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🗓️ 30 April 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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4th generation Iowa farmer David O'Brien joins the show to talk about the daily challenges of the profession, the future of family owned operations, and what foreign money is coming in and purchasing land for corporate farms.
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0:00.0 | And it started the late 90s, you started to see foreign investment and not from China like people think for us, it was Germans. |
0:08.0 | They were being recruited to buy fields for the corporate farmers. |
0:12.0 | Hey, you want to invest money, buy this field, we'll rent it for them. |
0:17.0 | So, I mean, I can look at, there's three fields. |
0:20.0 | I'm looking at the door of our barn. I see three of them that are owned by investment groups. |
0:24.6 | You know, nobody that's ever going to set foot or ever actually physically see that land owns it. |
0:29.6 | There used to be five farmsteads with an eyesight of where I'm at now. |
0:34.9 | We're down to one besides mine. |
0:38.1 | It's just people are leaving. |
0:39.7 | The money wasn't the air there, the 80s. |
0:42.9 | Part of it was the 60s and 70s were real good farmers. |
0:46.1 | People started to get stretched out further than they should. |
0:48.3 | The 80s broke them. |
0:49.9 | Let's go. Welcome to Citizen. |
0:59.9 | I've got a special guest today, David O'Brien. |
1:04.4 | I think you've been watching our shows for some time now. |
1:08.0 | Years, many years. |
1:10.6 | Yep, between here and DB, I've've been kind of around you guys long time |
1:15.1 | how long i'm trying to think as far as db i probably started listening to that around the 30s |
1:23.2 | and i contributed to the range 15 fundraising when that first kicked off. |
1:29.2 | But kind of found you guys through the unbest, my best stuff. |
1:33.3 | Oh, yeah. Yeah. |
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