Very cool video. i like to hear about your crops and how you guys do things. Keep the videos coming
@larrycowing238
2 ай бұрын
enjoy your video Mike, haven't seen you since the Soil Health Summit, look forward to learning more about your vermiculture
@ravenviewfarm
2 ай бұрын
Hey Larry! Good to hear from you! Yep, I finally pulled the trigger and got a bunch of worms, lol. I'll have some video updates about that in the future as well. Not much to see yet since I just have a small worm bin made out of an old garbage can. Those little guys reproduce fast though, so their population will outgrow that bin by autumn, and if I can keep them cozy through the winter I'll have quite the vermicompost operation by spring of 2025. Hope you're doing well!
@MeredithFarms
2 ай бұрын
Love your videos, really hoping to see some harvest footage this fall!
@tomlines7181
2 ай бұрын
Love that you made another video. Love seeing how you are doing things and especially with the older equipment like I grew up on and driving. Hope to see more soon. Thank you.
@ravenviewfarm
2 ай бұрын
Thanks Tom! I'm working on a few more videos already. My daughter has gotten interested in using the camera, so it's fun to be able to create videos together as a family. I appreciate you tuning in!
@andrewhelton2373
26 күн бұрын
Sad to hear you're done interseeding into corn. I'm going to try my first attempt next year. Will you be selling your 8300 drill? I'm in the market for one this winter to get set up. Thanks, Andrew
@farmcentralohio
2 ай бұрын
Hey you're alive, was starting to wonder lol
@ravenviewfarm
2 ай бұрын
We're still kickin! Life has been a blur this year.
@farmcentralohio
2 ай бұрын
Around here we put fertilizer on the ground going to corn and have never fertilized soybeans
@rustyrelicsfarm2406
2 ай бұрын
Hope someday you can build a big new barn where the old one was on the farm.
@danaseifert7205
2 ай бұрын
Yes!
@ravenviewfarm
2 ай бұрын
I totally agree Rusty Relics. Having worked in the construction industry, I've already got some rudimentary plans drawn up for it. We're going to focus on fixing up some of our other buildings first, since we can do that fairly affordably. The barn will require a loan, or a wealthy patron or something (I wish, LOL!) But the farm just doesn't seem right without it, so we'll have to try to get one put up one of these years. Plus I'd love to have hay storage on the farm so we can stop renting the neighbor's barn for our hay crops.
@rustyrelicsfarm2406
2 ай бұрын
@@ravenviewfarm Posting more often should help.
@LVFFarmVlogs
2 ай бұрын
Nice update. Has been pretty wet here most of the spring and early summer. Getting dry now! Are you going to the Greater northern Minnesota get together at Jon Stevens next month? MN soil health coalition is hosting
@ravenviewfarm
2 ай бұрын
Thanks Larson Valley Farm! I might attend that event if it works around our haying schedule. Rush City isn't a long way for me to go. We've been so crazy busy here that I've missed a number of MSHC events that I wanted to attend. I especially wanted to go to the Premier Soil Health event last week, but we were baling hay. I'm hoping once oat harvest is out of the way we'll slow down enough to get off the farm a little and be back out in the world, lol!
@douglasrusselljr7707
2 ай бұрын
Glad to see a new video from you! Always interesting and entertaining, not to mention informative. Keep on doing what you do! I'm hoping to see your oat harvest, as it's been a long time since I've been involved in harvesting oats, or wheat. Thanks for including all of us on the farm tour!!!!!
@ravenviewfarm
2 ай бұрын
Thanks Douglas! I get a little long-winded I know, and most people would rather see the equipment working, but I think a tour is important for context once in awhile. I'm glad you enjoyed it. I just swathed the oats down yesterday and filmed it. Of course they got rained on last night, so we'll spend a couple of days getting the combine all tuned up and ready while they dry back down. Then it's go time!
@farmcentralohio
2 ай бұрын
With the right mix you should be able to spray the corn once, right after planting and before the corn emerges. In a perfect world you want to apply some sort of nitrogen when it's about knee high, the corn needs that extra kick. Cover crops in the rows are good in theory but it actually cause more issues than any benefit
@ravenviewfarm
2 ай бұрын
Totally agree on all of your points. I've enjoyed it when our interseeded covers did well, but it's just so hit and miss. I honestly think we're doing more for our soil health by having a diverse cash crop rotation and using rye in the fall, along with the compost extract now.
@jazzerbyte
2 ай бұрын
Sounds like great progress on soil optimization. It's quite a different thing when you realize that there's no open local oats mass market and it takes more effort to find buyers and direct markets.
@ravenviewfarm
2 ай бұрын
Indeed! There’s a local feed store that will buy a small quantity. That would be my next best option if I wasn’t direct marketing. For anyone who wanted to grow more than 10 or 20 acres in my area though, they’re looking at a long haul to get their product to a market. I think Grain Millers in St. Ansgar, IA might be the closest place, and I believe they will only take food-grade oats.
@ronwhites1432
2 ай бұрын
I like learning what you do for operating a small farm with alternative marketing, another channel I watch with a small farm with direct sales is a few acres farm. Best wishes on your direct marketing
@ravenviewfarm
2 ай бұрын
Thanks Ron! When I have time to watch KZitem videos, Pete from Just a Few Acres is one of my favorites too. I'd love to sit down with him some day and visit if the opportunity ever arose. It'd be a hoot!
@ronwhites1432
2 ай бұрын
@@ravenviewfarm we were in your area in June we went on 19 on our way to Hastings on the Friday before Father's day and Saturday it rained all day
@ArmpitStudios
2 ай бұрын
@@ravenviewfarm You'd need to brush up on bad jokes. Although having a camera stand named Rod is a good start.
@ArmpitStudios
2 ай бұрын
Oh, I forgot to ask: Why are customers requesting non-GMO animal feed corn? I’m a proponent of GMOs, because they do so much good, so I’m always curious if anti-GMO thinking is just media-based fear of something they don’t understand, or if they think the crops are saturated with Roundup that will still be there when the crop is harvested.
@ravenviewfarm
2 ай бұрын
I really think you hit the nail on the head with the two biggest things that make people averse to GMO crops. There's definitely a severe lack of good, scientifically grounded information available to the general public. Meanwhile there are a whole slew of unqualified fringe-ideas out in the digital universe that anyone can find with a quick Google search. So that drives a lot of the apprehension people feel about GMO crops. Herbicide exposure is another big one. I'm honestly not quite sure where I stand on that issue myself. Glyphosate is a lot safer than many of the other herbicides on the market, but I do also feel that we don't understand its long term effects after repeated exposure as well as we need to. One factor that I take into consideration - but much of the general public wouldn't include in their calculus - is that there is some evidence that GMO crops don't affiliate as well with native soil biology. Interactions between mycorrhizal fungi and corn root systems have been observed to be less vigorous and effective with modern corn varieties in particular. Whether that's because of genetic modification or simply really aggressive hybridization practices is hard to say, but it is a consideration for those of us focusing on soil biology in our crop systems. Again, more studies and information are needed since the industry isn't really focusing on fungal affiliation (why would you when mainstream corn farming is focused on heavy synthetic fertilizer use?) We'll get there eventually, but it'll probably be a long road. I'm a proponent of GMO crops as well. If I start growing non-GMO corn it'll be mainly for the savings in seed cost, coupled with a desire to respond to the wishes of my customer base. As long as we can put together an effective herbicide mix for it, there's really no reason not to give it a try since it should increase my profit margin.
@ArmpitStudios
2 ай бұрын
It’s alive! 🧌 I find all this interesting. I’ve just been doing some very rudimentary reading about home composting, deciding if I should build a simple cedar composting cage or buy an ugly black plastic one with a crank. (I’d rather get out a manure fork and turn it by hand.) We could use it for the garden we plan on making next season. Maybe. Otherwise it will make some decent fill soil for that low spot in our front yard that keeps sinking where a tree used to be. Do you have any ear corn left?
@ravenviewfarm
2 ай бұрын
Once you get started with compost - no matter how you initially do it - you'll learn a lot of lessons fairly quickly. If you have questions, I'll be happy to help with answers. We're still learning ourselves, so bear with me on the things we don't know. It's a fun journey! Regarding ear corn - we're sold out until harvest time. We actually kept a crib well into the summer this year because the commodity prices were so low, but shelled out what was left of it and sent it to the elevator earlier this month.
@ArmpitStudios
2 ай бұрын
@@ravenviewfarm We ran out months ago, but never found time to head out your way.
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