😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂yup

That's sad but true

That’s a great quote!

9%! WTheck. Is that a bank or furnish merchants?

The easiest way to make a small fortune in farming, is to start with a large fortune.

Amen❤

Ditto

Well said. Big fan. 🌽💪🏻❤️🤍💙

Ditto

I just wish that ALL of the US congress members would be REQUIRED to watch these videos. They love to REQUIRE us to do things they have no idea what they are talking about, nor care what consequences it will inflict. If they actually made a budget based on the revenue they take in, perhaps we wouldn't be in crisis mode constantly. Most (being conservative on that term) of the countries issues are caused by the government. I sincerely feel for you and the other farmers. Very few other industries would start off their next year of business in the hole and still decide to do the job. Hey peeps, would you go to a job that offered you a high salary at the end of the year and said upfront, instead of giving you a check at the end of the year, you would owe them a check for 125% of the amount they were going to give you? That's bats$$t crazy! And yet or farmers still do it. We would all starve if they didn't accept that great offer that you definitely would not accept. Just let that sink in a bit. Reread it over and over.

I sure wish I could quit my union job in the city on the other side of the country and get into farming, except those who do it in my area say it can't be done without the steady income more than one union job.

@@JP-uk9uc Or lots of capital ! But if you have that, why would you want to spend it on farming ?

so do u not farm your own land and loose so much? i understand not giving up rented land as its hard to get!

I am farming with tractors and combine as old as me, i am 46.

@@redrustyhill2 I'm in my mid 30's. I run a 1980(approx.) JD 6620 SideHill combine, and a 1966 JD 4020 tractor. 1971 or older JD 400 Grinder/Mixer, 1980(approx.) JD 7000 planter. Newest piece of farm equipment I have is a 1998 Case 1845C. Could get by with alot smaller skidloader for manure, but using round bales for bedding saves money.

@ShermanT.Potter i have 2 jd 7700 combines, one cost 5k the othe $700 at an auction. Both work. Field tractor's 6030jd, 800 and 850 versatile, for haying i have a jd 4010, farmall 1206, both from 1965. Just bought a jd 4430 for way too much to replace the 4010 because pto locked up. My baler and skidsteer are early 90s, newest equipment i have. I get by. AC would be nice, just don't seem to ever have time to fix because i also work full time in town.

Your story was a good story for yesta year farming, but you need to borrow money to expand especially if interest rates are below 10 percent. You need to speculated to accumulate, nothing wrong in leasing the farm down the road provided it is a good farm. You need up to date machinery to handle the current high priced commodities you can grow. I got left behind by not taking the risk and borrowing money.

The sad thing is that a farmer never sees the same type of increase that we do as a consumer. If farmers seen the same increase in there product as we do In a grocery or or other industery they would all be millionaires.

Help a farmer, buy direct. Go see where your bacon and steak is raised. Influence the system positively for the producer, the animals, and the consumer.

In germany we have the same situation. Our farmers get less monny from the food companies and had to pay more and more for Chemiecals, furtuliser and seed. The Machines here are extreme expensive. In the last 15 jears from the 12 farmers in my small village dies 10. Now we have only 2 farmers.

maybe the subsidy should be $1.5 million? 👍🏼

​@@peters3710H!, maybe it's time for you to go farming? 😊 and share the experience on KZfaq 🎉

In farming through luck inheritance and good practice you can usually get in the black a time in your life, the goal is to not have to have an operating loan each year, once you're there you can even hold your grain 15, 20 months if you want. If one ever gets there they better be smart enough to stay there. If you had nothing to begin with I suppose you have nothing to lose by extending your debt I suppose...

@@braneden you,ll be able to stay there till you,re equity runs out!

Yes....Vet, trucker, diesel mechanics, welders, carpenters, electrician etc etc.

Yep. During harvest it's before sun up to after sundown in the fields. Inside the house is just as bad. Make a big breakfast, clean that up. Start lunch, which is also big. Clean that up along with the house and do laundry. Feed the chickens and work in the garden. Don't forget canning and ironing. I used to get sent to help my Aunts and Uncles during harvest. I'm not sure what lesson I was supposed to learn, but what I did learn DON'T MARRY A FARMER.

That’s Great❤

🎉 brilliant idea!

That’s awesome! Kids in AG will appreciate seeing a normal guy close to their age doing it!

Ikr.....I been watching him for yrs....time Flys

Same here ! 👍

Did fellow is hitting it outa the ball park!

Good post!

And expenses are driven by taxation.

@@TonyRule and greed

@@Otingocni Greed is an oxymoron, you are in business to make money. That is not greedy. Corporations are in business to make money for their shareholders of which nearly 80% are middle class working Americans retirement investments. Taxation and federal regulations requiring minimum wages and benefits will ALWAYS be passed to the consumer.

@@eqrommel then quit complaining about the plight of farmers. This is what capitalism does.

@@eqrommel There's making money, and then there's rorting.

Cole should consider creating tiktok series 10 minute parts...aka the "Ressa Tessa" syndrome tells us that if you are a great story teller, which Cole is, and you have a very interesting story to tell, which Cole does, then Tik Tok is a great place to earn yourself some serious money to help off set the projected losses. thankfully for Cole, the US is one of the 6 Countries where a creator can actually make some serious income from tik tok.

If you watch any of the earlier videos you will see that the family washes the equipment constantly and does regular maintenance. They work so hard and do so much themselves trying to save money. I have been surprised several times over the years I have watched when they said how old a piece of equipment was, because they look so good.

Jimmy Carter destroyed rural America with the Carter grain embargo’s. The USA became known as a “unreliable supplier “. Now South America is-has taken our place. Now 20% of the Amazon rain forests are gone

Me to, what three, do tell CCS‼️

simultaneously?

Did he say which three they are? If so, I didn't catch it. Any guesses? I say, piano, drums, and trumpet.

@@doctormoyer No, no clues given. I do seem to remember a piano sitting in the parents home. Never talked about team sports other than Baseball, so a band boy, maybe? If so, then trumpet would be a good choice. Don't seem him on a flute or clarinet. Doesn't look like a drummer to me, speaking as a drummer. I would go guitar for #3.

@@Cogenstein depends on what they are, but entirely possible.

Thanks for the enlightenment.

The family farm is long gone the last vestiges of it disappeared over half a century ago when Nixon's Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz told farmers to "get big or get out" while ending FDR's New Deal Ag programs that were designed to keep farm families on the land. The small family farms our grandparents and great grandparents lived on 70 to 100+ years ago were subsistence farms for the most part, they grew what they needed to feed their family and their livestock and sold the surplus in town or used it to barter with neighboring farms for produce they needed. There is really no such thing as an independent farmer anymore, today's farmers are poorly paid, heavily indebted contract employees of some big vertically integrated Ag company like Smithfield (now owned by communist China) Tyson, Perdue Agribusiness, et. al. If you want to sell chickens, turkeys, or hogs these days you pretty much have to have a contract with one of these companies to sell them. Commodity crops like corn, soybeans and wheat are increasingly headed in that direction as well. In the county I grew up in most farms were run by "gentleman farmers" who didn't make a living off the land. My dad and another farmer were bank executives, another owned a chain of grocery stores, another owned a trucking company, one was a NYC lawyer married to an heiress of one of the big pharmaceutical companies. He had co much money he bought the local Deere dealership so he could get tractors at cost. Last but not least the biggest farming operation in the whole county was owned by yep you guessed it, a Congressman! Oh and this was way back in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s. I only know of one farmer in the county who made his living off the land but he also owned a business that sold seed and fertilizer to other farmers.

I love how he's fooled his audience into thinking he's smart. His farm doesn't make a profit, he's wasted over $100k with mistakes, he's financing most of the farm and equipment (ironic since he's a fan of Dave Ramsay who says never borrow money), his dad almost died because they don't believe in science, he messed up the bin site assuming due to cutting corners....like how can you say he's smart when on paper he's the opposite? He's a smooth talker, but only fools fall for it.

​@@AndrewPL5out of interest, do you have any experience in agriculture?

@@parccarreg quite a bit, actually.

Yes and a great retirement! My husband retired Bricklayer and Allied Craft workers union! I live in a farming community, it’s 24/7/365. Respect and love !

Greetings Bricklayer, You have my respect and admiration, nest to shearing sheep some of the most strenuous physical -mental labor. Also, I have always admired your trade, which will last 100-plus years; thus, every public project should bear to trades who built.

The farm crisis in the 80's hit S.Iowa and N. Missouri hardcore. It was sad watching families sell their assets.

And I totally get it that 1.5 million on a family farm doesn't go real far time they pay their expenses, taxes, farm equipment etc etc

Never heard a brick mason refer to themselves as a brick layer. Ive laid millions and never thought masons were high paid. I make more farming than any mason around here.

And I'm an old woodbutcher who went deaf from the routers n saws ! Also in the family lline, but not now my son !

It appears over the past few years, there is an ongoing global war on farming and energy in petroleum/natural gas production (which also produces chemical fertilizers as byproducts. )

3 minutes in and he's already talking about debt. It's what drove me away from this channel.

@@happydogg312 It's the fact about farming. Debt

@@johnunsicker7440 It's too bad it's like that, especially for small to mid size farmers. We need them and we need the ranchers to thrive. We also need the small to mid size processors and distributors of meat and farm products to thrive to keep a healthy and strong country and economy going, too. What got me was the way Cole so enthusiastically embraced debt with all the farm upgrades. It became painful to watch.

Exactly.

@@happydogg312 why because he is honest about farming..heavens

He isnt putting farm fresh anything on any tables. Most of what these welfare farmers grow isnt even used for human consumption.

Or maybe think outside the box and stop just planting corn and soybeans. Both those crops are so abundantly overproduced there is no future there. 25 years ago a good yield of corn was 150 bushels an acre. Now I need your irrigated land it easily exceeds 300 bushels per acre with no market for the excess product.

@@Otherrandomguy42 Well said!! Corn and soybeans are also two of the worst things animals (including humans) can put into their bodies. They are loaded w/ inflammatory omega 6 oils and glyphosate laden chemicals. Please raise something else!!

Homeschoolers rarely succeed in life. They are held back by helicopter parents. It's a shame.

@@bonzocleach2496you sound dumb lol

@@bonzocleach2496 present facts to back up your statement, because what you noted is lacking in FACTS! Do your homework. We are secular college/university educated homeschool parents as are the 30+ other families in our area. Most are professionals who have various businesses from ranching, kayaking, skiing, doctor, lawyer. And even the youngest members of the families are encouraged to help out and ALL the 12+ male/females have side jobs in the community. Helicopter parents are so named because they hover over their child's life. And they tend to strictly supervise their children in ALL aspects of their lives, including in social interactions. Very few seem to homeschool going by reliable stats. There's a stereotype of a Tiger Mom who does that, but they are far and few between. Ironically all the students at the major universities making the news the last 3-4 years for being easily offended etc. are from public schools.

Nobody is eating ethanol. And plenty i know wont starve.

⁠@@Dougarrowhead You could do some research and find out what “dried distiller grains are” (ddg’s) and yes you are correct that there is no food value in the ethanol removed from the corn.

Same here.....I been here since day one......dont feel like it tho...I'm getting older..lol

Me too !

Ever pull pigs from a sow in an upside down rear load dumpster turned into a farrowing hut? The 6 yard dumpsters aren't too bad really, 5x10ft.

Broooo

Well, farm crisis peaked mid 80's after 3 years under Regan, just saying

Cole has spent the last 6 years cleaning the farm up. All out of date equipment has gone. But nice idea

@@ptqt25sussex5 I just listed plenty of things that they could sell. I've seen extra cars and extra trucks, motorcycles and other OTVs, all the other things that I listed! And all those extra tools and gadgets that he pulled out of that other garage he just cleaned recently.

Pre-emptive comment - I didn't mean to offend with the term "goofy" - just brings a smile to my face. :)

I still am a share cropper..1/3rd and 1/4 is what I get....I am not kidding.

Same concept applies to growing food too, obviously.

After corn is sold to ethanol plants, the byproduct, Distillers grains (DDG) is subsequently sold for a variety of purposes, usually as fodder for livestock (especially ruminants). Corn-based distillers grains from the ethanol industry are commonly sold as a high protein livestock feed that increases efficiency and lowers the risk of subacute acidosis in beef cattle.

@@Gwaycee work is the same, concept and equipment are quite a bit different

Fuel and food for animals which are all food for people.

They grow soy beans as well right?

He loves his family ❤🙏

What would be the value that does not undervalue them? How do you set a value on that? And how do you relay that in a $$$ amount to include in the costs of running the farm? You don't, because you cant, honestly it is a nice question but totally ridiculous at the same time

Do you even watch the videos both his mom and wife produce income that supports the farm also

@Budgettools as he said, he is not including income from outside the farm, so if they have jobs that money is not included, only money that the farm makes or spends

@@robertbradford3461 you didn't read the op comment then my reply to it back to back did you

When in a hole, stop digging.

there is a comment below that says this farm grows for fuel tho, not food. hmmmm

None of the corn they grow is sold as an ear of corn in the supermarket, that’s sweet corn They grow grain corn, most of it goes towards industrial applications (ethanol) and most of their soybeans get sold to China

Then I would stand corrected. My comment stands though - I'm pretty sure I, and you, still use and need fuel...

What would you have said if Cole was an atheist?

First step in redemption is to drop leftism. Just look at what leftism did to farmers in Russia, China etc. Your food depends on these people, thus your wellbeing.