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.
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❤️‼️‼️
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
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.
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.
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.
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 :)
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.
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 :)
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
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!
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
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.
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 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..
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.
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
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.
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!
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.
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 !
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 :)
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.
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
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 :)
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.
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?
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!
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❤️‼️‼️
Thank you for the great camera shots.
Was pretty cool seeing a old 4020 out seeding
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
An 8R, 7600, and a 4020 - same field. Deere must be proud!
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.
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.
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.
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 :)
Very nice camera angles and shows how everthing works
Isn't tilling like that bad for not only the soil but the microorganisms as well?
Hmmm, seeing a man "flying formation" with his two sons - pretty great! Brings a nostalgic tear. 😀
Beautiful sights and memories. Summer is coming, which means 4020... :)
Thank you so much for making these videos, so glad I found your channel.
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.
NICE VIDEO ALWAYS LIKE TO WATCH TRACTORS WORKING
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.
I remember dad planting over 500 acres with the liitle IH drill like that
Good job for a cultimulcher!
The crack of the baseball bat and the smell of diesel... Spring is for sure in the air!
Loved the variety of footage angels... THANKS
Wish we had that big of a disk we’ve only got a 16 footer and we do a lot of disking. Good vid.
Farmers Dream, rolling across the fields in the springtime! Great vid.
good to see that 4020 working
Love your videos man! Wishing you a safe and profitable year!
Great video, just so satisfying to watch. Your videography is fantastic.
Looks like went everything good
Cool video. Love the drone footage!
Ryan! a five star video Great editing and music and commentary. *****
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!!!
Great video! Informative, nicely produced, great music.
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 ):
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
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 :)
Looking good. Some corn is planted here in Kentucky and cereal rye is being chopped but unfortunately it is snowing today.
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
I love that 4020!
Well done video like the overhead shots with the Drone
man your lucky you dont have any snow.in north Dakota we get like 2 snow storms a week
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!
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
When will you do a video about the equipment you all 3 purchased
Sunday
gotta love field work, head always on a swivel !
We use a fertilizer spreader for our seed and then when use a spring tooth and harrow
Great video thanks for sharing.
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.
You should do a blooper reel. You know all those times you get Travis to jump because he almost hit your drone
Looks like fun.
Great footage Thankyou.
Very Nice video
Looks good it snowing in vermont where i am
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!
Talk about multitasking! Droning and Disking! Or is it discing??? lol
Not a UK seed bed. We aim for 1-2" cover drill harrow in one pass.
So you run the drag over the field after you plant?
Love every video
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
15:41 Do you normally harrow the seed in twice? Any issue with wheel tracks?
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 :)
Hello, How Farms Work, we are looking to upgrade our old harrows to something new, just wondering what harrows you have. Thanks!
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.
And on some fields we use out John deer grain drill
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
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.
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😭
could you take a fertilizer spreader and spin the seed out then harrow it in
Great vid! What drone do you have?
When are you going to spray water in the field?
which kamaras are u using for the shots on your implements?
Great vid Ryan
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?
We are in Minnesota and still have a foot of snow
Ryan,What is the advantage of using a harrow after seeding over a cultipacker?
helps cover up seed that didn't get covered with soil by the drill... Later! OL J R :)
Could you do a video of the barn at your place
i noticed you used alot of drone and magnetic mount filming did you use your new solo tracking camera in any of the footage??
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 !
Are you guys going to harvest the oats for grain or bale it?
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 :)
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.
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?
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 ^_^
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 :)
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 :)
Does the corn stalk debris caught in that harrow have to be removed before the next use?
It’ll come out as soon as it’s picked up which can be done at any time.
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.
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.
Love it. How many acres?
What year seeder.like ur harrows
What kind of GoPro do you use?
what does the john deere B SERISE mean on the seed drill Ryan?
What type of corn do you grow and what is it used for, Human or Animal feed
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?
I like the music that you put behind most of the footage. Where did you get it? Great video, as always.
I get it from a 3rd party, costs $50/month
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!
Just wondering are dual wheels going out of fashion in America like they are here in Ireland with the change to wider tires or even flotation tires ?
Not really, especially on row-crop farms where you don't want to be planting in the wider tire's tracks... OL J R :)