Boy, do I remember this from days gone by. Many days on my uncle's farm. Thanks for bringing back the memories!
@hayfork1009 жыл бұрын
Great video, great drone work, great music. Good to see you cultivating the old fashioned best way.
@bigtractorpower9 жыл бұрын
It is exciting to see this classic farming practice covered with modern technology from a drones perspective.
@Ticky66MN9 жыл бұрын
Great to see you cultivating like the "Old Days" instead of just spraying more chemicals. We did the exact same process on our dairy farm. Great video as always! Thank you
@petervenkman54839 жыл бұрын
Great video for my lunch break.
@cornshucker779 жыл бұрын
When I was a kid in the early 70's I cultivated corn with an old 620 John Deere and a mounted four row cultivator. Interesting to see someone cultivating in 2015.
@bryang90959 жыл бұрын
We use a 12 row deere that is setup to put down 28% on both sides of the row. Got to love the look of a freshly cultivated field!!
@lukestrawwalker7 жыл бұрын
Man that brings back memories... we used to cultivate 3-4 times, sometimes more in cotton,grain sorghum, and soybeans. Course we were growing everything on 40 inch rows on beds. Used to run an old Lilliston 4 row rolling cultivator through the crops once they were about 4-5 inches tall-- sometimes we'd cultivate when it was smaller with the Lilliston if we had weeds coming up, but you really had to go slow then to keep from burying the crop. The nice thing about the Lilliston is you could adjust the angle and position of the rolling cultivator gangs either straighter for less aggressive cultivation and moving less dirt, or angle them steeper to the row and slide them in or out to get them closer or further away from the crop, and move more soil. The Lilliston also had a single big sweep (12 inch or so) in the center of each row middle that we added "buzzard wings" behind the sweep to throw more dirt and clean out the middles to help maintain the bed shape and get heavy rain water to drain. We usually ran the old Deere "RM" cultivator a few times during the season as well... it had five sweeps per row on rigid shanks; the Danish tines and spring shanks just wouldn't hold up in our heavy clay soils... we put buzzard wings on the rearmost center sweep and put a wider sweep on it, again to throw more dirt out of the middles and maintain the bed shape and help drainage after heavy rains. It did a good job, for the most part, but it was getting kinda old and the gangs were getting "floppy" and sometimes bigger carelessweeds (pigweeds) would go between the sweeps rather than getting cut off. Later! OL J R :)
@waterskiingfool3 жыл бұрын
That 4020 works great for cultivating
@bradelliott109 жыл бұрын
Nice video! I plowed some of my corn this year. First time in years we had done that and the corn sure did take off and green up a few days afterward.
@rustylanier9 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting. Brings back many great memories of me sitting on a 4020 fender riding with my daddy cultivating. When I got old enough I really liked to cultivate, one of my favorite task. Do you use a row marker on the tractor or just eyeball it?
@rmack489 жыл бұрын
Like the way you guys leave the natural runoff areas in grass rather than cultivating them to reduce the levels of erosion in the fields caused by the runoff. Also I like that you cultivate rather put more toxic chemicals on the fields to kill the weeds. Some might say that it costs more because of the fuel used but I am sure it is counterbalanced by the reduced cost of chemicals.
@bryang90959 жыл бұрын
Looks like u got all that heavy rain Thursday that was ment for us but it went south!
@45Deere95009 жыл бұрын
Do not miss cultivating at all. To me it's the most mind numbing thing to do on a tractor. To easy to induce iron disease too. I believe there are benefits, but still don't miss it.
@jbmbanter9 жыл бұрын
It's truly incredible the difference in the height of your corn vs the corn here in East Central Georgia. The corn down here is way over head high and is tasseling. Some stalks even have ears developing with silks showing. I know it all has to do with the distance from the Equator but it's still amazing. I love the old 4020 with it's light white smoke coming from the exhaust stack. Those were and still are a great workhorse on many farms.
@jbmbanter9 жыл бұрын
Nothing but observation on our parts but it just shows once again that we who are closer to the Equator can start earlier.. I love to watch Ryan and Travis farm and I can tell they are both good ones!
@datbomb989 жыл бұрын
how was your harvest man im a little more north than you guys feels like the rain will never end our harvest wasn't anything to brag about but we did okay
@jbmbanter9 жыл бұрын
My place in the country is adjacent to my Uncle's Estate farm which is about 2000 acres so I'm not the actual farmer. I have had health issues that have kept me from going to the country but I'm sure it was good because I watched and the guy who rents ran the pivot irrigarion system many times in June when we didn't receive any rain. I think I'm right in hoping that you had 250 bushels or greater to the acre even though I'm no expert. I remember in the 80s when I was selling JD parts I heard 200 bushel corn, 2 ton cotton and 2 tons of peanuts to the acre was good. Correct me if I'm wrong. :)
@datbomb989 жыл бұрын
+jbmbanter i wish it was 250 to the acre haha we did alright got about 190 bushel corn and 50 bushel soybean I've heard of people getting over 500 bushel which is crazy we cant run a pivot cause the grounds too uneven but we have sprinklers around the field idk about you but im loving that it isnt raining today been getting a lot done that i haven't been able to the past few weeks man im sorry about your health issues my dad started getting sick about 8 years ago now and he passed away about a year ago so its been pretty tough without him especially on the farm he always knew what to do and my brothers and i aren't that great at it
@jbmbanter9 жыл бұрын
When I first started hunting deer in the early 70s there were soybeans on every farm in East Central Georgia where I live. But now no one grows them. I guess they decided that the yields and the price were low so they just stopped farming them. Per acre there just has to be more incentive to grow corn, cotton and peanuts because of price and yield. We've been getting that same rain and the sun finally came out today. My Dad died a year ago this Thursday and I miss him terribly. It's incredible when I use one of his sayings how much more it means to me since he is gone. He was a Southern gentleman!
@JohnWilson-xi2wu9 жыл бұрын
Great video,as usual.Thank you.How much damage to the corn plants is done when your back tires run over them?
@HowFarmsWork9 жыл бұрын
Very minimal. The growing point is still below ground, and the benefits from it outweigh whatever we might dig up from occasional operator error.
@zacharyzengel60579 жыл бұрын
***** They have a
@zacharyzengel60579 жыл бұрын
***** A Rc camera
@Kllrkrtt3099 жыл бұрын
Within the first few weeks of planting, they most of the time stand back up depending on if you have duals it a light tractor. After the first month, probably not. They usually be done for but might still put on a decent ear or sometimes even 2.
@radozeman9 жыл бұрын
Wow, Old school technique, don't see too many farmer that do this anymore. Unless they do the organic, no spray or fertilizer.
@runner4life19849 жыл бұрын
1st Comment!! I've got a question: Can you please show what is on the quadcopter and how it's setup to get the sweet aerial footage? You know the works of it: make, model, camera etc... Just amazed how well the footage is in past vlogs. I think it would be neat to a vid on it. Also, a big fan of the channel here from Western Pennsylvania (surrounded by farmers: Modern and Amish). I give farmers a lot of credit for being at the hands of Mother Nature, the economy etc... Please keep at making and posting the vlogs 😀
@billwhitman15299 жыл бұрын
1:44 it looks like your rear wheels are set too wide and cover a row of corn? Do you set your tractor for cultivating or is the damage too minimal to worry about?
@HowFarmsWork9 жыл бұрын
This tractor is set for cultivating and it's set the furthest inward we could. The damage is minimal as the growing point of the plant is below ground still.
@Kllrkrtt3099 жыл бұрын
+How Farms Work Maybe you could try what some guys with sprayers do. Haha I've never seen someone do it in person, but you take the axle tires and rims off and put the duals on. So you're riding on duals.
@lukestrawwalker7 жыл бұрын
Wow... never knew you COULDN'T set one of those tractors down to a 60 inch tread width to straddle two 30 inch rows... I noticed the same thing in the video-- was nearly knocking down corn. Yall were cultivating pretty slow; we used to run at 6 mph all day long, but that looked more like 4-5 mph... figured yall were going slow to keep from knocking down too much corn. Course, we were on 40 inch rows, and beds, so you just drop the front tires in the center of the furrow between beds and open the throttle up... the thing is practically self-guiding after that-- the cultivator coulter follows the row middle and so long as you kept the tractor centered in the furrow (so the units ran down the center of the beds) when planting, the cultivator just followed the furrows and you didn't have to worry about it. Later! OL J R :)
@damoncox67417 жыл бұрын
I do watch the. video. keep up good work. thanks Damon sorry. for my. spelling
@Larry3425169 жыл бұрын
Wow, those big back tractor tires look like they are almost right on top of the corn. How wide between the rows is it? This also pushes the dirt up around the corn to help support the corn from the wind..... correct? Thanks for the video.
@awd32649 жыл бұрын
Larry342516 Ryan stated the grow point was below the surface. It would be detrimental to the corn plant to pile dirt up against the plant. I re-watched and could see very little dirt making it to the plant. In fact many old cultivators actually had dirt shields designed to keep dirt off of the young plants. Eventually the plant will develop brace roots. If the plant receives proper nutrition and soil prep they will be sufficient the protect the plant from all but the most serve conditions. Don't know how wide the rows where but given how little space between tire and plant and the wheels set at the narrowest possible setting would give an almost educated guess of 30 inches.
@Larry3425169 жыл бұрын
awd3264 Yes I agree, and this also protects the corn from being blown over during high wind storms. I don't know how wide the tires are, but even at 30 inch rows it looked as if the tires were right up next to the corn. If not running over some of them. Very hard to tell in the video so I asked the question above.
@JaydenVotava9 жыл бұрын
I think it like tears up weeda so it doesnt choke out the corn?
@stevenreinert77018 жыл бұрын
keep up the videos they are very good and sometimes funny
@olivtwite9 жыл бұрын
nice video!! good job, happy new year since france
@bigboymork16918 жыл бұрын
Boy, looking at that rocky soil, it makes me like Nebraska and its sand.
@michaelplesch9 жыл бұрын
I loved the arial footage, what did you use? (and camera)
@Pedal4Food9 жыл бұрын
Looks like your JD is set up a little wide for that row spacing. Does that 4020 have much slack in the steering or is that occasional operator error I'm seeing. lol!
@hernancortez12099 жыл бұрын
Guys! What type of drone are you guys using? Beautiful shots
@jacobbennett84319 жыл бұрын
how can you run over some of the corn stalks and it still be ok?
@HowFarmsWork9 жыл бұрын
jacob bennett The growing point is still below ground. Even the corn that does get run over will bounce right back.
@jacobbennett84319 жыл бұрын
How Farms Work thanks bud. i love your videos.
@bryang90959 жыл бұрын
Good video!! I thought I was the only one left that cultivates good to c im not!!
@Skitzo22949 жыл бұрын
Do you still use a herbicide?
@mahart409 жыл бұрын
YAY! A new video! :D
@Mopar-Pioneer9 жыл бұрын
G'day from Down under. Would it not be easier to reverse the wheels and set them for one row wider? No touch plants that way. If you can get enough spread.
@acrousonelos9 жыл бұрын
Why put disk wheels on the end rows?
@57fitter9 жыл бұрын
imdafarmer gamerboy Keeps the cultivator from drifting sideways on a hill
@firemanupton9 жыл бұрын
how many acres of corn an beans u all raise
@jinglongzhang70469 жыл бұрын
Fan from China :) Nice video, you guys do great job. by the way what is your corn row space?
@HowFarmsWork9 жыл бұрын
Jinglong Zhang Thanks! We use 30 inch spacing.
@noveltyjohn12489 жыл бұрын
Is that gmo corn?
@justlooking20139 жыл бұрын
How Farms Work we use our 8360r s here to plow using the same gps pass as planted. You should try the 8235r. It want disappoint u.
@PietschFarms9 жыл бұрын
My boss would correct you if you said cul(t)ivating! I always say it with the t, but he says the t is silent, so (cullivating) lol
@andrewm10589 жыл бұрын
why is this done?
@HowFarmsWork9 жыл бұрын
It's done to eliminate weeds between the rows. We also do it because our corn takes off like an escaped convict.
@lukestrawwalker7 жыл бұрын
Cutting off and burying weeds if the main purpose, but it also really helps to stir the soil during the season... once the plants are bigger, you can really throw the dirt up to them and bury small weeds coming up between plants, and it DOES help later on to strengthen the brace roots. It also really helps to stir the soil and get some air down into the soil, as a balanced soil is actually 50% solids, 25% water, and 25% air. See how much darker the soil is after cultivation-- this is moist soil being churned up, and the dry soil on the surface is mixed in, taking air down with it. In dry weather in clay soil that is very prone to cracking, which can allow a lot of subsoil moisture to escape to the atmosphere through the cracks, cultivation drags loose soil over the cracks which drops down in them and seals the cracks off from the air, so the moisture stays in the ground to support the crop through the dry spell... Lots of good reasons to cultivate... you just have to be careful not to prune roots or cultivate too deep or too close to the plants, as someone else commented about "hardware disease" from the wilted plants such root damage causes... BUT, on the other hand, while weeds might be ALS resistant, Roundup resistant, 2, 4 D resistant, etc... haven't seen a weed yet with IRON resistance! IOW, a good cultivator sweep will STILL take them out no matter whether the chemical will touch them or not... Later! OL J R :)
@richeywcassel9 жыл бұрын
Ah! Set your wheels in a little more.
@shawnzenz86829 жыл бұрын
nice don't see much off that anymore
@Kllrkrtt3099 жыл бұрын
Nope, we sure don't. :/
@kevenmorsey60849 жыл бұрын
those look more like harrows than a cultivator
@bennyrlove8 жыл бұрын
wouldn't that tractor be cooler if roof was painted white -or with an aluminum panel reflecting the sun
@alexandresen70129 жыл бұрын
Man I feel bad for u cultivating is so slow trust me I know
@TheRestOfTheStory9 жыл бұрын
+Alex Andresen Doesn't bother us. When you can see a difference in the corn by the next day it makes it worth it.