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Andy "aTrippyFarmer" Dole is a 6th generation farmer from Central Illinois. On this farm, Andy works alongside his father, Marty, his uncles, Chris and Jeff, and his sister, Katie, to grow corn and soybeans on some of the finest dirt in the world. Andy and his family are deeply rooted in the area, operating a large farm that traces it origins back into the 1800s. Although some tracts did not stand the test of time, Andy and his family still grow corn and soybeans on fields that have been in the family for longer than even the oldest members of the farm have been alive. We do, we have, and we always will take tremendous pride in calling this piece of paradise our home. Andy was a Bronze Tablet graduate of the University of Illinois in the field of Crop Sciences, following the same path as his father and late grandfather.
It would be misleading for Andy to claim that this life is one that came by chance; rather, as a member of two multi-generational farm families, it was simply in his blood. His passion for agriculture traces back to his early youth--some of his fondest, earliest memories being of days spent riding in the combine with his father and grandfather. Although his understanding of the lifestyle was much less complex in the beginning, the love he has for farming, and its industry has only appreciated through time. As this dream blossomed into adulthood, Andy now works relentlessly, and tirelessly, to chase his own dreams and to build a farming operation of his own alongside his family.
We, as a whole operation, are handymen, electricians, mechanics, landscapers, accountants, economists, caretakers, stewards, and, most importantly, farmers, and we take an incredible amount of pride in our work. There is no challenge too overwhelming, no situation too stressful, and no problem too difficult for us to take on, and we want to take you along with us. Welcome to our farm and welcome to our lives. You have the best seat in the house to watch the everyday chaos of farming unfold--we usually only get concerned when things aren't going wrong!
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Andy, these big huge companies that are buying up car dealerships by the dozen are not good news for the consumer. You said it best, it gives us less options. The trend of consolidation in literally every business does not bode well for consumers. Grocery stores are one giant example of this. Less competition means better price control for the owners of these megatron chains. I fully expect this whole shift to consolidate to end in a disaster for the people buying up everything that ain't nailed down. The massive amount of debt they're taking on will come home to haunt them, it always does.
Meh
Farms do the same thing. Farms that were five or six hundred acres 40 years ago are now three, four thousand, even ten thousand acres . That land didn't magically appear; larger farms buy smaller nearby farms when they can
@@davedammitt7691 Tell that to the fertilizer companies. Let's see, how many X has urea gone up from just 5 years ago with all the consolidation in that sector???? I'll let you take a guess, and it's way more than tripled.
@@davedammitt7691what started that trend was Carter in the late seventies. And early 80’s when interest rates were almost 20%. I was a kid but I remember it well. Farm sales where equipment brought nothing. I remember all the small farms and in our area, most are gone now, but the farms are named for them. My Dad and uncle got lucky, survived and grew. So have my brother and I. And now it’s our kids turn.
I think it all depends on the uniformity and quantity of the product that they are selling/providing. Farming is tough because every farm can sell the same corn, even farmers in different countries. That has allowed the game to stay very cheap from an output side. Car dealerships, equipment manufacturers, etc.. all sell products that are limited in supply and artificially controlled in production. It allows the consolidation to become more profitable. You could never have that with corn, for example.
With that being said, the scary part is that some of these farms, these dealerships, these businesses, etc.. have access to way more capital than anyone else. They may or may not have made incredible amounts of money over the years from the business or outside investment, so continued expansion is a safe use of their assets.
@@aTrippyFarmer Andy, the huge difference between now and pre Biden is the cost of money has gone up exponentially. Even top borrowers from gigantic institutions are paying a great deal more now. You can't just keep expanding without going into huge debt. The interest you pay now as compared to the QE free money is substantial as you know. I don't think anyone as a consumer has benefited from all this consolidation. The fert companies are just one example in your business. The less competition, the more fixed the prices become. HAving traded on the floors in Chicago my entire adult life, I learned that supply and demand ain't always what it's supposed to be. That an entire different discussion though. Cheers buddy, I hope the crop is healthy. We're supposed to get some rain up here west of Chicago this week. We need it.
Thirty years ago, the home farm where I live now, was farm #2 at the then ASCS office in Bremer County Iowa. Dad was pretty proud of that. We have since combined the farm and the neighboring farm when we purchased it. Then a new farm number was issued to us. Dad was disappointed to lose that #2.
It's funny the things that you take pride in, even if they aren't really that important. It's pretty neat that you had that farm number!
Andy, Illinois passed a law providing eminent domain to internet providers to all right of ways where existing power lines exist. They don't have to ask or even notify. The provider Conexes (?) done all of Casey, Greenup and Toledo without any notifications. The City of Casey threw a fit and tried to stop them to no avail. The law is called (I think) Connect Illinois.
Ahhh that makes perfect sense. I was confused why our local water company has to fight tooth and nail for easements while there is multiple internet lines runs all over. Thanks for the explanation!
I have to agree, for the consumer/customer, bigger is normally not better.
Competition is good for the customer.
Right on @bladwiper
223 does a killer job of keeping raccoons away :)
I need to night vision!
I think Sloans needed to make a move because they have been sliding down the size rankings. Without a doubt Deere has been pushing for all this consolidation, and Deere decides who gets to expand. It's getting hard to be a Deere loyalist given how they are treating the customers.
It was a no brainer for their territory to add these dealerships. Sloan's actually has a dealership in the middle of the Alliance Stores.
Happy Birthday Graham🎉
Thank you!
I’m glad to see you guys planted some Beck’s out there!
We have a nice little chunk of Beck's.
G’job Andy, hate to see ma and pa businesses of any kind go away. Hope little man has a good Bday…take care and keep em comin 🇺🇸
I should've clarified... they weren't a small dealership, even with just 4 stores. They had to have had every bit of 75+ employees working for them from parts, service, sales, and support. It just felt special because we had worked with the family for so long!
Hope your dealer situation goes better than ours. We had a locally owned jd dealer, was bought by a bigger group now we are just a number plus it’s poorly run it’s awful!
That sounds terrible. I hope ours goes well and yours gets better!
Mother Deere is pushing the small dealerships out going to be less competition
I don't think Deere forced this one. When Schilling Brothers merged with Vincennes Tractor to form Alliance Tractor, I believe that Deere might've pushed for that.
Trippy, another good vid! Happy birthday to Graham🎂
Appreciate it!
Good luck with fiber being ran! They went through just about what seemed like every gas line in our town… as a volunteer fire fighter it got old getting called to them hitting another line
They didn't hit the 30" natural gas main down the road, so that is a good vote of confidence for them... 🤣
@@aTrippyFarmer is American fiber doing it? They did ours for our little town of Clarksville, based out of effingham I think
@@allenwalters9068 this is being bored in by Gardner out of Mattoon. The fiber company is Seamless Fiber Innovations. I know they've got a bunch to the south of us.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts 😊
I am very good at that!
I buy sweet corn from a local farmer who has a farm stand and his corn is the sweetest I have ever eaten.
It's hard to beat it fresh!!!
Neighbor planted some rye on outside edge of 3 fields 2 beans nother one had something for corn, can still spot it to a t, slowed down dramatically compared to where was conventional tillage
Corn is a very sensitive one for cover crops. I think you have to be very careful with what you choose to use for the cover. I also think you need to run a starter fertilizer. Soybeans are definitely less sensitive to something like rye, but it certainly slows them down some. Like I said, our herbicides also slow them down. You just have to pick your battles carefully. I didn't put a residual on a field of beans for logistical reasons. Those beans were easily 3-4 if not 5-6 days of growth ahead of an adjacent field with a residual. We run very crop safe stuff as well. Zidua SC or tendovo for all soybeans. The only downside was that the no-residual soybeans were flush with waterhemp...
@aTrippyFarmer they ran starter in furrow with 32% in 2x2, yeah residual does slow then down fir sure same neighbor is on 3rd pass on beans for weeds they don't use any pre on beans, they are saying they will be using a pre next year for first time in 4 years time will tell, I think middle of month won't matter will be weeds showing up if forecast actually shows up this week got 7 tenths this am was told
In ND , utilities can run lines in the road right-of-way without land owner permission. Some sort of state law allows it.
That's what someone else said about Illinois. That makes sense!
Sometimes, we have to do what’s best for the soil, may not be the most profitable but, the most responsible. Sloans is growing into a monster-they’ve bought-up virtually all of my local JD dealerships.
They are a big operation!
Happy birthday to you’re son
Thank you!
I think John Deere has encouraged, pressured perhaps, consolidation of dealer ownership for some time now. Such consolidation happened several years ago here in southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina.
I know that the original consolidation may have had some corporate pressure. That was 7-8 years ago at least, and I'm not sure about this one.
Consolidation of JD dealerships took place abut 15 to 20 years ago in Alabama and Georgia. We were told it was to allow dealerships the ability to buy in bulk from JD. Some dealerships now have as many as 20 locations across the southeast. They still have order parts or get them from another location. The quality of service has declined significantly.
QUALITY EQUIPTMENT. In eastern nc
Andy, great video!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I always wait till 100 psi is built up before pushing in any brake buttons
It actually still sticks even if pressure is built. The brakes most likely need a good service.
The consolidation is happening here in New Zealand as well, from what I've heard jd wants there to only be a handful of dealers worldwide, it seems they've chosen Brandt to have all the dealerships in nz. They are already half the way there. And I've heard nothing good about customer service from the dealerships that have been taken over by brandt. I think eventually it will end badly for jd, lots of people have already turned to fendt
I think you are probably right about JD's long term goals. It's easier to keep less people in line. Fendt has a huge opportunity to grow in this market if they can just stick to their own game plan and not copy Deere.
Sunday the one in casey still has alliance on the sign, building had sloans, kinda shocked sign wasn't done
Jeff Sloan said that the signs were ordered back in March but still aren't in.
@aTrippyFarmer wow can't say I'm shocked but that's sad
Amazed a machine of that size and cost isn't completely self greasing
That would be too easy!
That new case Steiger quad track is a beast.
Dont know whos doing the fiber but as a utility worker we have a 6ft easement on all pole lines or ditch lines everywhere. Basic utility rights
I am not fully familiar with the rules and regulations, but that doesn't apply to all utilities. Water companies around here can't just go run waterlines along roads without permission from the landowner.
There is a JD dealer at the Frania exit fairly close to you.
Best way to keep unwanted guests out of sweet corn is 12ga or 20ga never had a unwanted guests come back
That would probably get you in jail in Illinois...not much wiggle room with firearm defense!
Thank Joe for that fiber installation.
Andy if that was a big crow it could have been a raven
I couldn't tell them apart myself!
Buring cable for years. There are easements on all your ground. 99% of the time it's telephone poles to roadway. On every piece of ground in the USA
I just didn't know the easements were universal to different companies.
Tell Uncle Chris to slow down, he's running the wheels off of things! Crops are looking good.
Haha literally!!!
Typical RoGator,,,,, they are cheap for a reason, the booms wear out and come apart. I tried one, and after the first year and about 25,000 acres. Boom had cracks all over it. Would t warranty it. I deep sixed it and went back to a Deere and now I have the carbon fiber booms. Had them two years and not a problem one. They may or may not have had high speed impacts with the ground,,,,
I’ve planted cover crops since the late 90’s. You’re right, there is give and take. It’s does put you behind. Especially on a dry year. However, you are a hundred percent right, the organic matter pays off. I won’t quit doing it. But I quit using rye. It gets too big and rank some years, so I only plant beardless wheat, and hit it with burn down before it heads out.
On the dealership, in my lifetime it’s happened to me 3 times. First was a family owned dealership my dad and granddad dealt with. They sold out to High Plains which was a monster. They ended up closing down and selling off several stores including ours. But two brothers bought it 15 years ago and it’s better than ever. Change is inevitable and nothing stays the same.
Roll with it Marty! If they don’t treat you right, you have options. Just don’t let your boy fall for that imitation green and red wheels!
There are no free rides in this world. It applies to equipment, farming practices...everything! The rogator has been a leader in this area for ages with the coops and retailers. There is also a shop 45 minutes away that is known to be the expert for fixing rogator booms. I'm not sure if that's good or bad.
Change has always been a part of this life. I think, as long as they keep their coffee pot open and free, my dad will still stop in most morning to charge up for the day!
Last week John Deere announced they are moving ALL manufacturing to Mexico.
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Not all... Not even close to all... Actually a very small amount.
That's not entirely true, but you hate for US employees to lose jobs.
The joke is on the mega dealers because eventually the OEM will probably own all dealerships. Personally, I think it would be better if there was a limit of one dealership per owner.
if you can't handle a third of the state John Deere does not want to have a conversation with you period, great great great grandpa started the place they don't care, your customers love you and you turn the greatest profit per piece sold in your territory they don't care
Deere has been playing the long game for a while now based on their equipment/tech portfolio. Investment groups and large funds will own all of the land and Deere will provide the autonomous farming to service it.
Running fiber through the Rural Electric Act
Yeah up here in Michigan where I live you got to drive 100 Mi to get away from a John Deere dealer they're all owned by the same people
Very true. The new model is more about having a monopoly than providing good service.
There is a lot of room in the market for other brands, like Fendt, to step up and take some business.
Milton Township IL ( west suburbs Chicago) handbook states 33 feet from center of road each direction is theirs. Townships being townships I'm betting that you have that 33 feet easement going on. I'm 26 miles straight west of Sears Tower and I have the blistering of 50 gig via ATT.
I live in a small Iowa community (28,000). My lot has a 7’ utilities easement in the back yard and in front the lot is actually a few feet back from the street curb. There is fiber optic being installed in my easement area now. We also have ash trees dying by the hundreds (literally, I called a tree company and he said he had 300 trees in front of me). Luckily the ash tree in my front yard was inside the city owned area so they took it down. I have two more on my lot which I treated for ash boer, so we will see if that saves my trees.
It's also 33 ft from road center line in my county in Florida.
Here in MN, we own to the middle of the road and are taxed on those acres.
@@M8Stealth if you think that's the case, try putting a fence up to the middle of the road and see how that works out for you.
@@davedammitt7691A 160 acre quarter is to the center of the road. I know all too well about renting land from the king.
Hopefully they will be better than what happen to our JD dealers. Hutson bought out most of the JD dealers and service has gone to hell. We still have others that we can deal with but are not as close.
I think the larger dealerships know that they choke out employment completion, meaning that service techs don't have as much room to run to other dealerships.
I am on the red side, but it is a similar story in southwestern Indiana. There was a two store dealer that sold out to a large dealer about four or five years ago. For a period of time Nothing changed, but as time is went on most of the original store owners people have moved on and been replaced by new people that part I have mixed feelings about. There is one single store dealer a county over, but I know that in time he will be bought these big companies like John Deere case IH do not want single store dealers in their network. They want these large dealers because they can control the prices and like you said you have less options where the world I don’t like it either but it is the way it is here as well.
That Fendt sprayer is the same as 1050 Fendt. You run a Fendt you would trade the John Derees . Way better tractors .
I've heard good things about Fendt other than their combines are a bit unreliable.
I think was to dry in May when they were posted for March beans, going to be a losing battle with waterhemp I'm sure. I think 3 weeks will be worse lots of stuff there we can't see yet I'm sure
I think you are right. We are all guilty of waiting too long to post spray these beans. The residuals work, just not forever. We need to start treating everything like it's non-gmo. Spray based on calendar and not when you see a flush of weeds. I let those march beans sit without a post pass for 7ish weeks. They were still fairly clean, but I think there were high pressure spots with too many big waterhemp that liberty wouldn't entirely kill. That's what we are seeing break back through.
@@aTrippyFarmer same I know I got some under cover I can't see yet,
Saturday.
94 is rolling through.
Might get rowdy @ Burger King.
For sure @ The Moose.
Public Service announcement.
Radios provide a nice background noise for the raccoons to dine to lol. Hair clippings don't work either. Hot fence is best or a dog.
That's hilarious about the dining music! 🤣
Ag pro owns most of John Deere dealerships around me and they are terrible.
Consolidation is never good!
Here in upstate NY, jd dealership are being ate up by large ones. Now u can buy a lawn mower from any store but tractors can be only purchased by areas. No way to get better prices, the big get bigger and we the consumer have to eat it if you're loyal to the brand.... Just wrong
There is a lot more competition in the residential lawnmower market than there is in tractors. I can think of 5+ different big lawnmower brands available at different stores in town, but there is only 1 tractor dealership here. It's all sunshine and roses when grain prices are high. When things come back to reality, farmers need to start thinking long term with their money and not just spending it all on outrageously priced equipment. We aren't innocent of that ourselves.
Why don’t you try a weed zapper for your water hemp?
There is no reason to invest in technology like that unless you are committing to organic farming. Unfortunately, that same technology also makes the organic premiums less lucrative because it is becoming easier to grow in terms of weed control.
We lost our local John Deere dealership 20 years ago it was started in the 30s.Owned by the same family.Was sold to quality equiptment most deere dealers in Sc, NC and Va are Quality.Dont like them. As for your fiber you dont up to the roadway there a right of way depending who owns the rd ,cam be 25 to 50 feet from center of roadway on each side of the rd, but if look at the surveys its survey to the center of the rd you pay tax on that right of way but the township or state can do what they want with it no matter what you say.
The only thing that keeps raccoons away are live traps and lead
I have plenty of lead... just need some night vision!
I thought mirivas neo rate was 13.7 Oz an acre, are you seeing a benefit from 17 Oz and where did this recommendation come from?
You are right on the rates. This farm is more of a custom arrangement. The owner is a yield chaser, and he believes that the whole package of added plant health with other foliar nutrients creates a powerful synergism on yield benefit. I don't know exactly where he gathered that, but he knows farming more than most.
@@aTrippyFarmer would love to know what the full recipe is, always trying to learn something.
@@buckeyefarmboy107 this was:
17oz miravis neo
1pt/ac of "calbor"
1qt/ac of "sweet folvic"
4oz/ac of "nano pro"
I couldn't even tell you the company the produces those things, just know how to call the load in. I assume it is calcium, boron, folvic acid, sugar, and some kind of nutrient uptake/product efficiency improver in nano pro. I wouldn't imagine that it is a cheap combination.
@aTrippyFarmer I hope you tell us how it did compared to the rest, we are in a drought here, low prices and low yields equals ?
@@buckeyefarmboy107 I won't have a perfect comparison, but I do share all of our yields throughout harvest. I find it disingenuous for people to talk about all of these products that they use or seeds that they plant from certain companies without ever telling you how things performed at the end of the year.
We got fiber internet. Can’t afford 125.00 a month for it.
That's cheaper than starlink!
Bidens internet across America act. I thought I was stuck with starlink or dialup, but they just ran fiberotic to my house this month.
We can’t afford the internet off the cable now. Price went to the moon
I knew there had to be some federal dollars involved. No way they could run a fiber line to a few customers and justify the install cost.
@@aTrippyFarmer yessir. Spectrum told me 3 years ago when biden made that bill for covid, I'd be getting fiberoptic. They're running it everywhere around here now
They don’t need your permission. It’s an easement. For as much as you talk I’d think you’d know that.
I literally indicate that I was unsure about it. It's a completely different company than the current provider in the area, so there is no way that they would share their private easement with a competitor. Someone else said that Illinois passed a law for internet companies to not need easements to run new fiber.
The boom on those fendt sprayers are super weak
The weaker the are....the cheaper they are to fix? 🤣
I went thru chemo last yr for AML and now yesterday had to take our dog from glen carbon animal hospital to U of I small animal clinic to find out he has cancer. We are looking at shutting down spraying on our farm and either going back old school farming or just take it out of production and grown native grasses or trees. My 6430 came from sloans up your way
Andy you said you game? What are you playing these days?
I don't play nearly as much because of the little kids. I always played a lot of Rocket League, Call of Duty, Halo, and occasionally games like Total War and Civilization. My son and I have played some Minecraft lately, but he is still a bit young to figure it all out.
1 Gbps up and down maybe you can update your farming simulator 😏😂
Haha it wouldn't take too long at that speed!
Regenerative hybrid. More you can keep something growing. Buckwheat.
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You dont own the ditch, its road way.
Yes you do. Landowners normally own to the middle of the road, but it is superseded by right of ways/easements for the roads.
Mate, how fast are u spraying ?
Looks fast huh?
Like a plane!
I run 18-19mph in corn if it is flat and planted straight. It seems fast if you aren't used to it!
Johndeere is a woke joke anymore all they care about is keeping the stock price up and the shareholders happy. They got everyone by the balls that invested fully into the Deere ecosystem. Alot of farmers wouldn't care about switching colors of equipment, its the technology side that would be hard to completely re adjust to a new system.
I don't disagree with a lot of what you are saying. Unfortunately, John Deere makes pretty good equipment, and the only way to normally get your value on trade is to trade for Deere.
They have the right a way, you have nothing
We own to the center. The township cannot give easements for utility without permission of the landowner. However, someone said Illinois passed a law that allows internet companies to run in the public roadway right of way without securing an easement from the landowner.
Thank Biden for your fiber.
Biden? Or the American taxpayers.
Our local phone coop was slated for fiber install 3 years ago (with our own funding), they are currently waiting on the federal funding to come thru saving the coop dollars. No one expected the funding to take this long, we should’ve just went with our initial plan. In my opinion
LMAO
@@TheRange7He ain't wrong bro
@@dixiecupdrinker1 you can thank whoever's been running the government for the past 4 years, but it sure wasn't Dr. Dementia..
@@dixiecupdrinker1Fact check: Our government printed more money to go further in to debt, causing the inflation we're experiencing, to pay for that fiber optic Internet. Destroying the lower and middle classes is the one achievement of this administration.
You can thank the Biden Harris administration for the Internet expansion.
I’m pretty sure I paid for that or probably the next generation since the money was created out of thin air.
Can thank your increased government debt printing money to pay for it. brandon and heels-up themselves have done nothing but ruin the country.
Thanks Obama!
And food cost!