I'm a city boy who's always wanted to be a country boy. Now I'm a long haul trucker and I see you guys working your butt off out there in the fields. Thank you for what you do. The urbanites will never fully understand, but they do know their food comes from a field and they are grateful for your hard work. Thank you.
I am 62-years old. Been a computer guy for 35-years. Trying to learn how to be a farmer now. So thank you to you and your family - I am learning a lot!
There is a lot to learn in a short time. I grew up on the farm, & I am still learning. A saying that I heard some where is “The day that you stop learning, is the day that you die.” Very truthful on the farm.
An hello from Northern Norway to you Carl, your wife, your kids, your brother and of course your fine cat ! Love to see you through your hardship and finally success in the end. Here above the Arctic Circle there's barely a chance of growing some oat, but both my grandfathers did for their horses. Farmers grow a lot of hay though, and John Deere, New Holland/Ford and Fendt tractors are the rulers in the fields. As for myself I grow potatoes and some strawberries, but love to pick cloudberries in the mountains. Your cat is so adoring and playful - so we have a cat as well on our little farm - he's a black and white Norwegian forest cat called Pedro. There you have it! Keep up the good channel!
Hi my name is Tom. My brother was 17 years older than me and was a farmer. I grew up in Chicago and my parents sent me down to his farm during the summers. Out of trouble if you will. I can appreciate the trials one goes through to get the crop in. My experience is with getting hay in before a storm. Corn and beans were always brought in after I had to be back in school however.
Congratulations on another harvest down. I know 19 was a bear of a year for farmers and ranchers coast to coast. Down here in central Texas all our hays put up for the winter and looking forward to some much needed rains to fill the ponds back up and replenish soil moisture. Thanks for the great videos, I love to see how you Northern boys work.
Thanks! I always figure I could make really good hay if I lived in a place where we had to irrigate. If you haven’t seen my “hay making disaster” video I think you might enjoy it...
You did good Clyde! You and family have come a long way since we threshed all winter from stacked bundles in farm yards with a Red River Special and an 1836 Hart Parr .These implements were built in your corn country and shipped to Central Alberta for my father and uncle to go into debt! I feel your harvest ,,fever,, when the weather doesn’t cooperate, been there. Now i just try to keep these tractors running. Have a few John Deeres too. Go rest and curl a few rocks,to release the stress!
Nice to see that your family got all of the crops in. We have over 250 thousand bushels of corn stored in bins and some in a barn . We still might do some custom work but not very likely. We plan on washing the combines and puting them away. We now are spreading manure we have 260 head of Hereford cattle. Nice video looking forward to many more videos. Stay safe and farm on!
Glad your harvest is done. Early , on time,or late the end of harvest is a good but sometimes kind of sad time. Tell her we all break things especially during the heat of planting and harvesting. It happens to all of us sometimes. Live your videos.
And, it's just that easy! :) I've been rather addicted to farming videos for the last six months or so. Boy, you guys really work hard! I had no idea that harvest went so late into the year.
Dodge Brothers Farm and Ranch I bet you do work as long hours, if perhaps not as physically hard. (They probably didn’t work at night as much.) What you are able to do is farm more acres.
I can not tell you how many farmers I have heard your sentiment of being happy that harvest is over with. It's been challenging to say the least. Completely enjoy your videos and really appreciate the time and efforts you put into them. Take a day off,,, or part of one,,, to just unwind. Peace.
Everything in farming was hard or difficult in 2019 !!!!!!!!! I’m THANKFUL for the farmers & the harvest that they harvested & planted with difficulty this year. THANKYOU LORD ALMIGHTY for our DAILY BREAD.
Thanks Thomas! I think you would also like Meredith Bernard’s channel. It’s called “This Farm Wife” and if you like positive uplifting content you will love her channel. Thanks for watching!
Congrats on finishing up a difficult season. I found you about 6 months ago and thoroughly enjoy your videos and your adventures. I like to see you include your family because that’s what it’s all about. Great videos and presentation. Always waiting to see what’s next. Thanks for you efforts on sharing your work
Thanks for the videos. One of yours just showed up on my page and thought i would see what you were up to. I know a lot of my High School friends de tasseled corn and did other things in the summer. When i was in collage i finally went to check out a friends family farm . They grew mushrooms Now that was an education!
I’m glad you you stumbled in here Connie! Check out some of the other videos if you have some free time and don’t be shy about asking any questions you may have. That’s what I’m here for!
Since I found you a couple of months ago I have enjoyed the learning experience!! You explain the details so clearly and have such a pleasant, positive attitude even when things go wrong. Perhaps that is related to the fact that every Sunday you put first things first by attending church.
Thanks Eleanor! I have definitely been blessed far beyond what I deserve. I guess that’s actually true for all of us. Let me know if you ever have any questions. My videos usually answer a lot of viewer questions over the winter.
Thank you for all the work your family does. Growing up on Iowa I did the typical detasling and I baled hay many times. But I did not see the other side of farming until your videos. ANF!
I hope everyone watching these amazing videos by the Dodge Brothers and family, realize how difficult farming can be. Honestly, very few people go to a super market, pick a can of corn off the shelf and give, what these amazing people do, a thought. Yet, farming is a way of life. Either one embraces it or they don't. In either case, it's important for everyone to appreciate what farmers do. Sure, you see those half million dollar tractors out in the field and think, "oh they must be wealthy". In some respects this is true, but not necessarily in monetary terms. One can have all the money in the world and still be unhappy and unfilled. Farmers are exceptional people. Often over looked and even ignored, but in reality, they're some of the finest human beings upon our tiny planet. What they do is artistic......🌾🌕 The next time you go to a super market and pick out a can of corn or a local ear of corn, think about Carl, his brother, their family. They're the ones providing us the means by which we eat and they're amazing at what they do. God Bless Them Always. JR
That can o corn on the shelf is not from this field corn in the videos. I dunno, it doesn't seem all that hard to me, compared to what I grew up with in the 1950's where everything was less mechanized. We pitched silage out of silos by hand, corn was stored in cribs and had to be shoveled out again by hand, while rats took a good portion of it. We didn't use herbicides and corn had to be cultivated at least once and sometimes twice, on a two row cultivator. Everything was more back breaking and the hours were just as long without heated or a/c cabs as you have today. There's also a certain freedom in farming you don't get working as labor in factories or cities, and I suspect the remuneration is much better. Farmers aren't receiving minimum wage incomes. So stop your guilt shaming moralizing already. Are any farmers feeling any guilt about poisoning consumers with glycosphate oatmeal? Or making us buy ethanol when it is bad fuel, so farmers can receive subsidies for their overproduction?
@@rockyfjord4710 No guilt or moralizing. Just stating an opinion based upon experience and research. You see, I own my ranch out in Lubbock TX. We have pretty much everything here. Ranching, Farming, Oil and other related industries. Not sure what your experience is, but I know this industry. Granted, farmers across America do differ in terms of products and how they market those products, but farming is still farming. I do agree that the use of certain chemicals is bad for humans and even animals. I see that here too. In fact, not many miles down the road, my neighbor, a farmer, has his crops sprayed by air. Oh, we go back in fourth about it, but if he ceased doing that spraying, his yield would likely fall well below his needs. He is strongly considering going to a different way of keeping his crops healthy. The Texas Sun/ heat can be brutal. Honestly, only a farmer or rancher can understand the complexities of these two industries. Especially today....... JR🇺🇸
@@jrewing5886 Ok. I grew up in West Central, Ohio on a dairy farm. We worked like grown men when we were still just kids. Everything was labor. Farmers don't face that today; everything is mechanized. Also, farmers may be better financed than we were. Had we been, things could have improved greatly for us. But the Vietnam war interfered with both my and my brother's life. He died and I lost the drive to continue, and our father was uneducated beyond the eight grade, a tireless worker though, but he did not know how to care for his sons, for their benefit. It was always just about him, and he had poor judgment. Such is life. We loved nature and the country. It was in our blood. We had riding horses which provided a lot of pleasure. It's all gone now, taken over by greed.
@@rockyfjord4710 Please accept my profound condolences on the loss of your brother. I am retired from the Marines. However, when it comes to those who served in Vietnam, I offer my deepest respect for them. They're all heroes. Your father was a good man. Education is a tricky thing. Just because one doesn't have an advanced education doesn't mean they aren't intelligent. More importantly, your father had common sense most likely. Many farmers do from that period of time. The fact you decided to leave farming doesn't make you any less important a human being. I don't know you, but you sound like a good man too. I agree with you. Farmers today do have it easier in many ways. In terms of equipment, yes these machines are off the charts way more technological. However, they cost many more times that of those machines during your Dad's time. Of course, it's all relevant to the times, the economy, politics etc. I couldn't agree with you more. Farmers worked their tales off back in the day. Often struggling beyond what was acceptable. I know quite a few farmers whose Dad's were like yours. Old school, limited education, but they were all great men. In my initial write up, you criticized several of my points. Truth is, you were right in doing so and I appreciate you setting me straight on some things, but I must tell you, I've been ranching now for over three decades now. I know a thing or two about hardship and that business about education, I have two degrees from the United States Naval Academy. Even with that, plus my service record, I still get treated badly sometimes by people who simply don't get ranching. Oh, I don't get nasty with anyone. I'm too old and quite frankly too tired. I love my ranch, my truck, my tractor, my cattle and horses and dogs. I love my wife and kids. I have so much to be thankful for, but most of all, I have great respect for anyone who farms or ranches no matter the time period. Just great folks. I'm sorry about your situation. I hope life got out of your way long enough for you to be successful. Anyway, thanks for talking with me about this. Never too old to learn. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours. 🎄 God Bless, JR🇺🇸
There are not many occupations where you can get an "over the shoulder view" what goes into it- the trials, the successes, the excitement and dissapointment. You do that all in such a personable way without any drama or silliness. I appreciate that and am really interested in watching this kind of production. Now that harvest is over I bet you are not sitting around. Looking forward to what you do over winter. Hope you have time off to relax before the prep begins for next year. Regards to you and your support staff (family). They are unsung heroes.
Thanks Robert! I try to keep it real. Sometimes I wonder what people will think but I try not to dwell on that. Take it or leave it “it is what it is” as we often say. The videos will become more cattle oriented and answering viewer questions over the winter. Chisel plowing today!
Congratulations ! Nice feeling to be done !! We went thru last fall what you folks went thru this fall. Only we were harvesting potatoes and they dont like frozen ground. Had to wait till ground thawed out which somedays was 2 pm and then had to stop at 9pm. Greasy ground for trucks to travel on. Then if it wasn't frost it was rain or snow. Took us 7 weeks to finish some thing that should have taken 3 to do. This fall was better but was kind of above normal for wet, but we gotta it done. But a lot of the crew had that kind of apprehension from the fall before. There was an uneasy feeling with harvest this fall. Anyways good job to have behind you all. Keep up the great videos !
Nice video. We also had a difficult harvest here in MO. Very happy to have it done as of a week ago since we got several inches of rain the past few days.
good luck you have to have a bad one to make you appreceate the good ones thanks for being out nthere todays farmer has got more than ever things stacked against them GODbless
For an ether button protector on our 1 tractor, I used the bottom of a pill bottle. With that fuse situation I would carry a box of fuses in the tractor.
Excellent video, I continue to impressed with the equipment now being used by farmers. Keep up the good work and enjoy the off season, probable a lot of equipment maintenance and setting up for next years planting will get done
Thanks Fran! You are correct, there is always a lot to do. Livestock chores will take most of our time over the winter. Everything is harder in the snow.
Our 4440 John Deere had a push button either assist button under the dash by the manual fuel shut off cable never was out of the way of the knees and elbows.
Thank you so much for all your hard work thank you God for keeping you safe during this time and thank you for getting it all finished up and sharing it with us God bless have a good day
Actually I’ve never done it. But ladies with short legs and guys that like to cross their legs seem to have a consistent issue. I’m going to build a cover over that button...
Well not really. We sat on our haunches in WWII in London while letting the Nazis slaughter 27 million Russians. The US lost less than 300k combat deaths, and at the Battle of the Bulge, the Germans held the line against Americans who outnumbered them 10 to one. While the US begged for Russians to attack from the east. The US 'rose to the occasion in SE Asia, murdering six million, and we're still crying at the Vietnam Memorial wailing wall over 58k. Similar in Middle East since 1991. We lost 2434 in Afghanistan while killing 150,000, and 42,000 of those were civilians. Americans rise to the occasion like the Germans to Fascism. Japan won't buy your glycosphate soybeans, and China is developing other sources of corn and soybeans as well. 36 Americans have more wealth than 3.8 billion people in the world. So no, Americans aren't rising to any occasion, but opposite.
@@rockyfjord4710 Really, My dad was set on his haunches at 30,000 feet in B 24 with only his 50 cal and a thin sheet metal skin to stand behind while Germans fighters ripped his B24 to pieces, there is no place to hide in an air war, Or when having to bail out and land in a German Air force hospital for six months, then being in a POW camp for two and a half years No sir he and his crew mates did rise to the occasion and paid the blood price for that. So sir with all due respect bug off!
@@Delgen1951 You missed the point, or tried to redirect with your own point. Of course Americans fought the war and so on, no one's taking that away from those who did. But I'm saying as a generality, the Yanks delayed opening the western front two full years while the Soviets and Russians were doing all the fighting. Yes, the Americans were fire bombing cities of civilians, if you consider that war crime as heroic. The US lost less than 300, 000 combat deaths. The Russians lost 27 million people. Those numbers aren't even comparable. US forerunner of the CIA spirited tens of thousands of Nazis out of Europe before they even liberated the Jewish concentration camps and gas chambers. Be proud of your dad, I'm not taking anything away from individual sacrifice. But as for the United States, a pretty pathetic showing, johnnie come lately.
Hugh MacKellar I remember one year when I was a kid dad was still combining corn on Christmas. The sieves were freezing up and he would pull them out and bring them inside and grandma would sit by the heater scraping frozen corn silks off the sieves. That was a bummer.
I am a recently new subscriber to your channel and am enjoying watching your videos very much. Looking forward to seeing many more great videos. Thanks for taking the time to doing these videos.
Congats! Glad to see/hear you're done for the season of 2019. I am sure it has been a challenge for you and all the other farmers this year in getting their crops harvested. Some real nice video filming, I personally enjoyed it myself. The corn in the cart and on the semi was some of the cleanest corn I've seen this year, lookin' good!
Yes, it might depend on what year R series it is. There’s no reason for the fuse to blow. I can look at a wiring schematic. That’s a 2012,2013 it doesn’t have DEF.
I’m in a 8400r right now. You can hear the RPM change. But it keep on running. There is no rhyme or reason for it. The ether isn’t ran by the ECU. So it wouldn’t know if you used ether or not.
ok, i have watched many of your videos now, and have one question. what do you do with all this corn once harvested. you don't just store it in the silos until it is dust, so where does it go once it leaves the field, to the end of the line where the end consumer uses it. i would be very interested in seeing how this all plays out, so we can all better understand how essential our farmers really are. i am sure many just see corn, what it is used for, i do not think many people grasp its extremely extensive uses.
Definitely planning to do something along that line. I think if I get just the right sized container (pill bottle or film canister) I could cut the top off and epoxy it over the button so we would just have to take the lid off to push the button.
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 Your pharmacy would likely sell you one pretty cheap, or even give it to you for a mere mention on the appropriate video.
I never met a farmer who quit, saying, “I just don’t like it anymore”. It may be the ultimate do it your self, Self reliant, multi tasking, multi skilled, planning, and thank less career in the world. Yet somehow the best career. There are many ways to be forced out of farming and that is unfortunate and down right sad.
I'm a city boy who's always wanted to be a country boy. Now I'm a long haul trucker and I see you guys working your butt off out there in the fields. Thank you for what you do. The urbanites will never fully understand, but they do know their food comes from a field and they are grateful for your hard work. Thank you.
It’s what I love to do! No thanks necessary. You long haul truckers are a group that I’ve always admired.
I am 62-years old.
Been a computer guy for 35-years.
Trying to learn how to be a farmer now.
So thank you to you and your family - I am learning a lot!
Thanks for watching. Glad to hear from you!
There is a lot to learn in a short time. I grew up on the farm, & I am still learning. A saying that I heard some where is “The day that you stop learning, is the day that you die.” Very truthful on the farm.
An hello from Northern Norway to you Carl, your wife, your kids, your brother and of course your fine cat ! Love to see you through your hardship and finally success in the end.
Here above the Arctic Circle there's barely a chance of growing some oat, but both my grandfathers did for their horses. Farmers grow a lot of hay though, and John Deere, New Holland/Ford and Fendt tractors are the rulers in the fields. As for myself I grow potatoes and some strawberries, but love to pick cloudberries in the mountains. Your cat is so adoring and playful - so we have a cat as well on our little farm - he's a black and white Norwegian forest cat called Pedro. There you have it!
Keep up the good channel!
Hi and thanks for feeding us all. A Lot of City folk have no idea that you are why they can live and eat were they live.
Hi my name is Tom. My brother was 17 years older than me and was a farmer. I grew up in Chicago and my parents sent me down to his farm during the summers. Out of trouble if you will. I can appreciate the trials one goes through to get the crop in. My experience is with getting hay in before a storm. Corn and beans were always brought in after I had to be back in school however.
Congratulations on another harvest down. I know 19 was a bear of a year for farmers and ranchers coast to coast. Down here in central Texas all our hays put up for the winter and looking forward to some much needed rains to fill the ponds back up and replenish soil moisture. Thanks for the great videos, I love to see how you Northern boys work.
Thanks! I always figure I could make really good hay if I lived in a place where we had to irrigate. If you haven’t seen my “hay making disaster” video I think you might enjoy it...
Thank God it done! Hallelujah been watching your videos I'm watching you to struggle from one day to the next.God bless your family.
Thanks a lot! I love that y’all are enjoying the farm with me. I hope you keep watching through the winter and spring when the baby calves are born!
Hello & Good Job. Thank You for your, and you're family hard work. These days nobody want to be a farmer in America anymore.
I do!!!
I do!!!
You did good Clyde! You and family have come a long way since we threshed all winter from stacked bundles in farm yards
with a Red River Special and an 1836 Hart Parr .These implements were built in your corn country and shipped to Central Alberta for my father and uncle to go into debt!
I feel your harvest ,,fever,, when the weather doesn’t cooperate, been there.
Now i just try to keep these tractors running.
Have a few John Deeres too.
Go rest and curl a few rocks,to release the stress!
Thanks Don! I’ll never stop being amazed at how hard our forefathers worked.
I’m so happy you got your harvest done . I really enjoy your videos !
Nice to see that your family got all of the crops in. We have over 250 thousand bushels of corn stored in bins and some in a barn . We still might do some custom work but not very likely. We plan on washing the combines and puting them away. We now are spreading manure we have 260 head of Hereford cattle. Nice video looking forward to many more videos. Stay safe and farm on!
Thanks a lot! I love hearing everyone’s stories so I appreciate you taking time to drop a comment here. Cattle are the best!
Glad to see you have a cat and that you love him,sweet
pskton every farm has to have “working” cats. You feed them in the late fall, winter, & early spring. They control the mice, gophers, & squirrels.
Thank You for showing us part of your daily life.
I really enjoyed your videos
Thanks a lot guys!!
Glad your harvest is done. Early , on time,or late the end of harvest is a good but sometimes kind of sad time. Tell her we all break things especially during the heat of planting and harvesting. It happens to all of us sometimes. Live your videos.
Thanks a lot! Don’t worry she knows she’s not in trouble 😂
Thank you for taking us along 😀👍🏾🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜
Thanks for watching!
Great work , farmers are very important and we always look forward to happy endings
All of the best for 2020 from South Africa
Thanks Johnny! How are things down there?
And, it's just that easy! :)
I've been rather addicted to farming videos for the last six months or so. Boy, you guys really work hard! I had no idea that harvest went so late into the year.
Usually it doesn’t go quite this late. And we don’t work nearly as hard as our grandparents did!
You should check out “this farm wife” TH-cam channel. I think you’d like it.
Dodge Brothers Farm and Ranch
I bet you do work as long hours, if perhaps not as physically hard. (They probably didn’t work at night as much.) What you are able to do is farm more acres.
Dodge Brothers Farm and Ranch
I’ve seen some of them, although it isn’t on my subscription list.
I can not tell you how many farmers I have heard your sentiment of being happy that harvest is over with. It's been challenging to say the least.
Completely enjoy your videos and really appreciate the time and efforts you put into them.
Take a day off,,, or part of one,,, to just unwind.
Peace.
Thank you so much! I love hearing from y’all and it’s encouraging to know that people enjoy “farming with me”
Everything in farming was hard or difficult in 2019 !!!!!!!!! I’m THANKFUL for the farmers & the harvest that they harvested & planted with difficulty this year. THANKYOU LORD ALMIGHTY for our DAILY BREAD.
AMEN!
Thanks guys! It was nice to have the encouragement of all the TH-cam “farm hands”
Always wanted to be a farmer. Learning a lot from you guys. From Des Moines here and enjoy your videos.
Thanks a lot!
Another good video. Thank you for taking the time to film and edit your videos.
Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment!
Thanks for taking us along! The positive attitude you have amazes me, and makes it easy to see why I like this channel so much!
Thanks Thomas! I think you would also like Meredith Bernard’s channel. It’s called “This Farm Wife” and if you like positive uplifting content you will love her channel. Thanks for watching!
Congrats on finishing up a difficult season. I found you about 6 months ago and thoroughly enjoy your videos and your adventures. I like to see you include your family because that’s what it’s all about. Great videos and presentation. Always waiting to see what’s next. Thanks for you efforts on sharing your work
Thanks a lot Chuck! It’s been really encouraging to see the outpouring of support from people like you. I can’t thank you guys enough!
Thanks for the videos. One of yours just showed up on my page and thought i would see what you were up to. I know a lot of my High School friends de tasseled corn and did other things in the summer. When i was in collage i finally went to check out a friends family farm . They grew mushrooms Now that was an education!
I’m glad you you stumbled in here Connie! Check out some of the other videos if you have some free time and don’t be shy about asking any questions you may have. That’s what I’m here for!
Since I found you a couple of months ago I have enjoyed the learning experience!! You explain the details so clearly and have such a pleasant, positive attitude even when things go wrong. Perhaps that is related to the fact that every Sunday you put first things first by attending church.
Thanks Eleanor! I have definitely been blessed far beyond what I deserve. I guess that’s actually true for all of us. Let me know if you ever have any questions. My videos usually answer a lot of viewer questions over the winter.
Hi. Glad you’re done with harvest
Thank you for all the work your family does. Growing up on Iowa I did the typical detasling and I baled hay many times. But I did not see the other side of farming until your videos. ANF!
Glad you are finished with harvest! Time for some well deserved rest time Carl. Enjoying all your videos, you do a great job with them. 😉
Thank you! No rest yet though. Lots to do before the snow flies!
Glad y'all got done with harvest 👍🚜.
Growing up in Ohio I worked on several dairy farms . I love farming. Wish I could do it now.
You folks work so hard, we all appreciate your efforts
Thanks Larry! I’m so glad to get to do what I love.
I hope everyone watching these amazing videos by the Dodge Brothers and family, realize how difficult farming can be. Honestly, very few people go to a super market, pick a can of corn off the shelf and give, what these amazing people do, a thought. Yet, farming is a way of life. Either one embraces it or they don't. In either case, it's important for everyone to appreciate what farmers do. Sure, you see those half million dollar tractors out in the field and think, "oh they must be wealthy". In some respects this is true, but not necessarily in monetary terms. One can have all the money in the world and still be unhappy and unfilled. Farmers are exceptional people. Often over looked and even ignored, but in reality, they're some of the finest human beings upon our tiny planet. What they do is artistic......🌾🌕
The next time you go to a super market and pick out a can of corn or a local ear of corn, think about Carl, his brother, their family. They're the ones providing us the means by which we eat and they're amazing at what they do. God Bless Them Always.
JR
That can o corn on the shelf is not from this field corn in the videos. I dunno, it doesn't seem all that hard to me,
compared to what I grew up with in the 1950's where everything was less mechanized. We pitched silage out of
silos by hand, corn was stored in cribs and had to be shoveled out again by hand, while rats took a good portion
of it. We didn't use herbicides and corn had to be cultivated at least once and sometimes twice, on a two row
cultivator. Everything was more back breaking and the hours were just as long without heated or a/c cabs as you
have today. There's also a certain freedom in farming you don't get working as labor in factories or cities, and I
suspect the remuneration is much better. Farmers aren't receiving minimum wage incomes. So stop your guilt
shaming moralizing already. Are any farmers feeling any guilt about poisoning consumers with glycosphate oatmeal? Or making us buy ethanol when it is bad fuel, so farmers can receive subsidies for their overproduction?
@@rockyfjord4710 No guilt or moralizing. Just stating an opinion based upon experience and research. You see, I own my ranch out in Lubbock TX. We have pretty much everything here. Ranching, Farming, Oil and other related industries. Not sure what your experience is, but I know this industry. Granted, farmers across America do differ in terms of products and how they market those products, but farming is still farming.
I do agree that the use of certain chemicals is bad for humans and even animals. I see that here too. In fact, not many miles down the road, my neighbor, a farmer, has his crops sprayed by air. Oh, we go back in fourth about it, but if he ceased doing that spraying, his yield would likely fall well below his needs. He is strongly considering going to a different way of keeping his crops healthy. The Texas Sun/ heat can be brutal.
Honestly, only a farmer or rancher can understand the complexities of these two industries. Especially today.......
JR🇺🇸
@@jrewing5886 Ok. I grew up in West Central, Ohio on a dairy farm. We worked like grown men when we were
still just kids. Everything was labor. Farmers don't face that today; everything is mechanized. Also, farmers
may be better financed than we were. Had we been, things could have improved greatly for us. But the
Vietnam war interfered with both my and my brother's life. He died and I lost the drive to continue, and our
father was uneducated beyond the eight grade, a tireless worker though, but he did not know how to care
for his sons, for their benefit. It was always just about him, and he had poor judgment. Such is life. We loved
nature and the country. It was in our blood. We had riding horses which provided a lot of pleasure. It's all
gone now, taken over by greed.
@@rockyfjord4710 Please accept my profound condolences on the loss of your brother. I am retired from the Marines. However, when it comes to those who served in Vietnam, I offer my deepest respect for them. They're all heroes. Your father was a good man. Education is a tricky thing. Just because one doesn't have an advanced education doesn't mean they aren't intelligent. More importantly, your father had common sense most likely. Many farmers do from that period of time.
The fact you decided to leave farming doesn't make you any less important a human being. I don't know you, but you sound like a good man too.
I agree with you. Farmers today do have it easier in many ways. In terms of equipment, yes these machines are off the charts way more technological. However, they cost many more times that of those machines during your Dad's time. Of course, it's all relevant to the times, the economy, politics etc. I couldn't agree with you more. Farmers worked their tales off back in the day. Often struggling beyond what was acceptable. I know quite a few farmers whose Dad's were like yours. Old school, limited education, but they were all great men.
In my initial write up, you criticized several of my points. Truth is, you were right in doing so and I appreciate you setting me straight on some things, but I must tell you, I've been ranching now for over three decades now. I know a thing or two about hardship and that business about education, I have two degrees from the United States Naval Academy. Even with that, plus my service record, I still get treated badly sometimes by people who simply don't get ranching. Oh, I don't get nasty with anyone. I'm too old and quite frankly too tired. I love my ranch, my truck, my tractor, my cattle and horses and dogs. I love my wife and kids. I have so much to be thankful for, but most of all, I have great respect for anyone who farms or ranches no matter the time period. Just great folks. I'm sorry about your situation. I hope life got out of your way long enough for you to be successful.
Anyway, thanks for talking with me about this. Never too old to learn.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours. 🎄
God Bless, JR🇺🇸
And I'm sure the Dodge Brothers would appreciate if everyone watched the Ads too! A little payment goes a long way. Thank you Dodge Brother's.
There are not many occupations where you can get an "over the shoulder view" what goes into it- the trials, the successes, the excitement and dissapointment. You do that all in such a personable way without any drama or silliness. I appreciate that and am really interested in watching this kind of production.
Now that harvest is over I bet you are not sitting around. Looking forward to what you do over winter.
Hope you have time off to relax before the prep begins for next year. Regards to you and your support staff (family). They are unsung heroes.
Thanks Robert! I try to keep it real. Sometimes I wonder what people will think but I try not to dwell on that. Take it or leave it “it is what it is” as we often say. The videos will become more cattle oriented and answering viewer questions over the winter. Chisel plowing today!
I hate when harvest is over because then I have to clean the combine. Congrats on being done.
🤣 I hear ya! Definitely not looking forward to that job this year...
Great video guys ! I really enjoyed 2019 harvest thank you.
Thanks Dennis!
Congratulations on a successful harvest.
Here in VA. Farm land is turning into a place to put a home ..SO SAD. LOVE WATCHING YOU GUYS GETTING IT DONE.
That’s a bummer for sure. Glad to have you here!
Congratulations on finishing harvesting
Thanks!
Congratulations ! Nice feeling to be done !! We went thru last fall what you folks went thru this fall. Only we were harvesting potatoes and they dont like frozen ground. Had to wait till ground thawed out which somedays was 2 pm and then had to stop at 9pm. Greasy ground for trucks to travel on. Then if it wasn't frost it was rain or snow. Took us 7 weeks to finish some thing that should have taken 3 to do. This fall was better but was kind of above normal for wet, but we gotta it done. But a lot of the crew had that kind of apprehension from the fall before. There was an uneasy feeling with harvest this fall.
Anyways good job to have behind you all. Keep up the great videos !
Thanks Patrick! Glad you had a better harvest this year.
Great job. Enjoyed your videos. Seems everyone had a tough harvest. Glad you are done. Hi to you and Kitty.
Good ol’ Bobcat keeps the morale up when things look bad. Thanks for watching!
Good deal, looking forward to many more videos!
Thanks Allen!
Hi Thank you for what you do for us
Hey thanks for checking in!
Nice video. We also had a difficult harvest here in MO. Very happy to have it done as of a week ago since we got several inches of rain the past few days.
Thanks for watching and glad you are done!
Great video!!
Look forward to the next one!!
Thanks Scott!
good luck you have to have a bad one to make you appreceate the good ones thanks for being out nthere todays farmer has got more than ever things stacked against them GODbless
Congratulations on finished harvest. We just started corn on Dec 2. Had to wait for snow to melt from October blizzard.
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For an ether button protector on our 1 tractor, I used the bottom of a pill bottle.
With that fuse situation I would carry a box of fuses in the tractor.
Yup. That’s what we are leaning towards. Always a good idea to have spare fuses too!
Another great video keep up the good work 👍👍
Congratulations for completing harvest 2019 safely.
Thanks!
I've enjoyed your videos. You have a talent for organizing and describing the content. Have a nice holiday season.
Thanks Jerry! It’s always nice to know there are people enjoying “farming with me”
Excellent video, I continue to impressed with the equipment now being used by farmers. Keep up the good work and enjoy the off season, probable a lot of equipment maintenance and setting up for next years planting will get done
Thanks Fran! You are correct, there is always a lot to do. Livestock chores will take most of our time over the winter. Everything is harder in the snow.
Thanks for all your videos!
Hey thanks for watching them!
That’s good to know on the ether button as we don’t have one on our 8r but had talked about getting one installed
This year both planting and harvest was one for the books.
Yes it was
you could take a small pill bottle cut it down to the height of the button and glue it around the button so you cant bump it accidentally.
I pray that the good weather follows you all ………………..and the future weather makes your future harvests bountiful and safe
Excellent video and time to powerwash down the equipment and get it ready for harvest 2020😎👍
Thanks! (spoiler alert) you may he seeing some equipment taking a bath soon...
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 Cool
Congratulations on finishing the 2019 Harvest
Thanks!
Happy for you! 2019 in the bin!
Yes indeed it feels good!
Glad you are finished. It might have been a struggle but you prevailed. Good on ya!! 😀😉
Yup it feels good!
Our 4440 John Deere had a push button either assist button under the dash by the manual fuel shut off cable never was out of the way of the knees and elbows.
Hello, I love your videos, I miss farming.
I love sharing them with you. Thanks for being here!
Thank you so much for all your hard work thank you God for keeping you safe during this time and thank you for getting it all finished up and sharing it with us God bless have a good day
Thanks a lot! I love taking you all along!
Sounds like you’ve “broken” it a few times yourself!
You should know to keep a bulk pack of those fuses in the tractor!
Actually I’ve never done it. But ladies with short legs and guys that like to cross their legs seem to have a consistent issue. I’m going to build a cover over that button...
Right there with you about being glad harvest is done. This was a long drug out harvest. Hopefully next year isn't the same.
Next year will be better
I subscribed and liked, Howdy, looking forward to many more videos. thanks
Done is done!!! At least the tractor made it to the last day!!
Congratulations! Well done
Thanks!
America, a country we’re Americans always rise to the occasion!
Well not really. We sat on our haunches in WWII in London while letting the Nazis slaughter 27 million Russians.
The US lost less than 300k combat deaths, and at the Battle of the Bulge, the Germans held the line against
Americans who outnumbered them 10 to one. While the US begged for Russians to attack from the east. The
US 'rose to the occasion in SE Asia, murdering six million, and we're still crying at the Vietnam Memorial wailing
wall over 58k. Similar in Middle East since 1991. We lost 2434 in Afghanistan while killing 150,000, and 42,000
of those were civilians. Americans rise to the occasion like the Germans to Fascism. Japan won't buy your
glycosphate soybeans, and China is developing other sources of corn and soybeans as well. 36 Americans
have more wealth than 3.8 billion people in the world. So no, Americans aren't rising to any occasion, but opposite.
@@rockyfjord4710 Really, My dad was set on his haunches at 30,000 feet in B 24 with only his 50 cal and a thin sheet metal skin to stand behind while Germans fighters ripped his B24 to pieces, there is no place to hide in an air war, Or when having to bail out and land in a German Air force hospital for six months, then being in a POW camp for two and a half years No sir he and his crew mates did rise to the occasion and paid the blood price for that. So sir with all due respect bug off!
@@Delgen1951 You missed the point, or tried to redirect with your own point. Of course Americans fought
the war and so on, no one's taking that away from those who did. But I'm saying as a generality, the Yanks
delayed opening the western front two full years while the Soviets and Russians were doing all the fighting.
Yes, the Americans were fire bombing cities of civilians, if you consider that war crime as heroic. The US
lost less than 300, 000 combat deaths. The Russians lost 27 million people. Those numbers aren't even
comparable. US forerunner of the CIA spirited tens of thousands of Nazis out of Europe before they even
liberated the Jewish concentration camps and gas chambers. Be proud of your dad, I'm not taking anything
away from individual sacrifice. But as for the United States, a pretty pathetic showing, johnnie come lately.
When you have time this winter, a history of the Dodge Bro’s. and their forebears would be greatly appreciated.
Man I give credit to the farmers who harvest! Keep at it people!
Just starting to watch your videos good stuff big guy keep it going
Thanks Daniel I really appreciate it!
That last field is the one you look for every day
Hi from South-west Ontario. For us it looks like "Christmas in the combine" will be our mantra.
Man. Not good...
In 1998 we ended harvest in Feb 99. Hope this isn't that bad!
Hugh MacKellar I remember one year when I was a kid dad was still combining corn on Christmas. The sieves were freezing up and he would pull them out and bring them inside and grandma would sit by the heater scraping frozen corn silks off the sieves. That was a bummer.
I am a recently new subscriber to your channel and am enjoying watching your videos very much. Looking forward to seeing many more great videos. Thanks for taking the time to doing these videos.
Thanks for taking the time to write me a note! It’s so encouraging to hear from people like you who are enjoying the farm! Thanks!
Caterpillar has a temperature switch on the either circuit so it won't function when the engine is warm. Smart!
Good idea!
Well it wasn't just the harvest that was tuff this year it was everything from start to finish. One crazy year!
It sure was! Thanks for watching and taking a second to leave me a note 👍
Congats! Glad to see/hear you're done for the season of 2019. I am sure it has been a challenge for you and all the other farmers this year in getting their crops harvested. Some real nice video filming, I personally enjoyed it myself. The corn in the cart and on the semi was some of the cleanest corn I've seen this year, lookin' good!
Thanks a lot! We do the best we can with what we have.
I just discovered your channel I enjoyed very much I'm From hillebrandt Texas Hello
Good night all! Great vid.
Thanks 😊
Awesome Carl looking forward to next year. Carl
Thanks! I will keep posting a video each week over the winter as well.
Congrats on finishing up! Wish we were as far as you guys are in extreme eastern iowa!
Lots left to go?
Dodge Brothers Farm and Ranch about 900 acres after tonoght
Just found your channel so great! hi from western new York merry Christmas!!
Welcome aboard Charlie! Merry Christmas from Iowa!
I push the ether bottom all the time. When I’m inspecting tractors. Never had it blow a fuse.
With the engine running??
Yes, it might depend on what year R series it is. There’s no reason for the fuse to blow. I can look at a wiring schematic. That’s a 2012,2013 it doesn’t have DEF.
james hintergardt I was told by our local John Deere service manager that this was by design to protect the engine.
I’m in a 8400r right now. You can hear the RPM change. But it keep on running. There is no rhyme or reason for it. The ether isn’t ran by the ECU. So it wouldn’t know if you used ether or not.
Hmmm. Sounds like something is wrong with ours. Maybe the service manager was just blowing smoke to avoid having to deal with it.
Hi. Happy Holidays !! Peace to you and yours
Thanks! Same to you.
ok, i have watched many of your videos now, and have one question. what do you do with all this corn once harvested. you don't just store it in the silos until it is dust, so where does it go once it leaves the field, to the end of the line where the end consumer uses it. i would be very interested in seeing how this all plays out, so we can all better understand how essential our farmers really are. i am sure many just see corn, what it is used for, i do not think many people grasp its extremely extensive uses.
Hog feed?
thats them engineers with great designs.....of course you could keep fuses in the cab
Yeah I got more than one! 😂
Perhaps you could build a hinged cover for the ether button on the tractor during the winter. A few hours spent here could save many in the future.
Definitely planning to do something along that line. I think if I get just the right sized container (pill bottle or film canister) I could cut the top off and epoxy it over the button so we would just have to take the lid off to push the button.
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 Your pharmacy would likely sell you one pretty cheap, or even give it to you for a mere mention on the appropriate video.
We love "Bob".
So do we. He’s almost like a dog to me…
Might be combining corn till early Jan in Central Ontario ! 2019 has been a difficult and late year and in some areas yield is down a lot.
Sorry friend! I wish we could help but it’s a quite a drive!
Hi, I love watching your channel
Thanks!
Very Very Very Very good my friend. Fantástico. Show. Parabéns e obrigado 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍
Gracias!
Wishing you an easier year in 2020.
Same!
God bless our Farmers
Glad you are done.
"Hi to me", congratulations on finishing the harvest.
Thanks!
Learned a lot. Much respect.
The newer 8r’s have the ether button on the steering column
Good idea! We must not be the only ones...
I never met a farmer who quit, saying, “I just don’t like it anymore”. It may be the ultimate do it your self, Self reliant, multi tasking, multi skilled, planning, and thank less career in the world. Yet somehow the best career. There are many ways to be forced out of farming and that is unfortunate and down right sad.
Merry Christmas y'all