In 1998 my grandpa passed away everyone came over had 5 combines going got the the beans done in one day it was so great to see it I was in college that day but we took pictures

@MillennialFarmer

4 жыл бұрын

It's such an awesome, common thing within the farming community!

@nathanmelander3995

4 жыл бұрын

It is and love seeing glad you took the time to help them out

@SuperAliceleo

4 жыл бұрын

Millennial Farmer Thank You for sharing this video and the nice commentary, great community effort coming to help with the neighbour's harvest, take care and have a lovely day.

@jonkreiser7757

4 жыл бұрын

@@MillennialFarmer It really is and is a testament too, that there still is good will and community among each other. It really speaks of your character and shows your heart as well as the others that came out to help. Especially considering it has been such a challenging fall/year weather wise and those hours ya'll gave are precious considering the time of year we are in.

@sarahaxtman1813

4 жыл бұрын

@@MillennialFarmer have you seen the new john deere 8rx it's cool

its actions like this that will forever earn farmers a great reputation

@michaelgamp5848

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah but I think where I live this wouldn't work :/

@dalsasso90

4 жыл бұрын

@@michaelgamp5848 are you from Austria, or Germany? 😂 I live in Austria, and I think this wouldn't work either.. 😕

@tryongaming7572

4 жыл бұрын

dalsasso90 it’s been 9 months just saying

@sarbsukhsingh8347

2 жыл бұрын

@@dalsasso90 why so?

farmers, ranchers are some of the best people in the world. thank you for helping that family out

I recall back in the mid-50’s, a neighbor got sick and about 30 or 40 neighbors, including my dad, got together to plow his wheat stubble for summer fallow. They brought what they had, 3 to 5 bottom plows with levers and rope trips, and tractors with no cabs and no hydraulics. The ladies got together and fixed dinner (lunch). Fast forward 20 or so years, and I had taken a leave from my career to help my dad, who was ill. A neighbor was very ill and 2 neighbors organized the area to help. This time it was disking the wheat stubble for summer fallow. The appointed day came and everyone was supposed to be there at 8am. This was an extremely flat area and tractors and discs were coming from every point of the compass. It was quite a sight. They again brought what they had, old and new, small and four- wheel drive, with discs from 16’ to 50’. There were 52 tractors. As they arrived, the organizers put three into a field, and by noon, over 1500 acres had been done. The ladies had fixed dinner, and the farmer’s family had a bulk truck come out and fueled everyone while we were eating. One of the organizer’s teenage sons had been killed in a car wreck a week earlier, and everybody felt so good it was decided to go and do his. Another 1000 acres. I went back to my career (not in agriculture, unfortunately) and achieved a modicum of success, kudos and recognition, but that one day over 40 years ago is still one of the best memories of my life.

@ito3030

4 жыл бұрын

Lair

@tryongaming7572

4 жыл бұрын

Vilma Galicia not liar

@ito3030

4 жыл бұрын

Ok then i did the same thing mhm

A SALUTE to Farmers helping Farmers and Community Spirit.

Last year, here in Wisconsin, similar situation with a good family friend and neighbor.. he died from non hodgkins cancer suddenly and everyone came in and helped clear the crops.

Awesome neighbor, Zach.

I know what your talking about we had a neighbor when we farmed who got really sick one spring and they didnt farm alot and had older small equipment one nite my brother and I took our tractors and field cultivators and got there ground ready to plant before we went home then they borrowed our planter and planted it he was still sick at harvest so we took our combines and cut his beans one day when he was at the doctors so he came home to his beans on our trucks and 2 of our friends trucks !! It feels good to be a good neighbor

Nice to see neighbors helping neighbors still. Grandpa always said you have to let the earth breathe, so we did a lot of fall plowing

all kids should spend time on a farm, builds so much character......

@mylesbrown4708

4 жыл бұрын

It does. Basically every skill

@markabendroth1774

4 жыл бұрын

Could not agree more, one of my greatest experiences was helping out in the spring on a Cattle ranch in Colorado. Enjoyed it so much I volunteered to help the next 3 years.

@firedude5135

4 жыл бұрын

100%, every kid should spend a summer on a working farm. Teach them about responsibility. Oh, don’t want to wake up on time when the alarm goes off? Then something doesn’t get fed all day, and it’s your fault. I think our country, especially right now, would be much better off.

@markabendroth1774

4 жыл бұрын

@@firedude5135 spot on Buddy!

@R6Edward3946

4 жыл бұрын

I get what you mean but not every kid. Its not for everyone

Neighbors-helping-neighbors is the way it should be. You never know when you might need the help, it's always good to help others so that they're okay with helping you. You might find some selfish ones, most people aren't like that.

Bless you.

This isn't the first time I've heard of farming neighbors coming the aid of someone that can't pick their field. Nice to see

Sometimes you just got to jump in and help, it's the unspoken code.

good man helping the man out u dont see much anymore

a lot of respect for you guys.

Pulled my neighbor out of his truck yesterday evening. We farm about 5k acres here in central Kansas. He survived and walked away. It’s the little things!

@jacobmilton1958

4 жыл бұрын

Earlier this year the same farmer was in the hospital with a brain bleed and we took care of his 1000 acres of alfalfa

@dotcassilles1488

3 жыл бұрын

Bless you for helping out. Waving at you and Millennial farmer from southeastern NSW Australia. Blessings, Dot

If every millennial would be like you,this country of ours would have no problems !!!

When I still worked in the collision repair shop there was a guy across town that the owner raced against and while they were friends they weren't like best friends or anything like that, one day he had a stroke and as a result was unable to work for for a few months. We picked up all his jobs and did all the work and all the money for the jobs too. He was a one man band as far as his shop was concerned so when we were down there working we also surprised him and cleaned/organized years of clutter that he had just been letting build up and essentially turned a completely new shop over to him after those 3 or 4 months when he was finally able to get back to work.

good to see neighbors helping neighbors really cool way to go good family you have

“You can just about see Australia from up here” I felt you were looking in my direction

@raynonabohrer5624

4 жыл бұрын

I wonder if he saw the ocean too!

@edwardschwenk3100

4 жыл бұрын

Well....Sarah Palin can see Russia from her house. So who am I to doubt the MN Millennial Farmer?

@darrinmayne4110

4 жыл бұрын

@holdenv8superstar bet NM would love our weather for harvest 🥵

@wil_horstmann

4 жыл бұрын

Here in Western Australia I don't till because I can't afford to loose any ground moisture. Bit dry over here

"Even the red ones made it to the end..." :) :) :)

Farmers helping farmers. Been apart of something like that during rice harvest years back. That’s one of the things I love about the farming community

I dont farm. Best video ive seen on your channel. Dont care what anyone says.. America has best people on earth! God bless you guys!

I was born in central Wisconsin, my father talks about farmers coming together during the hard times. Unfortunately we are living in northern Illinois now running some land and the farmers here will would rather buy ur land then help out one afternoon. Myself being a young farmer and listening to all kinds of farmers all over the United States makes me feel like we have landed in the wrong place. My father talked about the old farm in Wisconsin more than the farm were running in northern Illinois. Breaks my heart for him, at this day an age we all should be working together no matter what. Thanks Millennial Farmer for your videos and your millennial wisdom.

@droid683

4 жыл бұрын

Jake John I think that’s just a northern Illinois mindset. You take a drive a couple hours south into central and southern Illinois and most families would bend over backward to help a neighbor.

When I was a kid my Dad got his hand caught in a new idea mounted ear corn picker. We had 40 neighbors come over to help get our corn out in one day, ear corn and shell corn. It was really a sight to come home from school and see all the tractors, wagons and corn pickers. For every farmer there was his wife to help my mom feed everyone. I was really glad to come from a community like that.

I remember as a kid my uncle got sick he was a dairy farmer he also serviced with Gen. Patton in world war two! my father who was a combat MP in World war two would milk our cows in the morning than milk my uncle and also at night. Plus we would work in the fields after milking every day both my uncle and my dad it was a good feeling helping out others.

This is the Minnesota I came to live in. Farmers around here are great. Keep being Heroes!

Thank you for coming together as a community!!

Its so amazing when neighbors come together like this last fall my dad was diagnosed with sarcoma cancer in his right leg and was to be amputated. Our combine broke down two separate issues at once. Neighbors caught word and the day before surgery they cut our beans 220 acres in one day had 5 combines 3 carts and 8 semis. I hope I can pay it back one day to anyone that helped.

Way to go Zack! When our neighbor passed away we all got together and mowed the lawn and fixed fences and brought hot food. He was a WW1 vet who had been existing after being hit with mustard gas.

A whole bunch of farmers in Saskatchewan did the same thing for a family. "Farmers brought 17 combines, 17 semis, eight grain carts and other equipment, Zurowski said. Some families donated money for fuel, and a local grain elevator saved enough space for the crop in its storage facilities."

When my dad passed August of 2007 our friends and some we didn’t know had our crops out in one weekend . It was amazing and emotional to see. My uncle is a farmer and he just passed a few days ago . We have had so many phone calls asking if we had any fields left to harvest but luckily we got the last of it out a week ago. This community is amazing

It's good to see farmer coming together. Tough times good times. Have an awesome day

@rayjr.9187

4 жыл бұрын

Wasn't just farmers, years ago didn't matter where you were neighbor's would always help neighbors. How I wish we could just have a little of that back again. It's also what's so great about this place we call America

thanks for that story about helping out your neighbors. just recently here in my town of Powell River BC, we had a local farmer who's barn burnt down the other day. Unfortunately he had no insurance on the building and all was lost in the building. But in a matter of days local residents were up there with machinery to help rebuild. the town got behind a go fund me and help get some funds up. its heart warming to see, as these farmers are a big part of the community. Thought I would share. have a great day

When I was in 9th-10th grade the neighbor dairy farmer was killed in the field by a silage wagon. My dad and I milked for them for 6+months everyday before and after school. Farmers always stick together. It didn’t matter that we had to take 4 or so hours out of our day to help we just started early and worked late. That family will be so blessed by you and everyone that has helped. Awesome job!

If we all looked out for each other in a time of need without requiring payment in return, the world would be a better place. Props to everyone who stepped up and helped out in some way...

I grew up on a ranch in Wyoming, we had a neighbors house burn down. Everyone in the valley got together helped put out the fire. Afterwards everyone came together and built a new log cabin for the family bye the end of the day. It was a awesome experience, something I’ll remember the rest of my life. Good job guys. P.s.I’m a big fan of your show. Been watching for a couple of months now love it. Keep up the good work.

I like it even though I’m 11 but I’ve ranted my whole life I grew up with it and I stay at my grandmas in the summer weeks at a time just bc I want to and that was before my grandpa died so. Mine dies bc of cancer and we had around 5-6 combines and I skipped school when I was in 5th grade now I’m in 6th we knocked out 400 or more acres in one day and there was fancy combined like yours and my grandpa had 20 year or more old equipment so that is why I said fancy.

It always seems to be a special privilege to be a blessing in another person's life. We'll continue to pray for the families that keep our country feed. Thank you for all that you do.

This is just heart warming. The whole community came together. Not just those with harvesters/trucks but also the people that gave food and drinks. Everyone helpen and it just makes me feel happy

Much the same in the Racing community. Watching several pit crews swarm a competitors car making repairs is a sight to behold.

That’s awesome farmers helping farmers great job 👍🏻👍🏻

In the spring 2015 my boss was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. We actually found out right after planting. He took treatments all summer. Fall came we where giving it hell combining most of the neighbors where done. They called bosses son said they were coming to help. 7 Combines 12 grain carts and about 15-18 semis showed up plus we had our two combines and 4 grain carts and 9 trucks in the mix Pretty overwhelming. They wanted to get his crop out so he could spent what little time he had left with his family. It’s pretty cool to live in small communities where neighbors help neighbors in the time of need. You can bet when one of them needs help we will be there.

Thanks to all of you for helping a family with a loss of a loved one. One less thing for them to worry about.

Huge respect for helping that family. That is just what you have to do in the time of need ❤️ you are a good man Zach

Good on all you guys to stop your rush to get your crops out and help a neighbor. Great job Zack.

I’m with you on tillage. It’s a necessity. Or at least needs to be part of a long term plan. And bless you and your family for reaching out and helping your neighbor!

It was cool to see you on the local MN news stations on 10/31. I was watching and said "Hey...I follow that guy on KZread." Friends and family looked at me like i was crazy or something. Lmao.

That's awesome god bless you guys for helping that family this is what rural America is about

Green, Red - doesn't matter. Class is classy, family is family. You really showed your true colors out there and so did your neighbors. That's a moment to be proud of.

Helping others. We ARE our brother's keeper. That's what neighbors do! Great job guys!

Farmers helping out in tough times always makes you feel like life is about more than the dollar. Good on you guys!

There is no better feeling in the world then helping out a neighbor in tough times. Words never can explain it. It is what farmers do to help each other. Thank you for helping out. And yes. Tillage is what we do. Help heat that ground up faster in the spring.

My grandpa was diagnosed with leukemia 3 years ago and we had a lot of late milo left by the end of November and a bunch of our neighbors came and helped cut. 6 combines 3 grain carts and bunch of a semis. It’s really cool to have the community

All these hard working farmers “combining” their efforts to help another! AWEsome ❤!!!

Farming is a brotherhood, we would give the shirts off our backs to help a neighbour in need even if we didn’t know them at all

So awesome how communities come together. It’s great to see how people in your world do it; we had a very tragic situation occur in my suburban world this week. 2 young brothers died in a house fire and despite the tears, our community has done amazing things to help the family through this horrific time. It’s comforting to know how many good people are out there.

For those outside of it, this is very normal in the farming community. That’s not just neighbor farmers getting the work done, but local implement dealers lending equipment for free or cheap, elevators hauling free of charge, etc.

As an old fart I have spent many hours on tractors out in the open with only a roll bar to protect you from the weather. These new machines you are using look like a dream come true for some but not for me, I worked the old adage, Drive by the seat of your pants. You could tell what was going on by the sound and the feel of the machine. Auto steer is something from science fiction. I am getting used to the automatic gear box in my SUV and looking at these driverless cars some groups are talking about with disbelief. I'm glad they will not occupy the same roads as me. I'll be long gone before they find their way to my wonderful piece of 'Gods Own' in Tasmania Thanks for your posting and remember, There are the old days and again there are the good days. Each era has both . The one thing in common over all eras is stress, watch out as it will sneak up and bite you on the butt Keep happy, healthy and working

@dotcassilles1488

3 жыл бұрын

Im in southeastern NSW Australia. Just wanted yo say hi from a fellow Australian. Blessings, Dot

THIS is what I miss about being in the farm. The community. Thats missing from lots of the world today

This is an excellent example of truly helping your neighbor.

My dad caught his hand in a corn picker years ago, the area farmers came and in one day finished the beans and corn, will never forget it. Another recent death in that area and 15 combines and 26 trucks showed up, farmers always have their neighbor's back.

Proper words are hard to come by. Thanks for you and your neighbors, Zach!!! That's the only words I can find. What a gesture!!!

Passing on the love shown to your Grandpa is a good thing. My respect to every person involved in helping that family in need.

So nice to see you all helping out your neighbors in their time of need god bless them

Just a few years ago our neighbor got laid up with an injury where he couldn't combine his oil sunflowers and all the neighbors got together and we had over 12 combines along with 4 grain carts and 8 trucks running to his bins. It's beautiful when people come together to help their fellow man. Agriculture is a beautiful thing.

There was a time when all Americans didn't hesitate to help a neighbor..and to do otherwise was considered about as low as anybody could get and it didn't matter if your politics was "blue" or "red"...you did the right thing together shoulder to shoulder regardless of who was in need. Thank you Johnson family for reminding us who we were as a people and as Americans. God bless!

G-Day mate, Thanks for the reference to Australia, I'm pretty sure when I'm on top of our grain leg I can see you guys at work in the field..😂🤣😅 Us farmers always come together to help neighbours, we have also done it in the past many times...last year we donated 1000 big square bakes to our southern farmer's that were in drought.... Another great video by the way.... Best farming channel by far...😎👍

@dotcassilles1488

3 жыл бұрын

Im in southeastern NSW, Australia. My hometown, Braidwood, received some donated hay so Thankyou for helping out. Blessings, Dot

God Bless the community of farmers helping a brother's family when they need it most. Cheers Bud.

I think its fantastic that the community came together to help a family that otherwise could have lost their crops. That's the beauty of a farming community, always willing to drop what they're doing to come to the aid of another in need.

I always enjoy your videos Zach but today's was extra special. God bless you and your neighbors for what you have done for the family that lost their loved one.

I remember when I was a little boy one of my daddy best friend was kill at work just a few feet from my daddy. The Saturday after his funeral my daddy and some other guys from work went out and cut wood for his widow so her and her young son would have wood to heat their house for the next few years. Daddy said when everyone got there with the wood they cut that day she probably had enough wood for 5 years. That is the way it should be people taking care of those in need. When I first became disabled people help us out before got my disability check started. God bless all of you for taking care of her need.

That’s one of the most heartwarming things that happens on the farm! It is hardly ever broadcasted. Most farmers will drop everything and help that family out no matter what. I have not been a part of an event like that yet but I’m excited to participate when the time comes.

The year was 1996. I was driving grain truck and one of our local farmers lost his daughter in a horrible crash. Well it was wheat harvest time and farmers and trucking companies came together from 50 miles around. What he said takes 3 weeks for him and his guys to harvest, we did in 1 day. Had to be 30 combines, 50 grain carts and in told number of semis. If you never seen combine after combine after combine coming through a field all together. It’s a awesome sight.

God bless you, for contributing! ALL combines were wonderfully built and they CANNOT see each others' colors, either. All they know and love to do, is harvest crops! If only PEOPLE would behave the same! By the way, I'm your dad's age!

God bless all those who dove in to help those farmers and their families!

2:59 hey im from Australia and i could see you from here. It was awesome!

Back in 1981 when I was in 7th grade A bunch of us got together and helped a neighboring farmer who had cancer fill his silo two Choppers lots of tractors and wagons that's just what the farming Community does we may rise on each other map to color of our machines but we were there for each other

To bad other people are not like Farmers and help and stick together that would make the world a better place . God bless the American Farmer .

People helping people and neighbors helping neighbors is what a lot of city people will never understand about us rural folks and communities

@dotcassilles1488

3 жыл бұрын

True all over the world. My hometown here in southeastern NSW Australia has about 1600 people and most of us are locals (3 generations of family or more). We get alot of blow ins from Canberra who are retired and move here for the small town environment. They learn quick about being a community or they leave. I love knowing i help the community and they are there when i need help.

IN the 50's a farmer friend past away heart atack friends turned out to pick ear corn.I can bearly remember.I am not a farmer ,before I leftfor the USN in 68 I enjoyed plowing, just exp. with chisling I helped a friend who took on more acres and dairy cows ,Inover his headI did all his tilledge for 2 years I had a high stress job, Sitting in a tractor was very relaxing. .No auto steer

Love it been there and had the help come love it

Good evening. Top shelf Zach. Helping a family in need. I'm the kind of guy that if confronted about something negatively and with a closed mind and deaf ears I'll do it just to watch his/her/their head/heads twist in a knot.

That is a very respectful and a wonderful thing to do to help a family in need. Its amazing how well the farming community comes together god will always keep you on the right path to salvation. God bless and have a safe harvest

It's great seeing neighbors helping each other. Great job by all!!

Helping a friend in need god bless American farmers 👍

That is one thing I love about farmers, they all chip in to help other farmers.

Props! To everyone for helping out in a time of need!

We have had many harvesting bees over the years in the Thief River Falls area for farm families in need. It is fun to see a large number of combines gather and get that farmer's crop off in one day. When the job is finished there is usually a Cenex fuel truck waiting to fill everyone's combine with diesel fuel. And throughout the day the ladies bring out good home-cooked meals.

Great job helping out Zach!

That is a great thing to see neighbors helping neighbors. I believe if we had more of that, this world would be such a better place.

Of course I love climbing grain bins at 7:00am!

@mrprimor227

4 жыл бұрын

Great wake up call and exercise.

@johomerza

4 жыл бұрын

Who wouldn't?

My dad passed away when I was 10 he had cancer lipoma and a rear skin cancer call mycosasfungotities when he was 46 and he died Christmas day 1999 so I now all about helping farmers out in need

How can 90 people dislike this??? No one had to help that family farm out, but they put their farms on hold to do that, why? Because it’s the right thing to do. Problem with people these days, treat others the way you want to be treated. Bless ya Johnson family, and all the others that helped as well. You’re part of the back bone of America!

What a great effort. Thanks for sharing.

Glad to see people that can come together and help each other

You’ve become part of that county, and this countries proudest moments. That’s a story for generations to come. Strong work!

That's awesome what everybody did to help out that family in a time of need. I have farming in my blood because I was raised on it, that's just what we do. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 from northern Ohio.

When the community come together to help another farmer it really is something special. My father in law doesnt get along with many other famers around us (buy land and other deals) create some friction, but when he has 3 strokes and was in the hospital at the same time we were trying to seed tobacco, we had people we never talked to and others we have had issues with come on there own free will and give us a hand, when he got out of the hospital all tobacco was seeded greenhouses ready and everything. Farmers have to have eachothers back, even if I dont like someone, if someone needs a hand, we all have your back