I love listening to your father, he has so much common sense, and a practical approach to everything he does. Reminds me so much of my dad.... please keep'm coming, can't wait for your next video. 👍
God bless you. I know it's not easy but you make that lifestyle look so rewarding. After the hustle and bustle of a city all day watching your farm is so relaxing.
I love the way you guys love on your dogs it’s good to see sometimes you see guys videoing and they act like the dogs are bothering them. Glad to see you are not like that I love animals.
The farm size is not of what everyone everyone would believe large enough for today’s farm. It’s very impressive the farm you all have. It doesn’t match what we are told about small scale farm profitability. Can you make a video talking about that and the hard times as well. Really like your size and the videos your family put out thanks 🌞🚜
Boy, what an education. I especially like you dads attitude towards pasture seeding. I feel the same way. You never know what going to dominate so mix the variety.
We’ve seeded Timothy and Alsike Clover in a 65/35 mix for many years using oats as a nurse crop. 15-18 lbs hay seed and 4 bushels oats per acre seems to be our best combination. No spray. Fertilize with wood ash and manure. 90 bushels per acre is our best yield but 45 is our average. We typically seed by Mothers Day but this year we’ll be late.
I started seeding alfalfa today we are behind because of the weather got one feild done not really sure how many acres I want to say 20ish we hit it with our finisher and use a billion grass seeder with culipacker all in one
Drills like this one do a very good job of getting seed in the ground. Only thing is it not dirt cheap to buy. Hope the weather gets better to plant all your crops!! Thanks 😊.
We used an old McCormick drill I think. (It had wooden wheels) It worked fine. When I was in college the farm used Great Plains drill and a Tye drill too. The bigger thing is finally we can get about the business of sowing and planting.... Finally. As for grass pretty much orchard grass but when we drill Dad always liked Timothy. Hope you had a good birthday Aaron.
Orchard is by far my favorite grass to put with alfalfa. Around 16# of alfalfa and 5# of orchardgrass. Been starting to add some fescue also the last few years. Fescue is one tough grass.
Around here it’s either alfalfa or what we call prairie hay. Prairie hay is native grasses growing on ground that has never been tilled (mostly bluestem). There are a few guys that will go back with grass on tilled ground, there it will usually be cool season grass like fescue or brome that holds the soil. My grandfather seldom bought any seed. He’d set back a spot of grass or alfalfa and harvest the seed with the combine. (Edit: I’ve ran over a harrow myself custom applying fertilizer and weed killer in a pasture. It was grown over with grass and too late to stop.)
we have a tye no till and a old john deere. we sow rye grass, orach, ky31, clover red and white. but have not had much luck with clover we get late killing frost every year now and that,s the end of the clover and it really hurt grass to. off road fuel prices are so high i am not going to mow all the hay. if it wasn't for johnson grass we would make a 2 nd cutting here. its good hay if you mow it when seed head first start. i hope thing up there is better than here. take care, be safe and well.
I have never seen drag harrows We had diamond narrows And we used chain narrows to seeding and do pasture first time in the spring For old grass Another great video
We seeded oats and alfalfa with timothy seed with our Minneapolis moline seeder followed by a brillion cultimulcher to smooth the field and push in the smaller rocks
We used to drag over sprouted corn in the 2 leaf stage. It always seemed to me like it would destroy all the corn that had sprouted but we only lost about 10% of our corn plant population and the field benefitted overall. Why did we do it at all? When little weeds germinated at the same time as the corn it kept them from competing with the corn from the get go. It was not something we did with every field everytime but only when the weeds were coming bad. You only had about a 2 day window in which you could do it or the corn would be out too far and you'd drag all the corn out of the ground. I remember my uncle and my cousin who were partners debating whether or not the weeds were bad enough to make the dragging necessary.
I use a brillon seeder i like it but it needs a good seed bed i plant just straight alfalfa because the grass will show up on its own in year 3 or so and it sells better. I'm in central iowa looking forward to planting videos
I really like these Great Plains Drills, but I don't like how big they are now. I'm not a big farmer and I don't want to be a big farmer. I'd be happy with one seed box and the grass box on a smaller drill. I'd prefer to be able to pull 10-12ft drill with a 50hp tractor and I can put it on a back up tractor easy enough in a similar power range. in out situation it is unlikely we will go over 80hp ever in my lifetime. our area is much flatter than yours though. We have gentle hills.
Straight alfalfa or straight grass..I dud 20lbs...with half bushel of wheat for cover...but I tried to sow in mid September. We did Timothy bromegrass and orchard grass. Also sowed red clover...which can also give you a good seed crop which you can make some good money in an afternoon. Always ran a cultipacker with the teeth up after sowing...helped with washing on our hills and was smooth...miss those days.
Never got into the whole spike tooth drag thing for hay fields............As my brother would say it seemed to be a corn cob pipe smoke affair here(AKA old farts), I like using the cultimulcher with the teeth just touching the ground, the packer wheels firm up everything real nice and smash any rocks down in.
Awesome video 👍 Interesting listening to you use Rye as a cover crop/ filler when Rye is used here as maybe 90% of our grazing sward. People are starting to use Cocksfoot and Fescue in more drought prone areas as new varieties hold their quality better. This climate thing is certainly throwing up a few different ones this year. All the best and hope it warms up for you soon.
Another good video. That looks like a solid drill. We had a Van Brunt that your dad mentioned that we used for many years. I believe before that it was an Oliver Superior on steel wheels
We just rented a John deer no till we planted barley and different types of grass and alfalfa then we did use our old double dics international drill to plant some wheat for the neighbors
I think that dual bin is made for NRCS or land bank organizations. I've never seen one in person. I saw a 606 at a farmer's place in Iowa. He used it only for waterways. One pass up and one pass down. Neighbor has a 1206 great plains drill that I have rented in the past. It's a great drill, but I didn't like that it's still got its wheels on the end. That means a 12' drill is still 15' wide. When I went to buy one, I ended up buying a Deere 1560 15' drill. It is not much wider than the 1206. But you're not gonna pull it with a 686. I also like that the single disk openers make it so that you can barely see the worked area. The great plains definitely works the ground just a little bit more. I interseed peas into my rye stand in the spring, so don't wanna cause any more damage than I have to.
Had a neighbor leave his harrow in a new alfalfa field and when went to cut for him got it wedge up in my swather . What a mess and costly he paid for repairs
That drill is far superior to a John Deere. Very nice. Orchard alflafa is all we do. Any of the other grass you don’t seem to see any cutting but first or a late fall cutting.
It depends on your climate here in the upper south most people like to plant the majority of their pastures in cool season grasses and legumes but, in the lower south they'll go with warm season grasses due to all year grazing potential. Not familiar with your part of the world but, I would imagine something like old actual native grasses would be preferable What was native 100 plus years ago
I grew up in New Mexico. Rough soil there, if you could call it soil. We’d disc up the pasture and then used a broadcast spreader to throw the seat out. Then irrigated the field. Didn’t know what a seed drill was and so I thought it was something that poked a hole in the ground and dropped a seed in. Alfalfa was our main crop but he had some Sudan grass as well.
I love listening to your father, he has so much common sense, and a practical approach to everything he does. Reminds me
so much of my dad.... please keep'm coming, can't wait for your next video. 👍
God bless you. I know it's not easy but you make that lifestyle look so rewarding. After the hustle and bustle of a city all day watching your farm is so relaxing.
I love the way you guys love on your dogs it’s good to see sometimes you see guys videoing and they act like the dogs are bothering them. Glad to see you are not like that I love animals.
The farm size is not of what everyone everyone would believe large enough for today’s farm. It’s very impressive the farm you all have. It doesn’t match what we are told about small scale farm profitability. Can you make a video talking about that and the hard times as well. Really like your size and the videos your family put out thanks 🌞🚜
I love that RED tractor!
I really like how your dad is supportive and informative on your videos!! 👍
A very good explanation on the seeder.
That Great Plains is built close to me!! Assaria Kansas!! Those are good rigs. I had a 30 ft. One for wheat!!!
Boy, what an education. I especially like you dads attitude towards pasture seeding. I feel the same way. You never know what going to dominate so mix the variety.
We’ve seeded Timothy and Alsike Clover in a 65/35 mix for many years using oats as a nurse crop. 15-18 lbs hay seed and 4 bushels oats per acre seems to be our best combination. No spray. Fertilize with wood ash and manure. 90 bushels per acre is our best yield but 45 is our average. We typically seed by Mothers Day but this year we’ll be late.
Good to see your subscribers are climbing pretty fast. You deserve it. Really enjoy your videos and your operation. Thanks for your time and effort!
Great job guys
Love the channel! Keep um coming!
I started seeding alfalfa today we are behind because of the weather got one feild done not really sure how many acres I want to say 20ish we hit it with our finisher and use a billion grass seeder with culipacker all in one
Love the videos keep them coming!!!!
Great video , old equipment amazing how it was made , history / memories , stay safe !! You look younger with no beard , congratulations !!!
Oh Sh****t, what have you done to your beard ???!!!😱😁😁
Drills like this one do a very good job of getting seed in the ground. Only thing is it not dirt cheap to buy. Hope the weather gets better to plant all your crops!! Thanks 😊.
I thought yalls way of farming seemed real similar to how I was raised, then i saw the dealer logo on your drill, must be practically neighbors!
Enjoyed your video. I like great plains drill work great. I've used once. You have a wealth of knowledge. Thanks for sharing.
We used an old McCormick drill I think. (It had wooden wheels) It worked fine. When I was in college the farm used Great Plains drill and a Tye drill too. The bigger thing is finally we can get about the business of sowing and planting.... Finally. As for grass pretty much orchard grass but when we drill Dad always liked Timothy. Hope you had a good birthday Aaron.
Orchard is by far my favorite grass to put with alfalfa. Around 16# of alfalfa and 5# of orchardgrass. Been starting to add some fescue also the last few years. Fescue is one tough grass.
Around here it’s either alfalfa or what we call prairie hay. Prairie hay is native grasses growing on ground that has never been tilled (mostly bluestem). There are a few guys that will go back with grass on tilled ground, there it will usually be cool season grass like fescue or brome that holds the soil. My grandfather seldom bought any seed. He’d set back a spot of grass or alfalfa and harvest the seed with the combine. (Edit: I’ve ran over a harrow myself custom applying fertilizer and weed killer in a pasture. It was grown over with grass and too late to stop.)
we have a tye no till and a old john deere. we sow rye grass, orach, ky31, clover red and white. but have not had much luck with clover we get late killing frost every year now and that,s the end of the clover and it really hurt grass to. off road fuel prices are so high i am not going to mow all the hay. if it wasn't for johnson grass we would make a 2 nd cutting here. its good hay if you mow it when seed head first start. i hope thing up there is better than here. take care, be safe and well.
I have never seen drag harrows We had diamond narrows And we used chain narrows to seeding and do pasture first time in the spring For old grass Another great video
Like the content. Honest farming the old school way.
We seeded oats and alfalfa with timothy seed with our Minneapolis moline seeder followed by a brillion cultimulcher to smooth the field and push in the smaller rocks
I have a crust buster and it only has a main box and the alfalfa.
Found out about mixing seeds and it not seeding the right rate!
I've worked with a Great Plains drill. Used it mostly for alfalfa.
We used to drag over sprouted corn in the 2 leaf stage. It always seemed to me like it would destroy all the corn that had sprouted but we only lost about 10% of our corn plant population and the field benefitted overall. Why did we do it at all? When little weeds germinated at the same time as the corn it kept them from competing with the corn from the get go. It was not something we did with every field everytime but only when the weeds were coming bad. You only had about a 2 day window in which you could do it or the corn would be out too far and you'd drag all the corn out of the ground. I remember my uncle and my cousin who were partners debating whether or not the weeds were bad enough to make the dragging necessary.
Thanks for the heads up on your beard , I knew something was different but couldn't put my finger on it 😅😆
I would like to see how the new wood boiler is working. I saw in a previous video it was installed
I use a brillon seeder i like it but it needs a good seed bed i plant just straight alfalfa because the grass will show up on its own in year 3 or so and it sells better. I'm in central iowa looking forward to planting videos
Great video! I was looking for info on the Great Plains drills, but this didn't come up then. I just happened on it.
That drill has really impressed me. Thank you for the walk around.👍🇺🇸✌🏻🙏🏽😎
I really like these Great Plains Drills, but I don't like how big they are now. I'm not a big farmer and I don't want to be a big farmer. I'd be happy with one seed box and the grass box on a smaller drill. I'd prefer to be able to pull 10-12ft drill with a 50hp tractor and I can put it on a back up tractor easy enough in a similar power range. in out situation it is unlikely we will go over 80hp ever in my lifetime. our area is much flatter than yours though. We have gentle hills.
Great Plains makes very good tools. From vertical tillage to seeding equipment, more folks should give them a look.
Straight alfalfa or straight grass..I dud 20lbs...with half bushel of wheat for cover...but I tried to sow in mid September. We did Timothy bromegrass and orchard grass. Also sowed red clover...which can also give you a good seed crop which you can make some good money in an afternoon. Always ran a cultipacker with the teeth up after sowing...helped with washing on our hills and was smooth...miss those days.
I work on 300 head dairy in East Tn we use the same tractor except a wide front and same drill. They been doing a great job.
The dog !! Its all about the dog !! Awsome dog !!!
Never got into the whole spike tooth drag thing for hay fields............As my brother would say it seemed to be a corn cob pipe smoke affair here(AKA old farts), I like using the cultimulcher with the teeth just touching the ground, the packer wheels firm up everything real nice and smash any rocks down in.
Awesome video 👍
Interesting listening to you use Rye as a cover crop/ filler when Rye is used here as maybe 90% of our grazing sward. People are starting to use Cocksfoot and Fescue in more drought prone areas as new varieties hold their quality better.
This climate thing is certainly throwing up a few different ones this year. All the best and hope it warms up for you soon.
Another good video. That looks like a solid drill. We had a Van Brunt that your dad mentioned that we used for many years. I believe before that it was an Oliver Superior on steel wheels
My grandpa called it a drag, but also referred to it as a smoothing harrow. He farmed 5 miles south of Glenwwod City Wisconsin.
I always knew it as a spike tooth harrow. It helped level the humps in the field after disk harrow want over the plowed field.
Awesome explanation of the drill. You shaved! Happy birthday thought you did it for the wedding :-)Hope good weather on the way
When I shave my beard in the spring, I refer to it as the spring metamorphosis. It is time to start a new season!
You have a beautiful piece of ground!
We just rented a John deer no till we planted barley and different types of grass and alfalfa then we did use our old double dics international drill to plant some wheat for the neighbors
I use a John Deere 8300 drill. 100lbs oats to the acre is what I seed.
Great video.what would be your typical seeding rates for a grass ,alfalfa mix?
I think that dual bin is made for NRCS or land bank organizations. I've never seen one in person. I saw a 606 at a farmer's place in Iowa. He used it only for waterways. One pass up and one pass down.
Neighbor has a 1206 great plains drill that I have rented in the past. It's a great drill, but I didn't like that it's still got its wheels on the end. That means a 12' drill is still 15' wide. When I went to buy one, I ended up buying a Deere 1560 15' drill. It is not much wider than the 1206. But you're not gonna pull it with a 686. I also like that the single disk openers make it so that you can barely see the worked area. The great plains definitely works the ground just a little bit more. I interseed peas into my rye stand in the spring, so don't wanna cause any more damage than I have to.
Thanks for the content!!!!
Sections look like Lynsey but the evener is a JD. Had a total JD for years, they were called Ajax harrows.
Im not sure but would a hairy vetch mixed with a winter grain might not make a good green chop or haylage crop?
Had a neighbor leave his harrow in a new alfalfa field and when went to cut for him got it wedge up in my swather . What a mess and costly he paid for repairs
That drill is far superior to a John Deere. Very nice. Orchard alflafa is all we do. Any of the other grass you don’t seem to see any cutting but first or a late fall cutting.
It is not superior. Both are great drills, each with slight advantages and disadvantages.
It depends on your climate here in the upper south most people like to plant the majority of their pastures in cool season grasses and legumes but, in the lower south they'll go with warm season grasses due to all year grazing potential.
Not familiar with your part of the world but, I would imagine something like old actual native grasses would be preferable
What was native 100 plus years ago
We eliminated a lot of problems by taking good care of our equipment
Commonly called a section harrow
I grew up in New Mexico. Rough soil there, if you could call it soil. We’d disc up the pasture and then used a broadcast spreader to throw the seat out. Then irrigated the field. Didn’t know what a seed drill was and so I thought it was something that poked a hole in the ground and dropped a seed in. Alfalfa was our main crop but he had some Sudan grass as well.