Who woulda ever thought anyone anywhere would care about rice farming? The answer is YOU Matt and your excellent videos. The subject is fascinating and you make it so. Many thanks for your effort in bringing us along with you as you farm rice in Ca. You do a Terrific Job and I hope you continue doing so for as long as you wish and do so in the best of health. GREAT JOB...THANK YOU.
Awesome day on the farm. I live in cotton farm area in SE Az and the cotton is popping up all over here. I get excited seeing the tiny plants pop up and start the growing season. I work at the local hardware store so when I can I talk to the farmers and ask how things are going. It is a lot of work to keep a farm going.
You only have to worry about loading the back of the bucket, the front of the bucket loads itself. It’s something we tell new loader operators. Kinda true though.
Great video matthew. All your hard work is paying off. I work at an elevator we load trains, I've broke one of those before. In fact the broken one is now a lawn oranimate
Growing up on row crop farm, corn and soybeans seeing a farmer get excited about his fields being flooded is strange concept to wrap my head around! But hey keep up the good work!
Awesome video! I really like the style you put into your videos. Instant subscribed! I know its crazy adding video work on top of farming work, but we really appreciate it! I'm learning for sure, I live up in Alberta with a bunch of cattle around me. Most of the time up here when a field gets flooded, it freezes and we play hockey on it! 🥅🏒 Take care and God Bless!
I knew absolutely nothing about rice farming! Not much rice growing in northern Michigan!. We would be hard pressed to find a flat field, too short of a growing season here. Temperature went down to 34 last night. Thanks for the vidios..
It's interesting comparing what you're doing to what is happening here in the Willamette Valley. The grass seed and other crops are maybe a month away from harvest. Things really popped up with the mild and warm weather we've had.
Hi Matt, Have you ever considered drilling dry fert? Here we drill our dry fert zinc coated nitrogen at a depth of 6 to 8 inches. The zinc is a polymer coating to give the benifits of slow release of the nitrogen...
Nice to see the water going into the field. Planting must be next. The railroad knuckle coupler you saw is less common now with better train handling and better coupler construction. It likely broke for the same reason your harrow shank broken too much dynamic force. The causes of the dynamic forces are complex to simple. Yes it can cause a derailment (a few car) or a wreck (a bunch of cars).
Matt (or Matthew. Which one do you prefer?). Question for you. When you start the initial irrigation from the main farming canal, do you worry about the fertilizer leaching out of the soil where the water enters the field (looked like a nice flow) and concentrating elsewhere in the field? Thanks
Matthew, love the channel. Very informative. Looks like the fertilizer application is contracted out? Also, I have heard the term "lazer leveling" rice fields. Have you covered that process previously?
12:32 I would take a manually operated ladder before a hydraulic version. Eventually the hydraulic version will break where the mechanical will work forever hopefully.
That's a knuckle coupler, and the draw bar was pulled to hard and broke. To much force or it just gave way. Train probably went into emergency braking. Train haul corn, rice 🌽 🍚 efficiently except in this case.
Now I know why wheat is half price of rice...We no-till plant 85 lbs into corn stubble and after putting on fertilizer broadcast and 16" water with 32-00-00 we harvest 6,000 lbs. Your not paying $8/ac inch for water and buying sprinklers and high dollar pumps so you are making money with lots of field operations.
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