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Shawn Feikema

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
456 total appearances

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Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms

But if you want to get max capacity out of these combines, and for us, we need to keep them combines rolling, I push them things to the point where, you know, the little power meter's right in the red. You know, the beeper should be going off telling you you need to slow down. Yep. And that's when we just could not keep a decent grain sample in an OEM concave. And the Estes, we can. So...

Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms

Okay. Yep. I would agree. And then I think that's when we were that week, those, the John Deere engineers were running with us. That was the one comment they made. Like, like they, cause they had one guy riding with me and one guy in the, in the other machine. And he's like, like literally you made three passes across the field and the thing was set.

Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms

Okay. Yep. I would agree. And then I think that's when we were that week, those, the John Deere engineers were running with us. That was the one comment they made. Like, like they, cause they had one guy riding with me and one guy in the, in the other machine. And he's like, like literally you made three passes across the field and the thing was set.

Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms

Okay. Yep. I would agree. And then I think that's when we were that week, those, the John Deere engineers were running with us. That was the one comment they made. Like, like they, cause they had one guy riding with me and one guy in the, in the other machine. And he's like, like literally you made three passes across the field and the thing was set.

Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms

I said, yeah, because they're so easy to set compared to, in my opinion, compared to OEM. You're dicked at all the time on a freaking OEM concave. Like, oh, it's cracking the kernels. Oh, I got a little too much cob. But you just set them Estus and let her rip.

Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms

I said, yeah, because they're so easy to set compared to, in my opinion, compared to OEM. You're dicked at all the time on a freaking OEM concave. Like, oh, it's cracking the kernels. Oh, I got a little too much cob. But you just set them Estus and let her rip.

Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms

I said, yeah, because they're so easy to set compared to, in my opinion, compared to OEM. You're dicked at all the time on a freaking OEM concave. Like, oh, it's cracking the kernels. Oh, I got a little too much cob. But you just set them Estus and let her rip.

Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms

Yeah. And I, you know, I, I, I don't, I don't want to bash John Deere cause I, John Deere has been great to us and, and,

Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms

Yeah. And I, you know, I, I, I don't, I don't want to bash John Deere cause I, John Deere has been great to us and, and,

Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms

Yeah. And I, you know, I, I, I don't, I don't want to bash John Deere cause I, John Deere has been great to us and, and,

Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms

I wish it had my guns in it. Unfortunately, it's just paperwork. Oh, no. The one that's not on camera is the one that has all the guns in it.

Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms

I wish it had my guns in it. Unfortunately, it's just paperwork. Oh, no. The one that's not on camera is the one that has all the guns in it.

Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms

I wish it had my guns in it. Unfortunately, it's just paperwork. Oh, no. The one that's not on camera is the one that has all the guns in it.

Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms

Uh, well, uh, right now guys are picking up bales and, uh, getting straw moved off the fields and seeding some cover crop. And, uh, Monday we're getting ready to start tiling. Uh, I think next week I got, uh, two Delta airlines tour groups coming in. So waiting for that. So really from where, uh, they come in from Atlanta from headquarters or, um, um, they come from,

Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms

Uh, well, uh, right now guys are picking up bales and, uh, getting straw moved off the fields and seeding some cover crop. And, uh, Monday we're getting ready to start tiling. Uh, I think next week I got, uh, two Delta airlines tour groups coming in. So waiting for that. So really from where, uh, they come in from Atlanta from headquarters or, um, um, they come from,

Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms

Uh, well, uh, right now guys are picking up bales and, uh, getting straw moved off the fields and seeding some cover crop. And, uh, Monday we're getting ready to start tiling. Uh, I think next week I got, uh, two Delta airlines tour groups coming in. So waiting for that. So really from where, uh, they come in from Atlanta from headquarters or, um, um, they come from,

Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms

Minneapolis, wherever they're, it's their corporate customer. So it has to do with SAF, sustainable aviation fuel. It's kind of going down that. So we kind of got involved with that a couple of years ago through Jivo. So Jivo is a company looking to build a plant in Lake Preston, South Dakota to produce sustainable aviation fuel.

Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms

Minneapolis, wherever they're, it's their corporate customer. So it has to do with SAF, sustainable aviation fuel. It's kind of going down that. So we kind of got involved with that a couple of years ago through Jivo. So Jivo is a company looking to build a plant in Lake Preston, South Dakota to produce sustainable aviation fuel.

Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms

Minneapolis, wherever they're, it's their corporate customer. So it has to do with SAF, sustainable aviation fuel. It's kind of going down that. So we kind of got involved with that a couple of years ago through Jivo. So Jivo is a company looking to build a plant in Lake Preston, South Dakota to produce sustainable aviation fuel.

Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms

They bought our old farmer-owned ethanol plant several years ago for their testing. It was an old ethanol plant that had kind of outlived its efficiency, but it made a great test site for them. So that plant is here in Laverne. And got to know them pretty well. And because we're strip-till and all that stuff, got hooked up with them. So we did some promotional marketing with them.