Hello and welcome back to the Agriculture Technology Podcast. I'm Tony Kramer, your host,

and I sit down with agriculture technology and equipment experts to help you enhance

your operation for today, tomorrow, and the future. Today with me on the show is Aaron

Hightower. Now, Aaron, you've been on the show in the past, but let's remind our listeners

who you are, what you do with RDO Equipment Company, and a little bit about your background.

Hi, Tony. It's been a while, hasn't it? Absolutely. I feel like, I feel like I haven't even

seen you since December. And so it's like, I haven't even gotten to catch up with you at all. So yeah, my name is Aaron Hightower and I'm the agronomist for RDO equipment company up here in the northwest, Washington and Oregon.

I also do a little bit of work in that California and Arizona section, but most of my time has been up here in the north.

And I've been with the company for six years.

And before that, I did resource management planning for NRCS for 10 years.

So kind of been all over the board when it comes to agricultural planning, agricultural

management on like a larger system side of things.

Wonderful.

Yeah.

Again, it's been quite a while. It's

great to get you back on the show. It's great to chat with you. I'm always intrigued, Darren,

when you and I get to sit down, you know, myself here, Midwest Egg, Minnesota, North Dakota,

South Dakota, being the agronomist, you being out there carrying the same position, same title. But

we've we've had so many conversations about how different our regions are. I've got a little bit

of kind of niche area specialty crops. You have a ton of specialty crops. We both deal a little bit in the small grains,

a little bit of corn, but your region always intrigues me just because what, what is it you always say?

There's 200, 300, 300.

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