The Race Is On - Farmers Push The Limits To Finish Harvest Before 4 Inch Flood (Ep.137)

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aTrippyFarmer and his family are back to bring you more farming adventures! In this episode, Andy and the crew are on the final few days of soybean harvest. As is tradition, mother nature continues to not cooperate by providing warm weather for them to finish harvest, which is especially troublesome with a 4 inch flood in the forecast. The race is on to cut the soybeans before ground conditions degrade further. To pass the time while the soybeans dry, both John Deere combines are transitioned back over to corn, which is much more forgiving in wet conditions. Although it is muddy in quite a few spots, the John Deere fleet does its best float across the wet holes. Andy struggles with the wet spots the most in the grain cart as he races down the road a few miles to fill a bin. After finishing a few fields around home, Andy and the crew move to another big field southeast of the main farm. As they predicted, the field was a swamp, which made harvesting quite the logistical challenge. Andy nearly gets stuck multiple times before he quits going into the field, and the big 4WD combines race through the mud in an attempt to get as much corn out as possible before the flood comes. After a night and day in the big corn field, the weather finally lines up to cut the last of their soybeans. Both John Deere combines are converted back to harvest soybeans, and the race to beat mother nature continues. Despite wet crops and field, aTrippyFarmer and his family push through the last few fields, which required running late into the night. Much to all of their surprise, the overcame the challenges presented by mother nature, and they harvested all of their soybeans before the upcoming rain. Thanks for watching!

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Andy "aTrippyFarmer" Dole is a 6th generation farmer from Central Illinois. On this farm, Andy works alongside his father, Marty, his uncles, Chris and Jeff, and his sister, Katie, to grow corn and soybeans on some of the finest dirt in the world. Andy and his family are deeply rooted in the area, operating a large farm that traces it origins back into the 1800s. Although some tracts did not stand the test of time, Andy and his family still grow corn and soybeans on fields that have been in the family for longer than even the oldest members of the farm have been alive. We do, we have, and we always will take tremendous pride in calling this piece of paradise our home. Andy was a Bronze Tablet graduate of the University of Illinois in the field of Crop Sciences, following the same path as his father and late grandfather.

It would be misleading for Andy to claim that this life is one that came by chance; rather, as a member of two multi-generational farm families, it was simply in his blood. His passion for agriculture traces back to his early youth--some of his fondest, earliest memories being of days spent riding in the combine with his father and grandfather. Although his understanding of the lifestyle was much less complex in the beginning, the love he has for farming, and its industry has only appreciated through time. As this dream blossomed into adulthood, Andy now works relentlessly, and tirelessly, to chase his own dreams and to build a farming operation of his own alongside his family.

We, as a whole operation, are handymen, electricians, mechanics, landscapers, accountants, economists, caretakers, stewards, and, most importantly, farmers, and we take an incredible amount of pride in our work. There is no challenge too overwhelming, no situation too stressful, and no problem too difficult for us to take on, and we want to take you along with us. Welcome to our farm and welcome to our lives. You have the best seat in the house to watch the everyday chaos of farming unfold--we usually only get concerned when things aren't going wrong!

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[bladewiper]

Got to look after MOM, they are the glue that hold families together.

[davidrollins]

Thanks for showing us your family, Andy. Your son looks just like you.

[johnbaumiller]

Andy: Totally get a kick out of your Dad. Really appreciate his pace. Hello to Marty from South Dakota. Enjoy every minute with him as time flies so fast. Farming with Dads is the best!

[jamesashley]

Give Katie the camera one day so we can heard the little brother stories

[ma]

Beans are done! Congrats. Really enjoy the channel.

[brendamoldenhauer]

Feels nice to have the beans done I bet.

[dsauce]

Yours is 9/10 my favorite farming channel

[MatthiasSchulenburg]

Wow, that was a bunch of different locations in one video - great stuff !

[tommypittman]

U guys keep at it an u will get done keep farming an I will keep watching

[TheAnthonyDawson]

Really enjoy your videos mate!from MD in New Zealand 🇳🇿

[wry]

Yea on finishing beans.. Great video. Everybody very knows what to do. Ya'll are very professional. A quick glimpse of your Mom and at last a close up (well sorta close) view of Katie. One Beautiful.
And yes we need stories by her about you. Plus your 👪 is wonderful .

[vakbc]

A true family run farm!!! All family members are hard at work getting the fall harvest and tillage completed before the weather turns for the worse....frost in the ground...then snow...and winter sets in!!

[billuphoff]

Mud has been a stresser this fall for sure! Why am I not shocked the rain would have quit for harvest? Haha
Hello everyone!

[jimmyevans]

Great job bringing the family together

[jeffcraft]

You guys and gals are doing it. What an adventure. So wonderful you all got that going for you. And Heavens, free of charge (sort of) character building stuff dropped right in your lap you didn't even have to request. Whenever you see a head abandoned, dropped right there on the ground, you know them there folks are hustling/scrambling. Extremely interesting data on the cart various wheel equipment options psi's.

[gib]

Yeah that 4-5 inch rain put us out of the field for 13 days, could have went back at 10 but with just 50 acres of corn to finish gave it a couple extra drying days. LaSalle county.

[jerrydowell]

talk about cutting bean last part of oct nov 13 my neighbor just got done cutting his beans and there's still some beans and corn around the area yet wet harvest year

[rogerfrank]

Change things up a little and go forth and back sometime 😀

[redbovine]

I wish my 630F had a D on the end. Those drapers are nice. Beans flow like water in them but those FDs are out of my budget.

[CharlesLScofieldJr]

How many combine bins does it take to completely fill the grain bin trailer?