Eric, I hope 🤞🏻 your children grow up to know what a Superhero you are. You have farming skills, management skills, building skills, mechanical skills, electrical skills, nutritional skills, equipment skills, mass gardening skills, communication skills, videographer skills, teaching skills, and probably more skills that we don’t know about AND you have a golden heart 💛 of kindness, compassion, happiness, peace, Joy, and love that you share with your Family and Farm and Friends and us people at home 🏡 following your journey. You are a beautiful blessing to a lot of folks and you GLOW 🤍 with the Holy Spirit!! Thank you 🙏🏻 for being a GOOD 👍🏻 human being!! 😁
Be careful Eric she will go around saying she tape into hard drives an then claims she turns it into a criminal investigation. She claims she inside information about Trump that the public doesn't know about. She's a whack job.
Didn't know what BMR was. Now I do. Thanks Wikipedia. Brown midrib (BMR) corn is a type of silage corn with brown veins in the midrib of its leaves. BMR corn is genetically modified to have traits that resist insects and herbicides, and it has a lower lignin content than other corn products. Lignin is a cell wall component that protects against fungal pathogens, so BMR corn's lower lignin content makes it easier for ruminant animals to digest. BMR corn silage is often fed to high-producing dairy cows.
Thanks Eric and your Dad as well for making this video and Happy you got your planting done. Growing up on a farm as a young kid I only got to see and work around things done during summer school holidays and silage time in the fall away back in the 1940's and 50's but it was a great life.
Good to see you planting corn and soy beans, you're getting there on the silos for your feed. I hope your planting produces a great crop, good luck with it. Thanks for sharing, have a good day!
Great to see the second silo getting finished up and more planting. Interesting to learn that different dryness of the silage is important as to where it is placed in the silo.Looking forward to when all of your fields are nice and green. Hoping you get the rain that you need this year. Hi Mike. Ouch on the broken arm. Welder Eric made quick time fixing it. Great video and thanks.
I love the way you manage your crops and your soil without heavy tillage passes! There's plenty of knowledge in your family that's been passed down. If you don't want to get into plowing or tilling your fields, have you considered strip-tillage or row freshening? You'd be able to move just the dirt you want without breaking up the rest of it. There's plenty of 3-point hitch units on the market that would be great for your size of farm!
I drink a lot of milk daily! Every time i pour a cold glass it reminds me of the hard work you and your family do in order for me to drink my milk! Keep up the good work and the videos, boy those silos look tall!!!
Enjoy all your videos. This one is no exception. I cannot imagine the hard work it takes to keep your farm going, yet you do it with such ease and patience. May God bless you with a wonderful growing season.
I like the view now of the barn area from a distance out in the fields. There's no mistaking your place with the two tall silos - and they look like they have the older ones like little kids at their feet 👍
I expect a better harvest just based on keeping the tanks full as you plant seed. Looking forward to those results! You're a monster man, thank you for this glass of milk I have every morning!
We keep 3-4 sections of old rail road track on our planter for weight. We keep one inside the open frame channel all the times and the other 3 can be added or removed as needed. Keeps the weight constant and even for us, we don’t use liquid fert so theres not as much weight there so the extra added weight really goes a long way and gets the seed to desired depth
We spent winter cleaning and servicing our equipment so it was ready to go once all the snow was gone snd fields dry enough to get into without getting stuck.
Pneumatic or hydraulic down force is a must have for no till. A Case planter does a great job but they’ll all put it in the ground. Finally someone else planting no till! Watching all these tillage guys on UA-cam gets old lol
A lot of thinking and planing is necessary to make all ends meet so be happy that you are able to overthink sometimes - shows further potential for growth😂
Won’t be hard to spot your farm with those silos. Retired dairy farmer from Canada that married a NH girl over 45 years ago and still get in your area a few times a year
could try notill coulter blades in place of your row cleaners pretty sure kinze has a kit. might be worth a shot before you invest in a new planter. that being said we run a 6 row White 5100 don't do a lot of no till but seems to work well when we do.
Time is money 💰, so maybe you should look into some kind of aftermarket down pressure system for your planter. I'd guess you spent lots of time refilling to keep pressure on the planter, and not stopping to do so would pay for it just in efficiency, I'd guess. Those silos are massive and a great upgrade! Great video 📹 👍
Griggs farms on you tube do almost all their farming in no till acreage. seeing the lone tree in the field on your farms made me think of a great logo hat..
I thought they didn't build silos anymore. In southern Indiana, there are more abandoned silos every day. The counties are pushing farmers to destroy the silos that are left. Clark and Floyd countries are pushing farmers hard to develop their farms into subdivisions. Farmers are falling for it, big-time.
Row depth settings on all rows are not the same no matter what they say. So if a row is different then change the setting to achieve the correct depth. I know, this means you need to check all the rows to get even emergence.
For sure I think pneumatic downforce would help a lot and be economical, hydraulic downforce could to the trick but with HDF it could “float” your planter bar since it is light. 15:31
If it comes between spending money on tillage or something else I’d say look into hydraulic down force, it’s 100% worth the investment. A lot more consistent depth and very even emergence
They way your maker arms are set up , they push up on you planter and take pressure off your units. That's why the old 7000-7200 JD planters suck for no-till
Eric, Im excited to hear that you use xyway at planting. Xyway is now labeled to be mixed with dry corn starter. Two of my customers are trying it out on ten acres each this spring. What type of benefit do you see using it at planting? What rate are you putting it down? Do you apply another fungicide mid season? Thanks!!
Has there ever been a time when you plant a field (or part of one), and for some reason, nothing comes up? It's just so cool that these empty fields become crops in just a few months, and it seems so predictable. Just curious if the predictions ever don't materialize for some reason or another. It's just amazing to me to see what you do and how it all works. Thanks.
Hi Eric. Are you reporting to manufacturers of farm machinery each time you need to weld or fix a particular piece, so that in the future these issues might be able to be mitigated with stronger materials or metals? Push your repair information where it needs to go?? (That might be a stupid question I know, the parts might be old, and newer machinery might already be tweaked !!) It looked like you are just hugging the edge of the machine shop with that third silo. They look real nice on the property. If you climb to the top you can possibly see the Rohrer Farm from there !!
No till retains more moisture and has less wind and water erosion than tilled soil. Plus, it saves a lot of time and fuel over tilling the ground. Bad part is lots of microbial and soil life damage from toxic chemicals being applied to the soil. Also, nutritional value and flavor is much reduced as the microbes in the soil is what makes the crop nutritious and flavorful.
Regarding the new silos, why did you only go as far as you did when you put in the first foundation? I recall you saying at the time that you knew the third silo would push into the drive aisle, but I don't recall why you started the silo where you did rather than pushing a little further to fit all three behind the building.
Just a suggestion but you may want to explain some of the acronyms you are using for the people who may not understand what they mean, such as Ag-Bag and BMR/Non-BMR and what the numbers you are giving mean. Just a suggestion. Glad all is going well for you guys! 1 more silo to go!
As a non farmer, how or what do you line up on the mark made by the marker arm? Just curious. Thank you. So glad your planting went pretty well besides the marking arm breaking. God bless you and your family.❤
Many tractors have a marker that shows the center line of the hood, (Kind of like a front gun sight) that helps line up with the ridge mark. It seems to be missing on that particular tractor.
He briefly mentioned them in the Giant 3500 compact mini wheel loader demo. He said that he doesn't know much about them. They're just temporarily storing them for his cousin.
Eric, I hope 🤞🏻 your children grow up to know what a Superhero you are. You have farming skills, management skills, building skills, mechanical skills, electrical skills, nutritional skills, equipment skills, mass gardening skills, communication skills, videographer skills, teaching skills, and probably more skills that we don’t know about AND you have a golden heart 💛 of kindness, compassion, happiness, peace, Joy, and love that you share with your Family and Farm and Friends and us people at home 🏡 following your journey. You are a beautiful blessing to a lot of folks and you GLOW 🤍 with the Holy Spirit!!
Thank you 🙏🏻 for being a GOOD 👍🏻 human being!! 😁
Be careful Eric she will go around saying she tape into hard drives an then claims she turns it into a criminal investigation. She claims she inside information about Trump that the public doesn't know about. She's a whack job.
Still waiting on the criminal case you said that's coming my way?
@@Justin-yb2yd you are a very insecure man. So desperate for attention. Your time will come. Just wait for it. It takes time to build up a case.
Didn't know what BMR was. Now I do. Thanks Wikipedia.
Brown midrib (BMR) corn is a type of silage corn with brown veins in the midrib of its leaves. BMR corn is genetically modified to have traits that resist insects and herbicides, and it has a lower lignin content than other corn products. Lignin is a cell wall component that protects against fungal pathogens, so BMR corn's lower lignin content makes it easier for ruminant animals to digest. BMR corn silage is often fed to high-producing dairy cows.
Thank you for filling the vacant lock between my ears👍🏻
Thanks for posting this. I didn't know what BMR corn was either.
I had to look it up too.
Ruminants can turn digestible fibre into energy. The money digestible the better, in most cases
And I cant even keep my few cucumber seedlings alive
I'm struggling with my garden 😂😂
GREAT JOB
I like watching that hi speed planting. Marker arm slamming down. Good luck family with the growing season. Hope to finish corn planting here tomorrow
Good luck to you as well. 🙏🏼🇺🇲
Thanks Eric and your Dad as well for making this video and Happy you got your planting done.
Growing up on a farm as a young kid I only got to see and work around things done during summer school holidays and silage time in the fall away back in the 1940's and 50's but it was a great life.
Good to see you planting corn and soy beans, you're getting there on the silos for your feed. I hope your planting produces a great crop, good luck with it. Thanks for sharing, have a good day!
The new skyline of the 10-th generation dairyfarm!!!!
Great to see the second silo getting finished up and more planting. Interesting to learn that different dryness of the silage is important as to where it is placed in the silo.Looking forward to when all of your fields are nice and green. Hoping you get the rain that you need this year. Hi Mike. Ouch on the broken arm. Welder Eric made quick time fixing it. Great video and thanks.
Great content! Enjoy these years working with your dad! Take care and be safe...
Its hard to imagine you can fill two 132’ silo’s off 150 acres of land
I love the way you manage your crops and your soil without heavy tillage passes! There's plenty of knowledge in your family that's been passed down. If you don't want to get into plowing or tilling your fields, have you considered strip-tillage or row freshening? You'd be able to move just the dirt you want without breaking up the rest of it. There's plenty of 3-point hitch units on the market that would be great for your size of farm!
I drink a lot of milk daily! Every time i pour a cold glass it reminds me of the hard work you and your family do in order for me to drink my milk! Keep up the good work and the videos, boy those silos look tall!!!
2024 crops in the ground! Praying for good results for all our farmers. ♥️🙏🏼🇺🇲
Enjoy all your videos. This one is no exception. I cannot imagine the hard work it takes to keep your farm going, yet you do it with such ease and patience. May God bless you with a wonderful growing season.
Dad's been running air down pressure for a few years now and we really like that.
We also pull a gentill across all the rye/triticale stubble.
Farm is doing well. Hope you have good crop and a good year.
Eric, I hope you and your family have an excellent year on the farm. Always interesting information, wish you well going forward.
I like the view now of the barn area from a distance out in the fields. There's no mistaking your place with the two tall silos - and they look like they have the older ones like little kids at their feet 👍
It looks like king Kong laying on his back
Awesome video Eric. 🚜🚜🚜
As always, great video. All farming, no bs like some of the other big farmtubers.
Something you could consider is deep ripping your fields instead of tillage to loosen the soil
I expect a better harvest just based on keeping the tanks full as you plant seed. Looking forward to those results! You're a monster man, thank you for this glass of milk I have every morning!
Hi Eric,
It has to be musice to your ears, third Silo soon to begin to start construction. I am very happy for you. God bless you and all you do.
Thanks for having us
We keep 3-4 sections of old rail road track on our planter for weight. We keep one inside the open frame channel all the times and the other 3 can be added or removed as needed. Keeps the weight constant and even for us, we don’t use liquid fert so theres not as much weight there so the extra added weight really goes a long way and gets the seed to desired depth
We spent winter cleaning and servicing our equipment so it was ready to go once all the snow was gone snd fields dry enough to get into without getting stuck.
Plowing does boost the corn yield
Great video brother from the imperial county California 👍🇺🇲🚜
Pneumatic or hydraulic down force is a must have for no till. A Case planter does a great job but they’ll all put it in the ground. Finally someone else planting no till! Watching all these tillage guys on UA-cam gets old lol
Wish we could no till here in Central Minnesota. Impossible to do with our black gumbo soil.
@@beckyumphrey2626 let me guess you till and don’t use cover crops?
I think more education on min till is needed
A lot of thinking and planing is necessary to make all ends meet so be happy that you are able to overthink sometimes - shows further potential for growth😂
Spring; famers busiest time.. seems like it gets more complicated each year, so many things to get right.. best of luck. 😅
VERY PROUD OF Y'ALL 🙏🙏👏
You should get a cheap Timelapse camera to put up for the 3rd silo and also future projects/grows.
Won’t be hard to spot your farm with those silos. Retired dairy farmer from Canada that married a NH girl over 45 years ago and still get in your area a few times a year
Add a no till
Coulter on front of your seed discs
could try notill coulter blades in place of your row cleaners pretty sure kinze has a kit. might be worth a shot before you invest in a new planter. that being said we run a 6 row White 5100 don't do a lot of no till but seems to work well when we do.
Good job, well done
I use a drill to clean out a tube that I don't want dirt to be stuffed back up in itself.
Time is money 💰, so maybe you should look into some kind of aftermarket down pressure system for your planter. I'd guess you spent lots of time refilling to keep pressure on the planter, and not stopping to do so would pay for it just in efficiency, I'd guess. Those silos are massive and a great upgrade! Great video 📹 👍
Great video, investment in the planter is a better idea that going back tillage
Thanks for the update 😊
Excellent video ❤❤❤
Great Job!!
Griggs farms on you tube do almost all their farming in no till acreage. seeing the lone tree in the field on your farms made me think of a great logo hat..
Awesome work. Silo #3 on its way 👍🏻🇨🇦
Are the old bunks going to become new barns and a shop?
Thanks for sharing. -EZ
They plan to use them for solid manure storage, and possibly covered equipment storage in the future.
Great job Eric. We thank you and your dad for all the hard work you two do to keep the family farm alive and well. Stay safe.
Awesome Video and Much Love as Always 🐄 Man!!!
Just wanted to check in on you to see if yall are ok from all the tornado activity going on up there God Bless!!!
By's ye had a great day of weather for it.
love watching a the vids Eric ! keep up all the hard work .
I thought they didn't build silos anymore. In southern Indiana, there are more abandoned silos every day. The counties are pushing farmers to destroy the silos that are left. Clark and Floyd countries are pushing farmers hard to develop their farms into subdivisions. Farmers are falling for it, big-time.
Knew some folks years ago that took down an old silo. The rebuilt a section about five feet tall next to their house and made it into a swimming pool.
Row depth settings on all rows are not the same no matter what they say. So if a row is different then change the setting to achieve the correct depth. I know, this means you need to check all the rows to get even emergence.
I bet the new shop will have a door big enough for the planter!
Some day
Seems like it would help to turn plow and disc the ground sometimes. Loosen it back up. But what do i know. 🤷🤷♂️
Should get a second camera for your dad to take around with him when he goes to do stuff!
For sure I think pneumatic downforce would help a lot and be economical, hydraulic downforce could to the trick but with HDF it could “float” your planter bar since it is light. 15:31
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Man, never, never never weld in short short-sleeved shirts and shorts, you will burn hell out of your skin
If it comes between spending money on tillage or something else I’d say look into hydraulic down force, it’s 100% worth the investment. A lot more consistent depth and very even emergence
Rebuild the marker arms heavier square tube.....will resolve the weakness.😅😅😅😊😊
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When it came to plowing my Grandfather always felt the bigger newer stuff always plowed too deep. Just had to flip top 6-7 inches max.
Another fascinating video 10GDM . Have a Mountain Dew on us
Great! I love video ❤❤
I use a 50 amp RV cord extension and put my welder on wheels.
I did the same thing...works great
All good!
Avoiding tillage is a great idea
Would you ever do a Q&A for your comments?
Your going to need a better planter if your going keep doing no-till. I have JD 1780. It's a beast of a no-till planter.
They way your maker arms are set up , they push up on you planter and take pressure off your units. That's why the old 7000-7200 JD planters suck for no-till
Do you think you could do a video on how much profit you make make a year and how much you spend?
Love your videos
I can almost smell the dirt.......
Did you get rid of the front wheel assist Deere tractor? Enjoy your videos. You and your dad are very hard workers.
Could do test plots with break up the ground vs no till
Eric, Im excited to hear that you use xyway at planting. Xyway is now labeled to be mixed with dry corn starter. Two of my customers are trying it out on ten acres each this spring. What type of benefit do you see using it at planting? What rate are you putting it down? Do you apply another fungicide mid season? Thanks!!
Running 15 oz/acre. This is our second year using it. Last year fields were very clean and we did not have to run any fungicide over it mid season.
Has there ever been a time when you plant a field (or part of one), and for some reason, nothing comes up? It's just so cool that these empty fields become crops in just a few months, and it seems so predictable. Just curious if the predictions ever don't materialize for some reason or another. It's just amazing to me to see what you do and how it all works. Thanks.
Awesome content!
One more silo done and planting finished. Now you can rest easy..for a little while.
No such thing on a dairy farm lol
Hi Eric. Are you reporting to manufacturers of farm machinery each time you need to weld or fix a particular piece, so that in the future these issues might be able to be mitigated with stronger materials or metals? Push your repair information where it needs to go?? (That might be a stupid question I know, the parts might be old, and newer machinery might already be tweaked !!)
It looked like you are just hugging the edge of the machine shop with that third silo. They look real nice on the property.
If you climb to the top you can possibly see the Rohrer Farm from there !!
Strip tilling for the triticale to corn ground?
I love ur videos and how informative they are! Quick question. Why do farmers no til? Is it to better preserve the soil and its nutrients?
No till retains more moisture and has less wind and water erosion than tilled soil. Plus, it saves a lot of time and fuel over tilling the ground. Bad part is lots of microbial and soil life damage from toxic chemicals being applied to the soil. Also, nutritional value and flavor is much reduced as the microbes in the soil is what makes the crop nutritious and flavorful.
Regarding the new silos, why did you only go as far as you did when you put in the first foundation? I recall you saying at the time that you knew the third silo would push into the drive aisle, but I don't recall why you started the silo where you did rather than pushing a little further to fit all three behind the building.
Love from India🇮🇳, i am watching every vlogs.
Nice video did you have to use the last bag of corn that's your father picked up?
I didn't
Can you put liquid tractor tire ballast in your planter to keep it heavy?
Silage seems super dry. Is that normal there?
need a mini strip tiller for your no till practice for the corn. where is the demo;)
Just a suggestion but you may want to explain some of the acronyms you are using for the people who may not understand what they mean, such as Ag-Bag and BMR/Non-BMR and what the numbers you are giving mean. Just a suggestion. Glad all is going well for you guys! 1 more silo to go!
Hi! I'm from Germany and watch & like your videos regularly. Great content!
What will you do with your old bunker silos when you use the new silos?
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Hi Eric, will you put all the corn into the new silos this year?
Yes. That's why they wanted to get them built before harvest. They plan to have the robot feeding system up and running before the end of the year.
Yes that is the plan
so are the arcs you plant in, are they a function of topography/hydrology?
Across the surface runoff?
As a non farmer, how or what do you line up on the mark made by the marker arm? Just curious. Thank you. So glad your planting went pretty well besides the marking arm breaking. God bless you and your family.❤
Many tractors have a marker that shows the center line of the hood, (Kind of like a front gun sight) that helps line up with the ridge mark. It seems to be missing on that particular tractor.
I'm just wondering how you control flies with all the manure around?
Please tell a bit about the buildings in the middle bunker silo.
He briefly mentioned them in the Giant 3500 compact mini wheel loader demo. He said that he doesn't know much about them. They're just temporarily storing them for his cousin.
didn’t make the “click” “click” sound for the torque wrench on the opener nuts. lol
Deeeze nuts 😮
How many acres you have in total?
When I clicked on the channel it said they farm around 250 acres and milk about 200 cows