NEW BABY DURING HARVEST

Meet the Peterson family. Our dad, the three Peterson brothers, and our families farm together in central Kansas. Our family farm started in 1882 and has been raising cattle and crops ever since. Please subscribe to this channel and give us a like and a comment if you enjoy the video. Okay the replacement heifers, just called them out of the pen, they're gonna get their pre-breeding shots here today. The last couple weeks they've been eating just weeds in a pen and corn silage. This one for some reason didn't follow me out. So they they got plenty of flesh on them. Now they were run on grass. Well half of them were on grass over. So there's the placement heifers in there. I'm gonna dump them in this little pen. Well there's feet in there. They're gonna eat all that up. I'm gonna dump them in this little pen and they'll be ready for preg check at 1 30. It is a Tuesday morning, well I guess it's Tuesday afternoon at this point, but uh cutting some down milo here on my field. This milo was kind of like that one soybean field where it had all the potential in the world and then it pretty much died. And it kind of cannibalizes itself when it dies and it uses up its own stock which makes it fall over. There's parts of the field that are making zero but then there's parts that are making probably 60 or 70. So can't complain too much. It definitely could have been a really good crop but up here on the knoll and a few other spots anywhere you can tell we've been cutting on the ground that's uh it didn't do so good there. Okay preg checking is over. Um here's the two coals. My dad and I already put back the um the good good cows, the ones we kept. Uh but one of them is short bred um so it was at the very end before we pulled the bulls and there's an older cow so I'm selling her. The other one we think is open. She's a little bit younger but I don't have any interest in her so we're just going to put some weight on them in a heifer pen and then sell them on a Monday. So here's the pin of breads. They will go back out on the corn stalks. These two get to eat a silo trash. Here is the weaned calves. They're not even bellared anymore and we haven't even they haven't even been weaned for three days. They barely bellared on the first first day so I handled it pretty well. I don't know how many pounds of rash and they're eating but they've all but slicked it up from this morning. Double time. Weed in there, fertilizer in the back. Drilling weight. There she goes. This is the new-ish or pretty new Providence variety. It'll be some of the seed we keep for seed wheat next year and it's we're drilling on where we chopped forage sorghum. Next I'll go to one of our second year wheat fields. Sometimes we're drilling while we're cutting beans but we basically have cut almost all the fields already so this drill can just drill and drill and drill until we're done. Drilling into totally dry ground right now on this field. I'm hoping at the wheat stubble maybe there will be some moisture but it's not very thick wheat stubble so we don't have a whole lot of mulch there to hold the moisture but usually we get some rains this time of year. There I go again talking about the rain. Harvest as often after having Brighton and I probably will get in on it even less after baby number two who is due here in a week but sometimes it works out for me to get a couple rounds in and to help out and it worked out today because we are harvesting uh Greg and I's field right in front of our house so that's what I'm doing. Greg's turn. I'll go get his load now. Brighton's riding along with him. Okay so I just took a load from dad. Greg's cutting behind those trees. This is a little nook behind Greg's house by his wedding venue here. So I'm gonna go dump this and then dad and I are about ready to go home and do chores and Greg will finish this up by himself with the one combine. We cut his whole field uh then we have two more small well two more they're decent size I guess. Double crop milo fields over here. So a lot more bushels still to come. Time for a water delivery. We moved the water because they moved in paddocks kind of so we're gonna get the second tank out here too. So I got moved across the road to this wheat stubble so this will be second year wheat. There is still like no moisture to drill into and they were lowering the chances farther and farther for uh what was supposed to be tonight I thought or maybe tomorrow night. Well anyways now the chance is for Thursday night and they've basically taken it out and so I'm kind of wondering if we even should be drilling. We should just wait until we have something to drill into but oh here I am this is when we drill wheat in Kansas. Okay my dad and I got a pretty good sort. These are the last few we took off. They didn't quite make the cut um those are the big ones there so there's 61 right now. I have another one I want to add to them. We're going to put these back in pin nine. These ones are going to go to 8a. Some of those weigh close to nine but there's a few lighter ones still sprinkling. Okay putting the finishing touches on putting these steers away and uh then gotta feed uh one and a half pins kind of a little bit to one pin and uh then I'm done. Now I can go help Greg cut his milo. Okay uh just want to give a quick shout out to this number 32 cow. She's one of my bigger cows. She raised twin she raised twin calves this year. One heifer and one bull well steer whatever and um now she's at the front helping lead the rest of these cows uh to their new water and she bred back five months alone so she did everything. I take 100 cows like her. They're good followers. They raise a calf. They breed back. It's a good cow. Not enough grass for 100 cows like her because she's on the bigger end but I would take. I'd take. She's like nine years old so that's a trustworthy cow. She's gonna do her job. Okay they made it over here. This is where this is the pin or the field that we had the fall pairs right after they calved on so they had access to this water and now that they're out we're gonna let the spring cows have access to this water because it saves us a pin and a bunk line that we can put feeder cattle in by putting cows on this water that's split between the outside of the pin and the inside of the pin. Some of them must not be as thirsty. I just wanted to make sure to show them the water because you don't want cows to be walking around a whole 200 acres looking for water and they'll get into get into trouble because this water was there was an electric fence across the middle that's why a lot of those cows are stopping up there because there was an electric fence there and they're nervous to walk past it. Crosby we're not hauling anything till after lunch buddy. Crosby loves riding the truck. He knows he's got a good shot to ride in it whenever it's got a trailer on it because he knows it's usually a short trip coming back here. Oh I forgot about that cookie and muffin I took for my mom's yesterday. I'm gonna take that We're putting weights on because the ground's so dry. Okay Nathan and I got the weights put on uh the drill which they're only needed because the ground is so hard because it just won't rain so we got the weights put on the drill. He's gonna go back and drill. He just changed the wheel on the drill. Uh I'm not in the drill. I'm in the tractor. I'm heading to the field. Milo field help Greg. So today we've been cutting the double team sorghum partners double crop milo. That's a lot of a lot of words but uh that's what it uh double team means that there's multiple things you can control in this milo and the sorghum partners that produce this is multiple partners coming together uh to produce this this hybrid of sorghum. So uh and we planted this after wheat which is where the double crop comes from is basically two crops in the last year and we really like double crop milo. It's definitely one of our best things we can do on our farm especially if it rains. This year it didn't rain so uh didn't produce as well as it normally does but between the wheat that we had on this field and the sorghum that followed it it's going to be a pretty good um profit per acre compared to to any of our other rotations on this dry year. And so um we're out here harvesting this um and and the uh the feature of double team sorghum is that you can control grass in your in your sorghum and so we sprayed this with a grass herbicide um you may have seen in our earlier vlogs and we're able to kill the grass. Uh there's still some a few pigweeds out here uh but that's not you know one of the things you can control in sorghum yet anyway. Other than that it yielded very very well considering the circumstances. Have a good trip Grasby. I got another load to feed. My dad's finishing up his hay after he ran the starter load. I'm loaded. We've got a new face in the grain cart today. Brookanna was running it nine months pregnant yesterday. Now mom is running it uh for the first time. She's never been in there before so good job mom. Okay I'm loaded. I'm ready to go. I did have to finally shred my uh jacket, my sweatshirt while loading them cattle. It's finally warming up. The wind just makes it seem like it should be colder than it is. So this semi has made two trips to Cargill elevator and one trip to the Farmer's Rancher sale barn all by about 2 30 and now I'm gonna switch it back onto the hopper trailer and haul another load of milo here. It'll probably have a grain cart ready to fill it right when I get to the field. So it's full day in the semi. My mom hauled the first load of grain and I hauled the second load of grain and the load of cattle. I got to watch the cattle sell because they were the last ones to the sale which wasn't necessarily a good thing when your cattle sell last but I did step inside and watch. They weighed $8.96 and so they weighed a little heavier but they brought a little less dollars than what I was wanting but they still brought over two thousand bucks so I'm pretty happy with that. Still blows my mind I can haul in one semi load of beef and it was worth over $120,000 on one semi load so just a wild time. All right there's a chance of rain tonight. It's like maybe it's maybe miss us but it's kind of forming over us which is kind of cool. So Regan and I went to her baby appointment today and they pretty much think the baby is coming either tonight or tomorrow so I am super on call right now. Thankfully I'm right by my house so if I need to hop in the vehicle and leave for the hospital I can but for now I'm hauling a few more loads since you know might as well be productive while we wait but we are we are packed and ready to go to the hospital and just waiting for the call I guess. That is quite the sky we've got going behind harvest. Okay so they've said it's supposed to be a chance to rain tonight all day but I'm leaving that grain cart untarped regardless. I want it to rain. Rain on the grain cart. Come on. Anyway Greg brought a semi back but he's about to have a baby and we're just gonna jump direct into the truck instead of into the grain or instead of filling it with the grain cart. So my mom is watching Greg's daughter because they're they're probably going to the hospital. They've been they've been for an appointment and then I don't know it sounds like they're going back. So she's watching her so she's one of our truckers. Nathan is drilling wheat and then dad and I are in the combines but the combines are making a lot more grain than 0.5 truckers can keep up with. I mean I've hauled some grain and my mom has hauled some grain today but we're we're definitely behind on the trucks. My cousin Lucas might be able to come help us and we're hauling pretty close loads now because we're close to Lindsborg again but we definitely we're swamping the trucks. But pretty soon dad and I are going to stop to go do chores so it's pretty much only like another hour left of cutting but we're going to try and get as much cut as we can because this spot is not on the ground but there's a lot of spots that are falling down and this milo is falling down falling down falling down. Well it's raining and we're kind of having contractions so it's time to go to the hospital. Okay it worked uh I left this I left this grain cart untarped and I ended up having to park my combine and run over here and tarp it. So I was able to get the tarp on even though it was very full. I got a little bit of grain in my combine and my dad's been he's he needs to get unloaded into the uh tempte but at least the grain cart's under the tarp now. We love the rain. I haven't been rained out doing like anything for a while. I mean I've been sprinkled on but this you know my sweatshirt got wet running across the field a little bit. Brooke Anna's mom is taking Brighton to her house. They are just finishing unloading the last load over there after the shower stopped and Brooke Anna and I heading to the hospital. How do you feel? Excited. All right we are heading inside. There is a big old storm rolling in again. It's thundering carrying all the stuff. Let's have a baby. All right we're in the delivery room. The second round of the storm is rolling in out the window. Baby's coming with the storm. We got the wind and we've got the lightning. The thing we're lacking is real rain and moisture. Let's hope we get some of that. Come on rain. Come on rain. Not very good video quality but it's dark. The sky is angry and we're right on the edge because that they're getting rain and Lynn's pork I think is getting rain Greg's house but we'll see about here. It's raining. Oh it's actually raining. There's water running. It's gonna make puddles. We've had a 0.5 inch rain and a 0.4 inch rain. I hope this makes it over that but those have been the two things getting us through for I don't know what 60 days or whatever but it sounds so good. Look at your baby. His name is Steele. He came out of mommy's tummy. Can you say Steele? His name is Steele. Yeah we've been talking about him for so long. Look he's waking up. He's gonna open his eyes for you. Wake up Steele. His name is Steele. Can you say Steele? He's so cute. Thanks for watching everyone. Check out our music videos linked in the description. You can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, Snapchat and explore our website See you guys next time.