Dan Veldman

I was watching @KellyGarrett75 with @DamianPMason talk about $4 corn in 2007 vs $4 corn in 2025 As he said corn yield wasn't that far off of today's ... and I remember some great 200+ bu farm avg years in that time. No matter how we spin it with hybrids and tech WATER and HEAT tell the story 90% of the time. Sure hybrids like 1197 came around and others that maybe squeezed a little more juice ... 10 ... 20 bu? but not nearly enough to cover the spread between $120 bag - $280 $250k combined- $800k and down the list. Every promise for 3-5 bushels comes with a price tag that requires a lot of acres to pay it off to even... and that's the trap. Want to build a big 100k bu bin? Do you want the sunk costs to be locked in to farm the # of acres for the years to come? We're going to have to become a lot more resourceful and it begins with cutting our ego. Lowering our costs to mirror the come. The work is cutting the high rent leases out, keeping equipment longer ... or maybe staying new... and going down a size or two and working more days or hours at night. We can't be yes men. We've got to be more like our stubborn grandparents that could squeeze that buffalo nickel.

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