Well done. Farmers like you and your family are the backbone of American agriculture. Keep up the good work. Considering the drought through the mid-west your crop looks amazing, the Lord was good to you. Remarks from a retired Canadian farmer.
You guys have done a nice job. Its great to see young people that still have an interest in the family farm. You have done a good job showing how much goes into harvesting and that the wheat you harvest also provides feed for your cattle in the form of round bales. Keep up the good work. Thanks for helping to feed us!
Thanks for the time that you took to show what goes on during tasks on your farm. I grew up in a farming community and have returned to raise my now grown kids in my small town, which was a very good decision. I did a little work on a farm through all the years, but there was a lot of voids in my knowledge that your video has helped to fill.
No texting, no video games, this is the best. My uncle had a farm in Iowa, I loved going there as a kid. No day was ever the same it seemed and the beef was fantastic!
You're right.. We should pay more attention to the farmers in our country :) I'm so appreciative of my own heritage of ancestors who made their way as either tenant farmers or farmers in their own right. Thanks for sharing your passion for what you do!
I grew up on a wheat farm and ranch in South Dakota. You definitely captured the essence of the wheat harvest. I like that you showcased eating lunch in the field. Most people wouldn't realize that when you harvest you don't have time to go home and eat, and you have to put away a lot of high energy food to keep going 20hrs straight.
You sound like a Good hard working young man, and give me hope for the next generation your parents I am sure are proud of you all. I hope your family and farm are blessed with a abundant Harvest always.
I've driven through Kansas and Nebraska and Iowa during harvest and loved watching the combines moving along those huge fields. Now I know what is being done with each piece of machinery and what happens at those huge grain elevators that stretch all across our Midwest. Even my ag teacher husband could not make the process as interesting as you Petersons. Thank you
Thank you for your hard and special work. Your service to this nation is even greater than that given by our troops. For without you, they could not defend.
your video is very well done ! thank you. hopefully this will let city dwellers know what hard work went into the food on thier table. i was once a country boy and this helped me slip into a wonderful 'sweet' spot. thanks again !
Thanks for the video. It explained to my sons how wheat is harvested and that food doesn't magically appear at the grocery store. Thanks for feeding our nation.
Farmers feed the world and deserve everyones respect. It takes a special kind of person to be a farmer. Farming has always been family oriented and farming families have produced some of the hardest working, best natured and all around nicest people I have ever met. Thank you for all that you do and keep the great videos coming!
I was eating Cheerios while I was watching this and I wanted to say, thank you so much for all the hard work you do so that we can all enjoy ready made food. We didn't have to grow any of it, we just go pick it up off a shelf. It's thanks to farmers like you boys that we are able to do that.
I'm from central Kansas as well and I work as a farm hand during harvest. You have no clue how cool it is to me that you guys are doing this. I love harvest and the farm; and I'm not even doing it on a daily basis. It's just nice to see that someone else enjoys it as much as I do and that they are sharing it.
This is an excellent video. you guys do a great job and its just that much better that y'all work together as a family. It makes me miss growing up on the family farm back home.
Thanks so much for sharing. I was very blessed by your presentation My family was originally from the central Nebraska area and know all about wheat farming (and corn). I am from So Cal coast and just know of it :) through family stories of the farm days. I have been back to the mid west many times and enjoy the quieter "community farm life” of neighbors helping and watching for one another. Blessings!
You guys are lucky im stuck living 20 miles from the city just on the border of the suburbs and more rural areas i wish i lived out on a farm its my main goal in life.
This looks like a great video to show to my 1st graders during our unit on producers and consumers. I'm sure it would help to see "real people" working and discussing farming.
Very true, thank you for your hard work, and your striving towards an excellent produce. But I still could not imagine doing all this by hand and scythe without the help of the machines.
I live in Italy and the country life works as you did see: hard work, hard work but a lot of satisfaction! You have the John Deere! These machines are the best! In Italy we are not so well equipped as you =) I admire you guys!
I loved this video! You did a great job; I learned quite a bit! I really respect the amount of hard work you all put in to keep the farm operating--even more so now that I know more about what's going on. It's excellent, just excellent.
I just want to say thank you guys for posting these videos. Even though I grew up on the farm, too many people have no idea what we go though on the farm and where their food comes from.
Hello, from Québec Canada here, really loved your videos Guys ! Informative yet light and funny especially the musical ones.. Lots and lots of hours of work to make them I know and appreciate them even more :) Thanks hope you keep them coming :)
Really nicely done! What a great farm and a great family! Restores my faith in what's good about this country. I hope more family farms can survive and thrive in this era of corporate megaliths taking over the fields and messing with mother nature with chemicals and recombinant genetic engineering. Keep it up!
Great looking family and thanks for posting. I know nothing about farming but I love my wheaties and wheat bread. It is hard work but looks like you all really enjoy it. :-)
my favorite part of harvest is making barbecue near field..yesterday we finished harvesting 1 hour after midnight.also,if is cloudy or wind blows,we work at night.greetings from balkans.
I used to live on a farm but it wasnt a cattle or plant. It was a horse farm. I always wandered how they made hay circles! This is really interesting. Keep up the good work because I love eating my bread! :-)
Thanks guys for these videos. Even though I keep a garden, own some potato land in ME, and have worked on a teaching farm with an area (MA) environmental education org. (veggies, cattle, pigs, poultry), it's hard to connect with you mainstream farmers in the Heartland. We on the coasts fly over KS, etc. and look down at the huge fields and houses out away from the big towns and try to imagine life down there. This helps. (In MA, wheat gets cut mid June btw. - I grow & thresh a bit by hand.)
I really enjoy these videos, they are so interesting. Farmers are so down to earth, and not scared of a hard day of work either. Wouldn't it be nice if everyone had their work ethic?
I totally understang you with weather thing. I am a young farmer from Europe and really, when it comes to harvesting, everyone in family becomes nervous if weather will hold on enough for us to finish
Honestly wish I could go help out on a farm. I think it'd be a great learning experience and also experiencing a different lifestyle. Thank you so much because I'm sure I have eaten something you have grown =)
the video was a good source of info :) my farmer friends are always giving me crap that I don't know much about harvesting and what not... lol now I know haha
I've hitchhiked all across Kansas! I sure do love the Flint Hills area from Newton up to Abilene. I wish I had the opportunity to be a farm hand, because it seems like a lot of fun. Maybe next time I'm coming through I'll pass by Salina.
In very simple terms winter wheat is planted in the fall when we typically have more moisture for the roots to develop, it then becomes dormant while it overwinters, once spring comes the wheat already has a head start and begins growing. Spring wheat is planted in the spring and typically that is done in the northern states where the summers are cooler and they receive more rainfall.
oh yeah...We did it in I think 1991,forgot exact year...Everything snowed down flat.(mostly one way or two way swathing(mostly stopped changing sections,..our swathers were junk piles when we got through...and you had to be carful combining too,,,not to pick up a funny looking pile that the swather left,(it's probably got a rock in it, meaning major concave damage)Machine shops did well rebuilding cylinders and feeder houses that winter!!!
On our farm we have a T800 KW with 11L Detroit (around 500hp which is more then plenty.) It pulls a 34 foot Jet and we can legally haul around 800 bu of wheat, you can get 1000 on it but if you get caught it's a buck a pound. The longer the trailer the larger the legal load but anything over 40 gets really tight getting in and out of fields. I'd look for a used delivery truck from a beer/pop distributor and match it with a 26 foot single axle to get started.
Thanks for the reply. i have familiarity with weight restrictions on bigger trucks and trailers from working on larger farms, going onwheat harvest, and over the road trucking with hoppers. I wasnt familiar with the little short trailers on their capacities and weight but i have found some of what ive been looking for. we have little driveways and narrow roads to access them from i thought something like a little trailer would be easier for family members that are not used to big trailers.
great video, keep up the good work..... I remember working on our farm when I was younger, it was a great life... now I'm working in shipping.... funny how your life changes...:)
Check out my "Farming in Nebraska" video for a bit more explanation on the life cycle of a wheat crop (from planting to market). To answer your question the pit has an elevator with buckets that carry the grain up to the top for distribution into various storage bins. Then the bins are emptied into rail cars for transport to the "end user" where ever that may be.
couldn't help but notice that Nathan runs the reel REALLY fast. If he slows it down a little so it only runs slighty faster than ground speed, you might see a little less grain loss because you're not knocking the grains off the straw :)
Well done. Farmers like you and your family are the backbone of American agriculture. Keep up the good work. Considering the drought through the mid-west your crop looks amazing, the Lord was good to you. Remarks from a retired Canadian farmer.
You guys have done a nice job. Its great to see young people that still have an interest in the family farm. You have done a good job showing how much goes into harvesting and that the wheat you harvest also provides feed for your cattle in the form of round bales. Keep up the good work. Thanks for helping to feed us!
Thanks for the time that you took to show what goes on during tasks on your farm. I grew up in a farming community and have returned to raise my now grown kids in my small town, which was a very good decision. I did a little work on a farm through all the years, but there was a lot of voids in my knowledge that your video has helped to fill.
No texting, no video games, this is the best. My uncle had a farm in Iowa, I loved going there as a kid. No day was ever the same it seemed and the beef was fantastic!
You're right.. We should pay more attention to the farmers in our country :) I'm so appreciative of my own heritage of ancestors who made their way as either tenant farmers or farmers in their own right. Thanks for sharing your passion for what you do!
I grew up on a wheat farm and ranch in South Dakota. You definitely captured the essence of the wheat harvest. I like that you showcased eating lunch in the field. Most people wouldn't realize that when you harvest you don't have time to go home and eat, and you have to put away a lot of high energy food to keep going 20hrs straight.
You sound like a Good hard working young man, and give me hope for the next generation your parents I am sure are proud of you all. I hope your family and farm are blessed with a abundant Harvest always.
I've driven through Kansas and Nebraska and Iowa during harvest and loved watching the combines moving along those huge fields. Now I know what is being done with each piece of machinery and what happens at those huge grain elevators that stretch all across our Midwest. Even my ag teacher husband could not make the process as interesting as you Petersons. Thank you
Thank you for your hard and special work. Your service to this nation is even greater than that given by our troops. For without you, they could not defend.
Thank you from a homeschool teacher. You have a beautiful family.
One thing I like about seeing farmers doing what they do: they are passionate about it. You don't see that too often anymore.
Thank you for posting this video for those of us whose only connection to farm life was singing "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" in grade school!
Thank you to your family for feeding thousands of people that take what you do for granted. 🎆🎆🎆
Love from ICT!!! ♥️
your video is very well done ! thank you. hopefully this will let city dwellers know what hard work went into the food on thier table. i was once a country boy and this helped me slip into a wonderful 'sweet' spot. thanks again !
Some of my fondest memories from childhood are wheat harvest in Nebraska. Thanks for stirring the memories up for me.
Thank you for all of the hard work you and your family do.
Thanks for the video. It explained to my sons how wheat is harvested and that food doesn't magically appear at the grocery store. Thanks for feeding our nation.
Farmers feed the world and deserve everyones respect. It takes a special kind of person to be a farmer. Farming has always been family oriented and farming families have produced some of the hardest working, best natured and all around nicest people I have ever met. Thank you for all that you do and keep the great videos coming!
Thank you for putting this together. I grew up helping with Harvest in Great Bend.
I was eating Cheerios while I was watching this and I wanted to say, thank you so much for all the hard work you do so that we can all enjoy ready made food. We didn't have to grow any of it, we just go pick it up off a shelf. It's thanks to farmers like you boys that we are able to do that.
I'm from central Kansas as well and I work as a farm hand during harvest. You have no clue how cool it is to me that you guys are doing this. I love harvest and the farm; and I'm not even doing it on a daily basis. It's just nice to see that someone else enjoys it as much as I do and that they are sharing it.
Hi guys, my little girls in New York City really enjoyed your video. And so did I! We learned something. Thank you!
Thank you for working so hard so that I can have food on my table. Bless you and your family, you are the backbone of this country!
This is an excellent video. you guys do a great job and its just that much better that y'all work together as a family. It makes me miss growing up on the family farm back home.
Thanks so much for sharing. I was very blessed by your presentation My family was originally from the central Nebraska area and know all about wheat farming (and corn). I am from So Cal coast and just know of it :) through family stories of the farm days. I have been back to the mid west many times and enjoy the quieter "community farm life” of neighbors helping and watching for one another. Blessings!
Very well done and thank you and your family for your hard work!
You guys are lucky im stuck living 20 miles from the city just on the border of the suburbs and more rural areas i wish i lived out on a farm its my main goal in life.
This looks like a great video to show to my 1st graders during our unit on producers and consumers. I'm sure it would help to see "real people" working and discussing farming.
Very true, thank you for your hard work, and your striving towards an excellent produce. But I still could not imagine doing all this by hand and scythe without the help of the machines.
I live in Italy and the country life works as you did see: hard work, hard work but a lot of satisfaction! You have the John Deere! These machines are the best! In Italy we are not so well equipped as you =) I admire you guys!
I always loved harvest, watching this has made me miss it all over again. Thanks for all your hard work.
Thank you! I love what I have learned from your video. I am a city slicker. :-)
I loved this video! You did a great job; I learned quite a bit! I really respect the amount of hard work you all put in to keep the farm operating--even more so now that I know more about what's going on. It's excellent, just excellent.
I'm a custom cutter from western Kansas. We harvest from Texas to Montana and it's hectic but I went back for 4 years so I must love it.
I just want to say thank you guys for posting these videos. Even though I grew up on the farm, too many people have no idea what we go though on the farm and where their food comes from.
Great video! Thanks to all of you for feeding us!
I am a teacher and showed this to my class! Thank you so much for taking the time to make it! -Houston, Texas
Hello, from Québec Canada here, really loved your videos Guys ! Informative yet light and funny especially the musical ones.. Lots and lots of hours of work to make them I know and appreciate them even more :) Thanks hope you keep them coming :)
Nice video! Farming is hard work but there's a different aspect on life behind it!
Really nicely done! What a great farm and a great family! Restores my faith in what's good about this country. I hope more family farms can survive and thrive in this era of corporate megaliths taking over the fields and messing with mother nature with chemicals and recombinant genetic engineering. Keep it up!
Great looking family and thanks for posting. I know nothing about farming but I love my wheaties and wheat bread. It is hard work but looks like you all really enjoy it. :-)
Greeting from Ukraine farmers. Our farm was created 21 year ago. Many miles separate us, but what unites us is far far greater.
Amazing job guys... I really do appreciate the work you do. Thanks.
I learned to combine at 9. That was before air conditioned cabs and I thought I would die of dust rash.
i will say thank you to you all, you un's are keeping us and the rest of the world fed....
Newholl and are beer than deeds
Eating in the field is my best memory of farming. Thanks for the video.
I am a small farmer at the oast of norway and its so good to see how other people do it ! : ) Very good video.. ;)
Awesome video! It was so interesting to see what farmers do.
Good luck on your next harvest.
my favorite part of harvest is making barbecue near field..yesterday we finished harvesting 1 hour after midnight.also,if is cloudy or wind blows,we work at night.greetings from balkans.
Wow, Thanks for sharing, you have a beautiful family.
I used to live on a farm but it wasnt a cattle or plant. It was a horse farm. I always wandered how they made hay circles! This is really interesting. Keep up the good work because I love eating my bread! :-)
Excellent video. Thanks for making and sharing it.
This was such a very very cool video! I love that farming keeps the entire family close like that. Glad i clicked.
Thank you for farming.
I didn't realize that harvesting went on well into the night. Very impressive.
Great video thank you for your time and understanding ,wisdom.☝️💪💪💪😎🆒👍💯😆😎🆒🤔
Thanks guys for these videos. Even though I keep a garden, own some potato land in ME, and have worked on a teaching farm with an area (MA) environmental education org. (veggies, cattle, pigs, poultry), it's hard to connect with you mainstream farmers in the Heartland. We on the coasts fly over KS, etc. and look down at the huge fields and houses out away from the big towns and try to imagine life down there. This helps. (In MA, wheat gets cut mid June btw. - I grow & thresh a bit by hand.)
I really enjoy these videos, they are so interesting. Farmers are so down to earth, and not scared of a hard day of work either. Wouldn't it be nice if everyone had their work ethic?
I totally understang you with weather thing. I am a young farmer from Europe and really, when it comes to harvesting, everyone in family becomes nervous if weather will hold on enough for us to finish
Very well put together and I learned a lot !
Honestly wish I could go help out on a farm. I think it'd be a great learning experience and also experiencing a different lifestyle. Thank you so much because I'm sure I have eaten something you have grown =)
the video was a good source of info :) my farmer friends are always giving me crap that I don't know much about harvesting and what not... lol now I know haha
Very educational. I have family that used to raise cattle in South Dakota.
She loves smelling the weed and mean wheat. Cool video the heart of America.
This video is really interesting!! Thank you very much!
Wow... thumbs up to this entire family. I wish this could be 'reality TV' rather than all of that junk the networks currently cram down our throats.
Jeez i miss the country!!!! Amazing video you guys!!!! AND THANKS FOR THE FOOD!!! We love ya!!! :D
Awesome video. Makes me miss farming. Thanks for sharing.
WLBS
I've hitchhiked all across Kansas! I sure do love the Flint Hills area from Newton up to Abilene. I wish I had the opportunity to be a farm hand, because it seems like a lot of fun. Maybe next time I'm coming through I'll pass by Salina.
Awesome family! Liked this video.
Very Informative, thanks for sharing the harvest..
Wheat harvest is the best, definitely my favorite part of the year!
In very simple terms winter wheat is planted in the fall when we typically have more moisture for the roots to develop, it then becomes dormant while it overwinters, once spring comes the wheat already has a head start and begins growing. Spring wheat is planted in the spring and typically that is done in the northern states where the summers are cooler and they receive more rainfall.
The trans oil light was on on that 7720, that's nice to know that mine isn't the only one that does that.
Great video man. Very interesting and informative.
oh yeah...We did it in I think 1991,forgot exact year...Everything snowed down flat.(mostly one way or two way swathing(mostly stopped changing sections,..our swathers were junk piles when we got through...and you had to be carful combining too,,,not to pick up a funny looking pile that the swather left,(it's probably got a rock in it, meaning major concave damage)Machine shops did well rebuilding cylinders and feeder houses that winter!!!
On our farm we have a T800 KW with 11L Detroit (around 500hp which is more then plenty.) It pulls a 34 foot Jet and we can legally haul around 800 bu of wheat, you can get 1000 on it but if you get caught it's a buck a pound. The longer the trailer the larger the legal load but anything over 40 gets really tight getting in and out of fields. I'd look for a used delivery truck from a beer/pop distributor and match it with a 26 foot single axle to get started.
Thanks for what all of you do.
Yes indeed, farmers deserve a lot of credit. Thanks!
Great job. You are right too, eating in the field is awesome.
Cool video man! All the best to you and your incredibly hardworking family!
Excellent video, thank you.
I heard your interview on the radio this morning and had to find it. Great job!!!
Thanks for the reply. i have familiarity with weight restrictions on bigger trucks and trailers from working on larger farms, going onwheat harvest, and over the road trucking with hoppers. I wasnt familiar with the little short trailers on their capacities and weight but i have found some of what ive been looking for. we have little driveways and narrow roads to access them from i thought something like a little trailer would be easier for family members that are not used to big trailers.
WOW....Great video !!!!!!!
You work so hard to build your dreams!
great video, keep up the good work..... I remember working on our farm when I was younger, it was a great life... now I'm working in shipping.... funny how your life changes...:)
love watching kendall and nathan xxxxxxx
Check out my "Farming in Nebraska" video for a bit more explanation on the life cycle of a wheat crop (from planting to market). To answer your question the pit has an elevator with buckets that carry the grain up to the top for distribution into various storage bins. Then the bins are emptied into rail cars for transport to the "end user" where ever that may be.
Very professional video.
Thank you !!!! for the food we eat.
This is such a cool video. I wish you guys much success, and I will definitely think about it next time I eat. :)
couldn't help but notice that Nathan runs the reel REALLY fast. If he slows it down a little so it only runs slighty faster than ground speed, you might see a little less grain loss because you're not knocking the grains off the straw :)
I hope you wear ear protection around all the loud machines. Thanks for sharing!
No not yet! But there are others around us who are cutting. We need rain badly as well, hope it comes soon.
so i found out about yall this summer when i was in Hutchinson Kansas. but this so cool i should be living a farm instead of on the beach.
Very nice farm :)
greetings from slovenia :)
that is some big ass land space
I learned so many things from this video thank u ;*
Very well done and lets the rest of the world know that food doesn't just come from the store =:)
this is great! Gives great insight into to process of harvesting wheat. Keep it up guys :)