When you admitted you drive away slowly in case you forgot to unhook something, I think EVERY one of us farmers had flashbacks. The amount of buildings, hydraulic lines, hoses, fuel hoses, and in an unusual case ... an electric golf cart that I've drug along with me bring back memories.
I so admire what you guys do that I binge watch so I don’t miss anything. I love the parts about feeding, silo work, field work and cameos of the family while filling bunkers. I love to look at the cows and especially the babies!! Thx for sharing!!! Keep it coming!!
Thanks for explaining about the sprayer and all that goes into prepping it. Farmers have to do so much more than just sit on a tractor and plow! We appreciate everything you and your family...and all farmers...do for the country. Keep up the good videos!
I’d love to hear what starting youtube has done for you and your farm as far as advancements and opportunities. I’ve been watching since the start. 🐄 😊
I haven’t mentioned it before but I really love the humor! Like the time you cleaned out the Kaboda and looked into the barrel at the pop cans and said “It’s probably time for me to look within and evaluate my choices”. And finding the occasional soda can in an ear if corn or some other well placed spot! The hoop shots…etc. your humor isn’t lost on us. We love it!!! 🤗🤣🥰
Excellent video Eric! The technology in sprayers these days is amazing. Liked seeing the work on the silo unloader. Farming requires a lot of expertise from other fields - always amazed at how easy you make it all sound. You're quite an educator, and a great promoter of good ag practices and farming. Thanks for the great work!
IF a viewer cant appreciate the care a farmer takes when he goes "no till" then you never saw a farmer from 40 years ago. You should appreciate what a good steward of the land a modern farmer is. Glyophosphate applied as directed and as needed is smart and safe.
Started using herbicides in the early 60s and for the next 50+ years , Round-up is by far the safest chemical I used. Their was some real nasty s*** ! used back then and beyond. 👨🏻🦳 🐄 🚜 (Rootworm insecticide, at planting time it stunk so bad you couldn’t eat outside. Thank You for GMO) !!!
Another 10th Gen vid popped up from two years ago. I remember watching that one... holy cow I have been watching this channel for awhile... Eric and team you do a great job. Folks, share - hit the like button, let's help Eric get over 400k.
Ah yes, short arming the Goliath unloader….I’ve been there and done that a few times. That is why I tried to never let the level of the feed get too low in the silo causing a collapse of the “cavern or dome” above the unloader. I would always try to get the silo refilled before that happened. But then at least once a year I would have to pull the unloader out of the silo and onto the stands with a winch to inspect the chains, and change out any worn or broken knives. So I am impressed that after cleaning out the silo, you & your dad both climbed into the silo and worked on this job as a team. That is awesome and it makes total sense to save a lot of time and extra work removing the unloader. As always your cows and crops are all looking great! Thanks for the ride on your sprayer rig, and have a blessed day!
didn’t you sent a view samples of all your different grasses and soil to a testing lab? would love to see a video with the results and talking about the different nutrients depending on the fertiliser used. For example how did the soil look with the injected manure compared to the normal way you sprayed it
Accidents happen. You learn from them and move on. Fields look great Eric. Thankyou and your dad for looking after the land as well as your cows. You two are a inspiration for all farmers. Stay safe.
Can you make a video “Feed mixer, 1 year in usage, cleaning, maintenance “? I think it would be interesting to see how much wear it gets and how is cleaned and maintained.
Edging up there to 400 thousand subscribers!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for all the great content that you record and edit for our enjoyment and education. That silo chain change you have to do seems like a real pain the the rear end….owner of those chores you don’t look forward to.
Just amazed all the skill and expert knowledge that goes into modern day farming. Eric, what a fine young man you are. You set a high standard. And you document it so well. Glad to see father and son working together. Thanks for all the effort you put into making these videos. We enjoy them immensely. God bles you and your family
things sure are different than here in ND. we run a 120ft sprayer 60ft planter and spray glyphosate at 32oz/ac with a residual. spread dry manure from our cow calf pairs but add a lot of nitrogen
I just realised….the camera work is really good. I don’t give it enough credit because it’s seamless but I just realised that you’re holding the camera a lot of the time.
Surfactant reduces surface tension, in a pinch you can use Dawn dish soap. I know the last time I fell in the lake in April the water was plenty wet enough for me!
I have multiple generations of firefighters in my family, so I knew about wetting agents to help put out an uncontrolled fire faster... never realized it was also used in agricultural applications, but it makes sense once Eric explained it. TIL!
Farm tourism is real and increase farmer cash flow...I too would pay for a several day visit..pet and feed cows..I'm sure he has a hidden pond full of fish! All farmers do!
I'm sure you get asked this a lot, but i can't seem to figure out an answer. When you're spraying and running over the corn, is it killing it or does it bounce back? I feel like i'd just crush everything on accident if i was doing that. i notice a lot of fertilizer type deals they are running through the fields without worry and just running over the grain/corn/whatever else it is.
Yeah, anyone that does equipment work has pulled away from a piece of equipment without disconnecting all of it, and dare I say most farmers. I'm not a fan of using herbicides, but I admit that with the burdock we have, I'm tempted to. Always enjoy your videos, thanks for sharing, have a great weekend.
Hi I enjoyed your video thanks for putting it up! I was curious if you got the feed tests back on the side by side with that explorer product and the 28 percent? Does the fact that you are using it on corn mean it does make a difference or are you just using up the product since you have it? Thanks again for putting in the extra work to video your work and share it!
Your corn looks awesome Eric, compared to ours as we are just now getting some heat units. We're supposed to get up into the 90's for the next 2 weeks and a chance of rain daily.
Back in my days on our Iowa farm in the 60's and 70's we did not use chemical weed control and instead we used mechanical weed control with rotary hoes and cultivators. Chemicals were just getting started at that time. I don't remember any farmers in our area in Iowa used chemicals. Some farmers even did it the old fashioned way and walked the rows with a garden hoe, which was a family affair and you would see the whole family out there in the field in the early summer evenings after it cooled down. None of us were certified organic but our crops were definitely organic. I am not even sure if there was such a thing as organic certification then. Times have changed and I am not sure it's for the better. Simpler, healthier times that were not rushed.
It has to go back to that. Most won't sacrifice until they are forced to--and it's coming. And in contrasting traditional vs modern, the modern farmers are not the problem either--they are in fact feeding more and more people each and every year, with improvements in knowledge and practice, given the tasks at hand--witness Eric and Dad and their predecessors...living examples of improvements which are tangible and measurable. But even though they valiantly feed the masses, the evils that have overtaken society are based in too many people disconnected from the land. If people still did as your family did, organic farming for all intents and purposes--most of the plagues that have begun since the advent of mass production and mass consumption would not exist. The seduction of the easy path is the culprit.
We do regenerative agriculture. The pesticides and herbicides make the soil hard and toxic. It will take 25 years for every year glyphosate is used to fix the problem.
@@svenjorgensenn8418 It's true--better food options exist. However the farmer who, like Eric, uses glyphosate, is not the problem. The problem is that the market that he sells to demands that the poisons be used. They demand it because they want cheap and accessible, mass-produced food. If the same market demanded organic, expensive food, then he would be able to grow that, because he could afford to have higher input costs since his income would be higher. Pretty simple economics. Why does the market demand cheap, polluted and mass-produced food? That is the question that needs to be asked. Eric is simply doing the best he can to make a living, while doing as much as he can to minimize the unhealthy aspects of mass production agriculture. He even outlined the measure he takes to reduce overall usage of glyphosate, and to reduce the amount of toxins that make it into the soil and water table.
Lots of great advice and information in this video. You sure do a great job of teaching us about what goes into farming. Much appreciated. Crops are looking really good, nice to see things growing. Thanks till next time.
There's a huge difference between sustainable farming and organic farming. Organic is almost always worse for the crops, the land and the animals/people. Sustainable is the way to go. Keep doing what you do eric!!
Suggestion for you instead of building an entirely new bunker silo or extending those or busting out the bottom end you could install a new harvest store silo and then between a feeding when you’re getting ready to harvest bust out the last of that bunker clean the mixer out and transfer all of that leftover to a shorter Harvestore silo then you can also hook it straight up to the mixing machine conveyor and if you still have your old mixer not sure if you traded that in instead of pulling off the bunker wall all the time you could once a month or once a week bust a punch off fill up that additional silo and make feeding just that little bit easier I’m a weirdo who likes efficiency in the long run it might end up saving you money in fuel because you only travel over there once a week with the skid steer and tractor instead of every day two or three times a day
You're a good stewart to your plants and animals. Does your fertilizer have a simple sugar add to feed the bacteria and microbes within your soil structure?
Hey Eric just curious how long your cutter chains last on the 20' Goliath. We have 2 25x90s one with a 200Xl and a Alliance. We get maybe 3 years on the xl cutter chain and 5 on the alliance. But conveyors last quite long. 8 year old one on the Alliance we have now
I had to use glyphosate two weeks ago before planting miscanthus with strip till. Glyphosate kilos raygrass but not the fescue. Do you an admise to say about how to kill fescue on corn ?
I would like to know how often tht the magnetic is check on the feeder. I remember you had talked about it when you first got the feeder but havent heared andything since then.
Hey friend, Now in INDIA here are very good solution for your spraying. Now We are use drone sprey machine in field its very cast friendly and so efective on crops......... try to use it in your farm buy it from INDIA thats cheap rate here.
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When you admitted you drive away slowly in case you forgot to unhook something, I think EVERY one of us farmers had flashbacks. The amount of buildings, hydraulic lines, hoses, fuel hoses, and in an unusual case ... an electric golf cart that I've drug along with me bring back memories.
I have drove away from the gas pumps with ghe hose in gas tank 345$ later lol
@@robwoods5537 Heck.. for 345 bucks, you could have gotten half a tank of gas
I do the same I've forgotten a handful of airlines on tramsports
dude how many times does this happen to you? one would think you’d learn from your mistakes lol
Hahaha wow dude sounds super unfortunate buddy
I so admire what you guys do that I binge watch so I don’t miss anything. I love the parts about feeding, silo work, field work and cameos of the family while filling bunkers. I love to look at the cows and especially the babies!! Thx for sharing!!! Keep it coming!!
Thanks for explaining about the sprayer and all that goes into prepping it. Farmers have to do so much more than just sit on a tractor and plow! We appreciate everything you and your family...and all farmers...do for the country. Keep up the good videos!
I’d love to hear what starting youtube has done for you and your farm as far as advancements and opportunities. I’ve been watching since the start. 🐄 😊
I haven’t mentioned it before but I really love the humor! Like the time you cleaned out the Kaboda and looked into the barrel at the pop cans and said “It’s probably time for me to look within and evaluate my choices”. And finding the occasional soda can in an ear if corn or some other well placed spot! The hoop shots…etc. your humor isn’t lost on us. We love it!!! 🤗🤣🥰
Excellent video Eric! The technology in sprayers these days is amazing. Liked seeing the work on the silo unloader. Farming requires a lot of expertise from other fields - always amazed at how easy you make it all sound. You're quite an educator, and a great promoter of good ag practices and farming. Thanks for the great work!
I agree. Would like to spend a week with his family on the farm. That's not a place for a lazy person. Love it.
"makes the water wetter" favorite quote 3:29
Since we moved to the new farm I really miss feeding cattle. Has to be one of my favorite job mixing feed
I like seeing the different fields you have and all the different crops you grow.
IF a viewer cant appreciate the care a farmer takes when he goes "no till" then you never saw a farmer from 40 years ago. You should appreciate what a good steward of the land a modern farmer is. Glyophosphate applied as directed and as needed is smart and safe.
Nope
@@svenjorgensenn8418 Keyboard farmer.
Started using herbicides in the early 60s and for the next 50+ years , Round-up is by far the safest chemical I used. Their was some real nasty s*** ! used back then and beyond. 👨🏻🦳 🐄 🚜 (Rootworm insecticide, at planting time it stunk so bad you couldn’t eat outside. Thank You for GMO) !!!
Another 10th Gen vid popped up from two years ago. I remember watching that one... holy cow I have been watching this channel for awhile... Eric and team you do a great job. Folks, share - hit the like button, let's help Eric get over 400k.
Ah yes, short arming the Goliath unloader….I’ve been there and done that a few times. That is why I tried to never let the level of the feed get too low in the silo causing a collapse of the “cavern or dome” above the unloader. I would always try to get the silo refilled before that happened. But then at least once a year I would have to pull the unloader out of the silo and onto the stands with a winch to inspect the chains, and change out any worn or broken knives. So I am impressed that after cleaning out the silo, you & your dad both climbed into the silo and worked on this job as a team. That is awesome and it makes total sense to save a lot of time and extra work removing the unloader. As always your cows and crops are all looking great! Thanks for the ride on your sprayer rig, and have a blessed day!
didn’t you sent a view samples of all your different grasses and soil to a testing lab?
would love to see a video with the results and talking about the different nutrients depending on the fertiliser used.
For example how did the soil look with the injected manure compared to the normal way you sprayed it
Accidents happen. You learn from them and move on. Fields look great Eric. Thankyou and your dad for looking after the land as well as your cows. You two are a inspiration for all farmers. Stay safe.
I follow your videos, I forget my problems when I watch you, I wish I was as busy as you. You help your dad a lot, you are so amazing
you should have long sleeves on for chemical mixing, but other than that I was so happy to hear you touch upon pesticide use and whatnot!
Can you make a video “Feed mixer, 1 year in usage, cleaning, maintenance “? I think it would be interesting to see how much wear it gets and how is cleaned and maintained.
The outside row unit on the planter is overapplying nitrogen,that make the darker corn rows, six rows doubled up makes 12rows!
Edging up there to 400 thousand subscribers!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for all the great content that you record and edit for our enjoyment and education. That silo chain change you have to do seems like a real pain the the rear end….owner of those chores you don’t look forward to.
Glad yall are having a good start to the year. Crops are looking good.
Good looking crop of corn. Hope the rest of the year is as good as the corn looks.
Just amazed all the skill and expert knowledge that goes into modern day farming. Eric, what a fine young man you are. You set a high standard. And you document it so well. Glad to see father and son working together. Thanks for all the effort you put into making these videos. We enjoy them immensely. God bles you and your family
What adorable cows! Thank you!
Thanks for the video. Love seeing the green plants coming up.
Thanks Eric, corn is looking great.
The dark lines could be drain tile. More water there so the corn grows a little better.
things sure are different than here in ND. we run a 120ft sprayer 60ft planter and spray glyphosate at 32oz/ac with a residual. spread dry manure from our cow calf pairs but add a lot of nitrogen
The dried off cows seem to know where they are going. Holiday time🤗
I lived in westchester NY for 25 years have been up at the farms it was a tonic to be there and having my own farm back home in Ireland 10 out of 10
Crops looking really good!! Another great video
Great video Eric! You do an amazing job with it!
I sure hope all those cows appreciate what you do for them...
Long time ago we would use dish washing soap. With the weed and brush killer.
What a charming man you are, Eric. 😊 And charming farmer, too, of course. 😁
The strips are likely from your field tiles. We see it a lot here in southwestern Ontario!
Good times! Thanks for sharing!
You would think someone would develop a big bag for the bunks to prevent spoilage. Or heat sealing the edges.
In your drone video of the liquid manure spraying, it looked to me like there was significant overlap.
I just realised….the camera work is really good. I don’t give it enough credit because it’s seamless but I just realised that you’re holding the camera a lot of the time.
Hey Eric! How’s it going! Keep up the great videos! Nice to watch another Lebanon-Lancaster county dairy Farmer!
“It makes the water wetter” never heard that statement before lol
Surfactant reduces surface tension, in a pinch you can use Dawn dish soap.
I know the last time I fell in the lake in April the water was plenty wet enough for me!
I have multiple generations of firefighters in my family, so I knew about wetting agents to help put out an uncontrolled fire faster... never realized it was also used in agricultural applications, but it makes sense once Eric explained it.
TIL!
As mentioned surfactants used for various thing. They also help keep the milk pipeline clean and shiny. Dairy detergents have surfactants.
It's great you have knowledge on these....
Excellent work eric
Hi Eric and dad awesome video lots blessings are coming your way and always you all be safe 🇺🇸🇺🇸
use some dikon radish cover crop to fix compaction, blend with many more cover crop species to gain more benefits
Hi Eric good video see you in the one! Looks like your feeder is holding up well !
Great video of an awesome farm.
Erick I'm from Brazil I think your lands are very similar to ours with the bushes on the edges just like Brazil hug 💪
Awesome Video and Much Love as Always 🐄 Man!!!
Always amazed with your work ethic
Your keep a nice farm. Love to pay for a week there. Learning and helping.
Farm tourism is real and increase farmer cash flow...I too would pay for a several day visit..pet and feed cows..I'm sure he has a hidden pond full of fish! All farmers do!
I'm sure you get asked this a lot, but i can't seem to figure out an answer. When you're spraying and running over the corn, is it killing it or does it bounce back? I feel like i'd just crush everything on accident if i was doing that. i notice a lot of fertilizer type deals they are running through the fields without worry and just running over the grain/corn/whatever else it is.
Yeah, anyone that does equipment work has pulled away from a piece of equipment without disconnecting all of it, and dare I say most farmers. I'm not a fan of using herbicides, but I admit that with the burdock we have, I'm tempted to. Always enjoy your videos, thanks for sharing, have a great weekend.
Herbicides kill the soil.
It could be the liquid manure spreaders, those tanks a known for un even spreading, running the tank pumps to fast causes un even application.
HAVE A BLESSED DAY ERIC
Makes the water wetter had me laughing. That was a good one 👍
It is actually called a wetting agent.
Working on that chain , would double down making sure the power is off.
Great video Eric. Loving the content. Keep it rolling!
Never knew you could make water wetter
Hi I enjoyed your video thanks for putting it up! I was curious if you got the feed tests back on the side by side with that explorer product and the 28 percent? Does the fact that you are using it on corn mean it does make a difference or are you just using up the product since you have it? Thanks again for putting in the extra work to video your work and share it!
great video Eric. You are fun to watch. What a great person. Thank you and your day, and family for everything that y'all do.
More liquid flow on the planter to half the rows and less to some? Could be the striping issue. Seems to match the planter pass
this year we also done silage...after that we planted rice there...
Ain't nobody happy if momma cow ain't happy! 🐮
Your corn looks awesome Eric, compared to ours as we are just now getting some heat units. We're supposed to get up into the 90's for the next 2 weeks and a chance of rain daily.
Back in my days on our Iowa farm in the 60's and 70's we did not use chemical weed control and instead we used mechanical weed control with rotary hoes and cultivators. Chemicals were just getting started at that time. I don't remember any farmers in our area in Iowa used chemicals. Some farmers even did it the old fashioned way and walked the rows with a garden hoe, which was a family affair and you would see the whole family out there in the field in the early summer evenings after it cooled down. None of us were certified organic but our crops were definitely organic. I am not even sure if there was such a thing as organic certification then. Times have changed and I am not sure it's for the better. Simpler, healthier times that were not rushed.
It has to go back to that. Most won't sacrifice until they are forced to--and it's coming. And in contrasting traditional vs modern, the modern farmers are not the problem either--they are in fact feeding more and more people each and every year, with improvements in knowledge and practice, given the tasks at hand--witness Eric and Dad and their predecessors...living examples of improvements which are tangible and measurable. But even though they valiantly feed the masses, the evils that have overtaken society are based in too many people disconnected from the land. If people still did as your family did, organic farming for all intents and purposes--most of the plagues that have begun since the advent of mass production and mass consumption would not exist.
The seduction of the easy path is the culprit.
We do regenerative agriculture. The pesticides and herbicides make the soil hard and toxic. It will take 25 years for every year glyphosate is used to fix the problem.
@@E.lectricityNorth feeding people poison is not feeding people.
@@svenjorgensenn8418 really? Seems a long time..
@@svenjorgensenn8418 It's true--better food options exist. However the farmer who, like Eric, uses glyphosate, is not the problem. The problem is that the market that he sells to demands that the poisons be used. They demand it because they want cheap and accessible, mass-produced food. If the same market demanded organic, expensive food, then he would be able to grow that, because he could afford to have higher input costs since his income would be higher. Pretty simple economics.
Why does the market demand cheap, polluted and mass-produced food? That is the question that needs to be asked. Eric is simply doing the best he can to make a living, while doing as much as he can to minimize the unhealthy aspects of mass production agriculture. He even outlined the measure he takes to reduce overall usage of glyphosate, and to reduce the amount of toxins that make it into the soil and water table.
Lots of great advice and information in this video. You sure do a great job of teaching us about what goes into farming. Much appreciated. Crops are looking really good, nice to see things growing. Thanks till next time.
Hardwork brother god bless you
tobacco is a pretty crop...never used it, but saw many fields in the Carolinas...
the stripe could be from broadcasting fertilizer and it drops out too much out the back
I absolutely love your content.
Great video Eric thanks for posting
7:42
Your planter might not put the same amount of fertilizer on one side then the other
There's a huge difference between sustainable farming and organic farming. Organic is almost always worse for the crops, the land and the animals/people. Sustainable is the way to go. Keep doing what you do eric!!
It’s satisfying when Eric trims the silage eh PEACE
You know your salesman knows what he is doing when he can sell you a product that is supposed to make the water wetter.
Haha its essentially what soap does
Suggestion for you instead of building an entirely new bunker silo or extending those or busting out the bottom end you could install a new harvest store silo and then between a feeding when you’re getting ready to harvest bust out the last of that bunker clean the mixer out and transfer all of that leftover to a shorter Harvestore silo then you can also hook it straight up to the mixing machine conveyor and if you still have your old mixer not sure if you traded that in instead of pulling off the bunker wall all the time you could once a month or once a week bust a punch off fill up that additional silo and make feeding just that little bit easier I’m a weirdo who likes efficiency in the long run it might end up saving you money in fuel because you only travel over there once a week with the skid steer and tractor instead of every day two or three times a day
Have you ever left the unloader in the long position from start to finish.
Will you show when adding the section back in to make the chain long? Interested to see that with the silo full.
He has made videos of this in the past. You pull the unloaded out the bottom of the silo do the same process in reverse and put it back in.
You're a good stewart to your plants and animals. Does your fertilizer have a simple sugar add to feed the bacteria and microbes within your soil structure?
They use plastic chemicals
Never heard it said like that makes the water wetter
What do you use to spray your fields to kill the weeds and grasses
It would be interesting to know how many engines and how many electric motors are on this farm.
Love you bro I'm Indian 🇮🇳 your biggest fan and smol farming on Buffalo, cow 🐄
Eric bro hii
I know that farmers are special and a great resource but didn’t know they could make water wetter.
So after you short arm the harvester, how do get it back to long arm? Do you have to crawl in there with all silage above you? 😬
Hey Eric just curious how long your cutter chains last on the 20' Goliath. We have 2 25x90s one with a 200Xl and a Alliance. We get maybe 3 years on the xl cutter chain and 5 on the alliance. But conveyors last quite long. 8 year old one on the Alliance we have now
How far apart are your tile runs? Normally you will see the crop do better over you tile runs, depending on weather.
I had to use glyphosate two weeks ago before planting miscanthus with strip till. Glyphosate kilos raygrass but not the fescue. Do you an admise to say about how to kill fescue on corn ?
I’m surprised that you added glyphosate to spray on corn plants and kill weeds at the same time. Great videos learn something new every time.
Genetic engineering is why he can do that. The corn is resistant to it.
@@beckyumphrey2626 yeah the same genetic engineering is creating super weeds, bugs and cancer
@@svenjorgensenn8418 Technology progresses. Without GMO humans cannot produce enough food to support the world population. Changing times.
@ 04:59 We are a No-Till Farming...You learn something every day....
I would like to know how often tht the magnetic is check on the feeder. I remember you had talked about it when you first got the feeder but havent heared andything since then.
Where's that little Jack Russell 'rat terrier' at?
Great vídeo
The farmers in my area hire a helicopter to spray. I'm not sure if that is more effective or not.
Long time no see 10 gen farmer from the imperial co California. What is up.
Hey friend,
Now in INDIA here are very good solution for your spraying. Now We are use drone sprey machine in field its very cast friendly and so efective on crops......... try to use it in your farm buy it from INDIA thats cheap rate here.
When you are spraying to you actually run over some of the plants and if not how do you avoid that
Great content Eric👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
I love the content!