Planting Season in Illinois Starts Off With A BANG!

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aTrippyFarmer and the crew are back to bring you more farming adventures. In this episode, Andy and his family FINALLY get the chance to plant some crops in South Central Illinois. A limited window between showers, coupled with warm temperatures and wind, means that they will be able to seed a large chunk of their home farm with their John Deere Equipment. Andy helps get the corn planter rolling, and he proceeds to start with the soybean planter shortly after. Although he has to fill the seed tender, program the monitor, and check-over the planter, the family gets off to a very productive start. They manage to knock out a large chunk of acres to start the year, and they do it without too many issues. 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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36 thoughts on “Planting Season in Illinois Starts Off With A BANG!”

  3. Hard to believe that the Max Emerge row units were introduced over 50 yrs ago, almost 50 yrs ago that a Deere engineer convinced management that the front fold frame would work by building a model, and the vacuum meter is about 45 yrs old. I helped test the original blower for those vacuum meters. Keep up the good work! And, oh, back in the '60's when I was farming, I think we had the choice of about 5 varieties of beans. They were just starting to hybridize them.

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  27. Andy… I can't beleive I'm watching this video for the third time, I guess I must be hooked on your videos. You mention numerious varieties of soybeens and corn. You also mentioned alternating soybeans and corn on the fields each planting season. How do you supplement the soil each season regarding the nutrients that are pulled from the soil the previous season? I would think you would have to do something otherwise the soil might eventually just produce limited returns because of the reduced nutrients. When I was stationed in South Korea while in the Army. The Koreans actually used human waste to fertilize their fields, which I don't recommend. My barracks was right up against the perimeter fence with a farmers field on the other side. Not a place you want to be in the hot summer with the wind blowing towards the barracks.

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