Combine Turn Automation!

Farm Website - borderviewfarms.com
Seed Business Website - xcelseeds.com
Merchandise - farmfocused.co...
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Border View Farms is a mid-sized family farm that sits on the Ohio-Michigan border. My name is Nathan. I make and edit all of the videos posted here. I farm with my dad, Mark and uncle, Phil. Our part-time employee, Brock, also helps with the filming. 1980 was our first year in Waldron where our main farm is now. Since then we have grown the operation from just a couple hundred acres to over 3,000. Watch my 500th video for a history of our farm I filmed with my dad.
I started making these videos in the fall of 2019 as a way to help show what I do on a daily basis as a farmer. Agriculture is different from any other industry and I believe the more people that are showing their small piece of agriculture, helps to build our story. We face unique challenges and stressful situations but have some of the most rewarding payoffs in the end. I get to spend everyday doing what I love, raising my kids on the farm, and trying to push our farm to be better every year. I hope that I can address questions or concerns that you might have about farms and agriculture.
I hope you enjoy my content and ask questions as you have them. I do my best to answer anything I can. Thanks for watching!
I appreciate you subscribing to my channel and liking my videos. You can also find me on Facebook borderviewfarms and on Instagram @borderviewfarms
Mailing address
P.O. Box 321
Pioneer, OH 43554

[@jamesmoon1841]

Come on people, give Nathan a like for this video!

[@kirklothert3435]

Hey Nathan. How's it going? I hope all is well. One of your videos from this past week you said you should get a black combine but you still are better off with a John Deere combine. Remember... Nothing runs like a Deere. If it ain't green... It ain't mean!!!

[@owensanford482]

All that Automation is supper cool! I enjoy the video's Nathan. Thanks for the hard work on the farm and editing.

[@larrymowat2832]

Nathan, thank you for another great video. Your videos are so informational. I grew up on a farm in north western Ohio during 50s. Technology has exploded in the last 70 years. Amazing. I’ve always been impressed how well you maintain your equipment. Thank you for sharing and have a great harvest!

[@bobearthquakepumpkinfarm7455]

White mold is not air-born. It is persistent in the soil. It's something like 5 to 10 years. One of the most important things to do is to keep from spreading it to other fields. Just as spreading nutsedge with tillage, The combine will spread white mold.

[@bruceconrad3189]

@bobearthquake what about moldboard plow turn the mold down 8” and farm the other side

[@charleshodgson807]

Maybe moleboard plowing ,lime spreading too ,reduces acidity, and maybe a tillage crop like mustard to give something back to the land ,crop rotation ,works maybe worth trying a season without a crop ,

[@bobearthquakepumpkinfarm7455]

Extension and seed companies have good articles regarding white mold. Multiple management practices are required. It is soil born and will persist for up to 10 years. Most of the other weed hosts are broadleaves. Tillage will only exacerbate the situation. Genetics are not resistant, only tolerant. Fungicides are like hitting a bullseye, which can be effective and helpful in reducing inoculum, but some of it will still survive for the following year. Seed fungicides are important to stop introduction from contaminated seed. To keep it from spreading, it is important not to combine or till from infected fields to uninfected fields. Knowing the life cycle and field history is important. During the proper conditions, sclerotia (rat turds) grow to form an apothecia (mushroom), which shoots spores up to dead tissue (dry blooms), then infects the plant to form more sclerotia. The critical timing for fungicides is during bloom when the flowers start to die. The best places to find white mold while the beans are growing are along tree lines and wet spots (last places to dry off), or rat turds in the combine bin or cutterbar.

[@stanbrow]

Thanks for showing the automation cameras.

[@jimclary7309]

Nathan, thank you for sharing. Great content as always. Keep the action and knowledge coming. Catchya at the next one. You all stay safe!!

[@burtzorn4059]

Been lucky this week. I'll bet many guys north of us haven't ran much if any. Hopefully a good Friday for you. Stay safe

[@timboslice3755]

Good Morning!

[@randywilson9611]

Good video good to see y'all

[@thomaskjellin9161]

Thanks for the video

[@davidmetzger5986]

Nice wagon backing

[@stanbrow]

Machine sync is cool!

[@taztaz6539]

Put your office in the combine cos all you'd have to do is remember to lift the head at the end of the pass - save you so much time 😊

[@kirklothert3435]

You mean because

[@billwhitman1529]

Nathan, when JD combines it with raising the head and lowering the head, it will be more interesting. Integrating technology is a process. Valuing that technology is another question.

[@maxfender6886]

Good Morning

[@mikekenyon3322]

Good morning

[@jeffspensley3718]

Had comms issues with machine sync to start our year also. Make sure both globes have the 4.6 update. That fixed our latency errors that kept popping up.

[@M8Stealth]

Cant even image 90 bu/ac beans, a pocket in the field of 50-60 is spectacular here.

[@markgibson3050]

Could you trailer the tractor on your fancy new gooseneck?

[@BorderViewFarms]

I'm not sure if that one would be over weight or not but it would be too tall and then I'd have to make a second trip to get the mower. It's not worth trailering.

[@deanoz9307]

Nathan, I realize you may restricted from promoting the seed providor, but by golly, I’m pretty sure I remember seeing Golden Harvest on your seed crates earlier this year.😉 great to see the incredible yields you’re seeing this year after the odd weather that region has seen this year.

[@armchairgeneral7557]

Another great video Nathan. I really like your equipment and watching it work. The info you provide in your videos is also very interesting and well communicated. Have you thought of teaching?

[@warrenbishop7358]

Around here the only fields that had white mold were those that had chicken or turkey manure in the past!

[@raymondlyon2660]

Can you ever picture a day when you would send your combine to work on its own?

[@BorderViewFarms]

It will happen

[@williamhamill813]

Get an oil test done on that combine it can tell and experienced tech a lot.

[@ljohnson2466]

Is the chicken litter history on the two fields the same? I'm guessing the field with more white mold has had more litter

[@stanbrow]

Hey, just noticed your seed building has a sign on it with the branding you aren’t supposed to mention, maybe you should take that down 🤣

[@mikekenyon3322]

Hello Nathan, I was watching Haydenonharvest today and Hayden claims his combine glass doesn't attract dust now that they installed a grounding chain at the rear of the combine.

[@richardsnyder9271]

Don't forget about spray timing

[@tylermorrow2846]

Why take way the fun jobs of farming like running equipment? That's what most farmers I know look forward to. They need to make a machine that cleans out grain bins and sweeps and shovles out the edges by itself..

[@b_lumenkraft]

Haha, the fields here in Germany are even smaller than that. You really have amazingly big fields compared with the farmers here.

[@Oliver-kv2mm]

Was that Phil on the radio?

[@BorderViewFarms]

Yes

[@gaj1961]

Nice. Good stuff 😎🇺🇸

[@davidruffjr6045]

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@M8Stealth]

The combine Turn Automation doesn't have enter/exit headland programmable command settings, like the tractor version, to automatically raise and lower the head?

[@BorderViewFarms]

No at least not yet

[@agger838]

I still can't see a combine not having someone in it. It needs to stay moving and very easy for something to bring it to a stop. Whether the head drags, beans laid over not feeding etc. Maybe a guy could control multiple at once from a computer. I think that's where this is going similar to the construction biz

[@duanew6434]

Have you ever tried a Gleaner?

[@BorderViewFarms]

Nope

[@peterwoollard288]

3 year cycle would be better for the disease break

[@bartoski-ag]

you haven't seen interstellar?

[@stepark3437]

Nice . Row of shame

[@markpontes4457]

Maybe that new DNA soil testing your doing can tell you something about why not Mold there?

[@BorderViewFarms]

It can tell me if it's there or not

[@w056007568]

Can it quantify how much is present in the sample rather than stating just simply present or not? @@BorderViewFarms

[@BorderViewFarms]

@w056007568 Yes, it gives a risk severity

[@jeffreyelmore5542]

All that automation stuff is making people lazy. When is going to stop? What’s wrong with working for a living. That’s what’s wrong with the kids this day and time, bring the 80’s back.

[@BorderViewFarms]

Why is every other industry allowed to advance and use technology but farming is still supposed to be done like it was in the 80's (terrible decade to wish was back btw). It's call efficiency not lazy. I am capable of running the combine or tractors just fine. But it's almost impossible to hire someone who does. Equipment can't get much bigger, automation is the way to get more done.