WHEN MOTHER NATURE STRIKES!

foreign [Music] hey guys welcome back to the farm hey you remember last video I did 18 inches in the last 50 days of rain well that next night we ended up getting two more inches look at them clouds crazy weather supposed to be decent today and from here on out but those two inches were devastating so I just got done feeding the cows we're going to take this Gator here and we're going to head up and we're gonna check a field about five miles north then we're gonna go down and check another field five miles south of us like I said here up on this Farm we're sitting on a gradual Hill everything kind of goes down from there that's West that South that's East and North it just goes we're very lucky the way this Farm is set up but other places we're gonna go see aren't as set up as we might think so let's get on the road let's go foreign [Music] and we made it out to the field on the other side of these trees we're going to fly over with the Drone that's our Woods that you're looking at and I want that's the field I wanted to check that's a hundred acres it's a soybean field we call that Evelyn's uh dad bought that when we were we were probably just in high school he had got in there renting it with her that was a big Orchard with like probably 10 fence rolls cut into these little fields we cleared all that then we bought another 20 acre piece connecting that so that's over a hundred acres and it looks pretty good there's a big wash out in the center it looks like but for this amount of rain to see any amount of all green through that field and some thicker spots were pretty happy with it I'm back on the other side you see they've got corn here and she's just getting saturated and someone's soybeans there's a trail on each side of this big ditch run drain we're gonna check out the soybeans here look good this wasn't exactly touched but if you get over next to this drain she's Plum full and she blew the bank on the other side 100 percent that's just full of water this thing is it's massive this is no chump little ditch here and she's just full 20 inches of rain and she's going that way towards Canada we're going to make our way down and we're going to check out some other fields down this run there's carrots onions sod and a lot of corn you'll see is as it goes back up away from this because this is all muck in here this is all muck ground when everything melted back in the day and everything the earth made its own little passageways this was one of them and then when we started cutting ditches and drains back in probably the 20s and 30s naturally you're going to cut them in a low spot and this is one of them that's where that black dirt comes into play so let's head up closer all right and we didn't have to go far and there's an onion field them onions are probably like two three foot tall they look really good but the whole field is just saturated with water covered standing water now if you know how onions work I've kind of learned about them from my buddies you see these are kind of just sitting right on top well you'll have to it takes a nice drying day to be able to get onions off uh almost like hey it's got to be that kind of a day they go in there when it gets dry and they'll roll them it's almost like it fluffs them up and then they come in and pick them but unless they get that water the water in the ditch level are the same so these being tiled fields the tile lines are feeling full and flooding the field so that's that's part of what's Happening [Music] now we're on the other side of the ditch you can tell that these onions were fully underwater they're pumping one field off at a time I mean you'd have to have 50 pumps out here if you think you were gonna pump all that off at once this is going on both sides of this drain all the way down that looks like about a 12 inch boom and they've got a Massey Ferguson running that and it's just pumping it over this bank and into the ditch doing anything you can to salvage what's out in the field I talked to my buddy who owns a lot of this and he said we're just trying to sell with what we can a lot of Lofts there's nothing you're gonna do this electric motor contains pumps filling these cracks and they pump out of the cross [Music] believable weather but they're gonna get it looks like they're gonna Salvage this field onions a little onions wow look at that water same feel wind kicking up out here like I said weather's supposed to be decent for the next 10 days but they said that last week and all these pop-up showers came in and just hammered us so these are these are somewhere I said they get rolled it's either kind of putting wind rolls you can see it up there more without this water kind of spread them everywhere these are your onions beautiful field and crop of onions and then they would have came in here and pick them up like uh like one rolls of haze what I show you but yeah there's your onions literally floating at the top of the water in there hard to believe man so if anybody ever said fire me up I say it all the time we live and die by the weather this is the extreme this is the proof that it's never as easy as it seems and just when in doubt pray for your farmers and here's the viaduct tonight or the bridge that I I came in off of it is full of graffiti it's hard to believe up in a country country rural area like this but I guess boys and kids will be kids I guess yeah it's only about two feet below the bridge and it is moving they gotta see how massive this is to fill a ditch like this millions millions of gallons I mean she is moving but not like not is it fast as you would think that it's just it's plugged up over there in Sinclair County and then we got what looks to be a beautiful carrot field just over the bend look at them carrots very nice looking very very nice wow saturated I mean this field there's no pump in here once a lot of times it gets in like you said until that ditch unloads it can't get out it gets trapped in here or if if you go up further we're gonna check out it could just blow the bank it gets trapped inside this field these big ditches and it just sits there and it's going to sit there a long time for this water to to soak up it's just it's done soaked up as much as it can and we've got more and more pumps desperately getting this water off these fields yeah sometimes when you think you've got tile ground you're never going to have a problem but you never know and they're running that I mean they're running that 100 feet they've got some of this galvanized pipe hooked on here just getting rid of it [Music] thank you see and we're further down from when we we originally started we're probably down a mile and there's a culvert in here and there's some deer tracks they're just loving it out here we're out in the middle of nowhere and it's just funneling so this this honestly is not helping I'm sure everybody knows that but what other way are these Farmers going to get across to these fields so it's spewing under here you can see it's really popping up over here this is some some some type of an undercurrent going on but as I said you're gonna see you've seen carrots onions and now this is your sod and I mean look how beautiful this would have been this is underwater underwater pallets sitting out here for them to stack and roll the sod on unbelievable but if you look up on the banks when we pan around that's a huge cornfield up on High Ground and when you've got a lot of tile ground in one area I know that's all tiled so all that water is funneling one way or another through these ditches and ending up in this massive drain and ending up and plugging everything up so we got an issue this is not no little little chump drain and she's formed full [Music] [Music] I just wanted to reiterate it while we're up on this bridge before we get out of here is all these pumps running and you're not running on nothing you know there's a burning fuel diesel gas just to just to try to salvage what you can and a lot of you non-farmers just for your information if you don't know yeah these guys probably do have insurance on their crops just like we do but when you're growing onions and carrots it costs a lot of money to put even an acre in we're talking thousands of dollars an acre to plant it it's expensive to plant corn like we do soybeans but not like vegetables they've got a ton of money out on these crops a ton and when they draw and they collect insurance on some of these pieces I mean some of them feels that were flooded back to those were 40 acres 60 acre pieces those weren't no jump little pieces of farm ground they were huge you've seen it up there they're gonna get back in their insurance they're going to get back maybe what they put in they're going to get back all their inputs so that means they're not going to make a dime off of either field that they're collecting on so insurance is just just to keep you from completely going under but that's not a guarantee either because if you got enough Spots You're just bring them back in how would you like they're basically not gonna make any money that's why these Farms are getting eaten up like that because it's just the the margins are they're not what people think they're very slim we're on a spot now we just went five miles back home and five miles south of the farm and we're down on Ryder Road this is our one of our bigger pieces we have 110 acres soybeans I'm showing you because we've gotten rain in this whole Corridor the whole Southwestern Michigan's been getting hammered but it doesn't look as bad we're gonna fly the Drone up and out of here and you'll see just some massive drainage runs that are in this field because it's such a big piece and the Bell River Runs Through It that's what you're seeing that big drain back there my brothers wanted me to head back there and check out that field and see if that bank got blown the Bell River is huge it's bigger than than that drain that we just left deeper it's huge it's an actual River we've got a bridge you're seeing that you go over that bridge with the combine the grain card that's how you get across that it's we work on a little bit every year I haven't really shown you that close I need to because it's it gets a little funky sometimes but I see two massive spots in the center of this field and my brother said there's probably going to be one big one because it is a low spot now that's a partially tiled back muck field that's muck uh muck all the way down here so there's a big Muk Fame that runs through here in Michigan and but all in all from what we just seen it doesn't look as bad as what the other fields were up north up north they were they were at a complete loss down here we can it's manageable yeah we've lost a couple big I mean there's a couple big acre spots here we'll follow this along and we'll see where because it looks like the water comes seeping out of this corner spot here you can see or that's where it's draining off to but all in all these soybeans down here are 100 10 acre piece we'll take it because that's usually the last field this is the last field that we plant and it gets usually so dry that you'll actually see a lot of bare spots in this field where this year you're just seeing a lot of water run spots a lot of green spots so all in all non-tiled back parsley Kyle we're pretty happy with this 110 acres considering the weather now this fat was no-till with that John Deere 750 drill that's a big part of it we've learned on certain pieces do not till it just go in there and plant it and this was one of them and it looks like it's the first year we did it we've owned it probably five or six years it took us a while to get on board with the no-till we didn't have the drill for one we just got it last winter and we're on board now and we'll see what other fuels we decide to do that with and we're home I'm getting ready to cut my grass it's been a extreme amount of times we've been cutting their grass record amount all that rain it keeps growing but another record is these apple trees in my backyard they are massive never seen this many apples on there maybe you can tell me what kind of type of apple tree this is but it's so big that it snapped a branch off I've never laid down in my yard like this before like I can't even mow around it and I got the girl out here she's hanging out how you doing bud give her an apple off this tree here you go Bud here you go I had a girl she did a little face plant on her nose riding her little bike she went head over handlebars already but so again a locker in here and keep her safe good girl but if you look at this this is a darker tree than this one these are lighter leaves smaller apples I think this tree here is for baking and I'm not sure what what it is but I'm thinking maybe you can give me some advice should I I want to pull this limb back in can you've taken ratchet strap that in and pull that in well that it's never been even close I used to be able to monitor this but heck of a year for apples I can tell you that there's one here Rochelle's down there raking another there's another Apple Tree on the corner next to this maple and she's raking them underneath the fence you know so the cowls they'll come up and eat them they're over Yonder right now hanging out but but yeah that's gonna do it for the video so lots of growth lots of if you didn't get flooded out all we can do is wait for it to dry wait for it to dry keep cutting our grass and uh hopefully we can hit the fields if it stops raining from here on out we're going to be hammering more hay fields shopping third cutting filling cycles and the list will go on and on so on that note everybody take care see you next video God bless [Music] [Music]

Channel: Kip Siegler Farming

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Length: 17min 56sec (1076 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 28 2023