Ken Ripley
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It's just
there's a better chance that they're going to have a loss just because of their environment.
So we're, you know, exception of 2024, I didn't have really much of a loss on my farm.
Ever since I started farming in 2008, I've had probably one revenue claim.
And last year was just a real kick in the pants for me.
Yeah.
Well, let's face it.
As farmers, once that crop goes down, we're pessimists, right?
This thing is going to be nothing but a failure.
But these crops are resilient.
I mean, we had some corn go down this year, early July.
And I thought, oh, man, what am I going to hit?
It was the best corn on my farm.
It's just the right timing of things.
The combine didn't pick everything up.
So these hybrids are amazing.
They've really come a long ways.
Yeah, it's very interesting.
Like I was out just in North Dakota this last week, and I used to live out in –
Dickinson, North Dakota, with John Deere.