Why do Farmers Till Soil in the Fall?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ธ.ค. 2019
- Today I answer some questions you have about fall tillage practices. You also get a glimpse into the struggle of trying to get the chisel plowing done in 2019. Hop right in and let’s go for a ride!
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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?
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
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 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.
Wow. A level headed, reasonable explanation of farming practices. Well done.
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 can't believe I watched this and found it interesting. Good job.
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.
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.
You are a very good teacher. Thanks!
Wow. What a really thorough explanation of your fall tillage
That was a great presentation. Thank you!
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.
That was very interesting. Thank You for explaining what you do :)
Very informative. Thank you for producing this video. This gives me some additional appreciation for farming.
great video , you explained it clearly "Thank You"
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."
Informative video. I enjoyed it.
bigtractorpower wow thanks!
Thanks, very informative! Keep them coming.
Thanks! Will do.
Good video! Great explanation of tillage! Looking forward to more videos.
Thanks! I’m working on editing one right now...
: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.
THANK YOU for all that you do. I know its very hard work!
Thanks for watching!
Clear, concise and informative... Thank you
Thanks for the good job explaining
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!
Super informative, didn't even know to ask these questions let alone the answers.
Thanks!
Thanks for the video, my mom´s family were farmers in Mississippi County, Arkansas and Ocala Florida.
A big thanks to all the farmers across the world who keep the rest of us fed!!
Great video. God bless you boys! Thanks for keeping us fed.
Thanks for watching!
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 !! :)
Good explanation
Thank you for your time. I really do think you give great information and practical explanations.
Thanks!
Very nicely done - thx! Tough job!
Thanks!
Thanks for the ride and education! Much appreciated AND ENJOYED,
Thanks for watching!
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!
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.
Thanks 4 your videos! God bless!
Thank you for the education.
Well done. Your presentation is friendly and informative-- just what I'd expect, speaking as a former Iowan:)
Great video. Everyone's better off when weather makes it easier on the farmers.
Hello from Los Angeles, thanks for showing us a glimpse into your world.
Hey there L.A. 👋
always fun to watch and learn
Thanks!
Thanks for the info.
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.
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.
Great Video and explanation!
Great Video, thanks for sharing
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
Thank you sir, very informative
Very educative, thanks!
Love these videos. Very interesting and informative. Keep them coming.
Thanks!
Thanks for the video. appreciate it.
Another great video thanks for all the info 👍👍👍
Thanks Gary!
general public has no idea what it takes to put food on the table. god bless !
Paul Bissonnette . Great comment...exactly!
@@chaplainmattsanders4884 thank you. Many consumers are clueless. Not all, but many
I never thought I'd have use for a video like this!
i love the intel thank you
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.
I did just like you said cuz I enjoyed this clip
it was very educational
thank you
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.
Great video!!
Nice to see how soil works half way across the world.
You farmers work hard! Such crazy & long hours!
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.
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 😂
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
Enjoyed the video.
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.
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.
very educational. thanks.
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!?
Ahhh, memories of driving the Super M with the 6-row disk from 10 - 2 at night. This was the 70's in north central Iowa and we didn't have the fancy stuff. No cabs on the Super M, Super H and the 560.
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!
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?
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” 👍
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. 😎✌🤘🖖
Yes, that was informative.
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!
Thanks that answered many questions!
Glad you enjoyed it!
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.
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.
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!
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.
Good explanation sir. Best of luck in all regards as you go thru winter.
Thanks!
I enjoyed your video.
Nice vid. Reminded me of being a kid in Texas.
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
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 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.
Great video. Love learning how different areas work there land. I’m in eastern North Carolina.
Thanks! How far are you from the Bernards in Milton? They have a cool TH-cam channel called “This Farm Wife”
Dodge Brothers Farm and Ranch I am about 3 hrs from the farm wife. She is in the foot hills and I’m down East about 125 miles from the coast.
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 .
love watching these videos :) reminds me of the crap the american farmer goes thru to get food to our tables thank you
From Southeast Iowa ! And watching this from Southern Texas . Definitely a new subscriber
Thanks Casey!
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
Great explanation. Thank you. Thumbs up from a subscriber.
Thanks David!
Excellent educational Video. Please keep making more of those for different seasons and crops.
Thanks
Sincerely Babur Ejaz
Thanks for the food 👍
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?
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”
Enjoyed watching. Peace. From Denver CO.
Thanks!
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