The American Farmer
The American Farmer Link – by Sandra J’s Photography
Visiting the mid west in the fall, especially Iowa, you are bound to see the combines running as the corn and beans need to be harvested.
This individual in the video below is someone we know and I asked him if we could make a video and take a few photos as he was combining at sunset. I gave him the video and photos, he has never seen his hard work looking from a drones perspective. You can see the corn rows are very straight as well.
Years ago, I knew a farmer that always drove around the countryside, after he planted all his fields. Just to see if his neighbors’ rows were straight. Just a thing farmers do I guess.
I am trying something new here with this video. I will see if it works after this post is live. I entered my video right into a block here on word press, which should show up below, hopefully. So that you can see the video right from reader and not having to go to the web site itself.
I also imbedded the video from my you tube account below, which only shows up on my page site, just incase it did not work above. 🙂
The American Farmer
35 Replies to “The American Farmer”
The work of a farmer is never done … long hours, out in the harsh elements sometimes. That’s a big machine. It worked perfectly for your video Sandra.
Wonderful post and video, Sandra! (Hey, Iowa Department of Agriculture, are you seeing this?)
Good idea Kellye, I will look them up and send the video to them. 😊
Beautiful video and important information. Farmers should never be taken for granted.
So true Janet. It is a hard job and so important.
The drone adds a new dimension of visibility and makes a very hard job look almost “easy”.
It does, it was quite exciting standing at the end of the field and having the combine come out from the corn and turn around in front of me. Being sunset made it even better.
Great video Sandra! The statistics were impressive. One of these falls you need to head east to see harvest time in the Amish country of Pennsylvania. I grew up watching a John Deer combine harvest corn on one farm while down the road a string of Belgian horses pulling a binder harvested the corn on another farm.
I definitely have to do that. There are a lot of Amish around my sisters as well. I used to raise draft horses, so watching them work a field is always a beautiful sight.
Excellent work, Sandra. Reminds me of how the Lord may see our work and lives, whether they are straight and true or maybe a tad off. May we all continue to try to excel for Him who did so much and continues to do so much for us. He is worthy. His love is everlasting. May we all receive an excellent harvest. Blessings
Amen RJ, well said. 😊
Thanks for the video, Sandra. I grew up on a very small farm. The days of pulling all the machinery with a tractor. The land gets in one’s blood. Just watching the video was reliving some of my youth. Some very long and fruitful days. There is an unbelievable satisfaction (to the soul deep) in the harvest, especially when all the work is done before snow flies. Then comes the season of going through all the machinery in maintenance for planting starts.
Yes, it is quite the life. Some of our younger generation will miss out on working the land and working on your own tractors. It is hard work, but very rewarding. Putting up hay was my favorite thing. Nothing like the smell of fresh cut hay.
It’s wheat, corn, soybeans, and sugar beet harvest time here in Western Nebraska. here’s a sugar beet harvest video: https://youtu.be/8wWarVEHghM?si=PfbQLrNihY7fnBvO
I never knew what sugar beats looked like. Very interesting. I love watching videos like this on how things are harvested, farm equipment and such.
Me, too! There are many videos on YouTube of how things are done or made. I’m addicted to them!
A bumper sticker I once saw – ‘When you complain about the farmer, don’t do it with your mouth full!’
That is a good one for sure. 🙂
So cool Don, I used to raise draft horses. But I never used them for farming. Just to have them. Magnificent animals.
Amen
These mighty machines suddenly seem so insignificant when you see them working in the immense fields!
Yes, when you are standing next to them as they come down a row and turn around in front of you, they are massive. And this one is actually one of the smaller ones.
Longtime ago I was told that modern American farmers use the technology of zero tillage.
Kind regards
Yes, not very often do you see them tilling anymore. They were losing to much top soil.
Smart ones do; traditional ones have their tilled field disappear little by little in the wind, in the manner of the 1930s.
It failed for me
Thank you for letting me know, I am still working on it. The videos just don’t want to play in reader but they will on my web page. 🙂
Its okay.
Works fine on my phone.
Thanks Ray, it seems to work for some folks and not for others. That the videos don’t show up in reader, just a link. So I have been trying different formats to figure it out.
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Thank you very much 🙂
It worked!
Thank you for letting me know 🙂