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6th generation @ Thompson Family Farm -Food grade yellow, food grade white, non GMO, seed production- contract hog producer, soil health advocate

Southern IL
Joined February 2020
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John Thompson
2 years
I personally don’t know any other 8year olds out here servicing tractors!
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John Thompson
1 year
I told the neighbors my corn was already knee high…
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John Thompson
4 years
New to me bean planter for 2021!
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John Thompson
11 months
9 years old, but she’s a cart operating fool! Making the Sunday deal just the 2 of us!
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John Thompson
1 year
Warm and cozy for the weekend
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John Thompson
1 year
Yielding much better than it should have!
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John Thompson
2 years
If you wear a shirt with a large seed brand logo on the front while vacationing, I see that as an open opportunity to talk about corn varieties… don’t be mad about it BRUH
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John Thompson
3 years
No one makes 1255 wing tanks, so I just made my own
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John Thompson
11 months
Name something more midwestern than this.. Ill wait
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John Thompson
1 year
Planting 100+ acres before lunch seems next to impossible for me, but 400 from lunch to 10pm works… don’t ask me why.. just the way it is
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John Thompson
1 year
Are we too late for the early bean thang???
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John Thompson
2 years
Hate to be done… but on the plus side.. it’s another day closer to spring 23…
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John Thompson
3 years
My girls are built different!
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John Thompson
1 year
Your 8yr olds are at home playing with baby dolls….. My 8yr old:
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John Thompson
5 years
A good weekend to get some acres covered! #plant2k20 #thompsonfamilyfarms
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John Thompson
1 year
Still putting fertility down!
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John Thompson
4 years
Feeding some little kerns vía Y-drop!
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John Thompson
1 year
Closing in on the last of the beans!
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John Thompson
4 years
Some things never go out of style.... & chem farm tanks are one of them! @KelleyEngAg
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John Thompson
3 years
Ready to put the hamma down!
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John Thompson
2 years
Saturday morning tillage… Tryna beat the weather
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John Thompson
2 years
Harvest day 3….
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John Thompson
1 year
It’s amazing how a guy can remove 16 cable drives, 2 hydraulic motors, bearings, and a ton of harness, to replace it with less harness and less moving parts and improve seed placement, and speed! @PrecisionPlant
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John Thompson
1 year
Pickin and grinin’
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John Thompson
4 years
Time to make this thing ready to roll #plant21
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John Thompson
1 year
The first time someone in the Midwest missed a rain.. they run out side and start yelling “it’s just like the drought in 2012”…. Tell me I’m wrong.. I’ve heard it 100 times..
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John Thompson
4 years
Strollin’ out to MO to give me corn hair cuts! #detassel20 #pioneer #seedcorn #oxbo #peterbilt #379
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John Thompson
2 years
Life is simple…. I’m either planting, or missing planting…. #spring2k23
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John Thompson
1 year
They all are coming out! Hope my pop was low enough
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John Thompson
10 months
Anyone got any “hot” deals on a quad… I’m short one less than I was
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John Thompson
4 years
No politics, just busy movin’ grain!
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John Thompson
4 years
Some Sunday corn slaying!
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John Thompson
1 year
Sometimes when you outrun the tillage crew.. you gotta unhook from the planter and join em!
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John Thompson
3 years
Memorial Day corn juicin’
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John Thompson
1 year
Am I the only one who fights bending the factory hitch on the mower every year?? Not any more! Adapted to category 4 bitch!
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John Thompson
2 years
forever the light, in the middle the night…
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John Thompson
4 years
I mite end up snowed in the shop, but I ain’t mad about it... #plant21
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John Thompson
3 years
Getting beans in the ground this weekend! With a little addition of some plant food #plant2k21 #caseIH #1265
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John Thompson
1 year
Some one bring me the seed tender, I’m tired of waiting!
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John Thompson
1 year
I have 2 12 rows corn heads for sale 2018 folding & a 2014 rigid… I’m keeping which ever doesn’t sell first
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John Thompson
4 years
Im over all the nonsense... I’m just ready to get it #plant2k20 #caseih #quadtrac
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John Thompson
4 years
Just a raggedy 30 year old truck #peterbilt #largecar
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John Thompson
3 years
Filling that august delivery contract! #harvest21 #yesitisgreen
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John Thompson
4 years
When the phone rings, we roll out! Lookin large somewhere in central In! #peterbilt379exh #detassel #oxbo #thompsonfamilyfarms
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John Thompson
2 years
Bean slingin!
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John Thompson
1 year
Sunday terminal pimp’n…
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John Thompson
4 years
The new to me triple stack dryer going in place!
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John Thompson
2 years
Expanding out nitrogen storage by 110% is gonna be night and day different logistically for our truck drivers!
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John Thompson
1 year
I was thinking this Monday seemed par for course.. then I realized it was Friday…. 🙄🙄
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John Thompson
2 years
Some people can’t wait till the weekend….. I CANT wait till spring…
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John Thompson
3 years
Caught between wanting/ needing things for 2022 season, and not wanting to pay 150% of retail price....
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John Thompson
4 years
These green beans are having a feast of Some Micro’s & a side of sugar!
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John Thompson
4 years
Clipp’n away #oxbo #detasselSZN
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John Thompson
4 years
Another morning of making our own rain
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John Thompson
4 years
Little test plot action today!
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John Thompson
3 years
Made it on @OfficialRFDTV with @Tyne_Ag for a little planting update
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John Thompson
2 years
Hopefully get this ol gal to last another 3800 hours!
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John Thompson
2 years
@sean_nettleton She asked me to help with a hydraulic filter… I replied with.. I’m just an operator BB… that’s your job
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John Thompson
2 years
another sundeee preloading trucks for Monday!
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John Thompson
1 year
Hitch* Not bitch, but it works here too!
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John Thompson
2 years
@GregGlasner They been changing irrigator tires before they were 8…
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John Thompson
4 years
I shouldn’t have ever been let loose with an AuctionTime account...
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John Thompson
1 year
@Bkitch1Bodie Me and @sean_nettleton Getting ready to hack 6 of them and weld them togther in a stack fold in the shop….
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John Thompson
1 year
Someday we will come up with an easier way to tender the soybean planter!
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John Thompson
11 months
Last day of white corn!
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1 year
Day 1 state fair… 3rd overall Gilt
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John Thompson
5 years
Im just ready to be “quarantined” to this cab, is that to much to ask... #plant2k20 #BeanDreamin #caseih
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John Thompson
4 years
Awaiting a touch dryer weather... #plant2k20
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John Thompson
3 years
Kern hair cut SZN #detassel2020
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John Thompson
1 year
Silly things that I can’t stop Thinking about until I build it… this is one of them.. ranger skid with tool boxes, torches and hose holder
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John Thompson
4 years
My traditional 4th of July captains seat! #makingSeedCornGreatAgain #oxbo #detasselSZN
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John Thompson
4 years
10 years later and the black truck finally has black fenders!
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John Thompson
4 years
Making sure the fungalcide rig stays runnin!
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John Thompson
1 year
Rain machine going “BRRPPPPP” today…
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John Thompson
3 years
Irrigator SZN 2021! #Drought21
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John Thompson
1 year
Am I the only person that didn’t buy a high speed disc in the last 2 year???
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John Thompson
2 years
Was suppose to watching for tender trailers on proxibid auctions.... *Me phoning my father*- “i accidentally bought another old peterbilt”
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11 months
Some of you may not know this.. but you can work after dark and not have it posted on your snap story every single night…
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John Thompson
4 years
@Neve1De I got a couple of my trucks done as well!
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John Thompson
2 years
Being “over-equipped” is the new, “adequately equipped”…. I promise the coffee shop will still be there if you aren’t the first one done…
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John Thompson
1 year
Stop planting beans on WAAS plz…
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John Thompson
3 years
Cant get ahead if you aren’t willing to work when no one else does #malerowdestruction #oxbo #5170 #worstjobofdetasselingszn
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John Thompson
4 years
Selling my kinze 1050 grain cart! message me if interested
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John Thompson
4 years
@BrooksCardinal @cornwarriors You lost me at the frame chop
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1 year
@SoMN_Stripper I do infact enjoy it… it’s fun…
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John Thompson
3 years
If you don’t warsh the tender rig before the start of the week.... then we probably ain’t the same #sidedrass21
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4 years
Dad-“no way we will have a more adverse spring than 2019” 2020-“hold my beer” 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️
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John Thompson
4 years
Fix’n to give this Greenbean crop diabetes @sean_nettleton
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John Thompson
1 year
It’s not really a Monday unless you are making phone calls to try and get someone to come make a hydraulic hose @ 6:30
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John Thompson
2 years
Sunday grain hauling is the best!
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John Thompson
2 years
Quit trying to sell you worn out disc openers on FB market place... k thanks
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John Thompson
1 year
@Deere_Salesman I’ve never owned a planter with warranty… but I think some of these guys are just afraid of preventive maintenance and to turn a couple wrenches..
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John Thompson
4 years
Who doesn’t love strippers #StripTill #regenerativeagriculture
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John Thompson
4 years
Finally in the home stretch! Hopefully
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John Thompson
5 years
Getting loaded up on some new #precisionplanting goodies...
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John Thompson
2 years
I mite end up mowing the first blade of grass before I plant the first soybean...
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John Thompson
1 year
Just remember when you bOIs are linked up on the boat all weekend… we still out here GETTIN
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John Thompson
1 year
It’s always weird when you get out of the Midwest…. I’ll ask for a Busch light and will always get a weird reaction from a waitress…
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1 year
@Jones6807 @PetersenFarms That’s like saying, let’s not have water ways and just plant though them while they are huge crevices… there are things that can help soil structurely to keep From eroding
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