Find a market farm and that's the
thing you know I've been asked in
the past well are farmers
going to go and just start growing
other things well
we can't just
switch like that that
would be like saying to a
car manufacturing plant
you're building trucks in this plant
we don't need trucks right now so
why don't you build Corvettes
there's not that capability to
make that switch where we have all
of our equipment for corn
and soybeans and stuff like that
so to switch to
sunflowers
or hemp or
hazelnuts or something like that you
can't just make that switch and
I mean it's equipment it's knowledge
on how to grow these things I mean
we've spent many years and every
year we're learning more and more
about you know different
technologies and different you
know things that we can do to
make our products better and
so to switch to something else and
then also you have to look at your
area okay
you said hazelnuts there's not a
market for hazelnut in this area so
yeah you even if you could grow
them you go okay
now what do I do with them so
you're kind of locked
into a point I mean there's corn
there's soybeans there's alfalfa
there's wheat we
do have you know few more people
growing sunflowers but even there
they have to transport all that to
Green Bay or you know find a
processing plant for that so
that is where the
you know problems kind of
come in as okay
yeah I'm not getting paid for this
but what else can
I do with it and you know
like like said earlier we're
not going to just let the ground sit
because we're paying for this
ground whether it's owning it or
renting it you
know we're we're payin
and so we have to get something back
out of it and it's also not good for
the soil to just what it's
set
so give us an assessment of people
drive by what
are
we looking at
so yeah you sit here
and I mean we're at the stage
now where the soybeans are
drying down and
hopefully here in another
week two weeks
they'll be dry enough
to combine with soybeans
you want them down around
that 14 and a half percent
moisture anything
over that you're going to
get docked on price
anything under you're not getting
docked on price but you're losing
test weight because you know
when we sell stuff people go oh
you're selling by the bushel well
people that remember an old
bushel basket yeah
that's a bushel basket but that's
not really it's not on volume it's
on weight like soybeans
are every 60
pounds is a bushell
and so the heavier your soybeans are
the less soybeans you need to
make up that bushel so you want that
heavier test weight so the more they
dry down the less
test weight you're going to get so
the less you know more soybeans
per bushel, so you're you're kind of
losing money on that so you wanted
to combine them at about that right
time like
I said we're about on
this field here I'd say we're
probably about two weeks out from
combining they have to
combine them they have to lose all
the leaves so you see the yellow and
some greenish leaves out here all
those leaves pretty much have to
fall off and onto the ground so it's
just the stalks with
the soybeans
and you know you don't want the
green stems you don't want you know
the leaves
and so then but you just
look at this and you look at all
these pods the more pods per
plant you
know, the better you're looking and
you know usually it's three soybeans
per pod and
there there is a formula out there
so if you came out and
you measured a certain area
you can kind
of generate you know what your
yields are going to be and
but yeah the more
soybeans like I said on the
plant the better
this plant is looking good because
it's soybeans all the way down
you know some years depending on
rain there's only soybeans at the
top or the soybeans
on the bottom there
there might be pods but no soybeans
in it you know every
year every field is different
so no this
this plant right here is
looking good I mean as a farmer you
always want more than what's
there but looking
out there I it's
going to be a good year I
don't know if it's going to a record
year for us but it's
good I think it's gonna be a real
good year for as on our yields
so when you break one of those pods
open and you look at the beans
inside I mean
what is it that you're crushing
it out for the oil or you're
mixing it down for feed what
is that we're actually looking for
yeah you so
like here's the
three three
soybeans in there and
I mean you're you're kind of wanting
you know the larger soybeans
the better and
usually our long edges
are not as good once as once you
get into the field but yeah
once these soybeans harvested
and go to we'll
say the crush plan is open
yeah they'll crush them they go
through processes to get
all the oil out of it and
like I said they'll take the oil and
they'll sell that to different
markets like I say whether it's
you know selling it to a refinery
for making biodiesel
selling it two companies to
make cooking oil we're
working here in Wisconsin on
some tax
credits for a sustainable
aviation fuel
and you know hopefully we can get
something going on that to make you
know fuel for the airplanes clean
burning fuel so
there's so many uses for the soybean
oil you know like second going
to it goes into a lot of food
products and everything but
then once they get the
oil out they have the
rest of the soybean that
you know that it's a soybean meal
that they take
that and you know they'll sell
it back to you know local
farmers or farmers
in the Midwest if you know
the crush plant was open in
Evansville and those
farmers will use it as a cheaper
feed for
you know raising their animals
whether it's chicken dairy beef
it's that
cheaper feed for that so
that way they don't have to pay the
higher price for other things you
know other byproducts
and then also
a lot of it would go to
you'll get shipped off to other
countries for
you know to help feed their
animals
it's a small little thing to be at
the center of the international
trade
yep it's these three little beans
right here you know are
part of you know like you
said right now it's kind of
causing world chaos and everything
and yeah like I said it just
starts right here you
know it'll be soybeans like this
that next year we put on the ground
and put in the ground and start all
over again
all right is there
anything else that I mean we need
we'll get some shots and some video