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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Corey and I owned a truck together, and we were going to try and do what you guys do. It had been wrecked, so we bought it. Took the sleeper off of it. I'm going to turn it into a day cab. And we very quickly realized we were in over our heads.
We actually, I mean, we didn't lose money, but we didn't make money. Yeah. But every time we dug deeper and deeper into it, we went, oh, no. Yeah.
We couldn't even figure out exactly where the truck had been all of its life. That's how many parts were... We're like, was it in Montana for a little bit and then in Nebraska?
Have you seen those guys, the Edison Motor guys?
Yeah, that's pretty innovative.
Well, it depends. It's pretty neat. I mean, pretty awesome idea. I don't know if our batteries are like the winner, but.
Once battery tech and the ability to generate the electricity is perfected, electric by far is the way to go. There's no doubt. As much as I love combustion engines, it is the way to go. It's just we're not.
No, it's got to roll coal, right?
We can pretend. And what are you going to spray ether on then? I mean, it smells nice, but...
Oh, I like that a lot. So we've interviewed a lot of people on our podcast. We've interviewed people that have been on TV and have their own TV shows, but we've never interviewed someone who's been on National Geographic.
Oh, that's true. Who are you talking about? It was just a small blip. No, we got, yeah, we had contacted by a production company that was doing a series called The Story of Food for National Geographic. And they said, we would like to use some of your footage if you'd let us. I was like, oh, that is awesome. Sure. Of course, not thinking about royalties or anything. I was like, here, take it.
Yeah. And yeah, they ended up, I gave them like an hour's worth. I think they used six seconds of it.
Yes. So after this interview, we'll have you meet with our people, and you can sign the release.
I always wondered, though, how those TV shows, and when you see the ad clips, and sometimes they don't match the context that they're actually talking about, who's sourcing those? And we learned that that was a piece of how you guys got your content used was, oh, they just ask people that are willing to give it.
Yeah, yeah, that's exactly what they do, 100%.
So yeah, we typically, of course, originally was wheat, fallow, wheat, fallow. Then the pulse crops kind of entered the scene. So lentils, chickpeas, yellow peas, garbs. And we've found yellow peas seem to be the best. The market for it is the animal food, dog food. So it either goes towards animal feed because it's high in protein, like 26, 28%. Yeah.
Or Asian countries have really been taking it on too because it's been cheap protein for them because they're just desperate to find protein. But it's a shallow root crop that we found we can plant after our wheat. And like this year, our peas, which were on wheat stubble, ran 19, 18 bushels in a year.
Our wheat probably ran average of 16 bushels. So a lot of that wheat, now the wheat that was on fallow ran low 20s, mid 20s. But I mean, it wasn't far off from making the yield of the wheat and it was supposed to be fallow ground. So we were supposed to be spending money to keep the ground dead. And here we had a crop we were able to harvest on it and we sold it for $7.50 a bushel.
It's dropping, but the wheat's worth $5 right now, if we're lucky, before discounts. So I mean, it will be our most valuable crop. So now with that though, we can't plant the farm in that every year because of... diseases like Astrakita and stuff. So we have to do 30% of the farm rotate. So then after that, we'll do a wheat crop again, then we'll follow it.
And so that'll give us the three to four year rotation between the pulses. And we've tried some oil seeds in the mix. The problem is we keep trying all these crops and it doesn't rain. So everything keeps a fail. Like that was a failure. Camelina. That was a failure. Lentils. That was a failure. Like,
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