that is what is wrong with farming today. there isn't a chance for anyone who wants to start. combines are more expensive than super cars, and you aren't even allowed to fix them yourself.
Well ya this is the consolidation of power. A few hands owns it all. But when you call out the ones causing the issues, you're labeled a "conspiracy theorist" and that's why nothing will change
I lost $87,000 my first year farming. 2 years later I had my first positive year by a whopping $17,000 Always getting new ground. Hoping to clear $500,000 this year.
All this time I thought getting shot at in Iraq was heroic, but it turns out that inheriting land stolen from Native Americans is what really makes you a hero. 🫠
@@user-ty5di3ku6o hes not attached to that. He works his Ass off and he provides. What. % of privalage does he need taken away from him for you to feel good? What is the SOLUTION for this then? Don't just whine and be a bitch whats the solution? Farmers usually are the most important an honest people you will meet. Im not even American i just see you whine so what is your solution then!? Dont just point fingers, THOSE of which point fingers, fear it pointing back at them. Better yourself that will make your more worth living than pointing fingers at strangers. Set an example then and be better. Stop blaming others for your shitty hands
I was a poor farm kid in Nebraska and I lived in a camper for a little over a year. As long as you have electricity you can get a little space heater and close the door to the bedroom. Will make it nice and warm. Some days I miss the farm life, but most days I don’t. Farming and ranching is harder work than most people have ever done.
And a hell of alot easier than others, especially nowadays where most of it is sat a** in a tractor all day, with auto steering, back in the day it was back breaking, nowadays its a** breaking
I grew up on a small dairy farm in New York. It’s nonstop especially for the smaller farms. Taught me a severe work ethic that got me promoted at work. If only we could all grow up on a farm.
@@mattc6015 my cousins farm, my grandparents farmed, alot of my friends farm, and I can tell you, you don't need to be that hardworking to make it, all you gotta do is stay awake and sit in a tractor all day and night to do good at farming, know plenty of jobs harder mentally and physically, every last farmer and rancher brags about how hard it is, but none of them have done much other than farm and ranch, just a bunch of ignorant, stuck up, idiots on tractors
@matt c he's not too far off. It's tough work a few weeks a year. The rest is really busy work. Fixing shit, spraying fields, giving cows shots, feeding and watering them once or twice a day for 20 mins etc. I lived in the middle of one for 8 months and a lot of downtime. To the point they all did ranching and farming. And still worked side jobs doing construction. And plenty of time for the bars and rides down the road.
and also the reason antibiotic resistant bacteria are a major threat to human civilisation. one of their many, many contributions to society in the name of a few $$$
To me this is how I proved my way into the family farm myself. This “strange family dynamic” prove that they have the drive to take over a multi-million dollar business, not fluid millions but the capitol is too much to just hand the keys off.
I grew up working on a tobacco farm. Alot of people don't understand the physical work it takes. Taught me a lot of discipline I notice other adults really struggle with. I feel thankful. If I lose my cushy job it's no big deal for me to pick up a physical labor job. Alot of men can't do this anymore. Just working around people my age I'm starting to realize this. Alot of men are lazy
I live in TN and do a trucking route everyday up through west Kentucky and back down to Tn and I go home and its nothing but farmers out there and i have so much respect for them. They're always good ppl and they raise great families.
The Governor of South Dakota dropped out of college when her father got sucked into a grain auger. She dropped out and moved home and learned to run the place by listening to his old recordings on crop outcomes and growing methods.
The crazy thing is that it's very literally not hard work. Long hours for some brief periods during the year, but NOT hard work. It's 1843. Mentally taxing, sure. Not any more mentally taxing than any other self employed person though. But make no mistake, the work itself isn't hard. Your very comfortable and smart machines along with your chemicals do all the fucking work.
@@galazore I can confidently say you've never stepped foot on a true farm a day in your life. Come on down to southwest VA, we'll see how long you last on one of our farms.
A man can make money at anything. I raise beef cattle and I don't do to bad. A farmer has to stay up on equipment maintenance and keep his land in good shape. Always keep a back up plan in place for hard times. The best advice I can give is to sell your goods yourself for cash money. Stay the hell away from banks and credit cards if possible. Pay your fair share of taxes and ALWAYS, ALWAYS take damn good care of your farmhands no matter where they're from!. I'm an white American farmer and here's a interesting note: Applicants for employment in 2022-2023..46 Latinos. 0 blacks 2 whites. . 4 females 42 males.
Sir I’m in south California and considering going back to school to finish agriculture degree but damn not a lot of opportunity for farming in my immediate area
Yeah, at first, I was just a driver in the weed business, and I made pretty good money, and I started organizing my own deals, and eventually became a grower. I honestly made the most money as a broker.
Respect ! Because of the sacrifices made by people like these , we are fed. You can get your chocolate croissant in Manhattan, or prime rib in Los Angeles. The whole world is indebted to the farmer.
bro farmers have it easier than anybody i know... only work summers and hire mexicans to do all the hard work for them.. they all cheat there way thru taxes and most of them get away with insurance fraud. Unless you started the farm yourself dont bother calling yourself anything but a inheritance baby. You would have to be a special type of fuck up to mess that up
Probably one of the hardest careers a person can pursue. The stress and the pressure to produce must be immeasurable. My friend grew up on a farm in PA and his old man was the angriest person I've ever seen. His parenting style was essentially the constant looming threat of violence. Subsequently, Pete learned to be extra sneaky and careful whenever we did stuff together. It served him well. He's actually not working the family farm rn, instead her became a professional arborist. It's quite a thing that you can earn a living in America taking care of rich people's trees. Seems like a pretty cool gig actually.
It would be the hardest if they weren't subsidized to all hell. Most any self employed person has the same stress and pressure. Those who are engaged in physically demanding labor jobs have much harder jobs when it comes to the physical things. And yes, an arborist can be a very good career.
Listen to this guys story. He gots it all and if he don’t his dad will get it for him. He not suffering by losing $600. He pry has a super duty truck, extra vehicles, side by sides, campers, boats, etc.
@tomwilson3969 you sure? Farmers take a lot of shit and have to deal with a lot of shit. Every farmer I have ever met saysvthey struggle because the price of tractor equipment has went up tremendously. Farmers struggle every single day foe us to live they way we do
@S3rye every farmer I've ever met is retired or a multi millionaire before they are 50. Only work a couple months a year and They have every toy you could ever want, brand new truck every year. And yes they still complain about the price of seed and their tractors and equipment. The more they complain the bigger their government grants become.
This makes me so happy to hear other people struggle like I did and all the generations before me we ranch and farm because it helps but you never know how each year is going to go.
You big baby, I live in a 28 foot RV fithwheel camper, went through the winter negative 40 without an issue The way you survive isn't you but plastic over the windows on the inside that simple and it stays hot!
My grandpa was born in 1938 and raised on an Iowa farm, and left as soon as he could for california. Still says the best decision he ever made. He's 86 now.
I hear ya man I grew up on a farm in Virginia decided I'm gonna go to my wife's country and start a sugar cane farm after I rented the 500 hectars of land and paid for it to be ploughed and paid for all the seedlings and fertilizer sprays ect I didn't have anything left. I was the only American living in a bamboo hut on my sugarcane farm took me 3 years to turn a profit and now we are farming around 1000 hectars and live a really good life. Bad thing is now my dad's getting older and I'm having to bounce between the Philippines and Virginia I was hoping my brother would step up to the plate but he hasn't and tells me I should run it cause my son's could take it over some day my oldest son out of 7 sons just turned 13 so only a few more years before he can be a big help to the operation and I'm glad he loves farming.
that is such a nice story. your sons are lucky to have such a cool heritage. I do wanna learn more about farming in Philippines (as i am also an expat in PH). Is there any online community you participate in or something similar?
What a bizarre family dynamic?! Right?! Who makes their child stay in a frozen camper, then winterizes it with son still using it?! And makes him get a port-o-potty rather then just let him use the bathroom in the house? Or after camper is winterized don’t let him stay in the house?! Makes him go get an apartment he cant afford?! Just extremely bizarre relationship
not 🚭 makes, it was a choice 😅 ya see the son wanted to earn his wings and living on his own the test of his knowledge and experience to profit as his father had the only problem he had was being too comfortable in the summer 🏝️ to prepare for harsh winter ❄️🥶 which is why the R value of your home is so important whatever R stands for but i like to imagine it stands for insulative value which is I not R abilities to hold temperatures constant vs the abilities to block outside temperatures influence or the opposite inside temperatures influence from the outside 😁
I lived in a 30 foot camper the year of the polar vortex. I had to wear shoes the floor was so cold my feet got numb without them, but I was comfortable without being bundled up. There was probably a thirty to forty degree temperature difference between the floor and the ceiling. I was using three heat sources and if any one would have failed, I could have frozen. I had to keep opening the door so it wouldn't freeze shut and trap me in the camper.
@@slappy8941Yup, boggles my brain how SO many people don't understand this. I have a farm too. I went to a farm. Did you see those two farms. It's not rocket stuff.
If only all of us could live rent free and have parents write us a check when we go in debt. It’s not too hard to be successful when you have such advantages.
God bless All Our Farmers! 🙏 Their our Heros, with the best work ethics... We need you!!! Thank you and your families. I will always Vote 🗳 in your best interests, Seriously Much Respect to you all 💌🥰🤗💞
I live in a small town in Ohio and all the farmers I know are constantly telling me how they make no money buy yet they all multiple 60k+ trucks, beautiful houses and anything else they want. Something doesn’t add up.
@@mustang35146 correct if you own the land and expect to live a average life off of just it. been that way for a long time. i always wanted to own my own refinery but i could never come up with the billions to buy one. i am a loser i guess.😆😆
gtfoh... meanwhile every farmer in history has millions in assets that they got off taking advantage of taxes... when it gets cold they take off to there mansions in AZ. If all you have to do is wake up and go to work and eventually oneday you will inherent millions is hard than i wanna know what easy looks like to you.
Hard-working farmers feed the whole world and barely break even, while massive corporations earn billions each year from selling their produce. Something needs to change...
I live in West Virginia and we don’t have the best dirt nor the most flat ground … the last 3 years I’ve “farmed” - 1st year did okay, 2nd wasn’t so good and last year was my BEST … but this year I’m Looking to do the most I’ve ever grown … and No I don’t own a farm or any land .. just about two acres my house sits in a decent sized garden and I can grow enough that A LOT/most goes bad if I can’t give it away .. I’m going Big this year!
Exactly what I was thinking ain't no way he said fuck it and and went and rented an apartment when he could have bought a $40 heater and continued living rent-free I'm calling BS lol
@@destruct61 not to mention he'd have to pass background check, have previous landlord that isn't his parents, sign a lease and have credit and deposit plus first months rent.
He has had it pretty good in life, most dream of having something to farm let alone a free plot to get started on, not to mention free land and building rent and a free place to sleep. This day and age is so backwards.
@@alanwesterfield4254 ahh yes. must be miserable inheriting millions of dollars... i have lived in ND my entire life and i have yet to see a farmer work hard.... back 50-60 years ago sure, the tractor literally drives itself and there is very little work experience required to handle farm equipment nowadays
Same here in Norway, half of all the farms from 2000 until now are gone. The big food companies are importing more and more food. Even potato's are been imported from Israel...
I started an organic tomato farm 10 years ago. I always turned a hefty profit every year until the locust ravaged all 8 of my fields. Unfortunately I had 10 kids the first three years.of farming and my living expenses were too much to start back up. Now I just dumpster dive and panhandle on the city intersections It's a much simpler and happy life.
Because most farmers don't get 10s of thousand of dollars every year. They get it every 8 years or so when a big storm destroys the crop they planted or if they do get it every year it's because they let some land go native at $100/acre instead of $400/acre as crop land which is destroying the soil. You don't just get a welfare check from the government because you own a tractor.
@@wethenorth3695 don’t forget the campers, fishing boats, ultra-light planes, kids in travel leagues, snowmobiles, 4 wheelers, side by sides, race car, hunting dogs, fancy peterbilt trucks, swimming pools and of course the winter house down south
I’ve never seen a farmer NOT driving an $80k pickup with a garage full of toys and out buildings with millions of dollars in equipment. The amount of government subsidies these guys get would BLOW YOUR MIND. There are very few poor farmers.
You are correct, sir! Too many of these commenters praising farmers must be city folk. When farmers are paying up to $20,000 an acre for land, you know there's money to be made.
Odd that all the farmers around me drive average trucks, use tractors as old as me and dont have much in terms of money. Next time try avoiding making absolute statements if you want to be taken seriously
What you don't know and/or understand up to me telling you this is there 2 reasons why they have all that stuff and it's not greed or lust for more. First off, the bank actually owns most of it, period, that simple. When you already owe the bank millions you buy what you want and need and go on making payments. The banker doesn't want to be a farmer, so as long as the debt is greater than what the bank can default on, the just keep lending more money. Second thing is taxes. Realize that even a small farm grosses millions of dollars annually. So here you have the man who actually owns nothing owing hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes even if he takes every dime he made and gives it to the bank towards what he owes them. So you are forced to buy more stuff you might not actually need so you get tax write offs and the vicious cycle continues. And yes, they still pay more taxes than most people make in a year. If you own couple thousand acres, just property taxes can be 60-90 thousand dollars a year. Think about that.
@@treemanclint2883 Then why do they do it? Why are other people willing to pay up to $20,000 an acre in the midwest for farm ground? There is money being made.
Noooooo the fuck there isn't a lot of poor farmers just because the are rich ranchers and Yellowstone exists doesn't mean every farmer is rich like the other guy said the banks own most of it and they make payments also they work sometimes for days straight so shut up about shit you don't know about and the government handout really go to rich farmers with lawyers to find out about them and by the time the little guys learn all of the money set aside for it is gone
At least tax payers get to cover the losses... Seriously, the amount of money farmers get from tax subsidies is amazing, like big oil, some get more from tax subsidies than they actually earn. Remember, thank a farmer, they should thank us all who pay taxes too, without it, they'd be broke
@@kknight4189 some for sure, that's why it's going to be important to know how to grow, raise and preserve your own food. The biggest issue I have with what makes a "farmer" is sad, corn and soybeans and very little actual ready to eat foods are subsidized compared to the land wrecking big corn and soybean "farms" sure it feeds some livestock but it's terrible in so many ways. We need more farmers, growing food for people not just life stock
Yeah you couldn't really live in a camper in a metro area that your dad paid for and mooch off is his electricity... Would be much harder to be this kind of barnacle on your daddy's ass in the city
No, he meant that he rented the apartment for the rest of the winter because he couldn't sleep the camper anymore... Please tell me what hotel you sleep on the floor at?
I spent three years sleeping in a camper with no electric or heat. There's a special way to do things whenever you gotta sleep in freezing and below zero temperatures. It was not fun but I had no options and my family was hoping that I died. Needless to say I disappointed them!
My friend is a trucker and his APU for heating the truck has been intermittent so I sent him an electric blanket to keep him warm when he sleeps in case the generator is too loud or goes out. Where there's a will, there's a way.
Well, if you would have grown pot... This would be an entirely different interview now wouldn't it. Cuz you know, it's a weed. You don't need combines and fertilisers and all of that stuff. Cuz, it's a weed.
I’m 19 and I dream to have my own land to farm one day, my dad wants to do it one day too but is in debt and struggles, I hate office and industry work and can never find anything I enjoy doing but I’m always so interested in the farm life and what people use to do back in the day to live, the idea of having animals and everyday just getting up to work outside in the land that is mine and no one has to tell me shit(of course after I learn if I need someone to teach me I’ll listen and learn but u get what I mean no boss ordering me to do bullshit) I know farming and ranching is hard work but the way I see it everything is hard work it’s only a matter of what hard work you want to do, and I’d rather work outside and enjoy looking around and seeing everything come together knowing my hard work paid off and it’s like this because of me, the dream of being able to self sustain my life and possibly my families or future family and be able to provide food for other people if I were to ever get land and scale it would be so fullfilling to me, hopefully one day I can make it come true.
I am from Iowa myself, the coldest I remember it getting was about -45 in my area, -60 in other areas. I had to go out and about those days too. Not recommended, as just within 8 minutes you can hypothermia and lose fingers, toes and any extra cartilage that’s not getting enough blood flow. I prefer that weather over the extreme heat though, any day. 💯 As for farming, gardening etc… I could definitely see myself doing some gardening. I think everyone should do it and I think hunting and skinning and gardening should be taught in schools over other useless stuff that they teach everyone.
I’m not a farmer by any means. I’m not sure why this is showing up in my RU-vid shorts. It’s normally filled with Star Wars stuff. But I find myself watching every second of these videos.
I slept in a camper with no heat for four years. All you needed was a quality sleeping bag. For under $500 you could stay warm sleeping anywhere on this planet no heat source needed other than your own body heat.
treat our fucking farmers with respect. This is personal for me. Make business expenses less so they can provide more. Farming is hell but God bless these people
I'd have made a wood stove heater out an old drum sitting on 4 legs, pipe thru the roof and a couple solid pipes thru drum so the heat blows out the pipe..great heat source as long as you have wood to burn
The corporatization of the farming industry, in all of its forms, has created what is perhaps the most lamentable travesty to the image of the tough-as-nails, hard working, sun up to sun down, unflappable, unstoppable, God fearing, optimistic entrepreneurial spirit of the American farmer. Our farming communities across the country were essentially a brotherhood of remarkably creative, resourceful and dedicated people who were willing to work exceedingly hard for their livelihood and to build a legacy to pass along in their family name. Every aspect of their values and lifestyle was beneficial for our country. The pride and tenacity associated with the tens of thousands of families in the farming communities has been among America’s most virtuous and storied characteristics. That’s essentially how I saw it growing up as a city boy in Dubuque, Iowa. Whether they were dairy farmers, poultry farmers, hog farmers, cotton farmers, crop farmers made no difference. They were typically the most driven, dedicated, loyal, responsible, moral, honest and physically powerful people in any given county. The farmer would give you anything he could, and suffer because of it, if it would help another person in distress. I grew up in school with people like this. I’ve seen it in action. I’ve been unfortunate enough to have been on the opposing side of our local farm boys in high school football games and I can assure you that they were the very toughest players you can imagine. They were kind and friendly guys who meant no disrespect and displayed exemplary sportsmanship, but they were not going to let you win. Those victories, few that they were, left us bruised, battered and thankful just to have made it to the end of fourth quarter, never mind what the scores were. I can remember when the term Agribusiness was still gaining traction. I lived through the 1980s when every ally the farmers ever had began to turn on them, from Cargill, to John Deere, to the supply stores, to the local banking institutions and the United States government itself. Our own government sold out to big agribusiness and threw local farmers into a completely impossible system designed to keep them in debt and at the mercy of the banks. Our government even stole their legacy by stealing their land. Commodity trading became infested with special interest traders who manipulated market prices in any sector you can name to force the will of big corporations looking for profit. Seed suppliers, fertilizer companies, implement dealers, the local grain elevator and dairy processors all became lords over the once mighty producer due to shady contracts and impossible financial terms all with the blessing of our associated government agencies and regulators. It’s one of the most shameful chapters in this country’s history. Or, maybe it’s fairly analogous to a conquering force ruthlessly and even violently taking over control of a land from its current inhabitants, and forcing those remaining in the vanquished groups to do exactly as they are instructed, despite broken trust, treaties, promises, offers….yeah, there are aspects to the emasculation of the American farmer that one could say are similar to the way our country was conquered and taken from all of the various tribes of the Native American people. The United States was built to accommodate the greedy entrepreneurial prospector. Greed is good because it incentivizes innovation and forward progress, ideally leading to a better standard of living for all. Unfortunately, the greed inevitably got out of control and set deep taproots that have brought us to where we are today in this young country. The common man is no longer the pioneer he once was. Now the corporation is more like the common man, and they are being lorded over by the much much more powerful multinational corporations. Everything is being organized in such a way that all profits are funneled to an increasingly exclusive group of investment and holding companies, who are led by even fewer incredibly savvy businessmen. It’s a sad development that I’ve come to realize is the reality of the human condition. Charles Darwin was not wrong when he developed his theory describing how only the strong survive. Those of us who have the intellectual fortitude, the drive to win and the type of personality to dominate everything in their path, even if it destroys the progress of countless generations and millions of other people, are going to be the folks who are left standing. To what end this all plays is beyond me. There have been a large number of civilizations in our history who aimed for global domination and sometimes the total eradication of entire races and ethnic groups, to the point of eliminating all traces of their previous existence. What could possibly motivate intelligent civilizations of people to think like that? The Japanese had ambitions to rule the world and exterminate other Asian peoples. For what?? The Germans had perhaps decided to let other nations exist, but they were intent on dominating Europe and the Americas, as well as causing the complete erasure from history of the Jewish people. To what purpose does that level of domination serve? I’m no intellectual, not by a long long long shot, but even a big dummy like me can see the innate value of maintaining a world diverse in culture and philosophy. We all thrive when we all survive. Did I just create a phrase?? Nah, someone definitely has thought of that before me…anyway, these are clearly my own streaming thoughts, disjointed and incomplete, possibly inaccurate, but genuinely well intended, intentioned?? The mess our world is in seems to be an inevitable consequence of our own freewill and intellectual arrogance. It doesn’t have to be this way, but if certainly is this way. We absolutely cannot all live together and get along and care for each other, and that is evident because we definitely do not choose to do it. Our farmers are suffering because of actions taken by their own neighbors and countrymen. It doesn’t have to be this way. But, apparently it does…..😶
My great grandfather was one of the last people to stake a claim with the homesteader act. Claimed 180 acres in montana, got hit by a mini dustbowl before THE dustbowl and had to sell all the land...
