Aiden Johnson

So it's kind of it's kind of weird.

So, yeah, I guess.

I mean, yeah, I'm seeing right now and, you know, just talking with farmers kind of networking across the country.

I'm seeing people are trying to get their stockpile for summer.

I'm hearing that first cut is being extremely light.

The yields are not really producing at a volume and carry over from 2025 is essentially gone.

I guess just network and obviously discovery, a big part of that has been on the Homestead Reddit, where Tracy kind of found everything, but just actively reaching out to them, I guess, kind of just showing them, okay, this is what we're trying to do, trying to be that transparency layer, just to kind of make your guys' local markets a little easier for you and not kind of guessing and buying blind and selling blind.

So we're basically going to them and we're like, okay, this has no cost for you.

Just kind of tell us what you're seeing so we can provide that clarity and transparency for hay prices.

We're not going to fix the whole transparency issue.

We're going to try, but we probably won't.

But we just at least want to make it a little more transparent for your local region.

These farmers know their regional market like the back of their hand.

And

And especially these old gen farmers, they're not really going to adapt to technology like that.

So it's been kind of difficult trying to get them to adapt to be like, OK, like this is technology nowadays, like this can actually really help your business.

So honestly, just networking with them, providing, you know, kind of the data we're seeing and kind of value and telling them that there's no really cost to just kind of sharing me your data.

Yeah, you know, I actually had this question the other day and I was on a call with Rock Valley, my main go-to guy, and I was like, are you guys seeing any shipping or any transactions coming from more west of you?

I just kind of... I was kind of testing a hypothesis of, okay, so the drought is very tight over in these western states.

Are buyers coming over to these eastern states and producing it?