I got my 15 seconds of fame

Had the local TV station come and do a segment on my wife's family and me about our farming operation. Hope this link works.
http://www.nebraska.tv/global/video/flash/popupplayer.asp?ClipID1=5630455&h1=Farming%20Family%3A%20Busy%20B%20Ranch&vt1=v&at1=News&d1=184200&LaunchPageAdTag=Promotion 30&activePane=info&rnd=39476406

link worked! cool segment!...Thanks Rob and to all the farmers out there!

thats cool schmitty! i was a farm boy too but it got to the point in the mid to late 80's we just hung it up once we broke even.i was about 20 then and did'nt think i'd ever miss it.sometimes in the late fall when i smell the cotton it makes me feal a little sad that i cant bring my kids up in that kind of lifestyle.i did'nt know it at the time but i do now,farming is a way of life most dont get to enjoy.it's something you have to love cuz it's not for the money,most of the time.one bad year can make you work the next 2 or 3 years for nothen.thanks for sharen schmitty

I've worker dairy farms, horse farms, never realy any ag!...unless you count hay!

Feeding the world...sweet and a big thanks!

Very cool Schmitty, I still don't understand them red tractors though....tractors are green man....lol. Just kidding, I have run both and have no problem with either. Only reason I run green is I like the color green and never did care for red. But as far as the tractor doing there job I think they both do a darn good job for what a person puts them through.

That brings back memories. My grandparents had a 400 acre farm in PA. They didn't farm it though, they rented out the land to a farmer and used it for hunting in the winter. It was cool to ride my dirt bike all over the place as a kid. Now my Dad has about 20 acres, and my aunt has the rest. I imagine some day it will be a subdivision.

That's awesome Schmitty. My "5 seconds of fame" on the local news was kinda the same way , my grandad and I were on a little cut about our pumpkins .

I was fortunate enough to grow up in a farming environment , but just hobby farming compared to what you guys do. We basically just grew, canned / put up our own produce , killed our own hogs etc.

Things sure have changed , but its very handy to know how to survive off the land for sure. My brother and I are left with the family farm and I have always wanted to grow and sell produce don't know if it will ever happen though

Nice clip Schmitty! I did a TDY while in the Air Force in Gordon, NE (a little Northwest of you), and one of the local girl's father had a huge cattle ranch outside town. That's a hard working lifestyle, and she told me all about each of their chores to help the family. Their last name was Sasse, so maybe you heard of their ranch. I never got to see it, because I wasn't suppose to be dating his daughter. LOL Thanks for all the hard work your family does for America!

plowboy34 wrote:Very cool Schmitty, I still don't understand them red tractors though....tractors are green man....lol. Just kidding, I have run both and have no problem with either. Only reason I run green is I like the color green and never did care for red. But as far as the tractor doing there job I think they both do a darn good job for what a person puts them through.

I guess it is what you grow up with. LOL I have been farming for over 35 years of my life, and I'm only 40. My dad was a farmer until the 80's took him out with a bad chain of events and we moved 150 miles west to where I live now. I was about 15 when we moved. I helped a local farmer during high school, and helped another with a large hay business. My dad moved to the town where we live now, with maybe $100 in his pocket, and got a house with the help of mom's uncle. He got a job with the local Case implement store as a service manager and moved into sales. He was top salesman in the nation in a couple years and again the next year. This was a company store owned by Case, and they decided that they wanted to sell it. I was in college at the time getting a degree in electrical tech, and he approached me about buying the dealership. We talked it over for several weeks, and decided not to do it, for several reasons. A month or so later, he called and said he was going to start a dealership for center pivots. In the meantime, I started dating a lady that was friends with my sister. It all went downhill from there. We never know why the Good Lord does what he does, but in hind sight, I see some of the plan now.

patfromjersey wrote:Nice clip Schmitty! I did a TDY while in the Air Force in Gordon, NE (a little Northwest of you), and one of the local girl's father had a huge cattle ranch outside town. That's a hard working lifestyle, and she told me all about each of their chores to help the family. Their last name was Sasse, so maybe you heard of their ranch. I never got to see it, because I wasn't suppose to be dating his daughter. LOL Thanks for all the hard work your family does for America!

Gordon is probably over 250 miles away from here Pat. I do know where it is, because the guy I worked for as an electrician grew up there.

nice one Schmitty ,and now I can put a face to the voice on the phone!
Frank

Very cool Schmitty!! I grew up on a farm too, I could never understand these city kids wanting to go back to school!! There was too much to do on the farm.

Bill

Nice article. Good Job Schmitty !

The tractors look like you neeed a MBA in mechanical engineering just to operate them.

You need to have a lot more eduction in electronics and computers now than in the past. I was amazed at how well my father in law has taken to operating the monitors. He is 64 and was the one who came to me and asked if we should go in that direction. I said that if we didn't we were going to be so far behind that we would never catch up. We have tractors that drive themselves, combines that tell you exact yield data on the fly, and a sprayer that has more computer power than the first moon missions. I will probably put auto steer on the spray rig pretty soon too. The price of the electronics is out of sight, but it is well worth it for the advantages of precision farming. My wife's grandad is 92 years old and was running the combine for us two years ago. He has been a great mentor to me and a lot of other people. He is the kind of guy that a lot of people look up to. When he is around people in town a lot of people come say hi to him and ask him a lot of questions and shake his hand with respect. Great man. I doubt that we have much time left with him, but his legacy will live on. I just hope one of my daughters decides to continue on with the farm.

Frank Merkl wrote:nice one Schmitty ,and now I can put a face to the voice on the phone!
Frank

Bet you didn't think that much ugly could be in one place did you.

cool deal Schmitty im know farmer but i do have a small farm and try and grow what we consume, and i have a great respect for the folks that feed America. thanks Erv.

schmitty wrote:

Frank Merkl wrote:nice one Schmitty ,and now I can put a face to the voice on the phone!
Frank

Bet you didn't think that much ugly could be in one place did you.

Don't sell yourself short...... JK

Nice Artical too.... Hats off to the people that farm.

Hey Rob,thats cool brother,Thanks

The Good Lord alway's has a plan and we usually don't see it until years down the road. I grew up in California, when I was 16 if you would have told me I would end up in Missouri being a farmer I would have laughed myself to death. Now I see part of the plan and it is AWESOME!!!!!

Nice!

Can I get your Autograph at the Bash Schmitty?

Oh, that's a BIG f-ing tractor!

Hey Plowboy, where in MO are you at? Are you on Scott's too?

Damon, I can get you hooked up with that autograph , but it won't be worth spit in a few more days. You know how this show biz deal is, hero one day and yesterdays news the next.

They did a top notch job on the segment....and the "actors" did a great job.
Good story!
Thanks,
Keith