When I was a junior in high school in 1980 I worked for a local farmer here in Illinois. It was just me and him out in the fields. He let me cultivate about 360 acres of corn with a 4 row cultivator on an International 560. For almost 40 years I was so proud of myself and amazed that he trusted me to do that job. A couple of years ago I ran into him at a local festival where he had that same tractor in the show completely restored to new condition. While talking about running that tractor all those years ago I learned that I got to do the cultivating because he threw out his back and I was his only choice!!!! He said that he was terrified when he sent me out there the first day thinking that I would destroy the corn! He said to his surprise he doesn’t think I ran over any!! So after all of these years I found out that I was the last resort!!!🤣
Dougo I'm 70 years old and I can remember in 1969 and 1970 I was 15 and 16 years old and I cultivated beans 3 times and twice in corn in the summer because no one else wanted to do it. So, Dad took me one round and then he said you think you handle it. I said yes and walked off and that was my job from then on. We never had a cab no A/C, but when you're that age it bother you none. We had 4020 JD and it was bran new and I told Dad I wanted a radio, and he went to JD and bought an AM radio which I think that is all you could back then and the way I went. I still run tractors but yes, we have A/C now, I don't run as much as I use to, but I still like it.
This is one of the Best Larson Farms videos. The struggles of the Farmer. Please Lord Bless our Farmers that feed us all. May you Bless them with bountiful harvests. So they may continue to feed us all. Amen.
The lessons learned from the decades before the 30s long forgotten and where you can now go hundreds of miles across the upper midwest with all contour farming no longer existing
In a situation like this when the soil is blowing, there’s only so much you can do. Roughening the surface into clods to slow ground velocity is an emergency fix. Poor Dougo kicking himself over the fall tillage. An application of hog manure might also help.
Dougo for the winning narrative on the tractor and why/how it doesn't fit their cost/utilization needs. Also for the explanation on what and why he was doing what he was doing in the fields that day. As a non-farmer, I ALMOST felt like I could take that piece of information and become a farmer myself... 🤣🤣BUt honestly, very informative and I enjoyed watching.
I've been saying this for many years, farmers today rely on chemicals for weed control. Get yourself a few 60-80 HP tractors and 8-12 row cultivators for weeds and breaking up the compaction of the top of the soil to allow water to soak in and the soil to breathe. But in drought it's also not a good idea
I just hope we are not over farming like in the days of the Oklahoma "Dust Bowl Days" of the 1930's. When Doug picked up a hand full of grainy soil it means all of the topsoil has been blown away. This can be most devastating at the very least, history teaches us that we will repeat history. I wish Larsons farm the absolute best in their choice making to try and reverse this situation. Good luck guys...
One of the best episodes! I found this really interesting - never knew a field could be so diverse and challenging. Still at wonder over threading the tracks between the corn plants and how much know how goes into setting up a tool like that to achieve the end goal. Also the thinking over which tractors to buy into. Still learning the lingo and how things work - those shields - they help keep the plants upright before it goes into the work area of the tooling?? Perhaps for that field planting spaced tree rows perp to the wind direction would cut the drifting in the long term?
West Texas Farmer here. We struggle with soils constantly trying to blow after any sizeable rain. We run rotary hoes and then we have sand fighters which run in between the rows of whatever crop and provide a longer solution compared to a rotary how it row crop cultivator.
Row cultivating. It's even more fun when the corn is taller and the wind is blowing. At the end of the day you don't need to much time to fall asleep. :D
As an Australian having watched Jonathan Winters the actor over the years, Dougo reminds me of him with the way he talks and mannerisms. Makes it even funnier when something goes wrong. Very entertaining family
Here in the uk on the sand lands we plant barley then few days later we will drill the sugar beet the barley protects the sugar beet from wind blow. The barley is easily taken out when the sugar beet is up. Love the channel Boston Lincolnshire uk 🇬🇧
I haven't farmed since the early 1990's we used to say in Western Nebraska when the last rain drop hits the back of your head you'd better be out there working the ground so it doesn't blow away!
Great job Mr. Dougo! I hope you & Chet get back to feeling 💯% better! You would put yourself in time out but you don’t have time!😂😂😂 Don’t be discouraged. I have confidence The Larson Team will amend this problem to best of their ability! Sending blessings and well wishes to everyone @ Larson Farm Families!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸
Maybe not work that Sandhill ever again lol probably don’t have a notil planter sitting around lol exactly why I never work the dirt unless it’s absolutely necessary cause once that dust blows away it never comes back
Hate to see y’all having all of the rain!! Here in La. we can have a wet spring to but this year we are having a good year so for. Hope and pray that the rain will let up for y’all to get the rest of the crop in!!🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙋🏼♂️👍
I remember cultivating, 3020 and 4020 with 8 row cultivators, no shade all day, even had to put your hands on the steering wheel, dad would say don't screw it up, the neighbors will be laughing all summer, iron out he called it haha
Dougo; Do you remember the late 70 and early 80? In 77 my dad waited to plant corn until he knew it was going to rain and planted corn and did the same with beans. By the fall all the bottoms were so wet he couldn't get them out for 7 yrs. I remember guys putting tires on backwards so when they went into wet areas they could back out. Some guys even tied a cable under the combine so they could pull them out easier.
Hey Doug! First of all I am sending you and Chet Prayers for healing and comfort! Feeling yukky and still getting out there to farm is a difficult thing to do! Praying the rains let up and the sun comes out to help the crops grow! Thank You for taking us along as you got some cultivating done! Until your next video ~~~Stay safe, healthy and happy! 🚜🌽
I’m just amazed how in-depth you went into on the tractor and your operation. This is what makes understanding farming costs and equipment costs affect your operation
It amazes me that auto-steer can thread between the planted rows. You can see the drifting soil is blowing in the distant shots.i remember as a kid when Minnesota farmers routinely cultivated corn before emerging fertilizers and herbicides...no auto-steer, just an open-station row-crop tractor and a good hat.
We are in a heat wave in Ohio it is 90-95 all week. The farmers Fields that are planted corn is about a little over a ankle high but it looks bad it is in need of water very much the ears on the corn are folded in on it self the soybeans look good but we have not had rain all week
Good old cultivating. We still do a lot of it here. Not like the old days in a 4430. By George there was no blabbing to a camera. A little inattention and cultivator blight hit. Hope you get feeling better.
The corn is really getting a pounding from that wind and sand .. Perhaps try ridging the hill tops when plantingto minimise the possibility of soil erosion.. better still zero till the sandy hill tops.. Wishing you best and hope the wind dies down.. Stay safe
Hey Dugo ! Thanks for showing us & and explaining how your farming works . Wow what a shame for the corn . Always enjoy you & Chet & others. Hope you get well soon ! You all are fun to watch. Thanks for taking the time to share ! From ne ohio
Looking like the beginning of another dust bowl, God forbid! Hope the wind dies down and the rain stays away enough to get the small lakes dried out. Thanks for all you do and for the awesome content!
Are you OK man?? It'll all work out, I think. We got too much water here in north central MN. We have erosion from water in very heavy down pours here in the hills.
I remember the drought, unfortunately , 53 now but 17 then I helped with baleing hay for our more unfortunate neighbors so to speak. But helping another makes it worth even it was in the high 90's and 100's ! People might ask, "Dougo , Why don't you plant North to South instead of "sandblast " East to West? They have no clue....caint control wind in the sand , kids !!! Good Luck in that field and keep em coming!
Farmers also like to pile rocks on fence lines, which over the years grows taller plants, which catch more blowdirt and bury fences also. We were cleaning up fencelines and we would find rocks and other junk 2 - 3 feet down in places.
We used to get the same condition you have and we used a rotary hoe to stop the dirt from blowing probably won’t work for everyone but it helped and was a lot faster than cultivating
This is just a little reminder of what the early farmers had to deal with in the dust bowl. So much is beyond our control. God Bless you all and I hope you get to feeling better.
In Canterbury we have howling NW winds. So a hot wind for us. When you cut the ryegrass for drying pre harvesting it can pick it up and blow into the fences. No trees because of centre pivot irrigators. I always believed some sort of " companion planting would have helped. We could lose 50% of the seed from winter losses and all for same input costs. Planting a vigorous plant earlier in strips every couple of planter widths would have been worth a try. Something that could have been taken out just after harvest for cattle fodder. So you might lose 5 to 8% of arable land but if you halved your wind losses your still way ahead.
This reminds me of working on a 2,200 acre cotton farm in the 90's "chasing sand" with a rotary hoe until the seedlings grew to roughly six inches and the main stem would become woody.
I grew up in south central Nebraska with pipe "gravity" irrigation. Brings back fond memories of a 7000 Series Magnum tractor and Buffalo 6300 high residue cultivators for ridge-till.
I remember '88 in west central MN. The river east of me dried up & we were driving 3 wheelers up & down the riverbed. We had a couple of small lakes that dried up also. Our neighbors had the same drifting problem on their sugar beet field across the road from me.
Look in the back ground while Doug is explaining how the sand arrived on his freshly tilled swath. You can see it just blowing across the field in a tan line! crazy!
I always liked cultivating corn, it seemed to shoot up a foot after you were done. That was my grandpa's first job to cultivate a 26 acre field with a horse and 1 row cultivator, he told me how he was so proud he did it in a day and his dad said good now you can do it the other way
Well Dougo you brought back some old memories when I use to cultivate corn fields for my dad out in the field all day for days looking at that corn and trying to stay awake thanks for your videos
Dougo, I love your videos! I appreciate all your hard work, and all the others guys! You are an amazing group of farmers!! I admire you'll for trying to feed America!! Just know their are lots of people Praying for you'll everyday!! I hope you and Chris get better real soon!! I have allergies and know first hand how you feel!! God bless you all!!
Know exactly what you mean with the fence line growing in height. I've replaced many a fence in my day that has been berried by drift wind sometimes you never find the Botton of the wire because at some point it is rusted and is too stuck to pull up so it just brakes off and stays in the ground.
We have a young friend still on his family farm. He cultivate his corn. Doesn't do any spraying of any kind. He uses his Dad John deer A. He just fix up. Now that's going back in time.
Grew up in the Texas panhandle….. on a cattle farm, corn and wheat. We used to use a rotary hole. We would lift the wheels that would hit the crops, and running in between everything else. And we would do this at 10/15 miles an hour. You could cover a lot of ground. And do exactly what you’re doing just every other path back-and-forth.. this was back in the late 80s Love the channel
I was curious if a rotary hoe would be okay on corn without further damage to the stand. All it has to do is break up the top crust to hold it from blowing. Years ago when it would get bad enough my grandad would break out the spring tooth harrow to hold the soil and sacrifice crop in the strips it dug out to hold the soil…
@@waggtech4883 yes , depending how the crust is breaking, you could expose the corn roots . So you have to be careful and definitely try to lift the wheels to stay away from the corn. I recently just saw a video on RUclips where someone was using a rotary hoe at an angle crossing the roles of crop. I have to say I never never seen that . Usually, we went with the roles. Definitely when it comes to Farming and everyone has their opinions and ideas and they’re all trying to workhard and make a living.
I live in sask canada. My wife and i are going to be seeding our first crops next year hearing your opinions and thoughts on equipment sure helps us out purchasing our own equipment for the crops we will be growing. Thanks for your videos and keep up the great work
When I was a junior in high school in 1980 I worked for a local farmer here in Illinois. It was just me and him out in the fields. He let me cultivate about 360 acres of corn with a 4 row cultivator on an International 560. For almost 40 years I was so proud of myself and amazed that he trusted me to do that job. A couple of years ago I ran into him at a local festival where he had that same tractor in the show completely restored to new condition. While talking about running that tractor all those years ago I learned that I got to do the cultivating because he threw out his back and I was his only choice!!!! He said that he was terrified when he sent me out there the first day thinking that I would destroy the corn! He said to his surprise he doesn’t think I ran over any!! So after all of these years I found out that I was the last resort!!!🤣
Dougo I'm 70 years old and I can remember in 1969 and 1970 I was 15 and 16 years old and I cultivated beans 3 times and twice in corn in the summer because no one else wanted to do it. So, Dad took me one round and then he said you think you handle it. I said yes and walked off and that was my job from then on. We never had a cab no A/C, but when you're that age it bother you none. We had 4020 JD and it was bran new and I told Dad I wanted a radio, and he went to JD and bought an AM radio which I think that is all you could back then and the way I went. I still run tractors but yes, we have A/C now, I don't run as much as I use to, but I still like it.
you had the radio..being I'm 70 also what music ..ROCK AND Roll..No music for me Juat a 70 JD at age of 11 later 4020JD..
I like your story. How many acres was the farm? 4 row cultivator?
That's an awesome story! Thanks to all farmers who have fed us our entire lives. God bless you all ❤
We need a day of just Dougo. I like watching him talk and show us what he does in farming!
You need to plant a high residue crop so there is a blanket of plant material on the ground that will prevent the soil from blowing away.
This is one of the Best Larson Farms videos. The struggles of the Farmer.
Please Lord Bless our Farmers that feed us all. May you Bless them with bountiful harvests. So they may continue to feed us all. Amen.
Amen. ❤
The lessons learned from the decades before the 30s long forgotten and where you can now go hundreds of miles across the upper midwest with all contour farming no longer existing
Love when we get to spend a day with Dougo. He needs his own "soapbox" segment on each video.
In a situation like this when the soil is blowing, there’s only so much you can do. Roughening the surface into clods to slow ground velocity is an emergency fix. Poor Dougo kicking himself over the fall tillage. An application of hog manure might also help.
Dougo for the winning narrative on the tractor and why/how it doesn't fit their cost/utilization needs. Also for the explanation on what and why he was doing what he was doing in the fields that day. As a non-farmer, I ALMOST felt like I could take that piece of information and become a farmer myself... 🤣🤣BUt honestly, very informative and I enjoyed watching.
I've been saying this for many years, farmers today rely on chemicals for weed control. Get yourself a few 60-80 HP tractors and 8-12 row cultivators for weeds and breaking up the compaction of the top of the soil to allow water to soak in and the soil to breathe. But in drought it's also not a good idea
I just hope we are not over farming like in the days of the Oklahoma "Dust Bowl Days" of the 1930's. When Doug picked up a hand full of grainy soil it means all of the topsoil has been blown away. This can be most devastating at the very least, history teaches us that we will repeat history. I wish Larsons farm the absolute best in their choice making to try and reverse this situation. Good luck guys...
I’m so sorry Doug, I did t mean to laugh, but you are so funny. “Lord Jesus” have you some “Irish” in you. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂❤️❤️❤️❤️
One of the best episodes! I found this really interesting - never knew a field could be so diverse and challenging. Still at wonder over threading the tracks between the corn plants and how much know how goes into setting up a tool like that to achieve the end goal. Also the thinking over which tractors to buy into. Still learning the lingo and how things work - those shields - they help keep the plants upright before it goes into the work area of the tooling?? Perhaps for that field planting spaced tree rows perp to the wind direction would cut the drifting in the long term?
In 1988 the whole country was in a heat wave and the drout. It was 100 degrees everyday that year.
I remember that too, so hot!
My heart is breaking for all of you and I’m praying that things get better soon
The wind is terrible this year. If it's not windy it's raining and making spraying a lil difficult lol. Oh well maybe next year hahaha
Farming is for very special folk.
I thought that it was for weed control!! When you get off the row, it's iron worm that took out the crop!!😂😂
West Texas Farmer here. We struggle with soils constantly trying to blow after any sizeable rain. We run rotary hoes and then we have sand fighters which run in between the rows of whatever crop and provide a longer solution compared to a rotary how it row crop cultivator.
Row cultivating. It's even more fun when the corn is taller and the wind is blowing. At the end of the day you don't need to much time to fall asleep. :D
A day with Dougo is always a good day and the thing is I understood everything that you were talking about that was a great video
As an Australian having watched Jonathan Winters the actor over the years, Dougo reminds me of him with the way he talks and mannerisms. Makes it even funnier when something goes wrong. Very entertaining family
Here in the uk on the sand lands we plant barley then few days later we will drill the sugar beet the barley protects the sugar beet from wind blow.
The barley is easily taken out when the sugar beet is up. Love the channel Boston Lincolnshire uk 🇬🇧
I haven't farmed since the early 1990's we used to say in Western Nebraska when the last rain drop hits the back of your head you'd better be out there working the ground so it doesn't blow away!
Great job Mr. Dougo! I hope you & Chet get back to feeling 💯% better!
You would put yourself in time out but you don’t have time!😂😂😂 Don’t be discouraged. I have confidence The Larson Team will amend this problem to best of their ability!
Sending blessings and well wishes to everyone @ Larson Farm Families!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸
Maybe not work that Sandhill ever again lol probably don’t have a notil planter sitting around lol exactly why I never work the dirt unless it’s absolutely necessary cause once that dust blows away it never comes back
Great job Doug. ❤️❤️❤️❤️👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Look like the beginning of a new Dust Bowl
Thanks Dougo. Very informative. You show us how tough farming can be especially when you are at the mercy of mother nature
I remember 1988 just started farming though my farming career was over. But we're still here 😂😂
Hate to see y’all having all of the rain!! Here in La. we can have a wet spring to but this year we are having a good year so for. Hope and pray that the rain will let up for y’all to get the rest of the crop in!!🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙋🏼♂️👍
I'm in Wisconsin and I very much remember 1988. Dougo. When it quits raining I'll be cultivating too albeit and a much smaller scale.
1988 the winter Olympics in Calgary alberta canada had no snow and the first Jamaican bob sled team 😳
I remember cultivating, 3020 and 4020 with 8 row cultivators, no shade all day, even had to put your hands on the steering wheel, dad would say don't screw it up, the neighbors will be laughing all summer, iron out he called it haha
VERY VERY GOOD JOB TELLING WHAT THE WIND CAN DO !!!🌬
Sure hope you all get to feeling better. Nothing worse then having to work when you are sick 😷. 💪👍🏼
Dougo; Do you remember the late 70 and early 80? In 77 my dad waited to plant corn until he knew it was going to rain and planted corn and did the same with beans. By the fall all the bottoms were so wet he couldn't get them out for 7 yrs. I remember guys putting tires on backwards so when they went into wet areas they could back out. Some guys even tied a cable under the combine so they could pull them out easier.
Looks like a fun day at the beach!
Hey Doug! First of all I am sending you and Chet Prayers for healing and comfort! Feeling yukky and still getting out there to farm is a difficult thing to do! Praying the rains let up and the sun comes out to help the crops grow! Thank You for taking us along as you got some cultivating done! Until your next video ~~~Stay safe, healthy and happy! 🚜🌽
Get better soon Chet.
Wow, how educational this video was thanks doug you’re the best. I learned a lot just in that short little time thank you so much and God bless.
Hope you feel better Dougo . Great video
Darn I was looking forward to the ride
I really hope the 8RX is in the budget to keep on your farm..it’s a stunning piece of equipment and we all know Dougo wants it to stay
I remember years ago, farming with my daddy and grandaddy cultivating with A John Deere tractors with front mount 4 culivaters.
I’m just amazed how in-depth you went into on the tractor and your operation. This is what makes understanding farming costs and equipment costs affect your operation
Wow! A full 23.30 minutes of Dougo, just made my day. Thanks Larson Farms fo a great video. e
It amazes me that auto-steer can thread between the planted rows. You can see the drifting soil is blowing in the distant shots.i remember as a kid when Minnesota farmers routinely cultivated corn before emerging fertilizers and herbicides...no auto-steer, just an open-station row-crop tractor and a good hat.
We are in a heat wave in Ohio it is 90-95 all week. The farmers Fields that are planted corn is about a little over a ankle high but it looks bad it is in need of water very much the ears on the corn are folded in on it self the soybeans look good but we have not had rain all week
I used to love to cultivate back in the day
Good old cultivating. We still do a lot of it here. Not like the old days in a 4430. By George there was no blabbing to a camera. A little inattention and cultivator blight hit. Hope you get feeling better.
If you know… well…. You know. Enjoyed every minute of this video. God bless America
Awesome video Dougo!👍❤️
The corn is really getting a pounding from that wind and sand ..
Perhaps try ridging the hill tops when plantingto minimise the possibility of soil erosion.. better still zero till the sandy hill tops..
Wishing you best and hope the wind dies down..
Stay safe
Where's the IH?? Then you could really bring back the memories!!
Hey Dugo ! Thanks for showing us & and explaining how your farming works . Wow what a shame for the corn . Always enjoy you & Chet & others. Hope you get well soon ! You all are fun to watch. Thanks for taking the time to share ! From ne ohio
Looking like the beginning of another dust bowl, God forbid!
Hope the wind dies down and the rain stays away enough to get the small lakes dried out. Thanks for all you do and for the awesome content!
Keep up the great work and keep it between the rows!
Thank you Dougo for sharing your thoughts and decisions made when telling about the JD tractor.
Are you OK man?? It'll all work out, I think. We got too much water here in north central MN. We have erosion from water in very heavy down pours here in the hills.
"I'd put myself in time out if I had the time to go there" - Dougo
You're a good dad Dougo
Your memories and storytelling are captivating. Thanks for sharing this journey-it's delightful to see your reminiscence and the joy it brings!
I remember the drought, unfortunately , 53 now but 17 then I helped with baleing hay for our more unfortunate neighbors so to speak. But helping another makes it worth even it was in the high 90's and 100's ! People might ask, "Dougo , Why don't you plant North to South instead of "sandblast " East to West? They have no clue....caint control wind in the sand , kids !!! Good Luck in that field and keep em coming!
You could see the dust when you were going down the rows. The birds loved to follow you.
Farmers also like to pile rocks on fence lines, which over the years grows taller plants, which catch more blowdirt and bury fences also. We were cleaning up fencelines and we would find rocks and other junk 2 - 3 feet down in places.
We used to get the same condition you have and we used a rotary hoe to stop the dirt from blowing probably won’t work for everyone but it helped and was a lot faster than cultivating
This is just a little reminder of what the early farmers had to deal with in the dust bowl. So much is beyond our control. God Bless you all and I hope you get to feeling better.
I have seen land blow a lot here in Central Oklahoma alot of the ground is sandy. I understand your problem
A dust storm in a mud hole. Dang the luck Dougo
Always a good video when Dougos at tge helm.
Thanks for the explainer. Good video.
Grew up in the 80s….That cultivator brings back a lot of bad memories. 8 rows at a time. Straddle 4 and 5
cultivating the corn will help corn with stand strong winds makes the roots go deeper in the ground.
We use to cultivate corn twice and beans once. My have times changed
In Canterbury we have howling NW winds. So a hot wind for us. When you cut the ryegrass for drying pre harvesting it can pick it up and blow into the fences. No trees because of centre pivot irrigators. I always believed some sort of " companion planting would have helped. We could lose 50% of the seed from winter losses and all for same input costs. Planting a vigorous plant earlier in strips every couple of planter widths would have been worth a try. Something that could have been taken out just after harvest for cattle fodder. So you might lose 5 to 8% of arable land but if you halved your wind losses your still way ahead.
You’re not kidding everyone else’s idea of big is different, my idea of big and my wife’s idea of big are also different. 😂
Magnifique vidéo et le 8r 410 à chenille et désherber et bien équipés 😂😮😅😊
That 8rx is a nice tractor. Seems like a good all purpose tractor.
This reminds me of working on a 2,200 acre cotton farm in the 90's "chasing sand" with a rotary hoe until the seedlings grew to roughly six inches and the main stem would become woody.
I grew up in south central Nebraska with pipe "gravity" irrigation. Brings back fond memories of a 7000 Series Magnum tractor and Buffalo 6300 high residue cultivators for ridge-till.
Childhood memories with grandpa
I remember '88 in west central MN. The river east of me dried up & we were driving 3 wheelers up & down the riverbed. We had a couple of small lakes that dried up also. Our neighbors had the same drifting problem on their sugar beet field across the road from me.
Dougo I hope you and Chet get better it's no fun being sick
They are better. These videos are a few weeks behind real life.
I feel there is plenty of tractor on that cultivator.. think we had a 4450 on a 12row cultivator.. 😂
That's like the dust bowl here in Oklahoma. I'm sorry Doug. I hope you guys heal up & feel better soon. God bless ya.
Look in the back ground while Doug is explaining how the sand arrived on his freshly tilled swath. You can see it just blowing across the field in a tan line! crazy!
I always liked cultivating corn, it seemed to shoot up a foot after you were done. That was my grandpa's first job to cultivate a 26 acre field with a horse and 1 row cultivator, he told me how he was so proud he did it in a day and his dad said good now you can do it the other way
That was really interesting.
Well Dougo you brought back some old memories when I use to cultivate corn fields for my dad out in the field all day for days looking at that corn and trying to stay awake thanks for your videos
In illinois you'd be hard pressed to find a fence line. No livestock no fence line. Lot different 40 years ago.
Dougo, I love your videos! I appreciate all your hard work, and all the others guys! You are an amazing group of farmers!! I admire you'll for trying to feed America!! Just know their are lots of people Praying for you'll everyday!! I hope you and Chris get better real soon!! I have allergies and know first hand how you feel!! God bless you all!!
Know exactly what you mean with the fence line growing in height. I've replaced many a fence in my day that has been berried by drift wind sometimes you never find the Botton of the wire because at some point it is rusted and is too stuck to pull up so it just brakes off and stays in the ground.
We have a young friend still on his family farm. He cultivate his corn. Doesn't do any spraying of any kind. He uses his Dad John deer A. He just fix up. Now that's going back in time.
I remember when my grandpa and dad used to cultivator dad had me run the john deere 730 and a 8 row while he used the 4020
I wish I had my 730 back. I should have kept that tractor.😢
@edsutherlin473 my dad still has the same 730
Cover crop, no till = no rock picking, no erosion, super lower cost on labor and fuel. As good of result.
One of them dam if you do and dam if you don't kinds of events. Good luck.
21:29 is that a mole running across the field behind Dougo?
Grew up in the Texas panhandle….. on a cattle farm, corn and wheat. We used to use a rotary hole. We would lift the wheels that would hit the crops, and running in between everything else. And we would do this at 10/15 miles an hour. You could cover a lot of ground. And do exactly what you’re doing just every other path back-and-forth.. this was back in the late 80s
Love the channel
I was curious if a rotary hoe would be okay on corn without further damage to the stand. All it has to do is break up the top crust to hold it from blowing. Years ago when it would get bad enough my grandad would break out the spring tooth harrow to hold the soil and sacrifice crop in the strips it dug out to hold the soil…
@@waggtech4883 yes , depending how the crust is breaking, you could expose the corn roots . So you have to be careful and definitely try to lift the wheels to stay away from the corn. I recently just saw a video on RUclips where someone was using a rotary hoe at an angle crossing the roles of crop.
I have to say I never never seen that . Usually, we went with the roles. Definitely when it comes to Farming and everyone has their opinions and ideas and they’re all trying to workhard and make a living.
A rotary hoe will just break the crust not level or move the soil like Dougo needs
I live in sask canada. My wife and i are going to be seeding our first crops next year hearing your opinions and thoughts on equipment sure helps us out purchasing our own equipment for the crops we will be growing. Thanks for your videos and keep up the great work