I read through the comments and can tell that many of the commenters never worked on a farm or owned a farm. I was the child of Okie Migrant workers who came to California in the late 30s. I went to help in the fields at age 5. Later in life I farmed 320 acres of my own ground here, farmed being in the past tense. Never again... It's far easier to sell out your land and/or water rights to developers or big cities needing water and go make a living doing something that pays better and demands less hours. CO will see more of that as the CA mindsets eventually controls your state through its population centers in big cities there. ... Best wishes to this young farmer and his family.
he's not struggling for survival tho.. he's trying to block regulations that would require him to pay his workers fair wages and overtime.. and crying poor to get your sympathy when we should actually be on the side of the workers..
@bmay282 Maybe that's true, but business is hard and also farming is hard. Some years a tough on profits for farmers. We need them along with workers. Governments needs to understand that when passing laws.
@@Precious05b .. ok, but right now most farms in our country are operated by big industrial businesses.. and they're really the ones to blame for running smaller farms into the ground, not labor costs .. government can help by modernizing the farm aid laws to support real farmers instead of subsidizing giant corporations.. meanwhile, workers have got to stand up together in solidarity.
I grew up in Colorado on a ranch and know how hard it is to survive this industry. Best way to make a good profit and pay your workers a livable wage is to get rid of the middle man and sale directly to the stores.
Everything gets marked up after it leaves the farm or ranch. The producers aren't getting any of those inflated prices we have seen for a couple years. Blame king soopers and safeway.
I agree, everyone gets a cut after it leaves the farm, but I don’t blame Kroger / Safeway...it’s our government causing inflation...Harris said it herself, bread & ground beef up 50% since 2019...that ain’t Kroger’s fault.
Yeah! Nevermind the fact that the Federal Reserve is pumping so much fiat currency into the market that our national debt grows by a trillion dollars every 100 days and wastes that money on foreign wars, protecting the borders of other countries and not our own, gender studies in Pakistan and other nonsense that people such as you can virtue signal over. But blame the corporation instead because you don't understand economics
@@jesseellington342 Are you nuts? First, you need to understand currency and exchange rates. Then, understand that local currency has more buying power than foreign currency. When I was overseas, visiting a country America had recently ravaged, Iraq, the exchange rate was $1/dinar1000. Yet, I could purchase a dozen pieces of Samoon bread for dinar30. So, 3 cents for a dozen pieces of flatbread. And it's cheaper to putchase food here, you say?
That’s what happened here in Minnesota. Democrats regulated and killed the small family farmers. A lot of the farmers around me shut down and took on jobs and you drive around the country side and amazing how much has changed.
@MilePost106... Obviously, you forgot about tRump's trade wars, the "Farmers bailout" funded by taxpayers, the high cost & shortages of fruits vegetables & meat. Amazing how long it takes to recover from stupid mistakes!
@@kel5944In california, Farm Workers used to be able to work 60 hours a week or 10 hours per day before overtime kicked in. Now it is 8 hours a day 40 hours a week. Those who passed this law proclaimed that it would help the farm worker take home more pay. What happened, for a great majority of the Farm Workers, was they now only work 8 hours a day for 5 days and they actually took home less money per week.
I live just south of Olathe The crop last year wasnt good from what I heard. We quit eating corn probably 10 years ago due to GMO and glyphosate Living in Olathe may cause you to get cancer from the crop dusting corn fields.😮 Very hard to find Organic corn due to bug infestation of the crop.
It's becoming like california so many regulations they will be forced to sell to foreign investment then they will just let the land lay fallow or sell to cement house development because remember were short of housing right? instead of being short of food and other countries supply that! and take the water rights this farmer has.. If you live in CO you might understand.
I'd buy 1 dollar per corn. My price range for fresh corn is between $1 to $2 per corn. Three for $1 is total disrespect for the whole process: Mind as well have slaves working on the farm if that's the price of corn you're asking for. It is very hard and time consuming to grow and harvest corn successfully. People need to respect that and it needs to reflect in the price.
That's corporate garbage to gain more profits. I'm in the blueberry field, and in the last two years, the payroll went up 41%. And I have made more profits. Be fairs. Or be a corporate
maybe he could skirt it by allowing his workers to "volunteer" to pick the rest, and then let them take home a percentage of it? Or open up a "Pick your own" during certain hours.
One glaring difference that I see is that the going price at all our local Farmer's Markets here in Jersey is $1.00/ear....and we are buying it. We agree Farmers and their workers should make a living. Farmer in the video is a monoculture operating on a huge scale and selling to the Middleman..3 for $1.00 to the Customer. There's the problem. Scale down diversify U-Pick Direct sell at markets...put any and all ideas on the table for consideration. Survival does not go to the fittest...it goes to those who can adapt to change.
Easier said than done as each crop requires different inputs of machinery, labor specialists, fertilizer, water etc. the multi crop system is by definition less cost effective.
@@CharlesCurran-m9p Agree with you...what he needs to do in any way will not be easy. By the report, if he keeps going the way he is going he will be out of business.
The thing he is a farmer as far as I can tell. He isn’t another business manager or I guess it would be equivalent to a CEO. If he were to say he worker out in the field like all the other workers/ farmers then it would be more accurate to call him a farmer. Heck, if he and his family were really that concerned about how much corn got picked, he would be out there in the field as well. I personally have a hard respecting anyone who doesn’t put in a hard days manual labor.
@@cheesecakefan4880 so they till the eggs and larvae into the soil for the next crop…. Pests don’t just die because you fed their food source to cows or goats.
When the democrats start killing you with regulations, sell the farmland, pocket the money and retire. Go on unemployment if you can. Get on medicaid if you can. Suck everything out of the "free money" system that you can. OR, in Colorado, get a job and take 3 months off every year via the FAMLI Act. I was a dentist. I'm 44. I closed my office and sold my building for 2 million. 12 staff members lost their jobs. I took unemployment insurance until it ran out. I got a fun job. However, I "hurt my back" and needed 3 months off to recover (paid BTW, and guaranteed job when I returned). The FAMLI act is absurd. I'm taking 3 months off every year. It appears as though I'm going to have some mental health issues beginning in September 2024.
@@mrbob19561selling it on the corner would be the better option in my opinion. Picking my own pumpkins and strawberries is fun. I used to live across the street from a corn field as a kid. I’ve played in and around it a lot. Corn isn’t fun to walk through. It’ll cut you. That could add additional liability.
3 ears for $1.00! That is very inexpensive and it makes you wonder how much the farmer earns after assuming all the risk. The middleman has very little risk, stating the obvious.
Farmers should to raise prices and let the customers wholesalers eat it. With the recent price increases everyone did better but farmers and ranchers are still locked to a crooked comdities market.
Do you know how hard it is to find ANYONE to do field work ?? What people (NOT laborers) you can get you have to work extra hours for the people you cannot find to hire.. Cannot raise pay because #1 the consumer won't pay higher prices and #2 When that overtimes hits you just can't afford it.. Overtime pay was basically a "Fine" to NOT work people over 40 hours.. Now this fine is costing jobs..
@@tomwillis9051 all kinds of laborers were dumped in every major city, pretty sure there is some program to hire them without being charged I know economics
This how employers continue to get away with underpaying employees. They act like their the victim of some overreaching government when, if there were no oversight at all, you know they'd go back to paying us in scrip, if not at the end of a barrel.
Both sides of this conversation are idiotic. First, the republic makes a bogus claim, and tells us to vote for a dictator, and then the democrats say to vote blue, which is good, but they give no explanation at all, likely making the republican want to vote for Trump even more due to the fact that republicans in this day and age are bigoted ignorant stubborn fools…
Everyone seems to be blaming the democrats policies, when this has been happening for quite awhile. When Trump takes office he is going to drill, drill, drill to increase oil production to bring down gas prices, which will bring down the cost of everything. So he says. Colorado's federal lands are in his crosshairs, so they should be proud to be able to contribute to lowering the cost of living for some Americans.
I guarantee you he is not. I live just south of Olathe Lots of corn out here being sprayed by a crop duster all summer😮 Terrible really Because it becomes airborne Fine particulate people are breathing into lungs These are the ppl that get Cancers
overtime is too expensive, it's lose/lose. People who want more hours to feed the family can't get more hours, and businesses can't staff enough hours. 1.25 would be much closer to win/win than 1.5.
@@cj1645 Yes, I agree - the employer and employee should mutually agree on hours per week. Win/win. I still like the 1.25, some people need more work and need to make more money to get the bills paid.
He cuts his own hair, what in the world does that have to do with anything. Guy trying to be a commercial farm and failing at. Pay your employees bud and quit whining
@@coloradoelkhunter7367 yea, unfortunately there are too many jello spined sheep to look into his track record and see the big names he took on in our defense and for us already. He isn't a showboater or mud slinger, he is legit and y'all don't know how to handle that
Go bankrupt. When the demand is there the public will pay. Shut the doors , sell off the land and equipment. Retire with all that money from selling everything.
What about a U Pick option for customers? People can walk the fields and pick their own corn. Add apple orchards and strawberry fields and pumpkin patches.
Sweet corn isn't as easy as apples, strawberries, and pumpkins. A field of sweet corn will last about 7 to 10 days depending on the weather. Picking corn is a lot different because of the cuts you get if picking in the afternoon. The insurance also goes higher if you let people pick their own from the field. All it takes is a couple of injuries and you lose the insurance all together. Juice isn't worth the squeeze. Most farmers around my area including me have gotten away from you pick all together. Seemed like a good idea at the time though.
So very, very, very appreciative of our farmers in CO and in the States.
I read through the comments and can tell that many of the commenters never worked on a farm or owned a farm. I was the child of Okie Migrant workers who came to California in the late 30s. I went to help in the fields at age 5. Later in life I farmed 320 acres of my own ground here, farmed being in the past tense. Never again...
It's far easier to sell out your land and/or water rights to developers or big cities needing water and go make a living doing something that pays better and demands less hours. CO will see more of that as the CA mindsets eventually controls your state through its population centers in big cities there. ... Best wishes to this young farmer and his family.
The city of Aurora and other municipalities are prime examples. What will happen with out farmers?
I didnt have to read comments to know that not only farmers would be commenting.
A wholesome farmer, a wholesome family. He should be doing very well, not struggling for survival.
he's not struggling for survival tho.. he's trying to block regulations that would require him to pay his workers fair wages and overtime.. and crying poor to get your sympathy when we should actually be on the side of the workers..
@bmay282 Maybe that's true, but business is hard and also farming is hard. Some years a tough on profits for farmers. We need them along with workers. Governments needs to understand that when passing laws.
@@Precious05b .. ok, but right now most farms in our country are operated by big industrial businesses.. and they're really the ones to blame for running smaller farms into the ground, not labor costs .. government can help by modernizing the farm aid laws to support real farmers instead of subsidizing giant corporations.. meanwhile, workers have got to stand up together in solidarity.
Thanks for feeding our nation! Blessings.
I grew up in Colorado on a ranch and know how hard it is to survive this industry. Best way to make a good profit and pay your workers a livable wage is to get rid of the middle man and sale directly to the stores.
Wait until Golden buys all of the farm land in Rocky Ford for the water rights...
Everything gets marked up after it leaves the farm or ranch. The producers aren't getting any of those inflated prices we have seen for a couple years. Blame king soopers and safeway.
I agree, everyone gets a cut after it leaves the farm, but I don’t blame Kroger / Safeway...it’s our government causing inflation...Harris said it herself, bread & ground beef up 50% since 2019...that ain’t Kroger’s fault.
Yeah! Nevermind the fact that the Federal Reserve is pumping so much fiat currency into the market that our national debt grows by a trillion dollars every 100 days and wastes that money on foreign wars, protecting the borders of other countries and not our own, gender studies in Pakistan and other nonsense that people such as you can virtue signal over. But blame the corporation instead because you don't understand economics
Good food ain’t cheap. Americans aren’t used to that concept. We spend far less on food than most countries. The Walmart effect.
I dont think that is necessarily true. Food in many other countries is cheaper
@@jesseellington342 Are you nuts? First, you need to understand currency and exchange rates. Then, understand that local currency has more buying power than foreign currency. When I was overseas, visiting a country America had recently ravaged, Iraq, the exchange rate was $1/dinar1000. Yet, I could purchase a dozen pieces of Samoon bread for dinar30. So, 3 cents for a dozen pieces of flatbread. And it's cheaper to putchase food here, you say?
That’s what happened here in Minnesota. Democrats regulated and killed the small family farmers. A lot of the farmers around me shut down and took on jobs and you drive around the country side and amazing how much has changed.
Heaven forbid we pay people overtime for working overtime…
@MilePost106... Obviously, you forgot about tRump's trade wars, the "Farmers bailout" funded by taxpayers, the high cost & shortages of fruits vegetables & meat.
Amazing how long it takes to recover from stupid mistakes!
@@kel5944In california, Farm Workers used to be able to work 60 hours a week or 10 hours per day before overtime kicked in. Now it is 8 hours a day 40 hours a week. Those who passed this law proclaimed that it would help the farm worker take home more pay. What happened, for a great majority of the Farm Workers, was they now only work 8 hours a day for 5 days and they actually took home less money per week.
@@kel5944cool, no corn for you
@kel5944 why do you want family farms to fail?
All of the Democrat regulations are really working out for America
IF IN WASHINGTON look for Kallstrom Sweet Corn . In Moses Lake , Ephrata , Quincy & Wenatchee or on the farm
Wenatchee is beautiful
Cherries for days❤
I live just south of Olathe
The crop last year wasnt good from what I heard.
We quit eating corn probably 10 years ago due to GMO and glyphosate
Living in Olathe may cause you to get cancer from the crop dusting corn fields.😮
Very hard to find Organic corn due to bug infestation of the crop.
It's becoming like california so many regulations they will be forced to sell to foreign investment then they will just let the land lay fallow or sell to cement house development because remember were short of housing right? instead of being short of food and other countries supply that! and take the water rights this farmer has.. If you live in CO you might understand.
Too stupid to be real!!😂🤣
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I'd buy 1 dollar per corn. My price range for fresh corn is between $1 to $2 per corn. Three for $1 is total disrespect for the whole process: Mind as well have slaves working on the farm if that's the price of corn you're asking for. It is very hard and time consuming to grow and harvest corn successfully. People need to respect that and it needs to reflect in the price.
This is how big corporations use government price controls to crush family owned businesses.
How much do the workers get paid?
That's corporate garbage to gain more profits. I'm in the blueberry field, and in the last two years, the payroll went up 41%. And I have made more profits. Be fairs. Or be a corporate
Farming is tough…
Yes Sir that's the way farming was not anymore. I was raised on a farm!!
Maybe we shouldn’t subsidies growing mono crop corn fields across the country…
I would pay $1.50 for 3.
God forbid workers get paid a living wage.
Well I guess price fixing will solve all of their problems…..no more corn. I guess he should start to learn computer programming for a living.
maybe he could skirt it by allowing his workers to "volunteer" to pick the rest, and then let them take home a percentage of it? Or open up a "Pick your own" during certain hours.
Volunteer?!?! 😂 Beyond a Stupid comment. Go work your job for free
One glaring difference that I see is that the going price at all our local Farmer's Markets here in Jersey is $1.00/ear....and we are buying it. We agree Farmers and their workers should make a living. Farmer in the video is a monoculture operating on a huge scale and selling to the Middleman..3 for $1.00 to the Customer. There's the problem. Scale down diversify U-Pick Direct sell at markets...put any and all ideas on the table for consideration. Survival does not go to the fittest...it goes to those who can adapt to change.
Easier said than done as each crop requires different inputs of machinery, labor specialists, fertilizer, water etc. the multi crop system is by definition less cost effective.
@@CharlesCurran-m9p Agree with you...what he needs to do in any way will not be easy. By the report, if he keeps going the way he is going he will be out of business.
3 for $1, gobble up
The thing he is a farmer as far as I can tell. He isn’t another business manager or I guess it would be equivalent to a CEO. If he were to say he worker out in the field like all the other workers/ farmers then it would be more accurate to call him a farmer. Heck, if he and his family were really that concerned about how much corn got picked, he would be out there in the field as well. I personally have a hard respecting anyone who doesn’t put in a hard days manual labor.
I have a bee farm and I am my own employee.
Unharvested corn becomes nurseries for next year’s pests…
They put cattle and sheep in those fields to eat it and clean it up over winter
After thats done they till in whats left in spring.
@cheesecakefan4880
The eggs are laid in the unharvested corn. If 1% of the corn bugs live, that's 1% to many
@@cheesecakefan4880 so they till the eggs and larvae into the soil for the next crop…. Pests don’t just die because you fed their food source to cows or goats.
When the democrats start killing you with regulations, sell the farmland, pocket the money and retire. Go on unemployment if you can. Get on medicaid if you can. Suck everything out of the "free money" system that you can.
OR, in Colorado, get a job and take 3 months off every year via the FAMLI Act.
I was a dentist. I'm 44. I closed my office and sold my building for 2 million. 12 staff members lost their jobs. I took unemployment insurance until it ran out. I got a fun job. However, I "hurt my back" and needed 3 months off to recover (paid BTW, and guaranteed job when I returned).
The FAMLI act is absurd. I'm taking 3 months off every year. It appears as though I'm going to have some mental health issues beginning in September 2024.
Heaven forbid we pay people overtime for working overtime.
Millionaires taking Unemployement until it runs out is a perfect example of what’s wrong with this country.
@@kel5944but you voted for that to happen
@@jacobiwolf77 I voted for the lesser of two evils. What did YOU vote for?
@@kel5944 to get people off the government dole
They charge$ 5 for 2 corns. I think you are surviving fine
Maybe supermarket mark up..drive down there. Buy it ..don't mark up as high and have fun and sell on a corner
@@mrbob19561selling it on the corner would be the better option in my opinion. Picking my own pumpkins and strawberries is fun. I used to live across the street from a corn field as a kid. I’ve played in and around it a lot. Corn isn’t fun to walk through. It’ll cut you. That could add additional liability.
3 ears for $1.00! That is very inexpensive and it makes you wonder how much the farmer earns after assuming all the risk. The middleman has very little risk, stating the obvious.
Maybe they need a better business model if it's so unprofitable?
Farmers should to raise prices and let the customers wholesalers eat it. With the recent price increases everyone did better but farmers and ranchers are still locked to a crooked comdities market.
More laborers= less overtime
Do you know how hard it is to find ANYONE to do field work ?? What people (NOT laborers) you can get you have to work extra hours for the people you cannot find to hire..
Cannot raise pay because #1 the consumer won't pay higher prices and #2 When that overtimes hits you just can't afford it..
Overtime pay was basically a "Fine" to NOT work people over 40 hours.. Now this fine is costing jobs..
@@tomwillis9051 all kinds of laborers were dumped in every major city, pretty sure there is some program to hire them without being charged
I know economics
@@tomwillis9051pay a competitive wage and you’ll be able to hire as many workers as you want.
@@katiesioux7757no, you do not understand economics at all
@@jacobiwolf77 lmfao oh bubba whatever you say
This how employers continue to get away with underpaying employees. They act like their the victim of some overreaching government when, if there were no oversight at all, you know they'd go back to paying us in scrip, if not at the end of a barrel.
@@rdavis5853 Justin have you ever seen a farm?We grind our corn up as cattle feed rather than deal with the government.
Where's your facts
@@rdavis5853I’m pretty sure corn is the most heavily subsidized crop the US grows…
@@mrbob19561the evidence is in this video. The farmers don’t want to pay their workers overtime…
@@alancarter8574 oh i know. I remember how American farmers have been allowed to grow Greed without any Moral supervision.
YOU PICK PROGRAM? People will bring their families, it’s cash in your pocket.
Regulations which needs to stop. Please do not vote Democrat
Vote Blue!!💙💙
Lmao you’re stupid. Trump want tax haven for billionaires, and for small, middle class families to burden those taxes.
Yeah, then Trump will deport all those hard working people and he can pick his bug infested corn himself.
Harris 2024!!! 🇺🇸 🔵
Both sides of this conversation are idiotic. First, the republic makes a bogus claim, and tells us to vote for a dictator, and then the democrats say to vote blue, which is good, but they give no explanation at all, likely making the republican want to vote for Trump even more due to the fact that republicans in this day and age are bigoted ignorant stubborn fools…
Probably genetically modified corn anyway.
All corn has been genetically modified in the last 200 years…the corn they ate is nowhere near the corn we eat now
This is not good news for the crows.😅
Everyone seems to be blaming the democrats policies, when this has been happening for quite awhile. When Trump takes office he is going to drill, drill, drill to increase oil production to bring down gas prices, which will bring down the cost of everything. So he says. Colorado's federal lands are in his crosshairs, so they should be proud to be able to contribute to lowering the cost of living for some Americans.
Let's not sell 3 for a dollar in city market. Make it 2 for a dollar.
Worms? How about this he grasshoppers?
Labor 3 shifts
If you can't afford to pay your workers properly, you don't deserve a business
A lot of workers aren’t worth what they get paid
Like the restaurants that had to close because of California's minimum wage law
@@masonite1973 exactly
American corn is one of the worst things you can eat also soybeans almonds so many ,,,,,,
As long as the weed harvest is ok we should be fine.
Is he a ‘no pesticide’ farmer?
I guarantee you he is not.
I live just south of Olathe
Lots of corn out here being sprayed by a crop duster all summer😮
Terrible really
Because it becomes airborne
Fine particulate people are breathing into lungs
These are the ppl that get Cancers
Corn isn’t produce.
Yea, they keep it in the bakery next to the rolls.
Let him go bankrupt if he can pay his workers. Thay are like family is only so they can cheat them and not feel guilty.
overtime is too expensive, it's lose/lose. People who want more hours to feed the family can't get more hours, and businesses can't staff enough hours. 1.25 would be much closer to win/win than 1.5.
@@cj1645 Yes, I agree - the employer and employee should mutually agree on hours per week. Win/win. I still like the 1.25, some people need more work and need to make more money to get the bills paid.
Roccos corn is better
“Biden/Harris Did That”!!’
Another lie.
This has been going on for years. Farmers get rich off tax subsidies paid by “us” the taxpayers. They get paid whether they have a good crop or not.
We love your corn and would pay more for it. Best of luck to your farm and workers.
He cuts his own hair, what in the world does that have to do with anything. Guy trying to be a commercial farm and failing at. Pay your employees bud and quit whining
😮💨😔
Labor shifts
Bidenomics at there best.
I like how corporate news thinks it is “bad” this business owner is not able to make more money by exploiting his labor like he did in the past!😂
Get a job
@@masonite1973 ok ret@rd!
RFK for president 2024 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
He’s nearly as bad as Trump and he’s a psychopath.
oh, is HE running?
No to 🇮🇱
@@danielgriffith8911he’s only ahead of me by 2 points and I’m not even running.
@@coloradoelkhunter7367 yea, unfortunately there are too many jello spined sheep to look into his track record and see the big names he took on in our defense and for us already. He isn't a showboater or mud slinger, he is legit and y'all don't know how to handle that
👎☹️
Go broke!😂
Bidenomics
Go bankrupt. When the demand is there the public will pay. Shut the doors , sell off the land and equipment. Retire with all that money from selling everything.
What about a U Pick option for customers? People can walk the fields and pick their own corn. Add apple orchards and strawberry fields and pumpkin patches.
Won't work corn has to be picked clean
@@mrbob19561 That’s BS and you know it
Sweet corn isn't as easy as apples, strawberries, and pumpkins. A field of sweet corn will last about 7 to 10 days depending on the weather. Picking corn is a lot different because of the cuts you get if picking in the afternoon. The insurance also goes higher if you let people pick their own from the field. All it takes is a couple of injuries and you lose the insurance all together. Juice isn't worth the squeeze. Most farmers around my area including me have gotten away from you pick all together. Seemed like a good idea at the time though.
Vote Blue 💙💙
you don't understand 😢...
I guess those borders aren’t as open as you say they are.
VOTE 💙💙 BLUE!!
My vote has no value
If these workers are family pay them overtime
I guess those borders aren’t as open as you say they are.