Agriculture's Lone Future: The Untold Hardships of Farming w/@RyanKelly-Wititan2 - Ep 112

[@bryanwest1611]

I agree with the Gen X statement. My dad quit college at the University of Kentucky with only 2 months left to be a civil engineer, to farm in Southern Illinois. This was 1972 and he wasn't willed the farm, he had to buy it. He struggled through the 70s and had to get a full time job in the oil field. He continued to struggle through the 80s and into the 90s. He told me to get an education and work off the farm. I listened but I sure wished I could have stayed in. My dad died in 2001 at 54 of a heart attack. I'm sure all that stress shortened his life. We were able to keep the farm after he died and mom continued to work and we rented it. We were able to pay it off in about 8 years. Mom. Was able to retire and lived another 15 years, dieing at 76. She lived pretty good from the farm rent in that 15 years. We have the farm now and it's held in a trust. That may be a topic for you in the future. The options when inheriting l, that is.

[@SouthWarsawBoys0124]

Im generation 6, 1st gen restart farmer too. This sounds like my story with farming from scratch 99% on my own 0 to 2500+ ac with custom farm buisness included, trucking, excavating, Lawncare/ snow buisness and professional Drumming, all while now coaching kids and helping on a school board. KEEP WORKING HARD FOR YOUR DREAMS. Have faith and believe! Love Barn Talk !

[@billfarmer7984]

I hope to do the same thing. I have a very successful construction company and want to start farming. Best wishes on continued success.

[@samdavis4554]

@@billfarmer7984I’m looking to start a residential construction business In the future, I’m going to college for it where they’ll teach me, carpentry, hvac, electrical, plumbing, and masonry. I was wondering if you have any tips on having a successful business and what age/how long it took you to work up to starting your own business. I’m planning on running my business in my small town, but has a lot of neighboring towns and a need for more res-con business’. Thank you

[@katiekuehl2011]

I am from Watertown wi . 46 years old and could copy and paste everything Ryan says. Grew up with same guys that are on his videos. I crop farm 1200 acre and work full time. The older I get the more I respect that generation. I love to drive and see the old dairies and especially the silos. Farming seemed harder but better back then

[@davegenske8973]

I spent a lot of my early years around Columbus WI in the 60s and 70s helping and watching my grandpa and uncles farm. Buying more land and building facilities. Read every farm magazine I could. Had my own subscription of Hoards Dairyman by age 7.

[@rickwoodvine.7529]

I enjoyed the talk about the Allis charmer tractors, my grandfather is all he owned. And he farmed from the thirties till mid seventies and work with all them , he had the old pull tipe combine to the two row cob corn harvester. It was an experience to grow up in that generation as a kid. I remember the only other tractor he had was a John Deere and it was a narrow two wheel front end early sixties I believe. My grandpa was Allis charmer all the way. Love and enjoy barn talk and this'll do farm. ❤

[@P.O.E_FARMER]

As a young farmer I love these …..keep ‘em coming

[@morgcharfarms]

I love Ryan’s tractor stories. I think I got dad talked into doing the story of our 3020. Gonna try and film it this weekend.

[@ajman2372]

Great guest. One of my favorite episode's. Keep up the great content.

[@zoenbaxter]

My favorite episode yet. Listened to it on Spotify and watched on you tube. Brought back a lot of good memories, I am catching up on Ryan's you tube now. We did have Gleaner combines but I'll have to let that slide. Enjoy you shows keep it up.

[@davegenske8973]

I currently farm a farm I have had to buy and build alone while raising a family but worked in IT for 40 years to do it. I couldn’t farm full time until I retired because I couldn’t take what I felt like was the “vow of poverty”. I have been around AG and have studied it, somewhat from the outside, from the late 60’s when I was just a little kid. Bought my first small farm in 1983 and the following year I needed a loan to buy a $1350 square baler. It’s been a low debt, slow growth, multi-state move, to get me to where I am today. Always felt like farming was like playing a pinball machine. The goal is always to get the free game, ie i get to farm again next year. “Next year it will be better, I won’t make that mistake again, or I will fix that issue, hopefully it rains/hope it doesn’t rain to much”

[@robratcliffe5635]

I watched Ryan's episode of Tork's 4010. That was a great episode. Ryan has a great niche show with the tractors that helped build the farms. He has hit on something that I hope really takes off and takes a life of its own. It is cool to see the farmer's eyes light up when they get to telling about their old tractors.

[@morgcharfarms]

Around here in 2007-13 a lot of people got back into farming because of the new ethanol plant out in central Pa and because of prices but we had the Marcellus shale gas boom too. A lot of guys got $3,000 an acre for just signing and upgraded equipment and started farming again. My dad was one of them. John Deere took everything back in 2014.

[@jeremycherny2041]

My dad always says, "Be happy and enjoy what you have. At the end of the day, you just have to live and no one is getting out of here rich.

[@Leep_Actual]

2012 was extremely profitable primarily because of the drought and farmers that had GRIP insurance. Made insurance companies go broke. On top of that, because of the low inventory from the drought, grain prices jumped to all time highs.

[@portisfeedandseed480]

Really good job guys, from another Gen X farmer. So much truth about the greed in farming and what it's doing to rural areas. Very good history lesson, I went through all that too. College shoved down your throat, and the timing of buying land and getting bigger at the right time. I'm constantly looking forward for the next gold rush too. Trying to stay in position to get an opportunity. The BTO's need to realize that the people of the rural communities are pushing back. One day they will look around needing something from their neighbor, his wife or kids, and they aren't there. Really, I think we're at that point now. Oh, boy. I've said so much of the same things you were talking about so many times. Fighting the doom and gloom. Looking for a way around; a way to enjoy it. My wife and I are working on a couple ideas right now.

[@budgetracing3425]

Sawyer's Idea about doing stories on farmers relating to the equipment that they used sounds really interesting for sure.

[@KesslerGrainfarms]

you guys are 100% correct farming with new equipment is a lot easier when all you need to do is call the company and they come out and fix everything try farming with older stuff and have to maintain it yourself it is a lot of work and make things pencil out i enjoy firing up my older Gleaners and start harvesting it is a little work check out kessler grain farm to see these babies run Great listen to you guys

[@robreesor5011]

Check out Farming With Duffy AG's channel he is younger and runs older equipment on his own farm.

[@aaronyodaddy7315]

I agree. I know many people that get out of farming because it's not profitable. I'm happy i broke even with feed costs. I don't look at it as profitable. I look at it as I can do it better... Instead of complaining about how old farmers don't change. Be the change you want to see.

[@JBGOTGAME]

Really enjoyed this podcast reminds me of my childhood growing up on my grandpa small farm 😂

[@irishtownacres4716]

Awesome show guys I watch and enjoy every one of them

[@RoanVanVuuren]

Hi, Love this podcast!

[@jeremycherny2041]

True story. My dad started farming in 73'. Fought hard through the 80s to keep the farm and remained small. A friend of his came back to the farm in 84' to take over his dads farm. Then rented repo ground for 3 bucks an acre. Got up to around 2600 acres and then retired at 60. My dad is 70 and still living the dream. Lol

[@jamiecollins1220]

Love it!

[@aidanealy5078]

My whole family is from Marengo Iowa, god your accents make me miss them

[@kodygaul5655]

What was the book Ryan was referring to about the farmer sifting through the remnants of the old building site?

[@400brian]

Yup, the 80s sucked. Got out of high school in 77 and continued dairy farming with my father. Guys 5 -10 years older than me got wiped out. I was born at the right time and bought land at the bottom. Bought my parents out in 2012, sold the cows in 2018. A bit bitter about how things ended, but I could not physically do it anymore. Semi-retired now, have the cousins doing most of the field work and I can snowmobile, fish, and work on old tractors with the grandson. Now the challenge is to figure out the transition to the next generation.

[@roba2403]

Hey leave us oliver and white guys alone. 4-210 is sexy! My great grandparents were the last farm owners in my family. It was small to provide the family with food as they were born in 1913 and 14. They bought a 37 oliver 70 new and loved that tractor. My grandpa used it and my dad loved using it spending summers there. I was 8 when the estate auction happened. That oliver looked beaten to death, but still worked. My dad tried to buy it, but couldn't. He wants one bad and I remember him crying when the new owner drove off with it. That tractor meant so much to him.

[@aaronjarvenpa1743]

Around these parts is the building developer they buy the old farm taire the builders down and plant as many houses or duplexes on it .

[@shapezula]

I wish I could get my boss man on this show. He’s been farming ghinko trees in SC for 30 years now

[@rebelbullhauler]

I always like Ryan’s tractor videos

[@danw6014]

I think the big factor in grain prices are related more to China shifting purchases to Brazil and Russia over the US. I'm a very small farmer. I primarily raise freezer beef. I've tried to maintain a gross price of $1000 over Monday auction prices. I also raise lambs, turkeys, broilers, all on pasture. We have the best commercial lamb price in the country and hardly anyone raises them here anymore. Hay is the crop I sell. $6.00 a bale for the horse market. It's not enough to live on. But it's good side money with no debt, low risk and I can be done tomorrow if I want. What scares me is as farming continues to consolidate, I fear the large agri businesses will use their lobby power to regulate small farms like me out. You watch how the government will use "climate change" to control and regulate farms as well. Great discussion. I've been enjoying the videos. I especially like the tractors with a story behind them. I have several two cylinders including a couple of my dad's that I have that I know the history of them I a couple more tractors in my neighborhood that I plan to buy.

[@fishmonger7020]

My family and I are in the fishing industry on the west coast and we have been talking about how climate change will be the next club used to force everyone into compliance. They’ll make the compliance so difficult you’ll need a team of people and this will consolidate even more resources into the few at the top. Gigantism is our real enemy.

[@matthewmaclean8474]

Would love a pork box specially designed by Tork for a Treager

[@ADEikenhorst]

What are the channels for tik tok and KZbin etc for the guest that they had on this episode. Would like to check him out.

[@davegordon6943]

Haha. I thought he meant he was laying tile in showers and kitchens. Is talking about running drain tile?

[@MICHALEKOUTDOORS]

27:18 You guys should try to get Kevin Ingle on your podcast.

[@user-lk7yq5nv3b]

Great show, Men. The last segment discussing the eventual end being one farmer owning it all is tru-ish. Maybe in 100-200 years, but it's happening at an accelerating rate. I don't know how a young person would enter into farming at this point. One of the major issues is that people don't like the Smithfields, Bayers, and Monsantos of the world, yet they buy it because it is cheaper, and I understand that side of it for most. We have local farm to table place nearby that we buy almost all of our meat from on purpose. Yes, it's more money up front, but it is a much higher quality and tastes so much better than Wal-Mart meat, and cheaper over the entire poundage of the animal. My hamburger is $3.95/lb and so are my Porterhouse and ribeye steaks! How do we educate the masses?

[@fishmonger7020]

I’m not sure it’s possible to educate people. The majority of people get educated by the government.

[@kenwolshan5752]

Really enjoyed the broadcast, talking about color blind probably one of the most color blind farmers in our area I think we own one brand of every tractor just about. And had to laugh because to tell you the truth the best tractor I have owned so far is a Massey Ferguson

[@ram_diesel_power6039]

600 dollar a ton grain is killing us up in Maine.

[@rebelbullhauler]

I want to learn more about tileing

[@ruvanefriebus-cv6td]

"A day in the marines is like a day on fhe farm!" Aliens 1986 I wonder what happened for society to become so hateful of farmers today what a shame

[@jerhalco]

Nobody is shooting at you on the farm.

[@davehughesfarm7983]

Yeah they are.@@jerhalco

[@aubreypeery3757]

I've started to get in to the hay business, should I buy a older cheaper tractor or save up for awhile and buy a newer tractor?

[@mwnciboo]

If you are a mechanic - with tools and can weld - buy old and maintain it yourself it will cost you time but keep your overheads down (Buy several of the same model). But if you calculate your time into it - reality more modern stuff is more time efficient but it costs a hell of a lot more. Middle way - buy the most modern tractor you can that isn't fully digital - 1980's and 1990's tractors that have some electrical gizmo's but nothing insane. I like Cabs JD 3050 (for 130hp) or say JD6400 or old Ford Powerstars.... But if you need cheap go 1970's open station. I run 2 identical JD6400's and have a 3rd in pieces and will likely buy a 4th. I have a fleet of the same thing - I have rebuild kits, 10's of filters, gaskets etc. I am basically my own parts warehouse for myself. I have spare everything on the shelf rebuilt, reconditioned or OEM.

[@WilliamPayneNZ]

I’m not a farmer but I’m going to say one thing about the “boomers won’t retire thing”. First off I wish people would stop using the word boomers. But look at any business where you have employees. Nobody is going to be promoted unless the person already in that position moves on. People have to be moving in a company every so often so that new people can come up otherwise everything stagnates. If you want new people to enter an industry, older people need to let them in. This is why there are sometimes term limits in corporate management jobs. To keep the ladder moving so that nobody stays in a roll too long causing upwards mobility to stagnate. It’s like a store. If you can only let so many people into a store and those people don’t leave the store you will have a line out the door. Or those people will give up and go elsewhere. The older people are when entering an industry the worse it gets because you then have older people getting started when their kids are already in line waiting their turn. The line must always move. Bottlenecks must be stopped. Damn just look at marriage statistics. You have men in their 30’s and 40’s who are single with no kids because they can’t find anyone to marry and start a family with. Someone chucked the proverbial wrench in the works years ago and we are now seeing the repercussions.

[@rebelbullhauler]

Was this episode brought to you by Riechmann Bros John Deere lol Ryan knows what I am talking about lo😂

[@adamsuntken6278]

New plateau…..I was in the grain business when that happened. My boss said “oh $hit, the high is in”. Every time I hear that statement I cringe. Just like when they wanted to instantly raise minimum wage to $15/hr.

[@jordanadams8752]

In Canada, sheep is the current gold rush

[@SkunkApe100]

Can you guys get Dave Hester on from storage wars, then we can put wagers on who gets the most yups. Yuuuuuuuuuuuup

[@user-lk7yq5nv3b]

to be clear, I am talking about buying a whole cow for the average $$ being 3.95/lb. Not buying packages one at a time.

[@WilliamPayneNZ]

Weird to hear him talking about getting a 9 year old semi truck for 10 grand. That would be a 6 figure truck where I live.

[@sitpaintandplay3881]

You burn you eye brow off sawyer? I've been looking at your face the last couple of videos and I can't tell if I'm tripping or if it's the light. Your photos it's there, but it looks like it's gone on film.

[@dianefletcher2076]

what is tiling

[@bryanwest1611]

Pipe buried for drainage.

[@DeusVultCult]

dig drive diy made a really good video on tile aka drainage pipe, not the ceramics on your bathroom wall

[@easternshorefarmer]

U guys gotta get better equipment because I could listen for more than 2 hours

[@jordanadams8752]

In Canada it's sheep

[@mattcrowell7945]

I wonder how many guys around the age of 50 started driving truck because of Jerry Reed 😅

[@davehughesfarm7983]

LOl..We had a start up 1 truck stepdeck hauling tractors...Got it all going during covid..Biden admin came it and road fuel went from 2.30 to 5 bucks. Said the hell with that in 3 months...

[@alld47hidrohnilougue31]

TF IS TILIN’?!?