Zack its ashame we hafta to use so many chemicals for weeds and insects. I know it easier but back in the day we cultivated till the corn a soybeans could be layed by. I wish we had those days back it better for the environment. No im not a tree hugger just a farmer wishing!
Believe it or not, we actually use a lot fewer chemicals now compared to what my grandpa or great-grandpa ever did. Over cultivating also has negative effects. We do our best to farm as responsibly and safely as we can.
I grew up on our family farm in SEMO back in 1982, I remember those days sitting on JD 4020 no cab w/ a 6 row cultivator going 3 mph because any faster would sling dirt up on the 4" tall beans in mile long rows. If you know, you know....... Talk about cruel & unusual punishment!
My cousins do Chem free across the border from Zach and seem to do ok. I don’t trust the seed companies to produce a seed that can grow with out the chemicals. Organic seems so much better for all of us but not sure how everyone can get out of this program without going bankrupt.
Thanks for another great video Zach and Becky. It was interesting and enjoyable. Thanks for taking us around the different fields to look at the crops and see how they are doing. Enjoyed that. Great to look at the crops grow. Thanks again. Interesting to see the rock picker working collecting up the rocks out of the field. Interesting process that company uses to do that. Nice job you and dad did on fixing that hose on the sprayer. Seems these newer sprayers are a lot easier to work on. Guess you got it fixed and ready to go for the next field. Good job done. Thanks for the info on Jim. Sending my best to him. About it I guess. Thanks for everything. Take care. Be safe. The Iowa farm boy. Steve.
I put in a comment at the beginning asking about Jim. It wasn’t 10 seconds later that Zach mentioned Jim. I went back and deleted the inquiry about Jim. Glad he’s doing ok.
Zack, great catch on the sprayer hose leaking. Right time, right place, gotta love it. I still get the biggest kick out of the dogs riding in the Polaris. I love how they each their own seat. Stay safe out there
I’m in north central Ohio and no different here, rains every few days and these guys have to hustle when it’s fit. Weather is sure different from when I was a kid. Thx for the video !!
I just spent the last 23min trying to calm down my grandma because she was upset you drove over those corn stalks (which I know you did on purpose) and tried to explain that it was probably only $12 worth of corn. She might call you. 😂@millennialfarmer
Your dedication to making a difference is commendable. The storytelling was compelling, and your message resonated deeply. Thank you for sharing this impactful video-it's a true testament to your passion and commitment!
19:58 I love how you and your Dad talk. 🥲 You both remind me so much of my Grandpa Merly Peper he was from St Paul. He talked just like your Dad. ❤️ I think of him every time I see him. I wish my Dad and I could just talk about things. He’s older than your Dad and he doesn’t really talk. Just about anything we’re doing if I’m fixing something for him or whatever. I try every time I get the chance but he just doesn’t talk much. It’s a Blessing what you have I hope you both have many many years and please always cherish your time. Thanks for letting me be sentimental. God Bless you and your Family ❤️🖖🏼🇺🇸
Atrazine...To quote a well known film... "Now that's a name I've not heard in a long long time". I used to spray Atrazine on forage maize (corn) well over 30 years ago. If I recall correctly, it was an industrial grade weed killer but maize was tolerant of it. By the way, that sprayer boom looks like a tetradactyl unfolding it's wings. Great vid as always.
That stuff was used often where I grew up in MN in the 1970s. Only on corn (maize) as it would tolerate it. Back then, there were a lot of crop specific things to use and no general ones until RR seeds came out in the 90s.
I enjoy your field walks. Recalling how long this corn sat in the ground due to rain/cold, it's not a bad stand. Hopefully a good summer weather pattern will allow it to even out before it forms ears.
My Grandma used to always tell me that the Corn should be knee high by the 4th of July, but anymore here in Illinois it is knee high by the 4th of June.
Hello my friend, I watch all your videos when I get home from work, I work in North Dakota and I'm from Mexico I work on a potato farm I learn a lot from your videos how to repair some things, thank you for your videos and your jokes and watching Anna play and walk with you, God bless you and your family, I remember when you had a problem with your combine and you said in Spanish no good no good I laughed a lot at that part
Pro tip for the actor that plays Zack Johnson on the sponsor ads.. us half a LMNT pouch of the lime flavor and half watermelon flavor and it taste like a limeade!!
Zach I have been watching your channel for several years now. I am a logger in Indiana so I battle the weather also. I'm a retired race car driver with two sons racing now. I really appreciate you adding the other channel to follow that. Onyx is really improving on his racing. Good luck with the farming and the racing.
So crazy what a difference of a few states away makes. I’m in central Missouri along the Missouri River and we got 7 to 8 ft tall corn with tassels on it already. The earliest I seen stuff go in was march 30th.
Get some of that foam pipe covering from lowes for water lines and put where your hoses meet the metal, and that should keep it rubbing holes in your hydraulic lines.
If you take the hose that you replaced and cut it in sections then spit it down the length. You will be able to fit it over the good hoses and protect them from rubbing thru.
Back in the early 90's I was in charge of the chemical warehouse at our local fertilizer plant and atrazine, bicep, lasso were the big ones and starter fertilizer was 28 , 10-34-0. 4- 10-10 were the starter fertilizers, and we had 6 Big A floaters to put on liquid fertilizer. Lasso was the nastiest thing we had, would do things to sight gages and rubber gloves you couldn't imagine!
I had the same problem on my first day with the m18 grease gun. Try leaving the T handle all the way out, let the spring work the plunger in as you use the cartridge
You guys have so much equipment id assume you've already seen it used, but just in case. Fire hose makes an excellent abrasion shield for hoses. Ive done a lot of hydraulic systems on equipment in my career and we have always used it. If you have the hose off, you can slip it thru, or split it and zip tie it on. Its not cheap, but its VERY long lasting.
If you spread clay on the 30 acres of sandy soil the water retention will greatly improve and you will yield similar to normal areas of soil. Search Australian Farmers delving clay to improve their soil to see real life application and results.
Feeding humans. Very much appreciated career and lifestyle. The manufacturer of the sprayer should watch and put protective sleeves over rubber hoses that rub against metal structure. Good video Zach.
At least you were able to plant this year. By the time we went to plant this spring contracts were paying less than production costs. Cultivating weeds (no, not weed) this year. Hard to pay the bills this way.
Hi Zack enjoy the content on both your channels Where you take out and store the battery from the seed tender, the battery date code is H19, that's Aug 2019, wouldn't trust a battery over 5 years old in a critical piece of equipment, especially those cheap lawnmower type utility batteries. Keep up the great content.
I'm not sure if anyone previously mentioned this, or not. When you're trying to remove a hose from a hose barb, loosen the clamp, spray WD40 up in the end of the hose before you start wiggling the hose off the barb..... it should slide right out..... batta boom, batta bing..... (Im not a paid endorser of WD40..... )
I want to thank you Zack for showing us that great product LMNT The stuff definitely works for helping with leg cramps getting your body back in shape after you've been outside sweating a lot and it also tastes great definitely something I will keep buying thanks again
On the hose clamps I wouldn’t recommend using a impact to tighten them, when you do, the little grub screw just eats thru the strap and sometimes it won’t hold
Day well done. Corn looks 4inches apart. Then the other field shows. 6 inches apart. Need a rock crusher. To get rid of the rocks. Leave the minerals in the soil. Any kimberlite rocks. Looks like black coal. Diamonds are found where kimberlite is exposed. Later.
for getting those hoses off, use a big spanner that will give you the leverage to push it off, way easier than a screw driver!.. keep up the nice content.
Down here in metric nation, aka IOWA, some corn is straggling but many fields are easy knee high all ready. Soybeans seem to be lagging. But I'm no where near an expert.
Be glad it’s raining, we having to run pivots constantly in hopes everything doesn’t die off. Hasn’t rained since the double crop beans went in the ground🤦🏻♂️
It's nice to know a little bit about other millennials my birthday is the end of this month August I'll be 29. also I live across the road from a few fields so I get to watch farming outside of UA-cam
Zac if you turn the cap upside down on those containers . The caps have a small cutter to turn and remove the seal, hope this helps you and others out there
Damm pipes always break when you need to get the job done. Great video as always, on my sprayer no matter how you route pipe work it will always catch somewhere and wear a hole, I use a piece of plastic spray can wrap it around and sip tie it in place this adds protection helps the pipe work to last. Hope this is of some help it works for me. Keep up the good work. Cheers Kevin.
Not sure I disliked any job more than picking rocks. Although in 70's we walked the fields with a hayrack loading each one by hand or real technology was using a 5 tine pitchfork. The REAL insult was pulling up to the rock pile and getting acquainted once more with each rock on the unload.
@@dennislang4375 We had an old car hood turned upside down and used as a rock sled. Also, all the kids were told "Grab a rock and act like you like it.".
Perhaps the variation in the corn might also be linked to a combination of the variable rate spring fertilizer applications and the spring rain washing the original nitrogen out of reach of the early roots? The primary root from a germinating seed wants to find nutrients immediately.
Zack its ashame we hafta to use so many chemicals for weeds and insects. I know it easier but back in the day we cultivated till the corn a soybeans could be layed by. I wish we had those days back it better for the environment. No im not a tree hugger just a farmer wishing!
Believe it or not, we actually use a lot fewer chemicals now compared to what my grandpa or great-grandpa ever did. Over cultivating also has negative effects. We do our best to farm as responsibly and safely as we can.
@@MillennialFarmer I know yawl do. I wasn't bashing you just wishing!
I grew up on our family farm in SEMO back in 1982, I remember those days sitting on JD 4020 no cab w/ a 6 row cultivator going 3 mph because any faster would sling dirt up on the 4" tall beans in mile long rows. If you know, you know....... Talk about cruel & unusual punishment!
My cousins do Chem free across the border from Zach and seem to do ok. I don’t trust the seed companies to produce a seed that can grow with out the chemicals. Organic seems so much better for all of us but not sure how everyone can get out of this program without going bankrupt.
I would argue that cultivation is worse for the environment than a few ounces of herbicide.
Beautiful pups.
Thanks for another great video Zach and Becky.
It was interesting and enjoyable.
Thanks for taking us around the different fields to look at the crops and see how they are doing. Enjoyed that. Great to look at the crops grow. Thanks again.
Interesting to see the rock picker working collecting up the rocks out of the field. Interesting process that company uses to do that.
Nice job you and dad did on fixing that hose on the sprayer. Seems these newer sprayers are a lot easier to work on. Guess you got it fixed and ready to go for the next field. Good job done.
Thanks for the info on Jim. Sending my best to him.
About it I guess. Thanks for everything. Take care. Be safe.
The Iowa farm boy. Steve.
Good to hear that Jim is doing OK..
I put in a comment at the beginning asking about Jim. It wasn’t 10 seconds later that Zach mentioned Jim. I went back and deleted the inquiry about Jim. Glad he’s doing ok.
Bring Jim for a cameo role working in the shop.
Zack, great catch on the sprayer hose leaking. Right time, right place, gotta love it. I still get the biggest kick out of the dogs riding in the Polaris. I love how they each their own seat. Stay safe out there
Go big green. May you be blessed with good rain, great sunshine, and no equipment breakdowns!
"..and never remember we have it anyway" . That's so much me!😆
Hats off to you and your family for working so hard and well together ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Bring back the podcast. I use to wait and wait for new episodes to listen to on my way into work
Thank you Zach for all the hard work you do to feed America and you are teaching your children to work.
I’m in north central Ohio and no different here, rains every few days and these guys have to hustle when it’s fit. Weather is sure different from when I was a kid. Thx for the video !!
Love the Apollo 13 reference when describing how many batteries you haven't lost.
I wouldn't have thought anyone else would reference it to that
Old fire hose works good for wrapping around hoses especially hydraulic hoses to prevent rub through.
It is a fact that many people spin their wheels looking a for fresh new product. Your UA-cam channel is always entertaining. Thank you.
I just spent the last 23min trying to calm down my grandma because she was upset you drove over those corn stalks (which I know you did on purpose) and tried to explain that it was probably only $12 worth of corn. She might call you. 😂@millennialfarmer
When the corn is that small the growth point is still below ground. It will bounce right back.
Autographed Millennial Farmer Desk Rocks, complete with letter of authenticity.
Your dedication to making a difference is commendable. The storytelling was compelling, and your message resonated deeply. Thank you for sharing this impactful video-it's a true testament to your passion and commitment!
19:58 I love how you and your Dad talk. 🥲 You both remind me so much of my Grandpa Merly Peper he was from St Paul. He talked just like your Dad. ❤️ I think of him every time I see him.
I wish my Dad and I could just talk about things. He’s older than your Dad and he doesn’t really talk. Just about anything we’re doing if I’m fixing something for him or whatever. I try every time I get the chance but he just doesn’t talk much. It’s a Blessing what you have I hope you both have many many years and please always cherish your time. Thanks for letting me be sentimental. God Bless you and your Family ❤️🖖🏼🇺🇸
Atrazine...To quote a well known film... "Now that's a name I've not heard in a long long time". I used to spray Atrazine on forage maize (corn) well over 30 years ago. If I recall correctly, it was an industrial grade weed killer but maize was tolerant of it. By the way, that sprayer boom looks like a tetradactyl unfolding it's wings. Great vid as always.
That stuff was used often where I grew up in MN in the 1970s. Only on corn (maize) as it would tolerate it. Back then, there were a lot of crop specific things to use and no general ones until RR seeds came out in the 90s.
it’s always a good day when the millennial farmer post a video, thanks Zach for sharing, your everyday work as a farmer. I love watching your videos.😊
Dam rocks! They just keep coming back.
Nice looking Renegade pulling a stacker. Racing in style .......
Add changing the oil, prior to storage, to your routine. Your engines will love you for it.
I enjoy your field walks. Recalling how long this corn sat in the ground due to rain/cold, it's not a bad stand. Hopefully a good summer weather pattern will allow it to even out before it forms ears.
watching you drive over the corn plants makes my left eye twitch
Legit lol'ed at the "I guess I figured I'd pull it backwards and spill as much as possible"
My Grandma used to always tell me that the Corn should be knee high by the 4th of July, but anymore here in Illinois it is knee high by the 4th of June.
Here where I am you would plant corn in April and by maybe close to mid June it would be up to 6 feet tall
Hose prevention..... Take a 10 inch piece of the old hose and buffer the angle iron/ziptie and ziptie the hose group where ever is needed 😅😊😅😊🎉❤
Hard to believe that John Deere can't put something on the edge of the steel that the hoses ride on.
Hello my friend, I watch all your videos when I get home from work, I work in North Dakota and I'm from Mexico I work on a potato farm I learn a lot from your videos how to repair some things, thank you for your videos and your jokes and watching Anna play and walk with you, God bless you and your family, I remember when you had a problem with your combine and you said in Spanish no good no good I laughed a lot at that part
Love the battery joke, been here long enough to know how funny that is. Also just wanted to say thanks for being a farmer!
he didn't put a tag on the battery that says where it goes. Zach is going to forget it for sure
Pro tip for the actor that plays Zack Johnson on the sponsor ads.. us half a LMNT pouch of the lime flavor and half watermelon flavor and it taste like a limeade!!
Zach I have been watching your channel for several years now. I am a logger in Indiana so I battle the weather also. I'm a retired race car driver with two sons racing now. I really appreciate you adding the other channel to follow that. Onyx is really improving on his racing. Good luck with the farming and the racing.
Ur dad seems soo humble
It freaks me out when you drive across the field and squish the plants. Lol.
Me too😄. They know when they can do it without damage but it still breaks my brain
So glad you took the girls with you to the field.
Absolutely love your sense of humor
Zach, we had nearly 5 inches in Northern MN. Some more, some less! My small potato parch is doing great!
Haha I know several people whose nickname is "Blister" as they always turn up when the work is done.
So crazy what a difference of a few states away makes. I’m in central Missouri along the Missouri River and we got 7 to 8 ft tall corn with tassels on it already. The earliest I seen stuff go in was march 30th.
Get some of that foam pipe covering from lowes for water lines and put where your hoses meet the metal, and that should keep it rubbing holes in your hydraulic lines.
Wrapping it with a piece of hose and then zip tying it on is even better, the pipe insulation is so weak it will wear through or rip rapidly.
It's great to hear that you've never had a dead watch battery! (dead battery on your watch).
The Dash is a beautiful thing!
I am glad the prop department got that foil cutter….
If you take the hose that you replaced and cut it in sections then spit it down the length. You will be able to fit it over the good hoses and protect them from rubbing thru.
Cut some pipe foam; or use a "Pool Noodle" as they are thicker and cut to fit around the casting & attach with black zip ties.
Back in the early 90's I
was in charge of the chemical warehouse at our local fertilizer plant and atrazine, bicep, lasso were the big ones and starter fertilizer was 28 , 10-34-0. 4- 10-10 were the starter fertilizers, and we had 6 Big A floaters to put on liquid fertilizer. Lasso was the nastiest thing we had, would do things to sight gages and rubber gloves you couldn't imagine!
Atrazine is a messy chemical. It is as thick as paint and just as hard to clean up when spilled. Speaking for a friend.
It's not junk, it's scrap. And it has value. Probably not a lot, but still. I really like your spray trailer. The jug wash is great.
Hey Zach! We're glad you like the EZ Cut Seal Remover. Hopefully it helps make the job a little easier out there!
I had the same problem on my first day with the m18 grease gun. Try leaving the T handle all the way out, let the spring work the plunger in as you use the cartridge
The rock pickin' crew never fails to impress me. Having picked stones I can honestly say "I'll pay you whatever'.
You guys have so much equipment id assume you've already seen it used, but just in case. Fire hose makes an excellent abrasion shield for hoses. Ive done a lot of hydraulic systems on equipment in my career and we have always used it. If you have the hose off, you can slip it thru, or split it and zip tie it on. Its not cheap, but its VERY long lasting.
pro tip of the day. put steel wool in the holes around the wires in the back of the box to keep mice out.
Amazed that you are still using Atrazine. I am 69 years old and I remember mixing Atrazine powder in a bucket when I was is High School.
Best "That's what she said" to date!!! LMAO
If you spread clay on the 30 acres of sandy soil the water retention will greatly improve and you will yield similar to normal areas of soil. Search Australian Farmers delving clay to improve their soil to see real life application and results.
It would be interesting to see if they could get some.
Feeding humans. Very much appreciated career and lifestyle. The manufacturer of the sprayer should watch and put protective sleeves over rubber hoses that rub against metal structure. Good video Zach.
A few hot, humid days will make the corn look much better.
You and your dad are doing great job Zack happy belated father's day❤😊
Zack thank you so much for your show and tell for us non farmers. You are just so lucky to have your dad and be able to work with him.
At least you were able to plant this year. By the time we went to plant this spring contracts were paying less than production costs. Cultivating weeds (no, not weed) this year. Hard to pay the bills this way.
Hi Zack enjoy the content on both your channels
Where you take out and store the battery from the seed tender, the battery date code is H19, that's Aug 2019, wouldn't trust a battery over 5 years old in a critical piece of equipment, especially those cheap lawnmower type utility batteries.
Keep up the great content.
the spray trailer sure makes life easier
Zach, for the chem jugs or any jug really, just pinch the cap and it punches the foil perfectly.
Spring everywhere except in the southern hemisphere. Eath is rotating, tilta whirl don't ya kno? Farg0 I lives. ya tell? Ohh yeah
I'm not sure if anyone previously mentioned this, or not. When you're trying to remove a hose from a hose barb, loosen the clamp, spray WD40 up in the end of the hose before you start wiggling the hose off the barb..... it should slide right out..... batta boom, batta bing..... (Im not a paid endorser of WD40..... )
I want to thank you Zack for showing us that great product LMNT The stuff definitely works for helping with leg cramps getting your body back in shape after you've been outside sweating a lot and it also tastes great definitely something I will keep buying thanks again
Another good video Zack. Always enjoy seeing you Dad and Onyx. My best to Jim and hope to see him back soon.
Awesome video Zach. Hope this year is a good year on the crop yields. I know it's been a struggle getting things done. 🚜🚜🚜
On the hose clamps I wouldn’t recommend using a impact to tighten them, when you do, the little grub screw just eats thru the strap and sometimes it won’t hold
Wow, Zach, that's a really nice 331G ya'll have I have 333G, and it looks just like that
Day well done. Corn looks 4inches apart. Then the other field shows. 6 inches apart. Need a rock crusher. To get rid of the rocks. Leave the minerals in the soil. Any kimberlite rocks. Looks like black coal. Diamonds are found where kimberlite is exposed. Later.
The rock machine looks like a dragon.
Can’t wait for harvest videos
GREAT STUFF 😎😎....THANK YOU FOR YOUR POWERFUL CREATING 🙏🙏😊😅
despite all the rain they had over in Iowa it seems that it didn't hurt Cole very much and glad to see that it's not hurting you very much either
for getting those hoses off, use a big spanner that will give you the leverage to push it off, way easier than a screw driver!..
keep up the nice content.
Down here in metric nation, aka IOWA, some corn is straggling but many fields are easy knee high all ready. Soybeans seem to be lagging. But I'm no where near an expert.
Iowa has a nice spring. we all look forward to that day...
Be glad it’s raining, we having to run pivots constantly in hopes everything doesn’t die off. Hasn’t rained since the double crop beans went in the ground🤦🏻♂️
It's nice to know a little bit about other millennials my birthday is the end of this month August I'll be 29. also I live across the road from a few fields so I get to watch farming outside of UA-cam
That rock picker is amazing.
Zac if you turn the cap upside down on those containers . The caps have a small cutter to turn and remove the seal, hope this helps you and others out there
Not all caps have the cutter, though I just use the lower edge of the cap and basically scoop the seal out with it.
Damm pipes always break when you need to get the job done. Great video as always, on my sprayer no matter how you route pipe work it will always catch somewhere and wear a hole, I use a piece of plastic spray can wrap it around and sip tie it in place this adds protection helps the pipe work to last. Hope this is of some help it works for me. Keep up the good work. Cheers Kevin.
you need to fill the sprayer with rock killer lol
Not sure I disliked any job more than picking rocks. Although in 70's we walked the fields with a hayrack loading each one by hand or real technology was using a 5 tine pitchfork. The REAL insult was pulling up to the rock pile and getting acquainted once more with each rock on the unload.
That one wins the internet’s right there! 😂
@@dennislang4375 We had an old car hood turned upside down and used as a rock sled. Also, all the kids were told "Grab a rock and act like you like it.".
Yup my kids started steering the 620 JD down the field and when the next one was 6, the 9 yr old started harvesting rocks.
Not when you have TerraClear!
That ezcut seal remover is really nice
Im ready for the harvest and replant
Thanks for sharing
Here in MB us Snow Mexican's sometimes loosen up our cold black soil so that McDonald's can make your french fries.
Don't forget to change the fuel filter , Air filter and change the oil on the seed tender pump also ... Just Saying...........👍
I always enjoy your videos and have learned a lot! Thank you!
Perhaps the variation in the corn might also be linked to a combination of the variable rate spring fertilizer applications and the spring rain washing the original nitrogen out of reach of the early roots? The primary root from a germinating seed wants to find nutrients immediately.
Last sat was going threw Kentucky and there corn looks like it’s almost about to tassle
We’re already tassled in the South
We still miss seeing Jim!
Job best done by hand. Classic
Love the crop scouting videos
A grapple for the skid stear would be handy for picking up that steel.
Great job and great video guys
On the lids of the spray jugs there should be a point that you can just turn the lid upside down and spin and it rips the foil perfectly 5:17
Some of the Roundup jugs have them. Very handy. Otherwise I use my Kershaw!
I would love to get my hands on one of those foil cutters.