Predicting Our Worst Harvest Ever! Another Wind Storm
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Predicting Our Worst Harvest Ever! Another Wind Storm hits on top of an already terrible crop. The show must go on.. Finishing up The StripTiller and Anhydrous System. It wouldn't be a good video with out a dead battery or two. #deadbatterycomedy
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I bet you learned just as much from Jim as Onyx is learning from Jim. Jim is a real treasure. Love seeing him back in the videos!
i want JFC merch............ jim's fan club. jim is the REAL star of the show
@@raymondo162 we have Jim's "Holy Buckets" edition shirts on the website! 😂
Jim laughing at every problem is the reason he's gonna outlive us all.
Right
definitley prolly true dat
He got me when he laughed about the cooler getting crushed by the wings hahahaha
You have to laugh the only way to survive
Good to see Jim’s smiling face again, now we know harvest is coming soon
Jim is a blessing.
And now begs the question "will he or won't he get a tractor stuck?"
In Denmark, we use something called "læ-bælter" which translates to shelterbelts. It's trees! Rows of trees between the fields. The purpose is exactly to keep the summer thunderstorms from ruining the crop. Most farmers maintain them with machines and keep the cut to about 3m in height. And some are just wild-growing trees. It is used more as you get to the sandy soil of western Jutland. Also, they plant less wind sensitive crops like potatoes.
Also, the choppings from cutting the belts are chipped and used for heating.
There are farms here in Minnesota with shelter tree rows, though seems to be not as common. Not sure if the issue is the shade to crop type, irrigation or other.
Not sure about MF but a lot of farmers have removed what we used to call “hedge rows” to be able to till every bit of land possible. Guess they feel the risk is worth it. Not many if any are still living that experienced the dust bowls of the 1930’s. Hedge rows following the dust bowls became common and many existed late into the 20th century.
@@PJBluntz ….tree lines would typically border the entire field on all four sides……….as least they used to years ago.
@@CJP-oz6hr Risk? What risk? Government programs keep 'em in business. Why do you think MF isn't puking all over the place?
The more I watch these the more curious I am about the economics behind an operation like this.
Viability and long-therm strategy seem embedded in everything you do.
Great content, even for an non-farmer.
It's a wonderful way of life.Most farmers/ranchers are cash poor and land rich!
It's definitely a long game. Year to year is so variable. Balancing it all as much as we can is important
the farmer life, 49 percent farming, 51 percent keeping a positive attitude!! you guys are true STUDS!!
Tell my wife that!! 😂😂
Sending prayers your way guys, appreciate everything you and all farmers go through to put food on our tables, from the bottom of my heart thank you!
Love seeing Jim in videos, reminds me of my grandpa who I miss dearly. Jim, your one hell of a guy! Prolly taught Zach everything he knows and now teaching Onyx. Great person
Zack is a real man! You can tell cause when he pick's up heavy stuff, like all men he uses his back, cause you gotta save them knee's!!!! xD
lol noticed the same thing myself.
JIM!!!!!! Glad to see him back. Very sorry to see the condition of the fields. Prayers sent to the family that lost so much on their farm.
Our weather here in germany was like exactly the opposite: a really rainy summer and now in the first week of september we finally got sunshine and 80°F.
I'm expecting a food shortage to come, over here in Switzerland we've got stuff swamped during the summer, not as bad as some places over in Germany but still a lot of drowned crop and veggies :/ And now Summer seems to have rolled in, 28°C today where i'm at
@@Speedycat U ever Bauer Housi? I've been watching him. It's definitely a strange year u got in my old Homeland also.
Really sorry to see how the storm affected your crops. Praying for all you farmers because we need you more and more. The videos are always good, thank you.
Glad you're all safe and weren't hit worse by the storm. Jim's back, woohooooo!!!
Prevent water from getting into your shop by gluing a rubber profile to the cement floor where it contacts the overhead door. Works very well. About $8 Canadian per foot. Available from your overhead door company.
I remember my grandfather back in the 1960s saying that he wanted short cornstalks because they didn't go down in the wind so easy. These days it isn't so much the wind but it is combined with heavy rain so it's like pouring water out of a bucket that knocks the corn down. At least back in my grandfather's time, they had animals to feed so they could chop downed corn for feed and silage. That doesn't work so well for a cash crop.
Reason very-large-number to like Millenial Farmer. You teach your kids to safely and confidently handle guns. I love farmers. Seriously, there are no better people on Earth.
Hell , you need to just hook the planter up behind this rig, what’s 1 more attachment . It’s not that I don’t have faith in Zack but if this thing works like he wants it will be a miracle!
So sorry to see all that damage for you folks that was always good to see you and you too kids all right y'all have a beautiful night and hope to see you guys again later
Hey, I am sorry to see that you have so much damage in the fields this year. The weather extremes are getting more and more. I am a farmer from Germany, we produce corn, wheat, some soybeans and mostly we produce hybrid corn seeds. We had record dry and hot summers for 3 years and this year was the opposite.......the coldest and most wet year I can remember. I feel with you and your family and your neighbors who had even more damage.....there will come better times.....good luck for the future!
Anhydrous ammonia work brings back memories. Used to custom apply it for our local fertilizer company. First year with a 4850 Front wheel assist I did 22,000 acres. Definitely got tired of the smell Crying shame about the crops in your area.
Keep you in my prayers 🙏
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My dad talked of the day he applied anhydrous for the local elevator. John Deere A with a two shank trailer applicator. He said he put on an entire rail car of anhydrous that fall.
🍻cheers dad, if you could only see farming technology now.
22,000 acres in a year? No way. That would take 110 days you did 200 acres a day
@@ahotdogisasandwich5716
Yes some days we did 300 ran the unit round the clock. Worked out of Harrod,Ohio Sohigro plant. For at the Time manager Kenny Lawrence. We would started in the fall adding N-serve to it running in black organic soils outside of Alger and McGuffey .
Dude if you 'smelled' ammonia hydrate you would be dead.
@@allenschmitz9644
See you know absolutely nothing about knifing in anhydrous ammonia what so ever. It’s a compressed liquid in the tank and turns to a gas as it attaches to the soil. And yes you definitely can smell the ammonia smell on the ends when turning.
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I think its the same storm by the way it sounds like it was moving, but I was at school when it happened, weather rain on a radar goes from green to pink, green being light, pink being heavy, my town went through pink, we had up to 70mph winds, lots of rain and some almost baseball sized hail, lots of leaves and trees down, our school went into a tornado warning.. glad everyone was okay
MR MILLENNIUM You are inspired and hope you can keep positive spirits. Know tough crop year and praying for best.
Haven't seen your Dad lately. I guess he is having surgery on his knee. Wishing him a successful and painless recovery. Good luck on the painless recovery.
You should buy a hand thrower for the clays, they do a good job lofting them into the air... or even go all out and get one of the nice pull cord ones.
AGREE MUCH EASIER....
All you can do is prepare for the worst and pray for the best. I admire your positive attitude regardless of what's happening. Best wishes from NW Ohio
Flag wire in a drill makes quick work on clearing the steel lines out, might have to make a slight bend at the tip of the wire to get them completely cleaned out
And if you clip the end off with side cutters it will give it a little bit of a cutting edge to help drill
I'm looking forward to seeing this train, with anhydrous tank in rear!
All the tech you use in your operation is incredible!! prayers out to your Nabors
Damn Zach. When I see that corn layover I remember when it happened to us over the years. Hopefully, you can get what you can without wrecking the picker. Considering how you're neighbors got hit-- you got lucky. Looks like a "Count your blessings, kinda' week."
You can't catch a break with the wind hopefully some of it can be salvaged
Farmers persevere. That is why we all tune in. ;) God bless our farmers!
Onyx: “You hit the barn roof” 😂😂🤣
They make a rubber floor gasket for the garage door that does a great job of sealing out the wind blown water.
You could possibly use something like a bin fan to pressurize your building and prevent rain blowing into the building. Consult an engineer to make sure the building can withstand it.
Zach did your grove around the farm help you from damage to the bldgs and the bins vs your neighbors. Just sick fighting the drought and then now the winds and hail finishing the crop now. That different number of corn planted around the outside of the field, maybe you should keep track of it and maybe plant more of it next year. Praying for you to be able to get the crop harvested along with all the other farmers facing mother nature's damage. Have a safe harvest !
FYI there is a hand launcher for clay targets which launch the targets just fine or go with a ground mount launcher that is manually reloaded and cocked. Or you could go all out with a self cocking automatic reloading launcher which uses either a rope or cable with a push button to launch a bird and swings back and forth so you never know where the bird will be launched.
Food for thought
Check your wire to your dome light. Ours wasn’t killing power to it when door was shut was draining the batteries
Family target practicing is the best. Teach them young and safety first. Sorry about the crops. Prayers for your neighbors.
Looks like the new to you combine is going to get a workout this harvest. Hopefully the corn pops back up or you get a corn reel to help. Getting flashbacks to the Larsen Farms harvest 2 years ago with all their blown over corn
And Cole last year
Hopefully John deere gives them a demo of the X9 again...would help them pick it up
Hoping you can salvage enough to cover some of your expenses. Looks like a rough year all around. And I hope your neighbors rebound from the storm. We lost our largest dairy farm in NJ two weeks ago to tornadoes. Tough times.
Put some old garden hose inside your door seal.. it helps when the seals flatten out from use....
Zack if you take a string and stretch it out for your length of that hose and then measure the string you will get an Easier measurement and it’s true. I sure hope the crops are better then expected.
You should look into getting a battery tender system to help keep those batteries from going dead. There are super easy to install and work great for me.
Sorry, about all the crop issues. Hope all goes better next year.
Sorry to see the wind damage. We didn't get any here but about 10 miles south of us it starts & there are some tough looking fields. Hopefully the weather stays good now so at least there won't be any more damage.
"I found one of the cats we've been missing"
I could smell that......
Yeah, I’m wondering what’s happened to his rodent catcher
Brutal!!
Oh yeah. That's a smell you DONT forget.
@@HughieMunro maybe a fox, or a coyote, maybe even one of the dogs possibly.
For clays a thrower makes a huge difference. Even those red plastic ones. You wind was worse then over here. But like you I figure 2 bins will not be used this year. Unless I keep soybeans. Then part of one. Good move getting extra safety. I recall starting to drive tillage tractor in swamp when I saw tornado as kid. Thinking if stuck the tornado couldn’t lift it.
Call the county agent and see if there is a flyway location close - sell or donate the blown down corn if you can't harvest it. Birds would love it. It also would be good silage for someone with livestock. Just a thought. Doing great.
I'll never forget my senior year in HS back in NW Iowa when our PhysEd teacher had us shooting clay pigeons. Nothing out of the ordinary in farm country, right? Right and wrong. What he failed to do was load us up and take us out side city limits to shoot said clay pigeons.
Granted, our high school sat on the edge of town and there weren't any residences in our line of fire but we were still within the city limits and somebody turned us/him in for shooting guns in town.
Some of us were hunters, myself included, and some of us had never even held a gun much less fired a live round. Since the school didn't have any guns of their own, and what school did back then, we were allowed to bring one or more from home to use. I brought my 12 gauge, there were a couple 16's and probably a .410 or two and one kid brought a Heckler.
Back to the fact that some kids had never even held a gun...one of the girls could hardly hold a 12 gauge up to her shoulder so when she yelled "PULL!", she accidentally pulled the trigger when attempting to do so and....hit the damn clay pigeon.
Edit: fixed spelling
Out here in Northern nv and Northern ca.,no rain,still plenty of smoke,fires and no rain. Water is being rationed.3rd and 4th cuttings are minimal.
Praying for a miracle for your fields and all the other farmers out there with crop damage.
How would you ever cope without jim and his care to share his wisdom
At least the skeet harvest looks promising.
I like seeing you hang out with all the kids together.
That down corn is a bear. At least the ears are still on. Our area had a situation like this several years ago where the standing corn stood because the ears shook while the downed corn still had the ears attached.
Sorry to see that corn laying down. Good job And good to see Jim.
Watching Jim working with Zach; then I imagined Jim as Zach and Zach as Onyx ten years from now. Nvm.
My father did a similar thing with me on a farm we had permission to try and shoot trap at in the mid 80s. It was a dismal failure at 1st. So we drove back to town, he bought some 1 gallon jugs of a milk. While he stood somewhat in front of me (OMG) he threw them up in the air so I could take some shots at them with a 410. The jugs were reusable and we could see what pellets from the shot gun shells had hit the target. I was 11 the first time shooting a shotgun. My first time shooting a gun was at Camp Lincoln in Northern MN on the rifle range. I was 9 and each morning at the armory I was issued my 22 single bolt rifle, there were a few that had clips of five rounds we could use, as well as the transparent yellow plastic box or Remington 22 shells with our names on each case. They logged the used and ready to fire shells so kids didn't take any ready to fire shells back to the cabins. As I recall I earned my NRA Pro Marksman Medal, then my Marksman Medal. I thought if I was pro that would have been the 2nd medal, not the 1st. I still have the metals 35ish years later. I wonder what Camp Lincoln is like today....
Zack, you should mount the fourth camera on the anhydrous tank to watch the gauges
You are very lucky to even get that kind of weather. Here in California I can only watch your videos to see rain.
You should try grinding a slot for the garage door to seal in. And place a lip just inside the door. If I make it out your way next year I would at least be able to draw out what I am trying to explain.
My daughter had that same Cricket rifle when she was little. She upgraded to a Ruger American (with pink 'Muddy Girl' camo') when she was a bit older. She's one hell of a shot now 😊
can i request a day where jim just has the camera all day. even when he leaves. he's low key hilarious and just the man.
Echoes...
You need to cut the concrete out the length of the door about a foot wide. Repour it with a lip in it or a bump down so the door sits about a 1/2 inch down into it. You won't get any water in again
🎵The wifi's connected to the strip till, the strip tills connected to the air cart, the air carts conected to the anhydrous, and thats how the tillage goooooooooes. 🎵
Ya know for a couple of bucks you can get a real basic clay thrower from Cabelas. For the price of one tire for your hot rod, you could get a real nice mechanical thrower. Throw doubles, nested pairs, all the neat combos and then we could really see who can shoot.
Should convert from gas by using expansion chambers and can do 2 to 4 shanks per chamber, will have less loss of product because of the time required to convert from liquid to gas again, use to do commercial application in south Manitoba
My kiddo had a Chipmunk also. He loved it, they are a great little pew pew.
My thoughts are with you guys. Sept 2013 our new house was under construction and a massive windstorm came thru. It blew down trees that had stood for 100 year, tipped of irrigation units, hundreds of barns and other buildings and turned our house into match wood. The partly attached trusses and first floor toppled over and fell thru the house smashing anything in the way..Very scary..Take care team.
Our thoughts and prayers for you family and your neighbors
I live in the Mojave Desert area in southern California. Our weather used to be hot and ultra-dry all summer every summer, but two years ago our weather changed and now the whole summer is humid and hot. Temperatures are a little cooler in early summer, now average 115 deg. highs, but the humidity now is mostly between 30% and 60% - used to be 10 to 15% humidity. Our climate has changed dramatically, and from what I am seeing it looks like this changing of the normal weather is happing in a lot of places - even Europe.
Very sorry to hear about the storm damage. This last season we had two cyclones and then a very heavy 30 minute storm late in the season. It all stood up after the cyclones, although leaning then the heavy storm gave it the last knock out. Luckily not all the fields were flat. Anyhow. We finish hand harvesting today. It rained a little last night, still dark outside as I make my coffee before roll call. 300 people reaping every day $$$$$. I wish you all the best. As the Old farmer's saying goes, "Next year will be better"!
A drone would save a lot of climbing up and down. Glad your family is safe. Hope the neighbors are ok .
I was gonna say this too
Only when it’s not windy though. 😆
@@40Beany If it's that windy, I'd stay off a tower like that.
@@jeffherdzina6716 of course I wouldn’t climb the tower, but the drone would blow away too
We were at our lake property north of you this summer and by the 3rd week in July had to pull the boat due to no water at the dock. The farms there are about 50/50 irrigation booms,but the non irrigated is not good at all. Those late storms after no rain just played havoc with the crops and livestock. Hoping y'all can get through harvest and salvage as much as possible that is feasible to get. Sorry to hear about the puddy tat that is gone...
Glad you're getting some rain you just didn't need the storm that came with it
What sucks about farming is that my fortune is sometimes your misfortune or vice versa😢
When you siad your nabor lost sed I had flash back to when we had to be contin wood fall over last year wish best of luck to them
Hello Johnson family,
I'm glad everyone survived the storms even if your vehicles may have been bruised. I'm sorry for your crop damage. As you said, it didn't seem like there was going to be much yield anyway. Best of luck with whatever you can salvage out of a very dry, difficult year.
I've enjoyed your 'Between the Rows' videos very much and look forward to more as the hunting season comes up.
---- Night Sky Watch ----
At Sunset the bright 'evening star' just above the western horizon is the planet Venus. It will be joined by the slim crescent Moon on Thursday September 9th, again just after sunset, until they both set as twilight ends. Venus will be in the western evening sky until after the end of the year. Once a month, the crescent Moon will be along side Venus just a few days after New Moon phase. (Oct 8th & 9th, Nov 7th and Dec 6th when Venus will reach its' 'greatest brilliancy'.)
Saturn and Jupiter are just a month or so past opposition. They are still very bright and rise in the east right around SunSET. They traverse the sky all night long and set in the west just before SunRISE in the early morning. The Moon passes 4 degrees north of Saturn on September 17, 2021. The Moon passes 4 degrees north of Jupiter on September 18, 2021.
In 2021, the Northern Hemisphere autumnal equinox comes on September 22nd. The Full Moon falls less than two days earlier, on September 20th. Thus, for the Northern Hemisphere, this upcoming Full Moon on the 20th - the full moon closest to our autumn equinox - is the 2021 Harvest Moon.
(Hunter's Moon on the 20th of October will be a few days after the moon has passed Saturn (Oct 14th) and Jupiter (Oct 15th).
As the year progresses, Saturn and Jupiter move toward the evening sky and right at Christmas time, Venus, Saturn and Jupiter will all be lined up in the western sky just after Sunset. Follow along on clear nights as the seasons progress and change between now and then, and watch as the evening crescent moon moves from Venus to Saturn to Jupiter on December 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th.
Might make a good view in a video if you happen to catch it. Best wishes for good weather and clear skies for the remainder of the 2021 season.
Hey Big Jim!!!!!!!! Sorry bout the crop Zach!!!! That Clay scene with the young ones was an accident waiting to happen. Zoinks!!!!!
I am so sorry about you and your farm i hope its the last one . Im happy there is no damage . Keep going 👑👑
It’s been a very difficult year for many farmers across the US and Canada. Hope for the best for everybody.
hockey stick and a half sheet of plywood elevated works great for skeets!!!!
Zach if the tube is big enough, use a cleaning rod and small wire brush from a gun cleaning kit, attach to a drill and polish up the tube inside.
if you want to stop water from going into your shop get Garage Door Weather Stripping it goes on the ground under the door
Seeing that downed corn reminds me of a video I seen form onelonelyfarmer a long time ago, he actually used his soybean header to pick it up
Remember less corn = less grain bins to sweep out
I was always told that the Annie lines had to be the same length so it was putting the same amount on evenly.
Man that crop.. :( fellow farmer feels the pain...
But did you see/hear, OLF said just get a grain header, with that youll get most of it. With cornheader you end up just in the mentalhospital after a day trying to get that mess in with it..
Glad that everyone is safe from the storm, if you have to drive those big cars of the road in cover you know there have been "Windy"...
Terrible this year all around it seems, in FIN we had total dry for the most part like there, Welkers had it too etc. We had rain, but it did came in few days the whole summers amount so that didnt help either.. yields were very poor.
I'm pretty sure that cricket was in the shop as a preemptive strike for all the dry humor we didn't hear.
at 11-00 try a master switch in the line or
evan obtain a test meter and switch all of (dont use the starter) put meter in line to the battery and see if any amps are running if so disconnect each piece to find the culprit.
you will know then if there is a earth leakage keep looking till you find it
or like i said use a master switch big enough to carry the starter currant could be 200-300 amps.
You gotta be more like Jim. Laugh at the problems. In the grand scheme of life they are all little problems that are easily solved. Nice too see some family time at the end. And your corn looks great. It's just short for less wind damage now!
After setting six months, your batteries have just enough left to start the engine...Once, unless you run it long enough to fully recharge the battery. Let her idle 30 minutes or get the jumper cables out!
If a corn head does not work on that corn get a smaller bean head and combing the down corn that way, It is a slow way but it works and you can get all the corn that way!
I'm glad my estimating skills are at par with yours. "5 maybe 6, or 4". My wife just stopped asking me to estimate things anymore...
I love what you are doing, I would have loved to grow up on your operation farm!!!! Keep on keeping on 🙄
Its nice seeing jim again.
Zach, from all of us here in Iowa we are so sorry and just sick to see your crops. We will be praying for you all. God bless you all
You need one of those header rakes that spin around and rake the corn into the header, slow going but allows you to get somewhat of a harvest from the corn that decided to lay down and go to bed
When Jim Wheezes :) Very sorry to see the state of your Crop and hear of the Damage your Neighbours have had.
Zach you don’t have to worry about same length hoses on a bar that size it’s a difference of 10ths of a second