Aiden Johnson

You have to have a dry week or forecast to produce or cut hay.

And if it rains, rain can decrease the protein and nutritional value in the hay significantly.

I think the lower quality stuff is drier and doesn't have the leaf content that the higher quality stuff does because that's where the protein is in the leaf and then the fiber comes from the stem.

Yeah, you know, I'm not I'm not really seeing that, but I'm not really sure on that one if I'm seeing people do that.

But I actually was thinking about this other day kind of driving past 20 minutes south of me.

I was driving on the highway and I realized that Google was actually going to build a 482 acre data center 20 minutes south of me.

And I was like thinking, how will this affect the agricultural land?

I mean.

know it's already not a lot of people are alfalfa's kind of in a weird spot in hay because they're already competing against the other crops um you know the more stable crops like corn and soybean so how are these data centers gonna you know they're gonna go in agricultural land so oh yeah kind of vice versa you were saying how are they going to take away this agricultural land and you know i was kind of thinking too the 482 acre data center google's building here

is going to be cooled by air but what if you put those kind of in the western states and where the drought conditions are and alfalfa is already a very water intrusive plant so then alfalfa is going to have to be competing with these big data centers for water i i really i really i'm really seeing kind of the flip side of it kind of kind of just what i'm seeing personally so

But yeah, you did mention you had 75 acres and I think you do have four different options from what I know.

That's kind of the next niche I kind of want to get into because once again, it's kind of like the hey, not my dad's kind of going through the same process.

He just closed on 164 acre farm here and he had the question of I don't really know what to do with it.

But I don't know.

I'm not an expert on it yet.

But I do know there's a couple options.

You can rent it out to your farm or to farmers, basically like rent per acre.

And then you can the USDA will basically pay you to conserve it.

And then the downside of that is you probably lose your land or access to your land for 25 to 35 years.

And then the third choice is kind of the.