybody calls me Flea. All right. Let's start with that. Before we go back to little Kevin, where's Flea from? Because I think of what dogs get.
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Overcoming Adversity: Kevan Hueftle "Flea Speaks"
Yeah. I was one of those things. Those guys just showed up everywhere when you didn't want them to be there. Well, that's true, too. Okay. Let's go back to young Kevon. Yeah. Kevon. Flea. Flea. Young Flea. How was that? What's the growing up look like?
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Overcoming Adversity: Kevan Hueftle "Flea Speaks"
My family gets that way. Maybe this is a message more for my sister than anybody else.
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Overcoming Adversity: Kevan Hueftle "Flea Speaks"
Right? Very, very fast. You're going to appear really fast because I talk really slow. We're going to the comments section. So... So we got to play in sports.
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Overcoming Adversity: Kevan Hueftle "Flea Speaks"
Yeah, you're also a former firefighter that is in a position in which you can... A little calloused. A little calloused. It's a fantastic episode. Super pumped to share it with you, but wanted to give you a little bit of that warning. So if you're here, stay in it with us. This is going to be fantastic.
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Overcoming Adversity: Kevan Hueftle "Flea Speaks"
So you did 300 and how many head a year?
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Overcoming Adversity: Kevan Hueftle "Flea Speaks"
If that is the type of person that you are, 10 minute, 20 minute mark, fast forward, come back and join us.
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
You farm now, so you've been at the lake, right? You do look more tan. I am definitely more tan. Which is crazy because it's, Some are here.
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
Yeah, but they do get those fancy trucks with two trailers on them, the crane trains. I mean, they can haul like twice as well. We can't.
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
That'd be so cool. I don't think any of my trucks have the power to pull that. I know. Let alone try to back it up. Yeah. I saw something on that rail thing yesterday on Twitter. Every day it would shut down. It would take like 14 days to basically make up for that day being down. Is that right?
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
We could have hired them for the studio. Took all summer long.
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
No, I haven't. And I mean, it's been tough to get a price even. And then when you get it, they're like, if you want that price, you'll have to pay a hundred percent of it right now. And then they're going to go lock it in. Basically it's no longer like a 10% booking or, you know, whatever, because they're not sitting on the product. I mean, at least that's, I'm reading between the lines there.
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
It doesn't feel like they're sitting on the product, which Josh is saying that. Yeah.
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
The first price they came out with
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
was a pretty good okay uh back in like late july i felt like we was what we were hearing you only had a day to make that decision and no one was really willing to move on anything at that time and then normally if you sit and wait on it a little bit you can think and it comes back but that's not how it happened this got it this year so i don't know it's uh kind of scary i've never seen the spread of because i always look at like the cost per unit of nitrogen between anhydrous and urea and
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
Yeah, getting ready for all the fall harvest crops, getting our combines ready, giving them the once over, twice over, you know, trying to get through the shops and all that. And, you know, one of the best things you can do for harvest is to make sure your machine's ready to go. Because an inefficient combine, especially in these markets, if you're leaving...
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
and uan and i think the uan anhydrous spread per unit was only nine or ten cents in my local market and that's pretty tight yep for historically speaking anyways so i guess i i'm sitting here waiting sitting on my hands i guess you're the buyer that's just hanging out right like when we have time right we don't but we do like we have harvest to get through fall application season if we don't like that we can do spring i'd rather not do spring but it's a it's an option
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
So in the grain markets, a lot of people like to look at historical years. Like this year looks a lot like 2014 or 13 or whatever. Have we ever been at this point with fertilizer sheds empty and prices high, but the grain low? I mean, do we have anything to go off of?
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
kernels out there on the ground or reduce quality anything like that anything that we can do to help not do that would be great So welcome back, Todd. You gave us all those tips for small grains. How did the wheat harvest and everything go?
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
You can certainly sharpen the pencil. I mean, we're getting more efficient with our nitrogen use efficiency. We can split up applications and do more in-season stuff. We can get closer to planting. I mean, there is things we can do, you know, get down to that 0.7, 0.75, 0.8 pounds of nitrogen per bushel. we can lower our yield expectations if we're going to cut back on dry and things like that.
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
I mean, if we're already losing money, let's say, let's cut things back. Right. But how far do you go? That's what we're trying to figure out. Yeah.
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
That's Tanner. Tanner loves Mickey Mouse. Huge fan.
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
That sounds terrible. It sounds terrible. It sounds worse than the fertilizer market. It sounds worse than dealing with all the screaming kids at Disney World. Yeah.
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
So there's three things. Those are the three things that people go to Florida for, and apparently one of them is running a bunch. But why not mine the mines? It's not enough to –
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
Okay, good. Let's do the same thing for soybean. And this is one of my biggest pains in the butt because it seems like there's so many different varieties of soybean. We're taking the whole plant into the combine opposed to just stripping an ear. So there's just a lot of different variables. Let's get into the nitty-gritty on setting a combine for soybeans.
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
Sometimes we get in our own way here. So gypsum is also a soil amendment and nutrient that we actually like. It has a lot of calcium in it, right? Not if it's radioactive.
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
I wouldn't mind. You might have green ears of corn. That's already GMOs that people already hate, so let's just throw some radioactive out there, too, and really piss them off.
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
So what do they, I mean, they just pile it up, and do they have to, like, they've got to get rid of it at some point, don't they? Or what do they do?
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
Let's move on to potash, if we're done with. Is that everything for the phosphates?
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
I would echo what you were saying about if you go take a soil sample, you probably have ample amount of phosphorus. It's been pretty easy to cut back on that and maybe focus on more of the things that make the phosphorus that's in your soil a little bit more available. Yep. Yeah, so let's go on to the potash because that's something we all need.
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
That is good news. That is. I feel like there's got to be some bad news in there somewhere.
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
Yeah, I think that's an Iowa thing. Soybeans, we export over half of our soybeans? Or is it a quarter of our soybeans? I heard it was three and five rows. Over half now.
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
Before we get off the potash, go to what I want to go to next. Before we get off the pot? What's the difference? I've always wondered this. What's the difference between white potash and red potash or pink potash?
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
Yeah. So are you guys covering anything on the micronutrient side of things?
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
Right. I mean, I feel like sulfur is becoming another macronutrient in a way because there's hardly ever a conversation about nitrogen that doesn't have sulfur in it anymore. At least on the corn side of things.
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
Yep.
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
Right. And it is very mobile in the soil. So just because you put it on last year and you didn't use all of it doesn't mean it's going to be there. Right. Yeah. So you guys aren't tracking the sulfur stuff?
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
Okay.
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
Yeah, there we go.
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
So if you had to take all your crystal ball that you could do, I mean, where do you see... all of the nutrients, the macros going here from the situation we are now, go through the fall and maybe spring if you could see it.
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
That's not what we want to hear.
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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
let's say we're back to normal markets and not all this craziness that's going on right now is there any just solid advice you can give our listeners that you know when to buy fertilizer how to buy fertilizer you know always buy in july always buy in august or go to the river pick it up like what's the best thing to do i am still a very very big advocate there's not a time of year that's the best because markets are always changing you never know what's going to happen
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
You just got to tell them, I'm going to give you your 50 bushel when I get it off the field.
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
I don't know if it's completely true. If you were a good farmer and opportunistic and you've been building your fertility, you know your fields, you're doing your soil samples, you've constantly been on a 50% build or 25% build. This is the time I think it is okay to cash in. Yeah. Like, right? Like, I'm going to cut back or not apply that year. You know, I've got really good rates.
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
I put manure on that field last year in front of corn.
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
I did come up with one more question. I got like I always do. I'm curious about your newsletter that you put out. How do people get that or sign up for it?
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
Are you tracking some of those ratios that you talked about that like, Hey, this is like, like I got a stoplight, like green, yellow, red, or, you know, like, Hey, this is a good buy. It's not a good buy.
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
Sounds like we need to have a charity auction for my farm.
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
Remember, if you aren't farming for profit, you won't be farming for long.
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
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Ladies and gentlemen, farmers, ranchers, and distinguished guests, thank you for listening to the Farm for Profit podcast, where we discuss the latest ideas, methods, trends, and techniques available to help your farm achieve higher levels of farm profitability. Remember, if you aren't farming for profit, you won't be farming for long.
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
Nice. He is the guy. He is the guy. So can I start drilling in with questions yet, or are you done?
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
Cool. I still want to go to a tobacco farm sometime. That could be great. You guys need to go to a tobacco auction.
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
It's completely different. So there is probably no C-Bot for tobacco, right? So it's all done at auction? That's where the clearinghouse is? Yeah.
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
Maybe we should put one right there.
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
I feel like fertilizer is backwards. It's gone, you know, anhydrous particularly. That's what we deal with a lot in our area.
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
is up from last fall which you would have thought you know last fall at this time we were probably in the five dollar range for corn and now we're sub four so if you back up a little farther of course ukraine russia we had a little bit of a scare because a lot of fertilizer comes from there correct yes but let's let josh talk about that why are we backwards why do we feel like we're backwards well you're kind of hitting the nail on the head who do you think was the largest anhydrous exporter in the world
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
Boy, it still didn't feel like that right in the check though. Heck no.
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
Well below cost of production now, whereas maybe we were not there yet last year.
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Josh Linville - Fertilizer Market Breakdown: Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash
So that was some big news. We might as well just talk about that since you brought it up. That happened yesterday? Yeah.
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The Instance 670: Dino-Sour?
Hey, Scott and Bobby. This is for the instance. My name is Tanner, your illustrious raid leader and guild leader, of course. I was calling in about this last episode. You were talking about the story mode raid and how you couldn't do it on alts. without going through the campaign. I thought the same thing, but that is not true. You can go to the NPC executor, Nisrek.
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He's the big spider dude in the room that the little spider guy outside the range sends you to. He's also the guy who gives you the last quest in that chain to kill a queen. But yeah, if you go in there on an alt, he will have a quest that starts the quest chain. You don't have to go to the little spider guy that you had to talk to on your first character.
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But yeah, it's a little confusing, and they did not explain that to players very well. But it is there, and I highly recommend doing it because it drops one of the enchanted crests. which can get you a pretty decent piece of crap in here. Anyway, love the show, guys. Keep it up. Bye.