Taking a Loss & Leveling Out
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ส.ค. 2020
- This week we took a group of calves to market, got less than we'd have liked, and Lawrence leveled some land in-between rain showers. Or tried to. :) As always, thank you for being here! We will try to do more table talk soon and answer more questions you have. Feel free to drop them in the comments. Until next time, Farm Hard, Live Well, Stay Safe! Best, The Bernards
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I find it quite disturbing that beef prices have skyrocketed in the store but those who raise the beef are seeing a decline in what they get for raising and doing all the hard work!!. Its absolutely Disgusting!!
1.20 a pound on the hoof 8.00 a pound in the store
Farmers take a hit EVERYTIME!
NOT THE WAY IT SHOULD BE!👎
@@monicap1717 Farming is the only business that buys retail sells at wholesale and pays shipping both ways.
Been that way for decades, whether Cow, corn, pig, sheep, goat, beans, why I quit farming and started doctoring.
me ‘twas ever thus!
It's nice to see Lawrence smile once on a while.
If I was him, I’d be smiling ear to ear, every day! 😃😁
Love the man , good to see him happy and not lettin the world pull him down , love all 4 of y'all ❤💕❤
LB has a great smile!
Lawrence, we really like hearing what you have to say.
Lawrance is a hard working man who is dedicated to his family and farm which helps feed America. Men like him is what makes America a great place to live. LUV your vids.
Meredith nice to see Laurence get some new boots and the other nice things people sent showing there support they are still some very generous, loving people around the world willing to help a friend or neighbor
Meredith I admire and all the hard work yall do day in and day out Thanks for taking the time to film your daily life , Lawrence is one of hardest working men in our country thank you to all the farmers and cattlemen in the USA.
It's terrible how little the producer is being paid for raising cattle when beef prices are at all time highs to the consumer. Pretty much the same way with all agricultural products the producer is paid for today. Just a 5-cent drop per pound makes the difference between eking out a small profit of $50 per head. But, this beautiful farm wife featured here is still able to keep her pretty smile. I pray everyone who watches this channel encourages their friends to watch it also, as I want her to get to 100K subscribers to help keep her smiling antics coming! If you haven't subscribed to this channel, please do and help her and her family out!
Craig Fisher how true that is!
Well put Craig. We can hardly afford a good steak here in canada.
The only business that buys retail and sells wholesale 😒
The middleman is not kind to the family farm. Love the videos farmers help farmers and neighbors help neighbors
This has gone on for decades ,after NAFTA was passed a representative from one of the major Packers proudly boasted" if we can buy our beef elsewhere cheaper we will" .. same song, different year.
Yup..we always get the shortt end of the stick selling calves!
I’ve been watching for a couple years now and those children are so precious, I can just see Austin doing that little dance in some boots and a a pink cowgirl hat with bells on her boots and a lovely pair of jeans and western cowgirl shirt , no doubt , the queen of the Dan river
My husband and I sooo love watching you and your family. Love hearing your husband talk.
Meredith, Lawrence, and kids. I can't say how much I enjoy your videos. My 83 year old dad has been watching as well. It tickles me when Lawrence cuts up and starts cracking jokes. God bless all y'all from Ohio!
Loving Lawrence ' s new hat after that poop incident on the old one. 😆
Some may call it being needy but I call it being hooked on “this farm wife” videos . I can’t wait to see the notification flash across my tablet then I know it’s time for a little snack and soda while I watch your vldeo and as always it’s a the best !
Its great to see Lawrence coming out of his "Video Shell". Love seeing him participating more and more all the time. You guys work your butts off. Keep up the good work.
I loved it when Bonnie said let's go let's go. !!! And Lawrence pondering all of the things that need doing and the time fram in which to do them. !!
Love you all . Hugs to all.
Have a great day everyone. 🙂😊💝💝💝🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🍵🍵🍵🍵🍨🍨🍨🍨
Your husband reminds me of my late father! He was a farmer of few words also but a very smart man! I love your videos and your family! God bless all of you! I hope things start getting better for you! That's thing with farming it has so many downs and hardly any ups but when you love doing. You take the bad with the good! Here's to you getting some good soon! Take care!
Thank you!☺☺
@@ThisFarmWife_ what is the m1 grade? I'm in GA and raised black Angus & never heard of this.
Out here in the SW we call that tool a culti-packer. It's usually used right before planting to break the clods and level, but mainly to firm the seedbed. Makes your drill plant much more even, for a better stand.
Another honest video of the "facts of life" as farmers.
Thank you for showing the world a stockyard! Cattle prices are the same now as the start of covid and I expect they will drop off in the coming months, but as you say that’s farming. Here’s to hoping the cattle industry can get back to 2014-15 cattle prices and pay for the hard work of production!
It's a nice thought! :D
It does not make sense why prices are so low, demand is high. A lot of commodities that use beef, wheat, corn etc are in short supply or non existent. If demand is high prices should be up.
As a young kid I used to love going to the sale barn. My mom ran the lunch counter. My dad would take me and my little sister. We’d each get a hamburger and we’d share a bottle of Root beer. Man, thanks for triggering such a great memory!! 🥰
Remember how smoky the sale barn was back in the day? The diner was the worst!
Thank you for another fine video. I’ve watched many of your episodes. I am a trucker. When I watch your video I get the feeling that I am off the road and back home for a while. I appreciate that. Looking forward to the next one.
Mer Lawrence is really warming up to being in front of the camera. It's so nice to hear him talk to us. Love the Two endings . Awesome Cotton Eyed Joe !
Stay happy, healthy, hydrated and safe.
God bless.
I wish I could buy beef from you guys I would know it grown right and healthy with love and God you are so awesome thanks for everything you do Lawrence is such a great father and farmer God bless you all
You guys are an inspiration
Summer thunderstorm rains in one place and a mile down the road doesn't get a drop. The rain will be good for the corn and beans. Might make the grass grow as well. Take care and God bless you and your family.
Good evening Merdie and Family
Nice boots Lawrence and cowboy hat 🤠 I’ve been thinking of getting myself a new pair of boots 👢🙃
Hope y’all finish getting the field disced up and the air conditioning will be a easy fix 🙏🙏🙏
Austin reminds me of my 3 daughter’s when they were young 😊
Hope Y’all have a Blessed weekend..🤠❤️😘Love Y’all ❤️
I think you are one of the best family’s on TH-cam
families
Yes!!!!
As much as I enjoy seeing what you all do to maintain your livestock, I more enjoy seeing the love in your family. The Farmer sure loves his sweet tea. Keeps his hand on it for safety.
You are all such a lovely family. A good ending would. “ A B and C you tomorrow”. God bless.
I can relate, when you are farming you make just enough not gonna die and never make any money but you have to work 7days a week, its a lifestyle i quess thanks for the video greetings from a Dutch dairyfarmer
New boot goofing!!! We held our calves and sold them as yearlings! Market is tough right now! Love the show great family!
You may not have seen the eagle, but I bet Lawrence sees an Angel whenever you are in his presence. Your devotion to him is incredible and he seems to deserve it.
When will this country quit short changing the farmers? It sickening.
If America respected and cared for the farmers like Lawrence cares for and respects his equipment and family we would see farmers make a good living.
You and your family are an inspiration!
Ariat's are so comfortable right out of the box. No having to break them in. I see Lawrence is like me and prefers a round toe boot over the square toe that is being pushed in all the boot stores.
Hi Meredith, love to see that John Deere equipment. On my days on the farm, we had no hydraulics on the equipment. All hand power to adjust the cultivators and other implements. Nice to see Lawrence on that tractor. I can't wait for your big announcement. Thanks. - Dean from Minnesota
Fabulous boots, LB would walk barefooted to get his work done and make sure the family had what they want and need as well as equipment needs
as you were driving in the rain you pqssed a really nice old small house - beautiful you should take time to video more of these old things
Meredith you are wearing my hat , mine is on its way , keep the products available , stay safe , enjoy ! Bob
Great video. My Mother bought that dressing and lessened to the Kitchen klatter radio show every morning for along time. She got recipes from them I thing she had a kitchen klatter cookbook.
Your daughter was dancing like my granddaughter does around here all the time. It's good to see your husband getting involved in the videos now.
Stay safe and God bless.
Hello Bernard family i can sit and watch Mr Bernard farm all day long makes me wish I was there helping him i love to farm you do a great job ma-am helping i wish you could put a video every day
Glad to see at the market I was three trailers over on the left hope to catch you there again
Nice job of actually taking a moment to highlight the sponsor's product - like the Ariat boots and the box - rather than a quick "Thanks, Ariat" like some other sponsored channels do.
Hopefully, some other companies will notice and give you more attention.
Just a cheesy infomercial
@@anderleof which is why TH-cam is free.
You're okay with multi-millionaire athletes or NASCAR or rodeo or PGA or colleges (or whatever sport or entertainment that you watch) taking money to use or wear products, and either you or your kids probably have some type of logo clothing that you actually paid a premium for - which means rather than the company paying you to advertise their product, you actually paid them - but you're triggered by this family thanking a company for a pair of boots that they got for free.
Jealousy is a very very ugly emotion.
We had a similar piece of equipment for working ground on the farm I worked on 40 years ago and we called it a "culti-packer."
Would be called a crumble roller where i come from. More usually part of another cultivation unit either with disc or tines
love your channel, you're so positive and realistic which is refreshing. Great influence for young people thinking about farming and options that come with it. Thank You from Canada
Meredith, you may not capture an eagle in flight, but you soar like one every day for your family, your youtube community, and the farming community. :)
Lea..couldn't agree more..well said my friend
Great video, Meredith. You always do a super job. Great seeing the kids and the farmer. Nice new boots and hat. Bonnie is your dog that's for sure. Life's a box of chocolate. Thank you for sharing. Look forward to next vlog. Stay safe and God Bless.
Your videos do exactly what you wish them to do and they brilliant. They share your real lives, downs and ups. Thank you for sharing your lives and your outlook on life. There's a passell of people outside of the USA as well as within, who also gave learned a lot. Me especially - live from old Hampshire
Being a Nebraska native, it is a staple of the Cornhusker state. Yummo as part of the sauce for seafood salad.....fyi Luckily I can get it Denver too.
Your daughter looks just like her Dad and Wesley looks like you. They are beautiful kids.Stay safe from Gambo Newfoundland, Canada.
Loving Warming Encouraging Personality! Beautiful!!!💖
this is my 40th year farming on my own. i have been with many groups farm bureau NFO wisconsin farmers union, the beef board, wmmb {wisconsin milk marketing board} and i ALWAYS find it amazing that when i go to any of these groups meetings and ask them about unfair prices or why they dont stand beside us for a guaranteed wage thet we can rely on i am called a trouble maker. me and other farmers believe all these groups while they do help farmers when it comes to better pay or a guarantee pay we can live with it seems they are more for working for every one above the farmer. case in point steers in wisconsin janurary 2020 we shipped some and averaged $1.04 a pound my neighbor shipped some in may 2020 and he averaged 64 cents a pound YET the prices kept going up in the stores but NOT to the farmer.
It's disheartening for sure. I wish things would change. :(
Miss Annabelle says hi. Yeah selling cattle or calfs is always a big gamble. Rain should really help the crops alot. Keep up the great videos
That first one is a Disc Harrow to level and break up the soil; the second one is a rolling harrow and cultivator to condition the soil.
Love table talk. Thank you Mr. L for your words of wisdom.
It’s so disappointing not to get top price for those prize cattle. They are always so well fed and cared for.
Your weather at the moment is so like ours in Ireland, - swelteringly humid, dry in one place and thunder shower flooding a mile away.
We call the disker the disc harrow. Your neighbour’s leveller is designed to drive down small rocks also. The going was a little too sticky alright. Better to wait.
Keep up the great work, everybody. We’re so lucky to live in the open countryside.
Relish every moment.
I can't tell you how much I love to see your notice come across that you have posted a video. Dorothy was my mom's and dad's favorite.
I'm glad Lawrence got rid of the poo hat and got a new one. I love that you truly run and work a family farm, I think the fact that you involve your kids in the operation is going to help them in the future.
It's amazing with the prices for animals, the crops that any family farms can survive. Keep up the good fight and God bless you and watch over you.
One of the nicest families I never met
Lawrence is sofunny in his own way .love to watch her smile, beginning to look like her mom 🤠
That’s right Lawrence cut the price tag 🏷 off them Boots 🥾 nice New Hat Lawrence is fixed up 👍🤠 Good job Austin with Cotton Eyed Joe dance 💃🏻👁
Way to go ARIAT!! You get it.
When I was a kid farmers started working public work to finance the farming. It isn't something you do for the money. I will be gone but it will interesting to see how it is 50 years from now. Will there be enough people that have the desire or the love for farming to feed the country?
Great videos, great stories - you are the perfect farm wife. Lawrence you are a lucky guy.
Another awesome video. Thank you. Blessings
Enjoy your videos. Great family. You always have a positive attitude. Love that about you
I try, thanks for being here!
We put Catalina (Kraft) on our taco salad, yummy! 😋
Yup us too!
Lawrence is not much on words but he’s a dedicated hard working man.
Love watching you guys stay safe and be careful
Eres una joven incansable siempre se ve esa gran alegria en tu persona,eres muy carismatica,alegre,y feliz ,saludos,cuidate
Meredith you were a monster with the subscribers, congrats from
70 grand+ to over 111grand when I last saw. Well done lady!!!! Best regards Geronimo's Minutemen . Catching up on all videos now, thanks again .
I enjoy the videos. I took my wife and daughters to the local livestock auction this past Wednesday afternoon. They enjoyed it. She never been to a livestock auction. I grew up going with my dad so watching your channel brought back some memories. Tell Lawrence that people enjoy watching him and I pray that he continues to keep going and be encouraged. Farming is tough.
Lawrence ! Just say what you really feel don't be afraid to speak your mind. Meredith, he may have some choice words in what he wants to say but he needs to be heard. Lawrence and you are country smart and I admire you vary much for your respect for others and that way of life. I pray that your children stay true to the farm life and don't get caught up in all the crap other kids get into. I watch a lot of TH-cam. I like yours's because you give just enough info to keep me interested and you don't bore me to death. Table Talk was a great idea we really want to know what you guys think about things. I know some people do and will troll you, just move through it they mean nothing and let your viewer's see and deal with them. Keep keeping it real my friends.
I sold some bull calves last Tuesday that I didn’t get around to cutting this summer...they were angus cross, averaged 720lbs and I got $1.22 this was in south central MO. Not what I wanted but better than lately. 😁
Way to go.....ARIAT....quality product .....by and for Quality people
I love Lawrence, he reminds me so much of my dad although we only had 25 acres. He could do anything and fix everything. Farmers like y'all are the backbone of America.
You are All Great! Love 🤗
Who in NC doesn’t love Dukes Mayo? Born and raised in Dukes, love it!!!
Texas here, raised on Helmans. Nasty stuff, didn't like mayo till I tried dukes. Amazing taste and smooth, creamy texture.
Y’all embody what makes this country run. Family, hard work, dedication. If anybody ever wants to know about hard work, they need to follow a farmer. Y’all are awesome and I appreciate the effort it takes to put these videos together for all of us! Big hearts from Texas!
Just found your great video's, Boy your dad sure is a hard worker and teaching his grandkids So much..
I am Sorry for not watching your other videos first, Your husband is a hard worker..
That implement looks like a cultipacker my uncle had..makes a field smooth.its not fair you didn't get a better price ..my family is praying for better days for your family you all deserve the best....
New hat new boots a lovely wife someone going dancing Saturday night..enjoyed Austin clog dancing to Cotton Eyed Joe. Didn't realize you had horses I imagine there are some good riding places around the farm.
I’ve been wearing those Ariat work hogs for 5 years. I buy a new pair every year and they are the most comfortable work boots I’ve ever worn. Been an electrician for 23 years and I’ve worn every brand there is.
I’m enjoying better understanding what Lawrence is saying
Calling fer rain. I live in NC and knew exactly what you were talking about. No need to translate for me. Hope you and your family have a great weekend😊
It’s good to see the Farmer 👩🌾 got a new hat. 😀
Thanks for the great videos Meredith! 2020 has been filled with many challenges it seems, Staying the course and moving forward a little bit each and every day is maybe what we need to do this year. Stay with it!!!
Loved it, great video. And greetings from North Wales 👍🏴
You got to love country living and the people that make it happen. Bless ya'll
Could be crawdads. At one of the places I used to live there were tons of them digging holes like that. They will start piling mud around it to keep predators out. The place used to be wetlands. Since that place is close to a creek, it could be a possibility
I worked for Tysons warehouse, and yes, I agree, Hey..., I like this farm & family.!!!
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and adventures. Still think farmers need to figure out how to do freezer beef direct to your audience. Stay safe, wishing you and your family the best.
Thanks for sharing blessings to you and yours 🙏 love the end Austin dancing doing a jig , sorry you'all took a lost on the steers , farmers just don't get what they should for the product ,a lot of hard work rasing the beef ,God bless 🙏
Nice video again. Some say it makes no sense to compliment, but what this lifestyle makes me feel: Sincerity and serenity. Thank you for sharing.
U are a farmer wife and a great one
Unfortunately gonna be a lot of “taking a loss” in pretty much all aspects of commodity agriculture this year. Right now there’s not much else to do but work hard and trust God to provide. I don’t know how those without faith do it, right now my faith is all I have to hold on to. Our calves sell Monday on the Superior Livestock video sale, we’re hope they’ll bring $1000 per head. We’ll have to wait and see. In Indiana we call the leveler thingamagiggy a cultimulcher.
Amen.
You Are A Beautiful Family!!!💖
A wire brush attachment for a rechargeable drill to keep the rust away from implement blades to keep them sharp and under a tarp will eirher makes his smile bigger or last longer. Lol
Love the table talk
Love your videos! So sorry that you all didn't get the profits that you were hoping for with your beautiful bulls! So happy that Lawrence got a fancy new hat and boots! So sorry that the weather doesn't seem to want to cooperate, but that is real life farming. You are so good at being optimistic (very hard to keep it up sometimes)...don't ever change! You all make a great team!🇺🇸😊🇺🇸
Loved both endings. Keeping it real joys of farming.
I grew up on a dairy farm in New England and remember how much my Dad would struggle with farming and the return from his and our Moms hard work.
You and your family are so inspiring. All the hard work u guys do Lawrence reminds me so much of my grandfather a man of few words but the wisdom of a 1000 year old man. You guys are amazing and look forward to ur videos. Also u guys should do a Equiptment tour I would love to know the history of it all. The red dually is priceless they are disappearing quick. Keep up the good work Meredith looking forward to the videos.
Wow, thank you!
Life on the farm is always different everyday... and Lawrence is all about the farm everyday... He rolls with the punches and keeps on keeping on! And as the farmers wife, so do you... You're good support. The kids are good support.