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These are large commercial corn farmers/growers, who own all of the tractors, combines and other equipment and the workers who operate the equipment are usually permenant, full-time employees of the farm. The workers who hand pick, sort or pack the crops, are migrants who come to the US at harvest time and work until that season's crops are completed. Once that job is over, the workers will usually do one of two things. They'll either go home with the money they've made on that particular job or they'll often move on to a different commercial farm that grows other types of crops that are harvested at different times of the year, to make more money to bring home to their families. $18/hour is actually a pretty decent wage and will go much, much farther in their home countries than it does in the US. Many "working class" jobs in the US, don't even pay that much per hour. For instance, if you're employed as a worker in a grocery store or department store like Target or Walmart, you'll usually earn from $15 to $17 per hour and if you've been there a while and have proven to be a good employee, or you are promoted to a different department or position, you can earn more. And just like everything else in the US, those wages can differ from city to city and state to state. It's similar to the prices of homes or the amount of taxes you pay to the government. It's all about location, location, location.
This is The USA🇺🇸...AT HARVEST TIME WE BRING IN WORKERS FROM MOSTLY LATINO COUNTRIES TO HARVEST OUR CROPS...And yes I agree it's very Hard Work and should be PAID MUCH MORE 👍
There are two main kinds of corn grown in the US; Sweet Corn and Field Corn, and they’re both used for different reasons. Sweet corn is made to be eaten by humans, field corn is made to be animal food/ethanol (gasoline) products. Sweet corn is a special kind of corn genetically bred to grow very large and taste good. Most food grade corn is picked by hand because it doesn’t damage the corn and you don’t lose as much corn when pick by hand. Machines tend to damage and lose crops more than hand picking. Field corn is the kind of corn grown most in the US. Field corn is the closest to “maize” which is the original version of corn. It’s usually grown on much larger farms and harvested using big combines because if some gets damaged, it’s no big deal. It’s getting ground into food for farm animals and turned into ethanol to be added to gasoline and also produce plastic products.
@@dlmullins9054when I was a kid I always heard the first row over the fence was for the public to grab a few ears and I believed it ! I ate a lot of field corn back then, I was a kid and it was back in the 70s , I was pretty dang naive 🙄😆
Also worth noting that the term "corn" is used in Europe & the UK as a general term for kernels of grain, while "maize" is used for what Americans call corn. So there is an actual point of linguistic confusion.
Minimum wage in the US is $7.25/hr. Picking corn in the US, a migrant Guatamalan can make a month's minimum wage in Guatamala in 3 days or about 25 hrs.
However, they were showing workers in Southern California where the minimum wage is $16. Later they showed workers in Washington, where the minimum wage is $16.26.
The sweet corn, what is left (the stalks) from the harvesting of corn flour is ground into small pieces or made into pellet and fed to dairy cattle. Nothing is wasted. Here in Oregon, some dairy farmers grow field corn and ground the whole stalk, corn and all for their cattle.
The tractor you guys watched in Washington is actually GPS computer driven. The drivers literally don't do anything other than start and stop the machine....the computer does all the work for them That is the reason the tires don't damage the crops....it knows "exactly" where the rows of corn are and where the tire track rows are to the millimeter.
Workers versus machines for picking corn! The difference has to do with what the corn is used for. Workers will pick the best corn for ripeness and how good it looks in the supermarket. With machines, they don't care about looks and ripeness. It isn't as important if it will be made into corn oil, or animal feed, etc. Also, the farmers around here buy the equipment and make it last as long as possible. Thanks!!!
Also, a lot of the machine-picked sweet corn is used for frozen/canned corn. The lovely ears in the stores are mostly hand-picked before the machines get there. I grew up on a farm, and Dad would plant 12 rows about 1/4 mile long of sweet corn for the family and friends to eat in the summer, and then when it was ALL ripe, we'd get a pickup load of it, get the kids in a group, and shuck it all, cut it off the cob and freeze it for the rest of the year.
Great video brothers! My grandmother's parents(who were originally from Mexico) traveled around the US working as farmers at different places in the US. They lived out of a wagon, and my grandmother was born in a nunnery in Wisconsin, US. Me and my father actually found out where she was born through One of our customers at our landscaping business. The customer had an old black and white photo of a Church she used to live next to when she lived in Wisconsin. My father showed it to my grandmother and it turns out that that was where she was born! Just thought it would be a cool story for this video, My grandmother picked mostly strawberries apparently, she only farmed up until she was 14 I believe. After that her family settled in San Antonio.
Not necessarily. Sometimes professional harvesters who travel from south to north own the machines and go from farm to farm as the crops mature. I am not sure what there "official" name is but this practice is especially common in the wheat industry. I expect that it happens in the corn industry as well since it is so large. Also, I have read somewhere (do not remember where) that the U.S. corn belt takes more CO2 out of the atmosphere than the entire Amazon rain forest.
You dear gentlemen should watch a video on modern farming machinery. Being that you are so smart with how you understand equipment I think you will really like this! I live around so so so many corn fields. ❤ love you guys so much! I hope so much you can visit one day!
The Federal minimum wage is $7.25hr. That is the lowest legal wage in the US. However, each state has their own minimum wage. In Florida it is $12hr($13hr starting in September). Many states have a $7.25hr minimum wage. Picking corn is unskilled labor. $17hr is really good for being an unskilled laborer.
@@cmlemmus494 Unskilled labour means that you don’t need any skills of any kind. It means that anybody with an lQ over 80 can do it. I didn’t say that it can’t be a physically hard job(although their job is not physically demanding). I’m saying that it takes very little mental effort. I could probably train a monkey to do their job.
The music for this is making me think of the movie True Grit. If you haven't reacted to it, you definitely should. It's a classic Western and it's great.
Sweet Corn is a vegetable, Field Corn (sometimes called Dent Corn) is the grain that Corn Flour is milled from. That is why Tomatoes were mentioned. They are talking about produce, or Truck Crops, not grains
A lot of US farm workers are 'temporary" works - who are hired just for the harvest season. If they are being paid $17.00 / hour - I suspect that they are working on a contract that pays them according to the amount that they harvest - so yes, they are working very hard for their money.
This is the problem having someone outside the US narrating programs about the US, they often pronounce the names of cities, towns, etc incorrectly, not “Ya-keem-a, it’s pronounced Yak-ah-ma. Sweet corn is eaten as a vegetable, either fresh, frozen or canned. Farm workers who live in Mexico for instance can get an agricultural visa to work in the US during the harvest or planting season. As of June 2024, the federal minimum wage for agricultural workers in the United States is $7.25 per hour, as established by the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). This applies in states without a minimum wage law or where farmworkers aren't covered by the state's minimum wage. Some states don’t have a set minimum wage while others the minimum wage is as high as $15.00/hour. However, there are some exemptions to the minimum wage requirement, including: Employers who didn't use more than 500 "man-days" of agricultural labor in the previous calendar year Agricultural employees who are the employer's immediate family Employees primarily involved in livestock production Certain hand harvest laborers Farm equipment is very expensive, a new harvester can cost between $100,000 and $500,00 depending on the model. Many farmers buy used, but they have to be careful of the quality and compatibility with their other farm equipment. The farmer may own a lot of his equipment and may rent the rest. Field corn is used for animal feed or is processed into ground corn, maize or grits for instance.
Florida has special laws in place for temporary ag migrant workers. They must have a visa to work. The farmer must provide living quarters for the workers. If the workers brought family with them, the farmer must also provide schooling for the children during the time of their stay. The farmer must also provide medical for injured workers. Basically, the workers are paid a wage (in this case $17 an hour) and receive housing and emergency medical insurance. Not a bad deal.
@@janefrost4267 Washington State has some laws for migrant workers too. They must have a H-2A “guest worker" program visa. We also have an unusual situation with the cherry harvest which is more intense than other harvests. They have “Cherry harvest camps”, a place where housing and related facilities are provided to agricultural employees by agricultural employers or TWH operators for their use while employed for the harvest of cherries in the state of Washington.” For everyone else they fall under The Migrant Farmworker Housing (MFH) program at the Department of Health who works to protect the health and safety of migrant farmworkers and their family members. And then there’s The Washington State Migrant Education Program (MEP) which is federally funded to ensure high-quality education programs and supplemental support services for migratory children. It sounds like Florida and Washington both have similar programs to make sure migrant workers have safe, clean housing, schooling for the children and health care.
It's usually actually good to have someone narrating that's not from the US. The Australian narrator wasn't good because he still used imperial units that every other country doesn't understand, or care to understand...even though Australia is metric. However if this was solely for an American audience, then an American would of course be the better choice. Also the majority of Americans pronounce place names wrong...now they can enjoy the irritation of hearing their place names butchered like every other country experience's from Americans.
Here in California, the central Sacramento Valley can reach staggering temperatures of 110-115 degrees F or 43-46 degrees C. That is the reason they pick the corn at night. It is just too hot, so there are no picking at all during the day....all picking is done at night. I think that is amazing for the workers! It is just too dangerous to be out in that kind of heat working.
Here in Southern Indiana everyone grows sweet corn 🌽 and there are many roadside stands, several are honor boxes, middle of nowhere, could steal it all, honor box too, but that is ultra rare. True story. Simple plan, grow corn, easy, put out a box and corn, run an experiment. A few hundred bucks a year.
The Sweet Corn in Michigan was harvested by machine because, . . . it is likely not going to be sold as fresh produce, but as a frozen, or canned food. You will notice the corn stalks in Michigan were not as green as the corn that was being hand picked. That means this is the last harvest this crop will yield this year. Which is why it is being cut as it is picked.
Also, Michigan is about 1500mi (2500km) from the nearest border crossing with Mexico. The availability of immigrant workers is going to be much smaller. [I'm not saying there aren't any, just fewer, so any business that relies on workers is going to structure to use them efficiently.]
One of the best parts of summer is when I walk to my garden and pick some sweet corn. Then cook and eat it , so good. All my neighbors have their own sweet corn in their gardens. Ohio
When sweet corn is picked by hand the crew only picks the ripe corn and leaves the unripe ears to be picked a few days later. The harvester takes the whole stalk and the corn can be over ripe, just right, unripe depending. Smaller farms do more hand picking for local markets.
My father grew up onna farm in the 1940s and 50s. We had some friends who ran a farm through the 90s and maybe into the 2000s, idk. It was always interesting to hear them talk about their work on their farm.
When you drive through Kansas at night during harvest time you can see the family farmers driving their combines with floodlights to get the crops in. Many of those family farmers work a second job during the day and take care of the farm chores in the evenings and weekends.
I grew up in Iowa in a farm town and the trucks would be lined up to get to the grain elevator. Sometimes they had to put it on the ground with giant tarps until the trains could catch up. Iowa produces more corn than any other state.
I see these kinds of tractors all over the rural areas. I grew up in a smaller town, and at the Burger King some teenage guys thought it was a cool hangout, and they'd bring their John Deer tractors and hang out in the parking lot there to look cool. 😅
It’s not racist to say that the Chinese eat rice! It’s a literal fact and not racist to think that they eat more rice I can’t believe he would say that to you learn what the term means not what people tell you it means.
I’m glad the video has the same music that I always hear every time. I’m doing something out here on the farm. I thought it was just in my head apparently that’s just farm theme music.
Corn harvesting can last about 5 months, from July through November, Florida employs about 5,000 immigrant workers during it's fall corn harvest, payments for manual harvesting by immigrant workers paid out is about $90,270 per week. Total amount paid over the 5 month period in Florida for the state corn crop, which ranks 2nd in the nation is about $1,805,400.00 each season. A harvesting machine is far less expensive, than hiring manual workers, as the machine prices vary widely depending on the model, ranging between $100,000 to $500,000.
Agricultural workers are seasonal. They come not only from Mexico but now from other countries. They get permits to come into the country to work on the crops. Stay for 3 months and go back home until the next year. There are workers for grapes in California, oranges in Florida and for other crops in many states.
The example of the Michigan farm method of harvesting the sweet corn shows all machines in the field, then workers in the processing plant so the only difference is the workers aren’t out in the fields. They still use workers.
These farmers own thier own farming equipment 90 % of the time . Very few would rent equipment . Our machines do things faster than a person ever could
17.00 per hour is equivalent to about 2.00 an hour in 1970. I was a farm worker and thought we were very skilled. Perhaps you should go work a year or two on a farm, it might surprise you how many skills farm workers have. Don't look down your nose at what you have no idea about.
@@virginiaoflaherty2983 He wasnt looking down his nose he was stating facts. 17:00 an hour is good pay. And you dont know if he doesnt know what he is talking about. I did pick corn by hand I know what I am talking about. It is hard work but it is unskilled work not something to be ashamed about. Does it mean they dont have skills of course not. It just means it is labor and if you want the job you can get it. They are lucky to have this in Florida in most of the U.S. machines do all the work.
@@virginiaoflaherty2983100%! This is back breaking work and actually takes a TON of skill, knowledge and muscle! And we all know that VERY few of them make 17 per hour!
There are some corporations here in Pennsylvania where the equipment is owned by companies that have contracts with smaller and medium sized farms to harvest their produce and transport it for packaging and they brand it on behalf of the farms (which are also incorporated) and obviously take a fair cut of the harvest. The main job of the harvest company is to maintain the equipment, which is mad expensive and plant and harvest. The farmer is essentially a landlord for crops. These companies also hire the most skilled pickers they can find if it will be more efficient. It’s an odd business, 21st century farming. I know there are some large warehouses that are now being used as hydroponic farms around here too …lots of these harvesting combines are self driving… I know they’re playing with drones around here too …
I live out in the country . In autumn I love to watch the farmers harvest the corn at night in the huge tracters. I make hot chocolate. And the beautiful moonlight. I will play Neal Youngs harvest moon. Ok I'm done ranting! 😂
Red is right the machines are cheaper tha. Labor in the long run. Some farmers buy the machinery, some rent or lease it other farmers hire companies that specialize in harvesting and bring the machinery from farm to farm.
I grew up in the midwest where tons of farmlands are. That's excellent pay for unskilled laborers. Also most of that type of work is performed by migrant workers and large farms and food processing companies provide migrant housing camps for them to stay. Definitely not anything fancy. Really is more like camping other than small shacks for workers to stay in. But these workers are mainly just passing through areas and wire their earnings back to their families in their own countries.
Thank the native Central Americans, taking a native grass and thru generations (hybrids) creating Maize / Corn we know today. In Wisconsin, each summer that grow the vegetables for canning (corn, beans, peas, etc.)
Federal minimum wage in the US is still $7.25 an hour. Most of our farm hands are immigrant workers from across South America and Mexico. A lot of immigrants don't even get the Federal minimum wage though due to laws, and some employers trying to not pay out what they should. 1 gallon equals approximately 3.78541 Liters.
These type workers are called "migrant workers", and receive a "Pass", or permission, to enter the U.S. for a short time to work. They stay in a designated area, and are not allowed to leave it, as they could simply disappear (becoming illegal). When the Pass expires, they must leave the country. The listed pay of $17 per hour is quite high for migrant workers, and it is very high pay for them. It is considered high pay, and far more than they could possibly make in their own country. The money they can make is an obvious large boost to their families back home.
Tractors are very technical now...with computer GPS..but you can sit in a cushion seat with your music on..air conditioning or heater..with drinks in your small refrigerator in cab😊
Your video got me thinking. The economy of most countries is more or less planned by government to some degree. A planned economy always seeks greater efficiency. The most efficient way to harvest corn is with machinery. However most corn is also fed to cattle. Sweet corn is sold to humans. Hand picking reduces damage, improves appearance, and sells for a much higher price. Farmers have a free hand to plant and what produces the most value for his cost and investment. This is something that never occurs to the socialists. Planning eliminates the chaos of the free market. We embrace the chaos. Thats why our stores are better stocked year round for all possible tastes and needs than anywhere else.
Americans would definitely work those jobs, have and do. Its a bone of contention in the states that some places hire unskilled labor without visa or citizenship or background check requirements. Minimum wage differs by state and $17 is pretty good for unskilled labor.
All states grow their own types of various corn. There's a lot of corns outside of sweet. Yellow and white are two of the other ones I know immediately since I see them in the grocery store.
17$ an hour is pretty good especially in states like Washington outside the city, many Americans don’t want to do these jobs that’s why they hire immigrants to come to the US
The minimum wage is different from state to state due to cost of living. Missouri, Arkansas and Mississippi are some of the lowest $7 or $8. Then California and New York is $20 to $24 per hour.
US Farmers Buy Their Machinery. The classic brand of equipment on farms is John Deer. You will know a John Deer Brand by its color which is Green and Yellow. John Deer equipment last very long time.
I want to compliment you upon your command of English and general understanding of history , geography , and overall knowledge , especially the brother who sits on the right , sorry I don't know your names . Whoever taught you did an excellent job and if you are largely self-taught , as I am , more power to you .
The issue, guys, is that we have SO many desperate immigrants coming from Central and South America. So these are the jobs they get because most Americans don't want to do them and the cost is cheaper in the short term. Sad but true
So a video about corn doesn't include anything from either the state that that produces the most corn, Iowa, or the state that produces the second most corn, Illinois? Interesting... 😋
My first job was detasseling corn, I was 10. Wasn't exactly legal, but you could see any kind of "official" vehicle coming for miles, so hid in the fields until they left and would go back to work Worked on farms till I was of legal age to get a job in this country.
Machines have 3 disadvantages: the price to buy it is high, it's not as gentle or selective as workers, and breakdowns are expensive and time consuming.
We are surrounded by corn fields where I live in Minnesota. A lot of the corn is owned by a company but farmed by the farmers who have owned the land. There are not very many privately owned fields left anymore. Most farmers own their machinery. In Minnesota it’s done by machine, tho we have a lot of family owned farms that sell sweet corn in road side stands and local grocery stores. This is the time of year we are getting the best home grown sweet corn. The best is a type of sweet corn called Omaize… it’s so good! Super sweet and fresh. This year it might not be as good, and could end up more expensive as we’ve had a lot more rain than usual and there has been so much flooding. Corn crops and other produce are suffering… The rest of the year if you want corn on the cob, it comes from Florida, sometimes it’s been frozen and isn’t as good. We just wait until summertime. 😉
Every state has different standard of living and wage rates depending on that. Don't presume that $17/hour for hundreds of workers is cheap. It's a good hourly wage
You want humans to pick the corn if used for fresh consumption. Machine if its canned an for immigrants that is a good start salary. An they work 10 hours a day or if its hot a night shift not both
Minimum wage in the USA is $7.25, however, many places have set higher minimum wage standards for their states, counties, cities, etc. $7.25 is not livable. Fruit/vegetable picking is hard work and very few Americans will do it. Most workers come from Mexico and Central America.
The farmers buy that equipment , usually on credit , the way we buy houses and cars and as a result tend to be chronically in debt , which is why the traditional U S family farm is disappearing and being replaced by big agri-business companies , billionaires like Bill Gates , and the Chinese communist government . Here they are making a distinction between sweet corn , which is consumed directly by humans , and field corn , which is by far the larger number and it is used for animal feed and the production of other products like high fructose corn syrup which is used as a cheaper substitute for sugar in a huge number of commercially produced food products .
When you saw them working at night, I think he said they work at night in Florida because it’s too hot during the day (which is true…it’s brutally hot)
up to 50 ? 17 hr for Unskilled workers, ie picking up fruit and vegetables is good money..most people never see 50 hr. Don't work all day and All through the night . They run,3 shifts lol 8 to 10 hrs.. ✌🏻
I've never had luck growing corn. We have had so many hailstorms from climate change. I worry for the farmers. If US crops do badly, other parts of the world drop into famine. The USA and Ukraine feed the world. When things go wrong, everyone suffers. This is also why Saudi Arabia is buying up so much american farmland.
You are right, the choices seen here are driven by economics, notice that the setups using a lot of manual labor in the fields, are also packing the product for shipping while still in the field, whereas the mechanical harvesters have to transport the product to a "packing house" to get it packed for shipping, so, it is still a labor intensive process. There are also notable differences in yield per acre - which affects the decision of how to harvest.
Government mandated minimum wage is kind of irrelevant. You cannot get and keep and decent workers for that price. Around here most make $16 to $26 an hour. Full time permanent. English not required. Only requirement a work ethic and be a decent human being.
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These are large commercial corn farmers/growers, who own all of the tractors, combines and other equipment and the workers who operate the equipment are usually permenant, full-time employees of the farm. The workers who hand pick, sort or pack the crops, are migrants who come to the US at harvest time and work until that season's crops are completed. Once that job is over, the workers will usually do one of two things. They'll either go home with the money they've made on that particular job or they'll often move on to a different commercial farm that grows other types of crops that are harvested at different times of the year, to make more money to bring home to their families. $18/hour is actually a pretty decent wage and will go much, much farther in their home countries than it does in the US. Many "working class" jobs in the US, don't even pay that much per hour. For instance, if you're employed as a worker in a grocery store or department store like Target or Walmart, you'll usually earn from $15 to $17 per hour and if you've been there a while and have proven to be a good employee, or you are promoted to a different department or position, you can earn more. And just like everything else in the US, those wages can differ from city to city and state to state. It's similar to the prices of homes or the amount of taxes you pay to the government. It's all about location, location, location.
China may be using corn as feed for chickens pigs.
This is The USA🇺🇸...AT HARVEST TIME WE BRING IN WORKERS FROM MOSTLY LATINO COUNTRIES TO HARVEST OUR CROPS...And yes I agree it's very Hard Work and should be PAID MUCH MORE 👍
There are two main kinds of corn grown in the US; Sweet Corn and Field Corn, and they’re both used for different reasons.
Sweet corn is made to be eaten by humans, field corn is made to be animal food/ethanol (gasoline) products.
Sweet corn is a special kind of corn genetically bred to grow very large and taste good. Most food grade corn is picked by hand because it doesn’t damage the corn and you don’t lose as much corn when pick by hand. Machines tend to damage and lose crops more than hand picking.
Field corn is the kind of corn grown most in the US. Field corn is the closest to “maize” which is the original version of corn. It’s usually grown on much larger farms and harvested using big combines because if some gets damaged, it’s no big deal. It’s getting ground into food for farm animals and turned into ethanol to be added to gasoline and also produce plastic products.
While that is mainly true, i have eaten field corn all my life and i am 72. I like it better than sweet corn.
@@dlmullins9054when I was a kid I always heard the first row over the fence was for the public to grab a few ears and I believed it ! I ate a lot of field corn back then, I was a kid and it was back in the 70s , I was pretty dang naive 🙄😆
Aren't explosives a product also.
Also worth noting that the term "corn" is used in Europe & the UK as a general term for kernels of grain, while "maize" is used for what Americans call corn. So there is an actual point of linguistic confusion.
Minimum wage in the US is $7.25/hr. Picking corn in the US, a migrant Guatamalan can make a month's minimum wage in Guatamala in 3 days or about 25 hrs.
However, they were showing workers in Southern California where the minimum wage is $16. Later they showed workers in Washington, where the minimum wage is $16.26.
Where is it that low?
@@ChrisWootenNorthCarolina midwest and some southern states
@@3idraven714 We’re talking corn farming here, which I show is on the rise in California. So, not really failing or fleeing the state.
@@willjohnson8446 My bad..Delete..Thanx
The sweet corn, what is left (the stalks) from the harvesting of corn flour is ground into small pieces or made into pellet and fed to dairy cattle. Nothing is wasted. Here in Oregon, some dairy farmers grow field corn and ground the whole stalk, corn and all for their cattle.
The tractor you guys watched in Washington is actually GPS computer driven. The drivers literally don't do anything other than start and stop the machine....the computer does all the work for them That is the reason the tires don't damage the crops....it knows "exactly" where the rows of corn are and where the tire track rows are to the millimeter.
Not quite a mm....it's can be about an inch. Certainly close enough.
@@jbeck66 I could have said it tracks on a dime, but that would likely be lost on translation. LOL
and those machines are half a million dollars or more to buy.
Workers versus machines for picking corn!
The difference has to do with what the corn is used for. Workers will pick the best corn for ripeness and how good it looks in the supermarket.
With machines, they don't care about looks and ripeness. It isn't as important if it will be made into corn oil, or animal feed, etc.
Also, the farmers around here buy the equipment and make it last as long as possible.
Thanks!!!
Also, a lot of the machine-picked sweet corn is used for frozen/canned corn. The lovely ears in the stores are mostly hand-picked before the machines get there. I grew up on a farm, and Dad would plant 12 rows about 1/4 mile long of sweet corn for the family and friends to eat in the summer, and then when it was ALL ripe, we'd get a pickup load of it, get the kids in a group, and shuck it all, cut it off the cob and freeze it for the rest of the year.
"What do they need corn for... I thought they eat rice"
"thats racist"
LOL!!!! you guys crack me up!!!
Great video brothers!
My grandmother's parents(who were originally from Mexico) traveled around the US working as farmers at different places in the US. They lived out of a wagon, and my grandmother was born in a nunnery in Wisconsin, US. Me and my father actually found out where she was born through One of our customers at our landscaping business. The customer had an old black and white photo of a Church she used to live next to when she lived in Wisconsin. My father showed it to my grandmother and it turns out that that was where she was born!
Just thought it would be a cool story for this video, My grandmother picked mostly strawberries apparently, she only farmed up until she was 14 I believe. After that her family settled in San Antonio.
"Cool shift" remember he said "due to hot temperatures they harvest at night
Chill bro, English isn't their first language
Sorry guys, they don't rent that machine-they OWN it! These people that have these big farms are RICH!!!!!!!!
Rich off government farm subsidies 😂😂😂
Sometimes they'll pay us to not grow corn just to control the market.
Not necessarily. Sometimes professional harvesters who travel from south to north own the machines and go from farm to farm as the crops mature. I am not sure what there "official" name is but this practice is especially common in the wheat industry. I expect that it happens in the corn industry as well since it is so large.
Also, I have read somewhere (do not remember where) that the U.S. corn belt takes more CO2 out of the atmosphere than the entire Amazon rain forest.
They are called custom cutters I think
Some of the equipment is rented/contracted. You get the equipment AND the operators and workers all in one bundle. That is why they are so efficient.
You dear gentlemen should watch a video on modern farming machinery. Being that you are so smart with how you understand equipment I think you will really like this! I live around so so so many corn fields. ❤ love you guys so much! I hope so much you can visit one day!
Wow, thanks
The Federal minimum wage is $7.25hr. That is the lowest legal wage in the US. However, each state has their own minimum wage. In Florida it is $12hr($13hr starting in September). Many states have a $7.25hr minimum wage.
Picking corn is unskilled labor. $17hr is really good for being an unskilled laborer.
Unskilled just means it doesn't require specific education, that doesn't mean it is easy or that everyone can do it.
@@cmlemmus494
Unskilled labour means that you don’t need any skills of any kind. It means that anybody with an lQ over 80 can do it. I didn’t say that it can’t be a physically hard job(although their job is not physically demanding). I’m saying that it takes very little mental effort. I could probably train a monkey to do their job.
The music for this is making me think of the movie True Grit. If you haven't reacted to it, you definitely should. It's a classic Western and it's great.
Farmers have had sophisticated equipment for a long time. Most people are brainwashed into thinking that farmers are stupid.
One of the first industries to adopt the use of personal computers was the family farms.
Yeah, let's see your ass eat without farmers.
$17/hour is VERY GOOD rate for unskilled labor! Every area of US has different costs and prices and value depending on region state.
Sweet Corn is a vegetable, Field Corn (sometimes called Dent Corn) is the grain that Corn Flour is milled from. That is why Tomatoes were mentioned. They are talking about produce, or Truck Crops, not grains
Maze is corn
A lot of US farm workers are 'temporary" works - who are hired just for the harvest season.
If they are being paid $17.00 / hour - I suspect that they are working on a contract that pays them according to the amount that they harvest -
so yes, they are working very hard for their money.
This is the problem having someone outside the US narrating programs about the US, they often pronounce the names of cities, towns, etc incorrectly, not “Ya-keem-a, it’s pronounced Yak-ah-ma. Sweet corn is eaten as a vegetable, either fresh, frozen or canned. Farm workers who live in Mexico for instance can get an agricultural visa to work in the US during the harvest or planting season. As of June 2024, the federal minimum wage for agricultural workers in the United States is $7.25 per hour, as established by the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). This applies in states without a minimum wage law or where farmworkers aren't covered by the state's minimum wage. Some states don’t have a set minimum wage while others the minimum wage is as high as $15.00/hour.
However, there are some exemptions to the minimum wage requirement, including:
Employers who didn't use more than 500 "man-days" of agricultural labor in the previous calendar year
Agricultural employees who are the employer's immediate family
Employees primarily involved in livestock production
Certain hand harvest laborers
Farm equipment is very expensive, a new harvester can cost between $100,000 and $500,00 depending on the model. Many farmers buy used, but they have to be careful of the quality and compatibility with their other farm equipment. The farmer may own a lot of his equipment and may rent the rest. Field corn is used for animal feed or is processed into ground corn, maize or grits for instance.
Florida has special laws in place for temporary ag migrant workers. They must have a visa to work. The farmer must provide living quarters for the workers. If the workers brought family with them, the farmer must also provide schooling for the children during the time of their stay. The farmer must also provide medical for injured workers.
Basically, the workers are paid a wage (in this case $17 an hour) and receive housing and emergency medical insurance. Not a bad deal.
@@janefrost4267 Washington State has some laws for migrant workers too. They must have a H-2A “guest worker" program visa. We also have an unusual situation with the cherry harvest which is more intense than other harvests. They have “Cherry harvest camps”, a place where housing and related facilities are provided to agricultural employees by agricultural employers or TWH operators for their use while employed for the harvest of cherries in the state of Washington.” For everyone else they fall under The Migrant Farmworker Housing (MFH) program at the Department of Health who works to protect the health and safety of migrant farmworkers and their family members. And then there’s The Washington State Migrant Education Program (MEP) which is federally funded to ensure high-quality education programs and supplemental support services for migratory children. It sounds like Florida and Washington both have similar programs to make sure migrant workers have safe, clean housing, schooling for the children and health care.
It's usually actually good to have someone narrating that's not from the US. The Australian narrator wasn't good because he still used imperial units that every other country doesn't understand, or care to understand...even though Australia is metric.
However if this was solely for an American audience, then an American would of course be the better choice.
Also the majority of Americans pronounce place names wrong...now they can enjoy the irritation of hearing their place names butchered like every other country experience's from Americans.
Here in California, the central Sacramento Valley can reach staggering temperatures of 110-115 degrees F or 43-46 degrees C. That is the reason they pick the corn at night. It is just too hot, so there are no picking at all during the day....all picking is done at night. I think that is amazing for the workers! It is just too dangerous to be out in that kind of heat working.
The real reason for night harvesting is it helps preserve the corns freshness, it’s just a coincidence that it’s better for the workers.
Here in Southern Indiana everyone grows sweet corn 🌽 and there are many roadside stands, several are honor boxes, middle of nowhere, could steal it all, honor box too, but that is ultra rare.
True story.
Simple plan, grow corn, easy, put out a box and corn, run an experiment.
A few hundred bucks a year.
I'm from Iowa and we had a vegetable garden and we had so much but nobody drove down our road so my parents took it to church and gave it away.
Farmers don't rent equipment 99% of the time. All farmers own all their equipment.
Wow that's impressive
The Sweet Corn in Michigan was harvested by machine because, . . . it is likely not going to be sold as fresh produce, but as a frozen, or canned food. You will notice the corn stalks in Michigan were not as green as the corn that was being hand picked. That means this is the last harvest this crop will yield this year. Which is why it is being cut as it is picked.
Also, Michigan is about 1500mi (2500km) from the nearest border crossing with Mexico. The availability of immigrant workers is going to be much smaller. [I'm not saying there aren't any, just fewer, so any business that relies on workers is going to structure to use them efficiently.]
One of the best parts of summer is when I walk to my garden and pick some sweet corn. Then cook and eat it , so good. All my neighbors have their own sweet corn in their gardens. Ohio
The "storage units" are called Silos. (Sigh Lows)
Minimum wage by state: Florida $13,00, California $16.00, Washington state $16.28. I love watching the wheat harvest here.
Either going from Everett to Idaho. Or Mount Vernon to Idaho either way both highways off I five East are beautiful.
@@skoolzone I-5 doesn't go east. Just so you know,
4:52 the city of Yakima is east of Seattle in Washington state.
When sweet corn is picked by hand the crew only picks the ripe corn and leaves the unripe ears to be picked a few days later. The harvester takes the whole stalk and the corn can be over ripe, just right, unripe depending. Smaller farms do more hand picking for local markets.
My father grew up onna farm in the 1940s and 50s. We had some friends who ran a farm through the 90s and maybe into the 2000s, idk. It was always interesting to hear them talk about their work on their farm.
When you drive through Kansas at night during harvest time you can see the family farmers driving their combines with floodlights to get the crops in. Many of those family farmers work a second job during the day and take care of the farm chores in the evenings and weekends.
10:08 A gallon is a little less than 4 liters (3.78 liters).
They didnt mention .... a portion of that is going to other countries world wide including china n arabic places ...
Not the ears of Corn, the corn that is given as food subsidies to other nations is mostly field corn.
I grew up in Iowa in a farm town and the trucks would be lined up to get to the grain elevator. Sometimes they had to put it on the ground with giant tarps until the trains could catch up. Iowa produces more corn than any other state.
"sweet corn is the only thing that makes it through my rear!.... How do you think I keep this lovely grinnnnnnn?" *shine on the sweet corn tooth" xD
I see these kinds of tractors all over the rural areas. I grew up in a smaller town, and at the Burger King some teenage guys thought it was a cool hangout, and they'd bring their John Deer tractors and hang out in the parking lot there to look cool. 😅
The reason Florida use pickers is because ours is for the grocery stores largely their for canning and exported.They are use for feed of livestock.
In the USA, the land planted in corn, is roughly 4 times the size of all the crop land in Algeria. Corn is extremely important to our economy.
It’s not racist to say that the Chinese eat rice! It’s a literal fact and not racist to think that they eat more rice I can’t believe he would say that to you learn what the term means not what people tell you it means.
I’m glad the video has the same music that I always hear every time. I’m doing something out here on the farm. I thought it was just in my head apparently that’s just farm theme music.
Corn harvesting can last about 5 months, from July through November, Florida employs about 5,000 immigrant workers during it's fall corn harvest,
payments for manual harvesting by immigrant workers paid out is about $90,270 per week.
Total amount paid over the 5 month period in Florida for the state corn crop, which ranks 2nd in the nation is about $1,805,400.00 each season.
A harvesting machine is far less expensive, than hiring manual workers, as the machine prices vary widely depending on the model,
ranging between $100,000 to $500,000.
Agricultural workers are seasonal. They come not only from Mexico but now from other countries. They get permits to come into the country to work on the crops. Stay for 3 months and go back home until the next year. There are workers for grapes in California, oranges in Florida and for other crops in many states.
The example of the Michigan farm method of harvesting the sweet corn shows all machines in the field, then workers in the processing plant so the only difference is the workers aren’t out in the fields. They still use workers.
These farmers own thier own farming equipment 90 % of the time . Very few would rent equipment . Our machines do things faster than a person ever could
$17.00/hr is pretty good for an unskilled worker. I've worked for a lot less in my younger days.
17.00 per hour is equivalent to about 2.00 an hour in 1970. I was a farm worker and thought we were very skilled. Perhaps you should go work a year or two on a farm, it might surprise you how many skills farm workers have. Don't look down your nose at what you have no idea about.
@@virginiaoflaherty2983 He wasnt looking down his nose he was stating facts. 17:00 an hour is good pay. And you dont know if he doesnt know what he is talking about. I did pick corn by hand I know what I am talking about. It is hard work but it is unskilled work not something to be ashamed about. Does it mean they dont have skills of course not. It just means it is labor and if you want the job you can get it. They are lucky to have this in Florida in most of the U.S. machines do all the work.
Depends on the state. We saw workers in California and Washington where the minimum wage is at least $16 an hour.
@@virginiaoflaherty2983100%! This is back breaking work and actually takes a TON of skill, knowledge and muscle! And we all know that VERY few of them make 17 per hour!
pay!?!? my family made me do it for free.
If you don’t finish high school you can always finish concrete
The agriculture technology we have here in the US is unbelievable. Even I myself am shocked at some of the machines they have now.
The farmers own those tremendously expensive machines. You can buy a really nice house for less.
There are some corporations here in Pennsylvania where the equipment is owned by companies that have contracts with smaller and medium sized farms to harvest their produce and transport it for packaging and they brand it on behalf of the farms (which are also incorporated) and obviously take a fair cut of the harvest. The main job of the harvest company is to maintain the equipment, which is mad expensive and plant and harvest. The farmer is essentially a landlord for crops. These companies also hire the most skilled pickers they can find if it will be more efficient. It’s an odd business, 21st century farming. I know there are some large warehouses that are now being used as hydroponic farms around here too …lots of these harvesting combines are self driving… I know they’re playing with drones around here too …
I worked in a sawmill in North Carolina for $4.25 a hour.....
Migrant workers are usually on the west coast. In the Midwest we use machinery and family/staff
The American Golden Rule: The harder your work is, the less you are paid.
I live out in the country . In autumn I love to watch the farmers harvest the corn at night in the huge tracters. I make hot chocolate. And the beautiful moonlight. I will play Neal Youngs harvest moon. Ok I'm done ranting! 😂
Sounds great!
Red is right the machines are cheaper tha. Labor in the long run. Some farmers buy the machinery, some rent or lease it other farmers hire companies that specialize in harvesting and bring the machinery from farm to farm.
I grew up in the midwest where tons of farmlands are. That's excellent pay for unskilled laborers. Also most of that type of work is performed by migrant workers and large farms and food processing companies provide migrant housing camps for them to stay. Definitely not anything fancy. Really is more like camping other than small shacks for workers to stay in. But these workers are mainly just passing through areas and wire their earnings back to their families in their own countries.
Thank the native Central Americans, taking a native grass and thru generations (hybrids)
creating Maize / Corn we know today.
In Wisconsin, each summer that grow the vegetables for canning (corn, beans, peas, etc.)
Those are not rented machines, they are purchased. These are massive farms!
Federal minimum wage in the US is still $7.25 an hour. Most of our farm hands are immigrant workers from across South America and Mexico. A lot of immigrants don't even get the Federal minimum wage though due to laws, and some employers trying to not pay out what they should. 1 gallon equals approximately 3.78541 Liters.
These type workers are called "migrant workers", and receive a "Pass", or permission, to enter the U.S. for a short time to work. They stay in a designated area, and are not allowed to leave it, as they could simply disappear (becoming illegal). When the Pass expires, they must leave the country. The listed pay of $17 per hour is quite high for migrant workers, and it is very high pay for them. It is considered high pay, and far more than they could possibly make in their own country. The money they can make is an obvious large boost to their families back home.
Tractors are very technical now...with computer GPS..but you can sit in a cushion seat with your music on..air conditioning or heater..with drinks in your small refrigerator in cab😊
Thanks for the info
Your video got me thinking.
The economy of most countries is more or less planned by government to some degree. A planned economy always seeks greater efficiency. The most efficient way to harvest corn is with machinery. However most corn is also fed to cattle.
Sweet corn is sold to humans. Hand picking reduces damage, improves appearance, and sells for a much higher price.
Farmers have a free hand to plant and what produces the most value for his cost and investment. This is something that never occurs to the socialists. Planning eliminates the chaos of the free market. We embrace the chaos. Thats why our stores are better stocked year round for all possible tastes and needs than anywhere else.
Americans would definitely work those jobs, have and do. Its a bone of contention in the states that some places hire unskilled labor without visa or citizenship or background check requirements.
Minimum wage differs by state and $17 is pretty good for unskilled labor.
Maize is what the Native Americans called Corn.
All states grow their own types of various corn. There's a lot of corns outside of sweet. Yellow and white are two of the other ones I know immediately since I see them in the grocery store.
Also, farmers don't get that big of portion ... wait lol pickers get 17$ ... haahaa that's a lie 😂😂😂😂
Please don't believe everything you read 😂😂😂😂
@@PatiAnnthere are a couple of states with a minimum wage of $15.00 but in the state by state information I looked at, none was $17.00/hour.
@@PatiAnnI wasn't talking about that. You have the wrong comment.
Hot of Texas area lost the corn crop. The fields were flooded.
17$ an hour is pretty good especially in states like Washington outside the city, many Americans don’t want to do these jobs that’s why they hire immigrants to come to the US
I see farmers harvest their corn crops this way every year
I agree, Fudge…. The wage needs to be higher. More like $ 20 or $25/ hour. It’s back breaking work.
The minimum wage is different from state to state due to cost of living. Missouri, Arkansas and Mississippi are some of the lowest $7 or $8. Then California and New York is $20 to $24 per hour.
US Farmers Buy Their Machinery. The classic brand of equipment on farms is John Deer. You will know a John Deer Brand by its color which is Green and Yellow. John Deer equipment last very long time.
I want to compliment you upon your command of English and general understanding of history , geography , and overall knowledge , especially the brother who sits on the right , sorry I don't know your names . Whoever taught you did an excellent job and if you are largely self-taught , as I am , more power to you .
The issue, guys, is that we have SO many desperate immigrants coming from Central and South America. So these are the jobs they get because most Americans don't want to do them and the cost is cheaper in the short term. Sad but true
Seasonal workers They work the season and pop back home
So a video about corn doesn't include anything from either the state that that produces the most corn, Iowa, or the state that produces the second most corn, Illinois? Interesting... 😋
Hi guys. the minimum wage here in the US is 7.60. NC USA
My first job was detasseling corn, I was 10. Wasn't exactly legal, but you could see any kind of "official" vehicle coming for miles, so hid in the fields until they left and would go back to work Worked on farms till I was of legal age to get a job in this country.
Machines have 3 disadvantages: the price to buy it is high, it's not as gentle or selective as workers, and breakdowns are expensive and time consuming.
We are surrounded by corn fields where I live in Minnesota. A lot of the corn is owned by a company but farmed by the farmers who have owned the land. There are not very many privately owned fields left anymore. Most farmers own their machinery. In Minnesota it’s done by machine, tho we have a lot of family owned farms that sell sweet corn in road side stands and local grocery stores. This is the time of year we are getting the best home grown sweet corn. The best is a type of sweet corn called Omaize… it’s so good! Super sweet and fresh. This year it might not be as good, and could end up more expensive as we’ve had a lot more rain than usual and there has been so much flooding. Corn crops and other produce are suffering… The rest of the year if you want corn on the cob, it comes from Florida, sometimes it’s been frozen and isn’t as good. We just wait until summertime. 😉
That's sweet corn, the field corn for grain is much larger by many times.
Every state has different standard of living and wage rates depending on that. Don't presume that $17/hour for hundreds of workers is cheap. It's a good hourly wage
You want humans to pick the corn if used for fresh consumption. Machine if its canned an for immigrants that is a good start salary. An they work 10 hours a day or if its hot a night shift not both
I think what you both were thinking was cornmeal that's like flower but it's not flower
Minimum wage in the USA is $7.25, however, many places have set higher minimum wage standards for their states, counties, cities, etc. $7.25 is not livable. Fruit/vegetable picking is hard work and very few Americans will do it. Most workers come from Mexico and Central America.
I want to see where the machines go when they’re done
The farmers buy that equipment , usually on credit , the way we buy houses and cars and as a result tend to be chronically in debt , which is why the traditional U S family farm is disappearing and being replaced by big agri-business companies , billionaires like Bill Gates , and the Chinese communist government . Here they are making a distinction between sweet corn , which is consumed directly by humans , and field corn , which is by far the larger number and it is used for animal feed and the production of other products like high fructose corn syrup which is used as a cheaper substitute for sugar in a huge number of commercially produced food products .
They said this is in Florida where I live
When you saw them working at night, I think he said they work at night in Florida because it’s too hot during the day (which is true…it’s brutally hot)
A lot of farms employ mexican seasonal migrant farm workers in usa
up to 50 ? 17 hr for Unskilled workers, ie picking up fruit and vegetables is good money..most people never see 50 hr. Don't work all day and All through the night . They run,3 shifts lol 8 to 10 hrs.. ✌🏻
Thanks for sharing
Machines are cheaper over time and many farmers own their equipment.
I've never had luck growing corn. We have had so many hailstorms from climate change. I worry for the farmers. If US crops do badly, other parts of the world drop into famine. The USA and Ukraine feed the world. When things go wrong, everyone suffers. This is also why Saudi Arabia is buying up so much american farmland.
Minimum wage is $7.25 an hour
People think America runs on oil, but they are wrong, America runs on corn
There are 3.79 liters in one gallon.
The federal minimum wage in the US is $7.25 per hour. That's sad isn't it? So $18.00 per hour is better!
You are right, the choices seen here are driven by economics,
notice that the setups using a lot of manual labor in the fields, are also packing the product for shipping while still in the field,
whereas the mechanical harvesters have to transport the product to a "packing house" to get it packed for shipping,
so, it is still a labor intensive process.
There are also notable differences in yield per acre - which affects the decision of how to harvest.
Ya,they get $17/hr and free food and housing,so more like $25/hr
Also, and Black will be interested in this; the government subsidizes some of the farms. From taxes.
Night would be much cooler ti work in.
1 gallon is about 3.8 liters
It's almost unbelievable but the minimum federal wage is still $7.25 an hour. Nobody can live on that. Many states have higher minimums.
Government mandated minimum wage is kind of irrelevant. You cannot get and keep and decent workers for that price. Around here most make $16 to $26 an hour. Full time permanent. English not required. Only requirement a work ethic and be a decent human being.