This Has Got to Go!

[@ronniekoehn9413]

Why did tobacco farming cause the farm to not have top soil?

[@UniqueWhat]

Minimal input farming (ie just NPK) depletes soil structure then erosion.

[@johnsadler8637]

And it was an every-year, bare-soil tillage, usually. On sloping topography.

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

tobacco is a very fertilizer intensive crop, basically the entire field is bare and baked by the sun, eroded by the wind and rain and the soil just goes away to nothing.....deep turning and disking of the land just rips up the soil structure...the strange thing is that it's still super common for folks to turn the land in the winter to get "biologic material" like grass and weeds into the soil...when we could just leave it alone and let it build structure....tobacco fields are just dirt and tobacco plants...no ground cover, fertilizer intensive and destructive

[@mushethecowboycook9353]

If you look at a traditional farm in the winter, you will see bare soil or very little green for a cover crop. Even the cover can barely grow because the soil is depleted of nutrients

[@a-survivors-journey]

Really good seeing you plant fruit trees on your farm. Proud of you!!!! Keep up the great work. Don’t forget to enjoy life!!

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

oh man...this is enjoying life for sure!

[@mattkennerson1060]

Great content.... learned a lot.... Most important is to stay away from your fences. Great job....❤❤❤. Thank you.

[@martinmeltzer2696]

Hey Josh! "The man who plants a tree under who's shade he will never sit... understands how the Universe works." Well Done!

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

interesting thought! Probably right!

[@marcelitabellaesconde2258]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to You and Yours 2024!

[@mcchupka9718]

Love it. Herd looks great and pastures are shaping up.

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

Thanks, buddy...we're trying to get them to fatten up!

[@dsulli7383]

The rut may be over but the bucks still have antlers right now. When I moved to my 40 acre piece of land here in Northern California 4 years ago I spent about $1200 and planted 40 fruit trees in January. Well after the rut ended. Well, within 6 weeks every single tree had the bark scraped off all the way around. Zero of those trees survived. The next year I built an 8ft fence around that half acre area and now I’m finally growing some fruit trees.

[@opp7981]

Look into the bone sauce from perma pastures farm great stuff, good luck👍

[@connieguillot6999]

Great place to plant ur fruit trees ! And knowing where to plant . Hoping the freeze doesn’t kill them this year ! MERRY CHRISTMAS 🎄🇺🇸

[@steveningrahm8928]

I enjoy these videos, although I am a now retired 6th generation farmer, 12th generation if you count Colonial America. Hay must be precious in North Carolina. An 1800 pound net wrapped big bale of quality grass hay (non-fescue) would cost you from $50 to $60 here in Missouri. By the way, its not the net wrap that sheds water, its the tightness of the bale. The better the bale, the less rain water is able to penetrate the exposed surface.

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

yep...that's the thatch....not the wrap for sure. Now 1800lbs is a big one that's for sure! This is the highest quality round bale I can get and it's around 800-1000lbs per bale...around $50 is the going rate.....$35-$40 for twine wrapped lower quality

[@JandJHomestead]

Great video. Be sure to also remember to avoid planting the graft union under the soil.

[@mikewigim2864]

I've never seen a dibble before. I use a tiling spade to plant trees in kind of the same way but I can see how the dibble disturbs the soil less than a shovel.

[@maddmaxx6730]

Donny is the perfect name, my wife and both laughed. Moooooo 🐄

[@bhsaproduction]

Any plans to built the tenth and final raised bed in your garden area. The one that was going to fill the gap, even up the rows and to block the spot the deer would land - when they jump the double electric fence?

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

yep...it's coming!

[@petermavus4131]

The cows should get a job with SCOTTs

[@NZBallBag]

9:02 we had fruit trees and an awesome veg garden. Woke up one morning and the veg garden was clear felled by the red deer. They were delicious deer 🦌 😋 😍 😂

[@bohammarberg4072]

Good morning !!! 🌹🌹🌹🌹

[@ClickinChicken]

I used to do the Burgess seed magazine thing for horticulture a while. It was a lot of work to make them, live. But I enjoyed myself at the time...

[@HomesteadingTheHardLife]

the man with multiple chainsaws is manhandling a bush ripping it out of the ground with his bare hands

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

man wanted to put a tree back in that there hole lol .....I will cut it up and use that yummy wood for grilling for sure!

[@michaelholmes4808]

Merry Christmas Josh. Stay safe and happy in the new year.

[@maddmaxx6730]

Sugart? Not sure that flows downhill 😂😅

[@robertbraeking8811]

You are leaving a void at the bottom of your hole. Put the dibble bar back 4 inches from your transplant. rock foward and back to close the top and bottom of the hole. Stomp the hole away from the tree. The void will hold water.

[@scottsmith6846]

Hey Josh thank you for the video woo

[@dennissweeney7743]

Man of many talents!

[@toddpacheco4748]

Josh,along the way you’ll be having fruit coming out of your ears for quite some time now 😮😊❤

[@ClickinChicken]

You'll get a lot of wasps from the plumbs on the ground. Ask me how i know.

[@philwhite5815]

I love Mulberry and Plum. I have a mulberry in my side yard

[@jerryhubbard4461]

The fig tree will produce in a little a two years. Most of the others trees planed here will take 8 or more years.

[@roberto.peterson9917]

suggestion a chicken mote around your garden/ orchard for keeping deer out and away from orchard trees Living Traditions Homestead as example fence doesn't have to be high just double fence with 8 ft apart???? would check on that something about being double fence mess with deer 🦌 abilities to feel comfortable about jumping their chicken and ducks Free range the mote with koops built at 90@° to inside mote fence acts as insect barrier from crawling insects ticks etc food for thought

[@ShortbusMooner]

Mmmmm, plum preserves.. 😋

[@thurlowfamilyfarm4628]

Have you had any calves sired by Donny yet? I’m curious to see how they perform.

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

yeppers...every calf last year...18 of them

[@davebarnes9099]

Merry Christmas

[@michaelblum6222]

Loved today video. Merry Christmas

[@Edwib-w5h]

What are the best fruit trees to plant on elevation property?

[@philwhite5815]

16000 lbs of bio😊

[@johnsadler8637]

Did he say 800lbs each for 200 bales? I think there’s another zero after the 16, meaning 160,000 lbs, or 80 tons.

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

a little more than that my brother......add a zero! We spread out 180 tons of lime on the farm this year as well as that's a total of 80 tons! Lots of material brought to the farm this year for sure...then count what grew in the summer! So if it takes 200 bales to feed for 3 months out of the year...that's 80 tons....then the other 3/4 of the year the grass that's growing provides the biomoass. In other words a total of 320 tons of carbon goes back into the soil every year from grazing, sunlight and hay feeding! Awesome huh!

[@THATOFFROADCHANNEL]

I live in Franklin county VA not to far from nc

[@kirkvancamp5390]

Do you have any problem with deer eating or rubbing on the new trees?

[@dsulli7383]

I don’t like mulberries because they taste like figs lol

[@freedomcowboy6274]

How did you learn soil science? We're you an Ag major?

[@egomaniac247]

Dumb question but how can you tell when your cows are pregnant? (beyond just when they're really far along and getting fatter)

[@Chevroid]

More like 160,000 lbs of bio

[@brianhillis3701]

Need to subtract out respiration ( CO2), digestion ( CH4), and cattle weights. Amount added to soil is much less than the simple calculation because he is making cows too.😊

[@karlsening7726]

Josh, great video. I have an idea for a future video. Since you brought Donnie to the farm to bring South Poll genetics to the Angus herd, I thought it might be interesting to hear about your breeding plans and how it has been working.

[@johnsadler8637]

@@brianhillis3701he’s still adding the total. All the conversion eventually nets a very small addition, but the process of conversion is the benefit.

[@petermavus4131]

The cows should get a job with SCOTTs