Ken Ripley

On my farm, my biggest risk is excess moisture.

So not getting it planted.

I always get it planted, but getting drowned out in the summertime.

So I like those products.

That's one of my favorite products.

Another one is we've got some, you know, especially as like areas soybeans are getting planted before corn.

I mean, I did that for the first time on my farm this year and I'm going to definitely do it next year again because that worked well.

We've got some, you know, replant products that give us some coverage to protect those beans since they're being planted ahead of the original initial plant date for the RMA rules.

I don't do that.

Like our product will give you 10 days ahead of, you know, like in our area of soybeans, like 25th of April would be like, you know, initial plant date and beans.

You can have 10 days ahead of that.

So we're typically in Minnesota not getting in the 1st of April.

We're going to be protected.

So the RMA did actually make some significant changes here two years ago.

It's like Iowa's date got moved ahead, and I apologize, I don't remember what that date is, but those dates did get moved ahead.

Same with like Illinois and some of the eastern states.

But one or two days is... Well, in some cases, they're being moved up five to six days.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, and that's where these private products give you an option to have that earlier plant.

And they're lower cost in many cases.