"We Are Not Professionals!!! - Pouring Concrete | Spreading Manure"

Crosby having a good time in the air conditioner, while I haul a load of manure. Nathan loaded this before lunch and then we had a meeting after lunch, so I'm just now getting to it. 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. Getting the wheat stubble ground covered. And Kendall and Dad are hauling some manure. He's turning, so I'm trying to slow down enough. That's a big load, Dad! Oh yeah! Okay, there's the cows I caught this morning. They have an alley with a hot wire out through those weeds. Then they're going to be out grazing the pond that's empty, that's grown up to more weeds. And then I'll supplement them with some silage here in this bunk. So, that'll be their diet for the next month. Is weeds and until they start calving. What do you think of that fresh water? The outside's here. Now we're just going to get the rest of this done. Okay, shutting the low level down for the last time with 20-23 coolant. Alright, got the pump started up for the last time. 20-24. I've not got a whole lot of rain since we started it. It might have still been June actually when we started it. I think I've kept it watered pretty good. We'll see what the combine says when it's time to pick it. Big hill for a little dude. Alright, we have finished with the Zip Miller 2. We're going to fold it up and move to Miller 1. Third group of cows to catch in like a week or so. Okay, somewhere around right here is where the cocoa crop line is. You really can't see it today. I could see it yesterday. These beans are only knee high. They actually still have some gaps because they're drilled on 7.5 inch rows. You can see we haven't even filled our cracks. But we are still in the ball game. It doesn't take very tall beans to make above average. Our 40 bushel is basically above average. Especially when we look at the last 4 years. We'd love to grow... I mean we've grown 80 bushel beans here before. But that is definitely not the average. And that's with some water on them. So we don't really have... We have a little water that we could try to pump out. But I don't know if it's even a full turn. And we were at the point where it didn't seem worth it. Now it might be worth it. So you can see we're just starting to flower. Well we're flowering and we've got a few little tiny pods. And these could still do a lot in August. So I'm hoping we can catch a rain on top of this rain. In the next few days there's more chances. We've got cooler temperatures for at least the next week. And if we do catch another rain I'll probably go spray the double crop beans. Clean up just some scattered weeds and some volunteer wheat. But everything else is ready to just make grain. Well it's supposed to be cooler this week so we said yes. To some balling calves. Instead of just weaned ones. And they're balling. Back to hauling water to the spring pears again. Watering paddocks five and six. With the tank placement this time. There's still a little grass out here. No water though. Okay these heifers are going to get upgraded to pin 8A. Because we're going to put 2A in their pin. That's good enough. It's essentially a stress fighting pellet. Got a bunch of ballers. We've got parts here. Some drill coulters. To replace before we drill all that wheat this fall. Getting ready. Comes dad through the yard with a load of millet hay. We're going to fit a 24th bale on there. I'm getting ready to do my evening chores. I went to the county fair with my kids. I've been to a lot of county fairs this year. But my kids haven't really been with on any of them. They were all Iowa, Wisconsin, Western Kansas. So that was fun. We saw the animals of course. Did a couple round and round carnival rides. And we talked to them about which 4-H projects they thought were the most interesting. They liked the photography. They liked the farm displays with farm toys. And of course baking. They want to be good at baking like their mom. Alright got the 70 head work. All before 8.45. It is misting rain a little bit on us. But these were balling calves. Wanted to get them therapies on day 2. Now they got to get to eating. Pretty nice bunch out of El Dorado. We put the weaned ones in the farm fair. This is maybe going to be a chicken house. We'll see. Nathan Falls. And the whole project is lost. The whole project is lost. Alright I'm back in with the M7 here. We're going to get hooked on to the Kelly Ryan manure spreader. Getting some manure spreading done. So we're kind of loading two at a time. Like if I get here while dad's still loading he goes ahead and loads me. And then it's a few less trips in and out of the loader tractor. Because it doesn't take very long to load with that big bucket. I mean it takes about three scoops. If you do it just right you don't spill any. So we're putting this on some broom ground for our uncle. M7 and the Kelly Ryan getting her done. Just helps it go a lot faster with two of them. So we got these piles over here cleaned up. But it's like 5.30 now so I don't know that we're going to get all done. We might. We might keep going. Then no one would have to come pick us up. You cannot say that it's going flawlessly. But we got I think maybe there's three cows left out there. But there's a couple that have calves. So two of them calves are going to want to get back with their moms that are already caught. And there's a couple wild cows. But I think we're going to go get the trailer and let them calm down a little bit. And we'll try to catch them again with an extra pickup. So I'm on that side. I'm going to bring across the ones I'm going to load into this area. And then we'll use the bud box kind of going in there down the alley. Okay they're going through. We want to leave two of these over here. Okay I've got my group of nine cows here. We're going to run them up through there. Come on cows. Yep. Yep. Okay spraying them for flies while they're on the trailer before I put them in their pen. Okay we are going to graze this field another time before we bring the cows home from grass. I'm hoping this 80 lasts them long enough. To where we have some corn stalks ready to graze. Dad and I were able to catch the last two stragglers right here. The calves didn't want to go in with the group. Whenever me and Evan were here with just the sidekicks. So we caught them. Dad and I did. Now Kaelin is driving the trailer to get here. It rained again. We are loving this rain. The cattle have got some mud in their pens now. We've got a lot more feed growing. Those beans and everything are going to be soaking this up. Even the ground that is fallow right now that's going to be planted to weed in September is soaking this in. It's just all around a great day here in central Kansas. Since our song Ain't No Rain in Central Kansas came out. I think it's our second rain over an inch. So I think we've already had more rain in August than we've had all of July. Which is great. Alright we got another August rain last night. I think it was around an inch. This is our early planted beans. I think we planted them about May 12th. They are really not much taller than the ones we planted in June. They are about knee high. But we got a nice rain. We got some profile moisture that looks good. About a foot down. So they've got pods. They are filling them. They should keep setting some pods. You don't need that tall of beans. Like I've said before. So I'm pleased with how these look. We basically on a hot dry year we don't canopy in 30 inch beans. We had good residue here. We've also had pretty good weed control in the past. They still look pretty clean. But see you can. There's a few weeds. That's why I like drilled beans. You spray them. Pretty quickly after spraying them you get the ground shaded. And block out anything. You can see there's some scattered weeds. Do it again. Throw it. No, no. Yucky. Throw it. Throw it. Throw it. Are you ready to help load? I just found a box. I bought the heavy breads off of one bunch. And then this one had calved early. So I bought her a five year old baby for 2,900 bucks. They're a little different than fallen calves coming off to shoot. Mine's a feather. Louder. One, two, three, four. Tractor. We're experiencing peak Kansas. Peak western Kansas vibes. So much. So much Kansas. Alright, finishing up chores. Here's the cows Kendall got brought home. And here's the slab we poured two days ago. Right before the nice rain. Now when we posted a picture on Facebook and we, you know, we expected this. We had some comments on how we didn't pour, or we didn't build a form and smooth it out real smooth. You know, it's kind of crude. And we have a few reasons for that. We used to make perfectly square slabs for water. But then when you're scraping pins and trying to clean around them, it seems like the corners always break anyways. So then we started making kind of a hexagonal shape. But what we found is you can't order the exact amount of concrete anyways. And so you always have a little extra to dump somewhere anyways. And then the other thing is we're already on somewhat of a slope here. And we also don't, we don't necessarily want the concrete just as smooth as possible. Because the cattle slip on it anyways when it gets muddy. And so basically we don't mind if this doesn't look like the prettiest slab of concrete. Because it's all going to get covered with manure anyways. So basically what we did is we built a square right where the water was. And we leveled that up so that the water would be level. And then everything else we just, we built out here in the main pin. As big as we thought we needed. And then we put our extra concrete over on the back side. So that if we're ever grazing something out on this weeds and grass. Or if we need a little pin here. They can share that water. Rather than try to level up this whole spot. We've got slopes so the water will run off of here. And then we've got to level where the water will be. So it's not too slippery. We didn't just try to slick it down totally. Because we don't want the cattle to be slipping anyways. Some places if we have a lot of slope we'll just, we'll put lines in it. To help those cattle when it gets muddy. But so those are kind of our reasonings for doing it the way we did it. And I'll admit even like the concrete truck driver. Well the last time we did this. We've only done it this way a couple times. The last time the guy said well I can't say I've ever seen anyone do it that way. But hey it works. So we did it again this time. Here you know in the past. You know that's a nice, a nicer slab. And then we also we just stick rebar around. Around the outside edge and a curve. So that when we're scraping and cleaning pins and driving on there. You know hopefully then it doesn't crack. Because as soon as you put a corner then it wants to crack. That's where it'll want to crack. So anyways there's our project. Alright we're hooking on to the corn head. We need some corn to feed. So it's still probably going to be a little green. But probably tomorrow we might go cut a little. Just to have some to roll and feed the cattle. See where it's at. So just doing cattle guy stuff again. We came over here to our we think driest field of corn. And we just got about 150 bushel. And it was like still over 25% moisture. Like 30% moisture. So we were hoping it'd be a little lower than that. But we have something to feed now and we'll see how it goes from here. It's trying to rain. But if nothing else we get a nice rainbow. Ooh and lightning storm. It's a beautiful night. 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 www.petersonfarmbrothers.com We'll see you guys next time.