So you buy $ per acre insurance. We bought $50/acre, so we will get paid up to $50 an acre of hailed ground if the damage is estimated to be that high. Now look at it this way, our peas that didn't get hail are yielding 15 bushels an acre, the price is $10.25, that is $150 an acre. So we are losing $100 an acre on the peas that were completely destroyed. Now we could have paid for $100 acre coverage but at double the price. So our premium for $50, is almost $40,000, for $100 it would have been $70,000-$80,000. If you don't get hail you don't get that back. That's why it is insurance. 1/5 years we get hail. So if you add up all the years paying premium insurance, we lose more than we gain, but in a year where the whole farm gets wiped out, having insurance could be the one thing that saves the farm. It's tough decisions to make.
@@WelkerFarms Thanks. So, it sounds like you don’t get much back - maybe enough to pay for seed next year. That sucks… :( God Bless you guys. I hope that the rest of the year goes better..
I'm just a granny gardener. last year hail took my garden in about 15 min. I was devastated! If I had your farm with the damage you have I would lay down and maybe not get up again. I'm so sorry for you and your situation. God Bless you and yours!
Boys, I'm sorry to see what happened to you this year. Sending prayers to you and all of the farmers suffering this year. Thank you for what you do ❤️❤️❤️
I appreciate you Scott for telling it like it is and being able to keep things in perspective. A friend who was an older farmer once told me with a twinkle in his eye, "How can farming be a gamble when you know you are going to lose"? This same farmer also said "Farmers are eternal optimists and would plant a crop even if they thought they might not have a harvest for some reason". I appreciate folks like you and yours who I know will be planting a crop next year and hope for better results because that is what you do. It's folks like you who will continue to help feed folks like me and for that I am thankful. Will keep you in our thoughts.
The Welker's didn't make any mistakes this time. It was mother nature, or at least we farmers call it mother nature when we don't get the rain or storms destroys the crops.
We are pulling water out of the ground pretty fast here in north cal. Almond trees need a lot and irrigation districts have gotten expensive so wells going in all over. God Bless Welker family. Love the channel. Mike
TY for not saying "everything will work out". Anyone who does has never had a car repair bill that cleaned out their bank account, or a sorry crop that fails to justify the input costs.
Also being a farmer, it was a though video to watch seeing all the work and investment gone in a hour or two. A farm can handle it maybe once in 10 years but it doesn’t make it easy. Beautiful job on the Little Bud.
I think videos like this are why most of us love watching your family. You keep it as real as you can showing many people who wouldn't normally understand problems like this and the repercussions it can have for the next few years for many of our farmers. Literally the back bone of the country, I watch and do my best to support you all for doing everything you do. Love your family for taking bad news and running with it. Some how turning bad things into a positive and never letting it stop you in you tracks.
Well hopefully when the year is done everything will shake out ok. Good that you have several stages and different crops. Hopefully at least one will fill in the gaps of money loss ❣
The best thing we ever did was put a air system on that big header blows that small stuff right into the draperhead the best investment you ever could spend. Especially when your crop is so shorted pay for this One year!
KIA KAHA! (stay Strong) don't apologize to us Scott! we can feel how bad your hurting, keep your chin up and know all of your audience shares your pain! KIA KAHA Welker Family!
Sorry about your crop loss. But, you definitely need a small compact tractor like the Baby Bud. You need a fuel efficient Non-DEF tractor that can haul butt. Baby Bud … So cool!
I’m gutted for you guys with a season that was dry and then a curveball like this is demoralising,hopefully with the crops that managed to escape the worst hopefully you might just even out 👍👍
As a retired farmer in Southern Texas I can feel for you. I’ve had Milo ready too cut and blow down. Overall out of 44 Yrs of farming I was extremely lucky. God took care of me🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
This is why I think the welkers are so smart... They have no huge equipment payments.. It will hurt their operation, but, God willing, they will be back
Over 100 years in business they are not going anywhere. Its happened many times before. Good luck on what you do have. Always next year. Vacation time at the lake? Thank goodness for UA-cam
Jeremiah 29:11 came to mind when I heard about the hail damage. 🙏🙏 I hope the insurance coverage helps yall recover! Also that little tractor has got to be the coolest little thing I've ever seen!
I was watching a different US farmer, with the same situation. I truly feel for you lot - last year's weather didn't help any, and the flooded areas still aren't back to being useable. I'm not a farmer, I used to grow my own veggies, and I know how a failed harvest feels at that scale. Eyes on the horizon, guys - it will come right.
Very sorry about your crop. I know you and your family will stay strong and look forward to next year. That is what farmers know how to do. I love that little Big Bud, that person who made it did a wonderful job.
Glad you showed the Wee Bud at the end, it put a smile on my face as the rest was very hard to watch....the white combine sucks. All the best going forward!
You need to install an air system on your header to help harvest that short crop. Check out what Larson farms have (Crary Air Bar) - they seem very happy with it.
@@RobertWelkerFarmerBob Yes sir. Jerry Johnson (my dad) and I have farmed together since early 60s. We have never before been hailed out 100% on 100% of the seeded acres. We were this year. Heck we don't have to worry about stubble, there is none. We had been lucky enough to get a little timely moisture so crops had not been hurt too bad maybe only 10-15% down. The White-Combine took care of it all. As you well know insurance never covers the loss, but we had some.
This year has been strange everywhere. You have dry hot weather and now hail. The west is burning up and we here in the south have had lots of rain and cooler weather. Summer is still not over yet. May God bless your work and pull you through this difficult year.
That Baby Big Bud is AMAZING! It was a fantastic way to end this sad & disturbing video. HOPEFULLY everything works out in teh long run, & the farm can still be profitable this season!
"The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away. Blessed be the Lord." Difficult to watch, to see the damage, and to see how devastation it is for you and your family. Inspiring to see you work to keep it in perspective. And a blessing to see you smile and enjoy the Baby Bud. Remember Abraham who placed all his trust in God. Remember how he answered Isaac when he asked, "where's the lamb?" "God will provide" was Abraham's answer and those words ring true still today. Keep the faith Welker Family. Prayers for you and your neighbors.
I remember that growing up on the farm in Iowa. Dad would plant oats/barley, it would head out then in July we would get a storm with wind, rain and/or hail. Wake up the next morning to flatten fields. Looking back, I'm not sure how my mom and dad did what they did as small Iowa farmers, but they trusted in God, made it work and raised all of us. Thank you for video and showing us that there is more to farming than just driving a tractor. Best wishes to you for a successful harvest.
It just makes a guy feel guilty for having a good year. I’m far from out of the woods though. About 30 days to go for fall harvest, but the small grains and pulse crops did good.
Your sorry for giving us bad news I'm So Sorry for what has happened to You and your family and the farm. How sad I was hoping that this was going to be the best year ever for your farm. GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY and the Farm 🙏🙏🙏
ConservativeYankee22 Barr & Avman2CL Why bother commenting just to criticize? This video is unscripted. Editing is time consuming. You get the point. Leave at least as many compliments or empathetic messages as criticisms.
You win some, you lose some. That's rough though. I got pissed with us getting rain on our hay, that suddenly seems very mild compared to what happened to you guys... Hope your insurance covers this. God bless! ❤
Cover crop for next season.no fencing can’t graze . We are fearing frosts during flowering here. Hopefully you guys can recoup seed nature’s hard mistress. Keep on keeping on. Ha ha baby bud.
Thanks for sharing, it is bad news but, --- it's good to let people out there know how good and also how hard it can be for farmers, it's good to stay positive and that there are still blessing in all this, thanks again, all the best for the future. God bless.
What percentage do you get back from insurance?
So you buy $ per acre insurance. We bought $50/acre, so we will get paid up to $50 an acre of hailed ground if the damage is estimated to be that high. Now look at it this way, our peas that didn't get hail are yielding 15 bushels an acre, the price is $10.25, that is $150 an acre. So we are losing $100 an acre on the peas that were completely destroyed.
Now we could have paid for $100 acre coverage but at double the price. So our premium for $50, is almost $40,000, for $100 it would have been $70,000-$80,000. If you don't get hail you don't get that back. That's why it is insurance. 1/5 years we get hail. So if you add up all the years paying premium insurance, we lose more than we gain, but in a year where the whole farm gets wiped out, having insurance could be the one thing that saves the farm. It's tough decisions to make.
Man thats tough! You think you at least break even? Or will this be a year that go's red in the books?
@@WelkerFarms
Thanks. So, it sounds like you don’t get much back - maybe enough to pay for seed next year. That sucks… :(
God Bless you guys. I hope that the rest of the year goes better..
@@WelkerFarms I couldn't have explained it any better... God be with you guys and I pray your year be blessed
@@WelkerFarms Thanks for sharing that info, that's tough to hear but it is what it is.
I'm just a granny gardener. last year hail took my garden in about 15 min. I was devastated! If I had your farm with the damage you have I would lay down and maybe not get up again. I'm so sorry for you and your situation. God Bless you and yours!
Thank you
So sad to see the lost crops. Hope everything works out well. That baby bud at the end was amazing
Love his attitude. Keep trying to feed the rest of us. I appreciate your work as I do that of a soldier
Sorry for your loss. God is good and will provide. God bless
That’s got to be so stressful. I need to pray for farmers more often.
Because prayers are so effective... 🙄
Boys, I'm sorry to see what happened to you this year. Sending prayers to you and all of the farmers suffering this year. Thank you for what you do ❤️❤️❤️
God Bless
Two and a half years in the making, God looked ahead to bring you some joy when you most need it!
I am heart broken with
your loss. Good people like you do not deserve bad things!
I love how he even matched the wood grain dash on the Baby Bud
Love the baby Big Bud build.
Bummer news about the crops.
I appreciate you Scott for telling it like it is and being able to keep things in perspective. A friend who was an older farmer once told me with a twinkle in his eye, "How can farming be a gamble when you know you are going to lose"? This same farmer also said "Farmers are eternal optimists and would plant a crop even if they thought they might not have a harvest for some reason". I appreciate folks like you and yours who I know will be planting a crop next year and hope for better results because that is what you do. It's folks like you who will continue to help feed folks like me and for that I am thankful. Will keep you in our thoughts.
Farmers have a lot of faith to go around!
Praying for you and all who suffered loss. God bless.
Sorry to hear that guys! Our carrot crop failed this year so we know how that feels. God is with us through it all!
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The Baby Bud really cheered me up after hearing the bad news. Thank you! And bless you!
"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose." Jean Luc Picard
The Welker's didn't make any mistakes this time. It was mother nature, or at least we farmers call it mother nature when we don't get the rain or storms destroys the crops.
We are pulling water out of the ground pretty fast here in north cal. Almond trees need a lot and irrigation districts have gotten expensive so wells going in all over.
God Bless Welker family. Love the channel.
Mike
Your fictional quote from a fictional character in a fictional story, has NO PLACE in the REAL WORLD...
@@chancethompson8686 congrats on being negative, hope it helps you keep it away from somewhere else.
@@chancethompson8686 *real quote by a real human author
We continue to pray daily for our farmers. I can't even imagine. That Baby Bud is outstanding!!
And I thought I had it bad with an expensive car repair bill today. Sometimes all you need is a little perspective to make you feel better. God bless!
TY for not saying "everything will work out". Anyone who does has never had a car repair bill that cleaned out their bank account, or a sorry crop that fails to justify the input costs.
God will always provide for His children. Praying for you all. Keep your heads up.
Also being a farmer, it was a though video to watch seeing all the work and investment gone in a hour or two. A farm can handle it maybe once in 10 years but it doesn’t make it easy. Beautiful job on the Little Bud.
I think videos like this are why most of us love watching your family. You keep it as real as you can showing many people who wouldn't normally understand problems like this and the repercussions it can have for the next few years for many of our farmers. Literally the back bone of the country, I watch and do my best to support you all for doing everything you do. Love your family for taking bad news and running with it. Some how turning bad things into a positive and never letting it stop you in you tracks.
Keep praising him despite the storm. You cant see over the horizon.
Thanks for the crop inspection Leg Arms. Sorry to see the crop losses. The good crops still look good though 👍🏻
Well hopefully when the year is done everything will shake out ok. Good that you have several stages and different crops. Hopefully at least one will fill in the gaps of money loss ❣
Sorry for the loss guys. You work so hard all year and deserve better fortune. Praying the crop finds strength before harvest.
The best thing we ever did was put a air system on that big header blows that small stuff right into the draperhead the best investment you ever could spend. Especially when your crop is so shorted pay for this One year!
The air system. Air Reel. Works good on soybeans
yes it is and on soybeans even when the beans get shelled out by the cutting bar even the seeds get blown into conveyer belt and into the combine.
KIA KAHA! (stay Strong) don't apologize to us Scott! we can feel how bad your hurting, keep your chin up and know all of your audience shares your pain! KIA KAHA Welker Family!
It's like 'what did the farmer say that had won a big $$$ lottery jackpot? Oh I'll probably just keep farming 'til it's all gone! Keep the faith 🙏 🇺🇸
Thanks for your update sir. Feeling very sorry about your losses. Trust next years crop will be better. Take care and stay strong. Beat wishes. Ole.
Sorry about your crop loss. But, you definitely need a small compact tractor like the Baby Bud. You need a fuel efficient Non-DEF tractor that can haul butt. Baby Bud … So cool!
Thank you and yes that would be awesome
@@WelkerFarms can a person do a burnout on one of them things lol
My vote is for a classic MF135
From the sadness of all the storm damage to the joy of the Baby Bud.
Roller-coaster of emotions. From frown to smile. Great video.
I’m gutted for you guys with a season that was dry and then a curveball like this is demoralising,hopefully with the crops that managed to escape the worst hopefully you might just even out 👍👍
Sorry dit your losses we pray for proper yields from what is remaining.
The baby bud is extremely cool well done guys.
As a retired farmer in Southern Texas I can feel for you. I’ve had Milo ready too cut and blow down. Overall out of 44 Yrs of farming I was extremely lucky. God took care of me🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Praying for you guys. So sorry about the hail damage.
This is why I think the welkers are so smart... They have no huge equipment payments.. It will hurt their operation, but, God willing, they will be back
Over 100 years in business they are not going anywhere. Its happened many times before. Good luck on what you do have. Always next year. Vacation time at the lake? Thank goodness for UA-cam
@tiny fast you really made a fake account just to comment 🤣?
Look into adding a air system to your headers
Jeremiah 29:11 came to mind when I heard about the hail damage. 🙏🙏 I hope the insurance coverage helps yall recover! Also that little tractor has got to be the coolest little thing I've ever seen!
Thank you
Thanks for sharing. 🙏 to your family and the families of other farms that lost to storm damage. You all definitely have the best attitude!
That’s heartbreaking do not want to see that happen any farmer
So sorry! Your perspective on disappointments is so right on! Love the baby Bud!
Thanks for including this on the video that was the cutest thing I have ever seen
That map at 18:08 really puts the situation in perspective. Our sincere sympathies go out to you.
I was watching a different US farmer, with the same situation. I truly feel for you lot - last year's weather didn't help any, and the flooded areas still aren't back to being useable. I'm not a farmer, I used to grow my own veggies, and I know how a failed harvest feels at that scale. Eyes on the horizon, guys - it will come right.
Very sorry about your crop. I know you and your family will stay strong and look forward to next year. That is what farmers know how to do. I love that little Big Bud, that person who made it did a wonderful job.
Glad you showed the Wee Bud at the end, it put a smile on my face as the rest was very hard to watch....the white combine sucks. All the best going forward!
White combines? Where was there a White combine? I seen a Case IH which is Red and they are good combines.
@@americasdream1265 As Nick called it last year, hail= the white combine.
sorry to hear about your loss.Hang in there!!! That little bud was so very cool.
You need to install an air system on your header to help harvest that short crop. Check out what Larson farms have (Crary Air Bar) - they seem very happy with it.
Thats what i was just thinking hopefully get a couple extra bushels outta that
You think that they don’t know about them wind systems or air reels before you told them what they need?
Greg James ....do they have any currently installed on any of their headers..????
I’m so sorry for y’all’s yield loss Scott. I hope the best for you guys
We feel your pain. Lost all of ours just 70 miles west of you. Left just 80 acres with less than 70% loss.
That's hard to take. Was that the same storm on the 12th?
@@RobertWelkerFarmerBob Yes sir. Jerry Johnson (my dad) and I have farmed together since early 60s. We have never before been hailed out 100% on 100% of the seeded acres. We were this year. Heck we don't have to worry about stubble, there is none. We had been lucky enough to get a little timely moisture so crops had not been hurt too bad maybe only 10-15% down. The White-Combine took care of it all. As you well know insurance never covers the loss, but we had some.
@@johnsonservices we hope next year will composite our losses
@@RobertWelkerFarmerBob As farming always goes. "Next year" will be better. Hope to get down to see you guys this fall.
@@johnsonservices just read my post.....composite........ what's that......... compensate 😊
Sorry for your bad luck- wish you the best. Love our farmers.
central alberta crops are totaled, started mowing today to give them to the cows as green feed
where in central Alberta, I thought central Alberta was doing as good as any
@@rickpederson1219 Bentley
This year has been strange everywhere. You have dry hot weather and now hail. The west is burning up and we here in the south have had lots of rain and cooler weather. Summer is still not over yet. May God bless your work and pull you through this difficult year.
"A foot and half to 18 inches" is quite a range.
Here at Lee farms in Indiana. So sorry for the losses you have. God bless y’all. It’s such a rough year for many fellow farmers this year.
My ❤ goes out to you all! Such a positive outlook!! We need rain desperately and I know there are areas that are flooded go figure.
Wish you guys all the best. You're good people. And farmers are the most resilient folks on the planet!
Thank you
Mother Nature gives and takes away, all at the same time.
That Baby Big Bud is AMAZING! It was a fantastic way to end this sad & disturbing video. HOPEFULLY everything works out in teh long run, & the farm can still be profitable this season!
Why not look in to getting crary wind system for the headers so you can cut low and get all the crop 👌⭐️
That's what I did 2 years ago and it really pays for itself fast with soybeans.
To much force on some crops and they crack
@@realredditstories420 ,, they are adjustable, , ,
We tiled one of his farms here in MN. What an awesome guy to work with!
Need to talk to Chet Larson about the Crarry air reel or something for them peas!
This city boy feels your pain, and is inspired by your faith. Best of luck, brother.
Weller's you guys should think about putting a air system on your headers for your peas just like the millennium farmer uses on his header
Nice to see you got to play a little after having such a devastating storm hit parts of your Farm.
"The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away. Blessed be the Lord." Difficult to watch, to see the damage, and to see how devastation it is for you and your family. Inspiring to see you work to keep it in perspective. And a blessing to see you smile and enjoy the Baby Bud. Remember Abraham who placed all his trust in God. Remember how he answered Isaac when he asked, "where's the lamb?" "God will provide" was Abraham's answer and those words ring true still today. Keep the faith Welker Family. Prayers for you and your neighbors.
Hang in there guys.. God bless you !! Little Big Bud is awesome 🙂
This is gonna have an impact on our food prices for sure, combined with all the droughts.
Looks like they’re gonna get their .16c back.
Commodity prices have been going up, and don't look like they will be going down anytime soon.
@@notpoliticallycorrect4774 Sadly, everything is going up. So that doesn't help much if at all.
A lot of Australia has had huge rains and looking like will be a big season. That will even it out
@@cameronritchie2 south west Australia has had its wettest winter in 20 years
I remember that growing up on the farm in Iowa. Dad would plant oats/barley, it would head out then in July we would get a storm with wind, rain and/or hail. Wake up the next morning to flatten fields. Looking back, I'm not sure how my mom and dad did what they did as small Iowa farmers, but they trusted in God, made it work and raised all of us. Thank you for video and showing us that there is more to farming than just driving a tractor. Best wishes to you for a successful harvest.
Sorry to see anyone’s crops damaged. Mother Nature is fickle one.
Oh so very sorry to hear you got hailed out! Very glad to hear of your Faith in our Lord Jesus! 🙏🙏
First a drought and then a massive hailstorm. So sad to see when you have invested in brand new bins to store a big harvest in :(
Remember that is Montana
I hope y’all the best on y’all crops this year god bless all the farmers and ranchers
That’s tough, we got rain down here In Bozeman, you guys deserve the rain.
That "Baby Bud" is the coolest daggon thing! That is SO cool!
It just makes a guy feel guilty for having a good year. I’m far from out of the woods though. About 30 days to go for fall harvest, but the small grains and pulse crops did good.
That “miniature” is the funniest thing ever! Those guys better be careful, they’ll have to go into full production mode” I know I want one!!
After seeing your Facebook post about this, I was dreading this video. Praying that you can salvage a decent harvest.
That's why god made some of the most brilliant, toughest, and most resilient people known to man. The farmer. Here's to next year Welker family.
Your sorry for giving us bad news I'm So Sorry for what has happened to You and your family and the farm. How sad I was hoping that this was going to be the best year ever for your farm. GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY and the Farm 🙏🙏🙏
No easy way to say it but we always pray, "Thy will be done." Trust in the Lord with all your heart"
That is so terrible. My deepest sympathies to you guys. The crops were looking so good. Hope it all works out for you in the end
Ever thought about a air reel or wind system for your header to blow loose pods and seeds back in the header ?
Thumbs down for damage but 2 thumbs up for the mini bud... loved it! He did a terrific job fabricating that beauty..
Get building, your going to need a lot of those for all the Welker kids.
We are all going to feel your pain. At the grocery store and in other products we all get from the farmer. Your loss will be shared by all.
Sounds like you need to invest in a Crary Wind System on your headers...
wishing you guys all the best, sorry to hear about your crops guys
“I’d say it a foot and a half to 18” tall” lol
I'm not sure he was joking when he said that
ConservativeYankee22 Barr & Avman2CL Why bother commenting just to criticize? This video is unscripted. Editing is time consuming. You get the point. Leave at least as many compliments or empathetic messages as criticisms.
@@noconspiracytheoriesplease.745 because it’s funny, I didn’t run over his dog calm down.
It’s the same thing
Hello from Estonia. Sorry about your crop loss.
Seeing the baby bud immediately brought to mind that old saying "The only difference between men and boys is the price of their toys."
Prayers for all the farmers fields!
It could always be worse. Like we say around here “maybe next year”. Hopefully things go better for the rest of the year. God bless
Sorry to hear about the losses. Hope u have ins. Lot of work went into the little Bud 👍👍
You win some, you lose some. That's rough though.
I got pissed with us getting rain on our hay, that suddenly seems very mild compared to what happened to you guys...
Hope your insurance covers this.
God bless! ❤
Thank you
Sorry for your loss you farmers work so hard
Sorry guys. Sucks. Thanks for keeping faith
Thanks man!
The diversification of your crop looks to be a big help in shielding you from loss.
Cover crop for next season.no fencing can’t graze . We are fearing frosts during flowering here. Hopefully you guys can recoup seed nature’s hard mistress. Keep on keeping on. Ha ha baby bud.
Thanks for sharing, it is bad news but, --- it's good to let people out there know how good and also how hard it can be for farmers, it's good to stay positive and that there are still blessing in all this, thanks again, all the best for the future. God bless.