I’m from western Oklahoma, I couldn’t farm where you are, not enough sand I do like your videos this is the 2nd I have watched it won’t be the last. Thank you Sir
Thanks for watching. The farmers 20 miles south of me run entirely different equipment on same exact crops due to that much difference in soil types. Farming is different everywhere.
I really like this operator's tutorial, when I watch some of these agricultural videos the operator's usually just grunt and don't give you any clear information this guy is really worth watching, many thanks really enjoyed your video. Kevin Fox Essex, UK.
Every 2 years my grandpa would flip over our alfalfa fields then we would use a plow to smooth it out and then we would replant our alfalfa. That made a huge difference on how thick and green our alfalfa got. We had a dairy farm and milked almost 200 head of milkers. We would milk twice a day and then we planted our corn and beans to sell. We made a lot of money doing both. Then we would sell our calves every year to so we made money every year plus my grandpa drove a school bus for 42 years when he retired. My grandma fed us breakfast in the morning and lunch in the afternoon. We all sat together for our meals. I miss those days terribly.
My great grandfather had a dairy. When I was very young, we lived at the dairy and my dad milked night shift. We moved off the dairy when dad went to work for his dad on row crop/pig farm. Two things I will never do: start a dairy or get back into pigs. That’s some serious work that ties you down to the farm 365 days a year. Hats off to anyone who has put in their time milking.
Hey, wow, super glad I found your channel. Really educational and entertaining. When I was a kid, plowing was my favorite job on the farm - something about watching the soil turn over. And the smell!!! My favorite. We had to plow before potatoes for the same reason.
I’m an amateur potato grower. I have a 2 row tator planter and lifter. I grow pontiac, lasoda, & usually kennebec but this year I substituted with yukon gold
I’ve been saying for years (you may have seen it on some of my peanut harvesting videos) that I’m going to release a cologne called “Peanut Season” that smells like fresh dug peanuts (that’s the smell of freshly flipped dirt)
@@PatrickShivers I miss that smell, nothing will be able to replace it. Have to go back to Alabama in the fall for that experience, no peanuts in east TN.
@@jeffharper7579 I remember being a kid and my granddad had me set up on a double bottom plow behind an international 444. Heaven for a 10 year old boy.
I keep some "Southern Grove" salty, crunchy peanuts on-hand! I like them because they're extra dry, and that makes them very crunchy. You made me hungry, watching you deep-plow that pretty peanut soil! So, I grabbed me a handful to eat while I'm watchin' ya over here in East Texas. I really enjoy watching your videos and listening to you explain about the activity that you're doing. You're going to have a lot of viewers because you create very pleasant content!
Back in the 40s and 50s, it was called a "moldboard plow". Bottom refered to the number of individual plows on that assembly. That's the first I've heard of it called "bottom plowing".
I miss bottom ploughing so much! We do alll strip tilll where i work now. But I sure miss turning ground! We always use to plough. My daddy strongly believed in it. Great video Patrick.
Hay Patrick, just found ur channel, you explain things really well and I am a big fan. We were tobacco farmers on the coast of South Carolina with gumbo soil, everything that grew underground or lays on top would drown or rott.
Patrick ,love your channel. Just haven't bought into the smoked oysters.Tryed them last fall,couldn't eat them.Still have several cans left.I'll stick with your peas.
…with Premium brand saltine crackers and a little Crystal hot sauce they are hard to beat. I ate some of last year’s Zipper peas tonight. One of my best crops to date
Thanks Patrik for the explanation. Great that you found the camera again. When I see ploughing, I wonder if the reversible plow we use doesn't use much less traction?
We moldboard plow in the fall here in Iowa. We don't use a rake on our plows. Usually disc right behind the plow. Then over winter it will freeze out and be really soft come spring.
@PatrickShivers frost can get pretty deep if we don't get snow first. This winter the ground never froze because we got snow before the cold came in January. Moles were digging in my yard all winter.
@@PatrickShivers about 5% are Pawnee harvested 3000 pounds this year. About 80% are Kanza. still waiting on the final tally for the natives but I'm gonna guess seven 8000 pounds of them this year. On the sardines versus smoked oysters I'm always on the lookout for the best deal from Costco!
We will be using a bottom plow on our peanut land this year for the first time since 1994. We've used strip till for 30 years but we are having more and more problems with nematodes as they are gaining resistance to our nematicide. Not to mention the cost of the nematicide is up almost 30% over last year. We actually hate to have to break our sandier soils here in East Central Georgia
@PatrickShivers I'm a small time one man band farmer myself so I can relate to a lot of what you are saying. Good luck this year I'm Busy planting new taters right now myself.
@@greenboyatgafarms2250 my tators should start popping out of the ground any day now (been planted for 3 weeks). What is your fertilizer program for your tators?
Have not had can smoked oysters in a while. Can almost smell fresh turned dirt. Some folks from Washington should come and ride for a day with you and they would go home smarter if that is possible.
Farmers here in Eastern North Carolina just disc the land and then run a field cultivator or burn down a cover crop and strip till then plant. They don't break land
I believe you told me last year you had seen someone up there no-till some peanuts. You can grow peanuts here without plowing, but the yield is better if you plow.
I thought that same thing but I have seen in my part of the country I have seen farmers put peanut in no Till around Suffolk va and I watched them be turned over and they looked great
@PatrickShivers I'm sure of that I help a small farmer Edward Hatfield and he just Disk up just a couple inches then bed it up and plant peanuts I do believe we would get more Yields if we were to plow first but I'm a young guy and he's a old man been doing it all his life
I've heard of semi- mounted and in furrow plows, but you have a semi- in furrow plow with that set up!😂 Is that a Harrel or Long design plow? I know JD bought both, and put their paint and decals on them.
@@PatrickShivers I bet you will find they are the same. JD stopped designing plows in the '70's, and when the switch plows came out, they bought rights to them, but kept the rollovers and standard plows in production until a few years ago. What made the Deere name Deere no longer makes.
It’s been subsoiled 18” deep ahead of the plow and the moisture is perfect. A few days in either direction and the results/procedure will be very different
No. It would just break the plow (my Dad has experience with that). Subsoiling ahead also helps the low bottoms not hold water after rains and drown out the crops, and it helps the plow to roll out a finer tilth instead of large clods.
