‘Millennial Farmer’ Gives His Nearly 1M YouTube Subscribers A Glimpse At Life In Rural Minnesota – WCCO
LOWRY, Minn. (WCCO) — A farmer in western Minnesota has a YouTube channel that’s approaching 1 million subscribers. Zach Johnson farms close to the city of Lowry, however he’s finest identified for what he posts on-line.
Throughout harvest season, Johnson gravitates in direction of two issues — his crops and his digicam. It’s why he’s often called the Millennial Farmer.
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“I’m 37, so I’m an aged millennial,” Johnson stated.
Millennial Farmer additionally occurs to be the identify of the YouTube channel he began 5 years in the past. At first, he simply needed to provide individuals a glimpse into rural America.
“I had one video do 100,000 views within the first week, which on the time was simply loopy,” Johnson stated.
Now, he has greater than 850,000 subscribers. About half are non-farmers.
“The cool factor we’ve observed is we get everybody from 2-year-olds to 100-year-olds,” Johnson stated.
The movies characteristic on a regular basis challenges, like caught tools and flat tires to harvesting within the snow.
It’s a group effort. Johnson’s spouse edits what he brings again. Throughout harvest season they make about 5 movies per week.
“Folks ask how I give you supplies and the way I plan for these items, I don’t,” Johnson stated. “That is what’s occurring everyday on the household farm.”
Humor is combined in with the challenges and the fixes.
Johnson and his household donate a number of the YouTube cash they get from Millennial Farmer to a company that helps farm households in disaster. Among the cash additionally goes to fireplace departments for coaching and tools that may assist with grain bin rescues.
The Johnsons really feel it’s the appropriate factor to do. It’s their likelihood to teach and encourage.
“The most important factor I’d prefer to get throughout is to focus on the truth that farmers are individuals. And we’re nonetheless the identical household farmers out right here doing what we’ve executed for lots of of years. The identical individuals out right here that love the land and handle the land,” Johnson stated.
Johnson doesn’t have livestock so within the winter he’ll go to dairy and poultry farms to focus on what these farmers are doing.
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