Thank you!! I’ll add them to the list!! ❤️

Yes, although I believe his staff has always been paid. As he described in the video, once he scaled back he was able to increase his profits.

@@joefargo5938 hi! Thank you!

Thank you!! Yes! I love their operation and drive! I haven’t heard of that breed, I’ll keep an ear out!

Yes!

Thank you so much!! We loved meeting Meagan and Andy! And we love their channel too!!

Thank you!! Amanda is great!! So glad we were able to visit her!!

Pete has made quite a few statement that he does not let people on his farm so we visited him at the Ithaca Farmers market instead. He was great!! We made a reel about it on our Instagram. ❤️ thank you for watching our videos! I’m glad you enjoy them! We are really loving our travels!!

That’s a good question. I would say yes because the business is using the land that is being paid for.

Hi! Thank you!! ❤️

Hi!! 😊

@@BreakingNewRoots own small 75 acre fish farm raising hair sheep and channel catfish.

@@user-kc1iv7fj8p oh wow! Thats awesome! We are planning on coming to TX this winter. If you’d be open to a visit shoot me an email! [email protected]

I’m so glad i worked at a bank before farming full time. It gave me so much experience in sales and marketing.

Oh yeah!! Such a great idea!!

@BreakingNewRoots I agree!, I've seen them big enough to dry lumber. It would make drying a days harvest way easier.

@@andrewsusen3154 for sure!! And keeping the heat out of the house too!

Yes!!! So much knowledge here!! I love his pig system!!

@@BreakingNewRoots ps you are killing it for amazing content being posted fast! If your are ever in ottawa Canada come see me and the farm ❤️

@@RyanSunDynasty thank you so much!! We would love to!

@@BreakingNewRoots once you get your passport sorted. We just planted 1300 nut and fruit trees into our pasture where we run our 1000 chickens, sheep and pigs. We have ducks and bunnies for the kids. 4000 square-foot no till family garden and a 5000 square-foot flower garden. 16 chowchows. Grass fed quail and black soldier fly. We are new farmers and learning new things every second of the day. Would love to host you and your family.

Oh wow!! That’s great! We would love to see you!

I agree!!! Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed it!

Yes. But I understand why. We get into farming because we loving growing/raising things, we want to help our community. But we forget that it is a working business and should be treated so.

@@BreakingNewRoots A biz should be a biz agreed. some of the best farmers, if they can get their feet under them is people who do not come from farming backgrounds. I think it's because of that reason. Management and understanding people. Modern farms rarely have 7 kids of labor to take you from small farm to retirement and kid takes over. I don't fully agree with transitory labor practices of farming and ranching industry. Because it's a double edge sword that is basically destroying there labor market in the modern labor context. Honestly, if he didn't do the first killing himself farming he'd probably never had got the connection and training enough for staff to do the other part of his farming. Sigh, farming management crisis is so under talked about. It's sad. Even if you love something as an employer kindness is having your crap together enough to make sure your employee is taken care of. At least in my mindset you don't want to be walmart and have your employees on welfare while you rake in record profits. Just a bad look. (mind you that is management for the purose of doing that act and not management because you don't know what your doing properly. Walmart understands what it's doing. It's by design) And in a modern sense for most perspective employees in the labor market it's why so many farms are low on the options. If you are going to transport yourself (which requries a care or living on site and you as well have to think about retirement, health insurance, kids, colleges can you do that as a random working for a farm? No most employees working as spot labor moving place to place can't.) I remember my first tour of singing frog farms and realizing that the reason why they had so much labor that worked full time on farm. Got a decent wage it was huge. We forcus on the farmer/family making "city wages" but not on what the employees are making. Why would a employee want to work a job (yes they might love it, but they gotta survive as well) making good money but not city wages or better since they gotta drive out/live on farm. Just a lot of click click click brain moments really turn my thought process away from the romanization of farming and ranching to the actual reason why there's currently a breakdown. It verbalized in my mind what are the halmarks of an actual sucessful farm/ranch. And am I doing that? I remember meeting an old guy who worked for the company straight out of high school/entry level to retiring in the boardroom. And he was talking about cultural changes in the way buniess ran. He was a farm boy who went to work in the city slightly post reagan reforms. When all the union jobs where being broken down and if they couldn't break it they just sold the company in pieces. complete work place landscape change. Comapnies use to think of 10 and 20 year plans. Now they think in Five year Plan or 1 year plans. Short term profit over long term gain. But that's honestly been the farming mindset for generations. That's how we got go big or go home farming. That's how we got break the backs of labor farming. It's how we got poorly designed farms or no design farm. Eh sorry for the rant completely agree again. "working business and should be treated so." when other people are involve.

@@MistressOP I have found that every farm we have visited that has working employees, they make sure to pay them well above the current wage. I can’t say there is an industry standard but maybe better or worse business practices than others. Either way, the farms we are seeing (not by design) greatly value their employees.

😅 I know!

Thank you! I love what they are doing there!! And they have so much knowledge!!

Oh interesting. Maybe he used to. But thank you so much!!! ❤️

I think it’s just the opposite. Of course they are all kinds of different levels to farming and the fact comes down to ones personal preference for margin size. But Jordan’s important idea here is to treat your farm like a business, pay yourself any any employees you have adequately, be able to get off the farm. And to do that, the gross income should be pretty high.

The reason farming has to be "rediscovered" by younger generations is because there wasn't a living in it. Specifically dairy farming, nobody wants to pay anything, but they'll work you like an Amish horse. I've seen in throughout my life, worked on several dairy farms, and grandad had his own. I know more about farming in my pinky finger than most of these new guys trying to sensationalize this industry. I find it ironic that for 50 years, the farming families braindrained themselves. The kids moved away, and the lesser member of the family always stayed on the farm, never breaking the trend of conventional practices. Now we have the opposite, with a cidiot perception of the world, these kids coming back to farm after their families sold all the land. And they have this gradio idea to mass produce. Scaling is the problem. There should be 100 small farmers producing for their respective area; the days of mass production should be seen as the problem. We all know gigantic livestock operations are a burden to the land, waterways, and people. If one guy in the community raises 35000 chickens, the goal is selling them all. Instead of a farmer raising 5-10k and allowing his neighbor to raise 5-10k, trying to corner a whole market is the exact opposite of this whole trend.

That’s awesome!! They really are doing some great things there!!

Thank you so so much!!! ❤️

Oh wow!! That’s great though!! I’m excited for you!

Hi! Thank you!! We are really enjoying our travels and meeting so many amazing people!!

Thank you!! We are having so much fun!!

I understand what you’re saying but I also think there is a difference in a number on a scale and overall health and wellbeing. Just because two people are different physical sizes doesn’t mean one is “healthier” than the other.

@@BreakingNewRoots Yeah, that wasn't my insinuation. I also didn't mention the fact that it also has to do with the effort we all put in to do the work. It harkens back to a more natural state of human being-ness if that makes sense both the work and the food that's really what I was kind of getting at. But you are right naturally speaking human beings are endomorph, ectomorph, or mesomorph, biologically speaking which is I think what you are talking about. Overall though take a homesteader compare them with a couch potato junk food eater you get my point 😂

@@shelzmike yes! I would agree. And adding in mental and spiritual health as well. Working the ground, growing your own food, seems to provide a deep sense of satisfaction. ❤️

I can so relate!! Talking with Ben really opened my eyes that diversity doesn’t have to be key on a small farm. It’s okay to niche down and focus on what you really enjoy.

@@BreakingNewRoots where does ben sell his animals to after they're raised? Does he have that many clientele to do all private sales? Or does he have a cattle/ hog dealer get his animals?

@@plainandsimple1 he sells the meat in private sales. I can’t remember if they do farmers markets or not.

Yes! Loved meeting Jon and learning about their small farm!

Thank you!

Thank you! Yes! That barn was so great!! Love their farm!

Oh wow that’s great!

Oh nice!! It’s genius! And can serve so many purposes!! Love it!

Yes!!! I loved that part of our conversation!!

Thank you!! She is certainly in an interesting place!!

Its definitely in the infancy stage. Both Bret and city officials are working though processes and how to make it work seamlessly. I believe it can be replicated but someone has to figure it out first.

@@BreakingNewRoots Yeah and he's certainly very open about that.

@@stijnt2377 absolutely! I’m excited to see how he continues to grow!

Thank you so much!! I really appreciate that!

That’s great!! Everyone starts somewhere!

Thank you!! I really loved getting his perspective! It was great to talk with him!

Thank you!! I really enjoyed talking with him! I really hope more people and cities/towns do this as well!

Wow!!! Thank you so much!!! I’m so glad you found Amelia’s video and it has been helpful for you!! ❤️ and we have so many more farms yet to see!