You young lady are a perfect example of equality in action. Super feminine super intelligent super smart and super professional 🙏🏻 Young girls would do well to view you as a role model rather than the fake celebrities that they tend to do. You should be very proud of yourself. You have put a huge smile on my face 🙏🏻
Teaching others is the best way to understand a subject. You are an excellent teacher / communicater. Succinct. Clear. Concise. Thorough. Enthusiastic. Fun! Keep it up!
The Untied States survey system has 36 square miles to a 6 mile x 6 mile “township”, each square mile contains 640 acres and is called a “section.” The original Homestead Act deeded 160 acres, or a 1/4 section for a farm, as that was about the maximum a person could manage with horses for pulling equipment like a one-bottom plow, maybe a two-row corn harvester, or a mower that would cut a 6 foot swath of wheat for bundling for the thresher. We can mourn the loss of the 1/4 section farm, but modern equipment works most efficiently on larger acreages. 106 degrees sounds like good bean drying weather. And just like that, Laura puts $1000.00 worth of diesel in the combine.
Cheers for the info re the Homestead Act & 1/4 acre farm sections. Often come across these terms reading westerns without understanding wtheck they mean.
It’s called the PLSS public land survey system, there are 9 corners to each square mile (section) 4 corners, 4 quarter posts and one center post. In southwest Michigan the initial survey was in the 1820s to 40s. The corners were set as tamarack posts generally. In the 1880s plus or minus a decade they set the stone monuments about a yard down. When they checked the monuments starting in the mid 90s they were generally within 4 inches by satellite. If I remember correctly the PLSS was an act of the continental congress. If you live in Michigan you may notice that roads jog at township lines and that is due to the curvature of the earth, they didn’t know exactly what it was at the time but managed to correct for it.
@@megmolkate Thanks for the additional information. I am pretty sure that they knew the curvature of the Earth at the time, and made those adjustments as needed as the sections became too narrow on the north side as the east and west sides remained aligned with the North Pole. In Chicago the streets jog over at a certain point for the same reason. The Greeks knew the curvature of the Earth as well, and actually calculated the diameter at about 26,000 miles, depending on how you convert the “stadia” distance from Alexandria in Egypt and Syene near present day Aswan. On the summer solstice, when the Sun is at meridian, directly over head at the zenith, it illuminated the bottom of a well in Syene, roughly on the Tropic of Cancer, but in Alexandria about 500 miles north on the Mediterranean it was a about 7 degrees south of the zenith. 500x360/7=25,714 miles, pretty close to the actual value. Eratothsenes conducted the experiment on the summer solstice in 240 BCE.
I never realized how much constant thinking and evaluating every aspect of an operation goes into just the harvest. Fantastic narration Laura thank you.
Quick question; Did you guys purchase the "Mother Bin" or are you just leasing for the season.. Because I'd be willing to wager that it has an "enormous" price tag..?? Just curious..
Laura, this may have been your best video yet and I’ve watched everyone of them! Your explanations were detailed, complete and very educational! Having never worked on a farm, I find your video presentations very informational and a lot of fun to watch! My family asks me “what’s with this farm girl you’re watching”? My answer is very simple, “she’s very smart, a great teacher and a lot of fun to watch”! I can’t believe how much I’ve learned about commercial corn farming, seed corn farming, soybean farming, farm equipment, planting, harvesting, weed control and those damn pivots that you can’t live without! I’ve gotten to know a solid, 5 generation Nebraska farm family and especially their youngest farmer & her farming husband; she makes us all so proud to be Americans! Thanks Laura for all your great videos and all you are doing to educate us non-farmers! And especially thank you for flying the American Flag on your combine! Love the patriotism! Keep doing what your doing Laura; we love every bit of it!!
I am not a farmer, I am an experimental physicists who stumbled onto your channel several years ago and have enjoyed viewing the journey as you develop and grow your business. I watch your videos because I have become fascinated with farming and by the life and family values of farmers. Further, you seem to have an inate ability to understand what a novice like myself needs to understand and the ability to simplify and explain terminology and complexity that works well for me. Your ability to anticipate and answer my questions is uncanny. Although I realize what I see only scratches the surface, I am amazed at how much more I understand than I did two short years ago. Thanks for allowing me to observe.
I thank you, for doing what you do!!! I’m the grandson of a family dairy farmer, who retired in 1977. I’m the 4th or 5th generation in the USA. My youngest sister, married into a farming family, & helps in the fields here & there. I know what it’s like to be helping the other grandpa, grease a New Holland baler! 😳 I was shocked at the amount of grease Zirk‘s under those!😲😲😲I helped bale & load 60 - 80 lbs. bales, every summer growing up, & also know what rock picking is all about.
Drove out to northwest Iowa last week to visit my wife's family...they're just finishing up harvest. One of the interesting things we saw off Interstate 80 in Indiana was a farmer harvesting, not with a big green John Deere combine....but with four strong horses. And he certainly had his hands full. It was a warm sunny day, mid 70's, and the picture in that field with the sun at his back, the horses relentlessly moving through the rows of corn and the cuttings illuminated brightly in the air was like...... a work of art. Wish I had a picture.
Laura, I've never been involved in farming. Sales. I was told many years ago to gear your sales presentation for a seven year old. Thank you for gearing your farming presentation for a seven year old. I find it fascinating, and I'm 71. My best to both you and yours. I'll keep watching.
I am learning so much through your videos! I will admit, I'm progressing in reverse order through your videos and have found everyone of them to be excellent. I have no farming or agricultural background, however I live in Northwestern Illinois amongst corn and soy bean farms and have a new found appreciation for the farmers and their lives. I am looking forward to watching all of your videos, and want to thank you for taking on this monumental task of filming, editing, and producing these videos.
As a lifelong city boy you've given me a huge appreciation for farmers and the life they lead! We are all the beneficiaries and we should be grateful! Thanks!
I'm 76 and injoy your explanations on the operations of the farm. I have two great grandchildren that I have sent your videos so that they will see how farmers go about the every day chores. Your explanations are very easy to understand. Thank you.
Ihave just found your youtube channel and it brought back so many memories. I used to work on a wheat and barley farm here in Australia back in the 1960s. This is the first time i have seen inside the latest combines and tractors as in my day there were no cabins let alone air con cabs All harvesting was done with open tractors towing the headers with long days and lots of choking dust and heat. Same thing with sowing time we used seed bags and super bags. I had to physically load each bag on my back from the truck to the combine, climb up and empty each one in.Hard and back breaking work. I am fascinated to see how everything is now automated and computerised and i went wow when i saw there was hands free steering ! Oh how times have have changed. It was so good to see a female at the helm as back in the day the female only got from the kitchen to the close line..lol It was inspiring to see you work the farm as a natural.You have the passion and dediction to succeed. Thankyou so much for sharing.
I am learning every time I watch you and your videos. I grew up working on a farm in Pennsylvania I did not have the electronics you have, and we only had 20 or 30 acers to deal with. I was 12 to 15 years old at the time, we had mules too! I am 74 years old now!
It's interesting seeing how harvesting works today. I grew up on a farm in California in the 1940's and 50's, where we grew corn, dry beans, barley, and sugar beets. It's amazing to see all the technology you have telling you what's going on with your equipment. We had just a couple of gauges and our ears, which you say you still use. 🙂 The size of the equipment is a big difference too, but mainly I can't believe the closed cabs and air conditioning. We thought having an umbrella to keep the sun off was a luxury!
Farming has changed a lot since I pulled a grain wagon (no grain cart then) in the field sixty years ago. I am impressed by the scale of your family's operations and all of the technology used to integrate a very efficient and productive farming operation. Even more impressive is your integration of farm animals to recover grain and plant residues while returning urea and manure to the soil. Here in Illinois grain operations seldom have more than a few dogs and cats.
I have watched most of your videos. This one was the best so far. The fact that you are doing all this work at the same time you are teaching us about it with these videos is AWESOME! I can see your dad has taught you all well about trying to be as safe as possible. Thank all you farmers for keeping food on our tables and thank you for sharing about how it all gets done!
Beautiful Lady, don't worry about your mess. We non-farmers have no idea what a clean tray should look like. What you have there looks essential to work and should be there.
Laura, you are a remarkable young lady. Your dad is very lucky to have you to work with him. I was raise in the country and worked on cattle ranches but didn't do any farming except baling hay. I totally enjoy your videos and it's certainly refreshing to hear all your very interesting information and how your explain everything, I'm retired and can spend hours watching. I am from Oklahoma. Raised south of Muskogee.
Your channel and your Dad's are amazing to me. I enjoy listening to you, Laura. Your personality is delightful. Hearing you explaining informs me of what you do. I used to grow tobacco and hay as a kid. We had cattle for the hay and sold the hay and the tobacco was our main cash crop. Living in the NC tobacco belt, it was hard work harvesting by hand until we got the harvester. You do a great job. I know your Dad is very proud. It's good you love your job. 👍👋
Your the first person I know of to explain where the ter “combine” comes from. I was just sharing at Old Threshers with a friend, see the “reaper” over there that worked in the field cutting the grain and the big stationary “thresher” which processes the grain are “Combined” in one mobil machine. Your “dumb” explanations are wonderful to the non-farmers out there to understand better what is happing. Thank you for explaining👍👍 Old farm boy here😁😁
I enjoyed the amount of detail you gave in your video. It taught me more about farming. I am retired now, but almost chose a career in farming. I followed my passion and designed CNC and robotic control systems for the automotive production industry. Sadly, I had to work in a gray cubical in the big city for all of those years.
Laura, you just go ahead and keep on explaining what, how, when, and the why of all farming operations. I was raised in a large farming family until I was twelve years old. That was in the 1960's. I'm just amazed at the technology that is farming today. Between you, Grant, your dad, the Welkers, Larsons, and the Johnson family I get to recall life in a farming family. Times have changed, but the one constant is farm families all work hard and pull together as a unit. When I see three and four generations at work together on the farm it warms my heart.
I'm an English learner so I love practicing my listening skills through your videos because you speak so clear and, at the same time, I just enjoy the way you explain things about farming. I'm just glad for having found your channel. By the way, you've got a beautiful life story that makes us think positivity when facing obstacles in whatever we do in life. I clap for you! Cheers from Brazil!
Your videos are very informative and fun to watch. Imagine farmers from 200 years ago coming back to life and seeing all the advanced machinery, electronics, computers, etc. They would be amazed. PS: Keep the cooler out of the sun. It will stay cooler longer.
Excellent explanation of the process Laura, giving a far greater appreciation of the complexities - thank you for taking us through each step in detail. All the best for the rest of harvest.
Thank you 😘, Laura… this was one of your best videos! I enjoyed your very detailed explanations, which allows many of us who operate smaller tractors and farms to understand Nebraska farming.
The two of you could be teachers. I learned more about farming in 30 minutes than I understood in my 60 or so years. It truly amazes me how productive and efficient farming can be with personal dedication, combined with technology. Just amazing.
Listening to your explanations are awesome, I have a basic knowledge of farming of helping and being around a buddy of mine who owns a farm, your explanations bring everything together. Your father I’m sure is extremely proud of you helping on the farm and giving 100% to keep things constantly moving forward. Keep the videos coming and stay safe : )
What a long day! I'm a city boy / computer addict, and I love this channel. I am so grateful you are taking the time to explain how the farm works. Thanks for producing the crops which feed me, the animals, other people, and the world. :-)
Also, I love your Family dynamic, Great to see a Daughter working hard with her dad to keep the farm going. Then again there is the Wife, Husband operation, Awesome...
I am proud of how you make farming fun. I remember when I service in air force going to help my uncle cut soybeans. Thank you and your family continue to supply food for America
My Grandparents had a small farm. A cow chickens ducks, rabbites even goats. Heated by coil& wood. Cooked with propan. It was some times hard work but it was fun. You worked& played too. Some& bad memories! But it was life ! Yes Laura you explain very very very well. Which is what I like watching yours& other farmers videos. It's very interesting. So thank you again for all you farmers & veterans do !!!!!!We owe you both so much !!!!!❤❤❤❤ Until someone dose this themselves they have no idea what you folks need & have to have& go through. GOD BLESS all !!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤
I love the enthusiasm you take to the field. I know you are trying satisfy a wide audience and that makes it more difficult. Keep doing what you are doing, I love it... 80+ year old retired farmer...
You Folks deserve a big Thank You for supplying all of us with soy and corn . I drink soy in my coffee every morning . You also work a lot of long hours when you have harvest time . Love the videos , cheerful and informative . Keep 'em coming . ☮
Always very educational and love that you never assume we know anything, giving nice simple explanations. Great to see part of Grant's day too, so thank-you both!
The leaves and stems of the bean plants are assets.... Organic matter is necessary for healthy soil and returning fertilizer to the soil.... VERY good stuff Laura.... Proud of y'all
I love how you pass on your knowledge of farming, I was raised on a farm, but I still enjoy you describing how the different harvesting equipment works in a way that non farm people can understand. Having that mother bin sure speeds the harvest up, amazing what industry can come up with. Hope your harvest goes well Laura. Tell Grant hes not the first and won't be the last to spill like that--just don't do it again lol. Take care, be safe and farm on.
I once passed through Nebraska and was amazed by the corn I saw. I always wondered how it was cultivated and harvested. Thanks to you folks now I know.
Greeting for all members of farmers thank God for all combien done with your appointment work and chatting video comments with friends thank you so much again.
I find it interesting how farms in different areas do things differently. It depends on the yield, climate, irrigation or not etc. I grew up in New England where row crops weren’t common. Hay and corn grown for silage was the most prevalent, fields are very small less than 100 acres. At one point I was working as an engineer in Michigan and didn’t have much to do on weekends, so I hauled beans and corn for a local farm. I did get to run a combine cutting corn though, that was fun. Really makes you appreciate straight rows!
Well, great video I grew up farming and ranching everything from wheat , alfalfa , watermelons, lettuce Cattle ETC . I can’t tell you how impressed I am to see a young beautiful woman that is caring the flag. Your husband is a lucky man !! But ,,, how do you keep your nails done , clean and not chipped or broken !! Keep up the great work !!
Glad you all are running Still to green for us north of waverly beans or corn. You all have a safe harvest. Your doing a great job Laura. Keep it up lady. Hope hubby got his beans picked up. All be safe.
i learn alot from you and thats such a great experience for me when i start farming this year your such a lovely person and tell us the idea of what happens in planting season and putting different types of corn seed going onto the ground and harvest season cutting the crop with the sickels your such an amazing farmer i hope eveything goes well this harveset 👍👍
I’m not a farmer and your explanations are welcome for your information allows me to learn, with your enthusiastic support, I’m seeing your world. Keep it up.
Your dad must be so proud of you hi from Melville Saskatchewan have a blessed day we a little further ahead on the harvest canola and corn and sunflower
As a guy who grew up working on commercial fishing boats in Maine turned 30 year trucker focusing mostly on heavy equipment the last decade or so I think you explain things very well. There’s so much of what you do I have no clue about, I’ve learned a lot watching your channel. Most of the equipment I deal with is construction not Agricultural so I enjoy watching what you do on your farm.
@LauraFarms, I was excited to see the mother bin. I haven't seen a farm use that yet, and I do know it is a time saver for the farm. Thank you for the channel and the videos.
Laura and Grant, thanks for the education and entertainment!!! your knowledge and desire to work is refreshing to see. I hope you inspire more future farmers. Best of luck!!!!!!!!!!!
You are amazing young lady. Great explanation of Combine operation, so many changes and improvements in the equipment over the years. In 1969 when I was in college for Ag Engineering, we tore down a John Deere Combine and put it all back together. They were much more simple than today. So glad to see all you guys are doing to let the rest of America understand the importance of Ag. Life.
I love you explain what you do in the videos. I don't farm, never have, but find it very interesting and want to learn. So thank you for all you do, I love your RUclips channel.
The air filter clean tool you used is a great way to clean, I can't count the number of times I've seen people blowing filters from the outside, yes allot of dust will blow out but you inbed dirt into the filter fibers, I've personally seen the outer filter so plugged that the inner and outer filters have started to implode. Everyone who blows out their filters should watch how you do it, which is the perfect way to clean them out. Keep up the good work.
Laura, I learned today that you never get tired, and that Grant has an infinite patience. If I would have been the one dropping all that grain on the ground and then find a flat tire in the equipment all on the same day, I would have walked to the closest bridge and jumped😊😊
I think you do great. My grandfather was a farmer, but it was a small family farm. He would be considered what’s called a homesteader these days. The scale of what you guys are doing is just beyond comprehension for me! Love your channel! 👍❤
Laura, you explain everything very well!! I've always been curious and intrigued by farms and agriculture. I tested it a few weeks ago: I downloaded Farm Simulator. I know exactly what to do in the game, and what equipment/tools to use. Without the Laura Farms videos I wouldn't know what to do, I would be lost. The game doesn't tell much haha... So thank you! (I know it's not the same haha). Seriously, the content is really fun to watch and very educational! I grew up in a village in the Netherlands with farms everywhere. So as a kid I had so many fresh produce, eggs, milk, potatoes, corn etc. Farmers sold produce directly door to door in the village (they stopped selling just a few years ago). When we needed eggs or milk, we just went to a farm. Man, I didn't know we were so spoiled! Also, if we had people over and they stayed for dinner, if my mother hadn't had enough vegetables, she just walk to the end of our alley and pick some corn on the cob fresh off the plant (of course she paid for it. The farmer didn't mind).
G'day Laura, I am a farmer in Australia breading Cattle (Murray Grey cross Angus) and my wife has some alpacas for felting their fleece, she has a alpaca felted slipper business on farm, I love watching your videos as I don't crop but I buy seed (Mainly barley) for cattle feed and need to see either sides of the production line, You are a natural and I wish my daughter was into the farm as you are with your dad, that would be heaven for me. Great videos Laura, please keep them the same natural recordings as you have been doing. Hope you and Grant are good and I look forward to your next videos. All the best from Aus, Steve
Not a farmer here so what you are explaining is great. I have shared your video to everyone I know, and they are not farmers either. People need to know what it takes to put food on the table. You are doing a fantastic job explaining what it takes. BTW your eyes are beautiful, I know you had nothing do with that but thought to mention it. Good job folks
Good morning, yes I learned how the pivots work You explain things very well and in layman's terms. I've noticed in the Mississippi Delta where I live close to that they grow rice cotton and corn but they only burn the rice fields after the harvest I know you don't grow rice but I wonder if you knew why?
Wow! That mother grain bin is huuge! Reminds me of mother beaver dam! Lol But yeah looks like it comes in handy big time! And man, poor Grant! Had Danny to leave the trap door open on te semi hopper bottom when we were harvesting Corn and had a big mess to clean up! Welp! Happy Harvest to yall!
Hi Laura, great video. Thanks for all of the detail. One suggestion though. When you place the camera in the tractor can you place it so it shows you and the combine next to the grain cart. It would have been nice to see the combine whenever it is along side of the tractor or the grain cart. Keep up the good work, I love the way you and your dad work together.
Laura, what I have learned from your video's other than some serious farming tips is that you have grown into a gorgeous, well refined lady who is well educated and has her focus and drive focused on her farming. I'm wishing you and Grant the very best in your farming endeavors. Please play safely on your toys and be very mindful of your working environment while farming.
Do not pull the cause of a flat out off the tyre .Time saver searching for the hole. Also there is rope kits which allows you to plug the hole and inflate the tyre. The rope or string is soaked in some rubber adhesive and one uses a reamer tool to clear the hole. After cleaning this then allows the rope to be fed through a needle so it is doubled which is then pushed into tyre until about one and one half inches tails are left out of the tyre. The needle is then manoeuvred back out of the hole leaving the rope behind. Voila start pumping. The needle is like a BAG needle, with a section taken out of one side of the needle to allow one to manoeuvre the needle off the rope. In an emergency, if one gets a piece of hay baler twine and doubles it it allso works after being forced into hole using a narrow screwdriver. The twine can be soaked in grease or contact cement. I always carry a small one ounce or two ounce tube in my rescue tool box. I have driven home hundreds of Kilometres with this repair. Don't forget to do the repair properly ASAP as the Traffic Police don't like seeing the rope hanging out of the tyre. Works very well on sidewalls or tread areas of tyre. Also punish for Grant for bean spill, CLEAN IT UP WITH A TEASPOON
as a metal detector fan we appreciate the cutting of the soy beans vs corn. No fun metal detecting fields with corn stalks everywhere. work on that, ok? lol enjoyed the video. hope you have a bumper crop this year. how are the bean prices compared to last year?
@5:45 Prior to this part I was thinking how awesome it is that you are so passionate about your work. I usually give a similar disclaimer when I am training someone on how to do my job.
I love your channel and believe people need to know where their food comes from and what struggles farmers face and how that can be improved at the ballot box
Interesting to see how different folks empty carts. When I would run cart for the father-in-law, he would maintain speed, and the wagon driver would speed up/down to fill the cart. Thanks for sharing! I missing helping out with fall harvest.
True story, my sister was on a road trip and she noticed certain rows of corn cut and others not cut. I was able to enlighten her about the male corn pollinate the female corn and then its cut. She said WHAT, I did not know that. Laura, thank you for making me farm smart !! Your videos are awesome. 🙂😃😊
Remember she did explain that they are not actually male and female that just call them that . The seed company is just cross pollinating one type with another. Laura then removes the type they don’t want so all the seed corn is the required type.
@@CheersWarren Exactly! Corn is a monoecious plant, meaning it has both male and female reproductive organs on the same plant. The tassels are the male and the silks on the ears are the females. Corn is generally "wind pollinated", bringing the pollen from the tassels onto the silks. Each silk represents a single kernel of corn on the cob.
What have I learned from your channel? Such a beautiful young lady with a great husband and dad who has really done a good job in teaching you so much about farming and all the equipment, steps to go from ground prep to planting, to caring for the crop and then harvesting it. Keep up the good work Laura. I would be proud to have you as a granddaughter.
Thanks for the great videos you make Laura. You are amazing. I think I read (or heard), that you used to do some teaching. As a former instructor with IBM, I can feel that you have experience conveying information, and you do a very good job. Keep it up.😊😊
You young lady are a perfect example of equality in action. Super feminine super intelligent super smart and super professional 🙏🏻
Young girls would do well to view you as a role model rather than the fake celebrities that they tend to do. You should be very proud of yourself. You have put a huge smile on my face 🙏🏻
I agree
Such a weird comment.
Laura My Friend. I AM Nominating You for Employee of the week. Thanx for sharing
Teaching others is the best way to understand a subject. You are an excellent teacher / communicater. Succinct. Clear. Concise. Thorough. Enthusiastic. Fun! Keep it up!
The Untied States survey system has 36 square miles to a 6 mile x 6 mile “township”, each square mile contains 640 acres and is called a “section.” The original Homestead Act deeded 160 acres, or a 1/4 section for a farm, as that was about the maximum a person could manage with horses for pulling equipment like a one-bottom plow, maybe a two-row corn harvester, or a mower that would cut a 6 foot swath of wheat for bundling for the thresher. We can mourn the loss of the 1/4 section farm, but modern equipment works most efficiently on larger acreages. 106 degrees sounds like good bean drying weather. And just like that, Laura puts $1000.00 worth of diesel in the combine.
Enjoy watching you & Dad run your farm...harvest is most exciting, showing the fruits of your labor!
Cheers for the info re the Homestead Act & 1/4 acre farm sections. Often come across these terms reading westerns without understanding wtheck they mean.
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It’s called the PLSS public land survey system, there are 9 corners to each square mile (section) 4 corners, 4 quarter posts and one center post. In southwest Michigan the initial survey was in the 1820s to 40s. The corners were set as tamarack posts generally. In the 1880s plus or minus a decade they set the stone monuments about a yard down.
When they checked the monuments starting in the mid 90s they were generally within 4 inches by satellite. If I remember correctly the PLSS was an act of the continental congress.
If you live in Michigan you may notice that roads jog at township lines and that is due to the curvature of the earth, they didn’t know exactly what it was at the time but managed to correct for it.
@@megmolkate Thanks for the additional information. I am pretty sure that they knew the curvature of the Earth at the time, and made those adjustments as needed as the sections became too narrow on the north side as the east and west sides remained aligned with the North Pole. In Chicago the streets jog over at a certain point for the same reason. The Greeks knew the curvature of the Earth as well, and actually calculated the diameter at about 26,000 miles, depending on how you convert the “stadia” distance from Alexandria in Egypt and Syene near present day Aswan. On the summer solstice, when the Sun is at meridian, directly over head at the zenith, it illuminated the bottom of a well in Syene, roughly on the Tropic of Cancer, but in Alexandria about 500 miles north on the Mediterranean it was a about 7 degrees south of the zenith. 500x360/7=25,714 miles, pretty close to the actual value. Eratothsenes conducted the experiment on the summer solstice in 240 BCE.
I never realized how much constant thinking and evaluating every aspect of an operation goes into just the harvest. Fantastic narration Laura thank you.
Quick question; Did you guys purchase the "Mother Bin" or are you just leasing for the season.. Because I'd be willing to wager that it has an "enormous" price tag..?? Just curious..
Your Dad is epic. Raising kids like you folks makes me really happy 🙌👍👏👏👏👏
Laura, this may have been your best video yet and I’ve watched everyone of them! Your explanations were detailed, complete and very educational! Having never worked on a farm, I find your video presentations very informational and a lot of fun to watch! My family asks me “what’s with this farm girl you’re watching”? My answer is very simple, “she’s very smart, a great teacher and a lot of fun to watch”! I can’t believe how much I’ve learned about commercial corn farming, seed corn farming, soybean farming, farm equipment, planting, harvesting, weed control and those damn pivots that you can’t live without! I’ve gotten to know a solid, 5 generation Nebraska farm family and especially their youngest farmer & her farming husband; she makes us all so proud to be Americans! Thanks Laura for all your great videos and all you are doing to educate us non-farmers! And especially thank you for flying the American Flag on your combine! Love the patriotism! Keep doing what your doing Laura; we love every bit of it!!
I am not a farmer, I am an experimental physicists who stumbled onto your channel several years ago and have enjoyed viewing the journey as you develop and grow your business.
I watch your videos because I have become fascinated with farming and by the life and family values of farmers.
Further, you seem to have an inate ability to understand what a novice like myself needs to understand and the ability to simplify and explain terminology and complexity that works well for me.
Your ability to anticipate and answer my questions is uncanny.
Although I realize what I see only scratches the surface, I am amazed at how much more I understand than I did two short years ago.
Thanks for allowing me to observe.
Wow that's amazing thank you. Agree with you
I thank you, for doing what you do!!! I’m the grandson of a family dairy farmer, who retired in 1977. I’m the 4th or 5th generation in the USA.
My youngest sister, married into a farming family, & helps in the fields here & there.
I know what it’s like to be helping the other grandpa, grease a New Holland baler! 😳 I was shocked at the amount of grease Zirk‘s under those!😲😲😲I helped bale & load 60 - 80 lbs. bales, every summer growing up, & also know what rock picking is all about.
Drove out to northwest Iowa last week to visit my wife's family...they're just finishing up harvest. One of the interesting things we saw off Interstate 80 in Indiana was a farmer harvesting, not with a big green John Deere combine....but with four strong horses. And he certainly had his hands full. It was a warm sunny day, mid 70's, and the picture in that field with the sun at his back, the horses relentlessly moving through the rows of corn and the cuttings illuminated brightly in the air was like...... a work of art. Wish I had a picture.
Laura...you can't get overly rudimentary for those of us with no farming experience. Keep up the great work. I am learning so much!!!
Laura, I've never been involved in farming. Sales. I was told many years ago to gear your sales presentation for a seven year old. Thank you for gearing your farming presentation for a seven year old. I find it fascinating, and I'm 71. My best to both you and yours. I'll keep watching.
I am amazed everytime how well you explain everything. I have zero farming experience, but I always learn here.
Definitely agree with this.
I am learning so much through your videos! I will admit, I'm progressing in reverse order through your videos and have found everyone of them to be excellent. I have no farming or agricultural background, however I live in Northwestern Illinois amongst corn and soy bean farms and have a new found appreciation for the farmers and their lives. I am looking forward to watching all of your videos, and want to thank you for taking on this monumental task of filming, editing, and producing these videos.
As a lifelong city boy you've given me a huge appreciation for farmers and the life they lead! We are all the beneficiaries and we should be grateful! Thanks!
I'm 76 and injoy your explanations on the operations of the farm. I have two great grandchildren that I have sent your videos so that they will see how farmers go about the every day chores. Your explanations are very easy to understand. Thank you.
Thank you Laura, for the explanation on how the combine works. A fascinating machine.
Ihave just found your youtube channel and it brought back so many memories. I used to work on a wheat and barley farm here in Australia back in the 1960s. This is the first time i have seen inside the latest combines and tractors as in my day there were no cabins let alone air con cabs All harvesting was done with open tractors towing the headers with long days and lots of choking dust and heat. Same thing with sowing time we used seed bags and super bags. I had to physically load each bag on my back from the truck to the combine, climb up and empty each one in.Hard and back breaking work. I am fascinated to see how everything is now automated and computerised and i went wow when i saw there was hands free steering ! Oh how times have have changed. It was so good to see a female at the helm as back in the day the female only got from the kitchen to the close line..lol It was inspiring to see you work the farm as a natural.You have the passion and dediction to succeed. Thankyou so much for sharing.
I am learning every time I watch you and your videos. I grew up working on a farm in Pennsylvania I did not have the electronics you have, and we only had 20 or 30 acers to deal with. I was 12 to 15 years old at the time, we had mules too! I am 74 years old now!
It's interesting seeing how harvesting works today. I grew up on a farm in California in the 1940's and 50's, where we grew corn, dry beans, barley, and sugar beets.
It's amazing to see all the technology you have telling you what's going on with your equipment. We had just a couple of gauges and our ears, which you say you still use. 🙂
The size of the equipment is a big difference too, but mainly I can't believe the closed cabs and air conditioning. We thought having an umbrella to keep the sun off was a luxury!
Farming has changed a lot since I pulled a grain wagon (no grain cart then) in the field sixty years ago. I am impressed by the scale of your family's operations and all of the technology used to integrate a very efficient and productive farming operation. Even more impressive is your integration of farm animals to recover grain and plant residues while returning urea and manure to the soil. Here in Illinois grain operations seldom have more than a few dogs and cats.
WONDERPHIL explanation of the harvest Methods, I Miss Farming n The Livestock Days! May your Harvest Be Safe n Bountiful! ❤❤❤❤
I have watched most of your videos. This one was the best so far. The fact that you are doing all this work at the same time you are teaching us about it with these videos is AWESOME! I can see your dad has taught you all well about trying to be as safe as possible. Thank all you farmers for keeping food on our tables and thank you for sharing about how it all gets done!
Beautiful Lady, don't worry about your mess. We non-farmers have no idea what a clean tray should look like. What you have there looks essential to work and should be there.
It's a beautiful thing watching all you farmers reaping the rewards of your hard work. I hope that monster wagon is filled many times.
Laura, you are a remarkable young lady. Your dad is very lucky to have you to work with him. I was raise in the country and worked on cattle ranches but didn't do any farming except baling hay. I totally enjoy your videos and it's certainly refreshing to hear all your very interesting information and how your explain everything, I'm retired and can spend hours watching. I am from Oklahoma. Raised south of Muskogee.
Your channel and your Dad's are amazing to me. I enjoy listening to you, Laura. Your personality is delightful. Hearing you explaining informs me of what you do. I used to grow tobacco and hay as a kid. We had cattle for the hay and sold the hay and the tobacco was our main cash crop. Living in the NC tobacco belt, it was hard work harvesting by hand until we got the harvester. You do a great job. I know your Dad is very proud. It's good you love your job. 👍👋
Your the first person I know of to explain where the ter “combine” comes from.
I was just sharing at Old Threshers with a friend, see the “reaper” over there that worked in the field cutting the grain and the big stationary “thresher” which processes the grain are “Combined” in one mobil machine.
Your “dumb” explanations are wonderful to the non-farmers out there to understand better what is happing.
Thank you for explaining👍👍
Old farm boy here😁😁
I enjoyed the amount of detail you gave in your video. It taught me more about farming. I am retired now, but almost chose a career in farming. I followed my passion and designed CNC and robotic control systems for the automotive production industry. Sadly, I had to work in a gray cubical in the big city for all of those years.
Laura, you just go ahead and keep on explaining what, how, when, and the why of all farming operations. I was raised in a large farming family until I was twelve years old. That was in the 1960's. I'm just amazed at the technology that is farming today. Between you, Grant, your dad, the Welkers, Larsons, and the Johnson family I get to recall life in a farming family. Times have changed, but the one constant is farm families all work hard and pull together as a unit. When I see three and four generations at work together on the farm it warms my heart.
I'm an English learner so I love practicing my listening skills through your videos because you speak so clear and, at the same time, I just enjoy the way you explain things about farming. I'm just glad for having found your channel. By the way, you've got a beautiful life story that makes us think positivity when facing obstacles in whatever we do in life. I clap for you!
Cheers from Brazil!
Your videos are very informative and fun to watch. Imagine farmers from 200 years ago coming back to life and seeing all the advanced machinery, electronics, computers, etc. They would be amazed. PS: Keep the cooler out of the sun. It will stay cooler longer.
Excellent explanation of the process Laura, giving a far greater appreciation of the complexities - thank you for taking us through each step in detail. All the best for the rest of harvest.
Thank you 😘, Laura… this was one of your best videos! I enjoyed your very detailed explanations, which allows many of us who operate smaller tractors and farms to understand Nebraska farming.
The two of you could be teachers.
I learned more about farming in 30 minutes than I understood in my 60 or so years. It truly amazes me how productive and efficient farming can be with personal dedication, combined with technology. Just amazing.
YOU ARE THE BACK BONE FOR NOT ONLY AMERICA ~ BUT THE WORLD ! YOU ARE ONE OF A KIND ! FLOCKING AWESOME !
Listening to your explanations are awesome, I have a basic knowledge of farming of helping and being around a buddy of mine who owns a farm, your explanations bring everything together. Your father I’m sure is extremely proud of you helping on the farm and giving 100% to keep things constantly moving forward. Keep the videos coming and stay safe : )
Taking action and getting positive results was really encouraging_ but was also just utilising all the tools available to them .thank you
What a long day! I'm a city boy / computer addict, and I love this channel. I am so grateful you are taking the time to explain how the farm works. Thanks for producing the crops which feed me, the animals, other people, and the world. :-)
Also, I love your Family dynamic, Great to see a Daughter working hard with her dad to keep the farm going. Then again there is the Wife, Husband operation, Awesome...
I am proud of how you make farming fun. I remember when I service in air force going to help my uncle cut soybeans. Thank you and your family continue to supply food for America
My Grandparents had a small farm. A cow chickens ducks, rabbites even goats. Heated by coil& wood. Cooked with propan. It was some times hard work but it was fun. You worked& played too. Some& bad memories! But it was life ! Yes Laura you explain very very very well. Which is what I like watching yours& other farmers videos. It's very interesting. So thank you again for all you farmers & veterans do !!!!!!We owe you both so much !!!!!❤❤❤❤ Until someone dose this themselves they have no idea what you folks need & have to have& go through. GOD BLESS all !!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤
I love the enthusiasm you take to the field. I know you are trying satisfy a wide audience and that makes it more difficult. Keep doing what you are doing, I love it... 80+ year old retired farmer...
You Folks deserve a big Thank You for supplying all of us with soy and corn . I drink soy in my coffee every morning . You also work a lot of long hours when you have harvest time . Love the videos , cheerful and informative . Keep 'em coming . ☮
Always very educational and love that you never assume we know anything, giving nice simple explanations. Great to see part of Grant's day too, so thank-you both!
The leaves and stems of the bean plants are assets.... Organic matter is necessary for healthy soil and returning fertilizer to the soil.... VERY good stuff Laura.... Proud of y'all
I love how you pass on your knowledge of farming, I was raised on a farm, but I still enjoy you describing how the different harvesting equipment works in a way that non farm people can understand. Having that mother bin sure speeds the harvest up, amazing what industry can come up with. Hope your harvest goes well Laura. Tell Grant hes not the first and won't be the last to spill like that--just don't do it again lol. Take care, be safe and farm on.
Thanks for posting. Its so interesting seeing the process of farming and you and Grant explain it so well.
After a lifetime of driving past farming operations you have completely enlightened me!! Thank you, Laura. 😀
I once passed through Nebraska and was amazed by the corn I saw. I always wondered how it was cultivated and harvested. Thanks to you folks now I know.
What I learn from you is the power of a positive "can do" and cheery attitude. Your vids always make my day nicer.
Greeting for all members of farmers thank God for all combien done with your appointment work and chatting video comments with friends thank you so much again.
I find it interesting how farms in different areas do things differently. It depends on the yield, climate, irrigation or not etc.
I grew up in New England where row crops weren’t common. Hay and corn grown for silage was the most prevalent, fields are very small less than 100 acres.
At one point I was working as an engineer in Michigan and didn’t have much to do on weekends, so I hauled beans and corn for a local farm.
I did get to run a combine cutting corn though, that was fun. Really makes you appreciate straight rows!
What A lair
Well, great video I grew up farming and ranching everything from wheat , alfalfa , watermelons, lettuce Cattle ETC .
I can’t tell you how impressed I am to see a young beautiful woman that is caring the flag. Your husband is a lucky man !!
But ,,, how do you keep your nails done , clean and not chipped or broken !! Keep up the great work !!
You really give the farming community a great name. I have a lot of respect and appreciation for what you guys do and how you do it.
Glad you all are running Still to green for us north of waverly beans or corn. You all have a safe harvest. Your doing a great job Laura. Keep it up lady. Hope hubby got his beans picked up. All be safe.
i learn alot from you and thats such a great experience for me when i start farming this year your such a lovely person and tell us the idea of what happens in planting season and putting different types of corn seed going onto the ground and harvest season cutting the crop with the sickels your such an amazing farmer i hope eveything goes well this harveset 👍👍
I’m not a farmer and your explanations are welcome for your information allows me to learn, with your enthusiastic support, I’m seeing your world. Keep it up.
Your dad must be so proud of you hi from Melville Saskatchewan have a blessed day we a little further ahead on the harvest canola and corn and sunflower
The sunflower is beautiful you can drive by a field of them for hours sometimes
As a guy who grew up working on commercial fishing boats in Maine turned 30 year trucker focusing mostly on heavy equipment the last decade or so I think you explain things very well. There’s so much of what you do I have no clue about, I’ve learned a lot watching your channel. Most of the equipment I deal with is construction not Agricultural so I enjoy watching what you do on your farm.
@LauraFarms, I was excited to see the mother bin. I haven't seen a farm use that yet, and I do know it is a time saver for the farm. Thank you for the channel and the videos.
I really like to see the advancement in machines in the last 60 years since I was with my grandfather’s bean and cotton farm. Thanks so much.
I always enjoy your videos and I always learn a lot! You do a great job explaining what you doing and why you are doing it.
Laura and Grant, thanks for the education and entertainment!!! your knowledge and desire to work is refreshing to see. I hope you inspire more future farmers. Best of luck!!!!!!!!!!!
I enjoyed learning about how seed corn is grown and harvested. Thank you!
You are amazing young lady. Great explanation of Combine operation, so many changes and improvements in the equipment over the years. In 1969 when I was in college for Ag Engineering, we tore down a John Deere Combine and put it all back together. They were much more simple than today. So glad to see all you guys are doing to let the rest of America understand the importance of Ag. Life.
Laura, I'm constantly amazed at how concisely you explain everything so aticulately. Great job!!
I like learning english by listening to you. Thank you.
Laura, your presentation "motivation" is correct. To really learn something requires that you teach about what you are learning.
I love you explain what you do in the videos. I don't farm, never have, but find it very interesting and want to learn. So thank you for all you do, I love your RUclips channel.
Awesome video Laura!!! Thankful for you and all of your family!!! 😊 May God bless you all!!! 😇
The air filter clean tool you used is a great way to clean, I can't count the number of times I've seen people blowing filters from the outside, yes allot of dust will blow out but you inbed dirt into the filter fibers, I've personally seen the outer filter so plugged that the inner and outer filters have started to implode. Everyone who blows out their filters should watch how you do it, which is the perfect way to clean them out. Keep up the good work.
Laura, I learned today that you never get tired, and that Grant has an infinite patience. If I would have been the one dropping all that grain on the ground and then find a flat tire in the equipment all on the same day, I would have walked to the closest bridge and jumped😊😊
I think you do great.
My grandfather was a farmer, but it was a small family farm.
He would be considered what’s called a homesteader these days.
The scale of what you guys are doing is just beyond comprehension for me!
Love your channel! 👍❤
Laura, you explain everything very well!! I've always been curious and intrigued by farms and agriculture. I tested it a few weeks ago: I downloaded Farm Simulator. I know exactly what to do in the game, and what equipment/tools to use. Without the Laura Farms videos I wouldn't know what to do, I would be lost. The game doesn't tell much haha... So thank you! (I know it's not the same haha).
Seriously, the content is really fun to watch and very educational!
I grew up in a village in the Netherlands with farms everywhere. So as a kid I had so many fresh produce, eggs, milk, potatoes, corn etc. Farmers sold produce directly door to door in the village (they stopped selling just a few years ago). When we needed eggs or milk, we just went to a farm. Man, I didn't know we were so spoiled! Also, if we had people over and they stayed for dinner, if my mother hadn't had enough vegetables, she just walk to the end of our alley and pick some corn on the cob fresh off the plant (of course she paid for it. The farmer didn't mind).
G'day Laura, I am a farmer in Australia breading Cattle (Murray Grey cross Angus) and my wife has some alpacas for felting their fleece, she has a alpaca felted slipper business on farm, I love watching your videos as I don't crop but I buy seed (Mainly barley) for cattle feed and need to see either sides of the production line, You are a natural and I wish my daughter was into the farm as you are with your dad, that would be heaven for me. Great videos Laura, please keep them the same natural recordings as you have been doing. Hope you and Grant are good and I look forward to your next videos. All the best from Aus, Steve
You sure had a very productive day! Your dad said that you are slow and steady and don't break anything and he goes fast and breaks a lot😉
Not a farmer here so what you are explaining is great. I have shared your video to everyone I know, and they are not farmers either. People need to know what it takes to put food on the table. You are doing a fantastic job explaining what it takes. BTW your eyes are beautiful, I know you had nothing do with that but thought to mention it. Good job folks
Good morning, yes I learned how the pivots work You explain things very well and in layman's terms. I've noticed in the Mississippi Delta where I live close to that they grow rice cotton and corn but they only burn the rice fields after the harvest I know you don't grow rice but I wonder if you knew why?
Good job Laura! Very informative video. Non-farm people don't realize how much work is involved .
Wow! That mother grain bin is huuge! Reminds me of mother beaver dam! Lol But yeah looks like it comes in handy big time! And man, poor Grant! Had Danny to leave the trap door open on te semi hopper bottom when we were harvesting Corn and had a big mess to clean up! Welp! Happy Harvest to yall!
Hi Laura, great video. Thanks for all of the detail. One suggestion though. When you place the camera in the tractor can you place it so it shows you and the combine next to the grain cart. It would have been nice to see the combine whenever it is along side of the tractor or the grain cart. Keep up the good work, I love the way you and your dad work together.
Your dad must be so incredible proud of you!
How about her mother?
@@tomtucker8849 also!
Laura, what I have learned from your video's other than some serious farming tips is that you have grown into a gorgeous, well refined lady who is well educated and has her focus and drive focused on her farming. I'm wishing you and Grant the very best in your farming endeavors. Please play safely on your toys and be very mindful of your working environment while farming.
My uncle had a combine on his farm but I never understood what it did thank you Laura for explaining it so well.
Do not pull the cause of a flat out off the tyre .Time saver searching for the hole. Also there is rope kits which allows you to plug the hole and inflate the tyre. The rope or string is soaked in some rubber adhesive and one uses a reamer tool to clear the hole. After cleaning this then allows the rope to be fed through a needle so it is doubled which is then pushed into tyre until about one and one half inches tails are left out of the tyre. The needle is then manoeuvred back out of the hole leaving the rope behind. Voila start pumping. The needle is like a BAG needle, with a section taken out of one side of the needle to allow one to manoeuvre the needle off the rope. In an emergency, if one gets a piece of hay baler twine and doubles it it allso works after being forced into hole using a narrow screwdriver. The twine can be soaked in grease or contact cement. I always carry a small one ounce or two ounce tube in my rescue tool box. I have driven home hundreds of Kilometres with this repair. Don't forget to do the repair properly ASAP as the Traffic Police don't like seeing the rope hanging out of the tyre. Works very well on sidewalls or tread areas of tyre. Also punish for Grant for bean spill, CLEAN IT UP WITH A TEASPOON
thanks for explaining.i just asked my wife these questions last night.love your dads channel.
you explain well.
This is amazing. Being a city boy, I can't imagine doing what you and your Dad do... Thanks for sharing
as a metal detector fan we appreciate the cutting of the soy beans vs corn. No fun metal detecting fields with corn stalks everywhere. work on that, ok? lol enjoyed the video. hope you have a bumper crop this year. how are the bean prices compared to last year?
@5:45 Prior to this part I was thinking how awesome it is that you are so passionate about your work. I usually give a similar disclaimer when I am training someone on how to do my job.
Happy Harvest and be safe...
I love your channel and believe people need to know where their food comes from and what struggles farmers face and how that can be improved at the ballot box
Good job and be safe always. Keep videos coming.
Interesting to see how different folks empty carts. When I would run cart for the father-in-law, he would maintain speed, and the wagon driver would speed up/down to fill the cart. Thanks for sharing! I missing helping out with fall harvest.
True story, my sister was on a road trip and she noticed certain rows of corn cut and others not cut. I was able to enlighten her about the male corn pollinate the female corn and then its cut. She said WHAT, I did not know that. Laura, thank you for making me farm smart !! Your videos are awesome. 🙂😃😊
Remember she did explain that they are not actually male and female that just call them that . The seed company is just cross pollinating one type with another. Laura then removes the type they don’t want so all the seed corn is the required type.
@@CheersWarren Exactly! Corn is a monoecious plant, meaning it has both male and female reproductive organs on the same plant. The tassels are the male and the silks on the ears are the females. Corn is generally "wind pollinated", bringing the pollen from the tassels onto the silks. Each silk represents a single kernel of corn on the cob.
Laura, appreciate your explanation of your operation and running your tractors which seem quite complex. Your amazing!
2nd day of Harvest went rather smooth with just a couple breaks. Hope the rest of the Harvest goes well.
What have I learned from your channel? Such a beautiful young lady with a great husband and dad who has really done a good job in teaching you so much about farming and all the equipment, steps to go from ground prep to planting, to caring for the crop and then harvesting it. Keep up the good work Laura. I would be proud to have you as a granddaughter.
You never over explain yourself…You go girl!!!
Thanks for the great videos you make Laura. You are amazing.
I think I read (or heard), that you used to do some teaching. As a former instructor with IBM, I can feel that you have experience conveying information, and you do a very good job. Keep it up.😊😊