How is a farmer engaging me in a conversation 9 times more clearly, intelligently, and eloquently than a politician 😂? I think Ron Paul is brilliant!!!
@@ericwotton2046 The thing about politicians acting stupid is that the most valuable and swinging voter-base is those who will change their votes based on hearsay. Stupid politicians attract stupid votes,- and the act prevents themselves from getting into a meaningful conversation with a contestant who is smarter. The stupidity of a politician is a double-edged pile of goo.
When I was a kid growing up in the city, I thought farming would be about as close to hell as you can get without being dead. Now that I'm older and living on a farm I realize that it is truly heaven on earth.
City boy from Saudi here. My grand parents used to have farms in Pakistan and now I live in canada's wheat belt (prairies). Loved and subscribed! You have an awesome attitude, especially lived the "sun rise tonight" part @11:47 Here is to the farmers who keep us fed.
I LEARNED A LOT. GREAT CHANNEL. MY SISTER AND HER HUSBAND HAVE A SON WHO WANTS TO BE A FARMER !!! I WILL HAVE TO INTRODUCE HIM TO YOUR CHANNEL..... HE'S 7 YEARS OLD .... BUT KNOWS SO MUCH ALREADY. WOW. HIS ONE GRAND PA HAD A INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER H MODEL ... PARTIALLY RESTORED FROM BARN CONDITION. IT HAD BEEN SITTING FOR MORE THAN A DECADE AFTER IT KINDA FLIPPED OVER ON GRAND PA, SO IT NEEDED A BIT OF WORK. AND TODAY ... IT IS TAKEN TO NEARBY CAR SHOWS, FESTIVALS, HARVESTS AND SUCH ... AND PEOPLE LOVE THE STORY !! IT TOOK A BIT OF ELBOW GREASE AND LOTS OF HELP TO GET IT WORKING .... BUT WE LEFT IT LOOK FARM FRESH PATINA !! :)
Thanks for watching! My main reason for doing this is to connect with people like you. Not everyone has access to a farm that they can visit, but everyone can “visit” ours.
This is man you could have a beer with. No drama, no fuss, just good company and polite conversation. Thank you for the information. Grew up in farm country before moving to Ranch Country, never knew all of this. Thank you.
which is why America used to have such great leaders both in business & government -- men who were raised on farms, back when 60% of Americans lived in rural/farming communities. Families needed everyone to do chores, as soon as they were old enough to carry a bucket or shovel. They learned to care for and respect the animals that gave them sustenance, they learned about responsibility and teamwork, to hunt and fish and swim and run and, sometimes, to fight. They were better than us in most ways; modern day Americans brag how open minded and sophisticated we are, yet we can't even decide what our genders are and lack the patience, dedication, & self-sacrifice to raise children.
I had the pleasure of farming for my first 18 years before I found an opportunity to escape. I appreciate and like farming as long as I don't have to depend on it for my livelihood.
Anyone with half a brain cell could get 99% of ur video’s points, just from your intro of questions. Social media has created nothing but stupidity with all these new homesteading / new garden “experts” trying to instill their soil inaccuracies into everyone’s brainless heads. People have different soils, temps, etc. Farming isn’t a one size fits all. It’s a shame more ppl won’t see your video and even less would even understand it anyways. Glad y’all keep doing what you do. Stay blessed and keep on farming”
Living in Wyoming I'm always glad when my neighbor to the west tills in the fall, because I know I'm going to get 3 to 4 inches of his topsoil on my field.
I am a suburban guy from Maryland/DC with no connection to farming, I stumbled across your videos last month watch a couple and found them interesting. Since then I have been binge watching, and as of last night I am all caught up. You do a terrific job explaining both the why and how of what you do, and you make the videos enjoyable to watch. Keep up the great work!
Thanks a lot David! I love connecting with people who would otherwise not be able to visit a farm regularly. Now you can visit mine whenever you want. Modern technology is making the world so small!
David, how about getting some good folks together and start a small farm. For fresh healthy food along with a fun get away for the family. I'm in Maryland\DC area as well. Allegany county has some good farm land along with mountain view.
I just happened upon your channel. I paused the video at 1:17 and subscribed. I know I am going to enjoy this ride. OK, just grabbed a beer and let's get back to the video.
Also in heavy clay soils, there is something special that freeze and thaw cycles do to clays. It seems to break them down into small soil particles that are ready for planting. Also all that carbon in the stalks works with the nitrogen in the fertilizer to break down into humus. The most fertile soil possible. Also a theory, but putting the corn stalks lower into the soil profile encourages earth worms to come up and feed on them. Even if the top few inches of soil is frozen, worms would go nuts eating and multiplying. All those castings are perfect plant food!
@Santina Murphy Just be happy I didn't call it dirt! Okay soils grammar police. There is such a thing as humus soils, they are soils rich in humus. You taught me nothing and added just manure to the soils discussion! www.britannica.com/science/humus-soil-component
Again...great video. Informative and the video angles clearly demonstrated what each part of the chisel plow did. I have sat through hour long ag lectures that didn’t explain the principles of fall tillage as well as this video did. Thanks!
On Boxing Day, I just spent 12 minutes watching a farmer re-plow his field. Big respect ! The city folk don't realize that they couldn't survive for 2weeks without the farmers. Tractors use diesel. They also don't know that they couldn't survive for 2weeks without carbon based fossil fuels. DJTrump is on the right path to saving our way of life in the whole western world.
Who thinks farming is easy, done mine back in the '60's and even with all the improvements in machinery, you still have to work with Mother Nature. Thanks for the videos and I will follow you awhile.
@@Barrenchats I do, I am a local farmer. Government in some places outlaws collecting rain water, and people haven't killed all those legislators yet, haha.
@Teun lll science is how I know Topic been researched to death Google it and start reading Good work coming out of Purdue Iowa state and Michigan state land grant universities Facts not opinions It's a fact tillage causes compaction layers in a soil profile
Here in My part of TN tillage is highly frowned upon by the NRCS. And I am 75% no till. But I work my way around tearing up a little land every year. I’ve got some videos on my own channel how we do it.
I honestly thought he was going to non-ironically answer his questions at the beginning of the video by saying "No, it wouldn't be better; but here's a whole video worth of reasons why that I'm going to explain."
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and your struggles. You tell what is the good and the not so good aspects of farming. You did not try to hide the bad or challenges you face on a yearly basis. You also show how long you have work to get the work/tasks done that need to be done. You taught a good work ethic. I don't even see that many places today. THANK YOU! May God bless you with successful yields of your crops and the other farmers crops you work for, which I do not know how you manage the time with family and work/life style. God bless you. I envy you being outdoors, but not the below 40 F temperatures.
Having grown up in West Texas I enjoy seeing how other areas tend their acreage. It is fascinating how drastically soil conditions turn from clay to sand to powdery soil. Best of luck to your family this upcoming farming season.
Hi Dodge Brothers. Great video. I am now subscribed to your channel, and am looking forward to following a long as well as watching your existing videos. Happy new year to Iowa from Denmark, EU.
I'm an old guy from the city out west and know nothing about farming but I really enjoyed your video. You seem to be a good, hard working man who would appear to be a good neighbor. We probably wouldn't agree too much on any political points but hell, that doesn't really matter. I think I will subscribe to your channel and maybe try and learn something about farming. Respect! 😊
bartbutkis I have a theory about politics. I believe both the D party and the R party care far more about keeping us divided against each other than they do about any of the issues they claim to stand for. I don’t know which party you would align yourself with and you don’t know which party I would align myself with. I would bet though that even if it’s not the same party, we would agree on more individual issues than we would disagree on.
I was raised a city boy and recently (10 yrs. ago) moved to an old farm house in Colorado. The farm is still being worked (not by me though) and I'm always amazed at what these guys go through, raising a crop. Needless to say, I love it out here and sometimes wish I'd been a farmer myself. Thank you.
Gabe Brown has a presentation here on TH-cam called "Treating the farm as an ecosystem", there might be some methods there you could use in order to save time and money
I saw a good piece on the Newshour recently about farming. One of the main reasons you don't see more no till is that the a lot of the land is leased, so the farmers don't have as big a stake in the long term health of the soil.
Thanks for letting us tag along, it was very informative. I used to work at Landoll Corp. in Marysville, KS, where your tilling implement was made, and loved getting to see how their products are being used.
Thanks again for an informative presentation. Your way of telling the story is so clear and complete. What is going through your head as you do field work when you are not narrating videos? Kudos to your wife for keeping things at home running while you work crazy hours. Wives are the silent and often under appreciated partner!! In Ohio we drove through some fields that had a strange cover crop. I checked with the Ohio State Extension and learned it was oil seed radish. It is an interesting fall crop that salvages deeper nutrients and its tap root attacks compaction. Have you heard of it? I won't go into detail but you can look it up.
Learning something new today. I guess you need a lot of patience to ride that long and bounce around all day. Liked it it was calming and soothing watching the plow work.
Santina Murphy I feel ya! When I get done with a long day cutting hay with dad‘s International 1066 turbo I am dirty and half deaf and pretty well shot!
Very interesting. I grew up in Illinois farm country but wasn't a farmer but was always curious about farm production. I couldn't knock on a farmers door and start asking questions and ask to ride in the machinery, so this channel gives the information I always wondered about. Thanks!
Great education ! Farmers are resourceful, practical, capable, resilient with reasons for doing what they do - Few share there knowledge......not realizing their knowledge is as valuable, and of considerable interest, as the crops they grow......
I’m actually amazed at how many people are interested in the things I do every day. It’s easy to take this life for granted and forget that so few of us actually get to do this.
I needed a calming farm/agriculture explainer channel in my life. Yes I did. I'm a systems admin living in the largest city in the country's metro area. Contrasts and all that.
One of the things that a mazes me about farming in the US is the size of your fields man they are huge compared to what we have here in the UK anyway nice video and thank you for explaining why you till the soil in the Autumn/Fall.
Derek, I am a Brit that lives I Ohio. I visited a friend in Wyoming last summer. You would not believe the size of the ranches in the West. They are tens of thousands of acres.
After Fall plowing a field one year we ran it spring tooth Harrow across that all made it nice and smooth and that winter when it snowed we acquired some orange safety cones that we used to lay out a nice 3/8 of a mile oval which we used to run our snowmobiles on we will leave the gate open people would drive by the house and honk the horn and we would load up and go down and meet him and have little races
We try to put small food plots on recreational land for deer hunting. Watched this video because it was on the home page. It was very interesting to learn a little bit about a very tough business that hardly ever sees the weather needed for complete success in a growing season. Thank you for taking the time during a grueling work schedule to make this video!
Future farm here (hopefully) and I appreciate the simple straight forward explanation you did for that. I've always wondered what the pros and cons were for those that claim no till is the end all only way to go. Hope the winter treats you guys well!
In NorthEast Arkansas our February is the equivalent of your late March/early April one of the reasons we used to till in the fall was because of winter weed control and residue management also...winter weeds such as curlyDock can on occasion get to big to to control without heavy spring tillage, depending the weather.. heavey tillage early spring xan if the ground is too wet and you recieve a big rain may create clods that will be there for a long time. As dad used to say " if you plow wet and it rains before the clods dry out you'll have clods all summer long..our heavy clay soils the gumbo ground you can't hurt from October till February but after February all you want to do is tickle it..." Had a neighbor years ago that had a large wide tine tiller/weeder harrow ive seen him go out and work the edges of water holes in the field just to break the crust would air the ground out field would be too wet for a disk or chisel plow or bedders. But, it helped to dry the field...
Yeah we have small pockets of soil a little like that. You have to be very cautious with it. Most of our sandy and loamy soils are much more forgiving.
Thanks for the super informative video! Learnt alot for someone who doesnt come from a farming background and great for providing context for a project we're looking at in agriculture. Kind regards
wow I never knew why you did that. I knew you did it but just didn't know why. now I do. great video I just saw you for the first time today. thanks for the videos
Great video again, thanks for all the info. I have heard a lot about "no til" and other techniques but have bever i=understood anything, really, about either the science or the practical aspects. You are darn good at getting to the heart of the matter without overloading with "textbook" facts. And I loved your answer to Bonden i Värmland ... a little humor makes the time go by ;-)
In my country some type of grain can be directly seeded at spring but not many time in same field because it increases unwanted weeds and some plant disease.
you and me both. except it's can't sleep ... monday/tuesday. thanks to you @Dodge Brothers Farm and Ranch and everyone else farming your guts out for us all to eat your fine crops, produce the fuels we need, etc. And thanks for producing some videos about it! nice to learn about your giant-scale horticulture versus my small scale.
I moved to NE IA a decade ago from La Crosse. TH-cam suggested this video to me somehow. I've always been curious on how you guys farm differently than where I'm from. Good stuff here. I've always been curious. Great tutorial. You've earned a subscription. Now I have to go back over all your videos and see what else you've done that I've always wondered about. I see you guys even go shopping up in Hazleton too. I'll have to catch that video and see what you're doing up there. Don't give away too many secrets! Wild what you're doing here. Keep up the good work!
Excellent Job on your video! informative not only with why your Tilling the soil but you also gave very good information on the equipment, soil conditions pre and post harvest why and how (just enough info) you bring nutrients back into the soil and why you were not able to power right on thru the fields IE. Soil compaction, muddy or frozen conditions. Not to mention Farming is never a 9 - 5er type job, dang good job on trying different fields/strategies instead of calling it a day. I would have like to seen just a bit more on cost of supplies, wrenched disk's or other equipment so City Folk can appreciate a bit more of how food gets to the table. Ive never been a "Mud Farmer" just a "Drylander" but over all Excellent job on your video!! Thank you.
A lot of people have noticed the tilling angle being offset from the rows. This yeilds better results since it doesn't exacerbate compaction. If you're ok with 90% efficiency with 200%+ yields, you could theoretically plant 3 specialized fast yield crops a year (corn, soy, winter wheat for example) The study that tried it expected low overall but was able to harvest, till, chemically fertilize and plant in the same pass and get close to 90% of the yields compared to planting a single crop - so 270% effective yields the first year with slightly less (a few %) each additional year. The seeds were specially coated IIRC - I think because of the chemical fertilizers or maybe to delay germination. It was a pretty cool research paper but it seemed like they wanted different results - the other part (more "eco-friendly") used 2 crops and spread manure, etc... instead of planting the winter wheat.
Could you give me some more details on how this study was set up? I know in my area there’s absolutely no way you’d be able to get 3 crops out of a field in a year
2 Questions: How does the tilling impact sustainability of the field? , What are your wishes for organic content in the ground for the coming 35 years?
Good questions! We are actually improving organic matter content over time with reasonable application of livestock manure and incorporating residue with fall tillage. We have observed and measured this over the years through soil testing. Our main concern with tillage and sustainability is making sure we keep the soil where it is. We have spent a lot of time and money on filter strips, buffer strips, grass waterways and terraces. Also, we have some fields laid out in contours instead of farming straight rows so that we can avoid running rows up and down a hill. All of this is helping dramatically. It’s sad to see some guys not taking care of their soil.
Incorrect. I love cover crops. It’s a great way to harvest energy from the sun and put it back into the soil as well as controlling erosion and weeds. Our problem here is trying to get the cover crop established between harvest and winter. Also our spring window is very short. We are often planting within a week after the last snowfall. We have utilized cover crops and no-till on a couple fields with good success, but 7 years out of 10 it doesn’t work here due to weather.
Oh well if a none stressful life is what you are looking for, by all means invest a half million dollars and start dairy farming. There's nothing to it.
Great info bro. I'm from a 7th generation farm in upstate ny. We mostly do no till corn. Dad always complains about the ground case it's clay ground and fully of rocks. Did a lot of rock picking as a kid. Not really fun but it had to be done.
Been reading about Regenerative Ag and this video explains real world compared to theory. No till, building soil microbes seems best but you explained well, and now I better understand. Thanks for details on the tractor. Would be interested in the soil make up. Just a city person interested.
Thanks Brenda! I should have mentioned that we have been experimenting with cover crops on a field or two. The issue we run into in our climate zone is getting it seeded early enough to get it to grow.
Very interesting. There are a lot of options between plowing, cultivating and no-till. I guess that is the kind of thing you have to know in order to be a successful farmer.
Have you tried ploughing with the plough instead with chisel sometimes? In my opinion it should better turn and mix soil and what is left of crops, go few inches deeper. Since you have worked with chisel for long time as I could notice, that means you could pull more fertile soil from deeper layer that formed during all these years on top layer where crop will grow. I think ploughing allows also for better soil structure for it to assimilate water during winter and create reserves for hot summer. In this case where you cannot chisel I believe you can plough. My dad tried to plough some field and it was dry it would just rotate big blocks of ground. But after some frosty days, bit of rain it went like trough butter, nice mixed ground. The only thing that caused trouble was my IMT 560 (an MF 65 licensed version) was stalling 5-6 times since the fuel pump was accumulating air. The only downside of ploughing is creation of thick layer of soil in the bottom of the furrow by heavy plough and heavy machinery. Since it is created on the layer some 25-33 cm (10-13 in) it prevents plant to develop root properly and water doesn’t drain well or underground water can not reach well upper layer. It can be a problem if a plough is used more than 5-10 years without breaking that layer within 1 meter with machine I cannot find name in English. Nice video, nice farm operation you have and very nice way of presenting your work.
Kirk Gibbs I can agree on soil compaction, that is the layer I told the machine and plough can create on bottom of the furrow, yield is smaller since work width is narrower for same chisel machine and fuel consumption is higher. But erosion on flat land is near impossible since land structure during ploughing is made to absorb as much water as possible during fall and winter, and in spring by tilling it you create different structure of soil on surface so it wouldn’t allow any evaporation from it. Erosion could occur only on hill terrain when ploughing is done from top to the bottom. Then water can wash top fertile soil and nutrients to the bottom. To prevent that the hill areas are plowed by following contours of the hill, from the sides.
From what studies I've looked into tillage creates more compaction. When we switched from conventional to no till we also noticed less compaction in our soil. (Except where we park trucks on the end)
I noticed that your fields are relatively level, my cousins in southeast iowa had fields that had to have terraces and drainage tile Al never did notill but did some minimum till. In 1983 he and a neighbor both having pasture and cows kept most all their corn harvest on the farm in the form of silage they built a large trench silo on the slab foundation of an old dairy barn. He was a sight using an old H farmall with a front end silage fork filling the silo..normal years the corn would go to Stockport or Fairfield grain elevators
Great video; your tractor seemed to have a shorter wheelbase and a little less weight than you really needed to get the job done under the weather conditions you were dealing with. But tractors are expensive, and you run what you have available. Thanks for explaining what you were doing, the need for the fall tilling, and the weather problems. The only thing you didn't mention was how do you keep the rig going in a straight line in those huge fields with very few landmarks to guide you, without overlapping what you've already tilled or wandering off course and missing some areas between the passes you make? GIS?
The twisted shovels seem to do a really good job, i have never seen that particular piece of equipment. I have in another life plowed from sun down to sun up and it's kind of surreal. Thanks for posting.
Thank you for your video. I've lived in central Illinios most all of my life. Have friends and neighbors that farm but never asked them about how and why they do what they do. Just cuts at them in the spring and for for holding up traffic and getting mud all over the roads. Your short video explained some of it. You can tell by your smile and tone in your voice you love this S#$t. I mean your job. Bless you, wish the rest of us were so lucky. Peace Out and God bless you and your family. 😎✌🤘🖖
I was spinning like that this fall trying to chisel plow after sugar beet harvest. One thing that sometimes helps is to run a field cultivator or disk over the ground first. It helped dry the top few inches down so I could get better traction. But our ground is probably different than yours. Also, the beet tops were causing me to spin more than muddy ground.
I was trying to tell my old man. That in our Area. Years of Tossing the compost of what was left in the garden out... We should be Tilling it right back into the garden and get that biomass back as Naturally as we could. Instead of Bringing truck loads of compost in here in northren Canada.
What gigantic fields. They seem endless. I compare them with my tiny back yard 10' plot and am in awe 😀 Subscribed, just to satisfy my fantasy of some day, somehow owning a farm. Probably will never happen, but can at least vicariously experience it on TH-cam!
A few suggestions for future episodes. 1) all the computer screens on the tractors, 2) a comparison of 1960's diesel power vs present emissions standards on newer tractors, 3) neat little ideas you do to make work easier, 4) Weed sprayers, chemicals, & why, 5) all the equipment you use to make your videos, 6) how you attach you camera so it doesn't fall off during filming, 7) what happened to the wild calf, 8) a day in the life of "Bob the cat", 9) how to successfully get around Hazelton during "Rush Hour". You do a great job explaining what is going on. Enjoy the Videos!
Thanks! You dropped a lot of good ideas here. I will say that one of them is already in the works. You’ll just have to stay tuned to figure out which one it is....
Thanks for sharing your video with me I'm a retired old peanut farmer I love that black dirt you got up there I was just wondering why you was driving a case international lol I've always used the John deer tractors but I was raised on a farm when we had case equipment I love both of them my first tractor I drove was a case 430 with a hand clutch on it I've made a living using big John deer tractors for most of my life thanks again my friend for sharing your video and merry Christmas up your way and a happy new year too
Thanks for sharing these videos, you work for a farmer which is dawn to dusk then work on your own farm, when do you sleep? Farmers are a different bred of people, no slacker allowed!!
The work days are long while we are doing field work, but that’s my favorite part so it doesn’t seem like work. When we aren’t in the field the schedule is more like a regular job. Thanks for watching and stopping by to chat!
Wow. A level headed, reasonable explanation of farming practices. Well done.
How is a farmer engaging me in a conversation 9 times more clearly, intelligently, and eloquently than a politician 😂? I think Ron Paul is brilliant!!!
Politicians have to sound like they are saying alot while not saying anything
politicians don't know dick
Contrary to popular belief. Successful farmers are usually intelligent and well articulated business men.
@@ericwotton2046 The thing about politicians acting stupid is that the most valuable and swinging voter-base is those who will change their votes based on hearsay.
Stupid politicians attract stupid votes,- and the act prevents themselves from getting into a meaningful conversation with a contestant who is smarter.
The stupidity of a politician is a double-edged pile of goo.
he talks to himself for 10hrs a day prob lol
When I was a kid growing up in the city, I thought farming would be about as close to hell as you can get without being dead.
Now that I'm older and living on a farm I realize that it is truly heaven on earth.
@John Grzeskowiak Me too..
Especially compared to what cities are becoming.
The Jersey J still not a fun and easy job it takes a lot of hard work this is only the fun part of it
Can relate so much
What you farming pal?
City boy from Saudi here. My grand parents used to have farms in Pakistan and now I live in canada's wheat belt (prairies). Loved and subscribed! You have an awesome attitude, especially lived the "sun rise tonight" part @11:47
Here is to the farmers who keep us fed.
I can't believe I watched this and found it interesting. Good job.
I LEARNED A LOT. GREAT CHANNEL. MY SISTER AND HER HUSBAND HAVE A SON WHO WANTS TO BE A FARMER !!!
I WILL HAVE TO INTRODUCE HIM TO YOUR CHANNEL..... HE'S 7 YEARS OLD .... BUT KNOWS SO MUCH ALREADY. WOW.
HIS ONE GRAND PA HAD A INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER H MODEL ... PARTIALLY RESTORED FROM BARN CONDITION.
IT HAD BEEN SITTING FOR MORE THAN A DECADE AFTER IT KINDA FLIPPED OVER ON GRAND PA, SO IT NEEDED A BIT OF WORK.
AND TODAY ... IT IS TAKEN TO NEARBY CAR SHOWS, FESTIVALS, HARVESTS AND SUCH ... AND PEOPLE LOVE THE STORY !!
IT TOOK A BIT OF ELBOW GREASE AND LOTS OF HELP TO GET IT WORKING .... BUT WE LEFT IT LOOK FARM FRESH PATINA !! :)
I have worked in an office building for more than 30 years. Your world is so removed from mine. Thanks for letting us glimpse your world!
Thanks for watching! My main reason for doing this is to connect with people like you. Not everyone has access to a farm that they can visit, but everyone can “visit” ours.
I wish this guy was my neighbor. Seems like he'd be a cool guy to hang out with.
All farmers are cool guys and great neighbors.
Might be tough to make time to hang out with him, what with him working 15 hour days.
Until he plows the field at 5am, or runs the harvester at midnight.
@@eryen9503 No they are not. I know many crooks who are farmers. You would be surprised....
@@bowhunter8532 Too bad you live in a bad part of the country.
This is man you could have a beer with. No drama, no fuss, just good company and polite conversation. Thank you for the information. Grew up in farm country before moving to Ranch Country, never knew all of this. Thank you.
Thanks for dropping by!
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 - You're welcome...found you by accident, that must mean it will be a good new year.
No matter what the job is, blue-collar, white-collar, city, or country, hiring a kid that was raised on a farm is almost always a great hire.
Great point.
which is why America used to have such great leaders both in business & government -- men who were raised on farms, back when 60% of Americans lived in rural/farming communities. Families needed everyone to do chores, as soon as they were old enough to carry a bucket or shovel. They learned to care for and respect the animals that gave them sustenance, they learned about responsibility and teamwork, to hunt and fish and swim and run and, sometimes, to fight. They were better than us in most ways; modern day Americans brag how open minded and sophisticated we are, yet we can't even decide what our genders are and lack the patience, dedication, & self-sacrifice to raise children.
I had the pleasure of farming for my first 18 years before I found an opportunity to escape. I appreciate and like farming as long as I don't have to depend on it for my livelihood.
Anyone with half a brain cell could get 99% of ur video’s points, just from your intro of questions. Social media has created nothing but stupidity with all these new homesteading / new garden “experts” trying to instill their soil inaccuracies into everyone’s brainless heads. People have different soils, temps, etc. Farming isn’t a one size fits all. It’s a shame more ppl won’t see your video and even less would even understand it anyways. Glad y’all keep doing what you do. Stay blessed and keep on farming”
Living in Wyoming I'm always glad when my neighbor to the west tills in the fall, because I know I'm going to get 3 to 4 inches of his topsoil on my field.
Hello from Los Angeles, thanks for showing us a glimpse into your world.
Hey there L.A. 👋
I am a suburban guy from Maryland/DC with no connection to farming, I stumbled across your videos last month watch a couple and found them interesting. Since then I have been binge watching, and as of last night I am all caught up. You do a terrific job explaining both the why and how of what you do, and you make the videos enjoyable to watch. Keep up the great work!
Thanks a lot David! I love connecting with people who would otherwise not be able to visit a farm regularly. Now you can visit mine whenever you want. Modern technology is making the world so small!
David, how about getting some good folks together and start a small farm. For fresh healthy food along with a fun get away for the family. I'm in Maryland\DC area as well. Allegany county has some good farm land along with mountain view.
I just happened upon your channel. I paused the video at 1:17 and subscribed. I know I am going to enjoy this ride. OK, just grabbed a beer and let's get back to the video.
Thanks a lot!
Also in heavy clay soils, there is something special that freeze and thaw cycles do to clays. It seems to break them down into small soil particles that are ready for planting. Also all that carbon in the stalks works with the nitrogen in the fertilizer to break down into humus. The most fertile soil possible. Also a theory, but putting the corn stalks lower into the soil profile encourages earth worms to come up and feed on them. Even if the top few inches of soil is frozen, worms would go nuts eating and multiplying. All those castings are perfect plant food!
@Santina Murphy Just be happy I didn't call it dirt! Okay soils grammar police. There is such a thing as humus soils, they are soils rich in humus. You taught me nothing and added just manure to the soils discussion! www.britannica.com/science/humus-soil-component
Right on! Our deep freeze and thaw cycles are extremely important to our soil health here.
Super informative, didn't even know to ask these questions let alone the answers.
Thanks!
A big thanks to all the farmers across the world who keep the rest of us fed!!
There were a couple of other Dodge brothers 100 years ago named John and Horace that did ok for themselves too .
Good luck fellas. Enjoy the channel .
They sure did!
@Tim Ebert Had they both not passed away in 1920 , its possible that Dodge automobiles might have run away with the industry rather than Ford ,
Until the flu got em.😖
@@jocoloco1320 And 100 years later the flu is still killing people .
Wow. What a really thorough explanation of your fall tillage
Again...great video. Informative and the video angles clearly demonstrated what each part of the chisel plow did. I have sat through hour long ag lectures that didn’t explain the principles of fall tillage as well as this video did. Thanks!
Wow thanks Thomas! I really appreciate the encouragement. Honored that you take the time to watch the videos as well as leaving feedback!
On Boxing Day, I just spent 12 minutes watching a farmer re-plow his field. Big respect !
The city folk don't realize that they couldn't survive for 2weeks without the farmers. Tractors use diesel.
They also don't know that they couldn't survive for 2weeks without carbon based fossil fuels.
DJTrump is on the right path to saving our way of life in the whole western world.
Who thinks farming is easy, done mine back in the '60's and even with all the improvements in machinery, you still have to work with Mother Nature. Thanks for the videos and I will follow you awhile.
Where would we be without farmers?
We all gonna die of starvation over the next ten years as the industrial food supply collapses.
@@FarmersAreCool try supporting your local farmers then!
You would be in the field if he wasn't here.
Only 10% of corn grown in the states is eaten by Americans. Framers do not make money with corn until the government subsidize.
@@Barrenchats I do, I am a local farmer. Government in some places outlaws collecting rain water, and people haven't killed all those legislators yet, haha.
I think fall tillage is extremely important . It helps get the seeder on the fields faster in the spring . Awesome video !
It sure is a must for us!
Soil actually dries and warms faster in spring with cover crops and no till than it does with tillage
@@greghinthorn4356 how do you know?
@Teun lll science is how I know
Topic been researched to death
Google it and start reading
Good work coming out of Purdue Iowa state and Michigan state land grant universities
Facts not opinions
It's a fact tillage causes compaction layers in a soil profile
Here in My part of TN tillage is highly frowned upon by the NRCS. And I am 75% no till. But I work my way around tearing up a little land every year. I’ve got some videos on my own channel how we do it.
where i am from fall plowing saves you a lot of work in the spring because the soil breaks up a lot better after sitting all winter. good video
It sure works here!
Seems like a really chill, straightforward, meditative job.
Until something breaks.
Exactly!
I honestly thought he was going to non-ironically answer his questions at the beginning of the video by saying "No, it wouldn't be better; but here's a whole video worth of reasons why that I'm going to explain."
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and your struggles. You tell what is the good and the not so good aspects of farming. You did not try to hide the bad or challenges you face on a yearly basis. You also show how long you have work to get the work/tasks done that need to be done. You taught a good work ethic. I don't even see that many places today. THANK YOU! May God bless you with successful yields of your crops and the other farmers crops you work for, which I do not know how you manage the time with family and work/life style. God bless you. I envy you being outdoors, but not the below 40 F temperatures.
Thanks for the encouragement! It has been a rough year but it will be better next year.
Good video! Great explanation of tillage! Looking forward to more videos.
Thanks! I’m working on editing one right now...
Having grown up in West Texas I enjoy seeing how other areas tend their acreage. It is fascinating how drastically soil conditions turn from clay to sand to powdery soil.
Best of luck to your family this upcoming farming season.
Happy new year Robert!
Hi Dodge Brothers.
Great video.
I am now subscribed to your channel, and am looking forward to following a long as well as watching your existing videos.
Happy new year to Iowa from Denmark, EU.
I'm an old guy from the city out west and know nothing about farming but I really enjoyed your video. You seem to be a good, hard working man who would appear to be a good neighbor. We probably wouldn't agree too much on any political points but hell, that doesn't really matter. I think I will subscribe to your channel and maybe try and learn something about farming. Respect! 😊
bartbutkis I have a theory about politics. I believe both the D party and the R party care far more about keeping us divided against each other than they do about any of the issues they claim to stand for. I don’t know which party you would align yourself with and you don’t know which party I would align myself with. I would bet though that even if it’s not the same party, we would agree on more individual issues than we would disagree on.
I was raised a city boy and recently (10 yrs. ago) moved to an old farm house in Colorado. The farm is still being worked (not by me though) and I'm always amazed at what these guys go through, raising a crop. Needless to say, I love it out here and sometimes wish I'd been a farmer myself. Thank you.
Our house was built in 1900. How old is yours?
Gabe Brown has a presentation here on TH-cam called "Treating the farm as an ecosystem", there might be some methods there you could use in order to save time and money
Gabe Brown does amazing things with his land.
Gabe Brown is a brilliant man
Gabe Brown never tills, and he has some amazing ideas about how to farm that is contrary to what current Ag producers are doing.
I think Gabe Brown will shoot right over these fellas heads. Gabe is brilliant. Thumbs down for tilling.
I saw a good piece on the Newshour recently about farming. One of the main reasons you don't see more no till is that the a lot of the land is leased, so the farmers don't have as big a stake in the long term health of the soil.
Too bad. The way they farm now the soil is depleted after a few harvests.
No till with cover crops also relies on the weather cooperating.
THANK YOU for all that you do. I know its very hard work!
Thanks for watching!
It always amazes me how smart farmers are when it comes to biology and chemistry. They truly are the caretakers of the earth.
I would add meteorology to a list of their skills
Thanks for the video, my mom´s family were farmers in Mississippi County, Arkansas and Ocala Florida.
Thanks for letting us tag along, it was very informative. I used to work at Landoll Corp. in Marysville, KS, where your tilling implement was made, and loved getting to see how their products are being used.
Thanks! Landoll makes great tillage equipment
I am a city boy so this isn't the type I go looking for. It is nice however to find al little gem to watch. Keep up the good work.
Where do you suppose your food comes from tjat you eat in the city? A farmer grew it somewhere.
Thanks again for an informative presentation. Your way of telling the story is so clear and complete. What is going through your head as you do field work when you are not narrating videos?
Kudos to your wife for keeping things at home running while you work crazy hours. Wives are the silent and often under appreciated partner!!
In Ohio we drove through some fields that had a strange cover crop. I checked with the Ohio State Extension and learned it was oil seed radish. It is an interesting fall crop that salvages deeper nutrients and its tap root attacks compaction. Have you heard of it? I won't go into detail but you can look it up.
Learning something new today. I guess you need a lot of patience to ride that long and bounce around all day. Liked it it was calming and soothing watching the plow work.
I find it calming and soothing to ride around in the tractor all day 😀
Santina Murphy I feel ya! When I get done with a long day cutting hay with dad‘s International 1066 turbo I am dirty and half deaf and pretty well shot!
:D I spent a couple decades as a welder repairing this type of equipment. It's cool to see it in operation. God Bless our farmers.
sub'd. i really enjoy your channel. thank you and take care!
Very interesting. I grew up in Illinois farm country but wasn't a farmer but was always curious about farm production. I couldn't knock on a farmers door and start asking questions and ask to ride in the machinery, so this channel gives the information I always wondered about. Thanks!
Always glad to have you “ride along” 👍
Great education ! Farmers are resourceful, practical, capable, resilient with reasons for doing what they do - Few share there knowledge......not realizing their knowledge is as valuable, and of considerable interest, as the crops they grow......
I’m actually amazed at how many people are interested in the things I do every day. It’s easy to take this life for granted and forget that so few of us actually get to do this.
I needed a calming farm/agriculture explainer channel in my life. Yes I did. I'm a systems admin living in the largest city in the country's metro area. Contrasts and all that.
One of the things that a mazes me about farming in the US is the size of your fields man they are huge compared to what we have here in the UK anyway nice video and thank you for explaining why you till the soil in the Autumn/Fall.
Derek,
I am a Brit that lives I Ohio. I visited a friend in Wyoming last summer. You would not believe the size of the ranches in the West. They are tens of thousands of acres.
After Fall plowing a field one year we ran it spring tooth Harrow across that all made it nice and smooth and that winter when it snowed we acquired some orange safety cones that we used to lay out a nice 3/8 of a mile oval which we used to run our snowmobiles on we will leave the gate open people would drive by the house and honk the horn and we would load up and go down and meet him and have little races
Us city folks/ end users obv have “No Clue” ...thanx for the explanation that even I can understand ! 👍
I think consumers overall want to know how things work and I feel bad that so many people have no connection to any farm they could visit.
We try to put small food plots on recreational land for deer hunting. Watched this video because it was on the home page. It was very interesting to learn a little bit about a very tough business that hardly ever sees the weather needed for complete success in a growing season. Thank you for taking the time during a grueling work schedule to make this video!
To sucker the deer in because you're too damn lazy to hunt them in their own environment!?
Thank you for your time. I really do think you give great information and practical explanations.
Thanks!
Very informative. Thank you for producing this video. This gives me some additional appreciation for farming.
Future farm here (hopefully) and I appreciate the simple straight forward explanation you did for that. I've always wondered what the pros and cons were for those that claim no till is the end all only way to go. Hope the winter treats you guys well!
In NorthEast Arkansas our February is the equivalent of your late March/early April one of the reasons we used to till in the fall was because of winter weed control and residue management also...winter weeds such as curlyDock can on occasion get to big to to control without heavy spring tillage, depending the weather.. heavey tillage early spring xan if the ground is too wet and you recieve a big rain may create clods that will be there for a long time. As dad used to say " if you plow wet and it rains before the clods dry out you'll have clods all summer long..our heavy clay soils the gumbo ground you can't hurt from October till February but after February all you want to do is tickle it..."
Had a neighbor years ago that had a large wide tine tiller/weeder harrow ive seen him go out and work the edges of water holes in the field just to break the crust would air the ground out field would be too wet for a disk or chisel plow or bedders. But, it helped to dry the field...
Yeah we have small pockets of soil a little like that. You have to be very cautious with it. Most of our sandy and loamy soils are much more forgiving.
You farmers work hard! Such crazy & long hours!
Thanks for the super informative video! Learnt alot for someone who doesnt come from a farming background and great for providing context for a project we're looking at in agriculture. Kind regards
Thanks Sofia!
Don’t know how I found you. Really liked it. Thx for sharing.
Nice to see how soil works half way across the world.
wow I never knew why you did that. I knew you did it but just didn't know why. now I do. great video I just saw you for the first time today. thanks for the videos
You are a very good teacher. Thanks!
Great video again, thanks for all the info. I have heard a lot about "no til" and other techniques but have bever i=understood anything, really, about either the science or the practical aspects. You are darn good at getting to the heart of the matter without overloading with "textbook" facts. And I loved your answer to Bonden i Värmland ... a little humor makes the time go by ;-)
Thanks Dave! I can’t ever resist a chance to make a lame joke 😂
Great video. Everyone's better off when weather makes it easier on the farmers.
In my country some type of grain can be directly seeded at spring but not many time in same field because it increases unwanted weeds and some plant disease.
Well done. Your presentation is friendly and informative-- just what I'd expect, speaking as a former Iowan:)
love watching these videos :) reminds me of the crap the american farmer goes thru to get food to our tables thank you
Welcome to can't sleep Saturday where TH-cam throws me random blessings from a corn field
Glad you couldn’t sleep!
you and me both. except it's can't sleep ... monday/tuesday. thanks to you @Dodge Brothers Farm and Ranch and everyone else farming your guts out for us all to eat your fine crops, produce the fuels we need, etc. And thanks for producing some videos about it! nice to learn about your giant-scale horticulture versus my small scale.
I moved to NE IA a decade ago from La Crosse. TH-cam suggested this video to me somehow. I've always been curious on how you guys farm differently than where I'm from. Good stuff here. I've always been curious. Great tutorial. You've earned a subscription. Now I have to go back over all your videos and see what else you've done that I've always wondered about. I see you guys even go shopping up in Hazleton too. I'll have to catch that video and see what you're doing up there. Don't give away too many secrets! Wild what you're doing here. Keep up the good work!
Wow thanks!
Excellent Job on your video! informative not only with why your Tilling the soil but you also gave very good information on the equipment, soil conditions pre and post harvest why and how (just enough info) you bring nutrients back into the soil and why you were not able to power right on thru the fields IE. Soil compaction, muddy or frozen conditions. Not to mention Farming is never a 9 - 5er type job, dang good job on trying different fields/strategies instead of calling it a day. I would have like to seen just a bit more on cost of supplies, wrenched disk's or other equipment so City Folk can appreciate a bit more of how food gets to the table. Ive never been a "Mud Farmer" just a "Drylander" but over all Excellent job on your video!! Thank you.
Thanks Darron! I’ll keep your ideas in mind for future videos.
Love these videos. Very interesting and informative. Keep them coming.
Thanks!
A lot of people have noticed the tilling angle being offset from the rows. This yeilds better results since it doesn't exacerbate compaction.
If you're ok with 90% efficiency with 200%+ yields, you could theoretically plant 3 specialized fast yield crops a year (corn, soy, winter wheat for example) The study that tried it expected low overall but was able to harvest, till, chemically fertilize and plant in the same pass and get close to 90% of the yields compared to planting a single crop - so 270% effective yields the first year with slightly less (a few %) each additional year. The seeds were specially coated IIRC - I think because of the chemical fertilizers or maybe to delay germination.
It was a pretty cool research paper but it seemed like they wanted different results - the other part (more "eco-friendly") used 2 crops and spread manure, etc... instead of planting the winter wheat.
Could you give me some more details on how this study was set up? I know in my area there’s absolutely no way you’d be able to get 3 crops out of a field in a year
2 Questions: How does the tilling impact sustainability of the field? , What are your wishes for organic content in the ground for the coming 35 years?
You won't get an answer to this.
He probably thinks that cover crops over the winter is a "waste" even though his yields would rise over time as his soil improves.
Good questions! We are actually improving organic matter content over time with reasonable application of livestock manure and incorporating residue with fall tillage. We have observed and measured this over the years through soil testing. Our main concern with tillage and sustainability is making sure we keep the soil where it is. We have spent a lot of time and money on filter strips, buffer strips, grass waterways and terraces. Also, we have some fields laid out in contours instead of farming straight rows so that we can avoid running rows up and down a hill. All of this is helping dramatically. It’s sad to see some guys not taking care of their soil.
Incorrect. I love cover crops. It’s a great way to harvest energy from the sun and put it back into the soil as well as controlling erosion and weeds. Our problem here is trying to get the cover crop established between harvest and winter. Also our spring window is very short. We are often planting within a week after the last snowfall. We have utilized cover crops and no-till on a couple fields with good success, but 7 years out of 10 it doesn’t work here due to weather.
wish i was on my own farm instead of ending up a hot designer in NYC. Real men at work.
Oh well if a none stressful life is what you are looking for, by all means invest a half million dollars and start dairy farming. There's nothing to it.
Dont be a liar. There is PLENTY of BLACK SOIL farmland near you. They even grow MARIJUANA over there for you Califonian hippies.
Great info bro. I'm from a 7th generation farm in upstate ny. We mostly do no till corn. Dad always complains about the ground case it's clay ground and fully of rocks. Did a lot of rock picking as a kid. Not really fun but it had to be done.
Thanks Jacob! I’d like to experiment more with no till and see what we can get away with here.
Been reading about Regenerative Ag and this video explains real world compared to theory.
No till, building soil microbes seems best but you explained well, and now I better understand.
Thanks for details on the tractor.
Would be interested in the soil make up.
Just a city person interested.
Thanks Brenda! I should have mentioned that we have been experimenting with cover crops on a field or two. The issue we run into in our climate zone is getting it seeded early enough to get it to grow.
I’m not a farmer but these videos are very insightful. You my friend earned a subscriber
Thanks! I’m glad you enjoy farming with me.
Never thought to work the wet ground when it is frozen. We get down to 10 degrees here on a regular basis. I'm going to give it a try.
From Southeast Iowa ! And watching this from Southern Texas . Definitely a new subscriber
Thanks Casey!
Very interesting. There are a lot of options between plowing, cultivating and no-till. I guess that is the kind of thing you have to know in order to be a successful farmer.
Great video. God bless you boys! Thanks for keeping us fed.
Thanks for watching!
That was very interesting. Thank You for explaining what you do :)
Have you tried ploughing with the plough instead with chisel sometimes?
In my opinion it should better turn and mix soil and what is left of crops, go few inches deeper. Since you have worked with chisel for long time as I could notice, that means you could pull more fertile soil from deeper layer that formed during all these years on top layer where crop will grow. I think ploughing allows also for better soil structure for it to assimilate water during winter and create reserves for hot summer. In this case where you cannot chisel I believe you can plough.
My dad tried to plough some field and it was dry it would just rotate big blocks of ground. But after some frosty days, bit of rain it went like trough butter, nice mixed ground. The only thing that caused trouble was my IMT 560 (an MF 65 licensed version) was stalling 5-6 times since the fuel pump was accumulating air.
The only downside of ploughing is creation of thick layer of soil in the bottom of the furrow by heavy plough and heavy machinery. Since it is created on the layer some 25-33 cm (10-13 in) it prevents plant to develop root properly and water doesn’t drain well or underground water can not reach well upper layer. It can be a problem if a plough is used more than 5-10 years without breaking that layer within 1 meter with machine I cannot find name in English.
Nice video, nice farm operation you have and very nice way of presenting your work.
Plowing creates more side compaction, leaves no residue thus more erosion and requires more fuel to complete. It also takes more time to do.
Kirk Gibbs I can agree on soil compaction, that is the layer I told the machine and plough can create on bottom of the furrow, yield is smaller since work width is narrower for same chisel machine and fuel consumption is higher. But erosion on flat land is near impossible since land structure during ploughing is made to absorb as much water as possible during fall and winter, and in spring by tilling it you create different structure of soil on surface so it wouldn’t allow any evaporation from it. Erosion could occur only on hill terrain when ploughing is done from top to the bottom. Then water can wash top fertile soil and nutrients to the bottom. To prevent that the hill areas are plowed by following contours of the hill, from the sides.
Informative video. I enjoyed it.
bigtractorpower wow thanks!
We till to incorporate manure since we're a dairy farm and also to help alleviate compaction
From what studies I've looked into tillage creates more compaction. When we switched from conventional to no till we also noticed less compaction in our soil. (Except where we park trucks on the end)
I noticed that your fields are relatively level, my cousins in southeast iowa had fields that had to have terraces and drainage tile Al never did notill but did some minimum till. In 1983 he and a neighbor both having pasture and cows kept most all their corn harvest on the farm in the form of silage they built a large trench silo on the slab foundation of an old dairy barn. He was a sight using an old H farmall with a front end silage fork filling the silo..normal years the corn would go to Stockport or Fairfield grain elevators
Great video; your tractor seemed to have a shorter wheelbase and a little less weight than you really needed to get the job done under the weather conditions you were dealing with. But tractors are expensive, and you run what you have available. Thanks for explaining what you were doing, the need for the fall tilling, and the weather problems. The only thing you didn't mention was how do you keep the rig going in a straight line in those huge fields with very few landmarks to guide you, without overlapping what you've already tilled or wandering off course and missing some areas between the passes you make? GIS?
‘’First snow on the fields is poor mans fertiliser’’.......James Wilder .....Farmer Boy a novel by Laura Ingles Wilder....
Good book series
Thanks for the ride and education! Much appreciated AND ENJOYED,
Thanks for watching!
The twisted shovels seem to do a really good job, i have never seen that particular piece of equipment. I have in another life plowed from sun down to sun up and it's kind of surreal. Thanks for posting.
Thank you for your video. I've lived in central Illinios most all of my life. Have friends and neighbors that farm but never asked them about how and why they do what they do. Just cuts at them in the spring and for for holding up traffic and getting mud all over the roads. Your short video explained some of it. You can tell by your smile and tone in your voice you love this S#$t. I mean your job. Bless you, wish the rest of us were so lucky. Peace Out and God bless you and your family. 😎✌🤘🖖
I was spinning like that this fall trying to chisel plow after sugar beet harvest. One thing that sometimes helps is to run a field cultivator or disk over the ground first. It helped dry the top few inches down so I could get better traction. But our ground is probably different than yours. Also, the beet tops were causing me to spin more than muddy ground.
I thought about that but our disk is so big I didn’t figure I could pull it either...
enjoyed the talk as much as I did the ride. I hate spinning the tires on my 4020 trying to chisel hard or wet land.
Thanks! I really want to get ahold of a good 4020 power shift. They are so doggone expensive.
I was trying to tell my old man. That in our Area. Years of Tossing the compost of what was left in the garden out... We should be Tilling it right back into the garden and get that biomass back as Naturally as we could. Instead of Bringing truck loads of compost in here in northren Canada.
What gigantic fields. They seem endless. I compare them with my tiny back yard 10' plot and am in awe 😀
Subscribed, just to satisfy my fantasy of some day, somehow owning a farm. Probably will never happen, but can at least vicariously experience it on TH-cam!
Welcome aboard! Glad to have you along.
A few suggestions for future episodes. 1) all the computer screens on the tractors, 2) a comparison of 1960's diesel power vs present emissions standards on newer tractors, 3) neat little ideas you do to make work easier, 4) Weed sprayers, chemicals, & why, 5) all the equipment you use to make your videos, 6) how you attach you camera so it doesn't fall off during filming, 7) what happened to the wild calf, 8) a day in the life of "Bob the cat", 9) how to successfully get around Hazelton during "Rush Hour". You do a great job explaining what is going on. Enjoy the Videos!
Thanks! You dropped a lot of good ideas here. I will say that one of them is already in the works. You’ll just have to stay tuned to figure out which one it is....
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 I enjoy the videos. You do a good job teaching. Your explanations are well thought out and easy to grasp.
Thanks for sharing your video with me I'm a retired old peanut farmer I love that black dirt you got up there I was just wondering why you was driving a case international lol I've always used the John deer tractors but I was raised on a farm when we had case equipment I love both of them my first tractor I drove was a case 430 with a hand clutch on it I've made a living using big John deer tractors for most of my life thanks again my friend for sharing your video and merry Christmas up your way and a happy new year too
Thanks for sharing these videos, you work for a farmer which is dawn to dusk then work on your own farm, when do you sleep? Farmers are a different bred of people, no slacker allowed!!
The work days are long while we are doing field work, but that’s my favorite part so it doesn’t seem like work. When we aren’t in the field the schedule is more like a regular job. Thanks for watching and stopping by to chat!