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AG Squawk with Rachel Fishback | Farmers Need To Tell Their Stories First · AG Bull

• 0:11
  SPEAKER_01: Some crop stress hidden beneath stable national ratings with spring wheat in severe decline across Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_01: That's due to some heat during a crucial grain fill period and a returning heat ridge threatening further damage through late July.
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_01: Today we'll be talking pork with an eye towards spreading the good word about American agriculture.
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_01: From behind the big blue, bodacious microphone of Ag Bull in Kansas City, USA, welcome to AgSquawk, everyone.
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_01: It's me, Davis Michelson, the handsome newsman.
• 0:57
  SPEAKER_01: We got some we got the crop progress report out, crop condition report out.
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_01: And yeah, it looks pretty good on the surface, as I said from the beginning, but there's there's some underlying problems that we may find out in subsequent reports.
• 1:14
  SPEAKER_01: According to USDA in the weekend of July 19, corn rated good to excellent came in at 67% compares to last year at 74%.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_01: Maturity is slightly ahead with silking at 59% compares to 53% last year.
• 1:29
  SPEAKER_01: Soybeans rated good to excellent at 66%, above analyst estimates, but slightly below last year.
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_01: Here again, just slightly ahead on maturity with 66% blooming looks like compared to last year's 60% blooming at this time.
• 1:47
  SPEAKER_01: The rush to maturity.
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_01: Now, maybe it's because I was looking for knee high by the 4th of July and it was over Ted Hamer's head.
• 1:55
  SPEAKER_01: The corn was at that point.
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe we've just sort of set back just a little bit.
• 2:01
  SPEAKER_01: We've we're a little more mature, a little earlier each year as time goes on.
• 2:07
  SPEAKER_01: But early maturity, you know, we talk about uh corn likes to be in sort of a slow cooker at some phase.
• 2:14
  SPEAKER_01: Low and slow is the way to go.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_01: We've had very warm overnight temperatures, which will certainly have an effect.
• 2:20
  SPEAKER_01: It's hot in Kansas City and across the Midwest.
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_01: Our guest is in Iowa.
• 2:25
  SPEAKER_01: We'll get a we'll get a weather report, a heat report in just a few moments here.
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_01: But this this maturity issue is definitely something to watch.
• 2:35
  SPEAKER_01: And it also feels like, as I mentioned, some spots have gotten too much heat at the wrong time, grain fill and pollination and all this.
• 2:45
  SPEAKER_01: It's becoming more of a case of haves and and have nots, certainly.
• 2:49
  SPEAKER_01: And then there's there's moisture to consider as well.
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_01: Getting to spring weak conditions, maturity, both in line with last year.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_01: Winter wheat harvest called 74% complete compared to last year's 73%.
• 3:02
  SPEAKER_01: That's for the weekended July 19.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_01: As we turn our attention to the markets at the open corn trade was quiet, around unchanged, soybeans down a few cents right away out of the out of the gate this morning.
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_01: A similar dynamic between KC and Chicago wheat, with KC slightly lower and Chicago falling around a nickel early on.
• 3:24
  SPEAKER_01: And after yesterday's sharp upward movement in the cattle's fed and feeder cattle gave back a bit of what was gained, but not much.
• 3:33
  SPEAKER_01: Hogs showed strength early in today's trade with nearby's leading gains.
• 3:38
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• 3:41
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• 3:50
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• 3:51
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• 3:53
  SPEAKER_01: Now currently we're just after 11 a.m.
• 3:55
  SPEAKER_01: Central Time on July 21st.
• 3:58
  SPEAKER_01: It's a Tuesday.
• 3:59
  SPEAKER_01: Happy Tuesday, everybody.
• 4:01
  SPEAKER_01: Just after 11 o'clock in the morning here.
• 4:05
  SPEAKER_01: I've got December corn up one and one half cents at 474.5.
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_01: Your Novi beans down two and a half.
• 4:13
  SPEAKER_01: Still well above that 12 handle.
• 4:14
  SPEAKER_01: We talked with Brian Grady from Comstock yesterday about the significance of those hinge points.
• 4:20
  SPEAKER_01: One of those is becoming a 12 handle in the beaners, especially Nov, like I said, down two and a half, 12, 23 and three-quarters, presently at 11 a.m.
• 4:30
  SPEAKER_01: Central Time.
• 4:31
  SPEAKER_01: Meal is higher, soybean oil is lower.
• 4:33
  SPEAKER_01: And then I did mention that dynamic between the KC and the Chicago wheat.
• 4:37
  SPEAKER_01: I've got September Chicago wheat down two and a half at 671.5.
• 4:42
  SPEAKER_01: And your KC September up one and one quarter cents.
• 4:46
  SPEAKER_01: You look a little further out, you get to the May, you're up a nickel.
• 4:49
  SPEAKER_01: The uh the March 27 up three and one half cents.
• 4:53
  SPEAKER_01: Meanwhile, the D's KC hard red winter wheat up two and three quarters presently at 7.41 and three quarters.
• 5:00
  SPEAKER_01: Over to the livestock.
• 5:01
  SPEAKER_01: The cattle, oh, looked like they were gonna come back, and now not so much.
• 5:06
  SPEAKER_01: September feeder cattle down$2.17.5.
• 5:09
  SPEAKER_01: Now$2.22.5 lower,$3.44.02.5.
• 5:14
  SPEAKER_01: October fat cattle down$72.5,$222.57.5.
• 5:19
  SPEAKER_01: This at 11.07 and 25 seconds a.m.
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  SPEAKER_01: central time.
• 5:26
  SPEAKER_01: The lean hogs look good.
• 5:28
  SPEAKER_01: This is great.
• 5:30
  SPEAKER_01: We should have Rachel on more often.
• 5:32
  SPEAKER_01: The hogs certainly seem to like it.
• 5:33
  SPEAKER_01: The October contract up 95 cents presently, 88.65.
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_01: The December lean hog contract up 65 cents, 79.72 and one half.
• 5:45
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_01: Having checked in with the markets, let's go ahead and get to the conversation.
• 5:50
  SPEAKER_01: I'm very pleased to bring in Rachel Fishback from Pride of Fork.
• 5:55
  SPEAKER_01: She's got all kinds of stuff going on.
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  SPEAKER_01: Rachel, welcome to Ag Squawk.
• 6:00
  SPEAKER_01: It's great to see you.
• 6:01
  SPEAKER_01: We've been trying to get this conversation lined up.
• 6:04
  SPEAKER_01: I had a little problem with the uh local infrastructure here last week, so I'm really uh really grateful for your patience.
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_01: And uh it's great to see you.
• 6:12
  SPEAKER_01: How are you today?
• 6:14
  SPEAKER_00: I'm doing great.
• 6:15
  SPEAKER_00: Good morning.
• 6:16
  SPEAKER_01: Good morning.
• 6:17
  SPEAKER_01: As I said, it's around 11 o'clock, but it's hot here in Kansas City, Rachel.
• 6:22
  SPEAKER_01: You're up uh generally where where are you located?
• 6:25
  SPEAKER_01: You're in the state of Iowa, correct?
• 6:27
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, southeast Iowa, south of Iowa City.
• 6:30
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, all right.
• 6:31
  SPEAKER_01: Iowa City got some some storms and some rains last night.
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_01: How were how were conditions in in your area out your uh out your window?
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so last night we did, we got hammered with storms around 6 o'clock p.m.
• 6:45
  SPEAKER_00: And they were around, it downpoured for a good half an hour, and it's been hot.
• 6:51
  SPEAKER_00: It's been super hot the past two weeks.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_00: So we needed the cool down, and hopefully we get a little break this week.
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_00: It's supposed to cool off.
• 7:00
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that would be nice.
• 7:02
  SPEAKER_01: We're they're they're uh teasing us with cooler temperatures later on this week here in Kansas City, and I'm I'm really hoping for that.
• 7:09
  SPEAKER_01: Man, it gets awful humid down here.
• 7:11
  SPEAKER_01: Rachel, there are uh a long list of things you do.
• 7:15
  SPEAKER_01: I've been uh I've been creeping on you online, trying to uh trying to track it all down.
• 7:20
  SPEAKER_01: Pride of pork, farming on a multi-generational farm.
• 7:24
  SPEAKER_01: You you have a heart to showcase agriculture and farm life.
• 7:29
  SPEAKER_01: You even share recipes for farm to table cooking.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_01: Rachel, let us know who you are.
• 7:35
  SPEAKER_01: Give us give us a little bit about yourself and and what it is that you do.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_00: Sure.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_00: So Rachel Fishback, Southeast Iowa.
• 7:43
  SPEAKER_00: I raise corn and soybeans with my little brother Vinny on our family farm, just about 10 minutes south of here.
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_00: And I do a lot of work in the ag industry.
• 7:54
  SPEAKER_00: I do social media posting for clients behind the scenes, and then I love making videos.
• 8:00
  SPEAKER_00: So you'll see me talking about the pork industry on a huge portion of it, and then also sharing my daily life as Iowa Farm Mama on social media, doing recipes, growing corn, and and just sharing the life and dynamics between my brother and I.
• 8:17
  SPEAKER_00: And every once in a while you'll see my kids and I on there.
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_01: Or do you get a break on that?
• 8:25
  SPEAKER_00: Nope.
• 8:26
  SPEAKER_00: I I work alongside him, and we have a smaller farming operation, according to most people.
• 8:33
  SPEAKER_00: But yes, spring planting, fall harvest, and and yeah, I can run everything but the planter.
• 8:39
  SPEAKER_01: So all right.
• 8:41
  SPEAKER_01: How do how do the crops look this year?
• 8:43
  SPEAKER_00: They look really well.
• 8:45
  SPEAKER_00: Unfortunately, a down item that I would kind of point out is we've had some really weird rains in Iowa.
• 8:54
  SPEAKER_00: So huge downpours, which is driving our rivers up and bankful.
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_00: Last week we had water creeping out into our fields, it was coming up our ditches.
• 9:04
  SPEAKER_00: We do farm some river bottom ground.
• 9:07
  SPEAKER_00: So that is just on my heart a lot lately is checking the river gauges because even if Southeast Iowa doesn't get the rain, if they get it in central Iowa by Ames or Des Moines, which is what happened last week, they got dumped on in one day six inches of rain that drives our water level up.
• 9:25
  SPEAKER_00: So everyone with river bottom gets a little, a little tense, a little nervous because they don't want their crops to flood down here.
• 9:34
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, as I begin to ask this question, it may sound like a like a like a big one.
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's really not, and maybe you don't have an answer for this, but I just wonder our on your farm or on farms in your area, given sort of the economics of farming, you know, expensive inputs and everything is just expensive.
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_01: Have you noticed, have there been, have farmers, corn and soybean farmers anyway in your area been doing anything differently this year?
• 10:03
  SPEAKER_01: Have they cut back on this or or on that?
• 10:05
  SPEAKER_01: Or or are you aware of any changes?
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I would guess I'm that most would be cutting back on their fertilizer and their treatment plans of their row crops just because seed corn isn't always coming down either.
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_00: So you always have that initial cost.
• 10:20
  SPEAKER_00: I've heard of people going lighter on their manure levels just to kind of spread that manure a little bit further.
• 10:27
  SPEAKER_00: It's an organic fertilizer and it's something that comes out of hog barns.
• 10:31
  SPEAKER_00: So I have heard of that happening.
• 10:33
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 10:34
  SPEAKER_01: Very good.
• 10:35
  SPEAKER_01: My phone went off here and I got all I got all distracted.
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna turn that over.
• 10:39
  SPEAKER_01: These phones, you can't get away from them.
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_01: You can't get away from them.
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_01: All right, so oh, you know what?
• 10:45
  SPEAKER_01: Let's uh I want to I want to get into talking about some of the videos that you make.
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_01: I I saw some on Acres TV, and and you do sort of have you've got a passion for for the pork industry, for hog husbandry.
• 11:01
  SPEAKER_01: And I I saw one where they were doing a slat remodel in a was it maybe a I don't know if it was a farrowing house or whatever, but it was really interesting because you were talking to people kind of as as they were working along there.
• 11:16
  SPEAKER_01: You're clearly passionate about the stories that that you tell.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_01: How did you get started doing this?
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_00: So when I was married, we built some hog barns.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_00: And a couple of years ago, well, more than a couple of years ago, I used to work for a construction company, and I showcased their hog buildings on social media.
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_00: And I, as a producer, I really wasn't going to pork shows until I was in it professionally.
• 11:47
  SPEAKER_00: And then I saw all of the companies and all of the people, and I got to meet them.
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_00: And there are so many people beyond a pig farmer and their pig making your pork a safe, reliable protein on your plate.
• 12:00
  SPEAKER_00: And I loved showcasing how hog buildings are constructed.
• 12:05
  SPEAKER_00: It's just very fun and unique to me.
• 12:07
  SPEAKER_00: Back in, well, when I was exploring college, I loved construction interior design.
• 12:13
  SPEAKER_00: And so I think that's kind of why it pulled pulled me that direction to show the construction progress.
• 12:19
  SPEAKER_00: And it's not something everybody gets to see every day.
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_00: So it's kind of just showing the back ends of things happening on a pink farm that you might not be aware of.
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_01: Well, and what's interesting here because your your farm background goes back a couple of generations, as I understand it.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_01: And for you to be able to take what you're passionate about and and meld that with the the strong history that you have on the farm there, that's uh that's a that's that's a gift to be able to use what you're passionate about.
• 12:52
  SPEAKER_01: And I would argue what what farm people are built for.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_01: Is that fair to say?
• 12:58
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
• 12:59
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah you know, if you don't stand up and tell your story, someone else might.
• 13:03
  SPEAKER_00: And I just want to help be a voice to explain things out there to the world that are to people who are interested, who people who might do farming but in a different livestock breed or a different type of farming, you know, even though I grew up farming, I love social media because I love seeing how just even different states do things or different crops being grown.
• 13:26
  SPEAKER_00: And it's just my inquisitive brain.
• 13:29
  SPEAKER_00: I I love hearing and seeing what what else happens just in the United States.
• 13:35
  SPEAKER_01: Well, and it's interesting that you bring that up because here at at Agbol on on my show here that we're on right now, I'm into gosh, it's only my fourth week doing this, but I have a a history with doing live farm radio, the old school way.
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_01: I was at a 12, 13 years with a good, good, good friend of mine uh uh just up until earlier this year.
• 13:57
  SPEAKER_01: And as as I started to explore different career options, Rachel, the the online potential to deliver information and to tell stories, it's it's it feels like a whole new media game.
• 14:14
  SPEAKER_01: Does that sound right to you?
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_00: I would definitely agree.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_00: And I just I think we have so much to share, and there's so many good people out there.
• 14:24
  SPEAKER_00: I feel, you know, a lot of times you just feel like it's just negative things that you see, and I just want to be a part of the positive.
• 14:32
  unknown: Yeah.
• 14:33
  SPEAKER_01: There's an awful lot of misunderstanding among non-farm folks about what goes on on farms, and you you and others like you are able to tell the true stories, actually take a camera and go down and and and capture video of what's going on.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_01: This is this is super important.
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_01: What what is your what is your message, I guess, overall as you're making these videos, as you're thinking about content that you want to create.
• 15:02
  SPEAKER_01: What what would be among your your top priorities as far as messages you want to deliver?
• 15:09
  SPEAKER_00: So, part of work, you know, that's just more of the storytelling, visual storytelling.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_00: Obviously, I have a huge passion for construction of livestock barns.
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_00: I have a huge passion for the livestock haulers.
• 15:22
  SPEAKER_00: My son-in-law is a trucker, and so is my son.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_00: My son hauls grain.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_00: But, you know, that is a huge passion of mine.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_00: And then helping farmers just tell their story, they may not have you know this.
• 15:38
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's kind of intimidating to go on camera for the first time.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_00: And sometimes you just need a little pointers or a little bit of advice and to sit you kind of more at ease with with being comfortable being on camera and showing people how you do things.
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_01: Well, and I I think you're exactly right.
• 15:55
  SPEAKER_01: And I'll I'll just say what I think think you're saying a little more gently than I am about to farmers.
• 16:01
  SPEAKER_01: Don't want I was raised on a Grundy County farm in Iowa.
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_01: I was taught don't toot your own horn, don't make a spectacle of yourself.
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_01: And that that's great.
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_01: There's a there's a humility that's inherent in farming, but the problem is farmers don't always do the best job of making themselves understood or of touting the good things that they do.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_01: Would you agree?
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_00: I would definitely agree with that.
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_00: And and I hear it every time I ask someone to do a virtual interview like this.
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I don't know if I want to do that, or I don't know what I'm going to say, or I have nothing to say.
• 16:36
  SPEAKER_00: They have so much to say, they have so much to teach and share.
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_00: And just for the historical aspect, you know, we're talking about how input prices are high, crop prices are low, you know, just every decade something changes in the farming industry.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_00: And so, so it's it's also fun to reflect back and talk about those things as well.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_01: And it sounds like you're keeping up the uh the tradition if you've got if you've got young ones who are who are in the industry now as well, kind of following in your footsteps just down their own paths.
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_00: Exactly.
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yes, yeah.
• 17:15
  SPEAKER_01: Very good.
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I was thinking just the other day, it's it's gotta be, is it about is it sweet corn time in Iowa?
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_01: Is the sweet corn ready?
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, it is.
• 17:25
  SPEAKER_01: When I was a kid, we always used to plant, oh, I don't know, a pass, I guess, with the planter of just sweet corn.
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_01: And I can remember we would have we'd have a big old picnic table and friends and neighbors and relatives and everybody would come over.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_01: We'd have a big old sweet corn boil.
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_01: And maybe I'm over idealizing how good that corn was, but I haven't found I'm in Missouri, no, no, no shade on the Missouri farmer, but man, that Iowa corn, there's something about it.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_01: Do you is that still a thing around you guys' farm?
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_01: Do you put in a couple of rows of sweet corn or because I know you can get it on off off the back of a truck at any Casey's or you know, just about anywhere there, and it's all good.
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_01: Are you guys keeping the keeping the sweet corn tradition alive?
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_00: So no, I buy it from the back of a pickup trucks.
• 18:15
  SPEAKER_00: The reason being is I mentioned it before, you know, we farm river bottom.
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_00: We have a lot of timber around us, and so we have a huge issue with deer and raccoons.
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, as much as I love all of our wildlife friends, they really wreak havoc on just our regular yellow field corn that we sell to pork producers around here.
• 18:36
  SPEAKER_00: So I've tried I've tried the sweet corn passes down at the farm, and it just gets devoured by the raccoons and deer.
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_00: So I haven't tried it since.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, well, that's fair.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_01: That's fair.
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_01: You know, you gotta you've got to know the conditions under which you're growing and uh and be realistic about it.
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_01: I appreciate that.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_01: That's good.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, so let's just return really quickly before we move on to your online pursuits, your video pursuits.
• 19:04
  SPEAKER_01: Who would you say is your target audience, and what is it that you want them to learn from your stories?
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_00: Sure.
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_00: So my Pride of Pork, it would be anyone interested in learning up about farming, pig farming, pork producers, just because that's more of a storytelling background.
• 19:22
  SPEAKER_00: And then my pork industry news that's more geared toward people in the pork industry, whether it's pork producers, professionals working in the pork industry, or just people that want to keep up on the pork industry.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_00: I like sharing good news stories and what's happening every day throughout the US and world in the pork industry.
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_01: What's the best way to find your material?
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_00: Sure.
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so you can stream it for free on Acres TV, pork industry news, and Pride of Pork.
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_00: And then I'm also on social media, Iowa Farm Mama.
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_00: You can find me on TikTok, Facebook, and you can also look me up as Rachel Fishback too.
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm kind of all over the place.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_01: That's good.
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_01: That's good.
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_01: Acres TV and Iowa Farm Mama.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_01: How long have you uh have you carried that title?
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_00: So it's probably been five or six years now.
• 20:11
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_00: I got onto TikTok.
• 20:15
  SPEAKER_00: I was doing social media work, and you know, this new app was out tick tock.
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_00: People are really talking about it after COVID.
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_00: And so I I started my own page, Iowa Farm Mama, just to practice with the app.
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_00: And who knew?
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_00: Who knew it would take me so many different places and all the amazing people in Farm Talk and the farming community that I've met over the years?
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_01: Well, you've got a you've got a great story to tell, and and you tell it very, very well.
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna ask you something here.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_01: I don't I don't want to talk about the hog market necessarily.
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_01: I asked you about kind of trends that you may have noticed on the corn and soybean side.
• 20:58
  SPEAKER_01: I might throw that over to the to the pork producer side, the the hog producer side.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_01: Have you noticed any trends or any changes among pork producers as as the years have have gone by here?
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_00: 10 years ago, there was a lot of new hog barns being built.
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_00: And I actually looked up some old pricing from 10 years ago.
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_00: You know, a hog barn that you see today was four or$500,000.
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_00: And today they're up over a million dollars.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_00: So there's a lot of people going towards remodeling existing hog barns.
• 21:34
  SPEAKER_00: You know, when we built barns back in 2008, 2015, they kind of had a 10-year cycle on them and they're just they're lasting a lot more, replacing gates, feeders, waterers, fans, and walls can keep those hog barns going.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_00: So you're seeing a lot more people remodeling existing hog barns or take south farms and make them into wean to finish barns or finished barns.
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_01: Well, and if you've got if you've got a uh a love of remodeling, you said you you had thought about pursuing interior design.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_01: Man, that's you are you are coming to the industry at just the perfect time to do exactly what once again I'll I'll just say it again what you were made to do.
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe, yeah.
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_00: No, I I love looking at hog barns and thinking, boy, if I was gonna build this, I'd build it like this, this, this, and this.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_00: And so I my brain's always thinking, I guess.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 22:31
  SPEAKER_01: Well, tell us what I'm I'm gonna move on here in just a moment, but give us just a little bit more.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_01: What have we left out here about what it is that you do, where your passions lie, what message you want to send out there before we move on?
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_01: I really want to make sure that we get all the bases covered here because you've got such a great, great message to spread.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_00: Well, thank you.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_00: I think I've I think we've covered it.
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_00: You've done a really good job at asking me questions.
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_00: And I I would just say, you know, if you're into farming, if you're on social media, give those people a thumbs up.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_00: You know, not everybody completely agrees with everyone's stance or opinions, but I think if we as farmers unite and cheer each other on, it really helps everything in the big scheme of things.
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_01: I've been on something of a crusade.
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_01: It just sort of happened.
• 23:22
  SPEAKER_01: As, you know, like like you said, well, I was just gonna try this, and then it blew up on me.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_01: I'm I'm on a crusade that I I can't quite let it go.
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_01: I understand, you know, every I've said it before, every hog barn that I've been in, every dairy parlor, every machine shed, every barn that I've been in, it seems like, nine times out of ten, there's a radio there plugged in somewhere in there.
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_01: If you and I are talking about this this new form of media, this new way to communicate ideas, I'm not advocating to get rid of the radio.
• 23:56
  SPEAKER_01: I'm saying leave it there.
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_01: I'm just saying get a Bluetooth speaker and and hook it up to your phone and set a Bluetooth speaker right next to your radio.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_01: Radio will give you your local stuff, but man, there's a ton of great, great content, yours included, that you can just pick up and and pipe into your barn through a Bluetooth speaker.
• 24:17
  SPEAKER_01: Are you with me on that one?
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_00: You can listen to people pretty much anywhere in any way, it seems like today.
• 24:24
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, for sure.
• 24:26
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, moving on.
• 24:27
  SPEAKER_01: I had a conversation last week with Zach Hefty.
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_01: He's all fired up about uh Hefty Field Day, and I think I saw your name on the uh the agenda there for Hefty Field Day.
• 24:39
  SPEAKER_01: Is that right?
• 24:40
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely, I will be there.
• 24:42
  SPEAKER_01: Well, now don't don't give it all away, but uh what can we expect from from Rachel Fishback at uh Hefty Field Day?
• 24:49
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I haven't gotten my secured agenda yet.
• 24:52
  SPEAKER_00: They they sent us out the initial things, but um last year I know I was on stage as a speaker in a couple places and just working the show, going around.
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_00: It's great to see everybody in person.
• 25:05
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, we were talking about this earlier.
• 25:07
  SPEAKER_00: Just we only see each other on social media except for when we go to farm shows.
• 25:12
  SPEAKER_00: So it's great to connect in person with each other and the different creators that we've met across different platforms and other creators on Acres TV.
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_01: It looks like the entire cool kids club is gonna be at Hefty Field Day this year.
• 25:28
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's a very, very impressive list and a free lunch, free parking and a free lunch.
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_01: I uh I've never been to uh to a hefty field day before, but it uh it sounds like it's quite the deal.
• 25:39
  SPEAKER_01: You've been there before?
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, I was there last year and it is really jam-packed, it's a full day, but you don't have to pay for anything.
• 25:47
  SPEAKER_00: You show up and enjoy the day, enjoy the sights, enjoy meeting up with your farming friends and everybody else that's there.
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_00: And don't be afraid to go up and introduce yourself or say hello or or do whatever you'd you'd like to do.
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_01: I'm just gonna throw out a plug.
• 26:05
  SPEAKER_01: Agphhd.com is where you can find out more information.
• 26:09
  SPEAKER_01: Agphhd.com will get you more information on on field day, just north of Sioux Falls, or is it Sioux City?
• 26:17
  SPEAKER_01: I always get those confused.
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_01: Sioux Falls, right?
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_01: Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
• 26:20
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 26:21
  SPEAKER_00: And it's just a few miles up the road.
• 26:23
  SPEAKER_00: It does not take long to get there.
• 26:26
  SPEAKER_01: Outstanding, outstanding.
• 26:28
  SPEAKER_01: Well, Rachel, I sure appreciate your time today.
• 26:31
  SPEAKER_01: Um, we've kind of talked about the weather a little bit already, um, but uh let's uh let's continue with the rest of the show, and then uh then I'll cut you loose here in just a few minutes.
• 26:42
  SPEAKER_01: According to the National Weather Service, an unseasonably deep low pressure system continues a steady advance across the upper Great Lakes this morning.
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_01: Over the next 48 hours, a well-defined cold front protruding from this low center is expected to pass southeastward, which will set the stage for active, severe weather and flash flooding from the mid-south into the northeast.
• 27:03
  SPEAKER_01: Areas of farm country will continue to see overnight temperatures in the 75 to 80 degree range, although below normal temperatures will begin to build across the upper Midwest.
• 27:15
  SPEAKER_01: Here in Casey, we're uh looking for some rain toward the end of the week.
• 27:19
  SPEAKER_01: It'll cool off and then get hotter again.
• 27:23
  SPEAKER_01: Rachel, I do this every day with all of my guests, and I wonder if I might be able to interest you in a few items of mild interest.
• 27:32
  SPEAKER_01: Are you are you down for being mildly interested in something?
• 27:36
  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
• 27:36
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 27:37
  SPEAKER_01: Excellent, excellent.
• 27:38
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 27:39
  SPEAKER_01: These I found actually very interesting and a little frightening.
• 27:42
  SPEAKER_01: Today is July 21st, on this day in 1865 in Springfield, Missouri.
• 27:50
  SPEAKER_01: Wild Bill Hick shot and killed Davis Tutt in what is considered the first Western showdown.
• 27:58
  SPEAKER_01: Rachel, I haven't met a I've met David's, but my parents decided to bless me with an S at the end of my name.
• 28:06
  SPEAKER_01: I haven't met a whole lot of Davises.
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_01: And here we have the first official Western showdown in Missouri where Davis Tutt was killed.
• 28:15
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna I'm probably just gonna stay indoors today.
• 28:19
  SPEAKER_01: Do you know any other Davises?
• 28:21
  SPEAKER_01: I don't.
• 28:22
  SPEAKER_00: I don't, but you're so close to that site, you should go take a picture and post it.
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 28:27
  SPEAKER_01: I'm I'm nervous.
• 28:28
  SPEAKER_01: I'm nervous about it.
• 28:30
  SPEAKER_01: In 1873, Jesse James and the James Younger gang commits its first train robbery near Adair, Iowa.
• 28:38
  SPEAKER_01: Oh in yeah, in 1924, it's the birthday of Don Knott.
• 28:43
  SPEAKER_01: We've been watching binging, to be honest, reruns of of Matt Lock here in the Davis household.
• 28:50
  SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah.
• 28:51
  SPEAKER_01: I can't get it off.
• 28:52
  SPEAKER_01: Do you do you ever watch Matt Lock or have you ever?
• 28:54
  SPEAKER_01: Will you confess?
• 28:55
  SPEAKER_00: Back when we were growing up, yeah, it seemed like it was on TV, but I don't see it anymore.
• 29:00
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's on Prime.
• 29:01
  SPEAKER_01: They got it up.
• 29:02
  SPEAKER_01: We're watching it on Prime.
• 29:03
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 29:03
  SPEAKER_01: Here's a big one.
• 29:04
  SPEAKER_01: 1987, Guns N' Roses debut album, Appetite for Destruction, was released and becomes one of the best-selling debut albums of all time.
• 29:13
  SPEAKER_01: More than 30 million copies sold.
• 29:16
  SPEAKER_01: I remember I was sitting in algebra class, and my buddy Paul had an Appetite for Destruction t-shirt on, and he was the first one to oh, it was tapes back then because it was the 1900s, and we used to drive around in our stage coaches and listen to cassette back then.
• 29:33
  SPEAKER_01: And okay.
• 29:34
  SPEAKER_00: Did you ever did you ever see him in concert?
• 29:37
  SPEAKER_01: I never did.
• 29:37
  SPEAKER_01: I never did.
• 29:38
  SPEAKER_01: Have you?
• 29:39
  SPEAKER_00: No.
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_00: What's your concert bucket list item?
• 29:42
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, for sure, for sure.
• 29:43
  SPEAKER_01: Although I don't know if Axel can do it anymore.
• 29:46
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, you know, the ravages of time and whatnot have not been all that kind to Mr.
• 29:52
  SPEAKER_01: Mr.
• 29:52
  SPEAKER_01: Rose.
• 29:53
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, Aerosmith is on my bucket list, so I hope to get to see them.
• 29:59
  SPEAKER_01: That's a good one too.
• 30:00
  SPEAKER_01: And just just one more thing, another another tradition of ours, our daily our daily Ag Bowl injustice.
• 30:10
  SPEAKER_01: This is the time of the show when I ask my guests to do something completely unfair and unjust, something that I am probably unable of doing myself, but it's just how we roll around here.
• 30:22
  SPEAKER_01: We keep it real, is what we do.
• 30:25
  SPEAKER_01: Are you ready for today's Ag Bowl Injustice?
• 30:27
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna give you a little background and then ask you a question.
• 30:31
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 30:31
  SPEAKER_01: Here we go.
• 30:32
  SPEAKER_01: In a truly ludicrous move, China banned this young Canadian pop sensation from performing on this date in 2017, citing his bad behavior.
• 30:48
  SPEAKER_01: Now I can give you a hint if you if you would like to have a hint.
• 30:54
  SPEAKER_00: You can give me a hint, but the only one I can think of is someone from Nickelback.
• 30:59
  SPEAKER_01: That's close.
• 31:00
  SPEAKER_01: That's close.
• 31:00
  SPEAKER_01: I could see why China would want to want to ban Nickelback, and I may give you partial credit for that.
• 31:05
  SPEAKER_01: Here's your hint.
• 31:06
  SPEAKER_01: When he got the news, the singer may have said, baby, baby, baby, oh who was this Canadian heartthrob?
• 31:17
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 31:18
  SPEAKER_01: Unfair.
• 31:19
  SPEAKER_01: Injustice has been served.
• 31:23
  SPEAKER_01: It was Justin Bieber.
• 31:24
  SPEAKER_01: They wouldn't let him perform in China.
• 31:26
  SPEAKER_01: They said, You're just too filthy, young man.
• 31:28
  SPEAKER_01: You take you take that and you you can play in Canada all you want, but not here in in China.
• 31:35
  SPEAKER_01: Justin Bieber banned from China in 2017.
• 31:39
  SPEAKER_00: You'd think they'd want him.
• 31:40
  SPEAKER_00: I would think so.
• 31:42
  SPEAKER_01: Well, you know, too much of a good thing, I guess.
• 31:46
  SPEAKER_01: Rachel Fishback.
• 31:47
  SPEAKER_01: Um, give us those once more.
• 31:48
  SPEAKER_01: The Iowa Farm Mama and uh Acres TV, these are the best places to see you, correct?
• 31:54
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
• 31:55
  SPEAKER_01: All right, very good.
• 31:56
  SPEAKER_01: Well, Rachel, you've been very generous with your time.
• 31:59
  SPEAKER_01: We like to fool around over here on Egg Squawk.
• 32:02
  SPEAKER_01: Um, it was very unjust of me to ask you about Justin Bieber, but uh we're we're really glad to have you.
• 32:08
  SPEAKER_01: And we really appreciate the stories that you're telling, the way that you're telling them, you know, using this new modern media, these modern means.
• 32:16
  SPEAKER_01: Uh you do a really great job.
• 32:18
  SPEAKER_01: Everybody, check out Rachel Fishback, uh Iowa Farm Mama, and uh you can you can catch her on Acres TV.
• 32:25
  SPEAKER_01: Would you come on again sometime, maybe after hefty field days, we can touch base again?
• 32:29
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
• 32:29
  SPEAKER_00: I'm game for it.
• 32:31
  SPEAKER_01: Outstanding.
• 32:32
  SPEAKER_01: Well, beloved viewers, thank you for being with us today.
• 32:35
  SPEAKER_01: May I direct you to AgBull.com where you can dig deeper into the markets with Ag Bull Intel.
• 32:41
  SPEAKER_01: We've just kind of gone over the high points.
• 32:42
  SPEAKER_01: They uh they're nowhere near settled yet for today, still 1130-ish.
• 32:46
  SPEAKER_01: But you can take your marketing by the horns at Agbull.com.
• 32:49
  SPEAKER_01: Visit Agbol.com or dial 855-737 Farm.
• 32:54
  SPEAKER_01: That's 855-737.
• 32:57
  SPEAKER_01: The letter F, followed by the word arm for the details.
• 33:01
  SPEAKER_01: Tomorrow I'll chat with Chris Sherman from Tech Support Farm.
• 33:04
  SPEAKER_01: Jed Sidwell will have the morning calls bright and early tomorrow for Jed, Joe, Lindsay, and Guillermo.
• 33:11
  SPEAKER_01: It's Davis Michelson saying thanks so much to Rachel Fishback for being with us, and thank you for watching Egg Squawk.
• 33:18
  SPEAKER_01: We'll be back tomorrow, gang.