Dawn To Dusk | A Short Film About Farming and Family in the Midwest
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- Dawn To Dusk is a compelling short cinematic film focused on farming and family. What is it about living in the country that brings families together?
This short film was shot in Iowa during harvest season in the fall of 2017. The farmer and his family lives a complex life. From feeding cattle, working hogs, driving truck, and growing crops, farming is a lifestyle that requires around the clock work. So what is it about working from dawn to dusk, and sometimes later, that makes a farmer so happy with their life?
Listen to inspirational farming stories about raising family on a farm, creating your own destiny, and living off the land while watching 4k drone harvest footage in this short film about harvest.
This harvest film, which takes place in Remsen, Iowa is dedicated to Lee Grage and Joe Staab, two farmers who recently passed within the last year.
A very awesome video. It's actually one of the best farming/ag video I've ever seen on RUclips. Go ahead!
Greetings from germany
Alex E
= Kiwi farmer breaks world record with monster wheat crop & Subsidy Free.!!!
it's good to have the record back in New Zealand again.".crop producing 17.398 tonnes per hectare,= New wheat world record at - [ 258.8 B/Acre ]-= (6.93t per acre-).;..Guinness World Records after producing the world's highest-yielding crop of wheat
@t 2020 HARVEST - Canterbury Kiwi-,Volgs - New Zealand ..ruclips.net/video/vHcg7nTDsxE/видео.html .
Farming is More satisfying than any Office job
"If you can't get up, get up an hour earlier and work an hour later" I love that!
That sounds severe work addiction
I totally understand the part about the whole family working. I'm 15 and out in the field mowing tedding raking and picking up bales until sometimes 3 am before the rain comes. Never a day off. City kids don't understand what we do. Thank you for this video.
Sounds like you love what you do!
@@brende_films yes I do. Wouldn't have it any other way. God bless and stay safe.
Most people don’t realise how important you are in life. Without you and people like you we’d all be farmers. And frankly your abused by society financially. But thank you for the food on my plate.
@@codyplagerman8215 I have the same passion as you do about farming. I was born and raised in Las Vegas NV and we don't have any farming here but I wanted to be a farmer all my life. For 5 years I would leave Las Vegas at 4am to drive to Salt lake City Utah in my 2008 Chevrolet Kodiak with a 53ft gooseneck flatbed trailer to pick up 400 2 string bales of hay to bring back to Las Vegas before I was home with the load of hay all of it was already sold. The day's I wasn't hauling load's I would be in the field helping with whatever they need done. I did all this with a broken neck and back because I got hit by a drunk driver. I would do anything to work on another farm. The owner of the farm I worked for died and the family lost everything that they had. I miss everything about farming Because every single day was different no matter what
@@cntslesfabrication you get it. We work when no one else wants to and do the stuff that needs to get done. I'm sorry about what happened. Keep your head up and keep workin. God bless and stay safe.
To be a farmer is not just a job. To be a farmer is a kind of "LIVESTYLE" !!!
Farmed 61 years raised our 4 kids like you our sons know farm 3500 acres there wives are awesome love it
Boys harvesested 300 acres 55bu beans yesterday amazing
It’s sad to see very little farmers anymore and they are under-appreciated
May God Bless them. I grew up on a farm and how I wish I was there once again
I'm from rural Pennsylvania and this portrays the American farmers beautifully. Too many people don't realize the hard work, the compassion and brilliance of a farmer. My daughter moved to Nebraska after college to continue her love of this life. She fell in love with cows. I don't know many with bigger hearts or harder work ethics than farmers. Thank you for capturing how special farmers are.
While I am eating couscous made of corn semolina for lunch . In Morocco we plant corn but these last 20 years the harvests are very poor because of the drought .So;
we import most of grains from the USA . The American society should be proud of you ;you guys feed the world
best regards
I love how you work with nature, not against it.
For me, theres nothing better than seeing the sun set when I'm in the wheat field, loading the cart then carting it to the sheds. Man, that's just so satisfying
Farming is a hard life, but very peaceful. Enjoyed the video, thanks for feeding America 🇺🇸👍👍🌽
Thank you Famers ( that's ladies and gents) for putting this film together
and the long hours to finish harvest.
I'm praying that you prosper in soul, body and finance this year
God's grace.
There’s nothing more rewarding than good old hard work! Loved this video, thanks for sharing.
I now hear my true calling, as God intended from the beginning, to eek a living off the land, the family farm.
Well put Jeff!
The entire world owns the Midwest farmer ... endless respect and admiration. The Midwest Farm is the most under appreciated human on the earth. How my babies and families are fed, because these families are good at farming?
God Bless the Family Farmers
If it wasn't for my dad in all the farmers of the world we wouldn't be here today I just want to say it just doesn't come from a store it comes from the heart of these hardworking people that dedicate their lives every day for us and if the farmers reason this right now 2021 is a crappy year for farmers but they will always get around it as they work hard like I just want to say do all the farmers in the word small farmers in the big farmers thank you I want to be a farmer like my dad work right beside him everyday and when when I have kids I will always show them the ways the I've been teach Thank You farmers thank you Dad
The American farmer ... the most under appreciated human on the Earth. From a Illinois farmboy who became a mechanical engineer ... I prefer to be a Farmer.
= Kiwi farmer breaks world record with monster wheat crop & Subsidy Free.!!!
New Zealander, - Guinness World Record for the highest wheat yield with a crop producing 17.398 tonnes per hectare,{2.47acres} .www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/122074530/kiwi-farmer-breaks-own-world-record-with-monster-wheat-crop .. The kerrin wheat is to be milled for flour, or goes into feed for pork, chicks & cattle.. - 2020 HARVEST - Canterbury Kiwi-,Volgs - New Zealand ..ruclips.net/video/vHcg7nTDsxE/видео.html .
A great piece of work there! I wish I had grown up in a farming family. The hard work ethic, the love of God & family.
I come from a family farm and I can really relate. I don’t farm now but I understand your rewards and heartaches. Thank you for all you do.
Bless you GOD, all the Midwest families.
Love from IRAQ.
Beautiful video. Made think about my great grandpa and his farm. I wish he wouldve lived long enough to share that joy with me
Great agricultural video , awesome cinematography, perfectly done
Greetings from India 🇮🇳🇮🇳farm community
Really captures the whole family effort it takes to run a farm. Harvest being hopefully the most exciting time. Hard life, stressful, long hours, all on a gamble
Very good movie. I enjoyed this a lot! A good mix of real and sentimental
I always want to be a farmer thank you
Great video!
Excellent video! 👍👍
Beautiful footage & incredible storytelling.!
My hat is off to such hardworking folks.
Thank you for sharing.
Love. It!!! Shared ot with my senior friends. It brough back great memories for everyone.
thats great to hear! thanks for sharing
Really enjoyed this. God bless the farmers.
Real American Legends.
If you ever made this available as a download or dvd I bet people would buy it. I know I would!
So god made a farmer..
Awesome movie! Love it.
Outstanding!!! Thanks for sharing a small part of the great lifestyle of American Farmers. It always amazes me how people that live in my agricultural driven community look down on farmers. I’m proud to be an American Farmer!!!! God bless us all.
Love this!!! I have farmed for 45 years
Thank you.
Always feels proud of being a farmer.
Great tribute to the American Farmer !!!! Educational 1
Awesome video, reminds one of the reasons we are doing it for, besides all the trouble with Politics, uneducated consumers and other city folks and other day to day problems!
Go ahead!
Greetings from North West Germany
B.K.
Thanks for watching!!
Thank you for this video
Dawn at dusk. a romantic name for the small film but very gratifying to see the work being performed with joy I am not a farmer but I work with irrigation systems I am electrotechnical amount of irrigation pumps I do installations of Pivot VALLEY and other Brazilian brands I work a lot at night usually until the body can see the stars as you know we see different ceilings because I live in the southern hemisphere and you in the north, we have the common only the American continent, I thank you for sharing a little of your life and families ( Saudações de Brazil) Greetins from Brazil
Thanks for sharing Antonio! I'm sure you found some of this film relatable.
started feeding calves when I was 3 or 4, was driving tractor raking hay at 5.... been running day to day operations since I was 16 or 18.... so I guess I've been at it for 50 years.
up until June 26, 2018, dad was still in charge.... he dealt with all the BS.. government paperwork, land owners, marketing, making sure we had everything we needed to get things done.
been almost thirteen and a half months. Mom's the boss now, and I've had to take over about 90% of the BS dad did. I have all the headaches now.
would I trade it for the world? No!!!!!
are we struggling? YES!!!
why?? same reasons as everybody.... can't get good help (given up on that!!! it's just family now). Input prices are too high, crop prices are too low, this is the second year in a row that production is down (half of normal yields last year, about a third of normal this year).
why do we do it? because that's what we do. we feed the world!
thank you for the awesome video!!!!
great content, great editing!!!
How's the yield this year?
I’ll stick with playing video games all night and sleeping all day lol
@@bigd158 2019 was 1/3 to 1/2 of normal.. we ran out of hay before pasture..
@@ryanjones9498 that would drive me Crazy.. LOL
@@GosselinFarmsEdGosselin dam I feel for you man
Let's go #FARMERS#WORLDWIDE WE HAVE TO FIGHT AS ONE
Brende,
My Dad was born and raised in Plymouth County, Iowa. Remsen is his home town. Thanks for the documentary!!
that's awesome! Where did he end up moving to?
@@brende_films, Aberdeen, SD.
awesome !
Your farm is amazing. You can see the pride that you take into your work.
This is very moving! I'm on the early stage of my families path.....and this pushed me further!
you got it!
Absolutely loved this, great work man! As a fellow Iowan and next generation farmer, this really hit home with me. Once again great work!!
+Caleb Moore thank you Caleb! I wanted to make it relatable to as many people as possible!
My grandparents had a poultry farm my family had a small farm plus all my neighbours were tobacco, strawberry and cotton farms.i remember helping out at my grandparents and earning some money during the summer helping out the neighbors but I think more strawberries ended up in my tummy.😜 It's hard but a very rewarding experience.
thank you for sharing that!
The harvest is so romantic.
Wow what a great video. I would say one of the best farm videos I’ve watched. I guess I’m subscribing
Wow, thanks!
God bless our American farmers thank you, I love it too
Man I want to live in the country. I’m sick and tired of the city, people exhaust me. And that starry night looks beautiful, something you don’t see in the city
Being able to see the stars is something I don't take for granted
god bless iowa! great job dude
Looking for some more of the farming interview videos I wish you would make more like always enjoy watching it
Appreciate the words! I've been doing more commercial and travel/adventure work. Though this is still one of my favorite videos I've made!
Dawn To Dusk is a beautiful, touching film! Josh Brende, your work is extraordinary! Please, keep making films!!!
+David O'Shields thank you David!!!
Such a great video!
Very well done video
Totally awsome put together video,I used to work in the Riverina of New South Wales in Australia,we harvested wheat,barley,oats,lupine,canola and field peas,similar country,same people(with a different accent),the backbone of the nation,without a doubt. You my friend captured the essence of this life,well done
Thank you James! I'm sure there is a lot of similarities in the culture and lifestyle of farming in different areas of the world. I'm glad this video not only speaks to farmers here in the Midwest, but across the globe as well.
James Zeschke i’ve never heard of lupine, what is it ?
This is awesome
Really amazing cinematography, can't believe you're only at 23k views. Great interviews with real men.
Thanks David, this has gone from 1,000 views to 23k in about three weeks. Hoping it keeps it's momentum!
Hey you’re up to 84k views!!! Way to go!
@@farmboydavid7596 one year latter,
Up to 190k views.!!!
Great video Josh. As a fellow NW Iowa farmboy (Hull), it was good to see the farmers back home at work. I really miss the harvest. Would love to jump back in a tractor and haul corn to the bin into the late hours of the night.
Thank you, Kevin! Harvest is a special time of the year!
Very well done sir! Nice to have a meaningful video without the stereotypical music soundtrack. It's great to hear from the farmers and hear the equipment. Hope you can do another one!
Thanks Brandon! I never had any intention of this video turning into what it did while I was filming. Just kinda winged it.
@@brende_films Well good luck with your future projects. Belive me there is a big desire for work like that. If you ever did a full documentary it would huge!
That was incredible I'm a truck driver and I like see a story on farming and trucking how it all comes together loved the video thanks for sharing
Very well done! I enjoyed watching your video.
thanks Keith!
God bless the farmer
Wonderful! I live close to remsen, I feel this. Deeply. Thank you
This is such a lovely video, and, for me, a wonderful affirmation of what I do, as well. I'm a food historian specializing in the Midwest, and in the books I write, I love showing how so much of what happens in food production is family focused, from farms that stretch back for generations to associated business that are also family concerns. It's so much of what makes the Midwest strong. I really enjoyed watching this and "meeting" these farmers and look forward to seeing other videos you create. Thank you.
I'm glad you are able to relate to this, Cynthia! One of my goals was making this relatable to people in Iowa, as well as educational for those who did not grow up in a farming community.
Just watched this a second time. Noticed the name Remsen, and looked that up. Made me sorry I didn't see this when it was first posted, because I spent October driving around Iowa, giving presentations on corn history based on my book, Midwest Maize -- and I spoke in Orange City and stayed in Le Mars, so was just minutes away from your location. Made me wonder if I drove past any of the farms in your video.
Amen this hit home I’m a farmer from Michigan and it is so true all the back breaking work we have to do every day and then some
Hey
Sry that was my brother
Wow, truly breathtaking, by far one of the best ag videos out there
Very good video wish they were more like this that tells the story of farming thank you for narration of this video
Appreciate it Chuck! I was tired of the montage farming videos with music and wanted to create something that had a little more meaning.
Brende l Ian am to you done and excellent job look forward to more of your videos thank you again
thanks for this it is the perfect way to sum up farming
Thank you so much!
Real life farming video , brought back fine memories of my uncle and aunt on their farm
This is a great video! I love the narration you've done here! Keep it up! ;)
As a farmer's son I would love to experience one harvest in the USA, here in Belgium everything is so tight and small we rarely have space to pass each other, nevermind driving with duals or big tractors like you guys.
I'm proud to say that I grew up on a farm and learned skills that will help me throughout my life.
God bless every farmer and every person who is good to us.
That was a great video I'm honestly surprised it doesn't have more view keep up the good work
I have watched this video several times as I absolutely love it.
Thanks Chris, thats great to hear it's something you can watch more than once!
This is an amazing short film
Love this thank you
Impressive, and excellent camera work.
It's great to wake up to the horizon 👍🍻🍺🌏🇦🇺Lowood Queensland Australia is mate
Excellent video. And some amazing land
It will always be home.
only one word "excellent"
I want to thank these farmers.
My father used to tell me, when my country was ravaged from *famine.* we brought the grains from the America.
Much respect & greetings from *India.*
Watching again is just like watching it the first time excellent job on making this video
thanks Chuck!
thanks Chuck!
An awesome video, and a compelling presentation. As a soldier, i have seen the hard work needed
to keep things going without all the help needed, and the perseverance of those who feed the rest
of us. We appreciate what you do, and are forever in your debt. All these videos about this subject have given me so much respect for all you do, and I say we'll always be in debt to the farmer.
Appreciate the kind words Bud!! That means a lot.
damn!!! what a good video we farm in the netherlands and farming in the usa is a big dream for me hopefully next year i will pass my exams for school and go to the usa for a few months
Thank you! Best of luck!!
Excellent video.
great film, thank you
SAVE FAMILY FARMS !!!!!!!
beautiful insightful and wholesome : )
Thanks for sharing something I've always wanted to do
I love farmer and I am also intrested in farming
West of Paraná state BRAZIL 🇧🇷 very good video
Beautiful film! Greetings from Sweden
Thanks for the love!!
neat video
i baled hay the summer between 5th and 6th grade because there was nobody else to drive while dad stacked the bales on the wagon
Incredible Documentary - Subscribed For More! 😎👍
Thank you!!