There is a reason you are planting on your birthday over & over! It's because you love what you do and it shows in these videos. Thanks to you & farmers everywhere.
I stumbled upon your channel and am really enjoying what you are showing. I am in California, but my mom was born in Callaway (looks to be about an hour away from where you are). For generations my family were farmers in Nebraska. My grandparents left partly because my uncle was deaf and California had better schools for deaf kids at the time. When my grandmother was a child, her favorite part of farming was walking behind the horses and holding the plow steady. I love seeing how technology has made farming more comfortable, faster, and more productive. I feel like I’m connecting with my roots when I watch your videos, and who knows, maybe our great great grandparents knew each other! Thanks for making these videos and keep up the good work!
Love how you always include detail in your explanations….things no one else thinks to tell us non-farmers. Even how to rip open the seed bags….so cool. Thank you for everything you do….because I know it’s plenty. I love ❤️ you!!! Grammy
Always!! With a positive attitude!! Regardless what kind of weather , time or day , it is plus her enthusiasm to explain every single steps 🖤fabulous!!
For some reason, this has been my favorite video of this season! So interesting and fun to watch. Also, I just commented to my wife last night, as I was finishing up mowing my yard, how good the lilacs smelled. So I know what you were experiencing with your grandma's lilac bushes! Best summer scent.
This video is one of your best works. I was riveted to the screen, absorbing the tips and tricks of planting down to the smallest detail. Your personality shone through and through. HAPPY BIRTHDAY LAURA.
From someone who used to do that whole process manually, the new technology is amazing and so much nicer. It's so nice to see someone from the next generation stay involved and make it their life also. So many of my friends are having to sell out because none of their children want to come back and take over.
Me..good morning my tractor!! Tractor outonomus voice asistent: morning ma boss🙂 Me: maping and screeing my area now!!... Tractor otonomus voice assistant: okey ma boss, The drone is ready to fly, wait a few minutes, mapping and screening five dimension is ALREADY!!. Be excited to work ,my boss😉😁
You mention God and yet are planting a crop (corn) that is harming the environment...This is Gods land and you are poisoning it...What do you have to say?
Sorry, but where the heck did you get that information? Corn fields not only produce a beneficial crop, but help with wildlife and soil stability. Please check your sources.
15:00 i got to say as a crane operator your words at minute 15 mark got directly to the hart and the sad part is that 99% of the people do not understand this type of effort
Happy Birthday Laura! Yeah, we definitely still need farmers! Thanks for all you you do! Totally understand being sore after a day in the tractor! Especially lifting all those seed bags💪
There are a couple of things you can do if the beeping is too loud, if it's a single hole over the speaker you can put a piece of tape over it. If it's more of a grate, a piece or two of paper taped over the opening (I use a pad of sticky notes placed on top of the speaker on my radio at work because even on low volume it's too loud).
Seed bag pull strings! I rarely got them to pull easy. It was the same way with old bags of Purina Dog Chow back in the 1960s, early 1970s. When I worked at the seed corn plant I liked sewing up sample bags.
I drove a CAT 777 rock truck on a coal mine when I was younger. I definitely get what you're saying. They're automatic with power steering so the trucks are very nimble, but you feel like you're driving in a house, being so high in the air and the weight under your tiers, compared to the smaller Bell or Volvo articulating trucks.
This is one of your top vlogs, where you explained all the specific tasks the tractor/ seeder does, while you explained why you needed to be vigilant in observing & knowing what the machinery was doing at any time. This is not an easy job, and you are a superstar!! I love your channel!
Happy Belated Birthday Laura on today of May 21, 2022! Hope you had a wonderful birthday at some point in time. Amazing how quickly your channel continues to grow. Happy and Safe Planting! -Bob...
What really amazes me Miss Laura, with all those monitors and the info they are displaying, you actually know what to do next and quickly execute it. WOW!! AMAZING!!!! LOVE IT I DO!!!!!
My grandparents were farmers and they had lilac bushes. I always enjoyed seeing and smelling the lilacs in the backyard after a long hot day of playing and helping my grandparents.
I moved to town in 1972. Prior to that, Dad had about 100 acres that we raised crops on and another 200 acres that we ran cattle on. I spent lots of time on a 1950’s or late 40’s model John Deer “Popping Johnny. I might have stayed on the farm if he’d have had a tractor with a cabin. It was either too hot or too cold for me. At 69, I live my farmer life through you kids. I miss it every day.
We learn so much from this channel!! Both of us grew up around farms, only when we were children, so seeing the equipment and how things are run just takes things to another level. Your videos are fun and informative, so thank you so much for them all! Hope you had an awesome b-day!! And Grant, the most chilled and professional worker I've ever seen, you're damn cool, showing us important yet overlooked stuff giving even more info.. Thank you both!
Wish I knew sooner. Happy belated birthday, Laura! Mine's just a few days earlier on the 8th. I love Raising Cane's! We just got one near me in Illinois a year or so ago. Usually, I'll get the box combo so there's leftovers for the next day!
bag opening is for sure interesting, but with many bags and especially if you arent gonna be using a whole bag dont break off the end of the string after opening the bag, and you can use it to close the bag back up by twisting the top of the bag cinching and tying it off. .
I love you and Grant and the way you guys trying to keep farming alive glad you have the technology now I didn't have when my family farmed was all open tractors God bless you guys and stay safe
Happy belatd birthday Laura! Thanks for constantly spreading that knowledge, there will ALWAYS be the need for a human touch when it comes to farming, for sure! As a side note, those guns prove you aren't just "sitting" all day. Keep up the great content! 💪🏽 😉👍🏼
I wanted to say your videos have a tremendous value, and on a different note I'm from Nebraska and the Military has taken me all over the world; but from your view "I sure miss Nebraska Life".
Laura, you don’t need to justify yourself to us. We believe in you (and your cast), and we wouldn’t want it any other way. Seeing is believing, and we love what we see.
Absolutely right Laura - I work on the electronic system development for one of these tractor companies (won’t say which one 🤫😉), and fully autonomous tractors are some way off, but automation, precision farming, telematics, data and alternative fuels are all getting a lot of attention / investment and progressing rapidly. It’s an exciting time for agtech, we just need to make sure it delivers value and is genuinely useful for the users. Love the channel!!
There are so many issues that need to be ironed out before it is even practical, and then will you really be able to insure an automated tractor without someone able to take over. Lots of costly mistakes being made with an operator in the cab. A short lapse of attention almost sent me into the river several years ago in my sprayer on auto steer. One of our farms in Texas was on the Red River and saw some waters near flood stage that removed several acres from one field. Due to the topography of the field and the height of the crop I couldn't see what had happened. I looked at my rate monitor at the wrong time almost didn't have enough space to stop before going over the edge.
Really enjoy watching you planting. I haven’t been watching you guys much recently. Ukraine and my son deployed with his unit months ago. Allies ops etc. Just thinking how my cousins planted corn, wheat etc in the late 70’s. Large hectares but not flat land. Quite a contrast and no computer technology all eyeballs and brain overdrive. After school I would drive a truck loading from harvester then to the dryer’s. Cousins operation sheep/cattle/grains was big then now a lot bigger. Their kids who are about your parents generation took over and now their kids are working the farms. ( your age) They invited me down last year so I’m thinking about visiting this summer. They have similar John Deere equipment to your farms. I just want a ride in one of those tractors🙃aroha from NZ.
It's always such a great time seeing your beautiful smile and great aditude, most people don't know what it takes to produce food (it just magically appears in the store) great video thanks for all the work .
Lots of women these days driving the huge dump trucks at the massive open cut mines in Australia. They are well paid - but the mines are nearly all located in remote, harsh climate places.
Automation happens in stages. It’s not too difficult to imagine a comfy air conditioned room in your house decked out like the tractor cab. It’s not impossible for sensors to detect the failure of some seeding or harvesting operation. Sure, it may be necessary to hop on a quad bike and perform a fix, but how often you need to do it is the question. If something goes wrong once a day, is that too often? Also, remember that this virtual tractor cab can be scaled up with almost no effort to run multiple real tractors at once. Everyone thinks their job can’t be done by machines, even up to the point the machines are doing 98% of the work.
If automated tractors were good enough at detecting faults and just stopping, then one farmer could run several of them at the same time and just drive between them to fix the problems.
Agreed, every job can be done by machines. The only problem is that the industries like to cut costs and save money, so those machines often fail more than they normally would... But like you said, stages. Even that problem becomes less and less.
Every job will be doable by a machine, eventually. Esp those that peoples consider "high value" making advanced calculation is something that will come very easy to future AI. Even making the machines will be doable by other machines in the future and we, humanity, will become completely redunant on the grand scheme of things. Let's just hope the singularity will be kind to us.
Autonomous equipment only works as long as there is a human around to monitor and fix things that don’t go as programmed. While AI has come a long way in identifying problems, the realm of a machine then fixing them remains pretty limited. The bigger the machine, the faster it operates, the more it produces, the more important it is to catch and fix glitches ASAP, which can’t be done from sitting in a Lazy Boy recliner 20 miles away. Of course with all the computerized equipment today, I constantly worry that we are one EMP away from entering the stone age.
Apparently our power grid is extremely vulnerable too, only a matter of time before a country develops something to take it out. You could probably do it from behind a computer at some point.
@@nkxseal8398 we can stop embracing all this new technology as good or necessary and learn how to get by without it. Believe it or not I still farm with equipment that has zero computers and a tractor driver actually has to drive the tractor, not sit in luxury squeeky clean cab while watching computer screens. John deer company cant shut any of my machines down if i don't pay their monthly subscription
I feel “old” saying this, and I guess I’m not ancient, but if you and Grant are any representation of the farming youth of today (and I pray you are) we still have hope as a nation! Well done, you two!
Unexpected YT recommended video. But I found it very interesting. Interesting to see new generation farmers. Never seen such a cool tractor. Field is HHUUUGGEEEE. Super cool to watch on a sunday shift.
City boy doing city things gets a youtube video suggestion and clicks on a whim. Glad I did! Heart warming to see the wholesome family supporting and looking for each other while working together.
Happy birthday, Laura! And may you have many many more to come! (and p.s. doing things for yourself like getting your nails done are all part of taking care of number one, so that you can keep taking care of all of the things that you love!)
Finally got caught up on all your videos last night. Pretty interesting stuff you & yours do to feed the people! I do have one question with the ever rising cost of diesel do you buy in bulk and do you get a discount or set pricing year round.
first time watching your channel. Just a few things that stood out to me - I am not a farmer at all: holy moly - agriculture is super important und I appreciate your work so much but a field that size without trees, bushes or at least some natural stripes every now and then is soo ecologically dead. No room for insects, birds or a few rodents. And isnt the wind a problem for your soil? You must have so much erosion and sand storms :-O It just does not seem to be very sustainable to me. But as I said - thanks to every farmer for what you do. And also, you are super adorable :) cheers from the other side of the atlantic lake
Always great to see you both sharing your hard labor with us. The many accomplishments each and every day must make you feel great. Even if it’s a little accident like Grant had. No harm no foul, parts can be replaced. The are lessons to learn and I’m glad you show both the good and the not so good. Please stay safe. Happy belated birthday Laura. May life for you and your family continue to be blessed and beautiful
When a person is really good at their job, the task at hand, they always make it look very effortless. You are so right, people don't see all of tge background work leading up to the efficiency of a job done well, and they don't notice the tons of little things that are done while seemingly being effortless. I hear you Laura. It is still a lot of work.
“Okay. Well, right now the world doesn't need more engineers. We didn't run out of planes, or television sets. We ran out of food. The world needs farmers. Good farmers, like you.”
I am not sure I understand your point. The world needs fewer farmers because of engineers (by at least an order of magnitude). Did you see the tractor steer itself? Track where it had already planted? Not to mention the tractor itself. Oh, and you should have a look at the varieties of seed available for purchase - they are optimised for different levels of moisture and different conditions to provide the greatest yield, all of which are are chosen based upon forecasts made by engineers. Farming is an incredibly technology intensive occupation.
@@travisSimon365 Its a quote from interstellar Hence the quotation marks!). This reminded me of the autonomous tractors there. I hope this helps you understand my point.
There's definitely things AI can do really well, and some it can't. Processing extremely large amounts of data quickly and arriving at the best solution based on a set criteria is something a machine can do better than any biological being. A calculator is a simple example; internet databases are a more modern one. Doing repetitive motion is another great machine advantage. What they fail at are things that require human dexterity. So making an AI robot to go into someone's house to fix a leaking pipe in a timely manner - extremely extremely difficult. Or, like you said, fishing out that one branch in a specific row in a massive field - very tricky. So there are definitely advantages and limitations to machines, but overall, I'd say anything driving-related is probably on it's way to becoming automated. If you told a farmer in the 1900s that in the future there'd be a giant, wheeled machine planting thousands of seeds by itself, he'd probably laugh. So a lot of tech that seems outlandish or impractical now might be evolve to be pretty useful 50, 100, or 500 years down the road.
What she meant by that was occasionally you get an object or debris blocking the feeder from metering out seeds, and while there are sensors that could be used to detect that, creating a machine that could adapt to whatever might have found its way in there and fixing the problem is a different story entirely. Imagine getting a piece of paper bag stuck in there underneath 50lbs of seed and your tractor shuts down in the middle of a 600 acre field waiting for someone to fish it out so the tractor can keep going. In order to stay productive and not compact/disturb your soil unnecessarily, you'd just about have to utilize a helicopter to fly out to the tractor every time. Being in the cab and able to fix the problem on the spot when it happens is something current technology is sorely lacking. Think about all the little bolts that broke and whatnot that she filmed early in the video, those are also things that an operator could likely fix on the spot. It's that kind of stuff that's the real roadblock to autonomous farming.
You are such a help. My in-laws next door farm, and I would pester them to death to learn and see all the things they do. Never think anything too simple.
Fighting 8.3% inflation (more like 35%) with a 1% Fed funds interest rate is like stopping a forest fire with a bucket of water. Folks prepare accordingly. Make investment in other not to depend on the government for funds
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I have been making losses trying to make profit by buying and holding cryptocurrency. I thought trading demo account is just like trading the real market... can anyone help me out least advise me on what to do?
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A belated happy birthday, Laura, it is always a joy to see your videos. You are correct, nothing can replace the personal touch in the cab. Sound changes will tell you if something is not right, no computer can do that in a tractor. Stay fit and healthy, saying that it was good to hear you say grandpa was out and about, I hope he is doing well.
I love that a farm girl who can sling 50 lb bags of seed (and haul lava rocks in the mud) recognizes that she's still a girl who likes nice nails. I'm a suburban older white collar man who is learning more about where my food comes from. I was also pleased to hear that your grandpa is well enough that he could come out to the field. My birthday is also May 11, and I had the honor of sharing that birthday with my grandfather.
Wow, thanks for the video!! Being from the city I never get to see how farmers do their work. Really fascinating!!! Thanks so much cause I love to eat!!! Appreciate you so much!!!
I really enjoy your videos and watching your mastery of operating the tractors and complex gear. Recently downsized our home and had to sell my 4320 cab tractor which broke my heart and I believe my dog Maggie’s as well as she loved to go for tractor rides with me. Anyways your amazing!
Hi Laura. I graduated from Concordia Teachers College in Seward in1977. First time I had been in Nebraska. I'm from Colorado. I miss those Nebraska sunsets and thoroughly enjoy seeing them in your videos. Brings back good memories. My husband and I love following you and Grant. Happy BD fellow Taurus.
A lot of people don't grasp that autonomous systems are there to improve the human output, not replace it. The sheer amount of work you guys can do today thanks to modern technology is astonishing, but even in this one video you had at least 3 mechanical failures you had to identify and resolve, you had multiple restocks you had to do, and those systems are not flawless. If a machine went slightly off script, and had no oversight, it could massively fuck up an entire crop, or even potentially cause serious harm. Autonomous systems augment the human. Great video from a new watcher thanks!
I farmed back in the 60's-70s, no cab , 110 hp G1000 Minneapolis Moline tractor, all row crop, no sprinklers, just moved 10" aluminum pipe, 30' long pipe, raised cattle on winter wheat, had alfalfa, hauled hay by hand 5 cuttings a year. Never would've thought tractors being "autonomous " or whatever that means. But equipment wasn't near that expensive and what we didn't have we borrowed from another farmer who had it. The old rule, if you borrow it you fixed it at your expense, great days. I never knew what it was like without getting sunbaked and breathing dirt all day. Good ole days!
You would not believe how great it is to have a rug that you use in the bathroom the bigger one. To put your feet on. Gives you better traction plus your legs are not tired at the end of the day. And when it gets dirty you just shake it out you don't have to vacuum the whole cab.
Great Video! Happy B-Day Laura! To hell with Autonomous Farming, it has its place but not so much in your fields. We've all smashed into stuff Grant, your a good man. Thank you both for what you do for America!🇺🇸🇺🇸
I have worked at a number of factories and construction sites, and you should revisit the issue of ear protection. I never had any trouble hearing alarms, etc., while blocking out distractions.
Great explanation as to how technology complements the person and does not replace the person. You are far more efficient and productive than farmers of the past. Thank god. You feed the ever expanding world!! Keep it up.
Happy Belated Birthday Laura! And I agree, the world will never get to where we don't need farmers! And Grant, man I would agree no texting and driving tractors but I be editing videos and driving with no auto steer all the time lol enjoyed the video you guys!
Thanks For Allowing Us To Follow Along Today!! Thanks for your Explanation Thru The Video!! Happy Birthday A Few Days Late! Hope You Had A Great Day!! Keep Smiling On!! 😀👍👊
Some years ago I passed through Nebraska and was astonished at the scope of agriculture. Thank to this, I now know how it gets done. Thanks for the education! May 18 here.
Had a buddy fall asleep in a large piece of farming equipment and cause all kinds a chaos. . . This was back in the day when the closest thing to computerized was the AM radio. . .
There is a reason you are planting on your birthday over & over! It's because you love what you do and it shows in these videos. Thanks to you & farmers everywhere.
I stumbled upon your channel and am really enjoying what you are showing. I am in California, but my mom was born in Callaway (looks to be about an hour away from where you are). For generations my family were farmers in Nebraska. My grandparents left partly because my uncle was deaf and California had better schools for deaf kids at the time. When my grandmother was a child, her favorite part of farming was walking behind the horses and holding the plow steady. I love seeing how technology has made farming more comfortable, faster, and more productive. I feel like I’m connecting with my roots when I watch your videos, and who knows, maybe our great great grandparents knew each other! Thanks for making these videos and keep up the good work!
Love how you always include detail in your explanations….things no one else thinks to tell us non-farmers. Even how to rip open the seed bags….so cool. Thank you for everything you do….because I know it’s plenty. I love ❤️ you!!! Grammy
Always!! With a positive attitude!! Regardless what kind of weather , time or day , it is plus her enthusiasm to explain every single steps 🖤fabulous!!
For some reason, this has been my favorite video of this season! So interesting and fun to watch. Also, I just commented to my wife last night, as I was finishing up mowing my yard, how good the lilacs smelled. So I know what you were experiencing with your grandma's lilac bushes! Best summer scent.
This video is one of your best works. I was riveted to the screen, absorbing the tips and tricks of planting down to the smallest detail. Your personality shone through and through. HAPPY BIRTHDAY LAURA.
From someone who used to do that whole process manually, the new technology is amazing and so much nicer. It's so nice to see someone from the next generation stay involved and make it their life also. So many of my friends are having to sell out because none of their children want to come back and take over.
They seemed to have missed out on a great n noble n self employment opportunity then
So sad that farmers are having to sell. I just pray it is not china or gates buying them.
Me..good morning my tractor!!
Tractor outonomus voice asistent: morning ma boss🙂
Me: maping and screeing my area now!!...
Tractor otonomus voice assistant: okey ma boss, The drone is ready to fly, wait a few minutes, mapping and screening five dimension is ALREADY!!. Be excited to work ,my boss😉😁
You mention God and yet are planting a crop (corn) that is harming the environment...This is Gods land and you are poisoning it...What do you have to say?
Sorry, but where the heck did you get that information? Corn fields not only produce a beneficial crop, but help with wildlife and soil stability. Please check your sources.
15:00 i got to say as a crane operator your words at minute 15 mark got directly to the hart and the sad part is that 99% of the people do not understand this type of effort
Happy Birthday Laura! Yeah, we definitely still need farmers! Thanks for all you you do! Totally understand being sore after a day in the tractor! Especially lifting all those seed bags💪
There are a couple of things you can do if the beeping is too loud, if it's a single hole over the speaker you can put a piece of tape over it. If it's more of a grate, a piece or two of paper taped over the opening (I use a pad of sticky notes placed on top of the speaker on my radio at work because even on low volume it's too loud).
I don't really know why I find this so fascinating, but it really is. Please keep these videos coming!
"Open the tractor door, Hal" Hal replies,"I'm sorry Laura. I can't do that." How tractors evolve under artificial intelligence.
Haha 🤣🤣
AAAGGGHHH !!! Shades of a 40 year old Space Oddity....er ....Odyssey.....😳
Seed bag pull strings! I rarely got them to pull easy. It was the same way with old bags of Purina Dog Chow back in the 1960s, early 1970s.
When I worked at the seed corn plant I liked sewing up sample bags.
LOL she is way to young for that movie but that was funny
It's cool..Right👍😁
You are such a happy person!! I'm in the automation business, but I think you were exceptional in your descriptions.
You have pleasantly exposed me to so much that I didn't realize about farming. I love your skills and your personality for sure. Thank You.
Laura you are most defiantly a real farmer! I'm happy for you in the pride you have in your craft. thank you for the great content !
It's not hard to want to have a nap around & around & around you go,it's hypnotic.
Good to hear gramps is doing well. 😊
Place a piece of tape over the beeper speaker it might make it quieter
I drove a CAT 777 rock truck on a coal mine when I was younger. I definitely get what you're saying. They're automatic with power steering so the trucks are very nimble, but you feel like you're driving in a house, being so high in the air and the weight under your tiers, compared to the smaller Bell or Volvo articulating trucks.
a 777 is still pretty damn big no matter how easy it is to drive, and you still have to pay attention to what you run over
I spent alot of time on my family's several farms while growing up in the 70's and 80's. Wolverton and Doran Minnesota. It looks like where you are.
This is one of your top vlogs, where you explained all the specific tasks the tractor/ seeder does, while you explained why you needed to be vigilant in observing & knowing what the machinery was doing at any time. This is not an easy job, and you are a superstar!! I love your channel!
Happy Birthday and many many more birthday's to come your way!!
Happy Belated Birthday Laura on today of May 21, 2022! Hope you had a wonderful birthday at some point in time. Amazing how quickly your channel continues to grow. Happy and Safe Planting! -Bob...
If I recall her birthday was may 12 th
@@jerrypeal653 11th
@@farmersprat6472 👌 thought I seen a vid for the 12 but you know how memories can be . 😊
What really amazes me Miss Laura, with all those monitors and the info they are displaying, you actually know what to do next and quickly execute it. WOW!! AMAZING!!!! LOVE IT I DO!!!!!
UA-cam decided that I must watch Laura Farms and I must say it was educational and I like it. The algorithm hard at work 🤣
Happy belated Birthday honey. You are a joy to watch. Your videos are always great. God Bless you.
Happy 11 days belated HAPPY BIRTHDAY LAURA!!!!!! I hope you had a great day!
The nails looks nice.
My grandparents were farmers and they had lilac bushes. I always enjoyed seeing and smelling the lilacs in the backyard after a long hot day of playing and helping my grandparents.
I moved to town in 1972. Prior to that, Dad had about 100 acres that we raised crops on and another 200 acres that we ran cattle on. I spent lots of time on a 1950’s or late 40’s model John Deer “Popping Johnny. I might have stayed on the farm if he’d have had a tractor with a cabin. It was either too hot or too cold for me. At 69, I live my farmer life through you kids. I miss it every day.
We learn so much from this channel!! Both of us grew up around farms, only when we were children, so seeing the equipment and how things are run just takes things to another level. Your videos are fun and informative, so thank you so much for them all! Hope you had an awesome b-day!! And Grant, the most chilled and professional worker I've ever seen, you're damn cool, showing us important yet overlooked stuff giving even more info.. Thank you both!
Wish I knew sooner. Happy belated birthday, Laura! Mine's just a few days earlier on the 8th. I love Raising Cane's! We just got one near me in Illinois a year or so ago. Usually, I'll get the box combo so there's leftovers for the next day!
bag opening is for sure interesting, but with many bags and especially if you arent gonna be using a whole bag dont break off the end of the string after opening the bag, and you can use it to close the bag back up by twisting the top of the bag cinching and tying it off. .
All your smart equipment amazes me and how much you need to know to use it.
You have an amazing channel!
Thanks for all you both do.
I love you and Grant and the way you guys trying to keep farming alive glad you have the technology now I didn't have when my family farmed was all open tractors God bless you guys and stay safe
Happy belatd birthday Laura! Thanks for constantly spreading that knowledge, there will ALWAYS be the need for a human touch when it comes to farming, for sure!
As a side note, those guns prove you aren't just "sitting" all day. Keep up the great content!
💪🏽 😉👍🏼
I wanted to say your videos have a tremendous value, and on a different note I'm from Nebraska and the Military has taken me all over the world; but from your view "I sure miss Nebraska Life".
Laura, you don’t need to justify yourself to us. We believe in you (and your cast), and we wouldn’t want it any other way. Seeing is believing, and we love what we see.
Absolutely right Laura - I work on the electronic system development for one of these tractor companies (won’t say which one 🤫😉), and fully autonomous tractors are some way off, but automation, precision farming, telematics, data and alternative fuels are all getting a lot of attention / investment and progressing rapidly. It’s an exciting time for agtech, we just need to make sure it delivers value and is genuinely useful for the users. Love the channel!!
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keep the farmers in the cabs
There are so many issues that need to be ironed out before it is even practical, and then will you really be able to insure an automated tractor without someone able to take over. Lots of costly mistakes being made with an operator in the cab. A short lapse of attention almost sent me into the river several years ago in my sprayer on auto steer. One of our farms in Texas was on the Red River and saw some waters near flood stage that removed several acres from one field. Due to the topography of the field and the height of the crop I couldn't see what had happened. I looked at my rate monitor at the wrong time almost didn't have enough space to stop before going over the edge.
Really enjoy watching you planting. I haven’t been watching you guys much recently. Ukraine and my son deployed with his unit months ago. Allies ops etc. Just thinking how my cousins planted corn, wheat etc in the late 70’s. Large hectares but not flat land. Quite a contrast and no computer technology all eyeballs and brain overdrive. After school I would drive a truck loading from harvester then to the dryer’s. Cousins operation sheep/cattle/grains was big then now a lot bigger. Their kids who are about your parents generation took over and now their kids are working the farms. ( your age) They invited me down last year so I’m thinking about visiting this summer. They have similar John Deere equipment to your farms. I just want a ride in one of those tractors🙃aroha from NZ.
It's always such a great time seeing your beautiful smile and great aditude, most people don't know what it takes to produce food (it just magically appears in the store) great video thanks for all the work .
Laura, your upper body strength is phenomenal. Happy Birthday to you.
Happiest of Birthdays to you Laura!! I hope your day was great and you took a little break and was able to chillax! Love the content!
Lots of women these days driving the huge dump trucks at the massive open cut mines in Australia. They are well paid - but the mines are nearly all located in remote, harsh climate places.
Automation happens in stages. It’s not too difficult to imagine a comfy air conditioned room in your house decked out like the tractor cab. It’s not impossible for sensors to detect the failure of some seeding or harvesting operation. Sure, it may be necessary to hop on a quad bike and perform a fix, but how often you need to do it is the question. If something goes wrong once a day, is that too often? Also, remember that this virtual tractor cab can be scaled up with almost no effort to run multiple real tractors at once.
Everyone thinks their job can’t be done by machines, even up to the point the machines are doing 98% of the work.
If automated tractors were good enough at detecting faults and just stopping, then one farmer could run several of them at the same time and just drive between them to fix the problems.
Good point
Agreed, every job can be done by machines. The only problem is that the industries like to cut costs and save money, so those machines often fail more than they normally would...
But like you said, stages. Even that problem becomes less and less.
Every job will be doable by a machine, eventually. Esp those that peoples consider "high value" making advanced calculation is something that will come very easy to future AI. Even making the machines will be doable by other machines in the future and we, humanity, will become completely redunant on the grand scheme of things. Let's just hope the singularity will be kind to us.
Thanks Laura and Grant for the content and letting us into your lives. On to the next.
Being somebody that lives in san diego near the beach. this is so rad to watch. you guys are putting in work!! Can't wait to learn more from you guys.
Autonomous equipment only works as long as there is a human around to monitor and fix things that don’t go as programmed. While AI has come a long way in identifying problems, the realm of a machine then fixing them remains pretty limited. The bigger the machine, the faster it operates, the more it produces, the more important it is to catch and fix glitches ASAP, which can’t be done from sitting in a Lazy Boy recliner 20 miles away. Of course with all the computerized equipment today, I constantly worry that we are one EMP away from entering the stone age.
had to look up EMP. and yep you are right, one shot of that could bring us back down to a new level of old fashion we may not be ready for .
Apparently our power grid is extremely vulnerable too, only a matter of time before a country develops something to take it out. You could probably do it from behind a computer at some point.
@@nkxseal8398 natural emp is more of a concern. We are one huge solar flare away from entering another stone age and starting all over.
@@redrustyhill2 Well sure but something like that isn't something we could do anything about.
@@nkxseal8398 we can stop embracing all this new technology as good or necessary and learn how to get by without it. Believe it or not I still farm with equipment that has zero computers and a tractor driver actually has to drive the tractor, not sit in luxury squeeky clean cab while watching computer screens. John deer company cant shut any of my machines down if i don't pay their monthly subscription
I feel “old” saying this, and I guess I’m not ancient, but if you and Grant are any representation of the farming youth of today (and I pray you are) we still have hope as a nation! Well done, you two!
Unexpected YT recommended video. But I found it very interesting.
Interesting to see new generation farmers. Never seen such a cool tractor. Field is HHUUUGGEEEE.
Super cool to watch on a sunday shift.
City boy doing city things gets a youtube video suggestion and clicks on a whim. Glad I did! Heart warming to see the wholesome family supporting and looking for each other while working together.
Happy Birthday Laura, maybe you could try putting a bit of heavy tape over where the loud beep comes out. 🙂
Happy birthday to you 🎂
Gratulere med dagen, du lager mange fine videoer 🤩🤩
Happy birthday, Laura! And may you have many many more to come!
(and p.s. doing things for yourself like getting your nails done are all part of taking care of number one, so that you can keep taking care of all of the things that you love!)
Happy Belated Birthday Laura.
Finally got caught up on all your videos last night. Pretty interesting stuff you & yours do to feed the people! I do have one question with the ever rising cost of diesel do you buy in bulk and do you get a discount or set pricing year round.
first time watching your channel. Just a few things that stood out to me - I am not a farmer at all:
holy moly - agriculture is super important und I appreciate your work so much but a field that size without trees, bushes or at least some natural stripes every now and then is soo ecologically dead. No room for insects, birds or a few rodents. And isnt the wind a problem for your soil? You must have so much erosion and sand storms :-O It just does not seem to be very sustainable to me.
But as I said - thanks to every farmer for what you do. And also, you are super adorable :)
cheers from the other side of the atlantic lake
Always great to see you both sharing your hard labor with us. The many accomplishments each and every day must make you feel great. Even if it’s a little accident like Grant had. No harm no foul, parts can be replaced. The are lessons to learn and I’m glad you show both the good and the not so good. Please stay safe. Happy belated birthday Laura. May life for you and your family continue to be blessed and beautiful
When a person is really good at their job, the task at hand, they always make it look very effortless.
You are so right, people don't see all of tge background work leading up to the efficiency of a job done well, and they don't notice the tons of little things that are done while seemingly being effortless.
I hear you Laura. It is still a lot of work.
“Okay. Well, right now the world doesn't need more engineers. We didn't run out of planes, or television sets. We ran out of food. The world needs farmers. Good farmers, like you.”
I am not sure I understand your point. The world needs fewer farmers because of engineers (by at least an order of magnitude). Did you see the tractor steer itself? Track where it had already planted? Not to mention the tractor itself. Oh, and you should have a look at the varieties of seed available for purchase - they are optimised for different levels of moisture and different conditions to provide the greatest yield, all of which are are chosen based upon forecasts made by engineers.
Farming is an incredibly technology intensive occupation.
@@travisSimon365 Its a quote from interstellar Hence the quotation marks!). This reminded me of the autonomous tractors there. I hope this helps you understand my point.
There's definitely things AI can do really well, and some it can't. Processing extremely large amounts of data quickly and arriving at the best solution based on a set criteria is something a machine can do better than any biological being. A calculator is a simple example; internet databases are a more modern one. Doing repetitive motion is another great machine advantage. What they fail at are things that require human dexterity. So making an AI robot to go into someone's house to fix a leaking pipe in a timely manner - extremely extremely difficult. Or, like you said, fishing out that one branch in a specific row in a massive field - very tricky. So there are definitely advantages and limitations to machines, but overall, I'd say anything driving-related is probably on it's way to becoming automated. If you told a farmer in the 1900s that in the future there'd be a giant, wheeled machine planting thousands of seeds by itself, he'd probably laugh. So a lot of tech that seems outlandish or impractical now might be evolve to be pretty useful 50, 100, or 500 years down the road.
We are not far from having full autonomous tractor....repetitive instances are where AI works better
What she meant by that was occasionally you get an object or debris blocking the feeder from metering out seeds, and while there are sensors that could be used to detect that, creating a machine that could adapt to whatever might have found its way in there and fixing the problem is a different story entirely. Imagine getting a piece of paper bag stuck in there underneath 50lbs of seed and your tractor shuts down in the middle of a 600 acre field waiting for someone to fish it out so the tractor can keep going. In order to stay productive and not compact/disturb your soil unnecessarily, you'd just about have to utilize a helicopter to fly out to the tractor every time. Being in the cab and able to fix the problem on the spot when it happens is something current technology is sorely lacking. Think about all the little bolts that broke and whatnot that she filmed early in the video, those are also things that an operator could likely fix on the spot. It's that kind of stuff that's the real roadblock to autonomous farming.
You are such a help. My in-laws next door farm, and I would pester them to death to learn and see all the things they do. Never think anything too simple.
Very informative video and Happy Birthday farm girl!
Fighting 8.3% inflation (more like 35%) with a 1% Fed funds interest rate is like stopping a forest fire with a bucket of water. Folks prepare accordingly. Make investment in other not to depend on the government for funds
I agree with you and I believe that the secret to financial stability is having the right investment ideas to enable you earn more money, I don't know who agrees with me but either way I recommend either real estate or crypto and stocks.
Investing is how you create Wealth, I started investing from pandemic crash,and I archived alot investing in cryptocurrency
People are ignorant of the high profitability in crypto and that has been the major issue limiting their profitability
I have been making losses trying to make profit by buying and holding cryptocurrency. I thought trading demo account is just like trading the real market... can anyone help me out least advise me on what to do?
@@lewan5975 Trading is the future, not these holding on crypto currency and expecting a surge in market price,learn how to trade from a pro,I was buying and holding but I was advice by a friend to learn daily trading with his mentor Cody Smith
So jealous of that tractor. I work on a tree farm and all of ours are open cab and old as dirt.
Happy belated on your birthday, dear Laura. 🤗
Greetings to everyone from Germany.
Laura, you are like home to me.
Home, everything I have tried to get back to.
The force, Laura, ever present.
A belated happy birthday, Laura, it is always a joy to see your videos. You are correct, nothing can replace the personal touch in the cab. Sound changes will tell you if something is not right, no computer can do that in a tractor.
Stay fit and healthy, saying that it was good to hear you say grandpa was out and about, I hope he is doing well.
That Precious Smile Angel !!
You are so adorable! 💗🤍😇
I love that a farm girl who can sling 50 lb bags of seed (and haul lava rocks in the mud) recognizes that she's still a girl who likes nice nails. I'm a suburban older white collar man who is learning more about where my food comes from. I was also pleased to hear that your grandpa is well enough that he could come out to the field. My birthday is also May 11, and I had the honor of sharing that birthday with my grandfather.
Wow, thanks for the video!! Being from the city I never get to see how farmers do their work. Really fascinating!!! Thanks so much cause I love to eat!!! Appreciate you so much!!!
I really enjoy your videos and watching your mastery of operating the tractors and complex gear. Recently downsized our home and had to sell my 4320 cab tractor which broke my heart and I believe my dog Maggie’s as well as she loved to go for tractor rides with me. Anyways your amazing!
The weather may be dull outside because the sunshine's IN the cab .🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞
Ya know.. I've never seen someone do a seed/feed bag ASMR before. But I never knew I needed it either. I do now. Thanks!
Thanks for all the food, Laura.
Hi Laura. I graduated from Concordia Teachers College in Seward in1977. First time I had been in Nebraska. I'm from Colorado. I miss those Nebraska sunsets and thoroughly enjoy seeing them in your videos. Brings back good memories. My husband and I love following you and Grant. Happy BD fellow Taurus.
A lot of people don't grasp that autonomous systems are there to improve the human output, not replace it. The sheer amount of work you guys can do today thanks to modern technology is astonishing, but even in this one video you had at least 3 mechanical failures you had to identify and resolve, you had multiple restocks you had to do, and those systems are not flawless. If a machine went slightly off script, and had no oversight, it could massively fuck up an entire crop, or even potentially cause serious harm. Autonomous systems augment the human. Great video from a new watcher thanks!
Happy birthday Laura! Greetz from fryslan, the Netherlands.. We love your stories about farming!
Without a doubt one of the most endearing personalities on the interwebs! Hooked!
I farmed back in the 60's-70s, no cab , 110 hp G1000 Minneapolis Moline tractor, all row crop, no sprinklers, just moved 10" aluminum pipe, 30' long pipe, raised cattle on winter wheat, had alfalfa, hauled hay by hand 5 cuttings a year. Never would've thought tractors being "autonomous " or whatever that means. But equipment wasn't near that expensive and what we didn't have we borrowed from another farmer who had it. The old rule, if you borrow it you fixed it at your expense, great days. I never knew what it was like without getting sunbaked and breathing dirt all day. Good ole days!
It's wonderful to see how much you love your job.
Happy Birthday Laura. Thanks for Sharing!
Happy birthday little sis ..Laura 😘💓neat. Show too. Don't change thing
Happy Birthday Laura !!!
Thanks for sharing your days with us. for some reason it’s very relaxing to watch.
Happy birthday, may GOD bless you with many many more
Good job Laura, and happy late birthday,,also all those all day workouts show , you are looking fabulous
You would not believe how great it is to have a rug that you use in the bathroom the bigger one. To put your feet on. Gives you better traction plus your legs are not tired at the end of the day. And when it gets dirty you just shake it out you don't have to vacuum the whole cab.
This is a world apart from what we do, growing stuff using hand tools and it's fascinating. Thank you for sharing how to plant using a tractor.
Great Video! Happy B-Day Laura!
To hell with Autonomous Farming, it has its place but not so much in your fields. We've all smashed into stuff Grant, your a good man. Thank you both for what you do for America!🇺🇸🇺🇸
Gotta love that smile and bubbly personality. This young woman was raised right.💘👍🌹
My older brother's birthday is the same as yours!! May 11th...happy belated bd!! Looks like much fun!!
Thanks for sharing! God Bless you!
I have worked at a number of factories and construction sites, and you should revisit the issue of ear protection. I never had any trouble hearing alarms, etc., while blocking out distractions.
@6:21 yes!!! I finally got to learn how to open bags of charcoal properly without getting annoyed. not even being sarcastic either. thanks!
Great explanation as to how technology complements the person and does not replace the person. You are far more efficient and productive than farmers of the past. Thank god. You feed the ever expanding world!! Keep it up.
Happy Belated Birthday Laura! And I agree, the world will never get to where we don't need farmers! And Grant, man I would agree no texting and driving tractors but I be editing videos and driving with no auto steer all the time lol enjoyed the video you guys!
Thanks For Allowing Us To Follow Along Today!! Thanks for your Explanation Thru The Video!!
Happy Birthday A Few Days Late! Hope You Had A Great Day!!
Keep Smiling On!!
😀👍👊
Some years ago I passed through Nebraska and was astonished at the scope of agriculture. Thank to this, I now know how it gets done. Thanks for the education! May 18 here.
That Zip Stitch works great, and is a fantastic idea. Until it gets wet, then they don't like to come apart too good.
On the "beepers", partially cover the sound ports with tape, that will tame it.
Had a buddy fall asleep in a large piece of farming equipment and cause all kinds a chaos. . . This was back in the day when the closest thing to computerized was the AM radio. . .
Happy Belated Birthday Laura,hope you had a amazing day!
Wow yes, the opening of the bag is so satisfying! I've been trying to get that right with a bag of charcoal for years now... One day.. lol.