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Morning everybody. Thanks for being here. I am Chuck Upal, semi trailer sales manager. So that's about my knowledge in this room. So if you want talk about semi trailers, that's me. Otherwise we always find the smarter people in the room, right? That's Jason to Cabers. Jason is our farm manager, Demco does farm. Um, our ownership has hired Jason 10, 12 years ago to be our, he's kind of a hybrid role sales. Um, they break everything on the farm, so when you get it, hopefully it doesn't break. If it does, we blame it on Jason. So, um, I don't know where Shelly went. I don't know if we're gonna have a video here. Video, I don't know. No, we're good. We're good. She Okay. Um, one thing about mco, we do have four different divisions. So it's a semi trailer division. I'm sure most of you have heard of Mauer. We bought into Mauer in 2000, rebranded in 18. So that's the semi trailer side. Um, liquid tenders, steel grain trailers, Kindles, as you say. We haul scrap, we haul recycling side dumps, um, and drop decks. So we're very diversified. We heard it last night about diversification. That is what's helped us. That's actually what saved Demco in the eighties from the farm crisis, was going into the RV market. So we will forgive us because this is our first time going you To sit still and watch the world go by waiting for someone else to do it. You were built to move, move to feed nations. Move mountains, be moved, proudly designed, engineered, and built in Iowa devoted to innovation so you can move limits built to move. So built to moves our, our model going forward because it's the only thing that covered of all four of our divisions. So whether it's the RV products for the trailer components, um, our largest division is actually our trailer components. So if you have a trailer with a dim to coupler, that's us also. So, Um, we are going into NASCAR this year. We have a partnership with X extreme mag. We're working on that for the Iowa Race and a few others. So you'll see a little bit about that coming out. Um, the reason we're with XtremeAg, you gotta find the smartest person in the room, right? I think that's our theme. So everybody up here has either a grain trailer or grain cards or tip ups for combine header trailers. These guys are out there using those, hopefully not breaking them, but if they break 'em then they help us figure out what we need to do next. So Kelly, you have three cards? Two cards, yes. Two cards, four grain trailers. Um, with the debate we talked about grain trailers. I think Kelly said it the smartest way. Figure out your difference between your aluminum and your steel and it takes a lot of loads to make that difference. But we aren't a commercial trailer. We are your tip to your Wilson. We are your farmer trailer. So, um, field to farm. Farm to town, but not commercial. So of course all the video on there. I think of the five years we've been with you guys four years now. I think so. And look to stay there. We also have our own training center and Boyden, Iowa. So everything's manufactured in Boydton, excluding semi trailers. They're manufactured in Spencer. So anything you guys, anybody's interested in, come see us. It's there. It's available for training, everything. So, um, we do do webinars, immersive training, that's all part of Demco. Our heritage centers. We started as an implement dealer in 1948, little before that, and then progressed into manufacturing and the founders decided manufacturing was way better, more fun than the implement dealer. So we have that also in, boy, I think we lost Chad's attention when that race car went on the up there. He's waiting for the phone call to see when he can drive. So that being said, I think it's just, here he comes. It's just as easy to let these guys talk about the products. Let Jason talk about the products. Like I said, I'm just the semi trailer sales manager, so I can help you think of that. Our liquid tenders are out there. I think Jason's gonna touch on a couple things coming this year on our liquid tenders, uh, hybrid liquid tender, I guess is the easiest way to call it. Um, and we'll let these guys talk about that stuff and I'll just shut up and observe. Yeah, so one of the things we're doing with our liquid tenderloin, it's been very good for hauling water and chemical to sprayers, but we realized most of you in here are starting to run products from micro, liquid or tidal or various companies in here in your, so our next edition of the tender lineup, we'll have a seed tender built on. So you can haul two liquid products as well as seeded field all in one trip instead of sending multiple pickups. So look for that to be showing up this year sometime. We'll see some, some pictures of it soon. Um, but we plan to test and break that potentially this spring on our own farm before we roll it out to you guys. Uh, the relationship with Demco has really been a very productive one. The things that, uh, we have done on my farm is I, I've purchased three grain trailers and I've now got two grain carts as we trade 'em out. Uh, I do, you know, like the, the steel versus aluminum has been a big debate. Uh, I was a little worried about that as well just because of all the talk. I I really liked the Demco green trailers, you know, if I bought any more triple axes, of course, you know, we'd to buy an aluminum one. But the steel ones that we use during harvest, uh, I appreciate those because it, it's about, if I remember correctly, it's eight or nine inches higher off the ground. And in my hills, some of the gate holes, I'm coming in and out. And then anytime you're getting over top of auger and if, you know, if the augers just sitting quite right, even with the ag hops, it can be tight. And with the Demco it is a lot easier. That is the most, the biggest thing I appreciate, you know, and then they, they talk, you know, the weight of it and things like that. Or we could still get a thousand bushel on there to go to town and stuff. I, I think it's a really good product and, and they're, they're, in my opinion, they're less expensive than an aluminum trailer, which I also appreciate. The other thing that's hotly debated is the left hand auger versus the right hand auger on the grain cart. Uh, we've gone to the right hand augers, you know, with, with Bob and Jason's, uh, uh, encouragement and it's natural. I mean, you're running the hydraulics with your right hand. It's so much easier to look out that right window. Uh, you just gotta pull it from the truck from the other direction and you know that it can be such an emotional thing for people to, ah, I can't, I don't want that auger on the right side. Boy, after you have it, you don't want one on the left side, you know. So the two carts we have are, are on tracks, which are, have been really, really great to work with. Uh, the one thing I like on tracks in my heels, which not everybody deals with my hills, but there's so much lower to the ground. And then, you know, when I get on a side hill, uh, not only lowering the ground, you don't have to worry about the tire going flat ever or rolling off the beat or things like that. And so the track grain cart's lower the ground, I appreciate. And then the fire suppression system, which you don't ever need until you need it. Well, we needed it this fall and I don't know how far the fire would've gotten if we hadn't had that suppressant system on that cart. Mm-hmm. So those, those are the, the differences, the small differences in the equipment that I see versus what we used to have. And, uh, they're, you know, it adds up to a lot. And so I, uh, you know, the, the, again, 00:07:45.045 --> 00:07:46.565