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iafarmer
Registrace 31. 12. 2016
Iowa family farm that raises corn, soybeans, hogs and hay
Email osbornfarm@hotmail.com
Email osbornfarm@hotmail.com
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Hurry up before it rains again (april footage when it wasn't a swamp)
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Hurry up before it rains again (april footage when it wasn't a swamp)
What size is your shop?
@@DGFarms 54×81
Those projects will keep you busy for a little bit. Fortunately, I haven't had too much this year on repairs. That will help with the bottom line.
Hopefully your good for a few years now. Seems like around here if there isn't stuff to fix I start adding things lol. The old pencil is gonna get some wear this next year if inputs don't come down
Enjoyed the video buddy! God bless
Thanks for watching greg
I got a sneak peak at the aphids all over the hitch and when I saw it I almost fainted
I havent seen that many since 2003 when we got them for the first time. Hope it's another 20 years before they're that bad again
Thats a pretty impressive shatter😆 looks like it got the bottom one too. I gotta fix the tarp on my cart, some idiot that looks just like me didn't get it inside before the only real storm we got last December and caved in the hoops and stretched it. 😆🤦♂️Mine dont have those tin hoops with the bead on the edges, just got a couple straps that dangle down you gotta hook ounce its closed and it overlaps the edge.
I've got a wagon with a tarp like that. They come in handy but we're usually pretty close to a shed somewhere I can put it in so I really don't need one
A & I is JUNK lately! I won't even bother with them anymore...makes ya wonder if Deere is intentionally running it into the ground so we only have one option of parts anymore. I like the project you're doing on your corn head. I did the same thing to our 643 years ago and ya notice a big difference. I bet the kits are pricey now (LIKE EVERYTHING)...especially the pto shaft kit. Looks like your extra head also has the Calmer kit? I've been thinking of adding the MayWes poly stalk stompers on our head bc I don't wanna add more weight to ours, considering its a heavy stalkmaster. The MayWes kit is kinda pricey for what it is though.
@EDBZ28 yeah i can't believe how bad of an experience I've had with a&I waterpumps. The kit wasnt too bad, i was able to get it on sale for 1,350 from v&h mfg out of rock valley, ia. I also got the chains from them, but they are chinese so we will see how they hold up. Yup this is going to be my main head and I will have the old one as a backup. I've had mixed results with stompers but i think it's better to have something than nothing to save some tire life
@@iafarmeryou did well on the kit. I think I had all of that, with shafts, back in 2013 when I did ours. I know, I keep kicking the can down the rd on some sorta stalk stompers. I wouldn’t mind a couple thousand for the poly ones, but I think they had quoted me almost 4K last year 🤔
Looks like you’re having a blast!!
A shattering good time lol
You have my luck that's for sure. Can't believe people are still fighting aphids. we haven't seen a single aphid on our beans all year, them Jap beetles though they are motherfuckers that's for sure. We've sprayed for them twice in each bean field and they just come back about a week later. finally just give up on and the beans are doing pretty good. Counted a bean plant with 75 pods on it. Be interesting to see what that number does for a average yield.
The heck with taking the tarp off. Just get a big 1200 bu cart on tracks. Lol
Lol nobody has offered me a "demo" so I guess the little cart will have to work another year
@@iafarmerwell apparently you’re not a big enough BTO to get one sent to you for free to use 🤦♂️🤣
Gotta add a "p" in that defining me. Big time pee on lol
If it makes you feel any better they think mine will be done with overhaul this week. I had all my corn sprayed with fungicide and had some NK corn that aborted kernels 3” back from the tip. Makes me want to throw up thinking about it…
Well I feel for ya on the overhaul, it's no fun buying equipment all over again in repairs. Seems like theirs alway 1 variety you wish you could unplanned. Hopefully you don't have alot of it
I'm so frustrated with waterhemp. The beans are so thick that when we sprayed 3 weeks ago, the chemicals didn't get to the weeds. Now, it is popping up through the tops. Try checking the ground wire. If both sides and nothing is working, but you do see power, it might be the ground. Good luck.
Waterhemp is a bad deal if it gets seeded out. Only good thing is if you can control it well for a few years, i don't think the seeds can thrive as long as others. Thanks
crops are looking nice, considering what you guys went through planting. This is my first year using Liberty and I noticed the beans yellowing up pretty good after, but I will say it cooked the weeds...especially Marestail 😡. Your 4430 looks mint...I feel for ya on the repair. Farmers can't even rely on parts anymore, "paying through the nose, and after going through the misery of changing them out. I wish I had some advice for you on the flashers...you've done everything I thought of...my first thought was the turn signal mechanism in upper dash, but you did that...are you sure the "new part" is actually good?? Ya never know these days with just about everything coming from CHIna. I had to have ag express go through my digital tach on the 47 a few years ago for different issues.
Repairs are getting out of control and quality of parts is just sad. A&I I always thought was good but I will never buy a waterpump from them again. It was their seals were the problem because I know of others that had the same issue and the water pump on my 4960 is leaking again too (3rd one). Just junk anymore
@@iafarmerI have 0 faith in A&I parts anymore! Recently I got a circuit board for under dash of 2955 and it wouldn’t even fit! My local dealer LandPro made me jump through a bunch of hoops to get credit for it and order me a new JD one. Deere has to get a hold of all their quality control. I’ve gotten a real sour taste in my mouth over Deere the past couple years.
Sucks when electric stuff doesn't work!! All I know to do is, trace down the wires..
Yup, I never have been good with electrical stuff
I don't know if it has it but I know there is a blinker relay that can burn out and they won't have any power.
Will have to check that out thanks
Hope all the work and $ pays for itself this year. I opted to not throw any more at it, “Darned if ya do, darned if ya don’t”
My luck itll be .5 bushels more than insurance guarantee either way lol. I have a sharecrop landlord that doesn't have insurance so I usually farm like I don't have any. I had the fungicide prepaid is the only reason I had them spray any corn.
The waterhemp was been bad this year. The bugs namely jap beetles have been terrible on the beans. Ive sprayed em off once so far ajd twice in some spots and they will be back a week later. Definitely looking at a solid bean crop minus the jap beetle damage. Threw some new leds at my 4430 and found out through trial and error that the previous owners whichever one it was cut the low bean light wire so he could have high beam on with the flashers at night.
Water himp has been bad down here in southern ia
It's a tough weed for sure. I've seen some coming back that was burned clear to the ground and came back with a vengence
Well I guess your idea of pretty corn and mine are two different things 😂😂
Usda said that was 183 in that area, we've got inflation to control dangit!
@@iafarmer oh I forgot silly me
Sure looks good. I was the only one on the farm I worked on that cared to keep the tractor I drove most of the time. Washed and waxed it looked just like yours when I started working for the guy but after a couple days one weekend when I brought it home with me I had it looking like new it’s a case IH 7220 magnum I always kept the oil and filters changed and things lubed up it had over 15000 hours on it in 2011 which in 10 years I put all but 3500 hours on it. The farmer still has it and uses it mostly for cutting hay anymore while I was in charge of it. It never had any major work done to it other than tires belts hoses and a starter and alternator. Needless to say it sure does not look as good now I’m not there but I was told there is over 22000 hours on it now and has had to have the transmission overhauled and that’s only because the young guy that took my job when I left got it stuck and was not smart enough to just stop and t get pulled out instead he kept ramming the 18 speed back and forth from reverse to 10 or 12 th gear until it was barked past the frame and he burnt the tranny out in the pro
The USDA this year has been as off as Stevie Wonder could be. In my area of Iowa just south of Waterloo stuffs looking good but it won't be a bumper crop. Lots of wet spots. Best thing is my early planted beans but I still don't think they will make 75-80bpa.
They've built it up as a bumper crop, which l realize areas are really good, I think they underestimate how much is bad. I've never seen such a poor looking crop in such a big area as this year. I drove a decent ways north into Minnesota and very few fields of corn I would guess to be over 150 bushel. Most I would guess less than 100..and it was mile after mile. Our crop is going to be very good in spots and fall off a cliff 10 feet later. Going to be hard to guess average yields til the field is done this year. I'm sure pro farmer tour will go to only the good spots and call it bumper yields. Beans are always hard to guess til the combine rolls
@@iafarmer Yeah the pro farmer tour is probably going to screw us even more. We got some many spots in each field that's what's gonna drag us down. This was the year to plant early I guess. Yeah Beans are the gamble, one day they turn yellow since there getting too wet then the next there green and back and forth.
We were able to plant all our acres but there are quite a lot of fields up here that didn't get planted this year. A few thousand acres anyway.
There is a handful around here that went to prevent plant but overall not a ton. Plenty that probably would've been better off but people mudded them in and it shows
How large an area around you is experiencing the same conditions? Thx
@farmark457 it varies but id say atleast 1/4 of iowa and atleast 1/3 of minnesota is going to have below average yields. The dakotas have alot of area too but not sure how much. Beans are still up in the air but alot of short beans at this point. In my immediate area I'd say 30% of the crop is water damaged. Alot was replanted but very late. I have a couple fields that have good potential but the areas of 0 are going to add up
I just checked the market, must be getting rain in the western corn belt that was supposed to burn up this week😖 looks pretty ugly
Yup crop is made ya know and kamala is gonna save democracy 🤣
@@iafarmer Jimmy on Grumpys lives sums it up pretty good with his "everythings a joke" line😆
I can't wait for USDA to come out with their reports stating how great midwest crops look!
Yup I guess southern minnesota and northern iowa don't matter much when illinois has a bumper crop. Grain merchandiser at the local ethanol plant said basis is going to be very strong here if ethanol margins stay good
@@iafarmerthat’s good news then. We’ve gotten down to one major buyer in our area and that makes me nervous bc they play with basis daily. Similar happened to our grain bin builders…went from 3 companies to one and they’ve capitalized…TRUST ME. Their labor rate is 160/hr and all Their wives all drive new Chevy tahoes, Denali’s, & grand wagoneers…my wife leases a 4cyl GMC Terrain. PS…they’re supposedly “Mennonite” too. Your 4960 looks great!
Good to hear from you. Just plain old hot and dry here in Oregon. Hope your weather holds for a decent crop.
It's definitely been a challenging year in alot of areas it seems. Gonna be hot this week they say. We have good subsoil moisture but shallow roots so a couple timely rains is what we need. Thanks for commenting
Where in Iowa do you farm?
Basically between northwest and north central. Cylinder is the closest town
I suppose if you just let them spots go they'd fill in with weeds anyway. Some of those were some pretty big lakes.
Yeah pretty much just a cover crop at this point
You definitely need to say Independence Day. Grumpy Farmer made that clear earlier this month. If it makes you feel any better I was patching in beans July 26th and I needed to do more in another field but it rained 2 inches last night so it’s just as well I didn’t now. I’ve never had so many drowned out spots in the bottom as I have this year. Kinda hoping the creek comes out before harvest and wipes them all out now. All my beans are short for this time of year. I was showing wet spots once on a video and a guy asked ain’t it tiled. You need to tile. Blagh blagh blagh. Obviously you need tile too. Hahaha
Yup a tile plow would be a good investment in the future. We've been pretty dry this month overall, got about a half inch tonight
Will you guys stop The USDA says everything is great and our government never lies so just stop it already 🤦♂️🤷♂️🤣🤣
yup its like that here in wisc last week had to drive across the state to racine dround out all over seen guys combining wheat in standing water east of madison just nuts.
My jaw when you said “that’s not a creek”. The amount of water you’ve gotten is just crazy
Been a few years since we've been this wet. Definitely makes everything a challenge, but can't change the weather. I just hope it quits by harvest or we're in for a fight
I'm left a little speechless. Wow.
Definitely a challenging year but could always be worse. Hope things are looking good in your neck of the woods
I could not complain about anything after watching the mess you have. My corn for being planted lat looks good and should be knee high by the 4th. Beans, some look really good, and others are struggling.
How does this compare to 93
I think we are close in rainfall amounts, but the way I remember, the fall of 92 was wet so the ground was already saturated to start in 93. Guess it was a good deal we were as dry as we were to start this year. I bet that's why there wasn't alot of new tractors around this area during those years. Halloween blizzard in 91 followed by 2 wet years.
How much rain have you got in the month of June, and also was the “flooding” water from the dakotas or just excessive rain?
I think we have gotten 13 inches or so for june. Has been excessive rain. A couple fields have cricks running through them so some water damage we have is from local runoff. Along the river is where the complete disaster is
@@iafarmer It seems Mother Nature has a hard time with the “right amount when needed”
Know how you feel this year planted a good bit of early beans that still haven’t canopied and look awful yet 1/2 of them had to be replanted, then it rained forever and got started with corn later than I like, then the 4430 engine gave up on me and had to have help to finish, dad had a stroke the same day, then it turned off hot and dry finally catching some rain but could use more. Now just watching the grain markets fall…
Well sounds like you've had your fair share this year. Keep your head down and push on and it'll all work out. We're all in the same boat. You gotta get the tractor overhauled then?
@@iafarmer yes. 3800 total hours and was overhauled in 81 by the previous owner. So not a lot of hours on overhaul. It’s going to an independent shop to get done. Not sure how bad it will be price wise. Thought it was just a fuel knock to start with but it ended up being deeper than that.
Boy oh boy...you guys have gotten some serious rain. If only the avg American realized all the heart-ache, angst, worry, determination, and prayers that go into raising their cheap mass-produced food, fabric, and household goods, they might not be flipping us off for being on the road and "in their way", or generally thinking we are lower than them in mankind's hierarchy of civilization. We've never had any decent success with pre's on soybeans it seems...the excuses of the reps "it's been so dry the chemical just isn't activating" or "its been so wet, its washed the chemical out". I think they take classes on coming up with excuses for failures of what they sell. This year a neighbor decided to use a sharpen and basis blend as a pre to help battle marestail and it's almost killed their soybeans...they even tilled in the chemical ahead of planting.
Society today is so far away from reality they can't see past their nose. Mostly because it's buried in a device. (Not that I don't spend too much time on my phone..). I spend way too much an acre on chemicals, but it seems like everytime I get stingy about it, it ends up costing me way more the next several years trying to clean things up. The acres that I farm that were organic for a few years are a good example. So much weed pressure..
Boy you’ve nailed it…people just so narrowed in and focused on “ME ME ME ME”, they’ve lost their ability to look at anything from anyone else’s perspective.
Man you just can’t catch a break this year. Makes you wonder what harvest time will be like. Thx
Definitely a wet year. All our prayers for rain the last couple years are being answered I guess. The wet springs I've been through are usually met with wet falls. Hopefully not but I guess better be prepared for it
Can’t believe all the water you been getting. I’ve got the worst stands of beans I’ve ever seen in my 45 + years. Big bare spots where they never sprouted from being to dry. If it would ever rain I’m sure some would come up. Got a couple of 2 tenths showers this month is all we had. The corn looks pretty good for the lack of rain so far but that’s gonna change soon if it stays dry. But according to Bidens USDA, everything is just great. The speculators believe rain makes grain, doesn’t matter if everything is flooded.
It must look really good by chicago or something. I think there is alot of good crops out there but dang the amount of places all over that are either drowned out or burning up should be concerning to the market at some point. I lost track on rainfall but I'm sure we are over 30 inches now since April. Average yearly is like 21 or something for us. Places northwest of me are alot more and show it..
Started out pretty good but kind of turned into a depressing spring. At least grain prices are getting worse also😆. If we can beat the fraud machine and get rid of Biden this fall it'll be a good year though. If not we're finished anyway😖
I wish I knew who "the funds" are exactly. They are screwing us bad on the corn market. Keep shorting the market to line their pockets while we sit and wait for a decent profitable price to sell. Afraid the ship has sailed on alot of things but the grass keeps growing lol
Looks kind dry there like you could use some rain................... Wow!
I figured it'd quit by now but probably won't be able to buy a drop in august
You got just a little too much water.. and we haven't gotten enough.. Hopefully everything works out!! We should have been cutting by now, but dragging my feet. Still working on the new to us baler.. it's in really good condition, but the previous owner didn't do 💩 for maintenance.. UHG
Oh it always works out and we make the best of it. Hopefully you can get it up and running good. We ended up with double the amount of hay on first cut over last year. Had about 2 days to do it all though.
@@iafarmer ya, one way or another, it always works out.. Grass was looking better than the last few years, but that was a month ago.. still looks like a better crop though. Spent all winter trying to find a baler, then May 15, got one at auction. 2190 Massey 4x4. Newer than the old 4900, and for the most part, in better condition. Looks like maybe 20k bales.. vs the 80k on the 4900. And parts are available for the 2190.
Well it kinda became a creek 🤦♂️🤣
Yup he needs a waterway worse than I do but I'm afraid it's a little late for his farm..
You should check out Sioux county Iowa where I'm from, we are making national news, the towns of Rock valley and Hawarden are the two towns that I'm in between and the Sioux & Rock rivers runs right past my place except I'm on top of the hill so my house stay dry, but my creek bottom pasture fences all got washed out, I had 70 round bales made that were real nice hay that got flooded with water halfway up the bale, and 40 acres of crop land that got flooded that I may or may not to replant depends if it quits raining for 2 weeks.
@seth1704 man that sucks. It's definitely going to be a challenging year to carve a living out of.
Just wild the water you guys got on you! Here in my little part of Iowa things are looking damn good. Did get about 3 inches of rain though last night into this morning. It can stop raining, gotta get some oats cut and baled up before they turn.
We got about 1.4 for the day. I'm sure we are over 30 inches now for the year. I'm ready to see dust again lol
@@iafarmer lol that's what my seed dealer said, he wants drought again since we proved we can grow crops in a drought. Have you ever put a radio in your 4630 before? I just got a 4430 and was looking at radios for it.
@kolewiebensohn yes, I highly suggest a jensen heavy duty. They aren't cheap, but they are good and have a backup battery so you dont have to run a constant power line to save clock and preset channels. I think I got the last one off ebay. I have them in all but 1 tractor and when that one dies it's getting one too
@@iafarmer yup Id like to find an original radio and 8 track player for it but that would have to be like looking for a needle in a haystack. It's getting a paint rehab, you got me hooked on that Malco Rejuvenator and that stuff really works like a dream.
It's amazing,we can get better seed fertilizer and weed control but it still all depends on mother nature
Perhaps, we should restore some of those potholes? Programs for those aren’t bad, I have part of my farm in it, got tired of the battles.
For the most part alot of the areas that had to be replanted are areas that ive never replanted before. Just too much rain
P.S. I am praying for you and your family. . .
Thank you
Have you washed away? seen today a lot of your area was under water and towns were being evacuated.
Not yet but in areas it's a mess. I had about 7 inches in 48 hours
Just quit as much as u complain
Well I apologize for wasting your time watching. I just show what I'm dealing with whether good or bad
I think you need something "stiffer" than beer....liquor gets ya quicker. We are real hot this week...now I know how you guys feel all summer...we are mid 90's all week and heat index up over 100
Yup haha. Humidity at those temps makes you sweat pretty good. Do you get much wind there? The wind has been ridiculous the last few days here
@@iafarmeryes we get our fair share of wind around here…but it’s been nice having it bc we’ve been baling hay.
I'm dry now an corns twisted. Wish I could get some to help you out. We could average it out I think to help us both. God bless
Yup it's gonna be an interesting year again. It seems like the drought keeps moving east a little more every year. Watching the radar, we get rain and by the time it gets 2/3 across the state it falls apart
Oh wow. I’m really sorry watching this 😕 Wishing conditions would change for you.
Oh we all have our turn. If it was an easy sure thing everyone would want to do it. Hope everything is looking good your way
Sure co has a programmable tarp to go so far and stop. It will adjust itself and keep tighter.