Ya know you can use those cobs to heat syrup are old farm house has a cob burner to heat the house
@familytraditionfarms11 күн бұрын
Where do you get your empty sacks from for your corn?
@sperfdairy216012 күн бұрын
Ill always say fresh cut is nothing compared to the morning 48hrs after its cut smells 1000× better
@jazzerbyte15 күн бұрын
Interesting variety of summer tasks. Do the mice bother the granary?
@MrMantraMan15 күн бұрын
That machine will make you an eunuch.
@davidhaubenstricker30417 күн бұрын
I love your videos, they give me inspiration to try to direct market some of my crops. With a small farm there is no way to make money selling wholesale
@pagrainfarmer17 күн бұрын
Great video! Nice to see you back at it again. Keep it up.
@danielhurrle700818 күн бұрын
Great video, very cool on the cracked corn process. Keep them coming please.
@Christian-1-18 күн бұрын
Hi and good evening, Couldn't you just put the mill a little higher and place an empty bag under it? On a rack or trailer? Or deepen the ground under the mill a little? Then it should actually be easier? Instead of the buckets and shoveling? By the way, I like your videos very much! They are simply great in every way. What you say, how you explain everything, your farm, the great machines and also the seasonal atmosphere always. And the incredibly beautiful surroundings with you. Really fabulous! Thank you very much for that! Best regards from Schleswig-Holstein, Northern Germany! All the best, Christian 🇺🇸💕🥰
@ArmpitStudios19 күн бұрын
Love the swather. I haven't seen many of those in the Midwest. Yeah, I was kinda waiting for the flex funnel to dip as the water hit it, then bounce as the water pouted out, and repeat. 😆 The starter switch is a nice touch. It reminds me of the turn signal replacement switch I put on one of our band trucks back in Iowa. It was a former chicken hauling Step Van, with the original LUX Pullets logos on the sides and "Here comes Archie!" on the hood. The column-mounted turn signal failed, so I zip tied a 3-position toggle switch onto it. Oh, it also had a secondary horn from a VW Beetle that caused strange looks from people when they turned to see the behemoth making the little beep-beep. Thanks for the big ol' video!
@larrycowing23819 күн бұрын
enjoyed the video, hope to meet up with you again sometime
@user-rd5cs5su3s19 күн бұрын
Good to see a video and keep them coming
@tomlines718119 күн бұрын
Another great informative video. As I have said before love the videos with the older equipment like I farmed with dad on. Keep them coming. God bless
@frank6440919 күн бұрын
Drill a hole in the brace to get a scredriver through the hole.
@frank6440919 күн бұрын
Alfalfa starts to loose proteen once it flowers. Wait longer for a seed crop.
@douglasrusselljr770719 күн бұрын
As I've said before, thank you for sharing your day with us. I really appreciate your commentary about what you do, why you do it the way you do, and everything in between. I look forward to seeing your harvest footage! Stay safe from unguarded roller chains!!!!
@GeigerFarm19 күн бұрын
Crazy year, busy busy busy 🙂👍🏻👌
@thetoyfarmer236619 күн бұрын
When did you get the swather
@ravenviewfarm19 күн бұрын
We bought it in the summer of 2021, which was the first year we grew oats on the farm. I haven't featured it because I always failed to get good camera footage of us using it, or even working on it when it needed repair. This year I took some decent footage of oat harvest though, so it'll play a role in an upcoming video.
@ronwhites143219 күн бұрын
Enjoy your videos of someone of doing farm directly to customer . Running older machinery makes it able to afford to farm small, best to you on your farm and hope your farm to consumers keeps improving for you, we used to have a guy that would stop to goose hunt here from around St Peter that loved to visit with my dad and he raised ducks outside feeding them alfalfa bales and people would come every year paying a premium for his ducks.
@BrettCales-xi5bjАй бұрын
He was probably doing 1 of two things. 1 cleaning lead out of dirt from a back stop to melt down and turn into lead shot or sinkers etc. or less likely separating lead shot from slag after melting.
@ravenviewfarm19 күн бұрын
I'm pretty sure it was the former option, because there was a lot of dirt worked into the nooks and crannies of the machine when I disassembled his shaker screen.
@jazzerbyteАй бұрын
Sounds like great progress on soil optimization. It's quite a different thing when you realize that there's no open local oats mass market and it takes more effort to find buyers and direct markets.
@ravenviewfarmАй бұрын
Indeed! There’s a local feed store that will buy a small quantity. That would be my next best option if I wasn’t direct marketing. For anyone who wanted to grow more than 10 or 20 acres in my area though, they’re looking at a long haul to get their product to a market. I think Grain Millers in St. Ansgar, IA might be the closest place, and I believe they will only take food-grade oats.
@ronwhites1432Ай бұрын
I like learning what you do for operating a small farm with alternative marketing, another channel I watch with a small farm with direct sales is a few acres farm. Best wishes on your direct marketing
@ravenviewfarmАй бұрын
Thanks Ron! When I have time to watch KZbin videos, Pete from Just a Few Acres is one of my favorites too. I'd love to sit down with him some day and visit if the opportunity ever arose. It'd be a hoot!
@ronwhites1432Ай бұрын
@@ravenviewfarm we were in your area in June we went on 19 on our way to Hastings on the Friday before Father's day and Saturday it rained all day
@ArmpitStudiosАй бұрын
@@ravenviewfarm You'd need to brush up on bad jokes. Although having a camera stand named Rod is a good start.
@larsonvalleyfarmАй бұрын
Nice update. Has been pretty wet here most of the spring and early summer. Getting dry now! Are you going to the Greater northern Minnesota get together at Jon Stevens next month? MN soil health coalition is hosting
@ravenviewfarmАй бұрын
Thanks Larson Valley Farm! I might attend that event if it works around our haying schedule. Rush City isn't a long way for me to go. We've been so crazy busy here that I've missed a number of MSHC events that I wanted to attend. I especially wanted to go to the Premier Soil Health event last week, but we were baling hay. I'm hoping once oat harvest is out of the way we'll slow down enough to get off the farm a little and be back out in the world, lol!
@larrycowing238Ай бұрын
enjoy your video Mike, haven't seen you since the Soil Health Summit, look forward to learning more about your vermiculture
@ravenviewfarmАй бұрын
Hey Larry! Good to hear from you! Yep, I finally pulled the trigger and got a bunch of worms, lol. I'll have some video updates about that in the future as well. Not much to see yet since I just have a small worm bin made out of an old garbage can. Those little guys reproduce fast though, so their population will outgrow that bin by autumn, and if I can keep them cozy through the winter I'll have quite the vermicompost operation by spring of 2025. Hope you're doing well!
@tomlines7181Ай бұрын
Love that you made another video. Love seeing how you are doing things and especially with the older equipment like I grew up on and driving. Hope to see more soon. Thank you.
@ravenviewfarmАй бұрын
Thanks Tom! I'm working on a few more videos already. My daughter has gotten interested in using the camera, so it's fun to be able to create videos together as a family. I appreciate you tuning in!
@douglasrusselljr7707Ай бұрын
Glad to see a new video from you! Always interesting and entertaining, not to mention informative. Keep on doing what you do! I'm hoping to see your oat harvest, as it's been a long time since I've been involved in harvesting oats, or wheat. Thanks for including all of us on the farm tour!!!!!
@ravenviewfarmАй бұрын
Thanks Douglas! I get a little long-winded I know, and most people would rather see the equipment working, but I think a tour is important for context once in awhile. I'm glad you enjoyed it. I just swathed the oats down yesterday and filmed it. Of course they got rained on last night, so we'll spend a couple of days getting the combine all tuned up and ready while they dry back down. Then it's go time!
@rustyrelicsfarm2406Ай бұрын
Hope someday you can build a big new barn where the old one was on the farm.
@danaseifert7205Ай бұрын
Yes!
@ravenviewfarmАй бұрын
I totally agree Rusty Relics. Having worked in the construction industry, I've already got some rudimentary plans drawn up for it. We're going to focus on fixing up some of our other buildings first, since we can do that fairly affordably. The barn will require a loan, or a wealthy patron or something (I wish, LOL!) But the farm just doesn't seem right without it, so we'll have to try to get one put up one of these years. Plus I'd love to have hay storage on the farm so we can stop renting the neighbor's barn for our hay crops.
@rustyrelicsfarm2406Ай бұрын
@@ravenviewfarm Posting more often should help.
@farmcentralohioАй бұрын
With the right mix you should be able to spray the corn once, right after planting and before the corn emerges. In a perfect world you want to apply some sort of nitrogen when it's about knee high, the corn needs that extra kick. Cover crops in the rows are good in theory but it actually cause more issues than any benefit
@ravenviewfarmАй бұрын
Totally agree on all of your points. I've enjoyed it when our interseeded covers did well, but it's just so hit and miss. I honestly think we're doing more for our soil health by having a diverse cash crop rotation and using rye in the fall, along with the compost extract now.
@ArmpitStudiosАй бұрын
Oh, I forgot to ask: Why are customers requesting non-GMO animal feed corn? I’m a proponent of GMOs, because they do so much good, so I’m always curious if anti-GMO thinking is just media-based fear of something they don’t understand, or if they think the crops are saturated with Roundup that will still be there when the crop is harvested.
@ravenviewfarmАй бұрын
I really think you hit the nail on the head with the two biggest things that make people averse to GMO crops. There's definitely a severe lack of good, scientifically grounded information available to the general public. Meanwhile there are a whole slew of unqualified fringe-ideas out in the digital universe that anyone can find with a quick Google search. So that drives a lot of the apprehension people feel about GMO crops. Herbicide exposure is another big one. I'm honestly not quite sure where I stand on that issue myself. Glyphosate is a lot safer than many of the other herbicides on the market, but I do also feel that we don't understand its long term effects after repeated exposure as well as we need to. One factor that I take into consideration - but much of the general public wouldn't include in their calculus - is that there is some evidence that GMO crops don't affiliate as well with native soil biology. Interactions between mycorrhizal fungi and corn root systems have been observed to be less vigorous and effective with modern corn varieties in particular. Whether that's because of genetic modification or simply really aggressive hybridization practices is hard to say, but it is a consideration for those of us focusing on soil biology in our crop systems. Again, more studies and information are needed since the industry isn't really focusing on fungal affiliation (why would you when mainstream corn farming is focused on heavy synthetic fertilizer use?) We'll get there eventually, but it'll probably be a long road. I'm a proponent of GMO crops as well. If I start growing non-GMO corn it'll be mainly for the savings in seed cost, coupled with a desire to respond to the wishes of my customer base. As long as we can put together an effective herbicide mix for it, there's really no reason not to give it a try since it should increase my profit margin.
@ArmpitStudiosАй бұрын
It’s alive! 🧌 I find all this interesting. I’ve just been doing some very rudimentary reading about home composting, deciding if I should build a simple cedar composting cage or buy an ugly black plastic one with a crank. (I’d rather get out a manure fork and turn it by hand.) We could use it for the garden we plan on making next season. Maybe. Otherwise it will make some decent fill soil for that low spot in our front yard that keeps sinking where a tree used to be. Do you have any ear corn left?
@ravenviewfarmАй бұрын
Once you get started with compost - no matter how you initially do it - you'll learn a lot of lessons fairly quickly. If you have questions, I'll be happy to help with answers. We're still learning ourselves, so bear with me on the things we don't know. It's a fun journey! Regarding ear corn - we're sold out until harvest time. We actually kept a crib well into the summer this year because the commodity prices were so low, but shelled out what was left of it and sent it to the elevator earlier this month.
@ArmpitStudiosАй бұрын
@@ravenviewfarm We ran out months ago, but never found time to head out your way.
@farmcentralohioАй бұрын
Around here we put fertilizer on the ground going to corn and have never fertilized soybeans
@MeredithFarmsАй бұрын
Love your videos, really hoping to see some harvest footage this fall!
@farmcentralohioАй бұрын
Hey you're alive, was starting to wonder lol
@ravenviewfarmАй бұрын
We're still kickin! Life has been a blur this year.
@user-rd5cs5su3sАй бұрын
Very cool video. i like to hear about your crops and how you guys do things. Keep the videos coming
@rustyrelicsfarm2406Ай бұрын
You look a lot like Peter Ostrum the Child Actor/ Vetrenarian.
@ravenviewfarmАй бұрын
Well I'll be danged! That's a new one for me, but I can see it. Now if only someone would bequeath me a chocolate factory!
@KPVFarmerАй бұрын
Thanks for putting this on video and even the after market rollers. 3yrs old but we are still running a 492. I’m trying to get as much life out of it as possible, $20-$30k for a discbine isn’t in the forecast yet.
@ravenviewfarmАй бұрын
Hey KPVFarmer! Thanks for watching! I definitely hear you on the cost of a discbine. We've kicked it around as well, but for our acreage and hours of use each year it just makes more sense to keep the haybine tuned up and running.
@patrickwolf43732 ай бұрын
Thanks so much for a great educational video. It has given me an idea for how to build my own inter-seeder! I’m excited to see how your interseeding crop does!
@ravenviewfarmАй бұрын
Hey Patrick! Thanks for watching! Full disclosure, we've almost quit interseeding our corn at this point. For us, the weather has been so erratic that we've had a heck of a time getting an interseeded cover crop to grow over the last four years or so. The last three years were really droughty, so we would interseed and hardly anything would come up. Then this year we had so much rain in late May and all of June that we couldn't get it done at all. Don't get me wrong, I still love the practice itself! It's just getting hard to justify the seed cost when barely any of it grows. Plus we've had to limit our herbicide options if we want to interseed, and the grassy weeds especially are starting to get away on us. All that to say we're still learning, and we will probably have another go at it in the future. I just need to figure out a little better balance with herbicide and timing and seed mix. My advice to you would be to keep the seed mix a little lighter than most people would recommend. Maybe 15 to 20 lbs per acre total. Keep the cost down so that it doesn't break the bank if conditions aren't favorable and the result ends up being lackluster. Best of luck! Any amount of extra diversity is good for the soil and the ecosystem!
@izethoxha73012 ай бұрын
How much does a bale go for
@joshuavanbuskirk42753 ай бұрын
Thanks for making the video!
@joshuavanbuskirk42753 ай бұрын
How’s the stems look with new rolls? Nice and flat?
@ravenviewfarmАй бұрын
Yep! The rollers crimp the stems every couple of inches, which really helps with letting the moisture out and getting faster dry down. Plus the bales end up feeling softer with the stems smashed, which I think makes the hay more appealing for my customers.
@j.t.theagguy3 ай бұрын
Awesome video
@ni14693 ай бұрын
Now that you’ve had a few seasons on the rollers how do you like their wear and performance so far?
@asherfamilyacres16983 ай бұрын
Cool old barn!
@Feruz9684 ай бұрын
Hi there Thank you for sharing this information with us. Is machine to seed Tef available in Canada? Could you share the link
@ravenviewfarmАй бұрын
I would assume you can find one in Canada, but I'm not Canadian so I can't claim to be an expert. It's called a Brillion seeder. A quick Google search should get you started with learning about them and where you might find one to use.
@Feruz968Ай бұрын
@@ravenviewfarm thank you so much! I found it
@dennisfoulk824 ай бұрын
Nice machinery.
@michaelreid53075 ай бұрын
Nice to see older equipment still being used & valued.
@Eddie_Schantz6 ай бұрын
Great vids of a good machine. We ran a 1958 55 JD. for several years in the early 70's in wheat harvest and it gave us very few problems. Nothing major anyway. I don't know what year your is, but it is for sure a later one than ours and the first 55 I have seen with a straw chopper instead of the spreader.