FINALLY Our FIRST Day of Planting Corn! - Spring 22
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- Опубліковано 23 тра 2022
- The planter is ready and so is our dirt! There are always lots of kinks and bugs to work out of the planter on day 1. I don't expect this year to be any different.
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The first camera is a little bit clearer imagewise. Thanks for letting us join in your and your familys adventure.
So glad to see that after all the disaster you were finally able to get in the field
Same
Yeah but shouldn't they be planting wheat? 😬
Camera 1 was crystal clear. Glad to see things are getting “slightly” back to normal. Prayers for better days!!
Have fun planning the new shed!
Thanks for the first planter video of the season. Ya!!!!!
Well, you got the planter going after a lot of adjusting and doing this and that. Sounds like your planter took a harder hit than thought in the storm. But, you got the bugs worked out and it is going now the way it sounds/ya!!!!!
Appreciate your patience with the planter. Do understand you want it to just go but technology get in the way.
Good job with getting it going correctly. Should be ready to go now.
Will be anxious to hear on next video how it went. If it is working ok have it going round the clock until done.
Got to be a good feeling to finally be planting after all the problems.
Amazing that the dogs will ride in the four by four and nothing else. Interesting.
Guess I will leave you alone now, you have enough to do without me talking.
My compliments to you on all of this. You got it going.
Sincerely appreciate you keeping us all on the video. Know with all of the problems would be simple to forget filming. So do appreciate you keeping us in the loop.
You all take care and be safe.
Looking forward to the next video.
Thanks to Becky for editing.
Thanks for everything Zach and Dad.
The Iowa farm boy.
Steve.
One thing this site has done is to make people like me respect and appreciate the farmers of our country more than ever before! Thank you!
Zach, quit reading these comments and get back out there and plant some corn. I just looked at the radar and it’s nice where you are!
A big yes to that...Never knew how much work involved in planting corn...
@@steze48 everything today is so much more complicated than years ago. Glad I’m not doing that anymore.
@@steze48 Gov numb nutz from NY said all a farmer has to do is stick a seed in the ground and cover it
@@armedfarm3429 Well he is not totaly wrong; its just the actuall execution that gets complicated. Especially when having to deal with weather.
I can’t wait to see Anna in the buddy sit of that tractor. See I had a German Shepard and I know she will kinda have a love hate reaction to the buddy sit but it’s getting close. Glad to see seeds in the ground.
I used to have a dog that LOVED going fur rides. She would absolutely have climbed up fur a ride along every day.
Glad you got planting. Hope you miss the rest of the rain. We got our corn done in Northwest Ohio today 🙌.
“I had no sensor issues on this one (Minnie Mo)”. 🤣🤣🤣 Your Dad taking a jab at you. Guess what, we didn’t have issues with our JD 71 planters either🤣🤣. You’ll get it going. Be thankful it didn’t get wrecked in the storm. I’m amazed you are not having more issues with the planter.
14 days later than last year...hope you have a bountiful crop. Thank you to all the farmers,u are the backbone of America .
I haven't farmed in 30 yrs and thought I'd like to try the new technology but watching you battle the planter has changed my mind.
It's great when it works but if it doesn't work, than it causes a lot of headaches because not every farmer is an electrician, also why we run a planter from 1979
@@Farmer_logan06 Yes mon!..I planted 120 acres of corn and milo with a JD 7000 6 row..Didnt even hook up the monitor.. I have a video of it..No sceens computers or nothing..I cant deal with the electronics..
Congratulations on getting in the field and keep up the hard work
Always love seeing the pups in videos. They're just living their best lives it seems.
I find it amazing there isn't more issues electronically. Your bouncing around stuff is getting dirty. So many moving parts. Glad to see you guys back at it.
I dont know about you guys, but I am smiling ear to ear, got the warm feelings when i heard "we are planting!" Go Zach go!
I've never heard a farmer who hasn't complained about the rain, they don't get enough, they get too much or they wished that they got planted or harvested before the rain. Farmers are the biggest gamblers on earth, but we cannot do without you guys. I pray that you have successful year and hopes for a better harvest next time.
We bitch about everything and all the time..
Good to see you finally get in the field. Thanks to all the Johnson family for dragging me along.
It’s gotta be easier to drive the space shuttle than that planter. Wow, hats off to you Zack.
Hi Ronnik
Good to see some seed go in the ground after everything that's happened. Even better to see is your and everyone else's attitude this whole time. No one complains, if anything makes good from bad.
I couldn't agree more with your comment
Tractor repairs are rarely family friendly events 🤪
Great to see you are finally getting to it! Just a shame it rained you off eventually. I hope that weather flips back around and you can keep going.
14:46 looking at the side it's on I'de say the pressure from the tank when the roof fell on it probably popped that hose off. Lucky it just let go at the fitting and didn't split the hose.
Those new planters make me appreciate the old jd 7000. Mechanical and simple. Good luck!
Damn right I planted 120 acres of corn with mine ..Didnt even hook up the monitor...Cant stand any of that stuff..
902K+ subscribers are very pleased to see you out planting the fields.
Congrats on all things. Be safe and be well.
"Never had a sensor go bad on that tractor" - Zack's Dad pointing to the Moline. Perfect.
Only if you break the yard stick off, trying to measure how much gas you have in the tank. 🤣
Hi pauk.
Damn right....Looks like 1979 around my house and gonna keep it that way..
Great to see you finnally putting some seed in the ground. Sorry about your lost of bins and shed. Talked to your relatives from New Ulm this morning Ken and Jan when we were voting. What a small world it is they were talking about relative of theirs that lost farm buildings from the storm a couple weeks ago. I ask where that was and couldn't believe it was you. I told them I've been following your site for a long time, and really enjoy watching it. Hope all goes well with the rest the planting season, and when you got time keep sending reports to us. Jerry Carlson
Never seen Didge that happy, seems to really enjoy to ride that UTV :)
I came here to like the video for the good news of ya'll getting some planting done with all you've been through lately. I'll have to watch it later though.
By the time you get all the bugs worked out you will have the field all done 😁
Done planting out corn here in nebraska. good to see youre starting
Zach, I’ve mentioned this before… I think your dad is cool. There’s something about his personality that seems calm and collected. You guys make a great team!! Good to see you planting, even if it’s later than normal.
Just get him to stop driving a Dodge.
That is so true, I hope every father-son could have such a working relationship. Calm, collected and focused on the job at hand. Just crystal clear, love it!
Glad to see you back in the fields planting after the storm damage. Now it is your turn for everything to go POSITIVE
looks like Anna is getting close to a tractor ride.. Hope the rest of planting goes good .
Glad to hear that Anna is getting better at talking on camera. 🤣
Yo Zach...you and your dad have a great attitude after the seriously bad storm. Must be a Scandinavian/Minnesota trait mixed together. Best of luck planting and recovering.
Zach are you getting more and more comfortable working in front of a camera, is it becoming natural working through things and explaining what you're doing and trying to fix? Whatever the case, pretty awesome you're putting what you're putting on camera especially the past few week for ya. Hopefully everyone appreciates this guy and his willingness to record his daily grind. Cheers to you and your family.
It's never really seemed unnatural to me that I remember but I'm sure things flow differently than they did a couple years ago
@@MillennialFarmer great job Zach, greetings from Ireland.
I say it's just Becky's editing that is making you seem better. I'm sure if Zach was doing the editing still seem as goofy as when he started.
I would hope he’s comfortable in front of a camera, after all, he is the actor that portray the millennial farmer…. 🤪
Glad y’all are finally able to start planting. I can only imagine the stress and anxiety y’all are going through with planting and the damage from the storm. Sending prayers for fair sky’s and good weather. 👍🙏👏🇺🇸
Thank you for being positive even when things are tough Zach. Hope that it will dry up, and the dogs will ride in the tractor.👍
So happy that you were able to get in the fields to plant. Great job of diagnosis of your planter. Have a great and safe planting season.
Well done Zack!
Hi Nathak Strettok.
The kids must be having the time of their young life watching how all the adults are reacting in a dignified manner to the damages.
WOW! A 4 or 6 row Max-Emerge with finger pickup planting units looks pretty good right about now. You definitely want to get as far away from the road as possible to start one of these modern planters.
Love the German shepherd start ups lol. Hope u get back to rebuild and normal soon
Nice I hope everything will stay good nothing ti bad will happen and hopefully 🙏 no more storms
Best wishes from down in the cities, sorry this storm was a big mess for, we got lucky and it missed us in the cities and up at the families resort we lost mostly small stuff. Best wishes to you and yours you sure have a pretty nice operation.
Glad to see you finally got rolling. Tech can be a good thing, except when it doesn't work.
I know we’re seeing this video after youve started, but we had tons of issues with downforce sensors this year. Took them apart and put dielectric grease in them. After that had no issues.
No, Zach we're not alright, that was a very high fall for us while you were closing up the back tailgate of the Ranger
God bless our farmers! As if the cost of fuel, seed, fertilize, etc isn’t enough now Mother Nature is a kick in the crotch. We’re praying for all of y’all, keep on keeping on.
My first time watching the Millennial Farmer. I'm hooked! Grew up on a small family dairy farm in the 80's with 4 row planters and 5 bottom plows. Wow, just wow.
So glad to see you guys are finally able to get the farming done.
Hi Zach, regarding the battery cable; if its a size too large to pass through, try lubricating it with some silicone spray.. makes life much easier!
WD40
The patience you have to get that planter going
I am a old farmer from Carver County. I have been following you for about 2 years. Please keep the Millennial Farmer site going. I watched the video of the storm earlier this month and am happy no one in your family was harmed. Stuff can be fixed or replaced but human bodies not so easy. It was nice to see your family working together after the storm, that includes Jim and your dad.
I remember a farmers work is never completely done. If people cannot understand that, they need to "walk a few miles in your shoes". KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!! P.S. Mrs. Millennial Farmer
All farmers wives can be pleased to see you working shoulder to shoulder with your husband. Thank both of you for keeping this site going.
Hey Bud. I'm from KS. So for the farming. Same ol, same ol. God be with you. My comment is more about your dogs. Youe Shepherd, she is GORGEOUS! I love your K9 family. So glad that God protected you from most of the tornado. I guess He was telling you time for some cleanup. I've watched enough to know you and your family are salt of the earth. God be with you in all you do. God Bless you, your family and property.
Love how the pups like to ride in the side by side!
It's training for Anna's ride in the tractor.
I’m so happy to see you finally in the field
Damn no wonder you have to learn everything all over again every yr! That's a lot of stuff to remember. With all you have been through its good to see you back in the field. Hope you don't get a lot of rain! 🙏🙏🙏
Praying for you guys to have a whole season without any problems thanks for sharing buddy
My #1 Rule when troubleshooting stuff is "Is it plugged in?" I don't know what sort and how many connectors those planters have, but with all the vibration and heat cycles those things go through, it might be worth unplugging and replugging all the connectors in the spring.
Yep!Every year i'd be cleaning and checking every.single.connection.
Imagine trying to run one of these when it's 10 or 15 y.o ...
@@ronchappel4812 I'd wager most of these will become unusable once Deere drops support for them, and that will likely be long before they become functionally obsolete.
I'm glad to see that at least you got a start hopefully all will come together and you can fly from here on out keep the faith strong I for one am rooting for you and the family to pull through this setback and I can't wait to see your next video the 2nd camera is the one I pick. Have a great day and a great season I will always be following your progress to see if all our prayers are helping
Nothing you can do about the rain, just keep on keeping on...like you guys always do!
God bless your family man. You have done more for the Agriculture industry then anyone before you. Knowledge is power.
Watching your channel makes me glad I’m an American. You guys are pressing on despite shortages, diesel at record high prices, a tornado and Biden regulations. And you soldier on to keep us city slickers fed. God bless!
You guys work so damn hard year round then to have Mother Nature through you a curve ball just sucks! I’m glad you got something planted in the field……….Thanks to you, your Dad and all the farmers and ranchers across this great nation that keeps us with fuel and food!! Without you guys out there working your butts off we would all be shriveled up nothings!
Amen to that. Well said.
sure hope you got the planter dailed in. Thank you for another great video.
It's great seeing you finely able to get out and get some seeds in the ground.
Yay. It's 86 less acres to do. Hopefully the rest go smoothly.
glad you're finally getting on the field!
the old camera somehow feels a tiny bit less smooth on the framerate, but nothing I couldnt get used to afer a few seconds :)
Glad to see you have been able to start planting hopefully you get some drier weather so you can keep going.
My evening content. Much appreciated and I LOVE corn planting season, I love everything about planting. Thanks Zach, Keep busy cuz I know yall have a LOT of work to do. Much love from Ohio
Good video Zach, I kept waiting for the "WE'RE FARMING NOW" scream. Lol Your field sure looked good. Good luck
As someone who grew up with B/W tv, I really don't care! Just keep those vids coming my friend. (You make an old man happy)
I said about the same thing you did when I seen the shed in the video of the storm, I'm glad you are all alright tho.
Be safe and I hope you recover well.
I like the audio and the video best when your dad is talking . You are lucky to have him .
He reminds me of my childhood friends father whom owned the farm we both worked on !
The more I watch the younger generation makes me thing of my days of just old fashioned mechanical planters.
Nate needs to have a channel of his own. He can be pretty entertaining.
Glad to see your planting.The sony is amazingly clearer
Happy to see u in the field. It will al come right in the end
The camera you’ve been using for the last year seems to have better audio for me, and I think the image is more clear as well. Glad you finally got to start planting this season!
I will watch no matter which camera.
Hey Zack, great to see you guys are finally able to start planting! Been enjoying all your video's since i found your channel 5 years ago. Many thanks for all the great content! Wishing you a great season and you and your family all the best! Much love from the Netherlands!
Hey GiDOK.
I can feel your frustration and will keep your family in our prayers for better weather.
What ever camera is fine we just love to watch you and your family . Prayers for you to get as much planted as possible. Be safe.
I really enjoy watching you and your Dad interact, not many father/son operations run so smoothly. You do a real good job mixing family/farm/dog in your videos and also length of your videos is perfect.
Glad for you guys love the content stay safe keep it up
New to your channel, thanks for sharing your thoughts and comments with us 🇺🇸,, glad to see that you and your family 👪,safely made it through the storm
My hats off to you guys and every other farmer out there. Your job is hard enough and you throw what you guys have been thru in the mix and it can get unbearable. Keep up the amazing work it’s really neat to watch.
Can the dogs have their own channel? I ❤ them both!
This is going to get a lot of views. Hope all goes well for you!
Thanks for sharing Zach! Stay safe and hope things get better
I'm very glad to see the weather give you a break!
Love your vids man keep on ging for the sake of fun
We've had good luck putting dielectric grease in the connections for the downforce sensors. Seems to help a lot.
not a bad idea for every connection. Just don't over do it on the amount.
But do WD40 make dielectric grease?
Good to see you planting at last, shame rain stopped play. Over here in mid Norfolk England our crops are suffering from lack of water we have only had 25mm in 2 months, we always say in this part of the world we are only 10 days from a drought. Good luck with the rest of your planting.
You sure are fighting a battle this year
Hey zack my thoughts go out to u on a nice planting and harvesting season
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Hi Dakotk Johnsok.
Zake, Two questions if I may: 1) approximately how many acres of corn will one of those seed containers plant? 2) You mentioned choosing 94 day seed over 99 day seed, will 5 days make that big a big difference come harvest time?.... Realizing ya'll are subject to snow/frost conditions at anytime after July 5th...lol ( kidding)... your fall weather can change rapidly... Thanks
It Zach, not Zake.
He won't answer you because of the spelling.
I'm curious about that too.
As i understand it, corn can mature too early and thus you've lost yield potential. Or it can mature too late, and you waste money drying it. Obviously he's trying to aim for some point between those.
That said i don't know how much wiggle room there is, and that's kind of what you're asking,right?
He’ll do approximately 120 acres on a 50 unit can of seed. Depends on population though.
Going from 99 to 94 day corn could make for 2-3% drier corn, and be the difference between quality mature grain, and poor quality corn. The cost of that 2-3% varies based on a lot of things, like if you are drying the grain yourself or paying the grain buyer to do it. Paying the grain buyer to dry an extra 3% can eat up all of your profit on a year when margins are tight.
I love it - you take the planter to the dealership to get it serviced then do their work servicing it yourself in the field.. you guys are rockstars! Thank you for feeding us all!
Glad to see you finally getting started. Good luck and hope you get timely moisture to get it out of the ground.
congrats on 900k subs.
Zack I have a question in the storm you had mentioned the doors to the cold storage shed were open, did the wind blow through the doors and destroy the shed??
Got started watching your channel about 5 days ago first told to me by Our Wyoming Life. I also watch aTrippyFarmer out of Illinois also soybeans and corn, plus a big user of J.D. equipment. Having watched aTrippyFarmer through their planting season and now watching this video, I admire your sticktoitiveness for working with that planter. You did a great job working through the issues. I started your videos from Winter 20-21 and have enjoyed every one. Except maybe the tornado. So happy you and your great family came through uninjured. The rebuild of the new equipment shed is highly anticipated, along with any changes in your bin infrastructure. God bless your entire family, glad to see you also have a great relationship with your dad.
Thank you for watching!
@@MillennialFarmer My pleasure, I assure you. Helping to get you to 1 million so Anna can get that ride.
Hello from Moosomin, Saskatchewan,Canada. Hope you and your Dad have a wonderful planting season.