One thing I've noticed about most farming videos is, everyone needs to be themselves, be safe and have a willingness to share your lives with total strangers. We tend too be our own greatest critics, but alas, many farmers out there watch these videos and spare no expense on being critical. Which, can be a good thing, as many have found out. Your video here was very well done. Creative and fun with a sprinkle of sincerity attached. Obviously y'all are very busy, but bringing farming into peoples homes that live, for example, in high rises in New York City helps them too really appreciate the sacrifices, the dangers, the shear effort it takes to keep large or medium sized operations going 24/7. In short, hopefully when they go to market, pick up some corn, they'll have a whole new appreciation of where it came from and the sacrifices made to get it there. I know y'all are busy, but hopefully you'll create more videos. I for one, enjoyed it immensely. Thank You.🚜☕ Respectfully, JR
Wow thank you JR! I actually started doing this by accident. I was originally going to make one or two videos so that my cousin and her family could see what goes on during harvest. Suddenly over 100 people had watched the first video and many were asking for more. Now I have made about 45 videos and some have been seen by pretty large numbers of people. Thank you so much for the kind words of encouragement. I often think about people who have no connection to farming and ranching and TH-cam could be their only way to “visit the farm” so to speak. I’ll keep making videos as long as y’all keep watching!
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 No worries. We will keep watching your amazing videos. I honestly appreciate your time and efforts. Farming is not easy. In fact, it's much harder these days given the various issues farmers and ranchers are encountering. I came across your video by accident myself. I love watching tractors working the field. On our ranch, we have several. Our newest by several years now, A Case IH Magnum. A fellow rancher loaned me his brand new Challenger MT to see what I thought. I was impressed. Cost wise, I must now try and figure out how to work the numbers. I'm sure you know they're nearly one half million for a top of the line Challenger. While we don't farm like y'all, we have horses, Longhorn etc. Plenty of work around here for a big tractor. The Magnum is awesome, but that Challenger....lol truly a work of art. My neighbor said I had to be a bona fide dum dum not to strongly consider getting one. He is very persuasive. lol. Anyway, you make those videos when you have time. I'll watch them and many thanks. Happy Holidays🎄🚜 JR
Well done Tina, a born natural! I just loved your guys commentary while carting and figuring out what the combine guy calls stuff or is going to do. That is so true no matter where you go lol
Thanks! She is right at home in the tractor cab. It’s funny hearing her perspective on the farming lingo. You get so used to certain words and phrases that you don’t realize how foreign they are to everyone else.
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 - exactly what I was getting at in my first comment. get her to talk to us more and if anyone makes fun of her for the terms she uses then slam that person hard and I'll be right behind you to slam them again.
You boys got your paddock lingo to get the girls confused. My wife had a hard time with our paddock lingo too but I was always grateful for her help. Great video .
twenty yrs in the Navy, ten yrs knuckle busting it, then 18yrs driving long haul, but grew up on a farm in Eastern WA. I still miss all the work and like watching your vids.
New to your channel . This was a really cool video . You guys have a beautiful farm . I think it is just awesome that your wife comes out in the field to help . She is a keeper . She did a great job too ! May god bless you and your family !
Thanks Stuart! I’ll keep making them if you keep watching. If you ever have any questions don’t be afraid to ask. I’ll do my best to answer or cover it in a video.
I’m real sure you guys put in long hours , I know what work is all about ,Not an 8-5 job ,work till it’s done or you can’t think or see anymore ,been there done that ,Thank You For Your Work !!!
We are very happy to have this opportunity. Not everyone gets to do what they love. It isn’t always pretty and sometimes you get irritated at each other. Sometimes you miss going to something because you are fixing fence or babysitting a newborn calf, but it’s a great life.
Really good harvest video. I love how all of you Farmers on TH-cam have complete grain bins with pits & dryers on the farm. Here in the MO Bootheel, all of the grain went straight to the elevators in the 70's & the '80s. It was mostly wheat & soybeans. Our chief crop used to be cotton, but especially this year soybeans were the prevalent crop. I think the embargo against China was hell on cotton prices. Your wife is a good cart operator. I was a school bus driver here for 10+ yrs. I dropped kids off a lot around the fields during harvest.
Back in 1982 I had 300 acres yet to combine and it started snowing. I found I had to let the temp drop to at least 17 deg F before I could go. At that temp and below the chaf would blow right through without plugging the sieves. Matter of fact it seemed to combine better than when the corn was dry. Ran 72 hrs straight, no sleep but we gotter done. Cheers...
Great video! It’s hard to imagine that the seasons are so much different there than here in Tennessee. Most all of our corn here was out by the middle of October. I feel for you all having to harvest in such cold conditions. Such is the life of the farmer, though! Keep up the great work! BTW, I love that your whole family is involved!
Thanks William! We are often wrapped up by Halloween around here, but it has just been so wet and now it’s turning into full blown winter about a month too early. We will get through it. There’s always next year 🤣
Nice to have the extra hand! Looks like she took to it no problem. I spent a little time in the mid west, and really fell in love. Northwood Iowa being one of the stops. My kinda place! Great job on the video. New subscriber here!
Just found your channel. Very nice! Mrs. Dodge will figure it out with more time on the job. PLEASE keep both eyes on the youngins. Soo many things can be dangerous on the farm. I'm up in Mankato, Mn. and we're nearly wrapped up with harvest. A lot of tillage left to go.
Thanks! I’m glad you are enjoying it. We definitely are very safety conscious about the small children. They are either holding my hand or they are in a seat.
In his TH-cam Vlog #47, Canadian farmer Mark Brock said you can combine snowy corn as long as the temp is -12°C (10.4°F) or below. The snow will pass right on through the machine.
Hi I had your video play after another one I was watching. I think your the closest you tube person I have watched. I am in Hazleton. You do good with the production of your videos. Thank you for taking the time to do today's video.
Thanks Steve! You certainly aren’t far away. I actually worked for don at prairie road builders out of hazleton when I was home from college the first summer.
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 ha,that was the most important part of The Talk that your dads supposed to give you,, keep your plow dirty and stay warm,, gb
Thanks again for the video. Kudos to your wife for stepping up to the challenge. I think my would do the same but in the city that isn't happening but she pitches in when I need help. You have got me to the point that I think about you guys every day and keep you in my prayers that things go well and you are safe doing what you do. Do you use Becks seeds? They are in Arcadia Indiana and my grandfather was their pastor. They were great members supporting the church. He spoke well of them.
Wow. It is really cool to think about how many friends I have all over the world that I wouldn’t even recognize if I walked right past them. Thanks for your support and prayers! We tried Beck’s seed a couple years back and we had favorable results, but no more favorable than our other three or four brands that we have always planted. The price was pretty much the same as well so we didn’t order any the last couple years. If we spread our seed business too thin, we won’t get the all important volume discounts. I was impressed with the message that the company presented.
@@Forevertrue - the best part of a wife telling you how to do it is watching her see for herself how in real life her suggestion will not work for the application she is attempting to apply it to. watching her learn is awesome.
If your leg gets tired loading trucks and its a powershift just put in about 3rd gear and move the lever in and out to neutral to move ahead.It's clutches either way you do it.
A fun video! Think how much better you would look with a DBF&R hat...think how much better your subscribers would look with one too. Haha put your wife in charge of the project - if she can handle a grain cart, imagine the hat she could design.
Great video. Not only is your wife and family beautiful, she is also very sweet. Be nice to her or you will be cooking your own dinner THANKS for sharing 😎
The old geezer from the city out west, once again enjoyed the video. Stupid question: What exactly does the "dryer" do and how does it function to dry the grain? I liked your wife's sweatshirt. WAPIE BASKETBALL - MGR.😁 Awesome. She's definitely a "keeper".
Thanks! Not a stupid question at all. I should do a video about that sometime. Essentially it works just like a clothes dryer. It heats the grain and blows air through it at the same time to reduce the moisture content. Corn must be at 15% moisture for long term storage.
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 Thanks. That's what I figured but didn't want to assume anything so I'll continue to ask questions regarding farming in the future and maybe learn something. 😊
LOL Welcome to being a cart operator!! Your always supposed to know what everyone's doing all the time! You need to be able to read minds and be where your supposed to be, without being told to be, on time so the combine doesn't sit!! lol
Thanks a lot Dennis! I try to put out a new video every week. This fall has been particularly hard to keep up with everything, but I will keep making them if you keep watching!
Man its so strange to watch corn being harvest in the snow. South Texas harvest is generally over hundred degrees. A/C struggles to keep up, and blowing radiators out with air compressor is almost a daily must.
We are usually in short sleeves or sweatshirts for harvest. This is quite abnormal. We have had 5 separate snowfall events already. Absolutely ridiculous.
Nice stream.I am from Dubuque Iowa but not a farmer always wanted to be but I guess God said your a carpenter so that's what I did.Left Iowa in 83 no work after graduation so I moved to Tx Still here but want to go back home wife says no.How many Acres on your farm and what part of Iowa are you in thank you
Hey thanks! The guy that I work for runs about 2,000 acres. My brother’s employer is similarly sized. Then us brothers run over 100 acres of hay with dad and my brother rents dads 90 acres of tillable land. We are up here in northeast Iowa along highway 20.
Not to be nosey but how many acres do you and your brother farm? Just curious as you both have full time work too. Good video and I agree with others that you have the ability to attract and maintain a large subscriber base!
Hi Bill! My brother and I together run a small herd of beef cattle. We make about 100 acres of hay each summer, and we sell cattle equipment, specifically a hay saving bale feeder among other things. My brother rents dads 90 acres of tillable ground because his employer is nearby and they can rent the equipment to him to farm the ground. The guy that he works for runs about 2,000 acres. The operation that I work for also runs approximately 2,000 acres.
Way cool video ,your wife working with you !!! I have a question,How in the world can you guys work for other farmers full time ,and farm your own ground at the same time ,You guys have some beautiful equipment also ,Thank You !!!
Thanks Greg! Great question. My brother and I run hay ground together and we have cattle. We don’t currently run any row crop ground together. He farms dads ground with his boss’s equipment since it its located pretty much right in the middle of all their ground anyway. We end up putting in some pretty long hours sometimes and rely on other family members to help her everything done when we are in the middle of fieldwork. Since most of the haymaking doesn’t really interfere with any row crop operations it works out pretty well.
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 - while most of us work on a 24 hour day you and yours are running on the 36 hour day. means you just keep at it until the required work is completed. Farming looks easy from the outside looking in but we on the inside know it just takes determination and will to never say "I can't."
That’s awesome! I am a hawk fan. I graduated from Iowa in 2008. I actually sent Gary a tweet to let him know I was listening from the cab of the semi but I never heard him mention me so I figured he never got to it. That’s so cool!
Drove cart on a custom harvest crew for 3 years. "What's the hardest part of carting? Knowing where to be and when." Yes 100% yes 😂. U are never right, never!!!
Everything is always the cart driver’s fault. Corn on the ground, your fault. Truck not full enough, your fault. Corn on the cab of the combine, your fault. Nobody brought lunch, your fault. Ground freezes up before tillage is done? Cart driver’s fault 🤣
Not at this time. He rents Dad’s ground and farms it with his boss’s equipment. It’s right in the middle of all the ground that they already farm so it just makes sense. The fellow that I work for is 30 miles away from Dad’s.
New to your channel From Australia Great to see Mrs Dodge on the Tractor 🚜 she’s doing a good job it is lingo I Had that when I first came to Australia I ran a combine in Ireland same language but different lingo many varieties may have got a bit mixed up ?? And Mrs Dodge the operator should stop the unloading auger at the end of the row ,unless of course he had a slipping auger drive belt clutch 👝 Rule 1 a good cart operator has to know everything that goes on in that field and for several fields around. Suggestion good idea train you Mrs on the combine so that she can see it from the combine drivers position Keep up the good work
That’s a great point! I always feel like it’s good for the cart operator and combine operator to switch seats every once in a while. It helps them think about how their task effects the other.
That’s a pretty tough question to answer. Everyone’s operation is different and everyone’s management practices are different. Therefore, everyone’s level of profitability per acre is different. I will say that many single-family operations are currently in the 1800 to 2500 acre range.
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 thank for your answer. I thought it was a bit smaller, but load the same amount here in Argentina, 45 tons in gross weight
We are usually all wrapped up by Halloween. Bad growing season combined with unusually cold and wet fall weather has really made a mess for us. Now we are getting winter a month early.
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 - I meant, get her to be in more of your videos. get her to talk about her life as a Farmer's Wife, how she feels about running equipment and helping you run the Farm.
Funny story... we actually do have one but it quit working last week. Since we are buried in snow today and can’t do any fieldwork I am on the way to get it checked out right now!
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It is so special to have your wife and family involved. She does a great job.
Family involvement is at the core of successful farming in my opinion.
You gotta Love a woman that farms with her Man. Y'all take care, stay safe and God Bless.
Beautiful family and special times for you, God bless and keep him close to your hearts.
You need to do more videos, you got the personality and the voice. Your videos are very watchable.
Thanks a lot for the encouragement! I will keep making them if you keep watching.
Deep South Bama with Mr. Tom .. agreed! 👍
As long as you keep making videos I will be watching them! Go Dodge family!
Great seeing your wife running the grain cart and tractor. Always great to have extra help in a Farm operation.
One thing I've noticed about most farming videos is, everyone needs to be themselves, be safe and have a willingness to share your lives with total strangers. We tend too be our own greatest critics, but alas, many farmers out there watch these videos and spare no expense on being critical. Which, can be a good thing, as many have found out.
Your video here was very well done. Creative and fun with a sprinkle of sincerity attached. Obviously y'all are very busy, but bringing farming into peoples homes that live, for example, in high rises in New York City helps them too really appreciate the sacrifices, the dangers, the shear effort it takes to keep large or medium sized operations going 24/7. In short, hopefully when they go to market, pick up some corn, they'll have a whole new appreciation of where it came from and the sacrifices made to get it there.
I know y'all are busy, but hopefully you'll create more videos. I for one, enjoyed it immensely. Thank You.🚜☕
Respectfully,
JR
Wow thank you JR! I actually started doing this by accident. I was originally going to make one or two videos so that my cousin and her family could see what goes on during harvest. Suddenly over 100 people had watched the first video and many were asking for more. Now I have made about 45 videos and some have been seen by pretty large numbers of people. Thank you so much for the kind words of encouragement. I often think about people who have no connection to farming and ranching and TH-cam could be their only way to “visit the farm” so to speak. I’ll keep making videos as long as y’all keep watching!
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 No worries. We will keep watching your amazing videos. I honestly appreciate your time and efforts. Farming is not easy. In fact, it's much harder these days given the various issues farmers and ranchers are encountering. I came across your video by accident myself. I love watching tractors working the field. On our ranch, we have several. Our newest by several years now, A Case IH
Magnum. A fellow rancher loaned me his brand new Challenger MT to see what I thought. I was impressed. Cost wise, I must now try and figure out how to work the numbers. I'm sure you know they're nearly one half million for a top of the line Challenger. While we don't farm like y'all, we have horses, Longhorn etc. Plenty of work around here for a big tractor. The Magnum is awesome, but that Challenger....lol truly a work of art. My neighbor said I had to be a bona fide dum dum not to strongly consider getting one. He is very persuasive. lol.
Anyway, you make those videos when you have time. I'll watch them and many thanks.
Happy Holidays🎄🚜
JR
Well done Tina, a born natural! I just loved your guys commentary while carting and figuring out what the combine guy calls stuff or is going to do. That is so true no matter where you go lol
Thanks! She is right at home in the tractor cab. It’s funny hearing her perspective on the farming lingo. You get so used to certain words and phrases that you don’t realize how foreign they are to everyone else.
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 - exactly what I was getting at in my first comment. get her to talk to us more and if anyone makes fun of her for the terms she uses then slam that person hard and I'll be right behind you to slam them again.
Pretty lady, and not afraid to work. You win 👍🇺🇸
You boys got your paddock lingo to get the girls confused. My wife had a hard time with our paddock lingo too but I was always grateful for her help. Great video .
It’s like a foreign language.
twenty yrs in the Navy, ten yrs knuckle busting it, then 18yrs driving long haul, but grew up on a farm in Eastern WA. I still miss all the work and like watching your vids.
Thanks Chris! I’m so glad that you are able to enjoy our farm life on TH-cam. And thanks for your military service!
Your wife is gorgeous! You are a lucky man to have her so willing to help & learn. Hope your harvest turns out good!
New to your channel . This was a really cool video . You guys have a beautiful farm . I think it is just awesome that your wife comes out in the field to help . She is a keeper . She did a great job too ! May god bless you and your family !
you make us proud of being American's because of your determination and strong family and work values , they built this country!!!
Hey, this city slicker enjoys your videos. I have a lot of respect for America's farmers.
Thanks Stuart! I’ll keep making them if you keep watching. If you ever have any questions don’t be afraid to ask. I’ll do my best to answer or cover it in a video.
I’m real sure you guys put in long hours , I know what work is all about ,Not an 8-5 job ,work till it’s done or you can’t think or see anymore ,been there done that ,Thank You For Your Work !!!
We are very happy to have this opportunity. Not everyone gets to do what they love. It isn’t always pretty and sometimes you get irritated at each other. Sometimes you miss going to something because you are fixing fence or babysitting a newborn calf, but it’s a great life.
Dodge Brothers Farm and Ranch ,Teach your kids what work is ,Our country needs it ,Thank You !!!
Nice to have some help with the harvest, with a little practice it all comes together.
Thanks for posting.
Really good harvest video. I love how all of you Farmers on TH-cam have complete grain bins with pits & dryers on the farm. Here in the MO Bootheel, all of the grain went straight to the elevators in the 70's & the '80s. It was mostly wheat & soybeans. Our chief crop used to be cotton, but especially this year soybeans were the prevalent crop. I think the embargo against China was hell on cotton prices. Your wife is a good cart operator. I was a school bus driver here for 10+ yrs. I dropped kids off a lot around the fields during harvest.
Thanks Steve! When I was a kid we had a bin that dried the corn in the roof of the bin 600 bushels at a time. Those were the days.
The wife and yourself seems like awesome people. So for that, I'm subscribed. Good job at running the cart lady.
Thanks a lot Robert!
Back in 1982 I had 300 acres yet to combine and it started snowing. I found I had to let the temp drop to at least 17 deg F before I could go. At that temp and below the chaf would blow right through without plugging the sieves. Matter of fact it seemed to combine better than when the corn was dry. Ran 72 hrs straight, no sleep but we gotter done. Cheers...
We are going to consider just running at night next week. It’s going to be cold overnight so we could get over the wet ground while it’s froze up.
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 Good Luck. Hope you can gitterdone. Cheers...
I am betting you and your family will be a huge TH-cam success! Oh, and Bob too!! Always remember Be Safe!
Glad you can enjoy the farm with us Steve! I’ll tell Bob hi for you 😂
Never gotten to do what Tina has done. She's an inspiration.
She is great at it now!
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 You GO, Tina!
This Tina Totally enjoyed watching that on my lunch..... I wanna try it too. No combine for us though. Good job Tina I’m exactly the same
Thanks a lot! I was so proud of her 🤓
Thanks for filming
Great video! It’s hard to imagine that the seasons are so much different there than here in Tennessee. Most all of our corn here was out by the middle of October. I feel for you all having to harvest in such cold conditions. Such is the life of the farmer, though! Keep up the great work! BTW, I love that your whole family is involved!
Thanks William! We are often wrapped up by Halloween around here, but it has just been so wet and now it’s turning into full blown winter about a month too early. We will get through it. There’s always next year 🤣
Lucky man you have a treasure of a wife ,good to look at too ,your family is so special...…………...you make a great pair
She is great! Like Dave Ramsey always says “better than I deserve”
Nice to have the extra hand! Looks like she took to it no problem. I spent a little time in the mid west, and really fell in love. Northwood Iowa being one of the stops. My kinda place! Great job on the video. New subscriber here!
Thanks! I love the Iowa farm life. I’m glad to be able to share it with all of you!
She’s a natural
Just found your channel. Very nice! Mrs. Dodge will figure it out with more time on the job. PLEASE keep both eyes on the youngins. Soo many things can be dangerous on the farm. I'm up in Mankato, Mn. and we're nearly wrapped up with harvest. A lot of tillage left to go.
Thanks! I’m glad you are enjoying it. We definitely are very safety conscious about the small children. They are either holding my hand or they are in a seat.
In his TH-cam Vlog #47, Canadian farmer Mark Brock said you can combine snowy corn as long as the temp is -12°C (10.4°F) or below. The snow will pass right on through the machine.
It really does help because if the internal parts of the combine never get above freezing then it won’t get all plugged up.
Hi I had your video play after another one I was watching. I think your the closest you tube person I have watched. I am in Hazleton. You do good with the production of your videos. Thank you for taking the time to do today's video.
Thanks Steve! You certainly aren’t far away. I actually worked for don at prairie road builders out of hazleton when I was home from college the first summer.
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 I am 1st house south of them.
Steve Horan so you have the cool pickups parked in front of your garage?
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 Sadly no that is Darrin. I am the house that normally has the white vans sitting in front of it. 🙄
Hello from the UK just joined your video channel t I’m liking what I’m watching.
Thanks Derek!
Great video
Glad to see your wife out helping
Me too!
I'm a city boy enjoying these real John Deere machines that I use in Farming Simulator 19 lol. Nice Channel!
Thanks a lot!
When he said, the hole world is watching she looked at him, like your not that famous yet,, Thxs for posting, gb
You noticed “the look” 😆
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 ha,that was the most important part of The Talk that your dads supposed to give you,, keep your plow dirty and stay warm,, gb
Thanks again for the video. Kudos to your wife for stepping up to the challenge. I think my would do the same but in the city that isn't happening but she pitches in when I need help. You have got me to the point that I think about you guys every day and keep you in my prayers that things go well and you are safe doing what you do.
Do you use Becks seeds? They are in Arcadia Indiana and my grandfather was their pastor. They were great members supporting the church. He spoke well of them.
Wow. It is really cool to think about how many friends I have all over the world that I wouldn’t even recognize if I walked right past them. Thanks for your support and prayers!
We tried Beck’s seed a couple years back and we had favorable results, but no more favorable than our other three or four brands that we have always planted. The price was pretty much the same as well so we didn’t order any the last couple years. If we spread our seed business too thin, we won’t get the all important volume discounts. I was impressed with the message that the company presented.
Appreciate now my wife use to help me when we were young not so much now.
Especially when she starts telling you how to do it.
Welcome to the club. The honeymoon is over.
@@Forevertrue - the best part of a wife telling you how to do it is watching her see for herself how in real life her suggestion will not work for the application she is attempting to apply it to. watching her learn is awesome.
My Mom ran a grain cart and drove a straight 300 bushel grain truck plus hauled cotton to the gin when everyone still used trailers
Good job Tina
If your leg gets tired loading trucks and its a powershift just put in about 3rd gear and move the lever in and out to neutral to move ahead.It's clutches either way you do it.
That’s cheaper than buying an IVT!
YOU DO A GREAT JOB EXPLAINING IT ALL!! WOW!! 🇺🇸👍
Thanks Chuck!
Wish you all the best from IRAQ.
Thanks!
That's a awesome looking grain trailer
Jet Co
Yup! They are great trailers.
So cool, Is this a great country or what? I love that your family is involved. Lucky man! Good luck!! Peace!
Thanks! I really am living the dream.
Great videos, and the farm life I miss.
Thanks! Glad you enjoy them.
A fun video! Think how much better you would look with a DBF&R hat...think how much better your subscribers would look with one too. Haha put your wife in charge of the project - if she can handle a grain cart, imagine the hat she could design.
Thomas Williams I will try to make that happen. Thanks for the suggestion!
She is pretty crafty...
Great video. Not only is your wife and family beautiful, she is also very sweet. Be nice to her or you will be cooking your own dinner THANKS for sharing 😎
Thanks Todd! She is pretty great.
Pretty wife is a big understatement!!
The old geezer from the city out west, once again enjoyed the video. Stupid question: What exactly does the "dryer" do and how does it function to dry the grain? I liked your wife's sweatshirt. WAPIE BASKETBALL - MGR.😁 Awesome. She's definitely a "keeper".
Thanks! Not a stupid question at all. I should do a video about that sometime. Essentially it works just like a clothes dryer. It heats the grain and blows air through it at the same time to reduce the moisture content. Corn must be at 15% moisture for long term storage.
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 Thanks. That's what I figured but didn't want to assume anything so I'll continue to ask questions regarding farming in the future and maybe learn something. 😊
She did Great!
She sure did!
LOL Welcome to being a cart operator!! Your always supposed to know what everyone's doing all the time! You need to be able to read minds and be where your supposed to be, without being told to be, on time so the combine doesn't sit!! lol
It’s quite the job description!
Wow! That was fantastic.
Thanks Jesse!
You are a brave man. I taught my fiancé how to drive a stick-shift car once. That almost ended our engagement right there. :)
😂
Great video good job
Thanks!
HI GUYS! just subscribed like what i see keep videos comlng.
Thanks a lot Dennis! I try to put out a new video every week. This fall has been particularly hard to keep up with everything, but I will keep making them if you keep watching!
Man its so strange to watch corn being harvest in the snow. South Texas harvest is generally over hundred degrees. A/C struggles to keep up, and blowing radiators out with air compressor is almost a daily must.
We are usually in short sleeves or sweatshirts for harvest. This is quite abnormal. We have had 5 separate snowfall events already. Absolutely ridiculous.
Nice stream.I am from Dubuque Iowa but not a farmer always wanted to be but I guess God said your a carpenter so that's what I did.Left Iowa in 83 no work after graduation so I moved to Tx Still here but want to go back home wife says no.How many Acres on your farm and what part of Iowa are you in thank you
Hey thanks! The guy that I work for runs about 2,000 acres. My brother’s employer is similarly sized. Then us brothers run over 100 acres of hay with dad and my brother rents dads 90 acres of tillable land. We are up here in northeast Iowa along highway 20.
Temperature has to be well below freezing in order to combine with snow on the crop
Great video. Good cart driver too. Hope you get it all in the bin soon.
That's awesome that she would learn to drive tne cart next will be the combine. Carl
I told her that the combine is the next logical step...
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206
That is great that she wants to help she is a keeper for sure lol. Carl
Not to be nosey but how many acres do you and your brother farm? Just curious as you both have full time work too. Good video and I agree with others that you have the ability to attract and maintain a large subscriber base!
Hi Bill! My brother and I together run a small herd of beef cattle. We make about 100 acres of hay each summer, and we sell cattle equipment, specifically a hay saving bale feeder among other things. My brother rents dads 90 acres of tillable ground because his employer is nearby and they can rent the equipment to him to farm the ground. The guy that he works for runs about 2,000 acres. The operation that I work for also runs approximately 2,000 acres.
Way cool video ,your wife working with you !!! I have a question,How in the world can you guys work for other farmers full time ,and farm your own ground at the same time ,You guys have some beautiful equipment also ,Thank You !!!
Thanks Greg! Great question. My brother and I run hay ground together and we have cattle. We don’t currently run any row crop ground together. He farms dads ground with his boss’s equipment since it its located pretty much right in the middle of all their ground anyway. We end up putting in some pretty long hours sometimes and rely on other family members to help her everything done when we are in the middle of fieldwork. Since most of the haymaking doesn’t really interfere with any row crop operations it works out pretty well.
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 - while most of us work on a 24 hour day you and yours are running on the 36 hour day. means you just keep at it until the required work is completed. Farming looks easy from the outside looking in but we on the inside know it just takes determination and will to never say "I can't."
She did great!
She sure did!
Great video!
Thanks!
Great job..
Thanks!
It is what it is!
Hello, from the fields and farms of central Illinois!
Hey Roger! How is your fall going? I almost hate to ask...
Nothing smells better than drying corn at fall harvest
Like cornbread!
He looks like a supervisor type of cat.
Yeah that’s exactly right. His main strengths are meowing constantly for no reason and eating.
I am looking to renew my "drive-buy" grain cart combining skills...
Haha
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 would like to see more.
I was disappointed.... i looked at several non helpful videos...you could be helping people...
Always wanted a 6430
Are you a Hawkeye fan? I was listening on the radio a week or two ago and I thought I heard gary dolphin say Dodge Brothers Farm and Ranch
That’s awesome! I am a hawk fan. I graduated from Iowa in 2008. I actually sent Gary a tweet to let him know I was listening from the cab of the semi but I never heard him mention me so I figured he never got to it. That’s so cool!
Drove cart on a custom harvest crew for 3 years. "What's the hardest part of carting? Knowing where to be and when." Yes 100% yes 😂. U are never right, never!!!
Everything is always the cart driver’s fault. Corn on the ground, your fault. Truck not full enough, your fault. Corn on the cab of the combine, your fault. Nobody brought lunch, your fault. Ground freezes up before tillage is done? Cart driver’s fault 🤣
Do you and your brother farm crops together as well??
Not at this time. He rents Dad’s ground and farms it with his boss’s equipment. It’s right in the middle of all the ground that they already farm so it just makes sense. The fellow that I work for is 30 miles away from Dad’s.
If you where in Alaska you would be worm. It is 40 above here in Seward.
We haven’t been that warm for over a week!
I cannot believe you just said that hahaha, you know what I'm saying too.
The two most important rules for the grain cart driver are; 1.) don't hit the combine and; 2.) don't hit the semi. 😜😂
That’s what I told her! I said it doesn’t matter if you spill some grain just don’t damage any equipment.
New to your channel From Australia Great to see Mrs Dodge on the Tractor 🚜 she’s doing a good job it is lingo I Had that when I first came to Australia I ran a combine in Ireland same language but different lingo many varieties may have got a bit mixed up ?? And Mrs Dodge the operator should stop the unloading auger at the end of the row ,unless of course he had a slipping auger drive belt clutch 👝 Rule 1 a good cart operator has to know everything that goes on in that field and for several fields around. Suggestion good idea train you Mrs on the combine so that she can see it from the combine drivers position Keep up the good work
That’s a great point! I always feel like it’s good for the cart operator and combine operator to switch seats every once in a while. It helps them think about how their task effects the other.
think the trucks full
It was a pretty good load!
How many acres of Corn/Milo does it take to make a GOOD living in Iowa?
That’s a pretty tough question to answer. Everyone’s operation is different and everyone’s management practices are different. Therefore, everyone’s level of profitability per acre is different. I will say that many single-family operations are currently in the 1800 to 2500 acre range.
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 That was along the range I was thinking of maybe 3000 acres.
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how many kilograms can loads that trailer truck?
It’s 1000 bushels so 56,000 pounds.
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206
thank for your answer. I thought it was a bit smaller, but load the same amount here in Argentina, 45 tons in gross weight
Were you in the market for a new header?lol
That depends. What do you have?
Dodge Brothers Farm and Ranch I'm sorry,I was making a joke about having a new grain cart driver,and dumping on the run,that quick. Lol
Is corn always this late?
No it is not. This has been very late fall, on top of a late spring. Not a good year.
We are usually all wrapped up by Halloween. Bad growing season combined with unusually cold and wet fall weather has really made a mess for us. Now we are getting winter a month early.
Cut at night,when it's super cold. Nothing will plug.
I think that’s going to have to be the plan for the rest of harvest. Not because of wet corn but because of mud now.
Where you guys at i''m in warren county.
Buchanan-Delaware counties
First! Have a safe harvest
Thanks Aaron!
Great job wife. Come back when you can stay longer.
Ha! She stayed as long as the rest of us!
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 - I meant, get her to be in more of your videos. get her to talk about her life as a Farmer's Wife, how she feels about running equipment and helping you run the Farm.
11:37 10/10 wife glare.
You know the look if you’ve ever gotten the look!
Ohhhhh. That was not a happy look she gave you! 🤣🤣🤣
Yeah we have fun...
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Heat the intake with a propane heather it will start on less thaï 3 minutes
Next time we will be sure to park it inside!
Running a grain cart is easy, just watch underneath the truck, when you see corn on the ground it's time to move
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you guys need a camera on auger, makes it easier
Funny story... we actually do have one but it quit working last week. Since we are buried in snow today and can’t do any fieldwork I am on the way to get it checked out right now!
I got 2 daughters one a doctor and other one dental surgeon on I know how Doctor ladys are .
auger loading semi seems slow
Get Her a tractor with a IVT transmission 😃
I was just telling her last night how great that would be. Unfortunately it’s not my money. Well maybe I should say fortunately it’s not!
Ivts are so nice for grain carts.
Hi sir cant u help me to work farm us a tractor operator.
you need to get away from cotton clothing. love your channel.
A farm cat named bob
He’s my favorite cat