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Ken Ripley

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
565 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Farm4Profit Podcast
How Farmers Are Stacking Crop Insurance, FSA, and Disaster Aid for 2026

And, you know, we put everything through a grain cart scale, so we post-calibrate the combine to make sure it's as tight as possible.

Farm4Profit Podcast
How Farmers Are Stacking Crop Insurance, FSA, and Disaster Aid for 2026

Yep.

Farm4Profit Podcast
How Farmers Are Stacking Crop Insurance, FSA, and Disaster Aid for 2026

Heck, I measure everything out of the bin, and I'm always within a point to a point and a half after it's had the bin fans run on it for weeks after it's went in too.

Farm4Profit Podcast
How Farmers Are Stacking Crop Insurance, FSA, and Disaster Aid for 2026

So I can't stress enough the importance of looking at precision if you're not doing it today, especially as farms get larger.

Farm4Profit Podcast
How Farmers Are Stacking Crop Insurance, FSA, and Disaster Aid for 2026

These large operations, and bends aren't getting any smaller.

Farm4Profit Podcast
How Farmers Are Stacking Crop Insurance, FSA, and Disaster Aid for 2026

I mean, you've got a nice bend here behind you.

Farm4Profit Podcast
How Farmers Are Stacking Crop Insurance, FSA, and Disaster Aid for 2026

They're not getting any smaller, are they?

Farm4Profit Podcast
How Farmers Are Stacking Crop Insurance, FSA, and Disaster Aid for 2026

You get a bushel and a half maybe.

Farm4Profit Podcast
How Farmers Are Stacking Crop Insurance, FSA, and Disaster Aid for 2026

That's right.

Farm4Profit Podcast
How Farmers Are Stacking Crop Insurance, FSA, and Disaster Aid for 2026

But those, you know, there's more commingled grain because operations can't have, hey, that bend, that 200,000 bushel bend is one entity in there.

Farm4Profit Podcast
How Farmers Are Stacking Crop Insurance, FSA, and Disaster Aid for 2026

It may be multiple entities where the precision provides that solution to utilize that bend for efficiencies on the farm and not have the headache of...

Farm4Profit Podcast
How Farmers Are Stacking Crop Insurance, FSA, and Disaster Aid for 2026

Plus, I like to know soon.

Farm4Profit Podcast
How Farmers Are Stacking Crop Insurance, FSA, and Disaster Aid for 2026

Yeah.

Farm4Profit Podcast
How Farmers Are Stacking Crop Insurance, FSA, and Disaster Aid for 2026

I don't want to wait for that bend to get measured to see if I was right or not.

Farm4Profit Podcast
How Farmers Are Stacking Crop Insurance, FSA, and Disaster Aid for 2026

I want to know as soon as we get done with the field.

Farm4Profit Podcast
How Farmers Are Stacking Crop Insurance, FSA, and Disaster Aid for 2026

I found out this year a couple of bends have more capacity than I realized.

Farm4Profit Podcast
How Farmers Are Stacking Crop Insurance, FSA, and Disaster Aid for 2026

Oh, yeah?

Farm4Profit Podcast
How Farmers Are Stacking Crop Insurance, FSA, and Disaster Aid for 2026

But I couldn't get in them.

Farm4Profit Podcast
How Farmers Are Stacking Crop Insurance, FSA, and Disaster Aid for 2026

No.

Farm4Profit Podcast
How Farmers Are Stacking Crop Insurance, FSA, and Disaster Aid for 2026

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