i hope you enjoy my 2021 recap and happy new year
welcome back to Kate's Ag today we are going to be touring this awesome
elevator that my great grandfather built this is the big surprise that you've been waiting for
it's a tractor today my dad is getting fertilizer put on all our fields and it
basically helps the wheat grow a lot better for what the soil is deficient
i'm going to be doing a current equipment tour well it's just a mildly breezy day here kate
it blows like this all the time grandpa and i are going to be doing a video of the old school house
where my grandma used to go to school yes the diamond valley schoolhouse
it is 20 below zero this is my uncle chris and he knows a lot about the calibration of the drill
so these are what the lentils look like different colors there's green lentils red lentils yellow
letters black lamps here my grandpa came in the field hello to the video camera
thank you what was seating like in the olden days compared to now well we didn't have no
cap and we run a family operation in northern nevada and these bulls seem to hold up really
well for us and we get basically four years breeding seed in the season out of these bulls
wow but the better quality bulls you buy the better quality you have to sell for somebody
hello we are trucking lentils to sell them and that's very exciting because
you get to see the whole process and what's super exciting is for
the first time ever i'm going to be driving a tandem truck and you're going to get my
to watch my experience so here's the drain mentor the inside of the green
the bin time i'm big enough to drive one right maybe here's the deal with kate's truck thing
see when you're a trucker you have to be able to do all the parts and the parts that she can't do
she's got to pay me for so the first thing we need to do is start
our truck let's see if kate can do it i well i've never done this before
you want to bring it back
all the way down and then roll me back oh thank you and then you gotta go towards the truck
that was very challenging when this is it flashy let it out let the clutch out okay now just drive
this just like an automatic except for it's got a clutch right oh my gosh this is my first turn
come on straight back out hey you got a long truck behind you
today's sunset is an absolutely gorgeous one today i'm giving you a wheat update
it's super exciting in this field is warhorse winter wheat so winter wheat is the type of wheat
and war horse is the variety it looks a lot like grad okay now i'm over at the 13 bins part of the
original homestead and here is planted lentils farm to fashion is the passion of Kate Stephens
who at 16 years old launched the future of her family business as a fourth generation farmer
okay i want you to go forward clutch yes okay now you gotta go a little long don't go long
my dad is giving me a second lesson on the tractor i'm about to do my very first ever
drive in this tractor by myself so clutch in put it into gear oh my gosh it's happening
we just made it to the scale and we're going inside now
today is not as super exciting as you would expect it's actually a super sad day my 96
10 combine that i love so much we practically grew up together
is being sold but i'm going to say goodbye to it and well i hope you enjoy your new home
life goes on
hi uncle chris hello welcome to kate say today i'm here with uncle chris in the swather and
it's our first day swathing today it's super exciting this is what the swather looks like
i don't know what to do because when i get off the brake it goes
let the clutch out to catch the truck and then get off the brakes okay
yay oh my gosh today is the most exciting day ever not only is it the first day of harvest
2021 but i got a new combine to drive for harvest i'm ecstatic about it it's opposite on this one i
forgot well up is up and down it's down so it's easier so this is my third year of harvesting
i'm just starting my next row right now
today is the second full day of harvest and the third day of harvest i am the only combine in
this field and it really feels like you're going super duper slowly at getting all the swaths when
you've only got one today we have the combines parked at the schoolhouse and the green car
as you can see here i had a green tank full buzzer going off for a little while harvest is in
full swing now so that's pretty exciting is that combine over there like the combines you used to
run yeah i used to have three of them no matter i think i have four of them my dad just radiant said
we're having lunch by darcy's truck for shade dad and i are here at lunch and also grandpa
know what they say kate there's no rest for the wicked that's right
none of us out here probably my dad just pulled out of the field because i think he thought he
saw something smoking which is really bad i just got out of the combine because my dad offered to
run it for the afternoon thank you dad the other combine is broke down right and i need a job
i'd like to give you a tote bag darcy here do you want to try it on don't look fabulous it's
great for carrying snacks yeah how do you like it well i will trap try it out and see what it's like
well thank you i think you look great in it just fabulous and it's wonderful for carrying
snacks they probably put my tablet in there oh that would be awesome that's a super good idea
i'm here with farmhand we're gonna film some montana wheat harvest today yes and this is
my first video collaboration ever so i'm just absolutely excited well i'm riding in the combine
with kate right now and she is harvesting wheat and i better put the camera down because she's
got unload on the go right now yes today is a super exciting day because we have the new combine
that's arrived to the farm it's a 9870 sts just like the one i'm driving but it has dual rc and
our grain cart driver we're just on the radio i guess there's a really big fire east of here
i can definitely see flames definitely burning one of our fields it is already
past equally this is a huge crisis and we might have to move fields right now yikes that's bad
here you can see where the fire burned in the coulee and why it was so hard to put out how many
field fires have you seen grandpa a lot oh i've seen a lot of them we usually have a bunch every
year the combines the bearings get hot start a fire before the cobblestone guys even know it yes
i just got stung by bee at lunch i just saw more lightning over there this is what harvesting in a
pre-thunderstorm is like in montana pouring rain and i'm going to have to make a run for the car
i filled it up a little too much i really hope you enjoyed the last day of winter wheat harvest
2021. so now i'm going to step outside the combine and show you how bad this sawfly damage really is
my dad thinks 80 to 90 percent of our crop is laying on the ground and unrecoverable
this is all of the wheat that's laying on the ground that we're not able to pick up
so i got a notification that my tailing auger is at zero i wasn't pushing dirt but i ran into this
huge mound of dirt with rocks in it and at least five rocks went through my header so this might
be my first official breakdown this is the first time i've had to dig my header out well i just got
back in the combine from digging my header out and it was an interesting experience i'll tell
you that a lot of hard work time consuming and i definitely don't want to be doing that again
three years running combine deborah plugged it up over and popped that thing open i showed you
this is the second time i plugged it up today lining up the combine
for the last time this year what a harvest it's been it's the best sunset ever and all
of harvest to have this sunset be the last day of harvest 2021
is just incredible i'm here with brett parker and janie from parker harvest i'm here with
nora as well and do you drive combine yes that is awesome you love it me too i drive combine also
yeah it's fun heck yes that's a lot of fun when the family can be involved uncle chris just got
out of the tractor and i am going to be seating for the first time ever by myself i'm so excited
i did it
all these cows came running in to drink water at the reservoir so that's kind of crazy we
don't know whose cows they are we are officially done with 2021 seating today is super exciting
because i have learned how to drive a bale i cannot believe i'm driving a bailout right now
what's amazing about this whole experience is i was in this exact
field combining now i'm bailing my straw rows that were behind my comb
this is like the race car you can go six miles now
it is crazy so now we've got all four balers in the same field which is incredible
this new john deere tractor to the farm is a 6195 r and it has a 680r loader on it
so it is very cool today i am in ontario canada i'm going to be showing you a cranberry operation
i am in the cranberry plunge right now with all of the cranberries this is what they look like
up close wet picking it's it's a lot of fun uh dry picking is a lot more labor intensive so
it's it's very tiring and it was a pleasure touring your cranberry farm that's great
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luncheon and uh what better way to learn from that next generation an agriculture producer
and business owner our next speaker is a analyst in farm fashion Kate Stephens
is a 17 year old fourth generation farmer i'm very excited for this opportunity to
learn from a great up-and-comer let's give her a big round of applause Kate Stephens
hello my name is Kate Stephens i am the founder and owner of Kate's Ag a farm
to fashion i would like to thank you for the opportunity to be able to speak to you today