The How And Why Of Organic Farming

[@dantejuantrelgeorge4126]

New subscriber here, south west Georgia…glad to see our farming brothers in the Midwest …I have the luxury to see some of the farms out there when I visit my children in Davenport. It’s amazing just how much soybeans and corns you guys do .

[@FehrsFarmingOrganic]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@timothyeng282]

Great video explaining the differences between organic versus conventional farming practices. I really enjoy the educational approach to this channel especially highlighting the organic farming practices compared to so many other farming channels discussing/showing conventional practices.

[@Edward-tp5nc]

This is how everyone did it prior to the mid 90s. I remember. My Uncles and dad did the same thing with rotary hoes and chisel plow, cultivation. And beans we called it walking beans. A hoe or hook. My relatives liked the hook best because the hoe sometimes chopped out beans. I truly can’t understand farmers today. We are destroying ourselves. Monsanto and Bayer plus others laugh all the way to the bank.

[@bradplant872]

Great video! Thank you for taking the time from your busy life for us new subscribers to overview what organic farming involves. I would’ve never imagined the hand picking of weeds on a large scale operation such as yours. And when you said you still moldboard plough, that made me smile! Tillage was always my favorite part of being a farmhand. Sometimes it was brutal in a wet Michigan fall or spring. That just meant we may have very long days/nights taking advantage of a small window to get a lot done. Seeing the sunrise twice in one workday sometimes! But hey! That’s farming. Can’t control mother nature.

[@jamesharrod8733]

this is why i subscribed to learn about organic row crop farming it is interesting that a lot of your practices are similar to old practices before big ag got involved and as a veteran owned farm i try to past on to other veteran farmers

[@ColePedley]

Where do you hide the sprayers? Fields were too clean this year😎

[@joelchifuna4452]

Organic farming is the way

[@user-NenadDragojevic]

Great video

[@2009deerejohn]

I would love to see you tour a “conventional” farm of similar size/scale to your fairies operation to see how it compares, I respect your decision to keep your acreage/yield info to yourself but I think having watched your channel for a year or so now and being familiar enough with the tractors and processes you use that if you were to spend some time with a equivalent operation that it would potentially be as educational for yourself as I would find it, being able to compare and contrast apples to organic apples instead of apples and oranges? Idk, just my thoughts:) Can’t wait for more plowing videos too, I know hater’s be plentiful but long live the moldboard plow #makeplowinggreatagain

[@FehrsFarmingOrganic]

I’m hoping to line out a tour of a farm our size for next summer or during a time where they are doing a lot of spraying! #makeplowinggreatagain

[@demonslayer809k]

hey good work tell us more about in which month you start croping and all the steps

[@jamesharrod8733]

we are in southern indiana

[@Вадим-ц7м]

Greetings from distant Ukraine. I am a small organic farmer. It's a pleasure to watch your videos. Why don't you use cultivator attachments in the form of a rotary harrow on examples from the company enböck. with inter-row cultivation, but with the use of units that process the soil in the row itself, such as silicone fingers, rotary harrow, rotary attachment?

[@FehrsFarmingOrganic]

We do not want to thin our stand out more than we already do, so we try not use anything that could potentially do that more then the tine weeders and rotary hoe. Thanks for watching!

[@jessedonohue3216]

Do you use or plan to use cover crops? Could certainly add to weed control and remove some of the tillage passes.

[@jasonwoods3384]

Good job on explaining how the process works , I am still confused on what chemicals you use on the crops

[@FehrsFarmingOrganic]

We do not use any chemicals

[@jasonwoods3384]

I know I was just messing with you. Good job on the video@@FehrsFarmingOrganic

[@rickturnr]

How many acres do you farm?

[@hanksfarmvideos]

Organic farming is like playing chess vs checkers. Extra passes, crop rotation, and a lot of thinking outside the box to make it work and get a good crop

[@brandonhickman6658]

Without getting to specific, I was just wondering what the yield difference between organic and conventional corn is on a good year? I would assume there would be some yield drag with organic, but then again I don’t know much about it. I know your corn looks better than a lot of the conventional corn in my area of western indiana. Really enjoy your videos!!

[@FehrsFarmingOrganic]

Without knowing what conventional fields are averaging couldn’t really answer that and we haven’t farmed conventionally in 20+ years so back then the yields were different then from today. From the “ word on the street “ we don’t think we see much of one. Our best yielding fields are typically ones that we have been farming organically for multiple years.

[@Nundhirribala]

They shouldn't call 'conventional' farming conventional; conventional farmers are only a couple of generations old. 'Organic' farmers are the ones who should be called conventional, as organic is the sort of farming that people have been doing for thousands of years. Actually, conventional farmers aren't even farmers in my opinion; they don't know much about anything except the phone number of their chemical salesman - they're chemical applicators who grow "product!" Keep up the good work - we need more 'organic' farmers and more healthy food without glyphosate (or other herbicide) residue.

[@scottsymons6152]

Do you have the ability to sell your organic close by or contract your crop near by?

[@billsauberlich7337]

Being you cultivate your beans several times,do you ever have white mold in your beans?

[@FehrsFarmingOrganic]

We have not dealt with that

[@billsauberlich7337]

Interesting,I wonder if the cultivating takes out the mushroom type plant that produces the spores that create the white mold

[@scottsymons6152]

I've used a cultivator and a rotary hoe. Not familiar with a tine cultivator. If you can show what one looks like.

[@markfleck7981]

How many acres do you put out all together? Corn Beans Oaks

[@FehrsFarmingOrganic]

1/2 corn, 1/4 soybeans 1/4 oats roughly. Sorry not giving out total acre number!

[@markpontes4457]

About what percentage more do Organic crops get on the market? Do you have to haul them further because there not accepted everywhere?

[@FehrsFarmingOrganic]

The first part of that is hard to answer because it is always switching but we can sell them at a premium over conventional prices at the moment Correct we have to haul them further because local co-ops and ethanol plants do not need or pay the price for them!

[@isaacrhoades2693]

How do you guys deal with disease and insects?

[@FehrsFarmingOrganic]

Crop rotation, we don’t use any of the organic concoctions that have came out haha, we haven’t had an issue besides some cut and root worm and that is minimal when it has happened and not every year.