July 30, 2025 • 18 mins
This week on The American Family Farmer, Doug Stephan welcomes Tyler Hawk of Hawk Farms in Kansas, Ohio. Though Tyler now lives in California, he still travels home to work the family’s 230-acre soybean and corn farm.
Tyler shares the story of a beloved family heirloom — a 1947 Farmall M tractor restored after sitting in pieces during his childhood.
Now serving as Executive Director at an assisted living facility, Tyler talks about how his farming roots continue to ground and guide him, even from across the country.
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Tyler shares the story of a beloved family heirloom — a 1947 Farmall M tractor restored after sitting in pieces during his childhood.
Now serving as Executive Director at an assisted living facility, Tyler talks about how his farming roots continue to ground and guide him, even from across the country.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The American Family Farmer Podcast, sponsored in part by Caldron,
the safe, proven Way to lose weight. Check it all
out at toploss dot com. I'm Doug Stephan. What better
way to understand the life of a family farmer than
to talk from time to time to family farmers. That's
why we have Tyler Hawk with us today, who is
(00:22):
from Hawk Farms. I grew up in Kansas, Ohio, which
is pretty close to where I went to school in
northwest Ohio with Heidelberg and Tiffin, Ohio. A lot of
great beans and corn fields all through the summer. There
not so much cattle anymore as it used to be
when I was in school there. So Tyler is here
(00:42):
to tell us his story. Hi, Tyler, Welcome to the
American Family Farmer Program. Good to have you here.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Good morning, Doug. Thanks for having me. I appreciate it well.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I want you to tell your story. It's kind of fun.
I'm glad you were able to take some time. You
grew up on your family farm. Tell us about Kansas, Ohio,
north to Ohio, how it was when you were growing up,
and how it is now even though you live on
the West coast. You can tell us that story, but
going back and forth to work on the farm and
help out when you're needed. What is the feeling of
(01:14):
being in your neck of the woods and you go
back home, how do you feel?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Well? Peaceful's pretty much one word I can use compared
to southern California. But you know, growing up there was
really all I knew was small town, two stop signs,
I think in the whole town.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
A fire department at the post office, and not much
else going on in Kansas. So, yeah, my life revolved
around the farm and family and helping my grandpa and
my dad when I was a young kid, and riding
over in the bed of the truck to the farm
where Grandpa and Grandma lived, and.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Playing with tractors and fixing things and sweeping up barn floors.
And yeah, we didn't have any cattle or livestock when
I was a boy, but definitely enjoyed loving planting and
harvesting corn and soybeans. We did some wheat back in
the day, but Dad and I haven't gotten into wheat
probably for almost ten years.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Brothers and sisters on the farm with you.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
I do have a younger sister, yeah, so she was
more of a girly girl didn't dabble too much into
the farm operations, but it was primarily my dad, myself,
and my grandpa up until two thousand and eight when
he passed away.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
So the true definition of a family farm. How long
has it been in the family.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
My grandfather really enjoyed farming with his dad, did a
little bit of it, and we're talking, you know, probably
in the thirties and forties, and then Grandpa really established
the farm where he was at in the location that
I now live when I go back home in Kansas
in nineteen sixty eight, so we're just coming up on
about sixty years. But yeah, he was a hard working guy,
(02:46):
and Dad and I were just talking last night about
what the fruits of his labor that we get to
enjoy because he just worked his butt off and got
some land. We're not big time farmers by any means.
We're small guys. Got about two hundred and thirty acres
that we farm in total, So it's just it's always
been a hobby farm. Grandpa always had a full time job.
(03:07):
Dad always had a full time job, and I've always
worked full time outside of it. But I just can't
think of a better way or a better place to be.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Yeah, it's very interesting. I think about that my children.
I grew up on this farm. Well, there were four
or five farms that I worked on as a kid
in my neck of the woods. I've lived in Framingham
as all my life and have worked at every farm
except for one, and owned all of them at one
point in time or another in my life. And I
guess I would have to say, because I've always had
(03:38):
another job, I had another career, that the farm was
a hobby farm. But the other side of that is
that's not really a good word most people who are
working farms, no matter what size they are. For a
family farmer, I have at least one person in the
family has a job off the farm. And I want
to talk about that and why we need to live
(04:00):
our lives like that is we continue here Tyler Hawk
from Hawk Farms, Kansas, Ohio. Is the location kind of
like Greenwich, Ohio or Greenwich they call it Greenwich, Ohio.
Not one of these towns. They just stop a couple
of times and there's a post office and that's about it.
Lots of railroad tracks go through the town. That's what
we're talking about. That's in my mind, that's real farm country.
(04:22):
So we continue, hold on a second, this is the
American family farmer. Elizabeth Miller is here. So what if
we look online right now at toplass dot com. What
are we going to see, Elizabeth.
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(04:56):
going to help you retain the lean muscle rebuilding, so
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Speaker 1 (05:13):
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Back on the American family farmer, Tyler Hawk from Hawk
Farms had one thing in common, Well, I guess they
(05:35):
had a lot more than that. They had named family.
They had a love of farm. They had ability, but
they also needed to have a job off the farm,
and so I was interested because you're off the farm
out in your Belinda, California running an assisted living in
memory center in California. Tell us about that and how
(05:57):
you came to be an expert in that field, and
why you had to go all the way to California,
even though you do go back and forth all the time.
It sounds like me going back and forth to California
all the time from Massachusetts, but I'm not. My farm
is here and my children are there, so you have
a different circumstance. I guess there are two points here,
(06:18):
First of all, to tell the story about how you
became an expert in this area, and then the need
that presents itself for people who have farms who love
it on the farm to hold on to the farm
by having extra occupational work and income. So let's go
down that street, Tyler.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Yeah, absolutely. I mean if you love it and the
farm isn't large enough to make a profitable living where
you can be comfortable, then absolutely have to find something
to do. I was just lucky enough when I graduated
college with a business degree because at the end of
the day, I had no clue what I wanted to
do with my life it looks like most young people don't,
(07:00):
and just kind of fell into the business with senior living.
My cousin's husband operated a nursing home back home in Ohio,
and I took my first job as an activities director
with him and kind of fell in love with it.
And it was in recession time in two thousand and eight,
so it was hard to find a good job at
that point. But I was blessed by the Good Lord,
and each step just kept opening a different opportunity. And
(07:25):
I've been a nursing home administrator in the past, and now,
like you said, running an assistant living in memory care
here in southern California and been nothing but blessed. I
just love what I do. I love that I get
to honor the people who really built this great country
through their hard work, too, And I just love the
respect that it takes to take care of them. And
I've been doing it now for fifteen years. It's pretty
(07:46):
crazy to think about that.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
How about your wife and your family, how do they
like being in California? They go back and forth to
the farm with you.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Well, my wife was born and raised here in Orange County,
and so that's kind of the long and short of
why I'm here for the period of time that we
are here. I told her when when we were getting serious,
I said, you know, I'll give you so much time
over there in southern California, but you really need to
want to make your nest in northwest Ohio if we're
going to continue this. And so she was just as
(08:17):
enthralled and intrigued with farm life as I always have been,
especially her living out here. So it was it's quite
a quite a life change, but all for the better.
I think.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Well, what it speaks to is how strong the American
farmer family fiber is in a manner of speaking, the
real farmers. The people there are those coming along now
that like it, love it and are being trained to work.
But the families, they heritage, the things that are so
much a part that you talk about the way you
(08:51):
talk about it, it is kind of the way I
feel it's and I'm sure a lot of people listened
the program say the same thing. I spend a lot
of time in New York and Pennsylvania as well at
farms and auctions, and I meet people who are part
of the same rigor. I notice one thing, however, and
(09:12):
you there's a religion to being on the farm. That
is a religion in part, but there also are people
who have strong ties to philosophy, if you will, to
the heritage, or linked it to some sort of I
(09:33):
don't want to use the word cult, because it's not fair,
it's not right. But I think about the Amish that
I know, and the Mennonites that I know, that a
lot of them live in Ohio, a lot of them
in Pennsylvania, a lot of them living in New York
and elsewhere, and how they are such great farmers. And
I don't know whether the fact that they are is
(09:55):
closely knit and tied to their faith, if that makes
them better. What do you think in your own circumstances.
Certainly welcome to tell me what you want me to know.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Well, I think at the end of the day, you know,
especially with farm, and you're relying on some higher power
at some point to bring the rain and bring good
weather to get crops in the ground. And I think
if you're relying on yourself at the end of the day,
you're not going to get too far. So I would
agree with that sentiment wholeheartedly.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Well, it's understanding life. I know that people tease me.
I have three or four different things that I do
with my life, and I find being on the tractor
mowing hay, for example, or raking it or bailing it,
planting corn, cultivating corn the sort of thing that we
do by ourselves for the most part. Then you look
(10:46):
around and you're thankful most of the time for the weather.
Maybe not all the time, but you know, the sorts
of things that keep you or put you in touch
with yourself. And the higher power that you're talking about
is there's no better understanding of And I think about this,
frankly all the time. And my children used to roll
(11:09):
their eyeballs, but they don't anymore. When I talk about
the fact, when you look around at how things grow,
where did the corn seed come from? Where did the
seed that grew the trees come from? Where did the
grass come from? Where? What I mean, where the planet
come from? Where the sun? You know, all of the things.
You can dig a pretty deep philosophical hole while you're
(11:33):
by yourself operating a piece of equipment. At least that's
how I have my that's where my mind goes with that.
If I'm driving a long drive to bring a tractor
or something somewhere, turn the radio on and and then
just look at the sky and think about how does
this piece of equipment operate? You know, I'm going off
(11:54):
on a tangent here, but I think you understand exactly
what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
I sure do you know. I think you do some
of your most clear thinking by yourself in the trap
of in the cap of a tractor or a combine.
And you know, for people who haven't experienced that, it's
it's funny because even my brother in law, who's lived
in southern California his whole life, you know, the first
time he came down and experience that kind of peace,
he's like, man, how do I how do I get
(12:21):
to be a part of this in some way? You know,
it's interesting that people who've never experienced once they do
are like, this is kind of where it's at. This
is maybe how life is supposed to be lived.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Yeah, well that's how it was lived. Everybody depended on
himself or herself. It wasn't anybody else to depend on,
not just in this country but around the world. Everybody
who go back in history to the original farmers, who
were the first people who have learned how to survive
on what was around, the berries that grew or whatever
(12:51):
things that they could create. It's really it can be
heavily philosophical, no doubt. All Right, we'll continue in a
matter of moments. Here Hawk is here. We're talking about
family farms. We're orienting ourselves to family farming here in
the real sense. Tyler Hawk is here from Kansas, Ohio.
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Hawk Farms in Kansas, Ohio. I noticed that part of
your story is your father's buying an eyeineteen forty seven,
farm All m and the classic tractor fevers show on
TV highlighted this nineteen forty seven farm all m I
had a nineteen I had a whole series, the whole
(16:13):
collection of farm malls once nineteen forty seven to nineteen
fifty three, I think they were, and boy didn't I
like the m is the best of all of the tractors?
Is that tractor still around? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Oh yeah, we would never part with that. It was
actually the first tractor my grandfather bought he was sixteen
years old, so it sat in the corner of the
barn for the majority of my young life. And when
I was ready to get married, I kind of convinced Dad,
let's pull that out and get it running and get
it painted up. And that's exactly what we did. So
(16:47):
I was lucky enough that one of my family members,
a cousin of mine, worked in the media department for
that show, and he asked if he could come out
and do a spot on that tractor. So we were
lucky enough to be featured on there. But yeah, that
was actually grandfather, Grandpa's first tractor, and Dad and I
put some wrenches together and got it back running. So
every time I'm back home, I make sure to hop
(17:08):
on and at least take a little joy ride.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
It's so simple. Those tractors are so simple when you
look at some of the stuff today. What's the tractors
that you have on the farm? Now, what do you
have for equipment?
Speaker 2 (17:21):
The White two one fifty five plants the corn for us.
I think that's a nineteen seventy eight model. And then
we have a I believe it's a nineteen eighty one
John Deere forty four forty does the majority of everything
else for us, whether it's working ground. We primarily not
till everything, but U and that plants the beans for us.
So between those two and then we operated a gleaner
(17:44):
L three for many years and Dad had an opportunity
this I think it was about two years ago now
on a great deal on a John Deere ninety six ten.
So from going from that L three to the ninety
six ten was a huge learning curve for us. But
and it's a monstrosity of a combine just for two
hundred and thirty acres. It barely fits in the barn
(18:05):
we have. But I mean that's part of the fun too,
getting to learn this new equipment and operate different stuff.
It's been a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
I've tried the new equipment. I bought a new tractor,
the first one I bought since nineteen ninety seven, a
couple of years ago, and I just don't like it.
I'm selling it and buying an old Massy because that's
what I like. Let's I don't comfort with anyway. Great stories, Tyler,
Thank you very much for being here. Congratulations to you
and to your family. Keep it going, man, you got
(18:35):
to keep in the family and keep it going on
Hawk Farms. This is Doug Stefan. You're listening to the
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out at toploss dot com. I'm Doug Stephan. What better
way to understand the life of a family farmer than
to talk from time to time to family farmers. That's
why we have Tyler Hawk with us today, who is
(00:22):
from Hawk Farms. I grew up in Kansas, Ohio, which
is pretty close to where I went to school in
northwest Ohio with Heidelberg and Tiffin, Ohio. A lot of
great beans and corn fields all through the summer. There
not so much cattle anymore as it used to be
when I was in school there. So Tyler is here
(00:42):
to tell us his story. Hi, Tyler, Welcome to the
American Family Farmer Program. Good to have you here.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Good morning, Doug. Thanks for having me. I appreciate it well.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I want you to tell your story. It's kind of fun.
I'm glad you were able to take some time. You
grew up on your family farm. Tell us about Kansas, Ohio,
north to Ohio, how it was when you were growing up,
and how it is now even though you live on
the West coast. You can tell us that story, but
going back and forth to work on the farm and
help out when you're needed. What is the feeling of
(01:14):
being in your neck of the woods and you go
back home, how do you feel?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Well? Peaceful's pretty much one word I can use compared
to southern California. But you know, growing up there was
really all I knew was small town, two stop signs,
I think in the whole town.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
A fire department at the post office, and not much
else going on in Kansas. So, yeah, my life revolved
around the farm and family and helping my grandpa and
my dad when I was a young kid, and riding
over in the bed of the truck to the farm
where Grandpa and Grandma lived, and.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Playing with tractors and fixing things and sweeping up barn floors.
And yeah, we didn't have any cattle or livestock when
I was a boy, but definitely enjoyed loving planting and
harvesting corn and soybeans. We did some wheat back in
the day, but Dad and I haven't gotten into wheat
probably for almost ten years.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Brothers and sisters on the farm with you.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
I do have a younger sister, yeah, so she was
more of a girly girl didn't dabble too much into
the farm operations, but it was primarily my dad, myself,
and my grandpa up until two thousand and eight when
he passed away.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
So the true definition of a family farm. How long
has it been in the family.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
My grandfather really enjoyed farming with his dad, did a
little bit of it, and we're talking, you know, probably
in the thirties and forties, and then Grandpa really established
the farm where he was at in the location that
I now live when I go back home in Kansas
in nineteen sixty eight, so we're just coming up on
about sixty years. But yeah, he was a hard working guy,
(02:46):
and Dad and I were just talking last night about
what the fruits of his labor that we get to
enjoy because he just worked his butt off and got
some land. We're not big time farmers by any means.
We're small guys. Got about two hundred and thirty acres
that we farm in total, So it's just it's always
been a hobby farm. Grandpa always had a full time job.
(03:07):
Dad always had a full time job, and I've always
worked full time outside of it. But I just can't
think of a better way or a better place to be.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Yeah, it's very interesting. I think about that my children.
I grew up on this farm. Well, there were four
or five farms that I worked on as a kid
in my neck of the woods. I've lived in Framingham
as all my life and have worked at every farm
except for one, and owned all of them at one
point in time or another in my life. And I
guess I would have to say, because I've always had
(03:38):
another job, I had another career, that the farm was
a hobby farm. But the other side of that is
that's not really a good word most people who are
working farms, no matter what size they are. For a
family farmer, I have at least one person in the
family has a job off the farm. And I want
to talk about that and why we need to live
(04:00):
our lives like that is we continue here Tyler Hawk
from Hawk Farms, Kansas, Ohio. Is the location kind of
like Greenwich, Ohio or Greenwich they call it Greenwich, Ohio.
Not one of these towns. They just stop a couple
of times and there's a post office and that's about it.
Lots of railroad tracks go through the town. That's what
we're talking about. That's in my mind, that's real farm country.
(04:22):
So we continue, hold on a second, this is the
American family farmer. Elizabeth Miller is here. So what if
we look online right now at toplass dot com. What
are we going to see, Elizabeth.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
If you've got a top loss dot com and you
click shop Radio Sale, it's got all kinds of information
about Caldrin on in one place. With this new website,
we have three gifts with every single purchase of caltrin,
So that's really awesome too. And then one other thing
I really wanted to hit on today too. I know
a lot of these white Lost shots are really popular
right now. People are asking can you take caldrin with that?
And one hundred percent you need caltren because caltrin is
(04:56):
going to help you retain the lean muscle rebuilding, so
keep your energy and metabolism boosted. And then it's also
going to help tone and tightened skin. And it does
it safely where it does not interfere with anything. It
doesn't have any drugs or stimulants, it doesn't make you
feel sick or jittery, and it's not going to be
overload on trying to do too much White loss.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Elizabeth Miller from Caldron here use the DOUG code when
you're doing the orders. That helpsh out as well getting
free shipping and the best deal toploss dot Com for Caldron.
Back on the American family farmer, Tyler Hawk from Hawk
Farms had one thing in common, Well, I guess they
(05:35):
had a lot more than that. They had named family.
They had a love of farm. They had ability, but
they also needed to have a job off the farm,
and so I was interested because you're off the farm
out in your Belinda, California running an assisted living in
memory center in California. Tell us about that and how
(05:57):
you came to be an expert in that field, and
why you had to go all the way to California,
even though you do go back and forth all the time.
It sounds like me going back and forth to California
all the time from Massachusetts, but I'm not. My farm
is here and my children are there, so you have
a different circumstance. I guess there are two points here,
(06:18):
First of all, to tell the story about how you
became an expert in this area, and then the need
that presents itself for people who have farms who love
it on the farm to hold on to the farm
by having extra occupational work and income. So let's go
down that street, Tyler.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Yeah, absolutely. I mean if you love it and the
farm isn't large enough to make a profitable living where
you can be comfortable, then absolutely have to find something
to do. I was just lucky enough when I graduated
college with a business degree because at the end of
the day, I had no clue what I wanted to
do with my life it looks like most young people don't,
(07:00):
and just kind of fell into the business with senior living.
My cousin's husband operated a nursing home back home in Ohio,
and I took my first job as an activities director
with him and kind of fell in love with it.
And it was in recession time in two thousand and eight,
so it was hard to find a good job at
that point. But I was blessed by the Good Lord,
and each step just kept opening a different opportunity. And
(07:25):
I've been a nursing home administrator in the past, and now,
like you said, running an assistant living in memory care
here in southern California and been nothing but blessed. I
just love what I do. I love that I get
to honor the people who really built this great country
through their hard work, too, And I just love the
respect that it takes to take care of them. And
I've been doing it now for fifteen years. It's pretty
(07:46):
crazy to think about that.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
How about your wife and your family, how do they
like being in California? They go back and forth to
the farm with you.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Well, my wife was born and raised here in Orange County,
and so that's kind of the long and short of
why I'm here for the period of time that we
are here. I told her when when we were getting serious,
I said, you know, I'll give you so much time
over there in southern California, but you really need to
want to make your nest in northwest Ohio if we're
going to continue this. And so she was just as
(08:17):
enthralled and intrigued with farm life as I always have been,
especially her living out here. So it was it's quite
a quite a life change, but all for the better.
I think.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Well, what it speaks to is how strong the American
farmer family fiber is in a manner of speaking, the
real farmers. The people there are those coming along now
that like it, love it and are being trained to work.
But the families, they heritage, the things that are so
much a part that you talk about the way you
(08:51):
talk about it, it is kind of the way I
feel it's and I'm sure a lot of people listened
the program say the same thing. I spend a lot
of time in New York and Pennsylvania as well at
farms and auctions, and I meet people who are part
of the same rigor. I notice one thing, however, and
(09:12):
you there's a religion to being on the farm. That
is a religion in part, but there also are people
who have strong ties to philosophy, if you will, to
the heritage, or linked it to some sort of I
(09:33):
don't want to use the word cult, because it's not fair,
it's not right. But I think about the Amish that
I know, and the Mennonites that I know, that a
lot of them live in Ohio, a lot of them
in Pennsylvania, a lot of them living in New York
and elsewhere, and how they are such great farmers. And
I don't know whether the fact that they are is
(09:55):
closely knit and tied to their faith, if that makes
them better. What do you think in your own circumstances.
Certainly welcome to tell me what you want me to know.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Well, I think at the end of the day, you know,
especially with farm, and you're relying on some higher power
at some point to bring the rain and bring good
weather to get crops in the ground. And I think
if you're relying on yourself at the end of the day,
you're not going to get too far. So I would
agree with that sentiment wholeheartedly.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Well, it's understanding life. I know that people tease me.
I have three or four different things that I do
with my life, and I find being on the tractor
mowing hay, for example, or raking it or bailing it,
planting corn, cultivating corn the sort of thing that we
do by ourselves for the most part. Then you look
(10:46):
around and you're thankful most of the time for the weather.
Maybe not all the time, but you know, the sorts
of things that keep you or put you in touch
with yourself. And the higher power that you're talking about
is there's no better understanding of And I think about this,
frankly all the time. And my children used to roll
(11:09):
their eyeballs, but they don't anymore. When I talk about
the fact, when you look around at how things grow,
where did the corn seed come from? Where did the
seed that grew the trees come from? Where did the
grass come from? Where? What I mean, where the planet
come from? Where the sun? You know, all of the things.
You can dig a pretty deep philosophical hole while you're
(11:33):
by yourself operating a piece of equipment. At least that's
how I have my that's where my mind goes with that.
If I'm driving a long drive to bring a tractor
or something somewhere, turn the radio on and and then
just look at the sky and think about how does
this piece of equipment operate? You know, I'm going off
(11:54):
on a tangent here, but I think you understand exactly
what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
I sure do you know. I think you do some
of your most clear thinking by yourself in the trap
of in the cap of a tractor or a combine.
And you know, for people who haven't experienced that, it's
it's funny because even my brother in law, who's lived
in southern California his whole life, you know, the first
time he came down and experience that kind of peace,
he's like, man, how do I how do I get
(12:21):
to be a part of this in some way? You know,
it's interesting that people who've never experienced once they do
are like, this is kind of where it's at. This
is maybe how life is supposed to be lived.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Yeah, well that's how it was lived. Everybody depended on
himself or herself. It wasn't anybody else to depend on,
not just in this country but around the world. Everybody
who go back in history to the original farmers, who
were the first people who have learned how to survive
on what was around, the berries that grew or whatever
(12:51):
things that they could create. It's really it can be
heavily philosophical, no doubt. All Right, we'll continue in a
matter of moments. Here Hawk is here. We're talking about
family farms. We're orienting ourselves to family farming here in
the real sense. Tyler Hawk is here from Kansas, Ohio.
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Hawk Farms in Kansas, Ohio. I noticed that part of
your story is your father's buying an eyeineteen forty seven,
farm All m and the classic tractor fevers show on
TV highlighted this nineteen forty seven farm all m I
had a nineteen I had a whole series, the whole
(16:13):
collection of farm malls once nineteen forty seven to nineteen
fifty three, I think they were, and boy didn't I
like the m is the best of all of the tractors?
Is that tractor still around? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Oh yeah, we would never part with that. It was
actually the first tractor my grandfather bought he was sixteen
years old, so it sat in the corner of the
barn for the majority of my young life. And when
I was ready to get married, I kind of convinced Dad,
let's pull that out and get it running and get
it painted up. And that's exactly what we did. So
(16:47):
I was lucky enough that one of my family members,
a cousin of mine, worked in the media department for
that show, and he asked if he could come out
and do a spot on that tractor. So we were
lucky enough to be featured on there. But yeah, that
was actually grandfather, Grandpa's first tractor, and Dad and I
put some wrenches together and got it back running. So
every time I'm back home, I make sure to hop
(17:08):
on and at least take a little joy ride.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
It's so simple. Those tractors are so simple when you
look at some of the stuff today. What's the tractors
that you have on the farm? Now, what do you
have for equipment?
Speaker 2 (17:21):
The White two one fifty five plants the corn for us.
I think that's a nineteen seventy eight model. And then
we have a I believe it's a nineteen eighty one
John Deere forty four forty does the majority of everything
else for us, whether it's working ground. We primarily not
till everything, but U and that plants the beans for us.
So between those two and then we operated a gleaner
(17:44):
L three for many years and Dad had an opportunity
this I think it was about two years ago now
on a great deal on a John Deere ninety six ten.
So from going from that L three to the ninety
six ten was a huge learning curve for us. But
and it's a monstrosity of a combine just for two
hundred and thirty acres. It barely fits in the barn
(18:05):
we have. But I mean that's part of the fun too,
getting to learn this new equipment and operate different stuff.
It's been a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
I've tried the new equipment. I bought a new tractor,
the first one I bought since nineteen ninety seven, a
couple of years ago, and I just don't like it.
I'm selling it and buying an old Massy because that's
what I like. Let's I don't comfort with anyway. Great stories, Tyler,
Thank you very much for being here. Congratulations to you
and to your family. Keep it going, man, you got
(18:35):
to keep in the family and keep it going on
Hawk Farms. This is Doug Stefan. You're listening to the
American Family Farmer. This program was produced at bobk Sound
and Recording.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
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