I have been involved in crop insurance since 1977 and was President of a crop insurance company for 12 years - and it is always amazing to see how quickly weather events and damage can occur. It was good to see you get moisture - and remain hopeful that your crop will recover. I appreciate your sharing of your experiences - and as others have stated - God Bless!
It appears that weather patterns may be changing. Crop insurance rates are based on 30 years experience. The events of the past 5 years appear to show a change in weather events and their severity and frequency. You have probably experienced an increase in your insurance rates as this impact crosses lines of insurance. We are in interesting times.
I think there might have been some crossed wires in people's prayers as everyone was praying really hard for rain and what you got was "hard" rain...... i.e. hail! Glad your crops are getting some moisture anyway 😊👍
I hope you can harvest to have your own food and clothes and all you need. I"m glad to still see a smile on your face. Admire that. That makes me feel good to. And great to see the kids have fun. God bless you all!
I'm praying you guys recover from the hail. It makes my heart ache for you and all the hard work you put into this. From rebuilding the buds. The spray truck. The seeders. All that work is not cheap.. prayers for a bountiful crop my brothers.
Sorry to see the hail mixed in with the rain. I have been praying for your farm to get rain. Hope the family and you had a wonderful time on vacation. Looked like the kids had a lot of fun. Take care - be safe and God Bless.
Thanks for another one of your videos. Interesting with the farm content. Thank you. First. Thanks for the family vacation video. Looks like all had a great time. Appreciate the way you do things with the kids. Good teacher. Glad you had a nice vacation. Ya!!!!! Then farming. Well, sometimes you are at a loss of words. BUT so appreciate your uplifting attitude even after two hailstorms. We can be thankful for the rain 🌧 moisture you got but the hail is hard on the positives. So sorry for the hail!!! But it appears not total destruction but rather a few paths so to speak. We always had that insurance thing also, darn it don’t and darn if you do. Having some insurance will definitely help. Those were some huge hail stones-wow. Thanks to you and Bob for driving us around to look at the crops. From what you said, yes damage to the crop but not as bad as originally thought. Glad about that. The drone footage and music was great. To me it reflected your Farms and farming in America and the positives in what you do in your life’s. The Welker family farm operation will continue and prosper in their home in America!!!!! Sending prayers for more moisture and less hail. God watch over all of you. You all take care and be safe. Looking forward to the next video. Always heartfelt thanks for all you do for us!!!’ The Iowa farm boy. Steve.
Nick , all these things He sends to try us are just designed to build us us into stronger people , I know you will bounce back , you always do . please keep your chin up and keep working , GOD BLESS YOU ALL MATE , .
I'm so sorry for you.😔 No let up at all. You are an inspiration as to how positive you remain; clearly faith keeps you going in the face of such travails. Good to see you enjoyed some lovely quality family time. Thanks for sharing that. I'll keep hoping and praying for y'all, keep forging ahead! 🙏🙏😎👍
Great to see you finally got some time away with the family. A real shame about the weather, I just went through the same up here today. Praying it works out! Take care and God bless Welker Farms!
God bless our farmers. The transition of the joy of a well earned family vacation to the heartbreak of a hailstorm and taking it all in with a sense of grace. Sadly too many Americans have no clue how fragile our food supply is and how much we depend on famers every minute of every day.to take the risks to put food on our tables. So few comprehend that our wonderful nation is 72 hours away from a total collapse if our food supply chain is interrupted.
I worked in Lewistown, Montana one summer while in College. I remember seeing freshly cut alfalfa hay beat by hail so hard it looked like it was bleached. Hope that moisture helps your crops.
I was driving through Amarillo, TX a few years ago. A few miles east I ran into a hail storm, almost golf ball sized. My station wagon ended up looking like a golf ball before I could find an overpass to hide under. Estimate, $2,000 to 2,500 for paintless dent removal. I decided that if the dimples help golf balls to fly through the air that I would just leave the dimples in my car. Did my mileage improve, maybe, I like to think so.
As soon as Nick said "We should keep some of these", out in the hail she went! "Sweetheart you're gonna get hit!" Reminds me of stuff my wife would do when i say the same things🤣 Hoping for a good harvest from Texas.
My wife is petrified of adverse weather. In Saskatchewan we don’t get tornadoes anywhere as big or as often as in Texas, but even just a chance of one and she is freaked out. I watched one go through dad’s wheat field just north of the yard when I was a kid back in ‘88. Mind you, I was safely looking through the basement window.
Sorry for the hail but I take great comfort in knowing that you all I have it figured out with the Lord. Appreciate your attitude. Coming from a disabled country boy who now has? The illness that’s been going around lol. God bless
''enuf to replant plus a lil bit to make a couple payments.....'' or words to that effect, ''AT LEAST.....'' ;) MAY ALL HARVESTS BE ABUNDANT AND BENNIFICIAL!!! :)
I’m so sorry, you guys have had enough bad luck lately for a lifetime. But you keep smiling and trying. Your amazing. Hoping for better luck for you from Alberta!
Wow you guys have live in a beautiful country. So different to here in the uk which is beautiful too. Hope the hail didn’t wipe out too much of your crop. Always look forward to your videos, you guys are old school, as in making and repairing you own kit, your a clever family and I wish you all the best with this and future harvests. Love to see how you guys do things over there it’s completely different to how it’s done over here. I’ve often wondered why you all have those steel bins for your grain? We have building as grain stores and load out to trucks with a telehandler. We also put tramlines in when we plant for spraying and fertilising so not to run the crop over. I find it amazing how short your growing window is for what you call canola (oil seed rape or osr over here) it’s being planted now right behind the combine for next years crop yet over there you plant in the spring. Keep up the great work educating people around the world the work farmers do. It’s so important for the public to know where there food comes from and the effort put in. God bless guys 👏🏻
I like the vacation video, and hate that you got all the hail need the rain but not hail. I’m glad that y’all have a positive attitude. I’m sure it’s hard sometimes. Great drone video. Stay safe and god bless
Oh man, what a tough year you’ve had. From drought to hail(again)it’s so sad esp w/ the markets & suspected wheat shortages. Praying that the damage isn’t as severe as last year.
What the hail!? Dad’s on it! God Bless Bob! 😏❤️ And all the rest of the Welker’s and our Farmers across America and Canada! Let them get the weather they need when they need it and please keep them all safe in Jesus Name!❤️🙏🏼❤️🇺🇸
I remember a crop of canola my grandfather had - the hail pulverized it so bad, only stubs were left. But after two weeks or so, the crop recovered and he got a decent crop...
Have been a crop insurance adjuster for over 25 years. Also a farmer Put out my 1st crop in 1964. God has always been with us. Have had very good years and also lean years. We have to trust Him. He is always with us. That is why “He Made Us On The 8th Day”. God Bless
I almost couldn’t give you a thumbs up for this episode because of the hail storm with all its destruction. It just didn’t seem right some how but then I realized it’s not all about the crop it’s about what brings you together as a family. So being said that I still hope and pray that you guys still have a decent harvest God Bless and I wish I could give you more than one thumbs up, Bless you all.
Hail seems to have somewhat of its own ebb and flow it seems. Some years, I get a couple quarters taken out followed by another couple quarters taken out when the next storm rolls through. Throw in a nearby tornado and then the anxiety really takes a hold. And some years, you just get those nice steady soaker rains and you almost forget what hail is. We’ve had a faitly hot summer in Saskatchewan this year so far. Usually, that means no rain but we’ve seem to be getting a lot of storms rolling through because of high humidity. I’ve been lucky and received no hail. Canola might have suffered some from heat during flowering, but the wheat, barley, oats and flax look quite good. I’ve been lucky enough to have cut and baled my hay with no rain in between. I’ve been wanting to do a few headland rounds on my barley and/or oats for greenfeed but I really don’t want rain on it once I cut it down. I think my window to start cutting is tomorrow. The rest of my barley and oats I’ll be combining.
Vacation home and lake side looks well set up now . Delighted ye get to use it and have so much fun . As for hail seems crazy .But those two ye picked up to freeze were fabulous looking. Is hail normal for this time of year ?
Grateful for hard working farmers like you that are working everyday to put food on America’s tables. Every child should have to study agriculture so they know their food doesn’t just magically appear at the grocery store.
Precipitation is always welcome come this time of year but in such a big size & form as that can be so dangerous & damaging to just about everything. Glad you got the rain & hoping you don't get anymore of that water in other forms later this year lol.
Appreciate your generosity Gregor. Always good to see your posts and thank you for being a small balance in that state or it would fall into the Pacific....😊
Nick, that's quite the pitching arm that your wife has there, throwing rocks in the river. I'm glad that you got some rain, too bad it happened to be a lot of hard water.
So sad to see that however like you say, hopefully the moisture benefit outweighs the damage from hail. I recall summer fallowing a 60 acre field just on the foothills of West butte on the other side of the line. After lunch I went back to the field to continue and heard the potential weather report of rain and large hail on the Shelby news. I got 3 or 4 rounds done and you could see the Hills being blanketed with cloud cover. It was out of normal to see the cloud cover roll down the side of West Butte, you just knew something wasn’t right and fear set in. Only 1/8 mile from the house and as I pulled up to the steps all hell broke loose. Tool stone bruised to my head and back and as I entered the inside porch, that’s when the hail broke through the windows, bounced off the floor, broke the oven glass, the opposing wall, every and anything in its path. The trees were bare, not a leaf on them, it looked like a war zone. 100% on every acre that year-84 I believe. It takes years to determine everything that was lost. Injector lines, yard lights. Tons of fencing staples displaced, lost animals. It was an NBC experience I still dream of from time to time. Thank God your Family was safe and tgat the crops look not too bad thus far. Sorry to see that Welker; best of luck.
Nick, we know the hail is bad for the roofs and equipment, BUT its water for the ground when it melts !! GOD is blessing yall with water.... in a round about way !
Wow I remember the hailstorm we got 30 some years ago we ended up with 6 inches on the ground all about 1 inch in diameter well insured so never got the combine out of the shed
We got absolutely hammered down here in Idaho. We had baseball size hail Wallowa Oregon got it really bad as well destroyed homes vehicles everything the amount of destruction from the hail was nothing I have ever seen in the 39 year's I've been alive. I know there's folks all over the country that see this regularly but we don't see stuff like that here in Idaho. We are only about 5 hrs south west from you guy's.
Nick, would it be good to seed some of those unused acres with winter wheat? Thinking it could take advantage of the current rainfall and the winter snow. I know it would interrupt the spraying with harvest. In Michigan they plant a lot of winter wheat and then bail the stalks after harvesting the grain.
🇺🇸 Glad you had a good vacation other than hearing about the 1st hail storm in the middle! Its not funny but I'm glad you still seem have a sense of humor, I know you can lean your faith 🙏. This is probably really old in your neck of the woods but I'm glad to see you finally got some real 'solid' moisture out there 😪👍🙏🙏
Question for you guys. In corn and soybeans getting alittle bit of hail (10 to 20% damage) can actually help the yield in the fall by stressing the plant slightly. Does that work with wheat and other pulse crops? Also its awesome to see you guys finally getting some rain. God has a strange way of providing what we need when things are hard.
Was out chasing the storms, since there was a chance of a tornado. Got caught in 2-2.5" stuff trying to get on the backside of the storm, as radar showed rotation. Few more beauty marks in the ol' Dodge.
All you need is several more inches of moisture and winter wheat may have a good start . Then there is hope for a big crop without hail and better price is also a hope! Farming is mostly hope.
That hail looks nasty. Could have been worse but still, it is bad enough. Hoping for good yields and great fields. No damage and great moisture content. Thanks for showing us all this.
One thing I enjoy is watching the thunder storms here in ND. Just don't like it when the great white harvester comes with it. My prayers are with you folks.
God bless the Montana farmers. It’s almost not worth farming anymore. You have the high input costs and now the storm damages along with anything and everything to do with farming has gone up. It’s hard to plan ahead with that one pay check a year with the bad weather including the drought you guys have had. Wow is all I can say.
Looks like great family time on vacation, your kids are just adorable & a blessing! I've been praying for gentle rain that lasts a day or two for you. We could use some on our crops (Central Indiana) as well as many fields across the country. Farming is not for the faint of heart! Enjoyed the drone footage, your editor does a fantastic job on editing also. Enjoy your family, harvest will be here before we know it. God's blessings on the Welker family.
I could tell by your face this is a tough one, it hurts and we hurt with you all. Look to our God son He is ready and willing in a time of need. Admire how you kept your cool. Some would have blamed someone for this. But we know we can only thank Him for his mercies. They are new every morning.
YT search Red Deer Hailstorm if you want to see how big hail can be in Canada and the damage it can do. A big storm hit Red Deer Alberta last week that had people fearing for their lives
I have been involved in crop insurance since 1977 and was President of a crop insurance company for 12 years - and it is always amazing to see how quickly weather events and damage can occur. It was good to see you get moisture - and remain hopeful that your crop will recover. I appreciate your sharing of your experiences - and as others have stated - God Bless!
Hope you have a wonderful harvest and your farms will recover
The climate isn't getting any better, Dennis seems like he's in a good place to make profit off it.
@@enjoythevibez5605 good for Denis. I hope he makes a great living doing his job.
Did you see any pattern or cycle in weather storms that were demaging or is it totally random? Br
It appears that weather patterns may be changing. Crop insurance rates are based on 30 years experience. The events of the past 5 years appear to show a change in weather events and their severity and frequency. You have probably experienced an increase in your insurance rates as this impact crosses lines of insurance. We are in interesting times.
I think there might have been some crossed wires in people's prayers as everyone was praying really hard for rain and what you got was "hard" rain...... i.e. hail! Glad your crops are getting some moisture anyway 😊👍
I hope you can harvest to have your own food and clothes and all you need. I"m glad to still see a smile on your face. Admire that. That makes me feel good to. And great to see the kids have fun. God bless you all!
I'm praying you guys recover from the hail. It makes my heart ache for you and all the hard work you put into this. From rebuilding the buds. The spray truck. The seeders. All that work is not cheap.. prayers for a bountiful crop my brothers.
Sorry to see the hail mixed in with the rain. I have been praying for your farm to get rain. Hope the family and you had a wonderful time on vacation. Looked like the kids had a lot of fun. Take care - be safe and God Bless.
I certainly hope your crops will recover. Last year was bad enough, you need a few good years now. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for another one of your videos. Interesting with the farm content. Thank you.
First. Thanks for the family vacation video. Looks like all had a great time. Appreciate the way you do things with the kids. Good teacher.
Glad you had a nice vacation. Ya!!!!!
Then farming. Well, sometimes you are at a loss of words. BUT so appreciate your uplifting attitude even after two hailstorms.
We can be thankful for the rain 🌧 moisture you got but the hail is hard on the positives. So sorry for the hail!!! But it appears not total destruction but rather a few paths so to speak. We always had that insurance thing also, darn it don’t and darn if you do. Having some insurance will definitely help.
Those were some huge hail stones-wow.
Thanks to you and Bob for driving us around to look at the crops. From what you said, yes damage to the crop but not as bad as originally thought. Glad about that.
The drone footage and music was great. To me it reflected your Farms and farming in America and the positives in what you do in your life’s.
The Welker family farm operation will continue and prosper in their home in America!!!!!
Sending prayers for more moisture and less hail. God watch over all of you.
You all take care and be safe.
Looking forward to the next video.
Always heartfelt thanks for all you do for us!!!’
The Iowa farm boy.
Steve.
Nick , all these things He sends to try us are just designed to build us us into stronger people ,
I know you will bounce back , you always do .
please keep your chin up and keep working ,
GOD BLESS YOU ALL MATE , .
Glad you got some rain but too hail with the other stuff!!!
I'm so sorry for you.😔 No let up at all. You are an inspiration as to how positive you remain; clearly faith keeps you going in the face of such travails.
Good to see you enjoyed some lovely quality family time. Thanks for sharing that.
I'll keep hoping and praying for y'all, keep forging ahead! 🙏🙏😎👍
Great to see you finally got some time away with the family. A real shame about the weather, I just went through the same up here today. Praying it works out! Take care and God bless Welker Farms!
God bless our farmers. The transition of the joy of a well earned family vacation to the heartbreak of a hailstorm and taking it all in with a sense of grace. Sadly too many Americans have no clue how fragile our food supply is and how much we depend on famers every minute of every day.to take the risks to put food on our tables. So few comprehend that our wonderful nation is 72 hours away from a total collapse if our food supply chain is interrupted.
Hail is a hard way to get moisture! Still, like you say, ANY moisture is (almost) better'n' NO moisture" ....... always enjoy your videos Nick!
I worked in Lewistown, Montana one summer while in College. I remember seeing freshly cut alfalfa hay beat by hail so hard it looked like it was bleached. Hope that moisture helps your crops.
Just amazing how you folks stay upbeat during that. God Bless.
Lost our crops to hail when I was a kid. Put up the whole crop in farmhand stacks and fed it to cattle
LOVE watching family Vacation videos
I love how y’all stay positive. Prayers for big yields. Positivity can really be tested in life. Keep it up fellas!
I was driving through Amarillo, TX a few years ago. A few miles east I ran into a hail storm, almost golf ball sized. My station wagon ended up looking like a golf ball before I could find an overpass to hide under. Estimate, $2,000 to 2,500 for paintless dent removal. I decided that if the dimples help golf balls to fly through the air that I would just leave the dimples in my car. Did my mileage improve, maybe, I like to think so.
Awwwww hail. We need some moisture here in south Texas. Everything down here is catching on fire. God bless. Can’t wait till harvest comes
As soon as Nick said "We should keep some of these", out in the hail she went! "Sweetheart you're gonna get hit!" Reminds me of stuff my wife would do when i say the same things🤣
Hoping for a good harvest from Texas.
My wife is petrified of adverse weather. In Saskatchewan we don’t get tornadoes anywhere as big or as often as in Texas, but even just a chance of one and she is freaked out. I watched one go through dad’s wheat field just north of the yard when I was a kid back in ‘88. Mind you, I was safely looking through the basement window.
She's pretty great!
Sorry for the hail but I take great comfort in knowing that you all I have it figured out with the Lord. Appreciate your attitude. Coming from a disabled country boy who now has? The illness that’s been going around lol. God bless
Thanks!
Just saw this, thanks @edschmidtfishing!
Brother prayers that you didn't get hit to hard on your crops. Prayers for a quick recovery.
greetings from Poland great movie, we finished the corn harvest
Prayers for you and family safety. and hope you get a good crop. love the new bins
Hope there are still some crop left to fill that new shiny Westeel bin! Praying for good weather until harvest 🙏 God bless the whole family!
''enuf to replant plus a lil bit
to make a couple payments.....''
or words to that effect,
''AT LEAST.....'' ;)
MAY ALL HARVESTS BE ABUNDANT AND BENNIFICIAL!!! :)
Use to hate checking crops after storms. This brought back lots of memories.
Family, great pictures. It is why you do it all. I hope your crops were helped by the rain and to much damage from the hail.
Vacation looked fun!! God bless you folks!!!🙏
I’m so sorry, you guys have had enough bad luck lately for a lifetime. But you keep smiling and trying. Your amazing. Hoping for better luck for you from Alberta!
Dang it..... weather across the planet just aint been right! Stay safe folks, we may keep getting these surprise storms!
Wow you guys have live in a beautiful country. So different to here in the uk which is beautiful too. Hope the hail didn’t wipe out too much of your crop. Always look forward to your videos, you guys are old school, as in making and repairing you own kit, your a clever family and I wish you all the best with this and future harvests. Love to see how you guys do things over there it’s completely different to how it’s done over here. I’ve often wondered why you all have those steel bins for your grain? We have building as grain stores and load out to trucks with a telehandler. We also put tramlines in when we plant for spraying and fertilising so not to run the crop over. I find it amazing how short your growing window is for what you call canola (oil seed rape or osr over here) it’s being planted now right behind the combine for next years crop yet over there you plant in the spring. Keep up the great work educating people around the world the work farmers do. It’s so important for the public to know where there food comes from and the effort put in. God bless guys 👏🏻
sorry to see this ... we still need rain in Texas, no hail though.
So sorry you have to deal with the hail damage. We appreciate your positive attitude, and pray for a great harvest in spite of the damage. Blessings.
I like the vacation video, and hate that you got all the hail need the rain but not hail. I’m glad that y’all have a positive attitude. I’m sure it’s hard sometimes. Great drone video. Stay safe and god bless
Oh man, what a tough year you’ve had. From drought to hail(again)it’s so sad esp w/ the markets & suspected wheat shortages. Praying that the damage isn’t as severe as last year.
God bless you all, we have had hail several times. Hail to the chief 🙌 for keeping a good attitude
Hallo, ganz liebe Grüße aus Strausberg/Deutschland 🇩🇪
Vielen Dank für die vielen schönen Videos😁😁
That's one thing us Farmers don't like seeing a hail storm it can wipe out a crop of potatoes or any crop. Praying for you guys god bless
Love to all farmers, things have been very hard on them. Bless the Welkers!!
Great drone footage! Sorry you were pelted with hailstones...twice
What the hail!? Dad’s on it! God Bless Bob! 😏❤️ And all the rest of the Welker’s and our Farmers across America and Canada! Let them get the weather they need when they need it and please keep them all safe in Jesus Name!❤️🙏🏼❤️🇺🇸
I remember a crop of canola my grandfather had - the hail pulverized it so bad, only stubs were left. But after two weeks or so, the crop recovered and he got a decent crop...
Have been a crop insurance adjuster for over 25 years. Also a farmer Put out my 1st crop in 1964. God has always been with us. Have had very good years and also lean years. We have to trust Him. He is always with us. That is why “He Made Us On The 8th Day”. God Bless
I almost couldn’t give you a thumbs up for this episode because of the hail storm with all its destruction. It just didn’t seem right some how but then I realized it’s not all about the crop it’s about what brings you together as a family. So being said that I still hope and pray that you guys still have a decent harvest God Bless and I wish I could give you more than one thumbs up, Bless you all.
Hail seems to have somewhat of its own ebb and flow it seems. Some years, I get a couple quarters taken out followed by another couple quarters taken out when the next storm rolls through. Throw in a nearby tornado and then the anxiety really takes a hold. And some years, you just get those nice steady soaker rains and you almost forget what hail is. We’ve had a faitly hot summer in Saskatchewan this year so far. Usually, that means no rain but we’ve seem to be getting a lot of storms rolling through because of high humidity. I’ve been lucky and received no hail. Canola might have suffered some from heat during flowering, but the wheat, barley, oats and flax look quite good. I’ve been lucky enough to have cut and baled my hay with no rain in between. I’ve been wanting to do a few headland rounds on my barley and/or oats for greenfeed but I really don’t want rain on it once I cut it down. I think my window to start cutting is tomorrow. The rest of my barley and oats I’ll be combining.
Sad to see the hail. Still hope all new bins get filled this year.
Vacation home and lake side looks well set up now . Delighted ye get to use it and have so much fun .
As for hail seems crazy .But those two ye picked up to freeze were fabulous looking. Is hail normal for this time of year ?
You seem to go from one extreme to another ! Very best of luck that you can get the best outcome possible from your harvest 🙏
Great video. So sorry about the hail. Good luck on the hail NOT hurting too much of the crops
So glad to see you get some much needed rain. Loved the video at the lake!!
Grateful for hard working farmers like you that are working everyday to put food on America’s tables. Every child should have to study agriculture so they know their food doesn’t just magically appear at the grocery store.
Youall Did a great job on the Lake house!!! So much fun There!!
Wonderful vacation footage , nick did you get up on skis , water good hail not so much . Hang in there ! God bless
Sending some Prayers your way!! First so dry, now hail.. what's next?
You farmers out west are getting hammered by the weather. No rain then tornadoes and then hail. Prayers for you all.
I love how for vacation y'all go even more out in the middle of nowhere . 😉
Hey nick I’m down in Oklahoma, I couldn’t afford hail insurance this year so I am very thankful that you have kept it all up there this year!
Welker Farms didn't have hail insurance in the first round of hail either. It wasn't initially worth it on a droughted out crop.
Just God bless you and keep that(stuff ) over there!! I farm in North Dakota.
Precipitation is always welcome come this time of year but in such a big size & form as that can be so dangerous & damaging to just about everything. Glad you got the rain & hoping you don't get anymore of that water in other forms later this year lol.
Thank-you for listening to my BS and puttin' up with me all these years Mr Nick. Did i mention i still live in Unicornia? Now ya know why.
Appreciate your generosity Gregor. Always good to see your posts and thank you for being a small balance in that state or it would fall into the Pacific....😊
@@RobertWelkerFarmerBob Haha....I needed that laugh :)
Going Old School on the two skis!! Nice.
Nick, that's quite the pitching arm that your wife has there, throwing rocks in the river. I'm glad that you got some rain, too bad it happened to be a lot of hard water.
It's kind of having the good and the bad at the same time,hopefully the crops will recover and give you a good harvest. Good luck!
👍🚜👍 great video ,, always amazed at the wide open spaces..
So sad to see that however like you say, hopefully the moisture benefit outweighs the damage from hail.
I recall summer fallowing a 60 acre field just on the foothills of West butte on the other side of the line. After lunch I went back to the field to continue and heard the potential weather report of rain and large hail on the Shelby news.
I got 3 or 4 rounds done and you could see the Hills being blanketed with cloud cover. It was out of normal to see the cloud cover roll down the side of West Butte, you just knew something wasn’t right and fear set in. Only 1/8 mile from the house and as I pulled up to the steps all hell broke loose. Tool stone bruised to my head and back and as I entered the inside porch, that’s when the hail broke through the windows, bounced off the floor, broke the oven glass, the opposing wall, every and anything in its path. The trees were bare, not a leaf on them, it looked like a war zone.
100% on every acre that year-84 I believe. It takes years to determine everything that was lost. Injector lines, yard lights. Tons of fencing staples displaced, lost animals. It was an NBC experience I still dream of from time to time.
Thank God your Family was safe and tgat the crops look not too bad thus far.
Sorry to see that Welker; best of luck.
Nick, we know the hail is bad for the roofs and equipment, BUT its water for the ground when it melts !! GOD is blessing yall with water.... in a round about way !
I’m always awed by the drone footage of the expanse of sky and prairie around your farm.
Wow I remember the hailstorm we got 30 some years ago we ended up with 6 inches on the ground all about 1 inch in diameter well insured so never got the combine out of the shed
We got absolutely hammered down here in Idaho. We had baseball size hail Wallowa Oregon got it really bad as well destroyed homes vehicles everything the amount of destruction from the hail was nothing I have ever seen in the 39 year's I've been alive. I know there's folks all over the country that see this regularly but we don't see stuff like that here in Idaho. We are only about 5 hrs south west from you guy's.
Prayers continue,God bless you all as well
Nick, would it be good to seed some of those unused acres with winter wheat? Thinking it could take advantage of the current rainfall and the winter snow. I know it would interrupt the spraying with harvest. In Michigan they plant a lot of winter wheat and then bail the stalks after harvesting the grain.
Thanks for sharing all the things you do! Big Sky
Beautiful country just as equally tough all the best.
Another great video. It's always refreshing watching your videos.
Did I see some standing water on the Welker Farm!!? Hope the moisture gives you some successful crops. Vacation looked like a lot of fun!
Thanks for the awesome video’s.
Nothing much to say really, you guys really bare the brunt of weather, good luck boys.
One area where I live had baseball sized and another area tennis ball sized hail in the last 2 months or so
🇺🇸 Glad you had a good vacation other than hearing about the 1st hail storm in the middle! Its not funny but I'm glad you still seem have a sense of humor, I know you can lean your faith 🙏. This is probably really old in your neck of the woods but I'm glad to see you finally got some real 'solid' moisture out there 😪👍🙏🙏
At least some moisture! Looked like fun vacation too
Being a Mew Yorker who has lived in Alabama and Texas, when I see big hail like that, I start looking for tornados. I Hate tornadoes.
Question for you guys. In corn and soybeans getting alittle bit of hail (10 to 20% damage) can actually help the yield in the fall by stressing the plant slightly. Does that work with wheat and other pulse crops?
Also its awesome to see you guys finally getting some rain. God has a strange way of providing what we need when things are hard.
No it doesn't since it's a short life crop. No growing time or water or cool weather to regrow.
@@RobertWelkerFarmerBob good information to know. Thank Rob!
Was out chasing the storms, since there was a chance of a tornado. Got caught in 2-2.5" stuff trying to get on the backside of the storm, as radar showed rotation. Few more beauty marks in the ol' Dodge.
At least it's wet God Bless ⛈🌧 🙏👀👍...Shoe🇺🇸
All you need is several more inches of moisture and winter wheat may have a good start . Then there is hope for a big crop without hail and better price is also a hope! Farming is mostly hope.
One way to look at the small hail is that it melts slow and soaks into the ground where as a heavy rain tends to run off before it soaks in.
That hail looks nasty. Could have been worse but still, it is bad enough. Hoping for good yields and great fields. No damage and great moisture content. Thanks for showing us all this.
One thing I enjoy is watching the thunder storms here in ND. Just don't like it when the great white harvester comes with it. My prayers are with you folks.
Wow awesome video...Thanks for posting the fun.
We need moisture: though preferably not in its solid, hard form. Very glad that the damage appears to be minimal.
God bless the Montana farmers. It’s almost not worth farming anymore. You have the high input costs and now the storm damages along with anything and everything to do with farming has gone up. It’s hard to plan ahead with that one pay check a year with the bad weather including the drought you guys have had. Wow is all I can say.
This is a season we're going through. Testing our faith that better times sre head. It could be worse.
Looks like great family time on vacation, your kids are just adorable & a blessing!
I've been praying for gentle rain that lasts a day or two for you. We could use some on our crops (Central Indiana) as well as many fields across the country. Farming is not for the faint of heart! Enjoyed the drone footage, your editor does a fantastic job on editing also. Enjoy your family, harvest will be here before we know it. God's blessings on the Welker family.
I feel so bad for you hugs. We've had more rain so far this year than we could ever want
We need rain real bad in western Idaho. Great video
I could tell by your face this is a tough one, it hurts and we hurt with you all. Look to our God son He is ready and willing in a time of need.
Admire how you kept your cool. Some would have blamed someone for this. But we know we can only thank Him for his mercies. They are new every morning.
Watching Welker farms playing Welker farms map on farm sim. What a life I live
I've been in your shoes seeing my crops getting hailed, but all farmers are the eternal optimists. God will provide!!
Those ice chunk are huge😳 We just got pea size+, maybe uppwards of 3/4" size hail here in norway, never heard of crops damaged by hail🤔
YT search Red Deer Hailstorm if you want to see how big hail can be in Canada and the damage it can do. A big storm hit Red Deer Alberta last week that had people fearing for their lives