Thanks Mike. I really appreciate that! Now, I just need UA-cam to push these videos out to thousands more people like you and I would feel a lot more motivated to film more of my daily farm life. it takes a lot of time and energy.
been loving all the videos of the farm. I'm not a farmer (sometimes wish i was) but without people like yourself there would be a lot of hungry folks out there. Hang in there, keep your head high, the help will come.
Those fan motors have bad bearings or bad starting capacitors. If you have time to take them a part and re-lube them they could work for a couple more decades. I have fixed a ton of those before. Also if they're apart it's worth while to clean the inside. It's a lot cheaper that way...
I had to chuckle when I heard you say you really need to be on the top step of the ladder but can’t do that. Then later you did - I’m the same way 😂. I feel for you on being able to find good help. There’s a lot of people out there who just don’t wanna work or they want the gravy jobs handed to them. As for content, heck I’ll watch anything you want to post about the farm. I’m interested in all of it!
Ha ha, and all I had to do was walk up to the barn 100 feet away to get a taller stepladder, but I was too lazy to do it! Definitely harder and harder each year to find young people willing to work hard, but fortunately, we ended up getting all of our positions filled. Glad you’re enjoying the content!
I help run a church camp in a neighboring state and we have run into the same issue with our summer staff hiring. We had to change our process and start calling the positions “internships” it seemed like the younger kids were more interested in that type of wording for their resumes. We also started hiring for shorter periods for the summer instead of hiring positions for the entire summer. Yes we still have staff who choose to stay on staff the entire summer but we found it helpful to hire for 2-3 week stints to better fit their schedules. Hope this helps a little!
Those are some great ideas, thanks! Fortunately we’ve had a nice influx of applications for the past week and we are finished hiring! A lot of small farms do implement the internship thing so I do know that is something we could try in the future if needed, but a shorter stint would not work for us due to the amount of training that would need to be done during peak season which would cause all kinds of issues for us. Anyway, I appreciate the suggestions and thanks for watching!
Thanks Jason... having worked on or managed farms in Australia finding staff was one of the biggest problems, Field staff ie tractor drivers both day shift and night shift sprayers were mainly locals but when it came to pickers thats a job locals didnt want, with 1000's capable but preferring to stay on welfare benefits, Australia offers a Visa extension of 12 months if tourists with work visas spend 3 months working on farms, living in hostels and arriving by bus each morning, but that meant out of the 100 that turned up maybe 50 were capable or interested, so each day became a challenge, well thats all behind me now, My own property, 4 greenhouses, approx 4000 sqf, and 2 farmers markets, so far I have been able to squeeze all of this into 50 or so hours a week. Good luck mate....Rob
Very interesting information Rob. I can’t imagine working for a big operation like that! Fortunately, we have got all hired help taken care of and even had to turn a few younger kids down.
Sometimes even hour 65 acres of produce and 10 farmers markets gets to be a little much for me, definitely don’t wanna get any bigger and actually ready to start downsizing a little.
Have you considered automated harvesting? I've done no due diligence(and also no idea on costs) but considering now a-day the younger generations tend not to "understand" hard work, it might be worthwhile exploring robotics for harvesting and reduce labour demand longer term during picking? It could be off the charts expensive so forgive if making crazy suggestions but just spitballing and keen to understand whether you considered it for the greenhouse.
Well, we do own a one row green bean harvester that can pick about 2 bushel a minute but when it comes to harvesting most of the other crops, you can’t just pick everything at once which is what a harvester would do. When it comes to picking vegetables that continually ripen at different times throughout the season, it all has to be done manually by hand, even the worlds largest growers still have to rely on migrant workers to hand harvest. There’s only a select few crops where robotics and machines Can do the harvest for you and even then it still takes human hands to sort out the garbage from the good stuff once harvested.
@@wishwellfarms Thanks. I hadn't considered the recurring nature of the harvesting process and appreciate it must be a somewhat delicate process too. Would be great if you could bring the people to you rather than getting the produce to the store:). Suit up and pick your produce. Thanks again for the feedback.
As others have already said, I’ll watch any video of the farm that you post. I’ve already learned a lot. Thanks.
Thanks Mike. I really appreciate that! Now, I just need UA-cam to push these videos out to thousands more people like you and I would feel a lot more motivated to film more of my daily farm life. it takes a lot of time and energy.
been loving all the videos of the farm. I'm not a farmer (sometimes wish i was) but without people like yourself there would be a lot of hungry folks out there. Hang in there, keep your head high, the help will come.
Appreciate the positive comment, and glad to hear you’re enjoying the videos!
Those fan motors have bad bearings or bad starting capacitors. If you have time to take them a part and re-lube them they could work for a couple more decades.
I have fixed a ton of those before. Also if they're apart it's worth while to clean the inside. It's a lot cheaper that way...
Yep I discovered it was the capacitors the next day, and they are both up and running again!
I had to chuckle when I heard you say you really need to be on the top step of the ladder but can’t do that. Then later you did - I’m the same way 😂. I feel for you on being able to find good help. There’s a lot of people out there who just don’t wanna work or they want the gravy jobs handed to them. As for content, heck I’ll watch anything you want to post about the farm. I’m interested in all of it!
Ha ha, and all I had to do was walk up to the barn 100 feet away to get a taller stepladder, but I was too lazy to do it! Definitely harder and harder each year to find young people willing to work hard, but fortunately, we ended up getting all of our positions filled. Glad you’re enjoying the content!
I help run a church camp in a neighboring state and we have run into the same issue with our summer staff hiring. We had to change our process and start calling the positions “internships” it seemed like the younger kids were more interested in that type of wording for their resumes. We also started hiring for shorter periods for the summer instead of hiring positions for the entire summer. Yes we still have staff who choose to stay on staff the entire summer but we found it helpful to hire for 2-3 week stints to better fit their schedules. Hope this helps a little!
Those are some great ideas, thanks! Fortunately we’ve had a nice influx of applications for the past week and we are finished hiring! A lot of small farms do implement the internship thing so I do know that is something we could try in the future if needed, but a shorter stint would not work for us due to the amount of training that would need to be done during peak season which would cause all kinds of issues for us. Anyway, I appreciate the suggestions and thanks for watching!
Thanks Jason... having worked on or managed farms in Australia finding staff was one of the biggest problems, Field staff ie tractor drivers both day shift and night shift sprayers were mainly locals but when it came to pickers thats a job locals didnt want, with 1000's capable but preferring to stay on welfare benefits, Australia offers a Visa extension of 12 months if tourists with work visas spend 3 months working on farms, living in hostels and arriving by bus each morning, but that meant out of the 100 that turned up maybe 50 were capable or interested, so each day became a challenge, well thats all behind me now, My own property, 4 greenhouses, approx 4000 sqf, and 2 farmers markets, so far I have been able to squeeze all of this into 50 or so hours a week. Good luck mate....Rob
Very interesting information Rob. I can’t imagine working for a big operation like that! Fortunately, we have got all hired help taken care of and even had to turn a few younger kids down.
Sometimes even hour 65 acres of produce and 10 farmers markets gets to be a little much for me, definitely don’t wanna get any bigger and actually ready to start downsizing a little.
"What in tarnations". Totally know what Era u grew up in. Thx for the video
Hahahaha, a good ‘ol Gen X saying! Thanks for checking out the vid Eric!
Have you considered automated harvesting? I've done no due diligence(and also no idea on costs) but considering now a-day the younger generations tend not to "understand" hard work, it might be worthwhile exploring robotics for harvesting and reduce labour demand longer term during picking? It could be off the charts expensive so forgive if making crazy suggestions but just spitballing and keen to understand whether you considered it for the greenhouse.
Well, we do own a one row green bean harvester that can pick about 2 bushel a minute but when it comes to harvesting most of the other crops, you can’t just pick everything at once which is what a harvester would do. When it comes to picking vegetables that continually ripen at different times throughout the season, it all has to be done manually by hand, even the worlds largest growers still have to rely on migrant workers to hand harvest. There’s only a select few crops where robotics and machines Can do the harvest for you and even then it still takes human hands to sort out the garbage from the good stuff once harvested.
@@wishwellfarms Thanks. I hadn't considered the recurring nature of the harvesting process and appreciate it must be a somewhat delicate process too. Would be great if you could bring the people to you rather than getting the produce to the store:). Suit up and pick your produce. Thanks again for the feedback.