There’s a place for everyone on the internet, and YouTube’s Ivers Farms channel proved that better than any. The Illinois-based Ivers family has been in the farming business for almost a century, but it was their internet content that served them best in gaining fans from around the world, including people who are deeply interested in farming and heavy equipment, or just find the Ivers too entertaining to stop watching.
While the Ivers Farms YouTube channel is still relatively new and with lots of growth potential, that hasn’t stopped the guys in front of the cameras from gaining fame on their own. One of those is David,one of the Ivers brothers who sadly suffered an almost fatal accident in 2021.
So what happened to David? How did his accident happen, and how well has he recovered? Is he still appearing on his family’s channel? Keep with us to find out more about him!
What Happened To Him?
In late July 2021, the Ivers Farms’ social media pages left its fans shocked when it was announced that David Ivers had suffered a serious accident. The photo shared by Reese showed David lying on a hospital bed, head bandaged and face and arms with visible lacerations.
According to the post, David had a ‘significant fall’ which resulted in several fractures, including facial bones, two vertebrates, and his skull. Though it’s unclear whether David was conscious when his brother took the photo, Reese assured that his recovery was possible, even if it would take some time to get there.
Not many fans of the YouTube channel knew the extended story of David’s accident, until Ivers Farms’ YouTube channel shared a video in August of that year. In it, Reese and Dennis affirm that the accident occurred when David’s pontoon boat was on a trailer over which he had ventured to ‘get something out of it’ while holding his daughter Elaine in his arms. Somehow he tripped, and was unable to stop his fall, eventually landing on the concrete while protecting his child.
Despite the ugly fall he suffered, Dennis affirmed that even if David wasn’t ‘real good’ and needed a long time to recover, it was luck that his accident hadn’t resulted in a broken neck or worse.
Where’s David Now?
One thing about the Ivers family is that, despite having a YouTube channel, they’re quite secretive about their lives outside of their farm and business. That said, David doesn’t have any public social media except for a Twitter (now X) account that hasn’t been updated since 2018.
Though this makes it difficult to follow his health progress after his 2021 accident in-depth, David’s appearances on Ivers Farms’ YouTube channel were the only visible indications that he was recovering well. By the final episode of the show’s second season in March 2022, David was already driving and taking care of the farm’s heavy machinery, just as in the old times.
While it’s unclear if his injuries limited his work performance in some way, David hasn’t stepped away from the family business one bit, though his proneness to getting hurt has brought up several light-hearted jokes among his family and followers. Such as in January 2023, when Reese shared a pic of David wearing a sweater that said he was a ‘GMO survivor’, which many followers found hilarious due to the teasing contrast of genetically modified plants and fruits to the Ivers’ business, and David’s record of suffering injuries while at work.
These days, David is back at work as usual, and his appearances in the family’s YouTube channel are constant.
What Is Ivers Farms?
You might know Ivers Farms for their helpful and entertaining YouTube videos, in which they give us a deep insight into what farming life is really like, and how to manage equipment and the essentials of the business. However, there’s a lot of history behind Ivers Farms, as the Ivers family has been farming for almost 90 years.
Everything started with Maurice Ivers, an Indiana-born man who was the youngest of 14 kids. Around the time he was 19, Maurice made it to local headlines in reports from that time for shucking 213 bushels of corn in one day, which was described as surpassing ‘any known records for (that) part of the country’.
While Maurice had plenty of experience farming in Indiana, he eventually rented and lost his land there. At some point, Maurice served in the Marine Corps, and took part in some famous battles, returning home in the mid-1940s to marry Marjorie Marie. The couple welcomed their eldest son Morris George in 1946, and Dennis was born in 1953, both of whom we’ve come to know on Ivers Farms YouTube channel.
Back to the beginnings of the farm, Maurice and his then-young family initially lived in Indiana, but also owned some land in Illinois, to where they eventually moved and founded what we now know as Ivers Farm.
Rise To Fame
Several decades passed from the time Maurice and Marjorie Ivers established Ivers Farms, with the family growing as the business did too. He passed away in 1994, at a point when the family’s farm had progressed to irrigation, and no longer raised cows for a living. According to reports, Marjorie and Maurice only had three kids – George, Dennis, and a daughter named Tina, who is rarely seen on the YouTube channel.
Up to the beginning of their YouTube escapades in 2020, the Ivers family was known only in Illinois and farming circles, featured briefly in media related to their business. Their internet fame started when Reese began filming their farming operations in detail, despite his lack of editing experience.
Things progressed from there, as Reese not only kept improving the content, but also included the rest of the family in it. It didn’t take long before their videos started attracting lots of traction, to the point of gaining sponsorships and interviews with farming and equipment-related brands.
To date, the Ivers Family’s YouTube channel has self-produced four seasons of their online show, and shared almost 400 videos. Their most popular video is “Making a 900,000 Bushel Corn Pile”, which has been seen almost 650,000 times since October 2021.
All in all, Ivers Farms is not only a farming channel, but is also about the legacy of a hard-working family.
