Where Did The Piglets Go?
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- Опубліковано 14 лют 2022
- We had to make a difficult decision about Brownie's piglets, and now they are gone. Where did the piglets go?
It's a cold Valentines Day on the farm but life goes on, caring for the remaining pigs and Dexter cattle. I spend some time talking about the economics of raising pigs on a small farm, and why we have found pork to be a difficult business to be in.
Note:
-We do not offer farm tours or accept visitors
-We do not sell from the farm
-We do not ship our farm's products
-We do not sell live animals
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The more we get to hear Hilary, the more we realize you all are made for each other. You guys make each other happy and joyful. You bring out the best in each other. It's refreshing and lovely.
The whole family is adorable!
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Daughter asked, "Dad, what's for supper"
Dad said, "We're having cow tongue".
Daughter said "EEEWWWW, that came out of a cows mouth, I can't eat that"
Dad said, "Ok, I'll fix you an egg".
Good stuff, Pete!
Loved your mom’s UA-cam show
I loved your mom. I watched her!
Pete, your channel is like "Mr. Rogers" meets " Green Acres" what a blessing to behold! Thank you!
What a great way to describe the channel !!
Great thing about Just a few Acres there not money hungry and try to advertise stuff..Only thing you all advertise is if you put out hard work and have fun doing it you feel good at the end of the day. Great video as always look forward to your sense of humor and your happy go lucky self .
Ads are fine, they’re expected, but at least they’re not selling their souls for sponsors like some hammerheads😊
Not going to mention a name but I'm sure you know who always advertise First premier fence or Kabuto and other stuff. Pete is great I like to see him start a video on a horse telling some dad jokes now that would be a blast.
@@skyhunter1981 I mean, if you buy a product you like or hate, we all want to know, it’s just that we don’t want to watch 15 minutes of Butcher Box😀
I watch like 3 UA-camrs and I never miss this one☑️
What really gets me is the way these big homesteaders with a big following giving away all the secrets where to buy seeds and chicks so now us real Farmers have to go somewhere else because those hatcheries & seedbanks are sold out every year & all year long now! because of them
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YOU ARE SO SO SO SOOOO RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!
Can't wait for his "run! run! run!" routine!
You know it's cold when the snow is that squeaky when walking on it.
Yes, about 35 years ago I became one of those pushed out of farming by high feed costs and volatile pork prices. It was the family farm and devastating to my parents. They were so happy to see me take interest in the farm and so we invested heavily but to no avail. The bank took ownership and I remember my mother weeping at the signing of the documents. I had to take another vocation and my parents took retirement yet continued to work many years to be able to buy a house and survive on little money. I did not become wealthy but managed to raise a family and now am retired and live in Mexico where it is cheaper. Your farm operation reminds me a lot of my young years in farming.
In Slovenia there is a popular way of raising pork. Many farmers grow pigs to 60kg and thn in August or September you buy that pig and feed him to 120-140kg and then proces you yourself. You feed to them what you have grown on your fields that year. In Slovenia base feed are beet, potatoes and some barley and not corn and beans.
Don't know about pork personally, but some of the best beef hamburgers I have eaten were fed potato culls from the farm. I miss those burgers...
That is exactly what everyone did in UK in the country when I was a child
We sell our pork in local farmers markets here in England UK, our ham sells very well in some and only moderate in others, we find the more rural the market customers understand how much work and cost are involved and sell out within hours, the town based farmers markets less so. All our love to yourself, Hillary and the family, Anthony and the girls
You know your tractor's adapting well when you turn the key and it moos!!! 🤭😀
I know what you mean, Pete. I enjoy coaxing our old H to start on a cold morning just to let the battery charge and listen to her run. Always brings back memories of Grandpa and Dad. They're no longer with me and it's one of those things that brings our spirits closer together!
Agreed! My real experience was in the early 60's with my dad and his Farmall H, I deeply miss both of them, wish I still had the H, but dad most of all!
Several years ago now, Dad decided we were going to raise pigs to help fund me in college. We started doing that when I was about halfway through high school. We evidently picked exactly the wrong time to get started because before we'd even built the first set of farrowing crates, the price of pork went down to 20% what it had been the previous week and the price of corn went up by 500%. Between that and getting back less than 200 pounds of meat from a full grown cow, it got very frustrating trying to run a small single-family farm in the late 1990s.
Highlight of my day... When I see Pete and Hillary post a new video. ❤️
Crunchiness of the snow when you walk and the cows say shut the door you live in a barn ? Great video
Pete keep doing what you’re doing. KISS seems to be working.
Pete, could you do a video about all of those old tools and farm implements you have hanging on the wall where you water the cows? What are they? How do they work? Do you still use them? If not, what replaced them? Those sorts of things. Thanks!
It takes all the fun out of it if it starts right up lol.
I do valentine's day with my Lady. But I absolutely refuse to Do Christmas in the way most people. We gather& Cook& hang& eat. But our presence is our Presents. That's the Gift
Last year we grew our pork production and built a nice barn and didn't sell but 2 hogs all year. It was a big loss but now we are building a custom exempt butcher shop on the farm to hopefully bring the customers to us.
That is awesome, thank you for helping us small farming folks, we appreciate it!
You know what is best for you and family.Thanks for sharing.
Your program is like a visit to my Grandparent's farm in Northwest Missouri. I spent the happiest times of my childhood gathering eggs, herding cattle and walking with Grandma to find a missing cow and her new calf. So, thanks to you and Hilary, I can listen to the roar of the tractor, the lowing of the cattle and squeal of the piglets without leaving my recliner. The sounds of your farm are the heartbeat of who I am. Even though I have traveled so far from my roots and am too old now to farm, I do agree with you when you say most problems could be solved by a week on the farm.
Please keep your videos coming. May God Bless.
Thanks for the compressive analysis , your discourse stimulated me to think in deeper terms about things the family farmer goes through.
Love you attitude to live! Patience is a virtue!
I love your patience with starting the tractor, and with the animals.
Gorgeous weather Pete....thanks for a reality check.
I can’t even begin to imagine, nor do I want to feel this weather. You make it look so fun, easy and totally doable. Thank you for sharing 🎉
Luckily, in my area they still do halves and wholes. We just give the butcher our cut sheet and pick up usually within a week. I agree with you on having pork instead of steak! Chops, scrapple and bacon are my favorites. We usually also have sausage at least once a week either with pasta or with peppers and onions. Definitely need to know your market and what the next year may sell well. We were mainly vegetable farming and knowing whether to plant peppers, tomatoes, eggplant or a lot of things like cantaloupe and watermelon were tough decisions to make over the winter. Then once you plant, you pray! 👍👍👍
Those fluffball monster piggies with their short snouts and bright eyes are pretty cute at that stage of growth. 😊
as someone who is definitely not familiar with a farm life or anything close to it, i love your videos. they keep me entertained and i love how patient and kind you are with the animals :) keep up the good work!
when i was a kid working in dad's garage, everything that came in for repair was worn out. When starting old Chryslers, they sounded like "I dont wanta, I dont wanta, I dont wanta". your old tractor sounds just like them. A memory. thks.
I discovered this channel 3 days ago , since then i watched every video . Seen them selling that delicious meat at the farmers market , seen them at their daily routine and sadly , seen them loosing Prodence , their lovely cow . Such a nice and loving people , their lifestyle is inspiring me to leave all behind and live a life here i eat only what i grow . Have a nice day , my good sir .
A cold morning, a cold tractor a cold Pete with cold jokes!
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
I love it!
Thank you for the smiles this morning Pete!!!!!!!!
I totally understand the predicament you are in with raising everything and doing the processing. Our last beef and pork were managed by us, not the producer. We told the butcher what cuts and processing we wanted and paid the butcher directly. We also picked IT up at the butcher, because we paid them. This saved our producer from that ownership. It was very successful for us. We bought a full steer and full pig in our last order.
*"What am I gonna have for dinner tonight?"🤔 "MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"🤣🐄*
I’m 73 and when I was a kid my parents used to buy half and quarter sides of beef. At this time it made economic sense to buy that way. My aunt and uncle had a large fenced yard. One time they bought a lamb and raised it up to full size. Went over to their house one time and asked where Wooly was. They took us into the garage and showed us the freezer. Many wrapped packages of Wooly.
Oh hello Pete! We just watched where did the piggies go...my husband wanted me to be sure to let you know that we totally agree with you about pork ...he calls it God's perfect meat because it's so versatile in its provision ...once again thank you for the greater insite about rib chops. ..I've never seen that cut at our butchers but I'm going to inquire! Have a blessed day ! Yall are surely richly blessed in your life...and we benefit from the gifts God has given you to present your plethora of farm knowledge and jokes ! 🙃 thanks again !
Hello Pete. Your sense of humor really cracks me up! I love how you started this video. The dad jokes are great! I enjoy your channel immensely as we also have a small hobby farm. In one of your videos I heard you mention the town of Locke. I wondered how many towns named Locke there were in the states as there is one by me. The video revealed that we are basically neighbors. I’m located in Binghamton! I’ve lived in Cartland and Syracuse. I enjoy watching your channel even more now that I know it’s in my neck of the woods.
As to your pig discussion. We also have the same problem with selling our pork. Everyone wants bacon and chops, but don’t want to pay the price required. So we now only grow pigs for our family consumption. Keep up the great work.
I always enjoy these talks. It gives so much more insight to our economic environment as a whole than just about pigs. We have become very reliant on a a few corporations controlling a lot of our food and other necessities. If you can plant even one tomato, squash or pepper, maybe a few green beans to learn to grow food, please do. A couple of hens are fun and produce food pretty regular. It won't give you food security but it will give you a feeling of empowerment that you did SOMETHING for yourself. No one is coming to save you. Lets all put on our big girl/boy pants and get 'er done.
Hi Pete and Hillary. I buy a half beef and a half pig every year. I get to pick the cuts and do so off what I have left in my freezer from the previous year. I don’t mind paying a little more for the quality and knowing my ground meat comes from one animal. Great job as always. I’m hooked on your channel
Good to see Hillary talking in the video
Valentines Day? Wasn’t that last year?!? When you have a great spouse, everyday is a holiday!
I posted to soon….thanks for the economic lessons on pork, et al! Fascinating!
Phillips Stokes and son recommended this channel.The son continues his mothers legacy on UA-cam. I really enjoy these videos always great content. I can just tell you guys are good people. Here's a joke for you, I've worked at a hardware store, prank calls were a given. Someone called and asked if we had any wireless extension cords, I said... yes we do they are right beside our striped paint and the board stretchers.😆
Pete, if the chances ever arise I would love to sit down and talk farming and farm philosophy with you. As a Minnesota farmer I can relate and I think our differences in markets are even relatable. It is extremely hard to find any pork here that has any sort of pasture time or even small farm growth. The best we have found is a grower an hour from us that will let us buy a hog and he delivers them to the butcher once a month or twice a month. Otherwise he's shipping big numbers. The beef side is kinda crazy, theres a ton of beef in the market in our area and producers are not competing very well so prices are not very conducive to quality pasture growth and grain finishing which is our preference. There's a lot of feed lot type farms even on the small scale here.
I grew up in upstate NY a few miles outside of Watertown in farm country so I really enjoy watching. I'm 60 and have 7 kids and I love to tell them dad jokes (which I don't think they appreciate much lol) so I get a kick out of hearing yours, as well as some new material! I find your talks like this one to be very enjoyable and thought provoking and the content diversity is great! I currently live in Maryland where I've been since '87 and like that it's a bit warmer and less snow but I do miss the north country. Thanks and take care.
Thanks Todd. I think the true joy in telling a Dad joke lies in the painful expressions seen on my kids' faces. 😲
Your comments about the pork pricing is world wide from what I can see; we have the same issues with processing costs etc for pork in Australia. My uncles stopped thier pigs decades ago in favour of lamb and grain. Beef is massive in Australia also but raised in different areas. Loving the videos.
Luckily we have a couple farms who still have pigs raised on dirt and not confinement. I gladly pay the price they ask and then do the butchering ourselves. Definitely a difference in quality in my opinion and worth the money.
My brother lives near St Louis in Illinois and he raised goats until he retired because there was no one else raising them in the area and there was a huge demand coming out of the St Louis area from various religious groups for goat and sheep. He did not want to raise sheep but he did raise goats and he actually at one time was up to about eight hundred goats and was selling them fairly quickly. No he did not stay with eight hundred goats for very long because it was just too much work for him and his wife and their daughter and for most of the time he was farming he usually had about 250. But now that he is retired he gets calls all the time from his old customers because they cannot get goats and the quality of the goats that they can get is not nearly as good as what he raised. They want him to get back into raising goats but he said I'm 79 years old I'm not farming anymore. Between the goats and his auction business though he made a very good living.
Back in the 70's I lived in Columbia county NY and worked on a small family farm. We had Sheep, goats, pigs, chickens, and was just starting to get into Dexter cows. There was never a real market for the goats or the sheep except for what we consumed ourselves. With the sheep it was mostly the wool that we sold and that was mostly to small craft and clothing businesses. The goats were there mostly for the milk that was sold locally to people who wanted an alternative to cow's milk. With the chickens it was mostly eggs and a few broilers that we sold. It is a tough market that continues to get tighter with big commercial farms squeezing out the family farms.
I hope more little farms pop up the quality is much better. 👍👍 Pete & Hillary.
Pete, you are a character...and the world needs more characters because characters make the world more interesting.
Here in South Africa, we call that impatience 'Jo'burg' syndrome. Johannesburg is one of my country's economic hubs, and everybody is always in such a rush to get to where they're going. The traffic is nuts, the people are always angry or frustrated and time means money in the worst possible way. My fiance and I want a farm like yours one day...we're trying to save up for one...because we don't want to raise our kids in the 'Jo'burg' environment. We want them to grow up with patience like yours, and an appreciation for Nature's timing rather than Man's timing. We absolutely love your videos, and you give us a lovely sensation of hope :) Thank you for allowing people like us into your life via a camera.
i laughed at your comment wonder what's for tea tonight when you were being patience lol and I really agree with your comment about enjoying machinery with character
I enjoyed your commentary during the tractor starting LOL. Those of us who are older and have lived in the colder weather know that an engine of any sort needs a little cajoling and patience!
I'm so glad you are not one to take suggestions from strangers without researching first ... my husband and I don't do much for the holidays either ... remember to stay safe and stay blessed
I'm glad I'm still living in the country Pete. We had a shortage of butchers out here. The lead times were strung way out! But we've got 2 more that just opened up in the past few months. Cudlin's is opened again and Hamley's in Barton.
Great to see you brother Pete. Give Hilary our love.
I’ve been growing my beef operation more in the last year and a half and sold the rest of my breeder hogs about six or seven months ago. When I talk to my fiancé about how I miss them sometimes she looked me straight in the eye and says “no you don’t”.. she’s right.
Wow Pete! I love your videos. I learn something each time I watch.
Thank you for the lesson. Have a great day and stay warm
I love watching you two together, you make such a cute couple
The banter between you two is really funny !
Love your video's Pete..Have a great day!
Thankyou Pete. Thankyou For The Input. Ya'll Have A Beautiful 🌙 🌉 🌃 🌌 😴 ⛺ Night. CoCo
I love your videos!! You and Hillary never fail to bring a smile to my face...thank you
Love the snow... We don't get the snow here like when I was a kid... Miss those days.
My grandparents said to me it's not about valentine's day, it's about the other six days of the week. And the way you and your wife look at each other well who needs flowers just once. 🌹
Only here for the dad jokes .....
Just kidding i love this channel
I was dying during the cuts of the tractor start up.
there's a sign in our favorite breakfast cafe "either you love pork, or your wrong".
I love listening to you. It makes me think, it also makes me smile.
Thanks for the insight
I 'm with you on the pig business. I used to raise and sell pigs but that got crazy and people dropped out one by one.
Customers paid a deposit to start and then when the pig was ready to butcher they paid me the remainder (cost plus 33%) and the pig was theirs. They also made arrangements with their butcher and paid the butcher. I did transport the pig to the butcher of their choose.
The problem was people couldn't save the money over the summer and they were strapped and borrowed money from the bank. I began losing customers one at a time until I had only one. A familly that was wealthy and purchased a pig every year.
I enjoy raising pigs too but I don't know if I should get back in or not. I was thinking of a small scale with just piglets and saving one a year for us.I don't if that would pay it not.
Thank you for sharing
Thank you🚜🚜👨🌾👍
That's good information. Thank you!
We love the variety of your videos. We have learned so much about the ways of today’s small farm lifestyle. Thanks to you and Hilary for your continued work and sharing.
I love your channel. I always have a smile on my face when watching you and Hillary. The Benny Hill one was comical.😊
Thanks for explaining the economics of farming. Appreciate the knowledge. Enjoy your day 😇
Thanks for sharing
That feeling when she starts!!
Pure joy.
Another great video. Thanks.
I enjoy your videos especially which are very informative along with the dad jokes!
Great job with the guitar picking and strumming in the end, man of many talents.
Always great advice
Thanks for sharing Pete.
I always look forward to watching your videos, thank you for making videos much appreciated!
Interesting. Thank you.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts Pete 😊
Thanks for the video Pete 👍
thank you
Totally agree
I love the names Billy and Oreo! You have taught me a lot about how farming works. I was in the store pointing out how different your meat product differs from the grocery store. My 10yr old was amazed.
I always learn so much watching your videos. Besides hearing your thought process for how you farm i learned that New York has 3 seasons, Mud Snow and the forth of July.
Love your words of wisdom ❤️.. People don't realize what all goes on behind the scenes of putting the meat in the table .. Thank you for your knowledge on the subject..God bless..
Awesome
well these vids some quality stuff! really enjoying it! thanks Pete!
I feel like that tractor a lot of mornings. 🤠
I SOOOOOO enjoy these videos!!!!!!!!