Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Thu, 26 Sep 2024
Sonoma County Wine - Silver Oak Cellars starts @ 2:30 and runs until 14 minutes. Website: silveroak.com | twomey.comTony & Jackson start at about the 14 minute markIn this episode of the Farm4Profit Podcast, we feature two social media farming sensations: Tony Reed (@growincorn2020) and Jackson (@justajacksonthing).Tony Reed, a first-generation farmer and host of the "Straight Forward Farming Podcast," shares his journey from working on custom wheat harvests to farming for himself. We also explore the Tony Reed Scholarship, which supports students attending trade schools, and Tony’s candid thoughts on current farming. His deep connections with followers, many of whom send him letters and gifts, reflect the influence he's had in the farming community.Next, we introduce Jackson, an 8-year-old from Indiana who has become TikTok-famous for his love of tractors and farming. With help from his mom, Jessica, who runs his social media accounts, Jackson shares his passion for tractors, including his favorites like the John Deere 430 and his "just for fun" 1970 John Deere 112. Homeschooled with farming integrated into his lessons, Jackson is a true farm enthusiast with a love for history.
811,000.
This was probably printed a week ago, so it's probably more than that now. Tony only got 612. What the heck?
Yeah, I knew as soon as he come on the scene because that's when Gleaner, one of them, was wanting to do that Combine giveaway. When he passed me, I'm like, well, you better get to handing him out because it's going to happen quick.
That's crazy. And it did. Who comes up with the content? Is it yourself or your mom, your cousins?
If there's something that we need to talk about, we'll plan ahead to film that. Most of the time, we just tap the button on the camera and away we go.
Join Corey. You boys want some popsicles? David. So Tanner, what I really got to know, is the juice worth the squeeze? And Tanner. All right, it's about time to wrap this baby up. They're my favorite, like Farm for Fun. It's time to put aside the stress of the work boots, sit down, grab your favorite adult beverage, and listen to the boys from Farm for Profit. Yay, it says applause.
Oh, Corey, it's one of my favorite times of the day. It's Friday. It is. It's wine day. It's wine day.
We should. Friday should be wine day. I got my wine shirt on.
I do. I like your wine shirt.
Brand new from Tradement. Got fish on it and stuff and birds.
But even better than that, we're making a new friend today from Sonoma County. And why is that important? Because there's two bottles of wine sitting on the table right next to us. I see more than Sonoma County. I see lots of different stuff, but we'll get into that. Yes. Well, Brad, first ever time on a podcast. Welcome.
Good morning. Thank you.
So this is Brad Peterson, and you are the vineyard manager for Silver Oak Cellars. And what's the other cellars? To know me?
Tumi Cellars is actually another brand of the same family that Duncan family owns. But yeah, I manage the Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon for Silver Oak.
Wow. Cabernet Sauvignon. That's what we have here. This is an elegant bottle. I love how simple but beautiful it is. Got a picture of what would you call that structure?
That is a water tower.
That's a water tower and a tree looks like out in a vineyard. This looks like it's a 2020. You got to do Dave's method of how deep does the finger go in the hole. I have a plethora of corkscrews here. I didn't know what tool you wanted. I mean, you'd think we do this segment pretty regularly now that we would have like one of them, you know, you push the button and it just opens it for you.
But no, you're going to make me struggle. But I've actually pushed the cork in before all the way when I couldn't get it open and I didn't have one. Then you'd have to drink the whole bottle. Right. Do you not drink the bottle when you open it? Isn't that the point?
Isn't that the point? I've never had that happen. Never?
Never. Brad is batting 1,000 when it comes to opening bottles of wine.
So this is not chilled. No, I'm not drinking the whole bottle.
So this is not chilled. So I'm assuming we drink Cabernet Sauvignon warm?
Cabernet Sauvignon, not warm, but room temperature, hopefully somewhere between 55 and 65 degrees.
Okay, so the studio is set at 69 degrees, so we're going to be just outside of that. Look at you. I actually think that corkscrew is older than you are. Ooh.
Very nice job. You've done this before.
Just a couple. All right, Brad, explain to us what a vineyard manager is.
So I am responsible for taking care of 250 acres of Cabernet Sauvignon in Alexander Valley. And that entails every aspect of the growing season from pruning in the wintertime all the way through harvest, which is what we're doing right now, actually.
So basically every aspect of that I oversee and make decisions on how it should be done, when it should be done to produce the best quality fruit that we possibly can.
That's interesting because you took time out of harvesting to do this segment. So are you mechanized harvesting or is it still done by hand?
We both. Yeah. And I'll apologize first right off the bat. We started at 2 a.m. this morning. And so I'm I'm maybe a little rummy at times. And we've been doing this for about two and a half weeks. So, you know, you're going to get what you get.
So starting that early, is that a temperature thing, a time of day thing that you have to harvest or just you need that many hours in the day?
No, it's basically a temperature thing. The fruit comes off a little easier. It's a little firmer. It holds up a little better when it's cool. We don't like to pick when it's over about 80 degrees, which, you know, depending on what time, which week it is. We've had weeks this year, this season that have been in the 70s and weeks that have been in the 90s.
90%.
So why do you have 10% that's hand harvested?
There are some spots where it's just not feasible to machine harvest. Either the trellis and the way the vines are structured is just too big for the machine to fit over, or there's a little bit too much offset, a little too much terracing in some of these side hill vineyards that we have. Yeah. Those we have to pick by hand still.
The cork says life is Cabernet.
Absolutely.
So as you go about your role, we've talked before, every growing season is different. Every growing season creates different challenges. How was this year's growing season?
This year's growing season was actually pretty nice. We had a beautiful springtime, great temperatures during springtime. Bud break and bloom, which is really when those grapes get formed and those clusters develop on the vine. We had some heat in July. We were probably averaged about 95 to 98 degrees. We had a couple of weeks it was over 100 for quite a while.
And then it's been pretty moderate since then. So really overall, pretty good growing season.
Jeez. That's the second time I've done that. Jeez. I get excited. Okay, can we drink this? Yes, we can. That's actually what I'm moving my mic out for. So as we drink this, you've had this wine before, correct?
I have, yeah. Straight? I had a glass of it last night, actually.
Oh. You just get it right out of the barrel?
No, I get it out of the bottle just like everybody else.
Oh, this is a drier wine.
It's not overly dry.
No, but overall... How would you describe this cab? Right? That's short. Did I use the right slang? A cab? Yeah.
Yeah. Absolutely. So for Silver Oak, our goal is to produce a wine that you can open up and drink. It's very enjoyable. It's smooth. The tannins have mellowed. There's still a little bit of fruit there, especially with this one only being four years old. It just should be enjoyable to drink. It shouldn't be harsh. and it should age for another 10 to 15 years depending on the vintage.
So this is our current release. This is what's out there available right now. If you go into a wine shop or a nice restaurant, this is what you'd find would be the 2020. So we actually hold those wines in barrel and then in bottle for a total of four years before we release it.
It is good, and like I said, it's drier on my tongue than – uh, I don't drink a lot of wine.
Yeah. We're not wine reviewers here, but I do get that fruity.
The fruity taste is still there. It is very smooth. It's not harsh to drink at all.
Yeah. It smelled like when I smelled the cork, I was like, it reminded me of like communion. Like, Oh, I got some grapes, you know, a little bit, but it, it's dry, but it's not like where it's like bitter, you know, it's, it's actually very elegant.
The dry part, I mean, there's no residual sugar, so it shouldn't be sweet. I think what you're talking about is tannins, and the tannins are what are really grippy. They kind of get the back of your tongue and the back of your throat. So that's why we age it for four years to let those tannins mellow out. It's aged in all American oak.
The barrels are produced back in Higbee, Missouri at our cooperage that Silver Oak owns. So we kind of have control of the whole process.
But you said this will age for another 10 to 15 years. And what will change about the wine? Or do you even know?
So what we're, what we shoot for is that it'll continue to mellow. Those tannins will continue to soften. The fruit will change a little bit. It won't be quite that fresh. If you've, you really have to go taste a 10 year old wine or a 15 year old wine. It's not, it's going to taste different. You're going to get different notes in there.
You're going to get different flavors and whatnot, but it'll still be very good. Very enjoyable. I don't tend to leave them that long.
I was just getting ready to say, if we, If we had a wine cellar onto the studio, I don't know if the bottle would last long enough to age appropriately.
We just need to get the Snowmobile County wine growers to send us one that's 10 years old and then one that's, you know, four years old of the same vintage or the same kind. Right. And compare.
But the trickiest part, like Brad's going to probably tell us, is this year's grapes were different than last year's grapes. So even if it's a 10-year-old versus only a couple years old, that would be hard.
That would be a little different just depending on who made the wine and whatnot. For Silver Oak, we're always trying to make a consistent product. So you go into a restaurant, you go into a wine shop, and you're looking for a real nice bottle of wine to have for an anniversary or a birthday or for celebration or whatnot.
We want to be the bottle that you reach for that you know is consistently excellent quality, that's going to be good. You know what it's going to taste like. If you've tasted it before, it's going to taste very familiar when you open the next bottle or the following vintage.
So can we get this wine anywhere? Do we order it direct shipped to us?
You can order it direct shipped from Silver Oak. You can get it on our website, provided your state allows us to ship to you. We can ship directly to you. Most fine wine shops have it. Most good steakhouses, good fine restaurants have them.
Well, that's a good point. I didn't think about that. You said you had a glass last night. What's it pair best with meal-wise?
Usually your heavier meals, so you want to pair it with a steak or a heavy pasta. Lasagna is good.
I was just thinking a good pasta would be really good with this.
Absolutely. Good. Well, Brad, have you always worked in vineyards, or is that something that you gained an affection for as you continued to get your experience?
I actually grew up – my dad was the vineyard manager for Silver Oak before me. He was their first employee. Really? Well, I grew up in the vineyards, in Silver Oak Vineyards, as a kid running up and down the roads, you know, riding all over the place, driving tractors, usually going to retrieve a broke down go-kart or a mini bike somewhere on the ranch.
And then when I got older, I was really interested in the mechanical side of things. And so I kind of wanted to go a different direction. I went and did that for a while, restored cars for about 10 years or so. And then when I decided to To change careers, there was an opening at Silver Oak, and I thought, all right, what the heck. So I went back. I started there in 1999. Oh, wow.
Just celebrated 25 years.
Congratulations. That's awesome. Do you still dabble in cars at all?
I do, yeah, occasionally.
What's your favorite?
Uh, I've got, uh, I've got a 1940 Ford pickup. That's been hot rotted that, uh, someday I hope to finish. Uh, and then, uh, really enjoyed the, the mid 60s, 65, 66, 67 Buick Grand Sports.
Okay. Oh, really?
GTO, but with the, but in the Buick line.
Nice. Yeah.
Yeah.
That is very cool. Well, we don't want to keep you from harvest, especially since you've already been up for about 12 hours.
Yeah, something like that. But that's this time of year. Now I get to go do all the paperwork and keep up on all the other things that need to happen. So I'll get some sleep this afternoon.
Well, it was our pleasure to have you on the podcast. And hopefully we can come out. We really want to come out in February. And meet all of the folks that we get to interview on the podcast in person and come check out the vineyards themselves. Have some of this wine in person and get to share that. Do you have a way that our listeners could connect with you guys online or through social media?
Yeah. Silveroak.com. Easy to find our website there. And then it also has links to Toomey and all of our other social media sites and whatnot.
It looks like Instagram, Silver Oak Cellars and then Tumi Cellars would be a good place to go to.
On the Tumi side, we do several Pinot Noirs and a Sauvignon Blanc.
All right.
Well, I can't wait to try them. Well, look for their wine in your restaurant and find wine shops. If you can't get it, go online to silveroak.com. Get it shipped, direct to you. Thank you to Sonoma County Wine Growers for putting this together. It's been amazing. And this bottle is not going to last very much longer. No, it won't.
This is one of the best lunches we're going to have all harvest ourselves. Thanks again, Brad. We appreciate you hanging out with us.
You bet. I'm glad you're enjoying the wine. And when you get out here to Sonoma County, be sure and look me up. We'll take you around, show you the winery, show you the vineyards. And there's not a whole lot to see in February. It's a heck of a lot more interesting this time of year, but we can still have a lot of fun.
That's right. We're always up for some good fun. Cool.
Cheers. Cheers.
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If this is the first time you've ever come across the Farm for Profit podcast. We do a lot of different things on our podcast. We put content out every Monday and every Thursday, and we focus on helping farmers achieve higher levels of profitability.
We also like to have a little bit of fun while we do that, and that's what we're here doing today, is we try to incorporate entertainment and education without you realizing you actually learned something. But you can find us anywhere you listen to a podcast. YouTube, take a look. This is certainly going to be an episode you're going to love to reflect back on.
We're excited because we get to have a guest on that introduced us to the other guests, and they've both become really good friends of ours, and we're hoping that they become really good friends of yours. So, Corey, what do you say?
Let's get into it. You ready for the intro? Let's do it. All right, no music intro. Today on the Farm for Fun show from the 2024 John Deere booth here at the Farm Progress Showgrounds, we have a friend that's been on the podcast a lot. He's a past guest, but we can't get enough of him.
He's a foul-mouthed, straight-shooter, lovable guy from Strasburg, Illinois, and sometimes Farms Corn in Fairbanks, Alaska, Mr. Tony Reed. But wait. There is more. Joining Tony today is also a guest that came to us late in 2023 that Tony actually suggested.
He's a kid that just busted onto the Farm Talk scene, came to us, and just... Actually, people didn't even know you were on our show because we got you so early. You've blown up, been on all the new circuits, going around Farm Talk, talking tractors. He's a nine-year-old going on 68. Please welcome from Indiana, just a Jackson thing. Yes!
welcome to the show this is different from the last time right yeah the last time we were a little virtual you know we had to do what we had to do yeah right but so this will be like the first time we'll just call it that right this yeah this should turn out a little better Should turn out a little better. Tony, welcome to the show as well again.
Always nice to have you. Yep. Good friend of ours. Nothing like having to sit up here and nobody's watching you. Yeah.
Yeah.
They are all here for Jackson. Yep. So, Jackson, why don't you reintroduce yourself to our listeners. Who's Jackson?
Nine-year-old, sitting in northern Indiana.
All right. Are you a farm kid?
I would say so.
You would say so, yeah? You think? Absolutely. What's been your favorite thing that you've done the last couple of days on your way out here to the Farm Progress Show?
For John Deere stuff, we stopped at the historical site, went through all that stuff. It was closed, open for me. And then went to the pavilion, closed, open for me. That was cool.
He's going to flex on you. I get the opposite with Gleaner. It's open and they close it when I come through.
And then the John Deere, the tractor museum was closed and opened for me.
Man, you are living, I think, everybody in this crowd's dream to be able to not only go see those places, but you got to see them with nobody else in your way. What was your favorite thing you saw?
At what place?
Oh, okay. Well, let's do every place then. What?
Probably at the historical site. I'm going to have to say the house and the blacksmith shop.
Okay. What was cool about the blacksmith shop?
Well, I got to make like an S hook out of some steel.
Did you get to take it home?
Yep.
Wow. Very cool. Is that where they made the plow?
It was a replica of the building because the original one burnt down.
Ah.
And then the dig site was the other thing that I liked there.
Okay. Did you get to play around?
Kind of.
Uh-huh. Yeah. Okay. Then where did you go?
And then we went to the pavilion. My favorite thing there probably was the 110 garden tractor they had there.
Oh, dude, those 110s are cool, aren't they?
Yeah, that or that 24 John Deere skid steer they had there.
Okay. Oh. I just got introduced to the 110 game, I'm going to call it. I got some buddies down the road that have just been buying them up and restoring them, making them look like little 4020s. They came bobbing and weaving down the street during the Fourth of July, had a mini hay rack, even replicated John Deere hay rack with it.
Nice.
Yeah.
a cooler on the back they were uh they were in good form yep for the fourth of july so jackson last time we did our interview with you we had two of your cousins on with us yes yeah and we had to connect through them to get to you but tony is the person who told us you have to go check out jackson can you believe that kind of you can why do you think tony spotted you out so early
I think you personally thought that I would be a good guest to have on the show. Yep, I did.
You reminded me of myself at that age. When I was that age, I was a little more shy, if you can believe that. You're very articulate and can just lay it out there. I think it's neat.
Do you remember the first TikTok of his that you saw?
It would have been with his cousin, I remember. Yeah, she's your cousin, right? Yep. Not aunt?
Becca. Yeah, yeah.
And I don't remember the topic, but I just remember...
him walking through something talking and it's a nine-year-old going on 68 i just thought it was cool i think that video might have been the one where i was talking about the 112 and i fired it up that one actually you're exactly right it was the one where you guys were outside and you're talking about the garden tractors and you went there's kind of a lean-to on the shed there and that's exactly what it was that's exactly what it was so you were that articulate tony or that interested in tractors at nine years oh yeah eight slept and drank it i mean to the 10th power
but you know of course back then you didn't have a platform for anybody to see that on and like i say i wasn't probably as i probably wasn't as knowledgeable as he is as far as the wide variety like the machinery that we had i could tell you everything about it but when you start branching out into other stuff you know that wasn't my jam so the same for me like i don't know a lot about fan or agco not not much about that i know more about alice chalmers that kind of stuff yeah
So as you guys sit here together, is this the first time you've met each other, or did you have the opportunity to meet before this?
We met at Louisville.
Yeah, Louisville Farm Show. I bet that was a riot.
Yeah, that was fun. We were both on the stage.
Yep. Look at that. Everywhere you go, they just roll out the red carpet for you. Shut places down. I bet you next thing that happens, you get a police escort all the way home on the interstate.
You probably didn't have to deal with all the state troopers coming in, did you, trying to get parked?
No.
They sent us around the whole showground.
No, we just went around. We just went around all that line. It was long.
Yeah, it was. So where do you gain all this knowledge? It obviously has to come from somewhere. Was it a grandpa, your dad?
Grandpa, dad, mama, and then everybody else pretty much in my family that's involved in farming.
You're homeschooled, right?
Yes.
And your mom weaves agriculture into your lessons. Yes.
She tries. She tries.
Probably by way of chores, maybe.
I think it is. I'm assuming so. But I like doing it. I mean, I'm not an iPad kid right here. I mean, when I'm driving a long way, that's what I am. You do have an iPad? Oh, yeah.
You're just on John Deere Ops watching everyone else probably farm? He's going through old owner's manuals.
Probably YouTube watching people on YouTube, probably.
There you go.
Probably.
There you go. So you do have a large collection of owner's manuals, right?
Let's say a lot of John Deere things. Owner's manuals, not really.
Or the brochures, kind of like what I sent you. Yeah, those two, yeah.
I was reading them the week before we came here.
So are your parents going to have to add on to the house to put a room to store all of your collection in?
Well, we got the barn. That's just going to get filled up. Then I'm going to need another barn and another and another.
Yep.
Until I have to move out to my own place.
So you have other siblings, correct?
Two others. Two older sisters, 27 and 29. Okay.
So they weren't that interested in tractors?
Nope.
Wow. Interesting.
What are they interested in?
You know what? I really don't know. I really don't know.
That's a big enough age gap you probably don't need to know. That's really good. I think we should get you to help Tony harvest some crops this fall.
Yeah, we could do that.
Get them out there.
I got an old 9610 John Deere. It's worth what it's worth. You ain't going to hurt it.
Jump in it and go. Have you ever gotten to run a combine before?
No, I've not.
Okay, you come to my place.
We'll fix that. You don't get in the simulator?
I don't have one, really.
Doesn't your cousin?
Yeah, sometimes.
He doesn't let you in that?
Oh, yeah. Sometimes.
Yeah? Is that pretty cool?
Yes.
What cab is that made out of?
There's a John Deere Titan Series Combine cab and then the Case cab that he put in.
So he's got two of them now?
Yep, two of them with two TVs in front of it. Then he's got a PC and I think two PlayStations.
Wow. I've never played farm center. Have you? Nope, I haven't either. I might have a long, long time because my boy has it, but I've never sat down and actually played it. I just drove around for five minutes just to see what it was like.
So as you sit here next to Tony Jackson, is there anything that you want to ask him? You've got the mics to yourself sitting next to Tony.
One thing I have to ask, how many acres do you farm?
That's the number one question. It just goes right for the Jake. No, 1,700.
Very good amount.
Yep. In our area, by today's standards, that's not a lot anymore. You know, it's enough for us. What kind of crops are you raising this year? Corn and soybeans. And I had some wheat with double crop beans in behind it.
How'd the wheat do?
Done really good. 100 bushel an acre. Wow. Got really good crops coming on for this fall. I don't know if it's going to be a record, but it's going to be really good.
I think this heat might zap a little bit out of the finish. Oh, wow, Dave went and got some big guns.
Okay, so now you asked me a question, so I'm going to ask you a question. So you're from northern Indiana. Did you migrate there from Mississippi or Tennessee or somewhere? Because you don't have the northern accent.
No, I was born and raised in Indiana.
Okay, just checking, just checking.
I can see why. I used to watch a show from out east, and then I have some accent from down south, kind of a mix. Okay, got you. All three.
Perfect, perfect. Yep. Is that going to ruin that? So what's the one thing here at the show that you are bound and determined to look at before you leave?
The John Deere booth.
The John Deere booth. Just everything John Deere.
Pretty much.
Yep.
Anything else, if I really missed it, that's okay. Because there's always going to be more.
Yep.
And there's always going to be another year.
Yep. So John Deere is your favorite...
brand of farm equipment yes so when it comes to farm equipment do you like the new stuff more than the old stuff or would you rather if you had a like a really nice older john deere combine from the 80s or 90s would you rather get in that or would you rather get in one of these sitting right here get in the old machine get the old machine yep i don't blame you do you get help on the farm very much sometimes sometimes because your your cousin and your grandpa farm correct yes yep
And they've got the 7700 combine. How many of those do they have now?
They have two that they used. The other one that they just parted out and they took the motor out to put it in a 4020.
Oh, there you go. Is that project done?
I actually don't know.
You've just been too busy on the influencer circuit.
Pretty much, pretty much.
So what's the one tractor that you're going to own someday? Like everybody says, you know, someday when I can afford it, I'm going to buy a 4020, a 1206, whatever. Or do you already have it?
Mine would probably be my Uncle Rob's 3020 Power Shift diesel narrow front.
There you go. Oh, wow. Yep. You know, there was a lot of those hooked up to feed wagons. Get that tight turning radius, be able to go up and down the rows of bunks.
The only bad thing about the narrow front is when you put a loader on it, stability reasons.
That's right. Does it have a loader on it that you'd want to put one on it maybe to use? You'd have to get another tractor and put a loader on it.
Yeah, wide front track.
Yeah, you can't have too many tractors.
Never can. Never can have enough.
You are really interested in tractors. Are you interested in livestock at all?
Mostly tractors, not really livestock, not that much.
That's probably cheaper anyway.
Have you been able to work on your farm display? Have you kept growing that? Or have you just been too busy?
I've been building the display for the Lafayette Farm Play Show. The big one's literally just a land of a mess, basically.
How big are we talking?
The big table? Okay, the big table would be 6 foot by 12 foot.
Six by 12. All right. That sounds big until you start setting it up, and then you run out of room pretty quick, don't you?
Yes. If I could, I would go bigger.
So what is that?
Like every square inch is an acre?
I think maybe every two or three inches would be probably an acre.
Okay. You get those tractors and the 32-row planters and the 164th scale. Okay, yeah. And you unfold that. You've got to have a nice enough space because those are still pretty big.
Yeah. Andy can do some math for us. So 164th of 43,560 square feet. What is that in square inches? Come on, you're Canadian.
So you said you're building a display for the Lafayette Farm Show.
Yes.
When is that?
In four months.
In the winter?
Yeah, it's February.
And how big can your display be?
It has to be able to fit in the back of our car, so it's four by three-seven.
But could we go bigger if we could find somebody to donate an enclosed trailer?
Yes, I would go bigger. If I could, I would go bigger.
Why is your mom shaking her head no?
Oh, she does that. She don't want me to get anything bigger.
So as you put your display together, what's it going to include? What's going to be on your display?
Like, someday I want to have a feature farm. And I imagine that I have one now when I don't. But that's what it's probably going to be. It was looking all nice, but now it's just where I play with stuff now.
So you're going to have a farmhouse on it?
Farmhouse. There's a barn. It's already built. Like, it's... Pretty much done.
You got a shop? You got fields? Do you have an elevator to take the crop to?
Nope.
You got grain bins?
It's been a while since I've been there, so I actually don't remember.
I need to dig through my stuff. My kids have outgrown that. I got grain bins and legs, and I need to just box it up and just send it all to you. I've got all that stuff. It's actually pretty nice stuff. Look at that.
She's shaking her head now.
That's a good score. We'll fix him up on that. It's a big enough grain setup. You're probably going to have to have another sheet of plywood just for the grain section, so...
I was talking to my parents, Jackson, this last weekend, and I had a farm table, and my mom made it for me in the shape of a U. So it was two foot wide, and they were six foot long pieces of plywood. So I went six foot up, six foot across, six foot down.
If I wanted to take the long way around the farm, you went all the way around the table, and it was only about two and a half feet off the ground. So a perfect height for a kid.
Yeah.
So I asked my mom if she still had it, and she said no. I could have sent that your way. Where'd it go? She said it got burnt. Like, on purpose?
So you had a gleaner on display?
Wanked the whole table out. Shouldn't have left it plugged in.
Here you go, kids. You can light it up.
You know what I think you need to do? I think you need a TV show, and instead of going around and looking at farm shops and mansions, you need to look at other kids' toy displays. Ooh, I like that.
I like that idea, too.
Yep, and think of all the ideas you guys could bounce off of each other back and forth. It's like, hey, I hadn't thought of that. That's...
Doesn't your cousin get into some 3D printing as well?
Yeah.
Does he make you any farm toys?
Yeah, he does make me some stuff.
That's pretty cool. I've still yet to see one work. Oh, yeah. I haven't either.
I haven't seen one work either.
You just get the product.
Yeah, I just get the product.
Does he charge you for it?
Nope.
Oh, that's good. We need to make him have you design us a farm for profit pickup. So we can have a farm for profit truck. There you go. Pulling in the driveway.
I like that idea. That's a good idea. Very good idea.
I'll ask Brad. I'll put it in my notes.
811,000.
This was probably printed a week ago. So it's probably more than that now. Tony only got 612. What the heck?
Yeah, I knew as soon as he come on the scene because that's when Gleaner, one of them, was wanting to do that combine giveaway. When he passed me, I'm like, well, you better get to handing him out because it's going to happen quick. That's crazy.
And it did. Who comes up with the content? Is it yourself or your mom, your cousins?
If there's something that we need to talk about, we're like playing ahead to film that. Most of the time, we just tap the button on the camera and away we go.
Do they let you watch TikTok? He's shaking his head no.
That's probably because of people like me. Have you ever seen any of Tony's videos? No.
Well, you see, you're nine, so come back in nine years and we'll watch one.
Oh, my gosh. What a cool experience. So as you've gotten to travel, right, we talked about what you just did in the last three days. Do you have a favorite trip or are those three the top of the mountain right now?
Probably the top of the mountain probably right now.
So where else do you want to go?
I really can't think of anywhere else to go.
Hey, that's a pretty good spot to be in. Not very many people get to feel that excited about an experience that they had that they don't know how they're going to top it.
Have you got to tour the combine factory in Moline yet? I know at one time there was some age limits, but I didn't know if we're shutting museums down and bringing them in, if we could get around that.
You have to be like 12 or 13 to get in there.
I'm sure if they did just shut it down for them and take them through like everything else. Yeah, that's kind of what I thought. Make sure all the safety things are there. You've gotten a lot of pretty cool gifts from a lot of different people as well. What's some of your coolest gifts you've got?
I'd have to say that Steiger 1066 I got from you.
Oh, is that right? Well, good. Yep, that came out of my personal collection. I just pulled it off the shelf, a little Steiger tractor, and then it ain't really a precision 1066, but it's not just out of the box from Ertl.
Yeah, custom.
We were leaving. We were setting up here yesterday. We might have seen, did you get anything from John Deere when you came? All right, well, then you're not getting anything, I guess, so I'm not going to ruin that.
I'm wanting to go over there.
Oh, you probably at the John Deere store.
Hold on. I did get something. A box with a toolbox inside of it and some stuff and goodies inside of it. But the box that was outside the toolbox had my face and name and making farming fun, Jackson Locks, just a Jackson thing on it.
That's pretty cool. Well, when you put a picture of that online and you tag us in that, because we're about fun and farming. This is called Farm for Fun.
Well, she'll have to tell you because I don't do any of that. She's my manager.
My manager. How much does she charge? Do you got to pay her quite a bit?
She don't charge.
She don't charge?
No.
Hey, do you want to be our manager too?
Yeah.
Oh, shoot. Yeah. We missed the special. We got out of the 0% margin time. So you sit here and get to talk to a lot of kids because we even had a family come by the Sioux Cup booth before we got over here and they said, is this where the interview is happening? And their kids wanted to come meet you. Do you get that a lot? A lot of other kids come up to you?
Mostly adults, I would say.
Everybody that remembers acting like you except they were 13? Yeah. You got your signature down?
Have you had to sign any autographs?
It's been a while. It's been a little while.
We should get his signature for something in the studio. That would be kind of cool. That would be great. I did bring a Sharpie. I did, too. Yeah, I figured you brought yours for autographs. No, I've got to get Tony's signature and all these influencers. We just interview them. That's right. And I can sell them on eBay. Yeah.
Well, no, don't do that. Don't do that.
No, I wouldn't do that. I wouldn't do that. So you've got a can sitting in front of you there. And it's a sweet tea, but it says tractor across the top. I've never seen that before.
That is the brand that makes that tea. Let's see, they make tea, root beer. Have you ever had Culver's root beer?
Yeah.
It's what that tastes like.
It tastes like it.
Same with sweet tea. It tastes like the Culver's sweet tea. And then they got like a strawberry dragon fruit and farmer's punch.
Because is sweet tea still your favorite drink?
That punch was pretty good, I would have to say. That punch was pretty good.
He talks like he likes sweet tea. I know. I know. So as you go forward, where do you see yourself in 10 years?
Hopefully having a farm. I guess that's where I see myself.
Do you think you're still going to be doing the social media thing if you can? Maybe start your own podcast.
maybe i don't i really don't know i really don't know just don't call it farm for fun because you'll run us into the ground okay good idea i will call it that yeah we're gonna have to lawyer up a year so a year ago you weren't even on social media at all no i know i wasn't did you ever think that this could blow up into this kind of thing
I didn't realize they would.
I didn't realize. So were you able to kind of understand how that worked? Like since you're not on TikTok scrolling like with your own account, like did your mom come in and say, well, hey, you've got 10,000 followers. Now you've got 20.
Now you've got 30. Yes.
Give you the daily update.
Yep.
Some of those numbers got pretty big pretty fast.
Yep, sometimes. She said something online like there's spurts where it goes vroom.
Yep.
Or a ton. And then there's spots where it goes up.
Yep. So what's some other things you want to see here at the show besides the John Deere booth?
There's a lot of things I'd like to see. I haven't even been on the other side of the show. You've only been here. I really don't know.
Is this your first time ever at a Farm Progress show?
Yes, first time ever.
You came to the furthest one. Decatur's probably a lot closer to you.
Yeah, I think.
It's a little rougher town, though, we found out. Judging by the hotel we stayed in last year. Are you here all three days? Yeah. You going to come to our after party on Wednesday night? Is Mom going to let us come? Are you guys going to come to our after party on Wednesday night?
You can ask them. I don't know.
If anybody wants to come to that, just hit us up after the interview.
Yeah, absolutely.
My kids will be there.
Is it TVPG? Yeah. Okay. The one last year was fine.
The first couple hours.
No, it needs to be that the whole time.
They'll have a nice band, free food. Yeah, it'll be good.
You're a good kid. Yep. So, Tony, I think one of the last times that we chatted, we talked about a scholarship that you had put together. That would have been last spring? Yes.
Or two springs ago? Last spring, yeah, a year ago in like May or sometime in that, yeah. How did that go? It went excellent. We was able to raise $4,500 for a trade school, not a college, not a junior college, an actual trade school. And we decided that nowadays $1,000 –
doesn't really go very far anymore so we gave the whole 4500 to one kid he was out in wyoming going to go to wyotech be a diesel mechanic and yeah he was very thankful to get it and i was glad to help him and we tried to sift through as best we could and give it to somebody who needs it you know Anybody can hide things on paper for tax reasons.
You know, I didn't make any money, but I own 5,000 acres and everything. You know, so we tried to sift through that and give it to somebody who actually could use the money. And I think we hit it.
Do you have an intention to do that again this year?
Yeah, figuring on it. Yep. And I don't know what we'll do this time to raise money. I mean, it'll be something totally different.
Well, there's somebody online saying Corey needs to raise money by shaving his mustache off. Yeah.
There you go.
Yep.
Got to just start over fresh once in a while. Yep. So when you were growing up, did you go to college? I did not. Nope. Did you go to a trade school? Nope.
And look, you turned out all right. Yeah, turned out fine. Yep, exactly. So, yeah, I don't know. Nowadays, I see too many kids that go to college, and then their job has nothing to do with what they went to college for. And so that was one of the reasons I didn't go. But then, B, that's another reason why we chose a trade school, because most of those people generally –
stick with with that not always but for the most part yeah so so as you continue to expand i mean your social media following isn't nothing to talk about it just so happens to be uh paling in comparison to jackson's yep but you've built a lot of really cool relationships through absolutely and some you didn't even realize but they're in your backyard yes yep sure enough yep yeah i've met just tons of good i mean that list goes on and on and on and that's
One of the things that I always try to tell people when they talk about social media, or they'll come up to me at a show like this, like, man, you know, I really love what you're doing, and I would love to do that, but I'm no good on camera or whatever. And I encourage most people to try to get past that just from the relationships alone that I've made.
And would have never had those had I not been on social media. And the thing that I like a lot is you'll talk to you guys a lot through text or phone calls or whatever. And you can actually talk farming and talk about real problems. And it's not from a guy two miles down the road that's going to listen to your problems and shake his head and then go call your landlord two days later.
Yeah.
You know, so it's... It's pretty neat.
That is the nicest thing about social media. You have that safety net, I guess, right? And I don't know if that's always been there or just social media just amplified it.
I think it was a way it finally connected us. I think it's always been there. Yeah.
And just having general problems. Like, you know, I've got this 1770 planter and this is doing this. You know, you literally go talk to a tech that maybe hasn't seen it in your area, but someone out in Ohio or Indiana or whatever has. And, yeah, that's what you need to do. We had that on our 9520. We've got a crack in the gudgeon is what they call it. That's right behind the pivot point.
And our guys are like, yeah, we haven't seen that before. And then it turns out it's a pretty common thing. Sure.
Exactly.
So, yeah. Yeah, kind of felt lost there for a while when I was like, okay, you're telling me that we broke this 20-year-old tractor? The only one to ever do it. Yeah, in 5,000 hours, like what?
Jackson, have you made any new friends through your social media account?
I'd say yes.
Yeah? It's kind of neat. The other thing that I love about you is you're already collecting hats like all of us farmers do. I don't know if you're going to be able to see this, but hit play for them. You're going to have to put some hats on the wall like we did in our studio. Look at all them hats.
Yep.
And that's only like a quarter of them.
That's the same thing in my podcast room I've done and they're just... Good collection.
I think that's where we got the... We were trying to figure out something to do for sound and... Yeah, that's what I did it for and plus it was like, well, it's all just laying here in boxes or whatever.
It's like I just, well, put it up and... Have you counted how many you have?
Well, so there's three, just that wall alone, there's three boards and on each board is 42 hats. So that's 126. And then we just started another wall. We just started another wall. And Corey, I feel like every time Corey shows up, he brings me another hat.
I'm right there with numbers and hats.
Yeah. Just wait until you get a wife that she'll be happy to get rid of them. They were so happy to get rid of all our hats, go to the studio.
See, you are one person. That's Corey and me together, and Dave, too. So you've got us licked. You've got more hats than we do. Do you have a favorite one?
Out of the hats now.
The deer one sitting right there.
Probably this one. I like your hat, too, and that one.
Yeah. This one was a funky one we got from the John Deere Classic Golf Tournament. I thought, oh, that would be nice. It looks like a golfing. If I'm set up like it looks like I'm golfing, I could wear that.
The shirt matches it, too. I know. These are fancy, bright shirts.
We should have ordered shirts a lot smaller so you could have had one. We don't have anything that small. Are you still rocking the same boots that you had when we interviewed you?
Pretty much, I think.
Yeah.
What brand are those? Rockies. They're not the new John Deere Skechers I saw they had?
Yeah, I got those sent. He's got his pair on.
How do you like them? Good? Nice. All right, Dad approves. Are those going to be the new Moen shoes? Ooh. But they're not white. You've got to be able to get grass stains on them.
To show you actually did something? Yeah. That was my CTO promise. I was going to have a shoe company, and we were going to make Moen shoes. Keep them clean.
Keep them clean. I've seen the other day you were on like a 1025R or something thereabouts. Is that yours now, or was you just somewhere driving it?
I think that's ours.
Ah, nice.
I'd have to look at the video to know, which I really don't. There's so many, I don't know how many I have.
Ask my manager. Yeah. Look at that. Your manager's selling shoes right now. Oh, wow. She's getting another deal done. Well, it's been a long time, Jackson, since we've played a game on any one of our Farm for Fun shows. Do you remember us playing a game with you, with your cousin?
Asking questions, yeah.
Yeah. So we're going to play Would You Rather. So I'm going to give you two choices, and you and Tony get to pick which one you would rather have, okay? Would you rather live on a dairy farm or a pig farm?
On pig farm.
Same way.
Corey, would you rather have a dairy? No, I have to say pig because I do live on a pig farm. I love the dairy people. I don't know how they do. They are the hardest working bunch.
That's a whole different breed of people. My hat's off to them. Yep. All right, Jackson, what about chocolate milk or orange juice?
Chocolate.
Chocolate milk the whole way? Chocolate milk all the way. You guys are the same person. You're just a couple of years apart. Yeah. Exactly. So what about classes, math or science?
I'm math.
I'm science. Oh, the first time. But what's your favorite class?
Favorite would be math.
It is math. I think the last time we talked, you said history.
Kind of both.
Okay. Yeah, that was going to be mine. Probably history. It would be a toss-up between history and science.
I feel like history, math was my favorite, but I think history was the most enjoyable because it was the football coach. And pretty much all football season, you either watch game tape or a movie.
Mine was my football coach, too.
Is that just a thing? Do all coaches just teach history? Yeah. Or football coaches. Or football coaches. Yep. Because you really don't have to teach it? Yep.
Just tell the kids, go read it. Cheeseburger or chicken strips?
Chicken strips.
Cheeseburger. Okay.
Going with the yard bird.
What do you dip your chicken strips in?
Honey mustard. Honey mustard. Both. Honey mustard and ketchup. Both. Okay.
At the same time?
Pretty much, yeah.
Does McDonald's still give honey as an option for a dipping sauce? Because that's what I grew up with. You'd go through and they'd ask you which sauce you wanted, and I'd get honey for my chicken nuggets.
Never knew that was an option.
Yeah.
What about a zero-turn lawnmower or a push lawnmower?
Push.
Really?
Really.
Like old school, like real? Have you seen those that have lawnmowers?
I've got like an old Black & Decker plug-in push lawn.
Do your parents make you mow the yard?
I just do it because I want to do it.
So do they have to make you do any chores, or do you just love doing all the chores?
Most of them I like doing besides laundry and dishes.
You got one of them 110s tuned up with a deck on it? You don't mow with one of those?
No.
Oh, so that would be kind of cool.
I've never actually seen one mow before.
My grandpa and grandma had a 110 when I was a little kid, so it's been early 80s. I don't hardly remember it running, but I remember they had one.
And those are like a 60s, I think.
Probably, yeah.
Mid-60s mower, yeah. What do you do with your little John Deere? You drive them around or you put a plow on them?
The 112 is basically my golf cart. I go down and get the mail, pull a wagon around, that kind of stuff. That's it. 430, I plow and mow with. 420, same mow, plow, chisel with.
So you got a snow blade or snow blower or anything for either one?
No, I do not.
Well, there we go. Those are things we need to get you. Yep. That way you can go out and clear the driveway. Yep.
Why don't you use the 1025?
Oh, that's true.
Yeah.
Good point. Yeah. So when you talked about your mower, you said a plug-in. So you have an electric push mower?
Yeah. Electric push mower. Black and Decker.
Elon Musk. I was talking with my brother-in-law the other day, and we were reflecting on the mowers that we grew up with. I sat in the first mower I rode and drove was a snapper with the handlebars.
That's the same here. Same here. Yeah.
And I parked it behind the combine and dad had backed over it. So the handlebar got bent down in the front, but that still worked. Didn't kill it. So we had to bend it back into place. And now you just had to turn really hard. Yeah.
The one I started out, it was just like the one Forrest Gump had when he was mowing the field. Yep. Same thing. Pull started from behind.
I can't remember what model it was, but it was a John Deere three wheel. There was two wheels in the front and the one in the back and the deck kind of up front with a steering wheel. And then when I mowed my grandparents yard, it was a 425. Yeah. Okay.
Yeah, we got to go up. Then I got into a zero turn, but it was a grasshopper deck out front and trailing wheels. It took me a long time to get to a mid-mountain. I'd never go back.
Yeah. Yep. I still push them out. You still push mow? I do. I actually live in a small town in between our hog farm and the farm. My brother actually lives out on the farm. When I mow out of the farm, it's a John Deere zero turn. Yeah.
With the twills.
Acres and acres. I don't like mowing because all my mind does is think about all the other stuff I have to do.
Oh, that's how I am. I'd rather take a beat than mow the yard. My wife loves to mow, so that's your department.
I'm the opposite. I like to mow.
Do you?
Have you upgraded the mower for her? I thought you did. Yeah, I got a zero turn. It's got a hood. Yeah, a year or two ago, we got it. Still got the other one, though. Yeah?
Yep.
The boy hop on that one.
He'll mow the ditches and stuff with it. Okay.
He was just truck pulling, it looked like. Yeah, yep, yep. Or tractor pulling.
Yep, pulling the old 1066. Yep. How'd he do? I think he finished middle of the pack somewhere-ish.
And that was the first time ever doing that?
First time ever going down the track. Yep. Done good. Real good. Very nice.
It was kind of funny. Our local pull last week was supposed to have a John Deere 8RX pull against a Pro Stock, and something happened. Farmer didn't want to bring the John Deere, so they went to the local red dealer, and they pulled that thing up to the sled. Half track. Half track.
half track pulled up the sled and then it wouldn't they put it in park to get it hooked up and it wouldn't come out of park they literally had to get a crane to lift it out in front of the sled oh man yeah the number of the number of deer fans coming out of the woodwork after that yeah it's still sitting there too they haven't been able to move
Wow. But the best part was it was a red tech that was driving it, and so he couldn't even figure it out.
Oh, man. Talk about embarrassing. Yeah, extremely. I mean, I legit feel bad for the guy. I mean, what's the odds?
Well, if you were a farmer and you got that ask from the local polling committee or whatever, you're like, ah, I do want to help you out. But if anything goes wrong, Corey, you said it best. It's a lose-lose for the farmer.
It is.
Because you're putting hours on your machine. Yep. You're only going to break something. If it goes well, great. You still put hours on your machine. Yep. If it don't go well... You need to quick get something fixed before harvest.
Yeah. What do you think would win though in that? So you say you had a 8RX, like a 410 or 400 horsepower versus a 2,500 horse actual pulling tractor.
Yeah. And depending on what class, like Nick, who does my podcast with me, they had a pro stock and, you know, they was over 5,000 horse on theirs. So I'm going to say the pro stock just because of the cut tires and the wheel speed and running.
They get the momentum.
32 mile an hour, you know, versus. But how much do those weigh? Anywhere from, once again, on the class, anywhere from 10,000 to, I don't know if they go up to 12 or 12,500, something like that. Because that 8RX is probably pushing 30-some thousand.
Oh, probably. It's got a lot of weight. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. It would be interesting. Have you been to tractor pulls, Jackson?
I've called a tractor pull. I have been to.
Yeah?
A few times.
He's probably won some pedal pulls. You ever done that? The pedal tractor pull?
I'm going to be doing that one today. Really? Yeah, I have done some pedal pulls. I did it at Louisville County Fair, too.
So were you the one that had to calibrate the sled over here for all the other kids? Be the Jackson meter?
No, I haven't done anything over there.
Do you feel the pressure, like you have to get a full pull?
I feel like I have to get a full pull. I feel like that's just the right thing to do. I have to get a full pull, I feel like.
I always felt uncomfortable. I was always taller for my age, and I felt like I couldn't fit on them very good.
Same for me.
Yeah, you got long legs too. Yep. Yeah. So it's kind of tough. The little short stocking kids have the advantage in that department.
That's right. Definitely.
You get that low center of gravity.
Yeah. As you get to be here and hang out, we're pretty sure the answer to what do you want to be when you grow up is going to be a farmer.
Yes.
Right?
Yes.
Do you think you'd ever work for John Deere?
I'm going to have to say no.
No. Farming's in the blood. Farming's the way it's going to be.
Yes. Yes.
But you'll be buying John Deere.
Yes. Definitely. Definitely.
Now, don't tip your head too far back. You know, I can see them. They got you. Yeah. Play that off a little bit.
Are you trying to brainwash me with Adco?
Have you seen the new gleaners?
They have schooled me right. I don't want to get brainwashed.
There you go. There you go. Are you going to go out and see any of the field demos or anything like that? Yeah. I got a combine running out there. Got that set up yesterday. So, yeah, that's 780. Yeah, it was not the best yielding stuff. A little spongy cobs, but they've put an 85-day hybrid in here to make it so. But it's like 22%, so it was doing a good job. Doing a good job.
Tony's got this, is it an image thing that you drive this Buick on all these cars?
shows yeah i know you probably got an escalade back there no nope i'm i'm over the new vehicles i don't care if you gave me 25 million dollars tomorrow i am not spending a hundred thousand dollars on a pickup truck i'm not so i just drive junk i gave 300 for this buick i drove it to south dakota a month ago here i am in it again today and i don't care and especially in atmospheres like this when everybody's trying to get out and you're all jammed up it's like
I'm going into the right lane. If you want to hit me with your King Ranch, I don't care about my vehicle. I'm going to the right lane. And half the time, they'll stop, and away you go.
A nice horse lady parked us, and somebody must have parked in the wrong spot because they told me to box them in. I'm like, I'm going to leave more room than what you're telling me because... Yeah, they're going to want out. You know, a horse lady told me to park there. Yeah. And I didn't drive my Buick.
Well, the AC must work in it. It does. It works. Actually, it works really good. Really? That was my first vehicle was a 1993 Buick LeSabre.
Yeah. Yep. I have it, too, for on the farm. You know, it's a $300 car, so if you've got to move a piece of machinery down here to go get something, you just drive it down here. If somebody steals it, backs over it, whatever, get out, just go buy another $300 one, and away you go. Yeah.
That's not a lot of money for a car.
No, nope. You probably got tractors worth more than that.
I would say so, yeah.
What do you think you're going to drive when you grow up?
Square body Chevy.
Square body Chevy. There you go.
Nice. You got one already? Has your mom ever showed you my 78 Ford F-250? I'll have to show you a picture of that sometime.
Yeah, you will. We know that Jackson's gotten a lot of things, like we talked about, and the gifts that he gets, but you also have gotten a lot of things from listeners and fans that have watched you. Has it filled up your house yet?
For the most part, yep. The wife's getting a little perturbed on everything, so I've had to move it to the shop, and yeah. And it's funny. It's just random. You know, one day I flew off the handle over pump-up sprayers, just... Because they're junk. Yeah.
And yeah, like a week later, I've got 19 sprayers in the mail from battery pack to battery, or from backpack to battery powered to pump up to stainless steel. I got every sprayer.
How big is your yard? Do you need all of them or no?
No, but when they show up in the mail, it's just like you just start. So if you ever need a sprayer.
Yeah, better send a couple of them with all the grain bin stuff. Yeah, exactly.
Yep. So you're going to have to take a U-Haul to Jackson's house. I know. Exactly. Nope. Mom says no. Yep.
I tell you what, those battery-powered ones, though, are pretty nice. Yeah.
I got mine out and used it for the first time last week, and actually it was pretty impressive.
We'll spray with, like, the Gator and have the big tank in the back with 240 and stuff for the ditch, but then I'll have a little roundup in that thing sitting right next to me.
Yep. Works slick. Yep. Yep.
Yeah, because you were telling us on one of your other episodes that you get a lot of letters. I do. People write you a lot.
Yep, they do write a lot of letters.
What do they write about?
I'm not going to call anybody out. I mean, there's literally been people you know that, hey, man, I got divorced. I was on the brink of...
not being around and your videos got me through it you know like i look forward to it every day and i mean wedding invitations and people know and one of these days i'm going to make a surprise visit to one but most of them that i've got have been so far away it hasn't been feasible or you know it's in october and it's in south dakota it's like well i can't do that but if i get one close i'm not rsvp or another we're just going to show up just going to show up
People are looking forward to that. Does that feel like you have an extra set of pressure on you to actually put content out every day?
No, not really. I just kind of do my thing. I mean, no, I guess I don't let it bother me in that way.
Jackson, you also get some messages from people that same thing. You brighten their day. You make them feel better. But your dad was telling me that even John Deere factory workers reach out and talk about how they just love your passion.
Yes. Yes. I think it's cool.
Makes them proud to go to work. Somebody like you is just as excited about that brand as they are every day they go to work to make it.
Yeah.
Do you have a cell phone?
Oh, you do?
Yes.
Don't tell everybody your number. Don't tell my kids that.
Oh, yeah. That's interesting.
That's true. I didn't even notice. I figured, yeah, my girls have a gizmo watch, so at least I can know where they're at and send them a message it's time to come in or stay out of the house or whatever it is.
Mine wanted one, and she got it, but then we limit on who she can talk to, and now she doesn't wear it because she can't talk to us.
She doesn't have any fun people on.
She doesn't have Tony Reid on her watch. Mom and dad. Yeah. Grandpa and grandma.
You should. You should add Tony Reid to your daughter's watch. Oh, God. No?
I don't think she can watch TikTok on there. Yeah.
She'll probably be fine. That's too bad. Yeah. So as we sit here and think about the relationship that we've all made on social media, Jackson, I want to say thank you because I do think that you're doing a lot of good for the agriculture community, one, because your audience is going to reach more people that are not farming than our audience will.
I think there's a lot of people that are going to watch you because you're entertaining, your content is unique, you're a cute little kid, and you have the power to To tell more people about how we do this thing the right way.
I've had more non-ag people go, is that that little kid that knows everything about tractors? And they don't know a lick. They wouldn't know who Tony Reed is. Yeah. You know, like... I think that's pretty dang cool. I do, too. So I hope you keep it up.
Will do.
Because it's fun now, but it's a long road. You've got a long time ahead of you. Yeah, I do. And if you ever feel like you need to take a break, take a break. You don't always have to be putting stuff out and all that. And that's to the parents, too. So sometimes it's very healthy to take a break.
Can I ask, ready to wrap up? Can I just ask?
We can.
Okay.
We can.
Okay.
Absolutely. He's got machinery to climb all over. Heck, yeah. We can be done. Yeah, he sat here long enough.
That's a better attention span than my kids would have been able to. You are the man. Thank you for taking time out of your day. Oh, definitely. There's so much going on around you. Appreciate you listening to us and patronizing our audience. But keep it up. You're the man. We respect the heck out of you.
Will do.
Tony, thanks as well. Always a pleasure.
Not won't be the last time. I know that. Yep.
That's good. I hope Harvest goes well for you.
Yeah, same for you guys. And we'll be in touch. Corey, what do you say? I say a crack cold one or I'm going to drink a bunch of water because it's hot. You deserve it.
How about this? That's all she wrote.
That's all she wrote. There we go.