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[@chunkychambers1530]

It’s fun hearing some history of the farm. Thanks for sharing

[@gkoproske]

I love the term "rows of shame". Perfect. As for boring, not at all. I appreciate all of the recording that you do.

[@markreetz1001]

The only content better than what you're showing is when you, ,your Dad, Jim and Onyx are hanging out. That's always fun.

[@chrisw7551]

I mean...I wouldn't mind watching 30mins of the camera switching between equipment every couple mins and just watching and hearing the machines work. Keep at it sir, love watching your channel regardless if it's "boring"

[@steverichardson2224]

Your "Jim getting stuck in the mud" comment reminded me of the only time I remember you actually handing the camera off. It produced the greatest narration in video history, Holy Buckets!!! Instant classic! Murfreesboro, TN

[@MrGeroth]

My grandson is helping a high school friend with his harvest of corn. He said the other weekend they put up 22,000 bushels in 24 hours. He was one whipped pup. He’s 31 and works full time and then helps these guys when they need him. Keep up the good work and videos. Thanks for sharing.

[@dalekeeler7209]

My Great Grandpa came from Sweden with his 13 brothers and sisters in 1913. They settled in Slayton, MN. South West corner of the state. He was a farmer, corn and sheep. He had 200 acres and also plowed the roads with horses for the county in the winter. He married my great Grandma, her family was from Norway. His last name was Johanson, there were so many Johnson's and Johanson's in the area he changed his name to Fredrick's. My grandma married my grandpa, he was in the Air Force and that's why we live in Louisiana now. Good memories visiting the farm when I was a kid. Anyway, love your channel, don't miss a single episode, I guess because #1 it's good but also it brings back memories since your in Minnesota too!

[@truthandfreedom885]

My great grandmother came from Sweden with her four sisters and her mother. Hi great grandfather had a stroke and she took over the farm and it flourished. Built a new house she was doing so well. She passed away in 1941 before America entered world war II.

[@dalekeeler7209]

@@truthandfreedom885 My great grandpa farmed during WWII. He tried to enlist bust since he was a farmer, they told him he needed to keep farming to help feed the troops. I was lucky to be able to see him and my great Grandma for many years. He passed away when I was in my late 20's and my Great grandma till I was 33. I gave my first born son his middle name, my great Grandma came down to Louisiana when he was born, she was so proud we kept his name alive! I have a 5 generation picture to go along with her visit. I was very blessed.

[@truthandfreedom885]

@@dalekeeler7209 I know I'm sound like I'm bragging but I'm very proud of my grandpa also. My grandpa with his cousin was pitching manure in the feedlot I believe it was a 1917. The story goes that they both threw their pitchforks in the manure pile changed clothes went to town and joined the army. My grandpa got to Europe just when the armistice was signed however he had quite an adventure. He was a stenographer at the Paris Peace conference. I found the newspaper articles and his passports and also letters written back and forth. He ended up in Russia working for the Hoover administration during the Bolshevik revolution dispersing food trying to stop the starvation. Ended up in the Czars wine cellars that went for very long distances The description was for miles. Many drunken Russian soldiers in those underground wine cellars. One grab them and threw a knife in a stomach because he thought he was English and apparently the Russians hated the English but the Russian interpreter said he was an American and so they let him go. I find that strange because if I remember my history right the Americans were fighting against the Bolsheviks and I presumed it was the Bolsheviks that were in the wine cellars maybe not. He also ended up in Persia which is now the modern day I ran brought home a Persian rug. He also was at the Parthenon in Greece and brought home a souvenir that's all I'm going to say about that. He was in many other countries in the Middle Eastern Europe too. I bought the old farmstead and I was cleaning out the farmstead and there were a bunch of garbage bags that I threw out something told me to go back and look in those garbage bags and that's where I found his passport and letters and all kinds of travel documents and military documents. He got out as he Sergeant major at the approximate age of 27. Then he ended up in Glasgow Montana and own half of abstract/title company. In 1929 his sister my aunt wrote him a letter begging to come back and take over the farm. He came back got married started having children in 1930 just in time for the dust bowl and the depression. One year they only harvested 60 bushels of wheat on a section of land and they grounded up to make flour to make bread. They also harvested cactus and grounded up and fed it to the cattle. The cattle liked it but it was very rich feed and they joke that you didn't walk behind the cattle when they were feeding lol. Yes I am very proud of my grandpa and yes I know I'm bragging. And I do realize that some stories may get embellished over time however I do have the documentation showing where he was and when. Also found his dog tags.. 20 years ago I had an older gentleman come up to me and tell me what an honest honorable man my grandpa was. Also how kind he was and humble he was and generous he was. That meant so much to me cuz my grandpa died in 1965 and 40 years later somebody who is a very young man when he knew my grandpa was compelled to come and tell me about that. My grandma was an amazing strong woman also. Probably worked harder than any man that ever sit foot on that farm. Gave birth on the dining room table to four children

[@harrykeel8557]

thanks for history of your family. Its always interesting to learn about our ancestors.

[@Jokerdude444]

No semi tire work is tiring, and exhaust work is exhausting. Figured I'd let you know for the future 😉

[@dieselbassohyah1533]

I'm good with a boring day. You all work hard enough without added heartaches. Thank you for keeping us fed. An old diesel mechanic.

[@andrewblack6185]

Keep at it Zach,proud of your son,you have done a good job with that young man.

[@davidrollins4272]

I still enjoy the videos when harvest goes smoothly for you.

[@danielhutchinson1275]

FYI: they make a add on for that wind bar to keep all that trash from building up on the feeder house

[@hagmanhenrik]

Hello from a Swedish viewer! You mentioned that your ancestors came from here, maybe that is one of the reasons why I love watching your videos. Good luck with this year’s harvest and thanks for making this content! Cheers 🇸🇪 🇺🇸!

[@jerryfish1303]

I can’t believe Onyx is driving, semi what a great kid. He is willing to learn and appears he enjoys it

[@iancroot1388]

Think that maybe the actor who plays Onyx in these streams.

[@abrahamfriessen7663]

I love your videos. I just never wanna stop watching them because you because they’re so good. I love your videos.❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@sashmangaming7852]

Ya know, it might be boring content making in your eyes, but harvest is my favorite time of year with these videos. Something satisfying about just watching combines run… couldn’t tell ya why, but I could watch it all day

[@billymac8445]

As an old farm boy I value boring days. It’s nice to run and not have surprises.

[@craigborgardt6396]

So cool to see Onyx driving the 18 wheeler.

[@abrahamfriessen7663]

And I’ve always wanted to do that, but I really love your videos and I love it when I see your kids work for you drive to tractors like I do. I like the big ones with the doors. With a disc.

[@Machines.In.Action]

The only thing better than watching you work is seeing the whole family in action!

[@jaafarisami5056]

Oh brother we don't wanna see no tornado kind of stuff, been following you for a while and y'all feel like family. Especially now that I learn that the farm is old. I love when it's been passing through generations.

[@abrahamfriessen7663]

And I’ve always wanted to do that, but I really love your videos and I love it when I see your kids work for you drive to tractors like I do. I like the big ones with the doors. With a disc. I am a farmer, but I don’t do that for me but the farming that I do I don’t like it. I like that farming that you do.

[@stevehulett586]

You talking about itching and burning eyes caused me to recall harvesting canary in eastern North Dakota back in the '70's with an open cab Massey Ferguson Super 92. Those were fun times.

[@cliffh8486]

Great episode! One of my favorites. You’re a true champion of a family farm and what it should be, keep up the great work Johnson family!

[@thelegend4232]

im Swedish and been in farming 5 years i love watching your videos

[@karlrovey]

6:18 With all that residue on the feeder house, a leaf blower is incredibly useful.

[@2KXMKR]

I just got my truck license at the tender age of 37 and here's this badass farm kid driving 18 wheelers like he was born behind the wheel. That's one great kid right there. What's that future channel gonna be, Alpha Farmer? Great to see three generations working those fields.

[@donaldwoodward6899]

Actually illegal. If they don't mind loosing the farm if he's involved in a fatality, then let him drive all he wants. DOT won't care if he's on paved or gravel roads, sti) unlawful.

[@nightowlarchive]

@@donaldwoodward6899 Youre fun at parties arent ya?

[@byrd3242]

@@donaldwoodward6899 You should look into the exemptions for agriculture when it comes to DOT regulations, things are very different compared to general commercial driving regulations. Or continue to remain woefully ignorant sure does make a hilarious comment.

[@donaldwoodward6899]

@byrd3242 I've had a CDL for the last 35 yrs and not one state allows a 13 yr. old kid to be running up and down the roads. In the state of Mn. a 15 yr old can apply for a Mn farm workers license which only allows them to work for that parent, within 20 mile radius of the farmhouse only during daylight hours and near cities less than 100k population. The parent must obtain the licensing form and also present the current property tax statement. He can then only obtain the restricted license when passing the written exam and a qualified road test. The shared responsibility that is really only similar to a CDL holder is they being qualified to pre and post rip inspections and able to comply with a roadside inspection..

[@byrd3242]

@@donaldwoodward6899 Right and how does a 15 year old get the hands on experience and practice to apply for the license? Could it be with their parent within the 20 miles of their farm/home during the day and out in the country? Imagine presenting all the evidence that shows how dense you are lol. Gosh I would expect someone with as much on the road experience as yourself to recognize the safe and proper operation of a commercial classed vehicle with supervision. Regardless have a nice day thanks for keeping our country's freight moving.

[@bjornleidelof1406]

Hi from Sweden! My ancestors moved from Sweden near to where you are located in about the same years as yours.

[@AK90]

Swedes unite!

[@Daniel-bd3vi]

Thanks for sharing some of your family history and tha acquisition of your farm ground thru the years. Keep up the great Land Management. 🚜😇😊

[@M0ercheN]

many emigrated from Sweden during the famine. and according to history, many ended up in Minnesota. Cool to see the legacy from Sweden lives on in both you, your father and your families! cheers viking brother 🇸🇪

[@geoffhendricks3188]

I enjoy farming... getting stuck and tornadoes aren't farming... so no harvesting is great video!!! Thank you Zach!!!

[@richardvernick4280]

Zack. Thank you for the video. As a kid growing up on the family farm, a boring work day was great. Your son looks good hangling that 18 wheel grain tractor trailer. Please always be very careful working around farm equipment. Growing up, memory of a fellow farmer didn't stop the PTO on his corn, pickering with a stuck stock jammed snapping rollers, lost a hand forarm he cut off with his own pocket knife to get free of the snapping rollers. 😭👀 Please take care.👍 Richard

[@joopterwijn]

Just happy with the ‘boring’ content, that means you and the team are doing fine! You explain everything, and a quick good harvest is perfect!

[@timwarpool-f9w]

I would tear up more equipment if I tried to film everything good job being safe

[@alanclark639]

On the first farm I helped out on ( 1960's) - old boys could still remember harvesting with a horse drawn reaper binder (it was still laying dormant in one of the barns) - I know they'd all loved to see all your amazing kit - especially the way it interconnects and provides to the minute info. Despite my junior school teacher saying that we'd never have combine harvesters here in the u.k. - I worked in a cloud of dust fitting sacks to one for much of my summer holiday - no bulk tank then and only 9ft 6" header.

[@KennyBaltz]

A boring day is a good day. Great video. The Lawsons just had the #1 piston on a green combine escape thru the block. Not a good day. Thank God no one was hurt. -KB North Chesterfield VA. ❤

[@SparksFarms22]

Been watching since the beginning and I just wanted to say your my favorite farmer/youtuber ever. Keep up the great work love the videos. Keep her between the rows now Zach!!!!

[@quinnparks413]

I watch cause i grew up on a farm, when my step dad left i didnt get to farm anymore. So now im building my on little farm. Keep on keppin on

[@blue1991flhs]

Keep on farming! Thank you for sharing!

[@MrHund40]

HI from Sweden!!🤠

[@austenmoore9782]

The family legacy is excellent. I'm 4th generation farmer in Australia, 104 years on the same farm, makes me proud.

[@Melting_Fireman]

Hey Zach, you ever look at the crossfire Dual Pressure System? We have them on our fire apparatus and work great for seeing where your tires are by taking the guess work out after a drop of 10 psi or more. A solid yellow is good, black is under and red is over pressure. The come in different pressures so you can get 50 up to 150 in 5 psi increments and can save you on tire wear.

[@benpattinson1]

I’m sure we’ll take a boring day. Good to see things working well and the operation going smoothly.

[@shirleybewley6646]

May your whole season be 'boring', I call that peaceful and drama free :)

[@robertduckitt7964]

Zach i saw you guys are checking "acres left" on ops center if you look on your display under work totals and shared totals you will be able to see your combined yield and acres. Works great

[@BeachGramps3361]

Don't cut off the end-of-row vid. Would love to see more of the co-ord between combines and carts and trucks (when it's a boring day). Listening to the three of you chatting is way-cool.

[@indymark4064]

I did not know much about your ancestors. I am, and you sound like you are, very proud remembering you roots. And it looks like the future of your farm is in good hands.

[@CodyStarling]

Harvest time is my favorite. I miss farming but it don’t pay working on someone else’s here in NC. But it’s nice to see the corn and peanut dust drifting in the air in the evenings it’ll be right much longer before beans are ready around my way

[@MrMarkguth]

I love the technology in these machines these days, watching from Australia, where boring is fine with me

[@kamilzarzycki3866]

Thanks!

[@johnking8679]

Thanks for the "update" Zack !! 😅

[@nschuler]

For selecting combine settings I recommend reading Marion Calmer's suggestions. We run two CRs and running with the bottom seives more open (i like 5/8 to 3/4) and then using fan for most of your variability has simplified setting combines for us tremendously. Both corn and soy. Everyone has their own method tho

[@Stepica]

Onyx was a boy just a few videos back. Now he acts like a young man. You must be proud 🫡

[@steveneal2706]

Great video guys. Thank y'all so much

[@ronmckee8132]

when I ran buggy ( retired ) used to get angle that combine was working ,,,, then set my implement width to 24" click auto steer when passing under auger

[@Buzzinga248]

Lovely to watch three generations working calmly together, it’s not often that the modern younger generation would work with their father much less their grandfather so compatibly. It’s so nice to see how well Onyx is maturing, and the way you respect your father’s way of thinking and working. Your father has established a great family line.

[@persistentwind]

It's pretty simple... raise your kids to be good people with a good sense of humor and respect for one another... wish more people did this.

[@pdc023]

Boring or not, I always enjoy watching how well you, your family, Jim and the others work together as a team. Best wishes for a smooth and boring harvest.

[@seagullsbtn]

Best time of year for us Millennial youtube farmers.

[@ekeyexplore]

Look, he is working with the giant machine very easily, unlike the old days when our grandparents did everything by hand, it was very hard. 🥰

[@gregoryh4601]

Awesome to hear facts about your ancestors, sounds like Six Generations? We are fourth generation from Germany. Zach many Rabbits or Pheasant are Harvest time?

[@blanketboy779]

Thanks. Appreciate the history lesson. ❤

[@waterskiingfool]

Glad you got the sample cleaned up.

[@grantmagnuson4883]

You said 1868. My great grandparents Homestead is the Ronnie Stone place over where 28 curves from Laurie to far away. In 1883. My great grandfather‘s sister lived in Chicago and would come up and visit during the summer and married the Ericson boy who lived across the road to the north on 28. I remember your great grandfather John R …. Living where you have your buildings now.

[@henkheemskerk4437]

I think it would be great to work with your son and do the harvest. You must be proud of him . I hope the rest of the harvest season goes well.

[@Ed_in_Md]

Love the history!!

[@Fjallman1977]

Nice to hear about your ancestors. Do you know from what area in Sweden they were from? Love your work, thanks for sharing.

[@JoeBateman-d1q]

I'm playing farming simulator while watching this on the millennial farmer map

[@KenleyEvans-n9b]

I do that a lot

[@shannonharris]

In other words you're an addicted MF'r? 🤣 🤣

[@Ricr-lw3pb]

Same

[@bambootherainwing8070]

Hell yeah!!! Playing FS22 rn too

[@jordan7172]

Best way to do it 💯🤌🏼

[@DaRespect88]

Thanks Zach Keep up the good work..

[@jhorton1600]

After you clean the windows and mirrors, give them a couple coats of a spray detailing wax. It helps keep the dust from sticking.

[@lloydzilinski4401]

Boring is okay. I enjoy it when things are running smoothly and you and the gang are rolling through the acres.

[@lenscap8925]

Some people suggest a static chain with a pipe dragging the dirt to ground the machine and keep the static down, and the windows clean.

[@FarmGatherings-k3l]

Farming with modern machinery, working day and night is also very good

[@DavidBancroft-y7q]

Brilliant channel. Onyx is a proud and confident young man driving the big stuff. Always love the vids and you guys work so hard. I'm in UK and not even a farmer... looking forward to the car racing, Zach 👍

[@03TorchRedMach1]

Definitely don’t enjoy you guys having a bad day! Didn’t know that family history, super cool!

[@NathanPrins-u5e]

Great to see harvest going on well! Should give the camera to Onyx while driving the graincart, really interesting to see how he is doing! 😃

[@bikerktmktm21x]

There was a opportunity of "cloud" and stupid politician that was missed... Harris + Cloud = frustration on who is running.

[@dlm13cwru]

We farm in New Ulm. I wonder if you know my husband, Terry. He's friends with the Hefty Brothers and Randy Dowdy

[@grantmagnuson4883]

I believe one of the Anderson boys lives on the stone place now. And it was my great grandfather‘s niece that married to Ericson, so a couple generations later Harold Erickson ‘s kids are all my third cousins. They all went to pike lake, Covenant Church, which was always in Kensington to my memory. If you go up to been wired cemetery a mile west of your place, you’ll see all the Magnuson gravesites Henry Magnuson, Oscar Magnuson, and my dad, Wallace Magnuson. My dad farmed the place a quarter mile east of a good Darien, which, by the way is an anthrax far, so, if anybody runs cattle on that farm, they need to check with the local veterinarian in the state of Minnesota, will vaccinate them at no cost.

[@MillennialFarmer]

@grantmagnuson4883 you're definitely from the area! I didn't know anything about the Guderian farm being an anthrax farm? Andersons own it now, and have cattle in the lot.

[@StevenPappadeas]

It's good to hear Jim's name in the mix again !

[@marthavojtko6268]

A very good farming day!!👍😊

[@jamesmiller23]

I love the “boring content” keep it coming actor that plays Millennial Farmer

[@PirateofAE2]

ever think of doing a time-lapse of a field harvest? Stick a go-pro on the roof of one of the combines, or the cart- tractor

[@brianrobson3183]

Why not add a hose adapter to the blower on the front? For cleaning off the combine

[@timwade1266]

Don't fret, we appreciate boring. And any day seeing Didge and Anna, Onyx and Nate and hearing about Jim is a good day. Would be nice to see Rhiannon Becky and Ayla and to hear how your niece is making out, but good to see all your videos. Continued health and success.

[@joehowe9532]

You would think that every farmer with a combine would keep a five dollar pair of goggles and a couple pairs of $1 3M masks in their cab at all times… You would think.

[@trentwatts4913]

It’s going to get in your eyes at some point throughout the day. I mean your not going to wear any of that the whole day or at least I’m not going to so in other words just part of it.

[@grantmagnuson4883]

Do you need a good stiff broom in the cabin. Then step out in front of your windshield, and just sweep it off every so often. I watched a lot of weed farmers do that on their combines this year.

[@RONALDRANKIN-k9n]

The best way to clean the debris off your header and feeder housing and not get covered in dust is the Onyx broom.

[@larsharris]

Just think your dads maybe combines without a AC Cab? Maybe with open station tractor pulling a combine w/35 nu hopper?

[@abrahamfriessen7663]

I really love your videos

[@DarrylSparlin]

Another great video. And know it was not boring. Wish I could be behind the wheel driving that John Deere combine. And I do not wish too see a tornado destroy a grain bin!!!

[@AlanMullen-w1f]

Nice 👍 thanks.

[@jimmckillip7975]

I think it's toldly awesome that Onxy is driving semi for the family farm cool

[@randywilson9611]

Great video good to see y'all

[@Stevethemiller]

Damn! thats a good looking sample, that is for a jd.. lol but wont know for a week or so might have double cropped beans on beans. 😅😅

[@Bigstrapper]

The amount of chaff and dust those air reels blow up is unreal.

[@CharlieBrown5040]

Really excited to see how the rest of harvest goes guys. wishing you guys good luck on yields and weather for the next month!!!

[@69dblcab]

Nope all content is good content. Thanks for sharing your lives.

[@larrycole4438]

You should wear safety glasses and a dust mask when you are outside cleaning off the combine.

[@randyronny7735]

With Zak taking about the 40' & 45' headers got me thinking. Back in the mid-1960's my uncle, a small grain farmer, used a 10' swather for combining. His neighbor bought a new New Holland combine. It would take 2-12' swaths and framers thought how a combine could not possibly get any larger.