Not Excited About 2024 Growing Season 

They want the farmer to go under. Control the food control the people.

diesel for road use in ireland is close to 7 $ per us gallon at the moment ........diesel for tractors is not far behind with all the carbon taxes the green party have put on .....

I run a cow calf operation and last year I got the most money I ever have for my calves and still made the least I ever have because of operating cost it is crazy what this country is coming to good luck to all the farmers out there we are a dying breed and one of the most important professions there is they won't see it until we are all gone

And our government servants get richer and richer.

After last year I've lost all excitement for anything. I've known for awhile the government doesn't care about family farms but finding out more and more regarding family and friends.

You speak the truth Wes. It isn't always what we want to hear but it is what it is. Thanks. 👍😊 Wish, hope, and pray for better days ahead.

I know all about the costs of doing business. I own and operate a business here and in 2023 my business grossed thousands more than 2022 but lost thousands more than 2022.. The cost of doing business is increasing faster than the business can generate revenue. I guess that's what inflation is. Thanks Joe!

you have an exhaust leak that is why it has melted. it should be fixed as this is probably the biggest reason why this tractor model starts to catch fire. probably the flex hose between the muffler and the exhaust pipe that has given up, very common

Cheaper than a tractor payment and you can't buy a tractor like that anymore. New tractors have too much electronics and emissions.

Same problem here in the uk wes, we’re gonna have so much land laying fallow because the ground is still so wet and it’s getting late for planting already

I work for a well known ag company we are losing orders . Farmers are not spending the money.

Everyone blames the government for what is happening, but it's big business that is doing the gouging. JD knows you have to have the parts, they have you buy the balls and have the pricing power.

Our ag secretary is not doing us every favors either

It's crap for all of us in farming 😢 all the best from Henry in the UK 🇬🇧

Hi Wes We are the same in the south east of the republic of lreland It has rained here since end of August. Now we have big problem 5% of potatoes are in but that should be 75%. 25% of winter wheat and barley and that should be 100% 10 % of spring crop is in the ground. There is no tillage being done and probably 20% of fertiliser is applied on crops and grass for hay and silage Then you have the directive from Europe on livestock numbers nitrates and restrictions on everything The futures price on crops at the moment is on the floor. I feel your pain as I am in the same position as you and we have the government intervention as you. Until the is no food on the shelves the general public don’t care. No farmer No food ❤👍👍🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

my neighbor told me his milk price he got is the same in april as when the local deere dealer was $72.50 a hour NOW the deere dealer is $155.00 a hour

They want everyone to work for some coorporation. Thats the easiest way to keep everyone under their thumb. If you give favors to the big coorps- you control their people. Plain and simple

It just not the farmer that getting screwed it also is truck driver as well love what ya do please keep up the great work my friend

Internal Revenue Service US Postal Service Cable TV Service Civil Service Federal, State, City , & Public Service Customer Service This isn’t what I thought Service meant Then today I went to get a bull to Service my cows. BAM then came to me, now I understand what all those Service agencies are doing to us. 🙈

Wes, I have always said it needs to get bad before it gets better. Everybody always asks me when it is getting bad. It has gotten bad now shit is about to change. Yes, it will take a bit, but it's going to be tough for a bit.

Sitting on last year's crop without a home. Excited to go borrow more money to put another crop in this year.

The last segment when you panned to "the wife" cracked me up! despite all the despair. The sheeple need to take a long hard think about food security and sourcing in the future! I wouldn't want to work for nothing every day and have no enjoyment from it!

Pick any year in the 1980s and that is how the 2024 season feels like.

We are having too many years of lucky to pay the bills. Keeping it together is what I call it

They want all the farm ground to go to solar and wind

i was justat a co-op meeting with seed and fertilizer dealers and a local tire dealer and our local deere dealer was there along with farm bureau and we listened to every one and when the meeting was over they said any one have any questions? a few farmers spoke and we had to hear responses from all these dealers like well we HAVE to raise our prices to cover our costs our taxes our upkeep of equipment and employee wages and benefits to SERVE you farmers!!! THEN some one said HEY dave you have any comments? so i stood up and said ALL farmers we 100% control the food we ARE in charge we ARE boss of the food system BUT we ALL are dumb farmers cause less than 1% of the population ARE farmers and we will NOT stick together with each other and NO farm group WILL stick together for the benefit of us farmers! sure they all have there little things they do for farmers BUT not with pay we receive! pretty much every one in the meeting stood up and clapped! and its pretty sad now where the amount of farmers in the area who came were pretty much out numbered by alllllll the fertilizer and seed dealers and parts dealer and deere dealer and farm bureau people who ALLLLLL sat there and said DONT worry we HAVE to charge more so we can be around to better SERVE you farmers who will NOT stick together OH and they ALLL pretty much said just hang on it WILL get better for you farmers just HANG on! a LOT of farmers laughed when that was said. think about it? EVERY one there to serve the farmer IS allowed to raise their prices to cover their costs but NOT farmers but it WILL get better for you?????????

FJB 🇺🇲

He probably failed to mention that "we" are not going to make any money really means that YOU are not going to make any money.

Hay market is on fire here. Can wait to start cutting. $10 for a 60lb small square.

The bad thing is ya don't pay for the parts pay for the name of the equipment Wes that's the sad 😭 thing hi everyone from northwest Missouri

Prayers

Sell directly to the people, get better prices

Great video Wes

Teresa doesn’t look worried to me, she’s so pretty.

You are correct about our government

Did you know, April is now Arab/American month, FJB 🇺🇸

Amen on the greatness of the 7810

Your rite 💯!!

Good video.

I'm excited! Almost got the roller crimper ready to go. The clover, Vetch, rye is 3 weeks out for the corn, so yeah I'm stoked!

Come on Wise Most of us older kids were glad we had an open cab back in the 60's...take the windows out of the cab and be glad you have wheel finders ( no dirt blowing off the rear tires all day) but im glad the comforts you have out in the fields

You are so right, if biden gets in again, the family farm is done for.😢

Wes it’s the same up here in Canada! We hope it changes I’m not paying to have a job either!

Don’t forget to pay the taxes, so the son of a Guns in Town can have a good old retirement party

Me neither I’m over it.

Hey wes something to consider start raising some fruits and vegetables you can retail them and get a better price because they’re locally grown. You have that piece of land that you are going to buy that has the old barn on it that would be a perfect place to start a farm market. we are in Oklahoma. We have two of our own farm markets. We also go to Farmer’s market ones in Oklahoma city. One is in Edmond. It is very labor intensive. We also do alfalfa and Bermuda grass hay. We have been doing this for about 35 years. we had to re-invite ourselves, and we keep having to re-adjust as things change.

I love that tractor too Brother!

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Wesley you could reach out to the 3d printer community that could possibly print that blower box better with a brushless motor

Yeeeppp, exactly right

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At the end was well Said!

they haven't even passed the new farm bill because its not 1000 pages of bs

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The pressurized blower gets hot and burns out if you don't clean the outside air filter periodically

The pain is real, Wes. Agriculture is great when there is money to be made. I think all of us involved with Farming/Ranching are comfortable with slim margins. We are used to being creative with a pencil. And it is not highly unusual when diversified in your cropping portfolio to have some crops end up in a total bust and others pull the financial weight of the farm. However, when there is nothing that looks good on a spread sheet, it is effing depressing. I started from scratch at the age of 19 with 7 acres and a 1949 Oliver 77 wheel tractor. With lots of long days, sleepless nights , and a million hours of sweat equity, we have built our operation to cover over six thousand plus acres of forage products and dry land small grains. I have always been excited to do what we do. There has always been a silver lining at seasons end. Last year, we had an average loss of $100 per acre operated. It did not matter what the crop was. We did have yield hits from drought on a lot of the perennial hay crops, but most of the deficits arose from market prices. After inputs damn near tripling in fall of 22 we needed about $8.50/bushel to break even on an average crop in 23.. 22's feeder alfalfa market enjoyed an average sale price of $240/ton. 23's average sale price for feeder quality alfalfa was down to $140/ton. We've been able to pick up custom work in years past to make ends meet, but even with that on the line last year at the age of 51, and having only one year left to pay off the farm/home we purchased in 2008, We had to barrow against the equity we had built in it. Very unsettling. I feel blessed most days to be able to do what we do. To have both my boys involved. To have built something from scratch. But to have there not be one positive on the horizon, well let's just say the optimism is fading rather swiftly.

its the 80's all over again

wettest spring on record in south jersey I cant even cut my ruts in yet from fall harvest. definitely not looking forward to it

Wes farming is tough all over the world this year with weather in ireland and uk farming is going bad at the moment weather and money wise .keep going because u will never meet a unemployed farmer

In central Indiana the rain keeps coming. We just had 3" over the last 2 days. Now forecast sun for 3 days and more rain. Everything here is mud. Not seen any field work.

I’m excited cause it’s my first corn crop ever. Second crop ever. and my cover crop is finally starting to take off. But besides that I’m not to much.

It's been raining nonstop here in Eastern Indiana going to be a long time till it's dry enough to plant

Yes, very depressing spring !,

Nice video

Love the 7810 I remember when u got it at a great deal! How many hours on it now? GOD bless

I can confirm OLF's comment about the farming across the country. I recently took a trip to Franklin, IN and back to western SD. I drove thru five states: SD, MN, IL, IA, Nebraska, not much or very little happening in the fields.........some due to rain, but nothing really being done yet.........🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

They been spraying fields and ive seen a couple fields worked up bout it here in Tn.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, ideas and videos. It’s sad that our country is being run down like it is. I’m completely convinced that every behind every issue nowadays is a money grab by the government insiders. Doesn’t matter, if you look at the details long enough you will find someone from the beltway making money while everyone else is being squashed. I think that’s why I follow SpaceX as much as I do. It’s nice to see honest work getting things done and saving the country money in the progress. It’s about the only honest game going. Wishing you and your family the best.

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Been following since before you got that tractor, I remember people being shocked it would do 26 MPH because of the E range it has. Boy that was a long time ago. I find the 7810 a pretty rough riding tractor, lots of bouncing around and abuse on the seat compared to the lower seating position of a 7410 or boxcar Magnum...

At least you dont have squillons in debt with new equipment. You are in a great position compared to others, keep up the smart approach 😉

Hindsight is a wonderful! Hate to say u can get them fans from other suppliers, £70 each last time I got some, we ran 3 jd 6330, and the fans were changed a good few times !

soybean up in southeast Mo. on wed. April 10 bean, corn and rice going good.

You would never know farmers are hurting when it comes to equipment auctions....

7810 is pre DEF too. 🎉

Some south east South Dakota guys are planting corn, was 80 degrees yesterday.

Spal do really good replacement fan motors for them John deers

They get you coming or going don't they. Hmmm... I don't remember seeing both of you clean shaven at one time before, at least the last five years... I'm marking that on my calendar! I'm sure that you will find a way to make bucks this year. It may well start in November and culminate in January.

Check out AP air. A division of Ag parts Ltd. Those 3 blowers would be under $300 total.

Sell it and start a new sailing channel😂…I understand your frustration don’t watch or listen to the “news”, remember what you have not what you might get. You have a lot to be thankful for still workin right there with you it’ll be OK!

Tim, With all your mechanical knowledge you could fix a couple tractors on the side to supplement your farm income.

They don't call them "Jolly Dear" tractors for nothing.

My brother had a 1995 International 9200 the power door cylinder was 900 bucks to replace it

If your pressurizer motor is melted its because your exhaust is leaking and blowing exhaust at it. Seen it many times. Even seen the fuel tank get melted so you need to fix the exhaust or replace it

nothing but rain in indiana and ohio. hopeful for the latest supreme court case regarding 2020, thanks to Patrick Byrne!

yeah kinda feel the same we just need to make money other ways and there many ways 3d printing about to get big because print matrail cheap and many other opertunitys

how can they control the price of hay when they cant control the price of food?

That is a lot of wheat to repair the 7810

Right now, I don’t think anyone is making any money, now days. I work in a convenient store the bosses that’s been there for years said they never seen business so slow.

$700 for a 30 plus year old tractor is petty cash. Pretty cheap per hour imo

Indiana in pike County planting

My neffew Harley had it had to have one nut removed

Its not much better in europe inc the UK to be honest. Farming is on its knee's but people don't seem to be able to grasp that without farmers we wouldn't eat. I don't know the answer but I do try to support local farmers when they have meat boxes available.

Its every year feeling when farming finland

Anyone know how many farm channels are on RU-vid? With $4 a bushel corn how much less corn will be planted and how much will the price of a bushel of corn rise?

In the famous words of bob Marly don't worry be happy

in Canada that would have been 1000$

Didn’t you have to replace blower motors on another one of your tractors awhile back and they were expensive also?

I'm not excited about this year... first time in a decade.

You need too look across the world it's not just here. Or by who is the president. Many many other countries are suffering. An out Midwest still feeling it's early to plant