August 26, 2024 • 7 mins
Farmer Colin joins Craig Cumming from over in Iowa to chat how the crops are looking as they get ready to harvest.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fifty minutes to eight o'clock's head back over to the
US of A and go to Iowa and catch up
with that Iowa farmer Calm, Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Colin, Good morning, Craig. How are you very well?
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Thank you always good to come over to the US
of A. First, we'll just want to catch up and
find out, Well, what's the situation like we you are
at that time of the year.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Yeah, we're we're kind of preparing for harvest now, is
where we're at. You're starting to see a little bit
of crop starting to change, whether that's their dying down
or browning down, and and so we're getting well, I
would say we're probably three to four weeks away from harvest.
And so here on the farm, you know, we're kind
(00:38):
of we're preparing. We're getting equipment ready, making sure we've
got all the storage that we need for the incoming
corn and soybeans. And so we're we're finishing hauling out
the bottom of some grain bends and hauling that town
and and like I said, maintaining equipment and getting that
all all prepared because Harvey will be here before we
(01:01):
know it.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
And what about we the conditions, what's it been like, yeah,
we've been well.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
We've actually had a pretty good summer. For the most part,
we've had pretty adequate rain, temperatures have been good, and
now this week we're kind of hitting the hot spell.
We'll see heat indexes for us above one hundred degrees
fahrenheit and so that's gonna really start to cook these
(01:26):
soybeans and this corn and speed things long. So that's
good for us, I guess in a way, but you
would like to see a little bit not quite as
much heat. Let that let that cob fill out full
of full of corn and as well as put pods
on them soybeans. But otherwise, you know, moisture good. We've
(01:46):
been good, and now this last little bit we've been
a little bit dry. So you're starting to see our
our yards kind of brown up and aren't quite as green.
So we could use a shot of rain. But for
the most part, things have been pretty good.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Does that shorten the harvest when night with it being
so warm.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Yeah, it does. H not too awful bad, I mean
it it'll it'll speed things along that give you that
time to get in there at harvest. But for the
most party, you know, by the time you kind of
get to some of that crop, it's it's already ready,
So more or less it takes longer to harvest than
it does for that to for that crop to dry
(02:25):
down and get to where you want it to harvest.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
So, yeah, the most important thing that we're always doing
it for input process. Are they looking.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yeah, the the inputs haven't been awful too bad. I
actually got off the phone the other day with our
seed corn rep and and he kind of says, he says, well,
some things are actually coming down, some things are staying
the same, and some are marginally up, so to kind
of have level things out for once, it is not
too bad. And you know we're seeing pro paane kind
(02:55):
of the same way, roughly the same as last year.
Nothing too awful high. It hasn't dropped drastically, so that's
kind of makes it easier prepare and plan and that
kind of thing. And as we get closer to the
winter season, after we get past harvest, you know, you'll
start to see that's kind of the big input window
of when we're starting starting to price those things out,
(03:17):
when we're starting to plan for the next year's crop
and that kind of stuff, So you'll start to see
those prices move a little bit in that time period,
and then really what what the uh what they're asking
for their corn and soy beans? You know, that stuff,
what we're selling it to them is actually dropping for us.
So that's not quite as good for the part for
us as a farmer. But we're getting closer to that
(03:39):
even that new crop, so you know that, And that's
kind of pretty normal for for that those corn and
soybeans to drop a little bit as we're going into harvest,
just because there's a lot of unknowns of what actually
is out there in the field.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yeah, And I was gonna ask, I mean, probably more
from annoy ivity point of view, From a storage point
of view, how how long off the harvest do you
storage or is it as it sort of exported straight away?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Well, a lot of that kind of depends on your operation. Now,
on our operation, we have enough storage to take everything
in out of the field and keep as long as
we want. Wow. I know a lot of people that
do that. You know, they might bring it on the
farm and then they get rid of it in the
winter by March, you know, and they don't want anything
to do with it. Well, we like to be able
(04:24):
to take advantage of some of that carry and then
market it when we want to market it. And a
lot of times you'll see summer rallies. It's kind of
when everyone else has done haul in. You know, now
some of these fanol plants are being crushes. They need
stuff so that you might get a little bit of
a rally. Now, the last couple of years, we haven't
seen that summer rally quite as much. And so but
on our operation, yeah, we can. We can kind of
(04:47):
take things, you know, all the way through the next
year if we need to, we're able to store. Now
some farmers can't and they got to take it to
the co op or you know, some other form of storage,
and then they have to pay for that story as well,
you're paying a whole year that maybe doesn't make sense financially.
So then that's when you market it right away. So
a lot, like I said, a lot of that depends
(05:08):
on your own operation.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I'm just picturing how big your operation is just when
you hit talking about all that stories, but you know
the benefits, but how I can't even visit you and
how big it is.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Yeah, well we just we ended up putting another eighty
thousand bushel grain bent up this summer for us, and
that kind of actually put us to that spot of
being able to store all of our own stuff and so,
you know it, like I say, it's it's helped us
quite a bit. We farm roughly about three thousand acres
and I'm not sure how that equates to to your
(05:43):
metric there, but for us, yeah, we were able to
kind of store everything. That really lets us take advantage
of the market that we can. You know, we put
a lot of pride into you know, that form of
marketing of where you're able to store your own grain
and market it when you want to rather than then
be at the uh you know, hand of the co
op or what that process or or whatever that is.
(06:05):
And so we we feel pretty good about being able
to score everything. And that's what I said, that's very important.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Absolutely, farming is obviously important, but so is sport. The
NFL season is getting close to getting underwild. Yeah, we're
looking forward to that.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Yeah, it's it's you know, I think where we just
wrapped up preseason and uh, let's see roster cutdowns I
believe is probably tomorrow and we're probably about twenty four
hours away from that and Uh, yeah, it's it's gonna
be a fun NFL season, just kind of watching some
of those great preseason games and watching you know, the
new rookies or whoever your favorite team is. I know,
(06:43):
b kay and I like to talk a little bit
about the Packers and so yeah, that's kind of my
team as well. And and uh, you know, so it
once again, you know, you kind of got to see
where the Packers were last year. It'll be another fun season.
But that NFC North with the with the Bears, you know,
with Caleb william and Detroit being good again, that's going
to be a gauntlet of a of a division. So
(07:05):
that'll be a lot of fun. And then really just
to watch the whole NFL as you know, as a
as a league is pretty entertaining itself, and you know,
it'll it'll figure its way out and you'll have some
teams that rise the top and rise some that rides
to the bottom. But you know, it's just it's fun
to go out there and watch them games and and kind
of see how that is. So yeah, it'll be exciting
and and it'll start here almost in a week or so, so.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Yeah, hopefully you get a bit of Tom and I
you got to be very busy over the next month
by the sound of it, hopefully the harvest as well.
And Bake, I will be the one chatting to your niquest.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Yeah, well that's all right. I appreciate it all my
time with you, Craig, and I appreciate you having me
on and and yeah, we'll look forward to the next
few months of harvest and and it'll be what it'll be,
so
Fifty minutes to eight o'clock's head back over to the
US of A and go to Iowa and catch up
with that Iowa farmer Calm, Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Colin, Good morning, Craig. How are you very well?
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Thank you always good to come over to the US
of A. First, we'll just want to catch up and
find out, Well, what's the situation like we you are
at that time of the year.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Yeah, we're we're kind of preparing for harvest now, is
where we're at. You're starting to see a little bit
of crop starting to change, whether that's their dying down
or browning down, and and so we're getting well, I
would say we're probably three to four weeks away from harvest.
And so here on the farm, you know, we're kind
(00:38):
of we're preparing. We're getting equipment ready, making sure we've
got all the storage that we need for the incoming
corn and soybeans. And so we're we're finishing hauling out
the bottom of some grain bends and hauling that town
and and like I said, maintaining equipment and getting that
all all prepared because Harvey will be here before we
(01:01):
know it.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
And what about we the conditions, what's it been like, yeah,
we've been well.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
We've actually had a pretty good summer. For the most part,
we've had pretty adequate rain, temperatures have been good, and
now this week we're kind of hitting the hot spell.
We'll see heat indexes for us above one hundred degrees
fahrenheit and so that's gonna really start to cook these
(01:26):
soybeans and this corn and speed things long. So that's
good for us, I guess in a way, but you
would like to see a little bit not quite as
much heat. Let that let that cob fill out full
of full of corn and as well as put pods
on them soybeans. But otherwise, you know, moisture good. We've
(01:46):
been good, and now this last little bit we've been
a little bit dry. So you're starting to see our
our yards kind of brown up and aren't quite as green.
So we could use a shot of rain. But for
the most part, things have been pretty good.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Does that shorten the harvest when night with it being
so warm.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Yeah, it does. H not too awful bad, I mean
it it'll it'll speed things along that give you that
time to get in there at harvest. But for the
most party, you know, by the time you kind of
get to some of that crop, it's it's already ready,
So more or less it takes longer to harvest than
it does for that to for that crop to dry
(02:25):
down and get to where you want it to harvest.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
So, yeah, the most important thing that we're always doing
it for input process. Are they looking.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yeah, the the inputs haven't been awful too bad. I
actually got off the phone the other day with our
seed corn rep and and he kind of says, he says, well,
some things are actually coming down, some things are staying
the same, and some are marginally up, so to kind
of have level things out for once, it is not
too bad. And you know we're seeing pro paane kind
(02:55):
of the same way, roughly the same as last year.
Nothing too awful high. It hasn't dropped drastically, so that's
kind of makes it easier prepare and plan and that
kind of thing. And as we get closer to the
winter season, after we get past harvest, you know, you'll
start to see that's kind of the big input window
of when we're starting starting to price those things out,
(03:17):
when we're starting to plan for the next year's crop
and that kind of stuff, So you'll start to see
those prices move a little bit in that time period,
and then really what what the uh what they're asking
for their corn and soy beans? You know, that stuff,
what we're selling it to them is actually dropping for us.
So that's not quite as good for the part for
us as a farmer. But we're getting closer to that
(03:39):
even that new crop, so you know that, And that's
kind of pretty normal for for that those corn and
soybeans to drop a little bit as we're going into harvest,
just because there's a lot of unknowns of what actually
is out there in the field.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yeah, And I was gonna ask, I mean, probably more
from annoy ivity point of view, From a storage point
of view, how how long off the harvest do you
storage or is it as it sort of exported straight away?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Well, a lot of that kind of depends on your operation. Now,
on our operation, we have enough storage to take everything
in out of the field and keep as long as
we want. Wow. I know a lot of people that
do that. You know, they might bring it on the
farm and then they get rid of it in the
winter by March, you know, and they don't want anything
to do with it. Well, we like to be able
(04:24):
to take advantage of some of that carry and then
market it when we want to market it. And a
lot of times you'll see summer rallies. It's kind of
when everyone else has done haul in. You know, now
some of these fanol plants are being crushes. They need
stuff so that you might get a little bit of
a rally. Now, the last couple of years, we haven't
seen that summer rally quite as much. And so but
on our operation, yeah, we can. We can kind of
(04:47):
take things, you know, all the way through the next
year if we need to, we're able to store. Now
some farmers can't and they got to take it to
the co op or you know, some other form of storage,
and then they have to pay for that story as well,
you're paying a whole year that maybe doesn't make sense financially.
So then that's when you market it right away. So
a lot, like I said, a lot of that depends
(05:08):
on your own operation.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I'm just picturing how big your operation is just when
you hit talking about all that stories, but you know
the benefits, but how I can't even visit you and
how big it is.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Yeah, well we just we ended up putting another eighty
thousand bushel grain bent up this summer for us, and
that kind of actually put us to that spot of
being able to store all of our own stuff and so,
you know it, like I say, it's it's helped us
quite a bit. We farm roughly about three thousand acres
and I'm not sure how that equates to to your
(05:43):
metric there, but for us, yeah, we were able to
kind of store everything. That really lets us take advantage
of the market that we can. You know, we put
a lot of pride into you know, that form of
marketing of where you're able to store your own grain
and market it when you want to rather than then
be at the uh you know, hand of the co
op or what that process or or whatever that is.
(06:05):
And so we we feel pretty good about being able
to score everything. And that's what I said, that's very important.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Absolutely, farming is obviously important, but so is sport. The
NFL season is getting close to getting underwild. Yeah, we're
looking forward to that.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Yeah, it's it's you know, I think where we just
wrapped up preseason and uh, let's see roster cutdowns I
believe is probably tomorrow and we're probably about twenty four
hours away from that and Uh, yeah, it's it's gonna
be a fun NFL season, just kind of watching some
of those great preseason games and watching you know, the
new rookies or whoever your favorite team is. I know,
(06:43):
b kay and I like to talk a little bit
about the Packers and so yeah, that's kind of my
team as well. And and uh, you know, so it
once again, you know, you kind of got to see
where the Packers were last year. It'll be another fun season.
But that NFC North with the with the Bears, you know,
with Caleb william and Detroit being good again, that's going
to be a gauntlet of a of a division. So
(07:05):
that'll be a lot of fun. And then really just
to watch the whole NFL as you know, as a
as a league is pretty entertaining itself, and you know,
it'll it'll figure its way out and you'll have some
teams that rise the top and rise some that rides
to the bottom. But you know, it's just it's fun
to go out there and watch them games and and kind
of see how that is. So yeah, it'll be exciting
and and it'll start here almost in a week or so, so.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Yeah, hopefully you get a bit of Tom and I
you got to be very busy over the next month
by the sound of it, hopefully the harvest as well.
And Bake, I will be the one chatting to your niquest.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Yeah, well that's all right. I appreciate it all my
time with you, Craig, and I appreciate you having me
on and and yeah, we'll look forward to the next
few months of harvest and and it'll be what it'll be,
so
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