Soybeans rolling along! R2 by mid May

Skip row corn double cropped behind wheat is looking good! The thinking was to thicken it up in each row and take every 3rd row out to help late season heat out at night since it would be pollinating a lot later than our full season corn and in the hottest time of the year

In some good stuff today! 🌽

Harvested some big corn with the ol man today! 💪🏻 🌽

Corn harvest is in full swing in South Ga! Getting into some good stuff now

Join us in supporting this year’s Alex Harrell Field Day on August 6 in Smithville, GA. Over 100 corn and soybean trials will be on display, and industry experts—including BRANDT’s Dr. Eric Winans—will share insights on what’s working in the field.

Pretty excited to put the combine in a corn field this year. Won’t be long! 🌽 🫛 🌱

Pretty proud and excited to have played a small part in this one. Caleb Traugh and all the guys have got this thing looking jam up and have put a ton of work into it this year. We got folks from all over the country and even a few from across the globe gonna be there. Dr Eric Winans, David Hula, Cody Goins along with several other speakers will be there presenting and will be hands on with us in the field all day. Y’all come on out August 6th and join us! Message me or Caleb if you need more details 🌽 🫛 🌱

If anybody is qualified and interested in moving to South Ga shoot me a direct message. Be glad to speak with you

Not magazine worthy by any means but they’re starting to shape up pretty good!🫛

Long time comin & a long way to go. Flint River Farm Supply, Inc is officially underway. I look forward to helping fellow farmers with fertility & chemical needs. This along with Flint River Irrigation will help us stay diversified in a tough ag economy. Blessed beyond measure

Planters in full force in Ga now! Corn and bean planters both rollin 🌽 🫛 🌱

I’m sure thankful & fortunate to partner with solid companies like @TimacAgroUSA who will actually listen to a growers needs and do things to help even if it’s not the traditional way. Was glad to have their product under all the corn & soybeans last year & again this coming year

As a farmer there’s 2 days I look forward every year more than anything else. The day we start planting and the day we start harvesting. The excitement of starting over fresh every spring and putting seeds in the dirt, tweaking from the year before, making changes for what is hopefully the better, seeing how much improvement we can make from the year before, it’s what drives me to get up every morning. The day before we start harvest I’m like a kid on Christmas Eve. Can’t sleep, mind racing, just excited to get our annual report card to see how we did all throughout the year and if it pays off enough to be able to go again the next year. What worked, what didn’t work, and then immediately start planning on what we will do and change the next year. The last 2 years have been financially tough on farmers in the southeast, this year in 2024 was shaping up to be worse than those 2 combined and possibly the worst in history. Definitely the worst of my lifetime. All this was BEFORE a major hurricane at harvest time came into the picture. Depressed commodity prices and sky high inputs have made it impossible for anyone to turn a profit this year, now a hurricane wiping a crop out on top of all this will be detrimental for all of south Ga farmers. In 2018 when Hurricane Michael hit we didn’t know what to expect and it was a gut punch to everyone on how bad it was. But everyone overcame it and came through it. But then the inputs shot up and markets came down and all the equity everyone had has been burn up to cover the losses the last 2 years. This year was already going to be tough to come out of for a lot of farmers but now it will be all but impossible. The worst part is after Michael 6 years ago mnow we know what to expect and we just have to sit here and watch it come in and take everything away. I’m not a worrying person but I’m worried now. I’m not worried about world records, or high yields, or any of the success we’ve been fortunate enough to have recently. Im worried if soybeans still in the field will even still be there Friday. Im worried for the pecan farmers with the biggest crop in years on the limbs of their trees will survive. I’m worried about cotton farmers that have 95% of the crop still in the field that will be completely stripped in the next 24 hours. Im worried for the peanut farmers that have dug peanuts for the last 48 hours without any sleep that are about to get 10 inches of rain on them. I’m worried about my friends and neighbors that I know work harder than any other industry on the planet just to watch it all blow away in a couple of hours and not be able to pay loans at the bank back and will have nowhere to turn. I’m worried that more farmers than not won’t ever get to have that excitement of planting and then harvesting a crop again all because of a storm taking it all away and making it financially impossible to start over. I’m not a very cultured person but I’ve been blessed with opportunities to travel a lot of places and have met a lot of people in the Ag industry from all over the world and without a shadow of a doubt the toughest ones on the planet is a farmer in the southeast United States. The resiliency and determination they have is unmatched. It looks inevitable that’s this storms coming dead at us so if you see a farmer in South Ga in the coming days and weeks give em a pat on the back because what they’re going through right now is unimaginable for most anyone else to even comprehend. Stay safe out there!

Sorry I’m late but thanks for all the kind words this past week from everyone across the country and world. I’m beyond blessed to get up every day and do what I do with the people I get to do it with. There’s too many to name but I have the best group of people and suppliers I could ever ask for surrounding me and making everything possible. To do it once was great but to do it twice back to back years is indescribable. I try my best every day and my name may be on the front of it but this is for everyone that helped make it happen from start to finish and all in between. Thank y’all for everything and I’ll see the rest of ya down the road! 🏆 🫛

As we’re starting up soybean harvest this year it’s got me thinking back on the past 12 months. A year ago my farming world completely changed when we were fortunate enough to break the world record for soybeans. I’ve been able to travel places and meet people that I never could have before. It’s opened doors and opportunities for me and has taught me a ton. I’ve been able to speak at different field days and ag shows all over the country and South America sharing what I’ve learned and have met some awesome farmers and other people in the ag industry along the way. The high input costs and low commodity prices this year have got the entire ag industry in a dark haze, especially in the southeast. Going forward this year I feel like we have a very good chance at breaking our own record if the last bit of weather would cooperate through harvest. But if we don’t, that’ll be just fine too. I know that I’ve done everything in my power that I can, as well as everyone that works with me day in day out has. We put together a plan, we implemented it, we carried it to the end as best as I know how. This has been one of the toughest growing seasons that I’ve been a part of in my farming career. In the end it’s all up to the good Lord and Mother Nature. Breaking records is cool and it’s sure fun seeing those massive numbers but at the end of the day the ROI on every acre across the farm is what keeps us going and I’m sure hoping there’s some drastic changes coming in the future or there’s gonna be a lot less farmers in a year or 2 than there are today. So to all my fellow farmers across this great country out there. Keep your heads up through these tough times, keep the combines rollin, and stay safe through harvest to make it home to all your families at the end of the day. 🫛 🌱

Today was full circle moment for me. I remember listening to Kip Cullers 17 years ago & taking notes like a mad man on how he produced world record soybeans in awe of 160 bushel beans. Knowing where we are now is a feeling that’s tough to beat from a kid in the audience back then

Some high population corn looking strong. 💪🏻 🌽

Idk if they’ll break 206 or not but they sure have the pod load potential. Stacking em up! Bout a month away from desiccation hopefully