Brian Kjesbo

@TonyLiebert Appreciate all the gopher content. Last two portals u bump G. Grove down the depth list with each addition or potential acquisition... For a Princeton style offense that leans on great decision making/passing big men in addition to the growth he showed think u underestimate...

Gophers updated roster outlook after two portal adds. G: *portal? G: Isaac Asuma F: Bobby Durkin F: Jaylen Crocker-Johnson C: *portal? 6th: Nolan Groves 7th: Winters Grady 8th: Grayson Grove Bench: Shinholster, Anderson, Mpoyi, Tomes, Lorenson

@jev4320 Looks great. Planning on a 4960 install. Any key tips not obvious from instructions having done one?

Integrated auto steer going in the 4850. Stay tuned. I love the one in my 8400. Stays on line much smoother than my ATUs

@AgrisAcademy Congrats. Joyful memories

A Hoosier moment as Delano wins the section 2 championship. Farm kid tough.

@5150Farms @gwiesefarms Think you'd be farming if prior generations had the same mentality? Not poking. Honest question.

@gwiesefarms Appreciation does jack shit for your current cash flow needs to live and not be stressed to the max I could care less what it’s worth when someone else ends up with it after I die

Don’t buy a farm solely for appreciation. You also need the benefits of positive cash flow, debt pay down (if using leverage), and tax write offs. Appreciation can gain you the greatest wealth but is never guaranteed.

@AgrisAcademy Drain tile and it isnt close in the southern red river valley...

Times are tight. You have limited amounts of money to invest. Where does your capital go? Comment with other top choices

@blonglet Planning and designing a shop one of the coolest legacy projects on the farm. Good luck and enjoy

Rebuilding from the summer storm. The shed will be 1.5 times larger than the old one, but it sure doesn’t look like it yet.

@AgrisAcademy Competition always a good thing but in this case id argue with only 35 to 40% of domestic wheat used here and 40 to 50% exported, the primary issue hunting US wheat producers is global competition from folks like the black sea region and consolidation of US grain origination

The quiet Ag consolidation the cost US farmers 100's of millions of dollars Flour Milling 1. Ardent Mills is the consolidation of Cargill, Conagra, and Harvest States under a joint venture. 2. Not only did the consolidation wildly decrease the competition in buying wheat, but the deal also took out 3 of the most sophisticated players. ADM was the only real national competition. (Baystates, Minnel and Milner have grown as Ardent will not be allowed to buy out others.) 3. The deal goes through because milling capacity of vertically integrated companies is included in "market". (Think General Mills and Nabisco even though they did not compete in the marketplace.) 4. How did it hurt you as a wheat farmer A. Reduced transparency of basis as grain is transferred internally between JV elevators and Ardent B. Reduced competition on direct origination into mills C. Priority of Ardent to the JV participants elevators. Independent elevators not able to capture the highest basis for their grain. This reduces your local elevator's ability to compete. 5. Margins in the flour milling industry had been miserable for years. HSC expansion into a flat to shrinking market brutalized margins. Suprise, margins suddenly appeared post consolidation. This deal hurt the farmer and the US consumer.

@MaryCKenn Wonder if there are any of those tables still hiding somewhere...

Went to my former home yesterday. So many great memories on the floor and so many friends made.❤️

@AgrisAcademy Appreciate the investment for eveyone else's sake...

I’m pretty proud of myself tonight. I just made a new field called DRIVEWAY on the GPS of my SNOW BLOWER tractor. I made a single track RTK guidance line of the driveway and the farm yard. That should keep me out of mom’s grass when snow blowing in a MN blizzard. PS. We have had an 8 foot blower for 2 season and never had a chance to use it. It’s working perfectly!

@MachineryPete Flam? We went a few years ago and visited the farm where my great grandmother was born and raised in Finnoy. Amazing to think about what transpired for us to be able to come back and visit. Very humbling...

Thorild…just learned I had a great great grandmother with this first name. Born in Norway 1843. Passed 1940 in Wisconsin. Name Meaning: Battle of the Thunder God. This bit of knowledge makes me exceedingly happy. Made our 1st trip to Norway last year…Beautiful Country

@NickHorob Peace to you and your fam Nick. Well done on advocating for what was best for him during uncertain and tough times. It is one of the toughest roles in life but really needed.

My dad passed away last night. We had time to say our goodbyes. He will be buried next weekend next to his parents close to our family farm in NW ND.

@FarmerTheta @Qshizzle97 11000 head 3 miles away. There are pros and cons. Rental competition will get spicey. While Riverview hasn't competed for land themselves their business partners and ownership entities have. Some folks view ownership within 3 miles as expansion opportunity without as much work

@gavin_spoor No wagons, but sold this gal this week... already regret it..

Who still farms with gravity wagons? My entire childhood was filled with gravity wagons, Ford F600’s, and Chevy C65’s. Now you rarely even see a straight truck at the elevator, it’s all 40’ hopper bottoms. Maybe I’m just being nostalgic about my childhood, or maybe it really was better back then.

@KeatonHeller Sad stuff. Insurance premiums and options has been a major concern for many small elevator coops.

North Dakota lost millions of bushels of storage last night.

@blonglet @NWSGrandForks Sorry to see it Ben and Kate. Wishing u guys a safe clean-up and rebuild

Some of the Damage from last night on our farm. 2 Miles south of Arthur ND @NWSGrandForks

@jasonmauck1 How confident in 92% of max yield given your experience and research. How did you settle on higher pop of outer rows compared to middle two? Good luck. Great start

4 consecutive 20" corn rows and 4 off Create "alley crop" corn behind my Uncle David's cattle lot. The idea is to grow serious pasture for the cattle and preserve 90% -94% corn yields like many 60" corn growers are realizing (twin rows are better) This will also allow for in season manure applications. Either slinging chicken or turkey compost into the air or side shoot swine solution at the ankles of the corn. Corn in 2026 will be planted in the space between which has the opportunity to prime with the soil health attributes of a much more significant and diverse cover crop / forage mix. This ground now becomes useful for multiple purposes on the farm from grazing, to calving, with the ability to apply manure when all other fields are locked up

@wagner_farms Was working for horizon milling cgl/chs. We were long into delivery, loading out some trains from visible, long the spread. Went home euphoric or vomiting daily... options and call spreads provided some level of risk management. Trading floor was entertaining. Crazy times

Cattle guys, if you think this is crazy, in 2008 MWH08 closed limit up 14 out of 15 days, including six days all day locked limit making a single mark on the chart. After FND we had days of down $1.60, down $2.40, down $1.75, unchanged (lol) up $.35, down $1.70, down $.90.

@WCT_JBrown @wctrib @montevideobb @Montevideo129 @wctribTom @Rennecke76 Go Thunder Hawks

Final from Target Center: Waseca 49, Pequot Lakes 45. Coming up next: Montevideo vs. Breck. @wctrib @montevideobb @Montevideo129 @wctribTom @Rennecke76

West Central Area wins first team state championship in school history, defeating MACCRAY 58-41 in the Class A girls basketball title game.

Knights finish the season as section runner-up. 5th most wins in Knights history playing thru a very difficult schedule. 3rd team to make the section championship. Great group of young men and seniors.