When I was young, 50 years ago, a group of us high school students volunteered to spend a day picking rocks from a farmers field and thought it was a fun way too get out of school and also counted towards our gym class.
There you go again absolutely another spectacular beautiful shooting filming footage compilation documentary countryside content video and a very interesting video to watch .. thanks Logan
Rocks hold moisture and prevent drying out of the soil. Growing in rocky country has advantages. When you tip a rock over in the middle of summer, it is always moist under it.
Saw on another channel where they cut off the top half of the garlic first with a bush hog. The bush hog wheel can be removed if it’s running over garlic. And the bush. Hog is up a bit for the right cutting height. Then they do the root cutting like you do. It cuts down the labor needed when trimming the garlic stalks.
Glad to see you're working with the rocks and they're not working against you. You got to make what you got work. As long as you get something. Something is better than nothing at time.
Very interesting video, Logan. I can’t believe the size of some of those rocks! I see some form of income there if they’re collected…😉 Take care…👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻
Do any of your neighboring farms (or even further away "neighboring" farms) have rock pickers that you could maybe rent from them? Having seen in other youtube channels how the fields look so vastly improved after being processed by a rock picker, it hurts to see you struggling with so many many rocks in that one field of yours, knowing how different it could be.
Beautiful farm. I will make a comment you said something I did find an attachment for a tractor that runs off of a PTO. It was advertised to people with rocky soil as a cultivator it busted the rocks up it has carbine teeth on it and it just goes down like a foot. It takes those rocks and it will busted them or make them smaller. The only thing that I seen was it was flopping the rocks on to the plants. You were having to stop the tractor I for one say do not pick the rocks that the rocks work for you that's mother's nature's Way of making things loomy that's the way that the roots get are they just need to be smaller rocks because some of the rocks that I seen could potentially break equipment. Or damage the crop if your back was hurting or something like that it makes it harder to get off of the tractor and get back on. If I can find the number for that PTO attachment I'll post it on here but I think the price on it was 5000.00 for a brand new unit. But it's not removing the rocks because I'm a firm believer the rocks are there that's what mother nature works with and that's just what you need and it's natural it's minerals I see a lot of farmers remove rocks I say keep the rocks they just need to be smaller you need that rock that's just mother nature they just need to be to whether or not going to damage equipment or damage crops...
Honestly those rocks look like soft Stone. I would imagine you could probably almost get a sponsor for one of those cultivators. From what I read and what I watched if I can find the number for the attachment I will put it out there for you. It was showing Farmers that were trying to open up new fields they were having problems with not rocks but stones big rocks that were hard Stone. Most of what I see from the way I look at it is that looks like sandstone it's not a big deal to bust that stuff up. What it is it's a spinning looks like a stump grinder basically that just goes down in the ground about a foot maybe 18 inches and it's got carbine teeth on it that just bolt and unbolt just like a mulcher for an excavator or a stump grinder...
your onions look nice,green and healthy.Where I live due to very dry spring and summer my onions are already on decline and ,probably,will be harvested in some 10 days.The yields will very modest ...
Your farm is close to the Ochs's farm aka Veggie boys. Maybe you could rent their rock picker or make a farm trade. Of course you can't now during the growing period but there's an idea. Or don't worry about the rocks y'all have been growing productive the whole time with the rocks anyway lol.
The County should send Trust worthy Prisoners to come out to pick up rocks by hand for you .Most would volunteer just to get out of those cells for a few hours
The rocks are hard on ur equipment and plants , I use a potato harvest and one pass gets 90% of the rocks in one pass which can go down 8" to10" , rocks are like potatoes just keep growing and frost brings more tithe surface
Can't you rent or borrow a rock picker?? I know I've joked about it before on here, I just can't believe you can get as great a crop as you do in that "soil"!!!
I get a decent rock picker is cost prohibitive, what l don't get is why you're not running shields on the cultivators if the concern is covering or hitting plants.
I will try to get you a per acre price estimate for a 3-pt mounted rock crusher tiller. I believe the tractor and crusher together cost nearly $1,000,000. I believe the owner is in Indiana or Illinois. I do not yet know how to calculate a Return On Investment But I suspect it will be cost effective for some crops.
Have you ever looked at using a stone burier tiller or even having a rock crusher service work through the fields? I don't have rocks like you, north central Ohio, but I'm looking at a stone burier.
Logan…did I miss something or did I hear you right?! Fiancé?? Congratulations!! Sammi has to be the best decision you’ve ever made!! Excited for y’all buddy! Loved seeing how you get the garlic up…that was really cool. Can’t wait for the next vid already! Thanks and God bless you all. (Edit) You was meaning your sister and her fiancé. I misheard that…sorry! Anyway…Sammi still is the best decision on the farm lol
You should rent or but a rock picker. So investing in the soil and ease of planting and less wear on equipment is going to save you money your not thinking long term.
You don't need to buy a new rock picker- can't believe you couldn't find a good used one at a farm sale. Take it off your taxes as part of equipment expenses. Will make your farming go a lot better. Sure not spending any money on those old JD's
I didn't see your comment and made the same suggestion. When you watch the veggie boys and you see the steam coming up in the background, it's from a power plant, and it's the same steam that you see from their farm. So Broyans farm is between the power plant and the Ochs's farm. My guess is maybe 10 miles. I live around 35 miles from Broyan's & 51 to Ochs's. I just looked it up it's only 8.1 miles apart lol.
You need to buy❤ a rock picker and sort out these issues veggie boys just bought one and converted their fields to perfection increasingly production … not even looking into it is a pigheaded attitude farming is evaluating and adjusting
Your not willing to do anything new but what your doing...lol it's a wonder why you can't grow ur channel. At your very best 34,000 views 😂😆🤣 and that is far and few between. 😘
