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Ravenview Farm
United States
Приєднався 15 вер 2019
This channel chronicles the ins and outs of a 100 acre family farm in southern Minnesota. There are a lot of great "big farm" channels out there, so we'll compare and contrast a bit with those operations while explaining what we do. In 2019 we switched to no-till and started doing a lot of work with cover crops and other regenerative practices, so we'll put extra emphasis on those elements and how they're making us think about farming in new and sustainable ways.
Our farm has been in the family for four generations. My wife and I plan to take over from my parents some day, and each year I get a little more involved in the operation. The farm will always be home to me, and our challenge is to find ways to make this small-scale operation work for us and our community in a way that gives us an income source, but which also allows us to be good stewards of the land and surrounding environment.
Our farm has been in the family for four generations. My wife and I plan to take over from my parents some day, and each year I get a little more involved in the operation. The farm will always be home to me, and our challenge is to find ways to make this small-scale operation work for us and our community in a way that gives us an income source, but which also allows us to be good stewards of the land and surrounding environment.
A Day on a Small Farm - Cutting Hay, Scouting, Fixing, & Selling Corn
Follow me around for a day as we do a variety of small farm jobs.
0:00 - Intro
1:31 - Cutting Hay
4:22 - Field Scouting
7:46 - Selling Corn
9:55 - Swather & Combine Maintenance
19:59 - Cracking Corn
24:34 - Conclusion
25:50 - Victory!!
0:00 - Intro
1:31 - Cutting Hay
4:22 - Field Scouting
7:46 - Selling Corn
9:55 - Swather & Combine Maintenance
19:59 - Cracking Corn
24:34 - Conclusion
25:50 - Victory!!
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Відео
Excessive Moisture? Field Walk & Crop Update
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Having been absent from UA-cam for quite a while, I felt like I needed to start over with a current update. In this video I take you around our fields and have a look at our current conditions. The spring and early summer have been excessively wet here, and that has affected a number of things on the farm. It's a long video, so I broke it into chapters for ya'll. I also give some insights to th...
Harvesting Corn with the 4400 Combine
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10/20/2022 - Ride along as I spend a day harvesting a semi-truck load of corn with our John Deere 4400 combine. Is there anything better in life?
Picking Corn - One Crib-Full, Please
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10/19/2022 - With our plans for corn harvest somewhat revised, Dad and I hammer out a day of corn picking, and fill a single crib for winter wildlife corn sales. This one doesn't need chapters. It's all good. ;0) P.S. - There are a couple of continuity errors in this video, but they're pretty well hidden. If you think you've spotted one, throw it in the comments.
Ear Corn Picking Prep & Harvesting Corn with the 4400
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10/17/22 - Today we're getting all set up to pick ear corn, and then for the first time EVER, we're heading out to harvest our own corn, on our own farm, with our very own combine. We've come a long way baby. 0:00 - Intro 2:10 - Equipment Prep 11:10 - Moisture Testing Corn 13:00 - Next Day - Combining Corn 18:28 - Plan Changes & Outro
Harvest Time - Between Corn and Beans
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Odds and ends around the farm as we wrap up the last details of soybean harvest, and start moving towards corn harvest.
Finishing Soybeans, With Drone Footage!
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Smooth sailing (for the most part) as we wrap up soybean harvest 2022. 0:00 - Rainy Start 3:29 - Drone Footage 5:03 - Conditions Improve 7:35 - Next Day 8:55 - Moving Goats 11:05 - Last of the Beans Music Credit: A Dusty Road - Dan Lebowitz From UA-cam's free music library
Harvest '22 - Getting After Some Soybeans
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Spend a beautiful fall day with us, harvesting beans with the John Deere 4400 combine.
Prepping the 4400 Combine for Soybeans
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A long overdue introduction to our John Deere 4400, along with some prep work before getting out into the fields.
The State of Things - Before Harvest
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Today we're talking crops, drought conditions, soil samples, and some of the ins and outs of the 2022 growing season. The whole point of this video is to set the stage for a bunch of harvest footage that I'm putting together, and which will be coming up on the channel reeeeeaaaaaal soon. So this is the boring but important prelude to everything else. 0:00 - Intro 2:27 - No-Till Drill Project 3:...
Oak Trees & Hope
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Life can be a surprising thing. Happy Independence Day to everyone out there! Thanks for watching, and enjoy a little much-needed time off. I didn’t get this video uploaded before Anderson Bash, so I’m sorry to say you missed a good show. But the GoFundMe page that @MillennialFarmer has set up is still a good thing to check out if you’d like to donate a little something to help fund grain bin r...
Goats & Broiler Chickens on Pasture! #GrainBinSafety
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Did you know the Millenial Farmer is running a donation campaign to provide training and equipment to first-responders, so that they are better equipped to handle grain bin entrapment accidents? Did you know you can go to a *free* SWEET CONCERT as part of that fundraiser? Did you know Dana and I will be there too? Didja? Didja? Donate! Hang out with us! It'll be fun! Links below! Exclamation po...
Early Spring Happenings & Shelling Corn for Wildlife Feed
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We're back! After a long hiatus from UA-cam, I have a series of videos to put up from this past spring. Here we talk a little about the coming year, and run some corn through the Minneapolis-Moline sheller for wildlife feed. 0:00 - General Goings-On & Chit-Chat 13:58 - Shelling Corn
Ag Expo with the MN Soil Health Coalition
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Hanging with the crew at the MSHC booth during Ag Expo in Mankato. The Minnesota Soil Health Coalition is a nonprofit, farmer-led group that helps promote soil health practices in the agricultural community. We host field days, educational events, and provide information to farmers interested in adopting soil health practices, and we have a growing network of farmer-mentors. Farmer mentors - li...
2020 - Planting Cover Crops After Corn
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2020 - Planting Cover Crops After Corn
First Snowfall on the Farm & Holiday Wishes
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First Snowfall on the Farm & Holiday Wishes
2020 - Planting Cover Crops After Soybeans
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2020 - Planting Cover Crops After Soybeans
2020 Harvest - Day 10 - Finishing Up!
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2020 Harvest - Day 10 - Finishing Up!
2020 Harvest - Day 9 - A Marathon Day Picking Corn
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2020 Harvest - Day 9 - A Marathon Day Picking Corn
2020 Harvest - Day 8 - Steady Progress Picking Corn
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2020 Harvest - Day 8 - Steady Progress Picking Corn
2020 Harvest Day 6 & 7 - Prep & Corn Picking
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2020 Harvest Day 6 & 7 - Prep & Corn Picking
2020 Harvest - Day 4 & 5 - Finishing Soybeans
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2020 Harvest - Day 4 & 5 - Finishing Soybeans
2020 Harvest - Day 2 & 3 - Broken Combine
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2020 Harvest - Day 2 & 3 - Broken Combine
2020 Harvest - Day 1 - Soybeans and... Alfalfa?
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2020 Harvest - Day 1 - Soybeans and... Alfalfa?
John Deere 55 - Pre Harvest Tuneup 2020
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John Deere 55 - Pre Harvest Tuneup 2020
Haybine Roller Review - Second Alfalfa Crop
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Haybine Roller Review - Second Alfalfa Crop
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What would happen if u were to drag short chains in the furrow to help cover the fertilizer????
All the same equipment on our farm
All the same equipment exactly
The farm at 8:20 looks familiar.
Rake it again raking 2 together then u should be able to bale it
I was always told u need a couple of hours before u see crimp marks
Looks like u could mix cows in your operation,
Deer corn
Sunflowers would do your deep save of fertilizer, we’ve baled weeds the last few because of the drought, had some sparse wheat in them, these were cattle guys that didn’t get hay to grow
Yeah....but who helps YOU when you need to hitch up a wagon? Love the "drop pin" driving precision! Keep on picking (and videographing...) we enjoyed it!
Do a video grinding the corn for feed
How many bushels do the cribs hold?
Hi I have a question about corn silos. It's not affected by water when it's rains? What's the power of the tractor? Thanks
Love you’re videos Pete from Wisconsin
What size front tires do u have ?
That looks a lot like our ol' 4020... was a great tractor! I grew up in n.c. Iowa.
IS THAT A 666 INTERNATIONAL TRACTOR?
I don't understand those open wire cages for cribs. You know the corn gets wet.
Are the new rollers rubber? We have the very same problem! Help!
I love how you share the entire process from planting to harvesting
Thanks for the videos i have learned a lot. That said I have a few questions. Do you have an email that i could reach out to you on?
Cool video, keep them coming
Sad to hear you're done interseeding into corn. I'm going to try my first attempt next year. Will you be selling your 8300 drill? I'm in the market for one this winter to get set up. Thanks, Andrew
Thanks for sharing 👍👍✌️
Ya know you can use those cobs to heat syrup are old farm house has a cob burner to heat the house
Where do you get your empty sacks from for your corn?
Ill always say fresh cut is nothing compared to the morning 48hrs after its cut smells 1000× better
Interesting variety of summer tasks. Do the mice bother the granary?
That machine will make you an eunuch.
I love your videos, they give me inspiration to try to direct market some of my crops. With a small farm there is no way to make money selling wholesale
Great video! Nice to see you back at it again. Keep it up.
Great video, very cool on the cracked corn process. Keep them coming please.
Hi and good evening, Couldn't you just put the mill a little higher and place an empty bag under it? On a rack or trailer? Or deepen the ground under the mill a little? Then it should actually be easier? Instead of the buckets and shoveling? By the way, I like your videos very much! They are simply great in every way. What you say, how you explain everything, your farm, the great machines and also the seasonal atmosphere always. And the incredibly beautiful surroundings with you. Really fabulous! Thank you very much for that! Best regards from Schleswig-Holstein, Northern Germany! All the best, Christian 🇺🇸💕🥰
Love the swather. I haven't seen many of those in the Midwest. Yeah, I was kinda waiting for the flex funnel to dip as the water hit it, then bounce as the water pouted out, and repeat. 😆 The starter switch is a nice touch. It reminds me of the turn signal replacement switch I put on one of our band trucks back in Iowa. It was a former chicken hauling Step Van, with the original LUX Pullets logos on the sides and "Here comes Archie!" on the hood. The column-mounted turn signal failed, so I zip tied a 3-position toggle switch onto it. Oh, it also had a secondary horn from a VW Beetle that caused strange looks from people when they turned to see the behemoth making the little beep-beep. Thanks for the big ol' video!
enjoyed the video, hope to meet up with you again sometime
Good to see a video and keep them coming
Another great informative video. As I have said before love the videos with the older equipment like I farmed with dad on. Keep them coming. God bless
Drill a hole in the brace to get a scredriver through the hole.
Alfalfa starts to loose proteen once it flowers. Wait longer for a seed crop.
As I've said before, thank you for sharing your day with us. I really appreciate your commentary about what you do, why you do it the way you do, and everything in between. I look forward to seeing your harvest footage! Stay safe from unguarded roller chains!!!!
Crazy year, busy busy busy 🙂👍🏻👌
When did you get the swather
We bought it in the summer of 2021, which was the first year we grew oats on the farm. I haven't featured it because I always failed to get good camera footage of us using it, or even working on it when it needed repair. This year I took some decent footage of oat harvest though, so it'll play a role in an upcoming video.
Enjoy your videos of someone of doing farm directly to customer . Running older machinery makes it able to afford to farm small, best to you on your farm and hope your farm to consumers keeps improving for you, we used to have a guy that would stop to goose hunt here from around St Peter that loved to visit with my dad and he raised ducks outside feeding them alfalfa bales and people would come every year paying a premium for his ducks.
He was probably doing 1 of two things. 1 cleaning lead out of dirt from a back stop to melt down and turn into lead shot or sinkers etc. or less likely separating lead shot from slag after melting.
I'm pretty sure it was the former option, because there was a lot of dirt worked into the nooks and crannies of the machine when I disassembled his shaker screen.
Sounds like great progress on soil optimization. It's quite a different thing when you realize that there's no open local oats mass market and it takes more effort to find buyers and direct markets.
Indeed! There’s a local feed store that will buy a small quantity. That would be my next best option if I wasn’t direct marketing. For anyone who wanted to grow more than 10 or 20 acres in my area though, they’re looking at a long haul to get their product to a market. I think Grain Millers in St. Ansgar, IA might be the closest place, and I believe they will only take food-grade oats.
I like learning what you do for operating a small farm with alternative marketing, another channel I watch with a small farm with direct sales is a few acres farm. Best wishes on your direct marketing
Thanks Ron! When I have time to watch UA-cam videos, Pete from Just a Few Acres is one of my favorites too. I'd love to sit down with him some day and visit if the opportunity ever arose. It'd be a hoot!
@@ravenviewfarm we were in your area in June we went on 19 on our way to Hastings on the Friday before Father's day and Saturday it rained all day
@@ravenviewfarm You'd need to brush up on bad jokes. Although having a camera stand named Rod is a good start.
Nice update. Has been pretty wet here most of the spring and early summer. Getting dry now! Are you going to the Greater northern Minnesota get together at Jon Stevens next month? MN soil health coalition is hosting
Thanks Larson Valley Farm! I might attend that event if it works around our haying schedule. Rush City isn't a long way for me to go. We've been so crazy busy here that I've missed a number of MSHC events that I wanted to attend. I especially wanted to go to the Premier Soil Health event last week, but we were baling hay. I'm hoping once oat harvest is out of the way we'll slow down enough to get off the farm a little and be back out in the world, lol!
enjoy your video Mike, haven't seen you since the Soil Health Summit, look forward to learning more about your vermiculture
Hey Larry! Good to hear from you! Yep, I finally pulled the trigger and got a bunch of worms, lol. I'll have some video updates about that in the future as well. Not much to see yet since I just have a small worm bin made out of an old garbage can. Those little guys reproduce fast though, so their population will outgrow that bin by autumn, and if I can keep them cozy through the winter I'll have quite the vermicompost operation by spring of 2025. Hope you're doing well!
Love that you made another video. Love seeing how you are doing things and especially with the older equipment like I grew up on and driving. Hope to see more soon. Thank you.
Thanks Tom! I'm working on a few more videos already. My daughter has gotten interested in using the camera, so it's fun to be able to create videos together as a family. I appreciate you tuning in!
Glad to see a new video from you! Always interesting and entertaining, not to mention informative. Keep on doing what you do! I'm hoping to see your oat harvest, as it's been a long time since I've been involved in harvesting oats, or wheat. Thanks for including all of us on the farm tour!!!!!
Thanks Douglas! I get a little long-winded I know, and most people would rather see the equipment working, but I think a tour is important for context once in awhile. I'm glad you enjoyed it. I just swathed the oats down yesterday and filmed it. Of course they got rained on last night, so we'll spend a couple of days getting the combine all tuned up and ready while they dry back down. Then it's go time!