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my name is Tate Wikstrom and I was a merchandising
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intern in Goodland Kansas this summer when I first got
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to Goodland, I knew I had a lot to learn.
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But one of the first things that I was taught
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was how to go above and beyond for the customers
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while being detail oriented at all times.
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In Goodland, there's three different choices for farmers to take
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their grain to because of this, we have to do
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whatever we can to retain their business from year to
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year by being detail oriented.
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We know that everything we are going to provide them
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is going to be accurate and precise.
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Something else that I got to do.
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Whenever I got here to schooler was see the grain
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business from the other side of the desk.
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I grew up around farming and custom harvesting, so I
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was always a customer for the grain business, seeing it
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from the customer service side really opened my eyes and
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I think it will benefit me in the future.
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Something else that happened while I was out here in
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Goodland was schooler bought the Caruso sunflower plant, Seeing everyone
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from the company come together and help Jeff, my manager
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work through this and learn how we're going to utilize
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this facility with something special and I really enjoyed seeing
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that. Once we harvest started, I transitioned from being inside
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in the office to outside an elevator.
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I helped.
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However, I could mainly dumping trucks This summer.
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We had the second largest harvest handle of the locations
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history with just over four million bushels.
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As a group, We dumped up to 208,000 bushels a
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day. Just at Goodland alone, we did this while having
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a little bit of a labor shortage, luckily to bridge
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a little bit of that gap, we had two interns
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come out and give us a hand for a few
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weeks. Emily Harold and tie Simpson.
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Usher a few pictures over here to the right of
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wheat. Harvest the top left, you can see the bunker
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that we filled this summer.
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The bottom right, you can see the pits where we
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dump trucks, where I spent most of my days during
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harvest. The top right is the belt that takes the
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grain down to the tripper and puts it into the
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respective Ben depending on the grades and other factors.
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Once we harvest was over paperwork, harvest started all the,
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all the producers were done cutting their wheat and they
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were ready to verify their ledgers, make sure all the
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bushels were correct and get things sent to their insurance
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companies and landlords.
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As you can see on the chart to the right
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at the top.
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That is the amount of bushels that we bought for
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the 18 day range.
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Right after harvest, we bought about 1.4 million bushels in
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this range and had several days where we bought over
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100,000 bushels.
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This was something really exciting to be a part of
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The bottom graph shows the cash bids that we had
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for the 18 days following harvest.
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As you can see, that cash bid continued to increase
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and was above $6, about 90% of the time.
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Because of this.
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When farmers came in to settle up on their records,
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they wanted to go ahead and get most of their
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wheat souls.
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They didn't have to pay storage on it and they
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could go ahead and collect on this historically high price.
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When I first got to Goodwin, my team tasked me
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with making an interactive map that they could visualize their
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draw area with and see where they could be lacking
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in certain areas of origination.
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The way we did this is we used records and
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field IEDs from past harvest to accurately pinpoint and map
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fields. So we went and got night runs from past
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harvest. Found the field IEDs manually looked up the field
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legals and then transferred them to these maps using coordinates.
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By doing this.
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We created these several layer maps that each commodity has
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their own color and you can see the general outline
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of where all the bushels are coming from, coming into
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the Cheyenne County and Goodwin locations.
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This is also useful when considering new possible locations such
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as Caruso, which is also on the map.
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This map is interactive.
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It can be and it can be used in the
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future to see how the draw area evolves.
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It's very easy to to edit and from now on
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there's going to be a book and the scale desk
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or excuse me at the scale desk that they will
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have and mark down every field that grain has brought
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in off of.
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So that way they can easily input those fields onto
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this map and see how the draw area changes.
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I'm very glad that I came to do this internship
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with Schooler.
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I think that it really opened my eyes to the
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grain trading business and show me that this is something
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I would love to do some day.
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Thank you.