More people need to see this. The typical farmer doesn't ride an old crusty tractor these days. We have so much new technology that keeps getting better and better. People from the city don't realize what we do, and where their food comes from! Love this series.
We'll get a little more aggressive about marketing in the second season I think. I'm hopeful that more people can identify with the challenges that everyone involved in the industry faces so there might be a more constructive dialogue between those producing and those consuming.
This is so awesome! I've been saying for years that Discovery Channel should do a show like this. Right along with all the other reality shows they do. Awesome!
Do you have any central Minnesota trials? We used some of your products this year. But I’ll like to see what other people do in the same growing conditions. We will be doing yield checks soon.
unfortunately, nothing in a "controlled" environment. it's all farmers doing their own strip trials and side-by-sides. usually stuff like the invigor 8 seed treatment really shines in the colder wetter springs like you can see in central MN
Probably early next week. Just adding some small things here and there so that people less familiar with the process can follow along and understand what the growers are facing/going through better.
Just discovered this and have been telling all my friends! I subbed, hit the bell, gave it a thumbs up. Ever think of having a division for farming with old iron? You'd have every tractor and old engine collector watching, not to mention small and hobby farmers. Just a thought; I don't know squat about TV and media economics, lol.
Time stamp 8:08 / 28:30 protect and bless the farmers who received loans and where not prepared for what cane afterwards let’s train build and prepare the future to be better to be able to locate and to be able to ensure safety comfortability and production admist all adversity even the #Mirror
yes, it is definitely "murican....(love it or leave it man! :-) ) seriously though, we didn't invent this contest for the show. it's been going on for many decades. thousands of growers enter every year. and, it is a big deal if that's what you do. the guys at the top take it very seriously -- as you will see if you stay tuned. google "ncga corn growers contest" for more info. In short, we didn't invent the intensity or the drama. we're just documenting it. :-)
interesting that people take it so seriously when they are at the top, depends on what region you are from. In Michigan we have around 98 day corn and the rainfall/weather varies year after year. We aren't able to be even close to 350bu/acre!
wait! are you saying you're volunteering to edit the next show for us? :-) just kidding. i agree with the criticism about the audio levels....the video editing i happen to like. but if you've got an example of better video editing of a reality documentary, i'd be more than willing to review it and see if we could incorporate some of what they did in our show.
I like how they weren't wearing gloves mixing the chemicals at all...We usually always wear rubber gloves so we don't get it on our skin. Not sure what they were using tho?!
In many cases, it probably depends on the chemical you're mixing. Some are more acidic or caustic than others. Water with neutral pH would take less protection than say sulfuric acid or something with a known toxicity. I suspect in those shots these growers are using products that are gentler on the plants, microbes, and people. :)
Farmable yes we wear gloves and a respirator; then we load it in a plane and spray it everywhere. We are killing ourselves with too many chemicals. You can't even find a frog in our rice fields. It's scary to see how many of the aquatic animals that are just gone.
bobby harvill I'm around them in the summer when we spray chemicals on our fields. My grandpa and Dad gave been using them forever with very little protection compared to what we have now. Both have very good health compared to others there age. I don't think it's killing us. As for aquatic animals, we have had very little rainfall the past few years so we never see a lot of critters around. Woodchucks are all over the place as well as other animals like opossums and deer that eat the crops.
Farmabl I've been lucky too. My childhood friend was not. He die of the same cancer that the new round-up lawsuit is over. I can promise you that the reptiles and amphibians have been utterly destroyed. It is scary to me how sterile the waters are. People that seem to be in the know say fungicides are what's really dangerous. All I can say is frogs are gone!
it's only on youtube and "the facebooks" for now. we're working on a distribution deal but i'm liking having it online honestly. i guess maybe we miss some folks that are less interwebs savvy, but it's like having a dvr in your pocket being able to watch it on a phone...plus we get to hear comments quicker, like, "turn the music down!" :-)
Bear in mind these yields are one field entered into a contest, not what their farms are averaging, and if you do the math, huge loss of money to wring these yields and not economically viable
you're right. contest acres are limited. and, yes, you can lose money on contest ground --- especially if you're pouring money into something that is not addressing your actual limiting factor. both hula and randy dowdy have very publicly broken down their costs and they made money on contest ground....hula did it in a video with me on youtube you can still view. where hula and dowdy and others excel is figuring out what that yield limiting factor is and addressing it. if you're not addressing that yield limiting factor, contest acres can be a money pit.
Genesis Ag The limiting factor more times than not is weather. So other than proper drainage, drain tile, or in some instances irrigation you can't do much about it. Even irrigation which is effective is very costly to not only install, but to maintain and pump water
yes. for sure. and "only the us govt can control the weather". :-) the thought i would leave others reading this thread with is that the condition of one's soil will dramatically impact how well a crop deals with unfavorable weather conditions....and in some extreme cases...it doesn't matter how healthy your soils are...and so i don't create my own "spoiler"...i'll just leave it there. :-)
Genesis Ag hahahaha that’s the problem.... I haven’t raised corn under 200 since the drought in 2012 and $ per acre have been going down ever since 2012 but rent and land prices never go down..... pretty soon there will only be a half dozen farmers in each state then they will raise 150 bushel corn and get stinking rich doing it
yes. it's definitely a race to the bottom. or a game of chicken...who can sustain the most pain before they'll cut back on their planted acres? either that or we have to start making a lot more babies! :-)
Really quite a scary thing. But as long as those extra babies you speak of stick close to the city and don't ruin my beautiful country living with rancid neighborhoods. Makes me sick driving to work through my rural area seeing these pop up. I refer to them as the pimples of the countryside.
For everyone saying that its pointless to raise yields... The corn market is very close to a pure market. This meaning that there is not a single producer that can effectively change the price with the amount they produce. So an individual farmer increasing their yield will do nothing to the market due to the number of competitors.
Well no, but this competition has no value for any average farmer. Achieving the highest yield is completely different from maximizing profits from said field. It's an interesting idea to see how they're achieving these yields, but there's a reason you don't see them doing this on every one of their fields. Just look at the number of products they apply. Their cost per acre must be through the roof. Like I said its a interesting idea, but it doesn't cover the issues that the everyday farmer is facing.
you should do a show covering the issues that everyday farmers are facing. Or come to one of our growers meetings where we focus on that :-) www.genesis.ag/meetings/ This show on the other hand is for entertainment. If I don't entertain first and foremost i don't get attention. If I don't have attention I can't show anyone anything. And, I want to be able to show people not directly involved in farming what a grower goes through in getting a crop out of the ground. And, again, for everyone following this thread it's documenting entrants in the national corn growers competition that gets over 8,000 entries a year. We didn't invent the competition....and by the way, I agree wholeheartedly with your first comment...with regards to your second comment i think you can certainly get some ideas regarding how these guys broke through yield barriers in a cost effective way that the average farmer hasn't even thought about...i see "average farmers" do it everyday.
I guarantee they are not cost effective. I've talked personally with different competition farmers. Their "competition field" can sometimes be completely different than the average field they run. I can't remember where I heard it, but I recall reading an article about Randy Dowdy having his population like at 50-60k plants per acre. If you think that's a breakthrough in a cost effective way then you're mad! If they get a bad spring and don't get 90% plus emergence then they will have lost thousands of dollars in pre-plant fertilizers and seed. It's simply not cost effective run this many products with the amount of risk they are floating. I like the idea of spreading agriculture to those who aren't involved, but if we're talking cost effectiveness, the focus of the program should be on efficiency and innovation. Maximizing yield often isn't the most efficient way to farm due to diminishing returns. Average farmers should be focused on improving their bottom lines, not yield.
The general opinion is what you're saying, it's not cost effective. But if you actually listen to what they are doing, much of it has little to no cost at all. It's a matter of identifying what limits the yield, and addressing it. Not sure how waiting to plant until soil temperatures increases cost. How targeting even emergence costs more. How putting down 180 lbs of N costs more than putting down 240 lbs of N - when applied at the right time, in the right place. But if you feel you know it all, I'm sure you're doing well.
Raising more corn is the answer on an individual farm, but it can also be the answer for the market too. As the price of corn goes down as more bushels are raised the demand for these bushels becomes more. There are examples like the ethanol boom 10-15 years ago. That boom was caused by low corn prices and then the ethanol production used the extra corn bushels resulting in the higher prices in the 2012 season. The market has and will continue to work without quotas or other intervention. God bless the American Farmer and capitalism.
Daniel Anderson You have no idea what your talking about. Ethanol only works with huge government subsidies, cheap prices had nothing to do with ethanol. High prices were the result of the funds pulling their money out and putting it into commodities. It was NOT the result of supply and demand, and actually had a devastating result to agriculture
mmmkay...don't believe anyone suggested producing more bushels would bring prices up. on the contrary, david hula says, if someone has a disaster prices go up. they are suggesting that since they don't directly control prices, producing more bushels is how *they* choose to manage the economics on *their* farms. to each his own.
I think his point is. When the prices are low do to a flooded market trying to produce more to make up for low prices is just going to flood the market more and lower prices even more for the next year. Before harvest started this year there was an article saying that there was over 2 billion bushels if corn left over from last year's harvest.
It's mentioned throughout the video that lower prices push farmers to produce more. Now, basic math, yes, if you produce more bushels per acre, you make more money per acre. However, add in economics and more supply means lower prices, so they won't make more money. 19:31 for example, I agree with improve efficiencies, but not with increase production. Eventually what they fear is what's going to happen, big corporations will own all the farmland, and then they can control production. Similar to what OPEC does with the oil. In Europe same has happened with milk prices. There used to be quotas, dictating how much milk could be produced. Then the EU removed those quotas, and a lot of small and midsize operations went bankrupt or struggle to survive, since the market was flooded and price plummeted. Overproduction causes low prices, which is exactly what is happening and will get worse if everyone starts producing 300, 400 or even 500 bu/ac averages. So increase efficiency, and aim for 200 to 250 bu/ac at a corn price of 4$+/bu. Otherwise it's a vicious circle of prices go down -> increase production -> prices go down more -> increase production and so on.
yes. this is a very tough situation. but it's one of the tenants of any commodity-based industry...if no energy has been put into communicating and convincing the market of some distinct advantage to what it is you're providing, you have almost zero control of what the price for your product is. the market dictates. so, you're describing the difference between micro and macro economics. everyone is free to do whatever they want, which is good. the problem is, collusion to hold production down would only work if someone had tyrannical power to enforce it. game theory aside, growers won't manage their own production (hold it down) for the good of the industry. they'll manage it for the good of their family. yes, capitalism sucks sometimes for some particular individuals. but, for me, it's better than the alternatives available. ---- from my perspective i would prefer if folks grew fewer acres individually and got more production out of each acre and had a better quality of life. but, like i said above, everyone is free to do what it is they want to do.
A simple quota would do the trick. It's as easy as saying; you have x acres, you can produce x amount of bushels for which you will receive x amount of $. Anything produced over your goal goes to open market, to whoever wants to buy it. The reason why the morons in Europe removed the quotas is because they thought it would bring the prices down. Well the farmers get less money, but my carton of milk still costs the same. The only winners were the retailers, as their margins grew.
It all evens out in the end. You can have 300 bushel corn and your neighbor along with the average farmers around the country could have only 150 bushel corn. Just because one guy is rolling in corn doesn't mean everyone else is too. Crop prices really are affected more by the connected commodity prices, like livestock and other consumer needs for corn. Those are what really drives the price of corn. With a growing population and need for alternative and more renewable resources, there is no such thing as "too much" corn so the price will remain fairly stable until there is a huge change in the aforementioned commodities.
yes. correct. is corn or gold more available in ton level quantities to the vast majority of people? so can we agree that availability is partially driven by production levels?
wow. i didn't know that. do you suppose the 7 time winner just announced he was going to break the rules to the whole world or that you might be mistaken? which sounds more likely?
bahahaha... this response made me cry I laughed so hard. You can definitely have more than 1 entry in a field. They have to be at least 10 acres... that field is 80 I believe.
John Deere is garbage. They are like the Chevrolets of farming. Every John Deere guy or Chevy guy is always bragging about how great their machine is yet all they're ever doing is rebuilding something on it. For example, go watch the youtube channel, "OneLonelyFarmer." He's a diehard John Deere guy who rips on just about every other brand of tractor yet easily 90% of his videos are of him doing major repairs to his beloved John Deere Tractors because of catastrophic breakdowns.
I would change that to Ford. Iv'e heard way more Ford drivers say how good there truck is and call Chevy crap. However that is what Iv'e heard, you've probably heard different. lol
from the voice-over: "....contest against each other to see who can grow the most corn per ACRE" (emphasis mine). if you've got 100 times the acreage and grow 1/3 as much per acre you'd be tops in corn production. kevin and david are tops in non-irrigated and irrigated respectively.
I couldnt watch more than a couple of minutes...no natural fertilizer, no cover crop, no humus...just growing in dirt...no wonder you are barely breaking 300 bushels...there are ways to maximize yield without all the inputs these guys are using...Joel Salatin comes to mind...
You do know that water in fuel is literally a problem that can happen in ANY internal combustion powered vehicle, right? That's why they put water separator fuel filters on almost all diesel vehicles. Its condensation... no way around it.
I bet all the stuff they have to do to get their high yields isn't working out so well for them when corn is $3 lol. These guys are all about their ego, not really what farming is for most people.
@@corporateraiter right haahahaha I'm waiting for super man to come across the screen holding up a battle ship lol 😂 I hope who ever did this music didn't pay thousands of dollars and waste years in college for music engineer if so they need to go work for Marvel
If this series doesnt say amercia i dont know what does
*America.
More people need to see this. The typical farmer doesn't ride an old crusty tractor these days. We have so much new technology that keeps getting better and better. People from the city don't realize what we do, and where their food comes from! Love this series.
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We'll get a little more aggressive about marketing in the second season I think. I'm hopeful that more people can identify with the challenges that everyone involved in the industry faces so there might be a more constructive dialogue between those producing and those consuming.
Which has caused alot of smaller farmers out. Price of equipment has gotten out of control. Mix that with a few bad years and it is game over.
the ethanol mandate is nothing more than welfare for corn farmers and it has driven up the price on other grains too and land prices
I like the show, and appreciate how active the creator has been in the comments
Andrew M Thank you!
we aims to please :)
Interesting program.
+bigtractorpower Thank you. Love your channel!
We love both channels
Nice video, thanks for posting!!
This is so awesome! I've been saying for years that Discovery Channel should do a show like this. Right along with all the other reality shows they do. Awesome!
YEah that would be very cool!
My buddy’s dad won a corn contest in 76 and still paying the fertilizer bill
That comment is genius! 😅
Are you double planting, end of planter running on the marker track, @ 25:40?? I noticed planter over lapping earlier in the video, couple rows.
probably trying to increase yield the old fashioned way, although that wouldn't work very good. lol
Double plant density and evaluate
5:00 "Parker Schnabel ain't got nothin on us" 😂
i'm so glad someone finally caught that and commented. :-)
Logan's LawnCare lol I thought that too!
same lol calling him out haha
Very good movie corn war
Love this new show
do you have a favorite grower yet?
When is the harvest one coming out
I wish there some good buffer zones between field and stream.
Do you have any central Minnesota trials? We used some of your products this year. But I’ll like to see what other people do in the same growing conditions. We will be doing yield checks soon.
unfortunately, nothing in a "controlled" environment. it's all farmers doing their own strip trials and side-by-sides. usually stuff like the invigor 8 seed treatment really shines in the colder wetter springs like you can see in central MN
We have the Invigor 8 treated in half the corn on 330 acres plus carbose and Vita Enterra to check for added response against the half none treated.
se encuentra en español la serie
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When is episode two coming out?
Probably Thursday
Episode 2: ua-cam.com/video/vJ4ptjcWTYk/v-deo.html enjoy!
Genesis Ag when Is episode 3
Probably early next week. Just adding some small things here and there so that people less familiar with the process can follow along and understand what the growers are facing/going through better.
nice equipment
Will there be more vids up soon?
yes! very soon.
Thank you. Love these
How come Randy Dowdy isn't showcased on here?
Love this.
My favorite saying THANK A FARMER.
It would be really cool if there was some explanations on the equipment and process for the farm geeks...
we're looking to add some of this to make the show more accessible to a broader audience.
The audio is weak. The background music is too loud. Good idea for a show though, we waited for so something like this. Just fix the sound.
roger that. we're working on it. tell me what you think after next episode comes out
It is a great idea, no many people make shows about farming!
what did you think about the audio in episode 6 or 7?
Good in my opinion!
Just discovered this and have been telling all my friends! I subbed, hit the bell, gave it a thumbs up. Ever think of having a division for farming with old iron? You'd have every tractor and old engine collector watching, not to mention small and hobby farmers. Just a thought; I don't know squat about TV and media economics, lol.
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awesome serie
Time stamp 8:08 / 28:30 protect and bless the farmers who received loans and where not prepared for what cane afterwards let’s train build and prepare the future to be better to be able to locate and to be able to ensure safety comfortability and production admist all adversity even the #Mirror
Mmmhhh some good old hybrid corn smelling fresh round up ! Love 'merica
Farming really hard work
It really is. Thanks for watching.
Nice Show 🌽
thank you!
Whoop whoop. NCSU #1. Got to love NC
What Hybrid was that?
Maybe precomercial hybrids
they are acting like all of this is a big deal ''battle against each other'' just an american program again...
yes, it is definitely "murican....(love it or leave it man! :-) ) seriously though, we didn't invent this contest for the show. it's been going on for many decades. thousands of growers enter every year. and, it is a big deal if that's what you do. the guys at the top take it very seriously -- as you will see if you stay tuned. google "ncga corn growers contest" for more info. In short, we didn't invent the intensity or the drama. we're just documenting it. :-)
interesting that people take it so seriously when they are at the top, depends on what region you are from. In Michigan we have around 98 day corn and the rainfall/weather varies year after year. We aren't able to be even close to 350bu/acre!
Great show theme, but the video editing is terrible, audio not boosted and barely audible in some parts, music overwhelms the voice too.
wait! are you saying you're volunteering to edit the next show for us? :-) just kidding. i agree with the criticism about the audio levels....the video editing i happen to like. but if you've got an example of better video editing of a reality documentary, i'd be more than willing to review it and see if we could incorporate some of what they did in our show.
Well I guess red means stop and green means go
I was thinking the same thing...🇦🇺💚🇺🇸🌱🌾..😅😁
Or Jhon Deere and Caseii maybe
i like the music
I like how they weren't wearing gloves mixing the chemicals at all...We usually always wear rubber gloves so we don't get it on our skin. Not sure what they were using tho?!
In many cases, it probably depends on the chemical you're mixing. Some are more acidic or caustic than others. Water with neutral pH would take less protection than say sulfuric acid or something with a known toxicity. I suspect in those shots these growers are using products that are gentler on the plants, microbes, and people. :)
Farmable yes we wear gloves and a respirator; then we load it in a plane and spray it everywhere. We are killing ourselves with too many chemicals. You can't even find a frog in our rice fields. It's scary to see how many of the aquatic animals that are just gone.
bobby harvill I'm around them in the summer when we spray chemicals on our fields. My grandpa and Dad gave been using them forever with very little protection compared to what we have now. Both have very good health compared to others there age. I don't think it's killing us. As for aquatic animals, we have had very little rainfall the past few years so we never see a lot of critters around. Woodchucks are all over the place as well as other animals like opossums and deer that eat the crops.
Farmabl I've been lucky too. My childhood friend was not. He die of the same cancer that the new round-up lawsuit is over. I can promise you that the reptiles and amphibians have been utterly destroyed. It is scary to me how sterile the waters are. People that seem to be in the know say fungicides are what's really dangerous. All I can say is frogs are gone!
Frogs are a keystone species. When they die the environment is getting poor. They are the first to go b
What channel is this show on
it's only on youtube and "the facebooks" for now. we're working on a distribution deal but i'm liking having it online honestly. i guess maybe we miss some folks that are less interwebs savvy, but it's like having a dvr in your pocket being able to watch it on a phone...plus we get to hear comments quicker, like, "turn the music down!" :-)
Bear in mind these yields are one field entered into a contest, not what their farms are averaging, and if you do the math, huge loss of money to wring these yields and not economically viable
you're right. contest acres are limited. and, yes, you can lose money on contest ground --- especially if you're pouring money into something that is not addressing your actual limiting factor. both hula and randy dowdy have very publicly broken down their costs and they made money on contest ground....hula did it in a video with me on youtube you can still view. where hula and dowdy and others excel is figuring out what that yield limiting factor is and addressing it. if you're not addressing that yield limiting factor, contest acres can be a money pit.
Genesis Ag The limiting factor more times than not is weather. So other than proper drainage, drain tile, or in some instances irrigation you can't do much about it. Even irrigation which is effective is very costly to not only install, but to maintain and pump water
yes. for sure. and "only the us govt can control the weather". :-) the thought i would leave others reading this thread with is that the condition of one's soil will dramatically impact how well a crop deals with unfavorable weather conditions....and in some extreme cases...it doesn't matter how healthy your soils are...and so i don't create my own "spoiler"...i'll just leave it there. :-)
Hey let’s raise 400 bushel corn so we can eventually get 1.00$ a bushel
you're right. we should all cut back production...you start! :-)
Genesis Ag hahahaha that’s the problem.... I haven’t raised corn under 200 since the drought in 2012 and $ per acre have been going down ever since 2012 but rent and land prices never go down..... pretty soon there will only be a half dozen farmers in each state then they will raise 150 bushel corn and get stinking rich doing it
yes. it's definitely a race to the bottom. or a game of chicken...who can sustain the most pain before they'll cut back on their planted acres? either that or we have to start making a lot more babies! :-)
Really quite a scary thing. But as long as those extra babies you speak of stick close to the city and don't ruin my beautiful country living with rancid neighborhoods. Makes me sick driving to work through my rural area seeing these pop up. I refer to them as the pimples of the countryside.
For everyone saying that its pointless to raise yields... The corn market is very close to a pure market. This meaning that there is not a single producer that can effectively change the price with the amount they produce. So an individual farmer increasing their yield will do nothing to the market due to the number of competitors.
wait, you mean by purposely being mediocre I can't bring the price of corn back to the "glory days"? darn. :-)
Well no, but this competition has no value for any average farmer. Achieving the highest yield is completely different from maximizing profits from said field. It's an interesting idea to see how they're achieving these yields, but there's a reason you don't see them doing this on every one of their fields. Just look at the number of products they apply. Their cost per acre must be through the roof.
Like I said its a interesting idea, but it doesn't cover the issues that the everyday farmer is facing.
you should do a show covering the issues that everyday farmers are facing. Or come to one of our growers meetings where we focus on that :-) www.genesis.ag/meetings/ This show on the other hand is for entertainment. If I don't entertain first and foremost i don't get attention. If I don't have attention I can't show anyone anything. And, I want to be able to show people not directly involved in farming what a grower goes through in getting a crop out of the ground. And, again, for everyone following this thread it's documenting entrants in the national corn growers competition that gets over 8,000 entries a year. We didn't invent the competition....and by the way, I agree wholeheartedly with your first comment...with regards to your second comment i think you can certainly get some ideas regarding how these guys broke through yield barriers in a cost effective way that the average farmer hasn't even thought about...i see "average farmers" do it everyday.
I guarantee they are not cost effective. I've talked personally with different competition farmers. Their "competition field" can sometimes be completely different than the average field they run. I can't remember where I heard it, but I recall reading an article about Randy Dowdy having his population like at 50-60k plants per acre. If you think that's a breakthrough in a cost effective way then you're mad! If they get a bad spring and don't get 90% plus emergence then they will have lost thousands of dollars in pre-plant fertilizers and seed. It's simply not cost effective run this many products with the amount of risk they are floating.
I like the idea of spreading agriculture to those who aren't involved, but if we're talking cost effectiveness, the focus of the program should be on efficiency and innovation. Maximizing yield often isn't the most efficient way to farm due to diminishing returns. Average farmers should be focused on improving their bottom lines, not yield.
The general opinion is what you're saying, it's not cost effective. But if you actually listen to what they are doing, much of it has little to no cost at all. It's a matter of identifying what limits the yield, and addressing it. Not sure how waiting to plant until soil temperatures increases cost. How targeting even emergence costs more. How putting down 180 lbs of N costs more than putting down 240 lbs of N - when applied at the right time, in the right place. But if you feel you know it all, I'm sure you're doing well.
why is he using row markers with a 30 thousand dollar green star setup?
Raising more corn is the answer on an individual farm, but it can also be the answer for the market too. As the price of corn goes down as more bushels are raised the demand for these bushels becomes more. There are examples like the ethanol boom 10-15 years ago. That boom was caused by low corn prices and then the ethanol production used the extra corn bushels resulting in the higher prices in the 2012 season. The market has and will continue to work without quotas or other intervention. God bless the American Farmer and capitalism.
Daniel Anderson You have no idea what your talking about. Ethanol only works with huge government subsidies, cheap prices had nothing to do with ethanol. High prices were the result of the funds pulling their money out and putting it into commodities. It was NOT the result of supply and demand, and actually had a devastating result to agriculture
Producing more bushels won't bring prices up, on the contrary. Basic demand/supply economics ...
mmmkay...don't believe anyone suggested producing more bushels would bring prices up. on the contrary, david hula says, if someone has a disaster prices go up. they are suggesting that since they don't directly control prices, producing more bushels is how *they* choose to manage the economics on *their* farms. to each his own.
I think his point is. When the prices are low do to a flooded market trying to produce more to make up for low prices is just going to flood the market more and lower prices even more for the next year. Before harvest started this year there was an article saying that there was over 2 billion bushels if corn left over from last year's harvest.
It's mentioned throughout the video that lower prices push farmers to produce more. Now, basic math, yes, if you produce more bushels per acre, you make more money per acre. However, add in economics and more supply means lower prices, so they won't make more money.
19:31 for example, I agree with improve efficiencies, but not with increase production. Eventually what they fear is what's going to happen, big corporations will own all the farmland, and then they can control production. Similar to what OPEC does with the oil.
In Europe same has happened with milk prices. There used to be quotas, dictating how much milk could be produced. Then the EU removed those quotas, and a lot of small and midsize operations went bankrupt or struggle to survive, since the market was flooded and price plummeted.
Overproduction causes low prices, which is exactly what is happening and will get worse if everyone starts producing 300, 400 or even 500 bu/ac averages. So increase efficiency, and aim for 200 to 250 bu/ac at a corn price of 4$+/bu. Otherwise it's a vicious circle of prices go down -> increase production -> prices go down more -> increase production and so on.
yes. this is a very tough situation. but it's one of the tenants of any commodity-based industry...if no energy has been put into communicating and convincing the market of some distinct advantage to what it is you're providing, you have almost zero control of what the price for your product is. the market dictates. so, you're describing the difference between micro and macro economics. everyone is free to do whatever they want, which is good. the problem is, collusion to hold production down would only work if someone had tyrannical power to enforce it. game theory aside, growers won't manage their own production (hold it down) for the good of the industry. they'll manage it for the good of their family. yes, capitalism sucks sometimes for some particular individuals. but, for me, it's better than the alternatives available. ---- from my perspective i would prefer if folks grew fewer acres individually and got more production out of each acre and had a better quality of life. but, like i said above, everyone is free to do what it is they want to do.
A simple quota would do the trick. It's as easy as saying; you have x acres, you can produce x amount of bushels for which you will receive x amount of $. Anything produced over your goal goes to open market, to whoever wants to buy it.
The reason why the morons in Europe removed the quotas is because they thought it would bring the prices down. Well the farmers get less money, but my carton of milk still costs the same. The only winners were the retailers, as their margins grew.
It's a great video. But the music gave me anxiety lol
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Farming in hills is more exiting
Lots of things to think about when farming in hills
Would be nice to see Deere as long they don't make jokes I'm happy and find this show interesting
Keep in mind the more bushels per acre you grow the lower the price will be.
It all evens out in the end. You can have 300 bushel corn and your neighbor along with the average farmers around the country could have only 150 bushel corn. Just because one guy is rolling in corn doesn't mean everyone else is too. Crop prices really are affected more by the connected commodity prices, like livestock and other consumer needs for corn. Those are what really drives the price of corn. With a growing population and need for alternative and more renewable resources, there is no such thing as "too much" corn so the price will remain fairly stable until there is a huge change in the aforementioned commodities.
Farmers constantly drive eachother into hard times. It's a cut throat business.
feeding the world is not about productivity, it's about availability.
yes. correct. is corn or gold more available in ton level quantities to the vast majority of people? so can we agree that availability is partially driven by production levels?
Wonder about the 30% less sun? Look up and ask who's spraying
the background music is louder than the people talking... lol
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Yeah sure! i don't make documentaries but i do film sometimes when i can! ua-cam.com/video/az1aSXKBN1Q/v-deo.html
sweet. love your channel name also.
Your products seems amazing! It's too bad i haven't heard of them sooner!
They weren't mixing chemical without gloves. It was fertilizer. Mostly weasel piss. Not harmful to your skin. Usually just sticky.
You can't have 5 contest entries in one field. NCGA contest fake yields.
wow. i didn't know that. do you suppose the 7 time winner just announced he was going to break the rules to the whole world or that you might be mistaken? which sounds more likely?
bahahaha... this response made me cry I laughed so hard. You can definitely have more than 1 entry in a field. They have to be at least 10 acres... that field is 80 I believe.
like they always say...if it's red best leave it in the shed.
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17:50 should of brought a Deere 😜
19:32 😮😅
Need a green planter so you from one end to the other without stoping.just funing
Hahaha that might help!
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This is why you get John Deere Kevin kalb
Go red!
Good ass show I love farming my family own 83 acres in Arkansas
It was awesome!
how y'all end up with so much land?
Cool..
Notice the John Deere works fine but the case is harribal
That's what I'm sayin haha
From what I saw it all looked like operator error.. Guy gets water in fuel and doesn't have a clue what to do - moron.
Your spelling is "harribal"
John Deere is garbage. They are like the Chevrolets of farming. Every John Deere guy or Chevy guy is always bragging about how great their machine is yet all they're ever doing is rebuilding something on it. For example, go watch the youtube channel, "OneLonelyFarmer." He's a diehard John Deere guy who rips on just about every other brand of tractor yet easily 90% of his videos are of him doing major repairs to his beloved John Deere Tractors because of catastrophic breakdowns.
I would change that to Ford. Iv'e heard way more Ford drivers say how good there truck is and call Chevy crap. However that is what Iv'e heard, you've probably heard different. lol
Well its a case ...what u expect...seeing how they got a case probably not much
Christ, no PPE when pouring chemical in the tank.
that's Case for ya
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Last time i checked case wasn't in business anymore, but case ih is. I'm pretty brand savy, but as long as it gets the job can we really complain?
C&J FARMS you mustn’t have checked in a long time. It’s been CNH for almost 20 years.
sorry i meant CNH, case ih just comes to mind when i see red
C&J FARMS CNH should just say NH seeing how new Holland /fiat bought CaseIH out, not merged like the CaseIH guys like to spin
Get. Rid of the case buy a John Deere..........
you JD guys are relentless. :-) what's gonna happen if someone on a case iH or New Holland wins corn wars? :-)
I'll go to there house with a fleet of JD and a Match and burn the blue and red!!😉
You green underwear wearing people are just jealous because case and new Holland are way more advanced on their technology
You know what you call a guy driving a John Deere?......Lucky! Lucky it's actually working.
Literally none of these farms are in stats that are in top 5 for corn production. Smh
from the voice-over: "....contest against each other to see who can grow the most corn per ACRE" (emphasis mine). if you've got 100 times the acreage and grow 1/3 as much per acre you'd be tops in corn production. kevin and david are tops in non-irrigated and irrigated respectively.
But that's more interesting
Notice the guy with the case is havn all the problems
Beeps are how you know it's doing things.
I couldnt watch more than a couple of minutes...no natural fertilizer, no cover crop, no humus...just growing in dirt...no wonder you are barely breaking 300 bushels...there are ways to maximize yield without all the inputs these guys are using...Joel Salatin comes to mind...
That's what you get for buying a Case
General Farmer had similar sentiment down below. Still waiting for all the IH guys to start a flame war here. :-)
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You do know that water in fuel is literally a problem that can happen in ANY internal combustion powered vehicle, right? That's why they put water separator fuel filters on almost all diesel vehicles. Its condensation... no way around it.
Case IH is king. Water in the fuel happens. John Deere Tractors are for the ignorant sister kissin' type farmers.
that music sure does suck
Farming flat ground is very boring
until you get a weather event. ;-)
I bet all the stuff they have to do to get their high yields isn't working out so well for them when corn is $3 lol. These guys are all about their ego, not really what farming is for most people.
WHAT THE HECK IS UP WITH THIS MUSIC THIS IS NOT LORD OF THE RINGS ALL THEY ARE DOING IS PLANTING CORN THEY DON'T NEED SUPER MAN MUSIC.
i know. lord of the rings is lame fantasy crap. this is real! :-)
@@corporateraiter right haahahaha I'm waiting for super man to come across the screen holding up a battle ship lol 😂 I hope who ever did this music didn't pay thousands of dollars and waste years in college for music engineer if so they need to go work for Marvel
Your probably going to end up bankrupt