find a market farm and that's the thing you know I've been asked in the past
while our farmer is 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 clovets 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 our hazelnuts or some 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 hazelnuts in this area so yeah 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 grow in 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 is 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 gonna 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 paying and so
we have to get something back out of it and it's also not good for the soil to
just let it sit so give us an assessment of people drive by oh what's
what are we looking at so yeah you sit here and I mean what at the stage now
where the soybeans are drying down and hopefully here in another week to
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 gonna 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 bushel 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 gonna get so the
less you know more soybeans per bushel so you're you're kind of losing money on
that so you want 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 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 on to the ground so it's just the stocks 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's a formula out there so if you came out
and you know 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's 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 it's going to be a good year I don't know if it's
going to be a record year for us but it's going I think it's going to be a real
good year for us 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 it that we're actually looking
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
along edges are not as good once it is 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 said whether it's you'll sell it to a refinery for making biodiesel
selling it to companies to make cooking oil we're working here in
Wisconsin on some tax credits for 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 I can go into 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 plan
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 at 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 yep 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 in
some video