Yea, ... perhaps you are right about the tone :-) I think back when watching these videos and see the drastic changes, in many ways. Our processes were "up to date," so nothing unique. The farm was 325A, nearly all under cultivation. And, nearly all was annual crops - plow, prepare, and seed with the drill every year, all with 25hp, 35hp and 45hp tractors. Plow was 3-16", pulled at 3.5mph. Lots of other contrasting information, but will spare. BTW, the Case DC3 was bought, used, for $800, if I recall correctly. The "workhorse" 45hp tractors were about $2,200-$2,500, new.

Yeah, saw a Mennonite guy up the road from my BIL... he was running a Deere 620 or 630 tractor with a wide front, pulling a 13 foot disk behind it, with a 12-13 foot old Van Brunt Deere drill behind the disk, pulling a drag harrow behind the drill, that was pulling an old Brillion packer behind the drag harrow... That old Deere was working but she was pulling it all, one and done! Got a pic of it but no video unfortunately... :) OL J R :)

124k now (January 2018). This train just keeps a-rollin'.

134k now (april 2018) haha Hoppe my channel will be the same .....

Ackerman and Son 136 now on the 18 of april 2018

Daniel Roach heck yeah

Daniel Roach Massey Ferguson or CASEIH would look way better with a great plains drill

Tim Marvel no

Daniel Roach

Too me it looks that farmers in the USA just trust old desing and are not convinced by, in my opinion, much better modern drill designs.

RYAN. IS THE BEST WHEN IT COMES TO EXPLAINING HOW FARM ETC MACHINERY WORKS

Parent crop is used to help reduce erosion and also to suppress weeds that would otherwise come up.

Cleate Rose oats are used as a parent or also referred to as a cover crop because the oats will sprout and grows faster then the alfalfa. the oats will be emerged and growing in 7-10 days offering a buffer against heavy rains that will cause erosion. the alfalfa emerges and grows slower and takes several weeks to get thick enough to offer the same protection. also doing this practice your getting twice the crops oats to sell or use and alfalfa for hay which after oats are harvested he may be able to get a cutting this fall but more likely not till next year

Cleate Rose YUPPIES

people need to live in the contry

Yuppie and proud! It's spelled "country".

Oh, so it belongs to the neighbor... teach me to comment in the middle of the video. Bad habits from watching "ag talk in the raw"... gotta comment mid-vid or I forget what I was going to comment about. LOL:) Later! OL J R :)

Alex Rozsahegyi year a round is the brand that made the after market cab

Thanks Paul

A Molson don't know about Us. but something to compare too. in Sweden you need at least 300 hectares (740 acres) to be able to live of it with no other side job.

Benjamin Silvén I know a guy that farms 400 acres for a living

John Haas ya I think they may have more this year not sure

Brian Heymer it is the way there farm is

I get that but just wondering their reason for it. It's more efficient to farm a square and it looks plenty doable on that field so just curious. been farming for 20 yrs and it looked odd

Brian Heymer oh I see

+Chris Rasmussen If it isn't our tractor and someone else is operating it I won't take the camera in unless invited.

It sounds a lot smarter to me.

When I sold JD tractor parts we sold a lot of big ring chains to farmers who put them behind each row on the drill.

Alexander Williams there row crop tires that tractor can be used in the feild after crops come up with out running everthing over

Alexander Williams these guys do lots of row crops. Your large flotation tires don't work in those situations. There is a purpose for everything. Just because you do it differently than we do doesn't mean anybody is doing it wrong. They aren't telling you how to run your operation, isn't it pretty presumptuous of you to tell another man how he should run his operation that has obviously been successful without your opinion?

Austin Campbell We also do alot of row crops, especially in the south but that doesn't stop us using big fat tyres. Like you have many more tracked machines than we do as you have masses of land and huge fields, but they are tracked to put power to the ground and reduce compaction through a larger surface area just like out wider tyres, over here your normal tyres are seen as specialised tyres really only for potatoes or crop spraying.

Using row crop tires is dumb if you don't follow the same rows every year. Also compaction still occurs, the wheel drives on the side of the row, but that does not mean there is not pressure to the sides.

Thx

Conor Murphy They may look nicer but they just can't compare to a 8r in my opinion

Big Country usually it means a day that the farm offers a plot of their land to showcase either a seed brand or maybe even farm equipment, just depends..

Austin Nakaerts they are using GPS you can see a yellow kind box outside on top of the cab

SJ agri 12 just because it's there does not mean they used it.

Suppose but they probably did it's they're to be used

Keeping up with 15 foot and 30 foot centers is nit really hard, been drilling soybeans with a 30 foot Great Plains drill without GPS and markers for years.

Austin Nakaerts i think they are using GPS at 6:30

Lewis Black But I have already begun eating the oäts brother.

I would tell you to google it but, its simple, this is a mechanical drill (considered old, almost outdated), The seed is held on the hoppers on top, there is a metering device under them, its driven by a wheel that touches the ground, so the amount of seed matches the speed. There is one metering roller per each seed coulter, they look like a gear (it depends on the specific drill) the "gear" picks seeds individually and lets them fall through a tube, this tube lead to the outside to the coulter, a disk opens the ground for the seed to fall into, then another one closes the gap after.

Thank you

+Daniel Roe that's all the seed we needed.

Id say instead of landrolling, they should use a combinatin drill, so the can disk, roll, fertilize then seed and harrow at the same time.

Twisted Lids probably better for recycling if you pull the string but im not sure

Twisted Lids it takes years of experience to know what's strings need to be pulled

It kinda is 😂

Gustav Andersson Finns inte särskilt många seedhawk återförsäljare i usa som kan serva och ta dit väderstadmaskiner.

I still don't get why this guys use those John Deere drills so much. European brands seem to be making so much better desings nowadays. Either combo drills with disk harrow and rollers, or foldable air drills with much higher working withs. Tillage equipment found in the USA looks so outdated.

Erland Wallin Not sure about what you said, but seed hawks are desinged for no till drilling, in the case of the way this guys drill oats, those drills wouldn't work.

clint hochrein. Actually, alot of people around me just plant oats for the straw. we only put in about 10 acres a year for the cattle.

Brandongriffith450 I remember when growing up on the family dairy farm back in the 80's an early 2000 we did oats an the surrounding farm did away with oats but those were good memories

clint hochrein it's a shame so many have no idea what it takes for us small farmers to make it

Brandongriffith450 absolutely,. there are some days I felt guilty of not taking over the family farm but some dsys I felt glad

clint hochrein like my grandfather says, you have to be a millionare, or plain stupid to try and farm anymore

+Jman 1 Not my seed, not my wear & tear

Ok. I can see your point there. For now.

Hey what seeder are you using

gotta keep the new trucks new for as long as you can

Its too nice to take out of the garage

Ross straughan no its from there neighbour