This should be played in every high school to teach economics, math and just plain life.

From a non farmer, non US perspective, this was really interesting

As a barbecue guy, sometimes videos like this are handy to remind me of the total cost involved with getting quality beef for me to cook. Great video, very interesting and well-presented!

I grew up working on a farm. I'm glad I was just a hired hand, and NOT an owner. It was a WONDERFUL time. You TRULY learn to appreciate Gods work.

Thanks for letting us know you are a business man as well as a rancher and Steward of the land!

Drove through Wyoming a few years back and it was endless fields of hay. I had endless questions that you answered with this video. Thank you.

Not sure how I got here, but I really enjoyed the video. I also want to say that I respect and admire ALL the farmers/ranchers across this great country. Thank you for doing what you do to provide for us!

Great informative video Mike! Much appreciation not only for the time to create and edit your programs, but also for the simplicity of factual costs that perhaps too many people are ignorant of. -Bob...

Love watching your videos it show so much about ranching and where you're food come from thank you and the hard working farmers out there for the food we eat every day

Definitely showed that y’all are the heart of America. I can’t even imagine. Thank you!!

I have an MBA and this guy has SOLID numbers and I swear knows more about BUSINESS and ECONOMICS than most financial people I know. He has EXPERIENCE and hands on operations. I learned a ton from this and his other videos. TYVM for this. If I could ask, do you know the economics of a wheat field?

Thanks for all you farmers out there for your hard work!

Informative video, Mike! Much respect to you and the good folks in Wyoming for the work you guys are doing. Take care and God bless!

Great voice & delivery! Randomly popped up on my feed so i thought id learn something new!

Love your channel! Very informative answering many of my questions I've always had! Thank you & God bless

Thank you for keeping us feed!

I dont even own a house lol but I love farming life. Thank you sir for the service and this great information

Very interesting and informative. Thanks for sharing.

amazing command of the business, never says uh or hesitates. earrings seem odd. he is just extraordinary with fast and concise command of his subject. he is the best speaker at clear fast information i have ever seen

I live in a cul-de-sac and am not a farmer but I found this interesting information. Thanks.

I appreciate what you do, grew up ranching and farming in South Texas. Understand the struggles, and the rewards of the lifestyle. God Bless you and your family, good quality video, good narrative. Keep up the good work.

You've got me looking at fields counting the bales as I drive by. Makes me aware how hard you've got it

My grandfather died in 1959. He was a sharecropper in SC tobacco and cotton. He never owned a tractor only used horses and mules. I love watching farms and ranches. First time here. Daddy 92yrs old is blind. He went to war ww11 at 17. I use KZfaq to tell him about how things are out on farms and ranches.

From a non-farmer, US perspective, this was very interesting. Learn something new everyday.

Fantastic . Thank you for the excellent explanation.

Notification Gang!!! Gotta love that bell icon!!! Informative Video Mike!!! 💪🤠

What a great video! Thank you for the time, effort and info put into this!!!!

Thank You very much for your video. It was very informative about what farmers go through.

Great video, very informative. We have a lot in common here in eastern Oregon. I am "lucky" enough to have irrigation - usually. We can produce a lot more, but our costs are much higher. (Mostly due to the costs of constantly Irrigating.) My favorite alfalfa seed comes from Wyoming.

Why am i sooo addicted to this channel hahaha. Los Angeles living but i love the farming life. Good job and keep it up.

So nicely described. What a gentleman he is. So glad to learn so many things. Thank you from Canada.

Mike, I enjoy those old pictures. Your math is simple for folks👍👍. So glad Dave and Nurse Tammy have had the time to help yall out. Yall have a good week.

Mike, your videos are always super intersting. This information is not readily available to most of us. Thank you so much.

first time watcher of your channel. Great video. Amazing that wrapping costs more then fuel!

Great videos from your farm. It has really helped me these last weeks learn about the farming business and cattle particularly. Thank you a bunch! I can't wait to start my own

Very informative / easy to understand and actually interesting! Thanks from So. Oregon

With that voice you could do allot of radio and television! During the 180 right? Great content ! And I'm not even a farmer 😎👍🏻 well well ... I must have a good ear for voice, after going back through your vlogs and finding out you already did the corporate radio! Keep up the great family life , thank you

Informative breakdown Mike on the costs of hay, thanks

I come from a line of agriculture families; cotton, soybeans, cattle, pigs, chickens, fruit, nuts and veggies! I began my life on the farm, but after college, I worked for state agriculture as research biologist for tobacco, soybeans and turf grass. Then I be can an architect and master planner for our US forces. This world and our life here is very complicated and multifaceted. We all need each other and we all affect each other. Good planning , intelligent use of resources, and fair and reasonable practices of spending, consumption and contribution must be carefully balanced and respectfully attended. Thanks Mike for your well thought out and hard labored efforts and contributions to our country and universe.

Very honest and informative video. Thanks for your time!

Add $2.00 every time the baler door opens for baler depreciation. Like the videos!

Hey! I remember when you posted that first video on Reddit, I've been following you since day one. I remember when you guys were only getting 60 views for video. Haven't seen any of your videos in a while, but this one popped up in my feed and glad to see your channels doing well.

Mike, what a wonderful, informative, channel! Reminds me of my childhood! Continued blessings to your family and all you who get dirty every single day rain, shine, sleet or snow!

I'm not sure how I backed into this video, but it's honestly one of the best-done costs of business videos I've ever seen. Nice to see someone finally put repair costs in at a realistic amount to the bottom line and not hopes of nothing breaking.

"Cylinders of wintertime happiness" 😁 lovely !

This video was recommended by youtube. Definitely didn't disappoint. You got yourself a new subscriber. Btw, I am a landscaper, not a farmer. Keep up the great content!!

Great video and great explanation of some of your costs. It really helps to put things into perspective for your ranch. Thanks for taking the time to work up these numbers and put it out there for all to see. Best wishes always to you, your family and all ranchers & famers across the country.

Thank you for giving that awesome explanation taking time out of your hard working schedule! Worked cattle a few times my younger years so this was great! Thanks to you and people like you, we enjoy food. Well done. Appreciate y’all. GOD bless!

Great video man. We got 20 bales per acre of hay in Ireland this year but you have a lot more acres. Crazy difference! Keep these amazing videos coming 👍

Great video Mike....folks don't understand that there is a huge cost associate with bailing, growing and storing hay. Farming is expensive....wish I could send you some hay from our farm buddy.

Very insightful and interesting.Thank you!

I have always respected farmers and ranchers for making my life easier. I've even visited Joel Salatin's farm in Virginia, but this video goes far more into the details of what its like than some of Joel's videos. Very informative and l appreciate my steak a little bit more now. Thank you for all your hard work.

Thanks for all the hard work and sacrifice so we can have food on the table!!

I was going to take the plunge and buy the equipment but I think you may have just talked me down off the ledge. I guess I'll keep paying the hay man his steak tax albeit with a much better attitude. Thanks for taking the time to help a rookie.

It's great hearing info like this! Thanks for taking the time to makes your videos. Very interesting and informative. God bless!

Major props to you and yours for the work you do!

Great video! Interesting to compare costs of making hay in Lapland Finland.

Nice Video, Good Explaining!!

Thanks for the channel, I love farm videos. Grew up watching some of this stuff

Great detailed explanation! I love farming and tractors but never grew up around them. I came to this video interested in cost and profit. Very good stuff! Thank you!

Hey Mike. Add in the cost of picking those bales up in the field and transporting them back to the farm and stacking them. Great job..

Red clover would help your yeild. it grows in dry harsh environments and is easy to grow. It's relatively cheap to try and once established its self seeding if you get the right variety. Also provides free nitrogen which is a bonus for the other grass.

Erin and you are doing all the right things to prosper. As youths my brother and I were volunteered by my grandfather to help on a cousin's farm where we learned about hard work. God bless you.

I like many, never realize how much work, time, and money is involved when we ride down a road past the bales of hay. Very interesting. Thanks, John

Business opportunity in Wyoming. Custom Cutter. 🤔

I say to my kid- you can learn math, business and life from a farmer. Kudos to all smart farmers

Man. After watching your videos it gave me an even deeper appreciation than what I already had for what you do. I’d love to do something along those lines but it’s just not a realistic path for me to take in life. Between my brand bias (champagne tastes on a pbr wallet) and my stubborn ways it wouldn’t be possible for me. Thank you for what you do!

Another great video Mike! Looking forward to Tuesday!!

Great video Mike 👍and I agree with you 101%. In my case making hay with worn out equipment which can be a gamble if it decides to brake and keeping an eye on the clouds are my main stress and sometimes wonder would it be easier just to buy in the bales from time to time. Especially the costs of brake downs if not careful could cost way more than the machine is worth.

It amazes me how far we've come technologically in just a half century or so. They couldn't handle that much hay without power equipment.

Thanks for taking us along… Sometimes “pitching a fit” is the best thing to do… even if it is just for a minute of 😡 or 😫. Take a break from it to regroup and reevaluate. Hang in there! It will work out.

I enjoyed the way you broke it down splendid way of presenting information. I agree this should be presented to school kids so that they get an idea of what it takes to produce the food they enjoy.

That is a great video! I don’t even farm.

Incredible oration of video, great professional sound. Get yourself an agent

One of the biggest problems with buying hay is transferring weeds also. Good video!!

Great video! I love the breakdown of costs, and can look at my own operation and implement it here! Thank you!

In Ireland our crops would yield about 10 bales to the acre with 2 to 4 cuttings a year and a Bale of hay would sell for €25

Fascinating information. One hears "rancher," and to a city slicker like me, one believes it's a hard working always prosperous life...I'm learning that is untrue. I truly, truly have learned from your channel. Wishing you no more hail, rain, snow for a while, or breakdowns. Wishing you health, blessings & prosperity this year.

Thanks for the excellent information. I've been looking at these costs myself, and I continue to use the guys that roam the local area cutting hay.

From a non farmer in New Jersey. Thanks for sharing such eye opening information.

Thanks for the video, at least you are being realistic or out of the denial stage of what a bale costs to make. I was hog farming here in Canada straw was costing $15 plus for me to buy the straw at $5.50 in the row bale it and haul it home. I needed around a 1000 bales a year I was doing 4500 hogs a year at $16 out the door custom feeding, they provided food in the deal. you can do the math on how many hogs to pay that without the other costs. Like what seemed to be a 500-$1000 entry fee to the Agco or CNH parts counter every time something needed fixing that I repaired being a mechanic to, then i'd payed myself and other running costs. The money for replacement or update bigger equipment wasn't ever going to be there as they wouldn't pay me more per animal. I quit but said i'd still custom bale straw from my sources if guys wanted it for cattle. These goofs think $15 a bales being ripped off. The big problem now is with modern combines and choppers they dust the straw so some you can't bale and you can't see it chopped . Guys figure out the fertilizer cost putting it back and not having to harrow after that they didn't think of before to. Free or cheap straw plus baling costs of $5 is a thing of the past here and bad weather makes demand higher to I struggled some years to get enough. I've already seen $40 CAN a bale wheat straw before harvest advertised last week that will never sell here, Hays starting at $120 now it got to $160 when it was short last year, everybody was out and there is no reserves this year. Some of these guys still need a reality check on the costs and is it worth farming still. I'm not sitting on my tractor baling on 36ft swaths at an average of 10 KPH through the night and working during the day for less than $10 a bale, last year I had 3 days in a row for a few weeks with 9 hours sleep total, that was just plain crazy . Take care.

Wow! You only get one cutting a year? Where I live in NE Indiana, they usually get three, occasionally four cuttings a year. Now I see why that hail storm was so devastating for you. Good luck to you this winter.

I know nothing about hay or farming and i stumbled on this series. It is absolutely fascinating and beautifully expounded.

Straight to the point! Thank you! Great video.! May God bless all your harvest!!!

Get a copy of Jim Gerrish's book, "Kick The Hay Habit". It'll help you a lot. And you forgot to add in fertilizer cost.

Very informative. You Sir, are a very good speaker. You kept it interesting and full of information. Thank you for sharing. ......Oh I'm in Australia. You have reached the other side of the planet.

Thanks for the valuable info on haying that really will help me out.

GREAT VIDEO! LEARNED A LOT! THANK YOU!!

Here in WA it's so wet...everything is haylage. Opposite issues here with too much rain. The kids like to say the farmers are growing marshmallows.

Jonny Cash. Love this channel.its not a bunch of fairytale crap like the rest of the Homestead channels. Real Stuff

Hi From New Zealand . Thanks for letting us into your world . Great video

Mike, I always love your videos and especially when you get into the metrics. I myself grew up ranching but when I went to college I never looked back and now it’s too late to start again. But as an engineer I find your videos fun an wholesome because you’re honest and discuss the good and bad and discuss the money side of it too which is important. We need more younger people to get into the business, otherwise corporate America will take over.

We got 2-3 cuttings per season in Arkansas.

A reminder that "flyover America" is the best part of America.

Thank you for sharing. I have a lot of respect for farmers. Especially here in America, where farming seems so much more complicated.

Great video. Nice job presenting the information.

you should rotationally graze your cattle to improve your land. you would grow more per acre.

Have you tried Swanson ag net wrap? I used only Vermeer wrap until a guy told me about this wrap, I haven’t had problems with it in my baler. I myself do custom baling. I have talked to a couple of other custom bakers that run John Deere balers and they like the Swanson wrap also. Just a thought.

You speak very well and were enjoyable to watch. Good Luck!

Once again your numbers are spot on and simliar to mine.. Here in N.Missouri we sometimes have to feed up to 5 months per year..But we get 2-3 cuttings depending on rain... 3 bales per cow/per year....We mow, rake and pick it up...Have it custom baled for 10/bale.. Good video.. I will add hay was late but very good here 3-5 bales per acre...