(wind blowing)
(somber violin music)
(light switch clicks)
(door closes)
(slow country music)
(man walking)
- [Male] You're sittin' in the boat fixing
to go over a waterfall
and you just have to sit there and ride it out
because there's nothing you can do.
(breeze blowing)
- [Female] We grow the corn,
the crops that feed the cows,
that produce the milk, that produces the cheese,
which produces water because milk is mostly water.
And then the cheese water comes back to the farm
and we irrigate with it.
(film reel rolling)
So literally everything goes full circle.
(page turning)
Our boys, obviously have been raised on the farm.
There they are bottle-feeding a baby
when they were pretty young.
(equipment thudding)
They were farm kids.
They didn't spend a lot of time in front of the TV
or playing video games.
(horse trotting)
They were outside building, outside playing, creating.
(breeze blowing)
(slow country music)
- [Male] You know, nothing's wasted.
The manure is not wasted.
The crops in the field, whether it's corn stalks,
we put cows back on those.
Whether we have native pasture, cows are put back on it.
(dirt crunching)
- [Female] Normally, maybe if corn prices are low,
maybe your cheese prices are high.
Or if beef's high, cheese is low.
(motor running)
And when COVID hit, that's the first time ever
that everything tanked at the same time.
(slow country music)
(sack thudding)
(powder flowing)
- [Male] There's employees out here
that's been here 10, 15 years.
(computer keys clicking)
You know, their families rely on us.
You know, the cows rely on us.
(slow country music)
(sliding door rolling)
The feeling of being extremely helpless,
and still needing to take care of your animals,
your mind gets to thinking, gets to turning.
Well, it's taken us how many years to build this up?
And if this keeps up for so much longer,
we're liable to lose it all.
(door slams)
You get through with faith.
You hang on to friends and family.
You know, you support each other.
(door shuts)
And just hang tight and, you know,
look at life as being half-full.
(motor running)
If you go to the grocery store,
and you expect the groceries to be there
without recognizing that somebody put'em there,
that's where a lot of people are missing some information.
And whether he is a peanut farmer,
or a dairyman, or a cotton farmer,
it doesn't make any difference.
Those are the ones that feed the world,
that feed the nation.
We support a lot of families, you know.
We support the schools.
We support this town.
The passion, the time,
the late nights, the early mornings,
and by and large we are families that do this.
And we do that because we're passionate.
(somber violin music)