Some Hard Truths For Beginning Farmers
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 มิ.ย. 2024
- Farming is hard work. There are some things that definitely have to be considered if you're thinking of starting you own small farm, especially if you are thinking about the direct to consumer market. In this video I cover a few major points that I hope will help you in your small scale farm business or homesteading journey.
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Good stuff man. I am in my second year here and while I am making some profit on eggs, it’s going right back into infrastructure and learning. Right now I view it as an investment phase in what I am doing so I can learn.
Year 1 I learned how to get a lot of chickens killed, but now in year 2 I know how to keep them alive.
Year 2 I am also starting with pigs and I won’t make any profit on them, but I am learning how to care for them and what will/won’t work.
Once I invest enough in myself and my learning I believe I’ll be able to get to the point that I understand what enterprises I want to take on and how to manage them.
Thank you! Keep going. You'll likely discover, if you haven't already, that there's a great deal of overlap from one enterprise to the next. Keep developing those skills, and you'll see improvement across the board.
You hit the nail on the head! Honestly older farmers, at least in my area are very much like a fence post (set in their ways). Many raising amazing animals but fail to market themselves or want to spend time working outside of the actual farm chores. When developing my business model to raise and sell freezer beef/ pork & eggs every old timer has told me not to waste my time it’s too much work etc etc. But something in my soul is telling me not to give up.
I've been on the lookout for content like this! Subscribed, and I'm ready to believe in myself! - "Self-belief is your superpower."
There’s no replacing experience. No matter how many books you read or videos you watch, until you get real world experience you don’t know what you’re doing. Even then, it’s takes multiple tries to get good at it. That applies to most everything in life, not just the agricultural industry.
For 50 years I gardened with my father. This year is the first time I’ve gardened without him. I’ve had my success with it, but I’ve made mistakes, too.
Saying “hey dad”, is something easily taken for granted. Once you can no longer do that, you have to rely on experience. And, some things you don’t get real experience with because it is so easy to say “hey dad.”
You're absolutely right! At the end of the day, experience is what matters. At some point, we all have to jump in and get dirty. That's truly the best way to learn. Great comment!
Thank you for your video and keeping it real.
Such wonderful wisdom and sage advice-thanks for sharing
Thank you!
Like Ronald Reagan said, farming is the biggest gamble in the world. I only have a small place but I will say if you have lazy tendance you will fail and the day you think you can kinda slow down a little something always happens. If you don't absolutely love it stay away from it because it's never ending work.
Farming requires a gambler's heart, for sure.
Not a discouragement at all, very informative video. Thank you.😊
Thank you!
Very informative.
Joel Salatin really does not know much about farming. He is a 1st Gen farmer that thinks that electric fencing is a new break threw in farming. Parker McCrory Mfg. Co. has been producing electric fencing for 103 years in the U.S. now, along with many other American manufactures. Heck I have some old chargers from my Family's farm, from back in the day.
Salatin really knows very little about soil, But what he is doing is better than most farmers now days.
Joel really knows very little about farming and he knows almost none of the Old Skool tricks that work, Other than what he has read in a book that was written buy Old Timers that knew what they were doing. (He never gives out the names of the authors or the name of the book. Funny that. )
What Joel Salatin is good at, is marketing and sales. I salute him for this.
But much of his advice is NOT good for new farmers. Example Joel Salatin's chicken tractors are the last thing a new farmer on a budget should build. That investment should be used for more than just chicken and should be dual purpose.
It should not only be used for half the year, The bills come in all year long.
I grew up in WV and we had to be very wise about what we spent our money on and this was at a time when people did not know what good food and bad food was. (Back then most the food came from farms that still had good soil and not dirt with chemicals sprayed all over the food. )
We had to produce food the same way we had produced it for thousands of years. No chemicals, But the electric fence was worth every penny. So you learn soil and plants that can be use for healing and fighting bugs off.
I always smile when Joel calls horse hay burners. But Joel knows nothing about horses or how to use them, So he does not know how powerful they are. He does not know they can out pull his tractors, pull loads up hills in the sloppy rain with no roads, log forest and leave no marks or roads behind, etc, etc. Really nothing more powerful than a team of Shire horses on a farm.
He really thinks he knows more than the Amish that can, will, and have been out producing him for thousands of years and will long after he is gone. And they use horses, Funny that.
It is interesting that the first gen farmer like Joel Salatin, that knows very little about farming is the one that everyone looks up to and goes to for info and learning. ( Like the billionaires that want to replace him and all of us, Joel is always being buddy buddy with and talking about.)
This is because Joel Salatin is good at marketing and sales. This is what people should lean from him and they should buy their food from the Amish and other Old School farmers that know what they are doing, Just like they should learn farming from Old School farmers and Mennonites, Hutterites, ETC
Anyhow just my two cents.
@Plane View Farm So this is what you took out from my comment?
You said Joel Salatin because his marketing works on you.
But my comment was not about Joel Salatin. It was about skill sets and how they work. I used Joel Salatin as a example. Because you used Joel Salatin as a example. Funny that.
I would have used much higher skilled farmers or lower skilled farmers, for the example, if you would have used their name. Funny that their names were not used. Almost like you just made my point for me, again, with your comment.
Joel Salatin is a marketer and salesman, more than he is a farmer. You are talking about skill sets, Right?
Please use someone like Will Harris or Gabe Brown for a medium level farmer and see what happens.
It will be. "This video was not about Will Harris" right? 😁
Anyhow, I will not bore you with my commits anymore. I will keep it to three words. Seems that is all people can understand now days anyhow.
Really I do not even think about the subjects that you are talking about in this video much. This is for farmers/Homesteaders that are new or do not really know what they are doing. (Note: Not saying it is not needed, Everyone starts some place.)
Example: Tractor blows a head. I know exactly what to do, with no tractor, and not needing to ask for help.
This comes with the experience of stacking lose hay in the middle of the fields to staking square bales and then rounds bales.
I want to thank you for pointing out and reminding me that, the people, that know very little and have the lest amount of experience, are often the ones that do most of the talking and telling other people how it works.
Very much like a child learning how to do something for the first time and then telling everyone how it works.
The adults listen with understanding and let the child tell them what they have already learned many, many years ago.
I say this with kindness and truly Thank You. This is the most valuable lesion this week, maybe even the month, for me.
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Who cares if Salatin calls horses "hay burners" he's not "farming" he's not growing crops he's raising cattle, hogs & chickens. None of which the operation is improved by horses
At best he might, maybe could use a horse in his logging operation, but why if the rest of his operation doesn't need a horse. I think that's why he called horses "hay burners".
You're trying to set up a straw man. Just looking for an argument.
@@willbass2869 It is not a straw man, He knows nothing or very little about soil and a medium level abut husbandry.
I will give you a hint. If you are not good with soil you will not be on a high level with husbandry.
The simple fact that he is a no till guy says everything.
But I would rather have him doing what he is doing now. Because is with his lack of knowledge, he would do real damage. Better he does nothing than than damage everything.
About horses, People running much larger operations and growing better food and producing better meat at a much lower prices, Use horses.
They are not just discovering what Joel is just learning now, They never stopped and have been doing it all along.
Just something to think about.
Salatin uses around 10 tractors on his operation BTW, FYI.
Joel Salatin is a sales man and a marketer. This is his skill set and what I am pointing out.
Looks like it work on you,😁 What is the saying, ( Case and Point. )
Please do not get me wrong, I think this is a great thing. People a looking for real food now and very good farmers are producing it at prices cheaper than wal-mart. Salatin is helping to bring them out along with many other people and buy their goods.