In this area when a farmer retires they seem to rent their farm to the largest farmer in the neighborhood. Money is money. Rent it to a smaller farmer and spread it out
Think about this statement sometime…. Farmers are being farmed! By the seed and fertilizer companies, equipment companies, bankers, etc. Tell me I’m wrong.
There is at least 3-4 people you see in their videos that own land that they help farm. So it’s more of a shared expense instead of one farm having to have all the expense. I could be way off on this but hearing Chet talk he talks about landlords and this is big Swedes land or my land ect. So they don’t own all the land they take care of just take care and maintain it.
The land that they farm and don't own they pay rent on it. So that cost money. Rent can work a few ways but most common is you get $xxx amount per acre. Or you do shares. The key is to have a lot of land that you own and have to pay rent on.
Love their vids yes… but as their farm gets bigger and bigger. Smaller guys don’t get a shot at farming like they used to. Yes the resources are there but not the ground
I thought that way for a long time and still do. The thing to think about is how many entities are involved on that farm. Chet, Doug, Randy, Doug and Randy’s dad is still involved slightly from what I understand, and Erik. So you’ve got 6 entities just working together. As strange as it may seem a lot of the big farms have more family members working it than the smaller farms
@@hulmestannerVery true. But. With that there’s so many hands in the pot. Cheap commodity prices can only go so far. Especially when it’s split 6 ways!
@@Metallicgray_6.7 Same way to say that the expense is split up too and the risk per person isn’t as bad. I’m not saying it’s all perfect but there’s a give and take with everything like that. My dad and grandpa could have stayed at 800-1000 acres but there was no extra income for me brother and I to come back if dad didnt expand
Big Agra, has eliminated most family farms, and mechanization has eliminated most farm jobs. Most of the rural American farms, ans farm communities no longer exist.
In reality, land is being farmed by family farmers, we're just larger operations now. It's very easy for most farmers to take on another piece of land. The machinery just keeps getting bigger and better. "Big Ag" doesn't own or operate the land. In my state, and several others, it's actually illegal for corporations to own land.
Big farmers are buying up the small farms and don't care about the little guy, so sad, money and greed 😢, they think bigger is better, and people complain about alge in lakes, thank you big farmers 😠
Fewer farm daddies and mommies makes for fewer farm kids. It’s not rocket science! In order for the big to keep getting bigger, the small farms have to go away.
In this area when a farmer retires they seem to rent their farm to the largest farmer in the neighborhood. Money is money. Rent it to a smaller farmer and spread it out
@@Plutogalaxy you must have a degree
Think about this statement sometime…. Farmers are being farmed! By the seed and fertilizer companies, equipment companies, bankers, etc. Tell me I’m wrong.
There is at least 3-4 people you see in their videos that own land that they help farm. So it’s more of a shared expense instead of one farm having to have all the expense. I could be way off on this but hearing Chet talk he talks about landlords and this is big Swedes land or my land ect. So they don’t own all the land they take care of just take care and maintain it.
The land that they farm and don't own they pay rent on it. So that cost money. Rent can work a few ways but most common is you get $xxx amount per acre. Or you do shares. The key is to have a lot of land that you own and have to pay rent on.
As the goverment got involved in farming since the 80 s they wanted the way of get big or get out
Fewer farms period .
Love their vids yes… but as their farm gets bigger and bigger. Smaller guys don’t get a shot at farming like they used to. Yes the resources are there but not the ground
Amen!
I thought that way for a long time and still do. The thing to think about is how many entities are involved on that farm. Chet, Doug, Randy, Doug and Randy’s dad is still involved slightly from what I understand, and Erik. So you’ve got 6 entities just working together. As strange as it may seem a lot of the big farms have more family members working it than the smaller farms
@@hulmestannerVery true. But. With that there’s so many hands in the pot. Cheap commodity prices can only go so far. Especially when it’s split 6 ways!
@@Metallicgray_6.7 Same way to say that the expense is split up too and the risk per person isn’t as bad. I’m not saying it’s all perfect but there’s a give and take with everything like that. My dad and grandpa could have stayed at 800-1000 acres but there was no extra income for me brother and I to come back if dad didnt expand
Big Agra, has eliminated most family farms, and mechanization has eliminated most farm jobs. Most of the rural American farms, ans farm communities no longer exist.
In reality, land is being farmed by family farmers, we're just larger operations now. It's very easy for most farmers to take on another piece of land. The machinery just keeps getting bigger and better.
"Big Ag" doesn't own or operate the land. In my state, and several others, it's actually illegal for corporations to own land.
Bigger farms buy out or rent the smaller guys that can’t compete. Less actual farm families. Pretty simple.
Big farmers are buying up the small farms and don't care about the little guy, so sad, money and greed 😢, they think bigger is better, and people complain about alge in lakes, thank you big farmers 😠
Fewer farm daddies and mommies makes for fewer farm kids. It’s not rocket science! In order for the big to keep getting bigger, the small farms have to go away.
Farm kids are rich and lazy.