Barn Talk is a weekly podcast, hosted by father-son duo Sawyer & Tork Whisler. We exist to share content that educates, inspires, and makes viewers laugh out loud. From the Ag business world to investing, current events, entrepreneurship and much, much more, our vision is to promote agriculture in a positive light, while relating with everyday Americans in discussing kitchen table topics.
God said dont eat scavangers. Definitly dont support your family selling it. The pork salesmen in the bible were torqued when Christ drove their pigs into the sea.
Sorry, but corn fed beef tastes like ass. You get good marbling and "tenderness" but the flavor profile sucks. If food was only about texture, then sure it's great, but when you compare it to a naturally grazed cow, say one that ate a natural diet up in the mountains or wildland grazing areas, the difference is night and day. Also, the wild graze cow is just as tender or better.
Every employer I had as a young man in the 90s wanted young farmer kids. They’d say, you’ll never find a better worker and more trustworthy young employee. And he was 100% right.
There were 220,000 4020 and 806's built. Compared to 750,000 Ford 9N's. Obviously the smaller, poorer farmers could only afford the Fords (my parents being two of them).
When i moved from Iowa to virginia, I noticed right away that the beef and pork was not as good in VA, but the fish cuts were/are far superior on the coast. Still, now that I'm back in Iowa, The midwest cuts here and amazing 😊
Couple of tips, #1 MAKE IT YOURSELF, really not that hard, tons of videos here on YT, why, well because if you do it yourself you can leave out the harsh chemicals and fake smoke commercial processors use! #2 pick your own bellies based on what you want, the firmer/harder the belly the more fat content, softer/squishier the more meat it has. Mix up your own cure/flavor, USDA even put out a report yrs ago saying the pink salt is unnecessary, (lots of different opinions on this), you don’t need a big pit, did my first few batches on a old webber kettle bbq pit, I also smoke mine at 190-200* to a done internal temp of 165*, age 4-7 days refrigerated (vac sealed bags work great) slightly freeze and slice. Should definitely taste better than anything you buy from a store, there’s a reason custom shops get up $30-40+ a pound for their product!!
I’ve lived in Iowa for about a year and I’ve lived in other states and I’ll say Iowa has a lot of very cheap pork and it’s very available but beef is very available but a bit pricey
Location, location, location. We just bought 80 acres right across the road from our house. I can’t see any way that that 80 acres will pay for itself before I’m done farming. I think, it is the lust or longing for ownership that drives us. I have wanted to farm even before I could push a 190 XT AC Ertle tractor across the floor. Before I signed my name on the line, I talked to a lot of money men. One of the best answers I got was, the best time to buy land is when it is for sale. And the ones right across the road don’t come around every day. One thing I have learned is that you always buy land at the high. Lastly, I don’t believe you buy land for yourself. I believe you buy it for future generations. I remember how my thoughts changed about everything the day my wife said guess what, and showed me the positive sign. From that day on, everything I done is for someone else.
It all a 64 dollar math problem. Growing seasons getting dryer so u have to figure the price u are getting for your hogs. Versus what it cost to put the water on the crop. More to it than what they are telling you on this site
Thats the point of the new world order, to make all of us stupid so they can run the world qnd treat us like slaves. A feudal system where the kings run every aspect of the peasants lives or take them out. Thats how bad it will be if Americans don't unite
Thank god I went to an interview with a elevator company. "I got some mechanical skills. I've serviced my car and done random assortments of other projects with friends." "Good enough. Here's the deal: We train you and pay you a modest salary to get trained so you don't go broke and lose your apartment or whatever. Then we hire you, stick you with a senior mechanic to learn on the job and he'll give us feedback every month as a quality control measure and as a internship of sorts. When we feel like you are ready, we put you as a team with someone else that has also done the same. The only caveat is this, once we hire you, we'll dock your pay 7.5% for a year as a way to pay off the training. Deal?" ".. Deal."
Yeah, but how you get that meat is pretty gross, from the sewage in the water that towns downstream have to try to remove, to the labor abuses & inhumanity (remember those meat packing managers taking bets on employees' health during the pandemic? There's a reason the governor is Covid Kim, and it's not not for her common sense, pro-worker reaction to that killer of her citizens!) If you're divorced from your food supply you need to know that you're not getting the wholesome food you imagine. You're not getting a cow or pig that was raised in a field and allowed to eat it's natural diet. You're eating an animal raised in a tiny stall in a Concentrated Feed operation for a fraction of it's natural life span on one or 2 foods. Cows aren't designed to eat grain but that's what they're fed, day in & day out.
Farmer here. Um livestock are living animals who get sick and injured. Also, these are very dangerous animals and people who dont know what they are doing, get hurt all the time. I cant afford a lawsuit because some college kid walked behind my horse like a moron. It can take decades to learn everything you need to know. I don't have time to teach someone when im dealing with an emergency. I need someone who can spot goat polio, or colic in horses then go to my vet bag and deal with it on the spot. I need someone who knows what to do in case of an emergency. Im not always going to be around, this is why we hire people. I cant have animals dying because some idiot doesnt know how to give a shot of dex, or give a cow who is sick after giving birth some calcium.
In belgium farmers don’t buy these special big machines. They pay a company to come and harvest the crops. The only thing they have is a tractor with a trailer to hall the corps out. The companys have every special machine several times. They work for several farmers a the same time and the have a non stop season. If its not corn then its cereals or bailing or patetos or beats! The famers try to keep there machine costs as low as possible.
Kudos to the farmers, it's because of you I get to eat. Having said that, you can't look down your nose at kids who took the college route to learn something that's not farm related. Take the time to teach them or find someone else.
We here in Pennsylvania hire Amish kids. They learn at their own family's farm and work other farms for extra pay. They can drive anything and handle animals from the age of 11-12. Great kids too. ❤
Sounds like my dad , he said " anybody that has horses now , never had to walk behind them , that why they made tractors " . He loved my powershift JD !! God Bless his soul !!
