Chopping Silage in South Dakota 

I also was taking Cancer treatments this year. You tube farming videos made my days much better, it’s like they are family now. Sonne farms was my is my favorite farming videos, I come from a farming family, and live next to a several farms. About 30 feet out my living room video is is growing 7, 8 foot tall corn. Watching from western Idaho, and my cancer is gone, my and all the other prayers I got got me through this. Love all my farming channels I watch.

Y'all will never realize all the folks you touch! How many days you make brighter. You have a lovely family! And such good hearts. Do not be surprised Brian so many of us do not have family left. We love you letting us hang around with yours.

Brian you and your son have helped more people than you could ever imagine through some tuff times. I honestly couldn’t watch your channel for a few months after I lost my dad last year. Watching the bond between you and your son would remind me of memories I shared with my father. Was part of my grieving process. I still grieve and miss my father, but now your channel makes me happy remembering all the good times I shared with my dad. BEST RU-vid channel 🇺🇸👊

Another step to having winter feed and making sure the animals intrusted to them are well taken care off. Stewardship...... But the moment Brian mentions the cancer patient saying thanks was just a wow and a lump in the throat. There has been several of those moments on this channel. Keep watching these guys, they are the kind of folks who make our country grand.

What a great story from your Dad today. You folks are just awesome.

Wow! Honestly never saw dust blowing off a corn silage truck. Glad to hear it’s packing it okay. That cancer patient that spoke with Brian reminds us all how we never know how much impact we have in others lives.

I had such a hard day - driving 700 km and 2 hrs traffic Jam . But you guys make it so much bether!! Thank you so much . 🙂 Best regards from Austria

This world could use a whole bunch more Brian's. 🙂

Yall are so humble and I love it. I was broke down in Mitchell about a year and a half ago, and the first people I thought of was you guys. Fortunately, I had the tools, and a wonderful trucker lent me some others that I needed and didn't have. What we both didn't have, I walked to Advance from the truck stop off the interstate. Back to the point, I probably could've popped in and you would've helped me, and that's why I come back to this channel. Same with Zach (MNmillennial)and Larson farms. We need more humble in this world. I appreciate you folks. Keep on keepin on 🤘

Listening to Brian talking had me think of how much the videos impact me first off it’s the father son working relationship I did not have a father growing up so I’m inspired and love watching it the joking and fun they do have is touching and I love the kindness and honesty what a great family so I can see how deep the videos can touch a person I look forward to the videos it’s my favorite thing to watch I never miss one👍 so thank you I seriously appreciate you guys very much

Here in Ireland they cut grass silage,two cuts per year,and put it in outside bunks,and second cut is mostely wrapped in round bales.🇨🇮🍀👍🌽

Long talks about life and just and any sorta conversation for that matter with someone who’s “seasoned” are always nice. You really do cheer up a lot of people with these videos. Thank you for it all and hope to see more of it.

It's great to know you make a difference in people's life

I agree with the gentleman’s cancer story. I too have used your channel and others too to pass the time as I lived with my cancer, although I’m clear now, I still enjoy 😉 your content! ❤️

you touch a lot of peoples lives. Thank You

Brian you are a great guy!!You have a beautiful wife,and I don't know your other two boys,but Cole is a great help to you!!You are a truly blessed man!!!

Brian you are a good man and thats what draws people to you. I hate that yall are still dealing with the drought and hope the other silage gives you enough moisture to help out the fermentation process.

sometimes all it takes is a single word to uplift people who cry out for help but never say anything. Love for one another is becoming hard to find. Bless yall

I don't know why, but I just love drone shots. Maybe it is because I never get that high to have a view like a bird.

Brian, you are a good person and that draws people to you so they feel better . You have a quality that a lot of the younger generation doesn't have anymore .

Great video as always. You have a greater effect on people than you realize. Just the calmness of your interactions with each other means so much. Thank you.

Your story about the gentleman thanking you about your videos while He was going through cancer treatment brought a tear to my eye. Keep up the great work with you and Cole.

Hey there Sonne Farm! Brian, your touching story just goes to show us all that you never know what trials people endure each day and y’all may think you have just a you tube channel for entertainment but it’s not, it can be a blessing for so many struggling with grief, sadness, loneliness, illness etc and just having a few moments to laugh and learn is welcomed beyond measure. Your good people with a great work ethic, good humor and respect for everyone. Appreciate your channel and enjoy it !

Well Brian, as a retired person, I love watching you both work on something I always wanted to do, farming. I worked on a farm as a young boy and never forgot it. Never had the money to buy a farm. Thanks

I love making silage. I always love to see how excited Brian is to use his fancy silage blade. He’s pretty proud of that. It’s my favorite story.

Brian: Like the fellow you were talking to, You helped me have somthing to look forward to. I had a work injury 2 yrs ago with surgery. It helped to watch the videos durring recovery, and it reminds me of myself and my dad when I was Coles age. ( I'm your age now). Thank you. Look forward to harvest

It's good to see you getting by with what you have. No fancy pushing blades or special expensive equipment. Sometimes simple is better.

Wow that corn is dry compared to us up here in NE South Dakota. That sucks guys.. you and your Dad are always positive about whats going on at the farm and Thats awesome.

Brian, you did think of something for the camera! Thank you!

Yes you guys give me a boost. I have cancer, keep up the good work. I'm also a fan of Our Wyoming life

awsome video cole anouther step to haveing winter feed and makeing sure the animals intrusted to them are well taken care off stewardship but the moment brian mentions the cancer patient saying thanks was just a wow and a lump in the throat there has been several of those moments on this channel keep watching thses guys they are the kind folks who make our country grand thumbs up and shared

*Great farm with the presence of father and son Brian.*

Really liked what Brian told us happened at the SD Fair. Just you guys being you helps more people than you know!

One of the first jobs I had on my grandpa's farm was packing silage. In western Colorado in the 50-60s we used long pits cut into the ground, 1- feet wide at most, 8 feet deep and about 100 feet long. The trucks just drove through the pit and spread the corn, so we did not have to move too much of it. Pulling a truck out of the pit was a common part of the job. Sometimes we just hooked up and pulled all the way through.

Brian, I'm not surprised at what that man said. You know, you and Cole...in fact, your whole family, are making a difference for the better in people's lives. There is so much turmoil in the world right now, that to see a loving, productive family going about their daily business with humor, grace, and hard work is not only refreshing, it's therapeutic for many, including myself. You guys have a genuine honesty that shines right through, and I hope you'll be sharing your world with us for many years to come. Thank you, and may God bless your family every day.

I have been watching you all for years. Just like the guy with cancer you have provided me with some pleasure as I provide care for my wife as she is recovering from a back injury. Plus I'm twenty years older than you. Thanks for the videos. Hope to see some wedding videos too.

Fun watching the huge amount of work you do keeping your farm going... I was so Happy seeing Mike from "My Wyoming Life" stopping by your Farm... I LOVE watching their beautiful family also... Both Your Families are AWESOME & I appreciate all your Vlogs... It Brightens My Day 🌞 Hugs & BLESSINGS ALWAYS 🙌 GBY ALL 🙏❤️💙💙🐕🤗✝️

It is so wonderful to revisit the farms of my youth and remember the hard work and feeling of accomplishment now that I am 75 years old.

Brian and Cole - I always look forward to a new video from Sonne Farms. It makes my day a little bit brighter. 😃

Excellent blog really enjoyed it, and the camera work very good. Always good for us city people

Normally, we wouldn’t know what effect our lives have on strangers’ lives. Brian, you’re very lucky that the gentleman at the Fair told you what you had done for him, and in return, he made your day. RU-vid is sometimes able to make lives better. Who woulda thought?! Thanks for another great video.

Silage was always my favorite job. We filled both uprights and trenches. I usually unloaded into the blower and did all the pushing and packing for the trenches.

I'm not sure about those bolt on duals. They may fall off because they are only Milwaukee tight and not Brian tight. Great video, keep up the great work!

Always a pleasure to watch you guys do silage. I enjoyed this one a lot, hopefully it will go well for you on the rest. Thanks for sharing, have a great week.

Bryan or Brian! lol Your channel is definately one of my favorites. I noticed when Cole drove the articulating tractor to pack the silage, you could see the silage pack and then spring back up. cool stuff and cool farm. Great show as always!

I too am on cancer treatments and spend many hours every day on RU-vid, Netflix or Paramount Plus and find the Sonne Farms videos to be among the most enjoyable content. When younger and fitter I used to enjoy spending time with friends on their farm and helped w here I could with their chores. While all this is beyond me now, Sonne Farms brings the farming to me and I am most grateful to Cole and Brian for sharing the journey. Thanks so much!

You are doing the very best you can with what you have. Appreciate the great drone shots. The prize goes to Brian's fair story. This channel isn't just for entertaining. We are moved by your videos, especially seeing beautiful father and son interaction. A good lesson for us all. And a blessing.

You guys make a difference with each video It really is a cool way to connect with people who you will probably never meet

Thank you all for sharing everything.God bless you all

My Dad farmed 11 quarter sections with two 4020 JD's in the 50's and 60's and I remember bolt on duals. Never had any axle problems. Drove those tractors day and night some in the summertime working wheat ground after harvest. Western Oklahoma proud. 😘 Love your channel, you bring back soooo many pleasant memories of farm life, even though I've been a city gal for 50 years, whewwww. 🤣

I like how you guys seem like you are good friends and you have a great time together

Brian. You and Cole and your entire family absolutely make my day better thru watching your videos. Finding your channel was the culmination of a few events in my life. First of them was loving farm life. I was born and raised in Long Beach Ca. I lost my father to cancer in 1967 when I was 10 years old. Two summers later my mother boarded a train with myself and three younger brother to visit her brother and sisters and their kids, in and around Eddyville in central Nebraska. They raised cattle, grew corn,alfalfa and sugar beets. I loved the experience so much that I went back the following summer by myself. The kid from Long Beach was pretty capable at setting tubes to irrigate . And then a blessed life has happened and before you know it 50 years have passed and you retire from the construction industry in the Los Angeles Area and move with your wife of nearly forty years to Big Bear Ca a small mountain community 100 miles east of L.A. (think much fewer people🙂). Then the pandemic hits and you and your wife self isolate to try to protect yourselves from the unknown. Then on Labor Day 2020 you receive a phone call that your cousin in Nebraska has tragically passed in a single car accident while out checking Irrigation pivots late one night. In the days and weeks that followed feeling deeply saddened and isolated and reminiscing while searching for more information on the internet I stumbled on to a you tube channel about farming and ranching in South Dakota. And then I remembered all the stories my young at the time cousins told me about partying in Yankton SD. So I said to myself, Self, lets check this channel out. And as they say the rest is history. I can only imagine the look on your face when Cole says hey Dad I'm going to start a RU-vid channel about our farm (think eye roll). Who'd a thunk it. No BS Brian and Cole and family you folks with your ability to share your lives and tell stories with wit, humor, hard work and love of family and faith, mid west values is a bright spot in thousands of peoples lives.It's real. Plus we get the song of the day to hum to ourselves as a bonus. Its like a twofer. 🙂 All the best, Fran

I got all choked up with Brian story….. i’ve been sitting in my shop watching your guys videos for months because I can’t work stage four terminal lungs in-operable. When you guys post a new video it’s one of the few things I look forward to. Thank you for sharing. I love finding out what you and Cole and Jeff are up to.

Sad to see so many of us still being impacted by the horrible levels of drought. Hope that in the end, the silage pit does well and keeps all your cattle fat and happy. Our cattle are all dealing with the horrible fire smoke that is causing some issues with them AND we humans too. Gag!! I'm grateful for your hard work that goes into making all these videos too. I tell ya what, during some truly tough times the past couple of years, more than I can count, Sonne Farms videos have filled up my days and made this ranch life not feel quite so lonely. We all face hardships of one kind or another and often times, its a lonely go of dealing with it all. So thanks from Montana my sweet friends. 🤠💯

You don’t even know how much you guys bring to the table, it maybe a just a video but it’s more to many. Keep on keeping on. Thanks 🙏

That's really awesome that gentleman said that 2u. I don't think yall realize how much some of us look forward to your videos. Love Monday Wednesday and Saturday (not just for football anymore) for new videos. He'll when I'm our on the road or home I barely watch TV I'm usually watching Sonne Farms! Best thing on TV these days besides college football

I'm watching and crying. I'm having a bad chemo day. It helps to have a nice program to pull my self up out of the dispair

Your Dad knows his shot about clamp on duals 👍👍

You two are always happy and positive. Love watching your videos.

Best farming channel on RU-vid! Thanks cole and Brian and keep up the great content. Supporter all the way from hawaii 😊🤙🏽

Thanks Cole-You always give the best drone shots! Love Brian’s sharing his State Fair story, brought some dampness to my eyes! You guys something special no doubt!

Nice that it'd getting harvested. I'm sorry it's dry. As most of us know it's been a very dry yr and many fires in my state. U guys definitely help my days go by.

Yea I bet it’s so rewarding to the folks y’all touch with the videos you guys do an amazing job bless you

awesome video as always . Yes Cole i got your bolt on Pun from college lol

Concrete blocks that you use for extra space hook it up to the draw bar and you will have more weight to Pack silage

I love watching you cut corn or grain of any kind 👍💕

Funny story. Back in the mid 60’s when we put the duals on the tractors Dad would go down the road from one farm to another. Dad would run over 4 mail boxes every year. “Oh I forgot that the duals were on”. That is all I have to say about that. God rest his soul. 🤗🙏

5:02 "That sounds peachy!" was the correct response.

Great intro. You always make me smile.

I share your videos so that Joe supermarket shopper can appreciate what it takes to put food in the basket. Thanks

Good video Cole, Brian, and Ellie.

You guys are helping me through a difficult time at the moment. Your videos really do help people,you only have to look at these comments to see that.thankyou.sending positive vibes from the UK. :)

Great song of the day, Brian. Have not seen any farmers around here doing ther fields yet. We had a ton of rain here this last weekend. Had to empty my rain gage twice. We had about 8 inches. We were so dry around here , it soaked right in. Thanks for the great videos. You and cole make my day. God bless.

Excellent video. Cole, you have your drone footage and the accompanying music down to an art. Thank you for bringing forth memories of yesteryear.

It's always great to hear Brian, relate old experiences, thanks.

really enjoyed the great video Mr. B and Cole. Thank you so much guys

Thank you Sonne farms!!

Great viedo. We also only use clamp on duels, and have never had eny problems with them

Bryan dad run clamp on duals on his 5020. Dad broke the weld between the rim and the spacer. That is the only trouble we had with duals.

Your songs of the day are allways awesome!!

Forgot to add looking forward to the next video. Thanks for everything. Appreciate both of you. The Iowa farm boy. Steve.

Brian, I agree with what that fellow at the fair said about your videos. You touch many people with your content. I watch quite a few channels, and most of them are of farmers and ranchers, all of them family operations. We get emotionally involved with what you do, and we appreciate you letting us into your lives. We see the closeness of families working together to put food on our tables, and are affected by the ups and downs you deal with concerning weather, damaged equipment and other factors related to your industry. I realize our involvement does not solve your problems and we certainly do not suffer the consequences of your losses. But rest assured, we are there for you in spirit and with our prayers. God bless you and all the other farmers in our great country.

love seeing you guys interaction with each other. Great videos

Awesome Video and Much Love as Always 🌞 Farms!!!

Brian, you come up with the greatest song.....right up my alley. Thanks

I love you videos and how these videos mean so much to us. On a different note I’m from central California we grow a lot of almonds and there are a lot of dairy farms around us. All the corn we grow is for silage it’s very interesting to me the differences there are from state to state and how they do things. Love the videos and keep them coming!

“Mussgo soup”. Everything in the fridge Must Go.

Hey my big 2wd has true duals and it snapped a 3"' axle just field edging with a 15ft disc, and in Europe clamp on duals have been used for over half a century

I never knew what Sorghum was until I started buying my own groceries. I just knew there were two types of syrup momma kept in the house.... Maple for pancakes, Sorghum for biscuits.

Enjoyed the video Cole it was good 👍. Brian you are a inspiration to us all thanks for what you do.

Thanks for letting me come out and meeting you guys it sure made my day you guys are true class act

Brian and Cole I started watching your videos in December of 2017 when I was in the hospital as TV was getting boring and You Tube videos were better and at times I was watching 14-16 hours daily cuz what else do you do in the hospital when you're laid up after surgery. But my views are all farming videos, I watch your channel 1st then I watch Farm fixing and fabrication and Andy has a dairy but stays away from showing videos inside the dairy cuz of negative comments but he has 2 sons 3 daughters and I have never seen kids work like his as young as they are his two daughters and younger son around 12 and how he and his daughters do a heck of a job welding I like his channel cuz it reminds me on how I brought my son and daughter up and included them in the chores cuz I bought bottle calves and the kids could buy there 1st car and pay cash for it by saving there money from chores..When my grandkids come over I always show them Sonne farm videos of the cows calving so Brian and Cole keep the videos coming so I can keep the grandkids calmed down as I have 2 that are 1 and 2 that will be 3 at Christmas. Plus I like your channel as you are all green machinery which is what my GPA brought me up on. I can remember my GPA chopping stalks with a 2 row stalkchopper and a 4020 gas and back in the 70s they had 4400 combine with 3 row corn head

Y'all really are amazing guys. You've touched many hearts.

I love you and your dad videos...

Brian, you are a huge inspiration to many of us. Thank you

Me and my dad got a flat tire on the loaded trailer just south of the ridge at Trinidad, Co. we drop trailer on side road, and went up to town. We decided to get a motel room, and Told the desk man 1 night. He said you mean 4? Wink ? Puzzled ? we look at each other and looked, and say no 1 night. He syas arent you here for a op-peration? I, Puzzled said, No? Just a flat tire. The desk man, looked scared and confused, so just 1 night? Yes? .... Thank You to the 3 fingered, Mr. Jolly for spares and helping us out of Trinidad...we bolted the "spare" on ourselves...

Must say Brian And Cole love the videos

You must be a God shot, because videos about cow manure management being great when you have chemo nausea is a miracle.

Outstanding Song of the Day ... BTO always brings it ..

Way to go good job love watching your adventures