The Government wants our farm land

Tilling grass/clover in prep for peanuts. #georgiasouthern #GATA #tillage #farming #tractor

[@Haxzyr]

Amazing video!! I think you ate smart to say no to those companies. I used to be involved in constructing them. A mining company constructed them for subsidies. And I agree 💯 to say no. The land is torn up and very limited. Yes, they were lowering the subsidies, and we lost our outrageous wages.

[@farmermatt629]

Control ….. that’s the only answer

[@PatrickShivers]

👌🏻

[@MultiBaldEagle]

You are correct. It's all about government controlled agriculture, education, health-care, and manufacturing. In a word...SOCIALISM

[@butterbeanfarmer7952]

The federal government is out of control

[@PatrickShivers]

I farm butterbeans as well. Just planted final bean crop of the year today. Got the video edited and trying to upload tonight. What varieties do you grow?

[@lescoe]

They oughtta turn their golf courses and country clubs into solar farms.

[@PatrickShivers]

They should cover the roofs of every factory and warehouse with them as well as make them part of a vented roof over large parking lots. Places that use lots of electricity would also be making electricity. 🤷🏼‍♂️ Don’t ever think a professional politician is capable of doing something that makes logical (not self preservation) sense

[@zacharbert6604]

@@PatrickShivers just a bunch of gangsters they are.

[@GaTiger11]

A golf course is just a fancy rifle range that's being terribly mismanaged and misused.

[@PatrickShivers]

@@GaTiger11 😂

[@rufuslumpkin4112]

You better watch that anti government vibe. They gone shut you down. 🤣

[@wd31981]

Any irony in a peanut farmer complaining about government subsidies. The highest subsidized crop there is.

[@PatrickShivers]

Corn is the highest subsidized followed by soybeans, wheat, other grain feeds, cotton, sugarcane, oilseeds (canola), and then peanuts. In that order, per USDA

[@coreyforshey3812]

Less farms; less food. Folks had better wake up

[@PatrickShivers]

The government is trying to reduce the agricultural acres so that it has less agricultural subsidy obligations. The politicians are putting that plan in place with the encouragement of their wealthy donors, whose aim is to monopolize food. Bill Gates is rapidly buying food producing farms from coast to coast.

[@zacharbert6604]

@@PatrickShivers So are the CCP. Its about control and the fact that the CCP cant feed its own population.

[@johnscurlock1204]

Not only that but the solar field destroys the earth, nothing will ever grow on that ground . We have some solar fields near my house . It’s an ugly thing . Keep your land . Love the videos.

[@michaelschreiner95]

What they are doing is on perpose. They just play it off as stupidity.

[@justlooking2013]

8530 never knew that harrow was there.

[@wyatt12358]

WE HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM WITH GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES WINDMILLS AND SOLAR FARMS IN MN. ELECTRICITY BEFORE FOOD DUMB WHEN THERE IS TONS OF COAL, HYDRO, AND METHANE IN THIS WORLD.

[@chriswaddell1768]

I’m a civil engineer and have designed a dozen solar farms. They like farm land because on paper the solar farm doesn’t produce more Stormwater runoff. If the cut trees they have to put in ponds and pipes. Alot more $$. I’m not a fan of solar and wouldn’t design another one. I live next to one that’s 700 acres and it floods my property every time it rains.

[@PatrickShivers]

Large solar field is next to my farm. It was all in pine trees that had just been clear cut and de-stumped. Owner tried to get it put into solar. It was rejected b/c it wasn’t farmland. He rented to a farmer for 1 year & they (the solar contractors)came back to him and wanted it for solar.

[@ABlueDahlia]

Neat to see a pine tree blooming or whatever that is. I've never seen it before. Wondered where pine nuts came from, I guess that's it?

[@PatrickShivers]

Yes that is a pine tree. They bloom across the deep south in March. Pine nuts are the seeds that are inside pine cones. When the cones open up (flare out) winged seeds are released into the wind and scatter great distances

[@markisb3585]

North Carolina is one of the top solar farm states. There are tons of solar here. They have took so much farm land here. None of them are by populated areas. All out in the middle of no where

[@jerrymills4203]

Yes I'm telling you when the Democrat's have to eat those solar panels, it's gonna be a good day

[@PatrickShivers]

That’s the trend. The big solar farm next to me couldn’t get approved when it was a clear cut. They rented it to a farmer 1 year and got instant approval b/c it was active farm land.

[@christyler7391]

Solar farms are taking over NY. VT at least banned solar farms on tillable land but the out of state wealthy have raised of living so high,the average person can’t afford to live there anyways so has become a sanctuary for rich

[@fishfoolishness4222]

Wonder how far an electric tracker could pull those disks? Maybe from one end of your field to the other one time before needing charging.

[@PatrickShivers]

I’ve seen a guy on KZbin that made an “electric” 18 wheeler. Of coarse, it has a diesel generator charging the batteries (which defeats the entire purpose). Hydrogen engines will he the next thing. They will replace diesel engines. Heavy equipment manufacturers are already working on them. They produce same power as diesel, their emissions is water, the engines use many of the same parts as current internal combustion engines, and Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe

[@edwinfaglie941]

Same here in our area.

[@stevenarnold1960]

It's all controlling the food supply.

[@PatrickShivers]

Their wealthy donors (Bill Gates) want to monopolize the food supply. They do this by gifting large sums of money to democrats and telling them it comes with the condition of more climate control/green energy initiatives. Bill Gates is buying all the food farms he can and is getting the government to cover what he doesn’t own in solar farms. The government is helping him rapidly build a monopoly.

[@JRJunior8624]

Las Vegas and Tuscon not close to deserts? I get the point though.

[@PatrickShivers]

We have been told repeatedly “they want the solar panels close to the population center,” but they’re not putting them on worthless desert land next to Tuscon, Phoenix, Las Vegas, El Paso, etc. Instead they’re putting them on fertile, higher value crop land 100s of miles from major cities

[@scottpotter8312]

Do these companies want the land or the free tax dollars

[@PatrickShivers]

The tax incentives

[@jamesscruggs5557]

Thanks for the information

[@PatrickShivers]

@@jamesscruggs5557 thanks for watching

[@gatorguy7711]

Great video! You're saying on the pine blooms were cool! I spent many hour crappy fishing with my dad as a kid in central Florida - great memories. Unfortunately, for us in Tallahassee, the pine and oak blooms means the beginning of the gold pollen season resulting in watery eyes and lots of sneezing - welcome to spring! Reminds me of a kid's poem: Caw, Caw, says the crow! Spring is here, I surely know! Just as sure as I am born! There is that farmer planting corn!

[@PatrickShivers]

Never heard that poem. Thanks for sharing!

[@markisb3585]

Here in Eastern North Carolina. Peanut farmers just disc the land and and bed and plant. Some chisel plow and plant. No one bottom plows here. One farmer no till peanuts. Something I have never seen with peanuts.

[@PatrickShivers]

I’ve seen no-till peanuts once in Statesboro, Ga (eastern Ga). UGA conducts trials on it also. No success.

[@wiltfarms65]

Ask who is going to clean up in twenty years after the panels are to be replaced. Look at the windmills farms that have been left. Let’s take oxygen production area and put heat panels up. Gates is putting up 6000 acres of panels in Ohio. Nice wasted farm land.

[@PatrickShivers]

He has been buying up south Georgia farm land as well. He purchased a large produce farm near Valdosta. I’ve heard he’s trying to monopolize fresh food market.

[@shawncrumrine9523]

Their end goal is for us to be eating bugs and crickets, and they are working pretty hard at it, everything done on pourpose!! I live in ohio 15 minutes from what they call the marsh which has arguably the best dirt in the state, it's black and they call it muck it's so fertil the main thing grown on this land is vegetables and they took 3,000 + acres out of production for solar panels, this may be the 6,000 acres your talking about in ohio. Makes me wanna puke watching what they are destroying. I recently subscribed to your channel Patrick, excellent stuff keep up the good work and thanks for taking the time to share!!

[@PatrickShivers]

@@shawncrumrine9523 thanks for watching/subscribing/commenting!

[@chactacarolina1857]

So they can CONTINUE TO DRIVE UP THE PRICE OF FOOD!!!!!!

[@stevenarnold1960]

You need a D8R with a regrowth plow to bust the hard pan.

[@russellofarrell9722]

But did you really try on the no till how many species of grass did you grow? You just don’t get it. Have writing checks I’m gonna be cashing them on no till!

[@PatrickShivers]

You can’t no-till peanuts. UGA proves this every year with a variety of field trials. There are areas of this country where some crops can successfully be no-tilled. In those circumstances no-till is a definite advantage. UGA conducts annual field trials on a variety of tillage practices in peanut production. There is not a single successful trial by any university of no-till peanut production. You also can’t grow potatoes, onions, or carrots on a commercial scale in no-till. Perhaps you are the one not getting it. No-till is great, but is not universally applicable as proven by thousands of university studies (aka SCIENCE) every year.

[@landrace2010]

Love your videos. Just stumbled across your page today. Great channel!

[@PatrickShivers]

Thanks for watching and commenting. I don’t put out as much content as some farm channels, but I try to make all of it informative and entertaining

[@zacharbert6604]

Solar is a racket, tell them to pound sand. Did you guys get a bunch of wind damage? Looks like your tree line got thrashed?

[@PatrickShivers]

We pushed back the edges. China berry trees had been slowly encroaching over the years.

[@JulianJP21]

💪💪 Don't touch our LAND! Have a great day Patrick

[@wyatt12358]

MOLD BOARD PLOWING IS PROBABLY THE WAY TO GO

[@PatrickShivers]

The two videos following that one are of me plowing that very field. It had to be disced so I could run subsoiler so I could plow.

[@EDBZ28]

Love your 8530 🤤. I farm in WNY and we’re constantly being approached by solar developers. I’m completely anti! Nearby there’s one huge one supposedly going in that’s taking up acres and acres of highly productive river-bottom ground along genesee river…a know flood plain. Wondering how that’ll work when solar panels get flooded out? Also wonder why it’s ok to develop solar but all other development in flood plains here in NY are prohibited 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@PatrickShivers]

ALL rules are off when politicians get the chance to install a “green energy” project. Hurricane Michael caused a lot of damage to a huge solar installation south of me that was only 3-4 years old at the time. Government raced to add new solar projects on other farm fields, but not to repair the massive one that just needed repairs. 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@EDBZ28]

@@PatrickShivers 🤦🏼‍♂️government is run complete opposite of farming or any business for that matter. It’s ran in a way that defies any logic whatsoever and the part that gets to us “everyday-joes” is we have microscopic little-nothing we can do about it.

[@PatrickShivers]

@@EDBZ28 Amen brother. You are preaching to the choir!

[@OkieDoke18]

Listen to that 8530 talk

[@PatrickShivers]

Sounds like a log truck climbing a hill. Totally different sound than the regin tractors

[@k.p.1139]

You make some valid points! Especially the dessert remark. I always wondered why Cali, is always in desperate need to water and electricity, when 1/2 the state is dessert. Won't your 'green projects" work there? Go check out abandoned solar projects, and wind farms. They just leave everything that breaks and move on. They leave it for the land owners to clean up. Every time the dollar speaks first....run!

[@PatrickShivers]

1,000 acre solar farm 35 minutes south of me was ravaged by hurricane micheal in 2018. It’s still not repaired.