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Matt Miles

Matt Miles

Fourth-generation row-crop farmer and owner of Miles Farms in McGehee, Arkansas, and XtremeAg panelist who set the Arkansas soybean yield record (107.63 bu/ac).

Sep 29, 2026

4:15
Now it's less than 1%.
4:16
I'm not concerned about the amount of farmers.
4:18
I'm concerned about the amount of people that is so distant from the farmer.
4:23
That's our problem.
4:24
I'm saying problem.
4:25
It's not a problem.
4:26
But 2% farmers, 1% farmers, we know what farming is about.

9 MINS LATER

13:36
I'm already vested.
2:03
No, I actually
2:04
had been doing bread for a long time, even before COVID.
2:07
And strangely, I actually didn't bake a whole lot during COVID proper.
2:11
So this would be a couple of years later than that in like 2024.
2:14
I just I started getting a little more serious about my interest in bread baking, which I've always had.
2:20
And, you know, when you're baking all this bread, especially when you have a small family like me, you've got to find people to eat it.
2:28
And so I'd be giving friends and people that I know and neighbors experimental bread.

9 MINS LATER

11:12
Yeah.
16:22
'Cause you and I both know infrastructure and market have to go with production.
16:27
Yeah.
16:27
So a cotton gin is basically where you bring in the raw cotton that's got the seed in it.
16:32
Uh, now it's mostly done in round bales.
16:34
It went from actual cotton trailers that you manually stomp to modules to round bales.
16:39
So you bring that cotton to that facility.
16:41
There's, there's mechanisms in that gin, it's basically saws that cut the lint away from the s- the seed.

12 MINS LATER

29:03
You might be pushing $900 an acre on a cost of production.

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