Assessing Rain Impact and Water Management Needs

it just dumped two inches of rain in like 15 minutes here a road is flooded out we're going to take you around we'll show you what we're doing with the excavator crew with the loader and we'll show you what happens when it rains like this here on the farm when you're living in the city no biggie a rain storm like this goes right in the rain gutter when you're living in the country on a farm it's hair stuff up let's go for a ride fire up the Kubota here we're in our Kubota 1140 X I think it's called the X 11:40 what does it call yeah X 11:40 great machine so far we're gonna be doing a video comparison very soon with our Kubota and our John Deere Gator we're gonna tell you what we like about each one each one has its own little quirks its own little things that we like me some little things that we don't like but that's the Gator right there we're going to be selling the Gator so obviously we needed some the size of this Kubota let's go for a cruise here and show you what's going on man farm is a disaster right now and the deep seats were definitely wet while we're on our way we'll stop and look at the tomatoes guys I've never seen Tomatoes produced like this these Tomatoes we're rock stars this year and what the difference is is the rock dust that we put in the garden right around here where all the tomatoes are so we've got way more food I've called a food bank to come and pick up all the tomatoes they can pick I'm just waiting to hear back from it's kind of gotten to that time of year where we kind of need to take the garden down and go ahead and let the chickens have at it so we'll be fencing the garden in with our premiere one fencing pretty soon electric poultry netting and we'll let the chickens just tear this stuff up man our road flooded bad down here it's kind of subsiding right now but it looks like we've got another storm on the horizon frequently my garage will flood too got lightning striking right around me this might not be very smart but we're going to do it anyway so we live on a hill this was overflowing the road just a little bit ago and you guys can see some of the stuff we put in here to slow down the water but it still pulls up really really bad water's starting to subside a little bit right now but this ditch just can't hold all this water this can't hold it [Music] so this is what happens when it rains like crazy here on the farm man we are getting ready to build a pond right up here to slow this water down you can see the amount of…