HISTORIC FLOODING AT THE FARM - The Aftermath

After receiving 13.4 inches of rain in less than 5 days, the flooding has finally ceased at the farm. As the floodwaters recede, the full extent of the damage is becoming evident. In today's video, I document the immediate aftermath and revisit these locations three days later, as water levels begin to diminish. I also assess several of our fields, making management decisions for the next steps. This catastrophic flooding has significantly impacted Eastern South Dakota, Northern Iowa, and Southern Minnesota.
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Matthias, aka HiTech Farmer, is a 5th generation family farmer from Southwest Minnesota who promotes agriculture by capturing it through the lens of a camera, one video at a time. Passionate about emerging farm technologies and the benefits of 21st-century precision agriculture tools, such as farm equipment, GPS, and autonomous tractors, Matthias is determined to bring new methods into his operation. These methods can improve his farm's efficiency and sustainability into the future. Learning from his parents' (Mike and Dawn) work ethic, Matthias sees every day as an opportunity to educate and entertain about the daily triumphs and challenges his farm faces, whether technology-related or not. His mission is to share his enthusiasm and knowledge of agriculture as he embarks on what it means to be a farmer in the modern era.

[@asquithmainlines699]

Thanks for keeping your channel current. Other farm channels that I follow in Minnesota and South Dakota are so far behind it has not rained there yet. It is nice to see in real time how bad things really are and how things move forward from here. Hopefully the worst is now behind you.

[@HiTech_Farmer]

Appreciate it!

[@THEVROD64]

Please keep up the updates as they help lots of people get the real overall perspective. Thank You.

[@HiTech_Farmer]

Thanks for letting me know!

[@zilla2006able]

thanks for the update on your farm 😊💯

[@HiTech_Farmer]

You bet

[@farmhandluke5182]

It was a gut punch for sure ! But it sure lessens the blow and pain, when you have a positive great attitude like yours Matthias! 👋

[@HiTech_Farmer]

Better days ahead!

[@beckyumphrey2626]

Prayers for farmers.

[@PetersonFarmsofNashvillePFON]

Man that’s horrible Hope you can recover Just shows how powerful Water and Mother Nature is

[@HiTech_Farmer]

As someone once told me. Mother nature is a tough business partner

[@AmericanFarmers]

Glad to see the water receding and you guys already starting cleanup efforts. Best of luck!

[@HiTech_Farmer]

Thanks 👍

[@MrCrazycook8]

One inch of rain: According to the U.S. Geological Survey, one inch of rain equals 27,154 gallons of water per acre. One gallon of water weighs 8.33 pounds.

[@HiTech_Farmer]

Yes now take that times 13 inches and you get a BIG number

[@hoophil]

Hi Matthias! Sorry to hear about your bad luck with the storms. Such a shame for everyone affected by the heavy rains. Hope you can get back in the fields and get some replanting done and you don't have any more bad luck. Love the Super M, sounds great! Stay safe and healthy Mattias, thanks for the video and really appreciate you posting close to when it was recorded and telling us when you recorded it!

[@HiTech_Farmer]

Thanks for the comment! We may get back to replanting this week, otherwise we'll still try when it does dry out, but the soybeans likely won't grow harvestable beans. Have a good week!

[@ibkhansen8036]

I have learned that 14 days before the solstice can you not so new from now it goes the other way with the sun until it turns again around December 23

[@HiTech_Farmer]

It takes heat to raise a crop. With summer almost half over, planting anything now and it won't mature

[@moneyandtimefreedom3352]

Ok I’ll follow you, seems like a cool channel.

[@HiTech_Farmer]

Appreciate it!

[@MichaelHolloway]

good report there. :) Best of luck replanting.

[@HiTech_Farmer]

Thanks, more seed came in today

[@MrCrazycook8]

In addition to this storm, in Iowa railroad bridge collapsed, train was derailed, whole town of Spencer is now a lake

[@HiTech_Farmer]

Yes that town is only 45 minutes South of me

[@gerryjohnson9163]

Love the work horse red tractor

[@HiTech_Farmer]

Thanks 👍

[@JoeLinux2000]

I feel for you. That's a lot of work. What model year is that IH tractor? It looks pretty old.

[@HiTech_Farmer]

Thanks for the thoughts! It's a 1953 Super M, gas. Runs like a charm yet

[@tabithah198]

It's devastating. I was a little bit impressed in one of the other videos to see the county cleaning up the corn stalks. Our little town in SE South Dakota told us if we wanted the cornstalks cleaned up, it was up to us. Thankfully a neighbor cleaned up the road. Prayers to you.

[@HiTech_Farmer]

How much rain did you receive, the town of Canton had 18 inches I heard as the worst

[@tabithah198]

@@HiTech_Farmer We received 12 inches.

[@user-ix3eo2mp5j]

Last autumn we got 30 inches of rain in 24 hours..Flooding everywhere..

[@HiTech_Farmer]

Where are you located?

[@cherylcarlson3315]

Am in il and have long wondered why washed out area don't get planted with squash.yes would need to be dibbled in by hand but since teens don't walk beans or detassle anymore... Am all about diversity in crop

[@p.d.nickthielen6600]

Hang in there this to shall pass.

[@olsem101]

The crock by your house goes to Heron Lake first, then out the outlet before the Des Moines River, and that's where the problem is, the outlet and the river combined just simply was too much for windom/Jackson

[@HiTech_Farmer]

So you're telling me there's no fix to floods like this?

[@olsem101]

​@@HiTech_Farmer oh there's a fix, make it stop raining! 🤣 But yeah, it can always happen again

[@serlucaspjohnson]

ty for saying devastation instead of decimation

[@nathanhewitt7742]

Hi, @HiTech Farmer Do you have any advice or information for someone who want to create their own farm?

[@HiTech_Farmer]

As a 5th gen farmer, my advice would be to get experience. In today's economics I would recommend trying to work with a family member or neighbor who farms before going out and starting on your own. They will be able to teach you a TON and you can ask as many questions to them. If that's not an option, start small and be continually learning about what crops or vegetables you are looking to grow. Best of luck Nathan!

[@nathanhewitt7742]

@@HiTech_Farmer thank you so much. I'll keep you updated

[@HiTech_Farmer]

If you have any more questions as you get started, shoot me a comment!

[@nathanhewitt7742]

@HiTech_Farmer If I have a idea of what I want to do for the farm. To have dairy cows and chickens. What should my next steps be?

[@HiTech_Farmer]

First have a barn or pen to put them in. Next I'd start by searching online where you can buy baby chickens or pullets and start with just a few. Get feed and water and start raising your flock. Chickens are fairly cheap in comparison to dairy cows, so I'd start with them. A few years ago I used to have 12 laying hens.

[@wakeup8052]

How are things now? We just got a nice 2 inch.rain in southern Ontario. We were extremely dry. USDA and Chicago guys don't seem to care about flooding so far.

[@HiTech_Farmer]

Appreciate the follow up. Corn is VERY uneven. We have roughly 10-30% of fields we wont even harvest because there is no corn left standing. A lot of nitrogen was lost due to leaching and we are just starting to pollinate. The soybeans are really short this year because of the rains and cooler temps we had associated with the rain. Curious if you want a follow up video to see how they are progressing and look?

[@wakeup8052]

@@HiTech_Farmer for sure.

[@gzahirny]

You aren't tho only ones... Larson tooo

[@SandyHimrod]

Live in north central Iowa on the Des Moines river, it crested here on Thurs the 27th at 17’ breaking the old record from 1969 of 15.4 we have fields next to the river under water, other fields drownd out from rain but nothing like what you have. Farming ain’t for sissy’s! Farming Grandma

[@HiTech_Farmer]

Best of luck the rest of the growing season my friend!

[@dougadams2948]

Something to see how much water still needs to come our way. And people blame tile for flooding. Looks like the tile isn’t taking a lot of water due to the fact the runoff has all the streams running above tile outlets.

[@HiTech_Farmer]

Yes tile is useless when the water has every creek and ditch filled level full

[@kurtkalenberg7454]

Most mn farms have a lot of drowned out spots

[@HiTech_Farmer]

Eastern SD and Northern IA as well

[@admirableawesome2317]

what does pattern tiled mean?

[@MichaelHolloway]

rows of tile every 50' across the field tying into a larger diameter collector tile that takes the water to a creek. :)

[@JoeLinux2000]

@@MichaelHolloway When you tile 160 acres it's a lot of tile, and it costs a lot of money. Nowadays the tile is continuous perforated plastic pipe. In the old days it must have been baked clay pipe., hence the name tile.

[@zilla2006able]

do you have a Blades ate your farm? have you ever thought about buying a Blades?

[@HiTech_Farmer]

We do not have any windmills at the farm or any of the fields. We live just outside of an area with a lot, but have never given it much thought.

[@bobearl7859]

Plant soybeans get a regular old fashioned green drill and plant soybeans

[@cliffordarnoldussen]

You figure 10 acres is drawn that out a lot of people do not understand what it takes to do that 10 acres how much it cost and what you would’ve got out of that 10 acres if you could’ve harvest there is a lot of people that do not understand that I’m just pointing that outabout people like oh 10 acres what’s that

[@HiTech_Farmer]

Good point Cliff! 10 acres at 200 bushel corn is 2,000 bushels. Assume $4 a bushel and that's $8,000 lost just at the one field...

[@wysurvivor]

Good thing you have federally subsidized crop insurance.

[@user-uw8cz5eh1h]

Looks like another reason to inflate prices

[@HiTech_Farmer]

Price of corn is down 20 cents on the week and beans down 40 cents

[@greggergen9104]

Of all the stupid and wasteful government programs... This might be a good time to pay farmers, if you must pay farmers, to keep low lying land in grass that must be rotationally grazed. It would be the country equivalent, of holding ponds they have in urban areas that in the case of a large rain, slow the flow of water into the sewer system; in the farm case it would slow the flow of water into creeks, streams and rivers.

[@vascodesena]

Hahahahahahaha!

[@jenniferwhite6089]

sorry i don't feel sorry for your last i am a very large in grain farming here and have a dairy and egg farm too had a drought last 5 years one of the farms went up in a wildfire insurance walkway from covering the lost one night after the farm went up had the D9 cats taken off the fire line does not matter who fuel you get as long as it fuels bad diesel fuel it was pumped the tank out and changed the fuel fluter to eight 2 of the mechanics to work that night they were found knotted out and 30 of the equipment was on fire too the police notice the flames and came to look at the fire Due to it being man-made fires were not covered lol funny the insurance company went up to the fire department but did not come out to put it out was there to clean up to the rate for them did jump high to man-made fire in2022 from sid-by-side trespassing on the property to very dry spring too high grass was on fire the wind pick up an jumped the fire line and it grew 25 % in size showed down when the got on to the tree stand i own i harvest the peat moss from the tree stand lost that business was not the problem with the tree or the peat moss what under that was a coal vine under that peat moss why i have 10 d9 cats for last 2 year i last 180 million dollar from insurance companies they are a fraud companies

[@robertnelson3018]

All insurance is fraud. The same people who created corporatism, communism and the Federal Reserve also created insurance. Just another way to bilk money off you.

[@firstamendmenttshirt4768]

Don't farm in a floodplain. I wonder how much money you get from that?