I just wanted to drop a quick thank you. I use your videos to help augment my children’s education and help them to better understand different complex topics through the ease of visual learning.
Thank you again Destin. I enjoy your very thoughtful and educational videos very much. I remember being at my family's farms in the prairies of Alberta Canada, and saying to cousins exactly what you said. Farmers are scientists, economist, mechanics, carpenters, welders, plumbers, truckers, fathers, mothers, and spouses.... And MORE. Thanks to all of these hard working geniuses, appreciate them every day!!!
hellofresh is just amazing, i love trying new foods and now im eating healthier and eating new foods. i havnt been to a supermarket once for frozen food since
@Mass Debater Or you can look at it this way, without these farmers growing crops so efficiently to the point of overproduction in some seasons, we won't have the luxury to develop rocket science. Just look at third world countries. They're too preoccupied with survival. Agriculture is what built this modern society. We'd still be hunting without that vast knowledge. Notice that we've sent thousands of rockets to space and yet we're just starting to farm there. It ain't rocket science but it's another beast nonetheless.
true. but i was a littel bit shocked because im a farmer and more then half of my friends lives in a town and they are saying that farmers are not important today
As someone who comes from an agricultural background, more cattle ranching than farming though, it just puts a giant smile on my face to see videos like this and the amount of respect this brilliant man has for farmers
Same! I grew up on a large farm in Australia, and even though these are Americans, I'm still extremely grateful for the respect some people have for farmers
I never grew up around farms but I never doubted them being necessary. I never really thought much about it but I knew they make the food. I'd like to see more about farm life but at the same time I know I couldn't do it myself, it's just not my calling . . .
Too many people don't understand or respect where food comes from; the incredible feat of modern engineering and work that goes into feeding hundreds of millions of people
As a farmer who has a Master's degree, thanks for showing farming in a positive light and showing the science behind it. So many suburbanites look down on farmers as dumb, but to run a farm today requires both scientific and business knowledge, as well as work ethic and a lot of common sense.
@@Rhaegarion you don’t know why the crew was hired. Many farmers do put up their own bins, but it requires man power. This guy looks like he’s pretty small time so he probably doesn’t have any employees and it’s pretty tough to find labour in a lot of places. On a separate note, he could have been busy and not had time to erect the bin so it just worked out better to hire a crew. Some companies that sell these bins mandate that they are the ones to assemble them as well. You don’t know.
@@joshuadoll9000 It also costs a lot of money to have the jacks and other equipment to put up a bin and there are tricks that unless you have built a few you don't know. If a farmer builds 2 bins in his lifetime it makes no sense to buy the equipment.
"There's no job like this anywhere in America is there?" "Iunno, I stay on the farm!' What a humble guy, great answer. I think he is a lot smarter than he lets on
fun fact - the moisture tester at 11:20 is actually just a capacitor, with one plate on the underside of the lid, and one plate at the bottom of the canister. when the canister is filled, the grain acts as a dielectric, and all other necessary info remaining constant (distance between the plates, type of grain used, etc.), water's presence changes the extent to which a given grain acts as a dielectric within the capacitor, which is how you get the moisture readout 🌺
I worked at a co-op for several years when I was younger and I had to use a stationary moisture testing machine about a hundred times a day. I always wondered how it worked!
" When a farmer has a mechanical problem,they don't wait for help. They know their equipment inside and out, and they wrap a wrench or a tool, and they just start taking things apart, and fixing it immediately. " John Deer: 👀
At the farm I worked at, they had this little dinky tester that they used for this massive mill. We would get a cup of corn from the bin, dump it in the moisture reader, then adjust the dryers accordingly.
@@AverageJoe8686 Buy your food from local markets as opposed to big box stores. Big box store chains drive the prices down as low as they can possibly get them and put good farmers out of work since they make less money.
I grew up in a small farming community and still remember being impressed by the type of things farmers knew when I started working on a farm during the summer break. On a side note, I am currently taking Thermo 2 in college and we just spent a whole lecture discussing humidity so you explaining the way the grain was dried provided another valuable example for my toolbox.
Always like coming back to this video. I work in grain management so it's cool to see this side of it so close up. I handle things AFTER harvest. Once the grain is in the bin, I monitor temperature and moisture and make sure fans are running (or not) when called. Trying to get the grain to target moisture for shipping or storage through the winter. Every now and then I get to go out to a site and troubleshoot the monitoring system, which is pretty cool to see, but I haven't seen much of what goes on before harvest in person. Thanks for these videos!
You work for an elevator? I'm a farmer but I've gotten to tour a couple facilities in my area in the past year. Pretty cool stuff, Destin should do a video on that side of things if he hasn't
My favorite part is how you can hear his accent come out the more he talks to some of these guys. It's like he hits a button and activates 'Southern Mode'.
lmao my girlfriend is the same way, the second she talks to her family in Maryland she gets this awesome southern accent for no reason, Maryland isn't even in the south lol none of her family talks like that just her
7:15 - no wonder the whole right to repair is so so important. I it's not just about the principles (as important as they are), but that's significant time and money lost if John Deere takes that away.
@@liberals_destroy_everythin2497 search up "farmers torrent software to fix their John Deere equipment" You'll find a lot of great information about the subject
@@liberals_destroy_everythin2497 In short, a lot of farm equipment uses GPS, lasers, and tonnes of other stuff that requires computers. John Deere has made the ability to access the computers both physically impractical and legally actionable. If your computer goes down, a quarter-million dollar machine becomes a dead hunk of metal. John Deere insists on being the only ones who can fix it, and to fix it, you must deliver it to them. This is impractical if you have to finish harvesting before the weather ruins your crop, thus your product, thus your money, your livelihood. Imagine that you could only use Microsoft's browser on your computer, that it would refuse to install others, and you had to do some important online work in the next couple of hours, and that the browser refused to work, and the only way to fix it would be to bring your computer to the nearest Microsoft repair shop in the next state or province. That is why some farmers have taken them to court, and others pirate the computer's software and manuals.
A few years ago a 30 year old barely used collector quality John Deere tractor sold on an auction for around $120000, 5-6 times what it costed new, nearly the same price as a brand new modern tractor. When the seller contacted the winning bidder assuming they were a collector, to see if they wanted it wrapped in something to preserve the perfect paint they were told no, he was just a dealer bidding on behalf of an agave plantation in Mexico, and they were going to knock the windows out of it and tear most of the interior upholstery out and just use it as a tractor. They paid near new tractor prices for a nearly new 30 year old tractor because they have people in their remote part of Mexico that can fix 30 year old John Deeres, but they don't have anyone that can fix new John Deeres.
"Farmers are the backbone of America." Living in California, I've noticed that nobody here seems to realize how important the middle of the country and the people that live there are to the sustainability of our country. I'm really thankful that you took the time to not just make this video, but bring attention to the fact that farmers are still just as important as they've always been.
Middle of the country? This aint nebraska, this is likely in Alabama. Lots of crops produced in the Southeast where there is more rain and longer growing season. No worries, we're used to being overlooked and marginalized.
California ranks first in the United States for agricultural cash receipts followed by Iowa, Texas, Nebraska and Illinois. Ten states generate more than $10 billion in agricultural cash receipts: California ($43,544,001,000 and 11.63 percent of U.S. total), Texas, Nebraska, Illinois, Minnesota, Kansas, Indiana, Wisconsin and North Carolina.
Conner McKinnon- I couldn't agree more! Farming is the most essential job, and nobody ever talks about it. My dad works in the energy business and nobody ever talks about that (at least not in a good way), either. He always says, "In most people's minds, electricity starts at their outlets." But there is soooooo much work that goes in to powering everything we use! It's strange how our culture celebrates actors and athletes and other jobs- which of course are difficult and should be celebrated- but not a lot of the jobs that are most essential to our way of living.
Love it! Thanks for showcasing the Ag industry. Small world, that guy building the bin, built our 58ft bin in Illinois with his brother. Most efficient crew I’ve seen. Wasn’t expecting to see anyone I knew!
Banning the right to repair doesn't make sense for multiple reasons. It's an attempt to monopolize the maintenance market but is ultimately unenforceable and goes against the philosophy of fair trade. It's also only observed in top economies. Emergent economies don't even consider placing such limitations on already sold products. Voiding a product's warranty after the customer repairs it is acceptable and is also the limit a producer has the right to pursue it. They are essentially banning you from their own repair facilities which is fine. Once companies start rigging products to break (actually happens) courts will ultimately side with the consumers. So don't worry about the right to repair folks, it's never going to go away.
@@justinotherjerk7246 Those guys are possibly up to their neck in debt, what they take away really isnt much until everything is paid off. Regardless he's just being humble, you cant change that about most farmers.
@@ColeAlder If you were a farmer you would know that they usually run their businesses in a constant state of debt. The tax fairies are a lot nicer when you are in debt
I love your appreciation for farmers Dan. I’m glad someone with such a large audience can express that same gratitude that I have for farmers directly to them in front of such a large audience. You and your videos are so wholesome
Goes to show how good of a video maker Destin is. I feel like his excitement to learn and eager questions could probably make any subject seem interesting.
look up Milenial Farmer and you can get sucked into a whole channel about farming, if you scroll down a ways to the harvest season there were quite a few videos in and around the grain bin.
"I asked Danny, what is it that they did not want to do, and I started doing that." If we learn nothing else from this channel, this here can get us through a lifetime of experience.
"I asked Danny, what is it that they did not want to do, and I started doing that." If we learn nothing else from this channel, this here can get us through a lifetime of experience.
@@alexhebert4286 "I asked Danny, what is it that they did not want to do, and I started doing that." If we learn nothing else from this channel, this here can get us through a lifetime of experience.
This is quite a simple way to get a job after a ''we'll try you for a day'' and one year later your all over the place. Showing what to do to new guys.
went to help a guy install flooring one day. did what he didnt want to do. 20 years later I am a flooring installer hiring guys to do the things I don't want to do XD
As a grain farmer in America I am so happy to see you make a video about the physics of farming. I studied to be an engineer myself and I love the physics I get to see every day.
hi! i am very curious to talk to an actual grain farmer.. i do not know much about that industry but i would be glad to learn! i keep hearing about the negative aspects of agriculture such as the water and electricity usage and the large amount of grain required to feed cattle.. i was wondering if there was any truth to that, or if those claims were misconceptions.. thanks for your time!
@@eloidumas4067 It always good to take time to learn the true. To be honest there are definitely problems with modern farming. Most grain farmers rely on rain alone and don't have irrigation so the water usage is not that high. We also don't use a lot of electricity most of the year. Many farmers in the area are actually putting in solar fields. Fossil fuel usage is moderate. Our big machines definitely drink diesel but 2/3 of the year they are parked. Probably the biggest problem modern farming has is chemical runoff specifically nitrogen. Most farmers apply too much nitrogen fertilizer at the wrong time and much of it ends in the ocean. Most farmers don't know that is a problem though and the chemical dealers push for over application. Another big problem is erosion and soil loss. Farmers are just being made aware of the problem though. Cover crops and soil building are at the forefront of every ag expo. Don't believe the media though. No farmer is trying to destroy the land or the environment. We make our living exclusively off the land. We would be the first to suffer if it was destroyed. Most of the problems farming has is due to a lack of education. Another thing is most farms are family owned and operated and we are proud to have it that way. Most of the regulations just drive family farms under and promote corporate farms. All us farmers are just doing the best we can. Thank you for asking! I appreciate the interest.
I'm all about soil building! Have you heard what a wonderful ally fungus is for environmental health? The mycelium growing underground is so fine, there's up to 8 miles in just a cubic inch. This web of hyphae is so strong, it can grip soil and keep it from washing or blowing away. Another thing that helps is moisture content, which fungus is adept at sustaining. It breaks down forest litter like twigs and leaves into water, nutrients and cold CO2. Cold CO2 doesn't typically fly up into the atmosphere and assist the greenhouse effect. It stays near the ground where it can return to the plant food cycle almost immediately. Paul Stamets from WA can tell you so much more about it, I'm halfway through his book Mycelium Running and it has been a huge inspiration. Mark Shephard from WI also has a ton of fascinating material on STUN: Strategic Total Utter Neglect. Let the natural order guide your farm to success!
Farming Forever what does it take to be a farmer it seems like you have to be a millionaire when buying those tractors and harvesters there a more than a $100,000
I use this channel in my 6th-grade STEM class in a densely populated area. I’ve been trying to explain rural living areas to my students who’ve never traveled north or into the Midwest. (I’m in southern Florida.) This video helped me share my Midwest heritage and my rural past in Iowa, Indiana and Michigan. I love using this channel when teaching STEM. Brilliant!
3:19 is so true. When you are the new guy, be willing to do anything(within reason). That plus hard work and being punctual and polite will make you a part of the crew as fast as possible.
Tyler Wyka That’s pretty common in those from the Midwest. The Midwest doesn’t really have much of a dialect, so they tend to follow the accent of those around them.
I mean, I wouldn't say I have much of an accent. However, if I'm around people with heavier Midwestern accents than my own, I'll tend to speak more like them
Im french Canadian and went to France for 10 weeks. I didnt notice it at first but my accent changed pretty quickly. You get so used to their accent that your voice starts sounding like theirs. Id say its the instinct of trying to fit in, personally.
I classify them both as punches, but a drift pin is a specific utilization of the punch. That being said, I wouldn't use a drift to make a hole. "Some people call it a sling blade, but I call it a kaiser blade"
As a military brat and former military myself I can relate. I lived in the southern US a lot growing up and can flip back to that accent real quick. Comes in handy when I travel back to the south for work.
@@enji77777 It really does! I was born and raised in Georgia and now live up north, but I work with a bunch of guys from Huntsville. The twang is strong lol
@@enji77777 Wow, me as well. I live in North Carolina with my moms side of the family, but my dads side is from wisconsin and michigan. Around my paternal grandparents and relatives I sound "normal", but around the other half, I switch to southern talk again. When i'm around neither i just have a weird mix of both lol
Farmers are not just the backbone of America. Farmers are the backbone of the Human Civilization. The earliest cities and human settlements were around fertile land, used for farming. Farmers led to the creation of the Human civilization.
Without effective agriculture, what are youtubers supposed to eat? Also teachers, doctors, lawyers, rescue workers, and everyone who isn't producing their own food. The surplus of food produced frees people up to do other things, which is how we have civilization.
meh.. this applies to every profession. In todays world, this is rare to have someone who can do everything from start to finish.. What would the world be without people to make roads, or plumbers ? Or basically every other non bullshit job.
@@xl000 People lived for thousands of years without roads or plumbing, and many still do. But nobody has ever lived (more than a few weeks) without food.
I think what makes me love this channel is the honesty and integrity of Destin, and seeing what a great job he does as a Father and a Husband. There aren’t many real role models on this platform, but you Destin, are a role model. Well done sir 👍
@@smartereveryday Absolutely sir! MAN I'd love to pick his brain on so many various topics!! Lol! It ALMOST makes me wish i lived in Alabama!.....(i may be mistaken on that.?.?).... Almost! He seems like he'd be a GREAT/BRILLIANT guy to know! I love how he doesn't just scratch the surface of the various topics/things he shares, but REALLY goes in depth on the physics/mechanics/inner workings of the topics covered! You sir (Destin) have my admiration, and respect!....... I ALSO happen to think you have a dang cool name!!! Hat's off to you sir!
Sophie Baksteen Same. I decided to watch & was glad I did. I grew up in eastern Kansas & a lot of my friend’s parents were farmers. I remember helping out with odd chores, baling hay, chopping & stacking cordwood etc. It was always pretty hard work, but I can certainly see the attraction to that kind of life. This made me very nostalgic.
I have seen this video recommended to me for about a day now, opping up as the "up next" with the autoplay feature. Everytime I was just like, nahh that would be boring. Until It accidentally played, and I now watched the whole video...
I just found your channel and I am so glad you did this video. As a manager of a commercial granary, i think its important to educate the public about where their food comes from and how it is handled before it is processed. So many people don't know what actually goes on at a farm or at a granary and what has to happen to build them. Great job man!
In Iowa, there is a "house" built from two of those bins, one inside the other, and would win that bet for the bin builders. Saw a story on it while in a hotel outside Des Moines.
At first I wanted to mention "lift slab construction", but it involves only raising the first level and then forming upper slabs above the existing ones... However,... People: "You can't build a house from the roof down!" Civil Engineers: Hold that thought! What about jackblock building system? Spanish: Hold my sangria! There's Torres de Colon in Madrid! It was built from the roof to the bottom! Along with central banks in Ireland and South Africa, and a number of residential and office buildings (mostly from the '70s) in Central Europe, the Soviet Union and India (the most recent that I'm aware of)...
This is such an excellent channel! Professionally produced, family friendly, extremely fascinating and educational. I can’t believe some channel like Discovery or Smithsonian hasn’t tried to buy your show.
A farmer once told me this: “It's a brutal profession, we have to have a huge and rare skill set, high risk, low reward, long hours, low margin for error with large consequences for mistakes.” I embrace that as the quote of all farmers.
to add to the thing about large consequences for mistakes If something breaks, every second that passes that you don't notice the problem could mean a much bigger loss.
@@isaackvasager9957 bud I didn't mean they lose money on the whole operation I meant its gonna cost more to fix the current problem and any other problems that come with it like if a hydraulic line breaks and they don't notice if they also can lose a significant amount of hydraulic fluid meaning that the cost to fix the problem is going to cost way more than the price of a hydraulic line. I really didn't think that would need an explanation but you've surpassed my expectations.
As a farmer this video makes me smile! If you ever want to do a video on center pivots (as seen throughout the video) let me know, I sell, build, service and use many of them. Cheers Destin!
11:31 how the tester works: It miils the grain and measures the conductivity of the powdered grain, because of that you also have to select which crop it is because the base conductivity varies. Hope i helped. (more conductivity - > more water - > higher percentage)
@@marvinecksteincool It doesn't mill the grain. The grain is completely intact after testing. Now I do not know how it works exactly but the bottom container part has a probe in the center and you fill that part to the brim. Then you put the cap on which has a spring loaded plunger on it. You tighten down the cap until the plunger has enough pressure it pushes a rod through the center of the cap to flush. Then you select your variety of grain and hit test. Afterwards pour the grain back into the bulk tank. -Sincerely a wheat farmer.
As far as I know, a similar tool is used in coffee farming, where a similar problem occurs in the drying and storage of the beans. I know the typical tools they use right know are measuring the capacitance of the beans. Higher moisture content equals a higher dielectric constant, and thus capacitance. We have even verified this concept, as our group (Humasol) engineered a cheap version of this tool.
really like it when people recognize and admire knowledge applied to "simple" work, knowledge not necessarily created in the academic world. reminds people that you don't need a phd to have think and that every work should be valued and has things to teach.
My family heritage is in agriculture. Always appreciated farming and respected farmers. They are a greatly underrated and essential facet of our America. Thus may well be my favorite video you've put out.
Hey! 11:33 One of the ways that moisture testers work is called a Carl Fischer Titration. It's actually super simple but also super smart, just like farmers.
Carl Fisher is a titration method. Super accurate (can go down to ppb) but it's not what's shown here. This is most likely a capacitance measurement. It's quick and a little noisier but it gets the job done and is pretty robust to harsh conditions.
farms are a myth propagated by NASA to launder profits made by shadow government agencies working with aliens from outside the boundaries of the flat earth ice wall. were do you think the Titanic went man? c'mon.. it's been on the moon for years now. open your eyes sheeple!
Finally something I know. I work in the AG industry and early on I put up grain bins for the first 3 summers. That was 20 yrs ago. Hard work. Farming is all me and my family knows. About every other year someone looses their life locally to being trapped in grain. Great video. Very good information. Didn’t realize it was so interesting.
We don’t do it in the mouth because your mouth is wet, it makes it hard to tell. You pinch them between your thumb and finger. If it squishes it’s not dry. If it breaks it’s dry.
"The more you know, the more you know that you don't know." - Aristotle I just learned a ton about farming that I didn't know. And now I am aware of even more stuff that I don't know. Thank you to all you farmers out there for putting food on our table!
"He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing." Highly recommend reading up on Socrates. Truly one of the greatest philosophers. Also, Alan Watts. You're welcome, by the way
I received one degree from Yale, and the smartest person I ever knew was my Uncle, who was a Farmer. I think he finished grade school. Miss you Uncle Jimmy.
Ben Hadi didn’t claim to be a “typist” or anything else. “One Degree from Yale did” and i agree with Hadi. But seriously, don’t be “that person” by “that person” I mean a pedantic douchebag.
Thank you for shining a light on the farming industry. Too many times people dont know where their food comes from. Good people like yourself with the audience and the voice can really make the difference. Thank you
Saying how much I appreciate Destin, his testimony, and his integrity, will always be an understatement of the century. TH-cam needs more Destins in different areas of entertainment and learning and I am dedicated in being one of them. Keep being you Destin, the world changes in positive ways when you just let people see that testimony.
Lol it happens to all us southerners when we're around other southerners. I live in Chicago now and most people say they wouldn't guess I'm from the south, but as soon as I'm around other southerners that accent starts slipping out hard haha
@@trevorgahagan5817 I'm totally inverse of that. I'm a yankee living in the south and my New York accent is pretty muted down here (if anything i have a bit of a southern twang) but once I go back up north my accent comes out again.
Man I wish they were the backbone of the Philippines... I mean, they are, but in different countries cuz we import most of what we consume despite being an agricultural country...
Or all the problems that come with it. Like having to change crops from food to feed/fuel or legal battles with water/land/seeds. Watched a documentary a few years ago and there just seems to be some many problems unless you are just going to farm a small plot as basically a side business.
@@Emporer-hz1dd Are you sure about that? Sure, certain tasks got much easier, but then it usually changes on task for an other. While some of the hard labor has gotten easier, new modern tasks take their place. Farming is a very complex operation. And by far the most unpredictable.
I just finished a 3600 mile motorcycle ride from Colorado through Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas and back home to Colorado. Mostly avoiding highways so that I got to see the country. Beautiful country out there. The amount of corn and soy bean fields that I rode through is staggering. Even watched and recorded some combines in action. Boy, are they going to be busy for the next few weeks. (It is September 19 right now). So now I learned that they're not silos, but grain bins. Or, when I sent a photo of six of them to my boys: Starbase South Dakota (Musk fans here). Thank you for this video. Very educational, just what I needed.
Best episode ever (so far). I've seen thousands of these bins in my years of riding RAGBRAI and I now appreciate the engineering, how they're made and they're role in the grand scheme of grain farming. Life's lesson in this episode: "I asked Danny, what is it that they did not want to do, and I started doing that", genius. Destin, you gotta ride RAGBRAI, at least a couple of days. It'll bring you that much closer to the American farm and Iowa farmers. Iowans and farmers, the salt of the earth. You say they're sandbagging? Nobody does it better!
I can't agree more. I moved from the mining industry into agriculture, and it is fascinating how much more involved people are. Mining is broken into very specific jobs for each person, and that's their world. In farming, you'd better believe you're expected to know most details about everything done on that place. It's darn impressive!
@@tophercIaus yes, sadly produce is disgustingly cheaply bought and this way people can't specialize. but this also makes farmers all the more impressive for being able to cope with such a bad-paying system.
Your accent is so much more pronounced when you're hanging around other Southerners! Lol same thing happens to me Edit: just heard you say "y'all all" lol that's the best
@@TheWillypedersen hes basically an overqualified worker at the cost of needing to move a camera sometimes, follows requests of others and probably quickly understands things like how to align the plates
I work in a grain storage facility and the humidity explanation was spot on. Nice video dude! So, the limit for humidity in soybeans as per standard in my country (Argentina) is 13,5%. You can storage grains with more humidity than that and lower it with bin or silo ventilation (like in the video), but at a certain level, lets say 15%, you have to use a grain dryer, a very cool machine that is worth another video.
That's how most Southerners are. We have to act all proper for everyone else 'cause we're tired of hearing how stupid our accent makes us sound, but around each other we're twanging without a care in the world.
A funny thing the brain does! I got friends from all over my home country and when we're together almost everyone speaks with little to no dialect.. that is until someone from their home gives a call or when we visit their hometowns. You don't really notice it either, it's like someone flips a switch and immediately you start talking and thinking with a dialect. Same kind of thing happens to me (and I believe most non native english speakers) when watching this video for instance and while reading trough the comments etc. Interesting stuff.
I used to work for a company when i was in my early 20s. I would do the interview process with new potential hires. Had a guy who used ot work on a farm...as he told me what he did on it, I just went "I dont really care about his education anymore". Farmers can work really hard, they know how to structure things, routines are a given with them. The guy ended up being one of the best workers for that company.
I watched it before and again I loved it. I totally look at farmers different now. I used to just think plant some stuff, water it with the sprinkers that go around in a circle, bust out John deer and collect a check ! I couldn't have been more wrong. What fascinates me is people never think about about other people's profession so we don't really care about it. I always complained about so many trucks on the freeways until watching this video, if it wasn't for truckers not only would we starve but the country would grind to a halt. Now I wave at truckers and give them thumbs up!
@@Beyondhumanlimits1 It's really kinda subconscious. I grew up rural though I never really had a thick accent. Every time I get around people from the country I start talking a little more rural than I normally do.
As a southern man, and an engineer, it’s really good to know who you are talking to and how to communicate with them best. Slapping that twang on my words helps me get my points across when they are needed. Also, good to have a good phone voice and an email “voice”. Communication is one of the very few things we have that makes the biggest impact on other people. It’s good to have some range.
If you really want to be impressed, you should check out a farmer's operation when shelling corn instead of soybeans. Corn generally comes out of the field considerably wetter and there's always a lot more of it. The bin dryers generally aren't quite enough to keep up (unless it's a perfect year and that rarely happens haha) and dry it so it'll store, so a lot of farmers use giant batch dryers that basically dry it by the truck load using propane or natural gas and giant fans and burners. The part about the grain bins being dangerous is so very true. About a decade ago, a neighbor of mine lost his 14 year old son in pretty much exactly the situation bring described here. Kind of made me sad thinking of it to be honest. Farming is a truly wonderful job and lifestyle, but it no doubt is extremely dangerous. I know of people who have lost fingers unplugging combines as you saw towards the beginning of the video here. Thanks for making this Destin!
@@jameskellinger8314 I think only 1 at a time but all grains (and soybeans) can be dried using one of these bins. Sorghum is processed similar to corn for instance, so it too would go in a bin.
I hate to be morbid, but what is done with the grain if someone is killed/injured in it? Does the bloody grain just go to market as normal or is the whole batch discarded or something in between? Is there a procedure to sanitize the machinery?
Great episode! I work as a land steward enforcing conservation easements for a land trust in northern Ohio. I pass grain bins every day I'm in the field. I've been curious about the engineering and mechanics that go into those grain bins, and now I know. BTW, I recently had the opportunity to ride with one of our landowners while he was combining corn. Fascinating!
"Everything you ever wanted to know about grain bins." I never knew I wanted to know anything about grain bins...until you came along. Thanks Destin, you are the best! :)
I already love your channel and have been helping out on patreon for some time, but because I'm a farmer here in Brazil, to see a video with the subject, I feel both happy and honored. Thank you 3000
Thank you for farming. The whole world grinds to a halt without you and we are left trying to follow herds and do everything on our own, because we have to spend all day just trying to get our own food. Farming is the key to society that allows people to be able to specialize in all the different jobs.
I think it's up to farmers to advertise the good things they are doing day to day in social media and other platforms. I reckon there is a lot of misinformation out there that non farmers hear and accept.
@@fourfoursevenfour Well if we weren't so busy trying to feed everybody we probably could. "Farmer Tim" is one and there's a few more but most people don't care enough to follow them anyway. Plus there's so few of us that are at "tech age" in ag these days. Couple that with the generally humble and non attention seeking nature of most farmers it's pretty unlikely.
Fascinating. I grew up in Iowa, where my grandfather and several uncles all had farms. From birth thru college, I spent tons of time on those farms. Your soy bean harvesting, storage and sales coverage brought back some great memories. My grandfather’s bins did not have that rotating auger underneath. So when we were emptying a bin, the center of the beans would quickly draw down, forming a cone. Because it didn’t have that auger, the sides of the cone had to be manually knocked down to keep the process going. Believe it or not, I recall working around the inside perimeter of those bins, with a couple of my cousins, to kick down the sides toward the center cone. I was maybe 12 or 13. In hind site it was definitely dangerous, but we were only doing the same things our fathers did, growing up on that farm. All that said, the grain bin construction footage was new to me; I’ve never seen one built. Given my upbringing and the fact I’ve been a professional civil engineer (P.E.) for over 35 years, I particularly enjoyed this part of your video. That jacking process is a genius solution to building higher and higher without a crane or major scaffolding. Great stuff; love your channel! Keep doing what your doing!
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I just wanted to drop a quick thank you. I use your videos to help augment my children’s education and help them to better understand different complex topics through the ease of visual learning.
Thank you again Destin. I enjoy your very thoughtful and educational videos very much. I remember being at my family's farms in the prairies of Alberta Canada, and saying to cousins exactly what you said. Farmers are scientists, economist, mechanics, carpenters, welders, plumbers, truckers, fathers, mothers, and spouses.... And MORE. Thanks to all of these hard working geniuses, appreciate them every day!!!
What about explosion mitigation?
hellofresh is just amazing, i love trying new foods and now im eating healthier and eating new foods. i havnt been to a supermarket once for frozen food since
atlest they are smarter than you by making this video...
Coming from a former grain bin assembler now engineer, you did an excellent job at explaing how something so over looked is so intriguing to build!!!
First time I heard somebody that lives in a town said that farmers are important
@Mass Debater At least with rocket science you're only focusing on one area, not like five different areas!
@Mass Debater Or you can look at it this way, without these farmers growing crops so efficiently to the point of overproduction in some seasons, we won't have the luxury to develop rocket science. Just look at third world countries. They're too preoccupied with survival. Agriculture is what built this modern society. We'd still be hunting without that vast knowledge.
Notice that we've sent thousands of rockets to space and yet we're just starting to farm there. It ain't rocket science but it's another beast nonetheless.
14000 nuts and bolts later not so fascinating to build
true. but i was a littel bit shocked because im a farmer and more then half of my friends lives in a town and they are saying that farmers are not important today
As someone who comes from an agricultural background, more cattle ranching than farming though, it just puts a giant smile on my face to see videos like this and the amount of respect this brilliant man has for farmers
Same! I grew up on a large farm in Australia, and even though these are Americans, I'm still extremely grateful for the respect some people have for farmers
You guys are truly smart and most of America doesn't realize how important you guys are, and I mean that, incredible people
I never grew up around farms but I never doubted them being necessary. I never really thought much about it but I knew they make the food. I'd like to see more about farm life but at the same time I know I couldn't do it myself, it's just not my calling . . .
Too many people don't understand or respect where food comes from; the incredible feat of modern engineering and work that goes into feeding hundreds of millions of people
We all starve without the farmers. Anyone with more than a few brain cells should realize that.
As a farmer who has a Master's degree, thanks for showing farming in a positive light and showing the science behind it. So many suburbanites look down on farmers as dumb, but to run a farm today requires both scientific and business knowledge, as well as work ethic and a lot of common sense.
You say that but the farmer's contribution was to hire a specialist team. Not exactly an engineering feat is it.
@@Rhaegarion you don’t know why the crew was hired. Many farmers do put up their own bins, but it requires man power. This guy looks like he’s pretty small time so he probably doesn’t have any employees and it’s pretty tough to find labour in a lot of places. On a separate note, he could have been busy and not had time to erect the bin so it just worked out better to hire a crew. Some companies that sell these bins mandate that they are the ones to assemble them as well. You don’t know.
@@joshuadoll9000 It also costs a lot of money to have the jacks and other equipment to put up a bin and there are tricks that unless you have built a few you don't know. If a farmer builds 2 bins in his lifetime it makes no sense to buy the equipment.
@@norm-nas Farmers would rent the equipment.
@@joshuadoll9000 True, didn't think about that. Last bin I bought construction was part of the price.
"There's no job like this anywhere in America is there?"
"Iunno, I stay on the farm!'
What a humble guy, great answer. I think he is a lot smarter than he lets on
Yeah its clear he his smart, was very wholesome!
"I just started working and they didn't make me go away."
Literally just described how I got my first job.
For some jobs this is a viable strategic choice.
XD
THE3NDER Like the Mafia
Cult Boy wait a minute-
I got a few jobs like that.
fun fact - the moisture tester at 11:20 is actually just a capacitor, with one plate on the underside of the lid, and one plate at the bottom of the canister. when the canister is filled, the grain acts as a dielectric, and all other necessary info remaining constant (distance between the plates, type of grain used, etc.), water's presence changes the extent to which a given grain acts as a dielectric within the capacitor, which is how you get the moisture readout 🌺
Respectfully, I think you might be wrong. I’m pretty sure it’s just magic.
that's just... fascinating
@@finonevado8891 It's so simple but I never would've thought of that. It's just brilliant
Wow that's genius
I worked at a co-op for several years when I was younger and I had to use a stationary moisture testing machine about a hundred times a day. I always wondered how it worked!
Smart man.
"I asked them what they least liked to do, and immediately started doing it."
THAT is how you earn respect.
I plan to take that very advice to heart
@@toring61_52 what
@@toring61_52 Wacko
@@toring61_52 are you half as interesting? video has nothing to do with planes yet you still find a way to talk about them
@@toring61_52 you let us all down, mate
" When a farmer has a mechanical problem,they don't wait for help. They know their equipment inside and out, and they wrap a wrench or a tool, and they just start taking things apart, and fixing it immediately. "
John Deer: 👀
So true!
Hate how John Deere has gone so anti-consumer by making things near impossible to fix yourself.
_Apple has entered the chat_
"You know, Mister Deere, the enemy of my enemy is my friend..."
😂😂😂
Fight for your right to repair.
Now you have to figure out how the moisture tester works
Great idea for another learning video! :)
Electro capacitance! It's also a fascinating engineering problem
At the farm I worked at, they had this little dinky tester that they used for this massive mill. We would get a cup of corn from the bin, dump it in the moisture reader, then adjust the dryers accordingly.
What's inside...
The model I have works on measuring electrical flow through the grain using a winch for creating current.
As a farmer I appreciate the accuracy of the info presented. Good work!
You guys need to get paid more.
@@AverageJoe8686 Buy your food from local markets as opposed to big box stores. Big box store chains drive the prices down as low as they can possibly get them and put good farmers out of work since they make less money.
I grew up in a small farming community and still remember being impressed by the type of things farmers knew when I started working on a farm during the summer break.
On a side note, I am currently taking Thermo 2 in college and we just spent a whole lecture discussing humidity so you explaining the way the grain was dried provided another valuable example for my toolbox.
John-Peter Klop good luck with thermo II!
Always like coming back to this video. I work in grain management so it's cool to see this side of it so close up. I handle things AFTER harvest. Once the grain is in the bin, I monitor temperature and moisture and make sure fans are running (or not) when called. Trying to get the grain to target moisture for shipping or storage through the winter. Every now and then I get to go out to a site and troubleshoot the monitoring system, which is pretty cool to see, but I haven't seen much of what goes on before harvest in person. Thanks for these videos!
You work for an elevator? I'm a farmer but I've gotten to tour a couple facilities in my area in the past year. Pretty cool stuff, Destin should do a video on that side of things if he hasn't
My favorite part is how you can hear his accent come out the more he talks to some of these guys. It's like he hits a button and activates 'Southern Mode'.
This is known as 'Phonetic Accommodation'
lmao my girlfriend is the same way, the second she talks to her family in Maryland she gets this awesome southern accent for no reason, Maryland isn't even in the south lol none of her family talks like that just her
i was about to comment the same😂
its like a social thing to try to blend in and make yourself seem like one of them instead of an outsider
Boy do I know this well.... It just happens
7:15 - no wonder the whole right to repair is so so important. I it's not just about the principles (as important as they are), but that's significant time and money lost if John Deere takes that away.
@@liberals_destroy_everythin2497 search up "farmers torrent software to fix their John Deere equipment"
You'll find a lot of great information about the subject
@@liberals_destroy_everythin2497 In short, a lot of farm equipment uses GPS, lasers, and tonnes of other stuff that requires computers. John Deere has made the ability to access the computers both physically impractical and legally actionable. If your computer goes down, a quarter-million dollar machine becomes a dead hunk of metal. John Deere insists on being the only ones who can fix it, and to fix it, you must deliver it to them. This is impractical if you have to finish harvesting before the weather ruins your crop, thus your product, thus your money, your livelihood.
Imagine that you could only use Microsoft's browser on your computer, that it would refuse to install others, and you had to do some important online work in the next couple of hours, and that the browser refused to work, and the only way to fix it would be to bring your computer to the nearest Microsoft repair shop in the next state or province.
That is why some farmers have taken them to court, and others pirate the computer's software and manuals.
It will put us farmers out of business. No joke. There are hacks to John Deeres system.
@@FrancisRoyCA That's how GNU started.
A few years ago a 30 year old barely used collector quality John Deere tractor sold on an auction for around $120000, 5-6 times what it costed new, nearly the same price as a brand new modern tractor. When the seller contacted the winning bidder assuming they were a collector, to see if they wanted it wrapped in something to preserve the perfect paint they were told no, he was just a dealer bidding on behalf of an agave plantation in Mexico, and they were going to knock the windows out of it and tear most of the interior upholstery out and just use it as a tractor. They paid near new tractor prices for a nearly new 30 year old tractor because they have people in their remote part of Mexico that can fix 30 year old John Deeres, but they don't have anyone that can fix new John Deeres.
Now I know a lot about something I never was curious about. Thanks man.
Smarter every day! 😂
It made you curious is what you should be saying cause you watched the video...
I feel like this is what Destin does the best.
To all our farmers: a heartfelt thank you for what you do!
Thank you! It's a really tough job (like many others I'm aware), but when people appreciate and respect us, it's extremely rewarding
We can’t eat without help from farmers.
truly. the unsung heroes of america
Truthfully, farmers are the unsung heroes of the entire world, not just the USA!
"Farmers are the backbone of America."
Living in California, I've noticed that nobody here seems to realize how important the middle of the country and the people that live there are to the sustainability of our country. I'm really thankful that you took the time to not just make this video, but bring attention to the fact that farmers are still just as important as they've always been.
dont need farmers, just stop eating!
Middle of the country? This aint nebraska, this is likely in Alabama. Lots of crops produced in the Southeast where there is more rain and longer growing season. No worries, we're used to being overlooked and marginalized.
California ranks first in the United States for agricultural cash receipts followed by Iowa, Texas, Nebraska and Illinois.
Ten states generate more than $10 billion in agricultural cash receipts: California ($43,544,001,000 and 11.63 percent of U.S. total), Texas, Nebraska, Illinois, Minnesota, Kansas, Indiana, Wisconsin and North Carolina.
@@z33c33 Obviously there are tons of farmers everywhere. But the midwest and great plains are absolutely America's bread basket.
Conner McKinnon- I couldn't agree more! Farming is the most essential job, and nobody ever talks about it. My dad works in the energy business and nobody ever talks about that (at least not in a good way), either. He always says, "In most people's minds, electricity starts at their outlets." But there is soooooo much work that goes in to powering everything we use! It's strange how our culture celebrates actors and athletes and other jobs- which of course are difficult and should be celebrated- but not a lot of the jobs that are most essential to our way of living.
Loved this episode. Hats off to all the hard working farmers out there.
Me too! As somebody who's lived a city life my whole life, the farmer/small town lifestyles always interested me. Awesome vid
Destin spends a week with Farmers*
his accent proceeds to turn up to 11*
Hahaha. I came to post the same darn thing. I reckon that's some good analysis right there.
Yeah, southern accent kicking in 😂😂😂 love it.
*Mighty fine analysis, rather
Y'all know it.
'murica babe
Love it! Thanks for showcasing the Ag industry. Small world, that guy building the bin, built our 58ft bin in Illinois with his brother. Most efficient crew I’ve seen. Wasn’t expecting to see anyone I knew!
Cool!
7:15 This is so important. We need to support right to repair laws.
I agree.
You mean when John Deere's software makes the hardware not work? So you wait for 3 days for a tech to press reset, and get a bill for $3k?
Exactly. During harvest, even a half hour of downtime is money lost. Much less the DAYS it takes to get a tech out to the field. 😒
The attempts to prevent easy repair are why we have so many types of stupid screwdrivers.
Banning the right to repair doesn't make sense for multiple reasons. It's an attempt to monopolize the maintenance market but is ultimately unenforceable and goes against the philosophy of fair trade. It's also only observed in top economies. Emergent economies don't even consider placing such limitations on already sold products. Voiding a product's warranty after the customer repairs it is acceptable and is also the limit a producer has the right to pursue it. They are essentially banning you from their own repair facilities which is fine. Once companies start rigging products to break (actually happens) courts will ultimately side with the consumers. So don't worry about the right to repair folks, it's never going to go away.
"it ain't much but it's honest work"
god bless these guys
Maher F yeah it isn't much millions of dollars worth of green equipment that cost over $200,000 apiece but yeah you're right it's not much.
@@justinotherjerk7246 Those guys are possibly up to their neck in debt, what they take away really isnt much until everything is paid off. Regardless he's just being humble, you cant change that about most farmers.
AMEN!!!
@@ColeAlder If you were a farmer you would know that they usually run their businesses in a constant state of debt. The tax fairies are a lot nicer when you are in debt
@@whatshappenedhere1784 You're a very smart man. Running a business in debt means you pay $0 in tax since paying off debt is not income.
Honestly, farmers are the most underrated professionals.
Epic Gamer I am one and it's real hard work for little earning. But it's also beautiful and satisfying, particularly in small farms
@@donniecatalano I salute you and your hardwork sir
Epic Gamer shut up bro😂
@@mallows9779 cheers
The thing is you learn by growing up on a farm, not by going to college for it. Therefore it's not really seen or mentioned in society.
I love your appreciation for farmers Dan. I’m glad someone with such a large audience can express that same gratitude that I have for farmers directly to them in front of such a large audience. You and your videos are so wholesome
Never thought I could be absorbed in a 16 minute video about grain and storage.
Way more interesting than it first seems.
Goes to show how good of a video maker Destin is. I feel like his excitement to learn and eager questions could probably make any subject seem interesting.
look up Milenial Farmer and you can get sucked into a whole channel about farming, if you scroll down a ways to the harvest season there were quite a few videos in and around the grain bin.
"I asked Danny, what is it that they did not want to do, and I started doing that."
If we learn nothing else from this channel, this here can get us through a lifetime of experience.
"I asked Danny, what is it that they did not want to do, and I started doing that."
If we learn nothing else from this channel, this here can get us through a lifetime of experience.
@@alexhebert4286 "I asked Danny, what is it that they did not want to do, and I started doing that."
If we learn nothing else from this channel, this here can get us through a lifetime of experience.
Quickest way to get a job for sure
This is quite a simple way to get a job after a ''we'll try you for a day'' and one year later your all over the place. Showing what to do to new guys.
went to help a guy install flooring one day. did what he didnt want to do. 20 years later I am a flooring installer hiring guys to do the things I don't want to do XD
As a grain farmer in America I am so happy to see you make a video about the physics of farming. I studied to be an engineer myself and I love the physics I get to see every day.
hi! i am very curious to talk to an actual grain farmer.. i do not know much about that industry but i would be glad to learn! i keep hearing about the negative aspects of agriculture such as the water and electricity usage and the large amount of grain required to feed cattle.. i was wondering if there was any truth to that, or if those claims were misconceptions.. thanks for your time!
@@eloidumas4067 It always good to take time to learn the true. To be honest there are definitely problems with modern farming. Most grain farmers rely on rain alone and don't have irrigation so the water usage is not that high. We also don't use a lot of electricity most of the year. Many farmers in the area are actually putting in solar fields. Fossil fuel usage is moderate. Our big machines definitely drink diesel but 2/3 of the year they are parked. Probably the biggest problem modern farming has is chemical runoff specifically nitrogen. Most farmers apply too much nitrogen fertilizer at the wrong time and much of it ends in the ocean. Most farmers don't know that is a problem though and the chemical dealers push for over application. Another big problem is erosion and soil loss. Farmers are just being made aware of the problem though. Cover crops and soil building are at the forefront of every ag expo. Don't believe the media though. No farmer is trying to destroy the land or the environment. We make our living exclusively off the land. We would be the first to suffer if it was destroyed. Most of the problems farming has is due to a lack of education. Another thing is most farms are family owned and operated and we are proud to have it that way. Most of the regulations just drive family farms under and promote corporate farms. All us farmers are just doing the best we can. Thank you for asking! I appreciate the interest.
I'm all about soil building! Have you heard what a wonderful ally fungus is for environmental health? The mycelium growing underground is so fine, there's up to 8 miles in just a cubic inch. This web of hyphae is so strong, it can grip soil and keep it from washing or blowing away.
Another thing that helps is moisture content, which fungus is adept at sustaining. It breaks down forest litter like twigs and leaves into water, nutrients and cold CO2. Cold CO2 doesn't typically fly up into the atmosphere and assist the greenhouse effect. It stays near the ground where it can return to the plant food cycle almost immediately.
Paul Stamets from WA can tell you so much more about it, I'm halfway through his book Mycelium Running and it has been a huge inspiration.
Mark Shephard from WI also has a ton of fascinating material on STUN: Strategic Total Utter Neglect. Let the natural order guide your farm to success!
Farming Forever wow. that answer was beyond anything i could have asked for.. thank you so much ☺️ i hope you have a great day and a happy life 👍🏻❤️
Farming Forever what does it take to be a farmer it seems like you have to be a millionaire when buying those tractors and harvesters there a more than a $100,000
I use this channel in my 6th-grade STEM class in a densely populated area. I’ve been trying to explain rural living areas to my students who’ve never traveled north or into the Midwest. (I’m in southern Florida.) This video helped me share my Midwest heritage and my rural past in Iowa, Indiana and Michigan. I love using this channel when teaching STEM. Brilliant!
"Near the Pacific"??
@@Alexi7666 Let's just hope she doesn't teach Geography!
I don’t respect teachers
@@youngboybreezy5358 Says a lot more about you than about teachers.
@@youngboybreezy5358 : No wonder you're stupid.
"Farmers are the backbone of america"
Farmers are the backbone of the world.
Correct!
Ok, guy who’s never even held a rake
Farmers rock. Period.
Farming isn’t a high dollar profit.
How about the "RiCE fARMERS"
3:19 is so true. When you are the new guy, be willing to do anything(within reason). That plus hard work and being punctual and polite will make you a part of the crew as fast as possible.
As someone who’s never stepped foot on a farm, I appreciate this video and the work they do!
A farmer is a man who's outstanding in his field!
Gotta feel sorry for him. Trump screwed him over with the trade war.
lol I heard that as a joke "Why did the scarecrow win an award? He was outstanding in his field"
-Quote by logic
The definition of a professional and a farmer is the same: a man outstanding in his field.
didn'tk now you're here dad
I like how his accent changes sometimes when he talks to people with heavier accents
Tyler Wyka That’s pretty common in those from the Midwest. The Midwest doesn’t really have much of a dialect, so they tend to follow the accent of those around them.
I mean, I wouldn't say I have much of an accent. However, if I'm around people with heavier Midwestern accents than my own, I'll tend to speak more like them
Maybe I’m confusing him with somebody else. I thought he was initially from the Midwest
Im french Canadian and went to France for 10 weeks. I didnt notice it at first but my accent changed pretty quickly. You get so used to their accent that your voice starts sounding like theirs. Id say its the instinct of trying to fit in, personally.
Am a southerner, can confirm this is what we do.
Farmers: It ain't much, but it's honest work.
Farmers in memes: It ain't much, but it's honest work.
That guys "we not very smart" is exactly how I expect the guy in that meme to sound.
@Scott Gr farmers make the world great. we'd all be..just a little dead from starving. hate how society often looks down on them
“What do you call that tool”
“A punch”
This killed me
Meanwhile these guys are the base level of Elon Musk's Starship construction program.
Most either use what is called in the US a Spud wrench or in the UK/Australia a podger.
I don't know about punch, I always called it a drift.
@@donwilbur8436 right on. I know that tool as a drift pin
Anyone else call this a pin bob?
My parents were both sheet metal workers for many years. That “punch” is called a drift pin.
Punches make holes. Drift pins guide them.
That was my thought, too
Thank you for the terminology! Though to be honest, I'll probably still call it a punch tool/awl. That dang memory acting up😊.
eh i would call that more of a tapered punch. I would use a straight punch for whackin out pins and such
I classify them both as punches, but a drift pin is a specific utilization of the punch. That being said, I wouldn't use a drift to make a hole. "Some people call it a sling blade, but I call it a kaiser blade"
I see your point. They are probably using a normal punch to align it.
Normal Destin : This is what is the most interesting about farming.
Farmer Destin : This is the moust inneresting thin' 'bout farmin' mah dood.
As a military brat and former military myself I can relate. I lived in the southern US a lot growing up and can flip back to that accent real quick. Comes in handy when I travel back to the south for work.
@@enji77777 It really does! I was born and raised in Georgia and now live up north, but I work with a bunch of guys from Huntsville. The twang is strong lol
@@enji77777 Wow, me as well. I live in North Carolina with my moms side of the family, but my dads side is from wisconsin and michigan. Around my paternal grandparents and relatives I sound "normal", but around the other half, I switch to southern talk again. When i'm around neither i just have a weird mix of both lol
I noticed that as well! His "country" came out "reel quick" once he got on the farm.
I knew someone, would comment about this!
Farmers are not just the backbone of America.
Farmers are the backbone of the Human Civilization.
The earliest cities and human settlements were around fertile land, used for farming. Farmers led to the creation of the Human civilization.
Without effective agriculture, what are youtubers supposed to eat? Also teachers, doctors, lawyers, rescue workers, and everyone who isn't producing their own food. The surplus of food produced frees people up to do other things, which is how we have civilization.
meh.. this applies to every profession. In todays world, this is rare to have someone who can do everything from start to finish..
What would the world be without people to make roads, or plumbers ?
Or basically every other non bullshit job.
And sadly, they are pretty much the people exploited the most by money grabbin' resellers.
@@xl000 People lived for thousands of years without roads or plumbing, and many still do. But nobody has ever lived (more than a few weeks) without food.
God Made Farmers And Hunters !!!!!
Tell Clay your viewers are very grateful for his generosity and letting you get footage of his rig!!! This is so cool!!
I think what makes me love this channel is the honesty and integrity of Destin, and seeing what a great job he does as a Father and a Husband.
There aren’t many real role models on this platform, but you Destin, are a role model. Well done sir 👍
Thank you for the kind words.
@John Doe And not just the men. :) PEOPLE. :)
@@smartereveryday Absolutely sir! MAN I'd love to pick his brain on so many various topics!! Lol! It ALMOST makes me wish i lived in Alabama!.....(i may be mistaken on that.?.?).... Almost! He seems like he'd be a GREAT/BRILLIANT guy to know! I love how he doesn't just scratch the surface of the various topics/things he shares, but REALLY goes in depth on the physics/mechanics/inner workings of the topics covered! You sir (Destin) have my admiration, and respect!....... I ALSO happen to think you have a dang cool name!!! Hat's off to you sir!
@@joehefner7529 And on top of that, he gets giddy as a schoolboy about EVERYTHING cool...!!! :)
Every time I'm like: Nah, this topic doesn't interest me. But you always make it interesting! Great job!
Sophie Baksteen Same. I decided to watch & was glad I did. I grew up in eastern Kansas & a lot of my friend’s parents were farmers. I remember helping out with odd chores, baling hay, chopping & stacking cordwood etc. It was always pretty hard work, but I can certainly see the attraction to that kind of life. This made me very nostalgic.
I can't comment now cos you said it 1st! Destin is just a natural communicator and his enthusiasm is awesome. Love his stuff
Move
I have seen this video recommended to me for about a day now, opping up as the "up next" with the autoplay feature. Everytime I was just like, nahh that would be boring. Until It accidentally played, and I now watched the whole video...
Ik ben het helemaal met je eens
Destin: “Punchers are the best”
Laminar Flow: “Am I a joke to you?”
Joe Nate LMAO
I just laughed so loud my dogs came to see what was up. :)
Punches*?
If you could flash-freeze laminar flow it would look like an ice punch, if that helps...
That was so cleverly funny
I just found your channel and I am so glad you did this video. As a manager of a commercial granary, i think its important to educate the public about where their food comes from and how it is handled before it is processed. So many people don't know what actually goes on at a farm or at a granary and what has to happen to build them. Great job man!
People: "You can't build a house from the roof down!"
Grain Bin builders: "Hold my ice tea."
In Iowa, there is a "house" built from two of those bins, one inside the other, and would win that bet for the bin builders. Saw a story on it while in a hotel outside Des Moines.
At first I wanted to mention "lift slab construction", but it involves only raising the first level and then forming upper slabs above the existing ones...
However,...
People: "You can't build a house from the roof down!"
Civil Engineers: Hold that thought! What about jackblock building system?
Spanish: Hold my sangria! There's Torres de Colon in Madrid! It was built from the roof to the bottom!
Along with central banks in Ireland and South Africa, and a number of residential and office buildings (mostly from the '70s) in Central Europe, the Soviet Union and India (the most recent that I'm aware of)...
srpilha *iced tea*
Hold my beans
srpilha *sweet tea
"So, how do you build that 30-foot-tall structure?"
"From the top down."
"!?"
!? Captures my reaction exactly.
Honestly didn't expect it to be built that way
Literally me.
Watch the video
@@NicholasHoward The ones I grew up with were delivered entire, used, so I had no clue. My jaw hit the floor so hard my teeth ache!!
@ 8:32 "How long does this take?"
Most farmer's candid response: 'Til we're done."
His response was priceless, he genuinely don't know, as there are nothing they can do to speed it up, just wait until it's done.
@@worawatli8952 he said 10 minutes
Till we're done >> read with southern accent
you are aware he just said 'bout 10 minutes' right????
is one deaf?
Worawat Li he said ten minutes dingus
This is such an excellent channel! Professionally produced, family friendly, extremely fascinating and educational. I can’t believe some channel like Discovery or Smithsonian hasn’t tried to buy your show.
I bet they tried. He's like discovery channel, but better
No one:
Destin after spending one day with farmers in the south: Dang tootin, those beans are granny slappin good y'all
*them beans
No leave granny alone
A farmer once told me this: “It's a brutal profession, we have to have a huge and rare skill set, high risk, low reward, long hours, low margin for error with large consequences for mistakes.” I embrace that as the quote of all farmers.
to add to the thing about large consequences for mistakes
If something breaks, every second that passes that you don't notice the problem could mean a much bigger loss.
Ye Olde Spaniard farmers are the backbone of all civilization!
I've jeard a lot of farmers say that they would never want to do anything else, though. It would be great to take that kind of joy in your work.
@@isaackvasager9957 Id Love to see some of this free money you speak of.
@@isaackvasager9957 bud I didn't mean they lose money on the whole operation I meant its gonna cost more to fix the current problem and any other problems that come with it like if a hydraulic line breaks and they don't notice if they also can lose a significant amount of hydraulic fluid meaning that the cost to fix the problem is going to cost way more than the price of a hydraulic line. I really didn't think that would need an explanation but you've surpassed my expectations.
As a farmer this video makes me smile! If you ever want to do a video on center pivots (as seen throughout the video) let me know, I sell, build, service and use many of them. Cheers Destin!
This is fantastic! As a grain bin builder, I struggle to explain the process to people. I will now use this all the time so thank you very much!
*uses grain moisture tester*
- How does this work?
- I have no idea.
I laughed out loud there. Not something you hear often on this channel!
I know of two ways to do this! One mechanical, the other gaseous. Anyone want to venture some guesses?
11:31 how the tester works:
It miils the grain and measures the conductivity of the powdered grain, because of that you also have to select which crop it is because the base conductivity varies. Hope i helped.
(more conductivity - > more water - > higher percentage)
@@marvinecksteincool It doesn't mill the grain. The grain is completely intact after testing. Now I do not know how it works exactly but the bottom container part has a probe in the center and you fill that part to the brim. Then you put the cap on which has a spring loaded plunger on it. You tighten down the cap until the plunger has enough pressure it pushes a rod through the center of the cap to flush. Then you select your variety of grain and hit test. Afterwards pour the grain back into the bulk tank.
-Sincerely a wheat farmer.
Probably measures temperature and humidity change inside the test chamber.
Edit: This idea is stupid, won't work like that.
As far as I know, a similar tool is used in coffee farming, where a similar problem occurs in the drying and storage of the beans. I know the typical tools they use right know are measuring the capacitance of the beans. Higher moisture content equals a higher dielectric constant, and thus capacitance. We have even verified this concept, as our group (Humasol) engineered a cheap version of this tool.
Hey algorithm, this is a good video.
Yeah. Indeed!
Destin is the best
For the past few days youtube has been harassing me to watch this video, glad I did!
Not sure why, but this was one of my favorite episodes of SmarterEveryDay.
same
Can't like this comment enough.
really like it when people recognize and admire knowledge applied to "simple" work, knowledge not necessarily created in the academic world. reminds people that you don't need a phd to have think and that every work should be valued and has things to teach.
Destin spends a week with Farmers*
his accent proceeds to turn up to 11*
Not sure why, but this was one of my favorite episodes of SmarterEveryDay.
My family heritage is in agriculture. Always appreciated farming and respected farmers. They are a greatly underrated and essential facet of our America. Thus may well be my favorite video you've put out.
Hey! 11:33 One of the ways that moisture testers work is called a Carl Fischer Titration. It's actually super simple but also super smart, just like farmers.
Carl Fisher is a titration method. Super accurate (can go down to ppb) but it's not what's shown here. This is most likely a capacitance measurement. It's quick and a little noisier but it gets the job done and is pretty robust to harsh conditions.
@@ardenthebibliophile like cop's alcohol meters
We definitely need a Smarter Every Day about the Carl Fischer Titration
I have used one for 30 years and did not know that. Have bins and have built many and used and done all.
I grew up on a farm and it's always nice to see informative farming videos on TH-cam.
By no means do I aim to be offensive.
But you look like you grew up on a farm
@@liamwinter4512 The amish-like beard, I assume? Yeah, I didn't really have a mustache when that photo was taken.
Same here. Though it was my grandfathers farm so we didn't have any fans or anything in our bins
farms are a myth propagated by NASA to launder profits made by shadow government agencies working with aliens from outside the boundaries of the flat earth ice wall. were do you think the Titanic went man? c'mon.. it's been on the moon for years now. open your eyes sheeple!
Top notch, thanks for helping shed a positive light on our industry!
Finally something I know. I work in the AG industry and early on I put up grain bins for the first 3 summers. That was 20 yrs ago. Hard work. Farming is all me and my family knows. About every other year someone looses their life locally to being trapped in grain. Great video. Very good information. Didn’t realize it was so interesting.
grain bins can be terrifying. I had a 2 yr cousin (distant, in the 30s) who also died in one (I think it was the literal bin, not the cylinder).
14:20 I love how humble that man is- knows more than most, worked his whole life and still questions himself in a good way. What a role model!
The farmer is the only person who buys at retail, sells at wholesale, and pays shipping both ways.
better than buy at retail. thats it.
As a farming family, that’s what my grandpa always told me.
Destin:
*makes video about farming*
Destins voice:
*southren acent kicks in*
Came here looking for this! Ikr!!
Buster.
The fastest way to pickup an accent, is to work with people who have one.
southren acent
*Yee Yee intensifies*
"Farmers are sandbaggers"
-Destin 2019
I always called it "Poor Mouthing".... Same meaning.... I've never met a farmer who didn't Poor Mouth a little. Great content. Thanks
The smile on the farmers face when he gets to show You something new is priceless he genuinely loves it
Everybody who plays Farmer simulator: you know, I'm something of a farmer myself
*Sees SmarterEveryDay* you know, i'm something of a scientist myself
I am also a farmer. A weed farmer!
I am a farmer
Every Farmer: „You know I'm not a genius"
**machine breaks**
**farmer instantly repairs**
„Yeah, we're not that smart"
YES!!
Destin: “How do you test the moisture of the grain?”
Farmer: “the moisture tester”
Destin: “... a what”
Real ones can tell just by the feel if your a good farmer you take a couple beans bit them in your mouth and chew them and you can tell the moisture
@@donovan9356 Sure when you do it its fine but when I do it "its to much" and "you're eating the years harvest away"
We don’t do it in the mouth because your mouth is wet, it makes it hard to tell. You pinch them between your thumb and finger. If it squishes it’s not dry. If it breaks it’s dry.
M O I S T
In the 70's farmers used a slingsciceometer to measure grain moisture... not high tech by today's standards but effective nonetheless.
There is something truly hypnotic about watching a subject matter expert operate in their field. Exceptional stuff!
"The more you know, the more you know that you don't know." - Aristotle
I just learned a ton about farming that I didn't know. And now I am aware of even more stuff that I don't know. Thank you to all you farmers out there for putting food on our table!
Your welcome
@@spidercubed9718 I believe it was Abraham Lincoln who said that.
@@brianh.000 "Mid or feed." ~Albert Einstein
Dunning krueger
"He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing." Highly recommend reading up on Socrates. Truly one of the greatest philosophers. Also, Alan Watts. You're welcome, by the way
I received one degree from Yale, and the smartest person I ever knew was my Uncle, who was a Farmer. I think he finished grade school.
Miss you Uncle Jimmy.
You dont talk like a person who "received one degree" from yale you sound like a 13 year old looking for likes.
@@KAMIKAZE-dk8xd He's a better typist than you are. Who's really the child here?
Uncle mrbeast ?????
what grade did he finish school in i dont think thats good
Ben Hadi didn’t claim to be a “typist” or anything else. “One Degree from Yale did” and i agree with Hadi. But seriously, don’t be “that person” by “that person” I mean a pedantic douchebag.
Thank you for shining a light on the farming industry. Too many times people dont know where their food comes from. Good people like yourself with the audience and the voice can really make the difference. Thank you
Saying how much I appreciate Destin, his testimony, and his integrity, will always be an understatement of the century. TH-cam needs more Destins in different areas of entertainment and learning and I am dedicated in being one of them. Keep being you Destin, the world changes in positive ways when you just let people see that testimony.
That southern twang is raised up to 15 in this video, love it!
Lol it happens to all us southerners when we're around other southerners. I live in Chicago now and most people say they wouldn't guess I'm from the south, but as soon as I'm around other southerners that accent starts slipping out hard haha
@@trevorgahagan5817 I'm totally inverse of that. I'm a yankee living in the south and my New York accent is pretty muted down here (if anything i have a bit of a southern twang) but once I go back up north my accent comes out again.
"Farmers are backbone of America" Not just America, but the whole world.
Civilization!
You sir are correct!
Man I wish they were the backbone of the Philippines... I mean, they are, but in different countries cuz we import most of what we consume despite being an agricultural country...
If you eat food-it’s hard to argue with that.
Not just the whole world, but all of Human civilization. Food is such a precious resource and we take it for granted.
The general public has no idea how important farmers are and how much work it takes to grow food and make money at it.
Or all the problems that come with it. Like having to change crops from food to feed/fuel or legal battles with water/land/seeds. Watched a documentary a few years ago and there just seems to be some many problems unless you are just going to farm a small plot as basically a side business.
That's why superman's parents were farmers.
These days it doesn’t take as much work as it use to
@@Emporer-hz1dd Are you sure about that? Sure, certain tasks got much easier, but then it usually changes on task for an other. While some of the hard labor has gotten easier, new modern tasks take their place. Farming is a very complex operation. And by far the most unpredictable.
I'm a communist and I think we should own the farmers they need to feed the people. /Soviet anthem !
I just finished a 3600 mile motorcycle ride from Colorado through Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas and back home to Colorado. Mostly avoiding highways so that I got to see the country. Beautiful country out there.
The amount of corn and soy bean fields that I rode through is staggering. Even watched and recorded some combines in action. Boy, are they going to be busy for the next few weeks. (It is September 19 right now).
So now I learned that they're not silos, but grain bins. Or, when I sent a photo of six of them to my boys: Starbase South Dakota (Musk fans here).
Thank you for this video. Very educational, just what I needed.
Oh, they're built from top to bottom. This was an oddly informative video I never knew I needed!
same with the pyramids of giza!
@@CptFishy Herman Cain, is that you?
in japan, skyscraper are built and/or torn down the same way.
This is how all buildings are built, according to every civilization building game I've ever played.
Destin: is from Alabama
Also Destin: Giggles when he sees a combine.
Explain
He's from Alabama? Lmao
Ants Infinity He's from Alabama bro. It is a state in the USA. I know you are from the USA but , the feels bro.
Talks about putting food on your tray when the framers name Trey
Good advice about co-working with new people. 👍 That one's locked in the vault.
Works every time
If someone sees you jump on board without complaining or hesitation you will get mad respect
Same. That is some of the best practical advice I have heard since "Never reach all the way to the bottom of the blender".
It's a solid technique.
Best episode ever (so far). I've seen thousands of these bins in my years of riding RAGBRAI and I now appreciate the engineering, how they're made and they're role in the grand scheme of grain farming. Life's lesson in this episode: "I asked Danny, what is it that they did not want to do, and I started doing that", genius.
Destin, you gotta ride RAGBRAI, at least a couple of days. It'll bring you that much closer to the American farm and Iowa farmers. Iowans and farmers, the salt of the earth. You say they're sandbagging? Nobody does it better!
Ragbrai love! Ex-Des Moines, thanking you for your community support!
Thank you for this video. The Ag community needs more exposure like this.
I can't agree more. I moved from the mining industry into agriculture, and it is fascinating how much more involved people are. Mining is broken into very specific jobs for each person, and that's their world. In farming, you'd better believe you're expected to know most details about everything done on that place. It's darn impressive!
I didn't realise Silver metal has a community. The more you know...
@@tophercIaus yes, sadly produce is disgustingly cheaply bought and this way people can't specialize. but this also makes farmers all the more impressive for being able to cope with such a bad-paying system.
Your accent is so much more pronounced when you're hanging around other Southerners! Lol same thing happens to me
Edit: just heard you say "y'all all" lol that's the best
Nice to see farmers getting credit they deserve. Great video!
Just imagine working and some physicist randomly starts working for you and filming a documentary
they're all really good sports about him adding a whole extra layer to an already complicated job :)
I don't think he's a physicist. Engineer probably. Can't remember exactly.
I think he's a rocket engineer
@@TheWillypedersen hes basically an overqualified worker at the cost of needing to move a camera sometimes, follows requests of others and probably quickly understands things like how to align the plates
He's buddies with the guy that owns the first farm. Said so in the beginning.
This was way more hands-on than I would have guessed from the title. Great job, Destin!
I'm sitting here wishing this video wasn't over. That was SUPER interesting. I want to know MORE! Awesome video.
You're like me. Show me more Hello Fresh, LOL
Look up the channel Welker Farms. It's just this and more.
Eddie Diederich Check out How Farms Work, Welker Farms, and MN Millennial Farmer! They are great channels!
Then subscribe and click the bell lol
Cool! Just subbed :)
I work in a grain storage facility and the humidity explanation was spot on. Nice video dude!
So, the limit for humidity in soybeans as per standard in my country (Argentina) is 13,5%. You can storage grains with more humidity than that and lower it with bin or silo ventilation (like in the video), but at a certain level, lets say 15%, you have to use a grain dryer, a very cool machine that is worth another video.
I would like to see that video.
I would have never thought about those bins being built from the top down like that. Incredible to watch.
destins southern voice comes out when hes with his friends!!! XD
So glad I'm not the only one who noticed that. Destin cranked up the Country Boy!
My Dad is the same way, anyone comes over from Oklahoma and his accent comes right back!
came here to say that. The twang was strong in this vid
That's how most Southerners are. We have to act all proper for everyone else 'cause we're tired of hearing how stupid our accent makes us sound, but around each other we're twanging without a care in the world.
A funny thing the brain does! I got friends from all over my home country and when we're together almost everyone speaks with little to no dialect.. that is until someone from their home gives a call or when we visit their hometowns. You don't really notice it either, it's like someone flips a switch and immediately you start talking and thinking with a dialect.
Same kind of thing happens to me (and I believe most non native english speakers) when watching this video for instance and while reading trough the comments etc. Interesting stuff.
I used to work for a company when i was in my early 20s. I would do the interview process with new potential hires. Had a guy who used ot work on a farm...as he told me what he did on it, I just went "I dont really care about his education anymore". Farmers can work really hard, they know how to structure things, routines are a given with them. The guy ended up being one of the best workers for that company.
Good on you for being open-minded enough to overlook education for a man who showed the traits of a hard worker.
I love how the accent you normal had turned into a decent southern drawl by the end. 😂 It's infectious!
I watched it before and again I loved it. I totally look at farmers different now. I used to just think plant some stuff, water it with the sprinkers that go around in a circle, bust out John deer and collect a check ! I couldn't have been more wrong.
What fascinates me is people never think about about other people's profession so we don't really care about it.
I always complained about so many trucks on the freeways until watching this video, if it wasn't for truckers not only would we starve but the country would grind to a halt. Now I wave at truckers and give them thumbs up!
Your accent gets so much more southern when you talk to the farmer lmao
He does it on purpose I suppose. It makes easier to bond with people.
@@Beyondhumanlimits1 It's really kinda subconscious. I grew up rural though I never really had a thick accent. Every time I get around people from the country I start talking a little more rural than I normally do.
This is actually called "Code Switching" and it's an interesting phenomena.
He’s from Alabama but works in Huntsville which has many outsiders due to the military and aerospace & defense companies.
As a southern man, and an engineer, it’s really good to know who you are talking to and how to communicate with them best. Slapping that twang on my words helps me get my points across when they are needed. Also, good to have a good phone voice and an email “voice”.
Communication is one of the very few things we have that makes the biggest impact on other people. It’s good to have some range.
'There's no other job like this in America, is there'
*stammers a little 'I don't know, I stay on the farm.'
That man is my new hero!
It ain't much, but it's honest work.
If you really want to be impressed, you should check out a farmer's operation when shelling corn instead of soybeans. Corn generally comes out of the field considerably wetter and there's always a lot more of it. The bin dryers generally aren't quite enough to keep up (unless it's a perfect year and that rarely happens haha) and dry it so it'll store, so a lot of farmers use giant batch dryers that basically dry it by the truck load using propane or natural gas and giant fans and burners.
The part about the grain bins being dangerous is so very true. About a decade ago, a neighbor of mine lost his 14 year old son in pretty much exactly the situation bring described here. Kind of made me sad thinking of it to be honest. Farming is a truly wonderful job and lifestyle, but it no doubt is extremely dangerous. I know of people who have lost fingers unplugging combines as you saw towards the beginning of the video here. Thanks for making this Destin!
He'll have to come back next year
How many different kinds of grains are kept in a grain bin?
@@jameskellinger8314 I think only 1 at a time but all grains (and soybeans) can be dried using one of these bins. Sorghum is processed similar to corn for instance, so it too would go in a bin.
I'd love to see corn processing.
I hate to be morbid, but what is done with the grain if someone is killed/injured in it? Does the bloody grain just go to market as normal or is the whole batch discarded or something in between? Is there a procedure to sanitize the machinery?
Great episode! I work as a land steward enforcing conservation easements for a land trust in northern Ohio. I pass grain bins every day I'm in the field. I've been curious about the engineering and mechanics that go into those grain bins, and now I know. BTW, I recently had the opportunity to ride with one of our landowners while he was combining corn. Fascinating!
"Everything you ever wanted to know about grain bins."
I never knew I wanted to know anything about grain bins...until you came along. Thanks Destin, you are the best! :)
I already love your channel and have been helping out on patreon for some time, but because I'm a farmer here in Brazil, to see a video with the subject, I feel both happy and honored.
Thank you 3000
Thank you for farming. The whole world grinds to a halt without you and we are left trying to follow herds and do everything on our own, because we have to spend all day just trying to get our own food. Farming is the key to society that allows people to be able to specialize in all the different jobs.
More ag videos please, as a PhD in nutrient cycling on dairy farms I wish more people appreciated the science behind farming!
Yess
I just wish everyone would stop thinking we're trying to poison them.
I think it's up to farmers to advertise the good things they are doing day to day in social media and other platforms. I reckon there is a lot of misinformation out there that non farmers hear and accept.
@@fourfoursevenfour Well if we weren't so busy trying to feed everybody we probably could. "Farmer Tim" is one and there's a few more but most people don't care enough to follow them anyway. Plus there's so few of us that are at "tech age" in ag these days. Couple that with the generally humble and non attention seeking nature of most farmers it's pretty unlikely.
Piled Higher and Deeper? That's the way I farm.
Fascinating. I grew up in Iowa, where my grandfather and several uncles all had farms. From birth thru college, I spent tons of time on those farms. Your soy bean harvesting, storage and sales coverage brought back some great memories.
My grandfather’s bins did not have that rotating auger underneath. So when we were emptying a bin, the center of the beans would quickly draw down, forming a cone. Because it didn’t have that auger, the sides of the cone had to be manually knocked down to keep the process going. Believe it or not, I recall working around the inside perimeter of those bins, with a couple of my cousins, to kick down the sides toward the center cone. I was maybe 12 or 13. In hind site it was definitely dangerous, but we were only doing the same things our fathers did, growing up on that farm.
All that said, the grain bin construction footage was new to me; I’ve never seen one built. Given my upbringing and the fact I’ve been a professional civil engineer (P.E.) for over 35 years, I particularly enjoyed this part of your video. That jacking process is a genius solution to building higher and higher without a crane or major scaffolding.
Great stuff; love your channel! Keep doing what your doing!