Full Transcript for AG Squawk with Davis Michaelsen | April Hemmes | Iowa Farmer

you to visit Agbull.com if you have not already. 00:02:54.049 --> 00:03:07.329 Agbull.com take advantage of our premium services and and uh if you're interested in taking part in Wiesmeyer's perspectives, you can also find a drop-down tab there with subscription information, agbul.com. 00:03:07.569 --> 00:03:11.650 Agbull.com or call 855-737 Farm. 00:03:11.889 --> 00:03:14.449 Let's get to some news first and then we'll bring in April. 00:03:14.689 --> 00:03:17.810 Mexico showed up for a couple more flash sales this morning. 00:03:17.969 --> 00:03:26.609 312,700 metric tons of corn and 150,000 metric tons of soybeans, both for the 26-27 marketing year. 00:03:26.769 --> 00:03:30.210 Pretty steady biz from Mexico these days. 00:03:30.370 --> 00:03:33.969 Some flash sales on both the corn and the soybeans today. 00:03:34.129 --> 00:03:40.769 Bloomberg says a soybean processing plant was damaged in Ukraine following a Russian air attack over the weekend. 00:03:41.090 --> 00:03:45.650 Operations were suspended with no casualties reported among employees anyway. 00:03:45.810 --> 00:03:53.650 However, Ukraine's state agency service will need to complete an inspection of the plant before operations can resume. 00:03:53.810 --> 00:03:59.729 If we're hitting uh if they're hitting each other's grain processing facilities, yikes. 00:03:59.889 --> 00:04:04.049 It's uh it feels like that crosses the line, but I I guess they're at war. 00:04:04.210 --> 00:04:05.090 What are you gonna do? 00:04:05.489 --> 00:04:05.810 U.S. 00:04:05.889 --> 00:04:11.489 Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a statement saying economic pressure on Iran is proving effective. 00:04:11.729 --> 00:04:19.730 Rubio stressed his belief that large-scale military operations in Iran, at least at this point, would not be necessary. 00:04:20.050 --> 00:04:32.129 Meanwhile, a Houthi military spokesman says that group is preparing a statement announcing multiple special military operations carried out deep inside Saudi territory. 00:04:33.170 --> 00:04:39.250 According to QT Market Center, outside markets were risk-off following another warm CPI report. 00:04:39.410 --> 00:04:49.170 The dollar was firm, stocks and precious metals fell while crude oil moved between slight to moderate losses on some of those diplomacy headlines. 00:04:49.410 --> 00:04:52.850 Let's bring it closer to home and talk about the tail of the ticker. 00:04:53.090 --> 00:04:54.850 She was a rodeo today, gang. 00:04:55.010 --> 00:05:12.129 Corn futures were fractionally higher, soybeans up around three cents, and winter wheat futures were fractionally mixed, but mostly higher in early session trade, feeder cattle mixed to mostly lower, fed cattle 15 to 35 cents higher, and lean hogs were moderately lower right out of the chute this morning. 00:05:12.370 --> 00:05:15.090 Immediately following the report at 11 a.m. 00:05:15.330 --> 00:05:18.129 Central Time, corn futures shot 13 cents higher. 00:05:18.290 --> 00:05:23.810 Soybeans skyrocketed 35 cents higher, and winter wheat futures were up five to seven cents. 00:05:23.970 --> 00:05:31.090 Meanwhile, on the livestock side, Fed and feeder cattle futures held on to moderate gains with lean hogs still under light pressure. 00:05:31.410 --> 00:05:32.770 Hang in with me now, April. 00:05:32.850 --> 00:05:33.410 We're almost there. 00:05:33.570 --> 00:05:34.370 We're almost there. 00:05:34.530 --> 00:05:38.770 As far as those report details go, let me just throw some highlights before we hit the settlements. 00:05:38.930 --> 00:05:49.490 Uh it goes something like this USDA forecasts the 26-27 corn yield at 179.6, down 1.7 bushels per acre from the October forecast. 00:05:49.650 --> 00:05:55.570 That brought corn production back down below 16 billion bushels to 15.89 or three. 00:05:56.050 --> 00:05:59.330 That's the second highest production figure on record for corn. 00:05:59.490 --> 00:06:11.730 The soybean yield raised two-tenths from October to 53.3 bushels per acre, supporting a production forecast at a record high, 4.57 billion bushels. 00:06:11.890 --> 00:06:15.650 That's as deep as we're going to get into that, at least for the moment. 00:06:15.810 --> 00:06:18.210 Let's go over to my uh quote screen here. 00:06:18.290 --> 00:06:21.490 I've got December corn back above 440. 00:06:21.570 --> 00:06:22.770 At least in the D sere. 00:06:22.930 --> 00:06:26.530 The December corn futures nine and three quarters higher, 449. 00:06:27.170 --> 00:06:30.770 Looking out to the march, nine and a quarter higher, 461 and one half. 00:06:30.850 --> 00:06:32.850 Them beaners did all right too. 00:06:33.090 --> 00:06:33.730 Crazy. 00:06:33.810 --> 00:06:36.610 I I guess I don't quite understand what happened in the beans. 00:06:37.330 --> 00:06:38.450 We'll see if they can hold on. 00:06:38.530 --> 00:06:40.290 And if they do, then we can talk about why. 00:06:40.370 --> 00:06:41.410 Maybe that's the strategy. 00:06:41.570 --> 00:06:43.010 39 and three quarters. 00:06:43.170 --> 00:06:47.570 39 and 3 quarters higher in the January, 1228 even. 00:06:47.810 --> 00:06:51.650 The November up 42 and a quarter, 1224 and 12. 00:06:51.890 --> 00:07:02.210 Looking further out into the deferreds, 39 and a half higher, 38 and a half higher, 36 and a quarter higher, all the way out to the July, now at 1248, even up 36 and a quarter. 00:07:02.450 --> 00:07:06.129 Soybean meal higher, soybean oil higher as well on the day. 00:07:06.450 --> 00:07:12.850 To the winter wheats, your Chicago December winter wheat up four and three quarter cents, 592 and three quarters. 00:07:13.010 --> 00:07:18.050 December Casey wheat one and three quarters higher, 6.34 and one quarter. 00:07:18.290 --> 00:07:20.290 Flipping over to the livestock tab. 00:07:20.530 --> 00:07:22.610 Trimmed some gains here in the feeders. 00:07:23.250 --> 00:07:25.810 January futures$2.50 higher. 00:07:25.890 --> 00:07:27.010 Still a pretty darn good day. 00:07:27.170 -->

00:07:29.250 $326.67.5. 00:07:29.650 --> 00:07:33.250 The November feeders two dollars higher,$3.30.35. 00:07:33.410 --> 00:07:38.770 December fat cattle up three dollars even, two nineteen and twenty. 00:07:39.330 --> 00:07:44.210 The feb up uh two forty-seven and one half on the day, two twenty-two fifty-seven and a half. 00:07:44.290 --> 00:07:46.210 And then the lean hogs mixed price action. 00:07:46.290 --> 00:07:49.730 I think I've got them listed as as red, not quite the case. 00:07:49.890 --> 00:07:51.890 Nearby's were lower on the day. 00:07:52.050 --> 00:07:57.330 Your December contract seven and one half cents lower on the day, 55.80. 00:07:57.490 --> 00:08:00.610 The Feb seven and a half lower as well, 60.75. 00:08:00.770 --> 00:08:06.290 And then we're on to the April where we're seven and one half higher on the day, 66.90. 00:08:06.370 --> 00:08:10.450 And then we're higher out into the deferreds from that point on. 00:08:11.250 --> 00:08:15.330 Before we move on, let me thank Plus 500 T4 Software for programming support. 00:08:15.410 --> 00:08:27.730 Plus 500 T4 Software is where my crew and I get real-time quotes, futures, options, a host of dandy features, plus 500, trust plus 500, thanks plus 500, and with that. 00:08:36.129 --> 00:08:38.929 Let me bring in this. 00:08:39.169 --> 00:08:41.409 Welcome to Xquark in the afternoon, April. 00:08:41.490 --> 00:08:43.170 Thank you so much for being here. 00:08:43.649 --> 00:08:50.850 I always feel like I should have a crown on or something, or after that, music and aura around me, but others would differ. 00:08:50.930 --> 00:09:00.370 So see, I just assume that you you took off your your crown to be with us, you know, sort of sort of, you know, be here and rub elbows with the common folk, and we appreciate that. 00:09:00.690 --> 00:09:05.730 The funny part is, is I used to have a plastic crown in my toolbox. 00:09:05.810 --> 00:09:18.129 And when my I call them, when the my helper, I call them PMS personal man servants, when they would are when my PMS would argue with me and tell me I'm wrong, I would put the crown on and go, excuse me. 00:09:19.090 --> 00:09:21.009 You were the only person I'm the queen. 00:09:21.250 --> 00:09:25.889 You're the only person I know who who keeps a crown in a toolbox. 00:09:26.210 --> 00:09:28.529 Well, you know, it was plastic. 00:09:28.610 --> 00:09:31.330 So you know, and it got the got the message across. 00:09:31.490 --> 00:09:31.970 Sorry. 00:09:32.290 --> 00:09:36.290 All the glitters ain't gold, you know, and I guess everything in a toolbox ain't tools. 00:09:36.450 --> 00:09:37.810 Or or is it a tool? 00:09:38.210 --> 00:09:38.690 Interesting. 00:09:39.170 --> 00:09:39.970 Yes, it is. 00:09:40.210 --> 00:09:41.090 That makes you think. 00:09:41.250 --> 00:09:41.970 That makes you think. 00:09:42.210 --> 00:09:44.850 April, you've been uh you've been busy. 00:09:45.009 --> 00:09:50.450 Uh you I mean, just farming for what you know, there's there's that. 00:09:51.009 --> 00:09:58.210 I want to I want to get straight to this because I know that our viewers are are dying to know last time you were on the program, which was far too long ago. 00:09:59.810 --> 00:10:01.649 Yeah, you I I can't remember. 00:10:01.730 --> 00:10:06.769 We're did you have the fellas filling an old pond or were they digging one out? 00:10:06.930 --> 00:10:09.090 There's something with the old pond going on. 00:10:09.409 --> 00:10:09.889 Mm-hmm. 00:10:10.290 --> 00:10:21.970 We were making it smaller, so we had to move the rocks and all that stuff, and then it's up to my husband what he wants to do. 00:10:22.210 --> 00:10:25.970 So people keep asking me this, and I said, You don't understand. 00:10:26.129 --> 00:10:33.730 We move at the speed of Tom, which is not very fast, and he just has to decide, and I he hasn't decided yet. 00:10:33.889 --> 00:10:45.730 So it's the the it's about half the size, the rocks were placed with my mini excavator, which I love, and that thing is gonna dig a hole to bury me in. 00:10:45.810 --> 00:10:49.330 That's how much I love that thing, and it's all ready to go. 00:10:49.490 --> 00:10:51.649 He just has to decide what he wants to do. 00:10:51.810 --> 00:10:56.210 So that's the update on the pond, which I totally forgot about. 00:10:56.290 --> 00:11:02.290 So is is the plan one day to stock that baby with some bluegill, maybe some walleye, do a little do a little fishing out there? 00:11:02.450 --> 00:11:03.009 Is there a plan? 00:11:03.730 --> 00:11:17.970 So we did have koi in it, it was a fish pond, and and it was a lot of work, and then randomly last year, all of a sudden there's all the fish are floating belly up, and we're like, okay. 00:11:18.210 --> 00:11:21.250 So that kind of made our I said, Do you want fish or not? 00:11:21.330 --> 00:11:22.930 And he goes, No, no. 00:11:23.170 --> 00:11:25.810 So you know, all right, it'd be done, it'd be done. 00:11:25.889 --> 00:11:30.129 If it was up to me, it'd be done, and I'd have a waterfall and life would be good. 00:11:30.290 --> 00:11:33.330 We had two waterfalls before, so I don't know. 00:11:33.409 --> 00:11:34.370 We'll wait and see. 00:11:34.529 --> 00:11:37.810 Uh you know, I'll send pics in about five years. 00:11:38.370 --> 00:11:39.009 That'd be great. 00:11:39.170 --> 00:11:40.050 That'd be great. 00:11:40.690 --> 00:11:45.649 Well, no, I mean the the longer the better because it makes it makes great fodder for conversation right here. 00:11:45.889 --> 00:11:46.450 Well, that's true. 00:11:46.529 --> 00:11:47.090 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:11:47.330 --> 00:11:47.730 I love it. 00:11:47.889 --> 00:11:48.529 I love it. 00:11:48.769 --> 00:11:50.769 You look pretty at ease today. 00:11:50.930 --> 00:11:52.930 Not a not a real busy day today. 00:11:53.170 --> 00:11:59.170 No, I finished harvest before the rain in Iowa, which was last week. 00:11:59.409 --> 00:12:06.129 In fact, I was on my last little field, and my husband

calls and he goes, What are you are you done? 00:12:06.290 --> 00:12:06.769 What are you doing? 00:12:06.850 --> 00:12:07.889 And I said, Well, I'm combine. 00:12:08.050 --> 00:12:09.330 And he goes, Well, it's pouring rain. 00:12:09.490 --> 00:12:10.529 I go, Yeah. 00:12:11.409 --> 00:12:13.570 So there you have it. 00:12:13.730 --> 00:12:14.930 Nope, I got done. 00:12:15.090 --> 00:12:21.330 So I know we're gonna talk about yields later, so I will let everyone wait patiently. 00:12:21.570 --> 00:12:25.330 Ooh, ooh, you had your annual uh combine karaoke. 00:12:25.409 --> 00:12:28.529 We uh Julie You showcased it, yeah. 00:12:28.690 --> 00:12:29.970 Shout out to Julianne. 00:12:30.690 --> 00:12:40.290 I got her to record a little shout-out for us, and I I wanted to play more of the the singing because if if you don't know everybody, yeah, why didn't you? 00:12:40.450 --> 00:12:41.970 I was a little upset. 00:12:42.210 --> 00:12:49.810 We would wind up in Utah because we were singing ladies' night, and I can't even say that in the feelings right. 00:12:50.050 --> 00:12:51.170 Oh, what a night. 00:12:51.490 --> 00:12:53.009 Yeah, we sounded better than that, but yeah. 00:12:53.330 --> 00:12:56.370 I'm sure I'm sure I don't know. 00:12:56.529 --> 00:12:58.930 I was afraid that we were gonna wind up in copyright jail. 00:12:59.330 --> 00:13:00.610 Oh, okay, I can't. 00:13:01.730 --> 00:13:09.649 We haven't yet, but um yeah, we I think it's the sixth year we've done that, and every year it gets more and more fun. 00:13:09.889 --> 00:13:13.810 Yeah, it started right after COVID, so yeah. 00:13:14.370 --> 00:13:19.170 Anyway, we have a great time, and honestly, the singing part is the least. 00:13:19.330 --> 00:13:21.649 We're just yippity yapping most of the time. 00:13:21.970 --> 00:13:22.930 I can't imagine that. 00:13:23.090 --> 00:13:24.370 I know it's shocking. 00:13:26.290 --> 00:13:28.610 Well, let's move on to this. 00:13:28.690 --> 00:13:30.930 Is big, this is really big. 00:13:31.090 --> 00:13:38.129 I uh I pulled a couple of pictures off of your LinkedIn like a total creeper, and I'm gonna let's display them right now. 00:13:38.210 --> 00:13:39.810 The World Food Prize. 00:13:39.970 --> 00:13:43.009 Apparently, there was a meeting in Des Moines. 00:13:43.330 --> 00:13:44.930 I would love for you to tell us about it. 00:13:45.009 --> 00:13:45.970 Here you are with Mr. 00:13:46.050 --> 00:13:47.250 Martin Sheen. 00:13:47.490 --> 00:13:50.129 Yeah, wow, that's pretty cool. 00:13:50.370 --> 00:14:02.769 And the the lady was our we had a women's farmer panel, and she was our moderator, and I think she works for Forbes, so she was our moderator, but yes, Martin Sheen. 00:14:02.850 --> 00:14:08.690 So that was one picture, and then he goes, Oh, wait, look, I want to take one with my glasses off. 00:14:08.769 --> 00:14:13.170 So he did, and I looked at him and I go, Oh, yeah, you're way more handsome now. 00:14:13.409 --> 00:14:15.889 And he started laughing and he goes, Oh, you're good. 00:14:15.970 --> 00:14:18.290 And I go, That's a gig, you know. 00:14:18.450 --> 00:14:23.170 So I mean, when am I gonna have a chance to joke with Martin Sheen? 00:14:23.250 --> 00:14:23.730 Come on. 00:14:23.889 --> 00:14:27.090 Well, yes, it seems kind of it seems kind of rando. 00:14:27.330 --> 00:14:31.009 I definitely wanted to get deeper into why you were there and what you talked about. 00:14:31.170 --> 00:14:33.009 Oh, very on a panel right there. 00:14:33.250 --> 00:14:34.450 What was what was he doing there? 00:14:34.529 --> 00:14:36.690 Was he just sort of hanging out in Des Moines that day? 00:14:37.009 --> 00:14:48.529 He was the lead speaker for the it's called Borlog Dialogues, and it's all about the food and how we raise the food and and things like that, and it's been going on for a lot of years. 00:14:48.610 --> 00:14:52.690 I think it was the 40th and it was a big anniversary this year. 00:14:53.009 --> 00:14:55.009 And yeah, so we talked about that. 00:14:55.090 --> 00:15:14.370 We had a German lady, Kenya, and Ecuador, those are the other farmers there on that panel, and he was the leadoff speaker, and we were backstage, and I felt like you know, Pastor Sheen was up there, and he was fire and brimstone and you know, bringing it home to the crowd. 00:15:14.529 --> 00:15:18.050 He was very, you know, he he got his point across. 00:15:18.129 --> 00:15:22.050 He's very passionate about agriculture and and food. 00:15:22.290 --> 00:15:23.970 So that was great. 00:15:24.290 --> 00:15:24.850 Yeah, yeah. 00:15:25.009 --> 00:15:27.810 Well, and and congratulations on being asked to. 00:15:28.050 --> 00:15:31.409 I mean, you know, it sounds like I'm overstating it, but I don't think so. 00:15:31.490 --> 00:15:36.930 If you got people from Germany and Kenya, you know, from all over the world there, there were four of you. 00:15:37.170 --> 00:15:37.649 Yeah. 00:15:38.050 --> 00:15:41.970 And it was what's wrong with them having me represent? 00:15:42.450 --> 00:15:51.330 You were representing the uh the nation's women's farmers there, and by extension, of course, the nation's agriculture to to a degree. 00:15:51.889 --> 00:16:03.009 It yeah, here in America, it it feels and don't let me get out of bounds here too far, April, but it feels like a fairly male-dominated industry, always kind of has been. 00:16:03.250 --> 00:16:06.930 A lot of dudes, dude heavy industry is is agriculture. 00:16:07.250 --> 00:16:08.610 That's why I'm in it, you know. 00:16:08.850 --> 00:16:09.570 Why not? 00:16:09.889 --> 00:16:12.690 For the guys, for the guys, good for you. 00:16:13.570 --> 00:16:15.090 Yikes, we don't need to go. 00:16:15.409 --> 00:16:22.290 No, you have that in the honestly, being being a woman in this industry, especially a producer like I am. 00:16:22.450 --> 00:16:24.290 I'm not in AgViz or anything else. 00:16:24.450 --> 00:16:33.570 You have to have I had to have thick skin a long time

ago, but then all you do is show up, you do your work, everyone, you know, then you're just one of the guys. 00:16:33.810 --> 00:16:39.330 So sometimes uh it's great when I'm one of the guys, and other times I'm like, now wait a minute. 00:16:39.490 --> 00:16:43.090 Yeah you know, I just want to be treatment. 00:16:43.730 --> 00:16:46.769 Were the the other women on the panel with you? 00:16:47.009 --> 00:16:49.970 Were they also from the from the production side? 00:16:50.129 --> 00:16:52.769 Are they farming farming farmettes as well? 00:16:53.009 --> 00:16:56.290 Well, one most of them ran businesses. 00:16:56.529 --> 00:17:13.089 One ran like a co-op, the German lady ran a co-op, the Ecuadorian lady, I think, brought women together, and then the Kenya lady was kind of she ran a big company, but they all three farmed also. 00:17:13.569 --> 00:17:19.409 So whatever the scale was, I we didn't really talk about that that much, but yeah. 00:17:20.129 --> 00:17:28.689 Did you did you find commonalities of experience with these women despite them being from from so far away? 00:17:29.009 --> 00:17:48.369 There always is, and that was one thing they had me talk about because I did a USAID project with Iowa State, go cyclones, and um and uh Iowa State USAID and Iowa farm women worked with Kenya farmers women, and we I talked about the similarities. 00:17:48.449 --> 00:17:58.849 It's like even though they were farming with the hoe, had to walk two miles, some of them to get water for their farms and for their family, it was it was family first. 00:17:58.929 --> 00:18:01.809 They they ask us, how are you having your children? 00:18:01.889 --> 00:18:07.490 How do you get your children to come back to the farm when there's so much more to offer in big cities? 00:18:07.569 --> 00:18:09.490 And I was like, What? 00:18:09.730 --> 00:18:15.329 You know, so it was amazing to me that you know women are always gonna put the family first. 00:18:15.490 --> 00:18:16.529 So yeah. 00:18:17.969 --> 00:18:20.209 Here's kind of a weird question coming out of left field for you. 00:18:20.449 --> 00:18:21.009 Out of you? 00:18:21.329 --> 00:18:34.049 Yes, if you can imagine, would you would you rather have the sorts of challenges that you face as a farmer or the sorts of challenges that you heard about say farmers in Kenya facing? 00:18:34.369 --> 00:18:35.730 No, mine 100%. 00:18:36.689 --> 00:18:46.769 We can idealize kind of the the simpler life, but you talk, you know, like you say, walking two miles just to get water, and you know, it's a it's a whole different mindset, isn't it? 00:18:46.929 --> 00:18:48.129 It it really is. 00:18:48.369 --> 00:18:57.730 And one of the things when we were talking with those women, one of them said, you know, we talked about what two kids or one kid, and most of them had 10 or 13. 00:18:57.889 --> 00:19:02.049 And one of them said, It's because you have a choice. 00:19:02.449 --> 00:19:05.089 And I went, wow, that really brings it home. 00:19:05.250 --> 00:19:07.649 Those of us in America, we I have a choice. 00:19:07.889 --> 00:19:08.609 That's what I said. 00:19:08.689 --> 00:19:13.089 I'm it's black and white for banking or anything like that, you know. 00:19:13.329 --> 00:19:20.129 That that, you know, I am treated relatively the same, but they I've been on different panels before. 00:19:20.289 --> 00:19:31.409 One woman had to get the other women farmers to march on the towns, people in charge just to get the right to use their water to water her garden. 00:19:31.649 --> 00:19:31.889 Right. 00:19:32.049 --> 00:19:34.369 And I mean, you know, things like that. 00:19:34.609 --> 00:19:39.969 So I could tell a million stories, but it's amazing what they have to go through. 00:19:40.289 --> 00:19:48.369 And you know, you're it's it's no, I'd rather rather have my first world problems here, you know. 00:19:48.609 --> 00:20:02.609 In fact, it was great because you know, I talked about farming and I had auto steer and how I farmed, and the women in Uganda loved my story, and they said, but you don't farm with your hands, and I go, Well, I do. 00:20:02.689 --> 00:20:07.569 I use my hands to climb in my tractor, I use my hands to set my auto steer. 00:20:08.609 --> 00:20:23.089 So so while they're hoeing and doing different things, so it's um it's amazing the differences, but yet, and they were mostly farming to feed their family, so anyway, it was a great, great experience. 00:20:23.169 --> 00:20:24.449 I'd do it again in a second. 00:20:24.529 --> 00:20:27.490 I got to go for two years, so yeah. 00:20:27.809 --> 00:20:29.169 That's really cool, really cool. 00:20:29.409 --> 00:20:32.049 So you you made Martin Sheen swoon. 00:20:32.129 --> 00:20:36.049 I don't know if you watch Parks Direct, but I don't understand uh Mr. 00:20:36.209 --> 00:20:38.849 Duke Silver himself, Ron Swanson. 00:20:38.929 --> 00:20:44.049 Uh, I wonder if did he pull out the saxophone and uh and swoon you just do it with the saxophone? 00:20:44.449 --> 00:20:58.929 I didn't get to see him because I was doing other stuff, but he spoke later, and I got a text from a Des Moines Register reporter going, April, Nick Alterman just gave your panel a shout out, said it was a great panel. 00:20:59.089 --> 00:21:00.689 You should put that on a plaque. 00:21:00.769 --> 00:21:02.049 And I'm like, I should. 00:21:02.529 --> 00:21:04.049 You absolutely should. 00:21:04.289 --> 00:21:05.409 You absolutely should. 00:21:05.730 --> 00:21:12.689 But there's there's another celebrity that's very passionate about sustainable farming and things like that. 00:21:12.849 --> 00:21:20.929 So what I like to do when I'm on those panels is talk about how, even though I'm a regular farmer, we do it sustainably. 00:21:21.089 --> 00:21:24.769 You know, whatever, whatever you want to call it, this is how I farm. 00:21:24.849 --> 00:21:25.969 So sure, sure. 00:21:26.129 --> 00:21:26.369 Yeah. 00:21:26.609 --> 00:21:31.730 We're and I

don't know if if you know the answer to this, either of those of those guys, either Mr. 00:21:31.809 --> 00:21:32.449 Sheen or Mr. 00:21:32.529 --> 00:21:35.329 Opperman, what's what's their interest here? 00:21:35.490 --> 00:21:37.009 Or were they farm boys? 00:21:37.089 --> 00:21:51.889 Did they have some kind of I think Oppermate owns a farm now, but and and but Martin Sheen's always been in the middle of, you know, I remember back in the day when he stood up with migrant workers, you know. 00:21:52.049 --> 00:21:54.289 So he's always had some kind of a mission. 00:21:54.449 --> 00:22:02.049 And and I think that people now are far more passionate about where their food comes from, how it's grown. 00:22:02.209 --> 00:22:05.089 And it's up to us farmers to explain how we do that. 00:22:05.490 --> 00:22:08.289 You know, I think we've kind of dropped the ball there, some of us. 00:22:09.009 --> 00:22:11.409 Especially, you know, good old Iowa farm. 00:22:11.490 --> 00:22:17.169 So I always invite people to come out to the farm and you know, have a go in the combine. 00:22:17.409 --> 00:22:17.569 Yeah. 00:22:17.730 --> 00:22:19.969 I've seen some songs, Combine Karaoke. 00:22:20.289 --> 00:22:21.009 Sure, why not? 00:22:21.169 --> 00:22:27.329 I think I remember last time you were on, you had a picture of like 12, 13 people that were out at your place standing out in the bean field. 00:22:27.409 --> 00:22:30.929 Yeah, and my thought was they're gonna trample them beans, April. 00:22:31.089 --> 00:22:32.129 What are we doing? 00:22:32.369 --> 00:22:32.769 I know. 00:22:32.849 --> 00:22:41.089 I have well, and then you know, I have had people from China and women from Nigeria, uh, from all over the world. 00:22:41.329 --> 00:22:44.369 And it I would rather show them, you know. 00:22:44.449 --> 00:22:53.649 I can talk all day long about what I do and how I do it, but when they see it, then they go, Oh, yeah, this this field isn't full of weeds. 00:22:53.730 --> 00:22:57.250 We are buying really quality stuff from the U.S. 00:22:57.409 --> 00:22:57.889 farmers. 00:22:58.049 --> 00:23:01.169 So we can get me on my soapbox. 00:23:02.449 --> 00:23:03.009 What a cool thing. 00:23:03.169 --> 00:23:03.809 What a cool thing. 00:23:03.889 --> 00:23:04.929 No, soapbox it up. 00:23:05.009 --> 00:23:06.769 That's I've got great opportunities. 00:23:06.929 --> 00:23:08.289 So yeah, you certainly have. 00:23:08.449 --> 00:23:09.490 You certainly have. 00:23:09.809 --> 00:23:16.929 And see, if I hadn't checked my LinkedIn, which I don't very often, but I that's I happen to see happen to see the picture of you. 00:23:17.250 --> 00:23:18.929 That's about the only thing I post. 00:23:19.009 --> 00:23:22.929 I'm tired of the all the drama on X and Facebook. 00:23:23.089 --> 00:23:31.730 It the only time I go on Facebook is to do common karaoke, post those videos because yeah, so many people wait for them. 00:23:32.049 --> 00:23:33.809 Like I got stopped in Walmart. 00:23:33.969 --> 00:23:35.490 Are you April Hemis? 00:23:35.569 --> 00:23:37.250 Are you a Nette Sweeney's friend? 00:23:37.409 --> 00:23:38.929 I watch that every year. 00:23:39.089 --> 00:23:40.449 I'm like, okay. 00:23:40.929 --> 00:23:41.250 Uh-huh. 00:23:43.329 --> 00:23:45.730 I guess that absence makes the heart grow fonder. 00:23:45.889 --> 00:23:46.129 April. 00:23:46.369 --> 00:23:49.889 Well, Julianne said we're gonna be doing a nursing home, you know that. 00:23:50.049 --> 00:23:54.689 I go, yeah, well, you know, maybe we'll ride our wheelchairs around and do it anyway. 00:23:55.009 --> 00:23:55.250 Why not? 00:23:55.329 --> 00:23:55.649 Why not? 00:23:56.369 --> 00:23:56.529 Yeah. 00:23:58.609 --> 00:23:59.250 There we go. 00:23:59.490 --> 00:24:00.129 Yeah, yeah. 00:24:00.289 --> 00:24:04.369 Well, let's let's let's do talk about your growing season here. 00:24:04.609 --> 00:24:09.649 Bring us to the farm, and you so you've you've you've got it all wrapped up, right? 00:24:09.809 --> 00:24:15.409 I think you said you were trying to do a little recreational tillage today, but it just didn't seem right. 00:24:15.730 --> 00:24:18.449 No, it no, the old disc wasn't taking her. 00:24:18.609 --> 00:24:19.490 So yeah. 00:24:19.730 --> 00:24:23.329 I and we've had rain, rain, rain, rain again. 00:24:23.490 --> 00:24:27.250 So I finished combining before the rain, but here it is. 00:24:27.409 --> 00:24:28.209 Drum roll. 00:24:28.289 --> 00:24:31.409 I had the best yields I've ever had by 20 bushel. 00:24:32.049 --> 00:24:35.250 I mean, yes, we got the rains at the right time. 00:24:35.569 --> 00:24:38.929 I had one bean field go 84 bushel an acre. 00:24:39.089 --> 00:24:45.169 My average is gonna be well over what USDA says I'm supposed to have. 00:24:45.329 --> 00:24:50.209 So, and the corn, I think I'm bumping 250 for an average. 00:24:50.289 --> 00:24:52.689 I've never had those kind of yields before. 00:24:53.009 --> 00:24:56.209 So, and so my husband says, Well, what's that mean? 00:24:56.369 --> 00:25:00.289 And I said, Means I yielded my way out of poverty this year. 00:25:00.769 --> 00:25:07.969 So I mean, the prices with all the inputs so high, it's been really hard to manage, you know. 00:25:08.209 --> 00:25:15.569 And I thought the weather was gonna get us, but I had a guy from I don't know if I can say this, but BASF out. 00:25:16.049 --> 00:25:20.929 He I think I did a podcast with him and he sat in the tractor with me. 00:25:21.169 --> 00:25:26.929 Anyway, we went out to the field and I'm like, oh, I mean, I was like the rest of the farmers. 00:25:27.409 --> 00:25:33.009 Oh, these these ears aren't very big and not gonna have a good yield, it's gonna be average or below. 00:25:33.169 --> 00:25:41.569 I was whining like typical farmer, and he goes, April, you have 34,000 plants here. 00:25:42.049 --> 00:25:45.809 You have 16 around and almost 40 long. 00:25:46.049 --> 00:25:47.490 You're gonna be okay. 00:25:47.569 -->

00:25:49.409 Yeah, and uh he was right. 00:25:49.569 --> 00:25:50.449 I didn't believe him. 00:25:50.529 --> 00:25:57.809 I went, okay, you know, I was whining, but most everyone in my area is very, very happy with their yields. 00:25:57.969 --> 00:26:05.409 Now I've talked to guys in close to Illinois, southern, southeast Iowa that are 20 below. 00:26:05.649 --> 00:26:09.169 So and and and I know Illinois the same way. 00:26:09.329 --> 00:26:12.929 Northern half did crappy, southern half did really good. 00:26:13.089 --> 00:26:18.449 So, you know, it's just where you were, and I hit the hit the jackpot this year. 00:26:18.529 --> 00:26:31.329 So well about about what time of year was that when you had that that conversation with that podcaster who well the ears, the ears had to be no, he was just a rep rep from we were doing it for somebody else. 00:26:31.490 --> 00:26:32.369 Just chill. 00:26:32.849 --> 00:26:36.129 God, you know you're not the only person. 00:26:38.209 --> 00:26:40.449 I get around my Davis. 00:26:41.889 --> 00:26:43.490 Well, that didn't sound good, did it? 00:26:44.849 --> 00:26:46.449 We can we can edit all that out. 00:26:46.529 --> 00:26:47.329 We can edit it out. 00:26:48.289 --> 00:26:49.809 Well, that's all right, you don't have to. 00:26:51.490 --> 00:26:57.730 I had to have ears on there, so I think it was probably August, September-ish, you know. 00:26:58.129 --> 00:27:19.649 Because it seemed like just everywhere, and you know, I think back to the to the pro farmer crop tour, it feels like you know, when they were out there, their results kind of felt like uh the the low point of yield expectations, and now here we are expecting you know almost 10 bushel an acre better than what we expected then. 00:27:19.730 --> 00:27:23.329 Some people are expecting 10 bushel an acre better than what they found in August. 00:27:23.490 --> 00:27:27.809 And I I just wonder, it it sounds like you didn't see that coming from a mile away. 00:27:28.129 --> 00:27:31.409 Not in a and no none of my neighbors did either. 00:27:31.569 --> 00:27:35.889 I mean, we're all talking, yeah no, it's gonna be okay, you know. 00:27:36.049 --> 00:27:41.329 Yeah, well, we might make money this year, you know, but that's typical farmers, so sure. 00:27:41.569 --> 00:27:50.769 Um, but no, I think I've always known never discount September rains for soybeans because it fills that top part off. 00:27:51.329 --> 00:27:54.929 Those it fills those pods up on top, and boy, it sure did this year. 00:27:55.009 --> 00:27:58.129 I did have some go down a little bit. 00:27:58.289 --> 00:28:06.289 We had a little bit of that problem, but I mean they still yielded dang near 60, so I'm not gonna whine, you know. 00:28:06.529 --> 00:28:10.849 Well, I will because I'm a woman and a farmer, double whining. 00:28:12.049 --> 00:28:14.849 Well, but what did you do? 00:28:15.089 --> 00:28:20.529 Did you do anything different this year other than a rain dance in September, apparently? 00:28:20.849 --> 00:28:24.289 No, no, I didn't, and I think that's what really helped. 00:28:24.449 --> 00:28:31.409 A lot of people were cutting back on P and K, you know, cutting back on not do it, just cutting back because of the cost of everything. 00:28:31.649 --> 00:28:34.529 And I said, That I am not gonna do that. 00:28:34.689 --> 00:28:38.689 I saw my corn on corn got side dressed, and that really helps. 00:28:38.929 --> 00:28:40.609 Yeah, helped me anyway. 00:28:40.769 --> 00:28:47.250 And I have the I have the soils to do corn on corn, so but no, I didn't and didn't cut back. 00:28:47.490 --> 00:28:52.049 I just approached it the same way as always, and I think that's what really helped. 00:28:52.209 --> 00:29:04.929 I think it's those timely rains in June, July, and August, you know, the inch a week we always say, but I mean we had a little dry spell, but I I'm not gonna complain. 00:29:05.009 --> 00:29:07.169 And we all said you came out of it fine, yeah. 00:29:07.409 --> 00:29:14.689 We we did, and we thought since it was so hot in July and August, that we thought, oh, that's really gonna ding it. 00:29:14.769 --> 00:29:18.449 But corn likes that hot weather, so yeah. 00:29:19.089 --> 00:29:21.649 So you did uh did pretty darn good. 00:29:21.730 --> 00:29:27.009 You were blessed this year, and and just sort of stuck with your usual program. 00:29:28.209 --> 00:29:32.449 Too soon 41 years, too soon to talk about 2027. 00:29:32.929 --> 00:29:36.289 Do you plan to just sort of stick with the program again? 00:29:36.449 --> 00:29:37.809 Are you doing anything fancy? 00:29:37.969 --> 00:29:42.369 Anything no, no, no, no, no fanciness. 00:29:42.529 --> 00:29:43.409 Yeah, yeah. 00:29:43.730 --> 00:29:45.730 No fanciness is the sounds. 00:29:47.730 --> 00:29:51.490 I would love to buy another different combine, but I'm not gonna do that. 00:29:51.649 --> 00:29:53.169 And you know, yeah. 00:29:53.329 --> 00:29:54.289 So yeah. 00:29:54.449 --> 00:29:56.209 No, I'm yeah. 00:29:56.529 --> 00:30:12.529 I think I recall in Purdue University's latest sentiment, the Ag Economy Barometer, they were asking respondents if now was a good time to be making capital investments, and the answer was yes, just not on machinery or buildings. 00:30:12.769 --> 00:30:15.809 Does that sort of match match what you're hearing? 00:30:16.769 --> 00:30:22.609 Yes, but we have had a couple farms go up for sale, not attached to us, but close by. 00:30:22.689 --> 00:30:25.889 And I said, look at my husband, I go, Well, you want me to bid on it? 00:30:26.369 --> 00:30:30.049 It was uh no came out of his mouth very, very quickly. 00:30:30.289 --> 00:30:34.929 So I'm not buying any farm ground, and it actually went pretty darn high, I think. 00:30:35.009 --> 00:30:36.129 In the 13,000. 00:30:36.289 --> 00:30:43.730 So yeah, yeah, so it's still going good, you know, and that and that wasn't a very good farm. 00:30:43.889 --> 00:30:45.809 I mean, it was okay, but

not great. 00:30:46.049 --> 00:30:53.169 So, you know, somebody else wanted it more than the next person bidding, so just takes two bidders, so yeah, yeah. 00:30:53.329 --> 00:30:55.169 How'd you do booking diesel this year? 00:30:55.409 --> 00:31:03.409 Because I talked to somebody who hit the jackpot and just had decided to get completely crazy back in January and just bought it all back in the world. 00:31:03.569 --> 00:31:04.129 Well, that was broke. 00:31:05.409 --> 00:31:09.969 And he's like, I don't know what got into me because I never do that, but I did. 00:31:10.449 --> 00:31:17.889 Uh well, and almost ever I just do hand-to-mouth or tank to tank, however, you say that. 00:31:18.049 --> 00:31:30.049 So I because diesel, you know, I'm not a huge farmer, so that's never been one of my top expenses, but most everybody I've talked to booked ahead of time, so they weren't running into it. 00:31:30.209 --> 00:31:39.250 I just talked to my diesel guy showed up the other day, and they were they were limiting people. 00:31:39.409 --> 00:31:48.929 See, and that's the biggest thing that we were worried about as farmers is are we gonna be able to get it, let alone pay double what we're used to, you know? 00:31:49.169 --> 00:31:55.649 And so they were they were rationing some of it, and then somebody else said deaf what they couldn't get deaf. 00:31:56.209 --> 00:31:57.809 And I just went, geez. 00:31:58.369 --> 00:32:11.889 So I didn't run into that, and not not a lot of the people I did, and and they said you probably wouldn't have known it because they only rationed the really the bigger guys, you know, if they hadn't booked it. 00:32:12.049 --> 00:32:28.769 So so anyway, so no, it was I was okay, you know, and my corn was dry, so it went, you know, really fast, and I don't do a lot of fall tillage, so you know that's why I just don't get crazy and book ahead of time. 00:32:29.009 --> 00:32:29.969 Yeah, yeah. 00:32:30.209 --> 00:32:32.289 Do you you gonna do fall P and K? 00:32:33.569 --> 00:32:34.689 It went on today. 00:32:34.929 --> 00:32:36.049 Ah, excellent. 00:32:36.529 --> 00:32:37.649 Yeah, all right. 00:32:38.209 --> 00:32:40.529 Well they put it on today. 00:32:40.769 --> 00:32:43.490 I was gonna ask you what your what's your next priorities are. 00:32:43.569 --> 00:32:43.889 I don't know. 00:32:43.969 --> 00:32:47.569 It sounds like a pumpkin spice latte, maybe is your next priority. 00:32:47.809 --> 00:32:48.689 Does that sound about right? 00:32:49.169 --> 00:32:52.209 No, I was thinking more like a beer, but whatever. 00:32:53.809 --> 00:32:55.490 Y'all gets awful thirsty. 00:32:58.209 --> 00:33:00.609 Well, and well, you could have come help me. 00:33:00.929 --> 00:33:05.490 You should have seen, I should send you the picture of me yesterday blowing the combine off. 00:33:05.730 --> 00:33:10.929 It was not goggles, mask, had my hood around and everything. 00:33:11.169 --> 00:33:17.569 Oh, it's because it was so dry when I finished

that yeah, it was a very dusty, dusty. 00:33:17.969 --> 00:33:21.809 You got her all got her all shined up in parts now, or you got to do an election, yeah. 00:33:22.049 --> 00:33:31.169 No, no, it goes it it it gets to go visit my John Deere dealer either this thought later or next year. 00:33:31.250 --> 00:33:33.730 So I I take it in every other year. 00:33:33.889 --> 00:33:38.449 She's she's old, she's getting old and needs help, and you know, yeah. 00:33:38.609 --> 00:33:40.929 And my LI guys treat me pretty good. 00:33:41.009 --> 00:33:45.250 So you sound you sound very affectionate towards your your combine there. 00:33:46.369 --> 00:33:48.529 Any chance it's expensive. 00:33:48.849 --> 00:33:50.129 Any chance, well, yeah. 00:33:50.369 --> 00:33:51.969 Any chance you've named your combine? 00:33:52.129 --> 00:33:53.969 Are you one of these people that use your machinery? 00:33:54.129 --> 00:33:55.250 No, yeah, no, no. 00:33:55.490 --> 00:33:58.769 I have a tractor named Leonard because that's who I bought it from. 00:33:59.009 --> 00:33:59.969 Now we're getting somewhere. 00:34:00.049 --> 00:34:00.449 What is it? 00:34:00.609 --> 00:34:03.809 Yeah, it's a 8320. 00:34:04.049 --> 00:34:04.369 Okay. 00:34:05.009 --> 00:34:16.050 And the banker showed up, and if you'd have to know Leonard, but Leonard would like use a tractor and then wash it and vacuum it out, and you know, babied it. 00:34:16.130 --> 00:34:17.089 It's a neighbor. 00:34:17.409 --> 00:34:26.849 And my John Deere guy who knows my deep dark secrets of all the equipment that I really want, goes, I know you want an 8330, but I got 8320. 00:34:27.009 --> 00:34:31.730 I'm like, he goes, it's Leonard's, and I go, show me the way. 00:34:32.529 --> 00:34:34.049 So the banker shows up. 00:34:34.210 --> 00:34:36.690 I'm out in the field and I go, There's your new tractor. 00:34:36.929 --> 00:34:39.170 He goes, Well, how many horsepower is it? 00:34:39.409 --> 00:34:40.769 I go, I don't know. 00:34:40.929 --> 00:34:41.969 It's Leonard's. 00:34:42.210 --> 00:34:43.170 And then he told me. 00:34:43.489 --> 00:34:45.089 And he goes, Well, yeah, is it? 00:34:45.489 --> 00:34:45.969 I don't know. 00:34:46.049 --> 00:34:47.009 It's Leonard's. 00:34:47.089 --> 00:34:48.529 And he goes, Well, it looks brand new. 00:34:48.610 --> 00:34:50.849 I said, I know it was Leonard's. 00:34:51.009 --> 00:34:52.289 That's why I bought it. 00:34:52.529 --> 00:34:54.929 And I said, Obviously, you don't know Leonard. 00:34:55.009 --> 00:34:56.529 And he goes, Nope. 00:34:57.089 --> 00:34:58.849 But if he takes that care. 00:34:59.009 --> 00:35:01.089 So yeah, that's that's the only one. 00:35:01.250 --> 00:35:12.449 My 80, I have an 8130, and that one we didn't name it, Cody, but I got got it because my former PMS was whining about driving the old 4850. 00:35:12.529 --> 00:35:14.690 As you can tell, I have a John Deere dealer nearby. 00:35:15.009 --> 00:35:17.409 I'm like, oh my God, okay, fine. 00:35:17.489 -->

00:35:19.170 I'll get you another tractor. 00:35:21.329 --> 00:35:23.329 April giveth and April taketh away. 00:35:23.569 --> 00:35:23.650 Yes. 00:35:23.809 --> 00:35:25.089 That's what it sounds like to me. 00:35:25.650 --> 00:35:27.409 Smaller pond, but you can have a tractor. 00:35:27.650 --> 00:35:29.569 That's right, but you can have a tractor. 00:35:30.289 --> 00:35:31.170 Well, good. 00:35:32.289 --> 00:35:36.449 We're gonna move on here pretty quick, and I'll I'll cut you loose after a little bit here. 00:35:36.610 --> 00:35:51.329 But we're coming up on meeting season, and it always seems like you know, I can remember times you'd you'd come through and I'd be interviewing you, you'd be like, Oh, I just got back from Pakistan, or I was in, you know, I was in Rio for a week or I don't even know. 00:35:51.409 --> 00:35:54.049 I I can't get all the things. 00:35:54.210 --> 00:35:56.289 Yeah, so I probably wasn't real, yeah. 00:35:56.610 --> 00:35:57.650 You got big plans? 00:35:57.809 --> 00:35:59.170 See, you don't even remember. 00:35:59.329 --> 00:36:02.769 No, what an amazing part of your career you've had. 00:36:03.089 --> 00:36:14.529 Yeah, no, I'm off all those boards now, and then once you get off big national boards, people find out, and then they go, Oh, can you do this? 00:36:14.690 --> 00:36:16.289 So I just found out today. 00:36:16.529 --> 00:36:20.929 Yeah, I just found out today I'm on the Iowa FFA Foundation board. 00:36:21.009 --> 00:36:22.929 And I went, Okay, that's a good thing. 00:36:23.809 --> 00:36:25.250 Yeah, yeah, it really is. 00:36:25.409 --> 00:36:27.809 I'm I'm really looking forward to that one, you know. 00:36:27.969 --> 00:36:29.170 No travel involved. 00:36:29.329 --> 00:36:35.409 I am going to Europe with my two sisters and niece in December, so that'll be fun. 00:36:35.489 --> 00:36:37.489 So yeah, be a rowdy time. 00:36:37.889 --> 00:36:45.170 Well, well, yeah, well, I'm gonna have to drink through it a lot of it, you know, to put up with my sisters, but that's okay. 00:36:45.409 --> 00:36:48.049 I hear that's the uh the best remedy for jet lag. 00:36:48.929 --> 00:36:49.650 Is that right? 00:36:49.809 --> 00:36:52.369 Yeah, a good stout Guinness first thing in the morning. 00:36:52.529 --> 00:36:54.769 I usually have it in the plane and then go. 00:36:56.210 --> 00:36:57.250 Were you in FFA? 00:36:57.329 --> 00:36:59.170 I was a 4-Hour yes in FFA. 00:37:00.690 --> 00:37:07.170 I was the first, I always tell the story, the first class of girls to go through FFA in our school. 00:37:07.329 --> 00:37:10.449 No kidding from freshman to senior, yeah. 00:37:10.610 --> 00:37:17.650 They only allowed girls in uh 1975, I think it was, or something. 00:37:17.969 --> 00:37:19.489 You can't be that old. 00:37:19.809 --> 00:37:20.529 Oh, yeah, yeah. 00:37:20.610 --> 00:37:21.650 Yeah, no possible. 00:37:21.889 --> 00:37:25.489 So, no, I mean I was a yeah, I was a freshman in 75. 00:37:25.650 --> 00:37:27.809 No, I was a yeah, anyway. 00:37:28.929 --> 00:37:30.289 Yeah, 1975. 00:37:30.769 --> 00:37:36.449 So, so yeah, so we had five girls and our ag teacher who I loved dearly. 00:37:36.610 --> 00:37:41.730 He was an old crotchety guy, which you know, I I get along with those guys. 00:37:41.969 --> 00:37:45.969 He goes, I don't know what to do with you women or girls. 00:37:46.130 --> 00:37:47.250 I don't know what to do with you. 00:37:47.569 --> 00:37:54.369 So he goes, I said, and we had shop then, ag shop, you know, you learn how to weld and do all that other stuff. 00:37:54.529 --> 00:37:58.369 And he goes, I am not putting you in that shop with those animals. 00:37:58.529 --> 00:37:59.730 And I go, but Mr. 00:37:59.809 --> 00:38:01.809 Flynn, I want to know how to weld. 00:38:01.889 --> 00:38:02.849 And he goes, No. 00:38:03.730 --> 00:38:07.089 I never forgave him for that, and I never learned how to weld. 00:38:07.409 --> 00:38:07.730 Ever. 00:38:08.610 --> 00:38:13.969 Oh, I have a welder, I want a welder, but you know, I can do this, you know. 00:38:14.369 --> 00:38:14.610 Sure. 00:38:15.089 --> 00:38:16.929 Yeah, I can tap things together. 00:38:17.489 --> 00:38:18.210 Those things, yeah. 00:38:18.289 --> 00:38:19.009 The shields, yeah. 00:38:19.650 --> 00:38:20.690 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:38:20.849 --> 00:38:24.210 Either that or I just if I have to tap something, I just close my eyes, you know. 00:38:24.369 --> 00:38:28.529 So wow, you you're a real farmer, you're the real deal. 00:38:28.849 --> 00:38:36.529 I'm totally you've been breaking ground since 1975 for women in agriculture. 00:38:36.769 --> 00:38:39.809 Seriously, that's quite a track record, April. 00:38:39.969 --> 00:38:40.289 Yep. 00:38:40.449 --> 00:38:44.449 No, we had, yes, I was we did parliamentary procedure. 00:38:44.529 --> 00:38:48.369 I was the secretary, and you know, it was it was fun. 00:38:48.449 --> 00:38:56.210 I always we just had a really good time, and when you're blessed with a good teacher, that makes all the difference in the world. 00:38:56.449 --> 00:38:57.489 Yeah, yeah. 00:38:57.809 --> 00:38:59.170 Well, we're gonna move on. 00:38:59.250 --> 00:39:00.449 I want to talk about the weather. 00:39:00.610 --> 00:39:03.809 We've got some items of mild interest here, and then I'm gonna cut you loose. 00:39:03.889 --> 00:39:08.449 But before we do, okay, I just I want to open up the floor to you, April. 00:39:08.529 --> 00:39:13.650 Maybe maybe you don't want this time, maybe you don't know what to do with it, maybe you do. 00:39:15.089 --> 00:39:22.210 I just want to just open it up for you to talk about agriculture, maybe women in agriculture, farming, markets. 00:39:22.369 --> 00:39:29.250 If there's anything else that you feel like you want to say here, I'm just gonna surrender the big blue bodacious microphone. 00:39:29.329 --> 00:39:30.529 I do have an egg timer. 00:39:30.690 --> 00:39:31.650 Maybe I'm too far out. 00:39:31.730 --> 00:39:33.409 You can't maybe

can't see it. 00:39:34.130 --> 00:39:34.769 I won't wind up. 00:39:36.289 --> 00:39:43.730 I will wind this up if I have to, but now the moment I would just exit stage left. 00:39:44.130 --> 00:39:50.929 No, I would just ask, let's let's if I was gonna pop up on the top of your noggin, what would it maybe would I find in there? 00:39:51.409 --> 00:39:59.969 Well, of course, most recently people spoke with their voting, which I'm really glad people got out and voted. 00:40:00.369 --> 00:40:03.089 Kind of amazing what happened around the world. 00:40:03.250 --> 00:40:12.130 I just hope that we have farmers there or people that really represent ag and get our voices out there. 00:40:12.289 --> 00:40:23.250 And if we don't get your butts out of the tractor, share your views with your newly elected people in DC because that's very important. 00:40:23.409 --> 00:40:29.170 And you know, I it's a lot of them are so far removed from the farm they have no idea. 00:40:29.329 --> 00:40:31.650 So we really need to use our voices for that. 00:40:32.289 --> 00:40:38.289 Women and I don't know, I I have a great group of friends that really support me. 00:40:38.529 --> 00:40:48.289 And if whenever people say, Oh, she doesn't farm or she farms with her husband, you know, my friends and family are the first to say, Yeah, she farms, you know. 00:40:48.529 --> 00:40:50.690 So so you know, that's been great. 00:40:50.929 --> 00:40:55.730 But yeah, and the markets, what a year for markets. 00:40:55.889 --> 00:41:14.049 I mean, you just uh when you have a president that you know leads by social media and you never know what's gonna happen on the weekends, you know, and that and that affected our markets a lot, you know. 00:41:14.289 --> 00:41:19.170 So I sold a lot before the weekend sometimes and did pretty good. 00:41:19.329 --> 00:41:22.769 I averaged pretty good strategy on my marketing. 00:41:22.849 --> 00:41:28.289 Yeah, well, somebody else said that, you know, before he goes on his rants, and it could be positive or negative, right? 00:41:28.449 --> 00:41:41.650 You know, you never know, but that's what we had a women's marketing group and we talked about before reports came out, and you go sell a little if you don't know, sell a little before, a little after, or you can sell more or less after, you know. 00:41:41.969 --> 00:41:51.489 And the number one thing, always remember when somebody asks you what you sold it for, lie, or let them lie first, and then you have a bigger number. 00:41:51.569 --> 00:41:54.130 So you keep it close to the vest. 00:41:54.289 --> 00:41:55.009 April 10th. 00:41:55.809 --> 00:41:58.289 It looks like you got a really nice sunshiny day out there. 00:41:58.369 --> 00:41:59.889 I can see the window behind you. 00:42:00.210 --> 00:42:05.969 Yeah, um, you're uh north ish, central-ish Iowa. 00:42:06.449 --> 00:42:07.250 Yeah, yeah. 00:42:08.369 --> 00:42:14.289 Well, I hope you get a chance to get out there and and do some of that tilling,

even if it is just just a little bit, just for fun. 00:42:15.089 --> 00:42:15.409 Yeah. 00:42:15.889 --> 00:42:16.610 I hope you get to. 00:42:17.089 --> 00:42:22.449 Let me check in with the National Weather Service, and then we're gonna get to a couple of items of mild interest, and then we're done. 00:42:22.849 --> 00:42:33.969 The National Weather Service says later on Wednesday to Thursday morning, a drastic change in the weather pattern will set the stage for a cold air mass to surge into the eastern half of the country. 00:42:34.049 --> 00:42:38.210 This cold surge will work in concert with a low pressure wave, yada yada yada. 00:42:38.449 --> 00:42:43.329 Uh weather talk, northern plains tonight, reaching into the Appalachians by Thursday morning. 00:42:43.489 --> 00:42:48.849 Midwest to the Ohio and Tennessee valleys could also expect embedded thunderstorms and gusty winds. 00:42:48.929 --> 00:42:53.889 It sounds like the uh the weather's gonna change a little bit with some thunderstorms ahead of it in the Midwest. 00:42:54.210 --> 00:42:58.849 Upper Great Lakes could see wet snow by Thursday morning. 00:42:59.009 --> 00:43:00.690 All right, the S word. 00:43:01.170 --> 00:43:02.130 I did, I did. 00:43:02.289 --> 00:43:04.529 I was just I just read it, you know. 00:43:04.690 --> 00:43:05.489 I don't write it. 00:43:05.650 --> 00:43:08.610 It's the National Weather Service, and it's wet snow, too. 00:43:08.849 --> 00:43:10.130 Yeah, but it's nasty. 00:43:13.250 --> 00:43:15.329 Yeah, no, yeah, yeah. 00:43:15.650 --> 00:43:23.969 In 1775, the United States Marine Corps was founded at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia. 00:43:25.089 --> 00:43:25.969 Samuel Nichols. 00:43:26.049 --> 00:43:27.329 Yeah, I thought you might like that. 00:43:27.889 --> 00:43:28.369 I do. 00:43:28.769 --> 00:43:29.009 Thank you. 00:43:29.329 --> 00:43:34.929 Obviously, with the my my granddad was uh was in the Marine Corps in World War II out in the South Pacific. 00:43:35.170 --> 00:43:35.409 Really? 00:43:35.809 --> 00:43:36.210 Wow. 00:43:36.449 --> 00:43:40.929 Uh Sesame Street was first broadcast in 1969 in April. 00:43:41.009 --> 00:43:45.009 You may find this hard to believe, and I confirmed this with my mother on the telephone just this morning. 00:43:45.170 --> 00:43:52.289 I was not allowed to watch Sesame Street when I was a lad back in the 70s because uh it made me too excited. 00:43:53.409 --> 00:43:54.449 I could watch Mr. 00:43:54.529 --> 00:43:54.929 Rogers. 00:43:55.170 --> 00:43:56.289 Who was your favorite? 00:43:57.170 --> 00:43:58.529 Uh on Sesame Street? 00:43:58.690 --> 00:43:58.849 Yeah. 00:43:59.009 --> 00:43:59.969 I was a Grover guy. 00:44:00.049 --> 00:44:00.849 I liked Grover. 00:44:01.089 --> 00:44:01.170 Oh. 00:44:01.569 --> 00:44:02.849 See, and he was the craziest one too. 00:44:04.210 --> 00:44:04.849 You know what I mean? 00:44:05.650 --> 00:44:06.529 Well, that's the other one. 00:44:06.849 --> 00:44:07.969 Oh, that'd be the Muppet Show. 00:44:08.130 --> 00:44:12.929 And I was a little older by then, and so I was able to control myself a little better with the Muppet Show. 00:44:13.409 --> 00:44:20.049 And in 1978, I'm sure you've been here, Badlands National Park established on this date in 1978. 00:44:20.449 --> 00:44:22.449 I just had a college reunion there. 00:44:22.929 --> 00:44:24.449 I took I took this picture here. 00:44:24.529 --> 00:44:26.929 Um, you can't see my dog is standing by my feet. 00:44:27.170 --> 00:44:30.929 Of course, you can't see my face picture, but uh but there it is. 00:44:31.089 --> 00:44:33.569 Uh covers 381 square miles. 00:44:33.809 --> 00:44:42.210 Does Badlands National Park eroded buttes, pinnacles, and spires, as well as its preserved mixed grass prairie. 00:44:42.369 --> 00:44:43.489 April Hemetz. 00:44:43.569 --> 00:44:49.969 Uh, it was too long since you and I last spoke, and I'm really glad that I got a chance to sneak into your schedule today. 00:44:50.130 --> 00:44:54.449 Be uh, all of your diplomatic efforts and your hobnobbery. 00:44:54.690 --> 00:44:55.650 That's really great. 00:44:55.809 --> 00:44:57.730 Thank you so much for being here today, April. 00:44:57.969 --> 00:44:59.889 Thanks for inviting me anytime. 00:45:00.210 --> 00:45:03.170 Once again, April Hemetz, Iowa Farmer. 00:45:03.569 --> 00:45:05.009 Right here on AgSquawk. 00:45:05.170 --> 00:45:09.569 Let me direct you to AgBull.com where you can dig deeper with AgBull Intel. 00:45:09.650 --> 00:45:12.369 Take your marketing by the horns with EggBull. 00:45:12.690 --> 00:45:17.329 Visit AgBull.com or call 855-737 Farm for the details. 00:45:17.489 --> 00:45:23.170 Check out the Eggbull Premium Services or dig into Weesmeyer's premium information as well. 00:45:23.409 --> 00:45:24.690 Agbull.com. 00:45:25.329 --> 00:45:32.929 Agbull AM will have the morning calls bright and early tomorrow morning, and I'll deliver a quick news hit tomorrow afternoon and make sure we aren't missing anything. 00:45:33.009 --> 00:45:35.809 Y'all come back tomorrow for more Egg Squawk.