30 Harvests 

Superhero's don't wear capes... they're driving tractors,have seeds in their pockets and mud on the bottom of their boots.

Lived on a farm as a little boy, but no more. Farming never leaves those that experienced it no matter how young you were. This video gave me goosebumps because we know how real it is.

This needs to be published by mainstream media this is so important

The best video in the agriculture industry

Unbelievably inspiring and I truly hope that your farm and others are around and sustainable for another 100 years to come. That people truly see what y'all do and why, and who for. Great job to everybody involved.

Thanks for telling hard truths -- this is an inspiring look at how resilient farmers truly are.

Thank you Nick for sharing!!! Breaks my heart that ppl don’t understand the hardships that have to happen to bring food to the table.

I hope Jay can be an inspiration to the Manatee County struggling farmers.

Great seeing a farmer acknowledging the issue of climate change and how it correlates with farming, you don’t see that often.

I'd sell my soul to own in a spud field one more time. I'd give anything to be my own man again. But I don't believe I was cut out for it and I went lights out. And moved to the city. Folks here don't see the world as we do. It's hard not knowing your neighbors name. Having to lock the doors on the house for the first time in my life. Hell having to lock my pickup. It's a damned shame. Stand strong my brother's and sisters in Ag. Even with all the hell that being a farmer brings at least you're free.

Love this video. Sincere from Malaysian farmer. 🇲🇾

Well said all the best from New Zealand

Well where do we start? This guy is driving a Ford Raptor, one of the most expensive half tons made. He has an iPad with an app to control the water on his irrigation pivots. There is obviously no shortage of money on this farm so yes he’s got the option to keep farming. What this video should have is a man driving an old truck because that’s all he can afford. It should also show a crop that is struggling because there are no irritation pivots to give that much needed moisture when the crop needs it and Mother Nature doesn’t always play nice. I like the message that they are trying to portray but let’s be real and show a real person struggling.

I am now sad Edit: I said that before the part where they went back to the farm. Edit.2: I am now happy and I thank all farmers including jay

Just watched this, very good. I saw you talk about it on instagram while you were filming. May have missed a few of the post and didn’t really understand what it was about but I do now. Truly enjoy watching all your post and I feel you have a great deal of passion for your business, employees, and especially for your family. I do not farm (used to grow hay and do some custom harvesting with my father lets just say in the good old days) but am glad to that there are people like you, Zac Johnson (MFer) and the Welker boys to continue the tradition. Keep up the good work and good luck with Harvest new sibling.

I was watching another video...and this came as ad....after 3 seconds I came here to watch it again....👍👍 *Agriculture is the only industry which have Negative carbon footprint* Love from India 🇮🇳

Climate change what a joke get our prices back up and then you'll see farmers stay in the game we can't live off of crop prices most of us have a second job to support the farm but it's still not enough we need our prices back or there won't be a future for anyone

It's time to pay the price . Who else is going to feed us . If globally farmers can't afford to live , we're in the sh+t . I kid you not . Good video . 👍🇬🇧

Amen

This is a far more complex topic than the video explains. Water is a huge, complex issue. Carless finances can sink you fast. And many farmers choose to market through mainstream channels ensuring themselves a lower price because of the "perfect competition" effect.

Powerful

I dont know you other than Instagram. Hope it all goes good for you Jay. Farming didnt for my family. For many reasons. Keep it up!

I really dont know why, but this Video made me cry

Great video.

GO FARMERS!

Carbon sequestration! Joel Salatain has been doing that for years!

it's easy Australia farmers are mow turning back to old ways .. soil the crop with the Fred on the ground with out using round up lol .. you can find it on utube ..

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Funny agriculture here in Europe is almost looked at as an un-needed industry. It’s all about sustainability,carbon footprint, pollution every negative word that they think of. Whilst all of these things are important and can’t be looked over what really can’t be looked over is it’d take days for the world to starve if farmers just stoped going to work. As a farmer I’m sick of others telling me how to do my job, telling me what my crop is worth to them. All that needs to happen is for farmers worldwide to stop selling their produce for a month then we’ll see who actually holds the power in the food chain. When u go to a supermarket and go to pay they tell you what u owe them. When we “sell” or products they tell us what it’s worth to them. Next time I’m out at a large supermarket doing my shopping I’ll just throw them half of what they ask me for and walk out after telling them that’s how you do business with me so what’s good for me is also good for you too

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A farmer with a ford raptor?

As someone who works in the farm equipment industry in eastern Canada and has a small farm myself, i can say our challenge from climate change comes in the form of more unpredictable storms, shorter growing seasons due to harsher winters up here. More and more farmers are shutting down because of the cost of equipment to keep up with demand, and the low income because of crop, meat or dairy prices. This is not just a US thing. Its world wide. 30 More harvests to go so lets think about best practices from sun up to sundown. There is one planet that we live on and it's in trouble. People can talk about this "natural cycle" that happens all they want and that climate change is just part of it. Even if that where true.. guess what.. you're in the middle of it, so if you agree on climate change or not, everyone better stand up and do something about it.

How about we quit trying to grow things in the desert...

@Jay Hill- How do you rationalize your support of a Carbon Tax/ Carbon cap and trade when it will eviscerate livestock farmers and drastically increase the price of Fuel? As a legacy farmer with a few hundred acres and a small herd I can tell you with great certainty I will not survive with the policy you're advocating. You're chopping alfalfa in the desert *to feed cows* with a million dollar forage harvester, driving a Ford Raptor, and turning on your hundreds of acres of irrigation with an Ipad. What you've done is make a propaganda film for non-farmers. If they found out you feed beef they wouldn't be so nice to you.

Look up Gabe Brown and regeneration agg.

If farming means that much to "everyone else" then quit demanding that the food you buy at the store should be nearly free. Realize the cost it takes to produce it or do some research to understand the cost... or better yet, quit voting for policy that adds to the overall cost for the producer - which is reflected back on the consumer.

I wonder how the glaciers melted? What was the carbon footprint of humans back then? That must have been a different kind of climate change.

I follow him on insta. This guy is so awesome

Well thought out and touching video to pull on people's heartstrings. Although incredibly false and misleading. Carbon is the fundamental building block to plant life who are already living in a state of "starvation" and therefore not living up to there full potential. Instead of focusing on the real issue of improving actual soil health through the use of cover crops, humic acid, diversity in your cropping rotations and beneficial bacteria. The problem here is (for big ag) its relatively cheap to do for the farmer. The high imput high risk model pushed by modern ag on producer has a strangle hold on the system which leaves virtually nothing for the primary producer. Climat change propaganda pushed here does nothing but increase and create another cost/tax to virtually every product or commodity along the way. Every farmer already IS carbon negative with the amount of plant life he plants year after year. Wake up people and dont be bought off by fancy editing. Talk to a real farmer and he will tell you the truth and not this bs

This is a poor portrayal of climate change and the journey to feed the world by 2050. The farm is based in an unsustainable desert part of the US that requires substantial subsurface irrigation from depleting underground aquifers. What does this video have to do with carbon sequestration anyway, all those farms mentioned in the video are more than likely practicing tillage methods...

Globalisation has not been kind to farming. The family farm is a thing of the past. Replaced by factory farming and big business interests. Small to medium farms are crushed under the boot of unfair trade deals who only benefited the few. We in Ireland are told that the power is within the farm gate regarding price. Load of nonsense. Farmers all over the developed world were sold a pup that free trade would be the silver bullet. Farm gate price has regressed consistently over the past 20 yrs meanwhile input prices and regulation has steadily eaten into any margin left. Now Irish farmers are being told to quit cattle farming because we produce too much methane while our politicians sell us down the tube and sign a trade deal with Mercoursor so that big Euro companies can sell more cars and chemicals. Yet again the ordinary guy left stranded. I had to give up my dream of farming. It's no place for the average farmer anymore. The powers that be have created an uneven playing field. The big business interests and gov versus your everyday average punter havnt a chance.

You can take him seriously. He’s driving a raptor to save the planet. Such a crock of s!?/ he’s gonna play the sustainable fiddle till something else comes along that pays more.

Cute. Agriculture is one of the largest sources of CO2. Crops don't produce it but every machine does and so do all the animals. We need food so working to fix it a good thing but farms, on the whole, will never be neutral.

I'm neither a farmer nor an American, But this video makes my heart go out to every farmer in America who is in dire straights.

That was a good way to sum up how a lot of us farmers feel a lot of the time. It's hard not to feel defeated as a farmer but there's something inside us all that God put there and it's the will to survive against all odds.

Nice twist! Had me recalling the '80s... When the banks became land owners and people literally lost everything!!! We we're lucky back then!!! Now days, it's a real struggle to keep afloat... But I still wouldn't trade it for the world!! Would be nice to not be everyone's target, actually have people understand and support what we do..... Thanks for the video!!!! Love it!!!

what a great spirit. How sad that our country has come to this point. Please support OUR farmers. They are the backbone of our country.

I was born and raised on a small 90 acer farm I left it and my family after losing my father. For 3 years I absolutely hated living were I was in the shity I mean city. But now we took the plunge and back on a farm that's now my future for both me and my wife. Hell I even got my mother to move out here on the farm. In short I will say I could not be happier we grow what we eat whether it be livestock or vegetables we hunt our own Farm it provides for us as well as others as we also provide for it. I would not have it any other way. Like the old saying goes you can take a boy out of the country but you can't take the country out of the boy. 3 years I lived in the city I was like a fish out of water.

Not trying to be mean but how is a person that grew up farming and has lived the ups and downs suppose to take you serious when they read your biography. If my dad gave me a 3000 acre farm to tend and then sells it a couple years later for a "strong offer" i don't think I'd look at agriculture like this. I don't think the average life long farmer can relate.

As a 6th generation farmer, I like the not giving up idea. Unfortunately its unrealistic to think the idea of giving up comes from the farmer. That decision belongs to the bank. I was kicked out of my bank last year. No amount of work ethic or grit beats the bank. Also nearly every farmer wants the soil as healthy as possible. Sustainability is a word made up by people not involved in agriculture, in order to manipulate agriculture to how they see fit. I've been called a rapist for artificial inseminating cows, and been told my roundup is evil. I like the video, brings ag to the light, but unfortunately I think it's not realistic. If my kids, generation 7, want to farm....I'd be sad that they have such a nightmare ahead of them. That nightmare being public perception.

It is a great pleasure to work beside you in this journey!

And how many small farms has been bought out by Jay Hill's outfit and sent those people to town to work? Corporate farming is the real problem not climate changes, mega farms, mega dairies, investors that are happy with a 5-10 percent return on there investment or even a loss for a write off that's the problem...

I really enjoyed working on this production. Thank you for the opportunity.

Answer to all your questions and the answer; GABE BROWN , the best program for soil building and production without commercial inputs. Farming guided by "nature"

This came up as an ad on a video I was about to watch. I felt so compelled to share it so I did. Farmers keep your chin up. Your always in my prayers 🙏❤️

Drives 70k pickup “no money in farming”

Dell Valley Management LLC, Wholesome Valley Farms, Chaffhaye; this guy is not a typical farmer.

My dad farmed until the day he died. This inspirational video took me home to the farm in Fairacres. Thank you for producing it.!!!

That's Jay Hill isn't it?

Very inspiring Jay. Something needs to be done and be done soon. As a son coming into the field, I’m seeing the problems with the prices and our own inefficiencies. I’m not doing this for me, or even my own eventual kid, I’m doing this for his kids and they’re kids after that. We’re surviving on 5 generations of farms in the U.S. so let’s keep that going another 5 or even 10

I'd live at a dairyfarm in the Netherlands and they just got a law that we need to have permission from the government to do slurry, fertilizer, and let the cows go outside the into the fields. How crazy are we??

Wow. Great video Jay.

Amazing video!!! Next step: A president, who is willing to do something about climate change.

I cried at the end of this video. Because it offers so much hope to such a dire situation. I'm not a farmer, but I do my best to grow my own food, and I will support this endeavor and maybe become a farmer one day, too.

I knew exactly where this video was filmed when they showed the mountains -- Guadalupe Peak and El Capitan in the background, are so beautiful and majestic. I have probably driven by this spread of land 100 times in my life, and it may have been part of my inspiration to become a farmer also. Currently, I only have a quarter of an acre in fruit/vegetable production in the MRG District, but I have utilized many practices to reduce water, fuel, and fertilization needs -- plenty of compost, cover crops, and minimal soil disturbance can go a very long way in building and keeping great soils. I wish Mr Hill and family success in their changes, as I was only an observer to my grand parents who farmed, and was not "directed" to use any method in farming, which allowed me to look at what we have available today, which is the information to make better decisions than our previous generations have(not chemicals) - at the end of the day, we are harnessing what nature and soil can do for us in a farm, and it's really amazing when you start to feed the soil, it reacts by feeding your plants, which feed us and our animals, etc.

Wow. This video is powerful. Thank you, farmers and producers, the real superheroes. Please, keep the information and videos like this flowing and ignore the negative comments. Thank you for this video and the reminder of what is truly important. God bless.

Awsome view of how tuff it is these days in the ag biss. Big city folk dont and never understand why we dod what we do and just think that we destroy everyhring to make a buck but they are wrong its all about being profitable while using less to get more jn return. Well done!!!!

Unfortunately we don't allow supply and demand to actually work in agriculture so we end up hurting the very good people caught in the middle. Our farming regulations and laws support overgrowing certain crops at the expense of sustainability and then funding subsidies for the bad behavior. If the Farmers & Ranchers Alliance want to address the issue they'll need to lobby against subsidies in all their forms... Sugar, anyone? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hCTE_vhTERM.html Maybe some Raisins? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-A8S4S49TyDk.html

so sad to see you have a government that is not supporting climate change. Lets hope for a new beginning next year November. We ALL need you farmers to survive. cheers

I do my best to support local farmers and create sustainable soil in our own little yard. Thank you farmers.

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Thats a poignant video man, rings home for me in ireland as the farming community gets battered by prices, global trade, brexit and hypocrisy. I love the we’re not giving up attitude at the end, irish farmers have acres of that also.

you got this

"Let's go Home" 🏘🚜 i felt that

I wish he was still active on Facebook and RU-vid

Awesome Jay. 💪

Just one word wow!❤️

I can feel the goosebumps

It was a pleasure and an honor working on this production and meeting Jay Hill and his family. Thank you USFRA and 1Camera!

It’s a shame bc I’ve never seen so much loss farming as I have in past 5 years. Seen so many families lose it all. We won’t be one of them if I can help it. Farming is ALL I KNOW!!!! And all I’ve ever wanted to do 🙏🌽🥬 and all I’ve done for 30 years now

You are telling the story that the American farmer and rancher faces every day. Thank you for speaking truth to the masses. May we never give up. Innovate, think out the box, network, build sustanible process. Head down going back to it now...

Only 2 percent of the world population are farmers, we do it because we love it and when you love something you never give up you find a way. We go balls deep every day!!!!

Well done, Jay.

I'm in

Real Superheros!

Wow....incredibly powerful storytelling. "Let's go home...."

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Beautiful ❤️

I hope any one knows if this is in spanish so i can show it to my friends is an excelent short story, thanks!!!

What is the name from the Song at 3:05 it seems familiar to me

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Hi very beaitiful video inspiring and makes me aspired to start farming.Long I have lived in the city and only consumed and consumed and never gave anyyhing to the wirld or society now looking back I too realize that I want to do something for the world and the best way is farming good healthy fresh produce without chemicals or pesticide or fertilizers.I wist to join with you guys but dont have a farm or anything.But my good wishes are with you always.Cheers keep up the good work going always Buddha bless you and your sweet families always and gods bless each and every farmers of the world🙂❤❤❤

Very meaningful and stimulating film - let's all roll up our sleeves and contribute ‼️. If you can't do it yourself then support those who DO‼️‼️💙💛

i want to give a big shout out to all the farmers who never give up!!!!! Even though it feels like there always running uphill. Thank You and God Bless.

That is a great piece of work! My question is, what do you say to those folks in DC that say climate change is a hoax? I just don’t get it! We should be doing everything possible to reverse the effects of climate change!

Im not a farmer, But damn does this make me want to try it. This is a great video showing how tough it is to be a farmer. Ill do my part and buy local produce and help support local farmers. Maybe some day, I too will be a farmer

37 thumbs down? What kind of people can watch this video and give it thumbs down? This video is amazing and I think every american should sit down and watch it at least once. But all of us should be giving a big thumbs up and support this!

This video is incredible. Thank you Jay for doing such an amazing job telling our story.

I'm 14 my great grandfather was a hog farmer In Brunswick Georgia fought in WWII came home bought some land built a house an caught wild hogs an raised them my papa said he was the toughest man he ever seen sun up to sun down worked his ass off bein a hog farmer in 90's the price of pork dropped than the the huntin club where he caught the hogs went to house development he got diagnosed with lung cancer an died in 99 my papa sold all the hogs an the equipment I see in his eyes when I bring it up he regrets it an misses it but I'm gonna try to be a farmer when I grow up but that dream might fail but I'm gonna try to achieve it no matter what

It's our poor understanding in society of complexity that causes all the problems and it really shows through in farming cause everything there is about complexity