Yep- we’ve run a Kuhn Interceptor for about 5 years now, bit for spring tillage and fall field work. We still go through the headlands of the corn ground with a disk ripper every year, and rip the entire field in the fall every couple years
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They don't live stream but Grant and Spencer Hilbert are good follows on YouTube if you want to see a couple hard working ISU grads in their 20's as first time farmers. They started out doing YouTube videos of farming simulator and have turned their earnings into buying land and learning farming with no experience. They even bought a tile plow and started pattern tiling their fields with no prior experience. They even bought some feeder steers this fall and are partnering with a neighbor to learn how to feed them out.Still nobody live streaming their field work on Facebook for us?
Grant Hilbert
The goal of this channel is to document the journey of getting started farming as a first-generation farmer. I bought my first piece of land in 2020 and then planted my first crop the next season in 2021. I initially bought 250 acres of land in South East Iowa, and have since traded that land...
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Spencer Hilbert
Located in Central Iowa, the goal is to make entertaining videos that provide value to the viewer. I try to be transparent with finances and show what it's like to start farming and other businesses/projects I do.
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He doesn't have the social media following of the popular YouTube farmers but this is a guy I know that posts some funny stuff while he's farming
Jamaican Farmer
A fourth-generation farmer from West-Central Iowa. We raise corn, soybeans and a couple of growing boys! Our family has been utilizing some of the most modern and efficient methods since 1911! We work with our landlords/landladies to provide efficient and profitable solutions for production...
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This was a pretty funny one and a completely random thing you would not expect when working a field
I normally wean and finish my own but I'm finishing a few extras this year. Corn futures were poor enough last fall that I figured it made sense to walk more of it off the farm, so I put up extra feed instead of drying all of it. I have a sale barn with positive basis over the board in my area, so finishing small groups works without needing to put potloads together all the time. Pricing has been comparable to grid selling minus freight, when I've tested it in the past, and I really appreciate having a solid sale barn close by so we want to keep them happy. Of course, you get your check same day there as well. Carried interest in this environment is no joke.
I come from the Loess Hills. We hardly ever found rocks, maybe at the bottom of a highly eroded shoulder slope... anyways, southern michigan now and every field is LOADED with glacial drops offs. every single field has pile. I need to contact some farmers about getting some rocks for landscaping.
Things started breaking loose on the MN IA border yesterday. This is normal time period but some people still farming around wet spots for some reason.
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i don't wanna be rude... Michigan has prettier rocks. more colorHere ya go. One of many places.
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I've seen some videos of TerraClear. This is some neat technology where they fly a drone over a field and it maps where all the rocks are including the size. They either can send you the map to pick them up yourself or they have a special attachment for a skidsteer that they will come out and pick them out of the field for you. Curious how much they charge for that, I guess if you have a lot of acres it might be cost effective to not have to do it manually yourself?
TerraClear | Freedom From Rocks. Freedom To Farm.
Funniest moment I remember picking up rock was my in-laws plowed up a hayfield they were going to turn back into corn so my FIL had that great idea that since we had everyone home 1 weekend we'd all go out and pick rock as more hands meant less time to knock out the field. Two of my nephews which if I had to guess were probably around 12 or so at the time got tired of doing it and started giving grandpa a hard time "you have the easiest job you just sit on the tractor and follow us while we do all the work!" He tells them something like "when you have been farming for over 30 years then you'll have the chance to drive the tractor while your kids and grandkids pick up rock." One of them chimes back "no I'll just hire someone to pick up rock for me!" LOL, oh can imagine just how well that comment went over...
It's going to be a huge week for the entire state. Not a drop of rain in the forecast so everyone is going to be going real hard to try to get everything in the ground over the next 10 days. This forecast is borderline erotic for anyone working in the seed business.
You are wasting time on CF...get 'er done and stay safe.
Our corn in Central TX is about 5 1/2 feet tall now. Three weeks ago it was starting to look like disaster as it got so dry the leaves started brown on the edges. It really looked looked weird when you looked across the field. But we got 4/10 of an inch that perked it up for about 4 days then one inch and 7/10’s. That was the life saver. We’ve since had about 5 small showers and another inch and a half. Supposed to rain tonight and tomorrow as well. If we can just get a good rain around the 1st of June we should have it made
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They don't live stream but Grant and Spencer Hilbert are good follows on YouTube if you want to see a couple hard working ISU grads in their 20's as first time farmers. They started out doing YouTube videos of farming simulator and have turned their earnings into buying land and learning farming with no experience. They even bought a tile plow and started pattern tiling their fields with no prior experience. They even bought some feeder steers this fall and are partnering with a neighbor to learn how to feed them out.
Grant Hilbert
The goal of this channel is to document the journey of getting started farming as a first-generation farmer. I bought my first piece of land in 2020 and then planted my first crop the next season in 2021. I initially bought 250 acres of land in South East Iowa, and have since traded that land...
Spencer Hilbert
Located in Central Iowa, the goal is to make entertaining videos that provide value to the viewer. I try to be transparent with finances and show what it's like to start farming and other businesses/projects I do.
He doesn't have the social media following of the popular YouTube farmers but this is a guy I know that posts some funny stuff while he's farming
Jamaican Farmer
A fourth-generation farmer from West-Central Iowa. We raise corn, soybeans and a couple of growing boys! Our family has been utilizing some of the most modern and efficient methods since 1911! We work with our landlords/landladies to provide efficient and profitable solutions for production...
This was a pretty funny one and a completely random thing you would not expect when working a field
I'll drop a link to my cousin's channel, also an ISU grad. Cole the Cornstar
Currently his channel is half renovation and construction, half farming. I enjoy it though. He's gained quite a following over the past few years.
Cole recently had a crossover video with the Hilberts, also learning to use a tile plow.
Still too wet to finish beans today, maybe tomorrow. The focus at the feedyard is to place 5 weights and grow out to 8 weight yearlings, selling locally at a sale barn. Worst case if the market suggests otherwise is to take them all the way to slaughter. Using LRP on the current pen, tariff noise makes me nervous.
You’re god damn right. It’s so nice when you can just plan stuff out days in advance.
Finished up tonight. All done. Having a blackberry crown to celebrate
Now I can worry about less important things tomorrow, like hanging a couple new gates, drilling a couple waterways that got sprayed out, and probably setting up heifers to breed. The yard needs mowed but I'm pretty sure that's why I got married and had kids, so I'll have to see about that one
Now I can worry about less important things tomorrow, like hanging a couple new gates, drilling a couple waterways that got sprayed out, and probably setting up heifers to breed. The yard needs mowed but I'm pretty sure that's why I got married and had kids, so I'll have to see about that one
