Ever had the itch to quit your job, move to the country, and become a farmer? Well, I got more than the itch...I got the entire rash!!! Over the course of a decade, I built one of the most successful real estate sales teams in the US. We sold a lot of homes and had personal endorsements from Shark Tank's Barbara Corcoran, Radio personality Dave Ramsey, FOX News' Sean Hannity, and others. One day I read Mark 8:36, "For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" Was I losing my soul?....I dunno, but I do know I wasn't the husband, father, or Christ follower I could be. My identity and priorities were tied up chasing money and worldly success. So, I walked away from my business completely. With ZERO farming experience, we bought a 150 acre property in SE Minnesota. I changed my priorities to be focused on Christ, my wife, and my 4 kids, all while learning to become a crop farmer from scratch. I traded my business Suit for a set of farming Boots!
If your new, and losing a crap load of money anyways, consider no input zero chem no till cover crop and livestock farming. When I went from active duty back to the reserves, and airline flying, I had a double hedge of a future military pension, and a good off farm income in the mean time, and I just plowed in to the concept because I could. Look really hard at what Gabe Brown, Allen Williams and Rick Clark are doing. Not poser RU-vid farmers! I’m skeptical of people making money by talking about it. Are they fake guru’s? Some, but there are some very legit teachers as well.
and please please use some protection when handlining chemicals , when you were pouring the chemical in the tank with no eye protection I was worried it would splash in your eyes , please don't do that
how do you think it was done before foam marker and GPS , it is the skill of the driver , you soon learn the width of the sprayer , also line up with a tree in the hedge row , and keep it straight , you will soon get the hang of it
using a hoe or harrow for weed control is a great method. Their is also a wide range of Technologie variations out their. When using chemical, please use proper safety equipment. Minimum are chemical groves and safety goggles (for some a mask is needed).
I promise you you don't want to be organic the yealds are horrible and you don't make the better price for 3 years and often the yeilds are still so bad your not making more
You are doing great, but you need to wear chemical gloves when handling chemicals, even the treated seed. Nothing wrong with chemicals if you stay safe.
Loving your videos, man. Not intending to engage in schadenfreude, but it reassures me that I'm not the only one needing to make mistakes to learn haha
@@Suits2Boots another way is to take the width of your sprayer divide in two ( let say 60/2 so 30 feet ) - start at a straight side step to 30 feet drop a small flag then drop one every 60 feet at both ends of the field line up tractor to drive over teh flags - easier than lining up on an off set like you are doing & works when you don't have the corn stalk guides.
Thanks for watching! Not even close to $200k in equipment but even if it was….it wasn’t about the row boat….it was about the memories and experiences with the kiddos!
You really sgould invest in a cultivator or at least a disc. Although alot of people are hard believers in no till. Tillage really helps keep weeds down.
Don't feel too bad. I'm working on raising trees for my impending orchard and I just recently managed to accidentally kill off 45 year-old pecan saplings 🤦♂
I used to hobby farm with my dad but had to give it up due to his health. We had a lot of semi crop failures and replants over the years. Even with the struggles still miss it so try not to get too discouraged the 1st year. You may have planted your beans too deep They always seem to struggle getting up in wet conditions anything over 1” depth.
I should probably watch the rest of the video before commenting in case you do mention it, but rather than running foam, which sucks, believe me we have covered thousands of acres on foam. You can get a line bar GPS with no auto steer that will map and keep you in a straight line for fairly cheap these days. Something like a used Ez guide 250, which is what we used to run back in the day. I'm sure if you can find something cheap like that it would be well worth the probably $150 or so bucks for the thing. "Globe" and all.
Thanks for the comments. I think GPS is absolutely the route I’ll go moving forward. It was fun to try to figure out the foam, but as soon as I did get it fixed it quit working again. Seems a bit antiquated, it cool to learn how they did it before modern tech. Thanks for wathing!
this is so cool! I so wanted to learn all this from my dad but he's not a good teacher and has no patience! thank you for explaining the planter! Maybe I can take over the farm one day!
This is awesome! Based on the grey showing through in your beard I'm guessing we are about equal age, and I just happened to have left work about 14 months ago to do the same thing on a smaller scale. Definitely going to sub and hope I can learn a lot watching!
@@Suits2Boots ha, no, I dont think so. you know how the farm is - its always the competing interests of trying to get ahead somewhere without falling behind elsewhere, and while you only have the time you make I can never seem to find the energy to make time for things outside of that competition. That which I do, I try to devote to learning. Learning to be a mechanic, learning to be a botanist, learning to be a vetrenarian, learning to be an arborist, etc etc etc. I feel that others, such as yourself, are doing a fantastic job at saying what I would want to say, regardless.
Really cool video mate. :) I wish you good luck spraying your 1st crop. But keep in mind that I will get very hot under your tractor's bonnet and routed the electrical cables for your sprayer right beside your turbo.
Thank you! Yes, we do have a co-op down the road, but I'm trying to avoid hiring anyone for anything so I can learn it all. Even if I screw most of it up along the way.
@@Suits2Boots a lot of the co-ops will talk to you and give you any pointers or guidance you may need. even if you don't have them do any work, may be worth checking out the benefits of a membership - many get you significant discounts on stuff.
