Get an inside look at the life of the modern cowboy through a multi-generational ranch family and how increasing regulations are impacting their operations.
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May God bless your family and keep up the awesome work cause my family and I love eating steaks and burgers. I'm not gonna become one of those panzies that trying to live on weeds just so they can kiss the government ass
Embarrassing to say this but Yellowstone tv show peaked my interest in cattle ranchers. I’ve grown to be infatuated with them, growing up on a small farm in Iowa this cowboy life is much different than I’m accustomed to. I wish there was a way I could support these people, there’s very few of them left and we have to protect their way of life or else it will be gone soon. The American cowboy is what helped shape America. It’s one of the few true past times we have left in this country. They need people on their side, important people.
@Vince Binte We are not farming just a hundred cows. humans are farming billons of them, the cattle industry takes up way to much space and resources. Its really unsustainable and are pushing many animal species to extinction.
Farmers and ranchers needs to be respected. Economically, they are one of the most productive people on earth and is responsible of satisfying every individuals stomach and yet, mostly the society today respect them less.
Farmers and ranchers today are extremely wealthy and live a very privileged life, respect the guy waiting your table or sitting in a cubicle to make ends meet
@@rusty6.057 you're incorrect, I work on a farm, not to mention my buddy just got a contract from the government to have solar panels in his fields for 5 years and they give him 1.5million. Farmers have a lot more financial opportunities than ever
@@Coolblaster6 that’s true especially in New Zealand here we have carbon credits where the government pays farmers heaps to plant pines to store carbon from emissions which is a good idea on land which can’t be used eg. quite steep country but now we have heaps of large groups like ikea which have come over and Brough heaps of farms good farming land and planting them in trees and once the land is planted in pines it take decades to break the land back in
My Grandfather bought the first section of what is now my "Little Slice Of Heaven" in 1880. About the same time as the Bergs. If your family has Lived, Died, Sweated and Bled to keep a piece of land for over 140 years, it has a meaning to you that is very hard to put into words and one that lots of other folks find hard to understand.
@@footballnotsoccermrn1186 Yeah that's "Sally" my Grandkids name the Horses :) I have 8 others to go with her & that accompanying Feed Bill for them and 50 Goats
Gotta love the value of hard work! My grandpa always used to tell me “you need to break a sweat every day, get up and do something that can make you feel tired at the end of the day.” He grew up in the late 20s and 30s, and worked hard his whole life. He died 2 years ago at age 92. I miss him
Been a lot of years since I had the smell of burning hair in my nostrils while doing the whole brand, vaccinate, castrate thing. It's easy to romanticize the lifestyle. I remember getting rained on, hailed on, and snowed on, all in one day. I enjoyed the riding and cow working, but the job is a lot more than that. You've gotta be OK with being uncomfortable a fair amount. One of the old fellers I used to ride with would say; "Lots of work, lots of fun!" He had a better outlook on it than I did. It's a mixed bag IMO. I do and don't miss it. Respect to the hearty souls that carry on the tradition out in the Great Basin. Great vid.
Ronnie you are a jack ass if the government didn't walk all over these folks they would be able to support their own operations just fine! You are probably sitting at a star bucks buying coffee with your horizon card right now you quinoa eating Democrat!
@Ronnie Civella That's rather harsh. I believe the first nations were the caretakers. Point well taken. Why are there so many trolls on these pages? Odd the piece starts with the land was ranched for generations. How about the millennia before that?
I enjoyed your documentary. My wife's grandparents ran a ranch for years just outside of Jackson Hole, WY. It is truly, truly sad to see this way of life fading away. :(
My family ranched for generations in Mexico, I worked out of Pinedale and visited Jackson hole, beautiful place, l loved the area just not the cold lol, currently savin, pursuing rodeo, and doing oilfield work to Jumpstart my ranch, and operations in Texas
This was fabulous to watch. Absolutely fabulous! "Conservation easements" are more deceptive strategies to take the land away from the owners; such nonsense must stop. No person will ever care for the land like the owner! No individual/entity will ever touch my land with a conservation easement. Ranchers/farmers, stay independent; do NOT relinquish control of your land! We will continue to fight!
I’ll always be proud of my southern heritage as a Texan and the culture we share with Mexico, Lousiana, and others. Cultures sharing with each other is special and sacred, and should be respected, not hated. God bless.
Abby Amerson it would be mighty crowded out there then. I raised beef out in Missouri and these folks are cut throats and market manipulators and don’t need or want you at their cattle auctions or adding to the market. These people will call BLM, EPA or DEP or the Dept of Ag. on anyone for dipping into their business through competition. Ive death with these big mouths all my life. They’re worse than the county or federal Ag. agents because they’re the ones who called them on you to start with. How do you think a documentary was made and why on the largest producer of “ORGANIC “ BEEF IN THE STATE? think about it.
Such a well displayed video ! The average person has no idea about calf's life from start to finish ! As a cattle feeder I enjoy what you have presented . When people pick up that package of hamburger they should thank a rancher or a farmer , but the sad thing is big feedlots have taken their toll on the smaller feeder like myself . The wal mart's of ag are ruining our lives
Agreed. My dad has been a cow farmer for my whole life. It’s sad to see the price of beef skyrocketing in the stores - yet the farmers get paid less and less.
You said it. They want cattle to go the way of hogs and chickens. Another words they own everything and you have to grow for them. I guess I’ve already done it by pre conditioning yearlings for much bigger outfits.
A very well-told story that needs to be taken to heart; Lord save us all from self-righteous toadies who believe they know better than the good folks like the Bergs!!
I live in Phoenix Az and I will love to get my son and I and go help out those ranchers on weekend,just to learn this old history of cow and horse….Now I’m a horse guy all the way,but there’s so much you can learn from those ranchers.
Y’all going to laugh but every time I see videos like this one I cry because it remains me when I used to work as a cowboy at my grandpas cattle ranch & I have a lots pictures it sure was a lot fun now I am a computer technician but I will love to work as a cowboy again I am 51 years old if I ever get invited to do it I will take a vacation to do it. My grandpa’s cattle ranch is 21,500 Acres but it is on another country. I was thought by Apache Indians how to imitate each farm animal to the point that animals come to check out who is calling them it sure was very funny to imitate all the farm animals; chickens, roosters, cows, donkeys, horses, goats, etc... God bless y’all...
Lovely story. I live in South Africa and my son works on a cattle ranch here. He is very much inspired by the American West and the traditions. If the West is lost ever , America is lost. Think you need an open season on lawyers.
I’m cuban and I love this country, now you remain me so much my father he was born on 1917 and that is what he did all his life, with this job he feed our family, I loved goin out with him to select and vaccinate the cows Loved
That’s so interesting to see how almost the whole West preserved its Mexican culture still today by this wonderful people. Long live to Rancheros, Ranchos and sombreros 🎩
@Dustin Heath New Spain and Mexico is the same country. It has the same people, the same language, the same Catholic religion, the same foods, the same music, etc.
@@matthewcrossman980 people from spain brought horses and cows but mexicans are the ones stared wit the cowboy thing you see today not whites or espanoles boots and hats evrything you see on a cowboy vaquero its mex cuture..get education dont be ignorant like other Americans from usa...
I grow up in one Ranch In Mexico 🇲🇽 and is very similar or i want to said the same life style. hard work to get good results, im a Cowboy now in this city, God bless all Cowboys and Farmers
I love this documentary film very much. I'm planning to become a horse rancher. I'm planning to raise my own quarter horses as a future horse rancher. I love cowboys and cowgirls very much. I can't wait to become a horse rancher myself.
One of the most uplifting and at the same time sad videos I have ever watched. GOD BLESS these folks, all the ranchers & farmers of their sort and DAMN the politicians who try to regulate & intimate them from their heritage & culture. Politicians know nothing and care nothing about the pluck of these people. I'm thankful that President Trump is not a politician.
Gerard Johnson they like every culture is hoping to preserve their niche in society just as every culture or religion or way of life before them has. The Indigenous people of this nation were systematically moved off their lands too and their freedom as people was also stolen and remains stolen as a result of cultural brainwashing and imposed restrictions that perpetuate total dependency. This; is coming our way too. The only way to reset this movement is to stop the threat and those who advocate for or defend anything associated with AGENDA 21. Yeah; the tinfoil hat folly that turns out to be factual. Use your last years in studying and promoting the concepts of applied physics; a subject that has been made to appear nerdy and over the top. Well; there is a reason for that. To keep people from thinking about it as a serious subject. Read about ELHFED, my field of research that 9 years ago I had no clue existed but decided to learn about something the most contrary to our societies norm; Applied physics, physiology and the complete study of biophysics as a discoverer and researcher; not a parrot student to try and impress anyone. Well; we’ve been deceived and lied to and that really motivated me to discover how many and how much of what we think and believe is; lies; it’s nearly everything and something from each subject has bs injected into it to homogenize modern education.
I live in the Apache Sitgreaves National Forest in NE Arizona and still work the cattle on the grazing permit areas on horse back. Theres no way you could do it any other way because of the down trees and terrain. I ve ridden here 10 yrs and its always a challenge even on horse back. Imagine pushing cattle too.
I envy the lifestyle. I understand the hardship they face, but being able to provide and life without the stressful lifestyle that we are so use to these days is a blessing I wish I had.
No need to envy my friend. Pray and seek Gods guidance. With Jesus Christ, all is possible. May his will be done. And I tell you, I certainly enjoy good beef. I’m happy there are cowboys to help provide it. I’m one of them.
GREAT VIDEO, I LOVED THE WESTEN COWBOY LIFESTYLE BECAUSE IT IS CLOSER TO NATURE INSTEAD SITTING TO PLAY GAME ONLINE, THAT IS REAL LIFE I THINK. THANK YOU BERG FAMILY.
So, stop the subsidies to the ranchers and farmers immediately? And no regulation of the wealthy distributors? I've never found anyone talking about 'big government' or 'free market' who actually wants what they're saying they want. Right now people are talking about shutting down the post office because, apparently, they want one more bill coming in a month to pay Comcast or Amazon (who won't be willing to run it on shoe string like the USPS has done for centuries) or whatever fat corporate pig wins the contract, to charge us directly for delivering our medications and social security checks. That's going to be a real success story in a pandemic.
@@dreamingrightnow1174 I have no problem with stopping the subsidies and I have no problem with stopping other government handouts either. I own a farm and do not get any help from any gov. agency and I would refuse it if it were offered, we either make it on our own or we go under so far we have made it in spite of all the gov. regs. and laws we are subjected too.
Grew up in a small ranch out in Wyoming but left for college them saying the lifestyle draws you back is a sure thing, finishing school this year can’t wait to head back and get back to my roots.
I grew up on a ranch in the sandhills of Nebraska until I went into the US Navy when I was 17, in 1974. It was a hard life but simple and I wouldn't have wanted to have been raised any other way. Now I live in Fort Worth Texas and still miss that way of living!!!
What wonderful characters and what a great way of life, the ranchers know the land and how to look after it , they should be getting support from the us government not hassle, I always wanted to be a cowboy and would do it for nothing just feed me 😆 don’t let that way of life die
I am a cowboy as well. I am part Blackfeet Indian from Montana but was born in Zia Pueble New Mexico. I thank my Grandfather Remijio Salas and my Uncle Mathew Salas for bringing me up as a CowMan!!!! It is true the things that the BLM take away from Ranchers. I bet you anything that the BLM like a good steak as well. Sad to say that they have to get a paycheck but if they would respect the Ranchers and give support we'd be a lot better. Who knows our lands better than the people who have grown up in that area!!! Keep up what your doing, George Strait is and keeping the legacy going traditionally. Country Music is changing but stay the course, Cowboys and Cowgirls will never be forgotten!!!! Blessings to you all!!!!
While attending college in Texas, I paid for my college education by working on a cattle ranch. The ranch had 1800 head on 3 thousand acres. On that ranch I would work cattle by branding, vaccinating, castrating, and herding them into corrals. One day the owner bought 900 head of brahma cross cattle from Florida. Well those critters had never seen a horse. They were always gathered by jeeps and 4 wheelers. When we went out to look over those wild idiots, we came over a rise and stopped to look them over. Those idiot cows threw up their heads and took off like scared deer. The jumped over ever fence and scattered. It took us 3 months to finally find the last of them. Every time we caught a few they went directly the auction. Damn how I miss that way of life. It was hard, dirty work but its a way of life worth keeping. Thank you all for keeping the ranchers life going. Just wish you all could make money doing it.
This country needs to give respect to people like y'all I wish I grew up on a ranch but I didn't but I love the old way life I'm 59 I live in Conroe Texas, I do shed a tear seeing the way life is changing long live the cowboy life
I think I'm going to go out now and have a cheese-Berg-er. And a shot of whiskey. Like the lady said, don't be afraid to rock the boat because they'll just sink it then. Keep on living right and free.
I am far from a cowboy but I can tell ya I’m not sure how this way of life was lost on most of us. I would’ve done anything to be raised in this environment. Good folk and a good simple life.
I grew up cowboyin in the Santa Ritas of southern Arizona in the middle 60's. Had the Glorious Privilege of bein a 14 year old rooster riding my first gathers with the last of what I consider the "Real" cowboys... the Cowboys that ran in the 30's, 40's and 50"s. They were riding out their string there in those middle 60's. And I had the joy of being taught by Them. These folks, the Bergs, remind me of them... back then, I believe these are the sort, with the steel, that could have hung in with them.
Impressive people in a spectacular landscape. My theory is that the governments (both State and Federal) are clearing the ranchers off the land to make it easier to roll out Coals Seam Gas (fracking) development. This has been happening right across Australia for 20 years and looks the same in the US. Tip - make yourselves a Bronco panel for the calfmarking guys, it makes the job 10 times easier.
First let me get this out of my way..... Ma’am thank you for my cheese burgers and steaks!!!!!! Now on to a heartfelt thank you to the ranchers still doing this and I sure wish we had more people living a dream life like y’all do. There would be so many happier people in the world. My mom always said I was born in the wrong century lol. I ride my horses and even pushed a few cows growing up but nothing on the scale y’all do!! I often looked at with a little wonder ..( they are wondering why a “cowboy” is in the delta??) (Mississippi). I appreciate all you do to keep the traditions alive and may they live on for many years to come. I could never visit a place like that because y’all would be wondering....how the heck are we gonna get rid of this fool!!!???!!! Haha May God bless all of you and your families!!!
"Look At Us;" "Three Generations of Farmers; Reminding Us Of Our Ranches and Our Quality of Wealth and The Posture of Our Calves; Excellente In Proportions and Perspective; Quality in Composition; And We Possess It With Them.