Cover Crops, Conservation and Iowa Storm Damage
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Cover Crops, Conservation and more Iowa Storm Damage- Day 2 and 3 of Iowa travels
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Oreo Cows!!!! There was only one farm around us that had a small herd. I loved seeing them as a kid (and still as an adult)
“You drive that?”
Matter fact 2 years ago I blew the motor in that one.
🤣🤣🤣 kids a UA-cam star already.
Agreed!
That must have been a not so fun moment 😂
I'd like to know how he did it or if his old man let him take the fall/badge of honor 🤣
Millennial Farmer what about Arlington Iowa
@@pacificcoastpiper3949 Hey Piper.
18:45, “the buildings are on the roofs” unsure Zack.... unsure 🤣
I caught that while watching it too lol
I was like wtf ...... magic corn 🍄🍄🍄
That's when it's realy rough.
Lol, you can call it sorghum grass, but around here it is called johnsongrass. It can have excellent nutritional properties but it's also extremely invasive and undesirable in pasture and hay fields.
"That's Case; that's the dog that broke down last summer." Best line of the video.
Lol
case jokes are just funny... driven both over the years.
He’s basically a burrito with feet!
@@continuumag8789 lmao
I loved Field of Dreams, good addition to the video
Did you trade motor blowing stories with the kids? Maybe the capella header from last fall would help those farmers some
Thanks for the insight of what happened. I live in Alaska no news about it
high winds
The only mention I heard on national news was Monday from Dana Perino on Fox News. That was at the end of her show and only about 30 seconds. Who are the farmers gonna vote for?
Thanks Zach again for coming to check out our farm! My brothers and I had a great time! I have seen a lot of what you have put on the video and it looks bad online but it looks worse in real life. And yes, when Tate blew the motor it was a long day! 😂 Thanks again Zach!
Anywhere MN farmer goes, seems like there's always something that doesn't want to start up...
Yeah and it's 2020 as well...
@@davidty2006 ww
I enjoyed watching those little future farmers show off all their tractors... "Two years ago I blew the motor in it!" LMAO!
The best line "that was a long day"
“Unless you work for the USDA then there’s nothing left”
If that ain’t the truth
Liked this
Stop recognizing those tools.
They will over state crop sizes as well.
shots fired lol
"Damage isn't bad here, buildings are on roofs." What? LOL thanks for sharing what you saw in Iowa.
"The buildings are on the roofs" lol yup that sounds normal.
Even if those farmers can pick up the corn where will they store it?
18:45 "the buildings are on the roofs!!!!!!" 😆
All the blood sweat and tears that we see you guys put into your fields and within a half hour it's gone!!!!! Must be heart breaking
Those kids talking about that equipment and running it like it’s a daily thing is very nice to see. At least there will be a few good ole boys still left...
“Robs got a big ol long tool he uses” that’s what she said
🤣🤣
@@MillennialFarmer big ol long one id say that's what Vicar said to the Nun but don't know how it would go down but oops the whole sentence is one innuendo!
LOL. I was waiting for it!
@@davidl.miller8168 think it's the English sense of humour?
You beat me to it dam
Was fully expecting you to say “I’m here with Geraldo Rivera”.............., I know I CANT. Be the only one who thought that.,
*shakes head confidently*
Oreo cows! Haven't seen them in a while.
I do not want to appear rude but they are a relatively rare breed of hardy beef cattle capable of living outdoors all year round and are called Belted Galloways and originate from the Galloway district in South West Scotland.
I hope you are not offended but I understand your joke nevertheless!!
Haha. Oreo cows. That's funny.
Belted Galloway
@@w056007568 I was wondering what breed they were, its 1st I've seen.
We have a small farm of them up here in Maine love them great beef cattle
"Where are we going?" "I dont know follow me" 😂🤣
I wonder if it is a Iowa thing after u mention it me and my friends say that phrase a lot
It takes one heck of a wind to kink a Harvestore over 16:57
"unless your the USDA, then everythings destroyed" Zach 2020
This is the way I see it, the official summation on how bad it was came out afterwards with as Zack said all corn in Iowa is destroyed, then after harvest we will get the actual summation by the farmers of the real destruction when the yields are tallied.
Rick Miller yeah, we’re just gonna wait. I think this year I’ll be running cart😂
thank you for putting Washington county Iowa on the map. I know right where you were at drive by there all the time. Know personally almost everyone you talked to.
You supposed to heel click 3 times and say "There's no place like home"
Just realized you live in a country south of me but might actually live north (latitude) of me here in Toronto eh.
Thanks for letting us ride along with your life. It's a welcome distraction from our daily lives. This week has been terrible, but I got a bit of time to relax and saw your post. From Southwest Louisiana, thank you for the distraction from hurricane Laura.
Oreo cows. My granddaughter wants to know if that is where Oreo ice cream comes from. ;)
Thanks for the crop tour, Zach. It is really heartbreaking to see what damage has occurred.
Seeing those kids with you there made my day. 😁😁😁👍👍👍👍
next time you talk to Jim call him slim Jim😂😂
Thanks again for giving an "inside look" of the storm damage! Also, it's pretty cool seeing all the familiar faces and farm land, I live down here in Washington, IA!
18:48 “the buildings were on the roofs” what do they do in Iowa
Man I miss Culvers. Closest one to us is like 2 hours away.
Thank you for showing the world what has happened and thanks to the farmers who feed us all.
Never thought that I would see a red tractor on the cover of MN millennial farmer video 😂😂😂
14:18 In fact 2 years ago I blew the motor in it
Zack: oh no
Yeah that was a long day
"The buildings are on the roofs" lol
18:45 'the buildings are on the roofs' sounds like a lot of damage😂
Those young kids were awesome !!! Could make a show with those guys alone!!!
That folded blue silo is just WOW
Thank you for your efforts to keep us informed and all the great footage. Prayers for recovery to all the farmers and families.
I love the fact that you do the podcasts on site especially in a cow pasture.
You know it’s a crazy world when having “buildings on the roofs” is considered a good thing. 18:41
🙃
You missed it by 5 seconds bud
Best option for all the downed corn is silage corn chop it up. and its cattle feed. Those unfortunate people just need a place to store it.
My heart goes out for you hope it works out for you
Robert Siebring , chopping would be great, but green chop is too wet to ensile. It will rot before it ferments, if you can get it in the chopper. It’s a hard pill to swallow, but those flat fields are a total loss.
Remember storm came from NW and moved to SE. Des Moines caught southern edge of the storm but south end of town and really didn't see much nothing like north, central part did
Thank You So much for commenting on FSClub video he said he did not expect it at all!
“I’m gonna be honest with you I’m take the green one” 😂😂😂
@Matthew Streif nothin cleaner than a gleaner is what you meant lol
I've seen 2 Gleaners on UA-cam... both frightening but get the job done
There was a storm in the Netherlands today/last night but it was only 10% of the Iowa storm. I feel bad for all the Iowan farmers.
0:38 i went by those exact farms on my way to college two weeks ago. its insane what the wind can do.
Those kids were awesome. Thanks Zach. God Bless.
"If you build it, he will come..." Best line from a movie. Ever. Period.
I like the buildings are on the roofs. Lol.
0:07 You are the only one because...
"There can be only one!" - Connor MacLeod (1518 - Present Day (?))
I can't believe you had Nick Swardson on your channel! I loved him in Grandmas Boy!
No USDA still says record Crop so it’s the opposite they think Iowa is great
Great vid Zach full of awesome one liners. The definition of expert was one of my favourites. i did like the white saddle blankets on the beef cattle. Here’s hoping the government & insurance agencies act quickly for all the Iowa folks affected by the storm. Take care & stay safe. Cheers
2 years ago my uncle started to graze beef cattle using cover crops as feed and its been working great so far
I just had a thought, I know scares me too! I remember growing up doing corn drives for FFA. Some times the filled the bed of your pickup with shelled corn sometimes you walked the fields harvested picking up ear corn left behind. What if some how part of Zach's army of 1/2 million start multiple tent cities and do a good ole fashioned corn drive to help these farmers some how this fall? Becky? Lol
Great work with grazing in Iowa - Get more animals on that land!
It went 770 miles from nw ia at a angle if you go up 141 you would see a ton of damage it was 90 miles wide it's the craziest thing I've ever experienced and lived to tell about it would have been cool to collabe with you and show you some more damage you were awful close to where I live in Madrid thanks for the great vid zach!
A white case ? Did all the paint wear off 😃
Yes because case is trash
I mean useless
By the way it wasn’t a case
Someone says wanna beer and all filming stops and zac drinks lots of beer. Loveing the off the husk podcast
I gave a quick thumbs up once I heard the Napoleon Dynamite reference. "You ever take this on any sweet jumps?"
Ive had to get corn up that was as flat or flatter. Need a corn reel first thing, lot of time going on the head and stomping down the stalks, sometimes you have to go in only one direction so back tracking across the field, bent points because of poking ditches or rocks. Lots of cussing and very dirty sample in the bin. Wear and tear on the combine is going to be tremendous along with corn head, its going to take 5x longer to get it out. Lot of times we were going 1/2 - 1 mph. Its draining physically and mentally. Depending on direction of corn planted we averaged 140 down to nothing depends on how flat it is. The longer u wait the flatter the corn will get after it has died and dried down. So get after it. U will comtemplate quitting its so bad mentally
I like that Case 240 Magnum
That’s a big upgrade for my Dad
He has a Case JX 95 in Mexico
Love the belted Galloway's we breed them too got 50 here in the UK keep up the good work take care
Thank you for all your love for Iowa, Zach. I think you might be an Iowa boy at heart ! Love how the cows joined our for the podcast! There is not an Iowan who needs you to explain "If you build it they will come" ! Is it heaven? Close ! I lived 35 years of my life in Cedar Rapids which is devastated at this time. Thank you again Zach, you are a stand up guy.
Is this heaven? No, it's Iowa! Classic line!
Loved seeing Washington. My grandfather and great grandfather farmed in the washington area, and I still have a lot of family in that area.
Lots of Adams where I live now, down around Brighton/Richland - Mitchell
I almost didn't click because of the red Case on the thumbnail. MF = green.
Great video I’m from Illinois and post farming videos as well🤘🏼🤘🏼
That’s wild I’m in Louisa county and I’m right next to you!
Thank you Zach for the tour of Iowa. I feel for the farmers in the heavy damaged area but then I feel for any farmer with any damage wind or drought. I love higher grain markets but not like this.
"the buildings are on the roof" :)
Field of Dreams. Love that movie 😎
what happens to all the damaged metal, roofs, bins etc. can it be recycled? What a mess for families to clean up and pretty much start all over.
I don't know how I came across your channel... you know how the recommended algorithm is... but I gotta say, your humor is Grade A. 🤣🤣
go back and binge watch the episodes Zach and his wife Becky are hilarious and Becky does a great job producing and editing.
And here we see the ever elusive Gleaner combine, of the AGCO family. Overshadowed by his cousins Massey and Claas, he lives a quiet lifestyle.
Claas isn't with Agco. You mean Fendt.
@@Knallteute still the same family
Well.... No. Claas builds their own combines and arent part of AGCO - and only the IDEAL family are real AGCO branded and built. The other red non-IDEAL Massey Combines and the green non-IDEAL Fendt combines are made by Laverda out of Italy.
@@stubbi thanks. I was already letting my tiger warm up.
Jan Alfs whoops, my bad. I always get them mixed up
My Heart goes out to every farmer in Iowa they really got hit hard. My prayers are with you.
18:46 "The buildings are on the roofs". That sounds bad, the buildings are upside down. Lol
14:30 "That was a long day."
@ 12:15 I had one of those mixers in a lathe, to turn a damaged bearing diameter once. It came from some food processing plant. It got pretty scary looking when I had it turning fast enough for the work I had to do. I have a very short, poor quality video clip of it spinning in the "big Monarch lathe".
ua-cam.com/video/b81bofqtjZ4/v-deo.html
how in the world do you have green grass!?!?!? we've been totally brown-dry-burnt to a crisp since July 😞 try raising livestock on that
Pretty cool you got to visit the farm of a fan. You should do more visits like this when you're out and about.
Yep, he said it, Rob has a big old long tool. Can’t make that up.
🌽Awesome
I can't help but think (being the tenderfoot that I am) that all that corn has to be first, picked up stalk and all and thrown into a truck. Then, probably, (if there isn't some special husker I don't know about) husked by hand. So if someone can husk 72 ears in an hour (just instagoogle numbers), and they work 8 hours that 574 per person in a day. I wonder how many ears of corn there are in a field....(instagoogle)...22000 plants at least per acre and that's 6-7 ears per plant (guessing)...120000 ears per acre....wow...I think it would be more efficient to build a special husker thing than to do it by hand..... please, let (us)me know what farmers come up with...seems like some fields can be salvaged and some are really totalled. Hello from California.
Hey zack any advice on starting a small operation. Im 14 and i recently bought a farmall h and plan to start farming about half an acre, any advice for a young farmer??
Start a market garden and sell organic veggies direct to the consumer.
Further South, and out West, they have longer growing seasons and can often double crop. I am Gen I, very much a new guy, and a lot of my land is wooded, rockey, on a huge hill (cliff practically),but it was cheap! After 20 years of trying different things, playing around with 50 acres of test plots while working on my own corn hybrids, I can't truly say what's best for me, yet along tell other people how they should doing it. I"m in Northern IL, land is through the roof, hence why I've focused more on developing old hunting lands into pasture and crop lands. IT'S A LOT OF WORK! I'm doing protein, row crops, and even 30 acres of market vegetables.
I have nothing that comes to close to what you have in infrastructure, and am green with envy seeing your shop and bins, but in a constructive way that motivates me. I do however own or control just shy of 3k ares now in total. I've made some BIG equipment investments, an contract for organic corn that made that possible, only due to the fact that they guarantee the trucks will be waiting to take it away, because I have essentially no storage infrastructure, I'm backing my anything mechanized into self built 3 sides structures to keep them dry and parking my equipment under the open sky.
We're turning a scary corner here as of late. I had a pretty high paying off farm job and with all the COVID-19 stuff, I volunteered to a very limited pay, up to 5 year extended period of time off. I didn't have to, I'm in the airline industry and everything is based on seniority. I have enough that operations would have to be pretty much shut down for me to get furloughed, but this is a big sign to jump into farming with both feet. My General Manager retired after working 5 years longer than he wanted to, and the ball is 100% in my court.
If you ever make it up around Tiskilwa IL, you're more than welcome to all the food and beer you can consume, and free use of the cabin by the lake. Just let me pick your brain!
God bless.
🤔🤔🤔 You say that farmers may have to harvest that wind beaten, fallen over crop, in a sad way. Why is it a problem for the machinery?🤔?. Explain please.
I really feel for those in that area. But, I suppose there is a bright side for some... Others may get a better price for their crop. And, maybe, if so, could donate something to those who have suffered, if someone set up some organisation/charity to get something sorted.🤔🤞😁.
Just an idea 🤔🤞😁.
Rich UK.
Zack, you really toured the Hawkeye state. I live in Eastern Iowa (Quad Cities) It was unreal the winds that came through....Over 100 mph, for over 30 minutes....Crazy times.
Bio reactor sounds like some sort of organic bomb 💣💣
Gleaner is the best, better than the rest! Simple as that! I thought Cows were just afraid of me cuz I’m short, but they are also afraid of Zach as well hahaha
"They're missing a shed and a few grain bins" were you refering to cole the cornstar 😁
Ok who else noticed the 8440 was wearing a 20/30 series fenders over the front wheels, man that looked awesome.
Zach, it great to have an unbiased report (except for green tractors) about what's happened in Iowa concerning the storm and drought. It will be interesting to see how much of that downed corn can be saved. You should probably stay home now so that the farmers you visited can start their equipment. But in spite of that, you seem to be popular wherever you go. Thanks!
Down the road, and I know your not thinking this way but, at some point you could be a good state representive, congress man or U.S. secretary of agriculture. You research, communicate very well and tell it like it is. I"m sure your voice is already sounding in Washington. I know it is here in Deleware.
With that kind of winds that’s where mountains come in handy so that the wind can not be that strong
i wonder if them farmers are gonna end up selling a lot of that corn for dairy farmers to chop
THERE IS A FUNGUS AMONG US.