A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A 4TH GENERATION VEGETABLE FARMER

[@beckyumphrey2626]

Great video. So sorry for.the.drought conditions. Prayers your way.

[@wishwellfarms]

we are good now, got several inches but season winding down. Thanks Becky

[@AhTechus]

I love how organized everything is. Very inspiring

[@DDL2728]

Whoop whoop, Wishwell Farms 🙌💃🙌 Your videos are great. You do such a good job of editing, too!! I'm sorry y'all aren't getting any rain. We're hot & crispy here in South Louisiana, too. But, the hurricane isn't coming to us, so we're thankful & praying for those communities it's going to. God bless y'all! ♥️🙏♥️👍

[@dnawormcastings]

Great video 🇦🇺❤️🥦

[@stephencook4611]

I'm a one man show just east of Cincinnati. I'm in the same boat as you only we have gotten even less rain. I have lost so much due to this drought it is really sad. Hopefully next year will be better.

[@wishwellfarms]

sorry to hear about your losses

[@bmanferlife]

Love the vid as always bud!

[@tinakon4386]

farming sure needs a lot of equipment! most foreign to me!🤣🤣 very interesting indeed nd I've learnt a lot from watching farming vids. thank you.

[@OliviaMichele-sz6gt]

Whenever I come across farming, it takes me down memory lane. Losing my farm to the hurricane Florence on September 2018 here in North Carolina dealth a huge jab. But with an influx of $32K monthly made my family happy one more time

[@georgeluis8650]

God bless you and your family more abundantly

[@georgeluis8650]

But how do you earn that much monthly? I'm genuinely curious

[@OliviaMichele-sz6gt]

Big thanks to Rebecca Hern Mayer

[@OliviaMichele-sz6gt]

She's a licensed broker here in the states

[@OliviaMichele-sz6gt]

Her top notch guidance and expertise on the digital Agro market changed the game for me

[@IntenseVisuals]

Got real crispy out here in Indiana. We're getting a bit of rain now but it's pretty much over here.

[@wishwellfarms]

Yeah, we really wet now, and corn is done...just a few more weeks of broccoli and cauliflower and our season will be fiinished

[@michaelpardue2400]

Hope you get some rain from the storm thst in the gulf

[@wishwellfarms]

we got several inches

[@michaelpardue2400]

It was bad here in Tennessee and North Carolina and Florida

[@Well_I_am_just_saying]

You can certainly bend the rules a little bit if you don't have enough of your own corn to sell. Almost everybody else at the farmer's markets probably bends the rules a bit once in a while too.

[@wild_insomnia]

man,I got unbridled salivation looking at all those goodies from Joel !

[@wishwellfarms]

tastee and delicious to satisfy anyones sweet tooth!

[@tucobenedicto109]

That looks like tar spot. A fungi. well the best to your harvest!

[@wishwellfarms]

That's what I was thinking, glad it only got on my last two patches that burnt up in the drought

[@ddouglas3687]

Awesome as always! Is it just not worth the expense to irrigate the corn? Or would it make more sense to plant a different crop if you irrigated? Sorry you lost so much corn!

[@wishwellfarms]

We didn't loose that much, probably only an acre or so out of 30. Way too expensive for me to dig wells and buy irrigation travelers...tens of thousands of $

[@steveddavis]

Looks like the hurricane will provide some moisture throughout the midwest...

[@daveklein2826]

To little to late

[@wishwellfarms]

It's nice that we got a few inches of rain, but the season is basically over now

[@kingrigidthedeplorable2720]

Really liked this video -The mulch lifter part especially. You've mentioned it some in the past, but could you talk more about the well ? Also, curious about your local Amish auction. I sell at one a few times a week and it'd be interesting to know if they are similar.

[@wishwellfarms]

Thanks, our well is 50 feet deep and can produce over 100 gal per minute. We put a two inch diameter riser up from under ground after a gate valve to turn the water on and off. We have a 2.5 horse pump that can put our 33 gallons per minute and water 16 of my raised beds at a time. Amish auction is ever Tues and Fri, the order buyer gets me what I need and has it delivered. I order by texting him, I never go, don't have time.

[@kingrigidthedeplorable2720]

@@wishwellfarms That's interesting. I didn't realize that the buyers could be buying for others. I was just under the impression they're buying my produce for retail. How did you dig the well or was it drilled?

[@wishwellfarms]

@@kingrigidthedeplorable2720 well was drilled just like any other residential well...it's my home well also. Yes, buyers at auctions are often buying to fill orders they have from other growers needing to add to their own supply or peddlers who don't grow anything and just resell it.

[@skeeet5758]

I'd like to have some of that grease dryed candy looked good

[@skeeet5758]

Freeze dry

[@CoryCrawford-c2u]

What variety of sweet corn did you harvest, and what varieties were the final two patches that burned up?

[@wishwellfarms]

we planted 11 different varieties this year, kickoff, bolt, 274, nirvana, xanadu, caliber, anthem, signiture, troubadour and stamina...the burned up patch was matriarch

[@CoryCrawford-c2u]

Thanks for the info. My last patch of Matriarch suffered from the drought we had. Although it still produced a average crop.

[@treesawlimbnahbirch6788]

Will you tile your gardens this fall, or do you wait till spring?

[@wishwellfarms]

We hope to get it all done in October before it gets too muddy out

[@bobdoyon4275]

Sorry for your losses. as I mentioned before our drought in Warren County started many weeks earlier than what you are experiencing. Glad you got as far into the season as you did. I've already harvested all our pumpkins which is a few weeks earlier than normal. The vines just needed to much water in this heat and the swarms of cucumber beetles were out of control even with spraying. Beetles were scarring the pumpkins. Did get a decent pumpkin crop though. My wife will be taking a bunch of them to Atlanta for our daughter's family and most the rest will go to the neighbor's kids. Question - What is the hole spacing in your drip tape and is the spacing the same regardless of the crop? I have to do something similar next year as the overhead watering is just to inefficient. Have a good week.

[@wishwellfarms]

there are different spacings from like 6'' to 12" most common. ours was 12, works great, I've even seen people use it on sweet corn and pumpkins on a small scale. thanks!

[@_Elijah_1979]

😀📸👍💯

[@danrussell9207]

Looking at the corn its a miracale there is anything on it!

[@spike-rf6mi]

How do you control earworms in your later plantings mine had a worm in every ear

[@wishwellfarms]

we plant a few plantings of Attribute plus sweet corn for after Labor Day harvest, didn't have one worm. it has BT in it.

[@spike-rf6mi]

@@wishwellfarms thanks

[@cinm9565]

Sorry to hear of your crop loss. Do you carry insurance?

[@wishwellfarms]

nope. used to cary NAP through the USDA FSA office but big pain in the but for what you get, quit getting it about ten years ago. Traditional insurance is not worth it on my small operation.

[@bigjon1558]

Yeah we had 90° two days ago on the west coast

[@wishwellfarms]

Definitely ready for some fall temperatures

[@skeeet5758]

Tuff year...

[@wishwellfarms]

Overall it was good, just a few things were a loss.

[@chadmullen3032]

Did you plant any pumpkins this year ?

[@Well_I_am_just_saying]

No

[@wishwellfarms]

We did not…the first time in 24 years. We may again in the future but not in the short term.

[@chadmullen3032]

May I ask why you decided against the pumpkins? Are no longer profitable?

[@wishwellfarms]

@@chadmullen3032 Many reasons and I've explained it numerous times in earlier videos but since I'm guessing your new to the channel I'll give you the short answer: we grew them for 24 years, we've had no privacy on our farm in 24 years, we closed our home roadside market this year partially due to the no privacy thing. We have pumpkin competition all around us, numerous other markets and numerous big box stores. We are not interested in agritainment, no one in my family wants to deal with the public after 6 hard months of farming. My wife and I both love October RV camping, hiking and backpacking and with pumpkins we miss it every year. This year I had no labor to pick them anyway even if I had them, everyone goes back to school and I'm left high and dry. I don't really need the money from them anymore, I'm trying to simplify my life at age 50 no complicate it more. I could go on and on with ten more reasons....I will be doing a video explaining all of this in much more detail.

[@harryhatz9846]

Just a suggestion. Why not tie the drip tape to your mulch lifter . As you drive down the row you would have 1/2 the row pulled.

[@wishwellfarms]

too many trips up and down from the tractore and would triple my time if not more and can only do one row at a time. the cutting only took me 20 minutes, now we'll go back in with the wagon and pull up 4 rows at a time and have it done in a half hour. We've tied it to the wagon before but too often it gets caught on a weed stalk and breaks and then you are a half a field away from the break, just easier to pull it up by hand.

[@Richard-p8i]

And the caulter does not cut the drip tape?

[@wild_insomnia]

no big deal,it is disposed anyway

[@wishwellfarms]

nope, it just pushes it down into the dirt. It might cut it a few times but not much, we just jump off the wagon when pulling it up and grab the cut end if that happens.

[@bradhanson4803]

Global warming