Expanding the Red Barn Team

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Welcome to the EZ Ag podcast where innovative farming meets practical solutions. I'm your host, Matt Long and today we want to kick off the new year by introducing a new team member to the Axis Seed Red Barn team here in Leoti, Kansas.

So, Jackson Lewis grew up here in the area; his grandparents and uncle farm here in Wichita County. Lived over in, grew up mostly over in Scott County. Tell us a little bit about yourself, background and kind of your, what you're excited about coming to work here at Red Barn.

Yeah, my name is Jackson Lewis. Went to school in Scott City graduated from there went to college in Hesston, and then in Newman again. Came back and ran a sprayer for a little bit, and then just starting here at Red Barn. And I'm very excited to learn more about the products and kind of what goes into making those products and how that comes about, and then being able to get out there and learn from, learn from you, and and see this side of this side ag, instead of the farming side.

Yeah, that's good. So, we're excited to have Jackson on board. He's going to be kind of fitting into many different roles here at Red Barn Enterprises. Part of that's going to be sales, working direct with some growers. Some of it's going to be operations, you know, from a delivery standpoint from a crop planning standpoint and stuff like that, as we, as we go through the year. Right now, he's about ten days in to the job. So, we've kind of thrown the book at him from a soil testing standpoint and fertility recommendations, really teaching him a lot about that process. Kind of give us your feedback after ten days of kind of getting the, getting the cold water dumped on you after the football game here.

Yeah, I, I got into the Excel spreadsheets and learning what formulas go into that and kind of the numbers that that you're looking at to give out those recommendations. And then being able to go out in the field this week where it's been nice, and pulling the samples myself and kind of seeing the difference in the soils, and and how we can how we can use our recommendations to help the farmer.

Yeah, that's great. I'm I'm particularly excited about having Jackson on board. Excited about his his willingness to learn new things, and and kind of get out there and expand his knowledge of agriculture. Just this last ten days has been great having him here because it's taken some pressure off of me on some projects that needed to get done but I had other things to do as well. And so we're kind of getting over that hump as we kind of get here to the end of the year and introduce him to customers and stuff starting at the beginning of the year. I'm excited to have an extra set of hands. It's also given us the opportunity to start double-checking a lot more of the work that we're sending out here at Red Barn. And so, Jenny and I, we've always been very particular about you know, the image that we have, and how the work looks when it goes out to the customers. But every once in a while, there's something that slips through the cracks, and it's good to have an extra set of eyes, an extra set of hands on those projects. So, we're excited to have Jackson with us there. And I think that's all unless you have something else today, Jackson.

Nope. I'm excited to get rolling this year.

All right, that's great. So, thanks for joining us on this first episode of the EZ Ag podcast in 2026.

Until next time, remember, ag is Easy when you tune into the EZ Ag Podcast.

That’s all for today, I’m Matt Long, 

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