‘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 near the town of Lowry, nonetheless he’s best acknowledged for what he posts on-line.

All through harvest season, Zach Johnson gravitates within the course of two points — his crops and his digital digicam. It’s why he’s typically referred to as the Millennial Farmer.

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“I’m 37, so I’m an aged millennial,” Johnson said.

Millennial Farmer moreover happens to be the title of the YouTube channel Zach started 5 years previously. At first, he merely wished to supply of us a glimpse into rural America.

“I had one video do 100,000 views inside the first week, which on the time was merely crazy,” Johnson said.

Now, he has larger than 850,000 subscribers. About half are non-farmers.

“The cool issue we’ve seen is we get all people from 2-year-olds to 100-year-olds,” Johnson said.

The films attribute regularly challenges, like caught gear and flat tires to harvesting inside the snow.

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It’s a workforce effort. Zach’s partner edits what he brings once more. All through harvest season they make about 5 films each week.

“People ask how I offer you provides and the way in which I plan for these items, I don’t,” Johnson said. “That’s what’s going down on a regular basis on the family farm.”

Humor is mixed in with the challenges and the fixes.

Johnson and his family donate quite a few the YouTube money they get from Millennial Farmer to an organization that helps farm households in catastrophe. Among the many money moreover goes to hearth departments for teaching and equipment that will help with grain bin rescues.

The Johnsons actually really feel it’s the very best issue to do. It’s their chance to show and encourage.

“The biggest issue I’d want to get all through is to highlight the reality that farmers are of us. And we’re nonetheless the an identical family farmers out proper right here doing what we’ve achieved for a complete lot of years. The an identical of us out proper right here that love the land and keep the land,” Johnson said.

Johnson doesn’t have livestock so inside the winter he’ll go to dairy and poultry farms to highlight what these farmers are doing.

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