Installing Farm Drain Tile to Prevent Erosion!
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Installing Farm Drain Tile to Prevent Erosion! I spent the day with Big Stone Ag Service in Clinton, MN and learned how they use drainage tile to prevent erosion and benefit the environment. Drain tile is used to keep phosphorous and nitrates out of our water system, and keep them in the fields!
MN Millennial Farmer Zach Johnson is a 5th generation family farmer from west central Minnesota. Zach actively promotes agriculture by sharing his day to day experience on the family farm. Zach wants to build the connection between farmers and consumers.
Zach's mission is to become a national voice for agriculture, provide farmer to farmer education and facilitate a collaborative conversation between farmers and the public.
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"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant" -Robert Louis Stevenson
How the hell could 61 people hate this vid... Very informative and educational... Thanx Zach
I did this in the summer fall and winter of 2016. Being a greenhorn, I was stuck with being a swamper, the guy who climbs in and out of the ditch all day to connect the laterals and t-junctions. Very hard work. Finally they trained me on the tractor so I could string out the pipe. Little did I know, that's some hard work too! Good video. Peace!
My grandpa installed field tile with an old Spiker tile machine. I learned how to drive when I was 6- I spent some time with him that summer and I was running the backhoe backfilling the trench after the tile had been placed. Thank you for sharing this video!
Hey zack.... my mother and I watch your videos every chance we get. Your a great teacher and my only request is to tell you to try not deleting or giving up on videos you think may not be terribly interesting. We enjoy learning all the inner workings of a big farm. We are 2 non farmers from southwest pa.
Charles Yothers Jr Thank you, I appreciate it!!
I agree completely. I am a truck driver in the North East. I don't know the first thing about farming but i love watching anything with equipment working. I'd like to think i am learning a lot from your videos and both podcasts! Thank you for taking the time to make these videos.
I have been driving to Indiana for a year now from NY and seeing these machines working in the fields and couldn't imagine what they were doing. I thought it might have been irrigation. You have by far the best and most informative videos on you tube. I have yet to not learn something on every video. You present it in a way everyone can understand. That new logo is awesome. Keep up the good work.
Chris Rodriguez Thank you! That's quite a compliment!
This fellow farmer really appreciates what you are doing trying to educate non farmers are how serious soil conservation is. Your dialog and video are worth 10,000 words
Fascinating and awesome step in the right direction. Most folks don't remember the dust bowl days back in the 30's and how important it is to control soil erosion. This farmer may only be gaining 1/2 an acre of field but in viewing the bigger picture if most of the farmers in any given area were employing this method, the benefits are huge. Thanks so much for sharing.
THIS BY FAR IS YOUR BEST VIDEO YET,Very interesting,how technology has come,gps guidance,that machine that trenches and lays tile has serious power,we farmed some ground that had old school 1ft long clay tiles,holes went to the bottom,repairing them OMG,what an adventure that was,THANKS FOR BEING OUT IN COLD RAINY AND WINDY DAY TO MAKE YHIS VIDEO,freezing rain and wind,colder than a snowing windy day
michael heinen Thank you, that's a great compliment!
Thanks for the info on what they do to tile the fields. It will also help the farmers to gain back the wet ground. Also good to know the the farmer does not have to shoulder the full cost of doing this to their fields. Keep up the good work promoting farming.
I grew up in Saint Cloud and have been living in Washington state for the past 15 years. Your videos are always a reminder of home without having to drive there. Glad to see your your work and hope you all are well.
Scott Janku Very cool, thanks for watching!
Great videos! Many people will get a great education on farming, especially the young ones. Most of my family members were into farming while I was going up. here in the south. Man, it has come along way since the 50s-80s. Keep up the great work on feeding the world.
Oh ya, Go Falcons!
Great video. Back in the 50's my dad worked for the Soil Conservation Service in So.Illinois. I can imagine him being all eyes and ears watching this video. Thanks for the great work folks.
Was born in Nashville and when dad got the job with SCS we moved to Belleville.
bobfidy Schorfheide do you know Brent Schorfheide
Brayden...send me a message on Facebook messenger...please.
bobfidy Schorfheide why?
We can chat there and not hijack this UA-cam.
Excellent. Truly outstanding!! Todd Wickerly of Wickerly Farms over right outside of Hurdsfield North Dakota did to 29, 689 acres the last 2 years. I ran one of 5 trenchers night and day. My God My God. I loved it as much as I do pulling grain buggy.
With one of 6 of the Cat Challenger 900 E series Tractors. 600 HP articulates
Awesome! I farm in Nebraska but got a place on SD side of Big Stone Lake, good info here. Keeping our water clean, thanks guys, and the farmers that do the tiling
Glad to see this video I deliver the same tile. I've been hauling it for 4 years and haven't really seen it installed before.
Thank You guy's
Again thank you so much for the continued education on drain tile. Had to rework a drain tile in the farm field as the gas well drillers cut the drain tile when they dug the drillers mud tank. Then next this field drain tile also drains a 2 to 3 gallon per minute spring in the West end of the field some 700 to 750 feet from a creek.
The sub layer of this field soil is water bering sand the drain tile has to set on a base board.
Thank You for the video's you have made.
Have A Great Day.
Richard
I learn something new everytime I watch this guy👍
That was a terrific and informative video. Thanks to Randy and the crew and awesome equipment. And of course, to the videographer and interviewer par excellence.
Well done. Good information for the non-farmer as to why the tile is needed.
Such a great video, it was really nice of them to give you that kind of access. Thank you farmers for being great stewards of the land. Hope you’re ready for this channel to blow up!
I'm hoping!!
This video played just after I watched the one about the star tribune article. Glad you explained how tile works underground. Good video!
Thanks for the great video Zach! Tiling has sure come a long ways. I barely remember my Grandpa putting in tile in the 1960's but I remember the red drainage tile.
John Muir We still have some of that old clay tile under a lot of our spots.
It was a miracle in it's day. Today it's just common sense. It drained a lot of wetlands unfortunately, but farming is about feeding people. I've lived in Africa with people who literally owned the clothes on their back and the bowl in their hand. And in that bowl was American corn. You are doing tremendous work Zach. Education is the key to the door of understanding. So proud of you!
When I got back home from being up at Lyle (a few wears back) I told people it was 5 feet thick and black as coal. I think I nailed it. Gracious you got some good dirt,Zach!
57fitter I never realized it until everyone pointed it out in this video. I guess I've always taken it for granted!
@@MillennialFarmer In Germany our drain tiles was built by hand in the 19th century and for the new drain tiles we have something like a plough which is pulled by a tractor and it rip up the ground to put the tile in it
This is all fascinating to me. Thanks for sharing with us. It takes a lot of time and effort to put videos together and that in itself shows that you really care about what your doing. Right on man!
I believe this is the First video with the Logo!!
Very informative! I hope many non farmers watch this video to learn farmers are trying to help the environment not hurt it! Great video as always!!!
It would be nice to see an after shot of this next spring. Thanks for sharing !
Great video!!!! Thumbs up. Just a thought NBC needs new morning show host. You should send resume in. Thank you to Big Stone for answering questions and video taping.
Excellent video, helps explain about the need for tile and water ways. Prior to 1980, every field had a water way of some sort in it. Then equipment got big and farmers got lazy and just worked them up. I live in north central Ohio and now I see water ways being put back in fields like they should be. Great video, thx..
Thank you for taking the time to make this video! Really interesting with some great explanations.
MrDastram Thank you for watching!
Drain tile is amazing! My yields improve because of it, excess water in the soil causes a lot of problems, great video Zack
Great video! Thank you for taking the time out of your busy day to do a great service for the Ag industry!
I see by the date this video was made nearly a year ago. Very interesting, Zach, we here in Mi. don't have a lot of problem with erosion, but we do use a lot of drain tile. Nearly every time a farm is sold now days, will be grid tiled, every 40'. Having been brought up behind a tiling machine, and having one for every year of my life on the farm. I really enjoyed this memory, Thanks!
Warm regards from Alberta from a grateful subscriber ... it's not so much the slight acreage gained, it is much more that it makes the entire parcel more farmable, being able to cross and farm across that draw for the next 50 years makes the entire parcel more farmable and valuable. imho.
I'm not a farmer, so this is really interesting stuff! Thanks for sharing this.
whimsicalwood Thanks for watching!
I haven't even started the video yet and I'm already exited to learn how tiles are put in
So I finally got this explained. I watched same type of job in Holland but there they put down a lot of filt tubes going up and down and up and down across the field. I thought it was to reduce the amount of water in the soil. But now I see it could have something to do with erosion too.
Awesome video! Awesome new logo!! It was great to see this video. It explains what a large farmer around here did. His land is very close to a creek and I wondered what they did and the purpose. NOW I KNOW!! Thanks and keep up these great videos.
wow! We have farmers in Delaware who would kill for some of your black soil. We are extremely sandy. Being within 3-10 miles from the Delaware Bay. The marsh lands extend 3- 6 miles inland in many spots along our coast. Making it difficult to control run off from the fields. The use of hedge rows, tax ditches, and buried drains helps us some. We had a combine sit out in the field all winter near us (8 mi inland) because the field looked solid and was only frozen a few inches deep. He got 50 ft off the road and it fell in up the front axles. Sure hate to see a big piece of equipment like that have to sit without cover all winter. He will have rust everywhere in the bin, auger, pick up, etc. You are fortunate to have the big sheds and rubber tracked track tractor. Good video. I will be going back to look at the earlier ones, a far as I can. Keep on plugg'n.
Impressive project. So much topsoil before reaching clay.... So much different than many other places.
Rightsideofthegrass I didn't even notice it until everyone started pointing it out!
You should go back this year after a rain to show how this system has changed the farm. A before and after.
Great camera work and explaining how the system works. Thanks for sharing
Nice video. A lot of information on how and why farmers use tile.
I wondered why so many Farmers were putting in Tile ,now I know Thanks!
WOW...WISH WE HAD THAT DEPTH OF TOP SOIL.
don stefanik their soils are even heavier than ours. They do a TON of tiling.
Nice one. Nothing like tiled ground. Best land investment you can make in my opinion.
Master piper layer 😆. Great video very informative. Keep up the great work.
Thought he was talking to me for a second ....
Talking to who
The new logo is great. And love the video keep them coming
Informative and entertaining as always. Keep it up!
Good video it explains why farmers do what they do and why.
Very Interesting, It`s good to see how you guys deal with wet land basically it same systems the only thing we do in the UK is we tend to cover the pipe with 1/2 - 3/4 inch clean gravel or pea gravel.
brian throup doesn’t look like they have the clay we have over maybe that’s why they don’t bother with gravel
@@spencermoss5528Yes noticed that, Did notice in places they have quite a depth of top soil, In the Greater Republic of North Yorkshire we have less than 6 inches on some fields
Started watching your videos a couple weeks ago. Very good videos, a lot of farming channels is mostly music and drone footage. Yours are better because it's about teaching and information. Your love of land and farming really shows through!
Amazing video again. Y'alls farms dwarf the NC dairys and every type we have. I learn something new every time. Have you ever thought of linking up with wounded warrior project. A soldier/veteran would love to spend a day and learn about all you do. It's amazing how hard y'all work 7 days a week. Keep up the good work brother.... ( crick ) haha love it man.
Great Video; hope you are having a safe and great holiday. Also I love the intro.
Not that long ago when I subscribed you only had 10,000 subs, crongrats on the amazing growth
Tim Hurkmans Thank you! It's been a wild fall!
Hopefully you'll pass Ryan
Jeremy Freeman that’d be awesome
Zach. Very Very good video. Learned something today.
WW 1982 Awesome, thank you!
Seems like a win-win! And for $44K, a relatively cheap, high-impact conservation project.
Holy crap that's some rich looking soil!
Thanks for helping us to understand drain tile
Awesome video. Great work!
I don’t know if you will see my comment ,but back in the late 1940’s and early’50s my dad and a crew of migrant workers tiled 245 acres of our farm by hand. Shovels, string levels and backs‼️ And now some of the best potato growing land in the north east is big industrial parks and housing developments ‼️ I truly miss it ‼️
Great video, I was against tiling but after this I understand it better. I am duck and pheasant hunter, and always thought of tiling as draining habitat. BTW MPL needs to smear a little mud on his vest so it looks like he does more than sit in tile plow all day!
Really cool stuff, Always wondered how it all worked. Thanks.
Best intro ever u should keep it forever and ever . Btw I'm your biggest fan , keep up the good work and keep farming boys
The new logo looks great! Your channel is really takin' off....Congrats!
Loved the video. So informative. Sharp new logo. Whoever gave that thumbs down to this is a idiot. Keep up the good work.
Fascinating! Thanks very much for this video - a real eye opener for me.
buffer zones work amazing
Andrew Hanson this flows a large amount of acres, I explained why a buffer wasn't really an option for this project. Buffers can work well in the correct situations, but they're not "1 size fits all"
This is absolutely fascinating, thanks for a great video!
Very interesting, keep up the great work. But don’t forget to take time to enjoy those kids, they grow up fast.
Only understood about 5% of what they were talking about thru the whole video - especially around the 13:30 mark when Zack starts talking about nitrates and phosphorus (Zack, you're a smart dude!) - but so mesmerized by them installing the tile I watched the entire thing. Just found this channel and I'm pretty sure there's going to be some MN Millennial Farmer videos binge watching tonight. Thanks Zack. Happy 4th of July 2019!
This is very neat shit, I'm addicted to your vids there very informative!!!! Good work
Excellent video and really good explanation.
Another very informative video Thank you
Consider yourself fortunate. Most things like that done in Iowa that are cost shared require a waterway to be put in also. So you end up losing a little farm ground in the end.
Very well done!! You can tell they know what they are doing.
Fascinating & really well explained!
ajadrew thank you!!
I would imagine the time saved going around that ditch makes it worthwhile!
An excellent video which makes a big and largely successful stab at explaining a complicated subject - well done. Just remember you are talking and explaining to a largely, but not exclusively, American audience where the issues regarding land drainage may be somewhat different.
For example in Europe for a rain storm to dump 3.85 inches in one hit even in a 10 yr time span is virtually unheard of let alone experienced - that amount in a month would be considered a lot! (with an annual rainfall [inc snow] of approx 30").
Soil erosion by water movement does occur but is not a common sight at all except on very light sandy soils on slopes, whereas water logging is very common indeed especially in the more Western parts of Europe where we have a climate influenced by the Atlantic Ocean. The further East and South you travel the hotter and drier is the climate.
Dan Whiteford way over my head!
I enjoy watching your videos and find them interesting. I was wondering if you could revisit this field this next summer to show the difference that the basins and drain tile have done. Would be going into the second year of being done and would be nice to see the progress.
That was an awesome video. Thank for sharing
Great video. Randy is a cool dude.
Awesome video! Keep um coming
Great job on the camera angles! Congrats on 30k
This drain tile stuff needs about 635,000 more views to hit a million views and all of them need to subscribe. This is real life improvement. Like and share the hell out of this video and all farming videos for that matter so we can help these farmers create some income to get better equipment and we can learn and be entertained. We also like to eat......so......yeah......that is important.
Sure interesting to see how your videos have progressed from this one to current times.
Beautiful soils!!
In Norway we lay the tile pipe(4.5 inch) 6-8 m apart(18-24 ft) over the whole field, into 6 inch pipe in the ends.
Some big words for government subsidized. Great video. Keep up the good work
Cool video. Very interesting. Would like a video when there is a big rain event just to see it all working.
Happy Hunter that video could get a little tricky!!
This is one of the most interesting videos , yet!! How many feet of tile did they end up placing? How much additional yield do you hope to get? And how many headaches have been alleviated? Thanks for posting this video
I like the LOGO at the beginning
Yes very good info.
Great work on your logo!
Thank you such an educational video.......
Master pipe layers at work!!
They are gonna gain a better yield in a less wet field! Save from getting stuck also.
Very nice video thank you for sharing it had lots of cool information in it
Joe Roberts Thank you!
Very interesting video, thanks for posting.
👍very interesting video. Good work👍
Congrats on 30,000 subscriber's!!
jeremy the cool thank you!
flyhound97 what???
flyhound97 would you rather me put congrats on 30,000 subscriber's?
flyhound97 it's my stupid auto correct and stuff
jeremy the cool I