Farming Full-Time

A two-minute video about the farm fuel bailout drew 1,121 Facebook comments. 518 of them said, "you voted for this." 8 percent backed the farmer. In episode 1 of Farming Full-Time, I read the best of them out loud from the shop in Hawley, Minnesota.

Then the part nobody can see from the road. The new pickup, the $300 toy tractor, and the half-million-dollar combine get the comments. The fuel bill, the fertilizer bill, the chemical bill, the land rent, and the bank don't. Where bailout money actually goes, why it's paid on planted acres so the biggest farms get the biggest checks, the fair hits from truckers and ranchers, and why I started writing Farming Full-Time in the first place.

Next episode: Darren Hughes, who built Laconik, from Australia.

Chapters:
00:00 Cold open
00:50 Farmers have been extinct for 94 years
01:22 Who I am
02:04 Seed money
03:39 One comment per minute
04:49 Eight percent
05:37 $5,000 a day in fuel
06:15 Life advice from strangers
07:11 Solar panels and straw huts
07:53 The pickup, the toy tractor, the combine
09:22 Follow the money
09:58 Why I do this
11:16 The fair hits
12:57 Citizens United and a Snickers bar
14:19 One big shit rope
14:55 What this show is going to be
15:39 The sign-off is the tough part

Farming Full-Time. A True Grit Ag Production.
Hosted by Adam Kuznia, True Grit Agronomy, Hawley, MN.
Newsletter: Farming Full-Time on Substack, https://farmingfulltime.substack.com
Soil testing and agronomy: True Grit Agronomy, https://truegritag.com
Clips on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@truegritag
The shit rope is Jim Lahey's (John Dunsworth, Trailer Park Boys).