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Farmers getting in touch with
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YOU MIGHT THINK THAT FARMING AND MUSIC HAVE
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING IN COMMON. HOWEVER, AT
THE RECENT FREE STATE AGRICULTURE CONGRESS IT
BECAME EVIDENT THAT IT INDEED DOES.
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American farmer, had
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his new and
to connect with the public
through rapping.
He also definitely had
something to do with the
positive spin on things as he
explained his views. Peterson
said that in America everyone
used to have a farmer in their
family, but over the past
number of decades things
have changed. The fact is that
today only 1 in 20 people has
a connection to farming. In his
own words: “Society doesn’t
understand farmers anymore”.
That is where the Peterson
Farm Brothers’ story began
in 2012, when Greg and his
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brothers, Nathan and Kendal
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started wit
basically changed the words
of hip and happening songs
into a usable platform to
get a message across to the
general public that farming
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is indeed a cool profession.
Greg explained that it all
actually started just to create
a video for their friends and it
escalated from there. Within a
few months after having had
the idea, they had millions of
views on YouTube and they
also appeared on television
shows and at functions, just
like the Free State Agriculture
congress in August.
They have songs in their
repertoire like Psy’s Gangnam
Style (Farmer Style), LMFAO’s
Sexy and I know it (I’m farming
and I grow it) as well as Katy
Perry’s Roar that they turned
into Chore and many more.
In fact I’m farming and I
grow it had 5 million views
in a matter of a week. Now
they have more than 30
million views across five of
their best known parodies.
Greg said that they
“advocate agri through social
media” to tell the public what
they do and how important a
Okt/Nov 2015 • SENWES Scenario
GREG
PETERSON