I remember when John F. Kennedy said in a speech, “Farmers buy everything at retail, sell everything at wholesale, and pay the freight costs for all of it.” Words to that effect have been repeated many times and the truth of it endures.
Thank you and Thank you to the other Farmers for their Work and worry. So many have forgotten where their food comes from and how this country was only possible because of farming. Thank you all again.
Great video! I started working on the neighbors farm around 12-13 years old. I progressed into construction around 20 as both jobs are similar, lots of heavy physical work and plenty of hours worked. Now in my 50’s and looking forward to retirement I’ve been talking to the farm I grew up working on to finish my working career. Full circle! You are right, it takes a certain drive to be a farmer, Ive always had that drive (didn’t mention I farmed some on my own while working construction and raising kids) and look forward to finishing out life back after it. Merry Christmas!
Hi Wes...thanks for reading that letter...I really feel for the guy and his family...we got the same problem in the UK..the supermarkets are paying dairy farmers less per litre of milk than it costs to produce.,.we used to have award-winning herds here in Essex when I was younger..now you rarely see a cow... except in a petting zoo!..on a lighter note...Merry Christmas mate!.👍
Thanks Wes, much appreciate what you do. If I follow a slow moving piece of farm equipment down the road, I just enjoy the the time to unwind a bit and relax. Take care and happy holidays. 👍👍😊🎄
AMEN on every thing you have commented on. I was a farmer and then sold out in the 80's went to tech school got a job in civil service then retired back to farming on 75 acres . I bought all my equipment that i have from money made on my Job and to top that off most of it is 30 plus years old .
Glad you read this letter Wes .I am 78 farmed all my life and worked a job for the first 25 yr.I wasn’t smart enough to take time off.over all my life I haven’t taken three weeks off for bypass hip replacements and so on.but I would do it again I was trying to buy a farm.and now I am old so I am thinking of retirement. The government can take a big share of it .and take the SS. That I paid for.thanks Wes.😊
Issue for retirement is the endless gov't inflation & money printing. I guess it depends on your health (how many years you think you have left) and the duration you can live off SS + savings. Seems likely farming will be horrible for the next several years as grain prices will remain low, but inputs will remain high. Probably better off for a lot of farmers to do something else for the next couple of years until there is a chance of being profitable.
I did, I voted for Jimmy Carter because I thought we needed a farmers mentality in leadership. I still think we need that mentality but with President Carter we opened a door to financial crisis that we still feel the effects of today.
To me Wes you need more time off Also with your family I pray that this new year will help all farmers out there with lower prices on seeds and merchandise to bring in a good harvest. I don’t have a farm but I worked on my cousins farm milking cows and taking care of chickens long hours 34:12 but I didn’t complain I liked it
On the other hand... Dairy farmer milks cows, cools it in a tank, dairy processor collects it with a tanktruck, processes it in the factory, packs about half in a housebrand packaging of a supermarket, the other half in it`s own brand packaging as a premium, transports both to a supermarket. Supermarket sells own brand for about 1€ / liter, the premium brand for about 1.60€ /liter. The farmer gets about 50-70 cents per liter, rest go`s to processor and supermarket obviously. Farmer starts selling some of the raw milk directly to consumers in his small farmstore, wonderfull. Customer passes the farmer on it`s way to the supermarket, sees the sign for his store, thinks great, i won`t have to buy the supermarket`s milk, i will buy a few liters on my way back. Customer go`s to the farmers farmstore, asks for 2 liters of milk, has to pay almost 6 euro`s, say`s nah, im good, the little convenience of buying closer to home and the fressness, hopefully purer and healthier milk doesn`t way up to paying about 700 euro`s more per year.
Now if I shared this letter on the Alexandria Township Facebook page, it would be removed. The past four years we've had more and more farmer haters than ever show up in the township.
Makes me regret the passing of most high street butchers in my area in England. At least they only used to buy one or two beef carcasses at a time,and mince their own offcuts, no water. Oh and they used to hang their meat properly !! Small to medium size farmers have always had the shitty end of the stick. I have known several small farmers who basically existed on the cheques from the Milk Marketing Board ( while it still existed) which was the buyer of last resort in the UK.
Unfortunately, many people have the attitude that if they are buying directly from a local farm, they should be getting it cheaper because 'there's no middlemen or transportation costs'. Also worthy to note, that many of the local producers donate good stuff to the local food banks. Grocery stores tend more to donate damaged packaging items that won't sell.
The same thing goes a long with us ranchers. People think the same thing that us ranchers have tons of money. By the time the we have bought hay, and other stuff to help grow the herd we barly have enough money to buy food. We have to work a separate job to pay bills. Everyone who is in ag feels.
Good morning one lonely Farmer just cleaned out the barn for the cows. This will be a merry Christmas. I will be able to kneel down in the barn with the cows and pray at 12 o’clock. Christmas Eve cows kneel down kneel for the Christ child by the way, where do you think holy cow comes from . The little large Jesus lays in the manger sleep in the hay.
Until I failed at milking cows and stopped last year since I had 2 days off since I took over in 91.. One in 99 when I got married, went out of town one night for honeymoon and back the next day and once in 05 when I went to pickup the flat milking parlor I used. What always bothers me is importing products from other countries and exporting the same thing. I understand some fruits and vegetables because of being out of season. When it comes to milk, meat, grains etc if we have the supply to export we have no need to import. Basically someone in the commodities and stock market are working a pyramid scheme making money by buying low and selling high around the world manipulating the markets. Also don't want to forget the transportation profits from basically guaranteeing cargo moving from country to country while all the while they just trade paper. It's not done to benefit the populations but the elites in the government and their shadow handlers.
Totally relateable. Average week 84 hrs. Five months of the year it can be close to 120hrs a week. Just finished raking, baling ,carting and stacking Lucerne. 88 hrs in 4 days with 8 hrs sleep. By the time I'm done with working, I think I'll have worked an average Muppets lifetime times 5 , as I have no plans of retiring at 65 either.
Several years ago I use to haul returned treated seed corn to Illinois to have it burned to remove the treatment on it and the seed Company at that time use to feed that to beef cattle to be processed in America but the FDA outlawed that in America so they shipped the burnt corn to South America to feed beef cattle then they process the meat and send it back to America to get around the rule here in America
True Story ! with Roundup Herbcide , being patented , a lot of farmers lost there farms to Monsanto for planting soybeans grown from roundup rReady beans ! China and South America grew soybeans , saved from Roundup Ready beans and shipped the beans all over the world ! We have E.P.A. mandated exhaust on ALL our equipment and trucks in the U.S.A. ,,,China and South America use the same equipment without exhaust treatment , again selling their products all over the world !
I grew up on a dairy farm, and my brother still farms. I choose to leave the farm about 40 years because of the volatility of the markets and demand on time. Nothing easy about farming.
You are 💯 right .there are two kinds of working class that is the most important the farmers are number 1 and the truck driver is number 2 both need to be appreciated more.
People think farmers set the prices for what we grow, but the truth is the buyers of farm products make the prices not farmers and farming is a Risk no matter what people think, plus the costs are ridiculous with what you get back when you sell your crops farmers Don't set the prices people you do
You are Exactly right, farmers are the only producer that gets paid what they offer us. Every other producer says what they want ,gas lumber every thing in the store ,thats just not right!
The letter you read is 100percent correct . Farmers are making far less than in the 70s . why ? The demise of the mixed farm and the growth of intense row cropping Mixed farms still succeed . Rowcrop farmers have largely have fallen victim to classic greed and have become slaves . The corn and beans and wheat are largely poison anyway.
Farmers have been doing Row crops in the US for more than 100 years. Not much has changes with farming practices since the 1970s, except the costs to operate a farm have gone up, while the sell prices have gone done or remained flat. Farmers made up the difference by farming more & more land. But that no longer works.
G day Wes Yes back in 70-80's when everything went crazy up here with interest 24% Ont Went to church 1 saturday night, film i on soy beans Ask the neighbour who own small feed mill told me about stock brokers, raising beans I think 9/bus back then, they went to bed getting rich poor went to bed starving! Ths good video
Imagine peeling away the need for so many costly inputs? Keeping the average-salary of interest payments for yourself? That's the promise of the new farming techniques, which is really getting farming back from the huge chemical detour sold to everyone for so long. Jon Stevens has a good channel. He has an insightful video on tillage vs no-till/strip-till time, equipment, and costs.
Problem is ur neighbor will screw u out of farm land and farmers r the first people to screw another farmer also on the food side, another farmer would rather buy meat from Walmart instead of a beef guy that’s his neighbor because he doesn’t want to see him succeed, it will never change
👍amazing video, simply stated most people have no idea farming is a lifestyle not a job. We were over to some friends visiting with them and conversation got onto AG and our friends were totally dumbfounded when I explained to them that Smithfield foods was owned by the communist Chinese government. They were totally shocked. They didn’t comprehend that the Chinese had to import major quantities of food because they were unable to produce their own. Same with crude oil. We are living in a country where the average American is totally in the dark about anything other than what they are fed by the BS new media. They know one thing they are financially upside down because of inflation and most don’t even understand what true inflation is. And you are absolutely right about the fact that they wouldn’t be able to grow their own food. They wouldn’t even know where to begin. The story about the family farm that has to give up row cropping is not the only ones by a long shot. Actually this time around I believe is far worse then the Carter years because people don’t know history and are doomed to repeat it only this time on a much larger scale. Merry Christmas to you and family. Keep up the videos they are great content
we barely broke even this year and we consider ourselves lucky we have seen a lot of friends and family go under in the last 5 years next year is still unknown
I'm really caught in the middle on this one. I've ran old paid for equipment so I could make it through times like this with minimal worry. We've had drought for 3 years on top of the hurdles of crop and input prices. We have guys that will only make it due to help. They run a lot newer equipment than I do and a lot of them farm less acres by far. If they have to pay for their decisions and miss management then others' prosper. Like I said, I'm torn. My farms cleared profit on corn alone dropped $150,000 from last year to this year on price alone. Stay safe!
@@dirtpoorfarms...7034 it’s sad state of affairs. Can’t say I’ve mismanaged I am running older stuff but my market for hay has decreased the price they pay and the grain market was ok except we had such dry weather the last couple years that the yields where down way below a bad years expectations. So I’m getting it on all fronts.
@onelonleyfarmer I'm definitely not saying you have mismanaged. I have a local in mind when I stated that. He farms less than 800 acres abs runs very...... very modern equipment. He's been broke 2 times in my life time, (I'm 52) and took his dad down with him the last time. His dad passed abs he's used the home place to bank roll this latest ride. His situation isn't my business until our tax money is the only thing keeping his farm running. I've watched your channel for years and from the outside don't see this being your problem.
The Vendee Globe solo around the world sailing race is on at the moment. The sailors have a 20 minutes sleep pattern, probably one of the most difficult aspects of the race - sleep deprivation & fatigue of handling/ repairing large sails alone. One of my extended family was an owner/ operator 700 in-milk dairy cows for many years, he did not live too long (ill health) after he sold the farm, a short retirement. There was an expression; I heard other dairy farming relatives use 'Only milk as many dairy cows as you are prepared to milk alone by yourself'/ I have known farmers/ ag contractors who eventually got quite sick in part from the long-hours day machinery use./Farm smarter? Is that having the eight/ 12 row corn planter operating at the same time, in the small fields near to the big corn planter? Deer Control - looking at the rules, deer season would appear to be the time to stay out of the woods. Hydrogen generators on the trucks to lower fuel use.
The next generation of farmers and becoming less attached to the land ...I'm nit sure they will endure the same hardship and work hours than previous generations ....as for farm equipment goes ...don't throw away anything built in tge 80's or 90's because they will be all used again
when i was a kid a chicken drum stick had two bones in it, now most have only one. chicken have been geneticly altered just like the vegitables we eat, the seeds we plant are band in other countries, gmo everything, herbicides, insecticides, artiffical fertilizers. farmers have no choice in the matter. they have to plant the seed that is available, they have to do what they must to stay in business. i was raised on a small, we did a variety of things, cattle, sheep, hogs, tobacco, grew our own meat, and vegitables, canned it, when the crap hits the fan how many can grow thier own food, kill and cut up a beef or hog, can it or cure the meat? not many. farmers are very important and when the walmart shelves are bare, where are we going to get food?
I don't farm. I share crop 30ac. Here in Indiana we went about 3 months with no rain. The corn looked like toothpicks. After the 50-50 split we made $500. Look into crypto it is the next big money thing. XRP to the moon.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, ideas and videos. Not trying to disagree but I do question the fact that local farmers at least for beef sell at a premium. Yes I understand it’s probably much much better than any from a grocery store but it kind of tanks the story that they are being taken advantage of by the middle men. I would of thought there would be a middle ground somewhere in between. Perhaps if they broke down the additional processing fees they are paying that the middle man gets a better deal on. But then again that would lead to the farmer not being abused but the person at the processing plant. Seems like the farmers that sell direct are splitting the profits with the processing plant rather than sharing the savings with the consumer. Know one minds cutting out the paper shuffling money mongers in the middle but shouldn’t some of the savings also go to the consumer that is going out of their way and taking on some of the burden of buying in bulk and having to store it. Either way. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this, just wish I could find a local farmer that had what I needed at the price I can afford. Wishing you and your family the best.
A couple of guys processing a cow in their small USDA inspected abbatoir are not going to be competitive in cost to an assembly-line style meat company slaughterhouse. So really, there is no savings by eliminating the middle man to share with the consumer. Anytime anyone has tried to come up with a solution that works for both sides (someone tried to start a mobile abbatoir once), the state and federal regulators step in and squash it. The Livestock Coop attempted to convert an unused building into a slaughterhouse a few years ago, but the town government flat out said it doesn't want such a thing.
The independent dairy farmer has it the worst. They plan their whole life around milking cows. There was never any time off. You worked least 8 hours a day just to take care of minimum necessities. Those days were reserved for Christmas or when you were so sick you could hardly move.
Serious question, farmers don't buy stuff wholesale? and/or they pay sales tax on stuff used on the farm? I left the NC farm in the 80's and back then my uncle didn't pay sales tax on most things for the farm and he bought wholesale from many places. So is this no longer in practice?
In New Jersey we have a sales tax exemption on farm inputs. However, there just aren't places to get wholesale stuff anymore. The Agway feed mill in Flemington used to buy local grain and make feed which was then sold locally. But that's gone. Anybody selling feed here now is getting pre-packaged 50 lb. bags shipped in from hundreds of miles away and the cost of a bag reflects all that transport and extra handling. You can get bulk feed trucked in from 80-100 miles away in Pennsylvania, but you'll pay a hefty delivery fee.
Well put. Thank you to all other farmers. I work at well drilling and well pumps (water services on call as needed) as well as take care of our hay and beef farm and help my boss with is hay and beef farm too. Same as you, sleep deprived but I chose it all and am happy with the life style we live.
If American farmers, ranchers and businesses could at least compete on a level playing field I think you could make a decent living. Problem is none of the rest of the world (the competition) has to live with the same safety, environmental regulations or labor markets. I know cattle come into the U.S. from Mexico (NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT), the truck driver makes about $190.00 a week so of course the cattle cost less. FORTUNATELY, I think the free ride for Mexican products is about to end.
Wes I started a new RUclips channel called “Interesting Interviews with Boyd Walker”. I’d like to interview you for my new channel. One of my main focuses on the channel will be on the farming industry.
Drought? Try making a living in western South Dakota........At least 30 days of 100 degree weather this last summer, less than half of normal annual rainfall this year (way less I think and terrible timing) No hay, very little pasture forage and DUST.....
You are hooked on roundup did you know Russia has banned Glyfocate. Woyld you be able to farm without roundup ready crops ? I would not be so quick to assume the United States food is not more dangerous than the same food in other countries.
Thank you wes. I'm john deere technician and I see alot of what you are saying from the other technician in the shop I work out of. They say only thing that is going to be at the shopon a Saturday is Rudy and mice. I had 232 hours of vacation at the end of the fall work. I took my vacation to work for farmer that I've been helping for the past 22 years. Poeple these days don't know that you have to work hard for the things you want.
Try buying American lamb is almost impossible. I’d figure Acme would carry it… nope. Lancaster is now just a brand not where it comes from. I laugh at these “RUclips Experts” cooking turkeys they brine a butterball.. 😂 it’s already been brined you morons!!
now imagine the next gen coming , they cant or wont work a 8 hr day , let a lone physical work , they expect twice the going rate for any job then every one before them , and the average age of farmers is what , 60 ish , 1% buying up farm land for carbon credits so they can keep their computers going on the cheap , ,,, people are going to get hungry before long ,🥸🤓,Canada
I remember when John F. Kennedy said in a speech, “Farmers buy everything at retail, sell everything at wholesale, and pay the freight costs for all of it.” Words to that effect have been repeated many times and the truth of it endures.
Thank you and Thank you to the other Farmers for their Work and worry. So many have forgotten where their food comes from and how this country was only possible because of farming. Thank you all again.
Great video! I started working on the neighbors farm around 12-13 years old. I progressed into construction around 20 as both jobs are similar, lots of heavy physical work and plenty of hours worked. Now in my 50’s and looking forward to retirement I’ve been talking to the farm I grew up working on to finish my working career. Full circle! You are right, it takes a certain drive to be a farmer, Ive always had that drive (didn’t mention I farmed some on my own while working construction and raising kids) and look forward to finishing out life back after it. Merry Christmas!
We're all in this together, whether we admit it or not.
God bless you and yours, Wes.
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family you have brought great content to me keep it up for 2025 and beyond
Well said, Wes. Merry Christmas to your family
Merry Christmas to you and your family,cheers for your videos.
Hi Wes...thanks for reading that letter...I really feel for the guy and his family...we got the same problem in the UK..the supermarkets are paying dairy farmers less per litre of milk than it costs to produce.,.we used to have award-winning herds here in Essex when I was younger..now you rarely see a cow... except in a petting zoo!..on a lighter note...Merry Christmas mate!.👍
Thanks Wes, much appreciate what you do.
If I follow a slow moving piece of farm equipment down the road,
I just enjoy the the time to unwind a bit and relax.
Take care and happy holidays.
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AMEN on every thing you have commented on. I was a farmer and then sold out in the 80's went to tech school got a job in civil service then retired back to farming on 75 acres . I bought all my equipment that i have from money made on my Job and to top that off most of it is 30 plus years old .
Merry Christmass to you and yours!
Merry Christmas Wes and to all your family !!
Thanks for posting this video. For putting the Truth out about Farming.
Good morning!!!! God bless the Farming families! Merry Christmas and happy new year!
ALOT of great info Wes, Merry Christmas to you and Teresa, William, and all the rest of your family.
Merry Christmas Wes , all of the best to you and your family
Very well said. Been a tough 4 years. I suspect we will see more farmers calling it quits in the coming months if grain prices don’t improve.
Glad you read this letter Wes .I am 78 farmed all my life and worked a job for the first 25 yr.I wasn’t smart enough to take time off.over all my life I haven’t taken three weeks off for bypass hip replacements and so on.but I would do it again I was trying to buy a farm.and now I am old so I am thinking of retirement. The government can take a big share of it .and take the SS. That I paid for.thanks Wes.😊
Issue for retirement is the endless gov't inflation & money printing. I guess it depends on your health (how many years you think you have left) and the duration you can live off SS + savings.
Seems likely farming will be horrible for the next several years as grain prices will remain low, but inputs will remain high. Probably better off for a lot of farmers to do something else for the next couple of years until there is a chance of being profitable.
I did, I voted for Jimmy Carter because I thought we needed a farmers mentality in leadership. I still think we need that mentality but with President Carter we opened a door to financial crisis that we still feel the effects of today.
@@billwhitman1529 inflation had reached thirteen percent the night of the election with Reagan.
Merry Christmas to you and your family
To me Wes you need more time off Also with your family I pray that this new year will help all farmers out there with lower prices on seeds and merchandise to bring in a good harvest. I don’t have a farm but I worked on my cousins farm milking cows and taking care of chickens long hours 34:12 but I didn’t complain I liked it
Merry Christmas and a happy new year Wes to you and your family
I have read a report of of a sample of burger patty going to McDonalds containing 1300 different strains of DNA in one patty.
Farmers are American Heroes
This is next level, loved every second of it!
On the other hand... Dairy farmer milks cows, cools it in a tank, dairy processor collects it with a tanktruck, processes it in the factory, packs about half in a housebrand packaging of a supermarket, the other half in it`s own brand packaging as a premium, transports both to a supermarket. Supermarket sells own brand for about 1€ / liter, the premium brand for about 1.60€ /liter.
The farmer gets about 50-70 cents per liter, rest go`s to processor and supermarket obviously. Farmer starts selling some of the raw milk directly to consumers in his small farmstore, wonderfull.
Customer passes the farmer on it`s way to the supermarket, sees the sign for his store, thinks great, i won`t have to buy the supermarket`s milk, i will buy a few liters on my way back.
Customer go`s to the farmers farmstore, asks for 2 liters of milk, has to pay almost 6 euro`s, say`s nah, im good, the little convenience of buying closer to home and the fressness, hopefully purer and healthier milk doesn`t way up to paying about 700 euro`s more per year.
Happy Christmas from the UK Wes 🇬🇧🇺🇸
Have a great Christmas Wes to you and the family !
Now if I shared this letter on the Alexandria Township Facebook page, it would be removed. The past four years we've had more and more farmer haters than ever show up in the township.
Amen, not a farmer but half my family are and the rest are teachers including me.
Makes me regret the passing of most high street butchers in my area in England. At least they only used to buy one or two beef carcasses at a time,and mince their own offcuts, no water. Oh and they used to hang their meat properly !! Small to medium size farmers have always had the shitty end of the stick. I have known several small farmers who basically existed on the cheques from the Milk Marketing Board ( while it still existed) which was the buyer of last resort in the UK.
Unfortunately, many people have the attitude that if they are buying directly from a local farm, they should be getting it cheaper because 'there's no middlemen or transportation costs'. Also worthy to note, that many of the local producers donate good stuff to the local food banks. Grocery stores tend more to donate damaged packaging items that won't sell.
The same thing goes a long with us ranchers. People think the same thing that us ranchers have tons of money. By the time the we have bought hay, and other stuff to help grow the herd we barly have enough money to buy food. We have to work a separate job to pay bills. Everyone who is in ag feels.
Good morning one lonely Farmer just cleaned out the barn for the cows. This will be a merry Christmas. I will be able to kneel down in the barn with the cows and pray at 12 o’clock. Christmas Eve cows kneel down kneel for the Christ child by the way, where do you think holy cow comes from . The little large Jesus lays in the manger sleep in the hay.
Excellent video
It’s the same in UK now .Our government doesn’t understand anything about anything
Until I failed at milking cows and stopped last year since I had 2 days off since I took over in 91.. One in 99 when I got married, went out of town one night for honeymoon and back the next day and once in 05 when I went to pickup the flat milking parlor I used.
What always bothers me is importing products from other countries and exporting the same thing.
I understand some fruits and vegetables because of being out of season. When it comes to milk, meat, grains etc if we have the supply to export we have no need to import.
Basically someone in the commodities and stock market are working a pyramid scheme making money by buying low and selling high around the world manipulating the markets. Also don't want to forget the transportation profits from basically guaranteeing cargo moving from country to country while all the while they just trade paper.
It's not done to benefit the populations but the elites in the government and their shadow handlers.
Totally relateable. Average week 84 hrs. Five months of the year it can be close to 120hrs a week. Just finished raking, baling ,carting and stacking Lucerne. 88 hrs in 4 days with 8 hrs sleep. By the time I'm done with working, I think I'll have worked an average Muppets lifetime times 5 , as I have no plans of retiring at 65 either.
Several years ago I use to haul returned treated seed corn to Illinois to have it burned to remove the treatment on it and the seed Company at that time use to feed that to beef cattle to be processed in America but the FDA outlawed that in America so they shipped the burnt corn to South America to feed beef cattle then they process the meat and send it back to America to get around the rule here in America
True Story ! with Roundup Herbcide , being patented , a lot of farmers lost there farms to Monsanto for planting soybeans grown from roundup rReady beans ! China and South America grew soybeans , saved from Roundup Ready beans and shipped the beans all over the world ! We have E.P.A. mandated exhaust on ALL our equipment and trucks in the U.S.A. ,,,China and South America use the same equipment without exhaust treatment , again selling their products all over the world !
This video is amazing, love how cool it is!
I grew up on a dairy farm, and my brother still farms. I choose to leave the farm about 40 years because of the volatility of the markets and demand on time. Nothing easy about farming.
You are 💯 right .there are two kinds of working class that is the most important the farmers are number 1 and the truck driver is number 2 both need to be appreciated more.
Many farmers now days are truck drivers to 14:08
No more soybeans for me. Shifting away from them due to the damn deer and the crop insurance attitude towards wildlife damage.
Very true wish you the best
People think farmers set the prices for what we grow, but the truth is the buyers of farm products make the prices not farmers and farming is a Risk no matter what people think, plus the costs are ridiculous with what you get back when you sell your crops farmers Don't set the prices people you do
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You are Exactly right, farmers are the only producer that gets paid what they offer us. Every other producer says what they want ,gas lumber every thing in the store ,thats just not right!
The letter you read is 100percent correct . Farmers are making far less than in the 70s . why ? The demise of the mixed farm and the growth of intense row cropping Mixed farms still succeed . Rowcrop farmers have largely have fallen victim to classic greed and have become slaves . The corn and beans and wheat are largely poison anyway.
Farmers have been doing Row crops in the US for more than 100 years. Not much has changes with farming practices since the 1970s, except the costs to operate a farm have gone up, while the sell prices have gone done or remained flat. Farmers made up the difference by farming more & more land. But that no longer works.
We had our ranch in Florida,but our real big income came from the construction business. A lot of farmers we knew had second Jobs.
one of the best vids ive seen Wes
I had a trader once tell me he didn't know what a soybean looked like but said he would make more trading them then I ever would growing them
G day Wes Yes back in 70-80's when everything went crazy up here with interest 24% Ont
Went to church 1 saturday night, film i on soy beans Ask the neighbour who own small feed mill
told me about stock brokers, raising beans I think 9/bus back then, they went to bed getting rich
poor went to bed starving!
Ths good video
Merry Christmas WES
Merry pagan holidays you to 🎉
Imagine peeling away the need for so many costly inputs? Keeping the average-salary of interest payments for yourself? That's the promise of the new farming techniques, which is really getting farming back from the huge chemical detour sold to everyone for so long. Jon Stevens has a good channel. He has an insightful video on tillage vs no-till/strip-till time, equipment, and costs.
Gee Wes nice little chat!Work can mean many different things to many different people!
Funny everyone in the UK thinks farmers are rolling in cash and we're all millionaires. Great video again. Regards to the family from across the pond
I know you're not, but we've all known smallish guys who've always pled poverty, who run a range rover and whose kids are in private school !
@@CrimeVid my kids went to a normal school and my 50 thousand pounds range Rover is a £4000 pound Volvo v70 2005 .
Except in. PA the department of agriculture is closing farm owned shops and raw milk farmers just think remember Amos Miller
Problem is ur neighbor will screw u out of farm land and farmers r the first people to screw another farmer also on the food side, another farmer would rather buy meat from Walmart instead of a beef guy that’s his neighbor because he doesn’t want to see him succeed, it will never change
You are so right,farmers are each others worst enemy when it comes to renting rates
You really nailed it 100 percent true
I don't know how we could do this ,but people will not appreciate farmers unless they're hungry for a while.
👍amazing video, simply stated most people have no idea farming is a lifestyle not a job. We were over to some friends visiting with them and conversation got onto AG and our friends were totally dumbfounded when I explained to them that Smithfield foods was owned by the communist Chinese government. They were totally shocked. They didn’t comprehend that the Chinese had to import major quantities of food because they were unable to produce their own. Same with crude oil. We are living in a country where the average American is totally in the dark about anything other than what they are fed by the BS new media. They know one thing they are financially upside down because of inflation and most don’t even understand what true inflation is. And you are absolutely right about the fact that they wouldn’t be able to grow their own food. They wouldn’t even know where to begin. The story about the family farm that has to give up row cropping is not the only ones by a long shot. Actually this time around I believe is far worse then the Carter years because people don’t know history and are doomed to repeat it only this time on a much larger scale. Merry Christmas to you and family. Keep up the videos they are great content
Money grows in rows if it don't you're going broke!!! Brantley Gilbert song kick it in the sticks
we barely broke even this year and we consider ourselves lucky we have seen a lot of friends and family go under in the last 5 years next year is still unknown
MERRY CHRISTMAS
The new secretary of Ag is Brooke Rollins.
I'm really caught in the middle on this one. I've ran old paid for equipment so I could make it through times like this with minimal worry. We've had drought for 3 years on top of the hurdles of crop and input prices. We have guys that will only make it due to help. They run a lot newer equipment than I do and a lot of them farm less acres by far. If they have to pay for their decisions and miss management then others' prosper. Like I said, I'm torn. My farms cleared profit on corn alone dropped $150,000 from last year to this year on price alone. Stay safe!
@@dirtpoorfarms...7034 it’s sad state of affairs. Can’t say I’ve mismanaged I am running older stuff but my market for hay has decreased the price they pay and the grain market was ok except we had such dry weather the last couple years that the yields where down way below a bad years expectations. So I’m getting it on all fronts.
@onelonleyfarmer I'm definitely not saying you have mismanaged. I have a local in mind when I stated that. He farms less than 800 acres abs runs very...... very modern equipment. He's been broke 2 times in my life time, (I'm 52) and took his dad down with him the last time. His dad passed abs he's used the home place to bank roll this latest ride. His situation isn't my business until our tax money is the only thing keeping his farm running. I've watched your channel for years and from the outside don't see this being your problem.
The Vendee Globe solo around the world sailing race is on at the moment. The sailors have a 20 minutes sleep pattern, probably one of the most difficult aspects of the race - sleep deprivation & fatigue of handling/ repairing large sails alone. One of my extended family was an owner/ operator 700 in-milk dairy cows for many years, he did not live too long (ill health) after he sold the farm, a short retirement. There was an expression; I heard other dairy farming relatives use 'Only milk as many dairy cows as you are prepared to milk alone by yourself'/ I have known farmers/ ag contractors who eventually got quite sick in part from the long-hours day machinery use./Farm smarter? Is that having the eight/ 12 row corn planter operating at the same time, in the small fields near to the big corn planter? Deer Control - looking at the rules, deer season would appear to be the time to stay out of the woods. Hydrogen generators on the trucks to lower fuel use.
The next generation of farmers and becoming less attached to the land ...I'm nit sure they will endure the same hardship and work hours than previous generations ....as for farm equipment goes ...don't throw away anything built in tge 80's or 90's because they will be all used again
when i was a kid a chicken drum stick had two bones in it, now most have only one. chicken have been geneticly altered just like the vegitables we eat, the seeds we plant are band in other countries, gmo everything, herbicides, insecticides, artiffical fertilizers. farmers have no choice in the matter. they have to plant the seed that is available, they have to do what they must to stay in business. i was raised on a small, we did a variety of things, cattle, sheep, hogs, tobacco, grew our own meat, and vegitables, canned it, when the crap hits the fan how many can grow thier own food, kill and cut up a beef or hog, can it or cure the meat? not many. farmers are very important and when the walmart shelves are bare, where are we going to get food?
Amen Wes
Good morning again!
Morning!
Good video.
I don't farm. I share crop 30ac. Here in Indiana we went about 3 months with no rain. The corn looked like toothpicks. After the 50-50 split we made $500. Look into crypto it is the next big money thing. XRP to the moon.
As a Canadian think about how we have been bleeding the last 9 years under treaduo fuck we need an election today we needed one a year ago
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, ideas and videos. Not trying to disagree but I do question the fact that local farmers at least for beef sell at a premium. Yes I understand it’s probably much much better than any from a grocery store but it kind of tanks the story that they are being taken advantage of by the middle men. I would of thought there would be a middle ground somewhere in between. Perhaps if they broke down the additional processing fees they are paying that the middle man gets a better deal on. But then again that would lead to the farmer not being abused but the person at the processing plant. Seems like the farmers that sell direct are splitting the profits with the processing plant rather than sharing the savings with the consumer. Know one minds cutting out the paper shuffling money mongers in the middle but shouldn’t some of the savings also go to the consumer that is going out of their way and taking on some of the burden of buying in bulk and having to store it. Either way. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this, just wish I could find a local farmer that had what I needed at the price I can afford. Wishing you and your family the best.
Just keep going to Walmart buddy if you think farmers are charging to much your the problem by the way sorry but the truth hurts your feelings
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A couple of guys processing a cow in their small USDA inspected abbatoir are not going to be competitive in cost to an assembly-line style meat company slaughterhouse. So really, there is no savings by eliminating the middle man to share with the consumer. Anytime anyone has tried to come up with a solution that works for both sides (someone tried to start a mobile abbatoir once), the state and federal regulators step in and squash it. The Livestock Coop attempted to convert an unused building into a slaughterhouse a few years ago, but the town government flat out said it doesn't want such a thing.
@ thanks I figured it was probably something like that.
@@larryesmith5060 Exactly !!
What about rBST in milk produced in US.
What about it? I don't think anyone uses it.
I think that went away.
The independent dairy farmer has it the worst. They plan their whole life around milking cows. There was never any time off. You worked least 8 hours a day just to take care of minimum necessities. Those days were reserved for Christmas or when you were so sick you could hardly move.
Waters not cheap
It's a buck a pint. Co to a convince store. More expensive than gas. What a scam.
Serious question, farmers don't buy stuff wholesale? and/or they pay sales tax on stuff used on the farm? I left the NC farm in the 80's and back then my uncle didn't pay sales tax on most things for the farm and he bought wholesale from many places. So is this no longer in practice?
In New Jersey we have a sales tax exemption on farm inputs. However, there just aren't places to get wholesale stuff anymore. The Agway feed mill in Flemington used to buy local grain and make feed which was then sold locally. But that's gone. Anybody selling feed here now is getting pre-packaged 50 lb. bags shipped in from hundreds of miles away and the cost of a bag reflects all that transport and extra handling. You can get bulk feed trucked in from 80-100 miles away in Pennsylvania, but you'll pay a hefty delivery fee.
Well put. Thank you to all other farmers. I work at well drilling and well pumps (water services on call as needed) as well as take care of our hay and beef farm and help my boss with is hay and beef farm too. Same as you, sleep deprived but I chose it all and am happy with the life style we live.
will you be collecting gov. farm payments this spring?
nothing to collect. even if I did sign up for it there just isn't any money there to collect.
Farmers work twice the hours as others to have twice to three times the debt ,is there something wrong with this picture?
Interesting
If American farmers, ranchers and businesses could at least compete on a level playing field I think you could make a decent living. Problem is none of the rest of the world (the competition) has to live with the same safety, environmental regulations or labor markets. I know cattle come into the U.S. from Mexico (NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT), the truck driver makes about $190.00 a week so of course the cattle cost less. FORTUNATELY, I think the free ride for Mexican products is about to end.
Farming is maybe an addiction......why would people keep doing it when it is financially harmful. ( and sometimes devastating and destructive)
Wes I started a new RUclips channel called “Interesting Interviews with Boyd Walker”. I’d like to interview you for my new channel. One of my main focuses on the channel will be on the farming industry.
At least you won’t get that crap in Canadian beef berta beef is the choice for me
Absolutely a great video Merry Christmas and God bless you and your family
Drought? Try making a living in western South Dakota........At least 30 days of 100 degree weather this last summer, less than half of normal annual rainfall this year (way less I think and terrible timing) No hay, very little pasture forage and DUST.....
Try south Texas. One summer we went 3 months without rain plus temps around 100.
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You are hooked on roundup did you know Russia has banned Glyfocate. Woyld you be able to farm without roundup ready crops ? I would not be so quick to assume the United States food is not more dangerous than the same food in other countries.
Thank you wes. I'm john deere technician and I see alot of what you are saying from the other technician in the shop I work out of. They say only thing that is going to be at the shopon a Saturday is Rudy and mice. I had 232 hours of vacation at the end of the fall work. I took my vacation to work for farmer that I've been helping for the past 22 years. Poeple these days don't know that you have to work hard for the things you want.
Try buying American lamb is almost impossible. I’d figure Acme would carry it… nope. Lancaster is now just a brand not where it comes from.
I laugh at these “RUclips Experts” cooking turkeys they brine a butterball.. 😂 it’s already been brined you morons!!
Only Lamb we can find is Australian.
The North American Hill Sheep Show is held in Escanaba, Michigan. The organizers could put you in touch with Hill Sheep farmers.
now imagine the next gen coming , they cant or wont work a 8 hr day , let a lone physical work , they expect twice the going rate for any job then every one before them , and the average age of farmers is what , 60 ish , 1% buying up farm land for carbon credits so they can keep their computers going on the cheap , ,,, people are going to get hungry before long ,🥸🤓,Canada