Rene from Little Farm Store here, and I just want to say thank you for the research and information you generate. We love how you continue to educate people about the realities of farming and lo al food. As a direct to consumer platform ourselves, offering opportunities for a wide variety of Farm goods to get to consumers, we really appreciate this public education about the food system. We enjoy working with you as partners and love how our missions align so exactly.
I truly appreciate your support, Rene! It’s an honor to collaborate with Little Farm Store and help spread awareness about the importance of local food and farming.--Shelley
I don’t have a farm, but I do grow my vegetables and raise bed gardens in my backyard in the winter. I grow as much as I can indoors. Growing my own vegetables at least tells me where it comes from. Thank you for this video.
Thank you so much for sharing your gardening journey! It's inspiring to see how dedicated you are to growing your own food, especially during the winter months! We don't garden in the winter...but it would be wonderful to have those fresh veggies year round.--Shelley
I agree that you should avoid government contracts, Just keep doing what you do. I just traded my garden produce for eggs from a nurse I work with. She has chickens and I feed them with my garden. Thus, I get free eggs. I only get my eggs from locals. Support your locals. I DO!
It's awesome to hear that you're supporting local growers and trading produce! Building community connections like that is so important. Keep up the great work!--Shelley
Personally I think they already have huge power over commodity croppers that they will ignore the carrot and small farmers. They will focus on convincing folks that UPF is healthy, there is already an effort to do this. There won't be a carrots in school option... it will be sugary cereals and processed 'fruit' bars
Thank you for sharing your thoughts! It's important to have these discussions and spread awareness about the impact of processed foods on our health and the farming community.--Shelley
Wow 81% to nutrition programs? I didn't know that. And unfortunatley with those programs, people are often getting highly processed foods. My mom's family were farmer's in Oklahoma. Most of them, if not all, are no longer farming today.
It's surprising how many nutrition programs lean towards processed foods instead of whole, fresh options. The shift to processed commodity food has definitely changed the landscape of nutrition. Leading us to a healthcare crisis never witnessed before in recorded history.--Shelley
As a gardener I have found my production costs considerably more than I can buy the same quality! Notice I said nothing about quality being equivalent! In interesting side bar is the visual appeal of purchased produce is more appealing due to chemicals being used. I take my inefficiency every time!!! I totally agree with you.
It's like the age-old debate: do you want a perfectly polished tomato or one that’s bursting with flavor? I’ll take the flavor powerhouse any day!--Shelley
The "Farm Bill", what an example of the appalling waste of tax payers' money. School lunch programs don't use fresh vegetables in their kitchens. Everything is either canned or frozen or some other way processed, and requires very little knowledge to put "food" before the students. So, how does the hypothetical carrot or potato farmer sell their products directly to schools. The schools wouldn't know what to do with it. It wouldn't even get composted and returned to the earth.
Unfortunately, commercial kitchens at schools want to deal with one vendor not multiple vendors so the carrot farmer who is set up yo grow, harvest, and store the harvest now needs to wash the carrots, peel the carrots, bag, the carrots, and refrigerate the carrots. And those fresh carrots will only have a very short shelflife. Hence, the reason commercial kitchens want canned foods. Imagine every farmer now in the commercial canning business with a retort pressure tank. Now OSHA gets involved on the farm. The pea producer, lettuce producer, etc. in every region only has a limited growing season unless you’re in the far south or central Valley of California. I hope your video gets circulated widely.
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Thank you. Eye opening stuff you've shown us. A bit scary. All this information. How is any of this real? I grew up in the 80's and life was honest.
Thank you for your kind words! I'm really glad you found the content meaningful. It's always a pleasure to share insights that resonate with viewers. It can be quite scary...the 80's were good to us, too!!--Shelley
Hey, it's mare again, I'm on the east coast of New Brunswick , Canada, literally across the road from the beach. My province makes it illegal to live off grid. We can have solar power, but we must be connected to the grid. So the power company can be that sleazy middle man. Some have tried to fight it in court, but to no avail. New Brunswick is the only bilingual province, and the French make it impossible for English to make political headway. English have to take French tests to qualify, but French don't have to take English tests...severe power imbalance.
@@air2groundfarms a big part of what we are doing is teaching kids how to grow their own food indoors through our Bucket Buddies book series. The aim is to reduce reliance on big grocery chains.
In central Illinois we are fortunate to a have local meat market in our town. We also have Springville Farms that has beef, chicken, pork, lamb. And we have Amish stores/ butchers about 20 min from us.
Thank you for sharing your local favorites! It’s always wonderful to hear about the great food options available in communities around our nation! So awesome you have great resources in your backyard!!
The processing plant problem is tremendous. We need the PRIME act to make it to the senate and then pass. Removing USDA inspector requirements would allow peer2peer sales of beef/lamb/goat/pork to become so much better in every way. Culling time, processing time, packaging, refrigeration and delivery to customer would be 1000% faster, more efficient, would cut the size of feed lots down, would drop the costs of getting the food from pasture to plate down by a huge margin. Its so wasteful that we have to pay a guy to be in the processing plant, who gets more than the food handlers, and does nothing but grade the carcass. Doesnt help with moving beef, doesnt help clean up, doesnt do sh*t but drive up the price by being salaried and mandatory. Meanwhile, we have mobile processing trucks that are inspected by the USDA, that can process, but we can't sell that meat. Personal consumption only until PRIME passes.
Oh, I agree and then some. Rich, I like the term of soft collectivism. I also think that we are heading into fascism with the oppressive government regulation. One of the tenants of fascism being, a free market society with overwhelming government control/regulation. With regards to buying a whole cow, for me, it's more than the price advantage. It is having the supply on hand vs. having to head to the store constantly. My property is not to far from yours and when I start living there it would be beneficial to have a stock of meat to eat off of. Particularly on a carnivore/animal based diet. 😁
It's interesting to see different perspectives on government regulation and its impact on our freedoms. Having a stock of meat can definitely provide peace of mind, especially with a carnivore diet!
Processing is a real problem - largely due to regulations! I can't get lamb around here - I know a local sheep farmer, but the one facility that used to process sheep for him discontinued sheep . . .due to the fact that the facility has to be stripped down and cleaned before they process a different species. The next closest facility is too far away to be practical. I worked in a processing facility that only handled wild game, and only for hunters who kept their own deer . . . we literally could not legally process a cow, as we did not have a USDA inspector on hand, and weren't subject to the same inspection levels as a commercial facility. But even wild game processors are few and far between.
You're absolutely right! The regulations around processing can be really restrictive and make it difficult for local farmers to get their products to market. It's a challenging situation, for sure, and unfortunately we need giant policy changes to correct this local food market pain point. --Shelley
We used to have a government supported council for different products for instance, a milk producer wil be part of a coop and they will give a average producing cost for a litre of milk.That will set the price, the whole value chain will also get monitored by this council, so every sector will get a fair deal. If you don't have a controller or a controlled market, someone will bully someone
Thank you for sharing that insight! It's fascinating to see how policies from the past continue to shape our agricultural landscape today. The good, the bad, and the ugly, LOL...--Shelley
Wind and solar farms? Last summer a very large solar farm here in Nebraska was wiped out by a hail storm . . . so was one in Texas. They claim that the broken panels were recycled, and replaced . . . I didn't know you could "recycle" solar panels! As I understand it, they become toxic waste - same for wind turbines. I'd prefer to see a real farm, rather than fields of reflective squares or towering windmills! It seems that when you run the real numbers, without government subsidies they'd lose more money than a regular farm.
You raise some valid points about the challenges of solar and wind energy. It's definitely important to weigh the environmental impact and economic viability of these technologies compared to traditional farming. I'll take traditional or rather regenerative farming ALL DAY, EVERYDAY!!--Shelley
Majority of the farming is not profitable because it is subsidized crops. I do not believe that an off farm job is that shocking when you think both parts of the household must work and this is probably not figured into this report. The farmers and the chemical companies are responsible for environmental health degradation. They know it, and are shuffling to keep position during the transition to actualize the truth of impact. I wouldn't glorify the work too much. Corn, soy, peanuts and all are just economic fodder for a system that is highly imbalanced, wasteful and biased towards a particular sect of corporations.
Thank you for sharing your insights! It's important to have these discussions about the realities of farming and its effects on both the environment and communities.
So if the carrot farmer isn’t able to fulfill the contract, due to weather or whatever, will government men with weapons and permission to kidnap with violence take over the farm?
@@air2groundfarms sorry that wasn’t a jab at you, it was at the percentage number the department of agriculture came up with. I guess I don’t think it’s that high, I would like to see the parameters, are they including hobby farms in this as well? Things like that.
@@jlkkauffman7942yes. I bought grass seed once, 3 yrs ago to fix my pasture for my personal cow stock. I'm on a list and the USDA and FSA mail me as a farm now.
Anyone who fills out a schedule F for tax purposes would be considered in this group of farmers, so yes all of your hobby farms are in there. Which messes with the numbers. I am not saying that hobby farmers should not be counted as real farmers but a lot of people that live in the country will have a couple animals and now they have a business and a lot of tax deductions and are not really looking to make money as a farmer.
I asked Alexa the question is wheat high priced. the A.I said it is very high! My wheat is $5.40/bu. When I started farming in 1973 it was $2.70. That is 8 cents per one pound loaf. Most city people want free wheat! That $5.40 of wheat makes 70 lbs of whole wheat bread yet it is causing inflation! Marxism is just around the corner.
Thank you for sharing your experience and insights from your farming journey! It’s always enlightening to hear from those who work directly with these commodities. Your perspective is valuable!
@@air2groundfarms It's an indoor/ outdoor hybrid farm using Aeroponic Tower Farming methods, Vermicomposting, Aquaponics, etc. too much information to share here.
@@air2groundfarms I'm not bagging on traditional farming or you guys, I think you're great 😃 I'm bagging on the cost of traditional farming because of inflation and buying fertilizer, pesticides, heavy machinery etc.
Rene from Little Farm Store here, and I just want to say thank you for the research and information you generate. We love how you continue to educate people about the realities of farming and lo al food. As a direct to consumer platform ourselves, offering opportunities for a wide variety of Farm goods to get to consumers, we really appreciate this public education about the food system. We enjoy working with you as partners and love how our missions align so exactly.
I truly appreciate your support, Rene! It’s an honor to collaborate with Little Farm Store and help spread awareness about the importance of local food and farming.--Shelley
Thanks for explaining everything so well. I agree with you. We need to eat our own food. Not food from another country.
Thank you so much for your kind words! It's great to see others passionate about supporting local food. --Rich
Wow! I had no idea. 😮Thank you for sharing all the information that you do. Keep sharing with us!
I'm glad you found the information helpful! We love sharing what we learn, and there's plenty more to come!--Shelley
I don’t have a farm, but I do grow my vegetables and raise bed gardens in my backyard in the winter. I grow as much as I can indoors. Growing my own vegetables at least tells me where it comes from. Thank you for this video.
Thank you so much for sharing your gardening journey! It's inspiring to see how dedicated you are to growing your own food, especially during the winter months! We don't garden in the winter...but it would be wonderful to have those fresh veggies year round.--Shelley
Thank you for the information. Love the channel ✌️❤️
Our pleasure! Thank you!--Shelley
The government could breakup the monopolistic meat packers to get more of the profits back to the farmer. Don't hold your breath.
This needs more views
Government needs to just leave us farmers alone
Stop cashing their welfare checks errr I mean "subsidies" would be a great start 🙄
I agree that you should avoid government contracts, Just keep doing what you do. I just traded my garden produce for eggs from a nurse I work with. She has chickens and I feed them with my garden. Thus, I get free eggs. I only get my eggs from locals. Support your locals. I DO!
It's awesome to hear that you're supporting local growers and trading produce! Building community connections like that is so important. Keep up the great work!--Shelley
Personally I think they already have huge power over commodity croppers that they will ignore the carrot and small farmers. They will focus on convincing folks that UPF is healthy, there is already an effort to do this. There won't be a carrots in school option... it will be sugary cereals and processed 'fruit' bars
Thank you for sharing your thoughts! It's important to have these discussions and spread awareness about the impact of processed foods on our health and the farming community.--Shelley
I set notifications on ❤ looking forward to hearing more of your perspective.
Awesome! Thank you!
Nothing changes without holding those who corrupt government accountable to justice.
Wow 81% to nutrition programs? I didn't know that. And unfortunatley with those programs, people are often getting highly processed foods. My mom's family were farmer's in Oklahoma. Most of them, if not all, are no longer farming today.
It's surprising how many nutrition programs lean towards processed foods instead of whole, fresh options. The shift to processed commodity food has definitely changed the landscape of nutrition. Leading us to a healthcare crisis never witnessed before in recorded history.--Shelley
Stay private.
Stay local.
Send your kids to school with a lunch
As a gardener I have found my production costs considerably more than I can buy the same quality! Notice I said nothing about quality being equivalent! In interesting side bar is the visual appeal of purchased produce is more appealing due to chemicals being used. I take my inefficiency every time!!! I totally agree with you.
It's like the age-old debate: do you want a perfectly polished tomato or one that’s bursting with flavor? I’ll take the flavor powerhouse any day!--Shelley
The "Farm Bill", what an example of the appalling waste of tax payers' money. School lunch programs don't use fresh vegetables in their kitchens. Everything is either canned or frozen or some other way processed, and requires very little knowledge to put "food" before the students. So, how does the hypothetical carrot or potato farmer sell their products directly to schools. The schools wouldn't know what to do with it. It wouldn't even get composted and returned to the earth.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts! You bring up some very valid points!!--Shelley
Unfortunately, commercial kitchens at schools want to deal with one vendor not multiple vendors so the carrot farmer who is set up yo grow, harvest, and store the harvest now needs to wash the carrots, peel the carrots, bag, the carrots, and refrigerate the carrots. And those fresh carrots will only have a very short shelflife. Hence, the reason commercial kitchens want canned foods. Imagine every farmer now in the commercial canning business with a retort pressure tank. Now OSHA gets involved on the farm. The pea producer, lettuce producer, etc. in every region only has a limited growing season unless you’re in the far south or central Valley of California. I hope your video gets circulated widely.
Thank you. Eye opening stuff you've shown us.
A bit scary. All this information. How is any of this real? I grew up in the 80's and life was honest.
Thank you for your kind words! I'm really glad you found the content meaningful. It's always a pleasure to share insights that resonate with viewers. It can be quite scary...the 80's were good to us, too!!--Shelley
23:12 its not about being the huge change, its about fixing your local problems and scaling that model globally. Youre doing great 👍
Thank you!
Hey, it's mare again, I'm on the east coast of New Brunswick , Canada, literally across the road from the beach. My province makes it illegal to live off grid. We can have solar power, but we must be connected to the grid. So the power company can be that sleazy middle man. Some have tried to fight it in court, but to no avail. New Brunswick is the only bilingual province, and the French make it impossible for English to make political headway. English have to take French tests to qualify, but French don't have to take English tests...severe power imbalance.
Hey Mare! We look forward to reading your comments! You always add value to the discussion. Thank you for sharing what's going on in your area. --Rich
You seem very professional, nice transition from military to youtube farmer.
I really appreciate your kind words! It’s been a rewarding experience, and I’m excited to share my journey with everyone.
@@air2groundfarms ruclips.net/user/shortsnAaaJqMIdt4?si=fBEOoQvCRJBi76qB
This is why I am doing what I'm doing. I hope people can jump in to help us.
That's awesome! Tell us more... --Rich
@@air2groundfarms its called the S.M.A.R.T F.A.R.M.S G.R.O.W.T.H initiative.
Sustainable
Modern
Advanced
Renewable
Technology
Fruit Trees
Aeroponics
Regenerative
Manure Recycling (Vermicomposting)
Soil-Free Farming (Aquaponics)
Geothermal Energy
Resilient Ecosystem
Organic Practices (Vermicomposting)
Water Conservation (Aquaponics)
Technology Integration
Harmony (Integrated Systems)
@@air2groundfarms a big part of what we are doing is teaching kids how to grow their own food indoors through our Bucket Buddies book series. The aim is to reduce reliance on big grocery chains.
Very COOL!! What a great life skill. One of the main reasons we have a garden is to teach our youngest daughter, Makaylah, how to grow her own food.
In central Illinois we are fortunate to a have local meat market in our town. We also have Springville Farms that has beef, chicken, pork, lamb. And we have Amish stores/ butchers about 20 min from us.
Thank you for sharing your local favorites! It’s always wonderful to hear about the great food options available in communities around our nation! So awesome you have great resources in your backyard!!
The processing plant problem is tremendous. We need the PRIME act to make it to the senate and then pass.
Removing USDA inspector requirements would allow peer2peer sales of beef/lamb/goat/pork to become so much better in every way. Culling time, processing time, packaging, refrigeration and delivery to customer would be 1000% faster, more efficient, would cut the size of feed lots down, would drop the costs of getting the food from pasture to plate down by a huge margin.
Its so wasteful that we have to pay a guy to be in the processing plant, who gets more than the food handlers, and does nothing but grade the carcass. Doesnt help with moving beef, doesnt help clean up, doesnt do sh*t but drive up the price by being salaried and mandatory.
Meanwhile, we have mobile processing trucks that are inspected by the USDA, that can process, but we can't sell that meat. Personal consumption only until PRIME passes.
Oh, I agree and then some.
Rich, I like the term of soft collectivism.
I also think that we are heading into fascism with the oppressive government regulation. One of the tenants of fascism being, a free market society with overwhelming government control/regulation.
With regards to buying a whole cow, for me, it's more than the price advantage. It is having the supply on hand vs. having to head to the store constantly. My property is not to far from yours and when I start living there it would be beneficial to have a stock of meat to eat off of. Particularly on a carnivore/animal based diet. 😁
It's interesting to see different perspectives on government regulation and its impact on our freedoms. Having a stock of meat can definitely provide peace of mind, especially with a carnivore diet!
Ypu are doing the lords work ❤
Thank you!!
@@air2groundfarms Thank you!
Processing is a real problem - largely due to regulations! I can't get lamb around here - I know a local sheep farmer, but the one facility that used to process sheep for him discontinued sheep . . .due to the fact that the facility has to be stripped down and cleaned before they process a different species. The next closest facility is too far away to be practical. I worked in a processing facility that only handled wild game, and only for hunters who kept their own deer . . . we literally could not legally process a cow, as we did not have a USDA inspector on hand, and weren't subject to the same inspection levels as a commercial facility. But even wild game processors are few and far between.
You're absolutely right! The regulations around processing can be really restrictive and make it difficult for local farmers to get their products to market. It's a challenging situation, for sure, and unfortunately we need giant policy changes to correct this local food market pain point. --Shelley
Talk to Gabe Brown!
North Dakota
What makes me furious is you don’t know what country your organic meat comes from! Yikes😮
So true!! --Rich
We used to have a government supported council for different products for instance, a milk producer wil be part of a coop and they will give a average producing cost for a litre of milk.That will set the price, the whole value chain will also get monitored by this council, so every sector will get a fair deal. If you don't have a controller or a controlled market, someone will bully someone
That's interesting! Thank you so much for sharing your insights!
The government setting the price of your crop started way back in the early fifties with the allotment program .
Thank you for sharing that insight! It's fascinating to see how policies from the past continue to shape our agricultural landscape today. The good, the bad, and the ugly, LOL...--Shelley
Growing hydroponically doesn't necessarily mean its less nutrient dense. If youre using quality nutrients it can be just as good as soil grown food.
Thanks for the clarification! Always looking to learn from the people actually doing it.
There is so little money in farming in the USA the government needs to take over farming. And send the National Guard.to due the work
That is an interesting idea, for sure!!
Wind and solar farms? Last summer a very large solar farm here in Nebraska was wiped out by a hail storm . . . so was one in Texas. They claim that the broken panels were recycled, and replaced . . . I didn't know you could "recycle" solar panels! As I understand it, they become toxic waste - same for wind turbines. I'd prefer to see a real farm, rather than fields of reflective squares or towering windmills! It seems that when you run the real numbers, without government subsidies they'd lose more money than a regular farm.
You raise some valid points about the challenges of solar and wind energy. It's definitely important to weigh the environmental impact and economic viability of these technologies compared to traditional farming. I'll take traditional or rather regenerative farming ALL DAY, EVERYDAY!!--Shelley
If govt controls our food were screwed
MAKE SURE GOVERNMENT DOES NOT LEVY MANDATORY TAXES TO PAY FOR IT
Many times the Secretary of Agriculture will call himself the Secretary of Welfare.
Good Grief!!!
Majority of the farming is not profitable because it is subsidized crops.
I do not believe that an off farm job is that shocking when you think both parts of the household must work and this is probably not figured into this report.
The farmers and the chemical companies are responsible for environmental health degradation.
They know it, and are shuffling to keep position during the transition to actualize the truth of impact.
I wouldn't glorify the work too much.
Corn, soy, peanuts and all are just economic fodder for a system that is highly imbalanced, wasteful and biased towards a particular sect of corporations.
Thank you for sharing your insights! It's important to have these discussions about the realities of farming and its effects on both the environment and communities.
@@air2groundfarms yeah, down 30 pounds and some new notches in my belt.
Exactly.
No government
So if the carrot farmer isn’t able to fulfill the contract, due to weather or whatever, will government men with weapons and permission to kidnap with violence take over the farm?
That's an interesting line of thought for sure.
Crazy life ain't it.
Funny! I don’t know of any farmer who has an off farm job.
Interesting!!
@@air2groundfarms sorry that wasn’t a jab at you, it was at the percentage number the department of agriculture came up with. I guess I don’t think it’s that high, I would like to see the parameters, are they including hobby farms in this as well? Things like that.
@@jlkkauffman7942yes. I bought grass seed once, 3 yrs ago to fix my pasture for my personal cow stock. I'm on a list and the USDA and FSA mail me as a farm now.
Anyone who fills out a schedule F for tax purposes would be considered in this group of farmers, so yes all of your hobby farms are in there. Which messes with the numbers. I am not saying that hobby farmers should not be counted as real farmers but a lot of people that live in the country will have a couple animals and now they have a business and a lot of tax deductions and are not really looking to make money as a farmer.
I asked Alexa the question is wheat high priced. the A.I said it is very high! My wheat is $5.40/bu. When I started farming in 1973 it was $2.70. That is 8 cents per one pound loaf. Most city people want free wheat! That $5.40 of wheat makes 70 lbs of whole wheat bread yet it is causing inflation! Marxism is just around the corner.
Thank you for sharing your experience and insights from your farming journey! It’s always enlightening to hear from those who work directly with these commodities. Your perspective is valuable!
There are new, more intelligent ways to farm. It's not as expensive as traditional farms make it out to be.
We'd love it if you shared what you are doing. Tell us about your farm! --Rich
@@air2groundfarms It's an indoor/ outdoor hybrid farm using Aeroponic Tower Farming methods, Vermicomposting, Aquaponics, etc. too much information to share here.
@@air2groundfarms I'm not bagging on traditional farming or you guys, I think you're great 😃 I'm bagging on the cost of traditional farming because of inflation and buying fertilizer, pesticides, heavy machinery etc.
Gotcha! All great stuff!
Communist?
Government needs to keep their nose out of farming