Randy from Fieldrows
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248 appearances
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first heard Sep 2024
last heard Oct 2024
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And my brother is married, has three kids. I'm married and have four kids.
And you all have said you're on the farm.
Yes, yes. We're a mile apart. Just far enough where a 30-06 can't quite make it.
See, when I moved back to this area, I moved so that I was 30 minutes from my in-laws. That way, if they drove over and I wasn't home, they'd be upset. So at least they call first. You guys are too close for that.
Yes, yes, yeah, yeah. No, no, it's a little different. I do have an alarm that beats when someone's driving down the driveway.
He doesn't? Oh, weird. I tell everybody to go there. Give the address and everything.
We bring on seasonal help sometimes. Yeah. Yeah. It depends on, lately they haven't done a lot, but usually we bring on extra guy in the spring planting, seeding, and then harvest can be one to two, maybe three guys.
We have a lot of strips. The way the land was built up, there's...
You know, you'd think so. And we do have friends that farm 2,000-acre fields, you know, not far from us. But we're just in an area where the county roads, unless we start ripping up some county roads, which I don't know would go over very well.
I get them mixed up. Have you ever forgot a field? Yeah. Usually spraying is when that happens. Yeah, that's it. And you come back later and you're like, uh-oh. Oh, no. Oh, that's not good. Call in your cam guy. Can we do this?
So do you do very much tillage then? Or do you end up leaving a lot of it to help with the wind erosion?
That probably helps, too, with the labor and the amount of equipment that you need. Especially, like you said, if some years it's not for a lot.
For a while, I mean, high horsepower tractors, that's where big buds were. That's really what drove big buds was Summerfollow. Pulling big Frickstad cultivators eventually became Flexcoil, which eventually became C&H, New Holland, Case IH. But the big, big, that's what the big bud 747 was. Well, actually, that wasn't. That was built for California.
But a lot of other big buds, they were designed for that. Well, When Kemp Follow hit the scene, air drills weren't that big. Guys were still pulling box drills with small horsepower, 150, 250 horsepower tractors. So really our buds actually sat and didn't do a whole lot for a while.
But then when the air drill carts hit the scene, carts started hitting that 400, 500 bushel, widths getting 60, 80 feet. Then all of a sudden our buds became usable again and needed because you needed the horsepower and the hydraulics to pull those.
I know, but it makes sense. There's too much, too little of everything. There's always, and it seems like grain prices, high, low, rainfall, high, low, winter, early, too early. You know, it's just, why can't we just have this baseline meat? We're all happy.
Yeah, because I water there's been some times I've heard some of my friends that are in the row crop country and some of the rainfall you guys had during the growing season wasn't far off of Mars. You still ended up with 200 plus bushel corn. Yeah.
There's people that sell rocks on eBay, put a dollar minimum bid, and they have a timed auction. So he started taking pictures of field rock, and they will pay for the shipping to send the rock to their house.
They'll pay $6, $7, $8 a rock, and the rock itself will ship. It'll be like $35 in shipping because of how heavy it is.
There you go. That's cool. I want to go back to the big buds because not very many people get access to see them. Not very many people have ever ran one. This is something that you said your dad bought the first big butt on the farm.
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