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Episode 32 - Early Season Planting Progress

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Thanks to Greg Thomas over at Helena Agri-Enterprises for sponsoring this week's show! You can contact him at 270-723-6019.

Thanks also to our studio sponsor Biotech Innovations.  Learn more about them at www.biotechinnovationsag.com.

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Welcome to Dirt to Dollars, where we cover everything from the dirt on your land to the dollars in your hand.

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We're talking all things agriculture in central Kentucky, from the field to the farm office. Join your hosts, Daniel Carpenter, Matt Adams, and Mark Thomas as we dig into current ag news, practices, and more. And now, coming to you from the Biotech Innovation Studios, here's Dirt to Dollars. Now let's get innovative. All right, welcome back to this week's um Daniel joke free episode of Dirt to Dollars. I noticed you didn't even give him a chance. I know. I just I had to jump in there and get it going.

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So I guess I just I'll just leave. We'll let you know when we're done so you can edit it. You can see you can edit it. Then I'll put my jokes in. Yeah. I'll pipe in some laughter and it'll be fine.

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Can you get a laugh track from like the 90s back in like the home improvement days? Yeah, we'd probably work on that. I don't know. I had to go buy my own bell, so I'm not going to be able to do that. Yeah, you couldn't even expense that. No.

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It happens.

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Speaking of expenses, who's helping pay them this week, Mark? Helena Agri Enterprises, one of the nation's foremost agronomic providers of crop inputs, application technology, manufacturing, and data solutions. They have you covered from start to finish and everywhere in between, from planner box treatments like QuickShot to cohort the dry spray grade AMS replacement, as well as products like Receptor and Coron to help you make the most out of the dollars you spend. Contact our local local Helena Rep, Greg Thomas at 270-723-6019 to learn more. He's been at my house four times this week already, delivering stuff. I guess that's a perk or a downfall of being that close to the store. He made it to mine once this week, and I think he had to take a little bit of a detour. I think my seed and chemical order toured half of southern Harden County because he got on the phone and got to talking and got distracted and missed a few turns. I think we're close enough. He'll get it there. He'll get it there, nevertheless. That's right. I think we're close enough that if he's got a partial load and he's got room for a box or a toad or something, he'll he'll throw ours on the back and drop it off as he goes through. So I'm not a hundred percent sure where he stuck yours on the load that he brought to to me either. It was two boxes of two boxes of corn on the front of that. Okay. So yeah, he had a he had a good load on that. So hope the DOTs aren't loyal listeners. This week's episode not brought to you by the Kentucky DOT officers. Anyway, we say all that. Go ahead, Daniel.

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It's a fun time of the year to be in that business.

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So he told me when he rolled into my place that so far since he'd made the switch to Helena, that that was Tuesday, that that had been the craziest, wildest day he had had since he'd worked for Helena.

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Yeah.

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Since him and I actually had a conversation today, we're recording this on Wednesday, and and uh he said everybody went from feeling like everything was good to feeling two weeks behind. It's still everybody wanted to see, everybody's two weeks behind. And we're not two weeks behind. We're not, we're not, but it feels that way with the weather, and we want to go and we want to do, and and stuff wasn't on the farm, and now it needs to get there, and bees are going on the ground, and corn's going on the ground, and sprayers are running up and down the road. Fertilizer trucks are everywhere.

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So it's just it seems like you know, there's in the in that world, in that retail world, it's like there's tip there's typically an order to it, right? Like there's typically like this happens at this time, and then this happens, and then this happens. And yeah, the weather messes with it sometimes, but like now you're getting just everything at one time. Because like the you're you're hanging pasture guys are still trying to get ground covered. Most of the time they're they're done, but before planting season really gets into the to the to the heaviness of it. And we're, I mean, you know, our texts are blowing up while we're doing this, and people talking about getting the planters ready, and um, and we know, and we may talk about it a little more today, too, about the progress we've already had so far this season. But it's not really it's not coming in waves, it's kind of all hitting at one time.

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But we've pushed that as farmers, we've pushed that with wanting to plant early beans and wanting to push the bill and saying, okay, we we need to plant our corn our beans first. Used to be you punch corn, then you punch beans, and then now it's kind of like, well, April beans are typically yielded the best. Well, it's still only the 8th of April, so we've got you know 22 more days to get them in in April, but it still feels like we've got to get sprayed, we've got to get it fertilized if it didn't get fertilized last fall. Uh if you can get fertilized to to get on it. Um so we we've done a lot of it to ourselves by wanting to push the bill and get our beans planted earlier, in my opinion. Two things here. First of all, I would almost guarantee you there were more beans planted this year in our local area by the end of last day of March than there were by the last day of April last year. I would almost guarantee that I've actually heard of some growers scattered off across the region that are done planting soybeans.

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Yeah.

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I heard of uh so heard of at least one large farm down kind of in the southern tier of Kentucky that was this has been middle of last week that was done done.

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Yeah.

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Corn, beans, everything. And then I've even heard a little bit of rumor of some people around in the close area that have quit because it's so dry.

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Heard some of that too.

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And there's not a lot of rain in the 10 day coming up, there's a there's a few chances. And another chances here and there, but not a lot. So we're yeah, this early planting date, the theory behind it is good, and I'm right there with you. We're trying to get out and get beans planted first, too. But looking back at yield data from last year, my April planted beans were the worst beans I had. And it's all in how the rain fell in August. That's because you planted them four eights. They were dead before the rain. They were, so got around. On the on the flip side of that, my April planted beans um were my best beans. And then from we started like April 17th last year and planted till like May 6th or something, when it started raining again. That window of beans were my was my best. And then we planted when we got going again, the middle of May to end of May. July 15th. Well, middle of May to like July or June 3rd or 4th. Those were my worst beans. And then when we got going again, finally to finish up in June, end of June, first part of July, those were better again. I mean, they weren't great, but they were better than that middle window. So that's awesome. Best beans, best beans I had last year were planted June 3rd. Yeah, mine weren't. So the best beans I had last year were planted um the day that everybody went to celebrate Daniel's 40th birthday, and I stayed home and planted beans.

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So there you go.

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But we also had a planner broke down at the time, so it was it was I hate that I missed it.

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Yeah, I only cried in the bathroom for like five minutes. It's okay. I'm over it now. You can wait to see what I'm gonna do on your 40th birthday.

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You got another one coming around. Hey, you gotta be careful though. You gotta be careful what you prank on my birthday because that that affects your niece's birthday too.

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So oh man, see you got me there. Well, but another thing with with the the planning stuff, uh two things. One, you know, it's all those different dates that you say were good and were bad is a reason that it's good to spread out your planning and not plan it, try to get it all done as quick as you can and be done because then you you're not able to really uh hedge your bets there much. But another thing is last year was really crappy. And I think you still have I think you got a lot of people that just knew how long it took to get things done last year, and that's in the back of their mind with some of the reason that they're doing what they're doing this time. And I'm not even I'm not even gonna say they're they're wrong about it because we won't know till harvest time. But um, but I think that's that's in the back of a lot of minds because I just man, just I've I've I've talked to a lot of producers um over the last year, and man, it's just it's just awful everywhere, and uh they do not want to go through that again.

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Absolutely. And you know, when you get a window after a year like last year, let's push as hard as we can, get done what we can get done, you know, to hopefully not have those issues. But the 10-day forecast from today looking forward 10 days looks better than 90% of the beans I planted last year, or even corn, the 10-day looking forward from when I planted that. Um I don't know that that's good or bad, but that's what I'm seeing. The only thing I mean, you gotta remember we're still early April. So I know. And I've seen some model data and stuff out there that is hinting towards the last half of April, first part of May, turning off cool again. And typically it does. Typically, my dad and I always say if you watch spring turkey season in Kentucky, the second week. Yeah, second week, second weekend of turkey season is always cold. First weekend can be hit and miss. A lot of times it's pretty, it can be warm. Second weekend of turkey season's always cold. And that would be what the 20 like the 22nd, 23rd, something like that. So doesn't it open something around the 15th? It comes it comes in a week from Friday. Yeah. I assume it still comes in on Friday, right, Matt? Saturday, I think. I think it comes in the 18th. Oh, the 11th. No, the 18th. This weekend. This it's the 11th this weekend. Are you sure? Does it not come in on Friday anymore? It used to. It never came in on Friday. It's opening day's always been on Saturday. Yeah, so that twenty twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, that range.

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Watch for the spring turkey season cool snap. Is that what you're gonna call it? Yep. We just uh April 18th to May 10th. So that would be a Saturday. That would be a Saturday.

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I'd have bet money that it used to come in on a Friday, because I distinctively remember the first time I ever went turkey hunting, you and I skipped school. We didn't skip school, but we were late to school on a Friday morning on opening turkey season. I don't think it was opening day though. May not have been. Yeah, some hoodlums. Yeah.

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Skipping school to be cool, I guess. Yep, I didn't miss a day of school from like sixth grade till I graduated. I was one of those weirdos, yeah.

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Well, it obviously didn't help much, but yeah. I made up for that when I went to college. Oh goodness. Made you miss in college. We're not gonna talk about that today.

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Hey, you still got the degree. I made a lot of good friends.

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Can't put a price on experiences. Nope, that's right. So uh we talked about the planting progress, and you know, a lot of that's because we've been abnormally dry. We're kind of getting into drought status. Have y'all looked at the drought monitor? Okay, no. Is it is it are we showing back up on there now? We are showing up on there. We were as of Thursday, and I would assume that it hasn't changed because we didn't get much rain last week or over the week.

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Well, you know, I got uh you did over here at the Howl Valley Wetlands, we got like an inch and a quarter, I think. But uh you can't you really can't tell we got that.

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Yeah. So yeah, all of Harden County, all of Harden, all of LaRue is in D zero abnormally dry. You get down into the Christian County area and they're in a D1 moderate drought, uh you get over into the purchase area of the southern end of it, and they're in a D2 severe drought. So it's slowly inching this way.

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It sure is.

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Yeah, we uh I had farms and and and it shows the spring pop-up shower, but I had a farm last Wednesday that got an inch six in about 45 minutes.

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That blew up right past us.

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That one, I mean that one just it and then it it fell back apart about as quick as it blew up. But um even though we've had that that rain on that farm and we got rain Wednesday and we got rain again Friday morning, and maybe a little bit Sunday, does that sound right?

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No. Saturday afternoon, Saturday night. Saturday, something.

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It might have been Saturday, yeah. Saturday afternoon. It's still even the spots that are normally wet um are within a day of being able to plant again. You know, that the subsoil moisture is not there like it has been the last five springs, probably. It's hard to compare to 2025 because we just came off 11 or 12 inches the first weekend in April.

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So um yeah.

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So down here we'll have to keep an eye on that uh drought. In the southern regions. I think we had two tents on one of those trains and three tents over the weekend.

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You don't have it to spare. You don't have the top full to spare where you're at.

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So we uh Yeah, that wasn't Wednesday. So yeah, we got a rain, we got a shower Friday and a shower Saturday. Shower Friday morning, shower Saturday afternoon.

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Yeah.

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We had just got it done. We'd spread chicken litter at our house on Thursday, thinking it was gonna rain Friday morning. So had it timed out perfect to keep the smell down. How's that smell at your house right now? Is it did you get enough rain to knock it down? Finally. But it did not rain enough Friday morning to knock it down, and then the wind picked back up. And the wind was blowing directly towards the house. So how was sleeping in the doghouse? Uh my back still hurts from it. Molly, think of all the m think of all the money you saved by spreading that too. I told her, I said I'm gonna remind you of this when you're staring at green grass all summer, and now it looks like we may burn up all spring and summer and anything to enjoy out of it, but yeah, it finally rained enough Saturday night to knock the smell down.

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Well, you mentioned a house.

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A dog house. This is a little bit bigger. This is a really big reach in trying to tie this together. Uh, but we saw there were some people that we knew that were at the White House. Does that work? Like to tie that together?

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That was a stretch.

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It was a stretch. Anyway, we did uh have a lot of farmers at the White House for an event uh last week, I believe. And uh a lot of Kentucky people, a lot of people with dirt to dollars experience in that uh uh in some pictures there. So that was kind of neat to see. Uh some of our Kentucky corn and uh uh NCGA board members uh from Kentucky were there. Um uh Josh Lancaster, Brandon Hunt. Uh had uh uh Pat Clemens uh from over Washington County. He was there. Of course, he's on the small grains, I think he's on U.S. Small Grains Council.

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Um he's either president president or or past president of the U.S.

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small grain growers. Yeah, there were some videos featuring some some farmers from from here. And uh who was on that one, the video that we were sharing around. Um can't remember his name.

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Neil Denton was on that one. Yep. Matt actually might be in a cameo of one of Neil's videos from Commodity Classic. Yeah. Because Neil was recording. Neil was recording, and Matt walked between him and the new ARX. Doing a straight up interview with a Deere official on uh on the brand new John Deere release, and I'm just gawking at the tractor and while I just thought it was two guys standing there talking. I got all the way through before I noticed the camera set up.

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We won't be getting him on the podcast. Probably not.

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Yeah. That's pretty that's pretty neat to see. Yeah, that was a pretty big event. They had uh a lot of people there. I noticed there were a lot of social media influencers, Mark, but you didn't your involves got lost in the mail. No, no, no. See, those are the famous social media influencers. I'm just somewhat famous. They didn't go down the list. They didn't so there was only so many that were probably allowed to be there. And by the time all the famous people said yes, they didn't have room to scrape to the bottom barrel to get me. So I'm sure you were. I mean, that's that actually would have been goals to have been there to to meet her. So do you know who we're talking about, Daniel? You're giving us a blank stare. No, I have no idea.

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I really couldn't even understand. Granny Bibbins? Granny Bibbins. Bibbins. Bibbins.

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Yeah, no idea.

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Look her up.

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She's got her own TikTok page and has a lot of followers.

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Is she the lady that's like got an attitude? Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

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I didn't know that was about one. I've liked her videos. Got on Diddy or whatever. Yeah.

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Yep. Like I show her with the glasses on and the cigarette hanging, like, you know, she's got the she's savage, I guess, is the one.

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She's like chasing him through the house with the hot shot. Chasing her grandson through the house with the hot shot.

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Yeah.

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Yeah. Okay. Yes, I know who that is. I just didn't didn't pay much attention to her name, but no, now I got it. Hopefully she told somebody up there like it is. She sounds like the type of person who'd do that. Now, will they listen up there? I don't know.

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Your guess is as good as mine. Yeah.

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Anything else coming out of Washington?

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One thing we had on our notes. We had a uh new label come out for food products, I think. USDA has come out released the uh product of the USA label. So I think that's an alternative to country of origin labeling. It's a voluntary program.

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And it is truly a USA label. It's not one of those, you know, one of the things that I've never really was crazy about Kentucky Proud is that you bring something into Kentucky and you bottle it in Kentucky or you put it in a jar in Kentucky and it becomes Kentucky Proud, but that's not the case with this USA label. It's it has to be born and raised completely in the U.S.

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Which I think even when you had country origin labeling once upon a time, like on the beef side, Mexican feeder cattle that came in and were fed in the U.S. could be marketed as product of the U.S. As long as they were here for a certain amount of time. I believe that's right. So this is probably how it should be. And if we don't have any kind of livestock ID or whatever, that's gonna be hard to implement. So the funny thing is the same people that push the hardest for mandatory country country origin labeling are going to be again typically against any kind of national ID program. So yeah, I think there's still a lot of details to come out on that, but something to watch, something might be able to take advantage of going forward. Brooke will let us know, whatever. She's uh probably waiting for that to come on and be a guest one of these days.

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Yeah.

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Or she's just waiting on us to ask. Probably. I think she's waiting by her phone right now. Probably.

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Probably is.

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You gotta leave them, leave them hanging a little bit. You can't just can't act too excited.

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So this is so we have this the next item in our notes uh for this week is onlyfarms.gov. So I don't know, I have no idea what this is, but it sounds like something that we go to for Brooke to reach out to us on.

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I could just put a put a put something out on onlyfarms.gov and I heard about that a couple weeks ago, and we're having to reach back a little bit because we had our Pastor Mike episode last week. Hopefully everybody enjoyed that. But uh so we're really kind of covering two weeks worth of news here. And uh yeah, so that was all over the farm press there for two or three days, and finally I typed it in and went to it, and all it would do when I typed the address in was go straight to the White House home, like home landing page. That's what it did. That's what it does. That's what it did for me. So I don't know. They had some backlash over that, and I don't know if it got taken down and it just redirects you there or what the deal is, but it really does it was supposed to be this.

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So it's it takes you, it does take you to whitehouse.gov slash agriculture. Agriculture, yes.

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Yep. But it was supposed to be somewhere you could like keep up with press releases and stuff that USDA was doing, and from what I've seen, it is not doing that.

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There's several things about the one big beautiful bill when you scroll when you scroll there, but okay, it's showing more now than it did the other day.

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I think it's something that hopefully they can build on too.

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Yeah, they're probably something that they can show what they've tried to do, even though it doesn't look like they've been doing much for for farmers if you look at what things are costing everybody right now.

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Yeah, so check that out. Just uh be careful of your spelling. Yeah.gov. Yes.

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Or yeah. You type that in wrong.

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Uh speaking uh of what things are costing and everything, I we were talking about the White House deal, but uh saw a local farmer and loyal listener, Mr. Brad Hines, had was featured on a news story here.

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He did a really good job.

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Yeah, talking about fertilizer and fuel prices and and how those are affecting his farm and and farms in our area. So check that out. I think it was was it a KET's special? Was that right? It was Laura Rogers who I think is with KT's. I think that's right. So boy, we were prepared on that one, weren't we?

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You know, I did, you know, I watched it, but I don't I did too. Yeah, I don't remember the channel.

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Was KET, yes.

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It's hard to it's hard to differentiate them a lot now because it you know used to be you would think like KET maybe not have been the quality of video as like you would get from a from one of your CBS or Fox affiliates, but now I think like that technology is so good for everybody. It's like there could be somebody from you know your public broadcasting groups that you you can't tell the difference between them and and some of the bigger networks.

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Now hold on, don't be running down K E T. I got my big break into uh stardom in KET back in the 90s. Okay. Well, then they came to the farm and filmed uh electronic field trip to a pig farm in about 97 followed followed us around and made a whole video. It was shown in tens of schools around the country, around the state. I actually think I remember, didn't we watch that in ag class in high school? So I don't think we watched Maybe we just watched it because it was like in Ag Office. Well, yeah, probably that. And then uh if you remember when we took that ag econ class in high school, a lot of the clips that were in the lecture for that were pulled from that video because it was all K E T stock. Maybe that's what I was thinking of footage. So yeah, yeah.

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Well, I wasn't dish, I wasn't dissing on them currently. I was just saying used to be. I mean, heck, you can make really good videos and stuff now with your cell phone. Right. If it was yes, you can you can.

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And if it was good enough for Big Bird, it's good enough for Mark. So it's funny you talk about the big camcorder and stuff. So that video they they followed us around nearly all year. And I think it was like an hour and five or ten minute video. And when it was all said and done, it was on a VHS, and when it was all said and done, they brought us a copy of all of the raw footage that they took. And when you stacked it up, you just laid them flat, it was probably a stack almost three foot high of good nine. Of raw footage of just VHS stacks stacked that high. So did you watch it? To get in a no, heck no. I lived it, I didn't have to watch it. Uh maybe you should be able to do that. But it was just I mean, it was just days of I mean hours of tractors just moving back and forth to get the perfect shot with the sun, and and I I'm sure we've thrown all those videos away. But I don't even know.

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I mean, I knew how to operate a VHS player, but like I don't know if you give me one now and uh I'd like it'd take me a minute to be like what do you do? Did you all have you have to do the tracking and like make sure it's not you know it's working right? Is it rewound?

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Did you all have rewind? Did you have not have a rewinder? We have a rewinder at our house. Yeah. You just popped it out and stuck it in the rewinder and slammed it down and automatically rewound it. You know, that's the turn weight on it, you can go on to ANSI.

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Yeah, or you may have had like two VCRs that you could record a tape. No, we didn't do that, but just saying you know, some people did.

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Like burning a C D. You say burning a CD now to kids in high school. Like, why would you light a CD on fire? Yeah. What's a C D?

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Yeah, what's a C D?

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Well, there you go, Mark. That could be your next TikTok series, is go back and find those old videos. Yeah, just play clips of it. There you go. There you go. Do one of those what is the videos of what were you like in the oh yeah, what were you like in the 90s? Actually, that's a really good idea. I might have to do that. Yeah, maybe I'll finally get some commission out of this one. Um I'm pretty sure I've got credit for like at least the game. Three videos that of Marks. Three videos, three or four videos that haven't paid that much. Yeah. So Wendy's four for four, I guess. Maybe it'll hit it big.

SPEAKER_02

That's funny, the 90s thing. It is pretty popular right now. For some reason, my son he always asks what things were like in the 80s. He asks that a lot. Like, what was that? Was that was that a thing in the 80s? What was it like in the 80s? Did they have that in the 80s? I don't know. I was five. You know, I was younger than you are now. I don't remember.

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He's definitely making fun of you. Yep. For sure. Yeah. The nineties was a good decade though we grew up in. Speaking of, we came out of uh Washington and uh we got some big news for our friend Cyrus.

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We did, and we actually had it last week, but we did not have time to break that into the show. That's right. So um Cyrus is a state officer candidate from Lake Patrol region, Cyrus Pibbins, so he will be uh up for that very big honor potentially in first week of June, is that right? And uh no pressure, but his mom and dad were both state FA officers, so if you're uh if you're a candidate, that automatically means you made it, right? Don't they take one from every region? Correct. They send yes, they take one from every region. Where they put it in the city. No, no, no, no. No, there's two, there's two candidates. Oh, okay. Yeah, so they so the di the region picks two and sends them, and then they interview, and then they pull one from from each district. That's right. I remember that being yeah, yeah.

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I remember that now. So good luck to good luck to him.

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We also have to work with him on uh um an advertisement. He spent more money than his dad. Yes, he did.

SPEAKER_01

He sure did. Is that a surprise?

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No.

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Yeah. I think his dad went and worked to the crowd and told everybody they might as well not bid because he was going to buy it anyway and probably held the bid to back. That may have been how how Tyler Howe got paid as auctioneer. He just wasn't taking it. Yep. Yeah. It's a good possibility. Flipped him a 20. Yep.

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I did uh see some uh reminders on Facebook recently that it was about two years ago that we um ended dirt to dollars the first time. It was.

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I saw that too. Pop up in old memories.

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Uh-huh.

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Or sabbatical. That's what I like to do. I know we've been we've been uh let's see, this is this week is our 32nd episode of uh the new version. But uh once again, it seems like we do keep adding listeners each week. So thank you all for continuing to listen and and telling your friends. But uh, but yeah, two two years since we took a break, and um, I still remember that pretty well because we had a lot of funny comments whenever we uh uh announced that we were were leaving. And uh I'm but I'm just happy now Joe Stoltz has something to do on Saturday mornings. If if nothing else, it was worth it for that.

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Yes. What was it? It was the saddest news he had gotten since something had been talking about Saturday.

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Since Saturday morning cartoons were taken off the air. Yeah.

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But we're back, baby.

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Back and better than ever.

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It really felt like longer than two years. Two years doesn't seem like that long.

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Well, and that whole time it was like when we weren't doing it, it was like all these great, all this great content for shows that we talk about every week. Like, I wish we could talk about that. And uh and and couldn't.

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So But we're here now, and we're here to bring you all the new news and all the all the talk.

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Yeah, and it is kind of nice that you have those Facebook memories. You know, social media, it it kind of sucks, right? Like, I mean it it's there's some stuff on there that's just awful. And there's people on there that make me so mad that um, and and I've probably showed my my butt on there before because people have made me mad, and honestly, I don't care. I'd probably do it again anyway, but still, there that happens, but there's still some good things that that face.

SPEAKER_01

Never, Daniel, you'd you would never do that.

SPEAKER_02

Like, heck, our our father-in-law found his PTO last week. He wouldn't have been able to find it if it wasn't for Facebook. Did that really help him find it? Yeah. How what's the story? How'd he lose that at the beginning of it? I don't know. I don't know, but you just never know when you lose something. You put it out there on on social media, maybe maybe it maybe it helps. But uh but you know, it's it is neat. I I do enjoy that memories thing because when you're like when you're our age group, you've been on it for 20 years, and it's just like you just get reminded of just those things that happened that if you didn't have Facebook, you never would have remembered uh that you even did those things. And that was an example. Like I probably didn't have that circled on my calendar, like I want to remember that day, but when that popped up, it was kind of neat to read, uh, read back through some of those comments.

SPEAKER_01

I think we'll be looking back in 20 years. Yeah, that's when John lost his PTO. Jeff, do you remember that?

SPEAKER_02

You know, you wouldn't you wouldn't be looking for that, but when you scroll through your memories and be like, oh, yeah, I remember that. Such and such.

SPEAKER_00

Probably took a turn too fast and it just slid off.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, and we're also we're also at this age, I don't know about you all, but I am, and I know several uh I've had this with several farmers that I work with recently too, that I'll be sitting there and the alarm will go off. And it's just reminding them of doing just the normal things you're that you you know you just have to do or or you couldn't forget. But I get bad about this now. I have I probably have three or four alarms set a day. I don't I don't check so you know, I don't check my phone to see if it's on silent or not anymore because I pretty much just keep it on silent all the time. But I have to check and make sure I don't have an alarm set to go off to remind me of something. That's my like when I go into church, of course, you know, a lot of times I'll turn it off, but if I just have it on silent, because if I don't turn it off, it blows up from group text from YouTube and some other.

SPEAKER_01

People's out here trying to peddle uh chemical during each church. We've already been to get out of church and is like 29 text messages. Well that's it. Jesus about to come up in here and turn some tables over or something doing business in the back or he's gonna pour out some herbicide.

SPEAKER_02

Turn it into water or something.

SPEAKER_01

That's a problem with what was there five of us in that group, five different churches, five different church times.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, different times.

SPEAKER_01

And ours was off schedule this time, and normally it's at 9 45, and it was at 9 15 this week because they added a fourth service for Easter. So every church I've ever been to all my entire existence started at 11 o'clock, and then it seems like all these other churches anymore that have these odd start times.

SPEAKER_02

I've had different times all through my life at different churches or different offer a contemporary service or a traditional service, and then it So we have an early service and a regular service, is what we call it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

But I don't ever make the early service. Kids don't allow it.

SPEAKER_02

We we sometimes have good intentions to go to the early service, but we just show up to the lighter service late. It's just which it tends to be out or right at right as it starts. Then Mark, I've been after the other day that talking about going to Cracker Barrel before it hurts. That is wild.

SPEAKER_01

We did. We we also lived two minutes from Cracker Barrel. But uh but yeah, we we went to Cracker Barrel the other morning and ate breakfast and made it to the 9 45 service at 9 50. So with three kids. With three kids. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

I just know whenever you're doing that yet, though. The the bad part, the thing that I don't like about being late for church is that you never can sit on the outside of the aisle. Like you gotta like walk around somebody because everybody's sitting towards the back and in the outside of the aisle, right? Like there's never just a seat right there in the back that you can just like walk into and get because people fill those up first. So you have to like go up to the front and then you have to ask somebody to stand up and go in front of them, and it's well we usually go upstairs when we're especially with the kids, you know, it's less people up there.

SPEAKER_01

But the but the problem is when you sit in the front row upstairs, yes, we know I'm short, but like you can't see really well, and the kids can't see at all. They can only see on the TV. So when you get there late, you can't sit in that second row to biv so they can see. So see, so we have Sunday school at 10, church at 11, so that's why you go to Sunday school. You can be 30 minutes late for Sunday school and you're still gonna be on time for church.

SPEAKER_00

That's true.

SPEAKER_01

Life act.

SPEAKER_00

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SPEAKER_02

But I have found in my old age I am I'm just more reliant on my phone for um alarms and calendars and I set I use reminders.

SPEAKER_01

I don't use alarms. I've been using reminders some. So reminders doesn't make a noise, it just pops up on your home screen and it won't go away, or on your lock screen. Right. And it won't go away. Until you tell it that you've done it and it goes away. That way, every time I look at my phone, my little ADHD brain that gets sidetracked 14 different times, I'm going to look at my phone in five more minutes and remember that's what I started to go do 10 minutes ago.

SPEAKER_02

I like those for those meetings that meet those certain days of each month. So like second Monday of each month, I've got like a farm bureau reminder or uh uh whatever, like just those meetings that meet the third Thursday or the first Saturday. Like you you just you can go ahead and pre-program those in there and just kind of pops up. It's like, hey, this is going on today.

SPEAKER_01

Don't forget about that. And then now here's the question: Do you have it set to where it reminds you at like eight o'clock in the morning or like an hour before? No, it's it's like it's on there like the whole day or something. Okay, okay. That makes sense. Because yeah, if I did it like an hour before, then I'd there's no way I'd ever make it.

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Yep.

SPEAKER_02

And then shared notes. And you live an hour. Shared notes is another thing I have to do because if I don't write something down, it's gone. And I if I write it down in a shared note and other people can see it and add to it, like our grocery list at home are in those little shared note things. Um and then if if if we don't get something that I need, it's my fault because I didn't put it in there.

SPEAKER_01

The podcast show notes are literally the only shared note that I have in my phone. Same. We have a dry race calendar that we keep in the kitchen that Wesley redoes every I don't know, two to three weeks. And we write on that when she works, what meetings I have, what stuff we got going on with the kids, and and then we try to genuinely make it as a rule that if it's not on the calendar, you can't go.

SPEAKER_02

So yeah, we we've we we've got but see we've got to have calendars to put it on those calendars. So I could there's it's on another one before it goes on there. Um and then there's sometimes those calendars don't get updated on the dry erase board, and it's like that's right.

SPEAKER_00

Sorry, wasn't updated. Yep. That's right.

SPEAKER_02

And then sometimes uh life happens and farming happens, and some of those things just don't matter anymore because this has to get done. It all goes out the window. Yep.

SPEAKER_01

When the sheep are out.

SPEAKER_02

Yep. Didn't happen a whole lot, but when it happens, it happens. That's right. But uh speaking of things going out the window, I think we're about out of time. I think the show's about to go out the window.

SPEAKER_01

Um It went out the window a long time ago.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, I think so.

SPEAKER_01

I think we're looking for some filler. If you made it this long, we'll give you a slow clap. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

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SPEAKER_02

All right. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

See you next week.

SPEAKER_02

All right. Thank y'all for listening to Dirk to Dollar. See you next week.