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I live in Central IL and it's so cool to know you are in my state! This week at the college I work the Farm Progress Show is going on this week. When you talk about the heat, I know exactly which days you were talking about. It was so hard to breathe outside on those days. Living in Illinois, we do get these hot and humid days more than I care for. So glad you guys got to come to my state.

Wow, that was very interesting. That is some old equipment. Wow, really neat and I’m sure Andy was in his glory. ❤️

So cool , you met Pete . Thankyou for sharing your thoughts and experiences.

Anytime i get to see old farm equipment being operated is very enjoyable and a world of different from today's equipment thanks for the video and sharing

Looks like you guys had a great & fun trip. Loved seeing all the tractor’s & equipment. I know Andy & Jacob were in hog heaven amongst all those tractors. Loved hearing the National Anthem & seeing our Flag flowing in the wind. Thanks for sharing with us. 😇🙏🏻👍🏻🙌🏻❤️🇺🇸🇺🇸

What a great time you gave your family's. And meeting Pete had to be so cool, thats how I found all these farm channels. City boys alway dream of living on a farm, even at 66.

I miss the sounds of the old tractor. We had a steam powered tractor in my hometown in Minnesota when I was growing up. That was a long time ago.

Just caught your you tube in tv and had to jump on phone to say how cool that you were here. We live in central Illinois, hope you had a good visit. We love our corn and bean fields and sunsets are amazing.

Very cool the you met Pete! Just a few acres is just a few mile from me! Glad you had a good time!

I've never seen anything like that. Sounds like y'all had some Texas weather up there. Safe travels home. ❤🤠

I lived in Kansas for 26 years and it was hot and humid every year. When I moved to Alabama it was still humid but not nearly as hot

I've always wanted to that show go didn't realize it was that much land Morganton NC....

All my favorite stuff wrapped up in one trip.

Great video ❤ some neat equipment

I live in central Mississippi and right now it 16 degrees outside we have gotten snow and some ice and I will be so glad when it is gone

Looks like you all had a fun trip.I believe Andy and Jacob was in tractor heaven lol.I use to live in Indiana and the first time I ever seen sky beans and corn fields was when you moved out to the country a d all around our farm house that mom and dad rented was nothing but fields of corn and soy beans there was a couple of wheat fields .but us kids where just fascinated by the plowing and planting of the fields and come harvest time it was so enjoyable to Sig on the back porch and watch them pick the corn and soybeans.some of my fondest memories was in the country.I now live in the mountains of Eastern, KY love your videos I'm just vengeance watching ever chance I get.💓💓💓

I’m tired from just watching y’all but it looked like a lot of fun.

It is that hot in the Midwest. Sporadically, but yes. I live in MN and we will be in the 90's this weekend after pleasant 80's all week. Looks like our Farmfest up here in MN. You would enjoy it, I think.

Its good too take a good road trip with the family every now and again love your family steve from Oregon

This show looks awesome. Like Denton, NC show but on steroids!!! May have to check this out next year!

We live in the Appalachian Smoky Mountains ⛰️ of Tennessee permanently for the last 2 yrs and we’ve had our place here for the last 8 years but we come from Central Illinois not far from the farm show in city called Shelbyville….And Andy it gets that hot in Illinois and that humid too!!! Believe me it can get super hot 😅…thanks for sharing!

Andy, I hear ya! People around here are Miserable now and unfortunately they want you to be miserable too! Now, I know why Jacob ❤s tractors! Yeah!! Tractor 🚜 Pulls 🎉❤❤ yes ma’am here in n ms 110 in the shade! need a butter knife to cut through the air, just to breathe!! Did you see the size of that tractor with the disc 😮 I ❤ the old ones! One man operation, I see Andy’s brain 🧠 working ❤ I enjoyed it too!! Thank y’all for taking us along ❤ My dad always took us kids to the air show, fun times ❤

Hi there beautiful family

We live in north central Missouri and it's pretty much the same here. Wheat, corn and soybeans. We rent an old farmhouse which is surrounded by farm ground. I plant sweetcorn and last year the fields here had corn planted. No cross pollination.

Great video! I loved seeing the show through your eyes. Looking forward to watching smaller farming on your channel in the future.

Heartway Farms (a you tube channel) is located in IL. They would be able to answer all your growing questions.

Thank you so much for sharing your trip with us. I really enjoyed it!

Great video! 😍And enjoy guys. ❤

Just one thing I wanted to mention. The s in Illinois is silent. That land is dark, black and rich. That and the flat land is why millions of acres are farmed. Most small family farms are hundreds of acres in the midwest. You'll miss the mountains after being away just a few days. You can grow such a diverse number of plants in our temperate rainforest of Appalachia. I had the food fortune to be raised in the midwest while still keeping strong family ties in Appalachia. Winters out there are long and gray with some bitter cold. When military retirement rolled around we settled on purchasing my grandparents Appalachian farm instead of the midwest. Did you you see Pete from Just A Few Acres Farm? He restores a lot of Farmall tractors on you tube in the winters. His farm is in the Ithica, NY area. He restored his great grandparents Victorian house on his farm. It's an amazing story and labor of love. He has a couple videos on it. Temps are usually in the 90's and they do see some triple digits some years come August out there in that area of the midwest. Glad ya'll had fun!

This is neat, i was there for the first time too. In fact, you caught two of my friends briefly on your video, but I wasn’t with them at the time. I also met Pete, said hi to him, but I didn’t know at the time he had made arrangements to meet people under the tent. Wish I had gone to that as well.

Good for y’all! Everyone needs to vacation! Have fun!

As usual great video, although I'm not into farm equipment. Thankyou. It makes me happy to know that you had a lovely time. God bless. Warmest greetings from Hellas.

WE NEED REAL AMOUNT OF RAIN 🌧️ 🙏🏽

The video was interesting to watch. I've traveled up in that area and enjoyed the visit. The best part after seeing it was the first sight of the Appalachians on the way back home.

That was interesting, thanks for taking us along. Take care.

Enjoyed the video, interesting to go somewhere else than home

So happy for ya . That ya have some down time and family time ..to enjoy life ..🫶🏽🫶🏽

Glad y’all enjoyed your trip ❤ thanks for sharing with us 😊

Great Job guys!!😇!😇!😇!😇!

Please keep a weather eye on things...not sure if y'all would be impacted by the storm etc but better safe than sorry! Love you channel!

Ohio has hills!! 😎

We have what they call Ag Expo over in Moultrie Georgia. That's also a big thing each year in Oct. Alot school will be out just so the kids can be there.

Awesome video......so glad you had a great time !

❤❤❤Great trip!!!

I swear I saw you there and thought about coming up and saying hi and then I was like there's no way it was you and so we just kept on driving by because we were getting ready for the tractor pull. Haha.

Thank you for the adventure. I truly enjoyed it all. ❤

That’s the way it is here once upon time all the traffic I would see is the mail lady

Looks like fun times! Pete is from my neck of the woods in the Fingerlakes.

Unfortunately it's normal for this part of the summer in Illinois

I laughed so hard at your “not a morning person” 😂😂😂. That’s me! I warn ppl. If you speak to me before 45 min of me being up it hadn’t better be questions problems or complaints cuz this momma ain’t doin it 😅. And I have to know…. How many times did Andy and Jacob say “I’d like to have that” ? 😊

Me that live here in Houston Texas I have heard when Covid hit ,everybody moved to the Carolinas weather, that be North Carolina or south? Many people have moved to the country so I figured now it’s getting overcrowded and it’s getting harder to find acreage is getting harder to find. Land

Glad y’all had fun. I’m in flat land NC, Raeford rn, grew up in Lumberton NC... I thought this area was getting packed with people and developers. We went to Old Fort NC last week and stayed in a cabin at the top of Gateway Mountain, the population there and the town was so much smaller than here. We loved it so much that I’m looking for unrestricted land to buy in the NC mountains now so we can park our camper on it and stay there on the weekends for now..then build a house there to live in after we retire. Where abouts r all of the people moving to that y’all r referring to? I sure don’t want to buy land where everyone is going

You passed through my state, Indiana

I think taxes are terrible in illinois. I love arkansas hills ozarks.enjoy you guys around your place

It breaks my heart to see these beautiful fields of corn and produce,and to think these farmers can't get decent money for their crops. There is something very wrong with our great American when politicians pay more for overseas produce than from our farmers.

Hey you’ll. Did you run into Farmall Fanatic? He was there and shared some awesome footage as well. Thanks for sharing.

Once they built the interstate a lot of the small towns lost business. I live in Alabama right now and the town i Iive in right now is getting so large that I really don't like it anymore. We bought a lot in North Carolina and are going to build a house within the next year. I will be happy to get away from the rat race. It will be much closer to my family in West Virginia also.

If you want to see sunflowers fields that are as big as the corn and soybean fields in Illinois go to Kansan. it the same just sunflowers instead of corn and soybeans.

Enjoy the show. Ps.. the "s" in Illinois is silent. We love watching your show.

It looked like an awesome adventure for everyone. It's great seeing all the old and new machines. I was amazed at the massive size of some of the tillers. Please excuse my ignorance, I noticed that a lot of the tractors and such let off black smoke which I guess is from diesel. I hate to sound like an environmental freak but doesn't the chemicals from the smoke fall back down onto the soil. I realize it may be the most efficient way to work the land. Did y'all happen to see if anyone was creating new machines that could run cleaner? I'm like y'all in that I extremely dislike the way society is turning more and more rural areas urban. I think people may have romanticized life in the country and when they found out it wasn't as simple as they thought, instead of moving back to urban areas they brought the urban amenities to themselves. I have to be careful of that myself because I believe I want to move out to southwestern Virginia. I know I need to do research on all the good and bad points. When y'all were talking about endless fields of corn and how it looked like an ocean made me think of cotton fields. Every year when I was younger we would go down to Mississippi to visit relatives. While down there we would see miles and miles of cotton. It almost looked like freshly fallen snow. Thank you for sharing this video. May God bless you and keep you.

Farm land and just land in general is disappearing.,They just building whether that be homes or businesses or I live Houston is just overcrowded traffic used to be after 4 PM now traffic is all the time

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The “S” is silent in Illinois.

Tornado alley.

i live in rantoul illinois

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It's the winters!! That is why people aren't settling there. Ha ha!!

Who is that movie star in the back with her sun glasses on 😮😮

Howdy Meagan and Andy. Ya'll need to quit about being hot. LOL We have had 51 days straight of 100 and above temperatures and heat indexes of 118. NO RAIN in the last 3 months and only got 1 cut of hay in. Having to sell cattle. Andy speaking about folks moving in like crazy around ya'll is terrible, I really feel for ya'll . Pretty soon our taxes will be going thru the roof here, we are in the same shape ya'll are in.

The soil looks so rich; what does it feel like?

The constant spraying is horrible to deal with there. We live a few miles from fields like that and the people that live by it can rarely make gardens.

Trust me you don't want to live in Illinois.