Fields of Gold | movie | 2023 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

A. E. Staley went from growing up barefoot on a farm in North Carolina, to building a billion dollar agribusiness giant. | dG1fR29TaWdWclgtQXM

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00:00 [MUSIC]

00:07 >> Right now, soybeans are a common word in our lexicon.

00:11 At that point, soybeans weren't something that people knew about.

00:16 >> And look where it's at today.

00:18 >> It's all because of a vision a guy named A.E. Staley had 110 years ago.

00:24 [MUSIC]

00:29 >> A.E. Staley.

00:30 >> A.E. Staley.

00:31 >> A.E. Staley.

00:32 >> Augustus Eugene Staley.

00:33 >> What a man.

00:34 >> A man who had done more for the American farmer than any other man alive.

00:39 >> He changed what this community was.

00:41 [MUSIC]

00:43 >> He treated his employees like his own family.

00:45 >> I just can't imagine to have a boss take care of you like that.

00:50 >> The number of families that have been touched by this company is mind blowing.

00:54 >> That fire in Baltimore ravaged the city, but

00:57 it really did damage to the warehouse district.

00:59 >> The only thing that saved him was his reputation.

01:03 His honesty and integrity were bankable.

01:05 >> [APPLAUSE]

01:07 >> A.E. Staley put the Staley name in

01:10 national baseball history.

01:11 >> He was not one of these guys who gets rich and goes, I want to own a sports team.

01:15 He was a real sports fan.

01:17 >> He said, you can come to work for me, and you can organize a team and

01:21 play football.

01:21 >> [APPLAUSE]

01:23 >> And that's the game.

01:25 >> The Decatur Staley's defeat the Chicago Tigers 10 to 0.

01:29 >> Without the Staley's, there would be no Chicago Bears.

01:32 >> That's pretty cool that the Chicago Bears originated in Decatur.

01:37 >> A.E. Staley changed the course of history.

01:39 >> He was ahead of his time.

01:40 >> People knew they were witnessing something hardly seen before.

01:44 [MUSIC]

01:46 [APPLAUSE]

01:54 (audience laughing)