I'm a custom applicator from Michigan. Second generation my Dad started doing it full time when I was a boy in the early 90s . This is freaking awesome. When ever I'm having a bad day I'll look this up and try to remember. There's people out there with less that do more. Not saying they on the video are/have less. It's just amazing to me to see it done this way 👍👍. When my Dad started we used 20ftlong 6inround aluminum pipe. Now we have miles of soft hose , carts that roll up the hose for us and tractors with air and much more. These guys are Savages in the best way. I know the pressures and headaches that come with this line of work and to see people out doing it with horses is flat out amazing. To everyone that is in the comments carrying on about nitrogen loss, run off from the field and hey you should till it before, after. Enjoy the video. Shut up and go get your own equipment, farm, and all the things required head out to your field and go knock yourselves out. Literally please go knock yourselves out. To the Men in the video. I'm seriously impressed way to get after it.🤯🤯👍👍👍👍👍👍
Iam impressed also. I farm in the border belt of SC and NC. We have 2 commercial pig farms. I especially like the overlapping pattern which will Improve accuracy of the manure application and allow your team a good working pac. Much Respect Sir.
My son and I were down driving around last month and seen them using this. Definitely was different then what I have seen but still gets the job done. Thanks for sharing. Cause I was wondering what they were doing (I knew spreading liquid manure) just that I haven't seen it done this way till I seen it last month. Thanks for sharing!
Impressive how they are using this technique of spreading. They have become more modern than they think. I remember growing up years ago riding the roads of Lancaster watching the Amish they are a hard working bunch. Farming is in my blood and will be till I die however I will keep my modern methods lol!
Thanks for watching. I don’t think modern is something most Amish worry about…that seems to be more of an outsider looking in thing. Many Amish I know use many modern amenities that those on the outside looking in would be “shocked” to know about! 😀
I lived next to a pig operation, you knew when the weatherman was calling for it to rain. In the 90's, my neighbor would spread on as much as allowed in hopes the rain would wash it away and allow him to spread again. He couldn't get rid of it fast enough. I lost track of the fish kills in Mill Creek tributaries. His response, "it will happen again".
This interesting. I have done it with a tractor before and we always laid hose at a diagonal across the field and worked each side of the hose so you aren't dragging so much. Bet those horses are tired at the end of the day! That hose is heavier than you think!
Thanks for watching and commenting. The animals do have a job of work that is for sure. Fortunately the fields are relatively small and they only have to pull for a couple hours max. It’s definitely easier on them than pulling the liquid manure wagon though.
Spreading manure on the surface allows the nitrogen to evaporate. Tillage before spreading manure & using a dribble bar to apply manure will give better results for crop yields and significantly reduce the smell of surface application.
Thanks for watching. This farm is no till so the tillage is out. Please read my response to the Sean Finn comment. I go into the nitrogen loss in my response there.
I read your reply to Shawn Finn; your test results is proof that your methods work. I will continue to watch your channel of your daily farming life. The children appear to be enjoying their daily farm-related activities. 🙂
That ground will make an awesome parking lot for a retirement village the locals may not be able to afford to live in once the topsoil is removed. The old country?
@@johnchambers1380, I’ve heard stories of driving cows down route 30 from Witmer Road down through to the Paradise area. An older woman on Witmer Road, related to my neighbor, was telling me about that one day that I was photographing her homestead before it was renovated beyond recognition.
So help me understand this, they are using heavy machinery and a tractor and the "amish" part is that he used horses to pull the thing instead of another tractor? Why not another tractor pulling the spreader?
Most of their machinery is steels wheeled- on a piece like the pump it's modern and easier to pull with tires - they also get permission by their church districts Decon to use or their district is more lenient on using rubber tires
Thanks for watching. Let’s not go too fast!! The drag hose is a big improvement compared to pulling liquid manure spreaders…especially in terms of speed and on the horses.
Thanks for watching. Usually the liquid manure is applied here before the fields are planted. 80-90% of the nitrogen is absorbed by the ground. The testing of the manure in the pit showed an 80% organic nitrogen content with the other 20% ammonium nitrogen. With a rate of 50% volitization of the ammonium he still is getting 90% of the nitrogen into the ground. Is he losing some, sure, but that wouldn’t warrant the cost of drip line application nor injection.
I see in the comments many believing that the manure 'Must' be injected or incorporated into the soil to reduce runoff. A few things that you need to note, tillage increases soil losses, sediment is still the #1 pollutant of most surface waters in the United States (yes, more than nitrogen and phosphorous). Second, with no-tilling you improve soil structure and soil pores, these two improvements due to not tilling the ground increase infiltration of rainfall into the soil and reduce runoff. Lastly, the crop residue (this looks like a harvested small grain silage prior to planting corn) will also help reduce runoff and increase infiltration. The clean water act is one of the main reasons we have increased soluble phosphorous in our surface waters.
Thanks for the comment. More and more farmers here are going to no-till because of the improved soil structure and the increased soil organisms. Once they switch from tillage to no till they wonder why the heck they plowed all those years for. I will be either plug aerating or spike aerating in 10 foot swaths next spring on one of the fields owned by this farmer. 10 foot aerated and 10 foot non aerated. We’re both curious to see the results with the crop due to increase absorption of water and the liquid manure.
the main problem of not injecting the manure into the soil ist the loss of ammonia into the air. for example pig manure can lose up to 80% of nitrogen if not tilled or injected into the soil, for cow manure its about 40-50%. ammonia is a really bad gas for the enviroment because it fuels the global warming and second, its a waste of money to let all this nitrogen got up into the air and not into the soil for plant growth. The runoff is a minor problem imo because this manure is very watery and should infiltrate quite quickly into the soil. the pollution of ground and surface water is mostly because of fertilizing at the wrong time, for example right before heavy rain or on water soaked ground. perfct conditions would be to use fertilizers with nitrogen in it when its cloudy, cold and a bit drizzling ( a bit of drizzling ist good for the manure to infiltrate into the ground). here in germany we farmers arent allowed to just spread manure like this, we have to either inject it to not till the ground or lay it down in stripes and till it in maximun 1 hour after application (i recommend watching videos about "Bomech" to get a better understanding about what i mean). the reason we have to do it like that is beacause its saving more nutrients like nitrogen and it reduces pollution into the enviroment.
@@BauerHermann1811 , thanks for commenting. This manure tested out at 20% ammonia nitrogen and 80% organic nitrogen. So the maximum loss would be 20% through volitilization. I would venture to guess closer to 10% actually due to absorption into the No till fields covered in cover crop stubble.
@@LancoAmish ...With no tillage more herbicide is required . I have never seen a no tillage plot get better yields than a plot that has had some tillage.
Amish are cool and all. But as a farmer not a fan of liquid manure. I would hope that gets tilled in shortly after, as any rain will run off. I do know of wells that have been polluted thanks to liquid manure.
The manure can only be spread at certain times. Pretty well regulated in the Chesapeake watershed. This is a no till farm. The powers that be want the farmers to go no till due to runoff. Also, the manure has to go somewhere. Chemical fertilizers are no prize either.
I'm surrounded by Amish farms that use sludge on the fields we've never had an issue with our well. It stinks to beat all for a little but you get used to it.
@@scothammond5736 Good to read. Must be the messy big farms that are irresponsible with it. Also could be a volume thing, large farms flood the fields.
Why do you think a working horse, one that has been bred for centuries to work, is being tortured for what they love to do. Do you have any experience working with horses or even have been around working horses? Draft horses and mules get excited as they are readied to go to work.
I see the I is missing in your IQ. They pay the same income, real estate, and school taxes that we all do. Please educate yourself before dumb ass comments.
Thanks for watching. The odor dissipates pretty quick on a sunny day. Once dried there very little odor to cow manure. There’s always trade offs…this is a no till farm.
.....how does he tell the guy in the tractor to stop the pump? carrier pigeon? seriously modernise or don't, this haphazard melding of both modernity and tradition. You can have a tractor ...but it can't have air filled tyres because of bad 'juju'? you can have an umbilical spreader bar..but you gotta pull it with horses....somewhere some old Amish guys on a church council are pissin themselves laughing seeing how far they can run with this before the younger generation tell them 'enough already'
The real question is why does the way the Amish farm bother you? As thousands of family owned dairy farms have gone under since the 1980’s, the Amish have continued to make a living for their families farming 60-80 acres with herds less than 50. It seems the conventional wisdom of “modernity” hasn’t been successful with small dairy farms. Ask the dairy farmers in the latter part of the last century if becoming more and more modern by spending more and more money they didn’t have was a successful business plan. The tractor is outfitted with a remote control that throttles it down. The pump runs continuously.
YHVH God made the horse and the donkey, not the mule. ... Adamic-man, *Behold the Christian Race* ... Cush (Greek: Ethiopia), means sun-burnt face Phoenicians described by the Greeks, as fair-haired, fair-skinned people Persia means Lord of the Aryans now renamed IRAN Zimbabwe once known as Rhodesia Chicongo once known as Chicago ... 12 Tribes passed through the Caucasus Mountains (i)ssac's Sons / Saxons / Anglo-Saxons / Europe / Australia / New Zealand / North America / Christian First World / "We the People" ... 38 For as in those days before the flood, *they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage,* until the day when Noah entered the ark, 39 and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, *so will be the coming of the Son of Man.*
@@Rimrock300 ...and *ALL the men of Sodom* surrounded Lot's house and demanded that he send out his two guests (angels), so they could have sex with them. Then, all those participating in such behavior, found *five cities destroyed that night by Yahweh.*
Please elaborate Sven. 80% + organic nitrogen and less than 20% ammonia nitrogen. Surface spreading on no till fields before rain is a very cost effective, safe, and successful method to get the nitrogen to the roots over the growing period of the crop. This will be the only application for the season. I don’t see why you would say this is bescheuert unless you aren’t very versed in fertilization best practice methods.
I'm a custom applicator from Michigan. Second generation my Dad started doing it full time when I was a boy in the early 90s . This is freaking awesome. When ever I'm having a bad day I'll look this up and try to remember. There's people out there with less that do more. Not saying they on the video are/have less. It's just amazing to me to see it done this way 👍👍. When my Dad started we used 20ftlong 6inround aluminum pipe. Now we have miles of soft hose , carts that roll up the hose for us and tractors with air and much more. These guys are Savages in the best way. I know the pressures and headaches that come with this line of work and to see people out doing it with horses is flat out amazing. To everyone that is in the comments carrying on about nitrogen loss, run off from the field and hey you should till it before, after. Enjoy the video. Shut up and go get your own equipment, farm, and all the things required head out to your field and go knock yourselves out. Literally please go knock yourselves out. To the Men in the video. I'm seriously impressed way to get after it.🤯🤯👍👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks so much for watching and commenting! I’ll pass it along to my buddy driving the team.
Iam impressed also. I farm in the border belt of SC and NC. We have 2 commercial pig farms. I especially like the overlapping pattern which will Improve accuracy of the manure application and allow your team a good working pac. Much Respect Sir.
That’s some picture perfect farm land and I love the old draft animal methods and I love tractors so incorporating both is awsome
It's always nice to see old tech still being used
My son and I were down driving around last month and seen them using this. Definitely was different then what I have seen but still gets the job done. Thanks for sharing. Cause I was wondering what they were doing (I knew spreading liquid manure) just that I haven't seen it done this way till I seen it last month. Thanks for sharing!
Nice video. I love this ingenuity at work.
Thank you so very much for watching and commenting. Both are greatly appreciated.
Impressive how they are using this technique of spreading. They have become more modern than they think. I remember growing up years ago riding the roads of Lancaster watching the Amish they are a hard working bunch. Farming is in my blood and will be till I die however I will keep my modern methods lol!
Thanks for watching. I don’t think modern is something most Amish worry about…that seems to be more of an outsider looking in thing. Many Amish I know use many modern amenities that those on the outside looking in would be “shocked” to know about! 😀
I lived next to a pig operation, you knew when the weatherman was calling for it to rain. In the 90's, my neighbor would spread on as much as allowed in hopes the rain would wash it away and allow him to spread again. He couldn't get rid of it fast enough. I lost track of the fish kills in Mill Creek tributaries. His response, "it will happen again".
This interesting. I have done it with a tractor before and we always laid hose at a diagonal across the field and worked each side of the hose so you aren't dragging so much. Bet those horses are tired at the end of the day! That hose is heavier than you think!
Thanks for watching and commenting. The animals do have a job of work that is for sure. Fortunately the fields are relatively small and they only have to pull for a couple hours max. It’s definitely easier on them than pulling the liquid manure wagon though.
Thank you for sharing.🐴
Spreading manure on the surface allows the nitrogen to evaporate. Tillage before spreading manure & using a dribble bar to apply manure will give better results for crop yields and significantly reduce the smell of surface application.
Thanks for watching. This farm is no till so the tillage is out. Please read my response to the Sean Finn comment. I go into the nitrogen loss in my response there.
I read your reply to Shawn Finn; your test results is proof that your methods work. I will continue to watch your channel of your daily farming life. The children appear to be enjoying their daily farm-related
activities. 🙂
Good work.
Nice aerials! Remember, Lancaster is pronounced “Lankister” to us locals 😉
Thanks for watching. I like to pronounce it the way they do in the old country! 😀
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3:46, beautiful picture
That ground will make an awesome parking lot for a retirement village the locals may not be able to afford to live in once the topsoil is removed. The old country?
Thanks for watching. This ground won’t be a parking lot in our lifetime.
Hopefully you're correct. That's what was said where target, rockvale, tanger is now. The goat path... A whole different story.
@@johnchambers1380, I’ve heard stories of driving cows down route 30 from Witmer Road down through to the Paradise area. An older woman on Witmer Road, related to my neighbor, was telling me about that one day that I was photographing her homestead before it was renovated beyond recognition.
I imagine in the days of yore
Fantastic
So help me understand this, they are using heavy machinery and a tractor and the "amish" part is that he used horses to pull the thing instead of another tractor? Why not another tractor pulling the spreader?
How big is the herd on this farm?
50 in production and 25 heifers. Pretty much a perfect balance between acreage and nitrogen needed.
Impressive to have that kind of manure set up with a 50 cow herd
power cart has rubber tires? how come but other carts dont
Most of their machinery is steels wheeled- on a piece like the pump it's modern and easier to pull with tires - they also get permission by their church districts Decon to use or their district is more lenient on using rubber tires
The power cart is heavier than the forecasts. The tires make it easier to pull.
Why not a soft hose traveler which once set up would only require monitoring.
Thanks for watching. Let’s not go too fast!! The drag hose is a big improvement compared to pulling liquid manure spreaders…especially in terms of speed and on the horses.
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Who is the speaker of this video....sounds familiar
Thanks for watching. The speaker is me.
you sound a lot like the guy from bigtractorpower or Thefarmhand Mike Less......keep going.
I remember a small field getting cut using Belgians, Rye N.H. 1960s
Where is the manure?
Thanks for watching. The manure is liquified.
Great on a no till farm 👏. 👏
Why not use dribble bar , more efficient use of slurry. Nitrogen not evaporating in to think air
Thanks for watching. Usually the liquid manure is applied here before the fields are planted. 80-90% of the nitrogen is absorbed by the ground. The testing of the manure in the pit showed an 80% organic nitrogen content with the other 20% ammonium nitrogen. With a rate of 50% volitization of the ammonium he still is getting 90% of the nitrogen into the ground. Is he losing some, sure, but that wouldn’t warrant the cost of drip line application nor injection.
@@LancoAmish thanks for detailed reply
Teamster has to be quite skillful and I hope the wind didn't change suddenly!
I see in the comments many believing that the manure 'Must' be injected or incorporated into the soil to reduce runoff. A few things that you need to note, tillage increases soil losses, sediment is still the #1 pollutant of most surface waters in the United States (yes, more than nitrogen and phosphorous). Second, with no-tilling you improve soil structure and soil pores, these two improvements due to not tilling the ground increase infiltration of rainfall into the soil and reduce runoff. Lastly, the crop residue (this looks like a harvested small grain silage prior to planting corn) will also help reduce runoff and increase infiltration.
The clean water act is one of the main reasons we have increased soluble phosphorous in our surface waters.
Thanks for the comment. More and more farmers here are going to no-till because of the improved soil structure and the increased soil organisms. Once they switch from tillage to no till they wonder why the heck they plowed all those years for.
I will be either plug aerating or spike aerating in 10 foot swaths next spring on one of the fields owned by this farmer. 10 foot aerated and 10 foot non aerated. We’re both curious to see the results with the crop due to increase absorption of water and the liquid manure.
the main problem of not injecting the manure into the soil ist the loss of ammonia into the air. for example pig manure can lose up to 80% of nitrogen if not tilled or injected into the soil, for cow manure its about 40-50%. ammonia is a really bad gas for the enviroment because it fuels the global warming and second, its a waste of money to let all this nitrogen got up into the air and not into the soil for plant growth. The runoff is a minor problem imo because this manure is very watery and should infiltrate quite quickly into the soil. the pollution of ground and surface water is mostly because of fertilizing at the wrong time, for example right before heavy rain or on water soaked ground. perfct conditions would be to use fertilizers with nitrogen in it when its cloudy, cold and a bit drizzling ( a bit of drizzling ist good for the manure to infiltrate into the ground). here in germany we farmers arent allowed to just spread manure like this, we have to either inject it to not till the ground or lay it down in stripes and till it in maximun 1 hour after application (i recommend watching videos about "Bomech" to get a better understanding about what i mean). the reason we have to do it like that is beacause its saving more nutrients like nitrogen and it reduces pollution into the enviroment.
@@BauerHermann1811 , thanks for commenting. This manure tested out at 20% ammonia nitrogen and 80% organic nitrogen. So the maximum loss would be 20% through volitilization. I would venture to guess closer to 10% actually due to absorption into the No till fields covered in cover crop stubble.
@@LancoAmish with 80 organic nitrogen its quite high, so it shouldnt be to bad to spread it like this thanks for your response👍
@@LancoAmish ...With no tillage more herbicide is required . I have never seen a no tillage plot get better yields than a plot that has had some tillage.
Silage stinks (rotting and fermenting plant matter piled in the silo) .. manure tends to have more of a sweet aroma.
Thanks for watching and commenting. Silage shouldn’t be rotting…fermenting yes. I love the smell of fermentation.
@@LancoAmish 😁
Amish are cool and all. But as a farmer not a fan of liquid manure. I would hope that gets tilled in shortly after, as any rain will run off. I do know of wells that have been polluted thanks to liquid manure.
The manure can only be spread at certain times. Pretty well regulated in the Chesapeake watershed. This is a no till farm. The powers that be want the farmers to go no till due to runoff. Also, the manure has to go somewhere. Chemical fertilizers are no prize either.
@@LancoAmish I agree, but there are ways around liquid manure, ours isn't. Diet plays a huge role.
The water evaporates off leaving the solids behind. Most of the water in our lagoons is rain water run off collected from cement areas to begin with.
I'm surrounded by Amish farms that use sludge on the fields we've never had an issue with our well. It stinks to beat all for a little but you get used to it.
@@scothammond5736 Good to read. Must be the messy big farms that are irresponsible with it. Also could be a volume thing, large farms flood the fields.
That’s nuts 😂🤣
Looks like prices jumped on diesel fuel.😀
Why torture innocent animals? While you have tractors
Why do you think a working horse, one that has been bred for centuries to work, is being tortured for what they love to do. Do you have any experience working with horses or even have been around working horses? Draft horses and mules get excited as they are readied to go to work.
Out taxes at work. Helping a group that pays no taxes. Imagine that
I see the I is missing in your IQ. They pay the same income, real estate, and school taxes that we all do. Please educate yourself before dumb ass comments.
I like food. Don't f**k with people that supply my food!
They use a tractor to mix the manure why not just use one to speed it too so much for true Amish
If you'd pick up a book you'd know the answer to this question.
The tractor runs the pump. The Amish do have to change as time passes. Were it not for the tractor power how would one run the pump?
Stationary tractor is okay. Moving tractor would make big Boss drop off his kitchen chair. Too early for that.
@@Rimrock300, they use moving tractors quite a bit especially when moving rented or shared equipment longer distances.
Manure will smell for miles. Burry the content right in the ground.
Thanks for watching. The odor dissipates pretty quick on a sunny day. Once dried there very little odor to cow manure. There’s always trade offs…this is a no till farm.
To bad the feds are going to raid him
Nah…Liquid manure best practices are very much encouraged though.
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that annoying music sure sucks
I agree.
I quit watching at 4:36 because of it. To loud and repetitive. Like being on hold on the phone...
Annoying comments suck also. You have a volume control?
@@LancoAmish No volume control, just don't watch videos with loud obnoxious music.
Funny how they justify using modern technology by doing the final step with horses. Not knocking them, just saying.
.....how does he tell the guy in the tractor to stop the pump? carrier pigeon? seriously modernise or don't, this haphazard melding of both modernity and tradition. You can have a tractor ...but it can't have air filled tyres because of bad 'juju'? you can have an umbilical spreader bar..but you gotta pull it with horses....somewhere some old Amish guys on a church council are pissin themselves laughing seeing how far they can run with this before the younger generation tell them 'enough already'
The real question is why does the way the Amish farm bother you? As thousands of family owned dairy farms have gone under since the 1980’s, the Amish have continued to make a living for their families farming 60-80 acres with herds less than 50. It seems the conventional wisdom of “modernity” hasn’t been successful with small dairy farms. Ask the dairy farmers in the latter part of the last century if becoming more and more modern by spending more and more money they didn’t have was a successful business plan.
The tractor is outfitted with a remote control that throttles it down. The pump runs continuously.
YHVH God made the horse and the donkey, not the mule.
...
Adamic-man, *Behold the Christian Race*
...
Cush (Greek: Ethiopia), means sun-burnt face
Phoenicians described by the Greeks, as fair-haired, fair-skinned people
Persia means Lord of the Aryans now renamed IRAN
Zimbabwe once known as Rhodesia
Chicongo once known as Chicago
...
12 Tribes passed through the Caucasus Mountains
(i)ssac's Sons / Saxons / Anglo-Saxons / Europe / Australia / New Zealand / North America / Christian First World / "We the People"
...
38 For as in those days before the flood,
*they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage,*
until the day when Noah entered the ark, 39 and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away,
*so will be the coming of the Son of Man.*
and otherwise...did you get to fix the old Ford?
@@Rimrock300
...and *ALL the men of Sodom* surrounded Lot's house and demanded that he send out his two guests (angels), so they could have sex with them. Then, all those participating in such behavior, found *five cities destroyed that night by Yahweh.*
What happened to going green, Biden?
Bescheuert
Please elaborate Sven. 80% + organic nitrogen and less than 20% ammonia nitrogen. Surface spreading on no till fields before rain is a very cost effective, safe, and successful method to get the nitrogen to the roots over the growing period of the crop. This will be the only application for the season. I don’t see why you would say this is bescheuert unless you aren’t very versed in fertilization best practice methods.
Shi**y job......
…but someone has to do it! 🤣