It's OK there is still farms in Scotland that have been rock picking for the last 300+ years and rocks the same size as an atv still magically appear every now and then, it's called future job creation/protection
If you don't get all the little ones they grow we have a spot where we took out some trees to build new fence so we thought we'd just clear the little spot that was growing in the field and now all that grows there is rock
Can’t imagine any much more frustrating than trying to make rotten wet seed go thru hi-tech machinery with precision metering. Much respect for showing genuine unfiltered frustration. Folks need to know it isn’t always punch the auto pilot and eat snacks.
No doubt - take a deep breath and work through it, in a 100 years no one will know the difference. Whatever we deal with is nothing compared with those who survived far worse wretched circumstances namely all the wars including 70AD; Matthew 25:34-36, Mark 13:19, Romans 9:29
We've been raising seed beans for a long time. The whole process is very strict. Something must have happened to the seed after it left the seed conditioner. Most likely snow or rain got into the post-cleaning storage bin. Whoever is storing clean soybean seed should visually inspected the bins as planting time neared. It's shocking that high priced soybeans would be dumped on the ground. The feed, oil and biofuel end user has a zero tolerance for treated seed, so that is the quickest. Even if this load wasn't treated, the planter or seed tender might have a few treated seeds and that would be a big problem. If we have leftover seed that is not in the original package, we mix it in the cover crop seed.
I grew up on a farm in Iowa and never farmed a day in my life, couldn't i had terrible allergies. Tried tassling seed corn and about died. Now I live in Idaho and work at a fruit orchard and love it. Cherries, peaches, nectarines, apricots, apples, red raspberries and black berries. 7,000 trees.
Another lesson learned on the Millenial Farmer. Check your seed for clumps before installing into planter. On a happy note, the planter worked awesome this year! I remember your struggles last year with it. 🚜🚜
Seems to me you could fashion a sieve basket with the right size mesh to catch that stuff when filling. Might not completely solve it 100% but it would make things a lot better
Crazy how he claims to care about his family and the US but still complains about a product that reduces pollution created by diesel exhaust by over 80 percent.
@@highjared8199Does that really matter if it requires the engine to burn wayyy more fuel to keep the DPF clean. There's a reason why deleted diesel trucks get between 15% and 40% better fuel mileage
@Joshua Richmond I just looked for 20 minutes for any scientific study that supports what you said and can only find half a dozen that have shown that feul efficiency has increased dramatically since the requirement of DEF was adopted.
@@highjared8199just from personal experience, my pre emission trucks averaged over 7mpg while loaded 90% of milage. And now it's under 5mpg. I don't know a single truck driver that says their fuel economy has increased with def trucks. 🤷🏻♂️
Zach…the sweet listening way you interacted with your father allowing him to have his own version and you let him be right … it didn’t matter to you more than allowing your dear father a moment to felt heard …. Nice move there son !… you’re very wise and compassionate!
Farmers are easy-going, shit-stirrers for the most part. Tend to get angry at things more than people. It's just the life we live. That being said, go at his family and see how calm he is. You know he has grip strength that could snap your forearm in a second.
I am really glad i watched this. I was having the same problem with our planter we fought it for a half a day. My company would agree to let me dump the beans. We finally just did it and took pictures of all the rotten beans. Different beans and we didnt have any trouble and are done for the year.
@Ben Dover it was mentioned on a video he had a medical procedure done recently. It was why he hadn't been around recently. That's all that was said and all we should know
In the 1940s when I was 7 and 8 years old we visited Grandfather Sandy's homestead in southern Saskatchewan. In the Summer, not winter. In looking back the Depression prevailed, prices were uncertain and there were the usual weather threats plus hoppers and rust. He used a team of horses to pull the hay rick as well as the swather and binder. And for today's Zach post--a stone boat pulled by one horse.
I feel your pain Zach, I was planting Friday (5/26) and had a blockage in my CCS tanks on a Fendt Momentum. Killed 2 1/2 hours trying to find the block for row 19, ended up being the seed tube for 19 was where 18 should have been. All that messing around for a piece of a seed bag tag that must have gotten into the tender when we did some custom replant corn...
A cheat I have found for the stopped up CCS hose is to remove the vacuum hose form the meter and hold to against the CCS hose to pull seed through and clear a clog
Typical, just as the weather turns perfect for drilling, you get dodgy seed. I feel your pain & frustration, just when you need to crack on. Hopefully will be able to back track from the supplier. Look forward to the next video with a smile on your face. 😁
I drive a red planter, and i find these types of problems where seed won't go to the rows the most painfull problem. Always seems to be a battle until it works again
Kudos for thinking of the CoOp. It is a sad state of affairs when you have to return faulty product, but it is how business needs to operate. Best wishes, and thanks for show casing a Farming problem that eventually will have a long-term solution.
I do appreciate that even if the coop comps it, you still consider dumping it an absolute last resort, and would rather find another way to deal with it.
It’s not fun but you either spend 5 months you don’t have sifting through clotted seed or just dump it and be done with it. That seed is absolutely worthless to Zach now because you can’t plant it as seen. I’d take him a week or longer to plant that one field😂
Zach, I understand how you felt getting a service call for a tail lamp. I'm a former Deere service tech and I've seen a number of "easy" issues. More than once I've checked machines because they won't even crank over. I put them in park and they started right up. Other times the engine would not speed up past a certain RPM. Once it was "cab trash" (soda/beer cans, snack packages) stuck under the foot accelerator pedal and once a log chain under the pedal. There are lots of unusual reasons for a farmer's woes. Just have to take them in stride.
When I was a kid I made the orange junk service men work for it on a call I got in mud and was so mad I hit the dif lock sent it forward slammed it in reverse wide open dumped the clutch split the transmission in half dropping the tractor in the mud in 2 pieces boy my dad was mad
Total respect and admiration for what you and your family does. So much to do everyday, and you all do it well and make it look easy. Which I know it's not at all. Thanks for all of the insight of what it takes to run a large operation.
My brother throws tools when he's mad even after knocking himself out by throwing the 5 lb hammer into the tractor tire and it shot right back into his temple when he dropped I thought it killed him he's also had to replace a few truck windshields from punching them
Good point about def. Unfortunately ethanol is the same lossing situation it takes more fuel to farm then manufacture corn in to ethanol that you get out. Its almost like the whole economy is based on consumption, even when it makes no sense. It makes Dollars. (For a handful of billionaires who pay off the government😂😂😢😢😢😢
@@deangelojeremitriusvickers6319 lol. Right. We had a rear differential replacement done on one of my grandads front loaders and I seen the invoice for it. I almost choked, it was about a whole quart annual income for his ranch which isn’t exactly a small amount. 😳😳😳
You & your dad work well together. My dad would scream/yell at me for holding the flashlight in the wrong spot even though he didn’t tell me where to shine it.
On my bucket list is to sit in a tractor while someone seeds a whole field and sit in a tractor while someone rips a whole field then come back and sit in a combine for like 3 days to see how things are done. Thanks for the video
I can relate to your frustration with the lumpy beans I had that happen with corm in a CCS planter almost never got the box empty my boss wouldnt let me dump it, there was come clumps left when the box was empty, I clean it real good when I did get a chance. We enjoy watching your vidoes brings back some of the pickles I've been in.
Zaka doesn't matter you going to have the best of the best of equipment and still have hiccups two years ago I had to wait two weeks for parts that is very upsetting all you can do is smile and wave😊😊
Loved your Dads theory about DEF ( AKA backroom politicians trying to figure out how to make farmers spend more of their hard earned money ) imagine how many more pollutants thats in our atmosphere in the name of Diesel exhaust fluid !!
@@markbowling3475 I was being sarcastic. I agree it's all BS. JH Diesel & 4x4 did a video showing the exhaust system of all the 3 major pickup trucks. They are all 6-10k. Just feels like a feel good law that makes things worse.
The government never passes regulations like Def unless one of their rich donors cashes in on it. I’d love to know who’s making money on producing it. Is it made in the USA?
Pretty rich comment coming from a guy who burns how much diesel every year to farm corn to make ethanol that gets burned anyway. It's a net negative in fuel consumed to make ethanol for fuel.
So I happened to run closed captions when Nate was talking about DEF... the fact that google used the word death instead all 3 times made my day... "ever wondered how much reasources is used transporting death around?" I was in tears :)
Must have been something in the weather when the Soybeans were getting treated this year. I had to stop and pull the hose off 5 different times to clear out soybean clumps that were clogging the seed delivery outlet from the CCS tank. Nothing can ruin your mood quicker than when you're going along great and out of nowhere a row stops planting.
It's OK there is still farms in Scotland that have been rock picking for the last 300+ years and rocks the same size as an atv still magically appear every now and then, it's called future job creation/protection
more stone you pick , the more you lower the field , closer to the stones deeper down - simple!
And thank god for them because we wouldnt have any homes!
I say the frost pushes them to the surface!!
If you don't get all the little ones they grow we have a spot where we took out some trees to build new fence so we thought we'd just clear the little spot that was growing in the field and now all that grows there is rock
So his family has picked rocks for over 300 years then.
Can’t imagine any much more frustrating than trying to make rotten wet seed go thru hi-tech machinery with precision metering. Much respect for showing genuine unfiltered frustration. Folks need to know it isn’t always punch the auto pilot and eat snacks.
No doubt - take a deep breath and work through it, in a 100 years no one will know the difference. Whatever we deal with is nothing compared with those who survived far worse wretched circumstances namely all the wars including 70AD; Matthew 25:34-36, Mark 13:19, Romans 9:29
We've been raising seed beans for a long time. The whole process is very strict. Something must have happened to the seed after it left the seed conditioner. Most likely snow or rain got into the post-cleaning storage bin. Whoever is storing clean soybean seed should visually inspected the bins as planting time neared. It's shocking that high priced soybeans would be dumped on the ground. The feed, oil and biofuel end user has a zero tolerance for treated seed, so that is the quickest. Even if this load wasn't treated, the planter or seed tender might have a few treated seeds and that would be a big problem. If we have leftover seed that is not in the original package, we mix it in the cover crop seed.
I love the comment your father makes at timestamp 2:44 about the cost in fuel just to transport DEF fluid around. He is a very wise man.
And just about all DEF is made in China...
And all those wasteful small Plastic canisters just to have def in you garage for your car.
Isn't DEF fluid Nitrogen?🤔
I never realized the purpose of DEF was to increase fuel mileage. TiL!
I grew up on a farm in Iowa and never farmed a day in my life, couldn't i had terrible allergies. Tried tassling seed corn and about died. Now I live in Idaho and work at a fruit orchard and love it. Cherries, peaches, nectarines, apricots, apples, red raspberries and black berries. 7,000 trees.
Sounds like you ended up with a better deal in the end😀
I always joked as I was dumping def from a plastic jug into my work truck, “saving the environment, 1 plastic jug and cardboard box at a time.”
So you prefer NOX poisoning? Talk to your lungs about that!!
Another lesson learned on the Millenial Farmer. Check your seed for clumps before installing into planter. On a happy note, the planter worked awesome this year! I remember your struggles last year with it. 🚜🚜
Seems to me you could fashion a sieve basket with the right size mesh to catch that stuff when filling. Might not completely solve it 100% but it would make things a lot better
Hey Zach....the fires are almost out here..we got quite a bit of rain...no more smoke and better crops
Love hearing your dad call out government stupidity with common sense!
Here here dad for president
"On the next episode of Millennial Farmer. Zach's dad VS the co-op fight to the DEF. Who will take home the Golden Soy Seed?"
Dump on concrete floor
Crazy how he claims to care about his family and the US but still complains about a product that reduces pollution created by diesel exhaust by over 80 percent.
@@highjared8199Does that really matter if it requires the engine to burn wayyy more fuel to keep the DPF clean. There's a reason why deleted diesel trucks get between 15% and 40% better fuel mileage
@Joshua Richmond I just looked for 20 minutes for any scientific study that supports what you said and can only find half a dozen that have shown that feul efficiency has increased dramatically since the requirement of DEF was adopted.
@@highjared8199just from personal experience, my pre emission trucks averaged over 7mpg while loaded 90% of milage. And now it's under 5mpg. I don't know a single truck driver that says their fuel economy has increased with def trucks. 🤷🏻♂️
Zach…the sweet listening way you interacted with your father allowing him to have his own version and you let him be right … it didn’t matter to you more than allowing your dear father a moment to felt heard …. Nice move there son !… you’re very wise and compassionate!
Yepper ... I caught that too.
Such a mellow dad you have. Can't imagine any meanness or anger out of him.
Zach didn't say he was mean, he said he likes to stir up things, lol! He does seem to be a mellow guy.
@@markreetz1001 er...like I said.
I’d be curious to know if Zach’s dad was always so easy going or the teenage Zach just wore him down. 😂
Farmers are easy-going, shit-stirrers for the most part. Tend to get angry at things more than people. It's just the life we live. That being said, go at his family and see how calm he is. You know he has grip strength that could snap your forearm in a second.
@@kevhead1525
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I am really glad i watched this. I was having the same problem with our planter we fought it for a half a day. My company would agree to let me dump the beans. We finally just did it and took pictures of all the rotten beans. Different beans and we didnt have any trouble and are done for the year.
Build an inverted mesh cone out of stainless to fit in your seed planter to catch the debris.
@@Nighthawke70 It would be better to catch them before they get into the planter, though I was thinking a similar idea.
@@Nighthawke70 For how much is charged for seed beans, this should not be an issue the farmer has to deal with
Your Dad is Spot-On!!! And!!! The packaging for the 1 gallon jugs of Government juice is incredible!
Welcome back to Jim!!! Hope all is well and full recovery is quick
@Ben Dover it was mentioned on a video he had a medical procedure done recently. It was why he hadn't been around recently. That's all that was said and all we should know
I just realized I hadn't seen alot of jim. Get better, fella!
Your dad is alright in my book, a thinker, a man of wisdom, the government isn't fooling him
I sound more like his dad every day.
Yup, huge conspiracy!
In the 1940s when I was 7 and 8 years old we visited Grandfather Sandy's homestead in southern Saskatchewan. In the Summer, not winter. In looking back the Depression prevailed, prices were uncertain and there were the usual weather threats plus hoppers and rust. He used a team of horses to pull the hay rick as well as the swather and binder. And for today's Zach post--a stone boat pulled by one horse.
Thanks Zach for the amazing content.
There is always time to think about pie. Especially after you remember that one time you had a tech come out to change a light bulb. Great video Zach!
🔥🔥🔥MANY THANKS FOR SHARING YOUR DAY ZACH!!!!
Thanks for your continued content
love you're vids man
Your dad really has a calming voice. Be fun to work with him like you and your kids get to.
It's great to see the grown men doing a good job on the farm.
What a frustrating day, hope you resolve it all
Thanks for sharing your life with us.J.Au-en
Good to see that Jim is back.
I appreciate that you make great videos Love watching
It is really interesting for us to see what kind of problems might occur with seeding. Thanks a lot!
As you have said many times, 'it's always something'. And as always, you will get through it.
That was great Zack you your Dad and Jim do a great job with the kids for the size of the farm great video
Loved your story about the tail light. I now feel better about of a couple of my not so great decisions 👍
Hey Thanks for battling through this video. Your frustration level was high but you still gave us content …so thank you
He’s got a good point on that deff deal lol
Love your dad! He’s so funny!!
I love the way your dad thinks , age has some wisdom
Def, good point.
great video Zach. So you are having trouble. Good luck
I check for new videos every day on my lunch break. Super excited to tune into today to see a video was released 1 min ago!!
If you hit the little bell it'll notify you every time a new video is uploaded
Only thing missing from your dads DEF rant (which I loved) is a Jim smile and snarky comment
Gosh, you have equipments for everything. Enjoy those videos.👍❤️🇨🇦
Good job for the Co-Op doing the right thing.
I feel your pain Zach, I was planting Friday (5/26) and had a blockage in my CCS tanks on a Fendt Momentum. Killed 2 1/2 hours trying to find the block for row 19, ended up being the seed tube for 19 was where 18 should have been. All that messing around for a piece of a seed bag tag that must have gotten into the tender when we did some custom replant corn...
A cheat I have found for the stopped up CCS hose is to remove the vacuum hose form the meter and hold to against the CCS hose to pull seed through and clear a clog
I love the new look of the farm and got some ag1 because I wanted to try its soo good thanks for the recommendation 😊 blessing for you and your family
Hmm.. Your dad has a point when it comes to DEF-distribution/deliveries. He's a smart grampa, that one!
Typical, just as the weather turns perfect for drilling, you get dodgy seed. I feel your pain & frustration, just when you need to crack on.
Hopefully will be able to back track from the supplier. Look forward to the next video with a smile on your face. 😁
That’s farming life for sure, just when everything should “go right” all hell breaks loose. Almost every single time🤷🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
Your dad is asking the right questions.
Thanks for the great videos you make my day
Your dad is a great man
Always a great day when Millennial Farmer uploads! Here's wishing you guys the best and Becky, awesome editing as always!
Would you like to visit his farm?
It’s really tough to have to put up with that crap. You did a great job of keeping your cool!!
Love your dad's comment about the DEF fluid
I drive a red planter, and i find these types of problems where seed won't go to the rows the most painfull problem. Always seems to be a battle until it works again
Kudos for thinking of the CoOp. It is a sad state of affairs when you have to return faulty product, but it is how business needs to operate.
Best wishes, and thanks for show casing a Farming problem that eventually will have a long-term solution.
Some times over thinking it is the problem. Go for the simple fix first. Good stuff Zac!
Dude.... I can feel your frustration!
I do appreciate that even if the coop comps it, you still consider dumping it an absolute last resort, and would rather find another way to deal with it.
It’s not fun but you either spend 5 months you don’t have sifting through clotted seed or just dump it and be done with it. That seed is absolutely worthless to Zach now because you can’t plant it as seen. I’d take him a week or longer to plant that one field😂
Zach, I understand how you felt getting a service call for a tail lamp. I'm a former Deere service tech and I've seen a number of "easy" issues. More than once I've checked machines because they won't even crank over. I put them in park and they started right up. Other times the engine would not speed up past a certain RPM. Once it was "cab trash" (soda/beer cans, snack packages) stuck under the foot accelerator pedal and once a log chain under the pedal. There are lots of unusual reasons for a farmer's woes. Just have to take them in stride.
When I was a kid I made the orange junk service men work for it on a call I got in mud and was so mad I hit the dif lock sent it forward slammed it in reverse wide open dumped the clutch split the transmission in half dropping the tractor in the mud in 2 pieces boy my dad was mad
Thank you very much You're the best
Confession is good for the soul.
Total respect and admiration for what you and your family does. So much to do everyday, and you all do it well and make it look easy. Which I know it's not at all. Thanks for all of the insight of what it takes to run a large operation.
You're a lot more calm, cool and collected than I ever was. It never helped when I stomped around, but I did it anyway.
It always helps, don’t lie to yourself now 😉😁
The camera's not always recording. 🤣
My brother throws tools when he's mad even after knocking himself out by throwing the 5 lb hammer into the tractor tire and it shot right back into his temple when he dropped I thought it killed him he's also had to replace a few truck windshields from punching them
What a bummer ...got to be extremely frustrating.
Yer spot on Nate, my highway hay bales always have empty planet saving jugs in them
Your honesty and humility are why you are the #1 Utuber. Every farmer has a tail light story.
I pulled a motor off a light plane and transported it in a bigger plane two hours away by air to find it had a bad spark plug.
Good point about def. Unfortunately ethanol is the same lossing situation it takes more fuel to farm then manufacture corn in to ethanol that you get out. Its almost like the whole economy is based on consumption, even when it makes no sense. It makes Dollars. (For a handful of billionaires who pay off the government😂😂😢😢😢😢
Your dad is right on!!
And keep it between the rows guys 😂😂👍
That has got to be the most expensive taillight you have ever paid for…. I laughed so hard at that one. We all have had that I’m an idiot moment. 😂😂😂
You got that right! ANY time JD steps into your yard/field you know you’re fixing to come out with lighter pockets😬
@@deangelojeremitriusvickers6319 lol. Right. We had a rear differential replacement done on one of my grandads front loaders and I seen the invoice for it. I almost choked, it was about a whole quart annual income for his ranch which isn’t exactly a small amount. 😳😳😳
@@Dbay8898 yep we do all we can to not have to call them, it’s beyond crazy
Good that Onyx could learn from you as your figuring out planter
Better luck tomorrow!
The combine story just made my day.
You & your dad work well together. My dad would scream/yell at me for holding the flashlight in the wrong spot even though he didn’t tell me where to shine it.
On my bucket list is to sit in a tractor while someone seeds a whole field and sit in a tractor while someone rips a whole field then come back and sit in a combine for like 3 days to see how things are done. Thanks for the video
Plus it must be on a green John Deere machine. I started watching you first so I am stuck as a John Deere man.
Reach out to any local farmers, some enjoy having company. We generally have a lot riding at the certain points in our season
HOPE JIM IS OKAY THANKS!!
I can relate to your frustration with the lumpy beans I had that happen with corm in a CCS planter almost never got the box empty my boss wouldnt let me dump it, there was come clumps left when the box was empty, I clean it real good when I did get a chance. We enjoy watching your vidoes brings back some of the pickles I've been in.
Jim's a bad ass. We need to see Jim more, he needs to take a camera with him!
bring back off the husk!
Watching you work with that wrench was amazing! 😉 You’re impressive
Zaka doesn't matter you going to have the best of the best of equipment and still have hiccups two years ago I had to wait two weeks for parts that is very upsetting all you can do is smile and wave😊😊
Loved your Dads theory about DEF
( AKA backroom politicians trying to figure out how to make farmers spend more of their hard earned money ) imagine how many more pollutants thats in our atmosphere in the name of Diesel exhaust fluid !!
At least there is no black smoke!!!!
@@BKetch look at for instance what that def does to a tractor engine, it shortens the life of a tractor engine ? Its all BS to me , just my opinion
@@BKetch Black smoke is organic, pure, inert carbon that falls to the ground. It's also essential to life on this planet.
It's not just farmers I drive a tour bus it has def😢
@@markbowling3475 I was being sarcastic. I agree it's all BS. JH Diesel & 4x4 did a video showing the exhaust system of all the 3 major pickup trucks. They are all 6-10k. Just feels like a feel good law that makes things worse.
I'd say it's even more embarrassing for Deere that they have that annoying of an alarm for a tailight.
Good to hear Jims back.
That's got to be aggravating for you and the co-op!
Your dad is a genius and he is exactly right as a trucker I concur on the whole def
The government never passes regulations like Def unless one of their rich donors cashes in on it. I’d love to know who’s making money on producing it. Is it made in the USA?
Pretty rich comment coming from a guy who burns how much diesel every year to farm corn to make ethanol that gets burned anyway. It's a net negative in fuel consumed to make ethanol for fuel.
@@JeepWranglerIslander Do you realize that ethanol production doesn't 'consume' corn? The byproduct is feed to cattle which we eat.
@@chrissyfrancis8952if I’m not mistaken Russia is the biggest exporter of DEF in the world.
@@deangelojeremitriusvickers6319 So, if our govt gets us into the war & Russia cuts exports of DEF, then what will farmers do?
So I happened to run closed captions when Nate was talking about DEF... the fact that google used the word death instead all 3 times made my day... "ever wondered how much reasources is used transporting death around?" I was in tears :)
Love the spudnik shirt, great brand for potato equipment
Zack I like your show it's pretty cool keep up with the farm
Frustrating! Is not the “F” word I would be letting fly. I feel for ya. It seems to always be when you are trying to make time something happens.
Hey zach just wanted to say from nebraska you guys have a lot better moisture its so dry righ now we already have irrigation running😂
That stinks! It's perfect here in sw mo. But that's now lol prolly be dry in two weeks
@@jaredandrews379 lol
Good luck
Good video good to see y'all
Your dad nailed the DEF thing. Saving the environment 1 plastic jug at a time.
"Listen to Dad; always talking more sense than politicians and ideologists".
I'm sure that's what you meant to say - it's certainly what I heard. 👍
So, you would rather have NOX poisoning? Ask your lungs what they think?
2:50 just spiting FACTS.
Great video!
Have a nice day showing new videos
That's awesome you guys homeschooling your kids!!! That's the best
Loved the Nate point of view on DEF!!! Way to go Nate, tell them what you are thinking. Keep asking the questions!!
So, you would rather have NOX poisoning? Talk to your lungs about that!
Tail light. Beautifull!
Must have been something in the weather when the Soybeans were getting treated this year. I had to stop and pull the hose off 5 different times to clear out soybean clumps that were clogging the seed delivery outlet from the CCS tank. Nothing can ruin your mood quicker than when you're going along great and out of nowhere a row stops planting.