Mitch, this is your cousin, several times removed (could never figure that genealogy stuff out). Your dad said that I should check out your channel, and I'm glad I did; I just watched every episode and am looking forward to more. It brings back lots of memories because, as a young teenager in the mid-sixties, I spent about a month every summer on your farm, living with your great grandfather & great grandmother, trying to absorb everything I could about farming. I was probably more underfoot than of any real help, but it sure taught me a lot about work, character, and about one's relationship with the earth; it's something I'll remember all my life and definitely contributed to who I am. Because I was only there at the beginning of each summer, I didn't get to experience what happened throughout the rest of the year, so your episodes are filling in the gaps...fascinating stuff. Better yet, you're showing the nitty gritty of what's involved, rather than superficial fluff. I remember coming in at the end of the day and not recognizing myself in the mirror from all the dust, so keep letting us be a fly on your wall! I applaud you for carrying on the family tradition and for your genuine interest in what you're doing; hopefully, it'll be a source of inspiration. I'm pretty sure that I saw your dad drop by during an episode, and it'd be great to see you introduce the family from time to time, including your new bride, to show how you all work together to make things happen. I'm guessing that you're busy in the fields, so will wait patiently for your next installments. Until then, good luck with the weather! P.S. You ought to include an episode about your great grandfather's technique for tricking gullible teenagers (like me) into climbing Steptoe Butte at midnight to catch snipe with a flashlight & gunnysack!
Boy, this brings back alot of memories for me. We farmed up by Reardan from 1983 to 1999. We had a few steep hills ourselves. We started out harvesting with a 1971 International 403 Hillside combine with the old 4 way levelling system and ran It until 1993 or so. I think only the 403 and 453 had the 4 way leveller. It was hard to make a go of it because we only had a half section (that's 320 acres for those that don't know). My great grandfather used to farm all the way back to Hanning Butte, a couple of miles straight back from our farm. He sold all that way back in the 1920's or maybe the 1930's, I'm only guessing, because he didn't like the steep hillsides as you continued toward the butte. Only the half section we had was to his liking. He retired in 1946 or 48 so he could make a decent living off that remaining 320 acres back then. Kind of wish he'd kept that land so By the time we came along, we could have a better chance of making it. When the markets were good, we could do alright. But if the market tanked, it was hard going. By the way, at about 10:32, was that Steptoe Butte in the background?
Stephen, thanks for sharing! Love hearing stories like that, I certainly lucky to be able to farm. And good eye - that is Steptoe Butte in the background. Our farm is about 10-12 miles from the Butte
@@PNWHillsideFarmer I remember on real clear days, we could ride our motorcycles on top of Magnusun Butte, which is right next to Hanning Butte, and you could just make out Steptoe Butte. It's helpful that Steptoe is the highest Butte in the region. It's nice to see you still do regular tilling. My dad is long retired, but most are doing no-till where he is at now.
Great video. Farming in the Palouse is unlike anywhere else in the world. I grew up in Lacrosse WA. I worked on several farms throughout high school and college. Your videos bring back a lot of memories. Can't wait to see the harvest content! Please continue making great content!
Messsaging in from Wallowa County, Oregon south of your country. Love seeing the Palouse again. Went to college in the late 80's in Pullman and remember running the roads through the area.
@@PNWHillsideFarmer I think your content is great personally. I’m from south central Indiana and I’m deeply fascinated by Palouse farming. As far as I can tell, you’re the first Palouse farmer trying to really start a channel and I’m excited to see where this goes. Keep it up!
There is something I find fasinating about watching a cultivator move through soil. I wonder if its something the Creator told us we needed to do, till the earth. I am in South Australia and really enjoy my new American friends on youtube farming in climates so different to here and enjoying the landscape views from the drone. Looking forward to seeing more. Dave.
Thanks for posting this as there's something about life on a farm far away from city crowds with machines such as yours and to see convention tillage equipment use as after so many year here in outback prior to zero till in dry land as we had applied conservation tillage method very similar with slightly heavy equipment.
Being from Wasco County Oregon that looks like flat ground to me. I know it is steep up there. We still have 1470 International combine and we level it out in places. But most people may not know that hillside combines were developed for the Palouse Hills. But down here the ground is steep enough that have calcium in the tires in my atv. And a pull behind atv sprayer that cannot roll over. Thank you for another nice video.
Hi thank you for making these videos just found your channel great job. I'm from the west side about 1o miles west of Mossyrock, It is so nice to see videos of farms from the east side,Thanks again terry sturgeon
Glad to see some one from eastern Washington with a channel. I feel this was a missing segment since farming is much different here than most any where, closest would be the Welkers. Shoot hillside combine originated here. Anyways I’m from and live in Spokane and farm a “little” myself.
I'm laid up in bed with the flu, got 125 acres to go but I have a 90hp tractor (6210 JD) so its slower than yours! (I couldn't get away from the work!) I'm in a steep paddock, on the way down the hill I have my foot on the windscreen to stay in the seat and in places I had to go up in a less steep spot. I put that paddock into a Hogan rye grass pasture for a few seasons and then will return it to SF Greenland forrage rape. It's all direct drilled. Looks like a nice spot you are in there!
Thanks for the footage. Is soil erosion a concern there at all? The soil seems pretty light and would blow or wash away. Would think that some kind of minimum tillage would be the answer. Pulling a minimum/zero tillage one pass seed drill through stubble would be the answer no? A lot less horsepower and fuel leaving the soil safe. Just a thought/question, thanks again.
No contour farming, vegetated waterways or any semblance of soil or water conservation. Sad, and short sighted, but not uncommon in modern agriculture. His kids will not have the same soil. Grandkids will have 0 topsoil.
Hey Norman, thanks for the question. Yes, erosion can be an issue depending on the year and weather and we are steadily moving towards reducing our tillage, but there are many variables that people here on UA-cam tend to forget. We are a business, and need to be profitable, and don't have bottomless pockets to buy all new equipment the moment it is needed. I wish we did, but it isn't the case. So with Roundup being in short supply, tillage is an alternative for seed prep and weed control. As time goes along, we hope to move to have less passes over the land before planting.
Thanks for commenting, and actually in this field there are various waterways established. We are indeed cross-working the field, which is not following the contour, but the reason for this is to again prepare the seed bed prior to planting. Erosion can be an issue, but many times we can prevent it prior to it being an issue.
Just found your channel, very interesting. My dad when he was in his early 20's hopped a train and went out to the Palouse. He worked on the horse drawn reapers of that era. He said they used up to 40 horses. Hard to imagine that today. One question, how do you get away working the ground so much, seems like it would wash during the rains?
Having lived in Eastern Washington many years ago in this Palouse region, even though it's dry land farming, the area receives little rain compared to many areas of the country. Rains are usually gentle and the soil can absorb the rain fairly quickly. I seem to recall growing up on the farm that the rain guage only read about a tenth of an inch after a decent rain. A half inch was really good and lasted more than a day. A good gully washer usually comes with a thunderstorm in summer and aren't really very common. These factors are what make hillside farming there possible. Usually, turning the soil is done as little as possible to avoid turning up wetter soil below the surface and losing the residual moisture. Generally about 30 years ago, the weeds were kept down in the summer fallow rotation of a field with a rod weeder. It was a much slower process because you couldn't run very fast. A rod weeder uses a square rod that rotates just an inch or so under the surface of the soil. The rod is chain driven by the wheels. The rotating rod will cut the weeds off at the root and turn them up. If you pulled them too fast, the rod could skip along the surface or drag a line of soil in front of the rod and the weeds would just slump over the burm and not be uprooted. The shallow depth of the rod prevented the wetter soil from being turned up and residual moisture lost.
Hi there from Ian in Australia, your videos are great, just wondering how you don't need contour banks on your hilly farm? it seems that you don't get any heavy rain as we do in Australia, there is no way that we could farm this land with heavy downpours that we get there would be lots of erosion , check up a UA-cam channel that I watch called the ( The Jackson Brothers ) they have two Cat D 11's pushing contour banks on their farm in Moree New South Wales Australia , their land is not as hilly as yours, thanks for the great videos , all the best.
Dude you have got to be related to Nick Welker was falling asleep and was half asleep eyes shut just listening and you tube was on auto play and your big tractors and steep hills was playing and you were talking about your TT Cat and I’m thinking what have they done so if you tell me that your not I think you have a brother from another mother
@@nicke1903 Science is fact and erosion is fact. That lost soil took thousands of years to create and even longer to recreate. We were put here to care for the land, not to just use it up. The soil can be farmed in sustainable manner without just watching it wash away each year.
@@r.scotthill3082 I have been around the farming community for all my life. To me it looks like that land is in very good shape. The fact that they have farmed it that way for years and it is still farmable must mean they know what they are doing.
@@asquithmainlines699 Yes; they keep filling the gullies and nature keeps flushing them out . I have seen pictures where whole sections of a hillside field in the Palouse have just slid away like an avalance.
Your terrain brings to mind the old quote " so steep you could upset a 4 section drag"!!
Oh good stuff! A lot of farmer engineering went on on our farm. Much enjoyed.
This is the 2nd time I have watched this video, it's still as good as the first time, thanks
Mitch, this is your cousin, several times removed (could never figure that genealogy stuff out). Your dad said that I should check out your channel, and I'm glad I did; I just watched every episode and am looking forward to more. It brings back lots of memories because, as a young teenager in the mid-sixties, I spent about a month every summer on your farm, living with your great grandfather & great grandmother, trying to absorb everything I could about farming. I was probably more underfoot than of any real help, but it sure taught me a lot about work, character, and about one's relationship with the earth; it's something I'll remember all my life and definitely contributed to who I am. Because I was only there at the beginning of each summer, I didn't get to experience what happened throughout the rest of the year, so your episodes are filling in the gaps...fascinating stuff. Better yet, you're showing the nitty gritty of what's involved, rather than superficial fluff. I remember coming in at the end of the day and not recognizing myself in the mirror from all the dust, so keep letting us be a fly on your wall!
I applaud you for carrying on the family tradition and for your genuine interest in what you're doing; hopefully, it'll be a source of inspiration. I'm pretty sure that I saw your dad drop by during an episode, and it'd be great to see you introduce the family from time to time, including your new bride, to show how you all work together to make things happen.
I'm guessing that you're busy in the fields, so will wait patiently for your next installments. Until then, good luck with the weather!
P.S. You ought to include an episode about your great grandfather's technique for tricking gullible teenagers (like me) into climbing Steptoe Butte at midnight to catch snipe with a flashlight & gunnysack!
Thanks for watching! Its fun to hear stories like that! You're always welcome back on the farm.
Boy, this brings back alot of memories for me. We farmed up by Reardan from 1983 to 1999. We had a few steep hills ourselves. We started out harvesting with a 1971 International 403 Hillside combine with the old 4 way levelling system and ran It until 1993 or so. I think only the 403 and 453 had the 4 way leveller. It was hard to make a go of it because we only had a half section (that's 320 acres for those that don't know). My great grandfather used to farm all the way back to Hanning Butte, a couple of miles straight back from our farm. He sold all that way back in the 1920's or maybe the 1930's, I'm only guessing, because he didn't like the steep hillsides as you continued toward the butte. Only the half section we had was to his liking. He retired in 1946 or 48 so he could make a decent living off that remaining 320 acres back then. Kind of wish he'd kept that land so By the time we came along, we could have a better chance of making it. When the markets were good, we could do alright. But if the market tanked, it was hard going. By the way, at about 10:32, was that Steptoe Butte in the background?
Stephen, thanks for sharing! Love hearing stories like that, I certainly lucky to be able to farm. And good eye - that is Steptoe Butte in the background. Our farm is about 10-12 miles from the Butte
@@PNWHillsideFarmer I remember on real clear days, we could ride our motorcycles on top of Magnusun Butte, which is right next to Hanning Butte, and you could just make out Steptoe Butte. It's helpful that Steptoe is the highest Butte in the region. It's nice to see you still do regular tilling. My dad is long retired, but most are doing no-till where he is at now.
My new favorite channel
Thanks man! Glad you're enjoying it.
Great video. Farming in the Palouse is unlike anywhere else in the world. I grew up in Lacrosse WA. I worked on several farms throughout high school and college. Your videos bring back a lot of memories. Can't wait to see the harvest content! Please continue making great content!
I am local trucker that travels from Portland Oregon to Arlington OR twice a day. I see alot Wheat Farmers.
I am new subscriber too!
Hello from Queensland Australia 🇦🇺
New to your channel
Messsaging in from Wallowa County, Oregon south of your country. Love seeing the Palouse again. Went to college in the late 80's in Pullman and remember running the roads through the area.
Great video! Beautiful country. Lot different from where I farm on the Oklahoma plains.
Your harvest vids are gonna be great! Can't wait!!
Got a little behind on editing and putting videos out, but hope to have some harvest videos edited and posted very soon!
@@PNWHillsideFarmer I think your content is great personally. I’m from south central Indiana and I’m deeply fascinated by Palouse farming. As far as I can tell, you’re the first Palouse farmer trying to really start a channel and I’m excited to see where this goes. Keep it up!
@@nellsonstout7001 Thanks Man!
There is something I find fasinating about watching a cultivator move through soil. I wonder if its something the Creator told us we needed to do, till the earth.
I am in South Australia and really enjoy my new American friends on youtube farming in climates so different to here and enjoying the landscape views from the drone. Looking forward to seeing more. Dave.
Hi Dave! It is captivating, isn't it? Thanks for watching!
Pretty hard to beat a tracked machine in those side slopes , pretty hard to beat a cat period . Nice video !
Beautiful video! Good music. Some of the other UA-cam farmers get their tractor tuned to add horsepower and fuel efficiency.
Great aerial shots from your drone!
Glad you enjoyed it!
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Nice to see you scannel
Thanks for posting this as there's something about life on a farm far away from city crowds with machines such as yours and to see convention tillage equipment use as after so many year here in outback prior to zero till in dry land as we had applied conservation tillage method very similar with slightly heavy equipment.
Gorgeous views of the Palouse!
Excellent video and thanks for it. I'm looking forward to many more from you.
I love looking at the great Palouse area and its farming.
Great job on cultivator btw
Great video thanks 👍
Beautiful. Keep it up.
Great video, it’s very nice easy working soil you have. It’s always interesting to see how techniques differ country to country. Rob from England.
We are pretty blessed around here. Thanks for watching Rob!
Being from Wasco County Oregon that looks like flat ground to me. I know it is steep up there. We still have 1470 International combine and we level it out in places. But most people may not know that hillside combines were developed for the Palouse Hills. But down here the ground is steep enough that have calcium in the tires in my atv. And a pull behind atv sprayer that cannot roll over. Thank you for another nice video.
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Hi thank you for making these videos just found your channel great job. I'm from the west side about 1o miles west of Mossyrock, It is so nice to see videos of farms from the east side,Thanks again terry sturgeon
big tractors nice video,
Great Video I love the Challenger Tractors, and the Palouse! new sub here i can see you have a great channel well done!
Glad to see some one from eastern Washington with a channel. I feel this was a missing segment since farming is much different here than most any where, closest would be the Welkers. Shoot hillside combine originated here. Anyways I’m from and live in Spokane and farm a “little” myself.
Great Video ! Please tell more of your crops and all different machinery you use. Regards from Sweden
Very cool
New subscriber farmer from Kansas
I'm laid up in bed with the flu, got 125 acres to go but I have a 90hp tractor (6210 JD) so its slower than yours! (I couldn't get away from the work!)
I'm in a steep paddock, on the way down the hill I have my foot on the windscreen to stay in the seat and in places I had to go up in a less steep spot. I put that paddock into a Hogan rye grass pasture for a few seasons and then will return it to SF Greenland forrage rape. It's all direct drilled. Looks like a nice spot you are in there!
Now you need to make a holder for that sprayer handle. Nice video!
Haha yeah it'd be helpful at times! I have sprayer booms I could have used but at times they get tangled in the barbwire fence.
Hi from Dayton Wa
Thanks for the footage. Is soil erosion a concern there at all? The soil seems pretty light and would blow or wash away. Would think that some kind of minimum tillage would be the answer. Pulling a minimum/zero tillage one pass seed drill through stubble would be the answer no? A lot less horsepower and fuel leaving the soil safe. Just a thought/question, thanks again.
No contour farming, vegetated waterways or any semblance of soil or water conservation. Sad, and short sighted, but not uncommon in modern agriculture. His kids will not have the same soil. Grandkids will have 0 topsoil.
Hey Norman, thanks for the question. Yes, erosion can be an issue depending on the year and weather and we are steadily moving towards reducing our tillage, but there are many variables that people here on UA-cam tend to forget. We are a business, and need to be profitable, and don't have bottomless pockets to buy all new equipment the moment it is needed. I wish we did, but it isn't the case. So with Roundup being in short supply, tillage is an alternative for seed prep and weed control. As time goes along, we hope to move to have less passes over the land before planting.
Thanks for commenting, and actually in this field there are various waterways established. We are indeed cross-working the field, which is not following the contour, but the reason for this is to again prepare the seed bed prior to planting. Erosion can be an issue, but many times we can prevent it prior to it being an issue.
Just found your channel, very interesting. My dad when he was in his early 20's hopped a train and went out to the Palouse. He worked on the horse drawn reapers of that era. He said they used up to 40 horses. Hard to imagine that today. One question, how do you get away working the ground so much, seems like it would wash during the rains?
Having lived in Eastern Washington many years ago in this Palouse region, even though it's dry land farming, the area receives little rain compared to many areas of the country. Rains are usually gentle and the soil can absorb the rain fairly quickly. I seem to recall growing up on the farm that the rain guage only read about a tenth of an inch after a decent rain. A half inch was really good and lasted more than a day. A good gully washer usually comes with a thunderstorm in summer and aren't really very common. These factors are what make hillside farming there possible. Usually, turning the soil is done as little as possible to avoid turning up wetter soil below the surface and losing the residual moisture. Generally about 30 years ago, the weeds were kept down in the summer fallow rotation of a field with a rod weeder. It was a much slower process because you couldn't run very fast. A rod weeder uses a square rod that rotates just an inch or so under the surface of the soil. The rod is chain driven by the wheels. The rotating rod will cut the weeds off at the root and turn them up. If you pulled them too fast, the rod could skip along the surface or drag a line of soil in front of the rod and the weeds would just slump over the burm and not be uprooted. The shallow depth of the rod prevented the wetter soil from being turned up and residual moisture lost.
Hi there from Ian in Australia, your videos are great, just wondering how you don't need contour banks on your hilly farm? it seems that you don't get any heavy rain as we do in Australia, there is no way that we could farm this land with heavy downpours that we get there would be lots of erosion , check up a UA-cam channel that I watch called the ( The Jackson Brothers ) they have two Cat D 11's pushing contour banks on their farm in Moree New South Wales Australia , their land is not as hilly as yours, thanks for the great videos , all the best.
G,day from Sydney Australia.
Spraying the fence line from the quad bike, do you use a selective herbicide or Roundup© to eliminate all.
With tilling the fields, is that from tradition or are you seeing benefit with yields? Is oxygenation typically what's your purpose?
(Nice music for your channel).
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Are you using GPS?
We are in the Peace country Alberta and are all no till . Is there no direct seeding in your area?
Can you do no till?
Do you have a side hill combine?
Yep! Hope to get around to editing some harvest footage very soon!
HOW BAD DOES THE ERROSIN GET ?
The exact question that I've just asked.
What chemical do you use for the weeds?
No chemicals applied yet. We will remove all weeds with a final rod weeding process then plant. One tractor is using GPS, one isn't.
@@PNWHillsideFarmer Thank you!
Do you have to fallow on your farm or do you have enough moisture not to
@@tyfullback9166 We are fortunate enough to get enough moisture to have a crop every year.
Do your tractors have gps guidance control
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Dude you have got to be related to Nick Welker was falling asleep and was half asleep eyes shut just listening and you tube was on auto play and your big tractors and steep hills was playing and you were talking about your TT Cat and I’m thinking what have they done so if you tell me that your not I think you have a brother from another mother
Or auto steer gps i should have said. Thanks
Burning all that oil isn’t cheap, notill would pay the 1st year, better crops, conserve moisture, better soil tilth, you gotta get there
Music channel?
Steep hills? Gently rolling at most.
Dood your spray gun leaking with no glove? Yikes....
Bro, why dont you just flatten those hills ?
People have been trying to flatten them for ages, and they are as tall and steep as ever!
can u say erosion
Who’s thiccc boi at :34?
I hope that was water leaking out all over you.
Haven't you folks ever heard of erosion ? FSA should stop all payments to anyone who farms in that manner.
Sorry you feel this way. Hope you'll watch my future videos to see the rest of the planting process.
Boy good thing feeling's are personal and have no bearing outside of the one feeling em.
@@nicke1903 Science is fact and erosion is fact. That lost soil took thousands of years to create and even longer to recreate. We were put here to care for the land, not to just use it up. The soil can be farmed in sustainable manner without just watching it wash away each year.
@@r.scotthill3082 I have been around the farming community for all my life. To me it looks like that land is in very good shape. The fact that they have farmed it that way for years and it is still farmable must mean they know what they are doing.
@@asquithmainlines699 Yes; they keep filling the gullies and nature keeps flushing them out . I have seen pictures where whole sections of a hillside field in the Palouse have just slid away like an avalance.