This Ain’t Your Granddaddy’s Farm

there is a Target on our backs like no other
thought we weren’t bringing up reality

someone thinks you just put seed in the ground
and the corn instantly grows

view US Farmers as overall wearing
Pitchfork handling
old school simple life

cuz government’s already out to get the farmers
so make sure you’re ready for it

they hate us
they depend on us
but godamn hate us

hey y’all welcome to meet the mcb’s
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today we’re going to be talking about how
in a modern-day farming operation
this ain’t your Granddaddy’s farm

so we’re going to be deep diving
into all of the technology
that is in a modern-day tractor cab

what we’re doing on the farm
what we figured out that works
and some things that we figured out don’t work

this episode will be great
for any of you in the farming industry

but I think it’ll also be good
for anyone outside of the farming industry
that doesn’t really understand
what takes place in a modern day farm

and thinks that we’re just out here
wearing overalls
with a pitchfork in our hand

modern day Farm
is a very very technologically advanced industry

and um yeah
I’m excited for youall to tune in

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and let’s get down and dirty with it

today we’ve got something
a little more Farm focused
than we had in the first two episodes

where we were just pretty much
discussing reality show stuff

finally getting into the farm stuff
business stuff

so I want to tell a little story
because I feel like this is the industry
in a nutshell

when it comes to people
that are not involved
in the ag industry

and what they view farming and ranching like
in the modern world

so I was on a dating show
called Joe Millionaire

which we discussed in the last episode
thought we weren’t bringing up reality

it’s a quick story okay
I swear

go for it

so we bring all these girls
from LA New York Florida
out to the farm

and the whole premise was
I was supposed to act like
I was a low-key farmer

I had a couple cows
and the girls didn’t know
that I had any sort of wealth whatsoever

and whenever we did the hometown visits
they brought the top six girls
out to a field where we were going to film

it was the middle of harvest season
and we were cutting soybeans at the time

and we had I want to say
six combines
and two or three grain carts
out in the field

it was inter turp and bottoms
yep out there cutting that big piece

yeah

and at the time
these combines were running

this would have been 2021

so still new combines were
$550 $600,000

heads are $95,000
for a Macdon draper
if not a little more

yeah actually more like $100,000 right

depends if you get new
or if you’re 2012 used
that you’re trying to fix up

but yeah
depends what you’re doing

but these things are not cheap

and it was funny
because we were out here filming this

and all of the producers were pushing the women
like still thinking
that I was a low-key farmer

the girls had absolutely no idea
what these combines even were

they were riding in them

but to them
it was just a tractor

and they also had no idea
about the value of them

they also had no idea
about what actually takes place
in one of these pieces of equipment

and I think so many people
in today’s world
that are not involved in farming and ranching

view US Farmers as
overall wearing
Pitchfork handling
old school simple life

not very complex

it’s just kind of the good old boy industry

would you agree

I’d agree

I’d say when most people
think of a farmer

they think of like the cartoon
standing there on a front porch
with an old rocking chair
a cup of coffee

yeah

not like what it is at all

not in modern day farming

that may have been farming
in the 60s 70s and 80s

where it was open cab tractors
things were very basic

it was all about just working with your hands

but quite candidly
I would go as far to say

out of all of the businesses
we are involved with

farming is by far and away
the most technologically advanced industry
we deal with

I mean some of the best farmers we know personally
are like the smartest people you’ll meet

they’re like scientists

you know what I’m saying

like when you talk in today’s day and age
you’re essentially a scientist
if you’re a farmer

yeah

chemist
scientist

I mean you got to be a lot

there is not an employee or team member
that we have found

that is as skilled
and as valuable
and as rare to find

as a 20 plus year veteran farmer

there’s just
they’ve had their hands in so much

you’ve done so much
when you’re farming

there’s so many different things
you got to do

I mean when you’re a mechanic
you’re working on mechanics all day

when you’re on a computer
you’re working on software all day

well you got to do that now
in today’s world of farming

you got to learn how to use
John Deere Ops

that was a three-year learning curve

you got to be a chemist
an agronomist
a meteorologist

and if you don’t keep up
you get left behind

this ain’t your Granddaddy’s farm anymore