It’s fascinating to see kind of a big picture overview of a lot of the components working together. I think a lot of people don’t realize all of the hard work & planning that goes into not only feeding America but many other countries as well. A big thank you to you & all of the farmers who provide for our country! 🇺🇸
Neil, about halfway through this video my neighbor dropped by to see what I was up to. It wasn’t too exciting… I’ve been making Christmas gifts for my grandkids and neighbor kids. And will be dropping some dead trees, in my woods, for a couple that need it to heat their house this weekend. So, I was sharpening and servicing my chainsaws. As I said, nothing exciting…. Until he told me what he was doing… all day yesterday he averaged 38 acres an hour surface disking manure and fertilizer into soybean fields in prep for next spring’s planting. He is a full time FedEx driver and part time beef farmer. However, during weekends that he can break free… he hires out to a huge grain farming operation nearby. As he explained the role of GPS and automation of the equipment… it made a lot more sense to me what you were talking about. And, let me tell you… the hours I spent, in the ‘60s, planting, cultivating, plowing, haying, and such seemed paltry efforts by comparison. A 40 acre field would have taken me all day to shallow disk. He was doing the same job at a rate of 38 acres/hour! In other words, he would have done the whole field in the time I spent taking my lunch break! My, how times have changed!!! Thanks for the peek into modern farming. It is a wonder that I long to understand. I’ll send you an email soon about a problem that I have with my soil… it vexes me greatly but, may very well be child’s play to you… just like modern farming, this problem is one I long to understand! OK? Again, thanks for sharing he informative story. It was a pure pleasure.
Hey thanks Dave. Yes, the technology woven into modern agriculture is astounding! This video didn't even scratch the surface of what is on the horizon. I like hearing about your neighbor that gets to help out on a large scale farm. We have lots of part-time and retired guys that get to pitch in with whatever time they have to put towards it. There's a lot of local farmers that can use the extra help. My dad always talks about how long it took them to farm what they had back in the '60s. He would spend all week on an Alice Chalmers WD plowing just the field around their house! Fortunately, we still have the WD, but only a fraction of that field remains in family hands. I'll look through your email with your soil concerns. If I can't solve it, I've got a whole army of consultants in our network that or I was willing to lend a hand. Thanks as always and have a great week!
You are correct Neil, a little windshield time on a tractor is good for the soul. I've solved some of the world's biggest problems tilling up a field. Unfortunately, no one listened to my solutions. Lol. Thanks for sharing this video. Stay safe my friend.
Another great documentary. I think the difference with Neil's videos is that he narrates the footage. Lots of other channels do a good job but just in scene editing. I think the narration binds it all together and makes it easily understandable.
This was interesting! Near the end of the video, you talk about sitting back, enjoying the ride and doing all sorts of thinking, that is me mowing my lawn. I wish the mowing would last longer and look forward for the next time. Thank you for posting!
I give this video 2 thumbs up! It was extremely interesting to learn about fields and crops. I've lived in the middle of a corn field in Wisconsin but my family never had any thing to do with farming. I'd love to see another video like this one.
I grew up in a small Iowa town (>400)...Spent a good part of my summers doing farm work on a much smaller scale...Walk beans, bale hay, etc...Interesting to see where things have gone since I last walked a field.
Growing up in Eastern Iowa in the late 50s early 60s. I was a city kid ( think Hawkeyes) But we visited "Farms" weekly. Farms had cows, chickens, pigs, some had goats or sheep, All had 1/2 acre vegetable gardens, almost all had two dozen fruit trees, grape arbors . All had woven wire and barbed wire around the fields. Not many ponds at all, That was for pasture. The cellars had 12 different canned goods and potato's. And the neighbors on all sides knew who was supposed to be where,when. And Who was not supposed to be there. . To me 85% of the rural people are in the Ag industry. They call themselves farmers , but it's a misnomer. In my mind anyway.
Interesting content Neil, lots of large and unique pieces of equipment and a good amount of science that goes into crop yield, thanks for sharing. I should mention one thing about UA-cam channels and how I find them, other than YT suggestions or searching. Quite a while ago I found Dirt Perfect's channel which lead me to C&C Equipment, Captain Kleeman and NYA Millennial's channel. One of those mentioned Diesel Creek. Captain Kleeman mentioned your channel when he was talking about an attachment for his John Deere tractor and you had the video about Matt's off road recovery ..... whew word of mouth goes a long way and this is only just a few I mentioned. All awesome channels !!!
I love hearing stories about how people have found their way to the channel. So thanks so much for sharing with me Ed! Captain Kkeeman and a lot of those other folks have been really good to me.
As a Kansas boy trapped in Florida, Man, I absolutely loved this installment. Loads of "in tractor' content which I never get enough of. I also watch a lot of "Cole The Cornstar" I think this was some of your best work Neil ! ! ! "LIKE" button has been torqued to the manufacturer's recommended specification. "CLICK"
I like the sale bill from the farm looks a lot like my great grandpas. We had it screen printed on some thin metal and gave it to dad to hang up on a nice plaque. Will last forever might look into that urself!
That 3155 is absolutely beautiful! Those too are my favorite style John Deere ever! Reminds me of my old 420 garden tractor! From the stickers down the hood to the steering wheel! Great video too throw these in it was really good!!!
Great video Neil. Interesting all the different things you involved in. Kinda same here I help out with family farm and do many different things but not the technical aspects you do . Great to watch 👍✊
I really enjoyed this one. Makes me long for smaller town life and that I really respect what our farmers take on to ensure ethanol gets in a tank and food on a table.
Growing up we had 4 chicken houses. The local dairy farmers would have us use the spreader truck and put it on their fields, the locals would always LOVE those days especially the foggy damp days the most lol! The Chicken manure is FULL of nitrogen and ate the front loader bucket up on the 2001 JD 5410.
These videos are usually very good, but in this one, I *love* how everything is identified by name and described. That’s very useful to me, since I don’t know any of that. Thank you!
I love your videos. This one was really an eye opener about technology in farming. I grew up in the country were I saw tractors and combines every day and I miss that. Keep up the good work.
I think this is been one of your best videos and all of them are really good. I love how you explain things that most people wouldn't understand I'm come from a farming environment so I understand a lot of stuff that most people wouldn't and you do a very good job of spreading the knowledge. Thanks! 😀😀
Wow, thank you! Sometimes it's tough to know what's enough and what is over the top when it comes to explanations. Really appreciate the kind feedback.
Thanks for sharing Neil! I was expecting you to actually show a picture of a tractor parking sign though. I remember stopping at a truck stop in Iowa while travelling and parking next to a combine parked in the lot. The farmer probably stopped for lunch like you did. I had to get a picture because it was so much bigger than I realized a combine would be.
Thank you for my new word of the day! An agriculturist, agriculturalist, agrologist, or agronomist is a professional in the science, practice, and management of agriculture and agribusiness.
Yes I guess you could say I do! I never think of myself as being white collar at all since I grew up this way but I spend as much time... Check that, more time at the desk then I get to outside it seems anymore. 😂 Thanks for watching Chad!
There aught to be a Law about You having so much Fun . Well put together Video. Right up there with a few other You Tube farmers that I watch too. Thanks Much, Mike M
Great video. I grew up on a farm in Colorado. Got a degree in Ag Economics. Then farmed for 26 years before losing everything due to years of hail on a farm where we raised Onions, Wheat, Potatoes, Corn, and Carrots. Also fed 225 head of cattle each year. Most people don't realize the amount of time and money farming requires. It is a great place to raise a family.
That GPS system is a real help putting on the fertilizer! I had not put the two ideas together. I had been wondering how one could apply fertilizer at different rates on the same field. Clearly I am not a farmer but I did grow up around farms and farm people. Now I watch some farm channels.
I think this video is wasted just being on You Tube. It should be showed in schools to educate . I'm 60 and learnt hell of a lot today, your narration is spot on.
Love your videos from a fan in Alaska. I did spend some time on my family farm in Princeton, IN so watching these bring back some memories. Keep up the good work!
I loved this video! I'm from Iowa so I've always been more conscious of farming than most even though my family wasn't directly involved. I totally get the relaxation of tilling. My current house is semi-rural and has a huge yard. I use a much smaller but still made-in-USA Deere to keep it under control. And it's just like you describe, except that I do have to steer, LOL.
I can smell that chicken litter watching this. Everyone was complaining this year due to it being so dry when it was spread. Im down east of Muncie and most of ours comes in from Versailles and Ansonia Ohio across the state time. Pretty smelly stuff. I grew up by a hog op that would use tanks to spread liquid hog fert.. neighbors loved that too
@@digdrivediy very much. But the last 20yrs Ive seen so many "city" people move out and complain. Lessons you learn. Harvest thru fert season dont wash your vehicle and get mad its dusty 30min later..😆 Ya he was likely removing a stump...
Enjoy running the tractor while you can!! Soon as in 2023 or 2024 you will be able to run both tractors from the office there on the farm and only go out to the tractor if the computer runs into something it can't figure out. I think John Deere will have a robot tractor and system ready for next year but I have not been able to nail that down for sure. By system, I mean that on newer used tractors the robot system may be able to be retro fitted. Farmers are going to need more land!!
There are some autonomous tractors already out there, but they aren't 100% refined yet. We've had the technology for a while now but just need to work out all the liability and safety concerns. It'll be interesting to see where we are in another 10 years! Thanks as always, Scott!
I think the Allis Chalmers D17 was one of the best all around tractors of it's time. There are still many out there still working after 6 decades. One of the biggest PITA my neighbor has, is the stir-rator in his new grain bin. You certainly can't fill the bin up more than 75% and expect them to work while drying 19% corn down to 15%.
I owned a Massey Ferguson 35 built 1964, and used it to haul wood from the forest or wherever I could get some trees to cut down for firewood. It's been some years ago that I stopped cutting down trees due to my health. I used Husqvarna and Sthil motor saws because they are the best IMO, John Deere is the best tractor IMO but I have never owned one so there I had the second best 😉. Yeah, the video was well worth watching!!!
This was an awesome video Neil!! We live in North central Indiana. They just spread chicken litter behind our house. Glad they didn’t do it right after harvest when we were still opening windows.
Wow, love this video.........fascinating area you're working with, AND very important. Earth seems to grow population almost past what we currently can yield to feed.
I grew up in a small farm town in Montgomery county Indiana , so I am familiar with farming , but never really got involved with the crops that much , bailed my fair share of hay , but not much crop work , I really found this interesting, it explained things to me , thank you for all your time and work you do to share these videos with us
Very cool! I’m a little over a year in to my grass fed beef experiment, so I’m not very familiar with grain farming. So far I’ve learned composted manure and lime are some of the best things that can be done to my old neglected hay fields. Thanks for sharing this one!
I also happen to work in an Improve and Optimize-type field except with composites and carbon materials for multi-use industries, everything from aerospace, rust prevention to graphene. This kind of stuff stimulates those areas of the brain that the more I learn about it, the more I can apply to other areas that could benefit in some way. I'm not one to dismiss the impact the average farmer has, but I've been thoroughly surprised at how much tech an average farmer has access to with your video, and that's Very cool to see. Our family has deep roots in dairy farming, though that unfortunately dried off and was sold for an expanding city quite some time ago, but I'm constantly tickling the idea to get back to it one day, turning manure and driving combines again. Makes you wonder if there's going to be room for humans to co-exist in the future before being displaced by an autonomous, mechanical or a robotic workforce.
Carolina work sounds very interesting! Yeah it is amazing how much tech is it fused into agriculture these days. When is JPS precision prescriptions in almost everything that we do. Lots of autonomy coming into the marketplace as well. But thanks so much for the interesting comment.
Great video Neil. Very interesting and I learned a few things too lol. The 3155 was always one of my favorites too. Sorry to hear about the family farm getting split up and sold. That seemed to be a popular event that happened back in the 80s . Sad to say that the little 100 acres farms are a thing of the past. It is all big fields and big equipment. This was your most interesting video yet. Thanks
Hey Neal, I’d love to see some more in the weeds videos on the agronomy side of things. Maybe a crash course in crop science. Always love learning more.
I go into a little bit more detail on the video called "What I do at my day job" But I've been playing around with the idea of doing a little bit more in-depth video yet. Just wasn't sure how many people would be interested in. It is all. Thanks so much for the feedback. I really appreciate it
Great video. Very interesting. I have relatives that farm approximately 3,000 acres near Shelbyville, Indiana and have always been curious about when fertilizer is applied and how. This video answered a lot of questions. Thanks!
Another great video! It's always interesting to me to see how the big farms work. I'm always amazed by the big machinery and how it works and thinking about how someone somewhere figured out out how to build it and make it work. Thanks Neil, very enjoyable! 😁👨🚒
I have more appreciation for the new ways of agriculture every time I watch one of your "business" videos. Your videos continue to educate and inspire! Be well, be safe! Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family!
Thanks! Great to hear from you Bruce. We have a few consultants in our Amplify organization that are from Australia and New Zealand. I also worked with quite a few folks in the precision ag space from Australia. I did a lot of work with Topcon at my previous job. Always wanted to visit but haven't got to make it yet. Thanks so much for checking out the video!
So far so good. I'm still trying to work out a storage solution long-term archival of my footage. But the Mac is working today. I can't get around quiet it is.
Love to see your videos pop up Very educational and I have to admit completely jealous over here I would love to sit back and run one of those tractors Thanks for all your effort and time to post these videos
I worked on a farm for many year when I was younger and on each farm vid u post I still learn the odd fact I didn't know (still miss it) so thanks for the info 😀
This was fascinating! Thanks for sharing! I can’t wait to share this with our farming friends and see how they apply the same thing with smaller equipment and smaller areas.
Seeing this side of things with fertilizer makes me wonder if the farmers with connections to landscapers might grab mulched up leaves and spread them in a field.
They likely could spread some. Have to be careful sometimes though as leaves can be acidic if too much is applied. But as you said, if they are composted it's usually pretty good stuff. Lots of organic farms around here is some of the composted lawnscaping materials.
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It’s fascinating to see kind of a big picture overview of a lot of the components working together. I think a lot of people don’t realize all of the hard work & planning that goes into not only feeding America but many other countries as well. A big thank you to you & all of the farmers who provide for our country! 🇺🇸
Appreciate that so much!
Loved it! Anything with heavy equipment has my interest, particularly AG equipment. That 644k with the floater tires on it was really cool!
I like that thing too!
Probably my favorite video to date. More so because it’s my passion. Great job and great footage. It was fun helping you collect all the video
I'm glad to be able to get the opportunity to do this stuff. Thanks for letting me bring the camera along! It was tough to cut out so much!
Neil, about halfway through this video my neighbor dropped by to see what I was up to. It wasn’t too exciting… I’ve been making Christmas gifts for my grandkids and neighbor kids. And will be dropping some dead trees, in my woods, for a couple that need it to heat their house this weekend. So, I was sharpening and servicing my chainsaws. As I said, nothing exciting….
Until he told me what he was doing… all day yesterday he averaged 38 acres an hour surface disking manure and fertilizer into soybean fields in prep for next spring’s planting.
He is a full time FedEx driver and part time beef farmer. However, during weekends that he can break free… he hires out to a huge grain farming operation nearby.
As he explained the role of GPS and automation of the equipment… it made a lot more sense to me what you were talking about. And, let me tell you… the hours I spent, in the ‘60s, planting, cultivating, plowing, haying, and such seemed paltry efforts by comparison. A 40 acre field would have taken me all day to shallow disk. He was doing the same job at a rate of 38 acres/hour! In other words, he would have done the whole field in the time I spent taking my lunch break!
My, how times have changed!!!
Thanks for the peek into modern farming. It is a wonder that I long to understand.
I’ll send you an email soon about a problem that I have with my soil… it vexes me greatly but, may very well be child’s play to you… just like modern farming, this problem is one I long to understand! OK?
Again, thanks for sharing he informative story. It was a pure pleasure.
Hey thanks Dave. Yes, the technology woven into modern agriculture is astounding! This video didn't even scratch the surface of what is on the horizon.
I like hearing about your neighbor that gets to help out on a large scale farm. We have lots of part-time and retired guys that get to pitch in with whatever time they have to put towards it. There's a lot of local farmers that can use the extra help.
My dad always talks about how long it took them to farm what they had back in the '60s. He would spend all week on an Alice Chalmers WD plowing just the field around their house! Fortunately, we still have the WD, but only a fraction of that field remains in family hands.
I'll look through your email with your soil concerns. If I can't solve it, I've got a whole army of consultants in our network that or I was willing to lend a hand.
Thanks as always and have a great week!
You are correct Neil, a little windshield time on a tractor is good for the soul. I've solved some of the world's biggest problems tilling up a field. Unfortunately, no one listened to my solutions. Lol. Thanks for sharing this video. Stay safe my friend.
I'm right there with you! (Nobody listens) lol
Haha, done the same with hours of mowing. 👍
Another great documentary. I think the difference with Neil's videos is that he narrates the footage. Lots of other channels do a good job but just in scene editing. I think the narration binds it all together and makes it easily understandable.
I appreciate that.
This was interesting! Near the end of the video, you talk about sitting back, enjoying the ride and doing all sorts of thinking, that is me mowing my lawn. I wish the mowing would last longer and look forward for the next time. Thank you for posting!
I love mowing for that very reason as well!
I give this video 2 thumbs up! It was extremely interesting to learn about fields and crops. I've lived in the middle of a corn field in Wisconsin but my family never had any thing to do with farming. I'd love to see another video like this one.
I grew up in a small Iowa town (>400)...Spent a good part of my summers doing farm work on a much smaller scale...Walk beans, bale hay, etc...Interesting to see where things have gone since I last walked a field.
Nice.
Growing up in Eastern Iowa in the late 50s early 60s.
I was a city kid ( think Hawkeyes)
But we visited "Farms" weekly.
Farms had cows, chickens, pigs, some had goats or sheep,
All had 1/2 acre vegetable gardens, almost all had two dozen fruit trees, grape arbors .
All had woven wire and barbed wire around the fields.
Not many ponds at all,
That was for pasture.
The cellars had 12 different canned goods and potato's.
And the neighbors on all sides knew who was supposed to be where,when. And
Who was not supposed to be there.
.
To me 85% of the rural people are in the Ag industry.
They call themselves farmers , but it's a misnomer.
In my mind anyway.
@@jeanvaljohn3921 whereabouts…Lawton for me.
@@RandomFlares
500 bean fields east in Johnson County
U of Iowa town.
On the Iowa river.
Great video looks like a lot of fun to me I would be star struck with all those big John Deere’s country boys dream come true
I’ve never seen such dry chicken litter, I could just imagine the stink. It will grow some awesome corn next year! Very good video always enjoy them.
Great explanation of things most people take for granted. Most people have no clue where their food originates from. Keep it up, Neil.
Interesting content Neil, lots of large and unique pieces of equipment and a good amount of science that goes into crop yield, thanks for sharing. I should mention one thing about UA-cam channels and how I find them, other than YT suggestions or searching. Quite a while ago I found Dirt Perfect's channel which lead me to C&C Equipment, Captain Kleeman and NYA Millennial's channel. One of those mentioned Diesel Creek. Captain Kleeman mentioned your channel when he was talking about an attachment for his John Deere tractor and you had the video about Matt's off road recovery ..... whew word of mouth goes a long way and this is only just a few I mentioned. All awesome channels !!!
I love hearing stories about how people have found their way to the channel. So thanks so much for sharing with me Ed! Captain Kkeeman and a lot of those other folks have been really good to me.
As a Kansas boy trapped in Florida, Man, I absolutely loved this installment.
Loads of "in tractor' content which I never get enough of. I also watch a lot of "Cole The Cornstar"
I think this was some of your best work Neil ! ! !
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Wow! I really appreciate it! Cole the Cornstar is good company 👍🏻
I like the sale bill from the farm looks a lot like my great grandpas. We had it screen printed on some thin metal and gave it to dad to hang up on a nice plaque. Will last forever might look into that urself!
That's a great idea!
I always leave the channel learning something new. Keep up the great work Neal. Thanks for helping the farmers to better crops.
@text-5470 Wow! I feel honored to be selected a winner.
That 3155 is absolutely beautiful! Those too are my favorite style John Deere ever! Reminds me of my old 420 garden tractor! From the stickers down the hood to the steering wheel! Great video too throw these in it was really good!!!
Thanks a lot Adam!
Thank God for farmers and all those who work/help in farming and related industry! Thank you for the work you do and the videos.
Great video Neil. Interesting all the different things you involved in. Kinda same here I help out with family farm and do many different things but not the technical aspects you do . Great to watch 👍✊
Appreciate it Bob!
I really enjoyed this one. Makes me long for smaller town life and that I really respect what our farmers take on to ensure ethanol gets in a tank and food on a table.
Growing up we had 4 chicken houses. The local dairy farmers would have us use the spreader truck and put it on their fields, the locals would always LOVE those days especially the foggy damp days the most lol! The Chicken manure is FULL of nitrogen and ate the front loader bucket up on the 2001 JD 5410.
Yessir! Those fog days really carry the stench around don't they!
So much fun. My grandpa had a small farm with corn and wheat, of course pigs. Good memories
Excellent video, great narration providing clarity around the goings on of farming, very enjoyable. Thank you!
Thanks!
These videos are usually very good, but in this one, I *love* how everything is identified by name and described. That’s very useful to me, since I don’t know any of that. Thank you!
Thanks Ron.
I love your videos. This one was really an eye opener about technology in farming. I grew up in the country were I saw tractors and combines every day and I miss that. Keep up the good work.
Loved the video, thanks, and Happy Thanksgiving to you & the family
Thanks! Happy Thanksgiving to you as well.
One of my favorite things to do on Sundays is watch you videos. Great job
That's really nice to hear. Thanks so much.
I think this is been one of your best videos and all of them are really good. I love how you explain things that most people wouldn't understand I'm come from a farming environment so I understand a lot of stuff that most people wouldn't and you do a very good job of spreading the knowledge. Thanks! 😀😀
Wow, thank you! Sometimes it's tough to know what's enough and what is over the top when it comes to explanations. Really appreciate the kind feedback.
Thanks for sharing some of the day-to-day stuff, very informative
Thanks cuz!
Always amazed at the flatness of the land in your area. A bit more rolling here in Wisconsin. Great video!
Thanks for sharing Neil! I was expecting you to actually show a picture of a tractor parking sign though. I remember stopping at a truck stop in Iowa while travelling and parking next to a combine parked in the lot. The farmer probably stopped for lunch like you did. I had to get a picture because it was so much bigger than I realized a combine would be.
Yeah, the tractor at our Love's is a common site. What is probably more entertaining is Amish buggies in the drive-thru!
Thank you for my new word of the day! An agriculturist, agriculturalist, agrologist, or agronomist is a professional in the science, practice, and management of agriculture and agribusiness.
You're a great story teller. I wish others would take a page from your book.
Appreciate it Tony.
Brilliant and extremely informative! Thanks for sharing the “other part” of your life
Thanks 👍🏻
Really interesting to learn more about your day job and your farmer-adjacent lifestyle. :) You have a Purple Collar Life just like me!
Yes I guess you could say I do! I never think of myself as being white collar at all since I grew up this way but I spend as much time... Check that, more time at the desk then I get to outside it seems anymore. 😂 Thanks for watching Chad!
Great video Neil. I get to see the same thing around our place all year long. Farmers are always working and trying to better the next years harvest.
For sure. Thanks Jeff.
Good morning, Neil
Good morning Sir! 👋
Never disappointed with your videos Neil! Always something different. Stay safe,have a great day and may God bless…
Super informative and educational video! Great work!
Great video, Neil! So cool to get a glimpse into the entire process. Nice to see your dad’s old truck make an appearance as well.
We double crop soybeans after our wheat here in southern Michigan . Great video keep up the good work.
There aught to be a Law about You having so much Fun .
Well put together Video. Right up there with a few other You Tube farmers that I watch too.
Thanks Much, Mike M
Great video. Interesting how the whole process works.
Incredible work Neil. Thank you for the education!
Great video. I grew up on a farm in Colorado. Got a degree in Ag Economics. Then farmed for 26 years before losing everything due to years of hail on a farm where we raised Onions, Wheat, Potatoes, Corn, and Carrots. Also fed 225 head of cattle each year. Most people don't realize the amount of time and money farming requires. It is a great place to raise a family.
I loved it. I would like to see more of them. I used to farm myself.
That was a fun watch! Very relaxing. I love the old John Deere.
Great example of the community working together, very interesting to a guy who never worked around large farms. Thank you for sharing.
That GPS system is a real help putting on the fertilizer! I had not put the two ideas together. I had been wondering how one could apply fertilizer at different rates on the same field. Clearly I am not a farmer but I did grow up around farms and farm people. Now I watch some farm channels.
Brings back memories from when I worked at Terra
I think this video is wasted just being on You Tube. It should be showed in schools to educate . I'm 60 and learnt hell of a lot today, your narration is spot on.
Love your videos from a fan in Alaska. I did spend some time on my family farm in Princeton, IN so watching these bring back some memories. Keep up the good work!
Awesome! Thanks
As always, LOVE your videos! Thanks for all you do!
Thanks Josh!
Awesome video Neil! I especially like the man in the red tractor! 😉
Heck yeah! He's ready for the big screen now! I was glad I got to go ride along that day. Thanks for checking out the video!
Well Neil I think you drove the wrong tractor, lol. I would drive that Alice any day, Persian Orange any day. Keep smilin
Thanks for sharing Neil. Great video!
Good Sunday morning Neil
Morning!
I loved this video! I'm from Iowa so I've always been more conscious of farming than most even though my family wasn't directly involved. I totally get the relaxation of tilling. My current house is semi-rural and has a huge yard. I use a much smaller but still made-in-USA Deere to keep it under control. And it's just like you describe, except that I do have to steer, LOL.
Thanks Ian! Yep, I love mowing the yard for those same reasons too!
Everything you do is good.
I can smell that chicken litter watching this.
Everyone was complaining this year due to it being so dry when it was spread.
Im down east of Muncie and most of ours comes in from Versailles and Ansonia Ohio across the state time. Pretty smelly stuff.
I grew up by a hog op that would use tanks to spread liquid hog fert.. neighbors loved that too
The neighbors all get to remember that they live in the country when it's time to spread manure!
@@digdrivediy very much. But the last 20yrs Ive seen so many "city" people move out and complain.
Lessons you learn. Harvest thru fert season dont wash your vehicle and get mad its dusty 30min later..😆
Ya he was likely removing a stump...
Enjoy running the tractor while you can!! Soon as in 2023 or 2024 you will be able to run both tractors from the office there on the farm and only go out to the tractor if the computer runs into something it can't figure out. I think John Deere will have a robot tractor and system ready for next year but I have not been able to nail that down for sure. By system, I mean that on newer used tractors the robot system may be able to be retro fitted. Farmers are going to need more land!!
There are some autonomous tractors already out there, but they aren't 100% refined yet.
We've had the technology for a while now but just need to work out all the liability and safety concerns.
It'll be interesting to see where we are in another 10 years! Thanks as always, Scott!
I think the Allis Chalmers D17 was one of the best all around tractors of it's time. There are still many out there still working after 6 decades.
One of the biggest PITA my neighbor has, is the stir-rator in his new grain bin. You certainly can't fill the bin up more than 75% and expect them to work while drying 19% corn down to 15%.
Well said on both!!!
I owned a Massey Ferguson 35 built 1964, and used it to haul wood from the forest or wherever I could get some trees to cut down for firewood. It's been some years ago that I stopped cutting down trees due to my health. I used Husqvarna and Sthil motor saws because they are the best IMO, John Deere is the best tractor IMO but I have never owned one so there I had the second best 😉. Yeah, the video was well worth watching!!!
Thanks so much!
Looks like fun. I’ve always wanted to try the big tractors.
This was an awesome video Neil!! We live in North central Indiana. They just spread chicken litter behind our house. Glad they didn’t do it right after harvest when we were still opening windows.
I hear ya! Hey, we may have even recommended that litter! We have a lot of clients up there.
Wow, love this video.........fascinating area you're working with, AND very important. Earth seems to grow population almost past what we currently can yield to feed.
I loved seeing the old Allis Chalmers tractor! My daddy use to work for AC!
Great video! You put the content together really well so it tells a story. Enjoy your channel!
That was a huge challenge on this one so I really appreciate you saying that. Thanks Heath!
I grew up in a small farm town in Montgomery county Indiana , so I am familiar with farming , but never really got involved with the crops that much , bailed my fair share of hay , but not much crop work , I really found this interesting, it explained things to me , thank you for all your time and work you do to share these videos with us
Very cool! I’m a little over a year in to my grass fed beef experiment, so I’m not very familiar with grain farming. So far I’ve learned composted manure and lime are some of the best things that can be done to my old neglected hay fields.
Thanks for sharing this one!
You bet!
I also happen to work in an Improve and Optimize-type field except with composites and carbon materials for multi-use industries, everything from aerospace, rust prevention to graphene. This kind of stuff stimulates those areas of the brain that the more I learn about it, the more I can apply to other areas that could benefit in some way. I'm not one to dismiss the impact the average farmer has, but I've been thoroughly surprised at how much tech an average farmer has access to with your video, and that's Very cool to see.
Our family has deep roots in dairy farming, though that unfortunately dried off and was sold for an expanding city quite some time ago, but I'm constantly tickling the idea to get back to it one day, turning manure and driving combines again. Makes you wonder if there's going to be room for humans to co-exist in the future before being displaced by an autonomous, mechanical or a robotic workforce.
Carolina work sounds very interesting! Yeah it is amazing how much tech is it fused into agriculture these days. When is JPS precision prescriptions in almost everything that we do. Lots of autonomy coming into the marketplace as well. But thanks so much for the interesting comment.
Hello from the Netherlands .
nice video Neil
thanks for the video Neil .
Sincerely, Hollandduck
You're welcome sir!
Thanks for watching!
Great video Neil. Very interesting and I learned a few things too lol. The 3155 was always one of my favorites too. Sorry to hear about the family farm getting split up and sold. That seemed to be a popular event that happened back in the 80s . Sad to say that the little 100 acres farms are a thing of the past. It is all big fields and big equipment. This was your most interesting video yet. Thanks
Wow, thanks! Appreciate the kind word. Percy.
Thank you, I learned a lot! And, thank you to our farmers and heavy equipment drivers!! Had no idea all that was involved in feeding the nations.
I appreciate this video so much. Thank you for sharing this Neil. Reminds me of my Iowa & Nebraska days.
Hey Neal, I’d love to see some more in the weeds videos on the agronomy side of things. Maybe a crash course in crop science. Always love learning more.
I go into a little bit more detail on the video called "What I do at my day job" But I've been playing around with the idea of doing a little bit more in-depth video yet. Just wasn't sure how many people would be interested in. It is all. Thanks so much for the feedback. I really appreciate it
@@digdrivediy absolutely, yea that was a really interesting video.
Having grown up in the area and around a lot of farms and farmers, I still learned some new stuff. Another great video. 👍
Thanks Kevin!
Great video. Very interesting. I have relatives that farm approximately 3,000 acres near Shelbyville, Indiana and have always been curious about when fertilizer is applied and how. This video answered a lot of questions. Thanks!
Another great video! It's always interesting to me to see how the big farms work. I'm always amazed by the big machinery and how it works and thinking about how someone somewhere figured out out how to build it and make it work. Thanks Neil, very enjoyable! 😁👨🚒
Very informative. Does this knowledge allow you to have the best lawn in the area? BTW, you promised an update on The General 😀
Thanks Jim. It helps with the lawn for sure 😄
Ah yes. The General has been patiently waiting as our project has been a bit delayed. I'm hoping soon.
Nice work Neil. I enjoyed the not normal video! Take care my friend
I thought you might like it Mike! 😉
Great video your dad truck still looks good. Have a Happy Thanksgiving.
You too! Thanks!
I have more appreciation for the new ways of agriculture every time I watch one of your "business" videos. Your videos continue to educate and inspire! Be well, be safe! Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family!
Thanks so much Randy! Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.
Thank you Neil for all the info 😀
Neil, This was very interesting. Good Video. Carl FONDEROSA FARMS MD
Thanks so much Carl!
Thanks Neil, as an Agronomist from Australia, always interesting to see what happens in other crop growing regions. Keep up the good work.
Thanks! Great to hear from you Bruce.
We have a few consultants in our Amplify organization that are from Australia and New Zealand.
I also worked with quite a few folks in the precision ag space from Australia. I did a lot of work with Topcon at my previous job. Always wanted to visit but haven't got to make it yet. Thanks so much for checking out the video!
Keep the great content coming Neil. Hope the new iMac is working well for you. I edit all of my videos on our iMac and love it.
So far so good. I'm still trying to work out a storage solution long-term archival of my footage. But the Mac is working today. I can't get around quiet it is.
Thanks for this video. Not quite a city guy but not a farm guy - nice to increase the understanding!!
Love to see your videos pop up
Very educational and I have to admit completely jealous over here
I would love to sit back and run one of those tractors
Thanks for all your effort and time to post these videos
Really enjoyed learning more about you Neil, thank you.
I worked on a farm for many year when I was younger and on each farm vid u post I still learn the odd fact I didn't know (still miss it) so thanks for the info 😀
Super interesting. Great idea. Really enjoyed it.
I look forward to waking up on the weekends and watching DDD with coffee!! Love the video, love the content and love your upload consistency
Thanks!
This was EXCELLENT!
I find this video very interesting, thank you for posting it, enjoyed it immensely.
I appreciate it Terry!
This was fascinating! Thanks for sharing! I can’t wait to share this with our farming friends and see how they apply the same thing with smaller equipment and smaller areas.
Yeah nothing like going for bike ride after fresh balk balk poop has been slung down....yum lol great video Neil....
And we have a new fresh crop of flies to go with it! 😋
Seeing this side of things with fertilizer makes me wonder if the farmers with connections to landscapers might grab mulched up leaves and spread them in a field.
They likely could spread some. Have to be careful sometimes though as leaves can be acidic if too much is applied. But as you said, if they are composted it's usually pretty good stuff. Lots of organic farms around here is some of the composted lawnscaping materials.
Great Video Neil !
Interesting! Thank you for sharing.