@@2552Zeus take out the white part and you nailed it. The fact white people don't burn their neighborhoods, gang bang as hard, or have fraudulent kids, etc. isn't all white people's fault now.
I'm not a farmer but a heavy machine Operator, respect to you guys, did a solar farm that was 300 acres and that was huge, couldn't imagine farming 1k nevermind 30k.. you'd never get to sleep lol
first time i stepped foot on a solar farm my jaw dropped, panels as far as the eye can see. and they just keep getting bigger, same with farmland. shit is crazy
I am so thankful for farmers. Such an under appreciated profession. Without them no one would survive in modern society. Thank you to all in the farming industry.
@@dungeonmaster6292 be the change you wish to see in the world brother. Come back to this comment in 2 months and let me know how it goes. It’s ok to be thankful for those that provide sustenance while also wanting a change in the system.
1,000? 30,000? Sheesh, we had to pull weeds by hand for 5 acres of corn. Now that felt like alot. I can't imagine working into the thousands of acre's. So as we were done pulling weeds, we started all back over again. It was like the weeds were growing right back up behind us as we past by. Good ol' days
You just described my dad, maybe 600 acres. But he always finds something to keep busy. He just doesn't believe in buying up more land than one man needs.
As a man who farms 500 acres and 200 head of cattle himself, I can say for certain it's more than enough for one person. I enjoyed myself a lot more when I had 60 cattle on 150 acres. It's hard to keep on top of everything when you've got too much
I like the way your dad thinks.. I'm sure the same opinions on land carry over to life.. makes for a good man, the kind that can make us a better country
Depends on what you're growing on that dirt. 1000 acres of row crops with the right equipment ain't bad at all. 1000 acres of hay no matter the equipment is a lot of time. Our farm does roughly 800 acres of hay and 3000 acres of row crops. 3 of us working damn near 80 hr weeks when the sun's shining.
We currently farm under a thousand and it’s still pretty stressful sometimes, especially with our older equipment. However, not having a loan and a extreme amount of acres reduces a majority of stress
My great grandparents were Norwegian immigrants. They got 168 acres to farm. 3 of them moved right next door to each other. They had 5K acres at max. Now they've got 800 plus dairy & meat cows. EVERYTHING IS PAID FOR....IT TOOK 3 GENERATIONS. They don't want or need a lot. Hunt & fish. Basically self sufficient and DON'T MAKE AS MUCH AS I THINK THEY SHOULD... THEY'RE IN NORTH DAKOTA
@@Enrique-peraltaThat's 2 weeks planting, 2 weeks harvesting.......or yhere abouts. Lots of those around here. They have other vocations like Dump trucks, Excavation, one of the trades, Fab and Machine Shop, Quarry, Insurance Agent, Substitute Teach, the list is as varied as it is endless. Many don't actually have to work elsewhere, but they ain't a lazy bunch. A bad year is just a low return on the farm, not a nightmare. Problem is, lots of these guys are retiring. They don't need to live that way, they can enjoy life.
Hell yes. People that failed similar dreams will shit on yours. People will also help you up to the point you will surpass them. Small insular communities make this so much worse.
I grew up from birth on a 2,200 acre sweetcorn farm in SE Michigan. Let me assure you it's far more work than people can comprehend. every aunt, uncle, cousin, everyone worked for the farm. There were no Saturday morning cartoons. It's sun up to sun down. God forbid you screw up and end up on a 150acres with a shotgun, as many shells as you can carry and a jug of water and sit there all day shooting blackbirds and crows. Grandpa used us as mobile scarecrows!lol There's something beautiful in farming. I spent my youth running from it. I'm spending adulthood trying to get back to it.
I started with a half acre of vegetables. It soon paid for another acre. Two years later that paid for 2.5 more acres. Two years later it paid for 3 more acres. Now I have 7 acres that will have paid off 47 additional acres in a short time. My goal was to own everything I can see from my home by the time I retire. Since I'm still in my 40's I have to up my goal again.
All comes back to the old saying, "The best payment you can have on anything is no payment." It's better to own a fraction of what you could have if you were out on credit.
@@user-nj1zu2nf1xnope, you have the poor mindset and are brainwashed into debt. Propagating the same excuses started by weak individuals that can’t manage their expenses. Cope
@@dukeofistria5712I’m sure you know all there is to know, actually how about this? I’ll give you the keys to a 2,000 acre farm for a full year and see if you could even get the crop in the ground?
I knew a 2 by 2 1k acre Corn farmer in Kentucky that had it made. Been plowing the same 1,000 acres since he was a boy and his daddy was a boy and his daddy was a boy. He had a beautiful family. I loved everything about the place down to the biscuits being made in the morning. I dated his daughter but I tell ya this, I wasn't good enough for his daughter. I wasn't from around there and I wasn't even a farmer. So, in the end all I have from that era are memories. Great memories.
Here in Alberta. Our family farms 7000 acres of owned land and 2000 rented. Most nights I really don't sleep. The cost of insurance /ferts/seed and payments for equipment is absolutely insane.
I said that when. I was younger when a farm came up for sale when I was like 15 that was 20k acres and I was like.... Yeah I could farm that. Now that I'm 24 I just want at most 2k acres of farmable ground with 400 to 600 in forest for hunting. And to do all my hobbies
My dream is 20 acres, enough food production that I can sell 2/3 the food and live comfortably without buying food. It's the bigger farmers that go bust because they're dependent on fertilizer, grain prices, and fuel.
Wrong, the BIG farmers are so far upside down the banks never foreclose, they'll get .05¢ on the dollar. No sir, they'll foreclose on a small farmer who may be temporarily going in the wrong direction. They'll get .90¢ on the dollar and the bank CFO will smile all the way to the executive meeting. That's just how it works.
U need 7 acres to feed urselve? Or is that with grazing cattle ? I know nothing about farming, and my plan is when my house is dept free i want to buy a nice piece of land. To eat my own food and hopefully sell some to have a pension. But what would be big enough, i was thinking around 10 acres.
My parents own the farm. I plan on going into it and saving up money to buy the farm and equipment to get it up and running. Weird to think that I would save up enough money to retire well off of and instead drop it on farming.
@@deepspacecow2644 so I just turned 65 the 18th. Just bought my 2 sister's share of the home farm, I'm the only boy . Million. 2 .hope I can farm til I'm 90.
My fiance's great grandpa was a farmer and it kept him YOUNG. Lived to be 92. Big man rolled around on his equipment chugging coca cola and living life. He grew corn and soy beans
He’s not wrong. As a cattle farmer that has all his land payed for and tractors I will tell you it’s a lot less stressful. I can replace tractors like it’s no big deal. Most guys are lucky to have 1 new tractor while I have 10.
I remember walking behind my grandpa as he cut with the mule pulling the plow and I would drop the seed and my cousin would fertilize all by hand. Man those were some long and hot days
My cousins in WEST TEXAS own 2 sections of land and lease another 300 they have one piece of equipment that isn’t paid for and it makes all of them very happy and pays their bills. The key was as their dad would say keep your nut low for you and let the land take care of your family. They are just simple people living a great life. The land has been in their family now for about 100 years now the third generation is living the same way.
3rd generation dairy farmer here, went from a 100 milking heard in chino hill’s California too 16,000 milking on 5 farms with about 10,000 acres for a forage farming operation throughout New Mexico. A lot of stress a lot of animals alot of land and a SHIIITTTT Ton of inputs but wouldn’t want it any other way!
I had a 10 acre nursery and that was hell to maintain alone, worked as a ranch hand on 150 and I think that’s the max I’ll ever say is reasonable for a small group, 30,000 doesn’t even register in my head that’s so massive 😅
I'm a son of a farmer and My father had 2.75 acres for himsef and from 1992 to 2020 he saved 100,000 aside from raising family and getting all the equipments. We grow wheat from Dec to april and from june to nov we grow rice. As all farmers in northeastern india. IDK how he did it but I just know he did it .
This dudes perspective is wild!! As a non farming farmer, who just loves farming videos; who would have thought about this from the living room couch!!
I dont know how I came upon these podcast shorts. The algorithm worked for once lol. I lived on a farm for a year in college. I lived in IOWA my whole life. Nothing beat the peace of the farm. I know it is tough work and it would be a lot different if I owned the farm but i did enjoy it. Thanks for the shorts.
I want a place just big enough that I can live off it, without having to take work off the farm. Make all the payments, pay all the bills, and maybe buy a little more land when I get older, run it for a few years and hand it over to the kids.
This really helped me change my perspective. I’m a gardener, I have a tiny garden at home, and idk anything about farming at all. I don’t plan to make some big operation or anything, but this made me realize there’s a big difference between what I do, and what farmers do. While I’m watering my plants by hand, tending to them, and getting sad about picking the strong cherry tomato plant out of the bunch and murdering the rest (I think I’ll just keep them all, or give them away, lol), farmers are using machines and stuff to do big operations. It’s not as fun for me. So maybe not a good backup plan. But it’s still fascinating to hear about.
My neighbor has 700 acres that he splits between Brothers and it's paid off for bc their parents started farming 55 years ago. Everything is paid off and they live about as wonderful as one could as a farmer.
This guy is right, the stress is not fun! I grew an herb garden on my window sill once & it was tough, especially with the banks refusing to finance the combine I picked out
If I were to be a farmer, and I don’t, at most id like to make enough food where I can eat off it for the bulk of my food and donate a good amount to a local food bank.
@@Triggadan Not everything is about money. I’d like to substitute what I’d grow with what I buy and donate any excess. Being able to appreciate that I grew the tomatoes my family is eating would be a different kind of reward. If you can’t understand that then you have some growing up to do and need to touch grass.
@@DAMitAlI life isn’t about losing money either. I have a full garden in my backyard and I have enough to give to family, but it 100% takes a good amount of time and energy. No issue putting up a stand like I do once my family has what they need, but the money sure helps me grow everything so people can still come get fresh vegetables and strawberries every year
@@DAMitAlI I’m not a farmer but you referred to a farmer which takes hundreds of thousands a year just to grow. If you’re referring to just like a personal garden, then that’s understandable
@@DailyShit. There is a local farmer who grows for his family and the rest to donates to a nunnery and they have a share program to collect the food for needy families to pay the farmer and i think it’s on about 5 acres. That is what I’d want to do. Tell that guy he isn’t a farmer just because he feeds his family and donates the rest. He doesn’t make food for the masses he grows food for his family and a nunnery.
My dad has a friend that does 1200 acres, mostly paid for, but some leased, and uses 20 year old well maintained equipment and does just this. One of the happiest guys you'll ever come by.
My “ employer “ had a 3 acre cotton patch behind his JD dealership. A ditch that carried rain water from town ran along side of it. A heavy down pour would over flow into the first 30 or so rows spreading every kind of weed seed imaginable and every one of ‘em germinated !!!! Lol ! I had the task of hoeing this field- you couldn’t tell the cotton plants apart from the weeds-- he “ paid” me with a six ounce glass bottle of Coke and 35 cents. I was a quazillionaire !!! Mite have been 10 yrs old…
God I love this guy I thought the way he did it very 1st. Then I got my 1st 1000 acres planded keep in mind. I was a real young kid doing this. I mean we're talking like 1516 hes absolutely right? It was quite frankly. More than what I could keep up with in between fences and the river washing away wheat and learning how to run the dozer to put in terraces. I could talk all day about putting them in the right spot😂
My grandpa has about 2k acres and farms it all himself. Fully paid off land and fully paid off equipment. Says it was the best decision he’s ever made.
If I farm, I won't need more than 1 acre. Unless you have employees and/or large scale machinery, multiple acres is a lot of time to be dealing with and messing around with. I wouldn't want my primary means of living with farming though. Diversify.
30000 acres isn't really too much I work on a croup farm in Australia where our stations which is sheep and cattle mainly usually over 1 million acres we also have farms that are usually over 10000 acres the one i work on is roughly 157,000 acres with 35 combine operaters working 12-14 hours a day during havest season to get all of the wheat harvested, America needs to step up their game. all jokes aside 30,000 acres is afair bit for crop and its tough i don't get how some farmers do it with only themselves and a few workers.
You do not understand what he’s talking about and saying you talking about 35 operators plus others he’s talking about the farmer + 2 may 3 people working doing everything. You are talking about someone who owns a farm and has 3-10 crews working doing everything. Am I right
You need to understand, he's in Iowa. They grow 250 bushel corn and 50+ bushel soy beans with hardly any rainfall! Some of the best soil on the planet. They don't need that many acres to be incredibly productive. The United States is the #1 exporter of agricultural products for a reason.
I am in South Dakota. Down the road from me is a family run farm of 20k acres. This last fall the had 2 John Deere Series X combines delivered to make 5 on their property. I drove one of the new ones.
@@malakisands8180 the property I work on at the moment we got 4 john deere X9 1100 coolest and my favourite harvesters that I've used so far when harvesting you don't have to worry about unloading so much because I think it has like a 420 or 460 bushel grain tank. pretty good experience i'd say.
@@brianpierson7708 Dude I'm saying half the stuff as a joke as u see at the end of the comment, I grew up on a property with 2 staff full time, my parents working round the clock and 3 other siblings who all worked 24/7 I know the struggle and I know how hard it can be. I'm simply saying whats happening on the property I work on as a joke all the operators or at least most are contractors so during the off season its still 3 full time workers.
For me it's 40 Acres of subsistence farm, literally every square inch of land fully and completely owned, and all equipment fully and completely owned... you know, my current situation. I didn't pay a dime for the land or equipment, I inherited it from my grandmother. I did put in a lot of free labor when she owned it. RIP Nanah. Love ya.
3 uncles did 4100 at peak. Worked their assess off and all retired millionaires. Came from NOthing at all homeless. Their equipment auction at retirement netted 3 million by itself. Never paid taxes and always had new trucks every year. They made their equipment last though. They only bought new tractors and combines every 8-10 years.
no till is best... there's a channel called "young red angus", he's farming large acreage corn fields using no till, compost tea, and cows. check out his channel, very good stuff
You'd have to assess your land to decide the best way. There are some cases where people argue that tilling is necessary, but it would be impossible to tell anything without being on-site. There are many ways of no till farming, and the best method and how to transition will have to be a custom plan for your farm
@Busy Bee Farms build up your top soil..disc is the way to do things..I'd get several years of buckwheat, winter wheat grain ,clover as cover crops..build up your organic material
@Busy Bee Farms build up your top soil..disc is the way to do things..I'd get several years of buckwheat, winter wheat grain ,clover as cover crops..build up your organic material
@Busy Bee Farms build up your top soil..disc is the way to do things..I'd get several years of buckwheat, winter wheat grain ,clover as cover crops..build up your organic material
Then don't pull the "we skip meals so you don't have to" bullshit. Used to be that our farmers were the hardest working folks in the country. Today most are worse than 9 to 5ers.
I worked on a seed farm planting potatoes for 7 years I talked to the brothers that ran it and they said that they planted roughly about 1100 acres. And what this man said is completely true they have the storage they had the truck they have the tractors pretty much well paid for they had everything financially set they weren't a to by to Farmer. But they did have nice vehicles in went out on vacation every year out of the country and enjoy life the way that people should be enjoying life but farming is one hell of a life and it takes a lot of dedication
I learned this summer, that even 10 acres, if totally overgrown and not maintenanced is a major inconvenience and a lot of work. Especially if you need to go in cut it down again and make it so it can actually be used. Getting it to the point of where it can be maintainable is time consuming. Once it’s maintenanced, pruned, and your crops are nice and trimmed it’s just best to not ever let it get to the point of overgrowth EVER. I didn’t have a tractor either for this, so it was just a weedeater, rakes, and a knife to cut the roots of any weeds for the most part. 😅
I’ve built a fully self sufficient greenhouse. Im just struggling with the temp controls right now cause it gets hot so cal, but once that thangs done my life is gunna be so much easier
There's always a sweet spot, sometimes you just gonna have to settle for less than perfect, and somehow that makes the middle feel just right. Success is for men who wanna live big and die forever, settling is for men who wanna live small and be remembered. Neither is wrong, but each is it's own path, wrought with hardships.
I do snow removal. Struggled with expanding the first year cause I couldn’t find reliable help at $30 an hour. So, I bought a Kubota and now I’m growing all by myself. 😆
I worked at a machine shop and my foreman would do that. He’d take off for a few weeks and drill his wheat then he’d take two weeks when the cutting teams would come through. Otherwise he was at the shop. He had 2500 acres in Kansas.
My late father-in-law had about 1K acres +/-... lots of older, pre-digital Deere equipment that he enjoyed and maintained himself (for decades), and NO debt whatever... he farmed that into his early-80s, then started backing away and just enjoyed his cats, but he was content...
2x2 farmer. Wow 2 weeks in this spring and 2 weeks in the fall. Its true I know a dozen guys around me like this. They literally work hard 1 month a year. Soft 4 months a year. And the other 6 months half of them live in Florida. Nutts what a life!
@@davehughesfarm7983 I was raised on a dairy farm and thats the worst. Never a vacation. My uncle was lucky to go to a wedding or funeral. He was un-lucky and had 7 girls. I was his only boy so he sold out.
I am looking into starting to farm. Just found this channel and will be doing a deep dive into it. Not looking for anything big. Just want to be able to afford emergencies and have money to send the kids to college if they want to go. Thank you for providing all this info!
I could be the 2x2 today but I've got good loyal people that work for me that I still want to give a good job to. The big dog in my area is 100k plus acres. Huge investor money behind them.
My friends dad used to have around 15-20,000 acres and he had to go to the hospital many times from wearing himself out trying to farm it all, and now he is done farming
We farm 15000 acres here in Ohio and its a living nightmare. Ive spent the last 3 weeks fixing combines and heads. Constant issues with storage bins and grain legs. Not to mention the spraying all summer. I miss my grandparents 1200 acre farm more and more everyday
I'm here in South America with 2-4 harvests per year depending on the crop. I've got my hands full with 5 acres and no tractor - too hilly for tractors. They seed and pick the corn by hand - no machines at all in any phase except to transport the bags (bultos).
We farm about 1500 acres here in the shoutheast and we always dream about going out west and doing it big. We love working and making a crop so it’s like heaven to is
I wish these guys nothing but success, I d9nt have freaking clue what they're talking about most of the time but I definitely know decent stand guys when I see them. Thanks for sharing guys.
Met a guy in the Memphis airport many years ago who was wearing overalls, dirty boots, and a Riceland Foods hat. He asked me where I was headed and I asked the same of him. He’d been snowmobiling in the Yukon for a couple of weeks - said he did it a couple of times a year. Told me he was the largest individual producer of rice in the world - owned/worked thousands of acres near Stuttgart, AR. He’d take off for two weeks right after planting and again right after harvest.
