I drive the grain cart for my son in law, Reading Mi, gotta love the rocks, the rain and harvesting. Your doing a great job! Thank you for your service
We started out with a 6620 in 1989 it was a great unit for our operation at the time. We moved to a 9500 after about 5 years and it was a big difference in power and capacity. Much more comfortable as well. Keep at it it takes time to get some size. By farming land others don't want you can keep the costs down as well and put more money in your pocket
Couple questions about your combine. Is it two wheel drive ? And if so, do you have trouble with the rear tires packing with mud. I see so many run the tires backwards if only 2 we. I can’t wrap my head around that theory. Only just recently discovered you. I’m near Lapeer, and also watch Kip Segler by Imlay City
Thank you for your service. I want to see you succeed with your farm and make more money. I grew up on a 240 acre famly farm in SW MN. We had 1966 JD 45 squareback and a 2 row mounted New Idea corn picker for harvest. When I was a young kid, I thought similarly like you about the "bigger" farmer. Us kids hated spending 2 weeks in the Spring every year picking rock out of the fields. Each of us would get an empty steel grease bucket (5 gal) for us to put the rock in and then carry the full bucket to the Hayrack and go back and look for more rock. Fist size and bigger. Then when the beans were shin high, we'd sharpen up the garden hoe's and walk through the entire bean field and pull/hoe out all the weeds in the summer heat. We took pride in seeing our clean fields. It was a lot of work, but we had good yields. This is my first suggestion, you got to get rid of all the weeds. I would guess you were losing 30% or more of potential yields to the weeds. Especially in dry years it would be way more. You have a terrible Lambs Quarter problem and they will not only take yield but they will also bust sickle sections, straw walkers etc along with running them through the combine pushes up your moisture content with the seeds getting into the bin. So you get docked for high moisture content along with excessive wear, tear and repair on the equipment all means less profitability. We made more money because we didn't have alot of breakdowns, yields were better with less weed competition for moisture. We didn't use alot of chemical weed control cause we cultivated crops. It was cheaper running a 1956 JD 630 cultivating all the crops then it was for cost of spray. the corn got sprayed once only. My "poor me" syndrome changed when Pres. Carter put the Grain Embargo in place, Interest Rates had already gone to 21% and Inflation was 17+% and I watched our neighbors go bankrupt one after another. That's when I got my real education and not from school. All the things that the other kids had that I didn't, well they didn't have anything at all after that. My education: save, work hard, don't take the easy way out, only rely on yourself, be frugal and efficient and NEVER VOTE DEMOCRAT!!! My mom was republican and my dad was Democrat. Carter was the last time he ever voted DFL again.
I'd like to hear more about your farming. How many acres, crop types, costs/acre, more about you machines, etc. When I lived in CA, they farm all year down there. Tomatoes, corn, soybeans
we farm across the river in Ontario, our beans run anywhere from 60 - 80 bushels to the acre. You need to pick those rocks, even on rented ground, at the end of the day, its your machinery getting hammered. And you and millenial farmer are you very different operations, and sizes. There is nothing wrong with they way he farms, hes fields are weed free and he picks rocks even on rented ground
🔥right on man, I enjoy your channel cuz I grew up with equipment and farming old school like u and your family.. 8820 and 4440 tractor and 555 versatile. Then up to 980s and 9530 and 60’ equipment.. keep on pushing and the rest will all fall into place. Your old man is a good smart guy, listen to him and work together 🔥👊🔥🔨⚙️🏍🚜🌽
Hello sir I love the videos and thanks for your service! I have a question about hay, I picked up 30acres of hay field and it hasn’t been cut yet this year. We finally picked up a disc bine so my question is would I be alright cutting it right now? I’m in southern Indian it seems pretty dry already and it’s supposed to me mid to high 70’s this week. I wanna bale it into some cheap hay or just give it to someone to clean the field up and get some lime and stuff on it before winter. Lmk if you think it’s even worth messing with, or just mow it and let it lay.
@@MichiganMarineFarmer I cut one field today but it’s already pretty dry but still green. I’m not doing the other 20 acres it’s poor quality and mostly broom sedge. Our new to us Kuhn DC353RGC disc bine did well but needs some tlc, can’t wait to bale with our CLAAS Rollant 66 baler. Probably bale it Wednesday or Thursday and I’ll bush hog the other 20 acres
No, I still have my 6600 with 216 head. I now use a 6620 with a 920 head. From listening to you, you haven't seen my channel, I'm doing things the old way but just trying to keep things working as if they were new or better than new.
It doesnt matter the size or age. Depends on what is in your pocket at the end of the day. I own a construction company and we where good size 10-15 employees now we are just 2. Lot less headaches, less stress, everything is paid for, and making the same money with a lot more time off.
I’m sorry, but I do have a little bitterness towards the Big Boys. The bigger they are usually the more cut throat they are, and would fuck their neighbor for ground! Someone had to say it! If the big boys wouldn’t receive welfare from the government it would be easier to stomach!
As long as you can get the job done without too many issues and get parts reasonably quick, the older stuff will still get the job done. We keep updated as best we can with haying equipment but everything else is 80's 90' vintage. Can' t afford or justify the payments on that new stuff.
Not a farmer but up around Lapeer I see a lot of beans still in the field. I’m not far from Hunt Farms and I haven’t seen many of their trucks going by.
if ye follow my videos you see i used to be part of a 3000 acre crop farming, we ran big NH combines (CR9.90) and NH quad track (T9.615) but family sold up so me n wife are ranching on our own with older stuff and im far more happy, combined oats with my IH 766 pulling a 914, and i got an AC8550 for tillage and just picked up a White 8x18 plow
I miss harvest help on my GrandParent's FARM...i thoroughly enjoyed such experience Wish my Grand Parents Farming outfit would consider Organic and or sustainable Techniques...as herbicides, insecticides and artificial NPK in my professional Opinion the problem to Farming...USDA, and EPA ought to do more to rebrand and support Farmers to incorporate Organic without the issues of so much PAPERWORK...i met an Organic Wheat Farmer near me in Kansas and he has to fill out so much Paperwork...seems to me is the problem to enlighten the conventional FARMER anyways Ive researched some and uncovered much into SUPPORTING and SUPPORTIVE outreach and ideas to Sustainable Farmning
When has Zach complained about 250 bushel corn? I haven’t seen that. He and his dad have grown their operation. Keep working at it and you can too if you make the right decisions on land. ❤❤❤
I farm east of you bout 45 miles with older equipment as well my combine is celebrating it's 50th yr as well as full time insurance job so if you are looking for farm auto or crop insurance give me a holler
Sounds to me like your jaded that you aren't one of those "big RU-vidrs" make due with what you have and be happy as much as I love what I do I'd love to be back on farm
Biggest thing I see is are you making money? I’ve learned that input is proportional to yield. I wouldn’t be surprised about Millennial that way. JUST watched him get his combine fixed on a Sunday. But in my mind they should be working 7 days a week, farmers do. As to older equipment, half the channels I watch run older equipment. One young guy runs a 4520(?) articulate, even though there’s lots of new stuff on the farm, he’s just starting out. I have no clue how they pay for million dollar equipment
