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494: Onions, Inflation & Family Farms with Shay Myers

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Lucas Rockwood

Love, Detox, Food, Yogabody, Pranayama, Vegan, Selfimprovement, Self-improvement, Relationships, Meditation, Breathing, Education, Emotions, Mental, Vegetarian, Inspiring, Leader, Balance, Motivating, Weightloss, Flexibility, Habits, Health, Motivation, Yoga, Nutrition

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🗓️ 15 December 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

When most people think about a family farm, they think of a wooden house in the middle of a field with a few chickens, a couple of cows, and some corn and tomatoes growing. These days, that is more likely a “hobby farm” since almost all commercially viable farms, including family-run operations, are high tech, sizable, and are extremely productive. They have to be to survive.

On this week’s podcast, you’ll meet a multi-generational farmer who will help us all better understand where our food comes from, the complexity of supply chains, and the challenges of survival as inflation sets in.

Learn

  • Why growers earn just pennies per piece of product (like an onion)
  • How rising freight costs will affect all our food budgets soon
  • Why it’s impossible to start a family farm from scratch today
  • The scale, scope and future of agribusiness

Links

Shay’s Tiktok

Owyhee Foods

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Shay is the CEO of Owyhee family onion business. He’s a farmer, entrepreneur, and content creator sharing with his followers the behind-the-scenes from the USA agricultural business.

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0:00.0

I spent three years of my life somewhere around 1988 to 1991 living in northwestern Illinois

0:11.6

in a very small industrial town where people either worked in one of the two large employers

0:17.9

or they were farmers and the only crop I ever saw was corn and there was corn everywhere.

0:23.0

As far as you could see I had a BMX bike as far as I could ride my bike there was corn and there

0:28.9

are a couple of things that really impressed me about the cornfields. The primary one was how neat

0:34.1

and orderly they were and this was back in the late 80s right and the only way that can happen

0:39.6

is with very very sophisticated agricultural technology techniques harvesting planting,

0:46.6

seeding all the above. The rows of corn were so organized that my brother and I would ride our

0:53.3

bikes you know down the middle of the roads. You could run down the rows of corn in the middle

0:58.6

of the night a lot of you are shaking your head saying yes Lucas we've seen a cornfield but I

1:02.9

promise you many many people have not actually marveled at what is modern agriculture and again

1:09.2

that's 30 years ago. Right now what's happening with agriculture is just phenomenal in terms of

1:15.2

productivity per acre of land in terms of quality control and in terms of AI and robotics and things

1:22.9

there's really really a huge shift happening food systems have lots and lots of problems

1:30.2

and a lot of times farmers get blamed for the problems I think the problems really start with

1:34.6

consumers people like you and me demanding really cheap products instant access and that trickles

1:41.2

all the way back to the person growing the onions in this case or the strawberries or whatever it might

1:47.6

be and they're left with this really challenging situation is how do we figure out how to get all

1:52.4

this stuff out of this land with this small teeny tiny margin which adding about food systems

1:57.8

onions and inflation on today's show if you're new here it's the Lucas Rockwood show I'm a yoga

2:02.2

teacher a teacher trainer I'm a serial entrepreneur I'm the father of three kids put first and foremost

2:06.6

of a student I like to learn things on this week's show we'll be talking to a multi-generational

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