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Mike Ralph

Mike Ralph

Ohio soybean and corn farmer; District 9 board member of the Ohio Soybean Council; partner in Ralph Brothers Farm in Marion County, Ohio

Aug 9, 2026

Dusty SonnenbergCORRESPONDENT
11:54
You mentioned that with killdeer plains just to the north here, some heavier soils.
11:59
Yes, very.
12:00
Some people would not like to farm them.
12:02
Sure.
12:02
But what the heck? We've, well, we think maybe we've grown up with it and It's not something you can hurry, and some of it takes several trips over to make a seed bed, but it still can produce pretty
Dusty SonnenbergCORRESPONDENT
12:36
Sure.
12:36
And we even, down where Michael lives now, we installed a big pump to lift it and take it to the Scioto River to get to places in that farm that were lower.
12:49
And it's probably 10, 12 years old now and it's really been working well.
11:03
Talk about that group and some of the interesting things you've learned.
11:06
Well, it's nationwide, and they're focused on biodiesel and renewable diesel and renewable jet fuel.
11:15
But it's greatly involved around the soybean world, and they know farmers and want to – there's a lot of farmers on their main board, too.
11:26
So it's a lot farm-oriented and a lot soybean-oriented farmers.
11:33
some other crops a little bit but mainly the soybeans and when you think about uh worldwide or countrywide and they know where lewis dreyfus is coming in in wyandotte county i mean it's it's a known fact i
11:51
yeah you mentioned you recently got an email from them talking about a plant out in nebraska and some things going on
11:57
yeah i They're big on email, so I was reading the email, and it said that there was a processing plant in East Nebraska that just opened a year ago.
12:08
They're in their first year of operation, and they were just getting ready to or sent off a long train of soybean oil to the West Coast for biodiesel and renewable diesel plants.

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