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We're on a pretty 
tight schedule.

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There are sheep to 
be fed at sunrise.

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My children get up earlier 
than most children.

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They don't know 
any different.

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I like to keep it that way.

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The children need 
to get to school.

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And cows need to be moved 
to greener pastures.

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It's this Kansas family's 
first year as full-time

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farmers.

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Dealing with the daily 
schedule...they face a

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larger challenge.

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Have you ever 
seen it like this?

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No, I've never 
seen this dry.

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A historic drought drying 
up crops in the fields.

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What does their future hold?

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What insights can they get 
from the farmers that came

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before them?

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You are running 
out of daylight.

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Exactly.

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That's normally 
how our days go.

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Come along as we spend dawn 
to dusk with a hard working

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Kansas farm family.

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It's all coming up on a 
special America's Heartland.

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We thank you for this good 
food and your blessings.

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Amen.

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We try to head out the 
door at six o'clock.

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Sharp.

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A little blurry-eyed in 
the dark every morning.

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While much of Kansas 
is still sleeping,

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the Brunkow family 
is up before dawn.

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But breakfast can wait.

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The first chores we do are 
to go out and feed the

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sheep.

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Right now we have six lambs 
that the children are gonna

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take on to the state 
fair in Wichita.

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And then we have a pen of 
four butcher lambs that

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we're raising up.

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We've got orders 
for some lambs.

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We think it's important that 
the kids understand that we

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need to take care 
of the animals.

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And to understand that 
their needs come first.

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It doesn't matter if it's 
30 below or 105 degrees,

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we need to take 
care of them first.

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The Brunkow's 
other livestock is

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waiting...impatiently to 
move to a new pasture.

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More on why they are 
moving early in a bit.

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So how was lunch yesterday 
with the new lunch?

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Wasn't bad.

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Did you get enough?

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No, I went up and got a 
double order of nachos with

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poptarts.

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Killer, you're in charge.

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The kids and Jennifer head 
out the door at 7:30

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And my day is just startin'.

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So Glenn the kids 
are off to school?

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Things are quiet now.

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Time for you to 
get some work done.

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Exactly.

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Exactly.

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What do you have 
to do today?

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Well the herd of cattle that 
are a mile up the road at

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one of the pastures 
we rotate them to.

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We're going to move 
them down here.

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But before you move any 
cattle you have to...

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Got to make sure 
the fences are up.

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What happened to this one, 
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here.

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The sheep went through it.

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They went through 
an electric fence?

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Yep, they went through 
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They eventually figure 
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and obviously there's is no 
electricity to it right now,

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they figure out that their 
wool doesn't allow the shock

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to get to them.

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So they go right through it?

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They go right through it.

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Then that means they go back 
to jail and get locked up.

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Winter project is to get 
this fence done, this year.

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Permanent so we don't have 
to worry about this every

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time.

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How far down does 
this fence go?

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It goes clear to the top of 
the hill the property line.

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My cows are so conditioned 
to the electric fence a lot

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of the time they 
won't even try it.

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Is that your dad coming 
in the pickup truck?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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He will take the lead and 
I'll bring up the rear.

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Dad and I work really 
closely every day we get

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along pretty well 
most of the time.

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If Jennifer could drive 
straight to the school from

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their farm it would be a 
three mile trip in the

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morning.

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But navigating around the 
Flint Hills on gravel roads

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turns the journey into 
a 15 minute drive.

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We have two children.

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Isaac is 14.

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And a 12 year old 
daughter, Tatum.

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You like the KSTATE ram?

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You don't?

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I said 'do you'?

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Like the new one.

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I hadn't really 
looked at it to see.

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Jennifer drives the kids 
to the nearby town of

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Westmoreland.

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Oh my god.

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Okay, go.

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Have a good day.

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I drop them off.

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They hop on the school 
bus to go to Rock Creek.

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We have a shuttle bus 
that runs to the school.

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Back on the farm Glenn's 
father Darold is ready to

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help out with the livestock.

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He's delivering a bale of 
hay to feed the sheep.

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It's a two man job to get 
the pickup through and not

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let the ewes out.

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And we put the 
feed around them.

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Do you need my knife, dad?

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It's just a real blessing to 
get to work with him each

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day and to spend 
time with him.

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That's one of the benefits.

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Like any good teenager I 
assumed that my Dad didn't

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know anything and I was 
gonna go to college,

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and I was gonna learn 
what he didn't know.

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And the more I 
learned in college,

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the more I realized 
that he knew a lot.

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Well that was easier 
than I thought.

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Here at Westmoreland 
Elementary School I'm the

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school librarian.

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I help kids check out books 
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accelerated reading.

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Did you go anywhere 
this summer?

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I went to Hawaii.

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That's right.

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You went to Hawaii.

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This has been a 
popular book too.

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Have you read the Olympians?

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We have a mixture of 
farm kids and town kids.

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Some of our kids are 
military children.

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Who is the person 
in front of you?

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Are you going to 
pass that person?

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No.

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No.

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Okay.

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This is a full time job.

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I work from 
August till June.

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My job pretty much anymore 
is to pay for insurance.

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My husband gave up a 
full time 8 to 5 job.

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But decided this year 
to farm full time.

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Our monthly income is a lot 
more sparse than it was.

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We're looking at getting two 
or three paychecks a year

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vs.

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every two weeks.

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It was a big leap.

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Jennifer and I talked 
about it for a long time.

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You know, you can always 
find an excuse why not to.

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And I didn't want to look 
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say, "I wonder 
if I'd a tried".

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Ok.

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Now for the toughest 
part of the day.

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Glenn and his father now 
need to move a herd of

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cattle to another pasture.

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Our cows are so used 
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pretty much you just gotta 
kind tell 'em what they're

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gonna do and they do 
it...And generally we can

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move 'em.

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Sometimes they can 
get cantankerous.

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But most of the time 
they do pretty well.

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One of the side effects of 
this record breaking drought

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across the heartland 
is wandering cattle.

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Farmers and ranchers across 
the state are dealing with

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it here in Kansas.

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The situation is there's 
just not a lot of forage

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left in any pastures because 
conditions are so dry.

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All you need is a break in 
a fence or an open gate and

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you've got farmers spending 
their nights rounding up

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cattle that have wandered 
onto their neighbors'

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property or even 
onto the road.

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The Brunkow's cattle 
have not escaped.

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But when Darold shows 
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their bellowing is a 
telltale sign they are ready

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to move.

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The hay bale is a teaser 
to get the cows moving.

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The cattle march down the 
lonely county road with a

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little help from 
today's farm visitor,

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making sure they don't 
wander down the neighbors'

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driveway.

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The cattle are hungry, right?

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Oh yeah.

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You see them?

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Ha.

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They've got a lot to eat 
out here for a while now.

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They seem happy now.

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Oh yeah.

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They will be for 
a week or so.

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Normally the cattle could 
stay on this grazing ground

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for a few weeks.

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But it is so dry they'll 
have to move again sooner.

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Glenn was saying this is the 
worst he's seen it and he

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hasn't been at it 
as long as you.

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No, no.

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It's been - I don't 
remember it any worse.

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And how long have 
you been at it?

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All of my 69 years except 
three years I spent at

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Phoenix.

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Is there anything 
you can do about it?

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Ha.

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ha.

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Pray.

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Yeah.

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That's it right?

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You just need some rain?

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Is it in the forecast?

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Tomorrow a slight chance and 
then all of next week no.

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Is that how the 
summer has been?

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Pretty much.

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We didn't get the rains in 
May and June to grow the

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grass out.

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Glenn took me to a nearby 
pasture to see just how dry

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things are.

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Look how dry this is.

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You don't want drop your 
cell phone down in this

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crack.

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You may never find it.

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You probably don't 
see that very often.

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No, no not at all.

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In fact we've got some 
heavier clay ground that's

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got even bigger 
cracks in it.

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And that's just 
because it's so dry.

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It's so dry the ground is 
cracked and opening up.

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Yeah, it is.

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So this is supposed 
to be a pond.

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This is supposed 
to be a pond.

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Usually this is two or 
three feet deep in water.

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It's not much of a pond but 
it hardly ever goes dry.

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And look how dry it is now.

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It's been dry for 
a couple months.

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Whew.

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So on a normal year...

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It'd be up about knee deep.

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Knee deep in water.

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Yeah, it will stay 
ahead of the cattle.

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There's a little bit of a 
spring or something here.

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It will stay ahead of the 
cattle usually when we're in

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here.

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Have you ever 
seen it like this?

259
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No, I've never 
seen this dry.

260
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Usually there's some 
water in here anyway.

261
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Are you worried about 
the water situation?

262
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Yeah, I am, I am.

263
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We're on a well 
at our house,

264
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and we're not 
on rural water.

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It could run, if we run out 
of water at the house we're

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in trouble.

267
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Yeah I bet.

268
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Disappointing.

269
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It is disappointing it is.

270
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But that's kind of what 
we signed up for so...

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Taking it in stride.

272
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You've got to take it in 
stride or it'll drive you

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nuts.

274
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You don't want anybody 
to feel sorry for you.

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No, no, no, this is the 
lifestyle we chose and it's

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just part of the game.

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My uncle tells me this will 
make every other year seem

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good.

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♪

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♪

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It's mid-day and Isaac's 
Agriculture class is underway.

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Well Issac you wanna tell us 
a little about your summer

283
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and what'd you do?

284
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Well, all summer I pretty 
much worked with my

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show sheep and cattle.

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And so I had to wake up 
pretty much every morning

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and walk my sheep down the 
road and run them back,

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so it's like weightlifting.

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And since it's only the 
second day of school Tatum's

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classmates are working 
on some name games.

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I am "Rapid Reitz."

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Rapid Reitz.

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Curious Katie.

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Wait.

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Creative Katie.

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I'm.

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Curious Carmen.

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Zany Zach.

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Marvelous Meghan.

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Itsy Izzy.

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Humble Haley.

302
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Faithful Faith.

303
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Dancing Dylan.

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Mad Marshal.

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The values that I'm hoping 
my children are getting is

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working hard pays off.

307
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Terrific Tatum.

308
00:14:20,533 --> 00:14:22,066
We want our kids to be 
able to talk to us about

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anything.

310
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And that's hard in 
this - today's world.

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But hopefully our kids grow 
up to be good responsible

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and make good choices.

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They're like every 
brother and sister.

314
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They will fight 
like cats and dogs,

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but when somebody does 
something to the other,

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they're there 
to defend them.

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Glenn recently left his 
full time job as a county

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agriculture extension 
agent to farm full time,

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but he works about 15 hours 
a week as the director of

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two non-profit foundations 
in nearby Wamego.

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So, we don't want to handle 
the money so can we work

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with you on this?

323
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Sure, that's what 
we are here for.

324
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It is a very worthy project.

325
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Back on the farm Glenn's 
father has his own

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challenge.

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A chain on the corn 
harvester needs fixing.

328
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Parts for this old equipment 
are hard to come by so

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they've been waiting days 
on a new one to arrive.

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After a quick stop for lunch 
Glenn checks in on the

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progress.

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They may not get a big 
harvest thanks to the

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drought, but if this 
equipment doesn't get fixed

334
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they won't get anything!

335
00:15:39,833 --> 00:15:42,900
There's a feeder chain 
on one of the rows,

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that feeds the stalks of 
corn and ears of corn into

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the combine and 
it's just worn.

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00:15:49,666 --> 00:15:52,500
It look like it 
was going to work.

339
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We tried to put a new 
sprocket on it and tried to

340
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fix the chain.

341
00:16:06,100 --> 00:16:10,033
It just didn't work.

342
00:16:10,133 --> 00:16:15,366
Just going to have 
to go without it?

343
00:16:15,466 --> 00:16:17,700
Fortunately there are two 
chains on either side...so

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Glenn and Darold decide to 
give it a try without that

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broken chain.

346
00:16:24,133 --> 00:16:28,166
It's a triage a lot of times 
that you do in the field and

347
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just make it work.

348
00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:36,133
Hey Rock Creek!

349
00:16:36,233 --> 00:16:37,533
It has been a 
great two days.

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Back at school - 
classes are out.

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We'll see you back 
here on Monday morning,

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you are dismissed.

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♪

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Tatum plays volleyball 
and basketball

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and softball.

356
00:16:56,400 --> 00:16:58,033
Isaac plays football 
and baseball.

357
00:17:18,900 --> 00:17:22,766
We try to give our kids 
every opportunity that they

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can if they want 
to do something.

359
00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:36,966
These beans don't 
look so good, Glenn.

360
00:17:37,066 --> 00:17:39,433
No, they're turning yellow, 
they're pretty close to the

361
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end of their life cycle.

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Let's grab one here and 
we'll take a look at it,

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and then I'll show you 
one of the good ones.

364
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They have pods on 
there, I can see.. Yeah,

365
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there're pods on there, 
they're gonna start dropping

366
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off and they're 
not filling up.

367
00:17:55,733 --> 00:17:56,900
This one is 
starting to fill,

368
00:17:57,000 --> 00:17:59,000
it's about the 
size of a pea.

369
00:17:59,100 --> 00:18:00,400
How big should 
that be right now?

370
00:18:00,500 --> 00:18:03,033
Oh it should be, a full size 
soybean it should be at

371
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least twice that big.

372
00:18:04,700 --> 00:18:05,933
So fill up your 
hand essentially?

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00:18:06,033 --> 00:18:07,366
And look at them there.

374
00:18:07,466 --> 00:18:09,733
And then these would all 
make beans if we got some

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rain and if the plant 
lived long enough.

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00:18:12,233 --> 00:18:13,800
Each one of these blooms.

377
00:18:13,900 --> 00:18:16,000
You can see they are already 
starting to drop off.

378
00:18:16,100 --> 00:18:20,633
I mean there should be three 
pods there on that nodule.

379
00:18:20,733 --> 00:18:23,600
There should be two or 
three pods on each nodule.

380
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So you'll get nothing 
out of that essentially.

381
00:18:25,066 --> 00:18:25,800
Yeah.

382
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There will be 
hardly anything.

383
00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:29,066
But this patch back here 
looks a little greener to

384
00:18:29,166 --> 00:18:30,600
me.

385
00:18:30,700 --> 00:18:32,266
Yeah, there is some 
hope out here yet.

386
00:18:32,366 --> 00:18:33,366
So these are taller.

387
00:18:33,466 --> 00:18:36,633
Yeah, they're 
much better beans.

388
00:18:36,733 --> 00:18:38,966
You can see the difference 
in all the pods are on here.

389
00:18:39,066 --> 00:18:41,066
The pods are 
starting to fill.

390
00:18:41,166 --> 00:18:43,466
If we get some rain 
these pods will fill.

391
00:18:43,566 --> 00:18:46,000
This is probably only 15-20 
bushel beans as they stand

392
00:18:46,100 --> 00:18:46,833
here.

393
00:18:46,933 --> 00:18:48,533
And what typically 
would it be?

394
00:18:48,633 --> 00:18:50,633
37-39 is our average.

395
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So half.

396
00:18:51,733 --> 00:18:53,600
Half, if we are lucky.

397
00:18:53,700 --> 00:18:56,100
I see this stubble in here 
from old corn stocks.

398
00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:57,700
You said that 
is helping out?

399
00:18:57,800 --> 00:18:58,866
That is last year's residue.

400
00:18:58,966 --> 00:19:02,233
That actually holds in the 
moisture and adds organic

401
00:19:02,333 --> 00:19:05,166
matter, so we are building 
our soil up over time.

402
00:19:05,266 --> 00:19:07,900
But it did help this year, 
you could really tell the

403
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difference between the 
conventionally tilled and

404
00:19:09,700 --> 00:19:13,666
the no till because we held 
our moisture in longer.

405
00:19:13,766 --> 00:19:16,633
This field has 
held on about 2,

406
00:19:16,733 --> 00:19:18,533
3 weeks longer than 
I thought it would.

407
00:19:18,633 --> 00:19:20,366
And that's, you think 
because of the no-till

408
00:19:20,466 --> 00:19:21,466
practices?

409
00:19:21,566 --> 00:19:27,300
I definitely do.

410
00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:30,033
Today's harvest is just a 
test of their mechanical

411
00:19:30,133 --> 00:19:33,366
issue, also to see if the 
corn is dry enough to

412
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harvest and to get a sense 
of just how much corn

413
00:19:36,500 --> 00:19:40,200
they'll get out of 
their fields this year.

414
00:19:40,300 --> 00:19:42,200
I think it is pretty 
wet yet, isn't it?

415
00:19:42,300 --> 00:19:43,400
Yes.

416
00:19:43,500 --> 00:19:47,233
It's pretty soft.

417
00:19:47,333 --> 00:19:50,833
That is some really 
sorry looking corn.

418
00:19:50,933 --> 00:19:57,066
Yeah, I've never 
seen ears like that.

419
00:19:57,166 --> 00:20:01,566
Glenn drives a small sample 
of the corn back to Wamego.

420
00:20:01,666 --> 00:20:06,066
It gets tested for moisture 
content at the local co-op.

421
00:20:06,166 --> 00:20:06,866
Hi Glenn.

422
00:20:06,966 --> 00:20:07,933
Hello.

423
00:20:08,033 --> 00:20:08,733
What ya got?

424
00:20:08,833 --> 00:20:09,733
Some corn.

425
00:20:09,833 --> 00:20:10,966
Really bad corn.

426
00:20:11,066 --> 00:20:12,200
Really bad corn.

427
00:20:12,300 --> 00:20:13,566
We don't like 
really bad corn.

428
00:20:13,666 --> 00:20:15,200
Well it looks a lot like 
what you got it in that

429
00:20:15,300 --> 00:20:22,366
bucket there.

430
00:20:22,466 --> 00:20:24,966
Dad's not cutting the 
combines in the barn.

431
00:20:25,066 --> 00:20:26,800
Oh, so this is hand shucked?

432
00:20:26,900 --> 00:20:31,200
No, no.. Oh, 16-4.

433
00:20:31,300 --> 00:20:32,333
Yeah, that's not too bad.

434
00:20:32,433 --> 00:20:35,066
The corn is not quite 
dry enough for harvest.

435
00:20:35,166 --> 00:20:36,266
Well we'll get 
out of your hair.

436
00:20:36,366 --> 00:20:39,533
Okay.

437
00:20:39,633 --> 00:20:41,800
Volleyball and football 
practice are done and the

438
00:20:41,900 --> 00:20:46,200
Brunkow kids are 
on the move again.

439
00:20:46,300 --> 00:20:51,100
The activity bus takes 
them into Westmoreland.

440
00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:52,333
There's a lot of running 
back and forth I noticed

441
00:20:52,433 --> 00:20:53,833
today.

442
00:20:53,933 --> 00:20:57,033
There is a lot of 
running back and forth.

443
00:20:57,133 --> 00:20:59,400
It takes a few minutes for 
you to get off the gravel

444
00:20:59,500 --> 00:21:02,966
and to a highway 
that is paved.

445
00:21:03,066 --> 00:21:05,433
Yeah, in the winter time we 
have bad weather it can be a

446
00:21:05,533 --> 00:21:06,766
little rough.

447
00:21:06,866 --> 00:21:10,533
When it snows we've been 
snowed in for a couple days.

448
00:21:10,633 --> 00:21:12,066
Is it worth it living 
out here in the country?

449
00:21:12,166 --> 00:21:12,833
It's worth it.

450
00:21:12,933 --> 00:21:15,966
It really is.

451
00:21:16,066 --> 00:21:19,833
It occurs to me it is 6:00pm 
you still have to pick the

452
00:21:19,933 --> 00:21:22,833
kids up, do chores, 
go to a meeting,

453
00:21:22,933 --> 00:21:26,466
have dinner and 
maybe homework,

454
00:21:26,566 --> 00:21:27,500
if there's homework.

455
00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:29,866
You are running 
out of daylight.

456
00:21:29,966 --> 00:21:32,333
Exactly.

457
00:21:32,433 --> 00:21:35,400
That's normally 
how our days go.

458
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♪

459
00:22:05,533 --> 00:22:08,766
The day is winding down 
but like breakfast,

460
00:22:08,866 --> 00:22:14,900
their dinner will 
have to wait.

461
00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:17,466
After evening chores the 
family needs to head back

462
00:22:17,566 --> 00:22:21,133
into town for a 4-H meeting.

463
00:22:21,233 --> 00:22:23,133
You don't just raise 
something that goes down to

464
00:22:23,233 --> 00:22:24,700
the sale barn 
and goes through.

465
00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:25,800
You're raising that.

466
00:22:25,900 --> 00:22:27,166
You are raising beef.

467
00:22:27,266 --> 00:22:29,633
This year the Brunkow 
children raised cattle that

468
00:22:29,733 --> 00:22:32,733
got sold and 
processed for beef.

469
00:22:32,833 --> 00:22:35,266
At this meeting they get to 
see just how that beef was

470
00:22:35,366 --> 00:22:39,733
graded and how they stacked 
up to their fellow 4-H'ers.

471
00:22:39,833 --> 00:22:44,300
Roy and Todd are passing out 
the how the cattle placed

472
00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:45,866
out.

473
00:22:45,966 --> 00:22:52,533
I got a check for how much 
my steer graded and weighed.

474
00:22:52,633 --> 00:22:57,433
My participation check, 
and here's the results.

475
00:22:57,533 --> 00:23:02,966
I got 15th place which 
is better than last.

476
00:23:03,066 --> 00:23:13,000
♪

477
00:23:13,100 --> 00:23:18,766
♪

478
00:23:18,866 --> 00:23:22,466
It's well past dinnertime, 
and Glenn is at the grill.

479
00:23:22,566 --> 00:23:26,433
Unsurprisingly, beef 
is what's for dinner.

480
00:23:26,533 --> 00:23:29,033
These aren't just hamburger 
patties for the family.

481
00:23:29,133 --> 00:23:32,300
Glenn is testing 
his latest product.

482
00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:36,000
He sells custom cuts of 
beef fresh from the farm.

483
00:23:36,100 --> 00:23:37,366
It's one of my 
favorite things.

484
00:23:37,466 --> 00:23:39,200
Jennifer laughs cause I can 
hardly ever get more than

485
00:23:39,300 --> 00:23:40,866
one delivery in a night.

486
00:23:40,966 --> 00:23:43,266
Because I go pick it 
up, I take it to them,

487
00:23:43,366 --> 00:23:44,933
I help them take it out.

488
00:23:45,033 --> 00:23:48,933
I like talking to 
them about what we do.

489
00:23:49,033 --> 00:23:50,966
I explain it to them 
why we do what we do.

490
00:23:51,066 --> 00:23:52,800
How we handle our cattle.

491
00:23:52,900 --> 00:23:54,200
How we feed our cattle.

492
00:23:54,300 --> 00:23:57,333
And tonight - all these 
customers want is something

493
00:23:57,433 --> 00:23:59,666
to eat now.

494
00:23:59,766 --> 00:24:01,600
Lord, we thank you for this 
day and thank you for all

495
00:24:01,700 --> 00:24:03,133
the blessings today.

496
00:24:03,233 --> 00:24:05,566
We ask for your guidance and 
thank you for this good food

497
00:24:05,666 --> 00:24:06,666
and your blessings.

498
00:24:06,766 --> 00:24:08,133
Amen.

499
00:24:08,233 --> 00:24:12,233
A day that started with 6 am 
chores...draws to a close

500
00:24:12,333 --> 00:24:16,133
after 9 at the dinner table.

501
00:24:16,233 --> 00:24:18,600
These full-time farmers 
will be back at it again

502
00:24:18,700 --> 00:24:21,600
tomorrow...from 
dawn to dusk.

503
00:24:27,933 --> 00:24:29,766
That's going to do it for 
this special edition of

504
00:24:29,866 --> 00:24:31,000
America's Heartland.

505
00:24:31,100 --> 00:24:33,600
Thanks for visiting Kansas 
and the Brunkow family with

506
00:24:33,700 --> 00:24:34,700
us.

507
00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:36,433
Always remember you can 
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508
00:24:36,533 --> 00:24:39,266
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509
00:24:39,366 --> 00:24:41,300
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510
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511
00:24:42,533 --> 00:24:43,933
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00:24:44,033 --> 00:24:45,866
Heartland.

513
00:24:59,566 --> 00:25:06,033
♪ You can see it in the eyes 
of 
every woman and man ♪

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♪ in America's Heartland 
living close to the land. ♪

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♪ There's a love 
for the country ♪

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♪ and a pride in the brand ♪

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♪ in America's Heartland 
li 
ving close, ♪

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♪close to the land ♪

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"America's Heartland 
is made possible by..."

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CropLife America. 
And it's member companies

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and associations in the 
crop protection industry

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including:

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The American Farm Bureau 
Foundation for Agriculture.

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More information at: 
agfoundation.org.

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Sacramento's proud to be 
America's Farm to Fork capital

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Visit: 
FarmtoFork.com

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♪