Shawn Feikema
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152 appearances
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard Oct 2024
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Yes, exactly.
Yep. Yeah. You get real pissed. Yep. I hear you. And it doesn't clean out the best. Yeah. So that's part of the reason we've gone to the Colter machine as well, because that, that thing will fly right through that stuff. No problem.
No heavens. No, no, no. Uh, we got a, a custom outfit, a sample tank services. Um, they, they do an amazing job. They run all RTK, um, They're running those big noon trains or whatever. Yeah. And they pump all of our manure for us.
So they put everything in a, so all of our swine manure, they take all of our guidance lines and they have the, the, the, I think, I don't know if they call them VTIs or whatever bar. So they run 16 row bars and then they, they put it right where my strip is, where my strip will be. So they lay the hog manure there.
We come back a week later with our soil warrior and freshen it and just make a nice strip out of it. And we plant right on top of the hog manure. So if you want good corn, that's the way to do it. We love that principle. It works awesome.
Yeah. I'm amazed. I mean, we were a little concerned about how do you keep, I mean, these things are 17,000 gallon tanks. Yeah. And I'm there. So there, there's trains. I'm like, ha, I don't know if that's going to stay on the strip very well where I need it very well. But yeah, And these guys are meticulously fussy. They do an amazing job.
And they get my guidance line coordinates, and we give them our field boundaries. They'll just do auto whatever John Deere has, the auto boundary or whatever boundary track. And they get them set up, and they let it rip, and we just come back and freshen that right behind it. And it does an awesome job. Works great.
This is what we're doing.
Anything other than beef is offensive.
Well, our local school society just grilled like 40 loins Wednesday night. And we got rid of every single one of them. So we used a whole bunch of pork.
Yep.
It is crazy. And that's what amazes me about the beef market is how is the consumer really – I mean, Tanner, you can probably agree. When you just put it in your freezer because you have it – You don't think about it. You eat beef all the time. But, man, when you compare beef to pork or something like that, it's like, man, it is expensive.
So, man.
No. Nope. Never change them.
All our crops from the same concaves. Yep.
Well, we're running Estes. We actually are running one Estes. So we've been running Estes concaves for, oh boy, six, eight years, something like that. And that was part of the reason why we went was because of the different crops we dabbled with. I mean, we dabble with more now than we did then.
But back then, as I told some John Deere engineers, one time when they were out, they were asking some of these questions. And I said, well, I said, in my opinion, John Deere with the STS combine built the greatest soybean combine ever. They also made the greatest feed grinder for corn. And So that was really our real reason for switching to Estes.
I was so sick of the fines, so sick of the cob in the tank, stuff like that. And so that's what led us down to the path of Estes, which then turned out to be great for all of the other grains we did too, because we didn't have to switch conkeys. So we ran down that path for quite a while.
And then when I kind of stuck my foot in my mouth and said what I said to these John Deere engineers, they decided, hey, we can come up with something just as good. So that year, Todd hooked us up with a set of XPR2s, and we put them in a brand new 780. And we had the other combine just set up with regular round bars.
And the engineers came out and watched us, spent a whole week with us, combine and corn. And by the end of the week, they had torn out a whole pile of parts in that one combine. So basically, I ran the Estes machine.
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