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There was a day, ... We pulled a 12 ft JD grain drill with a Case DC3 (32hp, maybe 35hp tops, gasser), with an EZ-FLOW fert drop spreader behind, with harrows pulled behind the EZ-FLOW spreader. Oh, no cab on the DC3, no GPS, no markers. And, it had a steel dish seat. We drilled hundreds of acres this way, grain (wheat, oats, barley) and grass seed, ... for years and years. There was a time when all this was much simpler. :-) No drone to follow either, no pictures, no vids, ... just worked day after day. Anyway, great video, Ryan.
Yea, ... perhaps you are right about the tone :-) I think back when watching these videos and see the drastic changes, in many ways. Our processes were "up to date," so nothing unique. The farm was 325A, nearly all under cultivation. And, nearly all was annual crops - plow, prepare, and seed with the drill every year, all with 25hp, 35hp and 45hp tractors. Plow was 3-16", pulled at 3.5mph. Lots of other contrasting information, but will spare. BTW, the Case DC3 was bought, used, for $800, if I recall correctly. The "workhorse" 45hp tractors were about $2,200-$2,500, new.
Yeah, saw a Mennonite guy up the road from my BIL... he was running a Deere 620 or 630 tractor with a wide front, pulling a 13 foot disk behind it, with a 12-13 foot old Van Brunt Deere drill behind the disk, pulling a drag harrow behind the drill, that was pulling an old Brillion packer behind the drag harrow... That old Deere was working but she was pulling it all, one and done! Got a pic of it but no video unfortunately... :) OL J R :)
+How Farms Work - I have to say that is a nice little tractor too! Love the new Deere Tractors they are some of the best looking out there! Go Green Or Go Home!
Really great video nice to see a really well prepared seedbed. The seed drill and tractor combination looks really smart too. How much power does that seed drill need by the looks of it a much smaller tractor would handle it easy.
How many pounds of oats per acre did you plant with the drill? Awesome video. I am just starting in farming,1st generation and looking to plant a 20 acre field I turned over in oats this spring to condition the soil.
If I'm not mistaken, I remember some of these same strips being harvested as grain oats (as opposed to forage) in your previous videos. How many acres do you anticipate having in oats/alfalfa this year?
Unbelievable how much different the field conditions are in the southwestern corner of the state! I live in northeast Wisconsin between Manitowoc and greenbay and it's way too wet to even think about planting anything yet! By the way the farm I work on lost most of its hay to winter kill☹️
So if this is a 15 row planter, are you putting alfalfa in every other row or mixing it in with the oats? I'm a bit confused since in one of your newer videos it appears (from what you said) you sow the oats and drop the alfalfa on the top soil. So that would make me think every other row is alfalfa only.
Cleate Rose oats are used as a parent or also referred to as a cover crop because the oats will sprout and grows faster then the alfalfa. the oats will be emerged and growing in 7-10 days offering a buffer against heavy rains that will cause erosion. the alfalfa emerges and grows slower and takes several weeks to get thick enough to offer the same protection. also doing this practice your getting twice the crops oats to sell or use and alfalfa for hay which after oats are harvested he may be able to get a cutting this fall but more likely not till next year
Being raised on a farm can be a hard but rewarding life. I wouldn't trade my heritage for anything. Sub note, Ryan, have you ever or would you consider installing a live streaming web cam on your farm somewhere like on top of a silo or something aiming down giving a view of your farm HQ. Consider it won't you?
When you buy the seeds you want to plant in the US, is it normal that they are come in small bags? Seems like a lot of work loading the drill if you are seeding for 30 days straight. :)
Oh, so it belongs to the neighbor... teach me to comment in the middle of the video. Bad habits from watching "ag talk in the raw"... gotta comment mid-vid or I forget what I was going to comment about. LOL:) Later! OL J R :)
I have a 1590, I really like that cat walk in front, mine doesn't have that, probably a bitch to work on the front row tho. Nice video! Hope all grows well
I'm sure you've mentioned it before, but how many acres of your farm is devoted to crops, (hay, corn etc)? How big of an acreage (cash crops) does someone need to make a living? With the cost of tractors and other equipment I'd imagine quite a bit. I know that might vary depending where you are in the country but just an estimation.
A Molson don't know about Us. but something to compare too. in Sweden you need at least 300 hectares (740 acres) to be able to live of it with no other side job.
Are you going to harvest the oats or make oats bales? We make oats bales when we start hay fields, we cut the oats right at the end of the milk stage. Cows go crazy over them, they prefer them over second cutting mixed hay all the time.
I'm curious as to why its planted like it is in the big field? is that based on the soil samples? doesnt look like its much of a low or high spot and seems like an unnecessarily inefficient shape to plant.
I get that but just wondering their reason for it. It's more efficient to farm a square and it looks plenty doable on that field so just curious. been farming for 20 yrs and it looked odd
Need some fat European tyres on that tractor, all that compaction from such a small area. The tyres on OLF's imported British tractors are the standard over here and the best.
Alexander Williams these guys do lots of row crops. Your large flotation tires don't work in those situations. There is a purpose for everything. Just because you do it differently than we do doesn't mean anybody is doing it wrong. They aren't telling you how to run your operation, isn't it pretty presumptuous of you to tell another man how he should run his operation that has obviously been successful without your opinion?
Austin Campbell We also do alot of row crops, especially in the south but that doesn't stop us using big fat tyres. Like you have many more tracked machines than we do as you have masses of land and huge fields, but they are tracked to put power to the ground and reduce compaction through a larger surface area just like out wider tyres, over here your normal tyres are seen as specialised tyres really only for potatoes or crop spraying.
Using row crop tires is dumb if you don't follow the same rows every year. Also compaction still occurs, the wheel drives on the side of the row, but that does not mean there is not pressure to the sides.
Keeping up with 15 foot and 30 foot centers is nit really hard, been drilling soybeans with a 30 foot Great Plains drill without GPS and markers for years.
Anyone else think the 7215 looks alot nicer then the 8235? I sure do. Even nicer again is the 6215 we run over here I'm the south of Ireland. They look alot more nimble the 7215 but same horsepower
Big Country usually it means a day that the farm offers a plot of their land to showcase either a seed brand or maybe even farm equipment, just depends..
I would tell you to google it but, its simple, this is a mechanical drill (considered old, almost outdated), The seed is held on the hoppers on top, there is a metering device under them, its driven by a wheel that touches the ground, so the amount of seed matches the speed. There is one metering roller per each seed coulter, they look like a gear (it depends on the specific drill) the "gear" picks seeds individually and lets them fall through a tube, this tube lead to the outside to the coulter, a disk opens the ground for the seed to fall into, then another one closes the gap after.
I planted oats with Hunter so we can feed it off twice first time with cattle then we let it grow back that's when the Hunter come up as well oats regrow for sheep
Aren't yall a little worried about getting the alfalfa seed in too deep with that harrow afterwards?? Thought you only wanted alfalfa about a 1/4 inch deep AT MOST and a chain harrow like that cuts deeper than that... Just wondering... OL J R :)
I still don't get why this guys use those John Deere drills so much. European brands seem to be making so much better desings nowadays. Either combo drills with disk harrow and rollers, or foldable air drills with much higher working withs. Tillage equipment found in the USA looks so outdated.
Erland Wallin Not sure about what you said, but seed hawks are desinged for no till drilling, in the case of the way this guys drill oats, those drills wouldn't work.
Brandongriffith450 I remember when growing up on the family dairy farm back in the 80's an early 2000 we did oats an the surrounding farm did away with oats but those were good memories
