HILLIARD, Ohio - It's 9 a.m., and Neall Weber is back on the farm with his son, after taking his daughter to school.

• Weber Farms is located in Hilliard, Ohio
• Neall Weber is a fourth-generation farmer
• The Webers grow corn, soybeans, barley, wheat, straw, and hay

"We've got a little truck maintenance here this morning," Weber said. "We have a truck that went down on us, so we have to replace it with another one to keep our harvest flowing."

With the help of another worker on the farm, Weber was able to tow one semi-truck out and back another semi-truck into a bed filled with one thousand bushels of corn.

Now that the trucks were switched out, Weber was off to dump the corn and feed it into a silo that was located a few miles down the road. The corn was dumped from the truck and fed into the silo through a series of vacuum-like shoots. According to Weber, the corn could sit in the silo for up to a year before being sold. He said the majority of the corn would eventually be transported to a corn-syrup plant. The rest of it will be used as animal feed.

"The markets are really tough right now. At this point, we're just breaking even," he said. "Farmers are typically cash poor. We spend our money to upgrade our facilities and feed our families, and there's not usually much left after that."

While Neall owns some of the lands that he farms, he doesn't own all of it. This is common for farmers throughout Ohio. Many farmers rent the land that they farm. If a landlord decides to sell that land, farmers take a hit.

"We've lost a lot of property to a lot of the urban-sprawl," Weber said. "We've just been trying to do the best we can with properties that we are farming, managing it to its utmost potential."

Once all of the corn was fed into the silo, Neall traveled to another field across town. He needed a tractor to till that land, and to get there; he drove the tractor through a few roundabout traffic circles. Weber said it's difficult to maneuver large equipment through town. His father, Steve, said he doesn't believe that the city considers farmers when they make changes to the roads.

"Oh! I tell ya. I was just thinking about this having to go through one of those. You know, it seems like when the cities come out in the country, they don't consider farming and the equipment. They make [the roads] small, and we can't hardly actually get through them," Steve Weber said.

Steve said a lot has changed for farmers over the years and that there seems to be increased pressure to succeed with more obstacles getting in their way. His faith has kept him focused.

"All of this is God's. We are working for him. We don't own the combine. We don't own this. We don't own the land. We're here on this earth to please him and to work for him, and everything that we have and own is his," he said.

While Steve spent the day harvesting soybeans, Neall completed a few other tasks. He tilled the soil at one field, sold straw to a customer, cut grass at another field, and checked on corn that would soon be harvested.

"There is more [corn] grown between here and Nebraska than there is in the entire world and so we are feeding people domestic and foreign as well, so it's something that every farm, we all are proud of that. We have become efficient enough to feed everyone," Neall said.

When asked about exporting that corn, he said the tariffs had affected his bottom-line.

"The markets are up and down every day. And [tariffs] have affected us in a negative way, but they've also benefited other structures of business, so the farmers have been taking it for years, and it's just one of those things that we're kind of used to it by now, but right now though, the prices of everything with the exception of the commodities have really gone up. Input costs, equipment, rent, taxes, everything just keeps rising, but the price of [corn] doesn't keep up with it," he said.

When Neall arrived back on the farm, he was met by Troy Cameron and his family. 

"[The Camerons] live just a few miles away and they have 4-H cattle, so with the hay shortage this year because, with all of the rain that we had early, things went dry late. That's never good for hay growing, so with that shortage, they decided to come and pick what was left of our sweet corn, and it's a brilliant idea. It's great nutrition for the animals, and it's free," Weber said.

"Neall was a nice enough guy to let us have it for the family farm. It's just a mini-farm. Five acres, some heifers and a donkey," Cameron said. "We've known the Webers for 40 plus years, and they're just an unbelievable family that are farmers also, but they're always willing to pitch in and if you can use what everyone else uses on their table as a byproduct for agriculture and for cattle and whatnot. It's an excellent idea."

After Neall said goodbye to the Camerons, he loaded fuel that would be taken to his father, so that they could finish harvesting the soybeans. The work would continue on into the night.

"There are so many exciting parts to what I do and what we all do, but I just enjoy being outdoors in essence, and I enjoy the challenge. I think every farmer enjoys that as well. To be cooped up inside, that's just not our state of mind, and it's not our place, and thank God there's a place for us," he said.