Andy, we bought a tile plow 20 years ago and use it every year. We put a field in wheat and tile it in July and August after the wheat is harvested. We can put our tile in for about one half the cost of commercial installation. Rome wasn’t built in a day as they say, but eventually you will be thankful you started tiling.
Thanks for another great video. I didn't get to say Happy Birthday to that Awesome little boy so Happy Birthday LOL. I ❤ your comment about the Golden Retriever." He's a Wild Card".See you soon.
Ben(IowANFarmer) invested in a plow & does all his own tiling bc it was cheaper to buy the plow, then having it done. He did comparisons of a field pre-tile & after. With the same about of rain & yields had a big bump. He likes tiling tho too.
You buy and sell the ground including the road and ditches. The ground I own the county separates the road and does not tax those acres. I have a 160 that has roads on three sides. That eats up tillable acres and makes $/tillable look worse after you win the auction. Very nice job on the panel at Crop Physiology Day!
Andy, your family has been at it for so long, I know you're used to this weather volatility. It is heartbreaking to see those drone images in a year like this. High inputs and low crop prices. It takes special kinds of people to run family farms, especially big ones like yours. I hope we get enough sun and warmth to help out in the coming weeks. Speaking of heartbreaking, our paradise out back (13 straight miles of farm fields straight in back of our house) is no longer. The developers who bought the farm directly behind us moved in a few dozen pieces of monster earth mover and mining sized dump trucks. We had 6 huge earth movers running yesterday and today. They actually came in and mowed down the soybean crop my farmer buddy Mike had planted. Apparently he'd just sprayed it last week too. He was told they wouldn't be starting until after harvest, but they flat out did the exact opposite. I'm sure they'll pay him for his inputs and time, but man, this changes everything. We've had 15 years of paradise and in 48 hours time it looks like a war zone back there. We're stuck here because the wife won't move due to all the kids and grands living close by. I'm feeling pretty bummed. I'll miss my gorgeous views and my friendly over the fence chats with Mike during planting and harvest. The owner sold the farm 6 years ago, but they're just getting to it now. They're putting up these 2500 to 3000 square foot houses that come off the truck with most walls and all the trusses ready to go. The scary thing is, they slap these dumps up in no time and people are shelling out north of 500K for them. The lots are dinky and the houses are literally junk. Oh man....anyway...here's to the best weather conditions possible to get your beans up to 70-80 bushel my friend. Thanks for another very informative but tough to swallow video. Thanks for doing your part to keep things alive and well in the family farm business. You're all very much appreciated.
Were you able market most of your grain before the roof fell in? Do you have a plan for forward marketing a certain precentage of your production every year?
I had my minimal amount of corn contracted for quite a bit more than current prices out of the field this previous harvest... My dad has enough old crop to make you sick, but he is in a pretty comfortable financial position. I think it muddies his marketing decisions at time. It's probably time to start hedging a bit more aggressively.
Andy... You mentioned the utilities damaging drainage tiles. When tile is installed do they also install like a wire along side of the tile so the 8-1-1 (Call Before You Dig) people can locate the tile.
Oh definitely not. It isn't maintained in a location system or network. Some of these tiles are so old that you don't even know they are there until hey start to break down. That's usually how you know when the utility company hits one. In a year or two, there is often a tile hole formed from the break creating a suck hole. The utilities are required to come fix it.
Advice:...Stay Focused on Crop management....also, thought you would be excited to get fiber access for your continuing dependence on your computer technology....
Andy, on the pipeline, you are correct. They do have an easement. Usually when the land man comes out he makes a deal for so much money a chain. Then they get a 40ft wide construction easement. Once product is flowing, it reverts to a 15ft easement. Which is 7.5 ft each direction from the center of the pipe. That’s fairly standard. And to your point, no, they cannot use that easement to install a new line. It’s for maintenance. Trust me, I know way more than most on pipelines and utilities. Here in my part of Texas with the oil fields I’m sure you can imagine. Here, depending on the road, which we have county, city and state. They own from the center of the road to the edge, and then anywhere from 20 to 60ft. Dependent on what municipality has the control. They have to notify you if a new utility is being installed, but you can’t do anything about it. Unless, they cause damages to your side of the fenceline.
@@peteparker7396 no they're not at all... The right of way would be the land that they have acquired for a public road, etc... they then generally have zoning and easements associated with that right of way .
@@xephael3485 dude, go argue with someone else. I read your ignorant comment below. You obviously are a narcissist needing attention who uses google to feed your ailment. Seek help.
In my opinion, pipelines are the least complicated "utility" easements. We've actually never had any issues with our provider, and they've always been friendly and courteous. We've had to complain a few times about them driving out in muddy fields, which is more of a lack of knowledge than a negligent abuse of authority. It's when things are ran along the roadside that things get complicated, or if eminent domain is used like with that HVT line that I mentioned. Utility companies do not have supreme authority, even though most of them think they do. I have no problem with installing new stuff, so long as all parties agree to the terms. Some landowners are more open to it and others will tell you the GTFO immediately.
Andy, one thing modern technology and social media have created is unfettered experts commenting about things they do not know or understand. But google told them they are. I wouldn’t waste a second responding to the keyboard warriors, and keyboard legal experts. Keep doing what you are amigo, and look at it this way. Just smile and enjoy knowing you’re getting under the skin of basement right of way experts.
Its nice to defend people from bad people but Andy keeps admitting he does not know. Seems to me he does not know. Here in the PR OF NY Andy would be very wrong about utility rite of way. Andy ... Go to town hall and ask.
I don't entirely know what I am talking about. However, I am fairly confident that utilities can't just run whatever they want without an existing easement. This isn't the Wild West. Most landowners would have the sheriff there within minutes if someone encroached on their property without permission. Every state is also different... Either way, I don't mind the discussion.
There’s always someone or some company that will make money off taking someone else’s property once it’s been taken with eminent domain ask me how I know.
I'm from IL and have a lot of farmer relatives back there, but I live in L.A. I feel like gov takes advantage of you guys and your easy going nature, because they know you just want to be left alone and don't want a big fight. As contrasted to how things work in a large city like this, where as an example... Right down the street from me, literally one block's worth of people were able to stop an entire light rail line from being built across the whole valley on an old rail RoW, because they just didn't want it going by their homes. What amounts to a handful of people were able to stop something that hundreds of thousands of people would have used per year.
I have found that angry neighbors can be very powerful in a city. A new rail line would be a fair argument about the public good versus individual concerns. I know a lot of farmers that own land, and I can promise you that they will not shy away from a fight if it is worth it!
Andy most roads have a easement so many feet from the center of the road when I lived in Indiana the court house told me that the highway department has a 30 from the center of the road and your gas or phone has the right to put anything they want go and check your county court house they will tell you what the easement is
Not trying to be an internet know it all, but it would be great to see you do a cereal that over winters. on soybean ground. It sops up that excess moisture in the spring, and holds on to moisture when you need it later. You could really go bonkers and mix in some tillage radish. It will winter kill, and it opens up a lot of channels. Nothing too fancy, just blow it on with the combine during harvest, and if you want to till it in during spring tillage, do it. Can’t expect you to go no till right away. Maybe find 5-10 acres no one can see and play around with it. I’m not some kind of super farmer. Your dad and uncle have forgotten more than I’ve learned. But it’s possible to know too much.
@@EricCarlson-bz2pt the land is sitting empty and eroding during the times cover crops are working their magic, feeding the microbial universe, how is that wasting? lol, hey what do I know. I don’t promote organic regen, because it’s not prescriptive farming, it has a high failure rate, but that’s changing rapidly. I encourage experimentation on very small areas and developing ideas. I don’t really know how to respond to your comment. I’m sure your not a troll in your moms basement, your probably a farmer, just like the guys who have keyed my trucks over the years, or the farmer whose wife bought a bunch of organic produce and chicken from me, and he threw it down on my front porch and stomped on it. She divorced him a few years later, and is now my CFO. 😂
Id take some Sweet corn Lenny. Might be the most expensive corn after the drive . We just buy it and the Amish produce stand they grow anything and everything .
Tell the Finance Committee to fully tile one of the Lake sections as an experiment since there is 4 of them. Then you would see if it would be worth doing on all of them. Pick the worse one of the 4 to solve 2 problems at the same time. You guys should have have a tile budget anyway at this point because land isn't getting cheaper.
I work for indot. most utility companies, especially fiber companies, operate like the wild west. They do what they want when they want, it seems. It's very aggravating to be held up by buried cable when trying to install a new box culvert.
That is actually one of my concerns with this new fiber line. They have some of their junction boxes in the bottom slope of ditches that are a decade overdue for being recut. It's going to be pretty hard to rework these silted-in ditches with the fiber in spot that needs shaved...
we had lot of barn swallows, robins, and blue jays...i once saw a red cardinal....which was very rare in the area we lived in...and saw jack rabbits twice...during the 19 yrs i was on the farm
It seems you need a lot of tile. It’s expensive to hire out. Would you ever consider buying a tile plow and doing it yourself? Like you took spraying in house.
There is definitely money to be saved on tile work. Buying the equipment would be less of an issue than having enough capable/motivated help to run tile. It takes at least 2 people to do it effectively, and likely 3-4 is the perfect amount. My uncles and Dad aren't interested in installing tile, so I wouldn't really have the help to do it.
Andy why are they running wires when the technology requires more wireless services , just satelite transponders and towers can provide telecom and internet services
Wireless internet options have advanced significantly. I think that they still lack bandwidth and raw data throughput especially during high-traffic times. Some of the remote options are also crazy overpriced...
Andy, one thing that you, and many other youtubers, need to remember is that not everyone who watches comments. Even if you get 30 comments and every single one of them has something negative to say, remember that you have 10 or 20 or 30,000 people watching... Those 30 comments mean nothing. Just like when you were growing your mustache, it seems that you were bothered in thinking that "everyone" hated it. There were maybe half a dozen or a dozen who busted your balls about it, but there were thousands of views on that video. Your wife liked it, and that's all that should have mattered.
Unless someone is unnecessarily rude, I don't have any problems with criticism, feedback, and conversation. I enjoy interacting with the comments after the video and hopefully mentioning some of the stuff in the next video. The mustache is just a seasonal delicacy.... haha
@@aTrippyFarmer glad to hear it. I just didn't want you to get discouraged because of a few trolls, like that Eastern Shore Farmer or whoever he was a while back who was blasting you on everything. Not sure what his deal was. Keep on keepin' on. Oh... as an aside, I was in Metropolis a couple of weeks ago, and met a guy who works for LaFont Farms in based in a tiny town nearby called Brookport. He was driving a very nice f-350, and said that they farm 8,000 acres. I asked him what his corn yields were, expecting him to say 175 or whatever with the Southern Illinois soils. He said 300 bu/acre. When I told him that I was very surprised by that, and knew that many farms up in Central Illinois - with far better soils - that didn't get that, and that I was expecting him to say 150 to 175, he responded that they would lose money at anything under 250. Do you think that it's really possible for farms in far Southern Illinois to be getting 300 bushels an acre? I'm skeptical.
@@davedammitt7691 That specific guy that you mentioned comment mean stuff on nearly every channel on here and even on other platforms. Some people are just sour! As for your second point, it is certainly possible for Southern Illinois farmers to raise tremendous corn. 300 bushels per acre might've been a sarcastic answer unless they are under irrigation and have access to a lot of manure. Crop Genetics have come a long way in the last two decades, especially on less productive ground. Central Illinois dirt is mostly high in organic matter and water holding capacity. This allows for it naturally have a great environment for growth to an extent. Some of these same properties do make it more subject to drainage issues on wet years, which can really offset field average yields. These soils can be drained with tile, but it is a big investment and you often need a lot of it. Most Southern IL clay soils lack organic matter and water capacity. It is essentially the opposite of the darker, northern soils. They are often somewhat less prone to major drainage issues, but they need rain much more than those to the North. Some joke that those farms are always 2 weeks away from a flood and a drought at the same time. Essentially, they have less room for error with the weather. With that advancement in genetics, so long as it rains, I have heard of those farmers being able to yield with or better than farms in Central Illinois. They also get the benefit of being 100-200 miles south of the best dirt, which gives them a longer growing season. I would bet big money that no farm can consist average 300 bushels across the entirety, but it's certainly possible to have a field or two reach close to that if conditions are perfect. Anyone that can't make money at 250 bushel corn is either paying too much to rent the farms or is just lying about the profitability of it...
From the edge of any road to the telephone poles that area is all easement or right aways. Utility side I do not know, But a person can be in that area and not tresspass because its state owned property. Alot of people do not understand it including alot of police offices hence this long windedness to say that is 1 thing auditors challenge and there is no privacy in public aswell.
The following comment will be made in Good Humor an attempt at farming jokes nothing is to be construed anything is wrong with anything but if you find a farmer that is very happy with an entire year of precipitation take him to the doctor because something's wrong
Yes the utilities can come in WHENEVER they want to without your permission... The right of way gives them the permission! Do you think they need to get permission every time the power goes out and they have to repair it? If you read Illinois Statutes Chapter 220. Utilities § 65/4... They can even go on private property without an easement if needed from what I understand.
That is only if it is predetermined that the utility is for the public good. You are definitely wrong. A utility cannot cross private property without an agreement beforehand. This is a very messy subject.
You are not right with your assessment of the right a way. If you own the roadway, then you need to do the maintenance of the road. You can't go across the farmers' land. But a utility company can roll up and bury utilities anytime. You have the same mentality as every property owner. It's funny you say you own to center of the road, yet you don't plant right up to the roadway. Why is that??
@@ralphnyquist7873 dude,,,, it’s pretty obvious people like you either don’t know what it’s like to get hit in the mouth. It’s easy to run your mouth from the comfort of mommy and daddy’s home. I bet your the life of the party at the narcissist anonymous meetings. Why don’t you scurry your way back to the basement of your mom’s house and yell at the tv some more in the hopes you’ll feel better about yourself.
We don't own the roadway. We own the property that the road sits on. We do not have authority of the road because of the original right of ways granted to the township/county. It's no different than us not owning the pipeline that has been granted an easement, but we also don't have to maintain it. Just because something is on your property, you aren't immediately entitled to care for it. Every case is different.
How would you feel if the city/county /utility/company decided to run something onto your property without telling you or asking for a right of way easement?
@@aTrippyFarmer I'm going to agree to disagree with you on this easement stuff. What I do think is we are comparing apples to oranges here as far as lot lines. Maybe farmland boundary lines and city lot lines are just different. My lot does not go to the middle of the road. It is 33 feet from the center and thankfully so. Why you ask, well the city was on the hook to remove 2 large dead Ash trees in those 33 feet not me. On the bright side you getting RUclips $$$ for all these comments.
Andy, we bought a tile plow 20 years ago and use it every year. We put a field in wheat and tile it in July and August after the wheat is harvested. We can put our tile in for about one half the cost of commercial installation. Rome wasn’t built in a day as they say, but eventually you will be thankful you started tiling.
I would agree that a plow would pay for itself quickly. I like the wheat idea to guarantee that you can knock out another field in the summer!
Thanks for another great video. I didn't get to say Happy Birthday to that Awesome little boy so Happy Birthday LOL. I ❤ your comment about the Golden Retriever." He's a Wild Card".See you soon.
Thanks!!! The golden retriever has been a nice addition... definitely entertaining!
It’s interesting to watch from the drone the wind blowing across the field.
I'm so hungry for Sweet Corn right now, you have no idea. That looks phenomenal.
It tastes even better than it looks!
Drain tile is the only imput that pays for itself.
Corn looks awesome
It doesn't look to bad from afar!
Ben(IowANFarmer) invested in a plow & does all his own tiling bc it was cheaper to buy the plow, then having it done. He did comparisons of a field pre-tile & after. With the same about of rain & yields had a big bump. He likes tiling tho too.
We sell sweetcorn in Hoopeston, Rantoul, Tilton,IL and Attica, IN at the Lingley Brothers Sweetcorn Stands! Come see us!
Great channel Andy. Keep it up in all you do. Gods Blessings. Jn. 9:3
appreciate it. God bless!
You buy and sell the ground including the road and ditches. The ground I own the county separates the road and does not tax those acres. I have a 160 that has roads on three sides. That eats up tillable acres and makes $/tillable look worse after you win the auction.
Very nice job on the panel at Crop Physiology Day!
Thank you!
Andy, your family has been at it for so long, I know you're used to this weather volatility. It is heartbreaking to see those drone images in a year like this. High inputs and low crop prices. It takes special kinds of people to run family farms, especially big ones like yours. I hope we get enough sun and warmth to help out in the coming weeks. Speaking of heartbreaking, our paradise out back (13 straight miles of farm fields straight in back of our house) is no longer. The developers who bought the farm directly behind us moved in a few dozen pieces of monster earth mover and mining sized dump trucks. We had 6 huge earth movers running yesterday and today. They actually came in and mowed down the soybean crop my farmer buddy Mike had planted. Apparently he'd just sprayed it last week too. He was told they wouldn't be starting until after harvest, but they flat out did the exact opposite. I'm sure they'll pay him for his inputs and time, but man, this changes everything. We've had 15 years of paradise and in 48 hours time it looks like a war zone back there. We're stuck here because the wife won't move due to all the kids and grands living close by. I'm feeling pretty bummed. I'll miss my gorgeous views and my friendly over the fence chats with Mike during planting and harvest. The owner sold the farm 6 years ago, but they're just getting to it now. They're putting up these 2500 to 3000 square foot houses that come off the truck with most walls and all the trusses ready to go. The scary thing is, they slap these dumps up in no time and people are shelling out north of 500K for them. The lots are dinky and the houses are literally junk. Oh man....anyway...here's to the best weather conditions possible to get your beans up to 70-80 bushel my friend. Thanks for another very informative but tough to swallow video. Thanks for doing your part to keep things alive and well in the family farm business. You're all very much appreciated.
My dad joked that perfect years are abnormal. These crazy years are just another normal season for us!
Were you able market most of your grain before the roof fell in? Do you have a plan for forward marketing a certain precentage of your production every year?
I had my minimal amount of corn contracted for quite a bit more than current prices out of the field this previous harvest... My dad has enough old crop to make you sick, but he is in a pretty comfortable financial position. I think it muddies his marketing decisions at time. It's probably time to start hedging a bit more aggressively.
Andy... You mentioned the utilities damaging drainage tiles. When tile is installed do they also install like a wire along side of the tile so the 8-1-1 (Call Before You Dig) people can locate the tile.
Oh definitely not. It isn't maintained in a location system or network. Some of these tiles are so old that you don't even know they are there until hey start to break down. That's usually how you know when the utility company hits one. In a year or two, there is often a tile hole formed from the break creating a suck hole. The utilities are required to come fix it.
Advice:...Stay Focused on Crop management....also, thought you would be excited to get fiber access for your continuing dependence on your computer technology....
Andy, did you and your family make it to the Coles County Fair this year?
Unfortunately not!
Andy, on the pipeline, you are correct. They do have an easement. Usually when the land man comes out he makes a deal for so much money a chain. Then they get a 40ft wide construction easement. Once product is flowing, it reverts to a 15ft easement. Which is 7.5 ft each direction from the center of the pipe. That’s fairly standard. And to your point, no, they cannot use that easement to install a new line. It’s for maintenance. Trust me, I know way more than most on pipelines and utilities. Here in my part of Texas with the oil fields I’m sure you can imagine.
Here, depending on the road, which we have county, city and state. They own from the center of the road to the edge, and then anywhere from 20 to 60ft. Dependent on what municipality has the control. They have to notify you if a new utility is being installed, but you can’t do anything about it. Unless, they cause damages to your side of the fenceline.
@@peteparker7396 yes you're correct it's easy to get right of way and easements mixed up
@@xephael3485 they are the same thing.
@@peteparker7396 no they're not at all... The right of way would be the land that they have acquired for a public road, etc... they then generally have zoning and easements associated with that right of way .
@@xephael3485 dude, go argue with someone else. I read your ignorant comment below. You obviously are a narcissist needing attention who uses google to feed your ailment. Seek help.
In my opinion, pipelines are the least complicated "utility" easements. We've actually never had any issues with our provider, and they've always been friendly and courteous. We've had to complain a few times about them driving out in muddy fields, which is more of a lack of knowledge than a negligent abuse of authority. It's when things are ran along the roadside that things get complicated, or if eminent domain is used like with that HVT line that I mentioned. Utility companies do not have supreme authority, even though most of them think they do. I have no problem with installing new stuff, so long as all parties agree to the terms. Some landowners are more open to it and others will tell you the GTFO immediately.
Andy, one thing modern technology and social media have created is unfettered experts commenting about things they do not know or understand. But google told them they are. I wouldn’t waste a second responding to the keyboard warriors, and keyboard legal experts. Keep doing what you are amigo, and look at it this way. Just smile and enjoy knowing you’re getting under the skin of basement right of way experts.
Its nice to defend people from bad people but Andy keeps admitting he does not know. Seems to me he does not know. Here in the PR OF NY Andy would be very wrong about utility rite of way. Andy ... Go to town hall and ask.
I don't entirely know what I am talking about. However, I am fairly confident that utilities can't just run whatever they want without an existing easement. This isn't the Wild West. Most landowners would have the sheriff there within minutes if someone encroached on their property without permission. Every state is also different... Either way, I don't mind the discussion.
@@aTrippyFarmergood for you
Love the videos
Thank you. Appreciate the comment.
There’s always someone or some company that will make money off taking someone else’s property once it’s been taken with eminent domain ask me how I know.
I'm from IL and have a lot of farmer relatives back there, but I live in L.A. I feel like gov takes advantage of you guys and your easy going nature, because they know you just want to be left alone and don't want a big fight. As contrasted to how things work in a large city like this, where as an example... Right down the street from me, literally one block's worth of people were able to stop an entire light rail line from being built across the whole valley on an old rail RoW, because they just didn't want it going by their homes. What amounts to a handful of people were able to stop something that hundreds of thousands of people would have used per year.
I have found that angry neighbors can be very powerful in a city. A new rail line would be a fair argument about the public good versus individual concerns. I know a lot of farmers that own land, and I can promise you that they will not shy away from a fight if it is worth it!
wow..the corn is big from what i see from ur yard
the rain should help ur yeild
we had our farm in southwest iowa...sometimes we did not get the rain when we needed it
nothing better than farm raised sweet corn..not that earn corn u get in the stores
Or I am just short!
@@aTrippyFarmer haha
Drain tile is your only expense that will pay for itself.
Do you use a surfactant/adjuvant to reduce surface tension of water to help manage water?
We run surfactants with everything except for Soybean Fungicide.
Andy most roads have a easement so many feet from the center of the road when I lived in Indiana the court house told me that the highway department has a 30 from the center of the road and your gas or phone has the right to put anything they want go and check your county court house they will tell you what the easement is
yapcity of here on this channel lmao but we love it
Not trying to be an internet know it all, but it would be great to see you do a cereal that over winters. on soybean ground. It sops up that excess moisture in the spring, and holds on to moisture when you need it later. You could really go bonkers and mix in some tillage radish. It will winter kill, and it opens up a lot of channels. Nothing too fancy, just blow it on with the combine during harvest, and if you want to till it in during spring tillage, do it. Can’t expect you to go no till right away. Maybe find 5-10 acres no one can see and play around with it.
I’m not some kind of super farmer. Your dad and uncle have forgotten more than I’ve learned. But it’s possible to know too much.
Let's waste more food on B.S. covercrops, sounds like an American idea.
@@EricCarlson-bz2pt the land is sitting empty and eroding during the times cover crops are working their magic, feeding the microbial universe, how is that wasting? lol, hey what do I know. I don’t promote organic regen, because it’s not prescriptive farming, it has a high failure rate, but that’s changing rapidly. I encourage experimentation on very small areas and developing ideas. I don’t really know how to respond to your comment. I’m sure your not a troll in your moms basement, your probably a farmer, just like the guys who have keyed my trucks over the years, or the farmer whose wife bought a bunch of organic produce and chicken from me, and he threw it down on my front porch and stomped on it. She divorced him a few years later, and is now my CFO. 😂
Id take some Sweet corn Lenny. Might be the most expensive corn after the drive . We just buy it and the Amish produce stand they grow anything and everything .
Haha that mileage would offset the freeness of the corn!
Tell the Finance Committee to fully tile one of the Lake sections as an experiment since there is 4 of them. Then you would see if it would be worth doing on all of them. Pick the worse one of the 4 to solve 2 problems at the same time. You guys should have have a tile budget anyway at this point because land isn't getting cheaper.
I agree that tile should be part of the budget. I would rather shave some from the equipment side and add yearly tile improvements instead.
Big transmission line
Next solar farm
They'll be everywhere!
I work for indot. most utility companies, especially fiber companies, operate like the wild west. They do what they want when they want, it seems. It's very aggravating to be held up by buried cable when trying to install a new box culvert.
That is actually one of my concerns with this new fiber line. They have some of their junction boxes in the bottom slope of ditches that are a decade overdue for being recut. It's going to be pretty hard to rework these silted-in ditches with the fiber in spot that needs shaved...
I’ve seen a lot of those birds and they look like ravens around our farm in northern Iowa, and where I live in the Quad cities
i coul d not tell what sort of bird it was...seem like we had a lot of crows on our farm in southwest iowa
we had lot of barn swallows, robins, and blue jays...i once saw a red cardinal....which was very rare in the area we lived in...and saw jack rabbits twice...during the 19 yrs i was on the farm
You’re yaptastic. :)
It would be nice if grain traders quit saying , rain makes grain . Not always the case .
I'd say that our corn crop is going to be fine, nothing spectacular. Some fields will be incredible and others will be a disappointment.
tile is the best money a farmer can spend in the long run.
It seems you need a lot of tile. It’s expensive to hire out. Would you ever consider buying a tile plow and doing it yourself? Like you took spraying in house.
There is definitely money to be saved on tile work. Buying the equipment would be less of an issue than having enough capable/motivated help to run tile. It takes at least 2 people to do it effectively, and likely 3-4 is the perfect amount. My uncles and Dad aren't interested in installing tile, so I wouldn't really have the help to do it.
Andy why are they running wires when the technology requires more wireless services , just satelite transponders and towers can provide telecom and internet services
They've been digging lines in, in MN for a couple years. "Satellites," must not work.
Wireless internet options have advanced significantly. I think that they still lack bandwidth and raw data throughput especially during high-traffic times. Some of the remote options are also crazy overpriced...
You cat is really “yappy” also😊
It's no big deal unless he starts yapping at 3 AM!!!
U get any corn aphids there. Pretty easy to turn the population down on a exact emerge planter lol
Some of the later planted stuff had aphid pressure. Hopefully it wasn't an economical amount because we didn't run insecticide on corn!
Andy, one thing that you, and many other youtubers, need to remember is that not everyone who watches comments. Even if you get 30 comments and every single one of them has something negative to say, remember that you have 10 or 20 or 30,000 people watching... Those 30 comments mean nothing. Just like when you were growing your mustache, it seems that you were bothered in thinking that "everyone" hated it. There were maybe half a dozen or a dozen who busted your balls about it, but there were thousands of views on that video. Your wife liked it, and that's all that should have mattered.
Unless someone is unnecessarily rude, I don't have any problems with criticism, feedback, and conversation. I enjoy interacting with the comments after the video and hopefully mentioning some of the stuff in the next video. The mustache is just a seasonal delicacy.... haha
@@aTrippyFarmer glad to hear it. I just didn't want you to get discouraged because of a few trolls, like that Eastern Shore Farmer or whoever he was a while back who was blasting you on everything. Not sure what his deal was.
Keep on keepin' on.
Oh... as an aside, I was in Metropolis a couple of weeks ago, and met a guy who works for LaFont Farms in based in a tiny town nearby called Brookport. He was driving a very nice f-350, and said that they farm 8,000 acres. I asked him what his corn yields were, expecting him to say 175 or whatever with the Southern Illinois soils. He said 300 bu/acre. When I told him that I was very surprised by that, and knew that many farms up in Central Illinois - with far better soils - that didn't get that, and that I was expecting him to say 150 to 175, he responded that they would lose money at anything under 250.
Do you think that it's really possible for farms in far Southern Illinois to be getting 300 bushels an acre? I'm skeptical.
@@davedammitt7691 That specific guy that you mentioned comment mean stuff on nearly every channel on here and even on other platforms. Some people are just sour! As for your second point, it is certainly possible for Southern Illinois farmers to raise tremendous corn. 300 bushels per acre might've been a sarcastic answer unless they are under irrigation and have access to a lot of manure. Crop Genetics have come a long way in the last two decades, especially on less productive ground. Central Illinois dirt is mostly high in organic matter and water holding capacity. This allows for it naturally have a great environment for growth to an extent. Some of these same properties do make it more subject to drainage issues on wet years, which can really offset field average yields. These soils can be drained with tile, but it is a big investment and you often need a lot of it. Most Southern IL clay soils lack organic matter and water capacity. It is essentially the opposite of the darker, northern soils. They are often somewhat less prone to major drainage issues, but they need rain much more than those to the North. Some joke that those farms are always 2 weeks away from a flood and a drought at the same time. Essentially, they have less room for error with the weather. With that advancement in genetics, so long as it rains, I have heard of those farmers being able to yield with or better than farms in Central Illinois. They also get the benefit of being 100-200 miles south of the best dirt, which gives them a longer growing season. I would bet big money that no farm can consist average 300 bushels across the entirety, but it's certainly possible to have a field or two reach close to that if conditions are perfect. Anyone that can't make money at 250 bushel corn is either paying too much to rent the farms or is just lying about the profitability of it...
will corn and soybean prices collapse more ?
I'd bet so.
Remember that you're speaking only of Illinois with regard to utilities.
Yes...
Another tile question. Is tile an experience or a depriciple asset?
Depreciable
What is the drone you used in the video?
DJI Magic 3
From the edge of any road to the telephone poles that area is all easement or right aways. Utility side I do not know, But a person can be in that area and not tresspass because its state owned property. Alot of people do not understand it including alot of police offices hence this long windedness to say that is 1 thing auditors challenge and there is no privacy in public aswell.
SUBSCRIBE AND "THUMBS UP", People. DUH!!
Go read deed !
I have to ask what is going on with his nose he needs to go see a doctor its not healing.
It has healed very poorly...
I’m the first comment!!
Good work!!
The following comment will be made in Good Humor an attempt at farming jokes nothing is to be construed anything is wrong with anything but if you find a farmer that is very happy with an entire year of precipitation take him to the doctor because something's wrong
Haha that is the truth!
Yes the utilities can come in WHENEVER they want to without your permission... The right of way gives them the permission! Do you think they need to get permission every time the power goes out and they have to repair it?
If you read Illinois Statutes Chapter 220. Utilities § 65/4... They can even go on private property without an easement if needed from what I understand.
Bootlicking union worker comment here.
@@PrestigeWorldWidePWW no it's called law and it's existed for longer than you've been alive. Easements have been around for centuries
@@PrestigeWorldWidePWW yeah don’t encourage the all knowing, bootlicking union narcissist.
@@PrestigeWorldWidePWW let’s try this again,,,, just ignore keyboard narcissistic warrior boy. He deleted my last reply to you.
That is only if it is predetermined that the utility is for the public good. You are definitely wrong. A utility cannot cross private property without an agreement beforehand. This is a very messy subject.
Now let’s get out and vote for California liberals to rule the roost
Big Gov!
You are "not verbally challenged."
It's not starting to talk that challenges me... it's stopping!
You are not right with your assessment of the right a way. If you own the roadway, then you need to do the maintenance of the road. You can't go across the farmers' land. But a utility company can roll up and bury utilities anytime. You have the same mentality as every property owner. It's funny you say you own to center of the road, yet you don't plant right up to the roadway. Why is that??
@@ralphnyquist7873 dude,,,, it’s pretty obvious people like you either don’t know what it’s like to get hit in the mouth. It’s easy to run your mouth from the comfort of mommy and daddy’s home. I bet your the life of the party at the narcissist anonymous meetings. Why don’t you scurry your way back to the basement of your mom’s house and yell at the tv some more in the hopes you’ll feel better about yourself.
@@ralphnyquist7873 what’s the matter cupcake? Can’t handle a little adversity so you delete my comment? Typical keyboard warrior.
We don't own the roadway. We own the property that the road sits on. We do not have authority of the road because of the original right of ways granted to the township/county. It's no different than us not owning the pipeline that has been granted an easement, but we also don't have to maintain it. Just because something is on your property, you aren't immediately entitled to care for it. Every case is different.
How would you feel if the city/county /utility/company decided to run something onto your property without telling you or asking for a right of way easement?
@@aTrippyFarmer I'm going to agree to disagree with you on this easement stuff. What I do think is we are comparing apples to oranges here as far as lot lines. Maybe farmland boundary lines and city lot lines are just different. My lot does not go to the middle of the road. It is 33 feet from the center and thankfully so. Why you ask, well the city was on the hook to remove 2 large dead Ash trees in those 33 feet not me. On the bright side you getting RUclips $$$ for all these comments.