CATASTROPHIC FLOODING AT THE FARM!

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9 күн бұрын

13.4 inches of rain in less than 5 days has inundated our fields, causing severe flooding. Our farm's bin site is damaged, and many roads are now inaccessible. In today's video, I show the widespread destruction caused by this once-in-a-lifetime flooding event that swept across my farm in Southwest Minnesota. This catastrophic flood also impacted Eastern South Dakota, Northern Iowa, and all of Southern Minnesota.
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Matthias, aka HiTech Farmer, is a 5th generation family farmer from Southwest Minnesota who promotes agriculture by capturing it through the lens of a camera, one video at a time. Passionate about emerging farm technologies and the benefits of 21st-century precision agriculture tools, such as farm equipment, GPS, and autonomous tractors, Matthias is determined to bring new methods into his operation. These methods can improve his farm's efficiency and sustainability into the future. Learning from his parents' (Mike and Dawn) work ethic, Matthias sees every day as an opportunity to educate and entertain about the daily triumphs and challenges his farm faces, whether technology-related or not. His mission is to share his enthusiasm and knowledge of agriculture as he embarks on what it means to be a farmer in the modern era.

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@Redlinesixtynine 5 күн бұрын

As a farmer in SW Ontario, it's so tough to see this. God bless you folks, hoping the weather straightens out soon.

@HiTech_Farmer 5 күн бұрын

Thanks neighbor

@Mr1965impala 6 күн бұрын

Great update on the flood damage! I appreciate your work, support the farming community!

@HiTech_Farmer 5 күн бұрын

Thanks!

@rau123 6 күн бұрын

I just discovered your channel. Great videos. I'm so sorry to hear about the inundation of rain. I hope that the fields can recover!

@JIMRbach193 5 күн бұрын

Prayers that the water recedes rapidly, and your crops stay healthy to harvest.

@ReginaRedding 3 күн бұрын

🙏🙏🙏

@marcholtz7582 5 күн бұрын

Hard to do but stay positive, it's a very tough business you're in son!

@HiTech_Farmer 5 күн бұрын

Mother nature as a business partner isn't the easiest thing

@jimmygibson5924 6 күн бұрын

Good Afternoon from Northeast Mississippi-Prayers for you and your entire family for a speedy recovery and prayers for all of the other farmers dealing with flood water and all of the damages done by the flooding-Good luck and God Speed-

@HiTech_Farmer 5 күн бұрын

Thank you so much for your kind words and prayers. Hope this doesn't cause much flooding downstream

@asquithmainlines699 7 күн бұрын

No matter how much you plan, how hard you try or how many hours you work. You can not control the weather and although that is not unique to farming it sure can mess with what it is you are trying to accomplish. Sorry for your luck but I bet you will remember 2024 for the rest of your life.

@bordstif84 6 күн бұрын

Same thing happening here in MB Canada. As if farmers don't have it hard enough. But regardless I thank the Lord above for this opportunity to learn and cherish the good years even more. Hopefully Plant25 will be better.

@mikelembke5121 6 күн бұрын

Happens every once in a while

@HiTech_Farmer 5 күн бұрын

Without a doubt I'll never forget it. Thankfully no one was hurt

@dorokaiyinvil5705 3 күн бұрын

This is a small glimpse of his future farm

@mikelembke5121 3 күн бұрын

So true of farming

@Shiryone 6 күн бұрын

When things get tough, only the strong don't give up. All the best to you and those that work with you.

@maxmoo3275 6 күн бұрын

Thanks for the tour, my heart goes out to you guys. There's only one thing worse than too much rain and that is no rain at all.

@dennislonghenry3418 6 күн бұрын

I wouldn't say no rain is a bad thing. I farmed up until 2022 and it rained like this in iowa in 1993.we had lakes like you do there is no yield at all. But with drought you usually had a little yield every where. I've always had better yield with a drought than with flooding

@chopperchopper1418 5 күн бұрын

No , its a meteorite 70 mile by 70 mile in mass on fire 🔥 smashing er favorite bingo hall. 😅😆✌️✌️

@brucedeboer9713 6 күн бұрын

Thanks for informing us on how this flooding impacts the farming community. Prayers that those crops can still recover.

@HiTech_Farmer 5 күн бұрын

Thanks for the support!

@mikenawrocki1837 6 күн бұрын

Thanks for the video. Big fan of farming community. Hopefully the crops will survive

@HiTech_Farmer 5 күн бұрын

Thanks!

@lindamannix1247 5 күн бұрын

I'm so sorry for you farmers . Its either a drought or a flood ! Will you lose it all ? Keep praying ! You work so hard !

@HiTech_Farmer 5 күн бұрын

It really depends how long it takes for the water levels to go down. Any crops under water after 48 hours are usually toasted

@AmericanFarmerHVAC2024 4 күн бұрын

This is exactly why I get so damn pissed off at these fools that were crying the last few years about "drought" WE'VE NEVER HAD A DROUGHT. Why cloud seeding hasn't been outlawed yet here is unfathomable.

@robertthomas5590 4 күн бұрын

Thanks for sharing..

@staceyyoung4802 5 күн бұрын

This water is needed for the farms in Idaho that got their water shut off by the government after they already planted their crops.

@user-jk3mi2ee9z 4 күн бұрын

Know this was heart wrenching

@kathikapp6707 6 күн бұрын

So sorry to see the devastation on your farm! Grew up on a farm in southern central ND. I hope things get better!

@HiTech_Farmer 5 күн бұрын

Thank you for your kind words. It's been tough, but we're hopeful things will improve soon. Your support means a lot.

@Ptcountyfarmer 3 күн бұрын

I’m sorry to see this is happening to you guys. Keeping everyone in mind, better days are ahead!

@backzeats1863 5 күн бұрын

I would love to share some of that water. Aint seen rain in awhile at my farm. Keep on keeping on

@zilla2006able 7 күн бұрын

man that's a lot of water you got 😮😮😮

@kmilton1593 3 күн бұрын

Best wishes to your farm from Southern Alberta, Canada. Just harvest what matures and stay out of those fields, is all I can suggest. (After four years of drought- semi-arid lack of moisture conditions here, send us your next rain showers). It will cost you money to rebuild your roads, yield losses, etc; at least flooding is temporary, and you don't have dirty-thirty drought conditions. All the best to you and your farm.

@HiTech_Farmer 2 күн бұрын

Thanks neighbor to the north! Yes, the last 2 years we have been bone dry. Now the pattern has flipped completely 180 on us. Best of luck to you on receiving the needed moisture

@stardust949 4 күн бұрын

Thank you for your reporting on these floods. You be careful, okay? Some of that excessive water might be contaminated. God Bless you, young man.

@HiTech_Farmer 3 күн бұрын

Thank you, I will

@MustangsTrainsMowers 6 күн бұрын

How about some dike up hill from the bin site to route flowing water around it? My family farmed 500 acres 4.5 miles north of Grand Meadow Mn. My dad was on the Minnesota Dairy Promotion Board through the 1970’s. Farm was sold in 1981. We had some flooding in the south end of our farm in late summer 1978 when my parents and I were on a farm tour through Europe. My dad called home to check on things and whoever talked to my dad downplayed the situation. We finished the trip. It was interesting to tour Europe when I was 11 years old.

@HiTech_Farmer 5 күн бұрын

Thanks for the comment! The water has to go to the creek down past the bin site so what were thinking is digging in a larger culvert to be prepared for MASSIVE rain events like this. Hopefully, we'll never need it and it just looks silly to people that pass on the road.

@HiTech_Farmer 5 күн бұрын

Very interesting to learn about your connection to the farm! I bet as an 11 year old seeing something you've been raised up around on the other side of the world was quite the experience. I'd bet you are still even apart of the agriculture industry because of the influence farming had on your life when you were younger.

@MustangsTrainsMowers 5 күн бұрын

No connection to the farming industry but I have pole barn storage on an old farm. I mow the lawn in the summer and fall and I have lots of liberties to fix and dismantle my stuff as long as I don’t leave a mess or burn the place down. The fields are rented by local farmers.

@erniezsigo3926 6 күн бұрын

That's got got to be a once in a hundred year flood . Great video

@HiTech_Farmer 5 күн бұрын

Worst my Dad has ever seen! Hope I never see anything to this extent again

@zilla2006able 7 күн бұрын

I am glad I did not get all that rain where I live but in next 3 days it is be super hot for me the weather man said be 100 degrees hot hot

@TRuth.T 5 күн бұрын

Soo sorry, were beef /hay farmers in Wi. the rain is terrible here too :(

@HiTech_Farmer 3 күн бұрын

Better days ahead!

@stephenlucas9995 6 күн бұрын

Sooo... sorry for all the flooding on your farm. That is horrible damage. I hope you can recover from this soon. What a tough job you people have.

@HiTech_Farmer 5 күн бұрын

Thanks for the support!

@JMiller-yw6yg 4 күн бұрын

Got that much needed rain finally

@kellyfennell4559 4 күн бұрын

Few years back i got 21 inches in less than 4 days in ms. U just Start over

@user-fb1jk7je4r 4 күн бұрын

praying for you guys we had drought here in philippines but no flood praise God

@HiTech_Farmer 3 күн бұрын

Thanks! Hopefully you get the rains you need

@belamoure 6 күн бұрын

I heard the news but your video helped me to understand how bad it is. That system is now over Ontario and soaking us good. No complaints we had a dome of heat over us for a week.

@HiTech_Farmer 5 күн бұрын

We needed the moisture, just not ALL AT ONCE

@EricCarlson-bz2pt 6 күн бұрын

Cloud seeders.

@tuck4511 6 күн бұрын

WOW! You certainly have a very big mess to unravel. It must be heartbreaking for your whole family after all the hard work you put in. Stay strong and god bless you all.

@HiTech_Farmer 5 күн бұрын

Thank you so much! God bless

@IHkid 6 күн бұрын

Unfortunately mother nature has her ways. Hope everyone is safe! Looks like MN is the land of 20,000 lakes currently.

@BabsKaz 4 күн бұрын

This is not natural.

@louGriggs1944 3 күн бұрын

Really bad. So sorry for you and so many others affected by this.

@HiTech_Farmer 2 күн бұрын

Thanks for the support!

@garyposthuma9607 5 күн бұрын

You farmers have to have guts of steel I'd be sick to my stomach having that much land under water have to faith in God my wife always tells me I'm from central Wisconsin we've had that same Strom hit here some fields under water but not near as bad as you guys have it good luck keep faith

@dougadams2948 6 күн бұрын

Started farming in 1993 in northern Iowa and figured it can only get better from here and it has.

@missinde0723 6 күн бұрын

WOW that is a LOT of rain . . .

@cdevpayne 5 күн бұрын

You are lucky, God is washing all the chemicals from your farm. Stay safe.

@cdevpayne 5 күн бұрын

Now STOP using chemicals.

@GoaEnjoyer 4 күн бұрын

Crazy how the last few years in MN have been a severe drought and then we get this amount of rain this year

@HiTech_Farmer 3 күн бұрын

Never saw this coming after the dry winter too

@grassroot1100 5 күн бұрын

Bad set of circumstances, good luck.

@zcole6612 7 күн бұрын

Unfortunately it's part of history . Records get broken not so good memories made . But hopefully it doesn't happen for the rest of ours lives .

@heartbreaker99204 5 күн бұрын

Weather warefare

@agwhoneedsaphd2643 6 күн бұрын

Looks "good to excellent" to the usda. Lots of grain gonna come from that😊

@beetfarmerbryce9916 6 күн бұрын

Drought is busted, looks pretty bearish. USDA logic

@juliemoses1909 4 күн бұрын

Sorry about the rain. In a flat place, there really isn’t anywhere for that much water to go.

@randyvilleneuve4907 6 күн бұрын

We could use some of that water in Virginia. We are in a drought and 100 degree temperatures.

@BabsKaz 4 күн бұрын

First the crops and livestock. We are next. Eat zee bugs and be happy.

@MichaelHolloway 6 күн бұрын

3X bigger culvert under your bin driveway I thinks. :) Best of luck! Is 13 inches a 1,000-year storm event for your area?

@HiTech_Farmer 5 күн бұрын

We average between 30-35 inches of precipitation a year. For us ,13 inches in a week and 11 inches in two days breaks all known records for our area.

@alfredfleming3289 5 күн бұрын

Astonishing how much water the atmosphere can hold…..one inch of water on one acre is one hundred thousand gallons. Think of how much was released per hour in this storm.

@frenchysandi 3 күн бұрын

So sorry this happened. It’s devastating.

@HiTech_Farmer 2 күн бұрын

Thanks for the support!

@gerryjohnson9163 6 күн бұрын

So sad, my sympathies, prayers for sunshine!

@HiTech_Farmer 5 күн бұрын

Appreciate it!

@janejohnson7858 6 күн бұрын

This is mark live in ill have farm on nobles county 13 thanks for the heads up

@Joodster 6 күн бұрын

Sorry to see what’s happening to your fields. Odd how MN went from severe drought to flooded in the span of a couple months.

@HiTech_Farmer 5 күн бұрын

Thanks. I still can't believe it either. From drought to flooding in less than 90 days, unbelievable

@ronnieterry4916 2 күн бұрын

That is sad. Well here in Arkansas the old timers use to talk about the flood here in 1927.

@HiTech_Farmer 2 күн бұрын

A storm I'll remember for the rest of my life for sure too

@theda850two 6 күн бұрын

Ooof,, I feel for you...

@markwojciechowski5720 5 күн бұрын

Nature is relentless

@MadHava-sd7rd 5 күн бұрын

Yeah that would be easy to say if it was really nature but it's not it's Geo engineered weather weapons

@user-jk3mi2ee9z 4 күн бұрын

Well that help for future

@johnwayne6778 6 күн бұрын

Thousands , its billions

@aidanbrennan7389 6 күн бұрын

We're experiencing a lot of unusual weather around the world, likely due to both natural climate and human-caused. It's remarkable how much rain has fallen in such a short time on your farm. Have your parents ever seen anything like this before?

@HiTech_Farmer 6 күн бұрын

My dad has never seen water run over the road in front of the farm like that. Even the county guy said they design roads and bridges for the 100 year floods and the water was still going over many of the bridges designed to keep the most extreme flooding back

@va3kbc 6 күн бұрын

The sun spots have been very active and lots of solar flairs erupting headed towards earth. The sun has effects of weather on earth. Not man kind.

@aidanbrennan7389 6 күн бұрын

@@HiTech_Farmer scary stuff. We also had an unusual amount of rain in Ireland. The farmers are suffering here...

@bens8919 6 күн бұрын

@@va3kbc if it were just the sun we would have seen this weather before but no one has, in the uk its just as chaotic

@jeffisaliar 6 күн бұрын

Sun is crazy, el nino cycle in the ocean, and planes putting ionized material into the atmospheric accelerating condensation. The new chemtrail prank is now they don't spray in the day so it gets really hot, but then at night they do spray and heat gets trapped at night resulting in abnormally warm nights.

@jasonbrown2060 4 күн бұрын

What a frickin mess, the weather is a nasty monster.

@HunterJohnson77 6 күн бұрын

Unbelievable 😢

@Northern_Farmer 2 күн бұрын

It happens everywhere...once. river blew over the banks here in 96..

@HiTech_Farmer 2 күн бұрын

How are you sitting up in Canada this year? I watched your most recent video and you mentioned at the beginning its been raining a lot.

@Northern_Farmer 2 күн бұрын

@HiTech_Farmer raining right now....I would say perfect conditions at the moment...but just a hour away...drowning

@HiTech_Farmer 2 күн бұрын

Good for you! Hopefully it stays that way for the remainder of the season

@Hokieredneck 5 күн бұрын

There was bad flooding in 2011 around there

@HiTech_Farmer 5 күн бұрын

Where's that?

@markkallstrom5672 5 күн бұрын

My father had the chance to buy his fathers farm in the Skagit Valley North of Seattle . He said no way because the Skagit River broke twice washing men's whole lives work into the Bay !

@mikhailkalashnikov4599 6 күн бұрын

Ironically, just a few hundred miles to the southeast of you we would love to get some of that rain!

@HiTech_Farmer 5 күн бұрын

No lives lost as far as I've heard. Roads and buildings can be rebuilt

@jasonbrown2060 4 күн бұрын

Can’t feckin win for losing Then here in Mo we’ll have a bumper crop. Corn is dark green, beautiful and tasseling

@debi5292 6 күн бұрын

Hard to imagine, but only 100 miles South of you we are very dry. For 4 years very dry. 3 years of rainfall in 4 years isn't working well.

@HiTech_Farmer 6 күн бұрын

Hope you get the rain you need this year. I’d be fine giving you some of ours

@JohnSmith-pl2bk 7 күн бұрын

At the bin site...put in grille top channelling across the drive entrance??? Or 5 inch wide open top U chanelling with say 3 or 4 side by side channels that any vehicle can just roll over.....but can move a large amount of water... If you get the water before it hits the gravel or allow the gravel to pond before the channels there won't be gravel in the flow.....?

@HiTech_Farmer 5 күн бұрын

Appreciate the input. Currently thinking of putting a large tile in. Not sure the channeling would be the way to go since it's all surrounded with gravel

@JohnSmith-pl2bk 5 күн бұрын

@@HiTech_Farmer Just thinking that if the totally enclosed tile clogs with gravel....that's also a problem. Half moon of tile or concrete half tile so you can blast gravel out of it... or the flow will keep the gravel clear?

@HiTech_Farmer 3 күн бұрын

The flow can keep some out. Usually fill in every 100 years they say

@paulsanders1373 7 күн бұрын

Will crop insurance help in your case or farm disaster relief help?

@HiTech_Farmer 5 күн бұрын

Good question! Too early to tell. Will need to see what happens in the coming weeks and months. I will be sure to mention any news in future videos.

@BabsKaz 4 күн бұрын

@@HiTech_Farmer Farm Aid!

@kathrynclayton6326 6 күн бұрын

So sorry

@jaybruns7771 5 күн бұрын

1986 in Saginaw County Michigan we had a large flood from the Flint River our farm lost 500 acres corn and soys several farms lost more than that it was devastating, shortly after there was a dike committee established from surrounding communities and all properties pay an annual assessment since 1990 there has been over 40 million put into the dike s system so far we have been good.

@jamesevans20 6 күн бұрын

What about a few shots from atop the feed bins

@HiTech_Farmer 5 күн бұрын

Noted

@carlfalt174 4 күн бұрын

At least you can't complain that you've got a drought

@ronkaufman237 5 күн бұрын

Wonder how the same area would have reacted to excess rain 80 years ago when your great grandfather was a sterward of the land. Small farms, fences, woodlots, timbers and weed draws. And no one knew what tile was.

@u.s.a.satire5982 6 күн бұрын

Could make corn and bean prices go up.

@williamhamill813 4 күн бұрын

Thats alot of nitrogen heading to the ocean.

@eamonnoneill1340 6 күн бұрын

Better get used to this will be seeing a lot more of this in the future

@112653 3 күн бұрын

Looks like you should be planting rice!!

@johnmackinnon9036 5 күн бұрын

Just saying in the last 15 years of water redirection has caused this should of keep your Feld smaller with rows of trees

@pedrogunner9750 Күн бұрын

Man farmers are getting their asses kicked this year. I feel terrible for them. I’m a dirt guy, and I see the gravel spread all over the place from the water and if I lived there I’d be cutting the farmers deals in gravel and delivery

@shakirabells6955 6 күн бұрын

Gosh in my place we need rain were so dry to much or flooding

@BabsKaz 4 күн бұрын

All by design.

@kenfrievalt7826 3 күн бұрын

Is rice or cranberry an optional crop?

@vascodesena 6 күн бұрын

Looks like the upper end of the new Mississippi Sea...

@3orion33 4 күн бұрын

Prices going up at the grocery stores again...and to think individual small gardening is being attacked with restrictions....we can't win.....

@tman8939 5 күн бұрын

good year to have crop insurance, hope the insurance companies pay out.

@BabsKaz 4 күн бұрын

If you can afford it!

@chrisking9424 3 күн бұрын

Go Regen and you will eliminate a lot of flooding.

@ohfknowned239 3 күн бұрын

Cloud seeding is the new danger.

@unknownshopper4024 3 күн бұрын

You better call the chemical company, got to be able to spray for that 😂

@DJMegabit 6 күн бұрын

I know a few people that have permanent sub pumps in catches as well

@HiTech_Farmer 5 күн бұрын

What do you mean by catches?

@mikeklinger1712 6 күн бұрын

Commifornia would be jealous

@JoeLinux2000 6 күн бұрын

What township are you near? Close to Lakefield?

@HiTech_Farmer 6 күн бұрын

Northeast corner of Nobles County

@JoeLinux2000 6 күн бұрын

@@HiTech_Farmer Thanks

@RogerHruska-ru4eb 4 күн бұрын

Dude you're screwed

@beetfarmerbryce9916 6 күн бұрын

Bearish news, drought’s busted

@truefact4439 6 күн бұрын

Build a ark!!

@lobbyrobby 6 күн бұрын

I need to get myself a sxs.

@HiTech_Farmer 5 күн бұрын

Work good for many things around the farm

@lobbyrobby 5 күн бұрын

@@HiTech_Farmer right. The issue is I want a dedicated sport machine. That wouldn't be very practical, I need more of utility machine. Yamaha rmax looks like a good mix of sport and utilitie. I hear too many bad things about the general

@HiTech_Farmer 2 күн бұрын

We've had clutches go out on the Polaris rangers, but we also use them... like a lot

@silentHangus 3 күн бұрын

This is the result of destroying the tall grass prarie for greedy sodbusters trying to reap huge profits

@why67152 3 күн бұрын

OK but doesn't the flood water fertilize the ground for the next growing season with silt manure and other nutrients?

@HiTech_Farmer 2 күн бұрын

I covered this in my most recent video showing the aftermath, but the rains replenish the moisture in the soil. Not so much of a benefit to the fertilizer, it actually washes some of them away and erodes our top soils faster.

@why67152 2 күн бұрын

@@HiTech_Farmer K... Thanks man!!

@jamesmarsh4957 6 күн бұрын

Matthias that is horrible site to see , must have been torrential to get that amount , lets hope you get a dry spell now so you can start the clean up , it must be bad not just for you but all the others around you too , perhaps in a few weeks you may get some Nitrogen on at it grows away fast , must be hart breaking for you all , It will come right it always does and it may bump the corn price up now

@frankslaman3950 6 күн бұрын

Beautiful country, but too damn flat for me. lol

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