July 31, 2025 • 23 mins
Jesse and Dr. Leah discuss farming conditions in Iowa after significant rainfall, then share insights about nutritional supplements and their role in maintaining optimal health.
• Recent weather in Southeast Iowa has brought 2.5-4 inches of rain, creating potential challenges for soybeans which dislike wet conditions
• Using drones to apply special nutrition mixes during grain fill stage to improve yield and moisture retention
• Discussion of bean moisture management strategies, including bin management technology to rehydrate harvested beans
• Dr. Leah emphasizes that supplements cannot compensate for a poor diet and reducing gut inflammation is essential for supplement absorption
• Top supplement recommendations include vitamin D (especially for those with limited sun exposure), quality multivitamins, and omega-3s
• Tips for sun exposure without sunscreen to naturally increase vitamin D production and melanin production
• Importance of researching supplement quality rather than purchasing from big box stores
Email us your specific supplement questions at farmersgreatesasset@gmail.com
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Speaker 1 (00:16):
the farmer's greatest asset podcast.
We believe the farm's greatestasset is the farmer, their
knowledge, knowledge, experience, mind and health.
Welcome back to the podcast.
(00:40):
I'm Jesse.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
And I'm Dr Leah.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Well, what's going on in iowa this week?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
we have had a lot of rain here in southeast iowa
float.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
It's getting to the point where I'm gonna say it
could stop for a while.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
You gotta put.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
You gotta put like limits on that right, because we
don't want the brakes to comeon completely for the rest of
the year sure because thathappens too I woke up this
morning at 4 30 and heard therain and the wind and said a
little prayer, said okay, lord,we've had enough for a hot
(01:22):
minute.
Funny, funny enough, it's goingto get hot too.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yeah, it is Like when you walk outside and your
glasses just steam up.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
It's been that hot 1,000% humidity.
I don't think that's possiblescientifically, but we'll go
with it.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I think it's possible Now we know what the south
feels like.
So had, depending where you'reat, between two and a half to
four inches of rain a couplenights ago.
This morning got another prettygood shower.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
It blew like crazy for a little bit yeah, but on
the top of the pool coverthere's like not a lot there I
think it blew away evenstatistically speaking, I it
wasn't like going straightsideways.
So I think that you know it'sbig enough to kind of have a
judgment of we.
(02:12):
I don't even think we got ahalf inch like no, like that, no
, we are just like.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
We're in the tenths range.
The water tank is full at themoment, so every tenth of rain
you get, it looks, looks wetyeah, like I I'm looking out the
window and there's like puddlesout and in the yard area but
it's good to get the moisture.
I always say you don't want togive it up, as we'll take it
(02:37):
when you can get it.
I am growing concerned that thebeans are going to start to
suffer a little bit.
Beans do not like wet feet, sothe flat ground, I think, is
going to start to struggle alittle bit.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Don't worry, it'll get hot and dry.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
That's what the beans need.
They need some heat.
I made that comment the otherday to one of the field
agronomists we deal with one ofthe companies and he mentioned
in northwest Iowa one of hiscohorts mentioned he's seeing
that already Beans struggling.
We do have a field of beans inthe flat spots where you can see
(03:15):
some yellowing.
All in all, I think our corncrop is set.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yeah, so we're getting good fill.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Right.
So we've been trying to fly thedrone and get some good grain
fill, get some little shot ofnutrition in there, a little
extra nutrition.
Putting some sugar out and Boronand I call it Special K and
it's got a little bit of cobaltin it but it's K and then cobalt
(03:45):
, boron and some sugar.
Got a couple, three differentfield trials.
I got strips and then I got afield where we sprayed crossways
.
So we'll see how this goes.
But I think after last year wegot so dry so quick.
We're trying to do late seasonsugar applications.
I think that'll help us.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Especially on the beans.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
I think that'll help us retain some moisture.
So we'll see the study we didlast year where the sugar
product was, we had a half apoint of moisture higher.
So a half a point is a half apoint.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
In bushels, how much would a half a point of moisture
higher?
So half a point is a half apoint in bushels.
How, how much would a half apoint be approximately?
Speaker 1 (04:29):
well, it's almost.
If you figure one point ofmoisture, it's basically a
bushel, an acre, if not more wayI see it and with beans and
bean prices.
We need all that we can getyeah, when you're cutting even
10 moisture beans that's twopoints of moisture you're giving
(04:50):
up.
That's weight, that's water,that's the elevators are loving
it.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yeah, and we were down to eight percent.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Every year we get down to eight or better or less
so we're missing out onbushelage.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Bushelage, is that a word?
Speaker 1 (05:09):
it's a leah word, I guess in my world bushelage.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
It is a fixed quantity, no moisture is yes
everyone out there feel sorryfor jesse.
This is what he has to dealwith.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Leo lingo so on the other side of that, if we can't
retain moisture with nutritionor sugar at some point, we're
gonna if not, build a new binfor beans.
Use a bin for beans and put abin manager in it and rehydrate.
A lot of guys are doing thatjust using humidity and dew
point and ambient airtemperature to add moisture back
(05:51):
into the beans.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
So so I have a question that's just popped in
my head.
So, in talking about increasingthe moisture, will the the, so
the beans will take it up withincreased humidity.
So then I beg to differ, likewould this be the best time to
(06:12):
haul beans out during the year,like in January, february, march
?
You would think the moisture isgoing to be as low as it
possibly can be.
So now that the humidity isgetting higher, would that
affect the bean moisture?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Well, if you have a bin manager and you get it to
add back to before January,December, get the moisture added
back then before then, like youcan have beans in a bin right
now that you put in there at 8%,they're probably going to still
be at 8%.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
So they aren't going to absorb the humidity.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
I mean, if you ran the fans and stuff, you could
get it rehydrated.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
So if you put beans in or I'm sorry if you would put
like corn in at 15, you knowyou dry it to 15 and then it
gets cold outside.
So it's going to, you know, getall of the humidity out of the
air in the winter.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Then would it get drier, or the bin kind of
protects it from changes inmoisture basically, yes, if your
corn is too wet that, like theoutside six inches or whatever,
could absorb a little bit offthe wall, but not not enough to
affect it without running thefans and stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Got it.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
See, I'm learning use the dew point and the humidity
and ambient air temperature.
That's why the bin managers,you put the cables in and it
measures the moisture andtemperature and you can add
moisture back in.
So it's going to be the nextthing.
So then the other thing is isyou don't want to split your bin
(08:00):
?
Don't fill your bin so fullwith eight percent beans and
then go and try to rehydratethem up five points of moisture.
You could swell those beans andthen split your pit open.
Nobody talks about that.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
That would not be good.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Right.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
That would not be good at all.
Yeah, let's not do that.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
So anyway, we digress .
So it's been a good growingseason.
We've been trying to get theextra nutrition on with the
drone.
It's been a little bit of astruggle because you want to
quit before it gets too hot.
The rain, the wind.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
We did go and fly a bunch on.
I say we, you went and flew abunch on.
Then a storm rolled in suddenlyand it all got rained on.
I was flying looking east atthe and it all got rained on.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
I was flying, looking east at the field that we were
flying on and you could just seeit was kind of getting darker.
And I turned around and waslike, ooh, it's fixing to get
real out here.
And Henry was up there with meflying and I said pull up the
radar.
And it was building fast.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Significant.
That was the big rain, part ofthe big rain yeah, that was the
start of the big rain yeah sowe'll see.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
We'll test the.
Uh the rain fast.
How?
How soon after a rain shouldyou quit spraying fullyiar feed?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I assume before a rain Should you quit Right, and
it was a significant enoughamount that if it got into the
ground, it.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
I'm sure ran off or diluted it so much.
Yeah, so we are increasing ourvariables to our experiment here
, that'll be just one more thingwe can look at, but we're in
that grain fill stage and wejust keep adding nutrition and I
think things are going to workout well this year because the
(10:00):
growing is growing season hasbeen a good one.
So, anyhow, last week we didtalk about our diet and we
mentioned we'll talk a littlebit about supplements.
So what have you on supplements?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
probably one of the biggest things when it comes to
supplementation is you are nevergoing to correct a bad diet
with supplements.
It doesn't matter how manysupplements that you take, what
kind of biohacking you're tryingto do, if you aren't eating
well, then you are not going tosupplement your way out of that
(10:41):
unhealthy habit.
The number one thing that youneed to do before
supplementation is to decreasethe inflammation within the gut.
So a healthy diet is yeah, likeit's going to be all the things
that we talked about last week.
You're really going to need todecrease that inflammation,
(11:02):
because if there is a lot ofinflammation in there, you're
not going to be absorbing thesupplements.
So you're just taking things inand not really getting the
benefit out of them.
You're just kind of throwingthem away in the wind.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Yeah, the worst part is, is we?
Our food supply is just notnutrient dense anymore.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Well, it kind of depends on what you're eating,
right?
Speaker 1 (11:28):
I guess I'm saying if you just go to the grocery
store and you buy a head oflettuce, well, that's just
basically water.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Especially iceberg lettuce, like if you're an
iceberg lettuce eater.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
You're getting nothing but water.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Like it's.
All that is is roughage, andthey probably, especially if you
don't buy the full head oflettuce and you just buy the
chopped up stuff.
The reason it tastes a littlefunny is because of all the
preservatives that they put on.
I would I would say that it isprobably best for you not to eat
the lettuce than to eat thatand then take half of the ranch
(12:00):
off of it.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Yeah, right, because I am guilty of that.
It's the iowa way, right.
Put some ranch on it.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Put some ranch on your pizza let's just they even
have a restaurant, pizza ranch.
No, it started in Iowa.
Oh uh yeah, the best thing willbe to, you know, really improve
(12:31):
your diet and hydration.
If there was one supplementthat I recommend you start with,
it would be vitamin D.
Don't go to Walmart or a bigbox store what have you and buy
your supplements Like they arenot going to be the quality that
(12:51):
you're going to want.
So there are really goodsupplement lines out there and
people are like well, I justwant you to point out to me
where to go.
Well, you need to startresearching it like you would a.
If you are going to start amedication, if you're going to
start a new medication, youshould look at all of the side
(13:12):
effects that can occur from it.
This is going to be nodifferent.
Supplements are a drug, justlike the food you eat is a drug,
just like everything you put inyour body can be a drug.
So it's going to be importantto make sure that you're going
out there and you areinvestigating the companies that
you are getting supplementsfrom.
(13:33):
But vitamin D would be where Iwould start.
It is also very important toget in the sun, so most of us,
especially if you have a nine tofive job and you are inside all
day.
You need to get outside.
When it's nice out and evenwhen it's not so nice out, try
and get outside and get sun onyour face and as much of your
(13:56):
skin as you can.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
So, that being said, though, like I'm outside a lot,
but I am vitamin D deficient,and I always thought, well,
that's crazy, I'm out in the sun, I'm not absorbing it, because
one my diet is probably.
You know, I haven't seen my labsince last went to Okoboji, so
maybe I'm not anymore, I don'tknow, but years ago I was, and
(14:19):
my diet was total crap.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Well, you really haven't started cutting out the
grains until the last few monthseither.
So Jesse had.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
The point is that just because you're in the sun,
you're not absorbing the vitaminD, which is the best source of
vitamin D.
But you've got to correct yourdiet and correct your gut and
probably need to supplement withit.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Especially in the winter.
If you work inside, you reallyneed to supplement all year
round, but in the winter in Iowa, supplementation of vitamin D
is going to be very important.
Sunscreen will keep you fromabsorbing the vitamin D as well.
(15:05):
We all need more vitamin D, so,if you really like.
I haven't worn sunscreen.
I used to be extremely fair.
I have not worn sunscreen for acouple of years.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
That reminds me of when we went to Costa Rica and
they literally tell you we wenton a Beck's vacation trip.
They literally tell you, makesure you use sunscreen, because
we're close to the equator, thesun's powerful and we bought the
(15:40):
spray or whatever down thereand you just kept saying you got
to put some sunscreen on.
Put some sunscreen, you'regoing to get burnt.
You're burning, you're burnt.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
It's like I put it, putting it on yeah, you were
totally having a reaction to thesun.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
I just kept getting worse and worse and worse and
you're like put the sunscreen onand it's like I don't want the
sunscreen anymore.
Uh, it's really.
It's just a chemical you'rejust scrubbing on your skin.
If you are reacting to the sun,just cover up with long sleeves
(16:15):
.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
So I heard this hypothesis and I took it to
heart that wearing sunglassesblocks your like the signal to
your brain to increase melatonin, not melatonin melanin
(16:37):
production your melanocytes, Imean melatonin is part of that
whole thing.
Like it has to do with yourcircadian rhythm, so it is a
little bit of that, but yourmelanin production.
So I would always wearsunglasses every time that I
went outside in the summerbecause I was super squinty and
it was too bright for me.
(16:58):
The interaction with the suncoming into your eye increases
melanin production.
Once that is signaled, then youwill produce more melanin.
But you need to have the sun onyour skin.
It needs to be a gradualprogression as well.
So I started experimentingbecause I was very fair skinned
(17:21):
and I was like I never get anysun.
Well, when I was younger Istayed in the house a lot and
then I would just go out and goswimming and then I would get
fried.
Over the last few years Istopped wearing sunglasses Like
I never wear sunglasses at allanymore.
I go outside with a gradualprogression.
(17:42):
So if you go outside in thebeginning of the day and as the
sun gets hotter and brighter andcloser to you, your skin
adjusts to it and I can gooutside and be outside for 10,
12 hours and not get a sunburn.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
And that's maybe not true for everybody.
I wear sunglasses a lot and Itan pretty easily.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Well, but you have more melanin than I do.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Right, everybody's skin tone is different in
melanin, so, but that's a goodway to be.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
So just something to think about.
Is it true or not true, or isthere just part truths in it?
It doesn't matter.
I mean, just try it Now.
If you are working a nine tofive and you're not doing that
regularly, then you probablywill go out and get sunburned.
Try to stay out of the sunduring the really intense parts
(18:42):
of the day or get in the shade.
Go outside in the morning andbe more in the shade through the
afternoon when it's hotter, andthen around three or four
o'clock you can be out in thesun again.
The more sun you have on yourskin, the more vitamin D
production you will have in yourbody, and that will be natural.
So the supplementation isimportant because that sun is
(19:05):
needed to convert what you'reingesting in vitamin D.
So the more sun you have, themore conversion you get, the
healthier your body will be.
So the supplement will beimportant Because you need to
have that amount in your bodyand even if you are in like
(19:25):
getting full absorption, if youaren't getting it in your diet,
then you need the supplement aswell.
So, healthy diet, vitamin Dsupplement and get out in the
sun that would be my number onepick place to start.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
It's a good place to start.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
A good multivitamin, especially with the b's.
The b vitamins would be thesecond thing that I would
recommend.
Again, do your research, dosomething that's going to be
easy for you.
So if it's quote unquotecheaper to go out and get all
these different pills and takethem, I like, I would rather,
(20:04):
you know, get as much, likedecrease the number of pills you
have to take, but you need tohave like a multivitamin in
there somewhere.
The third thing would beomega-3s.
So omega-3 fatty acids are aresomething that we don't get,
especially here in Iowa, becausethere's a lot in fish.
(20:24):
Now Wagyu beef actually is,yeah, is higher in omega-3 fatty
acids.
Um, so that is a bonus, um, sowe get more of that in our diet.
Since that's, I mean, that'sone of the reasons that we
decided to go with Wagyu umyu toincrease the omega-3 fatty
(20:44):
acids.
We also have been supportingsome fisheries and some
fishermen, I should say, and weget fish brought in from Alaska
so that we can increase ouromega-3s with that.
Now, we all love fish, so thatworks well.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
So that's a good start.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Now, if you want to start talking about improving
your mitochondrial health, whichthose are the powerhouses of
the cell.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
That's a whole other discussion.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Yes, it is, so there are other supplements that you
can take to improve that as well.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
And I am guilty of not taking supplements.
I hate taking pills and eventhe last time we went to Okoboji
and saw Brad he's like I knowyou hate taking pills but you
really need to and I know it'sone of those habits you just got
to get into.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Right now I'm thinking you know when you have
to give the cattle something.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
You got that the pill gun thing.
Bolus, huge bolus down thethroat.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
I bet if we did that once, you'd probably be like.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
I'll just take them.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
For sure, oh, that was kind of funny.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
So with that, I think we're going to say vitamin D.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Multivitamin.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
The B's and some omegas.
Those are three pretty goodessentials to start with, do
your research.
What is it nature's made isjust a cheap brand from walmart
well and and I just the qualityisn't there.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
like jesse and I actually went and and toured a
supplement factory when we wentup to Chicago, I thought, wow,
this is amazing, like thequality control that that they
do there make sure that you'rewhere you're getting it from is
doing quality control, and Idon't want to.
I don't want to plug any onespecific supplement brand, but
(22:59):
do your research.
It's, it's important for yourhealth.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
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Speaker 2 (23:13):
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Speaker 1 (23:15):
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Speaker 1 (23:32):
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Speaker 2 (23:36):
Bye.
the farmer's greatest asset podcast.
We believe the farm's greatestasset is the farmer, their
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Welcome back to the podcast.
(00:40):
I'm Jesse.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
And I'm Dr Leah.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Well, what's going on in iowa this week?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
we have had a lot of rain here in southeast iowa
float.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
It's getting to the point where I'm gonna say it
could stop for a while.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
You gotta put.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
You gotta put like limits on that right, because we
don't want the brakes to comeon completely for the rest of
the year sure because thathappens too I woke up this
morning at 4 30 and heard therain and the wind and said a
little prayer, said okay, lord,we've had enough for a hot
(01:22):
minute.
Funny, funny enough, it's goingto get hot too.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yeah, it is Like when you walk outside and your
glasses just steam up.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
It's been that hot 1,000% humidity.
I don't think that's possiblescientifically, but we'll go
with it.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I think it's possible Now we know what the south
feels like.
So had, depending where you'reat, between two and a half to
four inches of rain a couplenights ago.
This morning got another prettygood shower.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
It blew like crazy for a little bit yeah, but on
the top of the pool coverthere's like not a lot there I
think it blew away evenstatistically speaking, I it
wasn't like going straightsideways.
So I think that you know it'sbig enough to kind of have a
judgment of we.
(02:12):
I don't even think we got ahalf inch like no, like that, no
, we are just like.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
We're in the tenths range.
The water tank is full at themoment, so every tenth of rain
you get, it looks, looks wetyeah, like I I'm looking out the
window and there's like puddlesout and in the yard area but
it's good to get the moisture.
I always say you don't want togive it up, as we'll take it
(02:37):
when you can get it.
I am growing concerned that thebeans are going to start to
suffer a little bit.
Beans do not like wet feet, sothe flat ground, I think, is
going to start to struggle alittle bit.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Don't worry, it'll get hot and dry.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
That's what the beans need.
They need some heat.
I made that comment the otherday to one of the field
agronomists we deal with one ofthe companies and he mentioned
in northwest Iowa one of hiscohorts mentioned he's seeing
that already Beans struggling.
We do have a field of beans inthe flat spots where you can see
(03:15):
some yellowing.
All in all, I think our corncrop is set.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yeah, so we're getting good fill.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Right.
So we've been trying to fly thedrone and get some good grain
fill, get some little shot ofnutrition in there, a little
extra nutrition.
Putting some sugar out and Boronand I call it Special K and
it's got a little bit of cobaltin it but it's K and then cobalt
(03:45):
, boron and some sugar.
Got a couple, three differentfield trials.
I got strips and then I got afield where we sprayed crossways
.
So we'll see how this goes.
But I think after last year wegot so dry so quick.
We're trying to do late seasonsugar applications.
I think that'll help us.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Especially on the beans.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
I think that'll help us retain some moisture.
So we'll see the study we didlast year where the sugar
product was, we had a half apoint of moisture higher.
So a half a point is a half apoint.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
In bushels, how much would a half a point of moisture
higher?
So half a point is a half apoint in bushels.
How, how much would a half apoint be approximately?
Speaker 1 (04:29):
well, it's almost.
If you figure one point ofmoisture, it's basically a
bushel, an acre, if not more wayI see it and with beans and
bean prices.
We need all that we can getyeah, when you're cutting even
10 moisture beans that's twopoints of moisture you're giving
(04:50):
up.
That's weight, that's water,that's the elevators are loving
it.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yeah, and we were down to eight percent.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Every year we get down to eight or better or less
so we're missing out onbushelage.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Bushelage, is that a word?
Speaker 1 (05:09):
it's a leah word, I guess in my world bushelage.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
It is a fixed quantity, no moisture is yes
everyone out there feel sorryfor jesse.
This is what he has to dealwith.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Leo lingo so on the other side of that, if we can't
retain moisture with nutritionor sugar at some point, we're
gonna if not, build a new binfor beans.
Use a bin for beans and put abin manager in it and rehydrate.
A lot of guys are doing thatjust using humidity and dew
point and ambient airtemperature to add moisture back
(05:51):
into the beans.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
So so I have a question that's just popped in
my head.
So, in talking about increasingthe moisture, will the the, so
the beans will take it up withincreased humidity.
So then I beg to differ, likewould this be the best time to
(06:12):
haul beans out during the year,like in January, february, march
?
You would think the moisture isgoing to be as low as it
possibly can be.
So now that the humidity isgetting higher, would that
affect the bean moisture?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Well, if you have a bin manager and you get it to
add back to before January,December, get the moisture added
back then before then, like youcan have beans in a bin right
now that you put in there at 8%,they're probably going to still
be at 8%.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
So they aren't going to absorb the humidity.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
I mean, if you ran the fans and stuff, you could
get it rehydrated.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
So if you put beans in or I'm sorry if you would put
like corn in at 15, you knowyou dry it to 15 and then it
gets cold outside.
So it's going to, you know, getall of the humidity out of the
air in the winter.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Then would it get drier, or the bin kind of
protects it from changes inmoisture basically, yes, if your
corn is too wet that, like theoutside six inches or whatever,
could absorb a little bit offthe wall, but not not enough to
affect it without running thefans and stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Got it.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
See, I'm learning use the dew point and the humidity
and ambient air temperature.
That's why the bin managers,you put the cables in and it
measures the moisture andtemperature and you can add
moisture back in.
So it's going to be the nextthing.
So then the other thing is isyou don't want to split your bin
(08:00):
?
Don't fill your bin so fullwith eight percent beans and
then go and try to rehydratethem up five points of moisture.
You could swell those beans andthen split your pit open.
Nobody talks about that.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
That would not be good.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Right.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
That would not be good at all.
Yeah, let's not do that.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
So anyway, we digress .
So it's been a good growingseason.
We've been trying to get theextra nutrition on with the
drone.
It's been a little bit of astruggle because you want to
quit before it gets too hot.
The rain, the wind.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
We did go and fly a bunch on.
I say we, you went and flew abunch on.
Then a storm rolled in suddenlyand it all got rained on.
I was flying looking east atthe and it all got rained on.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
I was flying, looking east at the field that we were
flying on and you could just seeit was kind of getting darker.
And I turned around and waslike, ooh, it's fixing to get
real out here.
And Henry was up there with meflying and I said pull up the
radar.
And it was building fast.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Significant.
That was the big rain, part ofthe big rain yeah, that was the
start of the big rain yeah sowe'll see.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
We'll test the.
Uh the rain fast.
How?
How soon after a rain shouldyou quit spraying fullyiar feed?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I assume before a rain Should you quit Right, and
it was a significant enoughamount that if it got into the
ground, it.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
I'm sure ran off or diluted it so much.
Yeah, so we are increasing ourvariables to our experiment here
, that'll be just one more thingwe can look at, but we're in
that grain fill stage and wejust keep adding nutrition and I
think things are going to workout well this year because the
(10:00):
growing is growing season hasbeen a good one.
So, anyhow, last week we didtalk about our diet and we
mentioned we'll talk a littlebit about supplements.
So what have you on supplements?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
probably one of the biggest things when it comes to
supplementation is you are nevergoing to correct a bad diet
with supplements.
It doesn't matter how manysupplements that you take, what
kind of biohacking you're tryingto do, if you aren't eating
well, then you are not going tosupplement your way out of that
(10:41):
unhealthy habit.
The number one thing that youneed to do before
supplementation is to decreasethe inflammation within the gut.
So a healthy diet is yeah, likeit's going to be all the things
that we talked about last week.
You're really going to need todecrease that inflammation,
(11:02):
because if there is a lot ofinflammation in there, you're
not going to be absorbing thesupplements.
So you're just taking things inand not really getting the
benefit out of them.
You're just kind of throwingthem away in the wind.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Yeah, the worst part is, is we?
Our food supply is just notnutrient dense anymore.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Well, it kind of depends on what you're eating,
right?
Speaker 1 (11:28):
I guess I'm saying if you just go to the grocery
store and you buy a head oflettuce, well, that's just
basically water.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Especially iceberg lettuce, like if you're an
iceberg lettuce eater.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
You're getting nothing but water.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Like it's.
All that is is roughage, andthey probably, especially if you
don't buy the full head oflettuce and you just buy the
chopped up stuff.
The reason it tastes a littlefunny is because of all the
preservatives that they put on.
I would I would say that it isprobably best for you not to eat
the lettuce than to eat thatand then take half of the ranch
(12:00):
off of it.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Yeah, right, because I am guilty of that.
It's the iowa way, right.
Put some ranch on it.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Put some ranch on your pizza let's just they even
have a restaurant, pizza ranch.
No, it started in Iowa.
Oh uh yeah, the best thing willbe to, you know, really improve
(12:31):
your diet and hydration.
If there was one supplementthat I recommend you start with,
it would be vitamin D.
Don't go to Walmart or a bigbox store what have you and buy
your supplements Like they arenot going to be the quality that
(12:51):
you're going to want.
So there are really goodsupplement lines out there and
people are like well, I justwant you to point out to me
where to go.
Well, you need to startresearching it like you would a.
If you are going to start amedication, if you're going to
start a new medication, youshould look at all of the side
(13:12):
effects that can occur from it.
This is going to be nodifferent.
Supplements are a drug, justlike the food you eat is a drug,
just like everything you put inyour body can be a drug.
So it's going to be importantto make sure that you're going
out there and you areinvestigating the companies that
you are getting supplementsfrom.
(13:33):
But vitamin D would be where Iwould start.
It is also very important toget in the sun, so most of us,
especially if you have a nine tofive job and you are inside all
day.
You need to get outside.
When it's nice out and evenwhen it's not so nice out, try
and get outside and get sun onyour face and as much of your
(13:56):
skin as you can.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
So, that being said, though, like I'm outside a lot,
but I am vitamin D deficient,and I always thought, well,
that's crazy, I'm out in the sun, I'm not absorbing it, because
one my diet is probably.
You know, I haven't seen my labsince last went to Okoboji, so
maybe I'm not anymore, I don'tknow, but years ago I was, and
(14:19):
my diet was total crap.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Well, you really haven't started cutting out the
grains until the last few monthseither.
So Jesse had.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
The point is that just because you're in the sun,
you're not absorbing the vitaminD, which is the best source of
vitamin D.
But you've got to correct yourdiet and correct your gut and
probably need to supplement withit.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Especially in the winter.
If you work inside, you reallyneed to supplement all year
round, but in the winter in Iowa, supplementation of vitamin D
is going to be very important.
Sunscreen will keep you fromabsorbing the vitamin D as well.
(15:05):
We all need more vitamin D, so,if you really like.
I haven't worn sunscreen.
I used to be extremely fair.
I have not worn sunscreen for acouple of years.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
That reminds me of when we went to Costa Rica and
they literally tell you we wenton a Beck's vacation trip.
They literally tell you, makesure you use sunscreen, because
we're close to the equator, thesun's powerful and we bought the
(15:40):
spray or whatever down thereand you just kept saying you got
to put some sunscreen on.
Put some sunscreen, you'regoing to get burnt.
You're burning, you're burnt.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
It's like I put it, putting it on yeah, you were
totally having a reaction to thesun.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
I just kept getting worse and worse and worse and
you're like put the sunscreen onand it's like I don't want the
sunscreen anymore.
Uh, it's really.
It's just a chemical you'rejust scrubbing on your skin.
If you are reacting to the sun,just cover up with long sleeves
(16:15):
.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
So I heard this hypothesis and I took it to
heart that wearing sunglassesblocks your like the signal to
your brain to increase melatonin, not melatonin melanin
(16:37):
production your melanocytes, Imean melatonin is part of that
whole thing.
Like it has to do with yourcircadian rhythm, so it is a
little bit of that, but yourmelanin production.
So I would always wearsunglasses every time that I
went outside in the summerbecause I was super squinty and
it was too bright for me.
(16:58):
The interaction with the suncoming into your eye increases
melanin production.
Once that is signaled, then youwill produce more melanin.
But you need to have the sun onyour skin.
It needs to be a gradualprogression as well.
So I started experimentingbecause I was very fair skinned
(17:21):
and I was like I never get anysun.
Well, when I was younger Istayed in the house a lot and
then I would just go out and goswimming and then I would get
fried.
Over the last few years Istopped wearing sunglasses Like
I never wear sunglasses at allanymore.
I go outside with a gradualprogression.
(17:42):
So if you go outside in thebeginning of the day and as the
sun gets hotter and brighter andcloser to you, your skin
adjusts to it and I can gooutside and be outside for 10,
12 hours and not get a sunburn.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
And that's maybe not true for everybody.
I wear sunglasses a lot and Itan pretty easily.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Well, but you have more melanin than I do.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Right, everybody's skin tone is different in
melanin, so, but that's a goodway to be.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
So just something to think about.
Is it true or not true, or isthere just part truths in it?
It doesn't matter.
I mean, just try it Now.
If you are working a nine tofive and you're not doing that
regularly, then you probablywill go out and get sunburned.
Try to stay out of the sunduring the really intense parts
(18:42):
of the day or get in the shade.
Go outside in the morning andbe more in the shade through the
afternoon when it's hotter, andthen around three or four
o'clock you can be out in thesun again.
The more sun you have on yourskin, the more vitamin D
production you will have in yourbody, and that will be natural.
So the supplementation isimportant because that sun is
(19:05):
needed to convert what you'reingesting in vitamin D.
So the more sun you have, themore conversion you get, the
healthier your body will be.
So the supplement will beimportant Because you need to
have that amount in your bodyand even if you are in like
(19:25):
getting full absorption, if youaren't getting it in your diet,
then you need the supplement aswell.
So, healthy diet, vitamin Dsupplement and get out in the
sun that would be my number onepick place to start.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
It's a good place to start.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
A good multivitamin, especially with the b's.
The b vitamins would be thesecond thing that I would
recommend.
Again, do your research, dosomething that's going to be
easy for you.
So if it's quote unquotecheaper to go out and get all
these different pills and takethem, I like, I would rather,
(20:04):
you know, get as much, likedecrease the number of pills you
have to take, but you need tohave like a multivitamin in
there somewhere.
The third thing would beomega-3s.
So omega-3 fatty acids are aresomething that we don't get,
especially here in Iowa, becausethere's a lot in fish.
(20:24):
Now Wagyu beef actually is,yeah, is higher in omega-3 fatty
acids.
Um, so that is a bonus, um, sowe get more of that in our diet.
Since that's, I mean, that'sone of the reasons that we
decided to go with Wagyu umyu toincrease the omega-3 fatty
(20:44):
acids.
We also have been supportingsome fisheries and some
fishermen, I should say, and weget fish brought in from Alaska
so that we can increase ouromega-3s with that.
Now, we all love fish, so thatworks well.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
So that's a good start.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Now, if you want to start talking about improving
your mitochondrial health, whichthose are the powerhouses of
the cell.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
That's a whole other discussion.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Yes, it is, so there are other supplements that you
can take to improve that as well.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
And I am guilty of not taking supplements.
I hate taking pills and eventhe last time we went to Okoboji
and saw Brad he's like I knowyou hate taking pills but you
really need to and I know it'sone of those habits you just got
to get into.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Right now I'm thinking you know when you have
to give the cattle something.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
You got that the pill gun thing.
Bolus, huge bolus down thethroat.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
I bet if we did that once, you'd probably be like.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
I'll just take them.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
For sure, oh, that was kind of funny.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
So with that, I think we're going to say vitamin D.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Multivitamin.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
The B's and some omegas.
Those are three pretty goodessentials to start with, do
your research.
What is it nature's made isjust a cheap brand from walmart
well and and I just the qualityisn't there.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
like jesse and I actually went and and toured a
supplement factory when we wentup to Chicago, I thought, wow,
this is amazing, like thequality control that that they
do there make sure that you'rewhere you're getting it from is
doing quality control, and Idon't want to.
I don't want to plug any onespecific supplement brand, but
(22:59):
do your research.
It's, it's important for yourhealth.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
If you have a question specifically about
supplements or something and youwant to ask Leah something more
specific, please email us atfarmers greatest asset.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
at gmailcom.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Your questions have been good as always.
Thanks for listening.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Don't forget to like and share and subscribe to our
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Speaker 2 (23:36):
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