Thanks for the time that you took to show what goes on during tasks on your farm. I grew up in a farming community and have returned to raise my now grown kids in my small town, which was a very good decision. I did a little work on a farm through all the years, but there was a lot of voids in my knowledge that your video has helped to fill.
You sound like a Good hard working young man, and give me hope for the next generation your parents I am sure are proud of you all. I hope your family and farm are blessed with a abundant Harvest always.
You guys have done a nice job. Its great to see young people that still have an interest in the family farm. You have done a good job showing how much goes into harvesting and that the wheat you harvest also provides feed for your cattle in the form of round bales. Keep up the good work. Thanks for helping to feed us!
Well done. Farmers like you and your family are the backbone of American agriculture. Keep up the good work. Considering the drought through the mid-west your crop looks amazing, the Lord was good to you. Remarks from a retired Canadian farmer.
I grew up on a wheat farm and ranch in South Dakota. You definitely captured the essence of the wheat harvest. I like that you showcased eating lunch in the field. Most people wouldn't realize that when you harvest you don't have time to go home and eat, and you have to put away a lot of high energy food to keep going 20hrs straight.
No texting, no video games, this is the best. My uncle had a farm in Iowa, I loved going there as a kid. No day was ever the same it seemed and the beef was fantastic!
I've driven through Kansas and Nebraska and Iowa during harvest and loved watching the combines moving along those huge fields. Now I know what is being done with each piece of machinery and what happens at those huge grain elevators that stretch all across our Midwest. Even my ag teacher husband could not make the process as interesting as you Petersons. Thank you
You're right.. We should pay more attention to the farmers in our country :) I'm so appreciative of my own heritage of ancestors who made their way as either tenant farmers or farmers in their own right. Thanks for sharing your passion for what you do!
your video is very well done ! thank you. hopefully this will let city dwellers know what hard work went into the food on thier table. i was once a country boy and this helped me slip into a wonderful 'sweet' spot. thanks again !
I'm from central Kansas as well and I work as a farm hand during harvest. You have no clue how cool it is to me that you guys are doing this. I love harvest and the farm; and I'm not even doing it on a daily basis. It's just nice to see that someone else enjoys it as much as I do and that they are sharing it.
Farmers feed the world and deserve everyones respect. It takes a special kind of person to be a farmer. Farming has always been family oriented and farming families have produced some of the hardest working, best natured and all around nicest people I have ever met. Thank you for all that you do and keep the great videos coming!
Thank you for your hard and special work. Your service to this nation is even greater than that given by our troops. For without you, they could not defend.
I was eating Cheerios while I was watching this and I wanted to say, thank you so much for all the hard work you do so that we can all enjoy ready made food. We didn't have to grow any of it, we just go pick it up off a shelf. It's thanks to farmers like you boys that we are able to do that.
Thanks so much for sharing. I was very blessed by your presentation My family was originally from the central Nebraska area and know all about wheat farming (and corn). I am from So Cal coast and just know of it :) through family stories of the farm days. I have been back to the mid west many times and enjoy the quieter "community farm life” of neighbors helping and watching for one another. Blessings!
You guys are lucky im stuck living 20 miles from the city just on the border of the suburbs and more rural areas i wish i lived out on a farm its my main goal in life.
Thanks for the video. It explained to my sons how wheat is harvested and that food doesn't magically appear at the grocery store. Thanks for feeding our nation.
This is an excellent video. you guys do a great job and its just that much better that y'all work together as a family. It makes me miss growing up on the family farm back home.
I just want to say thank you guys for posting these videos. Even though I grew up on the farm, too many people have no idea what we go though on the farm and where their food comes from.
This looks like a great video to show to my 1st graders during our unit on producers and consumers. I'm sure it would help to see "real people" working and discussing farming.
Very true, thank you for your hard work, and your striving towards an excellent produce. But I still could not imagine doing all this by hand and scythe without the help of the machines.
I loved this video! You did a great job; I learned quite a bit! I really respect the amount of hard work you all put in to keep the farm operating--even more so now that I know more about what's going on. It's excellent, just excellent.
I totally understang you with weather thing. I am a young farmer from Europe and really, when it comes to harvesting, everyone in family becomes nervous if weather will hold on enough for us to finish
my favorite part of harvest is making barbecue near field..yesterday we finished harvesting 1 hour after midnight.also,if is cloudy or wind blows,we work at night.greetings from balkans.
Thanks guys for these videos. Even though I keep a garden, own some potato land in ME, and have worked on a teaching farm with an area (MA) environmental education org. (veggies, cattle, pigs, poultry), it's hard to connect with you mainstream farmers in the Heartland. We on the coasts fly over KS, etc. and look down at the huge fields and houses out away from the big towns and try to imagine life down there. This helps. (In MA, wheat gets cut mid June btw. - I grow & thresh a bit by hand.)
I live in Italy and the country life works as you did see: hard work, hard work but a lot of satisfaction! You have the John Deere! These machines are the best! In Italy we are not so well equipped as you =) I admire you guys!
I used to live on a farm but it wasnt a cattle or plant. It was a horse farm. I always wandered how they made hay circles! This is really interesting. Keep up the good work because I love eating my bread! :-)
Great looking family and thanks for posting. I know nothing about farming but I love my wheaties and wheat bread. It is hard work but looks like you all really enjoy it. :-)
I've hitchhiked all across Kansas! I sure do love the Flint Hills area from Newton up to Abilene. I wish I had the opportunity to be a farm hand, because it seems like a lot of fun. Maybe next time I'm coming through I'll pass by Salina.
Honestly wish I could go help out on a farm. I think it'd be a great learning experience and also experiencing a different lifestyle. Thank you so much because I'm sure I have eaten something you have grown =)
Thanks for the reply. i have familiarity with weight restrictions on bigger trucks and trailers from working on larger farms, going onwheat harvest, and over the road trucking with hoppers. I wasnt familiar with the little short trailers on their capacities and weight but i have found some of what ive been looking for. we have little driveways and narrow roads to access them from i thought something like a little trailer would be easier for family members that are not used to big trailers.
I really enjoy these videos, they are so interesting. Farmers are so down to earth, and not scared of a hard day of work either. Wouldn't it be nice if everyone had their work ethic?
In very simple terms winter wheat is planted in the fall when we typically have more moisture for the roots to develop, it then becomes dormant while it overwinters, once spring comes the wheat already has a head start and begins growing. Spring wheat is planted in the spring and typically that is done in the northern states where the summers are cooler and they receive more rainfall.
On our farm we have a T800 KW with 11L Detroit (around 500hp which is more then plenty.) It pulls a 34 foot Jet and we can legally haul around 800 bu of wheat, you can get 1000 on it but if you get caught it's a buck a pound. The longer the trailer the larger the legal load but anything over 40 gets really tight getting in and out of fields. I'd look for a used delivery truck from a beer/pop distributor and match it with a 26 foot single axle to get started.
oh yeah...We did it in I think 1991,forgot exact year...Everything snowed down flat.(mostly one way or two way swathing(mostly stopped changing sections,..our swathers were junk piles when we got through...and you had to be carful combining too,,,not to pick up a funny looking pile that the swather left,(it's probably got a rock in it, meaning major concave damage)Machine shops did well rebuilding cylinders and feeder houses that winter!!!
couldn't help but notice that Nathan runs the reel REALLY fast. If he slows it down a little so it only runs slighty faster than ground speed, you might see a little less grain loss because you're not knocking the grains off the straw :)
There are some people that do seasonal work during harvest time. They get hired on a crew and harvest wheat from Texas all the way up to South Dakota. As the wheat is ready for harvest first in Texas since it's a warmer climate.
great video, keep up the good work..... I remember working on our farm when I was younger, it was a great life... now I'm working in shipping.... funny how your life changes...:)
Boys r doing good! im from kansas to and yall last name sounds fimilar! Harvest is going great this year for us and i hope its doing the same for you boys :)!
