ANY CROP DAMAGE? (Evaluating crops after FROST!) | Vlog 80
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- Another Saturday morning CROP TOUR!
This time, I'm keeping my fingers crossed we've survived the many nights of frost.
We are checking canola, corn and winter wheat...
I also open up a wheat plant to show you what stage we are currently at!
#canola #corn #wheat
Super happy that “Mark Brock University “ is offering online crop science courses these days. Keep up the great content.
Thank you for your willingness to let us be a part of your life and see all the hard work that you do. My family went for a country drive a few days ago and I saw a planter, roller and joker. Because of you I knew what the farmers were doing and what they might be planting. Thank you for opening my eyes and help me understand all the mechanics that farming takes. I am a city girl at heart but had grandparents that had a hobby farm that I loved as a little girl. Thank you for all your hard work to feed us all. Blessings.
Hello Mark! You, your wife and the rest of your Family are “Super” Farmers. Farmers allow us to Survive. Thank you! 👏👏👏
Mark , I’m so glad you got your crops in .
This video was really interesting with showing the wheat heads inside and going over the anatomy of the plant.
May God bless your Crops, and your Animals, and your Whole Family.
It’s nice to be able to watch you and your wife farming. We get to see the crop farming and how it affects the livestock farming. How both work together in life. Thanks for sharing.
I never knew that farmer's watched their crops so intently. Makes sense though. Really glad the weather so far isn't causing you too much frustration. Happy Holiday.🇨🇦
Looking good Mark. Fingers crossed the weather is kind to you. Big surprise in Brisbane we went from 18 to 28 deg days to 7 to 21 degrees. We have wind as well so it is cold (for us). The winter gear is definitely out. Not sure if I could do snow. It looks bloody cold watching you work. The crops look great really interesting vlog. Love it when the drone goes up.
Watching you dissect the wheat is way more interesting and way less gross than dissecting frogs in biology class decades ago. Thanks for teaching us non-farmers!
Wow! You are such a good farmer your plants look good. Like your videos. 🌾🌽🚜
Mark that was an excellent presentation!! I worked in corn wet milling, soybeans and power alcohol for 10 years. Brewing for 30 years. That the first time I saw the seed head traveling up the plant!!! Too cool!!!
Glad to hear your trying to minimise herbicides use by keeping clean crops and using cover crops. Integrated pest management systems with cultural and chemical control looks the way to maintain yield and quality without over reliance on chemicals. Would be nice to see environmental assessment of wildlife species present over the land you farm. In UK we have schemes to pay for enhancement of habitat, field boundary wild life areas, and other techniques. Decline of songbirds and bio diversity is often a price for good quality, cheap food, but does not have to be the case if government agencies and farm management techniques can implement succesfull schemes.
The fields around my area are in full bloom with canola flowers, and we’ve had many night frost.... I’m in the state of Pennsylvania... Can’t wait to see everything from the drone...
Because you have livestock might be fun to try planting 60inch corn with same population. Then you can plant something with high protein between the rows. Corn yield is the same and your chopper can get both crops at the same time to make silage. That would be fun to see your results.
Once again, great information for us non farmers. Very educational.
God bless you and your family.
Mark add a little 10-34-0 to your 28 might help lessen any burn. Half to one gallon a acre is what we use. I also don't think a little burn really hurts anything. I really enjoy your vlog !
Hi mark nice to see the frost did not hart the crop..now that's the first time o seen inside a wheat plant cool.thanks for sharing it. Now cross are fingers the the rain don't hert Aney thing be safe god bless sir
happy to find another Canadian farmer!!
Brock videos are the best videos on TH-cam! This agriculture major just gets lost in all the learning you provide! Then Sandi teaches me sheep stuff!
Hi Mark, nice video, nice looking crops. You don`t have to worry about driving with your vertilizer spreader through the wheat without the right wheelspacing. If you do it in the spring, on a sunny day with dry soil conditions and less airpressure in the tires, there is no damage to the wheatplants.
I also try a new crop this year. Blue sweet lupins (I hope thats the correct translation). If you want to know how they looks like ......... there is a video on my channel (tomorrow!)
Greets from Bavaria. Thomas
Great job Mark. Great teaching video. Was 96 here today. Have a great Holiday. Hopefully you won't get much damages from rain
Hi Mark nice too see that your winter canola is doing good , this is the first video I have watched in a while have been busy seeding we just finished seeding here on Friday in Saskatchewan we finished up with canola greetings from a Dane how is living in sask 🇩🇰🇨🇦
Mark thanks for excellent product report.
Mark thanks you for teaching me about wheat plants👍
Nice to see the canola is fine. I woke up to 1 inch of snow this morning, was snowing when I woke up, in S. E. Idaho. I know some farmers have planted crops, not sure if any are up. It got to just below freezing in the area. Glad to have the moisture. Thanks for sharing.
In Canada a coffee is often ordered as a "double double"...2 creams 2 sugars...
Mark, Thankyou. What an extraordinary detailed insite your giving us. You and Sandy ane giving this Ozzie Victorian City Dweller all the answers I've so often have wanted to know. When driving in the country Vic I often stop and look at crops growing and get a closer look. The growing conditions and the raising of sheep is so different here as you know. Fascinating to see how you guys mange different conditions eg; Snow, which I have only seen once in my 60 years when I went to the high country. Again thanks for you efforts.
Oil seed rape is what its called in Britain , fields of yellow over here , people used to complain all the time years ago that it was giving them hay fever but not so much moaning now, things are looking good on the farm (and the garden ) cheers from Scotland
You do a great video of the farming process for your crops Mark. Thank You. I am glad that there are farmers like you who give their all to learn and explain as much as you do about the crops you grow. I used to farm some wheat decades ago and one year decided to hire a crop duster plane and we were so impressed with it we did it until the farm was sold. What are your thoughts on crop dusting your crops?
I love the sight of the sea of yellow that rapeseed makes when flowering.
Also it is a plant that is native to Canada so as you seen it is very frost resistant
Great tour 👍 & discussion of the crops , you do an excellent job in explaining what you do & why ! I did visit the farms yesterday in Pueblo Colorado , Vineland area watched the Pueblo Chili starting to grow at Musso farms on Facebook ! My son Rocky father in-law has been farming for over 55 years , 5 generation farm , my father farmed back in the 30's & 40's with a team of horses , no tractor ! I have been involved in the farming somewhat for 30 years selling vegetables & produce ! It's in my blood ! Memories ! Bob
As far as I know both canola and winterwheat can survive temperatures up to minus 20 degrees Celsius. Hence the name has winter in it. The only damage can come from heavy snowfall and even more a very long snowcover. Than the plant will grow horizontal because under the snow it does not freez.
God is gracious to you!
Your OSR (canola) looks great, better than anything in the north of England 🏴
Thanks for this nice educational video. I remember seeing moose in the canola fields here where I live, in Sweden. Maybe they like to eat some of it. I really appreciate the smell from the field as the yellow flowers appear.
Fantastic video Mark! The inside look at the Canola was very interesting and educational..
Love that you like to try new crops. Farming with Mother Nature is hard enough, Mark goes the extra mile🤓. Continued good luck In the fields
Hello Mark! Thanks for discussing the Canola Topic. I was one of those who sent you a Comment about it. How Much of a Market is there for Canola ? Will you be able to Find a Home for ALL the Canola you Grow ? I really like Sandi’s Channel and I’m really Enjoying your Channel a Lot also. Thanks! 👍
Great Video . Thanks once again . love the way you take the time to go into such depth and explain to us every thing in terms we can understand yet also familiarizing us with the correct terminology . Thanks for educating us . Ps that's part of the reason I enjoy watching both you and Sandy's channels .
Super interesting video, Mark! The 'dissection' of the wheat and explanation was fascinating! Thanks so much!
Hello from the other side of the Atlanic ocean! When I was a farmworker in the eighties we used to grow a lot of wintercanola (or winter rapeseed as we say in europe). In this area we often get nightfrost pretty late in the spring and cannot remember that we wree worried about that but what was critical was if the autumn (or fall) became too mild too long so the rapeplant grew too much before the winter came. I remember that as a much bigger problem. This was in the south of Sweden. Here all the rapeseedfields have been yellow for several weeks allready but I think your field looks very good. Shall be interresting to follow it throug out the season. How are you planning on harvest? Do you do a direct cut or do you wingrow it first?
down here was called rape seed for so long thought canola was a new thing, IL is big corn country so heard farmers call it weed when I was young. Fields around me look like it is a weed, swaths of yellow and stips of bare ground, usually plowed and put to beans by June. Do you grow for industrial or human consumption? Love the way you and Sandy both spend time just loving on your crops and enjoying them.
Mark, you have a fabulous accent. Reminds me of the movie Fargo.
You most likely know but canola doesn't need VAM so levels will decrease. Following crops that require high levels of VAM will suffer yield losses, these being summer crops and legumes . I would suggest following canola with wheat in your rotation. The GRDC in Australia has a good canola guide that is available online for free. Google canola GRDC. Looking forward to more great vids. Hoping it starts to warm up for you. Cheers
Very interesting
Hi Mark!
It look good so far. I hope you have more heat for canola flowering. Our flowering is over and still dry, 38 mm.
Thanks for the detailed explanations of the crops.wheat harvest is close to start here but I never have seen the minor details explained like you do. Local kids just finished class and the harvest is to begin. If the fields dry up enough.
Hi Mark the old timers would of been amazed how modern day science can turn mustard seed basically a weed and turn it into canola. Nice crop
Mark, you and Sandi have taught me and your viewers a great deal about the crops you raise.
I find that there are some similarities raising your crops and cranberries, particularly potential frost damage. .
Primarily protecting from frost. While you have to basically cross your fingers, the growers here protect the crop using the irrigation system. Also pesticides and fungicides are out through in this manner.
Fertilizer on larger acerage is flown on by helicopter.
They are not allowed any longer to fly pesticides.
Just FYI.
Thank you for your clear, detailed explination.
Now ya need to try growing peanuts & sorgruhm like we do at home
So glad you made it through the cold snap, your canola looks great. Can't wait to see what the drone shot looks like. So are you growing canola for ground cover or will it be harvested for something? You may have said and I missed it, haven't been feeling too good here lately but still look forward to your videos. You definitely had my attention when you were explaining about the wheat ever time you said something about seeing the tiny piece I kept shaking my head yes...lol. I really enjoy your videos and appreciate that you take the time to share and explain where people like me can understand. So big thank you and hope your crops make it through the rain and not wash. We got a bunch of it last night until early morning, all this rain is stopping me from getting caught up on my front yard work. But I still have to take it easy until this ulnar nerve damage heals. Anyway hope you have a great weekend, take care and best always Rusty
We'd just got over that rain coming your way, but we had it for almost 4 days. I looks like the timing won't be too bad for you. Best of luck.
I'm so happy for you see all that worring and everything good
wonderful explanations, especially on the wheat plant
Mark - I like "cwetfeet" appreciate your "farming 101" lessons. I think canola is used to produce a cooking oil. Is this a fairly major crop in Canada? Thanks for sharing today. I pray that your rain is not too much to ruin the work you have already completed. Blessings to you, Sandi, and your family.
Great informative video. Really appreciate your thoughtful presentations.
Morning Mark- such a good informative video- thank you. So glad to see how nice the canola plants are looking . What was the time frame from planting to their size in this video? I hope your crops survived all of that rain well. Out here we’ve had none surprisingly. Have a great weekend !👍👍👍🚜🚜🚜❤️🌞🌾
Glad to see the canola starting to flower after the very cold weather you experienced. Canola most be pretty cold resistant. Do you have bees lined up to pollinate the canola?
Mark , remember your sunscreen 🧴 😁 . Be mindful of the spot on your high left cheek bone . White mold bad !
nice were you bees were i com from large your harvest many years ago we harvest about 4500 kg ha
winter crop but need lot of N keep up like your farming
I don’t recall, do you use streamer nozzles for applying 28%.? I do and still get a bit of burn but it’s probably unavoidable. Great video. Thx
I'm guessing the canola will be abuzz next weak. The flowers look like broccoli when it goes by/goes to seed. Apparently it does not have broccolis' frost tolerance gene. Your sure it's not that trendy veg Broccolini?
How did you get to be farming? And do you think your children will carry on? I hope so. Both look very intelligent to do this. Great video!
Raynona Bohrer I think Jessie might farm (not sheep) but not Jack! My guess only!
Have you ever thought about milo ( grain sorghum ) its a versatile crop.
Mark, if there is very little canola produced in Ontario, where will you market your canola crop in 2020?
the canloa you have is it hard to get sold or are they beging for you and other farmers to grow more and paying a good price for it
I know canola is self-pollinating, so would it be worth having a local bee keeper bring in bee hives near your fields to increase yields 10 -15%
What varieties of wheat do you grow? Typical protein content?
What is it sold for? Bulk white flour?
canola might also get hit by frost at its stems causing problems, but at least the ones seen in this video seem to be totally fine.
Hi. Do you have time to plant a second canola crop as it seems it is fast growing. Cheers from Sydenham
Will you harvest the canola or will you plow it under for mulch?
Mark, can you tell me the difference between boogers and broccoli?
Kids won't eat broccoli
Mark, what is an edible bean?
Crops...Challenge...You forgot to mention your and Sandi's 3x battle with Alfalfa every year...lol What's the price of Canola? I presume there's oil premiums like Sunflowers.
God the Father and Son Jesus speaks about sowing and reaping. May God bless you. Through creation, God uses it to help us understand Heaven. God bless!
Mark are there any farms in your area that grow peanuts?
GoodSaturday morning from Houston professor Brock. Just love watching and learning abt Gods crops that have been entrusted to u. The comments and tips people leave are so valuable to learn from as well. It’s so great getting good input. I find myself talking abt farming and sheep. My family and friends are beginning to think I’m on the edge.....ha. So canola oil is from this crop? How abt a coffee crop? Just asking. Ya‘ll have a blessed holiday weekend. Giving God all the glory. He is in control. Hugs
Did you put fertilizer on your garden
Wow so the wheat head is pregnant, figuratively speaking.
What do you do to control vomitoxin
We see you without your sunnies....you have eyes lol.
75 mm of rain is considered a nice wee drop when a good rain is 150mm a flood rain is 300-400mm plus
They are good tossed in a salad , batter fried or tossed in flour or cornmeal and fried also!
I fry with garlic and salt.
Yuk broccoli 🥦🤦♂️😂
Hopefully it's not broccoli
Does anybody have any idea what the honey actually taste like off of that canola field, and are there any bee hives moving around in the area
It is very light and very fragrant. Usually very stiff as well. Is is a delicacy in the south of Sweden.
@@rebeccajoensson thanks
Kind of looks like Chinese broccoli