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Hey, everyone, I'm Zach Johnson.

And I am Mitchell Hora.

This is the Fieldwork podcast, the greatest podcast ever, about sustainable agriculture.

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This is the show that is by farmers for farmers.

And on this show, we hear a lot about the benefits of sustainable egg practices.

But for a lot of guys and gals,

the expense side of making changes can be daunting. Good thing you're made of money, though,

Zach. It's a dang good thing, right? Obviously, machinery can be expensive. I would say,

number one, that's what comes to mind for me when it comes to making changes. What am I going to do,

what am I going to need to do to make

changes to my operation as far as machinery goes if I change up the way I'm doing things?

Well, especially that you already have a ton of capital tied up in the machinery that you already

have. Exactly. And then you change one little thing to start small and try a few acres. Do you have to

spend $100,000 on a, you know, a machinery item that you didn't

need before and now you're only going to use it on 10 acres? On a couple acres, yeah. It's hard to

spread out the cost when you're starting pretty small and something like that. But then you

have other costs as well. Like if you're going to try cover crop on just like cover acres,

you've got to cover the cost of the seed as well. Yep. And then you've got to cover maybe the cost of the diesel or the hours on the tractor

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