I just saw this video and did it ever bring back the memories. I drove many hours in the wheat, alfalfa, corn, and maize fields on a John Deere tractor for my grandfather. Now his son runs the farm.
My uncle is a 3rd generation farmer and 2 of his daughters have married guys who are in the cattle business.
My brother has tried his hand at raising calves, but he is much more talented at being an entrepreneur and doing contracted sales. And I'm quite proud of him and his successes. He is also a very good cook! Somehow, I suspect that many years from now he will settle back into the farming aspect or back into a catering business, which he has been successful with in the past. He definitely knows how to cook up the meat, chicken, or turkey!
But meanwhile, I would like to contribute to making this video go viral. I would love to see that happen, not in order to change the Peterson Farm Bros' lives, but to bring some recognition back to part of the backbone of this country.
Frankly, the price of wheat or anything else that the family farmer makes is not much more, if any more at all, than when I was a kid. Yet, the consumer pays way more for the food items in the store. As a result, this has almost made the American family farms extinct and overruled by commercial farmers.
I'm here to tell you that commercial farmers are, for the most part, out to make the money, regardless of the cost of our health. There are a few commercial farmers that are conscientious about how they produce food, but they're few and far between. On the other hand, the American family farmers are much more conscientious because the same food they send to market they're also putting on their own dinner tables. (I wonder how many commercial farmers don't eat their own products because they know the health consequences.)
