Everything About Grain Bins (Farmers are Geniuses) - Smarter Every Day 218

Farmer sees title:
**blushes**

now why would anyone dislike this?

Farming simulator players: hey I know some of these words

this makes me want to be a farmer.

you took on a thicker accent when interviewing the farmers... just saying. People with thick accents can completely tell when someone has an influent false accent. But farmers are way too polite to point it out lol. Ive been completely amazed by how easy it is for people to subconsciously mimic other more dominant characteristics in social circle. Mostly larger social structures but also in smaller settings like this... The human brain is fascinating!

When I was a kid, I remember an episode of "Watch Mr. Wizard" with Don Herbert when he created an explosion in a can with a lid that had a small amount of flour in it plus a lit candle. When a puff of air was introduced through a tube into the can, a chain reaction of ignition caused an explosion. I thought of that when I saw the dust in the air in the bin. No open flames allowed right?

B E A N S

I am from Alabama and I'm country here but though I don't live on a farm I know people who run farms and they are just what you crack them up to be. They are most definitely smarter then they pretend to be!

Grain bins are fun to play in.

Why don't farmers load the beans with moisture right before selling it? I suppose the buyers are watching out for that?

Not gonna lie my favorite part of this video is seeing your kids call you sir no one teaches their kids that anymore

All that complication farmers have to deal with, running a highly competitive business. Yet the stereotype is that you're an inbred idiot for being a farmer.

A marvel? It is probably the lowest IQ building there is. It takes more intelligence to put together a tiny shelf from ikea. The only aspect of it that has any "marvel" at all is that long ago someone had to design a building that the least educated, most inbred and mindless hillbillies and farmers would be able to put together while they weren't romancing their sheep. Everyone on that crew has the same thinking capacity as a regular 8yo. Someone had to design a building that those mental 8yos could build without blowing themselves up or accidentally building it on top of a house or with a bunch of trees inside of it. That was ingenious but even still many crews have trapped themselves by building it up around them but forgetting to leave a way out. They typically find a few sets of gnawed on bones with one survivor somehow looking plump. Other times farmers and other mental midgets mistakenly to build it upside down and they drown when it rains. It takes a lot of inbreeding to reach these levels of stupidity.

Is it me or does he start putting on a Southern accent when he's talking to the farmer and the dude that helped him out with the truck?

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Iv lived on a farm my whole life we still say grain silos

"There's no other job like this..." - Commercial fishing. Only more so . More so eg more electronics, more weather, and more ways to die. Commercial fishing is the most dangerous job in America per Dept of labor statistics, followed by logging and farming . Commercial diving is up there too. I've seen all three, as I lived on a dairy farm for a few years, and fished and dove for many more. It was a good way to make a living.

Thanks for making all this awesome content Destin, it is a pleasure watching you talk to all these hard working farmers, they deserve much respect. Working in a farm is hard work, but being the farmer in charge of it all, now that is a massively complex job. It’s amazing the things these hard-working farmers can accomplish every single day, they make it seem so easy. We really need to give them as much support as we can or we will be losing the backbone that makes our country what it is. Words can’t convey my gratitude for all their hard work and dedication, and also to you Destin for showing us a small slice of their daily life!

I swear I hear about someone dying in a grain bin every year here in Nebraska.

Your corn needed water pretty bad... when the leaves roll up like that the plants are water stressed... Looked like it was planted a little thick or some doubles (two or more seeds planted close together) neither is good for corn, because it's a very population-sensitive crop (other corn plants too close tend to "cannibalize" nutrients from each other, no neither makes a good ear). I trust you're planting a good sweet corn variety here for ear corn. Looks like you could use some nitrogen fertilizer as well to supplement the soil; corn likes plenty of nitrogen and phosphate (phosphorus) and a bit of sulfur never hurts either (usually). Water was definitely the limiting factor, when the leaves roll up it's already hurting for water pretty bad. If it had enough water the leaves wouldn't roll up like that and the color would tell you a lot about the plant's health and nutrient needs-- usually if it's a light green or yellowish is a sure sign it needs more nitrogen. IF it's dark green it'll be healthy and have all the nutrients it needs to make a good crop. If you have too many plants or plant seeds too thick (overpopulation) you can always thin it out by pulling up some of the plants so they're no closer than about 6-8 inches apart. In dry conditions or poor soil nutrient availability, planting no closer than about 12 inches apart (or more) will allow each plant more soil to obtain nutrients and water to make a crop, but of course the lower population means less plants to produce ears, so it's a tradeoff... that's why farmers in different areas with different climates, weather patterns, heat or high temps in summer, thinner soils, sandier soils (which hold less water for shorter periods of time before drying out) plant different populations (seeds per acre or unit of area).
Best of luck on your corn for next year! OL J R :)

"When you break it, there's no one to call"
Oh no, there's plenty of people to call, but the guys who work on that kind of stuff charge a few hundred bucks an hour and often have a four hour minimum charge.

One barge can hold about 90 semi loads of grain and one bulk cargo ship can hold roughly 40 barges

My parents were both sheet metal workers for many years. That “punch” is called a drift pin.
Punches make holes. Drift pins guide them.

One thing I’ve learned is that punches are the best

How do I get the song

I feel sorry for Indian farmers🙁

11:55 got em👌

Thanks for shedding some light on what farmers have to overcome. Great video! Feel free to come up to Indiana anytime to come learn more about farming!

9:12 my laptop when starting witcher3

War eagle

2:23 OMG IT'S A CUMULONIMBUS CLOUD AND U MISSED IT! I can't help but notice you ignored these fascinating clouds outside. I bet there was a thunderstorm after this.

I think you should earn a D.J license before you can destroy videos with music. Such a ruin for videos. Everybody wants to be a D.J. My ears are killing me anymore. I just wish it would stop. Everything doesn't have to be a musical.

A farmer and an engineer..
THATS REAL LIFE COOPER!

if you've got a big enough truck you can actually move these things intact.

11:28 John Deere moisture tester in a case combine

Thank you. Great video. Thank you farmers for keeping us all fed.

Punches are the best! I felt like punching you right then 😋

My dad's a corn famer
Yup us famers don't call no body shop to fix our stuff

"That's quite a lot to take in there" he says while in a combine using a 20 foot header. He needs to see the 45+ foot headers that get used.

Me: *plays farming sim*
I’m a genius now!

"Punches are the best!" i fricking love this dude...

11:54 got 'em

Your daughter is hot

Farmers are backbone of whole world. No one would survive that much without them.

What is a sand bagger?

Farmers and workers are the back bone of America

You've earned my subscription. Great video and was enjoyable to watch.

Farn

In steel work they call the punch a spud usually it's on the back of a wrench aka a spud wrench

«when are you finished?»
Farmer: When im done.

What about the pyramid shaped things, the salt bins. Or other structures one might see

Haha! Good video! I've noticed that every time you film in the south your southern accent comes out a lot more! hahah!

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The funny thing is that farmers are the backbone of America yet we don't treat them like it

I am studying Engineering, but this video can persuade me to go into farming.

Running crops isn't farming. That is called industrialized gardening. Farming is when you add animals.

When I was a kid and we would go to Chuck E Cheese they would put your tickets on a scale to determine how many you had to turn in for prizes. We would splash water on the tickets to make them heavier.

Love this video and your respect and interest in what we do to make a living! As a farmer I can say we aren't that smart lol 😂 no sandbagging here! Keep up the great videos!

The change in accent while with the farmer is really interesting from a linguistic perspective. His accent is more southern, and Destin used a technique called convergence in order to make the situation easier socially. It’s something we all do all the time and may make an interesting video.

So we got a floor with holes connected to the mother of all fans.


Who else is thinking ultimate air hockey?!