I’ve just sent my first cows off to be processed. They were born, raised and finished on my farm. It was hard to say goodbye ...but, I knew them to their very depths versus buying a box of butchered beef that I had no idea about the quality of life those cows experienced....excellent video.
I am soooo happy we've gotten our meats and poultry locally for the last 20 odd years, no matter where we've lived....when we were in VA, we sourced from Joel Salatin at Polyface and that man literally changed my view on food and why staying local is critically important. Now in the midwest, we source from a variety of farms (share the love) and ranches, along with a CSA we love!
Farmers are special people. They have skills that most if not all, educated people do not have. Farmers are doing an admirable, job. I appreciate all of them.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE. When I lived in that area decades ago I marveled driving down the back roads and seeing the order and beauty of the farms. Funny that everyone was so friendly waving. I learned later they just check out who is out there to protect themselves and their neighbors. Rustlers not just in Texas with Chuck Norris.
Thank you for educating us all.... I have been talking to my grandson planting seeds in him to take up homesteading or farming etc.... teaching him to learn where our foods come from, good food, home grown not the kind from the store....
This is an incredible video about the modern science of cattle farm management. There is so much to it that not only includes raising cattle, but also soil and water conservation. It has changed my attitude about the quality of beef that we purchase for our family consumption. Thank you for the heads-up! s/ Ron Barker, Order of the Bovine Scoop, Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity, University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School
Your speaker reminded me of the good times I spent on my grandma's hog farm in southern Georgia I tied up tobacco until it made me sick and the adults made me go back in the house LOL I have lots of growers around me I buy my meat from them. I'll let them grow hay on my five acres and they share their eggs and meat chickens with me this is the best deal I've ever had in my life. I bought this house 2 years ago from the families that live around me and I have no complaints.
love your video, and I do buy grass fed grass finished beef from a local farmer here in central ohio! But i did not know the entire process that you explained! Pork seems to be more complicated but I'm getting to understand the farmers process for pork too? chicken has many layers of processing that I want to avoid too! it's been a learning curve, but we want to stay healthy! I'm glad you are raising healthy beef!
I truly enjoyed this interview. A friend raises low line Angus beef and I buy from him. I've also helped work his cows and know how tough just that one afternoon can be. Farmers are tough, resilient and smart. They have my total appreciation.
I miss living & working on a cattle ranch. I lived & worked on a black angus cattle ranch in Fairbanks, Alaska. Hard, dirty, fulfilling, enjoyable work. I worked as hard as the guys, & loved it😍❣️
During WW 2 the Japanese figured out that if you feed a person a diet high in starch with very little protein and no fruit or vegetables. Their minds would have a difficult time figuring out how to escape while leaving them capable of manual labor. This is exactly the diet you get when you eat McDonald food. Or any fast food really.
I grew up on a cattle and grain farm and am currently living on my family farm in Iowa. This guy reminds me of my Dad and his good stewardship ideals and treatment of his animals. He would have loved this guy and tried his methods. Our current tenant is doing paddock rotation on pasture I sold them with their cow-calf operation. Love seeing it….and it works. Pond preservation is great to see. ❤️❤️
Thanks, Randy. you Farmers are the lifeline for us all, without you Hard working Farmers this world would be a mess. Donnie & Gina Fuquay Varina N C Right down the Road God Bless you and your Families
Oh my goodness. You do not look or act like a 78 year old man. Hard work is good for the body, soul & mind. I pray that you have sons & daughters who will continue your legacy. Your farm is beautiful.
Thank you for that very interesting information. My grandparents were farmers so I know how much hard work is invested in it and also financial investment as well. I had always wanted to have a cattle ranch, but I never made it out of the city with a family to have to work for support. I also always wanted to buy beef from the cattle ranchers. Maybe I can get around to it before long. Good luck to your Family's
Enjoyed hearing about your journey to cleaner more sustainable farming ethic. Who sells your product? I shop at a grocery that gets products from local farmers.
It's so difficult to start in farming or ranching now, I don't have the assests to do it. And being out in AZ makes everything more difficult. Maybe starting a group online for ranchers and farmers to accept interns or apprentices from all over. Currently looking forward to moving to that side of the world and a farming apprenticeship is exactly what I'm looking for.
This is a wonderful video. The best information that I've heard in a very long time. I buy my meat from a Mennonite Meat Store. I is good meats. I will be asking them if their meat is grass fed & finished. Would love to you beautiful Farm in person. Would also love to visit with you and our wife. You seem like wonderful people.
I am curious about the pure bred. Can you do genetic testing to make sure they are pure breed??? I had a friend who raised pure Angus and never asked. But they meat was excellent.
How can we help? I would be invested in the idea of continuing the generations of farming but think it's not a one-man job to take over a farm and keep it up to the standards and progress as this family farm is dedicated to. Getting a group of people together to succeed with on the job training to combine family and community efforts is key I think. Working hand in hand with the proprietors would insure their creed and desires can be continued in mind and matter with the new generations. Sign me up!
It frustrates me that consumers are still unaware of where their food comes from. I am also sad that a couple of generations back my family were forced to leave the land and move to the city or emigrate. Trying to get the next generation to follow me and grow in our rented space in the suburbs.
Great video. Here in the mountains of New England in the middle of nowhere I’m trying to fix up an old cabin. I’m 22 trying to stay out of big cities where day by day gets harder and dangerous to live. Just started my channel and let’s see how it goes. Stay safe and work hard to make your life better bc politicians will never care about us.
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Yes seen Post on gas prices in 2008 oil prices hit a high of 148. A barrel, gas high was what 4.15 WTF going on . US corporate NRA is a non-for-profit IRS form 13909 Plz let's 🛑
We need go back to cow herding from Montana to Texas. Cows need to walk 10k steps. Small animal farming only. Kosher kulling only. Sick of poor farming practices! I agree with well water. Agee with earth worms. Group sharing farming anen.
Fantastic video, what a fantastic man! Totally wholesome way of life, if I lived near there I would be a life long customer! Totally agree with miss information on where beef comes from,from my 31 years in the meat trade I think it's seriously criminal! Not just in the US but here in UK aswell.
People would be shocked what is being snuck over the southern border and I'm not talking about the engineers and lawyers from around the world. I hope the next administration will support our farmers and I am talking about this this type and not the Cargill leasers. I wonder if all that leased Cargill and Monsanto leased land in Ukraine has been producing GMO grains.
I respect every honorable and noble farmer who truly nurture and care a great deal for their live stock. They have feelings of fear and love just as we do. They also look to farmers for their basic needs when being domesticated in a sense. I just don't want any animal to suffer or be killed in humanely. My heart doesn't allow me to send animals off to be killed, but I am guilty of eating very little meat. I appreciate this farmer for thinking of his cattle but hope he is selling them to butchers not processing plants 😬 Worms help to enrich the soil
Thank you for what you are doing by not dumping loads of fertilizer onto the land. I grew up in North Carolina and have seen so much farmland wasted. I do not eat meat but if I did it would be grass fed cows. I bet your cows are much healthier and happier .
Funny thing is, on my little dogs, look at and feel right above they tail, into their upper hiney to see if it is fatty and they need a little less to eat for a few days to a couple weeks. That and of course their ribs and spine. They are all 3 gluttony and under 10 lbs unless they eat too much. So for their health I do try to keep their weight in check like that. Not too heavy and not too thin.
I just can’t agree with that. Community colleges require you to take classes along with what you want to learn. This is wasted time that should be spend learning the skill you went to school for. Trade schools are a much better option. The very best way to obtain a skill is through hands on experience on the job.
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I certainly support them and if my extra $20 can help them they can have it ❣️
I’ve just sent my first cows off to be processed. They were born, raised and finished on my farm. It was hard to say goodbye ...but, I knew them to their very depths versus buying a box of butchered beef that I had no idea about the quality of life those cows experienced....excellent video.
hats off and respect! we just processed our first last fall.
A wonderful presentation! Thanks so much, Jeff Keys
I am soooo happy we've gotten our meats and poultry locally for the last 20 odd years, no matter where we've lived....when we were in VA, we sourced from Joel Salatin at Polyface and that man literally changed my view on food and why staying local is critically important. Now in the midwest, we source from a variety of farms (share the love) and ranches, along with a CSA we love!
Farmers are special people. They have skills that most if not all, educated people do not have. Farmers are doing an admirable, job. I appreciate all of them.
The work of a farmer is very important, big respect for such hardworking people who love what they do, greetings from Russia.
I'm a retired farmer in mid-Missouri; Jim Smith did a great job of explaining what goes on in raising animals. Good job, Jim!
I have family in St James, MO that raise Angus.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE. When I lived in that area decades ago I marveled driving down the back roads and seeing the order and beauty of the farms. Funny that everyone was so friendly waving. I learned later they just check out who is out there to protect themselves and their neighbors. Rustlers not just in Texas with Chuck Norris.
Thank you for educating us all.... I have been talking to my grandson planting seeds in him to take up homesteading or farming etc.... teaching him to learn where our foods come from, good food, home grown not the kind from the store....
This is an incredible video about the modern science of cattle farm management. There is so much to it that not only includes raising cattle, but also soil and water conservation. It has changed my attitude about the quality of beef that we purchase for our family consumption. Thank you for the heads-up! s/ Ron Barker, Order of the Bovine Scoop, Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity, University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School
Your speaker reminded me of the good times I spent on my grandma's hog farm in southern Georgia I tied up tobacco until it made me sick and the adults made me go back in the house LOL
I have lots of growers around me I buy my meat from them. I'll let them grow hay on my five acres and they share their eggs and meat chickens with me this is the best deal I've ever had in my life. I bought this house 2 years ago from the families that live around me and I have no complaints.
love your video, and I do buy grass fed grass finished beef from a local farmer here in central ohio! But i did not know the entire process that you explained! Pork seems to be more complicated but I'm getting to understand the farmers process for pork too? chicken has many layers of processing that I want to avoid too! it's been a learning curve, but we want to stay healthy! I'm glad you are raising healthy beef!
I truly enjoyed this interview. A friend raises low line Angus beef and I buy from him. I've also helped work his cows and know how tough just that one afternoon can be. Farmers are tough, resilient and smart. They have my total appreciation.
I miss living & working on a cattle ranch. I lived & worked on a black angus cattle ranch in Fairbanks, Alaska. Hard, dirty, fulfilling, enjoyable work. I worked as hard as the guys, & loved it😍❣️
During WW 2 the Japanese figured out that if you feed a person a diet high in starch with very little protein and no fruit or vegetables. Their minds would have a difficult time figuring out how to escape while leaving them capable of manual labor. This is exactly the diet you get when you eat McDonald food. Or any fast food really.
yep, this is the SAD way of eating (Standard American Diet) Bread and Circuses...
I grew up on a cattle and grain farm and am currently living on my family farm in Iowa. This guy reminds me of my Dad and his good stewardship ideals and treatment of his animals. He would have loved this guy and tried his methods. Our current tenant is doing paddock rotation on pasture I sold them with their cow-calf operation. Love seeing it….and it works. Pond preservation is great to see. ❤️❤️
Another fabulous video!! Always fantastic to see Jim! Best tasting beef ever.
From Earth to Soul.. it all starts from within to produce the best results. 🙌💯
I would love to support your videos but i can not support paypal
I admire you for keeping good food in the united states. It is important to have food from our own country. THANK YOU!!
Thanks, Randy. you Farmers are the lifeline for us all, without you Hard working Farmers this world would be a mess. Donnie & Gina Fuquay Varina N C Right down the Road God Bless you and your Families
Oh my goodness. You do not look or act like a 78 year old man. Hard work is good for the body, soul & mind. I pray that you have sons & daughters who will continue your legacy. Your farm is beautiful.
Thank you for that very interesting information. My grandparents were farmers so I know how much hard work is invested in it and also financial investment as well. I had always wanted to have a cattle ranch, but I never made it out of the city with a family to have to work for support. I also always wanted to buy beef from the cattle ranchers. Maybe I can get around to it before long. Good luck to your
Family's
God bless America, and this farm.
Enjoyed hearing about your journey to cleaner more sustainable farming ethic. Who sells your product? I shop at a grocery that gets products from local farmers.
All my meat comes from our pastures. And God willing BLM hunting property.
Well done and totally awesome entertainment 👏
I'd head out there right now if they'll have me. And I wouldn't change a thing.
It's so difficult to start in farming or ranching now, I don't have the assests to do it. And being out in AZ makes everything more difficult. Maybe starting a group online for ranchers and farmers to accept interns or apprentices from all over.
Currently looking forward to moving to that side of the world and a farming apprenticeship is exactly what I'm looking for.
Awesome, good make good grazing and better beef.
What a fantastic video! Thank you so much for showing us the process and the best way to do it. I would live to purchase some of your beef!
This is a wonderful video. The best information that I've heard in a very long time. I buy my meat from a Mennonite Meat Store. I is good meats. I will be asking them if their meat is grass fed & finished. Would love to you beautiful Farm in person. Would also love to visit with you and our wife. You seem like wonderful people.
I am curious about the pure bred. Can you do genetic testing to make sure they are pure breed??? I had a friend who raised pure Angus and never asked. But they meat was excellent.
How can we help? I would be invested in the idea of continuing the generations of farming but think it's not a one-man job to take over a farm and keep it up to the standards and progress as this family farm is dedicated to. Getting a group of people together to succeed with on the job training to combine family and community efforts is key I think. Working hand in hand with the proprietors would insure their creed and desires can be continued in mind and matter with the new generations. Sign me up!
It frustrates me that consumers are still unaware of where their food comes from. I am also sad that a couple of generations back my family were forced to leave the land and move to the city or emigrate. Trying to get the next generation to follow me and grow in our rented space in the suburbs.
Great video. Here in the mountains of New England in the middle of nowhere I’m trying to fix up an old cabin. I’m 22 trying to stay out of big cities where day by day gets harder and dangerous to live. Just started my channel and let’s see how it goes. Stay safe and work hard to make your life better bc politicians will never care about us.
Put a blind fold on and taste test a Jersey steak vs an angus you’ll forget all about that angus. Just a shame they don’t gain like an angus.
Avoid RoundUp
thank you for y HARD WORK
Thankful for these humans
Please let me know how else I can donate, after what Paypal did to the trucker rallies I can not support Paypal .
On the video here, there is a UA-cam donation link run by Network For Good. They cover all processing fees. Donations can also be sent to:
Meet My Neighbor Productions, Inc.
PO Box 601
Goldston, NC 27252
im canadian , and wowza id special order this guys beef. these videos are so amazing keep up the great work.
Gosh what a nice man.
Yes seen Post on gas prices in 2008 oil prices hit a high of 148. A barrel, gas high was what 4.15
WTF going on . US corporate
NRA is a non-for-profit
IRS form 13909
Plz let's 🛑
We need go back to cow herding from Montana to Texas. Cows need to walk 10k steps. Small animal farming only. Kosher kulling only. Sick of poor farming practices! I agree with well water. Agee with earth worms. Group sharing farming anen.
God bless you sir for your dedication to bring good beef to markets. I appreciate what you do.❤
Fantastic video, what a fantastic man! Totally wholesome way of life, if I lived near there I would be a life long customer! Totally agree with miss information on where beef comes from,from my 31 years in the meat trade I think it's seriously criminal! Not just in the US but here in UK aswell.
New subscriber here. Thanks for what you do!
That is so true, you are what you eat., that's why I know where everything I consume comes from. Mostly my garden or Foraging.
People would be shocked what is being snuck over the southern border and I'm not talking about the engineers and lawyers from around the world. I hope the next administration will support our farmers and I am talking about this this type and not the Cargill leasers. I wonder if all that leased Cargill and Monsanto leased land in Ukraine has been producing GMO grains.
I respect every honorable and noble farmer who truly nurture and care a great deal for their live stock.
They have feelings of fear and love just as we do.
They also look to farmers for their basic needs when being domesticated in a sense.
I just don't want any animal to suffer or be killed in humanely.
My heart doesn't allow me to send animals off to be killed, but I am guilty of eating very little meat.
I appreciate this farmer for thinking of his cattle but hope he is selling them to butchers not processing plants 😬
Worms help to enrich the soil
Thank you for what you are doing by not dumping loads of fertilizer onto the land.
I grew up in North Carolina and have seen so much farmland wasted.
I do not eat meat but if I did it would be grass fed cows.
I bet your cows are much healthier and happier .
go out and buy yourself an allis chalmers all crop 66 combine , and collect your own seeds, save your own seeds and spread your own seeds
Beautiful and informative video! Thanks
Funny thing is, on my little dogs, look at and feel right above they tail, into their upper hiney to see if it is fatty and they need a little less to eat for a few days to a couple weeks. That and of course their ribs and spine. They are all 3 gluttony and under 10 lbs unless they eat too much. So for their health I do try to keep their weight in check like that. Not too heavy and not too thin.
How do you make enough money to survive getting 18 steers to market per year?
I have worked for a Community College for 14 years. Community College is the Very best way for obtaining a skill.
I just can’t agree with that. Community colleges require you to take classes along with what you want to learn. This is wasted time that should be spend learning the skill you went to school for. Trade schools are a much better option. The very best way to obtain a skill is through hands on experience on the job.
i'd like to see his bottom line.
Shared.thanks🎉
Wow! Thank you.
super interesting.
movie, 'the big fix'
My Dad worked at Western Electric for 30 years. He retired from there as well. I thought that was only a local operation.
We have something in common!
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Very educational segment! Thanks for sharing
Charlie thank you so much for making that video. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Glad you enjoyed it! Jim is a great ethical farmer!
What a delightful video!
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