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Border View Farms is a mid-sized family farm that sits on the Ohio-Michigan border. My name is Nathan. I am fortunate to be able to farm with my dad, Mark and uncle, Phil. I make and edit all of the videos posted here. Our part-time employee, Brock, also helps with the filming. Occasionally I'll get my dad in a video as well. While I am the 4th generation in my family to farm some of what we are still farming today, I really credit my dad with making our farm what it is. 1980 was our first year in Waldron where our main farm is now. Since then we have grown the operation from just a couple hundred acres to over 3,000. Watch my 500th video for a history of our farm I filmed with my dad.
I started making these videos in the fall of 2019 as a way to help show what I do on a daily basis as a farmer. Agriculture is different from any other industry and I believe the more people that are showing their small piece of agriculture, helps to build our story. We face unique challenges and stressful situations but have some of the most rewarding payoffs in the end. I get to spend everyday doing what I love, raising my kids on the farm, and trying to push our farm to be better every year. I hope that I can address questions or concerns that you might have about farms and agriculture.
Please enjoy my content and ask questions as you have them. I do my best to answer anything I can. Thanks for watching!
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Always look forward to your videos, even though you think they aren’t very interesting, they show what a farmers day today live is like if they want a successful business. Keep them coming❤️❤️❤️👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I’m 52, and been in corn fields my entire life like you. I’ve never found a dry corn leaf in the morning, not ever.
Well you haven’t farmed in northeast Texas corns dry almost every morning it’s crazy how different farming is in different places
I maintain the athletic fields on a local parochial high school and we use two water reels, just much smaller than yours. I found the explanation of how yours works pretty interesting.
The effect of the sunlight hitting the droplets on the lens is very pretty BTW. :)
Can’t ask for a much prettier looking corn field Nathan, good job!
As normal great video and awesome drone shots. Keep up the great work.
Thanks Nathan for the drone pic's of the irrigation. It makes more sense to me now that I can see the areal view.
Very wonderful videos thank you
If your corn turns out as good as it looks in the drone shots, you're going to have a great yield this year.
Great drone footage again. Next you need an R/C car to run down those rows lol. Great video thanks again.
The irrigated field looks really really good. Your drone footage is spot on Nathan. 👍🏻
Great drone shots! Tempting fate a little bit at the end of the spray. 😊😊😊
In the Texas Panhandle we had 2 to 3.5" of rain. We are still irrigating putting on another inch. In 2 weeks our crops should be doing well. Our corn is silking, our cotton is blooming, Grain Sorghum is starting to boot. Next 2 weeks temps should be low 90's. Lows in low 60's. Amazing how things change when heading to the finish.
We put sulfur and nitrogen until September. Now it is in peek use. Look at Dr. Fred Below from University Illinois Ag Webinar
My lawn is getting a little dry, could I borrow your irrigation equipment? ;)
You should be proud of that corn.
Good show. Great drone shots of the irrigation. I thought for sure the water stream would take out the drone when it went through.
Great work 👍
Thanks for the videos. If I recall in a past video you indicated the FarmHQ system didn’t always connect to the cell tower. The FarmHQ system may function better with A 6” round or metal “ground plane” plate under the mag mount antenna. The antenna with plate should be as high as possible with direct line-of-site to the nearest cell tower.
Nice job on the drone video and the time lapses
Thanx Nathan another awesome video enjoyed the drone shots.
Great drone footage. Impressive looking corn. Dry here in NE South Dakota. 2.3 inches for June & July.
Awesome video
24:30 THAT WAS ALMOST TOOOO MUCH WET!!! LOL HAHAAHAHAHa awesome!
Getting creative with the camera work today 👍 Drone cottage was great as always
Can’t wait to see your Dad’s dirt work, it’s always interesting to see how you improve the fields
Great drone footage sir
Nathan that was really interesting when you showed the shot of the water making it down the stalk and watering the roots. Cool shot. Thanks
Great video irrigation field looks awesome love that Drone coverage keep Videos coming
I’m sure you’ve calculated how much the loss of plants caused by the paths that are cut for the Traveler reduce yield. I’m assuming that the increased yield from irrigation surpasses that. I was curious as to how much of a net gain there is.
I dont plant the lanes other than the center lane, so I'm saving the seed and N cost on most of the lanes. I have figured it's about 2.5% of the acres so I need a 2.5% increase in yield to make up for those acres, roughly 5 bushel.
Since there is already water in the river suction pipe, wouldn’t it be handy to be able to blow some of it the other way and keep the screen clear? Just a problem waiting on a solution.
What do the people that bale the straw sell it for landscaping, bedding, cattle feed,and is it sold local or shipped farther away?
Just to clarify, the guys with pivots can’t actually change the volume of water going through the pivot either, it’s all done with the speed of the pivot same as your traveler
Right but it's much lower pressure and watering a much larger area at a time
@@BorderViewFarms that’s true
Good morning to you as well. Thanks a bunch, your corn is looking really healthy. Do I know what you mean by smelly water after sitting in the pipes for a few days or weeks.
Hope you and the family have a great day.
The corn in your irrigated field...even as thick as you planted it, I'm seeing a lot of plants with 2 ears on them. Were you expecting that?
I think a lot of the is just on the edge row but no I wasn't.
At what point will you stop watering the corn to dry down for harvest? A month before harvest? A week?
The corn will use water until black layer. I'll probably water until 50% milk line which should be the middle of September.
How many extra bushel of corn do typically get from your irrigation field compared to non irrigation corn field?
Enjoy your videos all the time. You like to experiment with different things. I watch utube alot and run across one that was interesting. Gardener using def for fertilizer . Might be cheaper the regular fertilizer. I don't know. U are the one good with math.
I use my wife's sign in
The Breez
It's not cheaper. I could do the math but I'm probably not going to.
With this new 8R track tractor is there less compaction in the rows when planting or is it about the same .
How much water is the system designed to put on in inches? Really enjoy your videos.
Depends on the retrieval speed and pump size. I usually shoot for an inch.
Did you know that on those aluminum main line pipes there's two kinds of gaskets you can buy for those The kind you have are the ones that are engineered for draining each time it shut off so you can move them easilyThe other kind are non-drained backAnd they do not drain back each timeSo for you the non-drain back type would be better the water will stay in the line and you won't have to refill your line each time and it won't make such a muddy mess in your road
I did not know that. Thanks. Having some that don't drain in strategic places would keep my center lane drier
Love the drone footage! Out of Curiosity what kind of Drone do you use?
DJI Phantom 3 Advanced
@@BorderViewFarms Thank You!
What’s the kernel counts on the dry land compared to irrigated ?
Nice drone video.
Is it possible to connect the generator with the HQ box so it can turn off the generator when a run is done?
I'm sure it would be but I don't want to generator too shut down under load so would require some timers and make it a little complicated
Nathan if you put a riser on that pipe would it go farther out into the field? Carl
Did you ever get lost in the corn?
No not really. Just follow the rows you'll come to and end eventually
G’job Nathan, how far do they haul the chicken litter. Keep em comin bud🇺🇸
It's about 40 miles
Do you raise any corn that isn’t irrigated? Really enjoyed the drone footage.
90% of our corn isn't irrigated
I think it would be interesting to hear an update on the dry land corn when you get time. The irrigated corn is looking really good
Am i seeing this correctly, that the raccoon damage is only in the rows that are not perfectly straight? The swung ones around the edges? Could that be that the raccoons don't like to be in straight rows?
No they're just lazy and don't walk in past the end rows.
@@BorderViewFarms oh i see. :)
WS that a 4440 on the small bailer
4240 I think
I’m wondering why you haven’t invested in irrigation pivots yet? Looks like you’re losing a significant amount of yield to those access roads for the current irrigation system. I would think pivots would be less work also.
Do you have your part 107 remote pilot certificate?
Nathan what do you think the chances are that the irrigated field will do 300 bushel or average 300
Whole field average of 300, unlikely, my corn growers entries and significant portions of the field might be over 300.
there is more watering than farming on this channel haha
This was the first video with it in over 2 weeks
Does any of your corn go to food manufactures.. or is mostly for ethanol ?
Whoever wants to buy it. Some goes directly to an ethanol plant, some goes to local elevators who then sell it to livestock farms, ethanol plants or put it on boats for export.
Ow Wpw, iragation footage. No such thing as too much iragation footage!
corn is awfully tall. what about a riser on the gun? you may damage the corn now.
It just hits the tassels if the first 2 rows not really damaging it.
Bonjournice to meet you- guy.Yeah~this is stnuning - see you on my side.🥸