Skyrocketing Fuel Prices Affect Farmers In The Midwest As Planting Season Approaches (Ep.153)

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aTrippyFarmer and the crew are back to bring you more farming adventures. In this episode, Andy gets to enjoy the daily increase in fuel prices in his local area. Andy and Chris work on a project that has needed fixing for ages... A group of Pigeons has taken up residence inside of their biggest grain bin, and Andy has had enough of their antics. After scaling into the bin with all of his supplies, Andy goes to work on repairing the infrastructure that has allowed the birds to freely enter the grain bin. They certainly enjoy having free-reign on 40,000 bushels of corn. Andy tightens down the hatches within the bin, so this issue should be alleviated. Andy also explains his finger injury into detail. After that, Andy and Chris move onto another project that has been put off for too long. Andy, the soybean planter guy, accidentally broke off a tile-inlet cover last Spring, but the crew had not gotten around to fixing it. They make quick work of that issue. To end the video, Andy talks about the skyrocketing fuel prices and its effect on a farm's budget and decision-making. These added costs don't spell disaster for farmers, but that isn't to say that they won't influence the farming practices that people choose to use. The real issue is in the fertilizer market, but only time will tell on that subject. Thanks for watching!
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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.
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[@billuphoff1021]

Good idea for patching one of those PVC standpipes. Have to keep that in mind

[@aTrippyFarmer]

For sure!

[@bjl1226]

Nice to have you back

[@aTrippyFarmer]

Thanks, Bob!

[@seajeepstar7516]

Great to see you back

[@aTrippyFarmer]

Glad to be back!

[@henrygeldof4391]

So good to see you back again. Having suffered from two injured fingertips, I feel your pain. Really appreciate your thoughts on commodities and markets. Rational and well thought out, keep it up, blessings.

[@aTrippyFarmer]

I am fortunate to not have lost either of the two that were smashed badly. It hasn't been fun, but it could've been worse. I appreciate you watching!

[@paulprigge1209]

I think after you posted this it was actually a gentleman west of you In Illinois lost his life in a grain bin.

[@aTrippyFarmer]

Yes I was saddened to see that. Unfortunately, he did exactly what I explicitly said to not do: climb into a bin to unplug clogged sumps. We’ve lost many great farmers in Illinois that way. You have to be careful!

[@jonrichardson1559]

Looks like it's going to be a rough one for all with prices of food, fuel, etc. Will probably have you farmers planting more beans this year. Hoping the best for all and be glad we don't live next to Russia 😳🥴

[@aTrippyFarmer]

There is a lot of speculation about big acreage switches to soybeans due to high nitrogen prices. In productive areas, corn still pencils out easily, especially when you consider continuous cropping yield penalties. That being said, the more “fringe” acres are very likely to switch to soybeans. This whole ordeal is far from over, and this may be one of the more interesting springs we have had in this US. Our upcoming crop has massive implications on future market prices. If there are any considerable hiccups, grain prices could easily blow past previous records without much effort. I hope that things settle back to normal ranges quickly…

[@jonrichardson1559]

Are you concerned about availability of said fertilizer

[@johnbaumiller6049]

Nice to have you back Andy. Keep em coming. I appreciate your insight, strategies and 'what for's'. Be safe. Heal up. John from South Dakota.

[@aTrippyFarmer]

Thanks, will do!

[@MatthiasSchulenburg]

Hi there. This was the first of your videos I ever saw, and it was really interesting and nice to watch. You got a new subscriber :-)

[@aTrippyFarmer]

Awesome, thank you!

[@echutch]

Like you said, “everyone likes to stick their hand in the cookie jar.” I keep hearing all this supply chain talk. Nobody likes to work anymore. All the basic talking points. Some of that might be true, but the Valentines’ aisle was stocked. The St. Paddy’s Day crap is stocked. The top 5 petroleum companies have record profits and that is after a pandemic, when people worked from home and drove less. This is price gouging at its finest...except they are the biggest donors, so the powers at be look the other way. Thanks for the video Trippy. Heal up. Grind harder. Cheers all

[@stakman78]

A men brother! It's a load of bullshit. We pay over $10 a gallon here in New Zealand, just to line governments and billionaires pockets. They are still buying 600million dollar apartments in New York that they don't even live in. Everybody needs to stop believing the news on TV. Do some homework and see the real truth to covid, so called war and so called supply chain problems.

[@aTrippyFarmer]

There is a fascinating report done by Texas A&M (I think) about the price of fertilizer. The fertilizer producers are claiming natural gas is the biggest issue. The collegiate report basically says that the cost of production has not gone up even close to what the actual fertilizer price has. Nutrien's stock price just reached another all-time high. I agree with everything you are saying.

[@MatthiasSchulenburg]

Saw this video again, and still the prices are still totally crazy. What is going on in the world? 😞

[@michaeldouglas1243]

Ur right Andy, we decided to go all no till this year to save some costs. And we are nowhere near as big an operation as you fellas out west.

[@aTrippyFarmer]

It really makes sense to save fuel that way. I just worry about the herbicides!

[@michaeldouglas1243]

@@aTrippyFarmer I agree. My wife works in medical field and she hates glyphosate. Lol. So I just don't talk about it around her. Lol. But I agree I dislike using so much herbicides for real. But only choice in no til as u know. Plus alot of those have skyrocketed also in cost.

[@aTrippyFarmer]

@@michaeldouglas1243 glyphosate has received a lot of negative press in the last few years. I know enough to know that I know very little, but it’s hard to safe whether or not it really is a carcinogen. Everyone wants to blame it for the world’s problems, yet they never stop to think about how over the same time period they have increasingly carried around a microwave device in their pocket and hands. I only say that for argument, not because I believe one or the other. Paraquat is another problematic one, which makes sense because one sip of it will literally kill you. When you are spraying that stuff, the air is filled with vapors, so you are guaranteed to be inhaling it. I just wish we had the tools to be able to definitely say what causes our problems. Our herbicide costs have gone up about 10-15% this year. We did make some changes to our herbicide plans and soybean genetics to avoid the costlier options. If not, some programs were going to have jumped 100% from last year. Regardless, crazy times we are living in!

[@michaeldouglas1243]

@@aTrippyFarmer I agree fully.

[@spideybrent]

Hello from Canada

[@frankward67]

Ouch!!! Andy that finger story was the definition of irony. I see you doing all the work around the seriously dangerous looking farming equipment only to be laid low by a window. Glad you are healing up...... and watch out for those FL windows. :)

[@Marshall_Weber]

Awesome Video and Much Love as Always!!!

[@aTrippyFarmer]

👍

[@fredorji1]

were paying twice as much in fuel in australia

[@aTrippyFarmer]

That doesn't sound like any fun...

[@tylermiesler4462]

Why don't you use the harvesters more more if it's free storage

[@aTrippyFarmer]

Convenience, risk, and necessity. When everyone is harvesting a large corn crop, the local elevators get bogged way down. Our trucks were hitting a standstill trying to go to commercial storage, so our harvestores offered a great place to move grain while we harvested more corn.

[@zcole6612]

Nothing worse than a hand injury . Hope you have a full recovery

[@aTrippyFarmer]

Agreed. Thank you!

[@badenielsen]

Ohh wow thats so sloppy😯

[@aTrippyFarmer]

😜

[@aidanbrennan7389]

On the emerald isle, we r paying 2euro per liter for petrol. It's not looking good!! Keep up the the work ... Greetings from Ireland ...

[@aTrippyFarmer]

Oh wow!

[@bobbyflowers4859]

Last Sunday I pd $4.09 for diesel. Went back Wednesday and price was $5.09. I believe it will get worse for a while.

[@aTrippyFarmer]

It’s a terrible consequence of this Russian conflicted stacked on top of green energy policies. I am mostly bipartisan, but the climate change agenda has weekend the United States tremendously for the sake of virtue signaling. We are kneecapping ourselves while our biggest competitors are fueling their growth with cheap energy…

[@ronaldbird3648]

We are paying £1.70p per Ltr road fuel and about £1.10 per Ltr red fuel for farm etc

[@cadegullion2532]

Love to see it !

[@aTrippyFarmer]

My man!

[@jaydenwoodley5153]

ouch are you ok ?

[@aTrippyFarmer]

Yes thanks! I am fine now!

[@paf950]

Remember that character on WKRP in Cincinnati that always showed up with a bandage on him somewhere? Les Nessman. You sort of remind me of that guy!

[@aTrippyFarmer]

Thanks for watching!

[@marshalloutdoors1791]

Hopefully a full recovery on your fingers.. ouch!!!

[@aTrippyFarmer]

Thank you!

[@TwoHappyChildrenFarm]

For fun I calculated how many Farm AID concerts it would take just to cover the additional production costs for corn farmers this year. We all remember Farm AID right? These guys took the 1980s and managed to do even more damage to farmers. So at $200 increase y-y for corn per acre (good data from my farm and lots of confirmation) so around $18B to grow this crop compared to last year. Willy and the boys would need to sell out Darryl K Royal Stadium in Austin with 100,000 fans paying $100 per ticket every day for over 5 years straight. Think about that when the scavengers swoop in inevetibably to 'help' the farmers.

[@aTrippyFarmer]

You are pretty spot-on with your numbers. I am not going to pretend that we will not have a substantially higher profit for our old crop and this new crop, but 2023 will be a tough year in my opinion. Some of these margin-farmers will be squeezed pretty thin unless Dec 23 corn starts running up quite a bit!

[@ryangroen1697]

Tell us the story about the old grain in the bin, I think you said it's been there for 6 years?

[@aTrippyFarmer]

The big harvestores? That stuff has been in there for longer than I have been alive. Burnt corn that my great-grandpa bought for a hefty discount. I would need to ask one of my uncles for the specifics...

[@adamalfredsson373]

Would you guys consider for example strip till?

[@aTrippyFarmer]

Yes. It is a more precise and involved method for farming, but I think it should a lot of promise. Everyone in the management has to be willing to change to do something that much different than we are currently doing.

[@adamalfredsson373]

@@aTrippyFarmer I bring up strip till due to the increase in fuel prices and because I tend to Nerd out on things like strip till

[@aTrippyFarmer]

@@adamalfredsson373 I think its a great farming practice. Like I said, it is more involved than conventional tillage, but it saves you money by reducing field passes.

[@chrissyfrancis8952]

I’m so grateful that you always explain the logistics of your operation. Esp now w/ the fuel & fertilizer insanity. Gov Noem of SD warned about the CCP using 3rd party(middle men) & buying up 🇺🇸fertilizer plants. She said “enemies controlling our food production is a national security threat”& yes, I did know that 🇷🇺was a major producer of fertilizers. 🇺🇦is Europe’s “bread basket”. All of that had me worrying about our farmers. Thank you for going over it.

[@BestFarmROI]

Is Disney World covering your hospital expense, inconvenience and loss of income? No, I'm not an attorney but they need to step up and do what's right.

[@aTrippyFarmer]

The purpose of the trip was to go to Disney world, which we did. We stayed off-site in Orlando-unrelated to Disney.

[@missstarry11596]

Never go in a grain bin by yourself you step in one spot that didn’t settle fight your done

[@aTrippyFarmer]

I agree that you should always be cautious. However, between filling the bin with dry corn, running the fans for multiple days, and it emptying in a normal cone, that bin is relatively safe. Farmers should never go into a bin without safety equipment to unplug it if it has quit running out the sumps.

[@heidiriddle4549]

I know your brother in-laws Gabe and Lincoln

[@aTrippyFarmer]

That's awesome! They know a thing or two about farming themselves!

Your Fuel prices are realy cheap, we pay about 2,30€ per liter Diesel, that would be about 9,47$ per gallon in the US.

[@anthonymiles8377]

Got to agree. US fuel prices are dirt cheap compared to Europe

[@aTrippyFarmer]

I can almost bet that anyone that measures fuel in liters has to pay a higher price. That's nothing against liters or your country, but it is a clear trend with US vs Europe.

[@tristanmcewan1829]

Still worse in lower mainland roughly $7.00/ gallon

[@aTrippyFarmer]

I don't envy you!

[@Nappylou69]

holy shoot! =( thats freaky.

[@aTrippyFarmer]

Agreed!

[@perryr3763]

Is all that corn contracted? with today's prices it should be all gone

[@aTrippyFarmer]

We are only about 40% sold on old-crop corn and soybeans. I am happy with where we are given the global balance sheet. The upcoming US crop has massive implications on world supply!

[@anjelv9513]

First !

[@aTrippyFarmer]

Every time!!!

[@u.s.a.satire5982]

Didn't notice your fingers. I thought you was having problems with your nose healing. Like maybe skin cancer or Sun damage. Not being mean just curious.

[@aTrippyFarmer]

Are you talking about the white spot on my nose or just the size of my nose in general? 😂

[@u.s.a.satire5982]

@@aTrippyFarmer The marks or sores on your nose during harvest.

[@hfff1]

I am accepting these as well as future increased costs as my part of supporting the people of Ukraine. I understand where farmers are coming from on the increased costs of inputs, but what is the work around, fix, solution? How do farmers change their roll as patsies? Too harsh? I'm just frustrated.

[@aTrippyFarmer]

We have next to no control of farm-gate prices. I am not even remotely saying that we are victims of anything other than global market disruption, which is partially offset by the increased grain prices. These ridiculous prices do not support Ukraine at all. None of this money goes to them. They can’t even capitalize on high market prices because all of their ports are shut down or destroyed, fuel is limited, and they are under siege by Russia. Ukraine is entirely the victim here!

[@hfff1]

@@aTrippyFarmer "next to no control" ? you need a revolution. Just a small one.

[@aTrippyFarmer]

@@hfff1 the only revolution that could cull fertilizer prices is government intervention. Only a few major players control the nitrogen, phosphorous, and potassium markets. Unless we are going to go takeover Nutrien, Mosaic, CF industries, and the Koch Brothers, we cannot enforce any change. We need nitrogen to grow corn. We need P and K for all of our crops. Those companies control it all. Nutrien owns 60% of the world’s entire supply of mineable potash after Agrium merged with Potash Corp. They need us and we need them… I don’t necessarily think it’s right, but it’s no different than some of these companies that control the lion share of oil rights in the country.

[@lancevanvleet5013]

Take your ring off!!! Your going to lose a finger!

[@aTrippyFarmer]

It’s rubber. Supposedly it’ll go before my finger will, but I am aware of the issue. I might just not wear it to work!

[@bfd1565]

Gas prices: welcome to Republican Corporate Capitalism Greed...

[@aTrippyFarmer]

If it was as simple as greed, why were fuel prices $3 cheaper when the Republicans were in office? There is more than one party to blame here…

[@bfd1565]

@@aTrippyFarmer Trump manipulated our U.S. oil market by raising gas imports from Russia, Saudi Arabia & Mexico. Then his mishandling of Sars-CoV-2 tanked the U.S oil industry causing over 40 U.S. oil companies to file for bankruptcy protection.

[@echutch]

@@aTrippyFarmer if you mean the previous administration, it was because less people were driving. The demand was down. And the last time gas averaged over $4 was in June of 2008.