Yeah,

yeah, and it rusts.

And that million dollars eventually is going to end up in a junkyard at some point.

But that's how much these machines cost new.

So when a farmer passes away... that gets inherited to their kids.

And so if you have a kid that's making $40,000 a year and currently the state tax level is $4 million, say it's $5 million, they have to pay, they have to come up with the money to make up that difference.

Even though their trust, most farmers are smart enough to do that and put things in LLCs, but that's what Republicans talk about.

It seems like it would be almost impossible to make those numbers work.

I mean, are you confident your business could actually survive these headwinds, and are there other options?

options?Well, part of the reason why I did it is, uh, right now we're looking at, uh, four million additional soybean acres being planted, and it's no secret that China is our number one export market for soybeans.

Um, they traditionally buy a quarter of our crop, and right now they haven't even come up anywhere close to what they would normally buy.

And unfortunately right now with this administration, they don't know what the heck they're doing, and we're really suffering the collateral damage from it.

And so I know that I would have a market.

I'm also a regenerative farmer.

Mm.

Uh, it's just, it's just sad that they don't understand what's happening right now.

Um, what do you think of that? Because I'm, I'm sure the money could come in handy, but I don't know that it's gonna help you strategically.

Well, Steph, this is just the really unfortunate thing right now, is if they really wanted to get something done, is that they would advance policies that increase our demand.

And I've said on your show before that farmers don't want a bailout, 'cause that's the absolute truth.

What we wanna do is we wanna take our product, put it in the market, and sell it, and make money off of it.

And you correctly tonight talked about the loss of USAID program.

That was over $2 billion worth of commodities that Uncle Sam would buy, and Bob Dole was the biggest proponent of helping out with foreign aid and starving people.

We need more Republicans to act like Bob Dole again.

... from farmers in this country.

And the first thing

I'm going to say is before a farmer, he gave the world, they have to be profitable.

Okay, sure.

So that's the most important thing.

And that's a real hang up for a lot of people for trying to go down this journey because our margins are so narrow.

And for me, I really got started farming in 2012.

That was also the year of the big drought, the last major drought that we had.

Yeah, that was Elon

Their boycott, how has it affected your day-to-day business?

Well, Steph, one thing I really appreciate your show is that you understand markets, and right now we're sitting on a billion bushels that don't have a home.

That's about 25% of our market right now.

And what I'm really concerned about is 2026, and if we don't get these bushels sold, we're really looking at economic disaster in 2026.

What do you think of that?

Well, it's his Argentina first agenda.

That's what he's trying to do, unfortunately.

I mean, we're giving $40 billion to Argentina, and the minute that they lifted their export tax, China came in and bought roughly $800 million worth of beans from them.