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Good advice. Here's some more: Do not produce commodities. Produce something that is unique to you that you can market, preferably things you can ship nationwide. Or things you can package and sell direct to consumer. I operate a market garden delivery. Twenty-five weeks of the year I deliver a basket of vegetables, that I grow, to 40 customers per week, plus bread and eggs from a neighbor.

Great information! We've definitely been on that side of trying to catch up rather than being ahead. Starting with one venture at a time/year really helps to slow you down and focus on getting the finances figured out.

Thank you for the great video. Helped me better understand the workload ahead! Cheers

How would this fence do if you hd a couple feet of snow 5 months of the year?

Fields look amazing!!

Nice video! I see where you may be missing the spacers on your tail wheel, mine was just like that. The "thick" washers that went on mine, one was under your bolt, and the other one went between the yoke and shaft housing. It helped my cutter roll smooth without all the bouncing up and down. Thanks for the video!

Centralization promises as sorts of benefits and delivers only a few of them to whoever controls and owns the centralization. For the rest of us we get less quality, less security, less truth, less health, and less freedom.

Some """ pointers """" First......you have too many points. Too many points / spears causes resistance making it harder to stab a bale. Two are enough. And sharp spears are much better.. Use shorter spears. The spears seldom need to go all the way into the bale. Ive use 32 inch long spears for over 30 years. Shove the spears downward first then tip the bucket up......bringing the bale up at the same time. Also.... easy to attach spears to your loader bucket...... Spot weld a log chain to your tines frame... place the chain around the entire bucket. Use a chain binder to hold it in the bucket. It will flop up and down and thats a good thing......can level things out easier. Being rigid......solid... the tines wont give if you hit something.. causing damage.

I can take care of an acre of tomatoes all by my self, about 400 hours total. I get about 20,000 lbs off my acre and charge 50c lb, it takes about 40 hrs in the right spot to sell the tomatoes so. Profit? 8000 for my acre and its super easy work. Once ive moved into greenhouses ill be producing year round. I dont need millions just thousands. And for a part time job, im ok with 8000, and a pile of mulch. Scale up.

How many acres are you farming on?

Thank you

Sounds like we all had the same dad that’s how all those old guys were

My favorite breed is limousine had them in the early 90s and 80s after the 90s I went to get some other work couldn’t make enough money but limousines have really good calves. They look cool.

I love the message on your top. Good to know you're a Jesus guy. Bless you brother .

I use the fault finder to get me close and then I get quiet and listen. If there is anything over 1K voltage left, you will hear a pop even if it is a direct short. If you are able to disconnect portions of your wire it seems to make trouble shooting a lot easier. Seems like I heard some pops a couple of times during the video. Hope you find them all, they can be aggravating sometimes. BTW, that lightning damage was crazy. Makes you wonder if something goofy is going on with the charger or grounds.

How do you do your high tensile corners ? Insul-tube on the outside of the post? Or suspended along the inside of the corner? Or?

Nice. Thank you. Im not sure you should admit to the crooked post syndrome all over the World Wide Web. It might be more than we want to know. Hopefully you can find a therapist. 😂

Seen a few videos and subscribed. Im also a tall skinny with epic analytical skills and a childhood love of this way of life. Did it once before and failed due to city job obligations. Now, its a fallback but if one puts their effort in, its not something that will have to come up. Thanks for taking the lead. See you around and hope to share our journey's. 🍻

Get real bud you're not doing all that on one acre

I am 2nd to comment today

Great ideas and information

I am certain if i just finished watching a college professor lecture or a pug farmer. Very well done...well spoken

Very clear lesson plan, i hope you are as clear as you are intelligent... Pig farmers are generally associated with being. From a certain region of the country

I remember those days I just retired from raising goats after 17 years remember those days shots and trimming hooves,good old days

The voice is on left only🤨😕

You just delivered a great message to your audience! Well done 👍🏼

Nice video

Encouragement is nice but not required. What seems to be absolutely required is the ability to adapt and overcome. You can’t throw your hands in the air and give up at the first or even the hundredth bump in the road. What I tell myself when I am taking on a grueling or unloved task is, “Wow, this sucks. I must be almost through it.” Then every time I say wow this sucks to myself I start to laugh. Once you can laugh at how bad something sucks, it wont mess with you anymore. Don’t know if I would call that encouragement, probably more of a mindset.

Columbus was a bit controversial, too

No criticism here. I just weaned 30 Sunday, and they got their 2nd CD&T. I do a similar thing with my corral panels, except I have scrap roofing metal blocking the gaps. May I give you a technique tip for your restraining to give injections, for young and old. Put your left arm over their shoulder like they’re in a headlock under your armpit and lift their front legs off the ground if you can with the kids. I’d rather take a horn in the rib than the face. I work my goats usually by myself, and this is what works best for me. It actually frees up both hands. And give that injection lower behind the armpit. Looser skin and not as noticeable if it forms a cyst. Love your videos. We are very likeminded, and I get ideas from you.

Nice video thank you

I was thinking about doing this but with 12ft 1x6. Just bought a new house and need to remove the old gate so we can get our truck and trailer in the yard if we wanted. Also I'll add some bolt through just to give it that extra look. Then stain to nearly match the old existing fencing. I'm all about something simple and looking great a the same time. I was pricing some steel gates would need minimum two 10ft ones and the pricing just gets insane. Not even sure what someone would charge to build me a nice gate.. probably don't want to find out!

This was a very good video, More guys should be honest like this. Only one thing, Here you go with Joel Salatin again, for an example.😁 I'm telling you, He is one of the best salesman and marketer around.😂 Keep it real, Later friend.

Nice video! Do those posts lift our easy? or are you leaving them there a while?

Well said my friend

My favorite type of fencing is called already built fence lol 😂 I’ve learned that farming is an art and everyone thinks their way is the only way to make art.

I'm so happy your daughter is doing well!! That's really all that matters, everything else is secondary.

Outstanding video young .man!!! Keep up the great works.

I disagree with you.

Hallelujah 🎉!!! I absolutely love your videos. Watching on Roku app doesn’t offer commentary so I give a thumbs up and that’s all. But today I had to link my phone and comment. I agree with you 💯 and apply it not only to my “farm” (the backyard garden) but to everything in life. Why can’t we all just agree to disagree on some things any not let it destroy relationships that can/are beneficial in soooo many other ways. Keep up the great content. PS cause even if I don’t agree with you I STILL give a thumbs 👍🏾 up and STILL look forward to the next video.

Very well said. 100% agree, people tend to get hung up on what the newest trend is or how everyone else is doing it. It's always good to listen to sound advice but also take that advice and maybe apply the best for your given situation. Just the fact that we all live in different geographical regions and climates means we can't all do things the same way. Besides.....being the same is boring!

Agree. Sometimes we have to learn how to think for ourselves

Such wonderful wisdom and sage advice-thanks for sharing

Thanks for sharing! We hopefully pick up a bottle calf tomorrow and a pregnant Dexter the following. Gotta love this way of living! (btw, appreciate your insight on fencing. Went with your recommendations) Take care!

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There was a time when cows had a name , and when we called them once , they would come by .

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.”

Thank you for your video and keeping it real.

I've been on the lookout for content like this! Subscribed, and I'm ready to believe in myself! - "Self-belief is your superpower."

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.