So, I'm getting some pushback on how I spoke about having too many beans and not harvesting them for the foodbank. I am happy to report that in three videos after this one I do go back and harvest these extra beans and deliver them to the foodbank in Lima Ohio. I hope that you will consider subscribing so you don't miss out on this video. I also spend a few minutes interviewing the communications and public relations manager of the Foodbank to explain how all this great food that we bring to the food banks gets distributed to the less forutunate.
I cannot help but admire your work ethic and those young people would not continue to turn up to harvest on your farm if the wages were below par. You are the epitome of what truly does make America great. The country around your area is a magnificent food bowl. Greetings from Queensland Australia.
That's a lot of beans 😀 I've never seen a purple one before 🤔 watching the guys throw and catch the watermelon was a little nerve racking - good job and video 👍
Just local teenagers from the nearby public and Christian schools. For the most part, they usually do a pretty good job and maybe the camera makes them look better ha ha because sometimes they work very slow.
It is, I’ve been buying them from Rupps for over 15 years! I’ve also planted bronco and desperado in the past as well. A new one I really like this year was dark horse.
Haha, yes, for many years I was always in the patch picking and throwing because I knew I was doing it better and faster than anyone else working with me, and I would put one of the slower kids on the tractor. But now in my old age of 50, lol, I’ll stay on the tractor and let the youngens do the heavy lifting in the fields.
@wishwellfarms heard that saved yourself money speeding up the operation throwing more faster! Bet your still the fastest but don't blame ya for taking it easy! Another good video!
I met Jason several years ago at the Worthington Farmers Market and i have chatted with him a few times since then. I know him to be an honorable and very hardworking gentleman . A couple of the trolls in the comments, I'm sure, have mever worked hard a day in their life. If you care so much about the needy, why don't you volunteer to help Jason pic?
Three videos from now I go back and harvest those beans for the food bank and also interview the food bank manager about how all this food is distributed to the needy. Thanks for the kind words Eric.
I don’t think I ever would with only 25 acres. Next year I’ll probably scale back to about 15 acres. I have friends in Southern Ohio that grow 250 acres and handpick all with a migrant crew at 2 AM in the morning every day. They tried a picker Along time ago and went back to handpicking. When you use a picker, you have to have a place set up to sort all the junk and that takes a lot of space and a lot of hands so it really doesn’t save you a whole lot of time unless you’re picking many hundreds and hundreds of acres and are set up with a sorting and packing station.
Sure is a lot of labor, what do you sell them for? How can that work? Machines are supposed to save you time? I am interested in the cost per step. I would like to see how you make it work to earn a Profit. So the picker is fast and line is slow with 7 bodies? Plus training, water, and electricity. The concept is great, but how does it all work?
great questions. There is huge profit here. Beans can yield upto 300 bu per acre. We sell ours for $75 per bu retail at farmer's markets. The machine has been paid for 12 years ago...only took about three seasons to pay it off. We harvested 50 bushels in about an hour and in another hour after that they were all in the cooler, washed, packed and ready to sell. I grossed $3,750 on those 50 bushel. My labor was less than $100 for picking and packing...water and electricity was negligible...that's a ton of profit in my book.
Believe it or not, I have never purchased one wooden bean crate in my life, I have just accumulated them from buying beans from other larger farms before mine are ready. And cardboard boxes are extremely expensive because they have a waxy coating on them and you have to buy them by the pallet like over $1000 worth at a time.
I have three children, and two of them help me on the farm when they’re home from college on summer break. The one in the green shirt is my oldest son, he is 23.
Great question. I don’t have time to personally take them to the auction because of all the other things that we are picking and packing. Plus the auctions are a huge gamble and I have been burnt many many times in the past. But in the next video, you will see that I got them picked for the food bank!
That's not fair to say. If he did things and didn't make money he wouldn't be in business anymore. He's a good guy don't take away from his farming business. They are a dying breed.
If he wasn’t into farming for profit there would be no farm, fuel prices and fertilizer are very expensive nowadays not counting the fair wages he pays those kids to work.
Hardly even worth it. Hardly even worth what? Contributing to your neighbor that's struggling. And you say you're a church goer. I'm done with your channel.
So I should spend my valuable time, resources and labor that all comes out of my pocket book when I have so many other crops that need picked, washed and packed and trucks and trailers that need packed and unloaded for markets just to not let one third of an acre go to waste??? That makes absolutley no sense, I would loose thousands of dollars from neglecting other crops and jobs on the farm or I can try to harvest extra beans that I don't need. Do you even realize that there is hundreds of acres of fresh vegetabel getting left behind in every state in the USA all year around...that's what happens when you get a bumper crop and not expecting it...Whaterver, I don't want you watching my channel then...
So, I'm getting some pushback on how I spoke about having too many beans and not harvesting them for the foodbank. I am happy to report that in three videos after this one I do go back and harvest these extra beans and deliver them to the foodbank in Lima Ohio. I hope that you will consider subscribing so you don't miss out on this video. I also spend a few minutes interviewing the communications and public relations manager of the Foodbank to explain how all this great food that we bring to the food banks gets distributed to the less forutunate.
You do not need to explain anything.... People only want to bait you
No worries. You do what is on your heart to do.
The reality that you care and act is what is most important.
Doesn't Lima, Ohio get enough Lima beans anyway?
Those kids are obviously in good shape. 😃
I cannot help but admire your work ethic and those young people would not continue to turn up to harvest on your farm if the wages were below par. You are the epitome of what truly does make America great. The country around your area is a magnificent food bowl. Greetings from Queensland Australia.
Thanks so much I really appreciate the kind words!
Impressive stuff as always, the amount of physical work needed to grow food is incredible.
Thanks Jean!
It’s always a joy when the harvest is plenty!!
That’s for sure!
Very nice as usual. Keep'em comin.
Thank you, will do!
I love watching all farm machinery and picking vegetables 🇳🇿🙏🏼
Me too!
Greetings from malta just saw your video for the first time very interesting to watch 😊😊
Wow, all the way from Malta! Thanks for watching!
Nice content, my first time seeing sorting washing and packed them neatly, good job guys ❤❤❤❤❤
Thanks!
That bean picking machine is something else! So many watermelons, nice video Jason
Thanks, Ed! That bean picker has made us a lot of money over the years, it was a great investment!
Great video Jason. Thanks
Thanks Mike
Great video. That tractor may have a little age on her but she sure seems to do a great job on your farm. The beans look amazing!!!
She sure does, love that tractor! It was the first tractor I learned to drive on the farm when I was about seven years old.
Good looking harvest
Thanks!
That's a lot of beans 😀 I've never seen a purple one before 🤔 watching the guys throw and catch the watermelon was a little nerve racking - good job and video 👍
Hahah, I don't think they even dropped one! The purple beans are great for stirfries!
I pan fried some beans the other day with a little olive oil, seasoning and butter. Tasted so good. Can beans don't even come close.
Agreed!
Yellow wax are my favorite. They naturally have that buttery flavor to them
Yummy, tasty!
😊😊😊😊😊
When you grow your green beans do you fertilize them or spray them . They are beautiful beans.
I only put down some fertilizer before I plant and make a pre-emergent herbicide application and that’s it
Your hard work is very special as you provide fresh veggies that look very nice. Where is the smell option for the video? Hee hee.
Smell option would be awesome! Thanks!
Who are these hard working boys?
Just local teenagers from the nearby public and Christian schools. For the most part, they usually do a pretty good job and maybe the camera makes them look better ha ha because sometimes they work very slow.
Valentino sounds like a variety Rupps sell? I love Rupp seed, I planted bronco and desperado green beans, they do well for the home gardener.
It is, I’ve been buying them from Rupps for over 15 years! I’ve also planted bronco and desperado in the past as well. A new one I really like this year was dark horse.
I think the rain did the later planting a hand. Some of it was too much, but wow mice crop!
Yes, those beans definitely benefited from timely rains but now we’re starting to get pretty dry and I’m worried about the later crops
good job
Thanks!
So you have done your share of throwing that mean you let someone else run the tractor at some point? Amazing looking beans and lots of melons!
Haha, yes, for many years I was always in the patch picking and throwing because I knew I was doing it better and faster than anyone else working with me, and I would put one of the slower kids on the tractor. But now in my old age of 50, lol, I’ll stay on the tractor and let the youngens do the heavy lifting in the fields.
@wishwellfarms heard that saved yourself money speeding up the operation throwing more faster! Bet your still the fastest but don't blame ya for taking it easy! Another good video!
I met Jason several years ago at the Worthington Farmers Market and i have chatted with him a few times since then. I know him to be an honorable and very hardworking gentleman . A couple of the trolls in the comments, I'm sure, have mever worked hard a day in their life. If you care so much about the needy, why don't you volunteer to help Jason pic?
Three videos from now I go back and harvest those beans for the food bank and also interview the food bank manager about how all this food is distributed to the needy. Thanks for the kind words Eric.
I was wondering how you was going to harvest those green beans I didn't know if you guys were going to try to hand pick them...
Heavens no lol, 20 years ago when we used to hand pick them we only grew about an acre now we grow about 8-10
I see Oxbo makes a sweet corn harvester as well as a green bean harvester. At what point would you buy the sweet corn harvester?
I don’t think I ever would with only 25 acres. Next year I’ll probably scale back to about 15 acres. I have friends in Southern Ohio that grow 250 acres and handpick all with a migrant crew at 2 AM in the morning every day. They tried a picker Along time ago and went back to handpicking. When you use a picker, you have to have a place set up to sort all the junk and that takes a lot of space and a lot of hands so it really doesn’t save you a whole lot of time unless you’re picking many hundreds and hundreds of acres and are set up with a sorting and packing station.
Off topic question but what varieties of cantaloupe do you like to grow?
Avatar and Aphrodite. One of my all-time favorites was Verona but they discontinued it about two or three years ago.
Is there a second harvest of beans after being picked by machine?
One time deal.
Not with the machine picker, once and done and move onto the next patch that are planted weekly all summer long.
Sure is a lot of labor, what do you sell them for? How can that work? Machines are supposed to save you time? I am interested in the cost per step. I would like to see how you make it work to earn a Profit. So the picker is fast and line is slow with 7 bodies? Plus training, water, and electricity. The concept is great, but how does it all work?
great questions. There is huge profit here. Beans can yield upto 300 bu per acre. We sell ours for $75 per bu retail at farmer's markets. The machine has been paid for 12 years ago...only took about three seasons to pay it off. We harvested 50 bushels in about an hour and in another hour after that they were all in the cooler, washed, packed and ready to sell. I grossed $3,750 on those 50 bushel. My labor was less than $100 for picking and packing...water and electricity was negligible...that's a ton of profit in my book.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I like your use of wooden boxes. Wooden boxes for beans would not be financially worth their use or cardboard?
Believe it or not, I have never purchased one wooden bean crate in my life, I have just accumulated them from buying beans from other larger farms before mine are ready. And cardboard boxes are extremely expensive because they have a waxy coating on them and you have to buy them by the pallet like over $1000 worth at a time.
More young people need to work on the farm. What can go wrong while making some $$. I make let's of $$ in the summer when I was young.😂❤
How much busel per kelo ??
For green beans
One bushel equals about 57 kg
Are all the people working on the farm are your family
His children work on the farm and he also hires local young adults to help out.
I have three children, and two of them help me on the farm when they’re home from college on summer break. The one in the green shirt is my oldest son, he is 23.
What about the beans on the floor. Seems like lots of beans on the floor?
Nope, after sweeping them up, it was only about a bushel , not too bad after picking 50 bushel in less than one hour
The beans on the floor are generic brands you'll find on the lower shelves in the canned foods of your supermarket.
Why don’t you pick the beans and send them to auction?
Great question. I don’t have time to personally take them to the auction because of all the other things that we are picking and packing. Plus the auctions are a huge gamble and I have been burnt many many times in the past. But in the next video, you will see that I got them picked for the food bank!
@@wishwellfarms that’s awesome I get it I buy from the auction for flowers and defiantly like the lower prices
How I wish I was closer. I'd give you more than 10 a bushel. I make and can so many dilly beans it's not funny.
In the next video I picked them all and took them to the foodbank for $11 per bu.
food bank pays you you say not worth it guess you never went hungry think your in it for the money
Of course I’m in it for the money! There’s no way in heck I would work this hard if it wasn’t for the money! 60 to 80 hour weeks, are you kidding me!
That's not fair to say. If he did things and didn't make money he wouldn't be in business anymore. He's a good guy don't take away from his farming business. They are a dying breed.
@@wishwellfarms loser
He's in it for money..... Are you really that stupid? WOW
If he wasn’t into farming for profit there would be no farm, fuel prices and fertilizer are very expensive nowadays not counting the fair wages he pays those kids to work.
Hardly even worth it. Hardly even worth what? Contributing to your neighbor that's struggling. And you say you're a church goer.
I'm done with your channel.
So I should spend my valuable time, resources and labor that all comes out of my pocket book when I have so many other crops that need picked, washed and packed and trucks and trailers that need packed and unloaded for markets just to not let one third of an acre go to waste??? That makes absolutley no sense, I would loose thousands of dollars from neglecting other crops and jobs on the farm or I can try to harvest extra beans that I don't need. Do you even realize that there is hundreds of acres of fresh vegetabel getting left behind in every state in the USA all year around...that's what happens when you get a bumper crop and not expecting it...Whaterver, I don't want you watching my channel then...
Little Todd is the moron of the day
Bet you if someone was hungry and knocked on his door they would be fed. Take your negativity elsewhere!!!!