Agriculture Under Attack w/Shay Myers

Barn Talk

Tork and Sawyer Whisler

Business

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Welcome to Barn Talk. We are going to do our best not to cry today. There are many layers to our guest and we are going to peel them back for you. OK, No more cringy onion jokes. Our guest today has become the voice of the produce farmers that are fighting for their very survival. He has amassed a huge following on just about all social media platforms and talking about the challenges facing farmers across the country. We are excited to welcome Shay Meyers to Barn Talk! Let's dive in. But first… Pay the fee! Follow Shay Tiktok- https://www.tiktok.com/@shayfarmkid?lang=en Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/shayfarmkid/ Linkedin- https://www.linkedin.com/in/shayfmyers/ YouTube- https://www.youtube.com/c/ShayFarmKid Barn Talk Merch! 👇🏻 https://www.thislldo.co/ SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST ➱ https://bit.ly/3a7r3nR SUBSCRIBE TO THIS’LL DO FARM ➱ https://bit.ly/2X8g45c SUBSCRIBE TO BARN TALK CLIPS ➱ https://bit.ly/3BlZnqq LISTEN ON: SPOTIFY ➱ https://open.spotify.com/show/3icVr4KWq4eUDl7Oy60YMY ITUNES ➱ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/barn-talk/id1574395049 Follow Behind The Scenes👇🏻 ● This’ll Do Farm Instagram ➱ https://bit.ly/30KPBNk ● Barn Talk TikTok ➱ https://bit.ly/3qciekS ● Sawyer’s Instagram ➱ https://bit.ly/3BtX0n4 ● Tork’s Instagram ➱ https://bit.ly/3LGZJxS ------------------------------- ***PLEASE NOTE*** Barn Talk is a significant break from the typical content viewers have come to expect from This’ll Do Farm. Please be advised that we will be exploring a wide variety of topics (some adult-themed) and our younger viewers (and their parents) should be advised that some topics will be for mature audiences only. ⚠NO FINANCIAL ADVICE / DISCLAIMER⚠ The Information discussed and shared on Barn Talk is provided for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only, without any express or implied warranty of any kind, including warranties of accuracy, completeness, or success for any particular purpose. The Information contained in or provided from or through this podcast is not intended to be and does not constitute financial advice, investment advice, trading advice, or any other advice. The Information on this podcast and provided from or through our content is general in nature and is not specific to you, the user or anyone else. You should not make any decision, financial, investment, trading or otherwise, based on any of the information presented on this podcast without undertaking independent due diligence and consultation with a professional, professional broker or financial advisory. Understand that you are using any and all Information available on or through this website at your own risk. RISK STATEMENT– The trading of Bitcoins, alternative cryptocurrencies, NFTs, individual stocks, etc. has potential rewards, and it also has potential risks involved. Trading may not be suitable for all people. Anyone wishing to invest should seek his or her own independent financial or professional advice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I feel like the uncertainty is one of the toughest parts of being a farmer today because you know you're trying to plan
0:07.2	You know we're thinking about the crop that we're going to plant next year, but we're also thinking about
0:17.3	generations coming into the business or depending on your financials, how you're going to maintain where you are, let alone try to grow that.
0:24.5	What is your biggest challenge
0:26.4	when you look forward for your own operation
0:28.9	to make it viable for the next generation?
0:33.0	Politics.
0:35.0	I mean I can dive into that but I mean really it's politics I think politics
0:39.9	politics or regulation it's one of the two and regulation as a result of politics but that's that
0:44.0	is the we can figure out how to get this stuff done but not if not if it really
0:50.6	doesn't even make sense anymore and I don don't know if, you guys ever read Atlas Shruggs?
0:55.2	Yes.
0:56.4	I feel, I don't know what chapter we're in and Atlas Shruggs,
0:58.6	but I feel like, I mean, that's the world we're living in
1:01.2	and where the disconnect continues or the gap between reality and
1:09.7	what the world is actually like.
1:11.6	Yes, is getting just broader and broader and so it just gets I don't
1:16.4	know how hard. I'm only I'm only 42 but I sometimes I feel so freaking exhausted. I'm just I'm like this is not worth it like you you get the payroll audit and then you get the OSHA audit and then you do 13 food safety audits and then you have some troll on the internet tell you that you're a slave driver because you're
1:33.8	employing workers from Mexico and you're putting them in free housing and you just
1:37.8	you're like this may not be worth it and I hope when I say this, the people that are listening to you, that those that aren't farmers
1:46.4	understand this, this is, I mean, I don't know how you guys feel, but like I could either scream or cry sitting here right now because that's how true it is.
1:54.9	It is overwhelming.
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