Remsen Farmers Coop

“I’ve figured out over the years partnerships don’t work unless you need each other equally. For me, the spring is the most hectic part. You finishing up calving and then there’s the drive to get the crops into the ground. This spring, I put in 243 hours in in 13½ days. The tractor doesn’t get shut off unless I go home to sleep. While I’m planting, Dad or one of our partners looks after the cows. It all works together. We’ve got a really, really good partnership with these guys. “If there’s something that has to be done, any one of them steps up. I don’t have to get out of the combine and come back home to do something – it’s already done. Everybody cares about getting it done and done right. Halfway is something I’ve never accepted. And these guys don’t do anything halfway,” Tom said. The first year Heath was on the

Paul Knapp and Tom Huls pulling a calf.

team, Tom asked the guys one evening if they wanted to run late to finish combining the corn. “Heath asked, ‘Well, we’ve been running until midnight, what are you thinking?’ I said, ‘If we go straight through, we can get done by noon tomorrow. If somebody gets tired, we’ll shut it down. It ain’t worth somebody getting hurt.’ “The next morning, the sun’s coming up and I’m unloading corn and I look over and Heath is in his underwear and socks in the tractor. I got on the radio and said ‘What in the heck are you doing?’ He said, ‘Well, when I get comfortable at home, I

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