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Weather, Crops, and Trade: A Rural Perspective
The vibrant green landscape stretching across North Dakota this summer tells a remarkable story of agricultural transformation. What began as a potentially devastating drought has evolved into one of the most verdant growing seasons in recent memory, with implications reaching far beyond this year's harvest.
Jim Sabe and Daryl Lies take listeners on a journey across the state's diverse growing regions, from the unexpectedly lush Badlands to the thriving croplands of the north. "I've never seen the state this green besides probably 2013 or 14," Sabe remarks, highlighting how timely rainfall has dramatically altered production outlooks. The transformation is particularly striking in traditionally arid areas south of Bowman extending into South Dakota, where ranchers are harvesting second cuttings of hay – a rare occurrence that speaks to the exceptional moisture patterns.
This abundance brings both opportunity and challenge. While crops appear poised for excellent yields, with corn standing six to seven feet tall and canola fields described as "so thick you could roll across without touching ground," the persistent rainfall threatens harvest logistics. Some alfalfa has already been lost to excessive moisture, and concerns mount about field conditions as harvest season approaches. Meanwhile, commodity prices remain stubbornly low, creating a situation where bushel count becomes critical for profitability despite visually impressive fields.
The conversation extends beyond immediate growing conditions to examine shifting global agricultural markets. Drawing from his recent meetings with trade representatives in Washington DC, Ease offers valuable perspective on how China's declining population contrasts with India's growth, potentially requiring American producers to adapt their crop selections in coming years. "American agriculture being dependent on row crops in 10 years might not be the thing," he notes, suggesting pulse crops and protein production may offer better opportunities as global consumption patterns evolve.
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Welcome to America's Land Auctioneer. I'm Jim Sabby, with Piper's hosting this show on a great Saturday morning here in North Dakota and folks, we've had a lot of weather to talk about, but I've got a great guest coming up, but I'm going to put him on hold for just a few minutes to bring up a few auctions that Piper's has going on. Don't forget, next week, october, I'm already dating. I missed a couple of months there. How about August 12th? Over in Dodge, north Dakota? We have some real estate and we have an excellent lineup of trucks and trailers and a really nice side dump or trailer. You need to look at folks. But we've got some great auctions going on. We've got the Upper Midwest Machinery Auction that will be starting next week, on the 12th, I believe it is, or right, in that area. Look at that. A lot of machinery I think there's over 400 and some lots of great, great machinery. And then, don't forget, just give us any one of us guys here at Piper's a call, and gals I should say, if you're looking to sell machinery, buy machinery or sell land or buy land, just give us a call at 701-523-7366.
Speaker 2:Now this morning's guest is a good friend of mine, darrell Lees, and I tell you what. He's been predicting the weather here all year for us and his onion turned out right or the pig spleen or whatever people do, but boy way. At the start of this spring I thought we were going to be in big trouble with moisture, and here we are with the amount of moisture the whole state's getting. I will say this I've never seen the state this green besides probably 2013 or 14, when we had those 30 inches of rain. But I was in the Badlands the other day around Medora, and it is green, and that usually doesn't happen this type of year. And even in southwest North Dakota, kevin Pfeiffer his famous line is you know, southwest North Dakota, come July and August, has 27 shades of gray. And this year I tell you what we are green. I mean, the crops look beautiful, we've got some great crops, but we've had a lot of moisture. And how has it been in your area too?
Speaker 3:So we've been a little more on the dry side. Right in our area this spring was kind of looking like a repeat of 21 for us. Then that rain that was pretty much general across the area came and gave us a nice shot of rain there, somewhere between four and five inches, but then we kind of got turned off for about five, six, seven weeks. There Didn't get a lot. Crops look good. They're not going to be any bin busters in our area but they look good, surprisingly good for the lack of moisture that we did have.
Speaker 3:But now here lately again, you know we've received rain the week before the state fair. It started raining a little during the state fair. Here this last few days a little bit of rain came through, which you know. Normally when you get late July and August rain it's a welcome thing because it's not customary, right? And so you know the crops look like they're going to be okay. Hay crop was short, was short. You know that initial grass cutting just was thin, short didn't get the start. You know, I think it got confused in May when we hit 90-some degrees there for a few days and then we got that rain and then it got cold after that for a while. But I would say people are. They're blessed with what we have had because the way it looked in April and those first five, six days of May, there was a lot of people thinking is this going to be 2021 all over again?
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, and it started out that way and then all of a sudden, you know, most areas started getting some rain Again. We had four to six inches of rain down there in May and it really turned things around. But what I've noticed is there's a couple of places and I'm saying the Badlands, but then you go south of Bowman to the Black Hills, harding County, South Dakota and Perkins County. I've never seen that country look so green. I mean they've probably had five inches more rain than we have here in Bowman County and you never see that down there. I mean it's. It looks horrible this time of year and it is as nice, green and beautiful. And I've got talking to guys down there. They're on their second cutting the hay down there. They never get that.
Speaker 2:And so was it a week ago I think we were in Albany, minnesota, for a sale and all the way down the crops look beautiful. You know this. Last week I've been up here in Kenmare, sherwood area and Mohawk and I tell you what the crops up here the Crosby area, stanley area this is unbelievable up here. I mean the canola. I think if I went out there and I rolled on top I could roll the whole distance without going down. It's that thick you. I could roll the whole distance without going down. It's that thick. You know the corn is six and a half seven feet tall. I know it's all grain corn, but boy, things really look good in most areas of the tri-state area.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I was talking yesterday with some people from up in that northwest part of the state and the last few years has not been kind to them. I mean they've been extremely dry up there and this year, you know, there's some pretty positive attitudes up there. But you know, you come out of that extreme northwest you get down to that Tioga White Earth area. You know the start was a little different. They were extremely dry last fall. The start to spring was a little different. Again, concern that last fall the start to spring was a little different. Again, concerned that the hay crop was short up there. And it was, but it's better than what May 1st outlook was.
Speaker 2:Yes, and you know we've had a lot of extremes this year and you know, and with these violent thunderstorms we've had tornadoes, and we've had a lot of extremes this year and with these violent thunderstorms we've had tornadoes and we've had a lot of hail in the area. I know my kids put ammendon, lost the windows and the roof got beat up by a lot of hail up there and that whole north country of Scranton took a beating again this year. But they're also getting a lot of rain out of it and I know right now they were harvestered, bailing up a bunch of that, hailed out wheat for a couple of neighbors, but the hailstorm's been bad, the tornado's been horrible, with people losing lives and you know I think here the other day they had multiple tornado warnings out here for the state. But you know it's a lot of extremes.
Speaker 2:I'm not saying we haven't been through this, but you know I don't know why it is, but the droughty years always stick out more than the ones where we get the nice moisture. So I hope everybody remembers this and when you drive across, just be thankful that we're getting this moisture. We don't have the fire dangers like we did last year. And you know you talked about Tioga and Ray and up in that area. You know I drove through that area when they had those fires right afterwards and that was bad. We don't need that anymore, but we've got to remember. We can turn this around into a drought here in about the next two weeks and we've got a lot of gasoline out there with the amount of grass that's out in the country.
Speaker 3:Well, and that's the thing to be aware of. You know the saying, especially western South Dakota, you're only 10 to 14 days away from a drought, right, yeah, and with the amount of growth we got out there, because we can get some very hot weather yet here. Oh, yes, august to early September and that can turn the other direction and, like you said, a lot of fuel for the fire if that does happen. So, as we come into those hunting seasons and things like that, people just got to pay attention to the area they're going to and whether they've continued to receive that moisture or not, to lower those risks. The other thing, jim, we got people listening on here that are going yeah, you guys are bragging about the moisture.
Speaker 3:There's some areas that have had too much and now that now the concern is going to be will we get the crop off? I mean, people have been in some areas. They're having a heck of a time getting their hay put up. Uh, they just can't get that done. And and there's nothing worse than to see a alfalfa field that the wind rows out there are turning black because it's had so much moisture on it. They can't get to it. Uh, I mean that's, that's heartbreaking for a rancher to see. Uh and but now with these recent rains that we got, I mean they're talking upwards of seven plus inches. Uh, you get into that new mcintosh county area, you know ash Colm area, other places with four or five and in short periods of time. We're not talking seven inches over a couple of days, we're talking over an hour or two, and that causes a lot of issues. And so now we've got some concerns on harvest side of things with that moisture.
Speaker 2:You know and we do, and we're seeing that like out in my country you guys are doing peas and lentils and that early barley is coming off, but they've had storm after storm and moisture and you know the straw's getting weak on a lot of that wheat that's out there but the winter wheat's ready to go also, but it's just a matter of trying to get in between storms to get things done. So I just hope we can get that done and and it'll, it'll get done, but we don't know when. I remember when years ago we started harvesting early August and I remember finished up combining Durham in September, that was standing all, all germinated in the head, you know standing. It got so wet all the time. So it's just one of those things that the good Lord will provide and sometimes we get a little bit too much, but we better not say that because we don't know when we're going to get the moisture again.
Speaker 3:Right, the switch can be turned off as fast as it turned on.
Speaker 2:Yes, All right, we're going to. We have about two minutes left in this segment, but I just want to say that, uh, you know, I just want to talk about pyfers a minute again. We've got a lot of auction sales coming up this year. Um, take a look at our, our website, go to pyferscom. A lot of great things happening there, a lot of machinery auctions and we have a lot of land auctions. I think they said we got 50 some land auctions here this fall. It's pretty impressive and you know some really big ones. I got some big ones in the valley, I think a 1700 acre one down in the valley and that's going to be a fun auction to go to. And we've and we had great success with our auctions. We had a great sale down in by Custer, south Dakota, that Andy Murnock had in Kelly Spring, but great property 800 and some acres, and on one of the properties you could see Mount Rushmore and so I mean it was just one of those things where it was really kind of nice.
Speaker 2:But folks, again, this is Jim Sabby along with Daryl Ease. We were visiting here this morning on America's Land Auctioneer and I'd like to thank everybody at Pifers, the staff and the real estate agency, auctioneers, the land management, the whole team for sponsoring the show every Saturday morning and for you guys to listen along. But don't forget, there's a lot of things happening with Pifers. Contact us at 701-523-6283 and we'd be glad to help you out, and it's going to be a fun fall. Going to be a long fall, but it's just one of those things we love to do and we get it done right and nobody does it better than Pifers and folks. We're going to be back right after these messages. Welcome to America's Land Auction here.
Speaker 2:I'm Jim Savvy, your host for this Saturday morning, and we appreciate everybody listening to I tell you what a great show here today with Daryl Ease. It's always entertaining. Sometimes it's cheap entertainment visiting with him, but it is good entertainment you get what you pay for, isn't?
Speaker 2:that right, yeah, but you know we've been talking about the weather and the impacts on the harvest and you know the other thing that's affected everybody in the Upper Midwest is the amount of smoke that we've had here. And so, continuing on that, like we were in Albany last week doing a, a sale, and you couldn't hardly see out for the amount of smoke over there in minnesota and of course it's been like that in our area, but not as much as what the eastern side of north dakota and minnesota has had- I, yeah, the smoke's been, uh, I would say the smoke has delayed maturity, especially in some of the row crops.
Speaker 3:The corn, uh, you know, it's just it's blocking that sunlight a little more than what corn would prefer. Then you add, on the clouds that we've had to get the rain, which you need the clouds to get the rain right, but we'd prefer not to have to. You know, smoke a carton of Canada every day too along the way here. But in spite of that, you know, the crops have remained to look pretty good. They're that real vibrant green when you look at that corn crop. So, but I think maybe the maturity has been pushed back just a little bit because, well, it's held the heat down too. Obviously, obviously, if you shade the sun, you're going to hold those heat units down some too, but I think we'll come through it. You know, barring an early fall frost or something like that, that can happen. I think we'll come through it pretty fine there and hopefully those row crops will come along.
Speaker 3:The soybeans, I mean this late moisture that we've had that's going to make beans. Right, I mean soybeans need late July, august rains to make beans, and so I think we're going to see a lot better prospect out of them than what was looking. July 15th.
Speaker 2:You know, and I've said that all along, I've never seen beans look this good. I mean, yeah, we've had good beans and I've, you know, in that steel area I'm used to that because we go there a lot but they've always had moisture, it seemed like. But you know, there's times where they're getting, you know, 60, 70 bushel beans over there in areas and they've got it's good land in certain areas there. But you know, I see the stuff up here at Kenmare in Mohawk, my gosh. The beans just look beautiful out there and you know, some of them are waist high and some are, you know, thigh high, but things look good and they are the prettiest color green, same with the corn that I've seen in a long time. And we were driving around Kenmare this last week and the yards in Kenmare looks like what it does down in the valley, what the farm yards are, so nice and green and manicured, and I've never seen it like that up here before and I'm sure it has happened.
Speaker 3:But man, it looks beautiful yeah no, there's a lot of light, not a nice looking country out there. And, like I said, the beans in our area July 1st I don't know that I had to give you a nickel for a lot of them out there and all of a sudden August 1st came around and wow, those beans did a transformation. But it's that like July rain, just that plant can sit there and just kind of wait on that rain, the way it seems, and take right off. So no, I think that the bean crop is looking very promising.
Speaker 2:You know and I know you talk with farmers and ranchers every day with what you do. But what are they do? They have still optimism out there for the crops and of course the commodity prices are not that great. But there's been a lot of government subsidies that these guys have been helped with. But you know, if they can get a good bushel crop, you know they can probably about skim by on this year but I mean we've got to have the bushels now to be able to pay for that, that crop inputs and the rents and the machinery. What are you hearing from the farmer and rancher?
Speaker 3:What are you hearing from the farmer and rancher? Well, I think most everyone has kind of succumbed to the idea that the commodity prices probably aren't going to change a lot this fall. Obviously eternal optimist of a farmer, right, they're hopeful that, you know, come post-harvest and they've got the crop in the bin, that they're going to pick up some price. I don't know. I don't know if that's going to happen and I think that that's kind of the general feeling out there, because we can't get a lift here when you can't get a lift with some of those mid-to-late summer reports that we've had out have actually done the opposite. They went the other direction in many cases on the prices. There's just there's not a lot of hope on price.
Speaker 3:The hope has changed to the bushels increasing. You know certain crops already were determined before this rain started in July. But again back to the corn and the soybeans. They're hopeful that some of that rain will make some bushels there and make up for that price differential. There's still some opportunity for price movement. Obviously we're not out of the season of danger for crop damage from different weather events going on. Sadly, it seems like that's what it takes to move a commodity price. Is you need a disaster somewhere. So I think that they're counting on some bushels, you know, and when I say counting on bushels, they're getting down there to counting man. If that makes just three more bushels than we think, that'll be the difference maker.
Speaker 2:Yes, and you know, and we hear this a lot, but when commodity prices are as low as they are, with how the input costs are of today's world, it just doesn't make a lot of sense with what's happening. So you hope that the bushels are there, I hope they get every bushel and they get in the bank. And all of a sudden, you know, I was talking to guys that got hailed on and they said you know, this might have been the the best thing that happened to this wheat crop that we had here, um is uh, the hail, he said. I had hail insurance, he got crop insurance. Uh, he said I'm going to be all right. But he said it's.
Speaker 2:There's still a big expense out there for harvesting and we see these combines running around at a million dollars a piece and the trucks and the labor and all that. It costs money to bring this crop in. So I hope they can get it. But sometimes that hailstorm might be a blessing, but we also got to be able to feed the world and that's what people got to remember that you know we need this crop just as bad as anybody else.
Speaker 3:Well, and that's the whole other topic there. I mean, when you start talking trade things like that, we can maybe get into that in another segment here. Jim, in a little more in-depth I can talk about my recent trip out to DC and discussions that we had with the trade representative's office there and some of the things I asked them and just some of the world trends out there. China's no longer the biggest player, and so there's things are changing in those world markets too that I think may have to shift American agriculture a little bit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and we will talk about that in segment three. But I want to talk about the cattlemen. You know they've got plenty of grass this year. You know the hay is going to be a little bit shorter but yet I think guys are going to have enough to get through. I don't think the hay sales are going to be as good as what everybody thought, but I always tell, like I told my kids, be ready to buy hay because we could start having snow in September and be done with it on 15th of May. You know we've been there before.
Speaker 2:So the cattlemen the prices look good. You know I'm seeing those calves, what they're selling for on the videos right now. You know $2,300, $2,400, $2,500 a calf is unbelievable. And you know, again, it's just like having a crop. You want to pick as many as you can to market. You know you don't want to get that calf get sick and something happen out in the pasture or get a disease going through. But the markets look good and maybe heal up some of these guys. But it also costs more. I mean you look at the bull sales this spring is averaging about ten thousand. I mean you look at the bull sales this last spring is averaging about 10,000. And so you know it's, it is what's happening, and rents have gone up. You know, and that's that's what's really happening. The rents, the thing is, has been huge and and you know. So we'll talk about a lot of this in the next segment and we'll be talking about the trades tariffs, whatever else comes up that you know we need to talk about and present it to everybody. But a lot of different views.
Speaker 2:And again, this is Jim Sabby with America's Land Auctioneer. If you're looking to buy, sell or machinery or land, get a hold of us here at Pifers. Go to Piferscom, check it out. We got a lot of great agents out running across the country. Don't be afraid to give any one of us a call. If you want to call my office, be glad to help you out at 701-523-7366. And we can help you out through the whole process. And again, we've got a lot of sales coming up this fall. So get ready to look to buy land or sell land. Give us a call. And again, this is Jim with America's Land.
Speaker 2:Auctioneer and host for this beautiful Saturday morning here in North Dakota. I've got a guest on Daryl Ease, and I tell you what. We've been talking a little bit of everything out there the weather, the crops, looking at prices, and now we want to get into. Daryl went out to Washington a week ago and visited with trade representatives and let us know what those people had to say and what's happening in Washington to see what's going on around the world.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so we gathered together out there, all of the State Farm Bureau presidents got together. We had the opportunity to go to the White House and meet with different cabinet level positions Secretary of Ag Rawlins. We met with EPA administrator, we met with some representatives. Us Trade Office and that's the one where I really kind of engaged with there. And, as I said in the previous segment, you know China's becoming less of the player.
Speaker 3:They're still important, right, I mean, they still have a big population, but their population is actually dropping and it's predicted through the next 25 to 30 years to drop pretty significantly. And that goes back to their policies on having children is catching up with them. You know they were restricting their families to having one. Sadly, you know, they were kind of, you know, targeting having boys. Right, I mean, they were doing things that we don't like in the United States, or, if you're just, you know, kind of a human being, don't appreciate some of the things they were doing to make sure there was only one and their preference was boys. But that's coming back to bite them now. They didn't think very far ahead on that let's put it that way of what that does to your population in the future. And so now they're dropping backwards.
Speaker 3:India is the growing area. You know that's kind of that region is the one that's really growing, and so that's the question I asked in the group meeting, then continued that conversation in the hallway with Miss Callahan from the US Trade Representative's office. I asked them what are they doing to focus on India, with China's population being stagnant, growth being stagnant to declining, india and that region being the new growth area, the new opportunity? What does that look like? What are they doing there?
Speaker 3:Because we have a huge trade deficit with Indiaia in 2024. It was roughly 45 billion dollars. Give or take a billion. You know, at that point you give or take a billion. What's a billion, right? But uh, 45 billion.
Speaker 3:And the thing I directed there is I said we had 180 million plus of eggs, dairy and honey that we imported from India. At a time that our dairy industry has been real in the last 10 years. We're bringing dairy in from India. The eggs, well, that's a whole other story. Right? I mean eggs. The last couple of years we probably needed eggs but and honey, Our honey industry has, you know, been on that cusp of struggling and bringing in honey from there. I said why are we doing that? What are we doing to address that? And what are we doing to address increasing the sales to India, to reduce that trade deficit that we have with them, Because that's the opportunity, trade deficit that we have with them, because that's the opportunity.
Speaker 3:Here's the interesting thing. I said in the last segment that it may take a shift in american agriculture for the new opportunities out there. India doesn't consume corn and soybeans like china does and and our american agriculture, being centered around china, the last last several decades, has pushed us to more corn and soybeans. Well, India, they consume a lot of things that North Dakota grows. They consume pulse crops right, you know, peas, things like that. So I think there's an opportunity If we can get the India trade resolved and get them to accept more things.
Speaker 3:Their non-tariff trade barriers are the worst. That's really the things that you know. If they grow it, they don't want to import it. They got restrictions. They got big restrictions. If they produce it there, they don't want to import it. Well, you know. Then, why are we importing? My response to that was why are we importing that dairy and honey? Then we don't need to, and so we need to start line iteming out. My suggestion was to take the President Trump with Ms Callahan was take him a list and go okay, this week we're cutting this out, we're not going to take any more of this and just go down the line and add a product every week or commodity every week that we're not going to take because we produce it here. Give them a taste of their own medicine to level out this trade issue. And you know, us northern states, I think, could benefit hugely to put it in President Trump's words, hugely with trade to India.
Speaker 2:You know we see that a lot and I wonder how that all gets started. How do we get on the side where we're getting abused all the time in these trades, you know? I mean they're charging us for everything we do and we're not supposed to charge them for anything Sometimes, you know, everybody should have their big boy pants on here and say you know what, let's get this straightened out which is happening and everybody thought it was going to be probably worse for prices than what it has been happening and actually it's kind of done just the opposite. For a lot of commodities is really helped out these tariffs and I know some people argue sides of the road of that one, but you know we have seen it where things have kind of changed and looking a little different. Now it does take time, but I just don't understand why we accept everybody charging us but we can't charge anybody else. And why is that? And what's the mentality of people that think that way?
Speaker 3:Well and, like I said, it gets back to two uh, what, what we don't charge for, they do charge for. Or what we take in, they won't take in because they produce there. It's like, oh, wait a minute here. If we're gonna have quote-unquote free trade that people talk about, um, yeah, then then the non-tariff trade barriers have to be on the table at the same time, and I think that's what the administration is looking at. People are going well, these countries don't have what he's proposing for tariffs on there. He's going beyond what they're charging us. Yeah, but they have other things. They have other barriers. They've got non-tariff trade barriers that are very restrictive. That people probably don't realize in general, because tariffs is what gets the headlines right, because it's a percentage or a dollar amount that can be put out there and it's sensationalized. How do you sensationalize a statement from India that says we're not going to import what we produce? It's pretty hard to sensationalize that in the headlines, jim.
Speaker 3:So, that doesn't get sensationalized like tariffs does. But there's there's other countries, and I'm picking on India here today because that's the biggest growth area. They are the country that is growing the most prolifically, uh, of anywhere, that whole region and, and that's the future of trade, and there's going to take a shifting. There's going to be a shifting. Uh, in June I was in a meeting with kind of a futurist, someone that really studies past to look into the future and predict into the future, and this guy is like he's predicted some things that are pretty amazing over the last 10 years. He said, yeah, american agriculture being dependent on row crops in 10 years might not be the thing where we got to be, and because he hinted towards india at that time too, in that region and just the dynamics of shifting, of the opportunities of growth, uh aren't aren't kind to corn. Let's put it that way, they're not. They're. Those areas are not kind to corn because that's not their staple.
Speaker 2:You know and you think about that, and and, of course, corn is corn and beans is what everybody talks here. I mean, I don't care where you're at. You know, even up here on the Northern tier, that's what people are talking. You know that they're going to shift away from the wheat and and uh, the barley, and and uh. You know that they're going to shift away from the wheat and the barley. And you know, with Anheuser-Busch not buying the barley bushels like they used to, you know, guys are switching and you know, and there's only so much feed that we can use in this northern tier without having to ship it all out. And so you look at that and there's a lot of things, but I'm always one of those and of course sometimes you've got to look back in history, but wheat is what made this country. I'm not saying I'm going to have to get back to it 100%, but there's a lot of guys shifted away from that.
Speaker 3:The weather has a lot to do with it and growing conditions and different things, but it's going to look different here in the next 10, 15 years. I've seen a lot more peas in our area, pulse crops in our area than we have for the last few years, which is a good sign to me Because, like I said, I think that's where some of the opportunities are, at Edible beans. I think opportunities there that's where the like I said again, where the growth and population growth's happening in the world. Those are the products, those are the commodities that are being consumed. The other one is the meat proteins.
Speaker 3:I think there's big opportunity there. So you know, I'm not saying corn and soybeans are going to go away, but it might shift to a domestic feed supply again, more so than a, you know, a leveraged trade commodity worldwide, because you got Brazil, you got Argentina, you got, you know, africa. It's starting to grow more of them, things too that are getting into the market. So dynamics are changing out there and American agriculture has always adapted and I'm confident we'll adapt over the next 10 to 15 years to address that.
Speaker 2:You know, and in my area we see a lot of peas grown and some lentils, but you know, canola has been the big shift and I've seen more canola. Ben, when you fly over the top of the state of North Dakota and you see yellow, you know what's out there and it's a beautiful crop. I mean you just one of those. It's just fantastic. And now there's going to be some great yields out there if they get this canola crop and it's going to be fun to watch when they get into this. But I've seen some really good ones. So that's another good crop for everybody to be looking into. And you know, as we're going to move into our last segment here, we're going to move into our last segment here, we're going to talk about a few other things and kind of the fun side of Daryl as we can talk about. But we'll continue a little bit more with the trade.
Speaker 2:But again, this is Jim Sabby with America's Land Auctioneer. I appreciate everybody listening here this Saturday morning, beautiful day here in western North Dakota. But again, if you're looking to buy, sell machinery and land, get a hold of Piper's. Nobody does it better than Piper's and that number is 701-523-7366. Or go to Piper'scom and nobody does it better than the Piper's crew. And just take a look at our webpage and you'll see why we do it better.
Speaker 2:We'll be right back. Hi, this is Jim Savvy of America's Land Auction here. Finishing up our show here for this morning. I got Darrell Lees in here and I tell you what he's done a lot for North Dakota agriculture, goes to a lot of these trade meetings and goes all over the country and the world but the United States. But he has done a lot for us and I'd like to thank him for what he has done, going in and asking those hard questions like we were just talking about in this last segment. But somebody's got to do that and to remind these people that, hey, you know we are still out here and pushing the dirt around and digging in the dirt and you know, having the cattle pulling calves, we need a great voice and you've been that voice for a long time for us, but somebody's got to do that job.
Speaker 3:Yeah, someone's got to do it. And the last 10 years I've had the great pleasure and opportunity to represent North Dakota Agriculture Farmers and Ranchers as president of North Dakota Farm Bureau, which has put me in a lot of those rooms. It's put me in the White House a couple of different times, you know speaking a little bit more about trade and then we close that out and maybe talk about the fun side of life a little bit more. But you know I was in the room on the China phase one trade deal signing in January of 2020 when Trump got that done. Sadly, we came into an administration that then enforced that deal with China and we slid backwards even more.
Speaker 3:Had that phase one deal been enforced and phase two been implemented, I think we'd be looking at a little bit different situation here. I'm not saying we'd be at $6 corn yet, but I think we'd be well over $4 corn in that area of profitability, compared to sub $4 corn right now barely over $9.50 to $10 beans in our area. I think we'd be somewhere in that $10.50 to $11.50 beans Again putting things at that ability to make a profit on prices. But we didn't and that's the reality.
Speaker 3:We ran into four years they didn't enforce anything with China, right, and so I think that landscape changed and looks different because of that, you know, and just the world stocks out there, right, and the demand, as we talked with the population. But the opportunities I've had second to none, but I get, I've had, like I said, I've had the opportunity to represent the best of the best when it comes to American producers, farmers and ranchers in North Dakota are second to none and I fully believe that with all my heart. It's not just a statement that I make, and representing in the last 10 years has been a great privilege of mine.
Speaker 2:Well, you've done a great job and thank you, but you know, it's always fun visiting with you because the people don't know you. You're pretty blunt and right to the point. I mean, there's no beating around the bush, I mean, and I think we need more of that in this world instead of, you know, everybody patting each other on the back and saying good job, everything's done, great, and let's just keep working hard as we can. So I like people that are straightforward, to the point. You know, sometimes it hurts to hear the truth and people don't understand that, and in this business, we need more truth spoken than we do anything else.
Speaker 3:Laying on on our side, letting things go past us, hasn't worked. And uh, you know there's there's some politicians that probably ain't too happy with me at times, but uh, they have to remember they work for the people. Um, we don't work for them. Too many of them, I think, have that mixed around in their mind that they think the people work for them. Uh, they work for us. They are public servants to the people and they don't like to hear that word servant, but that's what they are. That's the way we were set up. They were supposed to serve the people and too many times I think they're kind of straightening their collar and wanting to be important more so than working for the people. And that's not all of them. I'm not. You know, I'm painting a broad brush there. There's some that really get down and dirty into the weeds and get things done, but there's other ones, I think, that become a little bit too proud of the position.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and with that we're going to move into something that you've been doing since high school. You're at the state fair this last couple weeks or last week or two weeks ago. Now you go to other county fairs around the country, but you have Daryl's Racing Pigs and I tell you, of course I just do not like bringing my grandkids there because they think you're the greatest and it costs me a little bit more money every time I'm there with you. But you do a great job and it's great entertainment for the people.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so I started the Racing Pigs when I was 14 as an FFA project. Ffa runs the blue and gold of FFA. We bleed that in our family. That's the colors that run in our veins. I tell everyone because it's been good to us. Um, it allowed this opportunity at a young age, uh, jim, and that's maybe why I've gotten active as active as I did in, uh, advocating for agriculture and things like that.
Speaker 3:But at the age of 14, 15, I was dealing with fair managers. You know I was dealing with people that were 40, 50, 60 years old as a 14, 15-year-old and learned a lot right, took my bumps and bruises. Everyone's out to get the best deal they can for their business or their organization or whatever that they represent. So I learned a lot along that way. But the opportunity across the region because right now I travel mostly North Dakota, but over the years we've done a lot of North Dakota, South Dakota, wyoming, montana, nebraska, even down in Oklahoma. But it's allowed the opportunity to meet a lot of people. I love doing the show, yet with the crowd around entertaining, you never know what the crowd reaction is going to be.
Speaker 3:Who would have thought 38 years ago, a business that I started as a 14-year-old, running pigs in a circle would still be going strong, right. And a little bit of that is probably because of, you know, having some teachers that gave me some extra motivation in school. And the teachers out there right now may be puffing up their chest going, oh he's giving teachers credit. I don't think you want this credit I'm going to give you right now as a teacher, because it was motivation of, well, that'll never work, you don't go to college. That'll never work, you need to go to college, you know. Well, that was my motivation, probably to do it out of high school and prove a point.
Speaker 3:And I would say a lot of them teachers washed out of their position long before I have out of this. So I will. I'll give credit to some of them teachers, but I will give positive credit to my egg teacher FFA advisor at that time, ag teacher FFA advisor. At that time. He thought I probably lost my mind, but you know I had to leverage him a little bit against my dad to get him to let me do this. We'd raise hogs, but you know hogs were for eating right there, for bacon and pork chops. Yeah, not running in a circle entertaining people, but got him to embrace that and it opened up a lot of doors you know, and it is fun, it's, it's great entertainment.
Speaker 2:That's something you know, and it is fun, it's, it's great entertainment. Uh, that's something you know. I think everybody needs is a good laugh and and uh, yelling and cheering. But you know to to watch you at these fairs and how you interact with people. Um is really, really good. And the one thing I like is you know you're going to be in Amidon, uh, slope County Fair coming up, coming up at the end of the month here. But you always get a big crowd. I mean, sometimes it's so many people that you can't see anything. You just hear the cheering and you kind of you know all of a sudden it's the blue that wins, but you can't even see the pig cross the line. There's so many people. So it's good entertainment for everybody.
Speaker 3:Well, and that's the thing I mean. You know, I, I, we try and keep it a family entertainment so that the three-year-old, the eight-year-old, the 28-year-old and the 88-year-old can enjoy it along the way. You know, grandpa can enjoy it with the grandkids, Mom and dad can enjoy it with the kids, aunts and uncles can enjoy it, and uh, but yet you know, I, I, I try, and you know, have some, you know really lame jokes that everyone likes. And then you know a few things that you know. If you're not 17 years old plus, you probably aren't going to catch type of thing so that the adults go oh, good one, you know. But you know, there's just those little things and it all depends on the crowd, right?
Speaker 3:Someone says well, boy, you must, because the State Fair crowds. This year I think we handed out over 600 tickets at one show and there's about 30% of the crowd that usually won't take a ticket in our little mock betting system that we have for prizes. But to hand over 600 tickets out means we probably had about 900 people there at that show. Someone goes boy, them shows must be really tough. I said about 900 people there at that show. Someone goes boy, them shows must be really tough.
Speaker 2:I said no the ones with the bigger crowd, they're the easiest. Yeah, you know. And and again, I want to thank you for doing that and I'd like to thank you for being my guest here this morning. Folks, uh, look at your county fair. See if you got daryl's racing pigs there. I know he's coming to slope county always a great time. I look forward to interviewing you when I'm on the radio. That sat morning over there, so be ready for that. But again, jim Savvy, here with America's Land Auctioneer Been, your host today. I'd like to thank all the Piper staff and all the agents for doing what we do. We sell everything the best. Nobody does it better than Pipers. We'll see you next week.