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wow u do a lot my dad says he will come work for you

Your kids may change their minds in the future they haven’t worked for the man time will tell or you could change to grain less labor to hire

Jason, I love you! warm hug to you <3 <3

What about having the workers help you finish loading each of their trucks before they leave in the morning. I am sure that's what would happen if you were running a bit late. If each of them helped for 5 or 10 or possibly 15 minutes, that could save quite a bit of work that you are currently doing. Having them help in the morning would probably be more applicable to the trailers, but maybe you could do it a little bit with the box trucks.

Lound and clear on your calls for help at the end there dude, this country and it's people are changing and its gonna get worse before it gets better. The people have forgotten how this country was founded and grown/built to be the best country in the world (hard work and sacrifice). Keep fighting the good fight man it's the right thing to do, I'd love to come and help if the opportunity arises.

Which varieties of field tomatoes do you grow?

Just Scale.Back

Yep burnout happens every year. I second guess farming this time of year Too but by XMAS ill be fired up to get another year started. I was a plumber/ farmer for 30 years . I do not miss going to work for someone else every day. Its in your blood or you would have failed years ago. Chin up and kick ass.

Yes,you should train someone to help you

Amen I know exactly what you are talking about!!! Not to bad when crops are good we been fighting 30 days with no rain and now flooding!!Not fun !!Just got to put our faith in God !! Thanks

That decision is yours mate ,I use to do 15 or16hr days 7 days a week then people don't and some didn't pay the bill so we bought this I renovated it and then my wife said just retire so at 63 I did I'm not rich but we don't go without did all the travelling when we were younger now I enjoy my small veg patch and fish a lot stop and enjoy enjoy while your young 😊 enough.

Beautiful harvest!

Hey Jason, I hear you, you shouldn’t be pushing like that, but that does not mean you should scale back. Given how much I have learned from your video, you should consider a more managerial or administrative role... That might just scale you up while you doing 'less'

my advice is find good staff that want do learn and do more, then delegate some of your workload to them, consider the wholesale/providore option to reduce staff and vehicle expenses, your knowledge is valuable impart it to your staff and your profit will increase, hope this helps ive run a wholesale production plant nursery for 20years(green house tomatoes and tomatillos for 2yrs and pulled the pin) and as much as we want to do everything it simply isnt possible ps really enjoy the channel

Very reasonable design, great idea, congratulations

Great video as always and I know you mention you didn't want to have a retail store on your property because of the public. How about a retail store on another piece of your property away from your home that people can go to instead of doing all these farmer markets? You have to look at your cost associated with all these trucks, insurance, maintenance, fuel, etc. I am sure that is a good percentage of overall cost. The other option is to hire a manager that has the drive and to mirror you in setting up these trailers and get them ready for market. You can't do everything even though you want to. My family(Father,Mother, 5 kids)started farming before I was born down here in Lousiana with corn, beans, sweet potatoes, eventually we settled on the crop that made the most money which was sweet potatoes. We had 50-75 acres and did everything ourselves, everything was picked off the ground, back breaking work. My brother James was the only one who eventually took over the farm and expanded to over 400 acres of potatoes, but he knew to do this you have to hire people and find good people and pay them to relieve some of the stress. You may want to look at your crops and see which produce makes you the most money and focus on those.

Got a small pecan orchard in the southwest. It takes work everyday. Have to irrigate every ten days April through Sept-Oct. have to fertilize it a few times as well as spray, then constant weed control. Too big to harvest by hand, too small to buy harvest equipment. We have it custom harvested. Some years crop is light. Never know what the price is til we sell, sometimes months after we harvest. The last couple of years the prices were low but expenses go up every year. Now we need a new well, $150K and that ain’t happening. We’re in our mid 60’s. Time to smell the roses. You sound like a good business man. I’m sure you know where you can cut and still survive. Best wishes

It’s time to start delegating. No one will ever come close to performing like you. There are people out there you can find, to work with you. Take care. I had a heavy truck repair business for 40 years.

Buddy I think you love your farm and job,keep your chin up,snows a coming,less stress,if you wasnt farming you wouldn't be happy,factories suck

Jason I did it for 40 yrs your a farmer. That what we do fruit and veggies are all work finding good help is hard. I worked for a large Orchard in Ohio. I know you heard of them. Iam retired now at 60 my body is shot. Great videos. Cheers

Knowing someone else who owns there own business, learned from thier pops, worked hard and realized that business is slow in the summer except the holidays. They are normally open tuesday through saturday. In summers they take off, maybee stop by to do production or recieve meat for the shop. But no customers. After labor day they are back to the regular schedule. They can do that you have a challenge of that as a farm is 24/7. The birds or the raccoons don't take off. One farm north of us that sold in farmers market and had tents and the whole 9 yards to make produce in the NE. No longer operates that, they ploughed under there fields and planted 5 leaf for legal sale in NY State. I don't know if they made money or not. they might do farm to table for high class resturants. This is what i heard. With the crop insurance it gets expensive so is borrowing money, and diesel fuel. The main fuel of the farm. If you can live off of that and have a happy family then its golden. But We (myself and other and a manager i miss) cleaned a retail store for safety and for operational stuff, when i was a kid 60-70 that week, and the manager 70-80 hours. We figured we made 5.00 an hour as sales was not much, Three dumpsters charged to the P&L $750 back then. But passed the fire inspection with a clean basement storage area for retial electronics. We sold accesories for 90% profit or higher (-4% shipping). And what he told me was if you, "Take good care of Mother, Mother will take good care of you." mother was the twelve to 18 feet of parts and accesories. He was there until he was questioned on sales after years of working, and cleaning three stores in shambles. He threw the keys to the store to the dm and let's just say flew away! These stores are no longer open. Perhaps learn to fly drones, Agriculture drones and spray fertilize and seed, and just do that for other farmers. czcams.com/video/jijCPKXZ0tA/video.htmlsi=AZrilRynnCmj1xas Corn .75 an ear today at one farm $1.00 at another dozen for $8 on the first price. 5/$4 on squash. watermelon was 12 at one 10 at another. i bought the later. Bought wax and puple beans and purple califlower. Some fruits too. The idea is to move the bottom line. I'm your of season catch a farm show and look into solar. Visit a farmer who has it. Maybe it will make the farm viable. Just use green house? It should be high enough to have a goat farmer neighbor come and drop off goats to eat the weeds and mow under the panels. Most likely there will be a fence or animal fence if you put one. It's all up to you.

I think you should scale back and then scale back employees sir! You don’t want to burn out or injure yourself from over doing it. We all are not getting any younger. I hope you figure out a happy medium. From BC Canada 🇨🇦

Your kids better think long and hard about not keeping the farm going. When they grow up (and that won't happen until they're pushing 30) they just might be sorry that they can't live the farm lifestyle. You can take the girl/boy out of the country but you can't take the country out of the girl/boy.

I definitely think you should keep doing it. Im 62 and worked inside most of my life. I would have loved to have been a farmer. I watch my husband tend to our garden and he loves it. Pkease dp what u love. Mom told me do what you love and youll never work a day in your life.

My dad was in the garment business and also had "operating loans" as you call them, to buy raw materials and make samples and produce the product and ship it then get paid net 30 9 months later. That's the killer. You're working for the banker, making him wealthy. Yeah, other small business owners do understand, Jason. Not many others. ❤

😊The modern mind longs for the future as the medieval mind longed for Heaven. The great aim of modern life has been to improve the future - or even just to reach the future, assuming that the future will inevitably be “better.” - Wendell Berry My ancestors wrestled with the same question you asked at the end of this video. Their response, or answer, is a result of why I live on three of an original three hundred acres of land purchased with their sweat and blood. You said your offspring weren't interested in doing what you do. Keep doing what you do until they are. If not, you've stayed the course, fought the fight. If man was designed for comfort and pleasure, sin changed that. Man should labor, toil- live a penitential life. Keep trudging on.

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Jason, your one of the hardest workers I ever seen. That dang age thing just never goes away. All the work you put into this years crops is paying off though. Looking forward to your end of summer cool down.

Jason, is it non typical for a farmer to operate their farm out of pocket rather than using operating loans?

I played the last 4 minutes of your video for my wife. Her exact words were “ sounds just like you! “. I knew she would say that. This is my 30th crop year doing it full time. It definitely gets overwhelming at times - mentally and physically.

Great video Jason. So exciting seeing this channel steadily grow. You will pass your other channel and be at 100k in no.time. God Bless your Family and Farm.

Being your own boss and running a business is a lot of work especially when you are dependent on others to help (ie pick veggies, run the markets). I think those of us in a similar position to you have certain times of the year where we need a break, but can't take it because it is the busiest time of year. For you that is summer. Can you get one of your kids or your wife (not sure what her job is) to help edit videos? Streamline things-as you said grow fewer crops, do one less market. Yes you'll make less money, but you will also have less costs and have a bit more time. In spring, could you also sell some of your plants at the markets to earn some extra money? I hope whoever was driving the car that hit the deer was okay.

does the machine kill the plant or do you get more yeilds?

Farms like yours are a blessing to our country. All these big corporations that are taking over millions of acres of farmland is not good. We have more food security with thousands of small farms. Delegate some of your tasks to the young men and women. Let them carry some of the burden. Teach them how to pack the trucks the way you want them packed. Think of yourself as the general contractor. You are directing all the subcontractors on what to do. God bless you.

Due to a dry summer my humble second batch of corn failed-tassles appear when plant is 40-50 cm tall and doesn't have female blossoms at all...

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You also provide jobs for several people. I own a full-time small internet sales business and I have had good and bad years. But I am my own boss and still love it after 21 years. Love your channel...Jon

People have choices and I would respect whatever you do, what I would say is this. Peoples health depends on good food, that starts with 5 a day, to my family that is we eat 5 fresh pieces of fruit and veg a day, none is frozen, its fresh. People you serve in your area are lucky, as it picked off the fields, and into there homes in a day or two, that is what you do for people, all your effort , hard work and that of your team, is to be admired.. Do you have any runner beans ??? You have my family admiration and we are 4000 miles away ..

No way I can answer YOUR question, only you can do that, it's all about your drive and quality of life. I can say I was in the same boat for almost 47 years, operating 2 businesses and working 12 to 16 hours a day , often 7 days a week, as a self-employed person, that's just what we do. I had a millwork company then my short lived hobby turned into a very good business building race engines for drag cars. For many years I was the main person doing much of the work myself, the engines became a business only in the last 18 years of my working life. I had raced on Sundays for years but building engines for others was never a part of the plan . I had a machine shop right next to the millwork shop and little by little it just happened and started consuming more and more of my time but was also making me a lot of money. At my peak I had 27 employees between the 2 shops , and I had been turned into mostly management, which I hated doing, but only I was able to do it. At about 55 or 56 I seriously had this same question in my mind , it had grown into more than I ever wanted it to get too, I was not enjoying running the office and no longer being able to work in either shop, I had no family member that had any interest in taking over either business, I was getting old and could not do it all any more like I had for years,,,,,,what to do?? Racing had been just a hobby, something that I did for fun, it had just turned into no longer racing,,, but just operating a machine shop basically, so I just 100% stopped building engines and closed the machine shop and concentrated on the millwork side since that's where my biggest investment was, and had made the most money at. I'm 69 now, retired, closed both companies, sold off all the equipment from both businesses except for a few I kept for myself only. I now spend Summer and Fall in the US and Winter and Spring in the Philippines ( with visits to either one, when I want too) I don't have constant stress about much anymore, I still drag race on weekends some, just for fun. I have time to watch you on YT and others, I have enough money to live a comfortable life ,,,,I hope. Almost all my friends were self-employed in a variety of businesses, many have or will be retiring in various ways in the upcoming few years. Every single one of them has one or more kids, most are adults , only 2 of them has a kid that wants to try to carry on their parents business. The kids have all seen what it took from their parents to run all these various companies and saw what it did to their parents I think, and most just don't want that as their life, of course they want the money, but not what it took to make the money. Looking back, would I have done what I did to this point,,,,,Hell yes, hard work is good for a person, it gave me a direction to go in life, overall I enjoyed the majority of it. Sure I would do many things differently now than what I did, but I guess the choices I made were not so bad over all ,I don't think. Your a workaholic, your a very rare breed these days. You work your ass off,,,you don't need to do YT but in spite of all the other things you do, you added YT to the list also, I commend you on your choices thus far, only you though knows how much you can or want to do as you get older, seems to me cutting back next year might be a good choice to try for a year. I don't know much about farming sadly, but know we sure do need you all to grow our food. Just remember, "work to live not live to work"is a good motto in my opinion.

U r definitely living a farmers life. People don't understand that. They all think its just sit In a tractor all day and get rich. It doesn't work that way. A farmers life is extremely hard work for 4 to 6 months of the year and relax during the winter. Though, u may not b thanked every day, we thank u for what u do. U feed us. In this modern life we live, where the average person, just goes to the store or farmers market, buy what they want and go home to eat, 90% of ppl don't understand what goes into a farmers life. I get the whole unknown part of it. Our spring was horrible. Most.of our long term growing products failed early on. We had to replant a good portion of what we originally planted. Bur we did that so we could get good, accurate data going forward. Now, I am absolutely blown away at what we will get to harvest in a month. Even now, thongs r finally staring to come on and we r seeing some of thw best harvest we.have ever seen. I owe a large.portion ot that to u, seeing how u do things, adjusting rates to a more profitable point. And we can see the benefits of how u farm. I have,personally, never seen tomatoes and peppers they size and producing they way they are, ever in my life. We went and seen our test garden today, and realized, we have a huge potential, to make a solid career out of market gardening. Going from, I don't know if anything is gonna grow, to, I don't know where to put it all, is pretty humbling. U keep this world going forward. Ppl would not understand what having to grow all their own food then work a career would b like anymore. At your age, and with no children to succeed u, I 100% understand the whole wanting to scale back. But that is a u thing. How much can u grow and sell and still b able to active the life u want, while bringing in less income. Scaling back, u would have less expenses, less input costs, less employees, and all that. Worth it at your stage of life, yes. Less input, less employment, same revenue, less stress...worth it. If I could come and succeed u, I would, since it is the life I'm looking to get into. Still trying to get my wife to move to Ohio to take over management of a doctors office, that she works for. But even just growing up here in Canada, I can see a future for myself. Your knowledge and success, even though, u haven't directly taught and trained me, has influenced how I will run mu life for years to come. We thank u for what u do, and, even if u scale back, u will have a lifelong fan. Thx

farmers choose farming because they love farming, not for the money. YES money is what makes the world go round and is necessary. However it is a lifestyle a mass majority of citizens do not understand. As a retired teacher, I could identify my students who came from a farm. their lifestyle and work habit was second to none. Farmers are those people who live next to God because God takes care of them. I envy you. I was raised on a farm in Indiana the first 19 years of my life. Then moved to Tennessee because we lost the farm to economics in the late 70s. My children did not receive the same raising and it greatly shows. As long as health and desire hold out God will be with you. Good luck with your vegetable farming. I love your content and look forward to seeing them. Thanks!

If you’re scaling back next year, you might think about renting out the land that you’re not using for extra income

Fun video.

I'm interested to know where you got your market trailer from? Please and thank you.

Keep on keeping on my man as long as you can!!

Jason, let me ask an uneducated logistics question. Why not stack and palletize on the floor of the barn and slide the pallets into the box trucks with the fork lift? Maybe a wrap of plastic to keep them from falling over in transit? I am just asking because working in a half loaded truck seems like a jam. BTW, that produce looks beautiful. If it tastes half as good as it looks you should sell through all of it and then some. No one can push the level of output you push forever. Better to pick a graceful exit strategy than a crash.

man that does look like a lot of hard work. please take care of yourself. i wonder if saffron would be worth it to grow. It’s quite expensive and could probably make you lot of money.

I have never seen a farmer or any other business owner to be so open and transparent with the money how much everything costs and how much you take in on your vegetables etc. that is very surprising to me and I don’t know if that is a great idea to do so !

Wood love to No, where you, Get your tent for your trailer.