Shawn Feikema
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard Oct 2024
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And they, they, my uncle and the engineers were comparing all, you know, all week and they just kept taking parts out, putting different parts in, trying to get it to do the same thing. They did get it there. Um, ended up with a mostly convex set of concaves in that other machine. Um, and they got it very close grain sample wise.
I would call them right on par with the Estes, not quite the capacity I can get out of an Estes. Um, I can get a little more capacity in corn out of the Estes. But both of them, we've been running two 780s now for three or four years, one with Condex, one with Estes, and we just continually keep comparing. And so both of them run with no, never changing a concave.
But the Estes, in my opinion, still got an edge on capacity. Um, I have not tried the XPR threes yet, but yeah, so that's, that's kind of what, where we ended up with the, with the, that's kind of how we, the story of how we ended up where we did.
So we will throw some covers in, uh, on some hard, like our trit. When I combine that trit, that's a little, it's kind of, the trit was kind of like combine. And I don't know if you guys have ever combined spring wheat. Uh, spring wheat is a bear cat to thresh. Um, and so that I did, it threshed a little bit like spring wheat.
So I threw covers in on that one, but once we got done with that, I pulled the covers out and I never, I never ran any covers. So, yeah.
Well, and the way I look at OEM is, you know, deer's got to do what they got to do to make it for the masses, right? They can't customize a combine for everybody's unique situation. And, you know, if you're somebody that... Yeah, it just depends on your operation. If you're not pushing your combines hard, you can get a good sample out of them.
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...
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.
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.
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,
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.
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,
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.
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.
And then next thing I know, we ended up doing a whole documentary about That kind of came out of that. So we got a documentary that we did on strip-till and different things. And then, yeah, so they bring out their corporate customers. So we've had Google, Nike, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. I don't know.
We've had probably 300 people come through here, most of them who have never been on a farm. And we just show them what farming is and how sustainable aviation fuel works.
would be would be made you know how it would be made from corn and and the whole cycle so we got two groups coming uh yeah next week tuesday and wednesday i think so getting ready for that because the only plant right now making saff is in georgia yes yep
Unfortunately, I have gotten no gift baskets. It would be nice, but no.
Yeah, it's fun. telling people about agriculture. I mean, that's really, that's why we ended up doing our, you know, the documentary we did and different things. It's like, we just want people to understand what's going on in agriculture.
We're the first generation that really has had to deal with teaching people about where their food comes from, because in the past, you know, we didn't have this many people living in urban areas. Everybody knew about agriculture. Now nobody does. So that's kind of the I don't know. It's interesting. It's fun. People don't, yeah. People just, I've had, I had one lady I'll never forget.
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