The Peterson Farm Bros are made up of Greg (25), Nathan (22), Kendal (19), and honorary “bro” Laura (15) Peterson. They are siblings who farm together with their parents near Assaria, KS. The farm is a 5th generation family farm that raises cattle, wheat, corn, soybeans, milo, and alfalfa. The family started making YouTube videos in 2012, when the oldest brother Greg had an idea to make a parody music video with his brothers to help educate their city friends about farming. The video was filmed throughout the month of June and posted at the end of the month. It was entitled “I’m Farming and I Grow It,” and was a parody of the song “I’m Sexy and I Know It” by LMFAO. The song was a viral hit on YouTube and was the beginning of an incredible journey for the farm family, who have now acquired over 37 million views on YouTube!
- Title: I’m Farming And I Grow It
- Original Song: I’m Sexy and I Know It by LMFAO
- Date: June 2012
- Views: 9.5 million
The brothers followed up their successful first video with a remake of the most popular music video of all time “Gangnam Style.” Their version was appropriately titled, “Farmer Style.” It ended up becoming their most watched video!
- Title: Farmer Style
- Original Song: Gangnam Style by PSY
- Date: December 2012
- Views: 16.2 million
The following summer, the brothers couldn’t decide which currently popular song they should parody. The top hits of the summer were by Miley Cyrus and Justin Beiber. They decided not to go that direction, so they threw it back to the ’90s and parodied the theme song from “The Fresh Prince of Bel Air” instead! And this time they included their mom and their sister.
- Title: A Fresh Breath of Farm Air
- Original Song: Fresh Prince of Bel Air by Will Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff
- Date: July 2013
- Views: 1.3 Million
The Peterson Family Farm has always put up a lot of hay. Therefore, it was fitting to produce a song strictly about baling!
- Title: Bale
- Original Song: Sail by Awolnation
- Date: September 2013
- Views: 1.1 Million
It was the middle of winter, and the brothers felt it was time to make another video. But the main thing that was really happening on the farm at that time was feeding cattle twice a day. So they made a video about their daily chores on the farm!
- Title: Chore
- Original Song: Roar by Katy Perry
- Date: December 2013
- Views: 2.2 Million
After doing a Katy Perry-dy, the brothers thought it would be best if they got back to their rapping “roots” that they got started with. They realize they aren’t that good at rapping, but there is nothing more entertaining than farmers rapping about farming. Plus, they got some help from fellow YouTubers Lil Fred and Farmer Derek!
- Title: All I Do is Farm
- Original Song: All I Do is Win by DJ Khaled
- Date: July 2014
- Views: 700,000
At the end of 2014, there were several songs the brothers wanted to parody, so they decided to do all of them in one video! Including their most requested song, “Let it Go” from the movie “Frozen.”
- Title: Throttle Down for What, Talk Farming to Me, All About That Beef, I’m So Farmer, Let it Grow
- Original Songs: Turn Down for What (DJ Snake), Talk Dirty (Jason Derulo), All About That Bass (Meghan Trainor), Fancy (Iggy Azalea), Let it Go (Frozen Movie)
- Date: October 2014
- Views: 770,000
Sometimes the older fans of the PFB would complain about not knowing the songs that they were parodying, so the brothers decided to throw it way back to the 80’s! They also had farmers and ranchers from all over the world send in pictures and videos of them taking care of their livestock.
Title: Takin’ Care of Livestock
Original Song: Takin’ Care of Business by Bachman Turner Overdrive
Date: May 2015
Views: 170,000
For the entire summer of 2015, the brothers tried to brainstorm parody lyrics to Uptown Funk. Finally, they were able to come up with some for part of the song. Adding hit songs of the summer “Whip/Nae Nae” and “Hit the Quan,” the parody mashup “Farmers Feed the World” was born.
Title: Farmers Feed the World
Original Songs: Whip Nae/Nae by Silento, Hit the Quan by I Heart Memphis, and Uptown Funk by Mark Ronson
Date: November 2015
Views: 450,000
Follow the Peterson Farm Brothers:
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/petersonfarmbros
Twitter: @gregpeterson33, @npete16, @kmerle7
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Website: http://www.petersonfarmbros.com