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Episode 30 - All in for Ag Week Review

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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. Knock knock. Who's there? Dirt.

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Dirt who dirty dollars. Welcome back. That was awful. I know.

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Uh how long did it take you to come up with that? Oh. It just comes naturally, man. And I didn't know you were going to throw it in on the intro. I thought it was just going to be like the first three minutes or something. That's good. I guess you got to start strong. More like it can only go up from here. Oh, on that note, speaking of starting strong and only going up from here. This week's show is sponsored by Advanced Crop Care by Farmers for Farmers as your local mutiny crop performance dealer in central Kentucky. Farm Different is a great approach to take in this current farming environment. We build recommendations for your farm from the ground up, focusing on balanced crop nutrition and utilizing biologicals. Call us at 270-299-5879 for questions or contact us via Facebook and Instagram at Advanced Crop Care.

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Heavy on the agronomics, light on the knock-knop jokes.

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There you go. That's right. I'm pretty sure I heard my wife in the background like you did not just use that.

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So we had a big had a big week last week. There's a lot of lot of different things going on. Um because it was it was ag week, right? Wasn't that last week? Was the official ag week.

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All in for agriculture. All in for ag.

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So what were some things that caught your all's attention that that happened last week?

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Daniel and I spent Friday at Creekside Elementary.

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Yes, we did. What were you what were you sharing? It seems like to be a common trend that Mark was not invited to think of. I don't know. Okay, all right.

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Go ahead and run me down. Do you know where I was on Friday? I was cleaning up equipment and hanging American flags. We parked on the side of the road funeral procession. And that was a really neat thing that you all did. I will I will give you that. I'm backfired and so that was where I was on Friday while you guys were teaching the youth of Harden County or southern Harden County. The Utes. Utes. So I think we were all somewhere very important on Friday. But anyway, tell us about uh uh Ag Day at Creekside.

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Yeah, Matt, what were some things that you all shared? Because it was you and uh Mr. David, uh is it David Andrew Langley? Yeah, David Andrew, uh I believe is who I was paired with. Dow and and Molly. And Molly was there too, yeah. And the girls were there for a little while, right? Wasn't one of them there with you for a little bit?

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Yeah, Jaylee was there. It was fun for about the first 30 minutes.

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Yeah, then I think she wanted to come over to my to my uh booth. I'll talk about it in a second. But what uh what are we all sharing about?

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We brought a combine and a cornhead. Uh Drew brought his tractor and planter. And so we just kind of told the story of the crop all the way and what the equipment did all the way from the seed going into the ground to harvest, and even talked about some end uses and everything. So it's neat to have equipment sitting there and be able to visually show somebody how it works. Maybe those kids will remember when they're driving down the road. And uh some real important things is we were able to show them how big that stuff is so they can maybe remind their moms and dads when they're driving down the road they meet something like that how they need to respect it. So yeah, I had a lot of interesting questions. Amazed me how much some uh some of those kids knew.

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Yeah. Well that shows you how much at that uh at Creekside they they talk about agriculture a lot.

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It is, but it shows but how much they knew about equipment and how stuff worked and yeah, it was impressive. Any any questions uh Creekside is the most I would argue that Creekside is is probably the it not only are they the most uh ag friendly, ag teaching elementary school in the county, but they're pulling out of the one of the biggest ag uh zones, probably.

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Although kids, I mean but it still will surprise you though, it's and it was it's like this in in a lot of rural areas, I think, is it even though it is in an ag area, there's still a lot of kids that don't really understand what's going on around them. Yep. They don't as impressive as they were, I could tell there were several that had never seen or heard of some of these things before and and it was very new to them. Yeah. Matt, did you have any questions that stood out to you like any that kids asked? Because I know you know kids say the darndest things and didn't know if you had any of those kind of questions.

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Trying to think. A lot of questions about how much you can get done in a day.

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A couple uh or how fast stuff goes, how fast will that go? And they pointed either the tractor and planner or tractor or the combine. I think one kid asked how much all that stuff there costs. That's what I thought, maybe. Yeah, it's yeah, yeah, it was interesting. We luckily Drew hadn't cleaned his planter out from last year yet. So we were even able to show him some seed corn. So nice. And I think that was even a surprise to him. He was talking about where the corn it goes, travels through the vacuum tubes and everything, or through the air delivery tubes, and uh and then into this little hopper, and he pulls the lid off, says, Oh, and there's actually some seed corn in there left over from last year. So he'd dig some out with his hand, dig some out with his bare hands and and show the kids, and then we'd have to tell them, but you all don't touch this. Yeah. Just I say, not as I do. Right, right, right. And we didn't get too nervous except for one group, and I won't call out what grade it was in case any teachers or parents listen, but we had one group that was pure chaos. Like you remember that scene in time. There's always one where the little kids are running around screaming, anarchy, anarchy. That's what it reminded me of. So several years ago, and I'm talking, I don't remember how many years we did it, uh, but Kevin and Kyle and Terry Wimp and Patrick and I would do the same thing you all did, but over at Lakewood School. And one year Patrick brought his tractor, and we went through the whole thing and and did all um the talk of it all, and and had a little bit of time at the end. So we kind of was just letting the kids you know walk around, run around, look at stuff. Look up, and there's a kid standing on the hood of Patrick's Magnum.

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Oh my gosh.

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And Patrick, if you're listening, I'm not sure if you've ever heard that story, but yeah, there was, and I don't know, I don't remember what grade they were, but but you're exactly right. It seems like in that there's there's always one group that's that's a little bit rowdier than the rest of them, but uh I'll never forget that. Yeah, we didn't have so we had and I felt like we had almost too much time. We'd talk and we'd have like 10 minutes at the end every time, and we'd just tell them get up and walk around the equipment if you have any questions, because you know, a lot of them where they were sitting, they couldn't see everything, everything was so big, and uh so that that was good for every group at this group. This group tried to act like the equipment was a jungle gym. And at one point, Molly tried to get a video of it. There were at least 15 kids lined up down every row unit. You know, on a case planter, you've got that one big press wheel in the back. They were all spinning as they were all spinning on the scene as fast as they could go. I wish you could have got that video because Drew was on the other side of the planter. I was going to send it to him later on and say, hey, they checked your bearings, you're you're all good on the press wheel area. Yeah, that was the only group that it was kind of funny. Drew would kind of riddle nervously was walking circles around the tractor and planter to see what they were getting into. And we caught some kids underneath the corn head, which we had the corn head raised up so we could see it, and we had to get after them.

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Safety lock was on though.

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Yes. And uh I didn't see it, but right before their teacher called for him to go. Molly said she saw a head pop up between the tire and the the front tire and the frame underneath the platform where you climb in.

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Yeah.

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That was just one group. The rest of the rest of the school was were little angels.

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So yeah, Daniel, on the other hand, stole all the thunder because he brought baby sheep.

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And everybody loved the baby sheep. And that's where that's where my youngest, when she was there, she kept wanting to go see the baby sheep. And I think she even got the Daniel was really trying to get her to take one home and even let her get in the pen with them. I think she was the only kid all day that got to get in the pen. Yeah, I let her feed it too. I let her feed the bottle.

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Yep. Almost got her to take it with her.

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We made our visit tonight to the carpenter farm as a family and and didn't come home with any sheep. So I consider that a win for myself.

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When they're weaned, we'll we'll have a conversation. So I think they'll I think they'll take them. I think your your oldest said she liked the sheep better than cows.

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So she did. I did hear her say that. So um I've not had the conversation with her yet, but she's gonna have to discuss with her papa if she wants sheep, she's gonna have to convince him to fence off the bastard somewhere.

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So yeah, I I took I had a f we had a few bottle lands and we took them and was uh it was I was a little bit of a disadvantage because there was two different sheep people. Like if we had a um a sheep somebody well represented. Yeah, right. But uh there there was a presenter that had to back out at the last minute, so to keep the schedule, we were gonna present at the same time, so we split into two. So my talking time doubled um overnight. And uh, but we were both talking about the same thing, so I was trying not to you know just hit them with a male sheep as a ram and a you know female sheep is a you, you know, like they were already getting that right before they came to me, but all I had to do was just say, have y'all ever seen a baby lamb nurse? And no, and there they go. They were that I could have just done that and that would have been fine. But uh so how many times did you feed these lambs? Well, I I I I I gave them two ounces at a time, so that it was it, it I I I spaced it out where they would feed throughout the day. And they were really young lambs too. They were only a couple days old, so they needed feeding throughout the day anyway. And uh, so anyway, uh all the kids wanted to pet them, but I was like, I cannot let 200 kids pet you know these animals as they're that young. And uh, but I got a lot of I got a lot of good questions, and uh the one that I think I got from every single class um is how do you tell if it's a boy or a girl? Every single class.

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How do you tell if it's a boy or a girl, Daniel?

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Well that you answer that question. The the ladies have a big ladies have a tag and their left ear. And I just left it at that.

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And nobody asked for more specifics than that. Nobody asked a follow-up question. But how do you know which ear to tag?

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That would have been yeah, that nobody asked the follow-up question. There wasn't any hard-hitting uh reporters there to really, you know, ask those good questions, but every single class asked that, and some of them I knew the kids had asked, they knew the answer, and they were just trying to mess with me.

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But huh.

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Yeah.

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It was a fun, it was a fun day. See, uh Andelina, my oldest, she said when her class went through that you told them that they couldn't pet the baby sheep because they might give them the flu or something. I don't know that I said that.

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One of the teachers, I think, may have said that. Said you couldn't pass germs around. Yeah. But I don't know if you all remember, I think I told you, but we were when we recorded the show last week. One of those lambs was laying on the floor over here next to me. I thought it was dead. And then uh and but it finally got some stuff in its belly, and I guess it woke it up, and um, and two days later it's looking at hundreds of kids. So I was like, What a life.

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There were probably some points during the day. I should have just gone on that baseball floor.

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You know, some people say that those, you know, sheep, and I think even maybe one of y'all said this on this show that they're looking for a way to die. But them animals, even though they're they're fragile, they they can they can make it through some pretty tough stuff too.

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So they can. They're built for it. They're tougher than we give them credit for, and that's just about all the animals, because they've gone through a lot to exist as a species as long as they have. What else was uh it was a good day. There were a lot of different present presentations there, and I know Miss Highball down there at Greekside. She does a good job with that ag program.

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I almost sold her some sheep.

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Well, there you go.

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She about, she bowed, she was about to take one with her.

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She's got she's got some room there. There goes that sponsorship. This week's episode is not brought to me.

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So, you know, we we could take a sponsorship and I'll just make sure the sheep gets sold somewhere else.

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So, yeah, what else went on with Ag Week? I know Larue County had some Larue County FFA had some things going on as well. I saw uh they had a drive your tractor to school day.

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Uh-huh.

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And I think was the first time they had done that in several years.

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Yeah, I know there's a lot of schools around the the state that do it. I know, you know, my uh my alma mater in Washington County, they have a pretty big one. Um they weren't doing that when I was in school, um, I don't believe, but uh uh Bart there, I think he he started that back up not too long ago. And they had a pretty good showing there. But I LaRue County had some they had some interesting participants in theirs.

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They did. We've got an honorable mention here. If you saw the pictures of all the tractors on Facebook.

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Hang on, I lost it. Mr. Brody Aubrey.

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We should have got the details on what it was. Was it a Murray? It may have been a Murray. I'm sure Mr. Thomas is a craftsman. Was it a craftsman? That's even given.

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Actually, I even think that gives it more points.

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Yeah, it was a craftsman without the deck. Without the deck. I thought it had the deck on it. Huh. I really thought it had the deck on it. Yeah, riding lawnmower. So that just goes to show you there are no limits to FFA. If you don't have a you don't have to have a 300 horsepower tractor to drive to drive your tractor to school day. You can bring the riding lawnmower. You can go from what what do you think that lawnmower horsepower is? 15 10 maybe 20. So from a from a 20 horsepower lawnmower to uh 9410R. So there was 400 horsepower range represented in the Root County FFA tractor days. A lot of green tractors. There was a lot of green. What's up with that over there? I will have to say, even Mr. The young Mr. Bewley was on a green tractor. It was a different shade of green. It was an oliver shade of green, but it's still green. Did he drive that all the way from don't they live at Big Clifty? They do. They do. You think he drove that all the way from the city? I bet he did. I bet he did. I think there was some story on that tractor too. Maybe that was his uh that was his maybe his grandpa's tractor. Well, and if that's the case, it may have come from his grandpa or from his grandma's house. Um that's a long way at 730. He's on his papa's he's on his papa's Oliver because he wanted to drive something old and cool, not new and boring, like they have at their house, was what Heather said about that. So I was thinking that would have been a haul. He would have had to have gotten an honorable mention there for farthest drive. That would have been a big I don't know how far Mr. Brody lives from the school there, but that was a pretty good haul on lawnmower. Definitely that early in the morning. So you think he drove it all the way from home, or did he like he had to haul that thing. Haul it to McDonald's parking lot or something.

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Probably. Probably.

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But still, yeah, that's pretty cool. That's a pretty good pretty good example of how FFA is for all.

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That's right. That's exactly right.

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Yep, not just cows, sales, and plows. Yeah. Yeah. Mark and I's FFA advisor would never let us do a drive your tractor to school day. He was very adamant against it. He was. He said it made us look like a bunch of rednecks, which I would argue against still to this day.

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I agree.

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But anyway, uh was a little bit of a story on how they got to have that. I saw Miss Bivin's post on Facebook this week. So apparently they'd hadn't had that in what would that have been, Mark? 15, 20 years? Again, we'll get we'll probably yeah, probably 20. Uh definitely 20. If it was John Bell's freshman year when that happened, older 20. Because you've been out of high school 20 years this year. Yes, I have been. Oh. So yeah, they'd hadn't had it since then. And I think Mr. Bewley there had been on Miss Bibbins about wanting to have a driver tractor at school day. And she finally just had a Handed it over to him and said, if you can convince them to let us have it, we can have it. So he worked his magic and I think went all the way to the top and got that approved. So that's another cool thing about Ag Kids and FFA and most of these FFA chapters around here is those advisors will just hand the reins over to the kids and let them get stuff done, and that's a awesome example of how that happened.

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Good job there. You gotta dream to chase it, as the song says.

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Where were you, Matt? I was I would have so I did give a warning that I may not make it. You did. You did. Yeah. We went to a to a bull sale in northern Tennessee that I may as well have stayed home and went to the Chili Supper because I did not come home with a bull. If you all haven't been following the uh breeding stock market since cattle prices went high.

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What did the cheapest one go for there?

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Uh cheapest was probably there might have been an$8,000 bull. I'm wanting to say$8,500. The sale averaged$12,000 ahead. Just over$12,000 ahead. So very good sale. Very good cattle.

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Very good sale as well.

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Very impressive.

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But yeah, I did not make it back because uh so we took our two girls with us, my dad and I did.

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And that was an adventure in itself. And uh on the way back had to stop it and get gas. So we stopped at Bucky's just because Bucky's always has the cheapest gas, right? You don't know that it's the cheapest until you pull in there. That kind of aggravates me about that place. They won't put up a sign with their gas prices. But it's typically cheaper. So we pulled in there at Smith's Grove at Bucky's to get gas, and everybody had to go to the bathroom.

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And then we ended up spending 30 minutes inside Bucky's wandering around.

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So yeah, so I was getting home about the time Daniel was on his third hot dog, I believe he said. So I did not make it. Yeah, I ate three hot dogs. I didn't have three hot dogs. I had a hot dog and a bowl of chili. I might have had three cookies though. I don't know. My kids even ate the hot dogs. The whole thing. It's not hot, yeah. Well, they like hot dogs, but but sometimes they don't eat them all. It just kind of just kind of depends. But they ate whole whole hot dog and was asking for more. So yeah, my son ate two. So Daniel, did you like did you grab three as you went through the line? No, I'm not like that.

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I got a hot a hot dog and a chili, and then when I came back and they had all kinds of hot dogs, and I was like, can I get another hot dog? They're like, Yeah, take two. And I was like, okay.

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Like soaking them in water and just pounding them down. That's an idea for next year's FFA alumni chili supper and hot dog eating contest. Brought to you by Dirt the Dollars.

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Yeah. But uh, you know, uh I noticed our friend Tyler Howe was there. I'm sure he got a pretty good commission out of all those sales um again. And uh just kidding. But uh no, it seemed like things sold uh sold really well. And and I was, you know, we we I think we helped contribute to the pumpkin rolls, uh bringing bringing a good number.$85, I think. Like 10 of them sold for$85 each. Yeah.

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So I still don't know what one of those things tastes like. And they even said they even said nobody even brought me a slice. Well, sorry. Mine's gone. They even said uh actually, if you want to stop by and get it, I have not broke into your herd yet, so it's still here in the fridge if you want to stop by and get it.

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I'm sure it's all you better hurry up, probably. You better hurry up or it's gonna be gone. You keep it in the fridge, it's gone.

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But they even said that it was dirt to dollars approved before they sold them. Oh, did they really?

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Yeah, I think it got a like a five or ten dollar premium just for that.

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Yeah, Katie leaned over and told Tyler they're dirt to dollars approved. What are you being told they are dirt to dollars approved? I mean, Tyler gets what 15-20% of that. So maybe like two.

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Come on, Tyler. Just like two percent.

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Yeah.

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Uh there's some other things uh that always just kind of random that pop up at these auctions, like Kobe Thompson built a picnic table and stood up and danced on it to prove that it was strong. And uh and it helped it helped bring a little more money that way. And uh and then also um is it Alex Haddon in his turkey calls, uh, brought a really brought really good uh$400, I think wasn't it? And uh so it's neat and it's and it's neat about that is that you know those kids are doing that to raise money for for FFA. And I know there was kids that did that at LaRue County too, but um, but that's just that's always fun to see uh when they're doing those things to help their help their classmates out.

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I did send a donation even though I wasn't there.

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You did, you sent a brisket.

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It brought it it brought it brought significantly more than Mark's bushel of sweet corn that he donates to every fundraiser within the four county area. Anybody asked that's what they can get. But speaking of sweet corn for all you BLT farm sweet corn lovers, sweet corn went in the ground today. So if things don't go south, we should have it uh end of June, very first of July. So is that early about on time, late? That's not the earliest you've got it. It's not the earliest we've ever had it, but but we're not really messing with early varieties anymore. We've kind of just stuck one variety uh serendipity and just kind of roll with it. It it seems to handle the cold a little bit better. It's a little longer maturity. Um but I think the earliest we've ever planted has been the 23rd. Uh maybe the 21st of March. Um but honestly, today's the 25th. We're recording this on Wednesday. Um I'll go ahead and do a shout-out too. Today's my sister's birthday, and that's always kind of been the the goal on sweet corn is to is to plant it on her before her birthday. So um we uh we got that accomplished today. So hopefully it will uh have the weather to get out of the ground and get going, and we'll have some good sweet corn for the Fourth of July weekend. You can pick it up at the farmers market or and we'll also hopefully have it for the farm to table dinner at the at the fair this summer. So kind of busted wide open this week. Could you say it sprung? That was almost as bad as Daniel. Uh yeah. Yeah, I know a lot of fertilizer has been spread.

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Yeah, several several days where there's no buggies at the um at Southern States. I think I I've seen that, noticed that, heard that from some people.

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I drove by up and down the road. Uh uh, I don't remember what day it was, but I drove by there one day and there was probably six or seven buggies. I don't know what it was. I was going six, seven. I was going to pick the kids up from school. So a matter of about 30 minutes, I drove past there, and there was probably six or seven buggies there or whatever. I came back through 30 minutes later, and the very last buggy on the lot was getting hooked to to get over and get pulled and get pulled out. So but they didn't have any lines like the like the propane. Not like the propane, but it was lined up. There was probably four or five lined up under the blender to to get loaded. But um Jonathan commented on somebody's post that they were about a three to four, maybe even a five-day wait list on getting a buggy right now if you were wanting to get one. So but I do not miss the days of fighting over war out fertilized buggies. Not saying that Southern States is a war, I think they actually keep pretty good buggies, but you know, there was a time when everybody spread everything with a buggy that those things were awful.

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I couldn't know because I worked there and I'd had to take the phone call when the belt comes off of it or breaks.

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It was like Russian rule at as far as what your hayfield was gonna look like once that started breaking.

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Yeah, and then or that feeling like when all the buggies are out, but there's one buggy left, and you know it's a piece of junk, but somebody calls and needs fertilizer, and you're like, well, let's load it up, and then it's just like you just you're just kind of on edge for like it gets delivered, or they come take it, and you're like, when are they gonna get to the field and spread it? I hope it's after we're closed.

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I can remember back in those days going to Cecilia and looking on the board and like there's nothing left. Like, well, I need a buggy. And Daniel, whoever would get on the phone, like, well, this one's empty, but we can't go get to it for a while. If you'll go get it, you can have it. It's a good one. Drive halfway across the county to I've done that before. Yeah. Or we uh where we farms pretty well on the route for a lot of people to take buggies back. And uh I have been known to see a a good-looking buggy go by headed back towards the store empty and follow the guy to the store and hooked to it.

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Yeah.

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I've even back in the day when I was one if I wanted to spread the next morning, see that happen after closing or come by there after closing or something, and go on and hook to a buggy and pull it home that night so I could drive there the next morning to get going. We we bought a buggy about back in about 2010 or 11. And uh, you know, the the joy of that was you had your own buggy that you could top dress corn with whenever you needed it, whatever you had it. The the downfall of that is you had your body to blame if the spread pattern was trash. Yeah. And it doesn't matter how good a care you take care of them, they are going to rust out.

SPEAKER_01

Oh yeah. Yeah.

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Yeah. There's uh you can really see driving around, and I'll I just you know, just always notice this stuff, but all the tracks in the fields and um uh the grass and the grass is starting to turn on. It's uh it's starting to to pop up. And um I don't know. I guess I've I've had to make sure my electric fence is extra hot because I'm trying to let that grass grow a little bit. And uh uh I still have a few sheep that are trying to to sneak out here and there, but uh hopefully they get zapped and it reminds them that they don't need to be doing that yet. They need to eat hay for another week or two.

SPEAKER_03

I don't know what it is about you get a little bit of green grass and livestock just don't know what a fence is. That's uh I've had a group of cows, fall cabin cows locked up here close to the house trying to feed some hay up and let grass grow. And uh one day last week they uh there had been one calf creeping through the fence somewhere, and then that turns into two or three calves the next day, and then I come home from doing something, working one day, and uh there's like 12 cows and eight or ten calves on the wrong side of the fence. So then we spend the rest of the next day or like three hours at more in fixing fence and just tightening everything up and getting it good. Go to get them through the gate back in where they're supposed to be. All the cows go fine. There's like four calves that lag back, and two or three of them end up just walking through the fence, like a perfectly good fence. They just get their head through and start and just waller their way through the fence, and now the the one calf that was creeping back and forth is creeping back and forth again. So you just I don't I don't know. I think you've gotta have like a chain link fence with razor wire on top or something to keep some of these cattle in when the grass starts to grow.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, the combination, so with these hair sheet, the combination right now is like they haven't shed out their hair yet, so it's really long. And so if unless it hits their face or something, like it, it really doesn't bite them. So they'll uh um once they kind of get the face part past, then they're gone.

SPEAKER_03

Well, and that's like where we don't have electric on some of these fences, and the weather's warmed up and the cattle are trying to shed off, they get up and start rubbing on the barbed wire, trying to rub hair off, and that's how they start it getting it loose, and then they're next thing you know, they're through it. But it's uh that the grass thing does seem early this year. And I've got some hay we've been trying to feed up, crapped hay that I really don't like to keep over, and some of it's on another farm kind of in the way for next year if I don't feed it up this winter, and we're trying to get that stuff fed up. It's like I wish these cows would quit backing off hay because we're running. That's a good problem to have, I guess, to have too much hay and be worried that they're not gonna eat it all, but it's kind of crazy.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

Well, we're kind of getting towards the end of the show here and lost a lost a uh great American um hero recently. Gotta talk about Chuck Norris. Yeah. How old was he?

SPEAKER_03

Oh, there's no telling. He was in his 80s, wasn't he? Had to be. Had to be. Um I just I've seen him, I've seen him on ads lately for like different exercise routines and stuff. And like he still looks young at first, but then like he starts to talk, and he you could just tell like he just looked old.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, we were just talking about Chuck Norris jokes not that long ago on one of these shows. And um, but I just I can I have fond memories of Saturday nights and watching Walker Takes a Stranger. Exactly. But well, there was other shows like Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman and uh uh some of those shows, and it was just uh um, you know, you had like TGIF on Friday nights, but then like Saturday nights it was it was those shows, and I just I remember always sitting in the living room and watching them, and I just thought that that dodge he had always had a dodge pickup, right? So he put the lights on the top.

SPEAKER_03

He put what do you call those, Mark? Are those first gens, second gens? Let's be considered second gen. Are first gens like the box cars? Okay. So yeah, he put the second gen dodge ram on the map. Like I was listening to a podcast a month or so ago, and they were talking about that that like nobody would buy a Dodge truck, and then Walker Texas Ranger came out, and like you saw them everywhere, and you'd see them with the big what the big light bar or whatever on the back. Yeah, the roll cage looking thing. And uh yeah. Just amazing that he never had transmission trouble or never had to replace anything in the front end, especially as many jumps and stuff as he did. That's true. Maybe that's just how great Chuck Norris was. He didn't even he didn't even have to steer the truck. The the truck knew better than to break down. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

And he didn't he never had to worry about high gas prices because his vehicles ran on fear. I've got a few more I gotta do before we gotta do them. Chuck Norris destroyed the periodic table because Chuck Norris only recognizes the element of surprise. Chuck Norris's calendar goes straight from March 31st to April 2nd. No one fools Chuck Norris. And then Chuck Norris has already been to Mars. That's why there are no signs of life there.

SPEAKER_03

All right, you just redeem yourself from the knock-knock jokes. If if everybody made it this long, there might be hope after all.

SPEAKER_04

Unfortunately, you know, like they all turned it off after that knock-knock joke.

SPEAKER_03

So most likely. Yep. Yep. Sad day in America. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

For sure.

SPEAKER_03

Well, I guess that's a good place to wrap it up for the week. So thanks again to uh our sponsors this week, Advanced Crop Care. Look them up on uh Facebook and Instagram or give them a call at 270-299-5879. The only agronomic practices that are approved by Chuck Norris.

SPEAKER_04

All right. Well, we'll see y'all next week. See ya.