When I was a junior in high school in 1980 I worked for a local farmer here in Illinois. It was just me and him out in the fields. He let me cultivate about 360 acres of corn with a 4 row cultivator on an International 560. For almost 40 years I was so proud of myself and amazed that he trusted me to do that job. A couple of years ago I ran into him at a local festival where he had that same tractor in the show completely restored to new condition. While talking about running that tractor all those years ago I learned that I got to do the cultivating because he threw out his back and I was his only choice!!!! He said that he was terrified when he sent me out there the first day thinking that I would destroy the corn! He said to his surprise he doesn’t think I ran over any!! So after all of these years I found out that I was the last resort!!!🤣
Dougo I'm 70 years old and I can remember in 1969 and 1970 I was 15 and 16 years old and I cultivated beans 3 times and twice in corn in the summer because no one else wanted to do it. So, Dad took me one round and then he said you think you handle it. I said yes and walked off and that was my job from then on. We never had a cab no A/C, but when you're that age it bother you none. We had 4020 JD and it was bran new and I told Dad I wanted a radio, and he went to JD and bought an AM radio which I think that is all you could back then and the way I went. I still run tractors but yes, we have A/C now, I don't run as much as I use to, but I still like it.
Dougo for the winning narrative on the tractor and why/how it doesn't fit their cost/utilization needs. Also for the explanation on what and why he was doing what he was doing in the fields that day. As a non-farmer, I ALMOST felt like I could take that piece of information and become a farmer myself... 🤣🤣BUt honestly, very informative and I enjoyed watching.
The lessons learned from the decades before the 30s long forgotten and where you can now go hundreds of miles across the upper midwest with all contour farming no longer existing
This is one of the Best Larson Farms videos. The struggles of the Farmer. Please Lord Bless our Farmers that feed us all. May you Bless them with bountiful harvests. So they may continue to feed us all. Amen.
I've been saying this for many years, farmers today rely on chemicals for weed control. Get yourself a few 60-80 HP tractors and 8-12 row cultivators for weeds and breaking up the compaction of the top of the soil to allow water to soak in and the soil to breathe. But in drought it's also not a good idea
In a situation like this when the soil is blowing, there’s only so much you can do. Roughening the surface into clods to slow ground velocity is an emergency fix. Poor Dougo kicking himself over the fall tillage. An application of hog manure might also help.
I just hope we are not over farming like in the days of the Oklahoma "Dust Bowl Days" of the 1930's. When Doug picked up a hand full of grainy soil it means all of the topsoil has been blown away. This can be most devastating at the very least, history teaches us that we will repeat history. I wish Larsons farm the absolute best in their choice making to try and reverse this situation. Good luck guys...
I haven't farmed since the early 1990's we used to say in Western Nebraska when the last rain drop hits the back of your head you'd better be out there working the ground so it doesn't blow away!
Row cultivating. It's even more fun when the corn is taller and the wind is blowing. At the end of the day you don't need to much time to fall asleep. :D
Hate to see y’all having all of the rain!! Here in La. we can have a wet spring to but this year we are having a good year so for. Hope and pray that the rain will let up for y’all to get the rest of the crop in!!🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙋🏼♂️👍
Great job Mr. Dougo! I hope you & Chet get back to feeling 💯% better! You would put yourself in time out but you don’t have time!😂😂😂 Don’t be discouraged. I have confidence The Larson Team will amend this problem to best of their ability! Sending blessings and well wishes to everyone @ Larson Farm Families!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸
As an Australian having watched Jonathan Winters the actor over the years, Dougo reminds me of him with the way he talks and mannerisms. Makes it even funnier when something goes wrong. Very entertaining family
West Texas Farmer here. We struggle with soils constantly trying to blow after any sizeable rain. We run rotary hoes and then we have sand fighters which run in between the rows of whatever crop and provide a longer solution compared to a rotary how it row crop cultivator.
Here in the uk on the sand lands we plant barley then few days later we will drill the sugar beet the barley protects the sugar beet from wind blow. The barley is easily taken out when the sugar beet is up. Love the channel Boston Lincolnshire uk 🇬🇧
I remember cultivating, 3020 and 4020 with 8 row cultivators, no shade all day, even had to put your hands on the steering wheel, dad would say don't screw it up, the neighbors will be laughing all summer, iron out he called it haha
Hey Doug! First of all I am sending you and Chet Prayers for healing and comfort! Feeling yukky and still getting out there to farm is a difficult thing to do! Praying the rains let up and the sun comes out to help the crops grow! Thank You for taking us along as you got some cultivating done! Until your next video ~~~Stay safe, healthy and happy! 🚜🌽
One of the best episodes! I found this really interesting - never knew a field could be so diverse and challenging. Still at wonder over threading the tracks between the corn plants and how much know how goes into setting up a tool like that to achieve the end goal. Also the thinking over which tractors to buy into. Still learning the lingo and how things work - those shields - they help keep the plants upright before it goes into the work area of the tooling?? Perhaps for that field planting spaced tree rows perp to the wind direction would cut the drifting in the long term?
Dougo; Do you remember the late 70 and early 80? In 77 my dad waited to plant corn until he knew it was going to rain and planted corn and did the same with beans. By the fall all the bottoms were so wet he couldn't get them out for 7 yrs. I remember guys putting tires on backwards so when they went into wet areas they could back out. Some guys even tied a cable under the combine so they could pull them out easier.
Hey Dugo ! Thanks for showing us & and explaining how your farming works . Wow what a shame for the corn . Always enjoy you & Chet & others. Hope you get well soon ! You all are fun to watch. Thanks for taking the time to share ! From ne ohio
I’m just amazed how in-depth you went into on the tractor and your operation. This is what makes understanding farming costs and equipment costs affect your operation
Are you OK man?? It'll all work out, I think. We got too much water here in north central MN. We have erosion from water in very heavy down pours here in the hills.
It amazes me that auto-steer can thread between the planted rows. You can see the drifting soil is blowing in the distant shots.i remember as a kid when Minnesota farmers routinely cultivated corn before emerging fertilizers and herbicides...no auto-steer, just an open-station row-crop tractor and a good hat.
We are in a heat wave in Ohio it is 90-95 all week. The farmers Fields that are planted corn is about a little over a ankle high but it looks bad it is in need of water very much the ears on the corn are folded in on it self the soybeans look good but we have not had rain all week
The corn is really getting a pounding from that wind and sand .. Perhaps try ridging the hill tops when plantingto minimise the possibility of soil erosion.. better still zero till the sandy hill tops.. Wishing you best and hope the wind dies down.. Stay safe
Looking like the beginning of another dust bowl, God forbid! Hope the wind dies down and the rain stays away enough to get the small lakes dried out. Thanks for all you do and for the awesome content!
Good old cultivating. We still do a lot of it here. Not like the old days in a 4430. By George there was no blabbing to a camera. A little inattention and cultivator blight hit. Hope you get feeling better.
We used to get the same condition you have and we used a rotary hoe to stop the dirt from blowing probably won’t work for everyone but it helped and was a lot faster than cultivating
This is just a little reminder of what the early farmers had to deal with in the dust bowl. So much is beyond our control. God Bless you all and I hope you get to feeling better.
Farmers also like to pile rocks on fence lines, which over the years grows taller plants, which catch more blowdirt and bury fences also. We were cleaning up fencelines and we would find rocks and other junk 2 - 3 feet down in places.
I remember the drought, unfortunately , 53 now but 17 then I helped with baleing hay for our more unfortunate neighbors so to speak. But helping another makes it worth even it was in the high 90's and 100's ! People might ask, "Dougo , Why don't you plant North to South instead of "sandblast " East to West? They have no clue....caint control wind in the sand , kids !!! Good Luck in that field and keep em coming!
In Canterbury we have howling NW winds. So a hot wind for us. When you cut the ryegrass for drying pre harvesting it can pick it up and blow into the fences. No trees because of centre pivot irrigators. I always believed some sort of " companion planting would have helped. We could lose 50% of the seed from winter losses and all for same input costs. Planting a vigorous plant earlier in strips every couple of planter widths would have been worth a try. Something that could have been taken out just after harvest for cattle fodder. So you might lose 5 to 8% of arable land but if you halved your wind losses your still way ahead.
Look in the back ground while Doug is explaining how the sand arrived on his freshly tilled swath. You can see it just blowing across the field in a tan line! crazy!
I remember '88 in west central MN. The river east of me dried up & we were driving 3 wheelers up & down the riverbed. We had a couple of small lakes that dried up also. Our neighbors had the same drifting problem on their sugar beet field across the road from me.
I always liked cultivating corn, it seemed to shoot up a foot after you were done. That was my grandpa's first job to cultivate a 26 acre field with a horse and 1 row cultivator, he told me how he was so proud he did it in a day and his dad said good now you can do it the other way
Maybe not work that Sandhill ever again lol probably don’t have a notil planter sitting around lol exactly why I never work the dirt unless it’s absolutely necessary cause once that dust blows away it never comes back
It would have been fun to see the 1086 on it! I cultivated a lot back in the day with a 1486 and it was virtually new then I felt like a king running it as a teenager
When I was a junior in high school in 1980 I worked for a local farmer here in Illinois. It was just me and him out in the fields. He let me cultivate about 360 acres of corn with a 4 row cultivator on an International 560. For almost 40 years I was so proud of myself and amazed that he trusted me to do that job. A couple of years ago I ran into him at a local festival where he had that same tractor in the show completely restored to new condition. While talking about running that tractor all those years ago I learned that I got to do the cultivating because he threw out his back and I was his only choice!!!! He said that he was terrified when he sent me out there the first day thinking that I would destroy the corn! He said to his surprise he doesn’t think I ran over any!! So after all of these years I found out that I was the last resort!!!🤣
Great job Doug. ❤️❤️❤️❤️👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Dougo I'm 70 years old and I can remember in 1969 and 1970 I was 15 and 16 years old and I cultivated beans 3 times and twice in corn in the summer because no one else wanted to do it. So, Dad took me one round and then he said you think you handle it. I said yes and walked off and that was my job from then on. We never had a cab no A/C, but when you're that age it bother you none. We had 4020 JD and it was bran new and I told Dad I wanted a radio, and he went to JD and bought an AM radio which I think that is all you could back then and the way I went. I still run tractors but yes, we have A/C now, I don't run as much as I use to, but I still like it.
you had the radio..being I'm 70 also what music ..ROCK AND Roll..No music for me Juat a 70 JD at age of 11 later 4020JD..
I like your story. How many acres was the farm? 4 row cultivator?
That's an awesome story! Thanks to all farmers who have fed us our entire lives. God bless you all ❤
Look like the beginning of a new Dust Bowl
Dougo for the winning narrative on the tractor and why/how it doesn't fit their cost/utilization needs. Also for the explanation on what and why he was doing what he was doing in the fields that day. As a non-farmer, I ALMOST felt like I could take that piece of information and become a farmer myself... 🤣🤣BUt honestly, very informative and I enjoyed watching.
Farming is for very special folk.
Perhaps the answer to wind drift is to have smaller fields with trees and hedges at the edges to slow the wind down! ;)
You need to plant a high residue crop so there is a blanket of plant material on the ground that will prevent the soil from blowing away.
Love when we get to spend a day with Dougo. He needs his own "soapbox" segment on each video.
I thought that it was for weed control!! When you get off the row, it's iron worm that took out the crop!!😂😂
The lessons learned from the decades before the 30s long forgotten and where you can now go hundreds of miles across the upper midwest with all contour farming no longer existing
This is one of the Best Larson Farms videos. The struggles of the Farmer.
Please Lord Bless our Farmers that feed us all. May you Bless them with bountiful harvests. So they may continue to feed us all. Amen.
Amen. ❤
We need a day of just Dougo. I like watching him talk and show us what he does in farming!
That's why they planted trees rows through the fields
Completely wrong take. Do you work on a farm?
I've been saying this for many years, farmers today rely on chemicals for weed control. Get yourself a few 60-80 HP tractors and 8-12 row cultivators for weeds and breaking up the compaction of the top of the soil to allow water to soak in and the soil to breathe. But in drought it's also not a good idea
Keep up the great work and keep it between the rows!
In a situation like this when the soil is blowing, there’s only so much you can do. Roughening the surface into clods to slow ground velocity is an emergency fix. Poor Dougo kicking himself over the fall tillage. An application of hog manure might also help.
I just hope we are not over farming like in the days of the Oklahoma "Dust Bowl Days" of the 1930's. When Doug picked up a hand full of grainy soil it means all of the topsoil has been blown away. This can be most devastating at the very least, history teaches us that we will repeat history. I wish Larsons farm the absolute best in their choice making to try and reverse this situation. Good luck guys...
My heart is breaking for all of you and I’m praying that things get better soon
Looks like a fun day at the beach!
A day with Dougo is always a good day and the thing is I understood everything that you were talking about that was a great video
Get better soon Chet.
The wind is terrible this year. If it's not windy it's raining and making spraying a lil difficult lol. Oh well maybe next year hahaha
I haven't farmed since the early 1990's we used to say in Western Nebraska when the last rain drop hits the back of your head you'd better be out there working the ground so it doesn't blow away!
Hope you feel better Dougo . Great video
Row cultivating. It's even more fun when the corn is taller and the wind is blowing. At the end of the day you don't need to much time to fall asleep. :D
You’re not kidding everyone else’s idea of big is different, my idea of big and my wife’s idea of big are also different. 😂
Darn I was looking forward to the ride
Hate to see y’all having all of the rain!! Here in La. we can have a wet spring to but this year we are having a good year so for. Hope and pray that the rain will let up for y’all to get the rest of the crop in!!🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙋🏼♂️👍
Wow, how educational this video was thanks doug you’re the best. I learned a lot just in that short little time thank you so much and God bless.
Great job Mr. Dougo! I hope you & Chet get back to feeling 💯% better!
You would put yourself in time out but you don’t have time!😂😂😂 Don’t be discouraged. I have confidence The Larson Team will amend this problem to best of their ability!
Sending blessings and well wishes to everyone @ Larson Farm Families!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸
Thanks for the explainer. Good video.
As an Australian having watched Jonathan Winters the actor over the years, Dougo reminds me of him with the way he talks and mannerisms. Makes it even funnier when something goes wrong. Very entertaining family
Sure hope you all get to feeling better. Nothing worse then having to work when you are sick 😷. 💪👍🏼
Thanks Dougo. Very informative. You show us how tough farming can be especially when you are at the mercy of mother nature
West Texas Farmer here. We struggle with soils constantly trying to blow after any sizeable rain. We run rotary hoes and then we have sand fighters which run in between the rows of whatever crop and provide a longer solution compared to a rotary how it row crop cultivator.
"I'd put myself in time out if I had the time to go there" - Dougo
Awesome video Dougo!👍❤️
I remember 1988 just started farming though my farming career was over. But we're still here 😂😂
Here in the uk on the sand lands we plant barley then few days later we will drill the sugar beet the barley protects the sugar beet from wind blow.
The barley is easily taken out when the sugar beet is up. Love the channel Boston Lincolnshire uk 🇬🇧
I remember cultivating, 3020 and 4020 with 8 row cultivators, no shade all day, even had to put your hands on the steering wheel, dad would say don't screw it up, the neighbors will be laughing all summer, iron out he called it haha
In 1988 the whole country was in a heat wave and the drout. It was 100 degrees everyday that year.
I remember that too, so hot!
Hey Doug! First of all I am sending you and Chet Prayers for healing and comfort! Feeling yukky and still getting out there to farm is a difficult thing to do! Praying the rains let up and the sun comes out to help the crops grow! Thank You for taking us along as you got some cultivating done! Until your next video ~~~Stay safe, healthy and happy! 🚜🌽
I really hope the 8RX is in the budget to keep on your farm..it’s a stunning piece of equipment and we all know Dougo wants it to stay
VERY VERY GOOD JOB TELLING WHAT THE WIND CAN DO !!!🌬
1988 the winter Olympics in Calgary alberta canada had no snow and the first Jamaican bob sled team 😳
One of the best episodes! I found this really interesting - never knew a field could be so diverse and challenging. Still at wonder over threading the tracks between the corn plants and how much know how goes into setting up a tool like that to achieve the end goal. Also the thinking over which tractors to buy into. Still learning the lingo and how things work - those shields - they help keep the plants upright before it goes into the work area of the tooling?? Perhaps for that field planting spaced tree rows perp to the wind direction would cut the drifting in the long term?
I’m so sorry Doug, I did t mean to laugh, but you are so funny. “Lord Jesus” have you some “Irish” in you. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂❤️❤️❤️❤️
Dougo; Do you remember the late 70 and early 80? In 77 my dad waited to plant corn until he knew it was going to rain and planted corn and did the same with beans. By the fall all the bottoms were so wet he couldn't get them out for 7 yrs. I remember guys putting tires on backwards so when they went into wet areas they could back out. Some guys even tied a cable under the combine so they could pull them out easier.
I used to love to cultivate back in the day
I'm in Wisconsin and I very much remember 1988. Dougo. When it quits raining I'll be cultivating too albeit and a much smaller scale.
Hey Dugo ! Thanks for showing us & and explaining how your farming works . Wow what a shame for the corn . Always enjoy you & Chet & others. Hope you get well soon ! You all are fun to watch. Thanks for taking the time to share ! From ne ohio
I remember years ago, farming with my daddy and grandaddy cultivating with A John Deere tractors with front mount 4 culivaters.
I’m just amazed how in-depth you went into on the tractor and your operation. This is what makes understanding farming costs and equipment costs affect your operation
Wow! A full 23.30 minutes of Dougo, just made my day. Thanks Larson Farms fo a great video. e
If you know… well…. You know. Enjoyed every minute of this video. God bless America
You're a good dad Dougo
Are you OK man?? It'll all work out, I think. We got too much water here in north central MN. We have erosion from water in very heavy down pours here in the hills.
It amazes me that auto-steer can thread between the planted rows. You can see the drifting soil is blowing in the distant shots.i remember as a kid when Minnesota farmers routinely cultivated corn before emerging fertilizers and herbicides...no auto-steer, just an open-station row-crop tractor and a good hat.
Always a good video when Dougos at tge helm.
Your memories and storytelling are captivating. Thanks for sharing this journey-it's delightful to see your reminiscence and the joy it brings!
We are in a heat wave in Ohio it is 90-95 all week. The farmers Fields that are planted corn is about a little over a ankle high but it looks bad it is in need of water very much the ears on the corn are folded in on it self the soybeans look good but we have not had rain all week
The corn is really getting a pounding from that wind and sand ..
Perhaps try ridging the hill tops when plantingto minimise the possibility of soil erosion.. better still zero till the sandy hill tops..
Wishing you best and hope the wind dies down..
Stay safe
You could see the dust when you were going down the rows. The birds loved to follow you.
That was really interesting.
Looking like the beginning of another dust bowl, God forbid!
Hope the wind dies down and the rain stays away enough to get the small lakes dried out. Thanks for all you do and for the awesome content!
Where's the IH?? Then you could really bring back the memories!!
Good old cultivating. We still do a lot of it here. Not like the old days in a 4430. By George there was no blabbing to a camera. A little inattention and cultivator blight hit. Hope you get feeling better.
I have seen land blow a lot here in Central Oklahoma alot of the ground is sandy. I understand your problem
Thank you Dougo for sharing your thoughts and decisions made when telling about the JD tractor.
We used to get the same condition you have and we used a rotary hoe to stop the dirt from blowing probably won’t work for everyone but it helped and was a lot faster than cultivating
Thanks for doing what you do ,my parents and grandparents from benson ,gd luck 😊 ,
THANK'S FOR DOUG'O CAM VIDEO 😆👍🙏🍀 = Russ
This is just a little reminder of what the early farmers had to deal with in the dust bowl. So much is beyond our control. God Bless you all and I hope you get to feeling better.
That 8rx is a nice tractor. Seems like a good all purpose tractor.
I ENJOYED WATCHING THE VIDEO DOUGO ❤😊
Farmers also like to pile rocks on fence lines, which over the years grows taller plants, which catch more blowdirt and bury fences also. We were cleaning up fencelines and we would find rocks and other junk 2 - 3 feet down in places.
Thanks for the good memories Dougo. Mine was front mount and took me a week to do
Grew up in the 80s….That cultivator brings back a lot of bad memories. 8 rows at a time. Straddle 4 and 5
Great show sir. It looks like a lot of areas no crop. But you all have so much acreage hopefully it works out. Good luck on this challenging weather
geez....going chetless.....gotta love it..
I remember the drought, unfortunately , 53 now but 17 then I helped with baleing hay for our more unfortunate neighbors so to speak. But helping another makes it worth even it was in the high 90's and 100's ! People might ask, "Dougo , Why don't you plant North to South instead of "sandblast " East to West? They have no clue....caint control wind in the sand , kids !!! Good Luck in that field and keep em coming!
One of them dam if you do and dam if you don't kinds of events. Good luck.
Magnifique vidéo et le 8r 410 à chenille et désherber et bien équipés 😂😮😅😊
Wetest spring in forever yet no stuck equipment. . . . . . you guys are doing too good of a job.
Amazing content. Sorry for your issues.
I can remember when they cultivated corn and rotary hoed the beans
Awesome video DougO'. 🚜🚜🚜
I'm remember 88 it was dry and hot 🔥
Hope you guys all get well soon.
In Canterbury we have howling NW winds. So a hot wind for us. When you cut the ryegrass for drying pre harvesting it can pick it up and blow into the fences. No trees because of centre pivot irrigators. I always believed some sort of " companion planting would have helped. We could lose 50% of the seed from winter losses and all for same input costs. Planting a vigorous plant earlier in strips every couple of planter widths would have been worth a try. Something that could have been taken out just after harvest for cattle fodder. So you might lose 5 to 8% of arable land but if you halved your wind losses your still way ahead.
Dougo I hope you and Chet get better it's no fun being sick
They are better. These videos are a few weeks behind real life.
Look in the back ground while Doug is explaining how the sand arrived on his freshly tilled swath. You can see it just blowing across the field in a tan line! crazy!
I remember '88 in west central MN. The river east of me dried up & we were driving 3 wheelers up & down the riverbed. We had a couple of small lakes that dried up also. Our neighbors had the same drifting problem on their sugar beet field across the road from me.
Childhood memories with grandpa
I always liked cultivating corn, it seemed to shoot up a foot after you were done. That was my grandpa's first job to cultivate a 26 acre field with a horse and 1 row cultivator, he told me how he was so proud he did it in a day and his dad said good now you can do it the other way
Great explanation. The auto guided cultivation is the greatest. Wish I had it years ago.
Maybe not work that Sandhill ever again lol probably don’t have a notil planter sitting around lol exactly why I never work the dirt unless it’s absolutely necessary cause once that dust blows away it never comes back
We use to cultivate corn twice and beans once. My have times changed
It would have been fun to see the 1086 on it! I cultivated a lot back in the day with a 1486 and it was virtually new then I felt like a king running it as a teenager