This is a quick video I put together of my son harvesting his crops. Hope you enjoy. Music by Jason Aldean, "Fly Over States" on Broken Bow Records. No infringement intended.
This is exactly how my dad was with me when he was training me to operate equipment! Down to every last detail in this video, except I was 13 and just learning to drive the combine. Never got my own crops though. Thanks for bringing back the memories! Dad is still with me, but no longer farms. Spending time with him in the fields and on the combines and tractors are memories I'll cherish forever! If only I could return to the fields with my own family and pass on that knowledge to my kids.
I am 14 I work with my grandpa on his grain farm in deputy Indiana I have always loved it I drive his 4020 some day i want to be a full fledged farmer at least some people want to your boy is a real inspiration for all us beginners
Sounds just like my dad, I try my hardest to impress him with my driving and it does a lot but he doesn't give me any credit, I love bagging the corn and doing donuts on the towmotor
I've farmed my entire life, started riding in our 4440 John Deere with a pull behind chopper with my dad when I was 2 weeks old. I'm 13 now and have done most of our field work since I was about 8. I also chop for my uncle with a Claas 870 and drive truck for his chopping crew. Farming is the only way of life I know.
Matt Lincoln Im14 and my dream is to farm but there are no farms in my family, I am always looking for the opportunity to help out and my hope is that I can farm when I am older
We need to protect the American family farmer from being made obsolete by these corporate farms. This is a part of our heritage though I live in the Seattle area. My Grandfather was a wheat farmer in Spokane Washington.
Good on you kid ! Drove my first tractor when I was 4, a cockshutt 30. My grandmother saw this tractor coming along the road with no driver.... hehe No greater feeling than to farm. I'm 51 and still love it. All farmers face the same pressures. I'm from Canada and we are faced with higher cost and lower returns and city folk telling us what and how we show be doing things all the while using good farmland to develop for their houses and the like.... Good luck , good day and good farming !
Patrick C tell me about it I'm a hog farmer from Alberta and some city lady came and inspected our barn and she was mad at how dirty it was when the barn was just opened she bitched that there should never be any poop on the floor she had no idea what she was talking about
unfortunately its only going to get worse. Its been said those in overalls built this country while those in suits are ruining it. Farmland is being bought up by foreigners from Asia at an alarming rate so that no one but big corporations will afford it and then people will pay for their food then.
I'm 17 now grew up on the fender of a tractor. Farm went out and now I work for local farmers and run my own custom field work and harvesting business.
Well done Cody, keep up the good work! I sure miss my days on the farm when I was a kid, sadly my parents decided to give it up so I never got the chance that you have. Good luck for the future Mate.
Im about to turn 12 and have loved farming my whole life! I go to my grandparents farm every summer and help out... whether it's picking stones, or riding in the tractor and learning how to drive tractor, it's lot's of fun!
Im about to turn 12 and have loved farming my whole life! I go to my grandparents farm every summer and help out... whether it's picking stones, or riding in the tractor and learning how to drive tractor, it's lot's of fun! That is your paragraph that is JUST like me i go over to pick up stones drive the tractor up the road to get wood split and i would run the loader and empty it in a pile.
GREAT JOB CODY ! You will be an excellent farmer. I grew up a cattle ranch in the 1950's so I know a bit of what you do. THANKS Cody for keeping with a great family tradition.
Gods gift to humanity ... the midwest farm boy. I learned to drive a truck at 10, tractors at 12. I learned to work hard everyday to make a better life. All the Old farmers I knew were great man. The lived by their actions, and their words always backed their actions.
I just turned 13 and I have been farming since I was 6,this year was the first year I got to drive the corn planter and I was in that tractor for close to 23 hours so all I have to say is take advantage of having the opportunity to this and don't let the people of the country try and take your way of life
Chase Richardson I started driving my dads ol 4250 at 7 and i learned to drive a combine in a JD 9600 and now we have a 9770 sts and i live in lamar mo close to you guys
Keep the dream up My dad died that same year and my grandpa had to shut the farm down because he couldn't take the strain... Sad times but I hope to buy the farm.
Don't let that boy ever give it up! I'm 20 years old and farming with Dad again, love it, hate it, curse it, bless it, get rich or loss your pants. No year is ever the same but it sure beats working for walmart.
wow what a great family orientated video I just loved the way this young lad is learning how to operate a big combine great work Dad and Mom your lad will turn out to be a great man for sure.
Nothing wrong with being a hard ass mom lol deep down we're proud of our sons as we know there the next air to the throne! My son was also nine when I started him on shunting boats around the yard with our tractor at nine years old now he's driving tractor-trailer shunting boats around the yard nothing wrong with starting them early, I own a Marina been in this business all my life but I applaud you! keyword here is keep them interested because as soon as they lose that interest that's when the family business dies, good job guys, and as I always say to my son look ahead of you never look behind the past is the past the future is everything keep your eyes on the prize cheers guys awesome video
I work on a ranch and I'm thirteen, just yesterday we had to make two trips to get 500 bales of hay. Not much people want to even learn about animals and Agriculture; god bless farmers and ranchers.
i am 12 i have been farming since i was 4 we went to ohio to our friends house and he had a john deer combine i always run it and i was only 3or 4 through the. years i have earned the trust of my family now i am cutting fluffing raking and bailing hay on our family farm i hope all yalls comments have a impact on this world.
I drove a 8 row silage chopper when I was 9 no big deal lol. I combined at 12 and first drove a tractor at 6 by myself. I just got home ATM from mixing a 180 cow mix with a johndeere 7700 and gehl skidsteer. I am 13.
I'm 13 and I haven't grown up on a farm, but I go to my uncles farm in Saskatchewan and help out. I've driven the drill, grain cart, combine, and the harrower. One day I'm going to have my own farm and I'm going to be in the next generation of farmers.
I started on heavy equipment when I was 5 but I still like farming but never had a huge interest in farming. For me it's the fact of sitting in a excavator and digging a hole that will help someone or bulldozing a bunch of dirt that inspires me
Gaming with Cash I am 11 and. I can dive a combine but I am tall and 100 pounds and the safety when you get off the seat so I am to light to drive so I bring a weight to sit with arnt I smart
im 21 and just now bought my old mans 1979 IH 1460. Before that i payed him a fee to use it every year since i was 17. I rented my own land, and also worked for him. This kid is probably doing the same thing. My dad insisted i payed him nothing, but I payed him because I wasn't a spoiled little kid.
I just wanted to let you know the appreciation I have for this video I’m currently living in Massachusetts but but from a family of farmers from Madison county fl that all but a few have gotten out of as of late some of my best memories where working in the cane field with my great grandfather learning to drive on an old 13 horse farmall on a couple acres me and my grandfather planted from when I was 10 till I moved here a yr ago at 23 and have really felt homesick I’m currently saving in hopes to one day be able to start a small family farm and raise my children the ways I was but it seems like a unreachable goal with the rediculous price of land here it makes me so happy to see kids learning how to farm in a time when most only want technology he may not enjoy it so much now because it seems like just work but one day he’ll look back on this and appreciate what you as parents have shown him
him going to watch this 1 million times I think the kid will feed me and 1 million family's. my best friend he has a dad that's a million Buck farm I think when I grow up I will start a small farm and get small used stuff like trailers and tractors and harvester thanks for the awesome video.
it aint just american farmers that work hard im english and live in france and we work super hard on the farm in the heat, you should support farmers all over the world
I grew up on my families farm and was riding on the equipment since I was 8 and driving our tractors and my grandfathers 1 ton ford. I'm now 21 and been working on the farm officially for 9 years and I wouldn't trade it for anything. Its a fun job that especially where I live is dependent on the weather but I love it.
Lol! Johnny poppers. My grandson is 4 yrs. old and never met a machine he didn't love. His favorite color is John Deere (green) and he calls the old fashioned tractors popper tractors. His mom took him to an Antique Machine show today, and he was in 7th heaven.
I have been driving tractors since I was about 7. I'm 12 now and I drove a case MX 220 tractor with a cultivator plow for 5 hours strait and i'm not trying to brag but I have the same dream as him and i probably wont be renting a farm and working it by my self when i'm 13. Good Luck and God Bless
I am a 12 years old farm kid who lives in southeast Arkansas I have done it all from cutting to land planing this year in soybeans I was on the grain cart and we had 3 combines running on angles and they had me running on angles while they were dumping on the fly. You haven't lived till you have got dumped on while on the fly
I'm nearly full time farming besides school because my grandpa(who owns our farm) is getting to weak to even climb into the tractor and me and cousin basically runs the place and I'm 12 and he's 17
I was 10 when I operated my first combine and 8 when I operated my first piece of farm equipment it was a 6400. It was a 7720 I found it easy to operate and after that I worked on a farm part-time till now. I am 17 now and I have driven/operated all the equipment on the farm staying late till 1-2 in the morning just to get the job done. I like to use the excuse to other people when I miss a party or something "I'm helping to put the food on the table that you guys are going to eat". LOL thanks!!
im 13 and almost every fall i help my grandpa harvest corn and i started at age 8 and have been doing it ever since and i hope i can keep doing it till the day i die
Watch "Against the grain" you can see what a growing season was like in this family and a few others lives in Illinois and Missouri. Thanks for all you do.
I was born in Farm myself way back in the 50's I love it and I missed allot to. I felt Free like Bird or any animal on Earth Breathing the pure Air Collecting Fruits on Horse back and even If I was born Handicap I was still able to Ride my Hourse when I was 9 10 years old and living on a Top of the Hill and a big Ocean Breeze from behind the Farm a couples mile back it felt like I was in Heaven
I'm from northern Mato Grosso - Brazil. Your job really hard. But not preucupe to produce for everyone, just keep working as a farmer and producing well, because working producing is extremely satisfactory and are not many who have the privilege ... I have 5000 acres with 1000 annual tillage soybeans and corn and 600 acres of pasture with cattle. 3400 kills our little problem here in Brazil. My grandfather Buy in 1984. And I know that being a farmer is hard!
im 14 and a work for my grandpa in the woods as a logger doing what they tell me and when summer rolles around i help put up hay feed cattel and do logging, and the way i have time to do all this is im home schooled
Be careful. Pay attention and listen to your elders. My nephew is a logger and might have to leave the business, as he had a dead--but still solid--tree fall on him. Farming and logging are dangerous jobs.
im 16 and working on the farm in NY. my dad is gust the same as yours but he yell's a little. i plan to run the farm when im older and teach my kids how to work the same way i did ON A FARM. its realy the only way to learn the true meaning of work
I like how the video only focused on this kid like he's the only one farming. News flash for ya bud theres hundreds more like you doing what they love.
hey guy your first combine is a lot better than mine, we had a pull type Cockshut that we pulled with a farmal H. I believe it had a 10ft head but we only picked up windrows. i got elected to run combine at 8yrs old because we didnt have a hoist on the truck and had to be scooped off the truck
oh Im 71 now we had no air conditioner back in the day when the wind was at your back the chaff was right down your back had no hydraulic controls for any equipment or electric switches.
thank you Cody because some people don't understand what farmers do even if I only dairy farm I know how people don't see what we do. Makes me feel proud of local farms in CT like Boticello Farms
Could be me; over the years since I was a toddler, I picked up interest in various machines, from all sorts of road vehicles to construction/agricultural equipment and more, studying how it all worked just for my enjoyment
Its a sad thing anymore i have always wanted to farm i work on the farms around my house i work very hard sun up[ till sun down 12 hours a day but its been a dream of mine to be a farmer but i have family that farm but are to far from me i have plans to go to school for AG i got this dream i am going to hang on to it very tight!
