I love that you hire youth to work your farm. In the 80s I was detassling corn and walking beans. Long hot day but what a great foundation for a strong work ethic.
I hear about de tasseling all the time, something I’ll never get to experience with modern machinery We have now. I’ve been fortunate to have nearly 300 teenagers work for me over the last 24 years but it’s getting harder and harder every year to find good help that wants to actually work. My biggest problem is finding kids that are not in sports or other activities, which makes it tough to work around their schedules.
@wishwellfarms yes! Working was expected when we were growing up. My son, when he was younger, mowed 13 yards a week for years. Paid for his lineman school. Now he is a young man with a great work ethic and career.
@@rhondavigil795 I also had a lawn mowing business all through high school and part of college and along with selling sweet corn out of the garage I was able to pay for college.
Thanks for supporting my channel through viewing the videos Casey I really appreciate it. I just filmed a segment of me picking our jalapeños and bell peppers that will be out soon. I fortunately I’m having one of our best pepper crops in history. Hopefully yours will come around.
You should put bearing buddies on those trailer wheels. Harbor Freight/Walmart/any boat store will have them, about $13/pr. They keep the bearings greased, and the water out.
All my trailers already have those, that one was missing because it fell off when the bearings burned up. Both trailers are completely greased and tightened and ready to roll now.
Crop rotation with the vegetables is tough. We try to always put sweetcorn where soybeans were the year prior and green beans will often be a mixture of prior-year soy beans or sweetcorn. But the vegetable crops on raised beds they’re always in the same field, but I try to move them around to different areas within that field. as far as cover crops, we have used radishes and English peas, and rye and a few other things, but can’t think of what they are off the top my head.
Man I hate to hear about the bird damage to your corn. We just got done with 5 days over a 100 degrees did a number on my green beans and deer decided to come thru canteloupe patch and take one bite out of 300 canteloupes.
An idea, time consuming tho, pick one plant to video next year at certain times. Do a compilation at the end of the year from planting, transplanting, harvest, prune etc. Showing that one plant through it’s life cycle and what it produces.
Visited the farmer market yeasterday here in the northeast. Gren beans $9.00/lb, 12 last week. Corn was $1.00 per ear at one farm, 1.50 at another and 2.00 from one other. One may be organic. Small market. Did However manage to get sliced pickles, bread and butter chips sour Kraut and cole slaw no mayo. Good corn better than the stupid market. Squash was scarce.
Yeah, in Ohio one dollar per ear is going price at most nice farmers markets. I’ve never heard of green beans being that expensive, 3-4 dollars a pound is probably on the high end around here. To be honest with you, for Farmers to earn a good living reflective of the risk and hard work and capital investments to even be able to Farm should be earning 2 to 3 times more for everything than they are.
We have decided to close our home based farm stand in 2024 for many reasons...a video coming soon will explain all of this. Our home farm stand only accounted for about 5% of our farms gross revenues but 75% of my headaches, so we are soley concentrating on our 9 Farmers' Markets around Columbus Ohio and our retail satelite location in Marysville Ohio.
Great question! Yes, to be competitive as an employer, I’ve definitely had to raise my pay rate quite a bit over the years, and I don’t mind paying well for kids who take initiative and our hard diligent workers that are consistent and efficient, that is the name of the game in vegetable farming, and when it comes to sales, I look for very friendly bubbly personalities with great people skills. I start off highschoolers 16 and over with no experience at $12 an hour, and the rest of my employees fall somewhere between $13 and $20 an hour depending on how many years they have worked here and how good of a job they do.
@@wishwellfarms I appreciate the reply. Rural kids just seem tougher than suburban and city kids. I swear it's all about the parents--upbringing, pull up your pants, roll your sleeves up, get dirty but it pays off in the end.
