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Nate Belcher

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620 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

But.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

You know.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

We pretty much get close to selling out every year if not sold out.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

So it's that balance of you don't want to over leverage.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

If we over leverage, we have to raise prices to increase margin to make sure we're covered.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

But we also don't want to run out of inventory.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

Finding that line, you know, is like trying to walk a straight line after a 12 pack.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

You know, it's tough.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

It wobbles.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

That has been difficult, but also, right, that's part of the game.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

That's what you got to do.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

So it would be easy if we were just pulling from someone else going, hey, send another truckload, send another truckload.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

But we're making those decisions that that ultimately affect our bottom line and can either make or break us.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

So we try to be somewhat conservative as far as not over leveraging so we can maintain low prices, but also meeting demand, which has been a good struggle.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

You know, it's a good problem to have.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

And frankly, you know, there's this part, right?

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

This is a different age than 20 years ago, right?

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

Online purchasing is not foreign to people.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

it's kind of, it's newer on the farmer side, but the proof's in the pudding, right?

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

Just because you're purchasing online and not from someone sitting across the dinner table, um, right.