Farming in a Snowstorm | Plant 2026

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]It's a beautiful day IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.

[00:00:02]>> OH, LOOK AT THERE, BUDDY. HOW'S IT GOING?

[00:00:06]>> WE'RE JUST floating along here.

[00:00:09]>> Going to make it happen.

[00:00:11]>> Performing old school today.

[00:00:17]>> We waiting around. We're all getting stuck. So, we're good to go.

[00:00:21]>> It's snowing again.

[00:00:29]hopefully spreading fertilizer tomorrow.

[00:00:32]It Yeah. 210 serene on uh Sunday night.

[00:00:35]They were supposed to start spreading today, but it made the ground just a little bit sticky. So, with the amount of wind we've been getting, even though it's cold, it's uh kind of dried things out enough to to maybe go. That's the plan here. We just got to start. So, running out of days. The 15th is the is the deadline for uh putting corn in for insurance trees. Got to get going here eventually. At least get the field work prepped. Now with since we got that high-speed planter, this is exactly why I wanted to go this way or we wanted to go this way is because if push comes to shove and we get pushed all the way to the very end, we can uh get a lot of field prep done and put it in in a hurry in the last couple days when uh when the temps start warming up. high of 39 tomorrow and I think today the high was like maybe 41 or something like that.

[00:01:25]So, a little chilly.

[00:01:30]Well, we're in the bush town. Green bush. Steph was hauling with this rig today or took a load this morning. Went to help her reload and I noticed bad tires. We had one with some cords coming out of it. So, so I took the truck trailer, we loaded it, and I'm coming back through. We're going to make a run, but we're going to stop in Green Bush and get some tires, some new tires. So, we go check out the boys here at the co-op, local co-op. See how busy they are.

[00:02:06]We're there. Let's go see the boys.

[00:02:12]What do you think, Banner? I don't think >> she's full.

[00:02:18]>> You need these two and then uh inside one on both of that.

[00:02:23]>> Ricky the recap.

[00:02:26]>> There's Bissy.

[00:02:29]What are we working on now? The CV shaft in.

[00:02:32]>> Nice.

[00:02:33]>> Yep.

[00:02:36]It's always something.

[00:02:39]I suppose I can help, huh?

[00:02:41]>> Yeah. And now I know what it feels like to be Mark.

[00:02:47]>> What do you mean?

[00:02:53]>> Probably needed some new ones, huh?

[00:03:08]Tada. Pretty slick.

[00:03:13]>> Never too busy to help Ben.

[00:03:15]>> They'd be like, "Mark, I got to fix my hair." Or >> look at all the tires. You guys put on a few, don't you?

[00:03:27]>> Oh yeah. Look at that. These are the brand new ones.

[00:03:32]>> Nice.

[00:03:41]That dick to the rescue.

[00:03:44]Going to make it happen.

[00:03:47]>> Nice.

[00:03:50]>> Did it sing any of the beard hairs or are you okay?

[00:03:53]>> I smell it. Yeah.

[00:04:00]>> Just like that. All done. Yeah.

[00:04:07]Dor spec. Nice.

[00:04:12]>> Well, it's so beautiful out. It's like 29 and we're going to go do some spraying.

[00:04:20]Good thing it's 28% cuz the water would freeze. Good night. Anyway, and it's snowing. You can't see it. Trust me, you can't see it. It's snowing, honestly.

[00:04:36]I think it'd actually be warmer farming in Alaska.

[00:04:40]My goodness. Well, we got some fertilizing going on. We got three gators going, two CHS and uh one of ours. So, should be a pretty good day today. I'm thinking there'll be well over 1,000 acres spread today. The guys here from Superior are here working again. And poor buggers. Every time they come, it's snowing or blowing. I'm going to tell them not to come until we're done planting because this is getting ridiculous. Every time they come, they bring horrible weather with them. All right, let's let's head to the field.

[00:05:21]There they are.

[00:05:30]must be having a little problem.

[00:05:33]Something must be going on. We just got to think warm thoughts. Think warm thoughts.

[00:05:40]Should have worn your winter jacket.

[00:05:42]>> Yeah. And my long underwear.

[00:05:45]Well, we just dumped the biodegradable coolant down.

[00:05:56]Well, as we can warm her up, the life hoping everything goes good. I only got to use this sprayer just a little bit last fall. So, anchor to a tank, too.

[00:06:24]uh 10 gallons acres. So >> 160 acres >> 160 acres. So we could probably put 1,500 in there.

[00:06:32]>> Yeah. We don't need to worry about overflowing.

[00:06:35]>> Yeah.

[00:06:35]>> This nasty stuff.

[00:06:36]>> Yeah. Okay. I'm freezing. We're going to get this load and get in a nice warm cab and then I'll turn you guys back on.

[00:06:47]Bye.

[00:06:49]Well, I just got my lunch brought over.

[00:06:51]We got Mike here. We're getting some sprayer stuff figured out. Just software stuff. I should have been more on top of it, but he was nice enough to come by and get get her figured out. We're going to get her going. Well, Mike just left.

[00:07:08]I should have got him on camera, but we were kind of busy in here. I think we did three or four different software updates. Anyway, it all works great now.

[00:07:16]But anyway, he got me set up on turn automation, so I don't even have to steer.

[00:07:24]That is slick as snot.

[00:07:26]Look at that.

[00:07:29]Look, man. No hands.

[00:07:36]So, what we're doing here is we got streamer nozzles on in the front and then we got a a high flow flat 06 in the back. We're streaming the majority on and but yet we're flat fanning some big droplets out the back just a little bit. So, that's that's how we're applying the 28%.

[00:08:03]So, this field is going to be one of the corn on corn fields. So, we're putting on a little extra end. We'll see how it goes. It's got to warm up first, though.

[00:08:12]As Dane would say, she cold. It's cold out there. Like, it's snow pants and snow and a winter jacket cold. And it's a northwest wind besides. So, she's nasty. There's our little uh 28% uh tanker trailer.

[00:08:30]Believe it or not, you can buy one of these cheaper than you can buy the tanks to put on a trailer. Kind of crazy, but we got this one up in Canada.

[00:08:39]We put 5,000 gallons in it at a time. It holds a lot more than that, but obviously it gets what is it 11 lb a gallon or something like that. The 28% is I'd rather be spraying 32% but our co-ops up here, they cut it with water right when it comes off the drain. So, if you could maybe get a hold of it before they did that, you could get some 32%. But everything's pretty much 20 28 up here. This trailer's got the gauges, so that's empty.

[00:09:13]So, this one's like uh about half full.

[00:09:16]This thing is empty. It's kind of cool.

[00:09:19]It's got gauges on the side. I've never seen that before, but it work. They work.

[00:09:26]The tires seem to be working out. Okay, I'm going to sit in the truck or something. It's colder than out here. Have I told you it's cold? It's cold.

[00:09:42]Morning everybody. We go out and do some uh spreading ahead of the bean ground.

[00:09:47]Only got some that'll be ready ready to go. It seems we've been able to do a lot of uh ground that we're putting corn on.

[00:09:54]Going good there, but finally going to get going on some beans here. Tried it a couple days ago. Earlier this week, I got stuck twice in the same field. So, wasn't going very well. Top off on some fuel here and and then we'll head out there. I just about got the first batch emptied out here. This 250 acre field here is really nice. Um finally able to get to go on some ground where we're going to put beans. uh cramping my thumb. We uh we got 1500 acres of corn ground ready to go that we're going to start planting now today. But finally getting something going for the beans here. Um yeah, we're just floating along here. Ivan's here at the truck, so we're going to load our uh load our second batch.

[00:10:50]There she comes.

[00:10:52]Well, this field price, this field's ready to go. I think we just quick filled it. We let it green up. So, there was a lot of residue that came back. And you can see a lot of residue out here, but it obviously that stuff all died.

[00:11:05]Didn't stick to the knife at all. Nice.

[00:11:12]I think with the quick fill out here, that'll work up nice for beans. It won't be like jet black, but it'll be good enough for the beans. Anyway, we waiting around while getting stuck, so we're good to go. Got to go.

[00:11:29]It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood.

[00:11:33]>> It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood. A beautiful day for a neighbor.

[00:11:37]>> I don't know. Mr. Rogers. No, Rogers. I think it's Mr. Rogers. Yeah, it's snowing again. busted out the winter jacket. Going to have to wait for the ground to thaw out before we can go and do any tillage this morning. Dean's in town picking up a couple axle seals for the timy he's working on. Him and Ivan.

[00:11:58]And uh got a couple guys on the road already hauling grain. They leave around 6:30 in the morning. Get a couple loads.

[00:12:05]They're done pretty early in the afternoon. I'm going to get loaded in the snowstorm here.

[00:12:13]I'm going to get a load in the snowstorm. Yeah, I probably could. Well, there's no point in filling up the tanker when I'm right in the yard.

[00:12:25]So, we're not putting anything in with it. We were going to maybe do a free on the corn with the 28, but for us, it's not really that necessary. We really don't have much of a weed issue. I mean, we got some water hemp up here, but that's about it. With it being so cold for so long, things don't really get going until after planting anyway. So, a postemerion pass is usually the best for us. You know, when it's warm early in the spring, then probably look at doing a pre. But, uh, it's it's so cold for so long in the spring that weeds aren't even growing. I mean, honestly, there's a couple dandelions and that's about it.

[00:13:09]Daddy lions. They're the only thing that grows when it's cold like this. Anyway, we're going to put down our triple flex post emergence and that'll uh keep our field nice and clean throughout the summer. So, that's what we like to do there. Well, I'm going to get loaded.

[00:13:25]See you in a bit. Well, CHS just showed up with another load of another load of 28.

[00:13:34]That'll be uh the last load for the spring. It'll put us at 30,000 gallons of 28. That'll work out just fine. One thing for liquid fertilizer, you need gloves like that and then some wet wipes to wipe your hands in case you do get it on your hands. It's just sticky stuff.

[00:13:54]It's just so sticky, sticky, sticky, sticky. Dean had these wet wipes in the cab last year when uh we were doing wheat and we'd put uh dry fertilizer on or you know starter. Well, anyway, you'd always get that fertilizer dust on your hands and it just get kind of grungy and uh it's was always nice to be able to wipe your hands. We had uh right at 1,000 acres spread yesterday.

[00:14:19]We got about 1,500 acres that are that's could be worked and planted. That's dry.

[00:14:25]It's it's ready to be worked. It's spread. I just got to finish doing some 28%. So that'd be about half the corn acres.

[00:14:33]Okay, I'm going to show you a little something. Most you probably know, but for some of you that don't, and even myself, I didn't. I knew the machine was capable of it, but I didn't know how to do it. So anyway, thanks again to Mike from uh True North to coming out and helping me get this set up. And uh every time they're out, they just help me learn a little bit more. And I am 41.

[00:14:58]I'm not I'm not in my 20s. Them guys in their 20s like Ivan, he's 18. He picks up on this stuff so fast. It's just bam, bam, bam. For me, I have to do it at least three, four times to before I can start kind of remembering the the process and the pages. But anyway, so what I'm going to do here is I'm going to show you how to generate an auto path off of just a regular boundary that you have. Let's start it off here quick.

[00:15:25]Okay. So, right now I do have this is my auto path. It's already generated. That is my inside boundary if you will. And that tells the machine when it needs to turn. Start it off. You go into guidance. So, you go to auto path. You select that. Then you go to the pencil.

[00:15:45]Defaults on rows. So, you go to boundaries. And then once you do boundaries, then you got to go to here.

[00:15:53]And then you got to set your constant offset. And then you set your sprayer width. And then you hit save. And then after you do that, it's going to come up and say two machine passes. So you have two headlands. I only want one. So then you got to go to auto path. Got to go to the pencil. And then you can go down one or up one. So once you do all that, that screen's done. All right. So there you go. There's there's your auto path. It's generated. But then we go into applications, autotrack turn. Turn that on. That's it.

[00:16:30]And this here, you got to click here, tell it which way you want to start turning. Uh when we get to that point, then then we got to click here and select that one or that one. And every time I go, then it knows which direction I'm going. Okay, let's go.

[00:16:56]Well, it's another day in paradise. We got us a project. We have a wheel seal leaking on the Timy Timy trailer, grain trailer. And we have a Brad SAM on this side. Brake pads are starting to come out. It's all shot.

[00:17:14]Whole lots of fun right here. Been a little bit of a challenge. The seal was bad and there was a wear ring on here that I didn't see right away. Not something I do all the time, so I wasn't familiar with it. Ordered a new seal or Mark ordered new seals from Rosa Diesel and I'm sure they would have been right, but they didn't account for this wear seal.

[00:17:38]You can either run the seal on here without the wear ring or replace the wear ring, but you have to know what you're after. And same with everywhere we try to get parts. I'm sure it's more common for some of you other guys, but not an everyday thing for me. Anyway, this is that wear ring I was talking about.

[00:18:03]And this needs to go on the spindle first. And then seal actually rides on the inside here. And that way if there's any damage that's going to happen, whether stones get in there, dirt, or just wear from miles and miles of running, it'll damage this this wear ring first. And then you can drive it off and drive the new one on. And it's a good deal.

[00:18:27]And then there here's the seal. And then that will that'll drive on like this here. It's real nice. Let's finish this deal. This is actually not a Oh, and we got some tools we got to use get to use for driving that off. So quite the ordeal. So here's our hub. Draining it in a bucket right now.

[00:18:49]And uh we got to rip the seal out of that.

[00:18:53]So this is what we did put in there.

[00:18:56]It was going to run directly on that spindle.

[00:19:02]We'll drive that on with this tool. Get that flushed up and then we can put our our seal in.

[00:19:13]Well, there we got our our wear seal on.

[00:19:18]We got that on and I drove the new seal in. So, let's just reverse everything and put it all back together. Now, Ivan's working on the other side. We got a bad cam on that side. So, being it's snowing out and it's July, we might as well working in the shop, right, Ivan?

[00:19:37]>> Yeah.

[00:19:38]>> See if I can't blow my out.

[00:19:40]Might help you.

[00:19:42]>> Yeah. Okay.

[00:19:46]There. Thank you.

[00:19:50]farming old school today.

[00:19:55]So, we're kind of in a little bit of a dumb predicament. I know a lot of you are going to have to say, "Well, why don't you own one of them?" This is the only culivator we have on the farm. We run a quick till we run a vertical tillillage, which was a super culter, and that's the way we've done it for long time, probably 10, 12 years. But for some reason this year now, even though it hasn't been hot out, the ground is like hard for some reason. I don't know why this heavy clay around the farm here, we have 1500 acres of it.

[00:20:28]But we're running the vertical tillillage over it. Got to break the clay. This clay, you got to bust the top open on it, let it air out, and then you can come back and do something else with it. And I'm kind of afraid that the quick pill is going to, I don't know, make a mess of this plate. So, I'm just going to run this in some of that heavy gooey stuff and just see what it does.

[00:20:48]If it balls up like I think it's going to, then obviously that's not the route to go. So, that's what we're doing.

[00:21:32]We decided to run the quick till over that heavy ground instead of that little civator.

[00:21:38]Ivan, he was here this morning. Got going at 4, finished up a field, and then now we're uh switching gears and going to move to some move to a different field. I think Ivan and Dad are going to do some some spreading.

[00:21:52]Steph and Boyd are hauling in some corn and uh so that'll be done. Maybe even put some corn in today. We'll see.

[00:22:01]Nighttime temps for Saturday and Sunday don't look very good. 29°. So, looking at the calendar, I think we got to go.

[00:22:09]So, maybe plant in the morning, quit at noon, 1:00. I don't know if it's that important, but that way that seed gets that somewhat of a warm start. I know the first 12 hours are pretty important, but like I was talking to another guy this morning, can't have everything perfect, so if it's fit and dry, I guess you put it in.

[00:22:30]Well, let's uh get a little more tillillage done. you know, with having corn in the mix here now kind of changes things as far as uh fall tillage goals goes. Usually, we've been putting the corn behind wheat ground. Well, wheat ground is usually softer, so the super culter seems to work pretty good. This year, putting it behind the beans ground's a little harder because we don't chisel plow the bean ground. We just we just run a pass with this thing.

[00:23:03]And then usually we put wheat on it. But I'm going to have to change some stuff up. So looks like next year is going to be a little bit of a different tillillage program for on the soybean ground ahead of corn. So live and learn.

[00:23:16]Just a few tweaks we got to make. I guess it's not the end of the world right now. It's just that we have to we got to hit it twice.

[00:23:34]Well, we just got going again here.

[00:23:39]Not the most perfect tool to probably use the spring, but it seems to work pretty good, especially with them uh coil baskets. It It does leave a nice seat.

[00:23:56]See, look at the tires. It's as dry as it is, it's still sticky underneath.

[00:24:01]It's the beauties of farming clay.

[00:24:04]Every spring seems to be a little different, too. It's I think the problem is we haven't really gotten any rain this spring and it's just been the frost has just been coming out really slow. I mean, we've gotten a couple tents and I think the ground is still kind of hard from the winter. It just hasn't been softened up from a rain. So, our normal vertical tillage isn't necessarily working as good this year. So, it seems like a guy's got to dig it a little harder. Even though it hasn't been like hot or warm to bake the ground, it's just hard, I guess you could say. Harder than normal. Put it that way.

[00:24:52]Well, here we are Sunday night. I'm going to go out and check a field to see how uh see how it's going. That sounded pretty good. I don't know what I'm doing. I'm going for a drive in Greeny.

[00:25:06]See?

[00:25:08]>> Oh, it's going to be beautiful.

[00:25:12]Nice.

[00:25:13]Excuse me. I need this.

[00:25:23]Yeah, bro. Damn. I'm done. I'm done.

[00:25:27]Stupid ass.

[00:25:29]>> Oh, you got to be kidding me. This thing won't even move. You me. Piece of >> you wondering what what that is. I got to turn that on. That's auto steer.

[00:25:41]Greeny has auto steer.

[00:25:45]Beep beep beep.