Generational Farming - Seeding New Crop Hay
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- We disk, seed, and harrow the oats and alfalfa for this year!
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I am happily "addicted" to your channel, Ryan!!! As a former farm boy, from south central Minnesota, your channel allows me to, vicariously, experience what life MIGHT have been like if our father hadn't sold the farm in 1967. As an old geezer of 64 years now, I know that I'll never be able to farm myself, but just LOVE to follow along with you on these marvelous and highly professional videos that you produce for us. You are truly an artist in the way you use music, lighting, video angles, drone footage and pleasant commentary to present farming as the grand and noble enterprise it truly is!!! Keep up the FINE work, my friend!!! :o)
N. Elliott Noorlun I’m having the same experience as you. Only I’m near 82 years. My earliest memories are dad ploughing with a single shovel plough and mules.
Good Morning, James. Thanks for sharing here! What an awesome legacy we both can enjoy in our younger farming lives, ya? My dad spoke of how our grandfather, in northern Minnesota, did all of his farming with horses and never drove a tractor. Those were the days, for sure :o) Blessings >
Thanks, Luke, for stopping by with this sharing. I'm in awe of how technology has shot farming out of a cannon and into the future. My dear dad (passed in 1980) would have his jaw on the ground with what's out there today :o)
Old school meets new school. One generation passes the torch to the next (and beyond). In essence, that is How Farms Work. Your grandfather would be so proud of all you have accomplished so far and will far into the future.
Matthew Hoag I
Spot on brother, nobody could say it better !!
I agree - it is great to see traditions carried forward but using latest technologies
I always loved discing ground. That smell of dirt and that rich dark color was always special. My Dad always did the planting just like yours and I would come behind with a harrow. Thanks for bringing back memories❤️‼️‼️
I remember dad planting over 500 acres with the liitle IH drill like that
My names Gus, my dream: be a successful farmer just like you. Nice decent equipment( John Deere Preferably) and I LOVE the outdoors. Riding in mud, helping my landlord with hay, especially mowing! I hope one day I can be like you.
Seeing the old drill in the field took me back to my childhood . We sometimes had 4 tractors in one 10 acre field Two cultivating one on an old Massey drill and one rolling , happy days . Thanks for the trip down memory Lane .Regards
Yep...
I wish I'd have gotten footage of this rig a Mennonite was running up in Indiana a few years back... He was running an old 620 Deere tractor (we had one just like it, but ours was a single front wheel and his was a wide front axle, and his had steel wheels of course in the Mennonite/Amish fashion) and behind it he was pulling a whole "freight train" of equipment... right behind the tractor was about a 12 foot tandem disk, behind that he had an old Deere/Van Brunt drill just like the one Dwight it using in the video, he had a drag harrow on a cart behind that, and a Brillion single-row roller packer hitched to the back of the drag harrow... It was probably 60 feet long in all... that old Johnny Popper was just putt-putting along... did a little better going downhill with that rig than uphill-- you could really hear that old two-cylinder start barking climbing the hill with all that working behind it... but he was getting it done!!!
Later! OL J R :)
I just finished catching up on all the videos except two that were marked not available in my county the USA they were Heli Spraying videos. I have left some comments along the way. Keep up the great work. I love the videos.
Thank you for the great camera shots.
I always loved seeding oats. It was a good time to be in the field without any real rush like later with corn and beans.
The crack of the baseball bat and the smell of diesel... Spring is for sure in the air!
Ryan! a five star video Great editing and music and commentary. *****
Out here where I used to work in the Riverina in Australia we used to drag a set of harrows behind the sower (here we call a sower a combine ,funny enough). It saved another pass with the tractor. Love your videos
You should do a blooper reel. You know all those times you get Travis to jump because he almost hit your drone
Thank you so much for making these videos, so glad I found your channel.
Looks like fun.
Good job for a cultimulcher!
Looking good. Some corn is planted here in Kentucky and cereal rye is being chopped but unfortunately it is snowing today.
Love the background music, Ryan. And the overhead Drone work is spectacular. Takes a lot of work to bring the farming business to light, but helps many like myself understand. I'd like to thank you for the hard work.
Looks like went everything good
An 8R, 7600, and a 4020 - same field. Deere must be proud!
Very nice camera angles and shows how everthing works
I bet your glad to be back in the field again... Thanks for sharing Ryan....
hoped we could start in the netherlands too but it's still too wet ):
Farmers Dream, rolling across the fields in the springtime! Great vid.
Hmmm, seeing a man "flying formation" with his two sons - pretty great! Brings a nostalgic tear. 😀
Was pretty cool seeing a old 4020 out seeding
Loved the variety of footage angels... THANKS
NICE VIDEO ALWAYS LIKE TO WATCH TRACTORS WORKING
As some one who watches on a phone or tablet, I had a hard time reading your note at the beginning of the video. As always thanks for sharing!
Beautiful sights and memories. Summer is coming, which means 4020... :)
Hey Ryan glad to see you guys down south didn't get any snow over the last week. In northern WI we got like a foot and a half. So looks like I'm not going to be out in the fields for a while.
We had a b series 13 x 7,5 end wheel drill with galvanized seed box no grass or fertilizer box I started out using a 1963 4010 John Deere diesel precursor to the 4020. Drivability the 4010 was better than the 4020 we used the 4010 till 1980 and the old drill till then
Cool video. Love the drone footage!
Love your videos man! Wishing you a safe and profitable year!
Ryan, your videos are very helpful for me, as I am a retired math teacher/ Accountant. I took some of my nest egg and just bought 240 acres. I have priced out the machinery I will need, and will pay cash for the land and the equip. Now all I have to do is learn how to do everything. This has been my dream and now at 56 i cant establish our family ranch/farm to pass on to future generations debt free. Any suggestions let me know
Rick
That’s amazing that you guys are able to get into the field already I live in northern Dane county and still to wet to start
Wish we had that big of a disk we’ve only got a 16 footer and we do a lot of disking. Good vid.
Just absolutely love your videos.... you guys did a lot of work in a very short time.... glad to see you finely in the field planting!!!
man your lucky you dont have any snow.in north Dakota we get like 2 snow storms a week
10 out of 10 video. Music is spot on.Thank You! Is it dry there? We still have a foot of snow on the ground here in Albetra and it is currently snowing.
good to see that 4020 working
No more fake news, this is a lot more entertaining 👍
We use a fertilizer spreader for our seed and then when use a spring tooth and harrow
nice video enjoy your stuff i live 4 county s north our fields are white and 2 to 4 sunday nite makes me fell good watchin some plant some thing in wisconsin ready for summer
At about 2:51, sounds like either an arbor bolt is slightly loose allowing a blade to creak back and forth against its spacer, OR more likely a bearing is starting to go out... Usually creaking like that is a cracked race in the bearing.
Terrific video! Beautiful drone work! Glad yall got it done!
The old drill proves that you don't necessarily have to have the "latest and greatest" to do the job... older tech still works fine for some jobs.
Later! OL J R :)
I love that 4020!
Great video, just so satisfying to watch. Your videography is fantastic.
When will you do a video about the equipment you all 3 purchased
Sunday
gotta love field work, head always on a swivel !
Great video! Informative, nicely produced, great music.
And on some fields we use out John deer grain drill
Talk about multitasking! Droning and Disking! Or is it discing??? lol
I’m jealous. Wish I could be out in the field
Great channel Ryan! Family has farmed way back before i was ever born and honestly i'd love to but i live through your videos for now, very interesting! Keep up the great work!
I heard stories like 20 years back that farmers were being sued for copyright infringement by corporations for planting crops that were owned by those corporations, even if the farmers grew the crops they were planting, they had to purchase new seed. Even farmers who did not use those seeds, but the wind blew the modified seeds onto their field, the farmer was liable.
That never happened. It’s a popular rumor, no farmer has been sued for that in the US. Those were the concerns when GMO seed became available, but never came to be. Companies make “terminating” seed, which does not grow a plant but those seeds are usually only sold in countries where that would be an uncontrollable problem.
Do you replant the corn you grow?
Well done video like the overhead shots with the Drone
I need to get my 10 acres ready and smoothed out for hay. Just rain and solid black clay type dirt sticks terribly. Also tons of hog damage along with other issues that needs fixing..
Hogs are the absolute WORST... Good luck! OL J R :)
Very Nice video
Not a UK seed bed. We aim for 1-2" cover drill harrow in one pass.
Great footage Thankyou.
Looks good it snowing in vermont where i am
Great video thanks for sharing.
Curious ! I'd say you're 'mudding in ' that hay crop IME . Even more curious is harrowing the planted crop ! Yeah,, I know you're not planning on combining the oats, but doesn't the trash drag and consequent seed movement affect the alfalfa stand ? But whatever works for you and your soils ! Great video !
Love every video
Around here I’ve never seen anyone pull a harrow after the grain drill, everyone uses a roller to level up a cover up the seed usually pulled right behind the drill. Why don’t you do that? Just wondering.
We've seen sub zero temperatures just a few hours north of you the last week. Still over a foot of snow on the ground. Its hard to imagine anybody doing field work all ready. I guess i should move to southern WI!
Loren Kindschy several inches of snow forecast for Ryan this Sunday.
Loren Kindschy Same s**t in Finland😭
Isn't tilling like that bad for not only the soil but the microorganisms as well?
Hey ryan for a good tillage trwctor you should get a cat challenger 1000 series we have one and we pull it with 10,000 gallon loquid spreader like nothing. Its 400 horse its wheeled its a beast of a trwctor
We are in Minnesota and still have a foot of snow
With the trash where the corn was do you feel a hoe drill would be better then the disk type drill. It appeared the drill was startimg to plug. Also normally you put the oats in 2inches deep why did you say your not concerned with depth even through its a cover crop or nurse crop you still want the oats to establish to protect the alfalfa for the first year. Also do you use a land roller after harrowing.
Hi Ryan, I hope you are feeling better Travis said you've been pretty sick, awesome video, I grew up on the farm and learned to drive a 4020 tractor it's wonderful to see someone still uses one, my question is how do you fly the drone and operate the tractor at the same time, thanks for all your videos it's been fun watching them
I wish I could get in the field but we still have a foot of snow and seem to be stuck in eternal winter.
Here we go with another amazing year of videos ^_^
Amazing
Great vid Ryan
Your killing us here in NCIA, jeez, ground is froze and I could easily go ditch banging with snowmobile. One forecast has us for possible 6 to 8 in of snow Sunday!
How many acres will you have re-seeded when your done? Do you ever consider seeding some red clover and orchard grass? Or maybe some Timothy? Should produce more tonnage.
Thank you Ryan, enjoyed way put this together. During Chloe`s live stream with Travis (LOL) I thought he say you were not feeling well, if so hope you feel better as the weather warms up. Question, Do folks following w a culti-packer on small grain or grass ground or has that been found to be a waste of time and fuel, post drilling?
15:41 Do you normally harrow the seed in twice? Any issue with wheel tracks?
Good work, and good video a's always. I know everybody is different, But one thing I'm confused of why don't you guys have a roller behind the seeder? So that's one less going across the field...lol but that's my opinion. So again good video a's always.
When are you going to spray water in the field?
First of all excellent video, glad to see you back in the fields. A couple of questions, are you seeding alfalfa with the oats for protection for the upcoming hay crop or is the oats going to harvested this year? I haven't lived on a working farm for over sixty years and just trying to gain an understanding of your process. Also how do you determine how much seed, i.e. oats and alfalfa to plant per acre? Maybe you could do a short video on how you set up the drill for different applications. I have to admit I didn't pay close attention back in the 50's and early 60's when helping my Dad planting oats and winter wheat in WPA. BTW, we put in hay seed with the winter wheat, mostly timothy seed and some times clover seed. Thanks!
So you run the drag over the field after you plant?
old school drilling seed without row markers. that is almost a lost skill. good job dad...
not even GPS haha
Yep... I used to run the BIL's 15 foot Case IH 5400 no til coulter cart/drill combo... worked great. Once I got used to it I could keep the outside disk opener right next to the last pass's outside opener mark without hardly looking back, and without gapping or overlapping... I loved running that drill because it was so fast and easy and did a TERRIFIC job in no-till corn stubble...
They decided to move up to a Deere 1780 12/23 row 15 inch row soybean planter that's 30 feet wide, so the coulter cart/drill combo went down the road. I'd have bought it myself if I had the money and could justify it to plant a little haygrazer and grass once in awhile...
Later! OL J R :)
Field is looking beautiful, your disc does a much better job than our 7ft tiller, lol, but hard to find disks out here, few people like to part with them! Are your oats for hay or just for grain? I'm hoping our newly planted hay field isn't too bad . . . I'm OCD on field work but others tend to try to take short cuts, and more often than not my suggestions are over-ruled :P Guess I'll be finding out this summer how bad/good it is!
WTFarm Girl seeded it just for the hay.
WTFarm Girl, what size disc are you looking for?
John Deere2 was thinking maybe 12ft? Our fields are all 15 acres or less, and we only do hay, so don't need to work the field very often. And we use a,drop seeder, so technically they don't need to be tilled if they are sprayed first :/
WTFarm Girl our last hay field we planted we just sprayed it with round-up and hit it once with a off-set disc and planted over it. We may be selling our smaller disc now that we got a 25' but i think its 14' wide. What horse power do you have in your tractor? And do you have a way to get ahold of you if we decide to sell it in the next few weeks??
Our tractor has 81 or 85 hp or something like that :) Are you local in Michigan? You could drop me a message on my RUclips page. Thanks :D
Would it work to pull a harrow directly behind a drill on the same tractor? Or does that get too unwieldy?
Yeah it can work but the equipment needs to be pretty closely matched in size...
I commonly pull a pair of 7 foot Deere drag harrows behind my IH 470 14 foot disk... works great. I also bought a 16 foot cultipacker (since you want a roller or cultipacker to actually be a couple feet wider than your drill or disk, so it overlaps and doesn't leave any unrolled strips between passes...) SO long as whatever you're pulling behind is a couple feet wider, you're usually okay, but when you have a 15 foot drill and a 30 foot drag harrow that doesn't work so well...
SO you make another pass and use what you got... :) OL J R :)
Why didn’t you level out the ground then drill it? Or better yet why not broadcast seed rye and what ever else you wanted mixed together in between the harrowing? I understand the Alfalfa is drilled but broadcasting a rye grass which comes up faster would protect the ground from being washed out... then you could had mowed the rye grass and used it as a green mulch if you did not want it as part of your hay crop?
Also your idea about digging out the pond is a very smart! To bad you could not have rented a pan, hired one or used a big box blade and pulled two or three inches of the dirt you disked up and spread it back up on top of the field. Maybe piled the dirt with a box blade and used a manure spreader to spread the dirt out?
That soil looks poor and that drill so primative I’d love to see you trial some ground with furrow plough and pto driven air drill
It does the job just fine... anything more is just blowing money that could be used to make actual improvements in the operation...
Later! OL J R :)
which kamaras are u using for the shots on your implements?
Hello, How Farms Work, we are looking to upgrade our old harrows to something new, just wondering what harrows you have. Thanks!
could you take a fertilizer spreader and spin the seed out then harrow it in
Could you do a video of the barn at your place
why are you not using the other the black cultivator ,i cant remember what its called its the one you used last year
The VT isn't a good choice for this work... the blade angle is very shallow (nearly straight so the blades just cut in and pull back out) and it's not meant to run more than about 2 inches deep... For what they're doing, they need deeper tillage and the soil cut up more, deeper, and moved around and loosened up more than the VT would do...
That drill is meant to seed into well-worked soil, loose and with the residue from earlier crops either chopped up well and/or buried. You could see in the video it was starting to pull up "birds nests" of corn stalks and fodder even with the residue and soil being worked up well together. Those older drills are in NO WAY meant for any kind of "no-till" or "limited till" work-- they simply don't have the penetration or design to allow it to cope with those conditions.
Plus, they're trying to level out soil that was hummocky from previous plantings where it was prepared with an older style disk in the past, that left the soil unlevel. He said that in the video. To do that, you have to work up the soil enough that you have enough soil movement and crumbling so the disk is tossing the soil around some so it settles out more evenly, and so the drag harrow can shave off the high spots and drop the soil into the low spots... The VT will break up the top two inches *a little* but it won't move much soil create enough loose soil for the drag harrow to pull off the high spots into the low spots to "float everything out smooth"...
Later! OL J R :)
Drill looked to be plugging up, and the openers not turning for a bit.
Why the smaller disk blade on the outside ? See it often.
Level up and feather the soil between passes, so it doesn't leave a deep trench from a full-size end blade does... Later! OL J R :)
looks like it should be called a rake
i noticed you used alot of drone and magnetic mount filming did you use your new solo tracking camera in any of the footage??
I just procured a small hobby farm. There is a small pasture were hay used to be harvested but it has since got overgrown with weeds. What is the best way to bring this field back? Should I plow it, run a disk over then plan hay? Just cut it real short and broadcast plant hay suitable grasses. Or is there a better way to it? I live midwestern Wisconsin
I'd plow it and reseed it with oats and alfalfa seed. It'll take a bit longer to come back but the stand will be better.
How Farms Work Will I need to disk it after I plow? And should I use some sort of a weed killer?
Ryan is this early for you guys to get into the fields or normal. I know we still got a bit cause of all our snowmelt.
Do you guys lose any seed due to birds?...dumb question I know, but lost some on grass seed, wondering if it was the same.
Excellent video. Does anyone know where Jamie is. My computer was broken for a period of time, and I may have missed something. Thanks for the video's. Can't wait to plant here in upper state N.Y.
Waterman one, she doesn't want to be in videos. Unless things have changed.
Brian Webber: Thanks