Laura, I wave every time I go by. I am the guy who frequently has a canoe on the roof of my F150 headed to or from the Green or Colorado Rivers. "This is great. This is wonderful." Eau de Skunk. I have one that likes my house and visits every couple of weeks,, eye watering.
They are harvesting cotton in my home state of Alabama. When I was a kid, 70 plus years ago, we harvested cotton by hand; pulling a seven or nine foot long sack behind us to stuff the cotton into as we pulled the locks off the boll. A very lengthy back breaking endeavor. The average amount of cotton that a good man could pick in a day would weigh about 210 to 250 pounds and a fully ginned bale of cotton would weigh about 500 pounds. The un-baled cotton would be about 1500 pounds give or take. Things are a lot different now with new technology and machinery.💪
My dad was born and raised in Tx. and had to also work in the cotton fields, He told me stories about an old woman that was a migrant worker and followed the crops. He said she rode/drove an old buckboard pulled by a mule. He also told me she played the harmonica, and he said she also always had a cheek full of Tabacco. Now, his story went on to say that she taught my dad to play (her) harp, harmonica but he would have to pick out the pieces of tobacco first. Dad was born in1922, so he was around 7 or 8 when he was in the fields and with this old woman. My brother and I, yrs later also picked up the harmonica and learn to play, but not like dad could. He could play the blues like nobody business!!
Been watching your videos for ages, but it just remains special what sort of fancy equipment there is. Designed to harvest at this scale. Imagine having to harvest that by hand 😮
I like the smell of skunk. Grew up in the city, grandparents lived in the country. When we smelled skunk we knew we were getting close to grandma's love, kisses, and homemade donuts! Now when I smell skunk I get sentimental.
I appreciate all the knowledge. I am 59, from GI and live in Lincoln. Your videos taught me about an industry I grew up near, but not actually a part of (save for detasseling 3 summers in the 70s, Peterson Farms). I never knew you blew off the stubble from the previous previous day. It makes sense, but not if you don't think about it. Thanks again for teaching those of us not involved in farming what exactly that industry entails.
Really enjoyed watching the video. I'm from England here harvest 2024 is finished which has been difficult due to the bad weather we had. Nice to see women in agriculture good luck for your corn harvest
You should put a 50 ft air hose in your trucks side box with a glad hand on one end and a quick connect on the other. Now you can use your trailer air brake service line (120 psi) to air up tires, use air tools in the field and use blow gun to clean off equipment.
Ditto! Great job with the Drone footage and the editing is as professional as anything else on TV. Very satisfying and Zen Harvest! Happy Harvest Moon Laura, Grant, & Gage!
As much as I love pheasant hunting and the beautiful Nebraska countryside. You have to take It's seriously on how rugged and abrasive it can really be. I'm so not surprised that the cutting tines need to be replaced often. And oh yeah man I know how tough that Nebraska country can be! Especially on CRP land. There are so many stalks brambles, breyers and thistles that are absolutely clothing shredding. When we go hunting we wear heavy duty Filson tin cloth clothing which is very thick denim soaked in paraffin. Even wearing just a regular pair of jeans they get permanently impregnated with all kinds of thorns thistles and burrs. And don't get me started with the goat heads! If there ever was an evil weed, that would be it!
Almost sayng goodbye to 2023 growing year. Will miss the planting, fertilization and harvest, but with the end comes next year if we're all here. Love this channel and mouser Pepper.
Laura, and Grant, I was wondering if the weeds are the most troublesome for clogging-up the head! I hope your yield is up this season. Next onto your biggest crop. Love to you all from Mike. ❤
I worked on a custom harvesting crew in 1988. We used to load trucks alongside the combine as they were cutting. As like g as you didn’t try to shift gears, it went pretty well.
Great video, it's so heartwarming to see such hard working young people, and then add Laura's Beauty to the mix, awesome to watch. Lots of love from pa ❤❤❤
Hello Laura and team, congratulations on the wonderful work you do. I watch all your videos and I find it very interesting how you solve problems, always with willingness, joy and you always have your wonderful smile; many times I have a bad day and when I get home I run to see if there is a new video, because when I watch your videos I feel an indescribable peace and my problems disappear like magic. A big hug from a subscriber from Brazil.
I must say, this is professional quality work. I am so impressed and proud of how far you have come with your videos. This is ready for the history channel or some equivalent venue.
A little financial breakdown request... I noticed bean and corn price per bushel are down quite a bit compared to last year (beans are at 9.70 today, down from last year's 14.10 and corn is at 3.73 as of today, down from last year's 4.92). How are you all dealing or going to deal with that? It would be super cool to see a chart of sorts, breaking down costs associated to planning, purchasing, planting, the maintaining of crops, land, equipment, etc... and harvest. A little biz refresher of sorts, and perhaps a path one might take to maximize income on harvest when the market doesn't cooperate. How do good farmers navigate that ballot of supply and demand? Great vid!
I don't know anything but what I've learned watching Laura and her Dad farm soy beans and corn on TH-cam. I don't remember whether the Wilson farm (Grant's family) has a bin site, but if you watch LEAAD Farms, you'll see that the Carlsons (Laura's family) have a bin site on the farm. For those having their own bin site, in addition to allowing the ability to dry the crop, in case circumstances (like weather, etc) require that they harvest it with higher than sale-able moisture content, they also have the capacity to save back part of the crop on-site, and hope (bet) that the price goes up within the coming year. Depending upon how much capacity is in-use, they can even loan (or rent?) capacity to their neighbors. I'm guessing that there might be commercially available elevator space in the case they want to get the crop off the farm, but REALLY don't want to sell it yet.
As for the skunk smell - when I was in high school I was helping my dad lay out some irrigation pipe, and as we were loading the pipe onto the trailer so we can lay it out on the field, there was a skunk that had made a home in one of the pipes, and it was not happy at all for disturbing it. While we didn't get a direct spray, I had caught a whiff, causing me to dry heave. To this day whenever I get a faint smell of a skunk when driving by an area, I get flashbacks and become a bit ill. 🤢
I think the last time I noticed that hair do the star was Marge ? Hope you finish with harvest so you can take time to go to visit a beautician. Love you just the same and thanks for the ride in the combine.
Grant, when did you last adj your brakes? A bad way to test brakes is to see if the tractor will move with the parking brake on, then try the trailer brakes with the parking brake released and the handbrake pulled back. It beats nothing. I know you don't do steep grades so they don't need adjusting often. But it nice to know you can stop fast when needed.
When working around the sickle you should ware groves when breaking the bolting lose. One slip of the wrench your finger may come off. Good pair of guard groves keeps your finger on. Experience is always better than having a finger missing. Grew up on a farm, saw examples.
Hi Laura and Grant. The drone footage is beautiful. Did you get the new software for auto link for combine and tractor. Will you fabricate a new boom for your hagie. Something like You have on your tele handler with the extendable boom.
Have you considered swathing the crop before combining in order to let the green stems and leaves on the soybeans dry out in your lower fields? You would need a pick up header on your combine and a swather but it would allow you to get your crop off a week sooner and it would solve the green leaf/stem/beam problem.
CHET LARSON said .... 19:27 about that rock trap area... 1 there is a bolt you gotta pull out first to get that second handle to open, and 2 check the CORNERS OF THE ROCK TRAP DOOR FOR RUSTYWEAR that leves CORNERS openings in stuff that spoos3ed to be sealed... that was I think in yesserdays vid? or the day before? it was VERY RESENT
I know without irrigation the crops would really suffer. So, my question is what do you figure it costs per acre to irrigate? Love the videos have a safe and prosperous harvest.
Hello Laura, just curious why you don’t upgrade to a 45 foot bean head? With as popular as your channel is, I would think you would be able to get a sponsorship that would let you try a larger head and show your audience what it can do ? Love your channel, hope you have a Great harvest this year!
If you ever tire of farming consider being a teacher. Your explanations and content coverage are classroom quality. Grade school and middle school kids in some areas might find your farming explanations fascinating, and give them a clue where some of their food comes from. Not just the harvesting but also how to methodically overcome problems. Grant has a good on air voice too.
When you check your pivot power units take a weed eater with you in the morning when it’s cool and trim around the wells it is very easy to trip and FALL
Laura, I wave every time I go by. I am the guy who frequently has a canoe on the roof of my F150 headed to or from the Green or Colorado Rivers. "This is great. This is wonderful." Eau de Skunk. I have one that likes my house and visits every couple of weeks,, eye watering.
Congratulations on finishing bean harvest.
They are harvesting cotton in my home state of Alabama. When I was a kid, 70 plus years ago, we harvested cotton by hand; pulling a seven or nine foot long sack behind us to stuff the cotton into as we pulled the locks off the boll. A very lengthy back breaking endeavor. The average amount of cotton that a good man could pick in a day would weigh about 210 to 250 pounds and a fully ginned bale of cotton would weigh about 500 pounds. The un-baled cotton would be about 1500 pounds give or take. Things are a lot different now with new technology and machinery.💪
@@harolderwin5354 that sounds tough as nails like the people who did the work- tough as nails!!
My dad was born and raised in Tx. and had to also work in the cotton fields, He told me stories about an old woman that was a migrant worker and followed the crops. He said she rode/drove an old buckboard pulled by a mule. He also told me she played the harmonica, and he said she also always had a cheek full of Tabacco. Now, his story went on to say that she taught my dad to play (her) harp, harmonica but he would have to pick out the pieces of tobacco first. Dad was born in1922, so he was around 7 or 8 when he was in the fields and with this old woman. My brother and I, yrs later also picked up the harmonica and learn to play, but not like dad could. He could play the blues like nobody business!!
Laura is one tough country girl. So happy to see women in farming. Never thought I would see that at my age. God Bless 🙏
Been watching your videos for ages, but it just remains special what sort of fancy equipment there is. Designed to harvest at this scale. Imagine having to harvest that by hand 😮
There is something so relaxing watching harvest equipment rolling.
So satisfying looking at the drone shots 👍🏻🤩
I like the smell of skunk. Grew up in the city, grandparents lived in the country. When we smelled skunk we knew we were getting close to grandma's love, kisses, and homemade donuts! Now when I smell skunk I get sentimental.
We're ready to do corn now !! It'll be so much fun to see that corn disappear into the combine !!!!😊
I appreciate all the knowledge. I am 59, from GI and live in Lincoln. Your videos taught me about an industry I grew up near, but not actually a part of (save for detasseling 3 summers in the 70s, Peterson Farms). I never knew you blew off the stubble from the previous previous day. It makes sense, but not if you don't think about it.
Thanks again for teaching those of us not involved in farming what exactly that industry entails.
Really enjoyed watching the video. I'm from England here harvest 2024 is finished which has been difficult due to the bad weather we had. Nice to see women in agriculture good luck for your corn harvest
You should put a 50 ft air hose in your trucks side box with a glad hand on one end and a quick connect on the other.
Now you can use your trailer air brake service line (120 psi) to air up tires, use air tools in the field and use blow gun to clean off equipment.
Looking good, Laura!
Thanks for sharing your life and taking us along for the ride!
Love the channel content!!
The production quality is getting really good with the drones, music, scene cuts and audio. Well done!
Amazing what they do with just a phone too 👍🏻🤩🤔
Ditto! Great job with the Drone footage and the editing is as professional as anything else on TV.
Very satisfying and Zen Harvest!
Happy Harvest Moon Laura, Grant, & Gage!
it's taking away from the genuineness of the videos
Looking good, Laura!
Thanks for sharing your life and taking us along for the ride!
Love the channel content!!
Goo Team!!😊
You look flawless, can’t get enough.
weird bot
As much as I love pheasant hunting and the beautiful Nebraska countryside. You have to take It's seriously on how rugged and abrasive it can really be. I'm so not surprised that the cutting tines need to be replaced often.
And oh yeah man I know how tough that Nebraska country can be! Especially on CRP land. There are so many stalks brambles, breyers and thistles that are absolutely clothing shredding. When we go hunting we wear heavy duty Filson tin cloth clothing which is very thick denim soaked in paraffin. Even wearing just a regular pair of jeans they get permanently impregnated with all kinds of thorns thistles and burrs. And don't get me started with the goat heads! If there ever was an evil weed, that would be it!
It has to feel good to be done with the beans. My cousin has 100 acres to go. So he is excited to be finishing up. Have a great day!😊
Almost sayng goodbye to 2023 growing year. Will miss the planting, fertilization and harvest, but with the end comes next year if we're all here. Love this channel and mouser Pepper.
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I know u guys will be glad when those crops are in!!!!!
Was the skunk sleeping when Grant came across it? If not, it might be rabid. Skunks are nocturnal and if you see one in the daytime, that's a sign.
Such a beautiful smart and wonderful creator. Great videos as always Laura
Great job on the drone footage!
Love harvest videos, so mesmerizing.
Watching your channel is like a celebration every time you post a new video. Continue to delight us with your fun and energizing content!👀⚡️🌌
I hope you had an excellent crop this year, can't say enough about the respect I have for farmers.
I really enjoy that it's just like one big lawn mower🙄😳😁
I am ready for Corn. I am a big fan of Corn.
Great content as usual plus the drone footage! Looking forward to the corn harvest as well!
Laura, and Grant, I was wondering if the weeds are the most troublesome for clogging-up the head! I hope your yield is up this season. Next onto your biggest crop.
Love to you all from Mike. ❤
Awesome video Laura
You should do that when done for the day when you are dirty an grease when bearings are warm from running so they take grease better
I thought you had all of your corn harvested but I saw some standing. 😱😎✌️
I live in farm country in upstate New York. I love this stuff and have learned a lot.😊
Wow. Nice job. I can tell by all three’s tone of voice that you get along well and work well as a team. This is interesting to watch.
I waved as I drove by while you were doing this. The combine was on the south end of the field so I'm sure you couldn't see me in the west bound lane.
I worked on a custom harvesting crew in 1988. We used to load trucks alongside the combine as they were cutting. As like g as you didn’t try to shift gears, it went pretty well.
Farming and teaching for the masses. Good job
Thank you for your videos, quite the education.
I learned a lot about farming from you Laura. I like learning new things on a daily basis. You are just great sweetie!!!!! Have a great day!!!!! 🙂🙃🙂
Great video, it's so heartwarming to see such hard working young people, and then add Laura's Beauty to the mix, awesome to watch. Lots of love from pa ❤❤❤
Maintenance always keeps you moving. To many businesses don't do it and have breakdowns when they least need it.
Your channel is a place where quality always comes first. Thank you for your talent and professionalism!👡🦓💝
Hello Laura and team, congratulations on the wonderful work you do. I watch all your videos and I find it very interesting how you solve problems, always with willingness, joy and you always have your wonderful smile; many times I have a bad day and when I get home I run to see if there is a new video, because when I watch your videos I feel an indescribable peace and my problems disappear like magic. A big hug from a subscriber from Brazil.
We passed nearby last weekend - was westbound on I-80 out of Lincoln but turned south on 81 at York then back on Sunday. Was a beautiful weekend.
Nothing wrong with encountering a little perfume factory. 😉🤣
You’re such a gorgeous angel!
You and her look like fun
Good luck with the corn harvest.
U got me cracking up great job guys as always
Great video folks really enjoyed it,thanks
I must say, this is professional quality work. I am so impressed and proud of how far you have come with your videos. This is ready for the history channel or some equivalent venue.
What an awesome operation, and pretty cool drone shots!
Absolutely
Betcha those beans smell great after that skunk 😮
I was just thinking about that field thanks for confirming it’s the one the car ran off into😮
That's cool doing work like that
Amazing job u all stay safe out there
The drone shots are beautiful!
A little financial breakdown request... I noticed bean and corn price per bushel are down quite a bit compared to last year (beans are at 9.70 today, down from last year's 14.10 and corn is at 3.73 as of today, down from last year's 4.92). How are you all dealing or going to deal with that? It would be super cool to see a chart of sorts, breaking down costs associated to planning, purchasing, planting, the maintaining of crops, land, equipment, etc... and harvest. A little biz refresher of sorts, and perhaps a path one might take to maximize income on harvest when the market doesn't cooperate. How do good farmers navigate that ballot of supply and demand? Great vid!
I don't know anything but what I've learned watching Laura and her Dad farm soy beans and corn on TH-cam. I don't remember whether the Wilson farm (Grant's family) has a bin site, but if you watch LEAAD Farms, you'll see that the Carlsons (Laura's family) have a bin site on the farm. For those having their own bin site, in addition to allowing the ability to dry the crop, in case circumstances (like weather, etc) require that they harvest it with higher than sale-able moisture content, they also have the capacity to save back part of the crop on-site, and hope (bet) that the price goes up within the coming year. Depending upon how much capacity is in-use, they can even loan (or rent?) capacity to their neighbors. I'm guessing that there might be commercially available elevator space in the case they want to get the crop off the farm, but REALLY don't want to sell it yet.
Love watching during harvesting !
Laura, I love this channel so much, you are so entertaining and this is such a fun channel to watch.
As for the skunk smell - when I was in high school I was helping my dad lay out some irrigation pipe, and as we were loading the pipe onto the trailer so we can lay it out on the field, there was a skunk that had made a home in one of the pipes, and it was not happy at all for disturbing it. While we didn't get a direct spray, I had caught a whiff, causing me to dry heave. To this day whenever I get a faint smell of a skunk when driving by an area, I get flashbacks and become a bit ill. 🤢
I think the last time I noticed that hair do the star was Marge ? Hope you finish with harvest so you can take time to go to visit a beautician. Love you just the same and thanks for the ride in the combine.
Nice to be done with beans we got are beans done about two weeks ago we had two combines going we have been doing corn for about a week.
Grant, when did you last adj your brakes? A bad way to test brakes is to see if the tractor will move with the parking brake on, then try the trailer brakes with the parking brake released and the handbrake pulled back. It beats nothing. I know you don't do steep grades so they don't need adjusting often. But it nice to know you can stop fast when needed.
One crop harvested, one to go!
Beautiful video with amazing people
Thank god for farmers Market 9.70 That hurts
Awesome video
Great as always. Greetings from Denmark ( transcontinental comments should count double in the algorythm )
You’re always so cute and smiling 😊
Keep farming you doing great job .
The drone footage is fantastic!!
When working around the sickle you should ware groves when breaking the bolting lose. One slip of the wrench your finger may come off. Good pair of guard groves keeps your finger on. Experience is always better than having a finger missing. Grew up on a farm, saw examples.
Hi Laura and Grant. The drone footage is beautiful. Did you get the new software for auto link for combine and tractor. Will you fabricate a new boom for your hagie. Something like
You have on your tele handler with the extendable boom.
So jel you have a great business L& G❤
I didn't they could do it! Figured they'd post a giant failure video! lol 🔥🚜🔥
Have you considered swathing the crop before combining in order to let the green stems and leaves on the soybeans dry out in your lower fields? You would need a pick up header on your combine and a swather but it would allow you to get your crop off a week sooner and it would solve the green leaf/stem/beam problem.
Can't help but wonder how many people passing by on I-80 are not aware they are driving by a farming icon!
Grant "borrowed" the battery!😂😂
Good Work Guys
drone shots were great in this one!
CHET LARSON said ....
19:27
about that rock trap area...
1 there is a bolt you gotta pull out first to get that second handle to open,
and
2 check the CORNERS OF THE ROCK TRAP DOOR FOR RUSTYWEAR that leves CORNERS openings in stuff that spoos3ed to be sealed...
that was I think in yesserdays vid? or the day before? it was VERY RESENT
Lots of greenstemmed beans all over Mn. IA. WI. NY.
Your combine beats the hell out of MF/410 with a goggles and a giant hankie !!!! LOL !
Another very good video thank you
Very hard worker🌽🌽🌽🌽
Laura and Grant and Gage great job
Harvest time is the best
10/19/24 - Great video Guys ! Congrats ! Love the drone shots. Laura , Do you power wash everything you put up for the season?
I know without irrigation the crops would really suffer. So, my question is what do you figure it costs per acre to irrigate? Love the videos have a safe and prosperous harvest.
Gage is awesome, not just an employee for sure.
Hello Laura, just curious why you don’t upgrade to a 45 foot bean head? With as popular as your channel is, I would think you would be able to get a sponsorship that would let you try a larger head and show your audience what it can do ? Love your channel, hope you have a Great harvest this year!
Whatever your mind can conceive and believe it will achieve
Leaf blower is what we use
If you ever tire of farming consider being a teacher. Your explanations and content coverage are classroom quality. Grade school and middle school kids in some areas might find your farming explanations fascinating, and give them a clue where some of their food comes from. Not just the harvesting but also how to methodically overcome problems. Grant has a good on air voice too.
Depending on when you filmed this, I could have been one of the cars
Ya’ll are the 3 bean salad 😮😂
Congratulations on another Soybean Harvest :)
This is the only video I have seen so far something no right
This is great I’ve had 18 new vids to watch today it’s TH-cam overload nails
Looking forward to some really corny videos🥴 thank you for such interesting informative videos. Love you guys, love your channel. Blessings🙏
This is great I’ve had 18 new vids to watch today it’s TH-cam overload
When you check your pivot power units take a weed eater with you in the morning when it’s cool and trim around the wells it is very easy to trip and FALL
That’s called a stone trap when you have a lot of rocks in your field
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