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Johnny Verell, the extreme mag. We're out here today looking at some pivots and I got Billy Gordon that works with me on the farm.
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You know, he kind of helps me out on all the pivots and kind of has some ideas of his own from time to time. And last year he started working with him
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and he is like, man, keeping up with the fuel in these power units is, is just a disaster. You always run out fuel or you go over there
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and you crank it up and you think you got enough fuel and you realize you don't. He got to look around online
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and he came out with a pretty good solution. And just, just talk about what we came up with. Yeah. So, uh, along with the power units that we have,
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obviously like most producers, we have several fuel tanks at the farm. Uh, offroad diesel, on-road diesel, gasoline.
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And so we were trying to find a way to manage those, uh, those shipments and transport loads to save money,
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but also, uh, we wanted to find a way to be able to monitor the fuel in the field on our power units. This year we picked up a couple more farms
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with additional power units, so now we have five power units in two different counties. And so that stretches us out a little bit.
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Uh, obviously when irrigation is going, there's a lot of other things happening on the farm too. So we found a company that provides a solution.
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It's, uh, about a hundred dollars per tank, uh, roughly. Uh, and also it only charges us $2 per month to monitor.
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Yeah, I think we have 12 of these monitors out now between what's at the shop to be able to manage fuel and then also it's in the field.
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And so we get alerts set for the fuel level that's in the tank. It lets me know when the tank has been refueled.
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The really neat thing is we've always wondered about gallons of fuel per circle, uh, so we can attribute
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that cost to the crop. And so now we can look and see exactly how many gallons it takes to make a full revolution or a half revolution.
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We can apply that to how many, uh, inches of water we apply. Uh, so a lot of information
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that we can use out of this. Yeah, I'm sitting here talking, really sitting there talking. I look down and I found the, the previous checker here.
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So this is what we came from and it's hard to tell what you have. Nothing's worse than coming
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and cranking a power unit on a hot day, getting over there, cranking the power unit, realizing
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you got 50 gallons of fuel. So this is one way we're trying to be more efficient and really try to track what is costing us
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