Up Early to Harvest Corn - I'm Rich!

We harvest corn to fill my October contracts, and I get my payment for last year's crops.
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[@crslyrn]

I miss operatoring the farm equipment, just don't miss the hours. Stay safe.

[@jbmbanter]

Maybe by next year you can have Jamie taught how to operate the grain carts. I hope she will want to be active in all things farming to including operating all of your equipment. Go Jamie!

[@chaddhatlevig1496]

Finally $300 of our tax money goes to someone who works for it.

[@jschu7077]

beautiful 389s those drivers are pullin the full wagons with

[@andrewterleckey3858]

J hillbilly Schu best looking truck on the road

[@SledgeHammer43]

Most people don't have a Clue on the Operating Cost of a Farm of your size.

[@JsixstringS]

Great videos really enjoy them been taking some pointers since I'm new to farming myself

[@ZackVDH]

The cows probably thought you were the feed rig. There's a feedlot next to one of the fields I work and they always run up like they're about to get fed. Haha

[@dominickbailey2477]

What a nice guy for waiting

[@Saul1337Ftw]

2:46 Ah I see you've improved your ladder climbing ability since last time hehe

[@damienvaniperen726]

lol

[@nicharworth9341]

Saul1337Ftw a

[@cwoods56]

Hey Ryan is it bad If I am 12 years old and I learn more about farming watching you than I do in my own ag class

[@cwoods56]

Another thing is is that I can run a combine and a grain cart

[@cwoods56]

True very true my man

[@ivangru7392]

What is ag class? Im also 12 im living in croatia and we only have agriculture college

[@bradleyscofarm6151]

I don't know if you're still active on KZbin bud but I'm 15 and you'll learn more from someone else that DOES IT and is REALLY willing to teach you. not a book learned guy or girl. A farmer

[@lukestrawwalker]

Many of our high schools offer agricultural classes, particularly in rural areas. They are very elemental and basic though and not particularly much if any practical knowledge. There is usually an associated national organization called the "FFA" (which USED to stand for the "Future Farmers of America", until they decided that sounded too "rural and hick" for "modern" times, so now "FFA" stands for NOTHING but "FFA"... I was an FFA Chapter Treasurer officer at the time and I thought that was the stupidest thing I had ever heard of, and said so... "any organization that is SO ashamed of its own name that it feels compelled to change it should just disband and get it over with" . I still feel that way today 26 years later... ) Most agricultural class students also participate in or are members of the FFA as well. FFA members can show livestock or do various projects related to county fairs and things of that sort. The other big national organization is the 4-H clubs, which are not necessarily affiliated with the FFA or agricultural classes in high school. I myself took two years of ag and other than the electric arc welding and oxy-acetylene cutting and welding part, and the woodworking shop projects, it was pretty useless... learned a little about cattle breeds and the difference between ruminants and non-ruminant animals, and a little about livestock feeding and husbandry, but that's about it. I DID enjoy my 2 years in "Farm Power" class, which was a 2-hour a day class where we worked on small engines and rebuilding old tractors and stuff like that... It was nice spending the last 1/3 of each school day in the shop rather than in some stupid classroom... Plus it led me to getting my scholarship to mechanic's school for a free ride (completely paid for) by winning the state tractor mechanic's contest as first high individual in 1988 through the FFA... which was nice. Later! OL J R :)

[@MzMarvelous]

i like the cute baby dog

[@_ob200]

im from the UK and its pretty interesting to hear about how the american farm subsidy system works compared to the ones here. ours is more based on conservation and how you effectively can run your farm in a manner that is good for wildlife where ass yours from what you said seem to be based more on production . keep up the good content buddy :)

[@illinoissandfarmer4726]

We just set all new base acres last year when we signed up for the ARC and PLC programs

[@kandylandfarms9898]

I milked 300+ 3X a day milked almost around the clock about an hour between the milkings and farmed 3500ac of row crops

[@frostgfx]

Ryan: Could you do a series about the economics of farming in 2019. I know you are super busy on the farm. I and others would certainly be interested in learning what sort of equipment you would need to farm corn alone on say 100 acres and what each piece of gear might cost and how to finance the purchase.. Then cover the income potential from your crop(s).

[@knoxcoxplayz2685]

@HowFarmWorks congrats on 60k subs bro

[@Sethemiah]

you should have put some more emphasis on the 14 hour day. Those are some nice tractors though. i dont do much around farms anymore, but those make production so much more efficient.

[@lukestrawwalker]

About gubmint payouts... Back when I was in high school in the 80's and was running our family farms after my Granddad's death (running them with and for my Grandmother-- my Dad helped but usually in just setup, planning, and supervisory role) my high school buddies were all PO's about "gubmint subsidies" we farmers were getting "rich" off of... back then we had "set-aside acres" and the program required you to NOT plant part of your acres every year (in a gubmint-determined percentage of the acres that varied from year to year, since they were attempting to control production and therefore control prices via supply/demand (by controlling the supply side). SO, we got a pittance of a payment for NOT planting up to about (usually) 25% of our acres... I think that sorta varied from year to year; the most set-aside I remember was about 35-40%, the least was about 15-20% of our base acres. It wasn't perfect but it was better than the old "cotton allotment" system (basically you had to "buy production quota" from the gubmint or a big farmer to grow cotton) back before that. Basically all the crops back then had SOME level of set-aside... and if you wanted to participate in the program (including being eligible for the 'government loan' program which was a VERY important marketing tool back then) then you had NO CHOICE but to do the mandated set-asides. The payments weren't NEARLY as much as the "city folks" thought (and read about) because you COULD have made a LOT more money actually producing crop on those acres, BUT, on the other hand, you also had virtually ZERO production costs on those set-aside acres that weren't planted (you just had to keep the "noxious weeds" controlled, ie, disk it a couple times during the season or spray it with a shot of soil-active herbicide (pre-emerge stuff). Course there was SO much "taxpayer outcry" over that farm program that by the early 90's the set-asides and payments were down to practically nothing. Plus, "supply side" management didn't work-- because crop yields, varieties, and new and better chemicals were coming out and yields on the planted acres was increasing enough to create huge surpluses despite set-asides and other supply-side economic controls... SO then we got "Freedom to Farm" in the mid-90's... they went basically from a yearly battle to pass a new farm program to a "seven year" farm program that was designed to be "the last farm program" and gradually phase out the farm programs altogether over a graduated, pre-determined seven-year plan. Base acres were opened up for the first time in decades (the last base acre adjustments in our area had been in the early 70's with the phase-out of the cotton "allotment" (acreage control "quota" system) when they allowed people to register their planted cotton acres as base acres. ALL our acres were in cotton at that point, and as cotton and rice were historically the two best-paying farm programs, that wasn't a bad thing! Just as a general idea, the rice program paid about twice as much as cotton, and cotton program paid about twice as much as corn, sorghum, or other grains. IIRC soybeans weren't even a farm program crop until Freedom To Farm (might have been a little earlier, but soybeans USED to not be a farm program crop AT ALL-- I DO remember that!) What Freedom to Farm did that was good was divorce what you planted from the base acres... IOW, we could have all our base acres as "cotton" and get paid according to the cotton program tenets, but we could actually PLANT all our cotton fields in grain sorghum or corn if we wanted to, or soybeans, or cotton, or any combination thereof in any proportions we wanted. The idea was "let the market decide" what farmers should plant... what really happened was, farmers were left chasing prices, and planted whatever was selling for the highest price at planting, so one year there'd a TON of extra corn acres because corn was higher-priced at planting and maybe cotton and other crops were down. Of course there'd then be a glut of corn because of all the extra acres, and a shortage of cotton or other grains (whose acres had been planted to corn leading to the short crop) and so they'd be higher the next year, so a lot of guys would plant a bunch extra cotton, (or whatever other crop was paying best) and create a glut of cotton and a big carryover surplus that drove prices down the following year... it sorta went into a spiral where big surpluses in one crop or another were being created every year, BUT it might take prices a year or two to bounce back. PLUS, the big ag companies didn't like the instability, and the "guaranteed payments regardless of what you planted" meant the gubmint didn't have as much control over the farmers, so they started retooling "Freedom to Farm" for the next farm program... (back then about all you had to worry about was not exceeding the payment limitations from excessive income (which wasn't hard to do) and not violating the "swamp-buster/sod-buster" provisions in breaking up new land and adding it to your production. It became clear that without a farm program, the gubmint would lose control of the farmers, and the gubmint doesn't like to lose control of ANYTHING, so they HAD to have a new farm program. Hence the program of 2002... In the 2002 program, the base acres were reallocated based on yearly averages of whatever you had planted the previous seven years... so if say one year you planted all your cotton acres to grain sorghum, and you had 49 acres, 7 acres of your cotton base would become grain sorghum base, leaving 42 acres of cotton base... ASSUMING you planted ALL the acres in cotton the other 6 years... we rotated in corn, soybeans, and grain sorghum, and a couple years put it ALL in sorghum, so our base numbers were really off the wall since basically the took your planted acres you certified as planted to each crop for each year and multiplied by 1/7 and then added them all up to get your base acres for that crop. That determined how you were paid. Then they also had to account for the surpluses, and price drops/swings because of market instability due to lack of planting controls, and so they introduced the "target loan price" for each crop and the "countercyclical payments" to make up for low market prices, which basically guaranteed the gubmint would pay the difference between the target price (gubmint loan price) and the average market price for that commodity for the year... so say gubmint loan price on cotton was 70 cents, and the market price average for the year was 60 cents, the countercyclical payment was 10 cents a pound... BUT, only on 75% of your cotton base acres and 75% of your historic county yield (not your ACTUAL yield, which of course was MUCH higher because the county historic average yields were figured in the late 60's or early 70's, and yields had basically doubled (at least) since then, regardless of crops... which had the effect of cutting the countercyclical ACTUAL payment rate per pound to about 25-35% of what the "calculated" countercyclical payment SHOULD have been...) Our marketing strategy in that period was to basically see if we could get a good enough contract at/after planting, usually in the 65-72 cent a pound range for cotton, and contract between half or all our acres (unlike corn and grains, cotton contracts are by the acre, regardless of production level-- very handy!) If the contract prices simply weren't there, we'd hold off and as soon as we got our gubmint class cards (cotton is classed or graded for quality in a USDA operated lab, and an official "class card" issued for each bale that must be presented for sale of each bale) and warehouse tickets (each cotton bale must go into a gubmint-bonded and approved cotton warehouse, that issues a legal document "warehouse ticket" with the official legal weight of that bale of cotton, before it can be sold). Once we had our warehouse tickets and class cards, we'd either sell into the open market (if the price was there) or to put it directly in the gubmint loan program (which bought the cotton at the guaranteed "loan price" set by the gubmint, adjusted for the quality of the cotton according to the class card (as was done by open market or contract buyers as well), whichever was higher. If the market moved up, we could buy the cotton back out of gubmint loan by repaying the loan (plus storage on the cotton) and then sell the redeemed cotton into the open market, or if the market stayed low (about 99% of the time) we simply let the loan expire-- we kept the money, the gubmint kept the cotton, and then THEY sold it into the market at whatever they could get for it when they wanted to... The grain programs worked somewhat similar, but basically we didn't contract grain down here since storage was high (few elevators and virtually NO on-farm storage down here, compared to up north in colder climates where on-farm storage is MUCH easier to do without having bugs, vermin, or fungus issues in storage). All our grain was sold directly across the scales at the elevator, and we just took whatever countercyclical payment we could get. Corn, sorghum, soybeans, and grains are all MUCH MUCH cheaper to grow than cotton or rice, hence the difference in the program payments and stuff... OL J R :)

[@bchs98]

You need your own semi!!!

[@Heimerviewfarm]

So when's the new fleet reveal? Also with have the issue of waiting on a truck have you considered buildung a small hopper bin?

[@mitchgibson3036]

make a update video of the bottle calfs

[@kladpapier]

Truck driver seems to be a friendly guy :)

[@hoophil]

Great video Ryan! Thanks!!!! Hope you didn't spend the whole check in one place.

[@jbmbanter]

I would have had to dump some corn out for the cows. Kinda like an ice cream cone!

[@MrGman590]

How does the financial side of farming work? I've done a little research into prices of crops and stuff and it seems like you can make a lot off of it, but from what I've learned in the past things are never that simple, and from what I'm hearing here, farming is no exception. So say I wanted to start a farm... What expenses would I have, and how would I estimate profits and such?

[@joshlahlum4371]

netchingretch you need to go into debt for farming. I farm, and our s670 combine with a 40 ft Draper and 12 foot corn head, it costed 500,000. You can do it, but start out small

[@Tractorandsirens]

Get a 2166 combine that's what we use on my uncles farm

[@jbmbanter]

In a round about way we are all government employees or government subsidy recipients.

[@highkicker11]

a person i know told me cash poor paper rich for farmers. meaning you have a lot of equipment and equity, but not a lot of cash in the bank. if you would sell the farm and all the stuff with it for top dollar with out having to pay of loans and stuff then yeah you would be cash rich but paper poor

[@billwhitman1529]

I'll bet you want that driver back... every time. Hard to find one that is willing to do what's best for you and is willing to wait. I guess we'll take whatever they send and be thankful.

[@PietschFarms]

6:30 is early for you? Hahaha, just kidding. Great video!!!

[@HowFarmsWork]

+Pietsch Farms It is when I'm up until 2:30 the night before putting videos together lol

[@kevinwillis9126]

$300 thats a joke.. i bet that would not even fill the combine with diesel....

[@jimmystrohl5265]

Its true tho my uncle got $400 dollars from the government

[@wanasakungo7859]

The trade-off between moisture content and higher prices

[@myronparks3495]

If the corn is dry enough to put in the bin, I would finish corn harvest that way. November weather could be tough.

[@Skitzo2294]

living the dream!

[@OneCincyFarmer66]

Put them on the DP program. Whats Galivon rate? Bunge got down to 12 cent then 4 a month finally. Here in Indiana

[@richardbearden7889]

That's a lot of deer corn.

[@Flowing23]

Hey, how are the bottle calfs doing

[@dimduk]

My Grandfather made more money renting his land then farming it. I think the video you made showing how much it cost to put a crop in versus how much you get when really showed people how hard it is to earn a living farming unless you go big and that has risk as well.

[@robertreznik9330]

Most times one has to own the land to rent it out !

[@troycondon7156]

we are in November

[@coltenslominski5352]

To drive the cat challenger with the grain cart

[@larrystockwell8994]

Another short day on the farm RIGHT

[@Shockedbywater]

Don't let that windfall change you. ;)

[@whataguy7032]

If the government quit paying subsidies on crop insurance and it became too expensive and farmers quit getting it then the price of crop insurance would drop drastically.........or it would become unavailable altogether. Which do you think would happen? Seriously, what would happen?

[@darrelstange2922]

nice vid. what has your corn been running for test weight? uv probably have said it but I didn't catch it.

[@aidanforseille2902]

how come you guys don't get a bigger header for your combine so you can harvest more quicker

[@HowFarmsWork]

Because first we need a bigger combine.

[@keenankelley187]

What was the corn averaging?? A lot of semis for a 9510 and a 6 row head..

[@cuzvlogs2737]

John deer never falls

[@ArnieD17]

Hey if you can find some loose change in you couch or something you can afford a steak for you and Jamie.

[@canvids1]

Loose change afford a steak! come up to Canada and see how much steak you get with loose change!

[@conordevlin3821]

how many bushels do u get 2 the acre

[@DesertDigger1]

You boys have a blizzard headed your way.

[@spencerfalk8445]

How much money does he actually get per harvest?

[@bigjim5723]

ha! if u eat $300 worth of grocery's a week, i'm sure glad i didn't pay for ur grub growing up-holy heck!

[@HowFarmsWork]

+BigJim57 lol

[@carriegerike4662]

Who was riding with you Ryan in that tractor.

[@kaylakelly4395]

I'm 9 & I've bin farming ever senes

[@tipsanddipswithbradenthere6196]

do yall only have one combine?

[@loganduddeck7369]

Hey, do you live in Wisconsin

[@dairecorcoran4952]

nice

[@maikork]

how many acres your farm has??

[@barrybeggs8543]

Farming has sure changed a lot since the 50's & 60's when I was envolved...

[@dphillips705]

whats the size of your shed?

[@muttgusse]

6.30 then u get a sleep in!

[@waterskiingfool]

Aren't you glad you don't have to wait for semis anymore

[@Northern_Farmer]

Dont they dock you for tough corn? Here if you bring in tough they just give you number 3

[@roadhogg1418]

I used to take government money but don't anymore I don't want them to know any more of my business than they already do. Besides that, it helps the marketers control the price of grain and the futures.

[@bobanderegg3817]

300.00 on 45 acres is less than 7 dollars per acre.

[@jamesshanks2614]

That's what I say every payday I'm Rich!!! Then after paying all my bills ( I use mason jars for the monthly bills ) I'm lucky if I got $30 left in my pocket rats LOL!

[@Joedeaton]

how many acres do yall harvest total

[@marks_sparks1]

how much does annual crop insurance set you back on average?

[@ginnymurphy6187]

hi ryan

[@mynameisyou3616]

Who's the girl riding shotgun in the tractor?

[@koreyknafel8621]

How many acres you guys run?

[@thor-ns7wj]

how much land do ye have

[@coltenslominski5352]

I'm nine years old and I have to get up at 3 in the morning

[@raymondaston4796]

how many grain carts fill up the semi

[@HowFarmsWork]

+Raymond Aston Both carts fully loaded

[@lukestrawwalker]

It was also about that time (late 90's early 2000's) that crop insurance started being pushed by the gubmint bigtime... they came out with the "catastrophic coverage" requirement as part of the program eligibility requirements. You had to have AT LEAST "Catastrophic" level of coverage to be eligible for the program. "Cat" insurance, as it was called, was the minimum basic requirement-- it was $100 per crop per county, regardless of acreage. SO, if you all your farms were in ONE county and grew say, corn, cotton, and soybeans, you had to pay $300 for the cat coverage on those crops. If you farmed on both sides of the river in two counties, and say farmed cotton AND grain sorghum, and had both crops planted in both counties, then you had to pay $400-- $100 each for cotton and sorghum in county 1, and another $100 each for cotton and sorghum in county 2. Of course they REALLY recommended you go do "buy up" crop insurance coverage from your friendly local ag crop insurance agent, since the insurance premiums were subsidized at 50% by the gubmint. At a minimum we did catastrophic coverage... cat coverage was meant to do away with the old "disaster payments" made under the old farm programs... (My Dad and the neighbor used to have a running joke between them-- "you got everything planted yet?""yup-- time to go file for our DISASTER PAYMENTS!" Course the disaster payments were always a joke from what I saw... maybe it was enough to keep you from going bankrupt or having your loans called in until the next year... but that was IT!) Cat coverage was pretty much a joke-- The only way payouts were authorized was IF the ENTIRE county was declared a disaster area, and that wouldn't happen unless the yield was less than HALF the historical county average (which remember was about HALF the actual production levels at that point, or less considering yield improvements due to GMO crops were becoming common at that point), among some other things (seems like prices had to be about half the set "loan price" or other such nonsense) then payments would be authorized... BUT, only on 50% of your base acres for THAT CROP (regardless of what you planted, be it less or more than your base acres) and 50% of the historical county yields (IOW, about 25% of average ACTUAL yield) and the payment rate was about 75% of the loan rate or average market price (whichever was lower), LESS any actual crop you managed to harvest on those base acres... so IOW, if your crop was a 100% total loss, you could expect to be paid about 75% of the market price on about 1/8 your total production, AT MOST... IOW, a joke. Buyup insurance started at 50% of your "actual" average yield, and increased cost rapidly at the 75%, 85%, 90% and 100% levels (NOBODY could afford 100% coverage that I could see, even with the gubmint picking up half the tab via the crop insurance subsidy). We did 50% buyup coverage a time or two, and it was a joke as well... One year we had 75% or 80% coverage and were about 3/4 done with harvest, and got a HUGE 6 inch plus rain overnight and another few inches over the next few days-- the cotton seed sprouted IN THE BOLL, which even my 80-something year old Grandmother who lived her whole life on this farm had NEVER SEEN BEFORE, so the remaining crop in the field was a TOTAL LOSS... I called the agent and he wouldn't even bother to come out, since we were "surely over the limit" since we were about 3/4 done... " Another year we had grain sorghum-- it stayed VERY DRY after planting and the sorghum was very short, and it "booted" (produced a seed head) that barely came up out of the whorl of the plant... then we got a Gulf Storm and it leaned all the plants over to about a 45 degree angle in a 45 mph wind, and rained several inches for several days, right as the sorghum was starting to mature. The agent called me and asked when we'd start combining, and told us when we did, if we ran into mold or fungus problems to STOP HARVESTING and call him immediately. We were hauling to the egg farm about 13 miles away and about halfway through harvest they rejected a load due to "xearlenone" fungus, which apparently cannot be fed to laying hens, but can to broilers or other livestock, so we then had to haul 26 miles to the nearest elevator and lost the nickel a hundred (thereabouts, can't recall exactly) bonus we got delivering to the egg farm, and only having to travel half as far to unload and sell was nice too). They took the grain, and it was FAR better than some of the worst samples I saw (which looked like coffee grounds!) I called the agent and he told me "keep your tickets and we'll settle up later". Well, it was a statewide disaster due to fungus in grain crops so they flew in adjusters from all over the country-- a couple weeks after I finished harvest an adjuster showed up and the local agent told me to expect him and give him all the paperwork, which I did. He went to his rental car and figured for about an hour or more-- I went out to check on him since it was over 100 degrees and he was from Iowa and he's sitting in this rental car idling in the driveway with the AC going and paperwork spread around in there so it looked like a printing office... He thanked me but asked me to go back in the house. About 20 minutes later he brought my paperwork back and said I'd get a check in the mail... After paying about $800 bucks in premiums for the crop insurance, we ended up getting about $500 in payouts for the damaged grain, after having to haul twice as far and getting less than market price for it due to the mold, and of course having a bum yield due to dry early season, poor exertion, and poor grain fill. I was pretty PO'd. We dropped back to 50% cat insurance and one year we had a problem, and our payout was basically $100 bucks-- basically what we'd had to pay for the cat coverage to be in the program. IMHO crop insurance is a JOKE... the only guys I've EVER seen it work for was the guys who "farmed THE SYSTEM" rather than farmed crops... if they are big time operators with big gubmint or bank loans and spending a ton of money on high-dollar buyup coverage, it may work for them in their favor... especially if they do something underhanded like one neighbor did when told to harvest a bum cotton crop and whatever they got would be deducted from the payments-- they picked it all right, but they released all the tension on the compression sheets in the throat of the picker and ran through the field at maximum speed, so it LOOKED like it had been picked, but basically it left 90% of the cotton in the field, knocked off the plants onto the ground, so they maximized their insurance payout... We always farmed on our OWN MONEY (no operating loan) and tried to control expenses while making a decent (not barn-busting) yield every year, and looked at the insurance as "hedge against an actual disaster" and it just isn't designed for that... we paid in and never got paid back "right" when we had a REAL problem! SO I consider crop insurance as pretty much WORTHLESS... Of course they've cut the farm programs to the bone and for a LONG time Senator Lugar of Indiana (who used to be a BIG BIG cheese on the Senate Ag Committee in Congress) was pushing for replacing the farm program altogether with a 100% subsidized crop insurance program-- IOW "free" gubmint-provided crop insurance for ALL farmers who wanted to participate in the program". Gee, thanks but no thanks-- thanks for NOTHING!" came to mind! Course we quit row cropping in about 2003. Under the 2002 Farm Bill, we could plant whatever we wanted (or NOTHING AT ALL) on our base acres and STILL collect the payments on our base acres (direct and countercyclical payments-- direct payments were fixed and graduated down over time, countercyclical payments determined by gubmint-set loan rate minus average crop price for the year, times the historical county average in your county for that crop (a pittance). Crop input prices had SKYROCKETED in the late 90's due to natural gas shortages (and since nitrogen fertilizers are made from natural gas, fertilizer prices quadrupled or more), GMO seed and seed company consolidation/buyouts had driven seed prices up about 300%, fuel had easily doubled due to wars and contrived shortages, parts and machinery upkeep had skyrocketed, and chemicals were still high for the most part (though a few thing WERE starting to come "off patent" like Roundup). We looked long and hard at the situation and decided that we had a golden opportunity, since our projected program payments were going to be about $12,000 total over the next 7 years, we could fence the 87 acres here and put it into a cow-calf operation and STILL collect the gubmint program payments til the program ran out. Basically, Uncle Sam paid for fencing the farm, the rest we paid for in converting the cropland back into pasture/grass fields, and building our herd at Shiner to move part of it here and then build both herds up again, which made for a few 'lean years" with no heifers (or very few) to sell... but it really made the transition from row crops to all-cattle really easy... First couple years out of row crops I nearly went crazy-- constantly thinking, "I should be in the field! Gotta get land worked up to plant!" or "Gotta get ready for harvest!" But after a couple years of "too wet" or "too dry" with bum yields or watching neighbors fretting over whether it'd ever dry out enough to plant or harvest, I decided cattle was MUCH easier-- cows have "four wheel drive" and so long as they can find grass to eat (drought is still bad on crops OR cows) they'll be fine... (and it rains A LOT in south Texas, most of the time!) Later! OL J R :)

[@lincolnbarringer1001]

Hey Ryan can u please buy an case ih havster

[@kbroutdoors1702]

Is brittneys last name schwers

[@nathandejeu9063]

Can you fill a truck with both buggys

[@HowFarmsWork]

+Nathan de Jeu depends on the size of truck. Usually they do.

[@huntermack8294]

Nathan de Jeu hop

[@lukestrawwalker]

If you've got room to get to each side... and in that little bitty yard, they don't by the looks of it... :) Later! OL J R :)

[@AH-le3py]

Most people of food stamps get over 300$ of food stamps

[@howardyounger5456]

the government programs I beleve are to help get information for the elevators and others to set the markets . that $300 wont keep you in buisness ,good luck with harvest.

[@CKOD]

Crop insurance so expensive it has to get subsidized... sounds like its not the farmers getting the subsidy then.

[@tomtubman]

Wow that's it $300. Shit it cost you more to put it in the field . Yes what you said is true everything costs money . You either make it or just break even

[@a.r.wproductions4426]

Tom Tubman I got my tractor for free

[@loganduddeck7369]

Ryan

[@joemurrow5085]

What state you in?

[@jessestuehrenberg5301]

i dont really see how the bigger farmers get rich off of the payments.

[@lancevarney8443]

Who was with Jamie at 4:00

[@57fitter]

I think that's Brittney

[@joetiller1031]

You guys wearing them corn fields out, no I don't fool with the Gov. programs not worth the trouble, I don't like them in my business.

[@Comet925]

6:30 is early we get up 5 every day to milk cows

[@HowFarmsWork]

+Christian Gierach Its late when you were up at 2:30 the night before putting videos together.

[@sisutrucks]

many farmers are going to robot milking around here. average milkfarms have about 30-80 cows :)

[@1planenut62]

We used to milk 180, started at 0300. Long time ago, though.

[@jackporklawncare7827]

I get up at 430 every morning to load pigs

[@EnduroNoob]

What is wrong with you people, i get up at like 8am, then go back to sleep for another hour haha

[@mattgrover9562]

do u agree with trumps agriculture plan ?

[@brennenb9609]

What is trumps plan?

[@mattgrover9562]

Stop the regulations and a lot of other things

[@sanderdagnelie6820]

What is a bushel?

[@57fitter]

What is Google?

[@royj8549]

57fitter Let me google that...

[@jamesdayton9530]

Sounds like the Gov pay out is a "freeby". What did you produce to earn it? I ask this because I am a tax payer also.

[@HowFarmsWork]

+James Dayton The payouts are to keep farmers in business in times of lower price vs yield ratios. Without these payments, some farmers would go broke on bad years, and if farmers go broke, there will be less of them to productively meet high demand during crop failures. I made $3,000 last year from 45 acres of crops and my marketing was almost perfect. Had it not been, I wouldn't have broken even.

[@robertreznik9330]

With all the low grain prices, Keep a lookout for a good low hr 9670STS. That would decrease you combine running by a 1/3 and then more able to expand in the future. But the headers would need to be in the budget! $300 would not buy more that a snout.

[@onlylikenerd]

So I'm guessing this kind of lifestyle/job you can only be born into?

[@joshlahlum4371]

onlylikenerd yeah you don’t usually want to do it if your a city kid

[@fullerfarms2600]

Who was that

[@lincolnbarringer1001]

Hey wear do u live at because I want to come visit u on the farm

[@lincolnbarringer1001]

Hey what up Ryan can u buy an case havster

[@harleymartin6490]

hi how farms work

[@mark3972]

Who was that in the 82 with u

[@jordanvinski3601]

farmingwithmark that was brittney his brothers fiancé

[@BigWater59]

Pay to haul your grain to the elevator?

[@HowFarmsWork]

Yep, we can request as many trucks as we want, we're limited by the hours the elevator is open and how much we can shell in that amount of time.

[@Spartan-ry1hh]

That was confusing.

[@robertberry3394]

i do not believe that is what upsets people. it is buisness people buying larger areas of land and getting paid not to farm it.

[@mylesreay3259]

lol 9:38

[@mylesreay3259]

no 9:48