Moving Snow in April and Some Discussion
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- čas přidán 4. 04. 2018
- Moving Snow in April and Some Discussion. Spring in Minnesota has been a little brutal. We still have a lot of frost in the ground and too much snow. The corn planters and the John Deeres won't be rolling for a while the way it's looking right now.
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Thanks for the update! Enjoy your videos as always.
Great point about the drain tiles, and love all the angles and PoV shots while you were clearing the parents' yard.
Thanks you love your videos. Love the small town farmers who work Monday through Friday and race on Saturday and Sunday. That was my childhood.
Well organised thoughts...well said
I farm corn and soybeans in the very tip of the eastern panhandle of WV 60 miles and a world away from DC. Re: your comments on tileing remind me of my discussions with some folks about GMOs that don’t even know what those letters are short for. I agree about opinions but as you stated at least know what you are talking about. BTW sold about 40 % of corn remaining in bins Tuesday. Sometimes better to be lucky than good! Weather here 50s yesterday, 30s today, 60s tomorrow, snow on Saturday! That is about 30 day’s later than the norm. Great vids. Keep it up!
It's proper for the media to allow op-ed articles but it's also the medias (Star-trib) responsibility to avoid printing unequivocally false information. Had that article been directed at any company or individual the author and Star-Trib would be heading to court for a libel or slander lawsuit.
I spent 20+ years driving across the US to spend as much of the summer with friends, who cash crop in Southern Ontario, Canada. Best work / vacation ever. Learned a lot for those folks. I believe you guys were quite clear and correct about farm tile, seen the erosion where the tile was missing and they shared the cost for fertilizer with me, don't want to lose a drop of that stuff if you can help it. Best of luck with prices this year ... funny, the guys who wear the ties make the money VS those that do the work ... not right.
Thanks for the ride alongs & the opinion on tile & grain markets. I agree with you on the caring for the land. The influence of the trade war issue I'm sure is going to be quite the rollercoaster ride for all. Stay safe.
Very well said. Thank you. I live in Michigan and I planted my oats on March 30th and on April 3rd and 4th we got 4 inches of snow.
Keep up the Good work ! Greetings from Norway
Springtime in MN. You gotta love it right. I was hoping April would be a better weather wise but I guess not. I just looked at the forecast & they're talking light snow this afternoon with a chance of 2 to 4 inches on Sunday. Hope it changes soon. Definitely ready to get in the field. Thanks for the video.
Love your videos Man :-)
Not a farmer, but really liked your video on drain tile. Helped me understand the issue. Anderson should come out and talk to you guys and video it.
Finally someone who's not afraid to say what needs to be said hang in there
Really enjoy your videos. I'm from. Western Wisconsin, my parents and my sister and I raise 250 sheep. I understand very much how this weather sucks, and how the markets sucks. Farming is nothing but problems, but you have to be a quick problemsever, and hopefully have enough knowledge of what your doing to make it to the next problem.
Have seen some of your videos, and find them very interesting. Very good presentation. I’m a norwegian farmer with only about 80 acres (mostly barley), and must say that watching them are both motivating and inspiring. Keep up the good work!
Øystein Bolås thank you!
Same snow situation here in NCIA, maybe more Sunday. Love snow and riding the snowmobile, but, its time for fields to thaw out and dry up. Last 2 videos....Well Done!
Thanks for the vlog MN farmer . Here in south Dakota it snowed lol
That’s a bummer Zack, we had snow here in northeast Nebraska yesterday, but nothing like what you got there. Hopefully it warms up soon!!
It's 80ﾟ here in Texas chess around from I enjoy your channel
Praying for all the farmers/ranchers out there!
Planting corn lol same up here in Pembroke Ontario
Good little chat, and of course the farmer will take the blunt of it. The general public doesn’t realize that the farmer is the only person that doesn’t put a price on their own products, We take our crops to the elevators and mostly say what will you give me. Also the farmer is the only persons that pay freight both ways. We pay to get our supplies coming and pay to take our end products away. The public you have a nice supper tonight and start buying Made in U.S.A. Again. It’s the only way we can save this country.😎
We were trying to get our corn planted but fertilizer tubes kept freezing, the trash whippers couldn't handle anything over 6 inch snow drifts, and the openers kept cracking when they hit frozen clods. the field cultivator only did good enough to scratch the ice off the snow. So I dont think there will be a very good stand, so prices should be raised.
We are dry here in Australia another week of 35oC everyday, we had no decent rain this year. Not good, we start ANZAC weekend sowing and canola has small window opportunity in sowing. It sad to see Trade War, NO ONE WINS. There are other ways dealing trade,I hope US farmers don’t suffered it’s bad when you can’t control weather let alone control bad human decisions.👍
Would love to get the sled out again, but with worrying about the cattle I'm too beat to take a ride... what a nasty April its been.
Started planting today but the ground is pretty cool after 35F mornings, and a rain shower but I think she’ll be alright forecast: 60F+
Enjoyed the video. You explain things well. How was the trip to florida!!! Have a great week. God Bless!!!
nashguy207 I got some sunburn on my shoulders and my feet were a little sore from all the seashells, so I can't complain!!
I am watching your video watching it snow now. Unfortunately for you it looks like this storm is headed your way. I plow snow for a living in Wyoming and even for me its geting old. We won't drop our plows untill May.
B2Lawncare snowing again now!
Snow here to in Dundee Scotland, getting fed up of it now
We are totally dry on the High Plains of Texas for the last 6 months. Wish you-all could send us several feet of snow. Our optimum planting date is May 10th to June 1. Last year we had an inch of rain and foot of snow on April 30th.
I remember the January 1980 Russian grain embargo. It cost me 30 cents / bu for corn the next morning and more in the days after. consumers were thinking farmers should get less because $3.00 wheat was too high. I remember that large grain handlers were paid for their losses.
Robert Reznik that's the type of thing I fear. That was the Russian What Deal, right?
That was when Russia invaded Afghanistan. President Carter was trying to punish Russia and support the consumer because bread had just gone up from 19 to 29 cents a loaf. The Russians then started producing and importing more wheat in Ukraine and Russian areas along with South America. That was the start of the farm crisis and American Farm Movement. We need free trade but it is not easy when so many want more.
Calling for 4" of snow here in Maryland over the weekend. Winter is hanging on.
Rain is our issue, work on a farm in the UK and we have 2500 acres of spring cropping to get in the ground and it will not dry up! Nice drying day today but more rain forecast for Saturday... Gonna be doing some hours to catch up once it dries up!
Andy7798 my family used to be farmers. Some of them are still farmers here in wales. I miss it when I was a kid going to do harvest and bailing. I had one family member who used to have a cow farm and was fun brining cows in for milking. Hope the ground dries out soon for you and you can get your crops in the ground.
Wow... you are still really cold up there. We are still getting snow too, but it melts by the afternoon.
Rain makes corn, corn makes whiskey
Thanks for the insider info. Now I can invest in corn and soybean futures!
hey mn how are you love vids keep em coming
I love your vids man
Same I am sick of snow time for mowing season I want
That guy writing about drain tile is the same as me writing an owners manual for a John Deere combine - I've never even sat in one.
Yea more snow around here on Sunday with 3-5 inches and less then a inch at night, I work on a farm south of your area
Over here in central Wisconsin we got 18" of snow in the week!
opinions, everybody has one and once in awhile some opinions are actually based on facts supported by good science. booked beans Friday March 30 and yes it was Good Friday. great edit work, good talk. thanks Zack.
I'm in kentucky we are suppose to get 4 to inches this weekend
Plant corn........? Lol.
Luv your work bloke,great to see a side of farming on the other side of the world....envious of ya snow too. Plz keep vids coming,esp harvesting & repairs/maintenance etc.
Drain tile...we call it agy pipe in Oz. Theres a type with a soil retaining cloth over pipe too....stops soil being washed away.
Also...what brand sunnies ya got there?
drgwnut1 we have the stuff with s cloth over it also, we call it a sock. Usually that's used where the soil is more coarse. I wear Oakley Gascans for sunnies!
keep up the great videos; ignore the haters; i growed up on the farm and like the day to day videos and equipment in the field
Snow flurries last night here in Southern Maryland but I think by the end of this week, some guys in our area will be planting corn.
Farmer MD it's snowing like crazy again here right now!
We have a huge case of verbal diarrhea up here in Canada too, We were always taught to think before we speak. It seems to be a lost art.
ahhhh nice day in Minnesota. Character building weather. we got 8" of snow by St Cloud. 3 to 6" coming Sunday. yeehaw!!!
I feel bad for the farmers that are going to be affected by China's decision. I grew up on a farm and worked there till I was 20. Now I work for North America's biggest steel producer so it has helped us out a lot. Made the prices more competitive.
Keep up the farming. Watch your videos religiously. Brings back memories of working on our farm.
I'm not a farmer 👩🌾 nor do I plan to be I do find your vids most intertaning
Good video,
Even though I hope you have a good crop year and get a good price I can't be happy if you do.
I milk cows and since December my pay price has dropped over 30% and my feed costs have gone up over 15%. The last load of feed I got soybean was $520 a ton up over $150 a ton in that time.
Something has to turn for the better soon.
madfarmer912 dave I hear you. My corn prices went down to half a couple years ago but my inputs have skyrocketed. Those super high prices were terrible for us all in the long run
Yeah hopefully tarifs will lead to long term better trade deals...
PHPistols I'm hoping so
This year is very similar to 2013 so far weather wise. That year there was snow as late as April 23rd. It was a hot and humid summer.
Keep your chin up I think we all will get threw this period of time. I just don't if these policies will help or hurt good luck upstate NY getting snow now too I'm also ready to get rid of this weather . Chin up stay positive
Sounds like another 6" of snow this for you and I on sunday as well!
Kevin Friesen SHHHH!!
Pa is starting to warm up tillage has starting
Cool vid
cool my birthday is the April 14 so happy birthday zack have a good day
i think the insurance date here is the 15th and dont look good here with 3 to 4 inches snow this weekend
You should see the weather in Ireland, non stop rain since August last year, cattle still indoors, no slurry spread or fertilizer out, fodder is like gold dust and a lot of cattle r starving as government start importing feed to try help keep farms afloat
You can blame the snow on my fiance. She has been hoping for a white honeymoon. We get married on saturday and no snow in southern MI, but have a condo traverse city. I think they got more than a foot of snow this week, so she is ecstatic. I do lawncare and snow plowing for a living. So I feel your pain. We were mowing 2 week of april last year.
JCLawn51 congrats
We are a muddy mess here in central Indiana...
flyhound97 Clean up the Money ? I like $
flyhound97 lol ..
Good job. Good luck on getting people to quit writing opeds without sourcing their sources. Farmers need to speak up.
What prices would you consider good but not enough to send the prices spiralling out of control?
Midwest Allis Fan that's all dependent on the individual operations and geography and climate
Nice vid - that a 560 or 850 Sportsman? Thank you. Have you had any issues with it? I have a 12 400HO, mulling an 850 upgrade.
WBOS72 850!
I like farming thinking of having a job at my aunts farm. Unfortunately we get like no snow until now but now it’s gone :(
It's been Oct since we have had day the temp hasn't been below freezing .South East Sk
Waiting for our 3-6inches of snow tonight in Nebraska #plantingseason😂
My friends and neighbors who work in Minnesota's iron mines all think the steel tariffs are the greatest thing since sliced bread. I'm not so sure.
Now we are starting to see the back side, and it's not pretty.
All that pretty green paint has steel under it. If times are bad you won't be buying more, and that's bad for us too.
When all is said and done I wish you a very good year.
Prices for corn have mostly recovered. Beans getting there. The problem with steel in America is that due to our higher wages, taxes, and regulation it makes it harder for MN mines to compete with Brazil, Australia, and Chinese ore. The MN mines feed all of the mills and industry in the east. When the Mines ceased look at what happened to Ohio and Michigan. Also the Ore that we have left is lower grade and requires more refining to separate the rocks. In Brazil and Australia you can almost take a rock and its pure Iron. We used all of our due to WW2 production.
dose the ice, snow and clod weather effect the quality of the grain in the storage tanks?
steven marsh negative, just ducks for the guy loading the trucks (me)!!
I went snowmobiling again this week on Tuesday (April 10th) up at the Northwest Angle. Still about 2' of snow in the forest. Ice on Lake of the Woods is running 40-50" thick. At this rate, there may still be ice on the lake for opening day of fishing in May.
AASparkChaser I've been told we still have 20-30" on our lakes here yet too. Its nuts
Funny how its the same east of the atlantic here i Norway, with a late spring. Why not use a wide blade moving that snow off your yard? Those green tractors have some power right?...
Melkebonde 1969 we like to blow it away because the blades leave ridges and ridges creates drifts for the next snow storm to pile up onto
Zack, It's been going on forever. If you ever wonder why you don't see Volkswagen Pickups in America, Google ":Chicken Tax". Keep up the good work. Jim in Boise
What can you plant in the corns place ? More wheat I suppose
Mark Sinn mostly wheat or soybeans here
Hang in there
Only problem with tiling was the past. Years ago you could tile a wetlands and drain them. MN has lost a vast majority of the wetlands in southern MN due to farmers draining wetlands after WW2. My Grandfather did exaculay that in the late 50s when he drained most of the wetlands for fields when the county put ditches in. Now today with working with the DNR and Ducks Unlimited some have restored. Today the regulations on tiling make it almost impossible to drain wetlands or even low spots in a field that might hold water. What causes waters to be polluted is runoff from fields not tiling. Something the new Buffer is working to correct. Also the crazy storms we get every year now.
Brabble Master absolutely, the huge rain events are a big factor.
Farmers care about the land more than most people. People in the cities want their grass green and put so much fertilizer on the lawns with most of it being washed into storm drains, then into lakes. Times that by the amount of people doing it and it is just as big as the runoff from some fields. If farmers dont care about their land then they dont make money. Its their job to care.
Think ur snow came here 4/6/18. 32 degrees and snowing upstate New York.
Hope it warms up soon. Is the Red River going to flood this year?
James Moon I don't think we've had enough snow for that.
Snow totaled 6.75 inches 20 miles north of Rochester, Mn
Amen
It be alright people need to eat
I looked really hard to find the regulations that outline procedures for drain tile in MN and came up empty. Do you have any links you could post for these regs?
goodsirminnow bdswd.com
OK, I'm still not finding an explicit document that states exactly what the limitations and requirements are for field drainage. I would expect something like the detailed catch limits that the DNR puts out every year. Instead I found rules and regs that state that you must have a permit *if* you are draining your property, and a brochure that describes responsible tiling practices. Found Here: www.bdswd.com/Rules_Intro.html Here: www.bdswd.com/Programs_Conservation_Drainage.html
Since neither of these describe limits to field tiling in explicit terms like total acres drained and cu. ft. volume of discharge, or even limits on particulate levels permitted, I'm starting to agree with Andersen that field tiling is not regulated in the state on MN. In fact, after reading this: www.revisor.mn.gov/rules/?id=7041&version=2014-01-22T10:14:29-06:00&format=pdf it would seem that MN relies on federal Clean Air Act rules to cover the regulation of field run off.
So, I don't want to be contrary, and I certainly understand that you're in the respectable position of earning a living for your family while also finding your livelihood under attack. But I like your channel and I want to see you continuing the real, fact-based, honest discussion. And in this case it would see that the facts reveal that farming runoff from tiling is not regulated nearly as strictly as something like discharge from mining or other industries.
goodsirminnow
www.bdswd.com/permits.html
This is the permit with the limits on page 2
Yes! Thank you! I can see now that a few lines in that paragraph is considered "regulation" by most in the biz. However, I think that Dennis Andersen probably expected something a bit more extensive. For example, here's the general regulations for mining www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=cbb3de2695690bb75aab6eb27d17ccc2&mc=true&node=pt40.32.436&rgn=div5#se40.32.436_1102
There's a lot more specific detail in those mining regs that has resulted as a necessity for the managing all the different types of ores mined. Perhaps ol' Denny is wondering why farming doesn't have at least a closer equivalent to the regulations for other industries? In his mind tiling really isn't regulated. But I think that farm drainage isn't the practice to go after. A focus on nutrient runoff recapture technology would be better. Thanks for the discussion! I'm checking out here.
After reading Dennis Anderson's latest article I'm guessing Minnesota must only have 2 or 3000 lakes left???? Lol
April 11th, going to move snow so I can get tractor out of shed today, NCIA.....
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Welcome to my world lol
I always wondered what it was like further north.... now I think a lot of us all know now lol
I'm not jealous!
Didnt think you would be lol
Yea bthis is normal april for me here... but even up here the temps are way low for April..
Hey Zach (or Zack?), how do you avoid pulling up gravel with the snow blower? Also tariffs in general are a cancer to the free market.
Jordan Roberts the ground is still frozen!
Next opinion piece from Star-Trib... "Global warming hits Minnesota ".
Love the videos.
4/11/18 UPDATE: Just watched weather and solar predictions on YT Oppenheimer Ranch Project that dovetails nicely with you. They're reporting farmers using a combine to harvest snow! ? Is that something you'll consider? Iowa soil at 16* Yikes. Do you test soil temps yourself? Prayer anyone?
Man it was 80 and sunny here in Myrtle Beach
Dan Anderson oh that hurts!
If you are economically unable to plant crops for harvest this year due to the looming trade war, can you plant cover crops or cover crop mixes in their place with NRCS/EQUIP grants to maybe recoup the loss in future harvest years?
swimmerjaxon No, because of multiple reasons. First, EQIP needs to be approved over 12 months ahead of time, and it's a multiple year contract, and it isn't enough to do more than cover a lot of the cost of doing it. Also, payments need to be made and forward contracts need to be filled, so we need the crop. I'd love to see what a year of solid cover crops could do though!
Thanks for the reply. I was interested because I had watched a few of your videos where you talk about them. Its unfortunate that many of the grants you have to apply that far ahead of time, if only we all had a crystal ball to know what we will need well ahead of time.
Best of luck with your season, I hope you thaw out soon and get the warmer weather you need to plant.
How come the white semi never gets put inside and does it start in the cold winter days
Jason we haven't sold any corn for 6 weeks now, and we don't have the room for it inside right now so I keep it under the leg and pull the keys so nobody steals a load from us!
Zack, there no way China can not afford to get away from buying r beans ,even if they get it from Brazil or Argentina.so I suggest farmers in ate country plant less to stabilize the price here, your comment... rotate to 🌽 or either crop
I hope you wright a letter to the editor in replay to the op-ed on the drainage tile.
DIRT&THUNDER there's been so many rebuttal letters, I figure I can be more effective here
Why did the stuff you put on the ground look green?!
Hahaha to bad you don't farm in TX we got all are planning in March haha
How do you know how much frost is in the ground?
Pete Busch well, the water lines are freezing at 6 feet deep, and I know historically how much we end up with during winters like this. We have nearly 4 feet of ice on a lot of the lakes, so we have more than that in the soil.
The prices on corn seams like they have always been too low for the farmer for along time it is sad when everybody thinks the farm makes alot of money !
collect some dark powder, ashes or top soil and spread it on the snow so it will thaw more quickly
ReolSPro mmm, I prefer my top soil in the fields!
I can remember at elementary school tell in us about kyoto protocol 1997(climate change back then called it global warming) and how in 20 years (2018) will no longer snow - be cold in winter !
well i still see snow .