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- Опубликовано: 23 май 2019
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Love the intro!!
Great stance on everything and I applaud you for sticking your neck out there and telling your opinion!
James Schwinghammer outro is way better nothing like beer at a graduation
I agree 💯
@li jiang they play dirty by selling us kids toys with lead paint, they force companies doing business with China to divulge the technology or secrets behind that products then make a cheaper pos version of it. That's just a few. Oh also flood the market and illegally trade sub par metals undermining U.S. steel
@li jiang biggest issue with China is the theft of intellectual property and sub par things they flood the market with
@li jiang your cheap labor is why we have a hard time competing but then again y'all are a step above a mushrokm and brainwashed
I admire your eloquent handling of all communication you present your followers. Thank you for remaining mature and respectful in what is so often turned so vile.
Not a farmer but live literally in the middle corn, cotton, bean and peanut fields(surrounded on all sides). Love your videos, love learning, and love the terminator cat!
Bravo man, it is refreshing to see genuine people still exist.
I need to put request in my will to have my tombstone read "Hey. Are you alright?"
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absolutely my favorite MMF joke. I look forward to it every video!!
Wouldn't it be "No...I'm not alright."
Well said Zach. Great explanation!! Love the content.
At this time China have been destroying hogs to the sum of a total amount of hogs in EU and USA. This will eliminate China from importing grains for hog feed. Also China bought USA Smithfield meat producer.
Farmers don't "mail in" their work, and don't want "mail in" income. Proud American. Thank you.
He clearly works very hard for what he has and deserves every bit of it, most people wont work 16 hours a day on average 7 days a week for years. They are too lazy, then i see comments about how rich he is over a Corvette, do you know how hard most farmers work, He deserves a few more corvettes per year based on how hard he works daily
@@dajhrm I wish that was my corvette!!! Lol, that was Dad's, I don't have anything like that! I appreciate the kind words though
@@MillennialFarmer support your opinion 100% I was happy on election night as well
But they'll gladly take it nevertheless and rant and rage when people in the cities get benefits. Healthcare, roads education, housing? Who needs that? Trump and the Republican party just bribed the crap out of the farm States. It's why 3 million more votes in urban America didn't count. As one who respects the hell out of the work farmers do, I resent the hell out of how the rest of the country suffers for Trump's moronic trade wars, but farmers get bribed.
Maybe, instead of preaching to America how valuable farmers are to America, maybe you should wake up and see how valuable the cities and urban America is to farmers.
I've watched this for years. Farmers think they are the true Americans and to hell with everyone else.
@@nikolatesla5553 If you had the intelligence of Tesle, you would not make such comments.
I always enjoy your videos. You do a great job. I am not a farmer but I really enjoy watching your daily videos. Thanks for all your hard work
I am 34 and work in Minneapolis (I run an IT department). Do I know anything about farming? Nope. Do I want to learn about farming (which absolutely means all aspects - political or whatnot)? Hell yes! I may not agree with things you say, but I am grateful for people like you to teach me different ideas and opinions. Thank you for making your content. I hope the weather gets better!
As a Canadian I much appreciate hearing thoughts from people who are directly affected by government policy
I'm offended.... By that windshield on that 4-wheeler!
Greetings from a fellow centrist!
110% agree with you. Thanks for putting it out there.
Seriously dude you crack me up! Love your videos I know it takes a lot of effort. Who we see I videos is who you really are. Keep up the great work and good luck to you and your family this season. I have friends in the Midwest still with nothing planted yet. Going to be a rough year for our farmers. As if every year isn’t rough right. :)
There's always going to be someone out there that will bitch about everything. Just keep up the hard work. Farmers are what made this country great and people need to realize that. Thank you for being one of those hard working farmers.
Not sure how I got to your channel but I'm glad I did. I worked on a farm in south west KS from 91-98 and loved every minute of it. Had to move back to FL to keep my family together. Keep up the good work. God Bless you all!!
I am not a farmer but I am a retired veteran and very proud to be an American and 100% agree with your thoughts. Keep up the great work you do to feed Americans. I do raise garlic which is a great cash crop-I have 1,200 heads planted and will be harvesting it around July 13, 2019. Love your videos keep it up. Worked as an electrical engineer and electrician for 55 years. Great videos you are a lucky man with a lot of life in front of you!!!!
Thank you for your service sir!!
Totally agree with you Zack. Keep doing what you do. Best of luck. Great videos!
Zach, This is a great great video. I’ve watched enough of your vids to know that “politics” is not what they are supposed to be about, nor should they be. That being said it’s educational to get the perspective of someone who is being directly affected by this administrations’ policies. In this era of hyper partisan politics any commentary or discussion about any of this is a slippery slope indeed. Kudos to you for the honesty and courage to address this issue. Good job.
Well said Mr. Carpenter! Having watched so many of the Millennial Farmer videos it's very clear to see the kind of person that Mr. Johnson is. Too often people associate political stances as a judgement of a persons' character and that simply isn't reality. Like the Millennial Farmer, I consider myself straight down the middle as far as politics go. I have many friends on both sides of the "aisle" and they are all good people.
I have never seen how the bins get cleaned out before. That sweep is pretty cool. I’m learning more and more as I watch your channel!! Thanks!!
As to the mail box payments you discussed, your position makes perfect sense to me.
As a farm boy, since sold the cows and rent out our land, I totally enjoy your videos. You are one of the mot down to earth people, and you make your videos so fun to watch... Keep up the good work, and we are all praying for a little break in the weather! We are soaked here in Wisconsin also!!
I'm glad that you have an opinion, I respect your opinion even if it not exactly the same as me. Thanks for showing how far reaching these things are.
Respectful discourse is what Democracy is all about. Blocking others opinions is not. You understand this....but the ones that don't, ON BOTH SIDES, are not good for our nation.
Best farming channel on the ol' RUclips!
Great video. I farm 900 ac of corn / beans in northern IL. Have been able to plant 1 day (April 26) this spring. Fair comments on the market facilitation payments. The 150 ac I have planted looks great. See what the next 3 days bring relative to more rain. We are normally 105 tp 113 day. Will be going to shorter. I guess now I know where it will be coming from. Keep up the good work.
Keep doing what you do bro! We need more farmers! Glad to see you keeping the family farm going!
Thank you for speaking your mind. keep up the good work!
Dude, politics aside, you do whats best for your livelihood and your family
Well said!
I grew up on a farm in Idaho 50 years ago driving Massey Ferguson and two cylinder John Deer tractors. I have not driven a tractor in over 45 years. I am watching these videos because I find it very entertaining, and the Millennial Farmer family puts a smile on my face. I am also amazed at what tractors and combines can do now days. In may day boredom and freezing my butt was the name of the game. Great Job - key on farming!!
One of the best channels I can say that I have learned a lot about farming and the economic effects that it has on farmers. Thank you for doing this, stand proud with your values.
I absolutely love your attitude! You clearly work your tail off and are extremely intellectual about your political thoughts. I didn't really hear a Democrat or Republican view. Instead I heard a view that is pro AMERICA!!! Thank you
Zach, that was an excellent explanation of the current situation, keep on doing what you are doing! Love your content and look forward to more videos
Outstanding explanation of the business part of farming that most people don’t see! I grew up in Colorado farm country a jillion years ago and as a youngster who lived in town I just thought farmers climbed up on a tractor and rode around all day and fed cattle and set irrigation pipe. Having you explain what goes into a decision of what and when and where to plant along with subsidies yes or no, help provide context and depth to what our nations farmers cope with. Plus I really enjoy your sense of humor And how you use it to sustain yourself when things go wrong. Keep up the excellent work!
Farmer.Jock here. Zac I whole-heartily support your blog.keep up the common sense your wise words are what townies need to hear.
I fought to defend your right to voice your option. I lost friends for that right, and suffer from a back problem for your right. So, you keep on voicing your option. As for us here in Oklahoma, we will just keep on floating in the flood waters (the lakes and rivers came to us this holiday) until it's over then get back to farming.
Where I live, or close to it, is mostly cattle and hay farming
Currently, my father is hay baling at his fathers
You love what you do and you’re taking a stance on what you want to see happen.. I’m a farmer in norther Michigan and kind of the same thing is happening here especially with corn.. so it’s great to know that you’re stance a the same as mine. Thank you
I appreciate your candor and VOR (voice of reason) in communicating the difficult balance in dealing with the challenges of farming along with government “trying to help” with well-intended subsidies. You have articulated various complicated issues that affect farmers at the grass roots. BTW, we’re down here in central Indiana farming country, and I can’t remember a wetter spring. There is hardly any corn or beans planted, and of course more rain continuing in the forecast. Glad you got in as much as you have. Great job Zach, and keep on keeping on!
Thank you for being honest and truthful. I love this channel and I love following along! Keep it up Zach
As a retired farmer I agree with what you said 101% .China doesn’t play fair with their trade, the big difference between us and them is that we care about our people where they don’t.😎
That is a complete false statement. Has nothing to do with China, the way the US is now has everything to do with the USA not being competitive anymore.
American businesses have given them that leverage, because we have moved so much manufacturing to them in search of greater profits. China knows what their hand is and Trump is about 20 years too late and those manufacturers are not coming back.
@@FoolOfATuque , Some are but definitely not the ones who's products are so cheap and monotonous to produce. American workers will not make NIKE shoes here because, those workers require too many benefits. Nike shoes would be abouy 1000$ if they were made here.
@@Galactis1The San Antonio shoe company makes their shoes in San Antonio Texas for about 200 a pair and doesn't have near the volume of Nike. Nike just chooses to make them there, because they can pay workers pennies and rake in the profits. Until now the US has been able to keep China at bay, but China has played the long game. Since opening up their country they have turned around and invested the money American companies spent there on infrastructure, supply chain, and education. All while we have cut our system to the bone and shackled our middle class with debt. Now the US is waking up to what they have been doing and unfortunately it is too late. This is what happens when you have bought and paid for politicians and not a true democracy.
@@FoolOfATuque , Except we don't live in a democracy. That's partially true. The only one to blame is the US for allowing it.
I have to say you are one of the best for explaining things about farming and how things work. Thank you for sharing your point of view.
Your programme is excellent. Factual, in formative very interesting. I am based in the South West of England. I am not a farmer but find your channel really interesting. By the way you have a lovely family.
"I'm so far down the middle that I make everybody mad at me."
Welcome to that club and I hope we find some more to join.
Well done.
I can definitely relate to that.
It’s been awfully wet this year. We didn’t get the planters in the field here in Indiana till mid June.
First time commenter, thank you so much for this one.
Well spoken and I now understand so much more than I did before. About farming, your situation, the economy and quite frankly the country in general.
You shared much more than you had to, but it just holds true to how open, honest and decent you have proven yourself to be. Keep up the good work!
I have learned a lot about farming from your channel, and I grew up in a farm area. As to your views, I also find it educational as well. Thank you for sharing your business with us
I appreciate how honest you are, I’m tired of people being republican or Democrat. I’d much rather people be American. I won’t chew you out though 😂
take note dumb guy..republicans are and have always been,American..its progressive shitstains that want to change america
@@herbyverstink , Will Stivers makes a great point, we have too much of this partisan political crap. This is not Democrat or Republican issue, this is an extremist issue with both sides. Zack, also makes some great points. Tariffs don't work long term. As a negotiation tool, yes they work, but long term or rather the longer they go on they hurt us, Americans in general. Unfortunately like Zack said, China has been playing dirty for decades. The issue there is Democrats and Republicans have ignored the issue because it has benefited a few areas, companies and individuals and now it is a real threat to our national security. So, don't fall in to the trap of oh, it's ALL Democrats or ALL Republicans, because that simply is not the case, it's the extremists on both sides. I agree with some of Trumps assertions, some, but others not so much. That is his problem, he acts like if people don't back him on everything they are traitors or unAmerican. I am tired of people making everything a political party issue and taking a position that everything a particular party does is great, that simply is not true. I respect Will and Zack for being moderate and willing to talk and be honest. We need to get back to working out our differences rather than yelling and screaming at each other and not really doing anything. Just saying. It's my opinion and you can disagree. Again personally I agree with Will and Zack and I don't think being middle of the road is a bad thing even though it seems to piss off a lot of people.( I voted for Trump, but I won't be voting for him again. Despite the fact I agree with him that we have had our head in the sand on a few areas, he doesn't have the temperament to be President to put it professionally. We need someone who isn't bat shit crazy to put it bluntly. Someone who can debate the issues, change people's minds and be open to changing their position as well if the facts so warrant it and willing to put Americans first. But I came here to discuss farming and now I talking politics.)
@@Kabel717 I'm with you on this i want to move forward with the republican and democrat politics it gets the American people nowhere at all
Thank you for explaining this from a farmer’s point of view. There are far too many people out here that don’t know squat acting like experts.
@@Kabel717 Chad, that crazy guy has made the Economy much better and my small 401K has done really well these last almost three years. You state that you will not vote for Trump again. Then who? Who can do better. Can you?
Actor ?! You are the millennial farmer my friend and that’s why I watch every episode/upload! Keep it up ! We all enjoy every video on RUclips that is uploaded.! #MILLENNIALFARMERFORLIFE!!!!!!
Thanks for the insights -- and wisdom. And hoping things improve this year.
I appreciate your thoughts and honesty and I have Great respect for your willingness to take a stand. I’m praying for you your family and all farmers who do great work for our country. God bless. Chip
Love your videos and honesty. Hopefully the people watching can leave politics to other channels and just enjoy your insight and humor.
At this time China have been destroying hogs to the sum of a total amount of hogs in EU and USA. This will eliminate China from importing grains for hog feed. Also China bought USA Smithfield meat producer.
Your lawn looks great bro!
Zach Please remember there is more money in mud than dust! This is coming from an Australia farmer who is loving the current drought here in Eastern Australia! Buying irrigation water and hoping the heavens open on the dry land crops! Most of the country out here was planted dry! Thanks for the video!
I appreciate your opinion. The reason I follow you is to hear what farmers go through and what they think! I wish I could’ve been a farmer!!! Great video as always!
No chewing from me. You have a good sense of what you have to do to survive in this tough time for farmers and other businesses associated with farming
Farmers are as real as it gets !! Well most anyway !! They get out what they put in. That is real work.
Like most farmers I know, you are intelligent and eloquent. And your kids are adorable. Every year is a battle; this year, with the cold wet weather and the trade disputes, our farmers are caught between a rock and a hard place. Keep up the fight. And thank you for feeding the world.
You are doing a great job... as an 84 year old ex MN resident, I like following the honest Midwest people. I grew up in SW Minnesota and understand your view points.
Keep voicing your opinions!🙏 I love seeing the high quality farming videos and the way you explain the need for certain farming practices but we also need your honest and unfiltered views on politics laws and policies. By doing this you will help us to be better informed to make the decision for who and what is best for our country
Hey Zach, I recently subscribed to your channel, great content, keep it up! Hope you get a break in weather and the ground starts drying out. PS You do very decent Arnie voice imitation. :)
I fell in love with your educational programming. I had not realized how hi-tech farming has become nor aware of the expenses involved. The American farmer is truly a magical thing.
It was 91 here today and it’s supposed to be in the 90’s and sunny the next 7 days. Hopefully it’ll head up your way before long. Great video and thanks for sharing
when cleaning out a tank we usually shovel and sweep while the auger is going into the pile.
Well put Zach! I agree! #FairTrade not Free Trade!
A lot of my family are farmers in Wisconsin. I grew up working on my relatives farms! It was the best experience of my life. I think they need to have Summer Farm camps! Maybe they do already but if not they need to start! I have absolutely no problem with supporting farmers at all! We need to do what ever it takes to do that! 😊👍👍
I honestly don’t know how or why your videos popped up in my recommended videos, but I’m addicted to them now haha cool to learn about what goes on in the farming industry and from the farmers point of view. Keep it up!
I agree with you Zach, my thoughts are it will be long term benefit so yes take the money and keep the business strong until these new trade policies are worked out. The country will be better off in the long run.
I gained so much respect for you man! It's your opinion you have every right to it be proud you can say it freely!
Drove from Missouri to Indianapolis for the Indy500 this weekend. Lots of unplanted ground and flooded ground in Illinois and Indiana. Only saw a very few fields that had been planted or had corn out of the ground.
I grew up on a Dairy Farm in Carroll county Maryland. I really enjoy your videos. And appreciate you opinions. Most farmers from what I have seen don't want to get involved with politics, they just want to feed their families and their communities.
A very candid and lucid explanation of your point of view regarding tariffs in place now. Cannot fault a single point you made. Thank you again for the videos and commentary of your life. Press on young fella.
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LOL! Great video Zack! Were praying for all of our farmers.
fbh31118. Yeh that’ll help.
My family is dairy farming, we understand because we live it too. do whats best for your business and we pray for good growing weather.
I grew up on an irrigated farm in western Colorado. Never saw or worked inside the BIG grain bins found in your part of the world until I went to western North Dakota and worked for a farmer for a couple of seasons. Winter & spring of 2011 presented us with many of the same challenges you're seeing this year.
Well said Zach, GOD BLESS you and yours.. America proud.
Couldn’t agree with you more keep up the hard work man you guys are one of the back bones of this great country!!!!
I LIKE your stance. Fantastic. Thank you for the explaination that some of us are not aware of how things in the farming industry works. I talked to one farmer in my area and he explained to me how crop insurance works. Or at least TRIED to get me to understand it.You guys that use it take a hell of a hit when it is needed, however I guess it is better than a 100% loss. Thanks
In Vermont we have 0% of our corn in. Been getting rain every other day for the past 2 weeks or so. Gonna try and plant some this weekend.
Love the intro 😂😂 but yes I couldn’t agree more with what you have said sir!!
Awesome video, thanks for posting and sharing your views !
yea when are you two gonna do a video that would do really good
Excellent explanation regarding trade, government intervention & the business of farming Zack... Plus you deliver better weather forecasting than our local weather-caster's around here... We're planting silage corn & grain corn for export... Nobody is planting soybeans... Temp's in the 50's at night & upper '60's during the day...Steady showers expected throughout the week... The weather you get, we get 2-days later in Central New York...only a bit warmer...
Well said, ALWAYS enjoy your perspective, love the dry humor!
Take care, hope your family is well, and get that corn in the ground.
Hey Zach I love the videos. Keep up the hard work
Well stated. I guess that is why I enjoy your channel so much, open discussion and a lot of common sense
Hey Zack!! Love the video. A little bit of everything this time...politics, grain marketing strategies, cleaning out grain bins, getting ready for the weekend, attending Illas (sp) graduation and scaring' the crap outta the cats...along with some information about the economics of farming and comedic relief. Thanks for sharing the day with all of us...super fun video...take care zack!
started watching these about 3 weeks ago. Reminds me of growing up on the Farm. Wow its sure changed since the 70's and 80's. Keep up the good work, and don't let the A-Holes get ya down. yeah 2019 has been one of the wettest years in decades.. hard on the farmers.. Still have family farming here in Michigan. worried about them.
That is probably one of my favorite things about you Zach. Is that you literally could care less if people chew you out in the comments about your opinion. Keep doing what you do - Seth
You’re a stand-up guy! 👍🏻.... as a 🇨🇦, I too was happy for 🇺🇸 on election night! 😁
First of all I'm not a farmer I raise cattle. I really like your RUclips videos ,looks to me your doing a great job with the situations your given. Keep up the good work. I'm in Oklahoma,we are getting the rain to.
Man Zach what we would do for some of that rain here in South Georgia! We are so dry the corn is twisting and I’ve been watering blueberries for two weeks straight and we’re about half way picking. But well said I agree one hundred percent! Thanks for sharing.
I agree 100% with you on this issue in particular for sure, no one wants to take "mailbox money" but our system is set up this way and when there is a problem and the money is there to keep farmers going, they "should" take it. After all farmers and ranchers feed the world, we need to protect them and keep them in business!!!! Thanks for the vid.
Almost forgot, 3.98 inches of rain since 5-16-2019.
HEAR HEAR !!!!!
@@two-strokesmoke7289 Keep all that 3.98 inches for yourself, hm selfish :)
@Gerrit Stok this more rain than we have had in May in several years.........Northwestern SD. It would be nice to see some sunshine for a few days now, getting kinda gloomy; catching up on my sleep., LOL
@@two-strokesmoke7289 I can imagine. Seen some of your weather on trucker Josh Vlogs. Wow. We can use some here in Holland. Uhm, some. Not so much in one time please :( Good luck!
You did a great job explaining why you do the stuff you said
Enjoyed your thoughts on subsidies and politics. As a European farmer in Ireland we are also often accused of living off subsidies but it's just like you said here too, we would prefer not to need them but don't always get a proper price for the product we supply and every cent we get goes back into our farms and locality...
That’s us in eastern Colorado but that kinda rare and we can’t get the sweep plows in to work it for winter wheat and feed and it is very cold for the past two three days
i love you we need more people like you in this world kinda upset with things going on but you go with the flow and don’t make a huge deal out of it #MMF FOR PRESIDENT 2020
Your political views shouldn’t make anyone like you or dislike you in any way shape or form. You are correct China plays dirty and they need to be called out on it. Unfortunately for you and a lot of other farmers you are the ones who are gonna take on the chin the worst. Most folks don’t realize just how tight the margins of finance are in farming and how incredible volatile farming is as a business. Ultimately a more balanced trade will be good for our country but for ever action comes an equal and opposite reaction. Hang in there this to shall pass. Keep up the great videos.
Hi, here's a farmers son which has not taken over the farm. I'm working class now. But I'm certenly do understand your opinion. But what I can see from out of the Neterlands is that Your "Big man" is doing a very good job. You can discuss about the way he is doing this but I agree with you guys. Farming is the seed of everything. Without farming there is no world, and more and more people are seeing this. I'm proud of you all making these vlogs. It is needed that people finally see what you're doing. I think of starting my own channel here in the Netherlands. I'm very inspirred. Keep up the good work. #millenialfarm, #welkerfarm, #colethecornstar, #larsonfarms, #briansfarmingvideo's and al I've forgotten to mention.
We where so wet we didn’t plant corn till June 4th and 5th. Still have to work all the bean ground. Started raining again an hour and a half after finishing corn.
A littel background first: I'm european (so maybe I've got a bit of an outside perspective on the whole thing, I don't know) currently studying economics at university and I'm writing a paper on chinese economy including the current trade situation with the US.
I'll make it short. First of all, the theft of intellectual property by chinese enterpises. That's a big problem, worldwide, has been for years, but it's slowly getting a bit better.
The trade deficit and the tariffs are enormously comlicated and big topics. The deficit is somewhat homemade with many companies setting up shop in China (and other asian markets) to produce there, because it's cheaper. Well leave that in place for a couple of years and it will and has spiraled out of control to the point where we currently are. Again, worldwide problem, not just for US. The tariffs... well the tariffs. There's pros and cons here. China has huge amounts of resources like steel, aluminum and rare earth. Some of that stuff is really hard to source elswhere so putting tariffs on that achieves nothing but making things more expensive for US consumers. Tariffs on agricultural products just made china buy them from diffrent markets like South America or Africa (where they're just buying the farmland alltogether). I could go on (15 pages into my paper currently). Sure, China has been playing dirty in the past and will continue to do so in the future, but what we should not forget is, that they haven't been open to foreign trade for that long (they started to slowly open up in the early 80s) and that they are still a communist (one party regime) country with a 5-year-plan based economy that is at times a little slow to respond to outside influences. And of course they retaliatet with tariffs on their own what else were they supposed to do?
A global alliance or help from the WTO to resolve the situations (because most of them aren't exclusively US problems) would have been a little wiser, but what do I know. I guess it's a bit too late for that anyways, considering the slowly smouldering thing that might escalate into a US-EU trade war...
Sometimes the tool needed in global trade negotiations is a pair needlenose-pliers to apply a little pressure until things loosen up, but the man currently running your country routinely uses a hammer and a crowbar. This used to work and maybe still does, but sometimes a little more finesse is needed. (No offense to anyone supporting him, but an outsiders view on him is just not very flattering at times)
(also, unrelated, but there are broad similarities to the economic situation in china in the early 19th century. A country feels like it imports to much out of china and exports too little into china tries to resolve the situation to come out on top. In the early 1800s it was GB that wanted to export more into china and started trading them opium by the shipload until the chinese economy was crippled and many of their people opium addicted. China wanted to do somehting and long story short the opium wars happend and china had to give up Hong Kong to GB and opoen 5 port cities for outside trade)
Also on that political middle comment. I feel you. Sometimes both sides hate you, that's just how it is.
Loving your content and hoping the weather changes to your advantage soon.
Cheers,
Jakob
Edit: Also supply chains. Never underestimate how fragile some supply chains are. A little bit of additional cost at the very beginnig of your supply chain (raw materials or small partial products) and it might trickle down the whole chain and either break it or cause a massive price increas at the end (imagine a whip, a very small flick at the base makes the end of a very long whip go quite fast)
Mostly agree
Apart from China's natural resources
Most of them are sourced else where
A much percentage come from Australia ( my home)
South America and Russia are big payers as well
The traffis on farming produce between the US and China were pushing Aus grain prices off the chart
Great for me as a farmer
But the more traffis they add the more it starts filtering down to us as a major provider of raw material,s of every kind from steel and lithium to wheat and milk
They're trying to only presure China but itssending dangerous ripples throughout the world economy
Unfortunately the bearing has rusted their for so long a hammer is the only tool needed at this time.. Fact is it a trade war. It is going to hurt before it gets better. Other Presidents have been ignoring the prob. I'm just glad something is doing something. Doing something, to me, is still a lot better than doing nothing.
Hi Zach, one of the best videos ever! You showed us what the heavy rain has done, what you plan to do about it and what are the options for different hybrid seed. Being a farmer is very difficult -- from weather to markets to international politics. You are an outstanding example of today's American farmer -- bright, gutsy and realistic. I also like your position on the subsidy -- take it to protect the American farmer. We're proud of you. A great Dad as well. - Dean from Edina, MN
dean that was exactly what I was going to post--been following Zack for over a year and the more I see the more a think this country has a future . Families like this just don't get the air time like the Kardasians --but thanks heavens for the Johnsons
You guys are too kind, thank you for the support!
@@MillennialFarmer Dang Zach, Didn't think I'd see the day you would be compared and or ranked with the Kardashians. Maybe its cause you came out with the whole acting gig!
Joking aside, I would agree its great to see and appreciated that you are representing the american farmer positively as well as being a husband and father.
Also glad to hear you were excited on election night! Good and interesting to hear your views. All the best in the upcoming weeks of planting etc.
I've been amazed to actually watch someone operate a planter this year! Here in E. Central IN it's hard to just mow the grass it has been so wet. No thought of getting fert. or spray on anything. Even the Amish couldn't get their early plowing completed for the rain and it hasn't stopped. If it stopped raining today, it would still be the first week of June before anyone could start planting. And rain is in the forecast almost every day for the next week - maybe longer. Just a few years ago the same thing happened but it was drying up by now and planters rolled the beginning of June. I think it will be later this year. Maybe we should be considering cranberry bogs or rice!
Fbn, cool rain good for planted crop not good for wet empty fields. Love the 80's reference to The Govenator. Got some corn 🌽 last year not treated with pesticides, from a farm. And we were warned about worms (none). But came home 150 miles and found caterpillar on outside leaf. Corn was the best I ever had.
Hasta law Vista baby.