What Happened to This Channel and Where is the Farm Going?

36 thoughts on “What Happened to This Channel and Where is the Farm Going?”

1. Thx again

2. Pete, great videos! Animals, tractors, it’s all in a day’s work on the farm.

3. Hi Pete I love watching anything you show because I farm in Nebraska it amazing how different you do hay than we do hay and the one thing that is so different is the tending I don't think you could even find a tender around here

4. Well, this video was more than a year ago, before I found your amazing channel. Just since yesterday, your subscriptions went from 497K to 498K–I'd bet my meagre Social Security check that the number of negative comments is probably a tiny fraction of nearly half a million souls who love you, Hillarie, the farm, the animals, the tractors (I'm a tractor gearhead myself and have learned a huge amount about Farmall letter-series tractors). My personal favorite are when you are doing field work, although, I'm also a Dexter cattle fan–the "herd dynamics" videos really got me intrigued. I now look hopefully every morning for your latest–it's the first thing I do before checking on our family's bank accounts! God bless you and yours, including the bulls and Patty!

5. I love your channel!! I have a small farm in Texas and we are new to farming. Your videos have been informative and life saving and encourating to us. So thankful for you!

6. You are what you seem an honest person. It’s easy to stick around and watch till the end you need to remind people to like the episode sorry because sometimes I forget. A fan

7. When you were talking about hog prices, I gotta say, isn’t it funny how the farmers world is always controlled by supply and demand but it doesn’t seem to be the case for everything else? love your videos!

8. Pete just wondering how many tractors do you have now

9. As a retired farmer/certified CAT&CUMMINGS KNUCKLE BUSTER I really enjoy your videos. The farm was small with a small cow calf herd. To support the family and the farm I worked for a trucking company that had about thirteen hundred trucks. My brother lived in Huguenot,N.Y.
   Before I forget I had FARMALL H with a two row snapper picker.

10. I make money on my pork. But I get free spent grains and feed raw milk from my cows. Pork is the base of my Farmstead. I also breed rare Gloucestershire Old Spot and make bank on feeders. People want good old breeds. I raise & farrow on pasture here in WI all winter. Large round bale hog huts with a roof.

11. We have literally binge watched your channel only for two weeks straight. It started with my love for all things Farmall but have grown to love all your topics…especially the day in the life of you all as farmers. I truly love your restoration videos but me wife and I love your family, your jokes and your wisdom. We never skip thru any portion. Your positive personality is contagious and I truly would love to be a farmer when I grow up, thanks to you. I am 54.

12. Slow down but don’t stop. Even if it’s once a month I’d watch.

13. Pete, have you considered installing a French drain alongside the barn?

14. Great editorial!

15. Looking forward to the change or addition to more shop projects Pete. My 5 yr old and I watch the show and am working on restoration of a JD 70 gas tractor. Caught some of the progress so far on that 856, stripping the cast of paint with wire brush, which i will be doing once i get the engine battened up again. Working on rehabbing a rear wheel rim, then mount a scab so I can maneuver the torn down rolling unit around to better scrape off the grease build up, then soak and power wash off… Like all the content you post, be it livestock, to equipment, to farm projects..

16. Stories and footage is always interesting to watch.

17. All Thoses old farm all's will out last the new junk any ray

18. I like both aspects of your channel. I think its well rounded.

    I found your channel earlier this year when I was looking for information on Dexters. My Dad passed away earlier this year and I've been helping my mom keep it going. I didn't grow up on the farm. Its something they started while I was in college. So i have found almost all the types of content you've made interesting.

    The only working tractor broke down while my dad was in the hospital. I've been watching your tractor series as well as other more ford specific video to see if getting the old Ford 600 running again is even something I think I can do. It's been sitting for about 9-10 years. I think i might be able to get it to "it will run" so we never are without a tractor again.

    The newer tractor has been in the shop for several months waiting on parts. We've been moving round bales by hand, its quite a job. The tractor should be back soon…. hopefully.

19. Power browsed a dozen video's. Scared getting started in dexters. 5 Acres, realistically 3 or so that's pasture. Started our hobby farm 2 years ago, have emu, goats, ton of mixed poultry, pet donkeys, and the cursed goats (wife wont let me eat them, dwarfs arn't great for milking and we both have actual careers still). Going to try to end up with 2 dexter cows and hopefully figure out a bull for rent or buy and sell them once a year. Not really getting it to make money, but the idea of reaching a point where we are freezing a cow or two every year or two and keeping ourselves in beef would be great. (Figuring out how much I may or may not be saving is daunting.) Did over 200lbs of potatoes amongst other things in our garden this year. So decently on our way to being able to home grow a good chunk of our stuff in good times or bad (and why I want to go to more grass fed animals and not dependant on grain/feed)

20. 5 acres of corn and soybean add mineral mix..just a thought. I think that comes close to at your 2 female pigs with 20 piglets

    But..you have a comuity of farmer friends. You could look at buying soy and corn from your neighbors

21. Produce your own pig feed

22. Personally, I come to your channel to share your farming and restoration experiences. I never really got the chance to do that when I was younger and have always regretted it. I'm too old now to start so your channel allows me to live it through your videos.
    Bill

23. I appreciate your time Pete. Thank you for your content. I am from Michigan here and have never farmed. Watching your videos is like being at the farm itself. And it's like you are allowing a person to be a farmer in your eyes . As America used to be small farms . I appreciate your work that you have to do each day on the farm and especially the YouTube video. Please keep them coming.

24. U send good vibes every time I'm a dairy farmer from Wisconsin and things are not going good but you lift my spirits when I watch I'm trying to keep my head up but farmer to farmer you know how difficult it is

25. run off… could you build a run off gutter – a V shaped slant roof that connects full length at roof line, is curved up at outside edges to form funnel at center of new "lean too/run off roof" that feeds into a pvc pipe pouring into a buried (or not) several hundred tank or tanks. Building with used metal siding and used tanks will cut cost, time and energy/effort would not be out of the question if you had a bit of help. You'd have a quick fix if all us who love you and your channel just showed up to help!
    Pigs – sorry to hear you need to back out of it – such a shame you can not raise them in the woods/pasture year round – I've always thought of them as a smart product to keep. Tractors – I'm thinking that you could make a fortune just by teaching the rest of us about the tractors and implements. Classes cost good money and I for one could surely use your help. This last week I mentioned to my husband how great it would be to have you near for advice and instructions on our farm equipment.
    Frustration on choosing the right tractor is running rampant here. Maybe a Patreon group to help w/ finances. We are eager to hear about farm equipment mechanics. Have enjoyed your market vids as well. Don't lose heart. You've got this. We truly appreciate you. Can't tell you how many other You tubers mention you in their videos, always sending us to watch your channel. Praying for you both. Thanks Pete – you are truly appreciated. wow! i talk too much! 🙂

26. I like the pig and tractor videos. But I watch them all so it could be you.

27. 👍😊

28. I enjoy the tractor videos and the farming videos so it want matter to me. I enjoy all of it and it shows you can do a lot of different stuff. Thank the good lord you are mechanically inclined. Anyone can go out with enough money and buy enough equipment that is what makes yours different you fix it up. I like old stuff like tractors and the way they use to do things. Your channel you choice is my way of thinking.

29. I’m retired. Plan to get a farm in Florida. I presently live in New York. Wish I could spend some time talking to you, so I could ask questions.
    Not for free.

30. Don’t ever change I know this is old but I love you

31. I’m so happy I found your channel Pete. I find all your content so interesting because it’s what you do to keep your farm operational and mostly because you are such a great storyteller.

32. It’s all educational to me. Just do what you do. Don’t try to re-invent the wheel. God bless

33. My Pop started watching you first and while at his little farm I would watch some. To be honest at first I really didn’t pay attention to your videos. Once I fell in Love with Dexters. Pop said hey thats what my guy on YouTube has. So I started watching then I’ve always been IH Red so I started watching and we both enjoy your videos!!! Do what you feel is right for you and your farm we will keep watching. Thanks for sharing your Life with us!!

34. My Pop started watching you first and while at his little farm I would watch some. To be honest at first I really didn’t pay attention to your videos. Once I fell in Love with Dexters. Pop said hey thats what my guy on YouTube has. So I started watching then I’ve always been IH Red so I started watching and we both enjoy your videos!!! Do what you feel is right for you and your farm we will keep watching. Thanks for sharing your Life with us!!

35. My Pop started watching you first and while at his little farm I would watch some. To be honest at first I really didn’t pay attention to your videos. Once I fell in Love with Dexters. Pop said hey thats what my guy on YouTube has. So I started watching then I’ve always been IH Red so I started watching and we both enjoy your videos!!! Do what you feel is right for you and your farm we will keep watching. Thanks for sharing your Life with us!!

36. Peye, You and yout lifestyle has inspired me to undergo a small hay farm in my coming retirement. Thank you for your inspiration!

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