Farmers earn more from YouTube than their crops


  • TECH
  • Monday, 22 Jul 2019

The farmers vlog about their day-to-day experience as well as bring awareness to the issues they face at work.

It’s a sign of the times when farmers make more money advocating for the industry on social media than actually farming.

Zach Johnson, who grows corn and soybeans in Minnesota, is known in YouTube circles as "MN Millennial Farmer". It’s a role, he says, that’s provided him and his wife, Becky, about five times more in earnings than he can make on the family farm in the last year.

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