Mike I can’t express enough my gratitude for what you have done all these years for highlighting what Americans do on a daily basis. Thank you sir 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I appreciate everyone of you who do. These videos need to be required viewing for every person in DC. They need to know a whole lot more than they appear to about the hard working folks who pay their salarys and expense accounts.
I can't thank you enough for devoting so much of your life to highlighting what blue collar Americans do for this country. From farming to fishing to trucking right down to waste removal you give us all a voice and I think I speak for us all when I say thank you. As a diehard, red blooded, blue collared, truck driving American.... thank you Mike.
i'm an australian who works an office job, and I just wanna say I appreciate every single one of you. you guys are the lifeblood of your great country! and i'm glad we have many blokes down here who work just as hard to keep my great country ticking over too. :) we're bloody fortunate to have people like you in the world!
I worked in a soybean oil extraction plant. It was mind boggling for the amount of nails, washers, bolts, nuts and small pieces of metal that the magnet picked out. What was more surprising was the concrete blocks, rocks , big chunks of metal, a cylinder head, tire on a rim that were screened at the truck dump. This stuff did not get into the beans by accident. the farmer was looking for weight. Little did they know they would get caught and docked for this. We also saw cigarette lighters, pliers, sunglasses, a watch, a tennis shoe and more.
The corn industry is one of our great achievements. Whatever your view on corn fructose, etc., we fully executed the cycle of corn to the extent it also supplies us with fuel, plastics, sugar, forage, fiber, and the actual corn, for seed or consumption. Few nations have the combination of heat and cold that we have in our Midwest that makes it work so well. Once we settle the GMO issue, we should do even better. But it's not for everyone; Russia tried to emulate us under Khrushchev and failed.
it is also not very good for us... especially after decades and decades of breeding (and engineering) for largest ears drastically reduced nutrient density...
@@markhasenour12 you grow these crop's ,so your fully biased in favor of them. i would convert all corn fields into rotational grazed pastures, thus reducing grass fed meat cost,improving the environment by eliminating the bulk use of chemical fertilizers, no corrosive ethanol in machines thus prolonging engines lifespan ,significantly trimming down on the environmental cost by producing and dumping less of these machines ,most environmental ideas trumpeted on msm are garbage, and if your willing to go down to the nitty gritty of its cost on the environment you will realize that its net environmental cost is the same or like in ethanol way bigger than gasoline ,,the best environmental solutions don't have the big machine behind them,, like earthship's regenerative ranching and farming, and making equipment that lasts a lifetime or more instead of trash with planned obsolescence
What Mike didn't explain was how farmers are caught in a bind. Prices for what the grow can be high at one time, which helps pay for their other needs, or low, which causes a pinch on how to pay for their other needs. They are caught between the price they get for what they grow and what they have to pay for seed, equipment, parts, fertilizer, etc. They have a business that's constantly on the razor's edge.
We grow here in north Florida what my wife and I call “miracle corn” that stuff goes in the ground, the pivot waters it a couple times a day and I swear if you stood there, you could watch it grow. It seems like a couple weeks later it’s 6 feet tall and here comes the combine and there it goes. Most all of ours is field corn.
Mike I was watching your how America works corrn program you said you had a job in Southern Illinois just wondering what time you worked in when you were younger love your show
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This is really cool, I'm from St Joe. I grew up about a half mile from that building. it was Quaker Oats for almost all of the years I lived there. that was the most amazing smell. The Union killed the Quaker though.. What a shame.
You may have practiced human sacrifice, but nevertheless thank-you Aztecs for developing/domesticating corn. And thanks to that anonymous South American native who improved corn dramatically. I love corn. It takes wonderful - boiled, roasted, raw right off the cob.
He says that we have the LAND to grow that much corn. LAND is not the issue. WATER is the issue. Our AQUIFERS are being depleted growing corn for ETHANOL, when we have plenty of oil.
Computers can install the new machine in a mock-up and concept knowing parameters and alert to special or hardware concerns. The new install can be simulated run with accurate sounds and demonstration.
The majority of corn grew in the US is starch corn. Not sweet corn. Starch corn in its raw state is not much good for human consumption. Animals however thrive on it. We need animal agriculture as much or more than crop production. Unless you want a diet based on tortilla chips and grits.
When I was young, for two weeks out of my summer off from school, my parents would "allow" me to go to my grand parents little farming town in southern Minnesota to either hoe beans ( pull all weeds) or tassel corn. It was something I looked fwd to every year. But, while tasseling (de-tassling) corn, we walked. No standing in baskets. This was early 1960's. Was hard work but I always looked fwd to the next year! Just sayin'
Back in high school in the late '70's in eastern Iowa, we both walked and rode in baskets. If my friend and I contracted a certain number of acres to tassel, we'd walk it. If we contracted on to a crew and were paid by the hour, we rode. Some of the fields had corn so tall by the time the tassels were ready, riding machines was the only way to reach it.
Thanks for the replies. Yes, I really was lucky! I really loved going down to that little farm town. Everything about that place to me was awesome. The town's name was Trimont, MN. Across the highway there is another small town named Triumph. They shared the same post office. My Grandparents lived in a small apartment on top of the only bank. My aunt and uncle owned the only grocery store. Trimont has since become a ghost town but Triumph is still there. I ALWAYS looked fwd to visit there!
And most of it gets made into alcohol and mixed with gasoline and reduces the energy content of your fuel so you have to use more throttle to make up for it. Corn farmers are the only ones that can afford John Dear tractors and the maintenance on them. Oh, and build multi hundred thousand dollar tractors for tractor pulls. Those government subsidies are great.
Apparently you have no idea how small the percentage is of farmers that have or participate in truck and tractor pulling. Also, many (if not most) farmers are still using equipment that is from the 90’s.
I just started watching so bear that in mind. Noentipn of howuch corn we grow is subsidized or GMO. Also, what happens if the technology goes down with power outages or other possible long term issues. Will anyone know how it use to be done?
Growing corn solely to make ethanol and burn instead of actually food is one of the dumbest actions that humans partake in. In the US almost 40% of all corn grown or about 35 million acres gets burned making up only about 7% of the US fuel needs. By having that national fleet of vehicles only 7% more fuel efficient there could be many millions of acres of free land available. It's basically the only way to 'make new land'.
Corn Subsidies in the United States totaled $116.6 billion from 1995-2020- from EWG Farm Subsidy Database. This is why we grow so much corn in the USA.
Yes, but a machine goes though first and removes about 80-90% of the tassels. So the kids walk through grabbing the missed ones. It still takes a couple of times to get them all.
You should go into a beef ranch. Not a fancy ranch either!!! Most ranches aren't 20,000 acres with 2,000,000 million dollar of cattle. Keep it realistic. 1k, 5k acre. Doesn't matter but make sure it's real. Not "oh a farmer feeds his cows with a feed Waggon corn and silage. 😁
Gmo isn't really a problem. It's what's being pumped into the soil that is killing us. Seed fungicidal and herbicidal treatments are also waaay scarier than gmo.
First of all AMERICA is not a country, it is a CONTINENT, so AMERICA IS ALL THE LAND FROM CANADA TO PATAGONIA IN ARGENTINA AND CHILE. Second Corn or MAÍZ is an invention of ancient ancestors of mexicans, a big chunk of what you are so proud of is MEXICAN in origin. more than 1/3 of the land, Cowboys, and the most important crops you grow from corn tomatoes, squash, pumpkin, beans or pepers. to things you don´t produce, like chocolate, vanila, papaya, guava or avocados. you owe so many things to MÉXICO that you absolutely ignore.
I would bet a pretty penny soybeans are the most grown crop in the United States they’re worth the most money by far we sell them to other countries for high dollar and buy crappy beans back from other countries for small percentage getting rid of the best and buying the rest that’s
His opening about detasseling corn.. is completely bogus!! It's only SEED CORN, that's detasseled. And it's not an endless job thru out summer. It's only for a few very short weeks...before pollination occurs in July. It's not a full summer job.
@@chadsonnenberg2692 yep.... Thanks!! My phone does its own decisions of what I say. I see it changed detasseling to...."detailing." 😅😂 I think my phone thinks we're married, or something!! I mean...when we're driving someplace. You ought to hear my phone giving me directions of when and where I need to turn. Too funny...annoying...😅😂🤣
Huge carbon footprint. Carbondale. Way ahead of you. I see pyramids again. Gore wants Hollywood. We give him the vampire script. Deny nothing. Say I coulda hadda V8 like this. Now drop the like this because you don't want to be like them. No sir. What you want is to be a star like Musk. A name designed by agenius with which to forever amuse. My name is Mush is my favorite. Corn's footprint is bigger than the Amazon. Never tell them that. The villagers will rise up and drive a stake through your heart at the end of the movie. If they burn you it kills the sequel
Where is the rest of the story? We love watching Mike Rowe but would like to see the entire story. We've seen two that are incomplete, won't watch another. Sorry Mike.
God bless America and the hard workers who grow the corn, harvest the corn and process the corn.
Mike I can’t express enough my gratitude for what you have done all these years for highlighting what Americans do on a daily basis. Thank you sir 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Thank you Mike Americans need to see that some of us still work!
I appreciate everyone of you who do. These videos need to be required viewing for every person in DC. They need to know a whole lot more than they appear to about the hard working folks who pay their salarys and expense accounts.
Change the series name to "Who in America pays for the free-sh*t, welfare army." Individual and corporate/bankster welfare, btw.
@@asktheetruscans9857 Still can't believe billionaires receive more welfare than any other group in america... SMH
I can't thank you enough for devoting so much of your life to highlighting what blue collar Americans do for this country. From farming to fishing to trucking right down to waste removal you give us all a voice and I think I speak for us all when I say thank you. As a diehard, red blooded, blue collared, truck driving American.... thank you Mike.
i'm an australian who works an office job, and I just wanna say I appreciate every single one of you. you guys are the lifeblood of your great country! and i'm glad we have many blokes down here who work just as hard to keep my great country ticking over too. :)
we're bloody fortunate to have people like you in the world!
I retired after 32 years as a corn wet miller and refinery operator. We ground 65k bu per day. Its a 24/7 hard job.
enjoy your hard earned retirement mate!
Love mike Roe
Don't you love farmers thank you to each of you for your hard work day in and out 🌽 🍿 🌽 🙏
I visited Southern Illinois back in1975 . Most impressive things are the miles of the corn fields .
Well done again Mike! To many people don't realize what farmers do!!
Mike Rowe 2024!!!!
I worked in a soybean oil extraction plant. It was mind boggling for the amount of nails, washers, bolts, nuts and small pieces of metal that the magnet picked out. What was more surprising was the concrete blocks, rocks , big chunks of metal, a cylinder head, tire on a rim that were screened at the truck dump. This stuff did not get into the beans by accident. the farmer was looking for weight. Little did they know they would get caught and docked for this. We also saw cigarette lighters, pliers, sunglasses, a watch, a tennis shoe and more.
The corn industry is one of our great achievements. Whatever your view on corn fructose, etc., we fully executed the cycle of corn to the extent it also supplies us with fuel, plastics, sugar, forage, fiber, and the actual corn, for seed or consumption. Few nations have the combination of heat and cold that we have in our Midwest that makes it work so well. Once we settle the GMO issue, we should do even better. But it's not for everyone; Russia tried to emulate us under Khrushchev and failed.
The GMO issue is settled. Ignorant people just don't know it yet.....
it is also not very good for us... especially after decades and decades of breeding (and engineering) for largest ears drastically reduced nutrient density...
@@Isaacmantx I'm a farmer and I grow these crops. You simply don't know what you are talking about.
@@markhasenour12 you grow these crop's ,so your fully biased in favor of them. i would convert all corn fields into rotational grazed pastures, thus reducing grass fed meat cost,improving the environment by eliminating the bulk use of chemical fertilizers, no corrosive ethanol in machines thus prolonging engines lifespan ,significantly trimming down on the environmental cost by producing and dumping less of these machines ,most environmental ideas trumpeted on msm are garbage, and if your willing to go down to the nitty gritty of its cost on the environment you will realize that its net environmental cost is the same or like in ethanol way bigger than gasoline ,,the best environmental solutions don't have the big machine behind them,, like earthship's regenerative ranching and farming, and making equipment that lasts a lifetime or more instead of trash with planned obsolescence
The corn industry is heavily subsidized by the government at the expense of other crops.
Excellent report
Thanks
Excellent program, very informative!
I was hooked with mike works while i was in college. Showing how this great nation works.
Monsanto BT=corn
Lov you Mike.. and the framers of America that feed us
What Mike didn't explain was how farmers are caught in a bind. Prices for what the grow can be high at one time, which helps pay for their other needs, or low, which causes a pinch on how to pay for their other needs.
They are caught between the price they get for what they grow and what they have to pay for seed, equipment, parts, fertilizer, etc. They have a business that's constantly on the razor's edge.
I'd liked to have saw the rest of that.
We grow here in north Florida what my wife and I call “miracle corn” that stuff goes in the ground, the pivot waters it a couple times a day and I swear if you stood there, you could watch it grow. It seems like a couple weeks later it’s 6 feet tall and here comes the combine and there it goes. Most all of ours is field corn.
Hopefully they solve the planned fertilizer scam before they take the insurance money instead.Otherwise no corn to process.
god BLESS u MIke
Yay! High fructose corn syrup and ethanol for all!!
100 thousand tons of corn per day is crazy!
I live in a small 🌽 corn town in Illinois, lol, I'm just across the bridge, about 15-20 minutes, from St Louis Missouri
Mike I was watching your how America works corrn program you said you had a job in Southern Illinois just wondering what time you worked in when you were younger love your show
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Comrade Hannity and Tuck in jail yet??
I did that in Ilinois in 1991 for Pioneer at 13 and only lasted 1 day
Imagine if HF Corn syrup had never been invented.
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This is really cool, I'm from St Joe. I grew up about a half mile from that building. it was Quaker Oats for almost all of the years I lived there. that was the most amazing smell. The Union killed the Quaker though.. What a shame.
I Detasseled corn as well in Illinois. Fun times
Stand in a basket on a tractor?!?!
I had to walk the corn rows
Great series
where is part 2 ?
Yes, GMO corns! Gotta love it.
Brought to you by the corn lobby...
Cornflakes are from corn, and so as numerous corn field products, why it is a source of staple eversince.
They can farm it no till now shoot the seed directly into the ground saves soil and prevents erosion
You may have practiced human sacrifice, but nevertheless thank-you Aztecs for developing/domesticating corn. And thanks to that anonymous South American native who improved corn dramatically. I love corn. It takes wonderful - boiled, roasted, raw right off the cob.
He says that we have the LAND to grow that much corn. LAND is not the issue. WATER is the issue. Our AQUIFERS are being depleted growing corn for ETHANOL, when we have plenty of oil.
The vast majority of corn fields are not irrigated.
@@johnchappell4492 The vast majority of farmland in general is not irrigated. But of the irrigated land, corn takes up a lion's share.
When corn requires a Monsanto Seed License.
Since when?
You don't have to buy that corn. Those farmers choose to be a part of that system
Your on the right path …..
Computers can install the new machine in a mock-up and concept knowing parameters and alert to special or hardware concerns. The new install can be simulated run with accurate sounds and demonstration.
Where exactly were you in Illinois, we farm near Lawrenceville in southern Illinois
NO FARMS NO FOOD !!!
The majority of corn grew in the US is starch corn. Not sweet corn. Starch corn in its raw state is not much good for human consumption. Animals however thrive on it. We need animal agriculture as much or more than crop production. Unless you want a diet based on tortilla chips and grits.
Lots of people eat tortillas, tortilla chips, grits, corn bread, etc. Most of the corn humans consume is NOT sweet corn.
When I was young, for two weeks out of my summer off from school, my parents would "allow" me to go to my grand parents little farming town in southern Minnesota to either hoe beans ( pull all weeds) or tassel corn. It was something I looked fwd to every year. But, while tasseling (de-tassling) corn, we walked. No standing in baskets. This was early 1960's. Was hard work but I always looked fwd to the next year! Just sayin'
Back in high school in the late '70's in eastern Iowa, we both walked and rode in baskets. If my friend and I contracted a certain number of acres to tassel, we'd walk it. If we contracted on to a crew and were paid by the hour, we rode. Some of the fields had corn so tall by the time the tassels were ready, riding machines was the only way to reach it.
You were lucky enough to really experience farm life.
Thanks for the replies. Yes, I really was lucky! I really loved going down to that little farm town. Everything about that place to me was awesome. The town's name was Trimont, MN. Across the highway there is another small town named Triumph. They shared the same post office. My Grandparents lived in a small apartment on top of the only bank. My aunt and uncle owned the only grocery store. Trimont has since become a ghost town but Triumph is still there. I ALWAYS looked fwd to visit there!
U got old bro I love it my man
I've never heard of detasselimg corn, maybe to make hybrids?
Oh it's fun. Not!
Yes, detassling is done by seed corn companies to make hybrids.
Well it all starts with subsidies for growing it to boost the value to the farmers. It isn't called socialism in red states though.
Add a show on Maricopa Az....hyge ag regiion
And most of it gets made into alcohol and mixed with gasoline and reduces the energy content of your fuel so you have to use more throttle to make up for it. Corn farmers are the only ones that can afford John Dear tractors and the maintenance on them. Oh, and build multi hundred thousand dollar tractors for tractor pulls. Those government subsidies are great.
Apparently you have no idea how small the percentage is of farmers that have or participate in truck and tractor pulling. Also, many (if not most) farmers are still using equipment that is from the 90’s.
Somebody doesn't know the octane level of gasoline vs. alcohol
Corn ugh!! Still can’t get over cutting wheat or Alfalfa.
These episodes are gold.. just like corn 🌽
Love Mike. Hate that this ends in the middle. Very annoying of Fox to do something like
Watch the show on Fox then. These are just teasers. Free stuff doesn't pay the crew, comrade.
you dont need to detassle corn unless its going to be used as seed corn
You forgot corncob pipes!
I just started watching so bear that in mind. Noentipn of howuch corn we grow is subsidized or GMO. Also, what happens if the technology goes down with power outages or other possible long term issues. Will anyone know how it use to be done?
Must combination with ternak sapi with resulting milk and beef etc.
This isnt paid television, you dont have to end it abruptly like that lol
Total waste of resources to use fuel to grow corn to convert it into fuel. Stupid as hell.
Growing corn solely to make ethanol and burn instead of actually food is one of the dumbest actions that humans partake in.
In the US almost 40% of all corn grown or about 35 million acres gets burned making up only about 7% of the US fuel needs. By having that national fleet of vehicles only 7% more fuel efficient there could be many millions of acres of free land available.
It's basically the only way to 'make new land'.
He's aged.
To the moon
If u know ya know I love the 🍿
One guy in whole.corn plant.👨🏭🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽. Ffing cheapskates. Unbelievable.
Why can they make contents like this more often.
Detasseling sucks
Corn Subsidies in the United States totaled $116.6 billion from 1995-2020- from EWG Farm Subsidy Database. This is why we grow so much corn in the USA.
So on average about 3.4 billion per year, and under $3 billion/year for the last few years....Meh.
There's always a genius lying in the weeds, waiting to throw cold water on anyone enjoying a relaxing dip in the heated pool.
kids still do detasseled
Yes, but a machine goes though first and removes about 80-90% of the tassels. So the kids walk through grabbing the missed ones. It still takes a couple of times to get them all.
You should go into a beef ranch. Not a fancy ranch either!!! Most ranches aren't 20,000 acres with 2,000,000 million dollar of cattle.
Keep it realistic. 1k, 5k acre. Doesn't matter but make sure it's real. Not "oh a farmer feeds his cows with a feed Waggon corn and silage.
😁
Is this a music video?
I thought this was going to put people more aware of all the GMO were eating but I guess they wont show that on media
who cares
Gmo isn't really a problem. It's what's being pumped into the soil that is killing us. Seed fungicidal and herbicidal treatments are also waaay scarier than gmo.
Believe it or not but corn is man made.
WOw 6 kids
Better off watching 'cornkings' here on YT
And here I thought that America's most-grown crop was marijuana.
First of all AMERICA is not a country, it is a CONTINENT, so AMERICA IS ALL THE LAND FROM CANADA TO PATAGONIA IN ARGENTINA AND CHILE. Second Corn or MAÍZ is an invention of ancient ancestors of mexicans, a big chunk of what you are so proud of is MEXICAN in origin. more than 1/3 of the land, Cowboys, and the most important crops you grow from corn tomatoes, squash, pumpkin, beans or pepers. to things you don´t produce, like chocolate, vanila, papaya, guava or avocados. you owe so many things to MÉXICO that you absolutely ignore.
I would bet a pretty penny soybeans are the most grown crop in the United States they’re worth the most money by far we sell them to other countries for high dollar and buy crappy beans back from other countries for small percentage getting rid of the best and buying the rest that’s
Why is that, because our Congress thought it was a good idea, Not
His opening about detasseling corn.. is completely bogus!! It's only SEED CORN, that's detasseled. And it's not an endless job thru out summer.
It's only for a few very short weeks...before pollination occurs in July. It's not a full summer job.
Detasseling
@@chadsonnenberg2692 yep....
Thanks!! My phone does its own decisions of what I say. I see it changed detasseling to...."detailing." 😅😂
I think my phone thinks we're married, or something!! I mean...when we're driving someplace. You ought to hear my phone giving me directions of when and where I need to turn. Too funny...annoying...😅😂🤣
wow I can see someone getting killed on that manlift
We have too much corn. Time to grow different crops for about 5 years minimum.
Yea, that's a good idea genius. You must have a degree from the Michael Bloomberg school of agriculture.
WOW what a STUPID comment
Huge carbon footprint. Carbondale. Way ahead of you. I see pyramids again. Gore wants Hollywood. We give him the vampire script. Deny nothing. Say I coulda hadda V8 like this. Now drop the like this because you don't want to be like them. No sir. What you want is to be a star like Musk. A name designed by agenius with which to forever amuse. My name is Mush is my favorite. Corn's footprint is bigger than the Amazon. Never tell them that. The villagers will rise up and drive a stake through your heart at the end of the movie. If they burn you it kills the sequel
All GMO. I eat corn my hands start hurting( inflammation ) try avoiding corn products.
Where is the rest of the story? We love watching Mike Rowe but would like to see the entire story. We've seen two that are incomplete, won't watch another. Sorry Mike.