Here in KS my cows eat Johnson Grass. That said, the best practice to control it it to mow it very short every 2 weeks until you deplete the rhizomes of energy and it dies
Nathan, I grew up on a 28,000 acre ranch in South Texas, and if I had ever started baling hay when the grass was that short, I would have had my butt handed to me in a sling. There’s hardly anything to bale. lol 😂
@@MrKornhole I am with you 100%, we had one on farm as a kid around 1974 and it ended up in the pot, just hated people and attacked my younger brother and that was it, Pops grabbed him in flight.
Nice baler.. some tips for you: - Keep on top of your baler maintenance.. a dusty baler with a shot bearing will happily burn itself up and take your tractor with it - If you don't have a good fire extinguisher in your tractor, get one - Make sure your hay dries adequately (generally under 18% for large bales).. baling it up when it's too wet can get you some self igniting bales - I know your mower was cheaper, but it has no conditioning (crushing / crimping) action on it, which means it will take longer to dry your hay - You will likely need to 'weave' around a bit when baling to ensure the bale grows evenly in the chamber.. you don't want lopsided bales from all the hay loading in on the same section Good luck and looking forward to seeing the rest of the process
Good video 👍 My dad always used to say "if I won the lottery I would just keep farming until the money was gone". Never looked forward to haying when I was younger, oddly I miss now.
Nothin wrong with new equipment or used equipment. Reducing manual labor with equipment is what has enabled the comfortable life we are fortunate to get to live today, bud.
Dont get to smell it very often being a town dweller but freshly mown grass has got to be one of the best smells going, especially if its a touch wet. The way you handle that tractor and mower looks like you have been doing it all your life.
I am saying leave the tree, and possibly plant a second, in this area where I live, most farmers leave rows of trees along their roads to help act as wind breaks, helps slow the soil depletion (dust storms) and helps cut the wind down from drying fields out (not a massive thing, but done all over here.)
Two questions, #1 is are you getting ready to start getting livestock, #2 if not livestock is there a good market for bailed hay? We got Johnson grass started in our pasture and was able to get rid of it by keeping it mowed about once a month especially before the grass put on seed heads.
I’ll keep watching and liking! I watch RUclipsr Sandi Brock in Canada who is a sheep farmer. Her family owns hundreds of acres that the cut hay and grow other things. It’s a lot of work! Farmers don’t get enough recognition!
Congratulations on the NEW-New Holland..! Yes sir it’s a true test of skill & patience unloading a bailer. Thanks 2 Mr Kato & receiver plate sure is coming in handy. Adding one to my shopping cart. 🤠
Agreed, 100%, my brother bought the CD Set that has all of his stories on it, so awesome they put them all on a disc set, I am glad he loaned it to me, its pricey
So are you farming to support your RUclips habit or YouTubing to support your farming habit? 😂 Love the videos keep up the good work. I enjoy being able to watch others do these things since I probably won’t be able to myself.
You are getting good becoming a FARMER/RANCHER , takes a lot of equipment and hard work which you are getting and doing the right way that you can. Really doing a great job around there Nathan. You have really changed the appearance of that valley for the better pleasing to the eye and usefulness. Thanks for taking us along with you through your filming of these videos. Fred.
As far as that fly in the cab , I would have SWATTED it !! Sorry, but that's what I think of flies !! LOL !! 😂 As far as camera setups - that's gotta be a 'pain', at times !! A necessary evil, I guess !!
I don't envy you having to move our perspective around so much when your trying to work. But it's much appreciated! Wonder if a auto follow mount would be useful for you at all Thanks for all the extra work!
That's not hay that's grass and weeds. It might cost you some money to seed it, but if you were to seed that with alfalfa, or some Timothy and Clover. you could get a lot more money out of your hay.I'm sure you are aware of this.
In the 1960s I bucked ninety pound bales of Johnson Grass from the fields onto hay trucks. That was how teenagers made money. One farmer loved the stuff, but I don't know why.
wow, 90 pounders, Johnson Grass, he must have been grinding it and mixing it maybe with grain to get them roughage or something maybe? that was way heavier than our MF12 did with the green clover and alphalfa bales we put up in 1974-75-76, then we moved off the farm, missed it every day since, and knew I would be owning a farm again and did just that.
@@texasjetman What would be a normal 60 pound bale of hay turns to 90 pounds when it is Johnson grass. I hated wrestling with that stuff: Hook it, up on the thigh and struggle to get it up for the guy on the truck to hook it and stack it.
Re: Johnson grass Wow! How very interesting that you say your cows don't like Johnson grass. Hmmm. Maybe this just goes to show that not all cattle are the same. Why do I say this? I was reared on a farm of registered Jersey cattle in Starkville, MS (home of MS State University). My dad was the Extension Dairyman for the State of Mississippi through the Cooperative Extension Service. Maybe that's why our cows were always top notch (the winnings from the prizes in dairy shows paid college tuition for my older brother and me!). It used to be so funny that people who would pass our farm, especially in the summer, would stop and ask why our cows were wearing "dresses." Well, we put blankets on the prize cows so that their coat would remain beautiful and high quality. Actually, I'd say that we pampered our cows because they were so precious. Even our bulls were in high demand for breeding purposes. Well... Our Jerseys LOVED Johnson grass. Matter of fact, I can remember many mornings when my older brother, David, and I would take sharp butcher knives and burlap sacks, then go out to the sides of highways where the Johnson grass grew naturally, then we would cut several burlap sacks full of Johnson grass, bring them back home, then spread the grass out on the tin roof of our milking barn. Then, when we would offer that grass to our "girls," they would come running. Yeah, we had other grasses in our pastures, but I just remember that Johnson grass was a delicacy to those fine Jerseys. So, I just never thought that cattle in other regions of the Deep South would turn their noses up at the grasses our cattle (and some horses in neighboring pastures, too) really loved. We lived in Northeast Mississippi, so maybe the Johnson grass in Eastern Tennessee is just a different variety or something. Regardless, I'm glad you are trying to improve the quality of your pasture grass. Some people thought that I was crazy as a teenager, because my most favorite jobs were: 1) cutting firewood; and 2) working in the hay field, especially hauling those bales of hay, mainly because of how good that cold shower felt after stacking the bales high in the barns and having that hay fall down the neck of your shirt. Ha! ~Dr. Larry S. Anderson • Tupelo, MS (birthplace of Elvis)
Nathan, thanks for going through all of the effort to bring us along on your work day. My experience with New Holland equipment is that they are well built and I'm sure that you will also conclude the same. Congrats on the new baler. Stay safe, brother.
I think you particularly made the best choice to get a new hay baler. I’m sure you know that some guys will buy a new piece of farm equipment or even a car and drive it without doing any maintenance at all until it wears out. You, on the other hand, are meticulous about proper maintenance and a new baler will indeed last you a lifetime whereas a used one five years old may have been neglected to the point that it has only a year or two use left in it.
Around here, they just feed the Jonson's grass to the cattle. They may not like it, but they will eat it. New Holland is a very good brand, so congrats on that bit of farming equipment. Some idiots didn't strap some of their load, and lost 4 round bales on the highway near us... Not close enough to try to get/ help them load.
Hi Nathan, enjoying your videos and sense of humour!! Suggestion: what about getting a small trailer, even if it's only a metal frame with no sides or ends, then mount your diesel transfer tank in the shed on it so you can hook it to anything with a towball on it and move it to your machine that needs filling up. It would maybe need a canopy over the tank with open sides to keep the weather off it if not able to store it undercover and if the trailer is legally able to be on the road, you could hook it to your truck and go to a gas station to fill up both the tank and your truck at the same time. Keep will and safe.
I know Round-Up has gotten a bad rap in recent years but that’s what I would use in my spray rig to rid pastures of Johnson grass. Once strayed, you’ll have to wait to to plant or sprig out new high value grasses. Grasses are rated for protein values and digestibility. We had pastures of ryegrass and because it had a high tolerance for drought and heat, we had pastures of Kleberg Bluestem, and had really good luck with both. Our yields were always high, mainly due to the use of irrigation sprinkler systems in several of our pastures. And the more you cut you fields, the fewer invasive weeds that you’ll find.
The fly just liked the A/C, can't blame him. Sell your mower after the last cutting. Buy the larger one you want when they go on sale to reduce inventory. Take care and try to have a little fun every day, jack
Love the "easter-eggs"... for your new piece of equipment... "just" a new bailer?... Huh... I spy with my little eye something else red and shiny that's a new piece of equipment... Congrats my friend, well deserved. You've done well for yourself and your family, you should be proud.
In south Mississippi we call a tedder a fluffier because you fluff the hay. I would like to know where the name tedder came from. You also need to fluff the hay at least two times and after the dew dries. Have fun and stay safe!
New Holland is the type of bayler we used back in the 90s and you won't find a bayler to beet it ,best machine s made and the disc mower was the best mower i ever cut with .Wasnt any trouble cutting in road gear .Fine equipment.
Sounds like you got a Foghorn Leghorn living with your hens. You might want to hang a Kentucky Fried Chicken poster with fried chicken pictures in the hen house as a reminder to him who’s top dog
I about died when I saw you leaf blow the mower. I have to wet my tractor down before I leaf blow it off, otherwise my allergies go out of control from the explosion of pollen that I shoot in the air. made that mistake once. never again.
Please forgive me for adding 2 comments on today's video. I want people to know that most farms in states like TN, GA, AL, and perhaps other deep south states, are quite small. It's uncommon to find a farm over 7,000 acres unless it's around the upper MS delta (i.e. AK). I live in GA farming country and most farmers I know own less than 100 acres. Compare that to the Midwest where a MN farmer told me any farm less than 10,000 acres isn't much. Farms in CA, TX, Canada, or cattle farms in TX, the West, or FL are often immense! Though small, our southern farms have often been in families for generations and provide a major contribution to the economy because of our two growing seasons and abundance of water.
Yep! The way to make a small fortune farming is to start out with a large fortune! (Or like they say here in the Midwest, "we'll just keep farmin' til the money runs out!')
If you don't want to use chemicals to deal with the Johnson grass there is a process that uses steam to kill it down to the roots. I've seen it in different Ag shows I think if was developed in Kansas a few years ago. I used to work with the Oklahoma Department of CareerTech and would go the their State FFA conventions each year for something like 25 years and they would have vendors bring different new technology machines and tools and lots of different things and I think that was where I saw the first video demonstration of the use of steam to get rid of different invasive plants without the use of chemicals. You might check if something like that is available to rent at one of your farm supply places.
Hi Nathan, it looks like your grass could do with some fertiliser, dung is best it keeps it organic and the cows like it cos it tastes sweeter than that granular fertiliser. Take Care ya-aaaalll Gerald W UK
Johnson grass is actually very good cattle feed, but if the people around you don't want to buy it, it doesn't matter. If I was buying it I would definitely want to know that it had been cut before it headed out. The only way that I know to get rid of it is to plant Roundup Ready beans for a couple of years. I knew an old guy that said you could kill it by running cattle, maybe rent some ground clearing goats. Good luck.
My cows love Johnson grass but stressed (frosted or drought) green Johnson grass can kill cattle from Prussic acid poisoning buildup. (The prussic acid binds to their red blood cells and basically causes them to suffocate.) Only after it’s cut and cured is it safe again. Check with your local extension service agent for help with growing good quality hay - Tennessee has excellent resources for helping raising livestock and growing forages.
Johnson Grass can be a challenge. I was at my feed store one day and ask the question about how to get rid of Bermuda Grass. Farmer next to me said.... Move...
less than 100 miles away hay cutters are into thier 4th cutting. most years there are only 2 maybe 3 cuttings. ts been a bumper crop of hay this year in East Tennessee. maybe you need to plow everything up and replant with a quality seed and go to the coop in the spring and get one of thier spreaders full of fertilizer to put out
Haying season in Wisconsin, when I was a kid, consisted of cutting, “conditioning”, raking then bailing. I understood that the conditioner was run over the cut hay and intermittently crushed the hay stems, probably to assist drying?
I always look forward to watching your videos. You are one of my favorites. I have noticed you spend a lot of time or what seems to be a lot of time running back and forth chasing tools. Did you ever think of setting up a UTV as a service type vehicle? Just to save you some time.
Vinegar and Salt mixture may help to rid Johnson Grass, Any chicken houses in the area, when they clean out the houses many of them look for places to spread it, do it right before a good rain and it doesn't stink as bad, caution if its to wet when spread it can burn the ground before it gets watered in. done correctly it makes good hay fields. But get a soil test done by the AG department to know for sure what is needed.
We also called it kicking the hay . The mower conditioner was the go to back as early as 1988 or before . We put up 14000 bales the year before we got the round bailer . Had a 42 and 55 hp tractor to farm over 1000 acres .
Pro Tip: When hooking up a three point implant it is always best to hookup the top link last. Wow, $5 for the replacement tines was a good deal. A person needs to watch those farm stores, the next one down the road will charge $9.
Looking good, You can run that drum mower and tractor as fast as you can drive it and get done a lot faster...also i sent you an email look for it thanks
Hi Nathan ted is the term or tedding depending on the tense The New Holland balers here in Ireland are yellow although they used to be red and yellow like yours. All the best with it I don't think you'll neglect it and it will not be under much pressure with those swarths in Ireland the intake would be under pressure all the time with the density of crops here because of all the rain. All you need now is a New Holland tractor I see they have a new face-lift T 5 range out then you'd be sucking diesel!! Haha
Best of luck with the new Bayler Nathan you should have avoided the Johnson Grass because the seeds have landed on the mower and the worst thing is they have spreaded to the rest of the field
Johnson grass spray with Round UP when it is small. Might take a couple of tries to get it all. You are going to have to bale alot of hay to pay for that baler. Maybe goon the road doing custom work
The mower name is pronounced Men-Os. Minos was the son of Zeus and was the king of Create who killed the Minotaur, according to Greek mythology. Minos Agri is not an Italian. company, it is actually a Turkish company headquartered in İzmir, Türkiye, which is in western Turkey on the east coast of the Aegean Sea. Hence the Greek name of a demigod.
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Nathan it is always a pleasure to watch one of you fine videos = Thank you.....
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Here in KS my cows eat Johnson Grass.
That said, the best practice to control it it to mow it very short every 2 weeks until you deplete the rhizomes of energy and it dies
You’re a good man, Nathan, not to mention a great husband and father to your family! Love your videos!!!
I appreciate that!
As a mechanic I totally agree with you
I don't want to work on it I want to work with it
This goes for anything used
Back in the 60’s we used 8N Fords with 8’ sickle mowers , very effective, efficient hay mowers
Your hay fields need to be overseeded with Rye and Alfalfa, maybe some bluegrass for low cover.
Nathan, I grew up on a 28,000 acre ranch in South Texas, and if I had ever started baling hay when the grass was that short, I would have had my butt handed to me in a sling. There’s hardly anything to bale. lol 😂
Nathan,not bad for only one person to be getting all that done in one day keep up the great work with your videos 👍😮😊❤
Free hats like that are really expensive.
Love the smell of fresh cut hay drying in the sun!
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As long as it isn't Timothy I'll agree with you. Now that has a sour smell to me.
I’m beginning to like that rooster.. he’s got cojones!!
😂😂😂👍
I would like him with some dumplins and gravey.
Johnson grass has moved in on us and a friend told me they have a spray that will kill it an not effect the other grass. @OutoftheWoods0623
@@MrKornhole naaah a rooster he’s to tough and stringy !!! Better make soup !!!
@@MrKornhole I am with you 100%, we had one on farm as a kid around 1974 and it ended up in the pot, just hated people and attacked my younger brother and that was it, Pops grabbed him in flight.
Nothing can replace the smell of the fresh cut sweetgrass in the field I drive by 🥰 Good job new farmer Nate! 💪
Nice baler.. some tips for you:
- Keep on top of your baler maintenance.. a dusty baler with a shot bearing will happily burn itself up and take your tractor with it
- If you don't have a good fire extinguisher in your tractor, get one
- Make sure your hay dries adequately (generally under 18% for large bales).. baling it up when it's too wet can get you some self igniting bales
- I know your mower was cheaper, but it has no conditioning (crushing / crimping) action on it, which means it will take longer to dry your hay
- You will likely need to 'weave' around a bit when baling to ensure the bale grows evenly in the chamber.. you don't want lopsided bales from all the hay loading in on the same section
Good luck and looking forward to seeing the rest of the process
Good video 👍 My dad always used to say "if I won the lottery I would just keep farming until the money was gone". Never looked forward to haying when I was younger, oddly I miss now.
Brother, We got a saying here in Arkansas, "it's a bad sign when the flies like you"
Nathan loves equipment, especially new. Manual labor is avoided, if at all possible. It won't be long until the new pole barn will need an extension.
Nothin wrong with new equipment or used equipment. Reducing manual labor with equipment is what has enabled the comfortable life we are fortunate to get to live today, bud.
He loves his toys
Nathan, I appreciate you being such a hard working individual! Your adventures into farming are very interesting! Thanks!
I could smell that hay especially the sage. Fantastic.
It's so good!
Dont get to smell it very often being a town dweller but freshly mown grass has got to be one of the best smells going, especially if its a touch wet. The way you handle that tractor and mower looks like you have been doing it all your life.
leave the tree, if you ever graze cows or sheep you'll wish you had not removed it, animals need shade in the summer
That tree takes all the moisture out of the grass- not worth keeping.
I am saying leave the tree, and possibly plant a second, in this area where I live, most farmers leave rows of trees along their roads to help act as wind breaks, helps slow the soil depletion (dust storms) and helps cut the wind down from drying fields out (not a massive thing, but done all over here.)
Best equipped small farm in the world!
The last hateful rooster I had became a nice pot of chicken and dumplings.
Two questions, #1 is are you getting ready to start getting livestock, #2 if not livestock is there a good market for bailed hay? We got Johnson grass started in our pasture and was able to get rid of it by keeping it mowed about once a month especially before the grass put on seed heads.
I’ll keep watching and liking! I watch RUclipsr Sandi Brock in Canada who is a sheep farmer. Her family owns hundreds of acres that the cut hay and grow other things. It’s a lot of work! Farmers don’t get enough recognition!
Congratulations on the NEW-New Holland..! Yes sir it’s a true test of skill & patience unloading a bailer. Thanks 2 Mr Kato & receiver plate sure is coming in handy. Adding one to my shopping cart. 🤠
Thanks 👍
So God made a Farmer - Paul Harvey. Miss that guy.
Agreed, 100%, my brother bought the CD Set that has all of his stories on it, so awesome they put them all on a disc set, I am glad he loaned it to me, its pricey
Gradually adding to your arsenal of equipment Nathan. Interesting video, thanks for taking us along for the ride. Cheers, Don from South Australia.
Proud to wear my shirt from Halifax, Nova Scocia, to Philly, Pa, to Greensboro, NC. I love all these videos!
So are you farming to support your RUclips habit or YouTubing to support your farming habit? 😂 Love the videos keep up the good work. I enjoy being able to watch others do these things since I probably won’t be able to myself.
We have lots of johnson grass. If it's cut before it gets to big our cows love it.
You are getting good becoming a FARMER/RANCHER , takes a lot of equipment and hard work which you are getting and doing the right way that you can. Really doing a great job around there Nathan. You have really changed the appearance of that valley for the better pleasing to the eye and usefulness. Thanks for taking us along with you through your filming of these videos. Fred.
As far as that fly in the cab , I would have SWATTED it !! Sorry, but that's what I think of flies !! LOL !! 😂
As far as camera setups - that's gotta be a 'pain', at times !! A necessary evil, I guess !!
I don't envy you having to move our perspective around so much when your trying to work. But it's much appreciated!
Wonder if a auto follow mount would be useful for you at all
Thanks for all the extra work!
That's not hay that's grass and weeds. It might cost you some money to seed it, but if you were to seed that with alfalfa, or some Timothy and Clover. you could get a lot more money out of your hay.I'm sure you are aware of this.
In the 1960s I bucked ninety pound bales of Johnson Grass from the fields onto hay trucks. That was how teenagers made money. One farmer loved the stuff, but I don't know why.
wow, 90 pounders, Johnson Grass, he must have been grinding it and mixing it maybe with grain to get them roughage or something maybe?
that was way heavier than our MF12 did with the green clover and alphalfa bales we put up in 1974-75-76, then we moved off the farm, missed it every day since, and knew I would be owning a farm again and did just that.
@@texasjetman What would be a normal 60 pound bale of hay turns to 90 pounds when it is Johnson grass. I hated wrestling with that stuff: Hook it, up on the thigh and struggle to get it up for the guy on the truck to hook it and stack it.
@@zevgoldman6769 my back hurts thinking about it. But lord I can close my eyes and smell the valley of fresh cut hay to this day.
Well, my goodness! Since you worked so late in the day, it’s time to head back to the home placement and get a good nights sleep 😂
the rooster has been talking to momma cat
I think the fly likes the AC in the cab of your tractor!
You did the right thing on the baler they can get expensive real quick when they break
Love the smell of fresh cut grass! Thanks for another great video.
Re: Johnson grass
Wow! How very interesting that you say your cows don't like Johnson grass. Hmmm. Maybe this just goes to show that not all cattle are the same. Why do I say this?
I was reared on a farm of registered Jersey cattle in Starkville, MS (home of MS State University). My dad was the Extension Dairyman for the State of Mississippi through the Cooperative Extension Service. Maybe that's why our cows were always top notch (the winnings from the prizes in dairy shows paid college tuition for my older brother and me!). It used to be so funny that people who would pass our farm, especially in the summer, would stop and ask why our cows were wearing "dresses." Well, we put blankets on the prize cows so that their coat would remain beautiful and high quality.
Actually, I'd say that we pampered our cows because they were so precious. Even our bulls were in high demand for breeding purposes. Well...
Our Jerseys LOVED Johnson grass. Matter of fact, I can remember many mornings when my older brother, David, and I would take sharp butcher knives and burlap sacks, then go out to the sides of highways where the Johnson grass grew naturally, then we would cut several burlap sacks full of Johnson grass, bring them back home, then spread the grass out on the tin roof of our milking barn. Then, when we would offer that grass to our "girls," they would come running.
Yeah, we had other grasses in our pastures, but I just remember that Johnson grass was a delicacy to those fine Jerseys.
So, I just never thought that cattle in other regions of the Deep South would turn their noses up at the grasses our cattle (and some horses in neighboring pastures, too) really loved. We lived in Northeast Mississippi, so maybe the Johnson grass in Eastern Tennessee is just a different variety or something. Regardless, I'm glad you are trying to improve the quality of your pasture grass.
Some people thought that I was crazy as a teenager, because my most favorite jobs were: 1) cutting firewood; and 2) working in the hay field, especially hauling those bales of hay, mainly because of how good that cold shower felt after stacking the bales high in the barns and having that hay fall down the neck of your shirt. Ha!
~Dr. Larry S. Anderson • Tupelo, MS (birthplace of Elvis)
My cows, sheep and donkey will eat the Johnson grass first when put in a new paddock. They love it in central Alabama!
Hail State!
Nathan, thanks for going through all of the effort to bring us along on your work day. My experience with New Holland equipment is that they are well built and I'm sure that you will also conclude the same. Congrats on the new baler. Stay safe, brother.
Nice Job Mr Nathan
Buying new is the way to go. Well, way to go.
I think you particularly made the best choice to get a new hay baler. I’m sure you know that some guys will buy a new piece of farm equipment or even a car and drive it without doing any maintenance at all until it wears out. You, on the other hand, are meticulous about proper maintenance and a new baler will indeed last you a lifetime whereas a used one five years old may have been neglected to the point that it has only a year or two use left in it.
Around here, they just feed the Jonson's grass to the cattle. They may not like it, but they will eat it. New Holland is a very good brand, so congrats on that bit of farming equipment. Some idiots didn't strap some of their load, and lost 4 round bales on the highway near us... Not close enough to try to get/ help them load.
Sitll only two words; syclebar mower ! Inexpensive and a wide swath cutting.
Hi Nathan, enjoying your videos and sense of humour!! Suggestion: what about getting a small trailer, even if it's only a metal frame with no sides or ends, then mount your diesel transfer tank in the shed on it so you can hook it to anything with a towball on it and move it to your machine that needs filling up. It would maybe need a canopy over the tank with open sides to keep the weather off it if not able to store it undercover and if the trailer is legally able to be on the road, you could hook it to your truck and go to a gas station to fill up both the tank and your truck at the same time. Keep will and safe.
I know Round-Up has gotten a bad rap in recent years but that’s what I would use in my spray rig to rid pastures of Johnson grass. Once strayed, you’ll have to wait to to plant or sprig out new high value grasses. Grasses are rated for protein values and digestibility. We had pastures of ryegrass and because it had a high tolerance for drought and heat, we had pastures of Kleberg Bluestem, and had really good luck with both. Our yields were always high, mainly due to the use of irrigation sprinkler systems in several of our pastures. And the more you cut you fields, the fewer invasive weeds that you’ll find.
Did a plant tour at new holland and saw how that bailer you have is built.
Sun up to sun down and then some...decent day Nathan
The fly just liked the A/C, can't blame him.
Sell your mower after the last cutting. Buy the larger one you want when they go on sale to reduce inventory.
Take care and try to have a little fun every day,
jack
Johnson grass cut right makes great hay
Love the "easter-eggs"... for your new piece of equipment... "just" a new bailer?... Huh... I spy with my little eye something else red and shiny that's a new piece of equipment... Congrats my friend, well deserved. You've done well for yourself and your family, you should be proud.
I hear Sunday Dinner crowing in the background!
Me2
In south Mississippi we call a tedder a fluffier because you fluff the hay. I would like to know where the name tedder came from. You also need to fluff the hay at least two times and after the dew dries. Have fun and stay safe!
New Holland is the type of bayler we used back in the 90s and you won't find a bayler to beet it ,best machine s made and the disc mower was the best mower i ever cut with .Wasnt any trouble cutting in road gear .Fine equipment.
Sounds like you got a Foghorn Leghorn living with your hens. You might want to hang a Kentucky Fried Chicken poster with fried chicken pictures in the hen house as a reminder to him who’s top dog
I about died when I saw you leaf blow the mower. I have to wet my tractor down before I leaf blow it off, otherwise my allergies go out of control from the explosion of pollen that I shoot in the air. made that mistake once. never again.
Maintain it as necessary and when you store it in the non-hay season maintain for the next season.
Delivery truck taken it easy on gravel road
Please forgive me for adding 2 comments on today's video. I want people to know that most farms in states like TN, GA, AL, and perhaps other deep south states, are quite small. It's uncommon to find a farm over 7,000 acres unless it's around the upper MS delta (i.e. AK). I live in GA farming country and most farmers I know own less than 100 acres. Compare that to the Midwest where a MN farmer told me any farm less than 10,000 acres isn't much. Farms in CA, TX, Canada, or cattle farms in TX, the West, or FL are often immense! Though small, our southern farms have often been in families for generations and provide a major contribution to the economy because of our two growing seasons and abundance of water.
"This Farming Thing Is Getting Expensive" ....Ya love it.
They tell me roosters make fine
Chickin & dumplings .
Never cared for rooster noise, especially in the early morning. The hens probably feel different than me though 😊
Yep! The way to make a small fortune farming is to start out with a large fortune! (Or like they say here in the Midwest, "we'll just keep farmin' til the money runs out!')
If you don't want to use chemicals to deal with the Johnson grass there is a process that uses steam to kill it down to the roots. I've seen it in different Ag shows I think if was developed in Kansas a few years ago. I used to work with the Oklahoma Department of CareerTech and would go the their State FFA conventions each year for something like 25 years and they would have vendors bring different new technology machines and tools and lots of different things and I think that was where I saw the first video demonstration of the use of steam to get rid of different invasive plants without the use of chemicals. You might check if something like that is available to rent at one of your farm supply places.
Johnson grass is used for rabbit food.
Hi Nathan,
it looks like your grass could do with some fertiliser, dung is best it keeps it organic and the
cows like it cos it tastes sweeter than that granular fertiliser.
Take Care ya-aaaalll
Gerald W UK
Johnson grass is actually very good cattle feed, but if the people around you don't want to buy it, it doesn't matter. If I was buying it I would definitely want to know that it had been cut before it headed out. The only way that I know to get rid of it is to plant Roundup Ready beans for a couple of years. I knew an old guy that said you could kill it by running cattle, maybe rent some ground clearing goats. Good luck.
It’s gotta be nice having a piece of equipment for every possible job you could wanna do!🎉
It’s must have a lot,of,work,to,get there!
My cows love Johnson grass but stressed (frosted or drought) green Johnson grass can kill cattle from Prussic acid poisoning buildup. (The prussic acid binds to their red blood cells and basically causes them to suffocate.) Only after it’s cut and cured is it safe again. Check with your local extension service agent for help with growing good quality hay - Tennessee has excellent resources for helping raising livestock and growing forages.
Looks like a new side x side as well
Hey I like that New Holland hay baler. It’s nice. Cool video. 👍❤️
Great video!
Thanks!
Hi Nathan & it's is Randy and i like yours video is Cool & Thanks Nathan & Friends Randy
nothing semells better than fresh cut hay.
Thanks for the video! Always makes my day!
Johnson Grass can be a challenge. I was at my feed store one day and ask the question about how to get rid of Bermuda Grass. Farmer next to me said.... Move...
lol
less than 100 miles away hay cutters are into thier 4th cutting. most years there are only 2 maybe 3 cuttings. ts been a bumper crop of hay this year in East Tennessee. maybe you need to plow everything up and replant with a quality seed and go to the coop in the spring and get one of thier spreaders full of fertilizer to put out
Haying season in Wisconsin, when I was a kid, consisted of cutting, “conditioning”, raking then bailing.
I understood that the conditioner was run over the cut hay and intermittently crushed the hay stems, probably to assist drying?
I don't want to sound obvious but why don't you take the truck up to the building and fill up the 40 gallon tank from the 100 gallon tank.
I just found your channel and I am already a huge fan. Enjoy your channel a lot!
I always look forward to watching your videos. You are one of my favorites. I have noticed you spend a lot of time or what seems to be a lot of time running back and forth chasing tools. Did you ever think of setting up a UTV as a service type vehicle? Just to save you some time.
Nice machine at 0:51
Enjoying the variety Nathan. I'm exhausted just watching you work. Stay safe. D
Vinegar and Salt mixture may help to rid Johnson Grass, Any chicken houses in the area, when they clean out the houses many of them look for places to spread it, do it right before a good rain and it doesn't stink as bad, caution if its to wet when spread it can burn the ground before it gets watered in. done correctly it makes good hay fields. But get a soil test done by the AG department to know for sure what is needed.
Love watching your progress! Why not get a few cow calf pairs, electric fence, and graze those fields?
Going to have to Mill a lot lumber to pay for farming 😊
you TED the grass with a TEDDER!
We also called it kicking the hay . The mower conditioner was the go to back as early as 1988 or before . We put up 14000 bales the year before we got the round bailer . Had a 42 and 55 hp tractor to farm over 1000 acres .
I love Harbor Freight! Always have what you need in a hurry!
When you get a new tedder and rake get a pequea. I have a video on my channel for the tedder. I love it no problems at all what so ever
Dont cut the maple tree. If you ever run cows, you'll regret it. And reseed the fields, you'll get much better results.
Pro Tip: When hooking up a three point implant it is always best to hookup the top link last. Wow, $5 for the replacement tines was a good deal. A person needs to watch those farm stores, the next one down the road will charge $9.
Looking good, You can run that drum mower and tractor as fast as you can drive it and get done a lot faster...also i sent you an email look for it thanks
Hi Nathan ted is the term or tedding depending on the tense
The New Holland balers here in Ireland are yellow although they used to be red and yellow like yours. All the best with it I don't think you'll neglect it and it will not be under much pressure with those swarths in Ireland the intake would be under pressure all the time with the density of crops here because of all the rain.
All you need now is a New Holland tractor I see they have a new face-lift T 5 range out then you'd be sucking diesel!! Haha
Best of luck with the new Bayler Nathan you should have avoided the Johnson Grass because the seeds have landed on the mower and the worst thing is they have spreaded to the rest of the field
I bale Johnson grass and feed it cattle love it
Johnson grass spray with Round UP when it is small. Might take a couple of tries to get it all. You are going to have to bale alot of hay to pay for that baler. Maybe goon the road doing custom work
Did you buy Bruno a new side by side
The mower name is pronounced Men-Os.
Minos was the son of Zeus and was the king of Create who killed the Minotaur, according to Greek mythology.
Minos Agri is not an Italian. company, it is actually a Turkish company headquartered in İzmir, Türkiye, which is in western Turkey on the east coast of the Aegean Sea. Hence the Greek name of a demigod.