A Day With Youtubers!!

[@amysblessings]

After all the years of driving around to “look at the water” it was fun to see the explanation of how things run. And, this town girl knew exactly what field he was looking at by the sheer amount of water up to the road. ☺️ 💦 #dougoswife #chetsmom

[@michaelsurratt9593]

Amy, we all know you run things behind the scenes anyway!

[@ericmurphy40]

So what were you and Douggo doing on those back roads when you were dating? 😉😘

[@w_booysen]

When the Mother of a farm sneezes, the district catches a cold! Amy we know you are the Boss! 😀

[@rommelsaint8869]

Mrs Larson do you like Emma ❣❤

[@gabek7010]

Thanks Douggo!! Very interesting. I grew up in elk River Minnesota. We just had a little hundred acre farm. I don’t remember seeing it flooding like that before.

[@donaldshields2483]

You guys do a good job I enjoy watching you have a tiptop operation and I will be watching God bless

[@philhoard1985]

My mom grew up in Crookston, MN above the divide. Red Lake River which flows north into Hudson Bay snaked through the town, always flooded when spring snow melted.

[@fmerkl]

I tell you the Welker's would love to see a foot of water on there fields in the spring !

[@leddielive]

Knowing them they'd begin to build an Ark if that were ever to happen! 😀😀😀

[@jimpolk]

Well maybe 6".

[@bulldog_504]

I would say maybe 4 inches about a month before planning starts would be all they would want

[@leegoldman7491]

I had no idea the the Great Lakes extended into Minnesota, great history lesson learned today Doug, just kidding people I already knew that! Really sorry for all that water this year and for the same in the 2022 season and it appears to be again in the 2023 season, make the best of what you have and you will succeed...

[@jimpinger6206]

Boy, you said it Chet! Mother Nature is powerful! People see storms and the quick devastation and are in awe, but the slow work of flowing water is unbelievable. Water will subside and areas you thought would be fine are completely transformed. Other places you thought would be destroyed will look like they haven't been touched. Don't envy you and Dougo',, and all the folks up north, and your springtime worries.

[@ross7684]

Great content, Chet and Larson crew! Grandparents farmed in SW MN when I was a youngster back in the 50's and 60's so I spent a lot of time on the farm back then...you folks are a nice stroll down memory lane for me reminding me of how hard my grandfather worked for his living and I remember Dad having to take alternate routes to the farm because country roads were under water in the spring.

[@walkalong5985]

From deep DEEP in Louisiana - the snow thing was interesting. Mr. Doug’s drive looked like home. One dry strip amongst acres of water. Thanks!

[@augustreil]

Looked like an ocean on each side in some places.

[@ptomwebster8364]

I liked Emma from "Ag With Emma." :)

[@NeisenTransport]

Tony's a beast! Lol. Nothing better than farmtube visits.

[@LtdES7638]

Those are fields right??? Might as well call it Larson Lakes , break out the water ski's . That a beauty beaver Pelt. Great content. Thank you for sharing

[@stevenicoson6670]

Thanks for another great video. It was very interesting and enjoyable to watch. Chet and Dougo, great video on explaining the water problems. Been there done that. Winter time and snow and ice and water do not mix well. You have a lot lot of water moves in those ditches. Wow. Lots more than meets the eye. Be safe!!!!!! Good to see Toby. Looks like he is getting around ok. Take care Toby!!!! Your fertilizer warehouse is just about full. Wow. Spring is around the corner. Nice fix on that old hog house. Great job. Great to have Tony Fast stop by. He is a good guy with lots of good Ag type ideas. I must admit I have seen Emma before, but do not know what she goes by. If someone knows let me know please. Appreciate that. Busy time for all of you getting last minute items ready to go for spring planting. Go get em. Great video Chet and Dougo and everyone. You all made my day. You all take care and be safe. Looking forward to the next video for sure. Thanks for everything and all the filming and editing. The Iowa farm boy. Steve.

[@scottrosevold3645]

Dougo just described the Red River Valley of the North. water flowing north, a lot of flooding can occur up here. Good video.

[@louisb229]

Missed Fast saying "farm hard, pray harder!" I miss Nicole, but I will see her in the not too distant future. Thanks, guys (used to be 3 now there are 4).

[@gabek7010]

Thank you Dougo!! That is wild.

[@georgeholler1992]

Just love watching your videos, I grew up on a family owned gas station and spent most of my time on a farm next door. First driving teams of horses than a Ferguson Tractor. I did both haying and thrashing just for the fun never asked for payment.

[@mikevankuiken3916]

Thanks for giving support to the local trapping community..by showing the nice beaver hide doug had..trappers helping farmers

[@earlhollar1906]

I grew up as a child on a farm and ranch that my father called Lapland, right on the Stateline between Montana and North Dakota. He considered himself a pretty good fisherman. I told him fishing for brook trout, bullheads , and walleye is a little different than the fish in Minnesota. He didn't have much luck when we would visited my nine uncles that lived there. So his comment was, "Minnesota , the Land of 10,000 lakes and 5,000 fish"! Looks like until the Frost goes out there might be 10,100 Lakes , a few of them being Larson Lakes. We have a similar problem when the ice goes out on the Yellowstone, Missouri, and little Missouri Rivers and Beavercreek. Sometime there are massive chunks of ice sitting on the Farmland until the middle of June. The highway department and railroads would sometimes spread coal dust and fly ash around the piers so it would melt faster. Other years they used Dynamite.!.!.!

[@roberthakeman9822]

Great discription Dougo and Chet on how you deal with water in Northern Minnesota. I've been on that hwy where you go from Minnesota to Milbank SD and you see the water run north instead of South. Also it was great to see Tony teaching you guys the fastest way to put the rubber on the wheel. Have you been checking out your dryer so the varments don't eat your wires away. Or set traps. Great video once again have a great weekend Larson farms !

[@johnrodgers7633]

In East Central Michigan we are looking at the same issue. Our creeks and rivers are trying to push the snow/ice out into saginaw Bay and lake Huron. Bless you guys

[@chadkubashek4622]

You guys and Tony’s channel is some of my favourite , learn some good stuff between the two !!

[@vonniek347]

Interesting to see and hear about the snowmelt in ditches. So true that Mother Nature has the upper hand.

[@jermynpedretti4761]

Drives with Dougo remind me of cruising roads with my grandpa

[@thomasnugent6445]

Nice work, I didn't know you were growing lakes, but I must say your doing it right... evil grin...

[@bradpogue3448]

Dougo is getting good at the go-pro very good video. Looks like the chemical barn is gonna work out for you guys. Stay safe and dry

[@kevins5092]

Nice , I watched Emma’s earlier today 👍🏻

[@amysblessings]

Me too!

[@scottholbert2742]

Not bad Chet , you explain things ALMOST as good as Dougo. You know that to be the best , first you must learn from the best. Another 25 years and your there bud 😂. Yet another great video from Larson Farms, you all rock 🇺🇸☝️

[@mikenawrocki1837]

Great information on the water. Farming has alot of variables. Making it one of the hardest jobs.

[@donnaparrish7638]

Our snows melt between the storms here in Oklahoma. So, the water runs down before and if we get another snow. We used to get a lot of snow here with every storm and the temps would stay colder longer in winter. There is still some field flooding in the flats mostly in the bottoms but on a much smaller scale. Thanks for sharing Dougo. And beavers? We used to trap them in the bottoms too. Long time ago.

[@SpatialDragon]

My Grandpa used to drive around the farms in the area. He was a farmer when I was a little kid, but my Dad died and with him, our farm. But he used to drive around checking the crops, ditches all that. He tried to teach me, but since the family farm was gone I moved on to other career options. You did it Chet. Good Job. Kate on "Kate's Ag Farm to Fashion" says "egg" too. She is a really cute young female farmer.

[@robbiebowie6505]

Thank you and your Dad for explaining your snow and drainage problems. I’m in awe. In the South we have sandy soil and of course none of the low temps and inches of snow. It does flood but the soil is so sandy it doesn’t stay very long. God Bless everyone ! It is going to be chilly tomorrow high 63 and low tonight 43. Wish you could share it with us

[@junkorbust9498]

We often grow our best crops in flood years in the Red River Valley.

[@christank6841]

Your problem with your slats moving from frost can be helped. In Wisconsin we have found putting sheet styrofoam down first before you cover with gravel or concrete. Inch and a half or two inch thickness seem to do well. Love your videos and hope it was some help.

[@michaeltablet8577]

Great explanation of the water situation. It's amazing that it ever gets dry enough to plant! Blessings to you all and I pray you have the most prosperous harvest ever!

[@howardyounger5456]

that water is amazing to me. in colorado we see that about every 100 years i do have a creek that flows thru a corner of my place. which is good here. because it meens we have water in the ground to irrigate with. the creek is a lot smaller then that flow. great video.

[@jba36420]

Enjoyed Dougo’s tour of water filled farmland.

[@soaringeagle4718]

Loved the perspective on spring runoff and field mitigation. Hearing your thought process really puts me in your shoes. 👍

[@thedonleroy]

2008 & 2009 were a couple of tough years for harvest. We didn't finish corn until December 18th in 2009. The corn was wet & low test weight because of the early frost. We had to burn all our corn fields the next spring. Boy that was one harvest that I was extremely happy to get behind us.

[@Duramaxjon]

That water was really cool to see. We don’t have anything like that in northern Illinois, standing water is usually just in the few low spots of the field. Never the entire field under feet of water. We also don’t get the amount of snow that you do and it’s usually mostly melted before the next snow storm

[@garyberg]

Being from NW Minnesota, I remember many years waiting for the snow and ice to go away up North so we could get rid of our water.

[@davekolstad8581]

You need to find some way to collect some of snow run off. Then use it for spraying the fields. Soft water mix with chemicals better than hard water.

[@ericmurphy40]

Great education Doug. I first started visiting western North Dakota in 98 the year after the big spring snow storm in 97. I bet that ditch was full then

[@digitalellis]

Beautiful looking rice fields you got there Dougo.

[@Torsee]

Interesting field observations Dougo! I learned something today! 👍👍

[@markchristopher9515]

Doug-O-Vision and Chet found a muscle. Gonna be a good day.

[@vernshahan2913]

Great video did not realize what the snow melt was like. It looked like you were ready to start growing rice in several fileds.

[@dshutts]

Love how happy everyone always is !!

[@brucefalcon7832]

This is a great video! I really enjoy the education. You share sides of farming that you don't see when one of the big TV organizations films a documentary. There's a personal side that cannot be captured by an documentary creator. Thanks so very much!

[@lorinaw3001]

Great video - so happy to see a new employee - maybe this spring you can stop once in awhile and just breathe- have a great week !!!

[@chrisward5626]

Water like this is caught in aussie farms from floods , so its a paddock one year and water storage the next , this is free water for the farm and it also stops the water flooding out to sea and wasted .

[@ericmurphy40]

Larsons, Emma, and Tony put out the best content hands down.

[@Scania73]

Forgot the Welkers

[@joehuinker7009]

Warm rain and sunshine

[@_-martin-_]

Welcome to Larsons Fish Farm!

[@rich077140]

Emma is a great gal putting out great videos! Check them out! Very informative. She covers a lot of agriculture.

[@ericmurphy40]

And no manicured fingernails, and she actually gets her hands dirty

[@tigerbatman7881]

@@ericmurphy40 your mom gets her hands dirty

[@agwithemma]

Thank you!

[@rich077140]

@@agwithemma call it as I see it.

[@masterbates7016]

Thanks for the road trip dougo

[@cachech]

Chet, Placing the rubbers in a warming box for several hours prior to mounting them will make you life a lot easier. The warm rubber does grow and becomes more pliable. Also try silicon spray on the edge of the wheel. We use both these methodes to install windows it makes a hard days work go easy for sure.

[@spideybrent]

Hello from Moosomin ,Saskatchewan, Canada Great videos you put out.

[@shaunfeyereisen2183]

Good work! Who knows when the weather will be warm again

[@alnolan8574]

Dougo and Chet, on Long Island we get water on the lower part of the farm after hurricanes and it usually takes weeks for that water to reseed. We growing leafy vegetables and if those chops turn yellow and rot they are lost.Luckily, we don’t get hurricanes every year,

[@Wayloncurrie]

I watch you almost everyday and great tractors and video!!!

[@BillyBob-hl5ut]

Thanks for showing us all that warotter under the snow.

[@joshuanicholsjr5327]

looks like you have your own glacier god bless

[@waterskiingfool]

Great video of how the culverts and ditches working

[@michaelsurratt9593]

You should do more collaborations with Emma.

[@schnakenberglloydsue7313]

Great video Chet!! I see Toby is running around. Sure hope he is doing good!!! That Ray better behave himself!!

[@joshearle2233]

I think you need to turn Chet and the Big Swede loose on a couple jet skis/ wave runners to explore those fields!!! That’d be some special content!

[@rf005]

Very interesting Dougo I learned something about AG today

[@denault3985]

Dougo & Chet plus the Big Swede make farming interesting...let's not forget the Millenial Farmer too!

[@Nyhetskanaler]

Always good to see a new segment. Keep them coming

[@martynhicks123]

Gracious thats a lot of water...thanks for the explanation.

[@chrissyfrancis8952]

Too bad you couldn’t ship that water to Montana, Welkers & FastAg would LOVE it.

[@tylerm4025]

You guys will have to use the pontoon for planting crops this year.

[@rickwalling1148]

Great job on explaining the problem! Also your the boss and they shouldn’t be concerned that your explaining a major flood possibility!!

[@jamesbreault5762]

Great content Chet the weather can be hell but you guys will perceiver 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@WorkingManOutdoors]

Looks like Flooded rice fields in AR, I bet the ducks do love it.

[@bnieto1938]

That is a great looking beaver felt love it

[@x_Dude1]

The piece of land under my ming aralia did good last year :D

[@2504499]

Very educational video on melting snow run off.

[@mikeo5283]

Interesting video. Your piece with Ag with Emma was great too

[@HobbyMoose79]

Sweet we get to see dad in the video. Great job. Hey you need an airboat. Man that’s a watery mess. The road is going to go. Just my opinion. Better get the boys working on it. Keep the boys working hard. Your awesome to watch. Glad you managed to do a video. I can’t get the thing together. I really need to. Thanks for the great video.

[@waggtech4883]

Dougo, If you lived downstream from Colorado, snowmelt downstream wouldn’t be a problem. Not only do they smoke weed… they hoard every drop of water they can. There’s old pictures of the Cimarron and Arkansas rivers flooding from snowmelt 600 miles downstream but the river beds are dry. You’d be growing corn with well water pumped from the ground to center pivot irrigation and farming in circles.

[@passingthrough1954]

One of my favorite videos. How about taking a canoe or raft down the ditches while the waters flowing.

[@randybedker1584]

Feel your fun here in Michigan

[@dmorgan28]

You guys put out a lot of good information and advice to us all. Great channel. Thanks guys👍👍👍❤️

[@paulsmith8212]

Always good to see a new segment. Keep them coming. Duggo, It looks like a lake . Tell Chet to get his fishing rod out . Do you deal with that mess every year? How do you plant? Guess you have to wait till everything dries up. Thanks for the tour Duggo. Stay safe - Thanks Chet

[@dogcreek8547]

Its like driving thru a lake, Nice!

[@kurtarehart6349]

Another Great Video...need your water in south central Nebraska have not had any rain in 6 months and only about 1" of snow all winter...If you ever have trouble with your top pallet of AMS sinking into bottom pallet bags put a pallet upside down on the top of bottom pallet, then the top pallet of AMS...the vibration of trucks driving in yard seemed to cause it...just an idea not telling you what to do...I worked at a chemical warehouse is how I know, worse if have for 2 years then could not get forks in between without ripping bags .of which I would have to pay for any ripped bags !

[@staceyroberts9561]

We have back water from the Ohio river here in ky and it floods all the river bottoms just because of lots of rain we get

[@paxbonum4683]

Thanks for taking time to show us about the snow melt. Reminds me of when I was a kid growing up on the farm in Michigan.

[@gerryhartung736]

I'm wondering if several train flat cars would be cost effective as a bridge. Have a larger opening for runoff.

[@Fireball-il7mr]

That would be the Laurentian Divide. I lived on the Iron Range till 99. 43 Minnesota winters, were enough for me.

[@bryonensminger7462]

Tile won't freeze up as long as you plant it below the frost line what ever that is around there , I know in Ohio it's 32 inches , I would doubt it's much more then 48 inches in the lower 48

[@TheJimmybud]

Chet I live a couple miles from the Kankakee River and we have are share of flooding issues also yours is kind of the ice melt cycle.

[@daleborkholder715]

Can't wait for the planting videos!

[@greatone9887]

The snow all comes up to my city here in Canada. Everything along the red river usually floods

[@lonnjackels4694]

Chet you need too put led bulbs in them lights on the front of the quadtracs. It a huge difference.

[@bobdevreeze4741]

22:00 The power of water alone is astounding. They cut plate steel 3-4 inches thick with a stream of water....

[@tomadelsberger6101]

Is all that water on your fields can you open the ditch up to drain it by moving some snow or pump it out LOVE your channel

[@TrulyUnfortunate]

Thats interesting as hell!! Never thought about this problem since I didnt even know it existed.

[@davie2606]

Good to see the bench you made with Nikki in the shop.

[@scampsboytes9088]

I saw that too, nice to have reminders of Nikki. We miss Her too Chet.