Billy Rose
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210 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard Jan 2025
Billy Rose’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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A lot easier to try new things when corn's at $6, okay? Now I'm third generation, you know, I'm working with dad, Gramps is in town, there's a lot of pressure on me to perform. And I want to perform, and I have to perform. So when we look at the sub-450 cash basis, it starts to go like these decisions really matter, and I don't want to be the generation that messed up.
I actually feel extreme passion for the guys calling the shots right now. It's difficult times. And Brazil is looking great again. I mean, this is just a way of life, this price. I think we have to accept that.
It was warm and no snow. It was pretty hot. This is a fantastic studio, guys. Yes. So, yes, Billy Rose is back. Welcome. Welcome. It's my pleasure. Corey, I love the shirt. I'm thinking about golf, though, and that golf simulator around the corner, we may have to hit a few.
Yeah, I appreciate it. And again, it's an honor to be here, guys. As we look at how can we help our farming friends, I'm a kid from Dyersville, Iowa. And at the end of the day, we love what we do. But in order to protect what we do, we need to make a little money. And these commodity prices, I mean, I never thought I'd be cheering $10 soybean, but I did cheer $10 soybean this week.
And 450 corn is starting to look a little better. And now that we broke $10 on the soybeans, there's hope, but we need, it's a long way. And when you really think about it, A lot of guys are looking at break-even as a good goal, and yet we want to protect our lifestyle, and that means we need to make some money, right, Jeff? Yeah.
Yeah. I can only reflect a little on my friends and what we've done is we're always learning. And if you're going to do what you always have done, you're going to get the same result. And when you're below break-even... it's time to actually take a step back and go slow to go fast. That means you're going to have to change something up. It's like, how can I increase those yields over my APH?
At the same time, how can I watch my cost? And there's so many choices out there. I mean, can you guys even keep track the amount of biological companies popping up? I've seen a web chart of them, and it is mind-blowing how many companies there are.
And don't you just almost feel like, do you think all these really work?
I didn't say the word, but I felt it. Yeah, sometimes. Right. And I know certain work under certain conditions. But one of the things that we did is we did a survey and we said, look, we do seed intelligence testing across the Midwest. We have close to 300 different locations. We take all that seed intelligence.
We bring it back so it's actionable based on where you drop a pin on your field, your soil type, your weather pattern. your relative maturity range, and we give you the David Letterman top 10, right? Yeah. Yeah, these are the best. I got you. But it's not as funny. It should be. Now it should come with a joke. I know, right? Yeah. I need a little help here, Corey.
Ooh, good. Yes. Our farm customers appreciate all the seed intelligence, right? Yeah. But we did an interview. Would you like us to do seed treatment? Would you like us to do fungicide or biologicals next? And what do you think, Dave? Most farmers came back and said, would you do the following next?
Biological was winning, you know, 70% of the vote.
Yeah, I don't know enough. That's just what the results are.
Yeah. You're not seeing the yield drag, at least that's what we're hearing. Right. But am I seeing the yield increase to justify the ROI for the cost?
So what we did is we applied for our EPA license and we're going to do biological testing this year. Cool. Wow. Yeah. And I know we won't be able to test 30, okay? But we are trying to mine in on top five that we think are what we're hearing. Sure. So, again, that was not our idea.
That was coming from our customers and really saying, you know, how can we help you mitigate this risk going forward, help you thrive?
I don't run all of our CROs, all of our testing, okay, first and foremost. I want to put that disclaimer out there, Dave. But what I understand from the team is that the best way to do testing is do actual same-field testing.
side by side same plant date same harvest date same practice okay same environment so that you can get a very good delta between that one versus the next one how they're going to mix it all in you know with fungicides um and we're going to talk about some unique new programs that we have coming that are out right now um that is up to those guys to determine
We're going to take the 80-20 rule. What do 80% of the guys do? Yep. And the other 20%, we don't have the time and money to chase it. It's very expensive to run these trials.
Well, we, you know, first and foremost, we don't take any money from any manufacturer. We're truly independent. We don't sell seed. We don't distribute seed. Our job is to take care of our farming friends. So it's full transparency.
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