Farmer Sense
Labor Day Live!
(upbeat guitar music) - Hello everyone, welcome to the Farmer's Sense Podcast. We are live on TikTok and YouTube right now when we're recording. Huh? - Yeah, we're trying to do live on TikTok. We'll see if it works out well. - What are you talking to? - You, I'm talking to you. - Oh, there's a delay, my bad. (laughing) Anyway, yes, we are trying it. YouTube, for sure, is live with zero viewers and the TikTok is live as well. Yep, just trying something new. So anyway. - We're trying to get it so we can unlock the TikTok studio for the 25 minutes so that we can just screen share and we don't have all this other stuff going around. So it may be simpler. It was a simple way ahead of set up, but I hadn't been live in 30 days, I guess, for 25 total minutes. - And I never have been. - Yeah, so first time going live. Pop your chair, where'd it go, big guy? - Yeah, well, I got something to talk about today. - Oh, good, where do we go? - Oh, fuck. - We're gonna go on a ring up today? - Maybe. - Awesome. - I love ring-ups. - Nah, yeah, yeah, so precision. - Oh, my favorite subject, precision planting. Oh, I can't wait. - In case IH, both. - In case IH? - Yeah, both of them. So they both have wonderful products. I use them. I have a case IH planner and obviously they come from the factors, precision stuff on it. So why is it when you go to add something new that it's like precision doesn't even know what the fuck case IH is all of a sudden. So I have-- - They share technology, but don't share. - Ideas or thoughts or conversations or phone calls? Yeah, they don't share any of that. - Everybody tries to stay in their own lane, right? - So my precision guy, I love him, Ben Peterson. He's a good guy, he's a friend of mine, plus he is Sprout Egg Enterprises out of Lake Mills, Iowa. - Great, great guy, runs a great business. You text with a question, he follows up, he gets on things right away, he gets you a quote, he's out there when he can be, I mean, everything's great. He's a great precision dealer. - Okay. - But I'm not sure I have a lot of nice things to say about precision, nice things to say about precision right now because apparently they don't make a mount to go on an eight by eight tractor, cheese planner frame. - Oh. - And their bracket is only big enough to do a seven by seven. Well, then they're like, well, go ahead and order an eight by eight u-ball, okay. Well, then I can't use your bracket 'cause the bracket's not big enough. Well, just run out-- - Like everyone's bracket? - Yep, yep, yep, okay. So I'm like that, yeah, I get it. And then I'm reading the instruct, this is the other little pet peeve of mine. I'm reading the instructions, it's telling me how to put the hydraulic motor into the hydraulic pump and you know, you gotta put the shaft on, make sure the key's right, everything. Then screw in this 10 millimeter bolt that has-- - Hold on one second. - Code evened her home from on TikTok. He goes, that's because it's controlled by case not precision and it has to do with all the modules, so. - Well, no, so I haven't even used it. I haven't even got it put on my planner yet. So I don't even know if it's going to work, but-- - No, it'll work. - No, it'll work. - But, it's like, seriously, you guys are putting on a product that you can put on planners, but you don't know case IH has an eight inch by eight inch frame. Seriously. And then you send me this fucking bolt that I'm supposed to screw in. It says, find the 10 millimeter bolt with the blue Loctite on it. - Okay, and there was no blue Loctite on any-- - No, it was red. - Oh, red Loctite? Oh, that's some good stuff, man. - Yeah, but-- - So you don't even know case planners, eight by eight frame, nine by eight, whatever you say. - Yeah, yeah, my 2140 was, and this 2150 is also. So the pivot, 1632 row pivot I had, was eight by eight, 'cause I had to make the U-bolts bigger for my Thrive 3D system. Because Thrive didn't know a case, IH had an eight by eight frame. So I'm telling everybody out there, hey, listen, everybody heads up. Case IH has an eight inch by eight inch frame. And I hope precision hears me say this, and I hope anybody else that needs to know this hears me say this, 'cause apparently it's bigger than everybody else's. You know, what a surprise, right? - Cody said the instructions are just suggestions at this point, so good luck. - Yes, thank you, Cody, you are 100%, right? Well, and the other thing, I think I put it on TikTok today. There was instructions in the box, and I started reading them. Yeah, they showed me how to box everything back up pretty much to send it back to 'em when it doesn't work, but. - Oh, well, there you go. I mean, I wish I would've got that boxing instructions to send shit back to 'em, so. - Oh my gosh, Laura Farms shirt. - Yeah, my Laura Farms t-shirts this weekend, too late for the Farm Progress Show, but I got 'em. - She eats. - Yup. - Yup. - You wanna talk about Farm Progress a little bit? 'Cause that's where I was gonna lead, where we started, but you wanna just talk about your planar rant and precision, and, you know, I'll let you. - Well, I didn't wanna forget about-- - All the time, I wouldn't let you forget. - I didn't wanna forget about the planar rant. And like I said, nothing bad to say about my dealer. He's like, I get it, you know? He's like, yeah, that sucks, but he's like, if we were there installing it, but sir not, I didn't pay 'em to do it. I was gonna do it myself. He's like, we would be doing the same thing right now. And I'm like, okay, well, at least I'm not paying you to be on the phone, figuring out what's wrong. - Right, so here you go, here's something from Cody. Again, he's right on top. You know, you met Cody at the Farm Progress Show after party, right? He was the one talking about drones. My my Cody, yup. - Yeah, sorry, I was just reading when he was saying there. - Yup, so you got it, that the 3D drives, the 3D system won't work with the Ag Leader delivery tube. - Yeah. - It's the angle of the delivery tube. Have you figured that out yet? - I don't have a speak tube, so. - Well, I don't have Ag Leader in the, it does, Cody, it does work fine with the, they have the case IHS, those little rubber boots. - Two little rubber boots? - Yeah, they're just like, instead of a steel tube placing it in furrow, it's like a one inch wide rubber. It looks like a, about as long as a pen, and about four times as thick as one, and it, yeah. That, that, that works fine. - Yup. - No complaints with that. Just the installation, just the putting it on my planner, was the complaint, 'cause I had to make all the U-bolts bigger for that as well, because they didn't know a case IH had an 8 by 8 frame. - Right, there you go. Hey, I'm learning something new, 'cause I didn't know that case IH had an 8 by 8 frame either, so. All right, farm progress show. Gotta meet up with you, I had a group of guys. I think those guys are all pissed off at me, 'cause I got a cold, right, as we were going up there, basically started that day. I think I got them all sick, so everybody's loving the shit out of me. - Oh, good, I'm glad I didn't ride with you, and then you live across the state from me, 'cause I feel great. - You eat a dick on that part. - I felt like complete crap that afternoon evening. After we went out and watched the combines run, my head just swelled up, and then I just felt like dumb shit. - Yeah, you didn't drink any beer at the Cinjana thing. - I did not, I didn't drink a beer 'til we went to the after party, so. - No, you had one at the bar. I bought you one for sure. - Oh, I did have one at the bar. Yeah, I had two at the bar in between the farm progress show and the after party. So, now I wanna thank the farm for propagates for inviting us to the after party that they had. That was a great time. Gotta meet some really cool people. - Did, got to meet, and didn't get a talk to everybody, or meet everybody that was there, but who did? Well, you say who you talk to first. You haven't talked much, so go ahead, and who'd you get a chance to talk to? You went and did some golf simulator or something, and saw some people. - Well, back in that one room, yeah, that was really cool, but no, I gotta, let's see, I saw Snarkasaurus, so Rupert Williams, that does go farm yourself. Isn't that what it is? Go farm, Ginger. So talk to him, known him a long time. Saw the farm for profit, guys. Let's see, who else did we see? - I only like me, not me, guy. I could never remember what his name is, but buck me, then we saw, don't know him. Sorry. - Gosh, who else did we see? Then you did all the talking, I just stood back, 'cause I wasn't in line. - Who's the buck me, guy? I'm sure I know him, but I-- - He's from Nebraska. - Is that his handle, or-- - Cody, no, that's his, oh, it's not his team, no, but. We saw Cody, it is, I never remember who he's with now. Cody, just say who you're with now, 'cause I don't remember. 'Cause he used to be my egg-leader guy when I got my Kinsey planter and my strip-toe unit, so he helped me out a lot when I got going, so Cody's a good shit, and he doesn't live very far away, so. - Yeah, good. - Yeah, and then you guys, and then, let's see. Welkers were there. - Didn't talk to them, no. - You didn't talk to them? - Did you? - I didn't know, but I-- - Oh, no, I didn't, I talked to Dougo. - Just say Vanderholm Media. Vanderholm Media, that's who he works for, so, okay. - I talked to Dougo Larson. - Yep, I talked to Chet Larson. Talked to Cole, the corn star. I've known him a couple of years, and he's in the total acre, so I've known him for a little bit. - Say I didn't get to talk to him, I didn't talk to him, I don't know if I know him. - And I actually talked to him in the Titan tent too. 'Cause I was trying to find Scott Sloan, who was one of our guests on here. And he was busy with some customers, though, and so I didn't talk to him there. But then Laura and Grant, Laura Farms were there, and talk to them. - Kevin was the guy that I talked to. - Mark Burkhart, Mike Burkhart, I'm sorry, jeez. I knew that wasn't right when I said Mark. - Mike Burkhart, a lot of really cool people. Plus, I brought cool people with me, you know. - Yup. - Just cool people in general, so. - Yeah. - Slimmy, and JB, and Cole, and Scott, Nathan, and-- - Yup, good guy. - Good shit, still have a bunch of people there. All right, so what did you take from, what was the thing that you liked at the actual farm progress show? Would you take anything home? - Um, I took home a case I H hat that I bought, and a farm show, toy, and yeah, I sweat off about 10 or 15 pounds. I'm glad I brought another t-shirt. I wish I would have brought another pair of paint, or no pair of jeans and underwear, Jesus. I stopped and bought deodorant at a gas station before I went to the after party. - Yeah. - Oh. - I don't know. - I know. I got my deal on the Estes Concave, so that was good. Got that all taken care of. - Did you see that there was some for sale that I tagged you in? - Yeah, I did, and I already had it done, so. - Yeah, and you also had credit, to get them. I thought it was for a dealer. - And they were threes, and those were twos, I think. - No, he had brand new threes and one-year-old twos that I would have bought if I didn't already have mine. - Yep, so I'm excited to get those in. - Yep. - I don't know that I told you that the combine isn't here. Did I tell you, did I send you a Snapchat video of that? - You might have, but you know I don't like a Snapchat. - Yeah, I forget you don't like a Snapchat, so. - Anyway, no purse. - So my combine was supposed to be in a VOCA on Thursday, I think so it was. And I was gonna go look at it on Thursday afternoon, I believe, is what the plan was. So I got a text on Thursday morning and it's about 10 o'clock because you never gonna believe what the hell happened. And I'm like, you're right, I mean I probably won't surprise me, and did it fall off a trailer? - The windshield's cracked. - I was like, yeah, I'd like my tractor, yeah, it was like some random shit's gonna happen, I'm guessing, and I'm like, if it's gonna happen, it's gonna happen to me. So they just, they took the duels off and took the ladder and all that stuff, got it for transport, they sent the wrong combine. So the wrong combine showed up to the dealership in a VOCA. - I don't know, I don't know, but I guarantee somebody had a really, really bad day when they figured that out. - The only reason I'm laughing is because it was a shipping thing and that's what happened with your haggy. It took like three months to get your haggy, but not because they delivered to the right way. - I wasn't the shipping issue, it was more that they couldn't, the haggy, they were struggling with the boom, I don't know what they were doing, but anyway, yeah. - So they loaded the wrong combine on the trailer and drove it, I don't know how over far, and then they had to take this one back and bring mine back. So awesome, I don't know that I've heard that, I don't know how much that cost them, but I'm guessing it wasn't cheap. - Well, you know, they're probably both red combines, that's probably what got them confused with the same number on the side. - Yep, probably so. But shit happens, man, I mean, I make- - The serial numbers are right in the front windshield now of all of them. - I don't know, I have not, I'm not throwing stones 'cause shit happens. It did make me laugh, because let me go, you'll never believe what the hell, you know what, I don't believe it, but that's hilarious 'cause shit happens and somebody's gonna have a terrible day, I don't know what the deal was there. So anyway, hopefully this week, I'll get that figured out, this will be here, and go look at it again and go from there, so. - Is there anybody, I don't know, there's no- - Well, we've got three viewers. - Yeah, well, we haven't talked about anything exciting. - Hi, Mike. - I think it's the format too, I would guess. - Cody talked to Nick Walker after we left, of course he did. - Yeah, I mean, Walker's were back in that back room for a little bit, but I- I didn't get to talk to him, and Laura Farms was back in that back there. - She is so nice. Do you remember, I told her, I said thank you for being so approachable, because she's just like, and she's like, absolutely, we're all farmers here, so now like, you know, I mean, it was kind of the who's who of social media, that's what I was trying to think of. I wanted to say YouTube, but not everybody's YouTube. Oh, Minnesota Farm guy was there too, from TikTok. - Yeah, well, there was a lot of great people there for sure, but back to the show, did it just seem like- - I was just too hot, yeah, so let's back up, I was miserable. Once we went to that Senjana 10 at 3 o'clock, start drinking beer, then I felt a lot better. - Yeah. - But- - I mean, we were just walking around, it was hot, but there wasn't anything like, in my opinion, that was like, new, any treat. - No. - It's like shit that we've already talked about, or seeing, or- - Yep, so Case I H had the new, what, F9 and F10, or AF, but I can't afford one, though, so I didn't go look at one, like, maybe in 15 years I'll have one, but I did walk around the- their sprayer, 'cause I like sprayers. I listened to, they had, so Matt Bennett was there in the morning, but we didn't get there until like 10.30, and I think at 10 o'clock, or- no, I think at 11 is when Missy Bauer spoke, or at 10.30, and I watched her for about a half hour, but a lot of her stuff was stuff she's talked about a total acre, so I was- - Repeat? - Yeah, other than that, I didn't see anything I've never seen before. - Right, yep, Cody said the crowd wasn't there, it was then compared to previous years, which it could have been, I haven't been for 10 years, probably. - I was there two years ago when it was there, and I don't- I can't remember if it was hot, I think it was hot then, too, and Amy and I walked through it quick and left, so. - Yeah, well, I liked the field demos, I mean, that's where I wanted to go spend some more time out there, the only problem is, you know, they keep the l- the rope, which I understand safety stuff, but it's hard to keep track, like, all right, they had different corn heads running, right, well, I wanted to see the difference between the two, well, you couldn't really tell it where the line was, where the difference was, but there's a couple that I saw that, you know, they didn't cut the stock off very well and stuff like that, like, well, I would like to know which one that actually was. - So what I want to know, and it's probably true, but I would- was it the same corn throughout the whole field, you know, that it wasn't different, because, you know, how stocks will cut up different del- delage will go through it different, everything. I assume it was all that 82-day corn, it was probably all the same numbers, so that probably didn't matter, but- - I was gonna ask, I was gonna ask Corey some time about that. - All I know, it was 82-day and it was planted on, like, the April 10th through the 15th, one of those days, it seemed like. - Gotcha. - So he says he thinks that's all the same corn, Cody's in the know, man, if you don't know Cody, you need to know Cody, 'cause he's got her figured out, so. - Yeah. - Thanks Cody. - I don't know, I think I heard it was running over, a little work 200, 82-day corn, that's probably pretty good. - Two to two-twenty. - I think, but they're like, oh, none of the yield monitors are set, but- - Who cares? They gotta have an idea what it makes. - And they did, they just said they don't know exactly. - Right. - It's over two. - I'd like to see him spread the shaft a little bit, you know, it seemed like they were all dropping it. - Oh really? - Yeah. - Mm. - I don't know. - They probably don't want to hit, they probably don't want to wing it at people, but I'm guessing- - All that too, but I just, you know, you want to see how it's gonna spread behind the head, the head, but it'd be more important on peens probably, but I don't know. - Yeah. - I see cases going back to the spinners on some of those compounds. - Yeah. 'Cause they'll spread farther, then more. - 'Cause the bee, and they, I think they do need to spread a little bit better on the bee inside. I mean, I don't have beans, but you can definitely tell when a case combines running in that field versus a green one. - Really? - For spreading pattern. - Oh yeah. - I guess in our area, I don't know. - Wind screws, everybody, upside winds. - Oh yeah. - Suck. - Yep. - Pretty sure. Yep. - All right. So you've been out in your crowd lately? Let's move to pre-harvest stuff. - No. - Why not? You just don't care this year, do you? - I don't. - It's gonna be what it is. - It is what it is. I am in ROI mode, walking out in a field of what cost me money. So I'm just like, I'm not gonna wear my boots out. - Oh, gotcha. I'm trying to figure out where the ROI shit was coming on that one. - Yeah. - Cuddie says they might bail those stocks, so that's probably why too. - Oh, gotcha. - Makes sense. So, I don't know. I really haven't been out in an either. Payton went and picked a couple of years tonight. She said she went 55 steps out down the row while I was talking to a person, and she picked two years. One was up, one was down, you know, leaning down, one was still up, I'd say it's about half a muck line. And if they're all like that, holy shit, is it gonna be fun to combine? Yeah. - Just say it, it's gonna be phenomenal. - It will be phenomenal if they're all like that, yeah. - All I know is I'm hoping that I can make a round. - You're hoping to make a round? You won't make a round? - No, I'm hoping that I will be able to make a round for once. The last couple of years I haven't been able to make a round with a 600 bushel hopper on my 8-row combine, and I want to be able to just to make harvest easier. Why do we want to keep growing more? Why do we want to haul more all the time? I want it to be 70-pound test weight, and the same volume as 220 bushel corn, because then it'll fit in my hopper easily in one round. - There you go. That's what I want. - That's what I want. - Exactly. That's what I just want heavier weight but less volume. - Mm-hmm. Okay. Cool. I'm going to just go for high yields that pay the bills, and that's what I'm going to do. I don't know. I mean, it's all about pounds. I don't. Either way you look at it. - Well, I don't have it. - It sucks, but yeah, I've got the infrastructure right now to do. - And seven guys standing around waiting to haul away from you. - Yeah. I've got great help. I actually have more help than I have equipment, and that's what sucks at times. Because they all want to help, which is awesome, and I want to include everybody as much as possible, but I don't have that much equipment. - I wish they'd live closer. - I know. I wish you lived closer. So. Yeah. I mean, because your dad already wants me to come help you. - Yeah. - I think he just wants to see me, but I like your dad. - Yeah. Well, he knows I need help. In every sense of the word. - Yeah. - Why do we want more because the prices are junk? Well, prices aren't junk. Yeah. But you need more bushels to sell them, make them a same amount of dollars, but. - Yeah. I'm just saying I'm more focused on ROA for next year, I guess. I think I hit, I think I hit pretty well this year, so. - So let me back way, way, way, way up. So what I meant by why do we want more? - If all of us farmers, if the cap was at like 200 bushel on a, you know, for corn, like that was the top end, yeah, we wouldn't have shitty prices. - Nope. Because we wouldn't be over producing. - Right. And we would be able to handle what we farm, but that just means we just have bigger farmers and there'd be less smaller ones, probably, because they would be able to do more with less people, like I'm trying to do. - Yeah. Well, I mean, it just is what it is. - Yeah. - Yeah. Like Cody says, if you listen to everybody at the Farm Show, you'd be raising 500 bushel corn. Well, because everything, if you add it all up, you know, you put all that shit in and it'd be 500 bushel, 10 bushel here, 5 bushel there. I look at, I guess I'm to the point where after talking to a lot of these smarter people than me, you know, they look at on a percentage wise, you know, can we do 1 to 3 percent? Yeah, and we're going to increase your yield by 1 to 3 percent, that on a positive, you know, 80 percent return, basically, you know, 80 percent of the time we're going to return 1 to 3 percent of your yield, you know, that's the stuff I'm looking for. Don't tell me bushels, the bushels don't mean shit. It depends on what in yield environment you're in. - You know what I'm looking for is the landlord that just wants 3 percent return on their money again. - Yeah. - Instead of thinking they need to have 5 for their $10,000 acre ground. - Yeah. Well, I mean, shit, there's $10,000 acre ground ground. - Huh? - That's not one. - Well, I'm not saying that it just sold for that. I'm just saying in the last 5 years, I've paid more than $10,000 an acre for a farm. - Yeah, me too. - Yeah. - No, I agree. That's what I'm like. What I'm just saying, like, why do they have to have $500 or $400 an acre as they can get it? - I know. - Well, not for me. - If you're in their situation, you'd want the same way, wouldn't you? - I don't know. - I guess I would. I mean, I wouldn't want the top dollar because I would make sure that it would be managed and actually taken care of, but I want somebody that's going to do a good job and, yeah, fair. We should go through the whole topic of, since my wife and I can't have children, we should talk about how I think that there's no sense of even putting any money into any ground I own or farm anymore because why do I give a shit about the guy who's going to farm it when I'm dead and gone because my kids aren't going to. I don't have any nieces and nephews that are going to. - I mean, my dad has agreed with me, like, put the fertilizer on the planter. Why drop it? Why keep spending all this money to build up? I mean, I'm still going to strip till no till. I don't want it all washing down the ditches and creeks. I want to keep the dirt there, but other than tile, so I can still farm it. I mean, what's the point of putting a whole bunch of money into it? Or even maybe I should just sell everything that I'm paying for right now and just retire. - Yeah. - Cody's probably asking me where do I live? I live in Rockford, Iowa, which is North Central, Floyd County. - In between Charles City and Mason City, so he's not too far away. If he could just rent it all out to me if he wants to quit and then he can just drive truck back and forth and haul shit back and forth. - Yeah. Give me something to do. - Yeah. When you retire, the girls are farming mine and they can farm yours and we'll just haul the shit back and forth and tell them what they're doing wrong. - Yeah. Exactly. Sounds good to me. - Yeah. - I can be a stay-at-home dog dad. - There you go. Yeah. Now that's fine. - You know, I mean, I would like some feedback on that suggestion. I mean, what do other people think? Put yourself in my position. Like I have literally, I mean, and we're not going to adopt. We already talked about that. We just settled that like last month. So it's just me and Amy and the dog and my system. - Do you see Cody's messages? - No. Okay, so he's saying, speaking someone whose wish isn't he had farm growth, why not work with a beginning farmer now, you know, who would work on a plan and work on taking her over some day? And I think that's where you've- - I've talked to three people without saying that much. And each one of them hasn't really like been interested. - But no, I don't think they understand what I'm trying to tell them without telling them. - Right. No, I understand. Some of it gets lost. Look, tell me. - Because I did. Because I, for example, I talked to one, you know, I was like, how about you, we own our own planner. You harvest everything for me and I spray everything for you because I got a really nice sprayer and they don't. They hire the co-op and they got a really nice, they get new combines often and their case I H ones, everything, they have already equipment and I'm like, well, you know, I'll do all your spraying. You do all my harvesting. We'll plant our own. - Yeah. - There you go. I think we should both just go to 16 row planters and just get one big-ass combine and just move it back and forth. - Mm hmm. Except for you do those damn bean things. - I wouldn't have to. I could drop acres really quick and just do all corn and corn. Why couldn't you just do it all corn and corn? - Because that's a lot for one and a half guys to do. - Oh. - Tony goes, he's flexible, he can move. There you go. - Okay. What does Tony Reid do? It says look at Tony. Look at Tony Reid. Is he on his own? Does he not have kids? I don't know. - I don't know. I have to look at that one. I'm not 100% sure. - I just, it's a material thing where everything goes to the co-op for you. - Yeah. That's the other thing. I am not going to put up grain bins and have storage and a dryer because there's no scent. When I get to the point where all the machinery is paid for, I might just start leasing that way I can back out any time I want. At least the tractor right now for everything else I'm paying for, but. - You're still paying for it. - Yeah. Yeah, I know and I would be if it was at least too. I'm just saying it's, you don't have to have a big farm sale and take a great, big hit. You just let it go. - Yep. No, I agree. I don't know. It's just. - Taxes, it's easier for. - You can be, but if you find somebody that you can work with, it's easy to set up some of that stuff. You sell some grain one, you know, and carry over grain the next year and then you hold your equipment for a year and then you sell it and stuff like that. There's way to spread some of that shit out there. - Oh, yeah. Absolutely. Mm-hmm. - Yeah, it's not. - Nope. I don't know. - But that's a good idea though, Cody. And yes, I have been thinking about that lately with, you know, joining up with someone and, you know, giving them an opportunity to have somebody come in or move in and farm my ground. But a lot of the situations that I've talked to have their own kids coming in or they have a dad that may be retiring soon that they'd be taking over. So in other words, I guess what I'm saying is the ones I've spoken to have too much on their plate right now. - Right. - So. - But don't you think that there's going to be a spot, I mean, realistically, you know, you and I both have at least, hopefully, you know, 20 plus crops left, right? - Mm-hmm. - I hope so, yep. - You know, that's what we're hoping. So you're hoping that you'll find. - Yeah, I got a long time. - I got a neighbor friend or whatever that has a kid that you want to see expand their operation because they're doing, you know, different things that everybody else. - Yeah, good. No. - Right. - You know, that's, I mean, I think we're, you know, there's a long time before we hopefully you have to worry about any of that stuff. - Yup. And just talking about it here the last five, 10 minutes. Yeah, you're exactly right, kind of just wait and see, but I am very much open to getting somebody else started. - Yeah. Nope, I agree. And that's, and that comes back to the old other point, you know, like me trying to explain my operation, you know, how do you do that? That's the, that's the one that everybody wants to know is how, how do you explain the operation? You can't just go around, rent and ground from other people and I mean, it just isn't a justifiable way to do it and, you know, like, there's going to be a lot of ground. You can get asked to farm a piece because they are happy with their, with their tenant now or something. - How often does that happen? One out of a hundred? - Every, every once in a while, but yeah. But they're not the only partner anymore, you know, because there's a brother or sister and then, then somebody's pissed off because you tried to rent it out. Well, they approached you about it. So then you're the asshole and that's stupid. - That's okay though. - Sometimes, I mean, if you want to farm and grow yourself in your business, you're going to have to have enemies. - You're going to have to be somebody's asshole, I guess. - Yeah. And everybody has a chance or a shot at it or they should. I mean, that's why I like auctions. You know, a lot of people don't, but so buying or rent or buy because everybody can bid one more time and if, if, if that guy rents it for, say, $400 an acre and you didn't rent it and then you go downtown and bitch about that guy for rent it for 400, you know, you could have maybe bid 4.10 or whatever the next spot was. - Yeah. No, I agree. You know. - But what I'm looking at is trying to find farmers that maybe don't have, that are thinking about slowing down, that maybe don't want to upgrade equipment, that, you know, don't have as much help as they'd like, that we could partner up and start working with people like that. That's kind of why what I'm going to start looking for and trying to grow in my operation probably won't work because it normally doesn't work out that way. But, you know, because I, like I said, I've got great people that help me. And so I've got the infrastructure to be able to take on more acres and then work with somebody else that's, you know, doing really well and wants to keep farming and figure out a way to work together. I mean, I feel like I'm pretty simple to work with sometimes, kind of hard headed but on certain things. - Oh, I'm growing. - I'm fucking right. I am. Like it's going to be my way or the highway, buddy. - Yeah. But if it's in a ground, it's not, if you want to plant this. - Oh, no. Yeah. If it's something they're renting or owning it, they can do whatever they want. - Right. But, you know, you work with them and stuff like that. I just want to work full time for Andrew. That's what Cody says. Yeah. - Yeah. - And he's right. Go to the local F of H after find somebody on his farm, I guess. Yep. - Nope. That's exactly right. But I just didn't get Cody on. When they get Cody on the podcast, we can talk about all kinds of stuff with him. So. I don't know. He was going to be so active. - Oh, yeah. He's. Yep. But once we get this figured out, we can get it on the screen and it'll be a lot easier to have people on it. - Oh, we got a ton of viewers on YouTube right now. - Yeah. All of them. - No. All right. So what do you got going on this week? - I want to get that planner done. I got to get as much done as I can at this point of parts that I have that fit or whatever. And get that done this week. Sean from Titan is going to stop by this week and ballast my combine. I have to put the draper head on it because that's the heaviest head I have. And then he's got some scales that you can move around and we're going to figure out how much air pressure I need to run in those LSWs that I have on the front and back. - Yeah. - And then I need to put in a new, I got to put in those concaves. - Oh. Yeah. - And are those twos or threes? - There were twos. - There are twos. Okay. - Because I bought them at the end of last year. Yep. And then, well, check everything over, but I also know that I need a new clean grain chain and paddles. - Gotcha. - Because, well, last year, I had good corn, good heavy corn and most of my corn was 18 to 22%. So it was wet and then that 600 bushel hop around top with a bubble up auger. Yeah. That son of a bitch. I don't know. I went through three slip clutches and did not know there was a broken paddle on the son of a bitch. So that was one of the reasons why. But the other reason why is, and we're going to get this figured out, if anybody has any ideas out there, my bubble up is hydraulically driven and it's hooked up through the spinner, my spreader in the back. And when you go to corn, you have to turn the spreader down because it'll honk at you all day if your spreader speed's too high. - Oh. - That's what mine does. So I have to turn down my bubble up auger when I'm kind of buying a corn, which defeats the whole purpose of having to pop up auger. I don't know if that's what, so this was a used combine. I don't know if those people, that's why they got rid of it because they were getting sick of it or what, but I'm sick of it after, I don't know how many years I've run it now two or three years, but it's like, okay, we need to hook it to something else so it can run wide open all the fucking time because I'm sick of slip clutches and everything else going on my heavy ass high yield corn, trying to push it up into my hopper. - Can you put, I don't know if you'd want to put any restrictors back on your spinners, you know, to restrict the flow? - Oh, well, yeah, but would it show that and? - It would keep the pressure, I mean, it's all about pressure. - None of what it'd be, okay, it'll show that in the cab then that it was slower. - Probably. - 'Cause I didn't know if it just went by the dial speed or whatever. - I don't know. - I'm not smart enough to. - It would have to have something, it would either have to be a flow sensor or a speed sensor telling you that it's going too fast. Yeah, I don't know either, but I did have the dealer mechanic was out this spring putting an update in the tractor and I did say something to him about that and he said he might have to change that. So maybe he's got an idea, but if anybody else has one. - Yep. - No, that's good, I don't have a tractor here so I can't pull the strip tail machine out and work on that. So that's a whole another deal. - And I am going to be putting humic and sugars in my strip this fall. I decided, yeah, but no anhydrous and no other fertilizer, just humics. - Yep, that's what I actually was going to go meet with my nutrient rep last week. But he was gone and I was going with stuff. Just the way I worked out to go over a plan for fall for strips. - Yeah, I need to, I want to talk to my Helena guy about, for my corn planter and bean planter, my planter. - Yep. - Like how many gallon I can get by with so I can space it out in thirds, do a third with a planter, a third of one wide drop and a third with a second wide drop. - Yep. - And then a fourth one right for tassel. - No, not me, not with mine. I can't get through tasseled corn when I'm in paint left on the thing. - It's alright, hey, paint's overrated. - Yeah. - I don't know, it'll be fine, I guess. That's what I'm like you, I've talked to enough people in the last year and a half about nutrient availability in plants, but it's made me change my thinking on how to get those nutrients into the plants. It's not about putting more on, it's putting them in the right, right source in the right ratios. - At the right time. - At the right time. - No. - Good. - Here's a question I got. - For you. - Oh. - No, go ahead. - And then we'll all get to Cody's question. - Here's my question for Andrew. When you get up in the morning, do you eat all of your food at 6.30 in the morning for the whole day? - Have you seen my figure? - No, no, no, let's hypothetical. - Are you trying to call me fat, Eafs? - Yeah. - Not a single one of us just devours all the food we can eat for the day in one setting, so why would our plants want the same? - Correct. I agree. But it's all about soil biology, too, of making stuff available at the right time. And if you put it on too soon, it could get tied up, too. - Yep, and lost. So, no, Cody's asked about the soil warrior how it works. It works really, really well. I do have a few things on it that I don't like, but the filling, the way they have their bins set up, I'm not a big fan of that. I think the carts out there are a lot easier to fill than what that is. - I actually looked at a couple of different strip-till units. I don't know if I'll trade or not, I'll talk to Jesse out of Indiana, which was super interesting. He has a aguru bar, so, well, yeah, it's an aguru bar or whatever. - That's who's making them for Case I H. - Is it? - Mm-hmm. - Okay. But I really like the way that bar set up, and I think there would be a way to put an named Hydrus knife off on the side of the strip. So, the guys that I do custom that do in Hydrus, that's where they want to put their in hydresses on the edge of the strip. And I really do believe that that's the way to do it after seeing the one field that was done that way last year. I did custom for a guy right here in neighbor. And then he came in after I did my strips and he put his in Hydrus like two inches off the edge of my strip. That corn is the best corn that I've seen all year. It tasseled within about 48 hours of self-emergence was awesome to the strips, never having nitrogen burn. It never had a shitty day. - He did it this spring. - No, he did it all last fall. - Oh. - Yep. So, I stripped it last fall and then he pulled the in Hydrus right. - Why did he want to do it right next to it? - 'Cause he's seeing root burn. - Really? - Yep. - He put all of it, like, 200 pounds or something? - Yeah. I don't know what is right here. - Isn't why drop or nothing? - No. - I have never seen root burn with 140 pounds that I put on. Does he use N-serve? - Uh, I'm sure he uses some kind of stabilizer. - If you use N-serve, you will see root burn because you keep it so, yep, in a spot like the size of a basketball or a volleyball. - Yep. - So, maybe I'll see the size of that then. So, anyway. - So, I have seen it right on the edge of the strip and I don't know that corn looks phenomenal. I mean, for the prices of N-hydrous and nitrogen for next year, it's really, really tempting to do the same thing. But then you got to make another pass. That's the problem with it. - What are prices? I have no idea. Fertilizer. All I hear is they're not going down and they've gone up. Is that true? - Nobody will give me a price. I haven't even got a price. Have you got a price for seed corn? - I heard steady to up like 1%. - Pioneer, right? - For Pioneer and DeKalb. Yep. So, yep, that's what they kind of said. I don't have that number in front of me. I want to say, N-hydrous around here is like four or not four, five 50-ish range, depending on it may be a little cheaper. If you paid for it up front, a little more if you haven't paid, aren't paying for it. Yeah, and then, yeah, MP and K, it really, I think, like your map and DAP and MES are all up a little bit like. Matt Churchill, I think he knows. - Yep. So, and then the potash, everybody says potash is cheaper this year that I've talked to. I'm really looking into AMS this fall, but you and I talk about this. - Every time I see you. - Well, you can tell it's on my mind then. The biologicals versus AMS. Andrew has heard a lot of good things about using AMS. - Yep. Well, versus the biologicals and breakdown of the residue. So that's what I'm interested in, is trying this side-by-side with using biologicals and like 25 or 45 pounds of AMS broadcast and see how the breakdown compares between the two and that. - I used to put on AMS. I used to put on 75 pounds with all of my dry fertilizer in the fall to help breakdown. - It'd be like putting, I don't know, five gallons, three gallons of UAN or 32% on in the fall. I'm not saying math-wise, it's the exact same nitrogen. I didn't do that quick enough, but I'm just saying a lot of guys will put on three to five pounds of 32% on with like a residue owner excavator or something. ATS works good too, like extract from, that has ATS in it and accomplish. So accomplish an ATS work real well together. That's exalt or extract, jeez. - Yeah, sure. - Yeah. - Yeah, I'm gonna put dicamba with it too. - Yup, I have a toe of dicamba, hooking about it. - Yeah, I think it just, I did that last year with that breakdown stuff and man did it do a good job, I think, keeping everything dormant in the spring, I get, or build it all off. So, no, it doesn't really overwinter or whatever. - It's like spraying your lawn for dandelions in the fall. - Pretty much. - Which I need to. - God, my stuff. - Oh, shit. My yard is dog shit, well, we didn't have rain for three and a half weeks, so I didn't mow it for three weeks. It's so bad. Clover, water grass, or what's the real name for it? - That's what I was gonna say, water grass or whatever the hell. - Yeah. Anyway. - Black, yeah. - Drive, drive, accelerate from BASF. It's expensive, but it works really good, and it'll kill all the water grass. - Well, it'll kill your, it'll kill your fruits. - Well, anything will kill your trees if you just soak them in it. Round up. - I didn't just soak it, but I'm just saying. - Just be careful going around them, make sure it's not windy and you're not, and how tall are the trees. You talking about like hardwood trees or evergreens? - No, like newer trees. - Like three foot tall arbovitis or something. - Oh, maple's-- - Maybe like six foot maple's. - No. It's not gonna hurt a maple. - I smoked them. Okay. - How'd you do that? - I got it. - Some stuff. - Did you get it on the leaves? - No, but it must have drifted a little bit. - You didn't use toward on, did you? - Oh, no. - Okay. - I sprayed it on-- - Crossbow? - I was spraying it on. - No, it had some, I had remedy in the tank before, so. But I sprayed when the wind was actually out of the east. The wind was blowing to the west and I was on the west side of the trees thinking it would be blowing it away. I don't know if it's that, whatever, but I smoked one tree. - So-- - It killed it or just took the leaves off that year. - It killed-- - It killed the growth on that tree and then it sprouted up four little ones down below. - Oh. - Like, yeah. So, it kind of effed out up really good. - Well, the reason I haven't, why my yard looks as shitty as it does is because I have not sprayed the last two years because I did have new planted arbovitis that were only like a foot tall. - Yeah. - I was worried about them. But now they're, all they're about head height when you're going around with a lawn mower. - That's where I need to. - I'm going to make sure to spray this fall. I need to spray them a lot too. That's the other thing that I just kind of haven't done this year. I need to do it because I've always had somebody that had cattle in there, you know, farmer. My friend Farmer always had cattle here and then when he worked for a guy, they had cattle up here and this is the first year I haven't had any calves in that lot. So I need to kind of do some maintenance on that, just weed stuff out there because it was a feedlot. So there's some weeds. A lot of grass, but there's still a few, few weeds, don't like it. So when you get to start combining coal, hot wire, and I'll bring the sheep, fuck you, you put up the fence, you can bring some panels up. I'll let you have, I'll let you have your sheep up here. If you put the panels up all the way around it, come feed them twice a day or whatever you do. - So, when am I going to start combining? I am going to get some gromoxone and I'm going to try desiccating soussoy beans. - Awesome. I want to know how that works. I don't know shit about it, but all the guys that grow great beans are talking about it. I don't understand why other than harvestability. Is that the only reason? - No, the biggest reason is, so let's say you've got a farm that says 160 acres and there's some hilltops and stuff and maybe they're starting to turn and then the bottoms are kind of green and this and that, well, your hilltops are going to be like total dog shit BBs by the time the bottoms get right. So, if you can go out at, it is three nodes down if the beans just break away from the pod or separate in the pod, three nodes down or two, you can try it either way, spray a pineapple gromoxone and in eight to ten days you should be able to harvest and what it does is it's going to even everything out, you're going to have then it's going to be rain dependent too because if you do this and they get right and then all of a sudden it's raining all the fucking time, you're not going to get out there anyway and rain helps even out beans. We've all seen that too because it'll strip the leaves and do everything but what it does is you're going to get a one time dry down and you're going to be able to harvest anywhere from 13 to 15%, whatever, put them in a bin, dry them home to town, take a little bit of a dock but I guarantee you're going to be like money head and what was I getting at? Everything is going to be right pretty much so you're not going to have BBs on your hills, you're going to catch them, you're going to get better yield there because they're not going to be BBs and you're going to speed up the lower end which is already right but it just needs speeding up, also there can be times where you have thick wheat issues and you don't want to wait for that frost or you don't think you get through with the combine and whatever, people will do it for that reason too but the biggest thing is getting everything evened out and how long until after you sprayed the combine a week? Seven to ten days, seven to ten days, okay, you can speed it up by spraying more but I've been told by pole farmer, he's in Kentucky, my phone's over there, where is he? He's down south anyway, he's going to use the drone soon, no, I'll go through all of my beans aren't that big, okay, my corn isn't even that tall, I was out here, I got some 68, 86 or something, I can't remember, wiffles number 108, 109 day, it's like a foot taller than my head, it's the cutest little corn ever, I didn't think you would walk out in the field this year, you said you were in ROI, I'm going to do it, I want to worry about your boots, oh you just noticed what you're walking around, no I did, it did like ten days ago, sorry but I picked sweet corn this last week, oh yeah I did, I got caught, well it wasn't because I was tissue sampling or anything cool like that, I did walk out there, I am done tissue sampling, I hope that Steve Churchill, I hope we did a tissue sample this week for the green lightning to see if it worked on the beans at e-spray, because last week didn't show any difference in nitrogen levels on his beans, I think that's two weeks ago, I don't remember, but I haven't talked to him, but I know he was busy this weekend, I think he was racing again this weekend, so yep, Matt, Matt did I answer your question, untiming of desiccation, did you hear, did you hear that long, I think you hit it right, you hit it right as you, it was long and drawn out, and then I forgot right in the middle of what I was even, yep, okay cool, that's the, that's a Rick Miller wave buddy, only halfway through my second beer and I already can't remember what I'm talking about, I did not have any beers tonight, I'm drinking water, and dad's birthday party last night so drank a few beers last night, Iowa State game, fire progress show, I mean recovery now, it's gonna be a long weekend, starting Saturday at probably noon, Iowa State plays at 2.30, after that then I have friends are having us over to play cards, yep, and then at 10 o'clock in the morning we have a, well if I still had my side by side, I'd be taking it, but it's a side by side motorcycle, classic car crews for a friend of ours that passed away a few years ago so, see Cody, thanks for joining our conversation, we'll have you on the podcast so we can just talk to you directly, so let us know if you guys like this TikTok live version, I know that we can do it better once I get the studio unlocked, but like I said I had to do 25 minutes first, but, we could do it really good if we really had a studio, would that be nice to have sponsors I would pay us something, and then we'd have to do this all the time, we couldn't just quit, at least now I can say, I don't want to do this anymore, yep, or next week, I never thought that summer would be so busy, you know, we're busy, everybody else is busy, it's something I thought it would be easier, yeah, I see we'll pay some sponsorship, there you go, I like it, thanks, I uh, I'll make sure to tell you that you said that, I see why farm for profit was running, like they were talking about, oh it's March right now, and I was just listening like a month ago, so they had them way pre-recorded, they're not done, oh yeah, they got to figure it out, and then they fill in the shows, yep, and that's what we, I mean first year doing it, we're learning a lot doing it, so now we know, wintertime, stock up, yeah, you're gonna have some great guests some day and a new host, you can be the host with somebody else, I'm sure Matt will help you out, why you don't want to do this anymore, yeah I do, I'm sorry, no, no I'm not quite any time soon, oh absolutely not, but I'm just saying like if, like the farm for profit guys they have to treat it like it's the, it's a business, it is, it's their job, and I got enough just farming and not getting the trim done on the inside of my house, so, nope I hear you, well should we call this one the one it is, yeah, hopefully, hey we went an hour, I got 20 more than 25 minutes on the TikTok live, you went live for the first time, yeah I'm gonna go talk to the girls before they go to bed, so, like, share, subscribe, there you go, like, share, subscribe, yep, with our one person you too well like yeah hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey well thanks everybody night Matt yeah take care guys take care of you later okay yep take care