I'm not a farmer, I'm a retired nurse. I follow several farming families on TH-cam from coast to coast who farm a wide range of products. I appreciate the time and effort you put into each video, and watch every one. I see how hard you work and how expensive it is to farm. In my family, I have some young people who talk about farmers destroying the environment. It's nice to be able to tell them that they are completely misinformed and explain to them that farmers are the best stewards of land and water. When I get negative reaction from them, I tell them to watch videos from the families I follow and actually learn something instead of parroting what they've heard with no evidence at all to back up their claims. Once they see and hear what farmers really do, they have a much higher opinion of farming. Keep the videos coming. The youngsters need practical education. Something I don't think they're getting much of these days.
I admire and respect you and your dad for being able to not only document the current situation in farming. Like many of your listeners, I follow numerous other TH-cam farmers. I’m also retired for several years and have invested much of my new free time into understanding how the nutritional content of food is directly linked to overall health and in turn, ultimately, linked to the amount of “life” in the soil. Notice that I didn’t say fertility, I said life, as in biological activity. This is the fundamental outcome of farming with regenerative practices. This is a relatively new topic but it’s real and soon, nearly everyone will be demanding wholesome, clean, fresh food. This WILL fundamentally unwind the corporate farming industry where 3 grains dominate everything. This is because the modern “food” industries formulations of ultra processed materials are derived from those 3 grains; corn, soy and wheat. 65% of the mass of the chemically laden stuff in boxes, bags and wrappers that we’ve been convinced to call food started out as the grain you are busting your butts to grow. You and your dad made mention of raising your own food in previous years. I guess you’re going to have to decide whether you want to keep running a small version of Big Ag’s hamster wheel or are you going to find enjoyment in growing the kind of foods people are willing to pay for but cannot find. Pastured poultry and eggs, grass fed beef and dairy, organic grains and vegetables all raised regeneratively. That my friend is the future for people who love the land. Learn to feed the visible and invisible biological life that exists in healthy soil and you can eliminate 80% of your input costs. Hundreds of farmers are already reaping the rewards.
Thanks to the Brown family for doing these "talks". Keep the conversation going. Although we disagree on a few issues, it's still a great time to be an American farmer!
I remember when I was younger back in the early 70s , I was was a young kid and my uncle jack was a pretty big farmer back then and when he got ready to retire , his sons didn’t want anything to do with farming , it was sad watching everything he had built go down, I wish I had been old enough to help him farm
Brian & Bob, I enjoy your farmer talk so much. Bob, you are a rock star. I like the openness of your comments on everything. I grew up in the farming community and worked for several farmers for years. To hear about the crazy prices for farm machinery nowadays is nuts. I hope you can keep making your farmer talk. I hope to find your new channel on TH-cam to stay up to date with the farmer talk. I thank you for all of your hard work and videos, Brian.
Good stuff and very interesting. I'm not a farmer, I own a construction company, but I do find it fascinating how other industries work including farming. Been a subscriber for a number of years, keep up the good work. P.S. .....Canadian here, and we love America.....or wish we could live there.
Brian, you are very fortunate to have a father who has vision. Agriculture always evolves. If the farm doesn't evolve with it, the family farm fails. I fear that what Bob and I have experienced is going to be experienced by subsequent generations that may not have the "staying power" to remain farming.
These videos show you boys to be very professional farmers. You don’t always clock this when you’re often playing with machinery . Not sure when AI will be able to plant the field. Good job, thank you.
Thanks for your video. This was an interesting discussion. So many issues affect the family farm. You folks have to manage closely to make each year work. Good video Bob and Brian. The Iowa farm boy. Steve.
I really like this series of videos and it’s a fabulous way to fill in that slow stretch in the winter when you don’t have exciting things to show us. Listening to you talk sounds a lot like my uncle and two cousins I have that run a farm together. They used to farm full time back in the 80s and 90s now they all have other good full time jobs and farming is a side job they do on nights and weekends. What I find funny is that they farm more acres now than they had 20 years ago. They run a comparable sized operation to Brown Farms with older equipment and every year they seem to make a profit of their side hustle. It’s amazing to see how things have changed over the years especially the economics of all of it.
Bob is 100% right,potatoes in the ground by St Patrick’s day. Also large supermarkets control the price of fresh produce here in Ireland. Aldi aka TraderJoes with their 49c veg specials,zero profit for farmers.
Brian, I watch your channel as well as millennial farmer’s channel, an I think that both of you are doing a great job of educating the general public about how farming is done and why it’s done the way it is.
As a CPA that specializes in farm tax, I 100% I agree with the point on the debt/loans and associated financial pressure. So many farmers I see are drowning in debt, I can’t imagine the stress that they are feeling because of it.
Always enjoy listening to Brian, Bob and BJ talk about farming and their views. Great point of view. Have you ever considered adding a guest to a show or two? Edit guess you answered my question at the end with Honey Bee. Would be interesting to listen you you and other farmer. Last note enjoy the educational part of your channel and a couple others over the entertainment. I as well come from a farming background, family farm is gone and qish it was still in the family.
I agree a 100 percent Bob. Im 56 and never seen so much stuff get passed through then get recalled. Used to take 10 plus years to get drugs approved now just months.
The Hefty Brothers talk about the huge increase in corn being planted increases the humidity levels. That makes perfect sense because in many areas of the world they've been able to change the climate by planting a huge abundance of trees.
When I was a kid back in the late 60s early 70s , just about all the land around me was farmland , cattle farms and now it’ subdivisions , I live about 30 miles from Memphis Tennessee, and people moved out of Memphis to here , it’s sad to look around and see all the farmers that are gone, we have about 3-4 big farmers left
Great video great content. One thing I would like to see talked about is desiccating crops before harvest, I believe the government is going to go after this practice.
Brian Your father spoke about your mum had alzheimers Alzhiemers is called type 3 diabetes. And you get diabetes from what? To much glucose in your diet. You get glucose from sugar, All carbs, Sadly if you feed cattle on corn it has a tendency to have fructose in it. The problem with the American diet is it full of high fructose corn syrup. Im not one of those social media goons that sit at coffee shops and degrade farmers either. Im actually a 5th generation grain and cotton farmer from Australia. Great discussion by the way and love your Dad and his years of experience and input 👍
Great content - keep it going! Part of the 'corporate' farming settings that get the most attention started with the pig operations where Tyson, etc. began to finance the operations in return for paying for the growth/maintenance of the operation. Cargill is doing the same with some of the larger operations due to the increase in land valuations and input costs. The locally operated farms have gone 'corporate' due to the Income Tax law changes that encouraged the structure of the Subchapter S and similar settings which encouraged the higher lending levels by the banking industry. When land valuation exploded, the smaller operations could no longer afford to purchase the higher value land and eliminated the potential for continuation without being able to service the increased debt load. Couple that with the increase in the costs of creating a larger operation with the increase in the machinery costs to expand an operation and elevated input costs the debt servicing becomes nearly impossible. (Climate change is a new way to justify increasing costs by eliminating carbon - but the planet is getting greener due to the increased levels of carbon due to burning and volcanic eruptions.) Turn to the origination of livestock and the massive amounts of land required to support those operations on much poorer quality of ground needed for grazing, etc. The various leases required to operate a cow/calf operation on Federally controlled land is directed by non-farming personnel and never the optimum process or true cost of the operation. Again, the corporate structure encourages a broader scope of operation due to Income Taxation considerations. Chatgpt is gleaned from 'public' input = published news articles and opinions from non-farmer related sources. Consider the source when viewing vs your local setting and operations. Thanks for the work you folks put into the videos!
I enjoy the farm talk videos they mirror a lot of the discussions I’ve had with my dad. I can say from experience that we still butcher Hogs on the farm. You cannot find better tasting sausage, bacon, etc. then when you process the animal on site and cool out in the open air, our family has been Eating them For 100+ years throughout the generations, despite what anybody says there is a difference in taste
I was going into Walmart years ago and I heard two old farmers sitting out in the breezeway sitting and talking, I heard one saying the problem with young farmers today is the first thing they do is go by a new truck
I agree alot Brian. I took over the family farm. The only way my wife and I can make payments and upgrades is with full time jobs. We would like to grow the farm but rent is so high around here that I don't think there is a profit left. Or very little. Hard to give up the work check to farm and make only a bucks a acre because it's to high costs. Maybe I'm wrong thinking that, and maybe why we done grow.
CSA= Community Supported Ag. It’s basically a subscription service whereby you pay the farmer (veggie farmers) up front for a share of the harvests as they come in. You never know exactly what you’ll get in your weekly “box”but in theory it should be fresh, seasonal produce grown by that farmer. The advantage to the farmer is obvious- operating capital. Quite a popular concept with the Organic Crowd!
Finding these conversations quite interresting. 👍 As a non farmer, living at the other side of the pond, with different rules, regulations and laws... Most of the problems you are talking about are the same over here. Family farms going under financially in favor of corporations. No matter what the goverments do, or EU, the market will find every way to empty our pockets. And the problem is? Who knows! My guess is that us avreage joes haven’t made our voices heard for a long time defending laws, rules or our common sense. The entire world right now is a complete mess and something will happen as a result. Maybe it’s time for saising our voices against bad leadership and make it impossible for the free market to buy their own laws. Or give a hard reminder to those that are elected to our goverments who actually ”hired” them and what they are supposed to do. Enough about that... 😂 What i like with a social platform like this, is learning about the similarities and diffences around the world, still being at home. We are not that different. Been a subscriber for years, and will continue to be that.
We are at around 500 acres all hay. We don't own any of it. We rent, share or just maintain the land. We try to keep our overhead low. Any inputs put into their ground is with no less than a 5 year contract .We have 35 different land owners we deal with. I'm real careful in how it's written as not to promise anything in yield. Like last year with the drought We had a new contract on 40 acres 60/40 split. It barely made anything. I'm going on my 10th year of doing this full time and have grown the business every year. I really love what I'm doing and hope to keep doing it for several years. Biggest thing I've learned is just be smart. Crunch numbers. If it doesn't make sense don't do it. Hopefully '25 is good to us all.
At the risk of speaking for others, based on opinions around my home town, Americans want the family farms to endure, be prosperous, be good stewards of land, water & wildlife, and are willing to pay for this. Somehow, the Government needs to fold-in anti-trust laws to address this monopoly that’s moving-in before our eyes.
I think one of the biggest challenges will be in the western states where aquifer water has become depleted over the past 40-50 years. I’m thinking of the ogallala aquifer specifically. I know farmers out in Eastern Colorado no longer able to irrigate a full circle due to reduced GPM from the well. Hard to profitably farm dry land when your used to irrigated ground yields.
Down here in south central Ks we have those stupid windmills and the last 5 years we always get less rain than 50 miles east that don't have windmills or when we do get rain it's really spotty and not big wide spread 2-3 day soaking rains there has been a drastic change since the windmills showed up
Before it’s all said and done, the suburbs of Columbus are gonna be Marion, Zanesville, Springfield, and Chillicothe. The drone plant in Pickaway co is going to be a big deal. 4k jobs and not too far of a drive from Chillicothe. I love these videos and hearing your dads perspective.
Sorry for all the comments. Farmers hating the environment always makes me mad cause they depend on soil for their livelihood. But it’s interesting also how much wildlife you See on your farm with deer coyote turkey beaver and everything else. Field edges are great wildlife habitat more deer now than ever.
In October I had reason to drive from Columbus to Delaware. The good looking Farmland being turned into housing developments made me really uncomfortable. It was however satisfying seeing the farms to the Northeast of Delaware. Urban sprawl (for no good reason) is a problem. City people - please stay in the city!
You don’t actually own the property. You don’t own the land, the buildings or the houses. If you don’t believe me just don’t pay the property taxes one year. The county will auction off the amount of taxes you owe to the highest bidder. If you don’t repay that person with interest they will own the property in just a few months for pennies on the dollar. The only thing you can say you own is the responsibility to pay the taxes on the property. And God help you if you were going to inherit a farm from your parents when they pass away. You better have some good estate planning well before they pass away. We are taxed to death literally.
large farms will be able to withstand short downturns if we have a long downturn they will fall at a faster rate than smaller if the government doesn't save them again!!!!
Another great discussion. Rural decline-that is so localized that it's hard to generalize, but there are areas near me that are drastically declined in the past 50 years. Railroads left, small businesses shut down, jobs required commuting longer distances and these and other factors have caused some areas to be very poor with no good way to improve. Where my farm is (Tippecanoe cty IN) there is growth to an extreme, same between Lafayette and Indianapolis. But the next county south of me and several others south of there have several towns that are dying. And grass fed beef does take some adjustment. To me its more like venison in flavor and texture. Climate change is a difficult issue-the facts are that we are putting much more greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, and those gases do trap heat. Those are provable facts-the complex part is: what are the effects of this? That is an extremely complex model to work with-just ask a meteorologist!
I worked on my neighbors dairy growing up. Most of the summer spend milking or small square bales. They now do almost completely silage, and automated milkers partly due to labor some to efficiency. But they do employ some immigrant labor as well because you can’t get the local kids help. I’m also concerned with the push away from skills like running equipment and truck driving. I would Love to volunteer my time but the equipment I ran in 1995. Isn’t close to what they have today.
Hey Brian. Sine your a numbers guy. I would love to hear your thoughts on biogas, biofuel, solar, wind and so on - from a business point of view. Is it possible to produce for example biogas and use it for electricity and maybe even the dryer? Would that be profitable? Forget about tthe environement, just business talk. Thanks and kind regards, Rob
i stop eating mcdonald in early 90s the last time i ordered 3 big mac 2 for me 1 for my germen sheperd 3 plain no ketchup no mustard just bun berger bun she did not thouch it i put it next to her bowl of purina pro plan the next morning it was stil there and her bowl was empty
Great video. Should be a big comment generator. Like labor truck drivers, mechanics to work on your equipment. What would happen if they banded corn fructose like in Europe.
as a beef rancher i have ate beef my whole live there is a difference in meat but the cost is the problem we live in SD and it cost to much to ship it any place no place to process it to get to sell we don't put anything into our cattle like that you are talking about Ag
Farming is still the biggest crap game that you can play! Was a farmhand for many years and growed cotton, soybeans wheat and have grown some corn. But they quit and when to working on it factory.
You might not have seen the weather change much in the area where you are, but there are many places where they no longer get enough rain to be able to grow their crop. Also as you dad says, we used to have snow every winter (feet of it) now we barely get an inch or tow. Here is in Denmark. You might not see the change, but if you look at how the weather change over the last 40-50 years, then you'll notice the change. Look at the 30s where suddenly everything was dust - mis management also had something to do with, but a number of years with less than avg. rain can change everything over a few years - and if the rain continue to be less then you will have a problem. It is happening, but you need to look at the numbers and stop talking to a chat bot 😊
I'm 67 years old and when I was a kid every winner we had to be shoved out the window to get out our door the last 20 30 years I've been living here same spot we might get three four inches of snow here in Michigan that's it that's all you see in the thumb
Here in Northeast Ks we have J-Six farms that is corporation there are renting ground for double the going rate no way it can make any money without FSA assistance.
You are completely wrong we are a family farm and there are 6 or 7 more family farms around us the family farm is still alive and well. Having said that it would almost impossible for a person to start farming today in my opinion
Wasn't there already big tariffs on imported Chinese and European fertiliser. I know there was already at least a 30% tariff on all imported nitrogen because Europe could produce and ship it to America a lot cheaper than American companies could produce nitrogen
If govt got out of farming completely. The big guys would manipulate prices on commodities and inputs because they can eat the loss better. Thus forcing little guys to sell out to them. It’s happened time and again with railroads, oils companies, steel, airlines. Etc.
here in new zealand 99 percent of out beef is grassfed thans to a milder climate, we get more money internationally thanamaerican feedlots do with less inputs to produce that meat.yes you are used to grainfed beef but there is so many chemicals in it, medications and mad cow disease is still prevelant there, choose grassfed angus beef!
I'm not a farmer, I'm a retired nurse. I follow several farming families on TH-cam from coast to coast who farm a wide range of products. I appreciate the time and effort you put into each video, and watch every one. I see how hard you work and how expensive it is to farm. In my family, I have some young people who talk about farmers destroying the environment. It's nice to be able to tell them that they are completely misinformed and explain to them that farmers are the best stewards of land and water. When I get negative reaction from them, I tell them to watch videos from the families I follow and actually learn something instead of parroting what they've heard with no evidence at all to back up their claims. Once they see and hear what farmers really do, they have a much higher opinion of farming.
Keep the videos coming. The youngsters need practical education. Something I don't think they're getting much of these days.
I admire and respect you and your dad for being able to not only document the current situation in farming. Like many of your listeners, I follow numerous other TH-cam farmers. I’m also retired for several years and have invested much of my new free time into understanding how the nutritional content of food is directly linked to overall health and in turn, ultimately, linked to the amount of “life” in the soil. Notice that I didn’t say fertility, I said life, as in biological activity. This is the fundamental outcome of farming with regenerative practices. This is a relatively new topic but it’s real and soon, nearly everyone will be demanding wholesome, clean, fresh food. This WILL fundamentally unwind the corporate farming industry where 3 grains dominate everything. This is because the modern “food” industries formulations of ultra processed materials are derived from those 3 grains; corn, soy and wheat. 65% of the mass of the chemically laden stuff in boxes, bags and wrappers that we’ve been convinced to call food started out as the grain you are busting your butts to grow. You and your dad made mention of raising your own food in previous years. I guess you’re going to have to decide whether you want to keep running a small version of Big Ag’s hamster wheel or are you going to find enjoyment in growing the kind of foods people are willing to pay for but cannot find. Pastured poultry and eggs, grass fed beef and dairy, organic grains and vegetables all raised regeneratively. That my friend is the future for people who love the land. Learn to feed the visible and invisible biological life that exists in healthy soil and you can eliminate 80% of your input costs. Hundreds of farmers are already reaping the rewards.
All your videos are great. These are some of the best
Thanks to the Brown family for doing these "talks". Keep the conversation going. Although we disagree on a few issues, it's still a great time to be an American farmer!
I remember when I was younger back in the early 70s , I was was a young kid and my uncle jack was a pretty big farmer back then and when he got ready to retire , his sons didn’t want anything to do with farming , it was sad watching everything he had built go down, I wish I had been old enough to help him farm
Brian & Bob, I enjoy your farmer talk so much. Bob, you are a rock star. I like the openness of your comments on everything. I grew up in the farming community and worked for several farmers for years. To hear about the crazy prices for farm machinery nowadays is nuts. I hope you can keep making your farmer talk. I hope to find your new channel on TH-cam to stay up to date with the farmer talk. I thank you for all of your hard work and videos, Brian.
Good stuff and very interesting. I'm not a farmer, I own a construction company, but I do find it fascinating how other industries work including farming. Been a subscriber for a number of years, keep up the good work. P.S. .....Canadian here, and we love America.....or wish we could live there.
Brian, you are very fortunate to have a father who has vision. Agriculture always evolves. If the farm doesn't evolve with it, the family farm fails. I fear that what Bob and I have experienced is going to be experienced by subsequent generations that may not have the "staying power" to remain farming.
Daddy loves the farmers . ❤️🇺🇸🙏
As always - enjoyed and informative - your best advice is "give that equipment some room". We don't want to be on the road, no choice.
These videos show you boys to be very professional farmers. You don’t always clock this when you’re often playing with machinery . Not sure when AI will be able to plant the field. Good job, thank you.
Bob well never get tired of listening to you.
Thanks for your video. This was an interesting discussion. So many issues affect the family farm. You folks have to manage closely to make each year work. Good video Bob and Brian.
The Iowa farm boy. Steve.
I really like this series of videos and it’s a fabulous way to fill in that slow stretch in the winter when you don’t have exciting things to show us. Listening to you talk sounds a lot like my uncle and two cousins I have that run a farm together. They used to farm full time back in the 80s and 90s now they all have other good full time jobs and farming is a side job they do on nights and weekends. What I find funny is that they farm more acres now than they had 20 years ago. They run a comparable sized operation to Brown Farms with older equipment and every year they seem to make a profit of their side hustle. It’s amazing to see how things have changed over the years especially the economics of all of it.
Your dad is 100% right on the weather. I remember planting potatoes in March when I was a kid and I am about to turn 64.
Yup, plant them on St Patrick's Day...lol.
Bob is 100% right,potatoes in the ground by St Patrick’s day. Also large supermarkets control the price of fresh produce here in Ireland. Aldi aka TraderJoes with their 49c veg specials,zero profit for farmers.
Bob is right 100 percent!!!!
Brian, I watch your channel as well as millennial farmer’s channel, an I think that both of you are doing a great job of educating the general public about how farming is done and why it’s done the way it is.
As a CPA that specializes in farm tax, I 100% I agree with the point on the debt/loans and associated financial pressure. So many farmers I see are drowning in debt, I can’t imagine the stress that they are feeling because of it.
i agree with bob, i grew up in mid western ohio- put up 5000 bales of hay a year, over here in southern indiana about all of dairies are gone
Always enjoy listening to Brian, Bob and BJ talk about farming and their views. Great point of view.
Have you ever considered adding a guest to a show or two?
Edit guess you answered my question at the end with Honey Bee. Would be interesting to listen you you and other farmer.
Last note enjoy the educational part of your channel and a couple others over the entertainment. I as well come from a farming background, family farm is gone and qish it was still in the family.
Lots of great topics presented here. Pragmatic discussion.
Climates always changing 👍
Love the podcast. Nice job guys.
I agree a 100 percent Bob. Im 56 and never seen so much stuff get passed through then get recalled. Used to take 10 plus years to get drugs approved now just months.
Great episode
The Hefty Brothers talk about the huge increase in corn being planted increases the humidity levels. That makes perfect sense because in many areas of the world they've been able to change the climate by planting a huge abundance of trees.
Love the podcast!
When I was a kid back in the late 60s early 70s , just about all the land around me was farmland , cattle farms and now it’ subdivisions , I live about 30 miles from Memphis Tennessee, and people moved out of Memphis to here , it’s sad to look around and see all the farmers that are gone, we have about 3-4 big farmers left
Great video great content. One thing I would like to see talked about is desiccating crops before harvest, I believe the government is going to go after this practice.
Brian Your father spoke about your mum had alzheimers Alzhiemers is called type 3 diabetes. And you get diabetes from what? To much glucose in your diet. You get glucose from sugar, All carbs, Sadly if you feed cattle on corn it has a tendency to have fructose in it. The problem with the American diet is it full of high fructose corn syrup. Im not one of those social media goons that sit at coffee shops and degrade farmers either. Im actually a 5th generation grain and cotton farmer from Australia. Great discussion by the way and love your Dad and his years of experience and input 👍
Thanks. Your dad is living history. Cool
Great content - keep it going! Part of the 'corporate' farming settings that get the most attention started with the pig operations where Tyson, etc. began to finance the operations in return for paying for the growth/maintenance of the operation. Cargill is doing the same with some of the larger operations due to the increase in land valuations and input costs. The locally operated farms have gone 'corporate' due to the Income Tax law changes that encouraged the structure of the Subchapter S and similar settings which encouraged the higher lending levels by the banking industry. When land valuation exploded, the smaller operations could no longer afford to purchase the higher value land and eliminated the potential for continuation without being able to service the increased debt load. Couple that with the increase in the costs of creating a larger operation with the increase in the machinery costs to expand an operation and elevated input costs the debt servicing becomes nearly impossible. (Climate change is a new way to justify increasing costs by eliminating carbon - but the planet is getting greener due to the increased levels of carbon due to burning and volcanic eruptions.)
Turn to the origination of livestock and the massive amounts of land required to support those operations on much poorer quality of ground needed for grazing, etc. The various leases required to operate a cow/calf operation on Federally controlled land is directed by non-farming personnel and never the optimum process or true cost of the operation. Again, the corporate structure encourages a broader scope of operation due to Income Taxation considerations.
Chatgpt is gleaned from 'public' input = published news articles and opinions from non-farmer related sources. Consider the source when viewing vs your local setting and operations.
Thanks for the work you folks put into the videos!
I enjoy the farm talk videos they mirror a lot of the discussions I’ve had with my dad. I can say from experience that we still butcher Hogs on the farm. You cannot find better tasting sausage, bacon, etc. then when you process the animal on site and cool out in the open air, our family has been Eating them For 100+ years throughout the generations, despite what anybody says there is a difference in taste
Excellent dialogue!
nice talk. Enlightening,
You and border view Farms are my favorite
I was going into Walmart years ago and I heard two old farmers sitting out in the breezeway sitting and talking, I heard one saying the problem with young farmers today is the first thing they do is go by a new truck
Tax deductions use em or loose em....like 20K plus today
In the 90s i remember 1500-2000 dollars an acre for good farm ground around here.
Yes if only I could have predicted the future.😂
I agree alot Brian. I took over the family farm. The only way my wife and I can make payments and upgrades is with full time jobs. We would like to grow the farm but rent is so high around here that I don't think there is a profit left. Or very little. Hard to give up the work check to farm and make only a bucks a acre because it's to high costs. Maybe I'm wrong thinking that, and maybe why we done grow.
CSA= Community Supported Ag. It’s basically a subscription service whereby you pay the farmer (veggie farmers) up front for a share of the harvests as they come in. You never know exactly what you’ll get in your weekly “box”but in theory it should be fresh, seasonal produce grown by that farmer. The advantage to the farmer is obvious- operating capital. Quite a popular concept with the Organic Crowd!
Finding these conversations quite interresting. 👍 As a non farmer, living at the other side of the pond, with different rules, regulations and laws... Most of the problems you are talking about are the same over here. Family farms going under financially in favor of corporations. No matter what the goverments do, or EU, the market will find every way to empty our pockets. And the problem is? Who knows! My guess is that us avreage joes haven’t made our voices heard for a long time defending laws, rules or our common sense. The entire world right now is a complete mess and something will happen as a result. Maybe it’s time for saising our voices against bad leadership and make it impossible for the free market to buy their own laws. Or give a hard reminder to those that are elected to our goverments who actually ”hired” them and what they are supposed to do.
Enough about that... 😂 What i like with a social platform like this, is learning about the similarities and diffences around the world, still being at home. We are not that different. Been a subscriber for years, and will continue to be that.
Bob Brown was on fire in this one. Thank you, Sir.
We are at around 500 acres all hay. We don't own any of it. We rent, share or just maintain the land. We try to keep our overhead low. Any inputs put into their ground is with no less than a 5 year contract .We have 35 different land owners we deal with. I'm real careful in how it's written as not to promise anything in yield. Like last year with the drought We had a new contract on 40 acres 60/40 split. It barely made anything. I'm going on my 10th year of doing this full time and have grown the business every year. I really love what I'm doing and hope to keep doing it for several years. Biggest thing I've learned is just be smart. Crunch numbers. If it doesn't make sense don't do it. Hopefully '25 is good to us all.
thank you
enjoyed the video
Common sense is not as common as it used to be.
At the risk of speaking for others, based on opinions around my home town, Americans want the family farms to endure, be prosperous, be good stewards of land, water & wildlife, and are willing to pay for this. Somehow, the Government needs to fold-in anti-trust laws to address this monopoly that’s moving-in before our eyes.
Agreed Bob I'm on the road a lot and always mindful of equipment but many are not
I think one of the biggest challenges will be in the western states where aquifer water has become depleted over the past 40-50 years. I’m thinking of the ogallala aquifer specifically. I know farmers out in Eastern Colorado no longer able to irrigate a full circle due to reduced GPM from the well. Hard to profitably farm dry land when your used to irrigated ground yields.
Great show! Video podcasts?? So you can talk to people all over the country?? ❤🎉😊 like stream yard
I love listening to your dad, he’s a smart man , tell him thanks for not cussing lol 😂
Down here in south central Ks we have those stupid windmills and the last 5 years we always get less rain than 50 miles east that don't have windmills or when we do get rain it's really spotty and not big wide spread 2-3 day soaking rains there has been a drastic change since the windmills showed up
What would be your thoughts in growing some white corn.
Before it’s all said and done, the suburbs of Columbus are gonna be Marion, Zanesville, Springfield, and Chillicothe. The drone plant in Pickaway co is going to be a big deal. 4k jobs and not too far of a drive from Chillicothe. I love these videos and hearing your dads perspective.
Good video.
Sorry for all the comments. Farmers hating the environment always makes me mad cause they depend on soil for their livelihood. But it’s interesting also how much wildlife you
See on your farm with deer coyote turkey beaver and everything else. Field edges are great wildlife habitat more deer now than ever.
Howdy Brown Family! Thanks for being genuine!
In October I had reason to drive from Columbus to Delaware. The good looking Farmland being turned into housing developments made me really uncomfortable. It was however satisfying seeing the farms to the Northeast of Delaware. Urban sprawl (for no good reason) is a problem. City people - please stay in the city!
You don’t actually own the property. You don’t own the land, the buildings or the houses. If you don’t believe me just don’t pay the property taxes one year. The county will auction off the amount of taxes you owe to the highest bidder. If you don’t repay that person with interest they will own the property in just a few months for pennies on the dollar. The only thing you can say you own is the responsibility to pay the taxes on the property. And God help you if you were going to inherit a farm from your parents when they pass away. You better have some good estate planning well before they pass away. We are taxed to death literally.
I love you're father's older equipment. But he's one we probably should listen to
The electric car sales have slowed down big time because of the price mainly the cost of cars middle to lower class can not afford the cars.
large farms will be able to withstand short downturns if we have a long downturn they will fall at a faster rate than smaller if the government doesn't save them again!!!!
Incredible content! You guys nailed it!
According to the USDA, 97% of farms in the United States are family-owned. Family farms produce 90% of the country's farm production by value
In my area of northern Illinois if you have certified organic acres you get $80/ acre between different USDA programs here
Your dad and i are from the same generation. We have a lot in common. Hope I have a chance to share a few words with him at the farm show.
I farm with my dad who retired last year but still helps we run 400 acres and I have a full time job off of it to keep going.
Climate has been changing since time began if it hadn’t changed there would still be glaciers extending into northern Missouri
Thanks
The family farm used to be 100-1500 acres. Now it’s 2500-10000 acres. The small farms disappear and the big get bigger.
Another great discussion. Rural decline-that is so localized that it's hard to generalize, but there are areas near me that are drastically declined in the past 50 years. Railroads left, small businesses shut down, jobs required commuting longer distances and these and other factors have caused some areas to be very poor with no good way to improve. Where my farm is (Tippecanoe cty IN) there is growth to an extreme, same between Lafayette and Indianapolis. But the next county south of me and several others south of there have several towns that are dying. And grass fed beef does take some adjustment. To me its more like venison in flavor and texture. Climate change is a difficult issue-the facts are that we are putting much more greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, and those gases do trap heat. Those are provable facts-the complex part is: what are the effects of this? That is an extremely complex model to work with-just ask a meteorologist!
I worked on my neighbors dairy growing up. Most of the summer spend milking or small square bales. They now do almost completely silage, and automated milkers partly due to labor some to efficiency. But they do employ some immigrant labor as well because you can’t get the local kids help. I’m also concerned with the push away from skills like running equipment and truck driving. I would
Love to volunteer my time but the equipment I ran in 1995. Isn’t close to what they have today.
Hey Brian. Sine your a numbers guy. I would love to hear your thoughts on biogas, biofuel, solar, wind and so on - from a business point of view. Is it possible to produce for example biogas and use it for electricity and maybe even the dryer? Would that be profitable? Forget about tthe environement, just business talk. Thanks and kind regards, Rob
i stop eating mcdonald in early 90s the last time i ordered 3 big mac 2 for me 1 for my germen sheperd 3 plain no ketchup no mustard just bun berger bun she did not thouch it i put it next to her bowl of purina pro plan the next morning it was stil there and her bowl was empty
Bob has common sense .
Well Brian is this going to be the normal format of your channel video blog?? I'm more interested in farming repairs and framing in general
No there just isn’t much happening at the moment. As tax season ends and the weather changes we will be back to work in the fields
@@BriansFarmingVideos Thanks for the info
Could you do a video of the John Deere planter vs the Massey
The definition of "family farm" has changed. It used to be less than 500 acres. Now, its much bigger.
Oh and that barn is nice
Great video. Should be a big comment generator. Like labor truck drivers, mechanics to work on your equipment. What would happen if they banded corn fructose like in Europe.
One of the things I find very annoyed the government doesn't want us to drain wetlands
LOS ANGELES (AP) - What was once the world's largest solar power plant of its type appears headed for closure just 11 years after opening.
as a beef rancher i have ate beef my whole live there is a difference in meat but the cost is the problem we live in SD and it cost to much to ship it any place no place to process it to get to sell we don't put anything into our cattle like that you are talking about Ag
we have to much growth here by Sioux Falls SD I went threw Iowa last summer two lane roads going 4 lane everywhere why?
Farming is still the biggest crap game that you can play! Was a farmhand for many years and growed cotton, soybeans wheat and have grown some corn. But they quit and when to working on it factory.
You might not have seen the weather change much in the area where you are, but there are many places where they no longer get enough rain to be able to grow their crop. Also as you dad says, we used to have snow every winter (feet of it) now we barely get an inch or tow. Here is in Denmark.
You might not see the change, but if you look at how the weather change over the last 40-50 years, then you'll notice the change. Look at the 30s where suddenly everything was dust - mis management also had something to do with, but a number of years with less than avg. rain can change everything over a few years - and if the rain continue to be less then you will have a problem.
It is happening, but you need to look at the numbers and stop talking to a chat bot 😊
The new green deal. The new green farce. The battery thing like your dad said is 100 percent correct. They are just bad
I hope to see you guys at the NFMS.
I'm 67 years old and when I was a kid every winner we had to be shoved out the window to get out our door the last 20 30 years I've been living here same spot we might get three four inches of snow here in Michigan that's it that's all you see in the thumb
Here in Northeast Ks we have J-Six farms that is corporation there are renting ground for double the going rate no way it can make any money without FSA assistance.
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The traditional US farm is a dying breed... If a family farm still exists it has strong industrial ties to corporations.
You are completely wrong we are a family farm and there are 6 or 7 more family farms around us the family farm is still alive and well. Having said that it would almost impossible for a person to start farming today in my opinion
If all farmers went organic in the morning their would be 2 billion have to starving because of the drop in production
I hope you bought your potash. Looks like it will cost 25% more. Once again I really enjoy this format and your content.
Wasn't there already big tariffs on imported Chinese and European fertiliser. I know there was already at least a 30% tariff on all imported nitrogen because Europe could produce and ship it to America a lot cheaper than American companies could produce nitrogen
@@HootMaRoot 90% of potash used in America comes from Canada. This useless tradewar will hurt american famers so many ways.
Yeah ADM up here is where I am at in Michigan on every elevator within 100 MI
Oh yah won thing i don’t miss the humidity or humidity is on the average around 30 percent
Indiana still pays property tax on equipment. all our fixed costs are out of hand
Another wonderful video.
Honest and great conversation. Keep them coming.
You said we really "need some more" ...that's the problem Bob. Guys always need more. That's disappointing to hear. When will people get enough?
If govt got out of farming completely. The big guys would manipulate prices on commodities and inputs because they can eat the loss better. Thus forcing little guys to sell out to them. It’s happened time and again with railroads, oils companies, steel, airlines. Etc.
here in new zealand 99 percent of out beef is grassfed thans to a milder climate, we get more money internationally thanamaerican feedlots do with less inputs to produce that meat.yes you are used to grainfed beef but there is so many chemicals in it, medications and mad cow disease is still prevelant there, choose grassfed angus beef!