My Farm Is Flooded
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- Опубліковано 25 вер 2024
- My farm is flooded, weeds are growing, and equipment is breaking. We have a lot of work to do.
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Hi Cole, the hole in the pump is created by cavitation.
The implosions of the water, due to pressure differences around the impellor, eats away the pump from the inside. For a better understanding of the process, you can search for ships propellers cavitation.
Yours,
Frank V, Dutch rice farmer in the Philippines.
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Cavitation tends to affect the impeller more than the housing. It's far more likely it's simply a casting inclusion that has been exposed by corrosion, or a combination of both.
Mother Nature is not an easy business partner.
aaaannnnndddddd ..... that's why farmers buy crop insurance. hope coles policy is paid up and covers flooding losses.
How safe is the stuff y'all spray for the run off and aquifers 🤔🤢🤮????
Geo engineering/global dimming is going on all across the west.
@@GeneHutchings i am feeling more and more uncomfortable with these gazillions of herbicides sprayed each year. A lot will end up in our water system no matter what the manufacturers are telling us that it is save. It is not ! And it is a vicious circle where we have to ask the question are we killing ourselves? This way of farming is not sustainable especially when you look at his numbers. Bigger is not always better and he needs to diversify. And his Bin site is still unsafe and not working properly
Cloud seeding
It takes a lot of guts to be a farmer. God bless you all!
❤❤I hope your Dad is okay from his fall. Glad you got a sprayer working.
Hopefully the rain increases your overall yield for the year. Praying is all that can be done.
Very enjoyable video. Happy Fathers Day to all the cornstar family and employees.
Thank you for your educational videos. should be shown in our schools Then all will have such a appreciation of our farmers Thank you cole❤
You’re like the Energizer Bunny! You just keep going and going. I don’t know how you do it.
because it's his job. derp
@@AndrewPL5 you feel proud of yourself?
@@goodpplz123 that is your response?? WOW. Do you feel proud of yourself? I hope you understand that when you have a job and need money, you will do your job and get it done. You said he just keeps going and you don't know how....I told you it's because it's his job. And that is not false. When you have a job to do, you are going to get it done. I don't get how you don't comprehend that. But to be blunt, reading comments on this channel there is not a lot of critical thinking.
Thank you Cole! Really enjoyed riding in the sprayer! God bless your family! Always amazing! Thanks DC!
It was a pleasure meeting you today, keep up the awesome videos.
The drone footage was amazing!! All that water!!!!😮😮😮
We got over 3” of rain Thursday night in central Illinois. Wind laid the corn flat but it’s standing straight today.
4” of rain in Galva, KS from the same storm.
Mostly dried up by the time it hit the IN line, we got .68, some areas less. Over the years the IN/IL state line has been a rain stopper.
Chicken spring…Daddy Cornstar is a stitch😂♥️
I always watch but rarely comment so I just wanted to tell you how you make every video so interesting, with the farm, with the family and I'm really enjoying the remodel. I will be sad to see those end but look forward to the end result, it's going to be a beautiful home for your family to enjoy for many, many years to come. God Bless
NW Iowa got a bad hail storm that wasn't forecasted a few days ago. Flattened everyone's fields, broke windows in houses, shredded siding, and if course destroyed roofs. I need new roof and siding. Another storm forecasted for tonight with lime sized hail. Keeping fingers crossed they are wrong.
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I am pulling for you Cole but I can see how all this rain water sux big time. Too much in a short period
Congrats on the success of the go fund me fundraiser. You are a godsend Cole!
Where is it ?
@@ky.gambler5281 check the last blog about the mansion
@@ky.gambler5281should be under the video before this one
What is the go fund for
@@johnnaughton4215 watch the video
You are always working hard! Great job on the farm, the house, with the family and your community!
Thank you for explaining everything to us newbies..❤😊
You should map the water.
It might help show which areas might be better or worse during a normal rain year.
It is a way to quickly map your gradients.
Might check how the flooded areas are impacted for nutrients.
Well done! The effort and passion are evident.
Sorry to hear about the flooding, Cole. You're a rockstar and a cornstar!
I have been watching you from almost the beginning and I have learned a lot from you and your family it's been amazing
Ceramic paint imbeds in the block or stone. A rubberized coating acts like a water balloon. Dig down aound the outside of the foundation and install a french drain system. Have your downspouts draining into that french drain. Put dirt against the foundation at a 30-degree grade.
We're praying 🙏 that God looking after your family and the farm. XOXO 🙏 😘 ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
My wife and I are loving this series Cole, please keep it up man!
We’ve turned into “Cole the Cornstar” binge watchers!!
Cole, I hope you see this! I just saw a waterproofing that looks like it would be perfect to use on the inside of your basement walls to make sure it's 100% waterproof. AMES Blue Max waterproofing coating. I really hope you see this before you have poured the basement floor because this needs to be painted on the interior of the basement walls and down across the top and inside of the footing you're putting in, down to where your pipe will be. It will seal and cracks between the footing and wall where water could possibly come in and also the entire wall. After it dries it's paintable with latex paint so you can paint it white if you choose to leave the basement walls exposed. If you're planning on finishing the basement like you would the rest of the inside of a house, with sheetrock and flooring, this would be the perfect stuff to use. I really hope you see this!
Coating the inside of the basement walls is just a band-aid fix and does nothing to solve the underlying issue. The only permanent solution is to dig around the exterior perimeter of the foundation and address the problem.
@@ChrisHarding-lk3jjI believe William was passing that information on as an extra precaution. That is the way it seems to be written anyway.
@@ChrisHarding-lk3jjYou are correct but it will also hold the water in the wall.
I had to do both! French drain and waterproofing
If you add a coating it needs to be on the outside of the foundation wall, especially in his climate. Any water trapped in the walls will turn to ice in the winter. Ice is not something you want in a foundation wall.
Cole are you going to fly your drone over it and take pictures so you know exactly where it flooded to so you know where to move the soil around to to stop it from flooding again
Waste of time. The reason it flood was the fact they got 3 inch of rain in like a 8 hours and truthful more like 3 hours and then had rain before that as well. The ground just can't take that much water that fast a quarter to half inch in a hour to two it will handle mostly but not 3 inch in a a few hours. At 3 inch or rain that is 81,298 gallons of water per acre or 1.87 gallons per square foot. It was all surface water and probably gone in 24 hours or less.
No way your going to stop that flooding from happening. He would have to build like 5-10 ft tall levies around those creeks to keep it in the banks😂
@@natevanlandingham1945 And if you build levees, the fields won't drain into the draws. Best you could probably do is dredge the creeks deeper.
He literally showed us the drone footage of the flooded waterways, so I’m fairly sure he knows where it floods now in case they have 8 inches of rain in 2 days again.
@@abunchahooey you also don't need drone footage...there will be a line of trash where the water came up too! 🤣🤣. Not like drink cups and bottles necessarily but like corn stalks and grass and sticks etc. ever been to the beach or lake and see what's at the high water mark?
I enjoy your enthusiasm.
Happy Father’s Day Cole and Daddy Cornstar
And Roman
Happy father’s Day Cole, DC, and all other fathers!
Love all this farm content number crunching. Thanks for simplifying it for us non-farmers.
It is good to see you Daddy Cornstar. Your all-star family is uplifting and worthy of all the respect that we can send you.
Good afternoon farm family.
I'd really love it if you referred to Cornstar Farms as "our farm". We see the work that Daddy & Cooper put in; the time Summer spends behind the scenes doing her job, the sacrifice that I'd guess Momma contributed thru the yrs contributing...Grandpa Cornstar....I love watching the video's....I just wish you'd refer to it as"our" farm..
Strongly agree.
You all are awesome ! "Happy Father's Day " ! "God Bless you all "
Man, you are a very hard worker. If nothing else, this content shows just how much work farming is... Keep it up, love your videos.
Daddy Cornstar on Sprayers. No chicken spring. Cracked me up.
Wow, you have a river in your field.
Cole as I read comments, I was amazed at the negativity. You do not deserve that. You are a great hard working Christian husband, father, son, & friend. I enjoy all your videos. Do not let them get you down. Praying for you Young Man! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
A lot of farmers all over the world are hard working. Not just Christians.
@@GeraldMiller-mp8fc Exactly.
I am so sorry this is happening!! 🙏 it dries quickly!!
Cutting a week's worth of work down to 2 days. That's awesome, and reason alone to have the 2 sprayers.
Love your long videos. My father was a farmer, and I miss it. It's fun to watch your good energy.
Great show ! 👍
You do an excellent job explaining all of the different things that go into running your farming business ! 👍
Gonna be mostly in the 90s this upcoming week, Cole, make sure everyone is staying hydrated. Don't forget your sunscreen. Hope you have a good Father's Day tomorrow.
Two weeks ago we had 223mm rain, our region was declared a disaster area. Many folks homes were flooded. We welcome rain in our dry area but not all at once. Repairs take time. All the best Cornstar family, thank you for your documentories.
If the high spot is Mt. Everest then the Hansen Farm is now the Amazon.
You definitely put your all into everything you do, including these videos. Great info, great explanations and detail. Love your vids and family!!
Cole,
If my eyes are seeing your land correctly, it looks dry. Some folks will think you are on a different day. BUT, you are not on a different day.
My relatives live 30 miles west of Omaha, Nebraska. From my time living in West Point, I have driven through drenching rain to Omaha and past the same fields absolutely dry on the return home. SAME day.
That is par with the flat areas. Like yours.
Your spirit is very good .
I like the " Farm Life".
Thank you.
Sorry your farm got flooded.
Thank goodness Iowa has crop insurance for corn and soybeans to help farmers if and when needed.
I so impressed!!! Great job you two!!!
Another reason for having two sprayers and even better if they are the same make so you can swap parts and troubleshoot👍👍👍👍
On no the rain never seems to stop at the moment
I'm glad to see that the water receded before it did very much damage.
With the corn as high as it is, the extra water may have done more good than harm. 🤞
dad cornstar is my favorite person to hear from.
And even more rain this coming week. Good luck
Love the behind the scenes view into farming!
TIG weld the new flange back on the pump. Also you can weld that hole.
Thank God for farmers ❤ love the videos Cole. Thank you!
Cole great vid bud hope daddy corn star didnt get to badly hurt when he fell off the ladder
Happy Father's day guys! 🌽🌽⭐️⭐️
About 50 acres of my field beside my house flooded as well. Our river rose like 30 feet and FLOODED EVERYTHING lol. Damn Kansas.
prayers for cornstar farm
When you are able to run duo sprayers i imagine you can also have one person running support in the semi with the mix mate, so one person is going between the two and not sitting idle. in addition to all the benefits DC listed.
Another great video. Thank you guys
People need to understand what farmers go through. I know I did it growing up in Indiana. We used to farm 2000 acres back in the 70s. The practice is different today. But it’s still unpredictable. Tuff business.
Happy Father’s Day!!
Happy fathers day to all the fathers out there😊
Here in SW Il. 25 mi...SE of STL, MO., Corn was planted in two periods. The 1st planting is now nerly waist high, while the 2nd period of planting is barely 6in. out of the ground.
We've had a really wet rainy spring this year in NC. Lot more rainy than its been in the last few years.
I’m up toward the mountains. We had that wet spring too then it cut off. .2” in 6 weeks. Corn in my area is starting to tip back. It twisted 3 weeks ago.
It rains a lot in Houston. But this year it beat any rain I've seen before. Of course, that's not counting hurricanes and other tropical storms which occur much less often. We actually live a bit north of Houston.
@@redbovine This week has been the first dry 5 days we've had. Supposed to be no rain next 5 aswell.
After the first 4 rounds of rain and tornadoes, we too have these gnats that absolutely swarm you and bite. The mosquitoes are awful as well. It's been slightly warmer in South Central Iowa. We had almost 3 weeks without rain and everything has finally soaked in. The fields look like they may be okay. It's early, but the plants look like they had just enough time to get the roots established. There's been a lot of debris and not quite sure where some of it came from. With the tornadoes, the debris could have come from the next county. I don't know about you guys, but we've had storms come from the North, West, and South catching another front and moving East Northeast. Very odd weather, and mild temps! This weekend it's supposed to be well over 100°. Very odd weather. Praying that everything works out for your family and farms. 😊❤
100% agree with DC's reasoning for the two sprayers
You definitely deserve more recognition for this!
My dad farmed from 10 years old with horse and plow, then first tractor during WW2. Added dairy cows. He had to worry every year about the weather. Farming is not easy. Saddly after he died we had to sell the land. There will always be good years and bad years. Good luck Cole.
Cole, as mentioned before this area needs to be planted with trees. Trees stop water erosion primarily, two it slows wind and reduces moisture loss, and trees are a natural water pump where there lower the water tables reducing salt. Understand your need to having long runs for planting and stripping of the crop but your working against nature. Farming includes working with nature too, and she can throw many curve balls. A program of tree planting involves losing ground, but as the trees grow, this in the end increases yield on the remaining cropping areas.
Trees. Work with nature. In the UK in the 70s we were paid to rip out trees and hedges to make big fields. Then we found we needed to buy more insecticide because there were less birds and we had flooding and erosion. Find a balance I guess. Flooding is so bad in UK we have brought back beavers upstream.
False tree will actually cost you more yield. Trees will suck all the water and nutrients out of the ground within a 100 foot diameter and your yields will be in the trash. Been proven that trees and farming suck and hurt farmers in many ways. Farmers that tore out trees saw a 50 to 100 bushel increase in the area where the trees where.
Looks like the county needs to dig some drain ditches that go to the creek or river to allow your fields to drain quicker to protect your crops
Wow. Just wow!! Love Rocky 👍👍👍👍
Next time you need sprayer parts call sprayer specialties, there is one in Grimes and Casey Iowa .
Awesome farm work gentleman!🎉
I love your corn star farming laugh out loud play on words
Maybe it would be cost effective to build some small bridges in some areas to save driving miles out of the way.
Thanks and GOD BLESS 😀
Happy Father's Day and Hello from Siesta Key Florida
Hi Cole, I grew up in the midst of wheat fields and cherry orchards in Oregon.. I have really enjoyed learning more about the intricacies of farming. When you stated that the more mature soybean plants would shade the soil preventing weeds from germinating, I thought wouldn't a good layer of mulch would do the same, and then you wouldn't have the expense of the weed poison. Have you considered using regenerative farming methods?
So here in Iowa, we put in a lot of drain tile systems to deal with low spots and water issues. Now I understand you Canadians are new to this concept- you should come to Iowa for a visit to see how it's done.- Oops never mind, I thought this was Saskdutchkid. Carry on.
Glad you have another source of income.
So very sorry dude! Sending prayers and love
What a crazy idea about just swapping pumps. Such advanced ideas
Cornstar family just ignore all the Naysayers. God Bless you all. Daddy Cornstar is so sweet. That must be why Cole and his siblings turned out so well. I don’t farm but I have so much respect for what you do. A big thanks from Ohio.
I like the way Cole says SOY beanz
Happy Father’s Day Cole!
Well, nature is pretty much asking you to create a retention pond ;) Would be useful for the dry days, which will certainly come...soon
Hey Cole, it might be best to have that flow meter somewhere where it is better protected.
22:00, redundancy, redundancy, redundancy. When time is money, if something is critical, have more than one. Work twice as fast when both are up, have two points of failure against the whole operation shutting down.
When you remove the trees along the bank of the creek it doesn't drain as well. The creek fills up do to soil erosion. Please consider tree management with native trees spread out along your creek at manageable intervals.
I agree. When they stripped all the vegetation from the creek bottoms to maximize acreage, flooding is to be expected.
This region was prairie. Trees don't grow well there. The native plants are not trees.
and lose yield because fo trees.
@stevehardy7757 they didn't have maximum aces when stripping the creek bottom. They just reshape them to get water into the waterways. They left the water ways there for a place for water to go. The flooding happened because they got 2inch of rain earlier and then 3 inch the next day ground was already wet. So water just ran off. I think most places got over 10 inches of rain in like 45 to 60 days, and a lot of that was in 1.5 to 3 inches at a time. Ground can't handle that much at once. The waterways are the natural flow of water. You don't put trees in a field to handle water and runoff. Trees provide shade and suck up water, which in turn cost you yield in fields . Around trees, they can see 100 bushels, an acre difference that's $400 or more.
Not that you need any more water right now, but I was wondering if you guys have seen the 360rain system that waters your crops automatically? I personally think the system is a game changers when it to watering but also as the system evolves and chemical applications are available. Once a crop is planted, it could be the last time a tractor is actually in the field until harvest. I think they said the system would have a 4 year return on the investment that is design to last 30 years.
I live in Normandy France , our farmers have only just put the maze seed in because we have had such a bad year so far with rain, so the crop if it survives into the autumn its going to be very late to harvest.
There's not a whole lot you can do against *that much rain* in that short a time span, but I do wonder... how much opportunity might you have to reshape your land to better control water flow? Berms, drainage, irrigation, elimination of low spots... Most of it would have to wait for the end of the growing season of course, but it's something to think about. Weather events like this are becoming more common, not less.
Hello Cole enjoyed your video thankyou. Had to laugh on your description on what the sprayer was doing just funny on how things went. Have a good day.