Closing the Yield Gap: Protecting Farmers’ Profits w/ Acre Shield
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Hey, listeners, welcome back to the Farm for Profit podcast. It's great to be back with some representatives from Sukup. We've got Randy here, the material handling sales director, and we're going to dive deep into the title just to make sure everybody is clear as to what he understands. But, no, it's a pleasure to have you back on the podcast. Welcome back, Randy.
Hey, thank you, guys. Appreciate it.
What a beautiful day to have an interview to learn more about what's available, what's cutting edge and new for farmers this fall when it comes to grain handling. But material handling in the title means it's not just corn and soybeans that souk up. equipment handles, right?
That is true. We handle a lot of commodities. I mean, we've done things from frack sand to canola to sunflower. So it just, it depends on what the farmers and the people need out there.
We were out on the West Coast. What about pistachios?
Yeah, we do some stuff with pistachios and almonds as well. So, you know, nuts to sand to grain.
Corey, how did they do that? They did so many million dollars per rib or something like that. Pistachios are a little more high value.
Yeah, a lot more high value than especially corn, right?
Especially at today's prices. So Randy, if our listeners don't remember who you are, why don't you give a little bit of background as to who Randy is?
All right. I'm material handling sales director. So what that means is I kind of oversee all of our material handling products. So that's the drag conveyors, bucket elevators. We've got triple run conveyors, distributors. all of our structures, so the towers, catwalks, those types of things. So basically anything that handles grain and, you know, some towers and structures there to support those products.
And you've got a couple new things. Did you have the distributor last time, or is there something new with that?
So we've got a new dual-flow distributor. It's a completely electronic control. Corey, did you get that on your setup? No. It's dual inlet, so if you've got a couple, a wet leg and a dry leg... then you can dump into a dual inlet distributor and take that grain to basically anywhere you want to, even going into the same bin with it at some point. So you guys have one sitting right out here. It's a big piece of metal. It is. It's pretty massive. We've got three different sizes, a 14-inch, a 16-inch, and an 18-inch.
Yeah, that would handle a lot of grain and provide a lot of options, too, because we've talked about the profitability that elevators have when they have the ability to blend. And Corey's already given a testament to what it's done for his farm, having the ability to blend as well.
So what problem does this solve for the guys that don't have it and why do they need it?
So anytime you've got two legs on a farm, it does make it a little easier to direct your grain where you want it. If you don't have it, it makes it kind of difficult. You've either got to use a combination of multiple distributors or some two-way valves or three-way valves after that distributor. And the nice thing about this is you bring two legs down into it, so it ties both bucket elevators into one distributor.
So this isn't a new concept, though.
correct like this has been done for years correct yeah your first yes this is our first to market with it it has been out there for several years um you know we're just uh obviously as we're growing we're finding these needs to become more and more and this was an opportunity for us to grow and expand so in the past you would have probably purchased that from a secondary source and then
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