Thx for taking the time to keep us up today as to what's happen'n on the farm. 1500acres right? Enough to keep you busy. LOL. Sometimes all you have to do it set up the camera and do your thing. Both you and Sandi are great commentators and editors. Much enjoy and greatly look forward your video update. Pray you get some rain.
Good to see you again Mark! Any subject you present is always informative, hope to see many more. If you get a rainy day, a tour of your shop would be nice. Thanks.
An excellent teaching video for those of like me who learned their farming from watching Green Acres back in the day🤣! The old adage of farming for me as a kid was poke a hole in the ground, drop a seed, water and wait for the product to grow, then ride by on a wagon and pick! More or less like a cartoon. But having watched your videos, the amount of preparing on paper with numbers and predictions while dealing with the Always changing weather, not to mention the actual hard labor and sweat AND maintenance, I have come to very much appreciate my food and when I'm saying my grace or prayers, I ALWAYS include the hardworking Famers and their Families! Very much enjoy your videos Mark! Cheers From Ohio and Keep Strutting!
Thank you Mark. You explain well and now I finally understand what strip-tilling is. I would happily watch more content from you. I already watch all of Sandi's vlogs and love her to bits.
Your a man of many talents Mark, I have been following your wife and daughter for years now, and always enjoy watching what ever you wanna share with us. In my eyes your all a very good example of good honest, hardworking people, that know a lot of what to do and what not to do. So I learn and enjoy watching, don't matter if it's farming, building of what ever your wanna share.
Fascinating Mark I love the descriptive videos. Imagine what farmers from the horse and cart days would make of the incredible science and technology of today. Thank you.
Glad to see you back! I really appreciate seeing the work that goes into prepping for harvesting. Just a side note, I purchased my first Steer to be processed and it truly brings a whole perspective on what it takes to raise, feed, fertilize, etc… even when buying produce at the store. I do think that these videos help with the reality of the hard work that goes into farming. Thanks again, Kelle from Louisville Kentucky. P.S. Sandy is amazing and the woman works her booty off. We see her helping you but can you keep up with her and the sheep?? I think we need a video on that !!!!! Who AGREE’S with me????????
Come on, Mark!! The gauntlet has been tossed....you be Carissa for a day...one of the real busy ones. Then, go get dinner on the table 😁😁 You're both hard workers, but it would be great to see you doing sheep management!!!
That had to be one of the best explanations of strip till I have heard. Mark you explained that to a tee and very understandable too. No Fancy do dads to mess it up. Just plan English. Thanks Mark for the video, I myself enjoyed the hell out of it.
Hey Mark you live your degree! You are sharing your equipment with your community and they share with you. This, I think it make economic sense. I do appreciate these videos.
Howdy Mark. I have been hanging out with Sandi for a long time now. I have tried to "find you" a few times, never successfully. Today I decided to do a Google search for you and found you, but still had to SEARCH for an actual link to click on. Yay! Finally successful. I love country life with animals and farming. So very interesting. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and farmlife with us. God Bless you and yours. Take care. /from N. Texas, USA.
We priced nitrogen for next spring. I gasped to nearly fainted when the check was wrote. Expecting nitrogen to double again by spring. Great informed video Mark. Thank You
I always appreciate when you take the time to shoot, edit, and post a video, Mark. Love all your family's farm and life posts. Its fascinating to learn about the equipment and why and how you use it as you work through each phase of the perpetual cycle of farming. Take care! If you're ok with showing us, I'd love to see how your cabin is shaping up... Last I knew from a mention in Sandi's vlog it's under roof, should be weathertight, and the interior work was happening, yay! 🎉
I live in northern WV, that's all it's done is rain. Farmers are having problems getting their hay up this year. East of the Mississippi River it's has rain a lot, harvest is going to be wet ground in a lot of the areas.So you are putting in nutrients into the ground to jump start the crops for next year.
Great video, thank you for the explanation, may i ask a question, if you will be planting in those strips only next year does the cover crop not creep/ grow into the strips over autumn and winter? Also to add to my question can the cover crop not be harvested to be used as a food source for the sheep or sold to nearby farms for a food source for animals? Thank you as always for explaining how the farm works, i find it very interesting. From South Africa 🇿🇦
It truly is great seeing you once again provide the basic agriculture knowledge in a language we can understand. It is great hearing the good and bad issues you have to deal with day to day. Thank you for all food you provide.😊
Thanks for filming again. As a “non Ag” person, I learn so much. When I’m around the farmers at our local mom & pop store, I kinda understand what they’re talking about. Thanks!
I love going along for a day (or so) on the farm. As a desk jockey, it is a little escapist, but also educational. Makes us realize how much knowledge you’ve got to have !!!
I'll probably say this every video but thank you for showing us how our food is grown. I just drove an hour to a doctor via back roads that were all farmland. I live in SW Michigan so it was grapevines (mostly for juice) and soybean and corn fields. Weather is interesting- we've had plenty of good rainstorms but they must go south of you or fall apart over Lake Huron. I'm in Kalamazoo so it's a bit south of you.
Hello Mark, this is my first time here, however am a big fan of Sandi. I am writing to suggest you look at a few videos from Young Red Angus. He recently incorporated compost into his farming practice, reducing his nitrogen and eliminating phosphorus. If you are not already doing this, it might find it very interesting. Certainly has cut his output costs dramatically.
Very interesting, Mark! I really liked your explanation of the components that "clear then cut-and-fertilize then berm up" the soil. Your videos are great, and I'm sure everyone is like me and appreciates the opportunity when you have time to make one for us! Hope you get some rain for the canola! It's rainy here in Northern Michigan, but don't know if our weather makes it to you. :)
Thank you Mark for sharing a great video. I truly enjoy how you take the time to explain everything. I remember back in the 80s when we lived on a farm we were renting, the landowner was always trying to stay one step ahead. It's not easy and no rain makes it tough. It's been a while since we have had rain as well. Trying to do a second vegetable garden, but not sure how it's going to turn out. All we both can do is try. Thank you again for taking the time to make this video, truly appreciate it. Looking forward to your next one. Take care and best always Rusty in Southern Oklahoma ❤️
How where the yields this year on your side? A bitt lower or quite a bitt lower? Here in Holland, Belgium, the north of france, and Germany the early sowed wheat, was ok up to good. The later one was not so good, and the same fore Barley early very good, late one's bad. I think 2 years ago you had a very good yield for the canola, how was that this year, the same? Succes, and always nice to see you on the vid also.
Wet last fall so no canola got planted. Yield in the winter grains were surprisingly good. We have yet to harvest our soybean and corn but we’ve been dry so yields will likely be below average
Here in Maine we are enjoying the first full day of rain since June. The new rig seems to do a good job of strip tilling. Millennial Farmer is trying to apply dry fert. and anhydrous in the same pass with a strip till bar. Thus far quite the cluster? mostly with dry fert. applicator. Looking forward to the YT combine buddy seat ride a long soybean harvest.
With your interest in soil health, I've wondered if there would be any advantage, and way to do it, to get your chicken manure deeper into the soil? I ask because as a non-farmer I assume the roots of some crops go deep looking for food and water. And wouldn't deep roots help with soil compaction?
I’ve looked at making pellets out of the manure and applying that with the cart but at this time it’s too costly. We’re hoping the roots of the cover crops can move the nutrient deeper into the soil profile.
Question the width of the axle for both the tractor and anything being towed, does that make a difference in crop planning. Does that matter or is just placed on what your planting?
Most row crops are on 30” spacings so tire widths are usually a multiple of that, for example the tractor inside tires are at 60” spacing and the outside one are at 120”
Mark, you are working hard to improve the soil conditions and quality. I follow that closely. Very interesting! What surprises me is that on the 900-er Fendt you still use culture tires. Even with wheal-weights. Why didn't you not choos for wider tires and possible an air vent system?
Cover crops are planted to cover the soil, help to manage erosion and soil fertility, and compete with weeds, not for the purpose of being harvested. Spraying off means applying a herbicide to kill the cover crop to prepare for the growing season of the main crop.
Where I live we have red clay soil. Our neighbor basically makes it the consistency of baby powder for his corn. I see you were pleased with a much rougher texture. Is that because it lasts better over the winter (less likely to erode - I know you said the cover crop prevents it) or will you have to break it up to a finer consistency in the spring?
Aloha Mark! 🤙 Thanks for the video! Looks like a possible Hurricane 🌀heading towards Canada 🇨🇦?? Check it out,it might give you some rain! MAHALO STAY SAFE!!!
We use a RTK guidance system that allowing to sub inch repeatability. The guidance line we use for strip tilling can be used for planting in the spring
Best advice would be to demo a couple different units and determine what you like best for making strips. In the fall, I like a mounded or elevated strips that will settle over winter and if we freshen them in the spring or make some, I like it to be flatter and fairly consolidated to have good soil to seed contact.
Yes nice to see a Mark Brock video. 🇨🇦🚜👌
Thx for taking the time to keep us up today as to what's happen'n on the farm. 1500acres right? Enough to keep you busy. LOL. Sometimes all you have to do it set up the camera and do your thing. Both you and Sandi are great commentators and editors. Much enjoy and greatly look forward your video update. Pray you get some rain.
Thanks, and got some rain yesterday
Oh Mark, you know we always enjoy your videos! 😄
Certainly hoping additional videos will be available on a more regular basis
Good to see you again Mark! Any subject you present is always informative, hope to see many more. If you get a rainy day, a tour of your shop would be nice. Thanks.
An excellent teaching video for those of like me who learned their farming from watching Green Acres back in the day🤣! The old adage of farming for me as a kid was poke a hole in the ground, drop a seed, water and wait for the product to grow, then ride by on a wagon and pick! More or less like a cartoon. But having watched your videos, the amount of preparing on paper with numbers and predictions while dealing with the Always changing weather, not to mention the actual hard labor and sweat AND maintenance, I have come to very much appreciate my food and when I'm saying my grace or prayers, I ALWAYS include the hardworking Famers and their Families! Very much enjoy your videos Mark! Cheers From Ohio and Keep Strutting!
Yeah Marks back❤😂🎉 get your tripod ready. We’ll be waiting. Bless you all and 🙏you’ll have a bountiful harvest.
Would enjoy a video next spring when you plant corn in this field!
Thank you Mark. You explain well and now I finally understand what strip-tilling is. I would happily watch more content from you. I already watch all of Sandi's vlogs and love her to bits.
Your a man of many talents Mark, I have been following your wife and daughter for years now, and always enjoy watching what ever you wanna share with us. In my eyes your all a very good example of good honest, hardworking people, that know a lot of what to do and what not to do. So I learn and enjoy watching, don't matter if it's farming, building of what ever your wanna share.
Boys with their toys. Love learning about all your farming equipment. Thank you for the education 👍👍
Was there ever any doubt that folk would enjoy any video you put out? As always Mark, a superb and enjoyable explanation of the task at hand.
Fascinating Mark I love the descriptive videos. Imagine what farmers from the horse and cart days would make of the incredible science and technology of today. Thank you.
Excellent Video Mark, great explanation of Strip tilling. Enjoy watch your video and getting a better understanding of newer technologies.
Oh yeah marks stripping thanks for the tip Sandy😉😆
Wonderful video, thanks for sharing your story. Hopefully we can see alot more videos
Yay! Another video with the promise of MORE!
Glad to see you back! I really appreciate seeing the work that goes into prepping for harvesting. Just a side note, I purchased my first Steer to be processed and it truly brings a whole perspective on what it takes to raise, feed, fertilize, etc… even when buying produce at the store. I do think that these videos help with the reality of the hard work that goes into farming. Thanks again, Kelle from Louisville Kentucky. P.S. Sandy is amazing and the woman works her booty off. We see her helping you but can you keep up with her and the sheep?? I think we need a video on that !!!!! Who AGREE’S with me????????
Come on, Mark!! The gauntlet has been tossed....you be Carissa for a day...one of the real busy ones. Then, go get dinner on the table 😁😁 You're both hard workers, but it would be great to see you doing sheep management!!!
Great to see your videos again. We farm eastern ontario and are starting beans tomorrow. Its nice to see some semi local farms on here.👍
That had to be one of the best explanations of strip till I have heard. Mark you explained that to a tee and very understandable too. No Fancy do dads to mess it up. Just plan English. Thanks Mark for the video, I myself enjoyed the hell out of it.
I love how clearly you explain what and why you are doing, great video 👍👍👍
Hey Mark you live your degree! You are sharing your equipment with your community and they share with you. This, I think it make economic sense.
I do appreciate these videos.
Very instructive. Thanks
Howdy Mark. I have been hanging out with Sandi for a long time now. I have tried to "find you" a few times, never successfully. Today I decided to do a Google search for you and found you, but still had to SEARCH for an actual link to click on. Yay! Finally successful. I love country life with animals and farming. So very interesting. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and farmlife with us. God Bless you and yours. Take care. /from N. Texas, USA.
Nice to see you doing videos again Mark, thank you!
Glad to see you posting videos again! Please continue
Wow! You have a gift for clearly explaining your equipment and your plan. Thank you. I never miss your uploads.
Thanks for the video! Really good as always.
I enjoy watching all your videos.
Great to watch a well run farming operation.
We priced nitrogen for next spring. I gasped to nearly fainted when the check was wrote. Expecting nitrogen to double again by spring. Great informed video Mark. Thank You
Nitrogen is very expensive and I agree it won’t be any cheaper come spring
Thank you fascinating 😊
Thanks for the video
Thank you for explaining strip tilling. I had heard about it, but didn't understand how it worked.
WOW, thats some kinda machine 👍🏼😍Thanks for getting back on and sharing some valuable education with us.
Thank you for sharing the information. It is very interesting to learn about what you are doing.
I always appreciate when you take the time to shoot, edit, and post a video, Mark. Love all your family's farm and life posts. Its fascinating to learn about the equipment and why and how you use it as you work through each phase of the perpetual cycle of farming. Take care! If you're ok with showing us, I'd love to see how your cabin is shaping up... Last I knew from a mention in Sandi's vlog it's under roof, should be weathertight, and the interior work was happening, yay! 🎉
Enjoy your very educational videos, both farming and the implements you use. Thank you
Thanks for sharing this
Wow, lots of bearings on that strip till bar! Nice to see you back Mark.
Good learning information for us non-farm types. Sorry about your finger "complications." Thank you the video 😊 🚜 👍
I’ve missed seeing you strip 👍🏽😅
I was thinking about a month ago that maybe Sandi was keeping you to busy to do a videos, I’m sure the deer like your cover crop
I live in northern WV, that's all it's done is rain. Farmers are having problems getting their hay up this year. East of the Mississippi River it's has rain a lot, harvest is going to be wet ground in a lot of the areas.So you are putting in nutrients into the ground to jump start the crops for next year.
Great video, thank you for the explanation, may i ask a question, if you will be planting in those strips only next year does the cover crop not creep/ grow into the strips over autumn and winter? Also to add to my question can the cover crop not be harvested to be used as a food source for the sheep or sold to nearby farms for a food source for animals? Thank you as always for explaining how the farm works, i find it very interesting. From South Africa 🇿🇦
So nice to see these vids back!!
It truly is great seeing you once again provide the basic agriculture knowledge in a language we can understand. It is great hearing the good and bad issues you have to deal with day to day. Thank you for all food you provide.😊
Thanks for filming again. As a “non Ag” person, I learn so much. When I’m around the farmers at our local mom & pop store, I kinda understand what they’re talking about. Thanks!
Thanks for the education.
Great to see you back Mark.
I love going along for a day (or so) on the farm. As a desk jockey, it is a little escapist, but also educational. Makes us realize how much knowledge you’ve got to have !!!
Great to see you Mark thanks for the update!
Since you did the strip tilling, will you drop the cover crop or leave it? Sorry if I missed that information.
We’ll spray off the cover crop in mid October to have a clean start in the spring
WHAT?!?! Two Mark videos in a week. WOOO!!!
I'll probably say this every video but thank you for showing us how our food is grown. I just drove an hour to a doctor via back roads that were all farmland. I live in SW Michigan so it was grapevines (mostly for juice) and soybean and corn fields. Weather is interesting- we've had plenty of good rainstorms but they must go south of you or fall apart over Lake Huron. I'm in Kalamazoo so it's a bit south of you.
Hello Mark, this is my first time here, however am a big fan of Sandi. I am writing to suggest you look at a few videos from Young Red Angus. He recently incorporated compost into his farming practice, reducing his nitrogen and eliminating phosphorus. If you are not already doing this, it might find it very interesting. Certainly has cut his output costs dramatically.
I hope we do get a combine ride-along vlog. Fascinating machines!
Good to see you
If you could give an update about the top dryer you installed
I'd like to see how it's working out for you
Very interesting, Mark! I really liked your explanation of the components that "clear then cut-and-fertilize then berm up" the soil. Your videos are great, and I'm sure everyone is like me and appreciates the opportunity when you have time to make one for us! Hope you get some rain for the canola! It's rainy here in Northern Michigan, but don't know if our weather makes it to you. :)
Will you seed on top of the fertilizer or beside it?
The fertilizer is mixed with the soil so we’ll seed on top of it
Thank you Mark for sharing a great video. I truly enjoy how you take the time to explain everything. I remember back in the 80s when we lived on a farm we were renting, the landowner was always trying to stay one step ahead. It's not easy and no rain makes it tough. It's been a while since we have had rain as well. Trying to do a second vegetable garden, but not sure how it's going to turn out. All we both can do is try. Thank you again for taking the time to make this video, truly appreciate it. Looking forward to your next one. Take care and best always Rusty in Southern Oklahoma ❤️
These 15 min focused videos are great. See you at soy harvest
How where the yields this year on your side?
A bitt lower or quite a bitt lower?
Here in Holland, Belgium, the north of france, and Germany the early sowed wheat, was ok up to good.
The later one was not so good, and the same fore Barley early very good, late one's bad.
I think 2 years ago you had a very good yield for the canola, how was that this year, the same?
Succes, and always nice to see you on the vid also.
Wet last fall so no canola got planted. Yield in the winter grains were surprisingly good. We have yet to harvest our soybean and corn but we’ve been dry so yields will likely be below average
Thanks for taking us along !
Another great video and hope to see you soon. 😀
Here in Maine we are enjoying the first full day of rain since June.
The new rig seems to do a good job of strip tilling. Millennial Farmer is trying to apply dry fert. and anhydrous in the same pass with a strip till bar. Thus far quite the cluster? mostly with dry fert. applicator.
Looking forward to the YT combine buddy seat ride a long soybean harvest.
You in Canada or midwest states ?
In Ontario, Canada (southwestern area)
thank you
Hope your finger is healing nicely.
Hopefully you get rain, we on the other hand are expecting Fiona to visit Nova Scotia- hopefully she decides not to.
Been watching Fiona’s course, stay safe as it looks pretty serious
Great video Mark, looking forward to soybean harvest video
With your interest in soil health, I've wondered if there would be any advantage, and way to do it, to get your chicken manure deeper into the soil? I ask because as a non-farmer I assume the roots of some crops go deep looking for food and water. And wouldn't deep roots help with soil compaction?
I’ve looked at making pellets out of the manure and applying that with the cart but at this time it’s too costly. We’re hoping the roots of the cover crops can move the nutrient deeper into the soil profile.
Question the width of the axle for both the tractor and anything being towed, does that make a difference in crop planning. Does that matter or is just placed on what your planting?
Most row crops are on 30” spacings so tire widths are usually a multiple of that, for example the tractor inside tires are at 60” spacing and the outside one are at 120”
Mark, you are working hard to improve the soil conditions and quality. I follow that closely. Very interesting! What surprises me is that on the 900-er Fendt you still use culture tires. Even with wheal-weights. Why didn't you not choos for wider tires and possible an air vent system?
Are you tilling over the over crop or the canola. It doesn’t seem to matter that you drive on top off the plants.
In October, per a reply to comment, you will be spray off the cover crop. What does spray off mean?
We basically, kill off the cover crop to manage any nasty perennial weeds that are growing along side the cover crop
Cover crops are planted to cover the soil, help to manage erosion and soil fertility, and compete with weeds, not for the purpose of being harvested. Spraying off means applying a herbicide to kill the cover crop to prepare for the growing season of the main crop.
Where I live we have red clay soil. Our neighbor basically makes it the consistency of baby powder for his corn. I see you were pleased with a much rougher texture. Is that because it lasts better over the winter (less likely to erode - I know you said the cover crop prevents it) or will you have to break it up to a finer consistency in the spring?
Less struggles than Zach Johnson's strip tiller. Is it the color or that he runs nitrogen also 🤔😂
Your comment made me go see IF this was the Pro golfer or another person! Questioned answered! Cheers
@@TheStuport Maybe the golfer is the real actor in Millennial farmer.
If you follow the channel you get the joke
@@Michael-8903 I wasn't trying to be a wisenheimer....I was just curious! 🤣
Zach’s system is a bit more complicated which adds a fair bit of complexity to the system. Once he gets it figures out he’ll off to the races
Thanks Mark. That was interesting. How often do you rotate crops and why?
Aloha Mark! 🤙
Thanks for the video! Looks like a possible
Hurricane 🌀heading towards Canada 🇨🇦??
Check it out,it might give you some rain!
MAHALO STAY SAFE!!!
Yep Fiona is looking to hit east coast of Canada, lucky enough if far away from us
Where do the lambs u ship out go?
How do you locate Strips in Spring?
We use a RTK guidance system that allowing to sub inch repeatability. The guidance line we use for strip tilling can be used for planting in the spring
@@MarkBrock RTK system… sub inch repeatability. Would you explain that? Thanks.
Do a video a week Mark!
Sandi said you were stripping lol.
Any advice for someone starting out in strip till ?? Coming from conventional tillage
Best advice would be to demo a couple different units and determine what you like best for making strips. In the fall, I like a mounded or elevated strips that will settle over winter and if we freshen them in the spring or make some, I like it to be flatter and fairly consolidated to have good soil to seed contact.
Thanks for the reply !!
How did 8 row on 12 planter work fyi im set up with rtk radio service already
@@chrisbertrand3989 it worked good with RTK, the biggest issue will be curves and endrows