Aiden Johnson

money crop right now i guess you can these solar panel companies are coming in to maybe place solar panel panels on your fields for a huge chunk of change but also are you okay with you know putting solar panel on appreciating farmland so i mean there's there's a couple options and like you said you can also grow start growing hay or grow every crop is producing the most money i guess so there's some options that that's as much as i know right now but yeah it's pretty interesting

Yeah, so the hay market is actually pretty dang big.

I mean, you have hay acreage covering 49 to 50 million acres across the U.S.

And itself, alfalfa itself is producing $8 billion per year, which is the fourth most valuable crop.

And that kind of brings my question back to, so it's pretty big market commodity and there's not really a firm transparency layer.

So yeah, it's really big.

Yep.

I just finished my first two years at the University of Jamestown going into my third.

Yeah, so I guess, like I said, the main goal is kind of be on top of, you know, the kind of hay chain.

You know, you got your producers, your farmers, and then you got your brokers.

We kind of want to be at the top, you know, being the benchmark data for these prices regionally.

So we just want to be that information layer on the top and, you know,

just providing this information to these farmers so they can kind of make better decisions based off of timing and then based off of what the market's actually seeing in their region.

I like the newsletter.

I kind of like hearing people connect, connecting to people.

I love answering my emails and kind of picking people's brains.

And then we would eventually like to also be just,

kind of more the business side of things, you know, give someone maybe our API database and they can use it for their website.

You know, that's kind of a business plan, not necessarily what we want out of the hay market, but yeah, that's kind of what we want to do.

Just build that transparency layer a little better.