hello welcome to Kate's Ag today we are going to the united grain elevator in conrad Montana
they have big big grain piles of wheat on the ground so we're going to see how they
get it off the ground and into the semis and i thought it'd be a really cool thing to show you
because it's kind of an interesting process so i hope you enjoy the video
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right now we're just coming up to the elevator as you can see it's right there the super super
tall bins and there's the united green sign we just got to the elevator and now i'm going to be
showing you how they get all of this huge pile of grain off the ground into the semi and off to the
ships and one day onto your table they've got a semi just leaving right now all filled with grain
as you can see here this is the huge pile and i might even insert a picture from when i was all
the way on top of those bins and looking down on this pile it looks like they already have
maybe a quarter of it away my dad's going to get some drone footage for you which is super awesome
my dad really loves doing the drone here they have another semi truck coming in because they
really want to get this pile off the ground and they've been kind of stopping other people from
hauling all the grain they want to haul just so they can get this off the ground
i got a lot of questions on how they get this weed off the ground into the semis
and why they put it on the ground so i thought this would be a great video to share with you
kind of that process and also explain a little more about why they put that wheat on the ground
now when all of those huge huge bins fill up which there is a ton of space they want to keep the
farmers going at harvest time so that everyone can get their grain hauled in which is awesome
but when they have overflow they have to put it on the ground like this which we've had to do
this actually before at the farm too and i'll explain that sorry because it's kind of a cool
one in a little bit and i'll maybe even insert a picture of me standing in front but we did it with
barley not we this pile right here is spring wheat so it is a risk to put your grain on the ground
but it's not the craziest risk ever i mean it's something you definitely have to think about
but at the end of the day the pros outweigh the con for keeping everyone going at harvest
wheat or any kind of grain when you put it on the ground which i think a lot of people don't know
it creates a barrier for itself basically and the grain won't rot because we have had rain and snow
but if someone disturbs part of the grain pile a person walking on it or an animal or something
like that that's when the grain kind of separates and it will start to mold in that area and as
you can see they're really prioritizing getting it off the ground which is super
important
here you can see they have a super cool auger i don't know if you can see that
right there but the weeds kind of going down and it's dragging the wheat into this auger
that belts it up into the semi and then it has that spout on it that will move
back and forth to put the grain in one side and then the other so it kind of spins around
and that's super cool so dad said he would love to have one of these if we did a lot of
picking grain up off the ground like that because it's just really amazing my dad's drone is right
there that little dot right there above the green auger so he's gonna get lots of great drone
footage
to kind of give you the full perspective on how big this really is and it's it's quite
amazing if you really think about it and the above view was absolutely incredible
beautiful views again today in montana i just cannot even believe the views every
day living here i mean it's just phenomenal such wide open spaces
i thought this would be such a fun thing to show you so make sure to like and subscribe
and comment down below if you learned something new in this video as the grain gets sucked up
by that auger it moves down that slope of grain you can kind of see it slowly moving
and then it goes up that auger and out this spout right here that can move different directions
if you think this elevator is super interesting i did a video on it because commercial elevators
are really cool so you'll have to check that out it's called how farmers make money because
it really is how we make money we grow our grain on the farm we plant our grain we grow it and
we harvest it and then we bring it to an elevator like this one right here and that's how our grain
turns into dollars on kind of what quality and grade the grain is unless the grain gets disturbed
it will not rot so that's kind of an interesting little kind of fun farm fact i guess not this
last harvest that i videoed but the harvest before that so my first harvest i ever drove combine when
i was 15. we harvested barley but we didn't have enough space in the bins for it so we had to make
a huge well not nearly as huge as this one huge to us so very small compared to this one but a barley
pile on the ground it made for lots of fantastic photos our grain in our barley pile we made sure
we got it off the ground before it rained but that's kind of an interesting story so i have
some photos of the barley pile and me standing in front of it so you can get an idea of how big it
was and i'll put it right here this pile we had 633 000 bushels in it and they've already hauled
about 300 000 of those bushels off so that's very cool and here there's another semi coming in
since tuesday they've hauled about 300 000 of those bushels off so the pile's gotten
substantially smaller and that's not very long so about i think four days and we've already gotten
this much done so that's awesome here you can see that the grain loading auger just kind of folded
out and they've got all this wheat here it's actually very cool as you can see so see all of
this wheat is good here big r fan of grain storage they have here is just even i it's hard to imagine
just how much these hold now dad's going to land the drone on the pickup
and you did it i would say that was a pretty good landing
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hello i'm here with bieber with beaver transport and you're hauling the grain away from the big
grain pile correct yeah and we just jeremy and i just started this uh well last week is just
something we kind of came up with oh that's very cool left the machine had an online auction and
went down to which time got it it's an awesome machine yeah we're pretty happy with it uh that
was the problem nobody knew anything about one never seen one so we didn't know what we're
getting into exactly of course we had to buy a tractor for it yes so yeah but you know kind of
the way things are right now economy we could try something different definitely well that's great
so thank you so much all right well thanks for interviewing me so you're welcome
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