Pilot multiple Rated, both sides family have farms. Though Southern side is a massive operation, vs CO grains of only 448 acres. But my favorite of all equipment young was ofc THE BIG DADDY 8850! Which this, the 9R series I'm assuming the new version w/Trax system which doesn't damage fields as much. Is what I was told, when I 1st saw them. - most harvesters whether Cotton/Cane or Wheat/Barley are done by GPS. Drive to field, push a button and the equipment does the vast majority of work. Human is there to mainly maintain If something goes arwy. - Respect both sides, it's not an easy job, easy way of life. Like Trucking big Rigs it's also incredibly expensive in a World that wants A lot for nothing.
I grew up working a farm in central Indiana. Mostly driving a 1980 John Deere 4440, either pulling a grain cart in the fall or plowing. It could only pull a 4 bottom plow but it would pull it well and all day long. My favorite job on the farm too. It had a front loader attachment and when I plucked a rock out of the ground, I would put it into the bucket and dump in the fence line each pass. What I discovered was the more weight was in that bucket, the better it would pull. So I just left them. When I shut that thing off at night the exhaust manifold was glowing bright red. Great memories. How can a kid grow up without that kind of experience? lol
My father adored the fall plowing season and just loved looking back at that dark, rich soil going to rest after a long harvest season. And it was moldboard all the way. Great memories of what that looked like.
Reflecting on the past when the University of Illinois conducted their study, it's fascinating to learn that moldboarding can increase yields by up to 20%. Disking, unless it's a deep cross-cut disk, seems ineffective. The key was going 14 inches deep with moldboarding, often with older equipment like the JD730. Regularly turning plant matter into humus was crucial for enriching the soil. It's incredible how these techniques, rooted in tradition, continue to shape modern agriculture and our understanding of soil health.
I totally understand your passion for moldboard plowing. It is a task I miss a lot it was 25 years ago since last time. Especially opening and closing the fields setting the plow so that all residue is turned down. My team was a Ford 9700 and an Överum 6 furrow plow😢
That's just one of those one in a million deals Ethan. Thats no one's fault. I love your videos because they're about real situations that make up real life on the family farm.❤
As you are organic and not using herbicides shouldn't the plow bury all of the weeds to kill them? There looks to be a lot of weed on the surface to re grow.
Thanks for the video. You'd do the plowing in a shorter period of time if you had a roll-over plow with less time spent on the headlands.@@FehrsFarmingOrganic It would be a good winter project building one.
We quit plowing slowly but surely here on the balkans...before we had rainfall sufficient enough for good crops last 6-7 years severe drought and we started subsoiling in the last 3 years and the result are visible we harvest more than on plowed ground!
Back in the day when the university of Illinois did their study you can average 20% better yield by moldboarding, discking is a useless implement unless it's a deep cross cut disk. But you should get 14inches deep on moldboarding, but back in the day it was a jd730 twisted up smoker and a 3 bottom rollover every year,you have to get the plant matter down to turn into humous, that is how you build your soil.
14 inches? South Dakota State University did a 30 year study comparing yields to plowing depth and found moldboard plowing at a depth of 4 to 6 inches produced the highest yields.
I ran a plow just like that behind a quad . 400 acres tops then time for new shoes . Was an awesome run did 1800 acres that year for peanuts. Very much enjoyed that
Wow. Tomorrow you can try my jd 6030 hooked up to a 5 bottom ih 720 plow. Certified through oregon tilth for 7 years so I understand what you're doing just on a different scale. Cool video.
Organic approved N is not synthetic and should be applied in a stable form so it doesn’t leach or contaminate the crop with bacteria. Nice Canadian plow👍🏻
Love hearing the engine in that tractor under load. Where I am from, we mostly pull big air seeders with those tractors. Zero till is the way we go because it is too dry to do tillage like this.
in the netherlands most organic farmers don't plough, or just like 6 inches deep.. and we want the residu to be under the ground, here we got revolving plough's
Frist and for most thank u for what u guys do and the second question the produce that u guy go through and the ones u can’t sell do sell to the community for a lesser price
Just subbed, weird i'm just finding yer content. i just picked up an 8 bottom to pull behind my AC8550 as we move our cattle op into more natural systems
Just looking at the furrow you're leaving, why isn't it a nice clean cut furrow without dirt falling back in. In my days of plowing we were going down 10-12 inches and it left a satisfying clean furrow. A lot of plowing videos I watch, they aren't going very deep and seem to always leave a dirty furrow. But I have to agree, plowing is satisfying and fun to utilize all the power the tractor has. Amazing how little its done now, probably due to the need to reduce costs .. .tractor wear and tear and fuel costs. Its weird to see planting into no-till fields. Enjoyed the video just the same.
We call the Furrow - " Voar Line " , Very impressive plough ,but to call it a Plough or "Plowing " the object of the exercise is to Bury the rubbish , quite honestly it looks "cultivated " . The Tractors & machinery is very impressive , dont like Deeres , prefer our Masseys ,but each to his own . Thank you
That would be something! Always makes me feel thankful reading comments like this and helps me realize how far along farming and big machinery has came… thanks for watching and I hope you enjoyed.
The video "First Day Of Plowing! The Best Job On The Farm" captures the satisfying start of the plowing season, showcasing the joy and importance of this fundamental agricultural task.
I don’t think that John Deere has enough power to break that plow!! Lol 😂 Just kidding! Interesting video on plowing. Watching from Alberta Canada. I wish we were that wet here. Have a safe harvest.
Here’s a question. Doesn’t plowing pull up new weed seed? Now maybe this is a question from a different type of farmer (small vegetable farm), but we have been testing this for 6 years now since initially plowing up the grass and we can definitely see a difference in weed density between pictures from then and what we see now in our pumpkin patch. Thanks in advance. And cool video love watching plows just wondering if this is an issue that other people have thought about and curious to hear maybe whether it’s different for big grain farmers or what peoples opinions are in general
If you plough properly with a good plough you should be turning the weeds under. This video shows just how bad it can be, and I'd say in this instance it's not ploughed it's disturbed, so you're going to get weeds. Imo.
Good video. Plowing is very enjoyable, you can really see the progress clearly, same as with harvesting :) I would just say that any and all nitrogen is natural. However, not from an organic source. And to plants and animals, there is no difference whether the nitrogen comes from organic source or a chemical fertilizer.
Plough needs skimmers infrastructure of each mouldboard to bury grass /weeds/stubble Also cutters to cut infrastructure of mouldboard and u would do great job Love rich soil
You are in the right ball park with your comment Tom, just look how much trash is on each of the plough legs there s no wonder the soil is not being properly inverted. Also I think the plough is set too deep and has a lot of the soil breaking over the top of the mouldboard which is causing the amount of surface trash. Maybe the winter weather will kill off the surface green matter but if it does not I can see a problem with subsequent operations ie planting ,seeding etc.
we europeans still do a lot of ploughing, when you said that ''it looks nice and even'' i laughed my butt off :D hehe, there is much to learn for you my boy
Yeah 😂 I looked at the rows and thought wy is there anything green above the ground...... And the back tail of the plough is seemly too shallow When we plow there is not a single green plant to see.
It shouldn’t be about revs when ploughing . You need to use lower revs and more torque. It will give the engine a chance to work properly and give it a good workout to keep it clean.
i live on a farm in northern sweden and work there a bit during the summers. i dont understand how you have the money for multiple massive tractors and harvesters? we have 3 smaller tractors, the biggest is a massey ferguson 7719 (i think).
Americans aren’t fussy like us lot, as long as it looks like theve moved the dirt that’ll do, as for moving on with using a reversible, nope, they don’t do that full stop, just different that’s all.
I'm sorry, but this is what a field should look like when a cultivator was used. when ploughing it should really be pitch black, not with all the organic matter at the surface. If it was me, i would have cut the green on top, or go deeper that there would be no matter left. Otherwise the plant you try remove from the seetbed will regrow...
Motrale alos jovenes q miran como cortar una melga sin piloto. Como cerrarla .es lindo ver como se trabaja antes a la vieja escuela .entravas en la menga y seveian el surco de gaviotas y demas .hoy no las ves .
I heard a lot of negative things about ploughing. I guess to keep the amounts of weeds low you can't spray as an organic farmer? Guessing ploughing or mechanical weeding is the only option or just loose yield because of weeds?
We use them for spring tillage ( Field cultivating) and then fall tillage like disk ripping, High speed disk and plowing. We do not run them on grain carts.
Me, a pilot, playing farm sim singing international harvester in my head.
Real farmers: singing the same song out loud lol
Pilot multiple Rated, both sides family have farms. Though Southern side is a massive operation, vs CO grains of only 448 acres. But my favorite of all equipment young was ofc THE BIG DADDY 8850! Which this, the 9R series I'm assuming the new version w/Trax system which doesn't damage fields as much. Is what I was told, when I 1st saw them. - most harvesters whether Cotton/Cane or Wheat/Barley are done by GPS. Drive to field, push a button and the equipment does the vast majority of work. Human is there to mainly maintain If something goes arwy. - Respect both sides, it's not an easy job, easy way of life. Like Trucking big Rigs it's also incredibly expensive in a World that wants A lot for nothing.
I grew up working a farm in central Indiana. Mostly driving a 1980 John Deere 4440, either pulling a grain cart in the fall or plowing. It could only pull a 4 bottom plow but it would pull it well and all day long. My favorite job on the farm too. It had a front loader attachment and when I plucked a rock out of the ground, I would put it into the bucket and dump in the fence line each pass. What I discovered was the more weight was in that bucket, the better it would pull. So I just left them. When I shut that thing off at night the exhaust manifold was glowing bright red. Great memories. How can a kid grow up without that kind of experience? lol
Great stories!!
My father adored the fall plowing season and just loved looking back at that dark, rich soil going to rest after a long harvest season. And it was moldboard all the way. Great memories of what that looked like.
I hope you enjoyed watching!
GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY. I appreciate our AMERICAN FARMERS.
You gotta love old school plowing I loved it every fall back in the seventies Great video thanks
Its my favorite thing to do on the farm! Thanks for watching!
Amazing
The smell was amazing. Always plowed with the back window open
Reflecting on the past when the University of Illinois conducted their study, it's fascinating to learn that moldboarding can increase yields by up to 20%. Disking, unless it's a deep cross-cut disk, seems ineffective. The key was going 14 inches deep with moldboarding, often with older equipment like the JD730. Regularly turning plant matter into humus was crucial for enriching the soil. It's incredible how these techniques, rooted in tradition, continue to shape modern agriculture and our understanding of soil health.
Great to watch .I started lowing with a Ferguson and single plow when I was 13
I totally understand your passion for moldboard plowing. It is a task I miss a lot it was 25 years ago since last time. Especially opening and closing the fields setting the plow so that all residue is turned down. My team was a Ford 9700 and an Överum 6 furrow plow😢
I appreciate you going into detail. Great video!
Thanks for watching!
That's just one of those one in a million deals Ethan. Thats no one's fault. I love your videos because they're about real situations that make up real life on the family farm.❤
As you are organic and not using herbicides shouldn't the plow bury all of the weeds to kill them? There looks to be a lot of weed on the surface to re grow.
Yall dirt is BEAUTIFUL. In Louisiana, the black dirt is south of I10 and irrigation can pull out salt water. Yall are blessed with that dirt...💯💯😍😍
great video - plowing was always my favorite thing to do too here in Oregon.
The best!
Thanks for the video.
You'd do the plowing in a shorter period of time if you had a roll-over plow with less time spent on the headlands.@@FehrsFarmingOrganic
It would be a good winter project building one.
We quit plowing slowly but surely here on the balkans...before we had rainfall sufficient enough for good crops last 6-7 years severe drought and we started subsoiling in the last 3 years and the result are visible we harvest more than on plowed ground!
Hoggin’ up the road with my p p p plower… subscribed!
I love organic! Thank you.
Back in the day when the university of Illinois did their study you can average 20% better yield by moldboarding, discking is a useless implement unless it's a deep cross cut disk. But you should get 14inches deep on moldboarding, but back in the day it was a jd730 twisted up smoker and a 3 bottom rollover every year,you have to get the plant matter down to turn into humous, that is how you build your soil.
14 inches? South Dakota State University did a 30 year study comparing yields to plowing depth and found moldboard plowing at a depth of 4 to 6 inches produced the highest yields.
@@everythingmoldboardplows lol sorry
Wow, great video sharing.
I hope, my country will has agriculture machinery like this video.
I ran a plow just like that behind a quad . 400 acres tops then time for new shoes . Was an awesome run did 1800 acres that year for peanuts. Very much enjoyed that
Right on brother!
That new model year 9RX is such a beautiful piece of equipment. There my fav out of all the John Deere lineup
Couldn't agree more!
@@FehrsFarmingOrganic 9RT is also cool!
Very informative and it even looks good also.
wanna see this live dude..! awesome
Wow. Tomorrow you can try my jd 6030 hooked up to a 5 bottom ih 720 plow. Certified through oregon tilth for 7 years so I understand what you're doing just on a different scale. Cool video.
Sounds like a good time, thanks for the comment!
Organic approved N is not synthetic and should be applied in a stable form so it doesn’t leach or contaminate the crop with bacteria. Nice Canadian plow👍🏻
my dad used to plow using a 6 bottom and a 966 open station international. That thing would scream
Hey quick question I new to organic farming what the difference between the two and does the nitrogen help grow faster
Love hearing the engine in that tractor under load. Where I am from, we mostly pull big air seeders with those tractors. Zero till is the way we go because it is too dry to do tillage like this.
It is crazy how by region farming practices can change so much!
Thanks for watching!
@@FehrsFarmingOrganic Ever see a 100' air drill before?
Have not! I bet that is pretty impressive!
@@FehrsFarmingOrganic I am a service tech for a Deere dealer and there are guys around here with 8 100' drills. It's insane. We need bigger tractors!
Brings back memories
in the netherlands most organic farmers don't plough, or just like 6 inches deep.. and we want the residu to be under the ground, here we got revolving plough's
Hope to see you in Germany! very similar operation to ours. Greetings.
Frist and for most thank u for what u guys do and the second question the produce that u guy go through and the ones u can’t sell do sell to the community for a lesser price
New here, very informative with detailed explanations and your presentation is entertaining which makes it fun to watch. Subbed
Awesome, thank you!
We as any people owe tons to a form of living that for decades has been belittled
Farming is not just a job,but a way of life !
Greetings from Poland
Just subbed, weird i'm just finding yer content. i just picked up an 8 bottom to pull behind my AC8550 as we move our cattle op into more natural systems
Thanks for the sub! Hope you enjoy the content
I love farming so much I want to be a farmer.
Thomas you are the master!! You make it look easy and I know for fact it’s not!
Thanks Keith!!
Thanks for the video.
You'd do the plowing in a shorter period of time if you had a roll-over plow with less time spent on the headlands.
Good point, we have looking into rollover plows but haven’t really justified purchasing one… maybe next year!
If not a roll over plow they make a reversible plow also the uses the 3point hitch
We had terraced land and my dad was a leader in farm practices. We always had two way roll over plows.
Just looking at the furrow you're leaving, why isn't it a nice clean cut furrow without dirt falling back in. In my days of plowing we were going down 10-12 inches and it left a satisfying clean furrow. A lot of plowing videos I watch, they aren't going very deep and seem to always leave a dirty furrow. But I have to agree, plowing is satisfying and fun to utilize all the power the tractor has. Amazing how little its done now, probably due to the need to reduce costs .. .tractor wear and tear and fuel costs. Its weird to see planting into no-till fields. Enjoyed the video just the same.
We call the Furrow - " Voar Line " , Very impressive plough ,but to call it a Plough or "Plowing " the object of the exercise is to Bury the rubbish , quite honestly it looks "cultivated " . The Tractors & machinery is very impressive , dont like Deeres , prefer our Masseys ,but each to his own . Thank you
ವಿಡಿಯೋ ಚೆನ್ನಾಗಿದೆ ಸರ್ ಅದ್ಬುತ ❤️ ಒಳ್ಳೆಯದ ಆಗಲಿ
I remember spending a week plowing 80 acers with a very old John Deer that may have had 30-35 HP and no shelter from the sun.
That would be something! Always makes me feel thankful reading comments like this and helps me realize how far along farming and big machinery has came… thanks for watching and I hope you enjoyed.
The video "First Day Of Plowing! The Best Job On The Farm" captures the satisfying start of the plowing season, showcasing the joy and importance of this fundamental agricultural task.
When I farmed back in the day that was the one thing I enjoyed the most.
It’s the best!
I don’t think that John Deere has enough power to break that plow!!
Lol 😂 Just kidding!
Interesting video on plowing. Watching from Alberta Canada. I wish we were that wet here. Have a safe harvest.
Time will tell 😂thanks for watching!
I feel the same, and I'm in the same state
Wow...very nice farm
Here’s a question. Doesn’t plowing pull up new weed seed? Now maybe this is a question from a different type of farmer (small vegetable farm), but we have been testing this for 6 years now since initially plowing up the grass and we can definitely see a difference in weed density between pictures from then and what we see now in our pumpkin patch. Thanks in advance. And cool video love watching plows just wondering if this is an issue that other people have thought about and curious to hear maybe whether it’s different for big grain farmers or what peoples opinions are in general
If you plough properly with a good plough you should be turning the weeds under. This video shows just how bad it can be, and I'd say in this instance it's not ploughed it's disturbed, so you're going to get weeds. Imo.
Эх, работа с таким оборудованием-просто песня. Не то, что в наших колхозах)
Great video👍
Thanks!
Good video. Plowing is very enjoyable, you can really see the progress clearly, same as with harvesting :)
I would just say that any and all nitrogen is natural. However, not from an organic source.
And to plants and animals, there is no difference whether the nitrogen comes from organic source or a chemical fertilizer.
Thanks for the tips!
I love that black dirt
Looks good and it always smells good with fresh turned soil
Absolutely, best part of the job!
great video man educational too!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Why not till across the lines or diagonal of them? Does it improve soil?
the graphics on your farming simulator is insane
Plough needs skimmers infrastructure of each mouldboard to bury grass /weeds/stubble
Also cutters to cut infrastructure of mouldboard and u would do great job
Love rich soil
You are in the right ball park with your comment Tom, just look how much trash is on each of the plough legs there s no wonder the soil is not being properly inverted. Also I think the plough is set too deep and has a lot of the soil breaking over the top of the mouldboard which is causing the amount of surface trash. Maybe the winter weather will kill off the surface green matter but if it does not I can see a problem with subsequent operations ie planting ,seeding etc.
we europeans still do a lot of ploughing, when you said that ''it looks nice and even'' i laughed my butt off :D hehe, there is much to learn for you my boy
Yeah, he won't win a plowing contest ! 😀
Yeah 😂 I looked at the rows and thought wy is there anything green above the ground...... And the back tail of the plough is seemly too shallow
When we plow there is not a single green plant to see.
if we plown there is not a single plant above anymore
same, no green plant should ever be seen after ploughing@@BioFarmerJo
He’s missing skimmer bodies 🫨
Sure wish I lived near you because I love that life
what made the switch from red to green ? seen a ih quad in your intro
Our case ih had a ton of hours and we like the green ones better
Moldboard Plowing breaks up the Compaction of the Soil (loosens things up)
Plowing🔥🔥
how much fuel does it take per hectare with this plow
You need a European plough like a 14 furrow reversible from kevernaland. It would give that big girl something to do
Did i count 12/18"s behind that deere , Thats the biggest one i have ever seen wow !
I remember pulling a 4 bottom with a 4020 & feeling like a rock star. My have things changed.
Things have definitely changed!
These machines demonstrate human ingenuity in agriculture.
Absolutely
It shouldn’t be about revs when ploughing . You need to use lower revs and more torque. It will give the engine a chance to work properly and give it a good workout to keep it clean.
i live on a farm in northern sweden and work there a bit during the summers. i dont understand how you have the money for multiple massive tractors and harvesters? we have 3 smaller tractors, the biggest is a massey ferguson 7719 (i think).
Organic farming 😉😉
Gewaltiger Pflug
Always the first plow in a field do it slower and not deep so you won't make that hump in the middle.
what do you run for a drone
DJI mini 2
I used to sell ag parts to some Fehrs. I worked as a parts man for Ziegler in Fort Dodge for over 8 years. West Bend area perhaps?
Correct! Probably wasn’t us but I think I know who you are taking about! Small world when it comes to the Ag community.
Interesting ❤❤❤
I still do it the old fashioned way at the Showgrounds in Le Sueur County Pioneer Power Association grounds in Mn ❤😊
hello ı am from turkey and one day ı wanna see your farm culture and ı hope see you soon
Can you accomplish the same effect using a Wishek disc harriw
We have a lot in common we both love to plow
Good work
Thanks
Red looks so much better on that plow
Debatable
at what distance you've buried you drip tape and how to avoid hit the drip tape? Thanks
We do not use drip tape! Thanks for the question.
It's time, lol. I miss them day's
why does your plough not have skimmers on in front of boards to bury all the trash ??
Americans aren’t fussy like us lot, as long as it looks like theve moved the dirt that’ll do, as for moving on with using a reversible, nope, they don’t do that full stop, just different that’s all.
I'm sorry, but this is what a field should look like when a cultivator was used. when ploughing it should really be pitch black, not with all the organic matter at the surface. If it was me, i would have cut the green on top, or go deeper that there would be no matter left. Otherwise the plant you try remove from the seetbed will regrow...
Dużo lepiej wygląda orka u tego Pana martinflashgordon
Sirand honest question that is a huge field how do you water the field ? It will be huge help?
Around 90% of our ground we farm is not irrigated! Here in our part of Iowa we rely on the rain!
Motrale alos jovenes q miran como cortar una melga sin piloto. Como cerrarla .es lindo ver como se trabaja antes a la vieja escuela .entravas en la menga y seveian el surco de gaviotas y demas .hoy no las ves .
I heard a lot of negative things about ploughing. I guess to keep the amounts of weeds low you can't spray as an organic farmer? Guessing ploughing or mechanical weeding is the only option or just loose yield because of weeds?
Some outfit there a long way from the two furrow grey Ferguson!
I love ploughing...but I would limit it to once every 6 years!! No till will save the soil and improve the Health of the soil.
Jakie to miejsce ma świecie? Kanada?
We plowed our land under every 4 years. Just like you I couldn't wait
Organic animal dung? so what are the animals fed on; all organic stuff, no drugs etc?
Plowing is the best.
Is that a 9rx? Is that the only job she does? Or does she disk and/or pull grain carts too?
We use them for spring tillage ( Field cultivating) and then fall tillage like disk ripping, High speed disk and plowing. We do not run them on grain carts.
Why did you switch to green
Wouldn’t à reversible plow be more beneficial? Don’t know if those are common over there?
They are not common. Gregorie Besson has almost no presence in US.
@@ahabeger Is that the only plow-maker ? 😀
@@lepaul26 no, but they're the only large rollover plow maker that most Americans are aware of.
None of the major US brands make rollover plows.
@@ahabeger Is there no Lemken or Kuhn/Kverneland overthere ?
@@lepaul26 nope.
There might be one office, but there is no nation wide dealer network, and certainly nothing near where this video was shot.
whoever said money couldnt buy you happiness never bought a Tracked 4wd tractor after using 80s equipment all their life! (me)
Should put that on a tshirt 😂
I use a roll over plow way more efficient!
I would love to try one out sometime!
Your nearest Kubota dealer would possibly be able to arrange that as they own Kverneland, who do reversible ploughs among or equipment.
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Very good
Thanks
Thing about plowing, you only have to do it once.
had me when he was singing international harvester