Crop Kings... new reality show for discovery

[Daylate]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c6hvrGP3e4k

Hope I see this aired. Has the potential to be awesome!

[Braveheart]

The more people that watch the test shows online the better the chances. One of the family posts on here from time to time, but more on The Combine Forum. Looks like fun. More reality than Ice Road Truckers.

[Crestliner]

Looks pretty good...5 families all working together on the same farm is a big accomplishment in itself. From the trailers is looks like Seann is the main repair guy that keeps it all running. He's the guy I would want to keep happy the most....the guy pulling the wrenches ...lol.

[tweety]

Interesting to watch from a safety standpoint with all the noise about bill 6 in Alberta. Loafers and all.

[SASKFARMER3]

Awesome that looks like a fun show. My kids always watch Gold Rush and Yukon Gold and say we should do a reality show on farming.
Good on these guys Work hard and party harder. Have fun.

[fjlip]

Lots of GUNS happening, NO hearing protection used. Kids in the crop, on machinery, won't go over well.
Our local HUGE family corporate type operation is BIGGER, 8 semis, 5 combines, 2 sprayers, 6-4 WD/quads, perfect Pool built elevator, track loading, retail businesses, NAPA, seed fert chem, custom work, newer stuff...need more movies made I guess.
A 2 person Mom and POP is a joke today, history lesson perhaps, nothing to see on TV, move on society.

[Crestliner]

Wow fjlip...are you being sarchastic or trying to start a swinging dick contest? I think most people on this post try to be supportive and encouraging. Nice to see a reality show that reflects reality on the farm...they look progressive and do a good job as a family. I also know lots of 2500 acre family farms that are all debt free and do very well today. Good on you for your "Corporate Farm"....there is a big world to feed and each to their own. So be it if your model is the future. I hope all your employees are paid overtime for over 40 hours of work on the farm, have a great benefits and WCB coverage and all have their high vis safety vests, hard hats and steel toe boots on all the time and all your bin ladders are caged etc...I'd be happy to see your operation on Disccvery.

[Daylate]

Told my wife, in under 10 posts someone will have something negative to say, and there it is. Maybe it's your attitude FJ, that is holding you back and making you bitter. I went to college with 2 of these guys. Still talk with one on a regular basis. They have great attitudes. Don't look down on anyone and it very much is a family farm. Agriculture needs good exposure! They'd be a great farm for it.

[fjlip]

My post was ambiguous, sorry, NOT our farm, but a local operation larger compared to the video. Very well run, impressive looking, the new reality I imagine. However I am sad to see the changes in my 40 years and loss of population, community and infrastructure. We are doing fine on 1600 acres near the end of career, but sure feel a tiny fish in the farming pond full of BIG fish.

[Crestliner]

No problem Fj.....hard to tell on these posts what the real context is. All the best to you on your farm...1600 acres well run gives you a great life. I think there is room for a lot of farms of various sizes into the future.

[Oliver88]

This looks like a great show.
I watched a few of the previews.

This will air on Discovery?

[wheatsnowcanola]

It is not a loss of families in community, when 5 cousins/families decide to farm together. No different than 5 different 3,000 acre farms.

[Braveheart]

The farm on Crop Kings had a dairy, as well as an investment in hogs. Work hard. Some play hard as my son in law races motocross on their farm.

Re large farms making interesting TV, one show we favour is "Alaska, The Last Frontier". The Kilchers homestead in Alaska would make Rachel Notley's psycho socialists go nuts with all the safety violations. But it's about a family with a small self sufficient farm that make it and are happy, happy, happy.

Calling Freewheat, do you have a face for TV?
Turn that mud into money, money, money!

[fjlip]

Very different than 25 600 acre farms in the 60's, larger families, busy small towns, full schools, rinks, churches. Zip happening now, the country side is empty.

[blackpowder]

You have a lot not to be sad about fj.
Id trade ya. Farmers perspectives get kinda narrow sometimes i guess.
Havent seen tv show. Sounds like awesome idea. As close as most are gonna get.