Shawn Feikema
speaker
152 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2024
last heard Oct 2024
Shawn Feikema’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsNo recordings in the last 12 months.Older appearances are listed below; set an alert to hear about the next one.
Appearances
We've been running like corn, soybeans, so we do a fair amount of corn on corn. So in my ideal world, I'd probably like to go corn, soy. And then go back, go to a small grain and then go two years corn back to soybeans. And I like to follow my favorite. Our favorite thing is to follow oats. We're kind of going to we're going to pull away from the rice and the triticales.
And we're going to try and grow more oats just because we can grow oats really well here. So that's kind of what we're going to concentrate on. And we get a lot of we get a lot better symbiosis or synergies between oats and corn. When we grow corn behind oats, we'll get 20 bushel plus above and beyond what we normally would. Wow.
The following after that, we'll pick up a few bushel on the beans as well. Nice. So just breaking up that regular corn-soy rotation has really helped push some of our yields.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah. Just talked to them yesterday.
Yep. Landon Plagg. And his wife. I have not met his wife, or I haven't met them. I just talked to him on the phone yesterday.
Yeah. Yep.
Yes, that's what we were on the phone about, yep. Because it's supposed to be a farmer-owned, I think it's called Green Acres Seed Co. Green Acres Seed Co. And they're based out of Latimer, Iowa, but I think the plant is going to go on Albert Lee, Minnesota.
And I had not heard anything about it until I was at Striptail Conference a few weeks ago and ran into some people that were talking about it, so... Started doing some investigating. But, yeah, it's kind of going to be a farmer-owned deal. So you buy shares kind of like they used to do the ethanol plants, you know. So I don't know. I'm pretty intrigued by it.
Yep, $6.50 a bushel for three years, and then they'll have a – It'll be from after that, I think. I should really not probably say too much because I'm probably going to get it wrong. But if you're interested, you'll just have to call them. Green Acres, yep.
But yeah, they'll have some sort of inflationary type scenario that they'll base off of the products coming out of the plant, whether it's the flower or the meal or whatever they're selling. So, yeah. So are you trying to...
We are putting a cover crop in. Typically we're putting a cover crop in. And the one that we're probably most interested in going to is probably seeding the oats with clover. So the clover will just hang out underneath the oats until you take the oats off. And then it just kind of greens and it, you know, produces some nitrogen and some of that stuff. But right now we're,
Right now we're doing radishes, turnips, vetch. We seed that all in behind our small greens. Done a little bit of work with some local guys who have mother cows. We'll actually lease out our cover crop acres and they'll graze them through, you know, October through Christmas or something like that. We've done that, you know, done that. It works pretty good.
But typically I'm just after getting a cover crop in there to break up some compaction and some of that kind of stuff. Yeah.
I think we started playing with cover crops 10 years ago on a really small scale and just have kind of been building. Last year or the year before was where we really took it to where we're going to put it on as many acres as we can possibly. find the time to get it put on.
Uh, no, no, we've been doing it just because we really like what we're seeing in the soil from it.
Um, so we're just, uh, yeah. So a lot of our ground is, yes, it's got all this rock underneath, but it is heavy black clay dirt. And so we get compaction really easily. Um, and it's wet. I mean, uh, I, Most of my friends can't stand to listen to me because every time it rains, I bid about it.
Um, and they, most guys like to have rain here when it's a drought, we're sitting right where we want to be because that's, that's where our ground shines. So, um, Yeah. So we're trying to find ways, hence tiling, and then just trying to get more water infiltration to try and be able to have the soil healthier and not run away. Um, we don't have a lot of slope here, but we have enough.
And if it rains three to five inches or like this past June, when we had 10 inches in one week, um, I don't like seeing that dirt run at wash away. It drives me insane. So we've been doing a lot of rye after soybeans and, uh, we, um, Yeah, we just seed rye after soybeans, and then after our small grains, we're running these blends. So that's kind of what we're doing.
He's trying to sneak.
Showing 41–60 of 152 · page 3 of 8
← Previous
Next →