Sunflower Harvest: It's an Art

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Жыл бұрын

Holy smokes we really cover some ground on the topic of sunflowers in this episode. We explore everything from the different types of sunflowers, how to harvest sunflowers, and of course manage to have fun along the way.
It looks like there might be one slice of pizza left for you. Enjoy the sunset drone flight.
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We're a sugar beet farmin’ family in the Red River Valley of North Dakota!
Our farm specializes in growing sugar beets, hard red spring wheat, sunflowers, corn, soybeans, and various types of dry edible beans. The legacy currently consists of my dad, my uncle, my two older brothers, and I (Beet Farmin Mitch).
I am a 6th generation family farmer recently graduating with college degrees in both Agricultural Economics and Crop and Weed Sciences. Enjoy as I showcase our operations everyday work, grow as a young farmer, be a goofball, and walk out the most important thing to me. My love for King Jesus!
My hope is that you may be entertained and spurred on to grow in your passion and knowledge for all things agriculture!
Jak se máš! (Czech for "How are you?")
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Instagram: @beetfarminmitch
Email: beetfarminmitch@gmail.com
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@r.scotthill3082 Жыл бұрын

A young man who worked with us lost his high school class ring and he didn't know exactly when it happened, just slipped off his finger some time. Unbelievably 17 years later a hunter walking the fields spotted the ring. Since it carried the school name and the owners initials he was able to have it returned to it's owner----amazing!

@lukestrawwalker 4 күн бұрын

My Dad lost his class ring unloading a load of hay into the hay barn at the auction barn, never found it. It wasn't too long after he got it, either...

@kylerayk Жыл бұрын

The KZfaq algorithm pushed this video to the recommended list so I thought I'd give it a shot as a fellow Case IH fan. Now I'm a subscriber. Thank you for unashamedly proclaiming the name of Jesus as your (and my) saviour! I'm honored to help support a fellow brother in Christ. Love the content and I look forward to watching more of you videos to learn about the sugar beets as well. We grow some in Michigan, but more up in the thumb area and none at all in my area, SW Michigan. Pretty much corn, soybean, and the occasional winter wheat field around here. Lots of orchards and blueberries. I know that crop dust is a combustibility issue with combines but didn't know that sunflower "flour" was the worst of all. Have a Merry Christmas!

@denisevandas7357 Жыл бұрын

She is a good farm wife. A huge blessing!! Your strength is in the love of our Lord.

@mpatrickthomas Ай бұрын

What a great and refreshing video.Very enjoyable. TY

@oldschool9746 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing your farming and your faith with us,Merry Christmas to you and all your family!!

@jojoskitchenette 5 ай бұрын

Am I a farmer? No! Did I have a clue what a combine was? No! Did I stay out of curiosity, the free knowledge, and to earn random “party trick abilities” (??)? Yes! And I was led here by the Holy Spirit. I wonder where the discovery of this channel with take me 🤍🌻

@carminesilverado Жыл бұрын

it lifts my heart to see two wonderful young Christian Americans you brought me much joy with your video

@scottschaeffer8920 Ай бұрын

It’s a cool crop. Looks like a good crop too. Beautiful when they’re in bloom. I plant them just to leave for the wildlife, and to look at!

@BRPFan Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video! Great to see a young Farmer couple having such awesome Faith! 👍🙏

@BK-fy2xi Жыл бұрын

I watch a lot of farm videos…we lost the family farm back in the 80’s. Never thought much of it until I helped a friends Dad and I was hooked. As soon as I heard your parable, read the bio, and scripture at the end of your video I subscribed. Always willing to lift up a fellow believer. Stay strong, and always seek Him.

@robertthomas5590 Жыл бұрын

Just found your channel. Appreciate your witness..

@ou812hongkong8 Жыл бұрын

I love that you are a Christian, so am I, thanks for sharing the video keep it up and keep loving the lord ,,,if you need some one to come out there and help harvest some deer let me know lol

@lukestrawwalker 4 күн бұрын

Found an OLD wrench in the field, it had been broken and BRAZED back together... probably my great-grandpa's because he had a blacksmith shop on the farm and did his own smithing as well as fixed stuff for other folks as well... probably fell off his old Fordson or F-12 Farmall, he had the first tractors in our county back in the day!

@donevens4357 Жыл бұрын

My first time here and I subscribed. When you talked about Christ and showed a verse, I was all in! I can't farm any more so I just watch you young fellas. Thanks, and keep saying yes to our Lord! Old guy in IA.

@KEarllongJr 10 ай бұрын

Love your channel

@bobdevine4906 Жыл бұрын

10:42 Love the application of God’s Word! May He bless your farming. I grew up on a dairy farm in Kossuth County Iowa and will continue to follow you.

@boe4448 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing your harvest. I learned something today about sunflower harvesting. It's so nice to see your beautiful bride being able to ride along also. Wishing you and yours a happy safe holiday season. And always remember the reason for the season. Boe

@johnlookabill8495 Жыл бұрын

Always enjoy your content and you seem to be a man of faith. I really like that. And Jenny is absolutely gorgeous and sweet. You definitely make a beautiful couple as you are a handsome young man. Please keep putting out your content. God bless you all.

@945hilo Жыл бұрын

Good to see younger generations take over farming instead of selling the family farm for a quick buck

@tugboat2739 Жыл бұрын

Enjoy your channel

@cristianoforever Жыл бұрын

my first sunflower video 😄 you are always very informative in your videos, thanks for another great video.

@billbrisco32 9 ай бұрын

😊God bless you from the UK 😊

@johnhenderson8360 Жыл бұрын

Here's my story of an unusual find. I grew up on a small family farm in upstate NY, west of the Catskill Mts. I was a teenager at the time and my dad showed me what he had found in a plowed field while picking stone (a much hated job by us kids). He handed it to me and asked me what I thought it was. It was Iron, it kind of look like a small pipe at one end and the other end it looked like a spike. It had been covered with rust and was pitted. My dad had already cleaned it up with a wire brush as best he could. As I looked it over carefully I noticed a very small hole near the "spike" end. At the other end there was a hole what was still packed with dirt. At the top of the "Iron Pipe" look object was a very small brass piece maybe a 1'8" or less that was set into the top (and end) of the object. My description probably is very good, but that small brass piece was a dead give away to me. This was all that was left of a mussel loading pistol. I would have love to know the story behind it. How did it get there and what happened to the owner.

@jeromejacobsen2130 Жыл бұрын

One of my 'found in the field' stories -- I was doing some chisel plowing for my brother in the fall a few years back in Steele County ND. At the end of the day I saw that one of the shanks had broken off. A few days later i went out to pick a couple big rocks and discovered that one of the rocks I loosened with the chisel plow had been the one to break the chisel plow, so I got to bring the broken shank home. Better at home than for it to be lurking in the field and maybe breaking something else.

@ThomasEide3318 Жыл бұрын

The sunflower crushing plant in West Fargo and the beet plant in Moorhead smell pretty good!

@syedayisha9579 6 ай бұрын

Thank you for your efforts are too good

@oilhammer04 Жыл бұрын

In the 1960s we would find wads of chaff in the pasture in eastern Kansas. Military aircraft dropped the stuff as they flew over. God bless your family.

@brianjonker510 Жыл бұрын

I found a whole shank from a chisel plow. The bolts let loose on the frame and driving past the field you could see something sticking out of the soil 2 feet. Never experienced something like it again. Not even heard something like that.

@sarah_farm 5 ай бұрын

I never missed one video of yours,the food you made for your family looks very delicious and healthy,you are blessed to have an extraordinary talent,thanks for sharing your life with us

@chuckolthoff7616 Жыл бұрын

as kids, we were always excited to find arrowheads in my dads field

@russellehler6706 Жыл бұрын

Your explanations are excellent!

@deweys 7 ай бұрын

Looks like a great life! Well done :)

@allenwalters9068 Жыл бұрын

Love the sunflower harvest

@steverobertson4783 Жыл бұрын

Haven’t watched lately. Love your videos! Keep the faith!

@lonepine5596 Жыл бұрын

A high velocity gas powered leaf blower works much better for cleaning combine Mitch!

@Jon_Chapman Жыл бұрын

Hey Mitch thanks for the memories.. I used to work for glitz farms in Jamestown ..

@johnmarker1748 Жыл бұрын

Add Gypsum to your salty ground 1 to 2 ton per acre. salt will leach through will rains and soil will be productive again. We found a Brass Plate from a printing press, was from a local Bank in town from back in the logging era in Northern Michigan. The farmer that owned the farm back then also owned the bank.

@rexjohnson5109 Жыл бұрын

What is a good yield with sunflowers Enjoy your informative videos your operation is different than farms here in north central Indiana

@markdallmann7887 Жыл бұрын

My top 3 finds in my fields are. 1. The head of a Indian Ax. 2. What we believe is a Meteorite. 3. A child's cast iron toy horse. With Beauty written in the one side of it.

@blauer2551 Жыл бұрын

My relatives in South Dakota accidentally ran into a mule deer fawn with the combine and had to nurse it back to health. Once it was healed it never left. Just hung out with the dogs around the farm.

@joedinkel2107 Жыл бұрын

God bless you kind sir and your family and marry Christmas. Thank you for sharing God and your strong faith. Keep up with the awesome videos

@lukestrawwalker 4 күн бұрын

BIL found an OLD gasoline blowtorch metering needle (long thin pintle valve with a handle on the back) in a tire farming over an old house site that had long since been cleared and returned to the farm field... That's now how you want to find things...

@elijames3041 Жыл бұрын

Hay have an holiday

@jimholty2274 Жыл бұрын

I'm so glad that i am sanctified too!

@mikewalter8547 7 ай бұрын

We found a porceilin PENCOIL sign. Turns out Pencoil was the first name of Penzoil. The sign was in great condition sold it for $800.00

@shanelider3413 Жыл бұрын

I have to agree with you. Fresh cut sunflowers are the best smell coming from a fellow north dakotaian

@zcommodore Жыл бұрын

New subscriber here. Loved everything about your video. I grew up on a farm in Oklahoma but I've never seen sunflowers harvested. Thanks for sharing.

@ravenviewfarm Жыл бұрын

Hey Mitch! Great video! We farm just south of the Twin Cities, and I’ve been thinking about growing a small field of sunflowers. Something we’ve never done before, so I’m doing my homework. I appreciate the details about the combine settings and desired result in the grain tank!

@idontcomputer3075 Жыл бұрын

We plant sunflowers to dove hunt over.

@danshores3322 Жыл бұрын

I lost a log chain and found it laying on top of the ground many years later.

@ileenmcminn2062 Жыл бұрын

Years ago when I lived in Idaho a wallet came up on the potato harvester. It belonged to a neighbor that we knew. He had lost it the year before while pheasant hunting.

@lukestrawwalker 4 күн бұрын

My granddad plowed his wallet under one year with their last seven dollars in it, but he found it the following year... Grandma never let him forget it, either LOL:)

@brianjonker510 Жыл бұрын

My experience is the volume of air from a leaf blower is much more important than the higher pressure from an air compressor and thus blows off a combine much quicker. It takes just 10-15 minutes so I use a battery powered leaf blower and that adds a lot of convenience.

@lukestrawwalker 4 күн бұрын

For loose stuff, yeah a leaf blower is MUCH faster, but that stuff looked pretty "caked" on and can be a lot harder for a leaf blower to catch hold of and rip off...

@tatkenkottatkenkot Жыл бұрын

Not unusual for me, but, weather balloons. I usually come across one per year. However, this fall I picked up three of them! I farm in the Texas panhandle. We grow wheat, grain sorghum, and cotton. We planted about 3500 acres of wheat and harvested just under 4000 acres of cotton and 375 acres of seed milo. We did have a 500 acre pivot and a 125 acre pivot of cotton that storms demolished so we planted those 2 into corn

@DG-ne8iq Жыл бұрын

our findings: I had lost a pair of pump pliers during a setting in the field. 2 years later, one winter day I was going to an agricultural meeting, I stopped my car and got out to urinate and what did I see: my pliers !! in France we can find coins having 1200 years! and to find counterfeit money: the counterfeits already existed! In France we do not have salty soils. To see it you have to go to the Hungarian putza. To make it fertile you could spread SO4 Ca (calcium sulfate).Merry Christmas ._Daniel 🌻🌻

@farmboy5622 Жыл бұрын

Hi Beet Farmin' Mitch and Beet Farmin' Jenny!!! Has a nice ring to it. Maybe your channel should be called "Beet Farmin' Mitch and Jenny"!!! That was an interesting video. I never knew there were different types of Sunflowers. I do love eating the edible kind. Looks like you could use another 10 feet added on to your blow wand, to keep you farther back from all that dust. Have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!

@46rambo49 7 ай бұрын

Bison love them

@bladewiper Жыл бұрын

Have you considered a cordless blower to clean the combine ? I think it might be triple R farms that uses a gas powered backpack blower to clean their cotton picker. Congratulations on a successful harvest.

@beetfarminmitch Жыл бұрын

That’s a good idea. A couple years ago I was having trouble with my rotary screen (piece of plastic on the combine had a hole on it) and I carried a gas one out for that. Was a bugger to get started though and got hot so I wasn’t too excited to use it. Battery powered one would be a good idea though! Thanks!

@bladewiper Жыл бұрын

@@beetfarminmitch I purchased a M18 version a year a go for one specific task. I have used it for so much more than I ever thought I would. It's a great tool to have.

@maybinlweendo4398 6 ай бұрын

@@beetfarminmitch from zambia interested in sunflower growing. Please help

@johnzuck6163 Жыл бұрын

I found some pemmican, kind of looked like a giant hard puff ball

@wranther Жыл бұрын

Yo! BFM! Why is it that after 4 days of Blizzarding in these part there are not snow drifts in your sunflower fields! Always great to see the BFJ riding fields too! -Bob...

@ronloomis8245 Жыл бұрын

I grew up in northwest Iowa and have seen many corn and soybean head this isthe fist time I have seen a sunflower head. It is very interesting and unique. Are there many pheasants in your area? I imagine that sunflowers would be a good cover and food habitat.

@johnhancock1739 Жыл бұрын

While plowing soybeans one summer I found a research instrument that was dropped from a weather balloon . Had instructions on how to handle and return by mail. Don’t know what they where looking for. Never got a response that the USPS did there job.

@billgoin4004 Жыл бұрын

Enjoy the break

@tarefoot Жыл бұрын

Amen👍👍👍🙏

@junkorbust9498 Жыл бұрын

While picking stone our daughter found a native stone arrowhead.

@jeromejacobsen2130 Жыл бұрын

I found an Indian hammer head while engaged in the same activity.

@johac7637 Жыл бұрын

My family started farming in Sask Canada in 1906, the place they are on now in 1907, it is common for them to find arrowheads in tho collees that were once to wet to farm, they were where the cattle were kept, now with the dryer climates the areas are farmable, so when clearing we find remnants of the 1st Nations hunting, as the moose still use the collees for feeding, birthing, there will always be patches of willows for them. Sadly the people are less interested to live closer to the land, and on the 1st Nations Rez's very few are farmed by the locals, mostly leased out, the cost of machinery is killing the little guys, in the olden days it was more a co-operative effort. The jobs in the oil, mines, and large farms are easier, sadly the family farms are fading away too. Sad.

@jacoblandis4535 Жыл бұрын

Looks like you'd have a lot of shatter loss at the head with that drum?

@runninred89 Жыл бұрын

Civil war cannon ball

@johac7637 Жыл бұрын

What is your crop rotation, looks like lots of residue left on field. Do you interplant, cover crop ?

@erniezsigo3926 Жыл бұрын

Most things I found on the farm when we farming walking through the fields where horse shoes .arrow heads old horse halters .this is in the Saginaw Valley in michigan

@beetfarminmitch Жыл бұрын

Horse shoes are awesome to find. Crazy to think that wasn’t that long ago that horses were the primary source of horse power on the farm.

@davidsoloninka7742 Жыл бұрын

How do prevent the birds from eating your sunflower seeds?

@ezpz489 Жыл бұрын

Will cattle eat sun flower forage? If so, can you bail it?

@loisgustafson1558 Жыл бұрын

Does that toothed roller cause any loss ? Ron

@beetfarminmitch Жыл бұрын

It causes some loss. Some guys say they run with just the pans and no drum on the machine at all. It can be hard for them to feed if there’s no drum in certain conditions. Horse a piece I suppose

@loisgustafson1558 Жыл бұрын

@@beetfarminmitch Thanks for the reply. I'm a 76yr old guy, retired from agriculture. I live in west central Mn west of Willmar. Years ago sunflowers were introduced to our area so I'm familiar with them. You make some nice videos young man, thanks for sharing them with us. My, how the equipment has changed over the years! Tha last piece of farm equipment I ran was a 8820 JD combine. I am so glad to hear a young couple express their faith in God so that the world can see what is the most important thing in your life, and to whom you give the glory to. Merry Christmas to you and yours! Ron. P.S. My mom's side of the family came from the valley, Weymere, Davenport area.

@thekibby8375 4 ай бұрын

where do you get your seed from?

@thedonleroy Жыл бұрын

When I was a little kid I was following the dog thru the woods & out into the field & I tried to walk through a low spot & got stuck in the mud. The dog went back to the yard. When my mother saw the dog & I wasn't with him she knew something wasn't right. She came out & pulled me out of the mud, losing her shoe in the process. Ten or fifteen years later I dug through the same spot & actually pulled her lost shoe out of the ground. That's probably the weirdest thing I have found in the field.

@lukestrawwalker 4 күн бұрын

Our farm pond went dry back in '83 in a bad drought, and my sister decided to walk out across the bottom to the edge of the puddle of water in the middle to see the minnows, and she ended up sinking in the muck to her waist. I had to try to get her out because Dad was too heavy, he couldn't get within 15-20 feet of her without sinking. Even I, who was skinny kid at the time, had to crawl out on hands and knees on a couple old boards to kep from sinking, and then just get close enough to throw a rope around her... then we hauled her out. Sucked one of her brand new tennis shoes right off her foot. She was caked with mud from the waist down, and Dad wouldn't let her ride on the new tractor back to the house, she had to walk up the hill through the sand burs to get back to the house and get washed off with the hose... she was bawling and upset, but she was the goofball that did it to herself... Found her shoe a couple decades later when the pond went COMPLETELY dry and was hard enough to hold up the tractor, and I dug it out with the front end loader to make it deeper and get rid of the sand that washed in over the years... came up out of the pond with a load of muck and dirt and dumped it and presto there was her shoe in the loose dirt... Dad had a "Texaco Tanker" toy ship about 2 feet long with a battery in it that spun the propeller in the back and you could adjust the rudder so it would sail in circles... he had put it in the pond when he was a kid and somehow or another it sank, according to him, front end went down rear end kicked up in the air like the Titanic and down she went, never to be seen again. Well, until the early 90's when the pond went dry and I was goofing around and found it in the muck... It was okay but the motor and battery were a mess of course...

@luisnunes7933 Жыл бұрын

Hello! Good standing and head size. What about the average yield? From forgotten tools, broken shanks and, even, ancient horse shoes. Once I found an old eight inches nail inside a big clay clod in a ploughed field! Greetings from Portugal.

@user-wy1me8mp1k 9 ай бұрын

Подай трубу в перед і трохи нижче !!! І буде тобі щастя

@josephjohn8o342 9 ай бұрын

Hello please, how do we get this harvest sunflower machine

@chucknowakowski6676 Жыл бұрын

Why not cut the flowers high up? Field health or another reason?

@beetfarminmitch Жыл бұрын

I pretty much cut them as high as I can without heads slipping under. The higher you cut them the less stalks you send though which is good. We usually run a salford or disk though the field after harvest and that helps chop up the stalks good.

@andredeswardt5717 4 ай бұрын

Why do the sunflowers look so dead before harvest?

@beetfarminmitch 3 ай бұрын

They have to be dry to be harvested. Wet, immature sunflowers aren't good for much except decoration.

@slayxr9800 Жыл бұрын

Hey Mitch it’s okay if you like men bro. Don’t live a lie let it shine

@dbrbruce9950 Жыл бұрын

It was a cool vid until the preaching started

@raggdoll1977 Жыл бұрын

Too much Christian talk for me, sorry...

@machelbaillet7905 Жыл бұрын

what part of north dakota are you? are you by cooperstown?

@mefirst4266 Жыл бұрын

WHY DON'T YOU ADD A WHEEL TO EACH SIDE OF THE COMBINE WITH A SWITCH. AND IF THE HEADER GET TO LOW IT AUTOMATICALLY LIFT THE HEADER A LITTLE.... OR SOUND A BUZZER IN YOUR CAB ~~~!!!!