Lori Nelsen

How crucial is it? You guys said you're both former grain buyers, right? How crucial is that? Because that was your job was to get grain bought the cheapest. Right, for your company, from the farmers. I knew you were going with that. But now you know that side of things. That's got to be a big advantage, right, working on the other side trying to help farmers now?

I can tell you it paid off right away because we put that big Sukup 100,000 bushel bin in. And they were still working on it when we started filling it. Our goal was we didn't have a spreader in there. So naturally, when you dump into a bin, you have a cone. and your fines don't travel down like your grain does, and they stay all in the center.

I can tell you it paid off right away because we put that big Sukup 100,000 bushel bin in. And they were still working on it when we started filling it. Our goal was we didn't have a spreader in there. So naturally, when you dump into a bin, you have a cone. and your fines don't travel down like your grain does, and they stay all in the center.

I can tell you it paid off right away because we put that big Sukup 100,000 bushel bin in. And they were still working on it when we started filling it. Our goal was we didn't have a spreader in there. So naturally, when you dump into a bin, you have a cone. and your fines don't travel down like your grain does, and they stay all in the center.

Well, you can imagine, in a 100,000-bushel bin, you have a lot of fines. Yep. Right in that middle. And you start pulling out of that, you're going to have a lot of... Dock. Yeah, a lot of dock, foreign material, whatever, fines in there. And we started getting that.

Well, you can imagine, in a 100,000-bushel bin, you have a lot of fines. Yep. Right in that middle. And you start pulling out of that, you're going to have a lot of... Dock. Yeah, a lot of dock, foreign material, whatever, fines in there. And we started getting that.

Well, you can imagine, in a 100,000-bushel bin, you have a lot of fines. Yep. Right in that middle. And you start pulling out of that, you're going to have a lot of... Dock. Yeah, a lot of dock, foreign material, whatever, fines in there. And we started getting that.

Our goal was to pull the core out of that as we filled it, so we could actually use that, but we didn't have that part of it set up yet. So we ended up having to blend those first, like, 10, 15, 20 loads off just so we didn't get above 5% foreign material in there that we were getting docked for. And boom, that part of it paid for itself right away.

Our goal was to pull the core out of that as we filled it, so we could actually use that, but we didn't have that part of it set up yet. So we ended up having to blend those first, like, 10, 15, 20 loads off just so we didn't get above 5% foreign material in there that we were getting docked for. And boom, that part of it paid for itself right away.

Our goal was to pull the core out of that as we filled it, so we could actually use that, but we didn't have that part of it set up yet. So we ended up having to blend those first, like, 10, 15, 20 loads off just so we didn't get above 5% foreign material in there that we were getting docked for. And boom, that part of it paid for itself right away.

If we would have just all taken it to town, we would have been much better off than putting it in the bin last fall. But that's just another story.

If we would have just all taken it to town, we would have been much better off than putting it in the bin last fall. But that's just another story.

If we would have just all taken it to town, we would have been much better off than putting it in the bin last fall. But that's just another story.

starts to kill a plant more than anything that was me this summer felt like i just uh put my head in sand that was that was the uh the plan i guess i mean i had uh planting was actually probably my worst because we had such a just long drawn out planting season and when i get in that mode like i maybe look at the markets once a day maybe every couple days type of deal like i got a job to do right like what's it matter what the market's moving i can't

starts to kill a plant more than anything that was me this summer felt like i just uh put my head in sand that was that was the uh the plan i guess i mean i had uh planting was actually probably my worst because we had such a just long drawn out planting season and when i get in that mode like i maybe look at the markets once a day maybe every couple days type of deal like i got a job to do right like what's it matter what the market's moving i can't

starts to kill a plant more than anything that was me this summer felt like i just uh put my head in sand that was that was the uh the plan i guess i mean i had uh planting was actually probably my worst because we had such a just long drawn out planting season and when i get in that mode like i maybe look at the markets once a day maybe every couple days type of deal like i got a job to do right like what's it matter what the market's moving i can't

do anything about it now. I had targets in that a couple of them hit and a couple of them just missed. And if that would have got to the just missed, I would have feel like I'm in a much better position than I am now. But I think a lot of people probably had that $5 target in their mind and didn't quite get there in that little run.

do anything about it now. I had targets in that a couple of them hit and a couple of them just missed. And if that would have got to the just missed, I would have feel like I'm in a much better position than I am now. But I think a lot of people probably had that $5 target in their mind and didn't quite get there in that little run.

do anything about it now. I had targets in that a couple of them hit and a couple of them just missed. And if that would have got to the just missed, I would have feel like I'm in a much better position than I am now. But I think a lot of people probably had that $5 target in their mind and didn't quite get there in that little run.

that, you know, just now just look, just sickening when you look back. Did you have them on a zero? Trying to think if it was 25 or 26. It was at like 518, I feel like. And we were like, I mean, we got there so many times. It just kept bouncing off. I was like, it's got to get there, you know, and I put them in early. But, man, that sucked.