Thanks for sharing. You covered a lot of ground re the risk side of farming today and included some details not normally voiced in the casual conversation. Better luck as you head toward harvest.
Hey Cole man, My farmers heart went out to you and Pa. All that hard work gone down the drains!! Sent a word up for u all. Hope the BIG BOSS MAN smiles down on YOU. 🍁🍁😇🇨🇦
I'm so sorry. I'm glad the company owned up to it though and are working with y'all. I love your videos because I know nothing about farming and somehow found your channel one day. You explain everything well.
Cole, you have a real depth of understanding of farming. Keep sharing that in your videos. I enjoy the banter between you and your dad. Perhaps you can share a little more of the science behind what you’re doing. I, for one, would appreciate it. Your drone footage is always awesome! I’m just a city boy in Los Angeles, but I enjoy you sharing your world with us. Keep up the good work.
Despite the hardship of lost crop, I want to say keep going with this awesome youtube content. It's so informative and is keeping up with modern times, you're doing a great job hosting. I think you're reaching an audience of a lot of millennial who would never have been interested or now know about these things without such attractive videos. Often young ones totally cast thoughts about agriculture and farming away, they just eat the food in front of them without realising what goes into it.
West of Mount Vernon about 5 miles our Corn we planted is a complete loss. 60+ mile an hour winds can really just decimate any field just like you showed. It was so difficult to plant this year, I heard somewhere around only 30% of crops got planted this year. We had one hell of a time getting our corn in and its just gone. Im sorry to see what happened to your guys crop Cole. 👏🏼
I hope they pay you for more than just your inputs!!! They should pay you market price for what your county average yield is for beans because you’ve lost your potential income on that field for 2019
All in all you and your family are safe! Sorry about the crops but, Thank you for explaining about the caterpillar. I learn something that I've never even thought about! I didn't know there are insects that are beneficial and those that arent! Again thank you!
I'm a new subscriber and really enjoy your channel. I come from the agriculture industry as well only I came out of the cattle ranching side. We didn't do any farming except for putting up hay for the cows. But I see you raise real good looking cattle as well. Anyway I just wanted to say that if them caterpillars are even half as bad as what you showed us I would be Spraying them and fast. Really sorry for your loss in your other fields. That's always very difficult to deal with loss of income in the agricultural industry regardless of what it may be. I hope and pray to God that ya'll are still blessed in whatever way to offset your losses. God bless
Damn dude. Sorry about your luck! Weather this year has been weird for sure! I use a custom sprayer also and watch him like a hawk lol Keep your chin up and keep plugging away! Great videos also btw!!
For people who didn’t come from the farming background they have no idea what the farmers face.. from the large operations to the family farms they deal with the ever changing weather patterns... ringing their hands wondering whether all the hard work is going to pay off or put them under.. we are so blessed to live in such a diverse country but most people in this day and age have no idea where the food on their table comes from. Keep up the fight... millions of American families rely on the hard-working dedicated farmers.... most years many just hope to break even.. i’ve watched my parents for decades and I’ve wondered why in the world they continue to do what they do but I think God every day that they and those like them continue the struggle!
I study agronomy at Auburn University, and I work for the row crop weed scientist Steve Li and this was a nice video talking about the enlist damage and the storm damage was definitely horrible best of luck!
Just found your channel. Had the same thing on our corn. the beans were sprayed with dicamba when it was G T . Had 100`% loss. The dealer paid for full replant..
Hello Sonne, I am Agronomist, I live in the South of Brazil, I accompany your videos at a time, especially the content on hay, we are in the time of the wheat, it is not cold enough for your development, we follow the news of your country, and it's not good at all, is it? Friendly hug.
im sorry to hear about your loss, at least these days there is all sorts of insurance. not to mention everyone around my area of south dakota has their bins full of grain from last year. which is good because around my area not many farmers got to plant at all this year
So sorry for all the damage and loss. Hope that you can recover your loss from insurance. Farming is so hard as there is so much beyond your control that can completely destroy your profits.
The more heat added to the atmosphere the worse the droughts and the storms will get every year. Honestly other than coastal communities farmers will be harder hit by the climate break down than literally anyone else.
Wonder what public and farmers would think if you said CO2 from tillage is a huge amount released. Like 3rd largest human contributor or something like that. Leave green and growing to not release and absorb.
Oh wow, that’s a really tough deal with your bean field. I get paranoid every time I spray that ‘what if there’s something that’ll screw up’ even when I know it’s good. Feel for you with that field. Also, wow, I’ve never seen green snap before. Wow.
Green snap is a pain. We had some pretty good green snap in our area a few years ago & it sure can make harvest difficult. A neighbor of mine had a field with mile long rounds & he could only pick up the corn going one way so it took him dang near twice as long to harvest. It doesn't do wonders for your yield either. I hope things get better for you. Thanks for the video.
Not a farmer, new subscriber, grandparents were dairy farmers in South Eastern Massachusetts, spent a lot of time as a kid scooping poop into the chute....can you turn the downed corn into silage?
Greetings from southern Illinois.. sorry for your loss. Those beans were looking great.. what brand of planter did you use? Also we plant 3.9 to 4.9 beans in our area.. what do you fellas use?
We use a john deere 1770NT 16 row center fill planter. We plant mostly 2.4 maturity beans, anywhere from 1.8 to 2.7, but we stick to 2.4 most of the time
So sorry for the troubles you guys are having. Farming is hard enough to then have mistakes and mother nature pile on. Sure hope it comes out ok for you guys.
We couldn’t put hay up in western SD so we went to Pierre camping and got hammered with rain in a tent. It was so bad it tipped a camper over but the tents held up. :)
So so sorry you work so very very hard and then mother nature pulls the rug out from under all i can do is pray the rest of your crops Excell and and help carry your burden we will be praying for you God bless your family Ed.
One issue is it would be too wet to get into the field since it is right after a big rain. Also, at this point we still had home that we would get a measurable amount of corn.
Same thing happened to us a few years back. A corn field got sprayed with 24d instead of pesticides. We still have no idea how the sprayer operator f***ed that up. The corn is chopped for silage for dairy cattle. So a lost field is a large chunk of feed missing from the silage silo
Why do you think it’s blown over in square sections? It looks like there is a difference on where it’s down and not. Sorry for your luck, I hope it works out in the end.
Very interesting...i would have never clicked on this video but I'm so glad i did!! Hopeful you'll make tons of money on TH-cam to supplement your income from these loses!!
One year we had 1500 acres of sunflower total shredded but savage flat hail up six inches across that nothing was left. It should have been ploughed out but dad insisted running it through. We only got 60 tonnes of the 1500 acres.
Sorry for you hardship! Hang tough, bud! It’ll all come out in the wash hopefully! Straight line wind damage is a bitch on corn at that stage. Green snap, etc. Fascinating how in the drone footage there are some fairly abrupt and delineated areas of damage. Looks like some areas were damaged up to one particular row? Then the next row is standing fine... right down the row for a long distance. I’ve never seen that phenomenon before. You? Any ideas on the linear damage pattern like that. I know straight line wind is just that... straight line... your damage pattern was very delineated. Crazy stuff man... so glad no one was injured!
Remember when I was talking about different hybrids being stonger than others? Well in some fields we split the planter between two hybrids and so when we see that defined linear stripping, its because one hybrid has a stronger stalk than the other hybrid. Good question
Ah. Makes perfect sense. I didn’t catch the bit about your field having two different hybrids.... Ya know...Whoever makes the hybrid that is still standing in the VERY next row to the green snap area...I’d think they’d be very interested to see your drone footage... might even pay you a bit for it to use in sales materials and customer-facing communications. Doesn’t get more obvious than THAT. I know if I worked in marketing and communications for the more sturdy hybrid in your field, I’d want to see and use your drone footage. Very interesting indeed...
Mfp isn't based on bushels this year, its based on planted acres only, and payment per acre is the same regardless of crop as long as its a qualified crop
what can be said that would make this better ... nothing. you farmers do the best you can EVERY SINGLE DAY and this stills happens sometimes. but y’all stay after it! ♥️
I'm sorry for the damage. We've been dodging bullets all summer long. I share your opinion on insecticides. I prefer seed treatments or banding on the product for a more selective kill.
Where are you located in usa? If u can go to winter wheat that will help you to keep the field clean from weeds u don't want there and next year go back to soybeans. Greetings from Argentina !!
I always do my own spraying.... got behind this spring called the coop to put down bean pre emerge .... ya they put down corn pre emerge... so then I had to figure out how I was gonna get nitrogen down and plant ... used urea I’ll never do that again and will likely keep them off my fields as well
that's awful, i'm sick for ya guys. not much worse than walking into a ruined field or finding dead stock. Those losses on top of each other will be hard to swallow!
Have u ever looked into beneficial predatory insects like parasitic wasps or green lacewings that prey on caterpillars ? Know u likely Couldn’t apply enough to act as effectively as a wide spread chemical fertilizer BUT if u find a spot in your fields that have an inordinate amount of infestation maybe a local application early in the season might give time for these beneficial predators to reproduce and keep pace with the caterpillars...
Have y'all known about GABE BROWN and multi culture monoculture. Gabe is in Bismark, N. D. and has a powerful story of discovering the natural evolution and process. Worth you curiosity.
Love your facts on"benefitial insects" and not spraying if you can to keep them alive.
Cole man, keep ur chin up. Appreciate/love U & Brian. Backbones of the USA!!
Thanks for sharing. You covered a lot of ground re the risk side of farming today and included some details not normally voiced in the casual conversation. Better luck as you head toward harvest.
Hey Cole man,
My farmers heart went out to you and Pa. All that hard work gone down the drains!! Sent a word up for u all. Hope the BIG BOSS MAN smiles down on YOU.
🍁🍁😇🇨🇦
This was really informative. I enjoyed the chemistry behind agriculture.
This video left me speechless. I am sorry for your loss.
😢 so sorry. You have a great attitude during trials. Lord bless you all!
Not sure how I got suggested this video, but I learned some, thank you! Sorry for your losses hopefully things will work their way out! Good luck!
I'm so sorry.
I'm glad the company owned up to it though and are working with y'all.
I love your videos because I know nothing about farming and somehow found your channel one day. You explain everything well.
Cole, you have a real depth of understanding of farming. Keep sharing that in your videos. I enjoy the banter between you and your dad. Perhaps you can share a little more of the science behind what you’re doing. I, for one, would appreciate it. Your drone footage is always awesome! I’m just a city boy in Los Angeles, but I enjoy you sharing your world with us. Keep up the good work.
I appreciate that!
Despite the hardship of lost crop, I want to say keep going with this awesome youtube content. It's so informative and is keeping up with modern times, you're doing a great job hosting. I think you're reaching an audience of a lot of millennial who would never have been interested or now know about these things without such attractive videos. Often young ones totally cast thoughts about agriculture and farming away, they just eat the food in front of them without realising what goes into it.
Thank you!
super great job super video it shows that farmers do have tough times thanks really good job of describing what happened
That sucks for you guys! I hope everything works out for you guys! Keep up the hard work and keep bringing the great videos!
Love how knowledgable you are on plant health and growth.
West of Mount Vernon about 5 miles our Corn we planted is a complete loss. 60+ mile an hour winds can really just decimate any field just like you showed. It was so difficult to plant this year, I heard somewhere around only 30% of crops got planted this year. We had one hell of a time getting our corn in and its just gone. Im sorry to see what happened to your guys crop Cole. 👏🏼
I hope they pay you for more than just your inputs!!! They should pay you market price for what your county average yield is for beans because you’ve lost your potential income on that field for 2019
All in all you and your family are safe! Sorry about the crops but, Thank you for explaining about the caterpillar. I learn something that I've never even thought about! I didn't know there are insects that are beneficial and those that arent! Again thank you!
I'm a new subscriber and really enjoy your channel. I come from the agriculture industry as well only I came out of the cattle ranching side. We didn't do any farming except for putting up hay for the cows. But I see you raise real good looking cattle as well. Anyway I just wanted to say that if them caterpillars are even half as bad as what you showed us I would be Spraying them and fast. Really sorry for your loss in your other fields. That's always very difficult to deal with loss of income in the agricultural industry regardless of what it may be. I hope and pray to God that ya'll are still blessed in whatever way to offset your losses. God bless
Damn dude. Sorry about your luck! Weather this year has been weird for sure! I use a custom sprayer also and watch him like a hawk lol Keep your chin up and keep plugging away! Great videos also btw!!
I feel for you bud. Damn that sucks!
For people who didn’t come from the farming background they have no idea what the farmers face.. from the large operations to the family farms they deal with the ever changing weather patterns... ringing their hands wondering whether all the hard work is going to pay off or put them under.. we are so blessed to live in such a diverse country but most people in this day and age have no idea where the food on their table comes from. Keep up the fight... millions of American families rely on the hard-working dedicated farmers.... most years many just hope to break even.. i’ve watched my parents for decades and I’ve wondered why in the world they continue to do what they do but I think God every day that they and those like them continue the struggle!
Really sucks to see so much of a beautiful corn crop decimated :’(
really very good narration , great video you all must get a lot of bad weather there
I study agronomy at Auburn University, and I work for the row crop weed scientist Steve Li and this was a nice video talking about the enlist damage and the storm damage was definitely horrible best of luck!
This is terrible :(.
Prayers too you and your family on getting through this tough time.
Just found your channel. Had the same thing on our corn. the beans were sprayed with dicamba when it was G T . Had 100`% loss. The dealer paid for full replant..
Hello Sonne, I am Agronomist, I live in the South of Brazil, I accompany your videos at a time, especially the content on hay, we are in the time of the wheat, it is not cold enough for your development, we follow the news of your country, and it's not good at all, is it?
Friendly hug.
im sorry to hear about your loss, at least these days there is all sorts of insurance. not to mention everyone around my area of south dakota has their bins full of grain from last year. which is good because around my area not many farmers got to plant at all this year
So sorry for all the damage and loss. Hope that you can recover your loss from insurance. Farming is so hard as there is so much beyond your control that can completely destroy your profits.
Thanks for showing when things don't go right bc it happens to us
is anyone else ready for 2019 to be over with. ugh. sorry to see the damage you got.
រាង់ក្រសាល
Nope. Putting a lot of systems in place so next year will be beautiful!
smart Phone do you speak enchantment table
The more heat added to the atmosphere the worse the droughts and the storms will get every year.
Honestly other than coastal communities farmers will be harder hit by the climate break down than literally anyone else.
Wonder what public and farmers would think if you said CO2 from tillage is a huge amount released. Like 3rd largest human contributor or something like that.
Leave green and growing to not release and absorb.
Here watching video sole destroying but your is double whammy keep the faith head up all the best
Oh wow, that’s a really tough deal with your bean field. I get paranoid every time I spray that ‘what if there’s something that’ll screw up’ even when I know it’s good. Feel for you with that field.
Also, wow, I’ve never seen green snap before. Wow.
saw on trending
watched
and was worth it
I feel your pain, we are having challenges here in Virginia also.
As they say thats farming it but it just sucks some times.
Green snap is a pain. We had some pretty good green snap in our area a few years ago & it sure can make harvest difficult. A neighbor of mine had a field with mile long rounds & he could only pick up the corn going one way so it took him dang near twice as long to harvest. It doesn't do wonders for your yield either. I hope things get better for you. Thanks for the video.
I'm sorry for you guys loss. Hang in there, real farmers do. Thanks for videos
Sorry for your loss. Hang in there. You sound very knowledgeable about farminp.
Not a farmer, new subscriber, grandparents were dairy farmers in South Eastern Massachusetts, spent a lot of time as a kid scooping poop into the chute....can you turn the downed corn into silage?
We could but a lot of that snapped stuff is lying on the ground. We also have a significant amount of sorghum planted intended specifically for silage
Greetings from southern Illinois.. sorry for your loss. Those beans were looking great.. what brand of planter did you use? Also we plant 3.9 to 4.9 beans in our area.. what do you fellas use?
We use a john deere 1770NT 16 row center fill planter. We plant mostly 2.4 maturity beans, anywhere from 1.8 to 2.7, but we stick to 2.4 most of the time
We were camping during those storms so it was kinda sketchy sitting in a rocking camper hoping not to tip over
He’s probably never hungry in Minecraft with all his crops.
Real sorry to hear about your crop. We got it easy south of Watertown. Wind knocked barely any corn and some wheat and oats are damaged
Does crop insurance cover storm damage?
Not specifically wind damage, but if our yield is lower than our proven yield then we will get some insurance money
Here in NM it dry drought. Chile crop is set earlier this year. We been hitting 98 to 100 degree dry heat everyday. We need rain. Lots.
I wish we could send the rain your way!
Feel for you man. Hang in there!
So sorry for the troubles you guys are having. Farming is hard enough to then have mistakes and mother nature pile on. Sure hope it comes out ok for you guys.
Do they put tile in the fields up there?
We got 79 mph by Pierre but not really any crop damage. Good job
We couldn’t put hay up in western SD so we went to Pierre camping and got hammered with rain in a tent. It was so bad it tipped a camper over but the tents held up. :)
That's shame because that's nice flat piece land with good irrigation and short of stones. Would make good bit of potatoe growing land.
soy is very clean. what herbicide do you use?
Sad situation, great educational content. Good job.
That's the agronomist speaking.👍. Find videos like this educational.
So so sorry you work so very very hard and then mother nature pulls the rug out from under all i can do is pray the rest of your crops Excell and and help carry your burden we will be praying for you God bless your family Ed.
Do you have crop insurance to cover weather-related damages?
yessir
Did you or could you use the snapped corn for silage? Just curious if you used it for something?
One issue is it would be too wet to get into the field since it is right after a big rain. Also, at this point we still had home that we would get a measurable amount of corn.
Same thing happened to us a few years back. A corn field got sprayed with 24d instead of pesticides. We still have no idea how the sprayer operator f***ed that up. The corn is chopped for silage for dairy cattle. So a lost field is a large chunk of feed missing from the silage silo
I feel for you my friend all that work for not if anyone need a break is you it will get better there always next year.
Why do you think it’s blown over in square sections? It looks like there is a difference on where it’s down and not. Sorry for your luck, I hope it works out in the end.
There are two different hybrids in the field and one had a stronger stalk than the other. Good question
Man, depressing images, I hope it will all turn out ok in the end.
What about natural enemies for those caterpillars, like birds ?
parasitic wasps
@@SonneFarms That doesn't sound very attractive xD
Corn down like that almost makes you want to cry...…..
Very interesting...i would have never clicked on this video but I'm so glad i did!! Hopeful you'll make tons of money on TH-cam to supplement your income from these loses!!
Blessed Faith to you and your family, head held high my friend, and God Bless...
That sucks.. It's like getting kicked in the gonads by mother nature.Good luck to you and your dad.Hope it all turns out ok.God bless the farmers
Very informative video.
One year we had 1500 acres of sunflower total shredded but savage flat hail up six inches across that nothing was left. It should have been ploughed out but dad insisted running it through. We only got 60 tonnes of the 1500 acres.
Sorry for you hardship! Hang tough, bud! It’ll all come out in the wash hopefully!
Straight line wind damage is a bitch on corn at that stage. Green snap, etc.
Fascinating how in the drone footage there are some fairly abrupt and delineated areas of damage. Looks like some areas were damaged up to one particular row? Then the next row is standing fine... right down the row for a long distance. I’ve never seen that phenomenon before. You? Any ideas on the linear damage pattern like that. I know straight line wind is just that... straight line... your damage pattern was very delineated. Crazy stuff man... so glad no one was injured!
Remember when I was talking about different hybrids being stonger than others? Well in some fields we split the planter between two hybrids and so when we see that defined linear stripping, its because one hybrid has a stronger stalk than the other hybrid. Good question
Ah. Makes perfect sense. I didn’t catch the bit about your field having two different hybrids....
Ya know...Whoever makes the hybrid that is still standing in the VERY next row to the green snap area...I’d think they’d be very interested to see your drone footage... might even pay you a bit for it to use in sales materials and customer-facing communications.
Doesn’t get more obvious than THAT. I know if I worked in marketing and communications for the more sturdy hybrid in your field, I’d want to see and use your drone footage.
Very interesting indeed...
How is coop gonna compensate you for market facilitation payment since it’s based off of bushels?
Good question...
Mfp isn't based on bushels this year, its based on planted acres only, and payment per acre is the same regardless of crop as long as its a qualified crop
Reid Haberer isn’t socialism grand lol
@@reidhaberer7541 Yea i think you are correct
How much of yalls corn is used to feed your cattle and how much of it do yall sale
20% fed, the rest sold (Just a guess)
Looks like you guys are having a bit of a crop loss year, Better luck next yrear..
was there a number change in this field ... sure looks like its down to the row where its really bad....
Yes there was
@@SonneFarms very interesting what can be seen from the air.....
what can be said that would make this better ... nothing. you farmers do the best you can EVERY SINGLE DAY and this stills happens sometimes. but y’all stay after it! ♥️
Dang so sorry to here for the loss of crop dang bless you all out there hope it gets better
That absolutley all sucks mate, all the best. Cheers
I'm sorry for the damage. We've been dodging bullets all summer long. I share your opinion on insecticides. I prefer seed treatments or banding on the product for a more selective kill.
Where are you located in usa? If u can go to winter wheat that will help you to keep the field clean from weeds u don't want there and next year go back to soybeans. Greetings from Argentina !!
never watch trending channels but yours I like, home stead framing I do, nothing as large as your spread, good advice.wwg1wga.
chickens would absolutely LOVE those! Too bad you didn't have a mobile coop of chickens!
I always do my own spraying.... got behind this spring called the coop to put down bean pre emerge .... ya they put down corn pre emerge... so then I had to figure out how I was gonna get nitrogen down and plant ... used urea I’ll never do that again and will likely keep them off my fields as well
Who saw the little guy at 1:50?
My dad is an insureance adjuster and he gets a ton of claims turned in this time of year for overspray
That totally bum! All you can do is head on and determine the next plan.
Mother nature threw lot of farmers out of whack this year.
I'm so sorry this happened to you and your family.
No good mate. We had to make hay silage out of ours because of the drought in Australia
Agriculture has its surprises, here in Brazil is no different either
Whatever caused that mistake, the company had darned well better make sure it never happens again to anyone. You guys have enough to deal with.
It happens, we all humans, hence what insurance are for but still sucks. Spray by plane could've sprayed in unintended field.
Desecrated or decimated? In your view, probably desecrated. Just now saw this video, thought I had seen all the old ones.
Wow it really followed the seed rows eh, like one variety was weaker than another. We had a local make that spray mistake with Horizon barley/wheat.
that's awful, i'm sick for ya guys. not much worse than walking into a ruined field or finding dead stock. Those losses on top of each other will be hard to swallow!
Really informative
Glad you think so!
Have u ever looked into beneficial predatory insects like parasitic wasps or green lacewings that prey on caterpillars ? Know u likely Couldn’t apply enough to act as effectively as a wide spread chemical fertilizer BUT if u find a spot in your fields that have an inordinate amount of infestation maybe a local application early in the season might give time for these beneficial predators to reproduce and keep pace with the caterpillars...
fuerza muchacho.la naturaleza te da y a veces te quita. saludos desde argentina.
1:51 its the plague of frogs that killed the beans! look at the little crittur hopping away!
My dad would put chickens on the fields to help control insects in a movable pen worked good as I recall
damn that's a lot of lost money. hi from north dakota btw, the better dakota ;)
Have y'all known about GABE BROWN and multi culture monoculture.
Gabe is in Bismark, N. D. and has a powerful story of discovering the natural evolution and process.
Worth you curiosity.
When it rains it pours We got hit with the same storm
I heard off another farming TH-camr that they have corn insurance ,if u don't have it planted before a certain time they won't cover it
I feel bad for you guys I’m so thankful that our soybeans are about 3 inches and our corn is about 6 feet here in Allentown pa