00:00 hello welcome to Kate's Ag
00:02 [Music]
00:12 Darcy's drill broke down I don't know
00:14 what happened to it but uncle Chris was
00:16 working on it and fixed it and then
00:18 filled it up with seed and fertilizer
00:20 and moved it to this field so now uncle
00:22 Chris and Darcy switched again
00:24 and uncle Chris is driving the flex coil
00:27 so I'm just waiting in the pickup till
00:29 he gets down here and I'll hop in the
00:32 tractor and hopefully drive this field
00:34 has a lot of power lines so that's not
00:36 something I have a lot of experience
00:38 with or any experience really we are in
00:40 a new field so we're going to set a new
00:42 a b line which is just the gps line so
00:45 that the tractor will steer itself down
00:47 the field
00:50 we have to make a turn and come back
00:52 into our path because that's a big clump
00:54 of straw
00:56 that was plugging the drill up that's
00:58 one of the reasons farmers use a heavy
01:01 harrow to help spread that out which we
01:03 didn't this year uncle Chris got out of
01:06 the drill and now it's just me because
01:09 my head wall here is a little curved i
01:11 have to wait until this side fully
01:13 clears the unseeded area
01:18 I pushed auto steer in set my drill down
01:22 I have about
01:24 three bars of seed two bars now I'm just
01:28 going to keep going until i need to fill
01:30 then i'll come back in the field there
01:31 is a lot of extra straw in this field
01:34 and usually we would heavy harrow it but
01:37 we didn't this summer
01:39 and it's starting to kind of plug the
01:41 drills a little bit so i have to really
01:44 watch the implement a lot of times the
01:46 areas in the field with big clumps of
01:48 straw are where the combine stopped and
01:50 all the straw came out in one place my
01:52 seat swivels
01:54 got it pushed this way so that I can
01:56 easily look out the window and watch the
01:59 implement because it's especially
02:01 important in this field due to the
02:03 excess straw uncle Chris is helping
02:06 Austin our employee moved the fertilizer
02:08 and seed trucks over here so that when
02:11 Darcy and i run out of seed we're able
02:13 to fill and I guess fertilizer as well
02:16 I'll run out a lot before darcy because
02:19 Darcy was seeding in this drill in this
02:21 field about two hours earlier
02:24 because the john deere drill wasn't
02:26 working
02:27 it had a shear bolt that broke on the
02:29 top
02:29 [Music]
02:34 I usually start my 90-degree turn before
02:38 I pick the equipment up and then I'll
02:41 drive straight for a little while and
02:43 turn into my
02:45 guidance pass
02:46 that was a little bit tight but it
02:48 worked out this is an air drill
02:51 meaning
02:52 the way the seed goes into the ground is
02:54 it's pushed by air so the seed and
02:57 fertilizer tanks are pressurized and
03:00 have air pushing through the hoses to
03:02 get the seed out you have to have a fan
03:04 on that and that's running
03:07 4050 rpm going 5.1 miles an hour in
03:11 eighth gear little bump in the field
03:13 there got a pretty big rock coming up so
03:16 I'm just going to lower my rpm a little
03:18 bit and flow down I like to watch it go
03:20 through the drill to make sure it
03:22 doesn't get stuck anywhere I'm really
03:24 loving seeding you can put different
03:26 types of fertilizer down depending on
03:28 the soil test you've done on your soil
03:29 and what your soil is deficient in as
03:32 well as what variety of wheat do you
03:34 have a specific type of weeds
03:37 in your field that need a specific
03:39 variety of wheat so you can spray
03:41 something different on them to kill that
03:43 weed there's lots of different things
03:44 that you have to think about seeding so
03:46 many different variables that go into
03:48 farming we want to try and control as
03:50 many as we can
03:52 [Music]
03:58 I do have to say I absolutely love
04:01 having auto steer Darcy is doing the
04:04 other half of the field and I'm set on a
04:08 270 av line meaning I'm headed west
04:11 right now so north is zero east is 90
04:15 south is 180 so that's what we were
04:17 doing in the other field because we were
04:19 going north to south and then west is
04:22 270. and usually we always see the
04:24 fields north to south but
04:27 this field is longer east to west so
04:29 that's why we're seeding this direction
04:32 Darcy's working on the north half of the
04:34 field and I'm working on the south half
04:37 the north half has all of the power
04:39 lines and Darcy's actually doing one of
04:41 those now I will have probably two power
04:44 lines maybe there's six in this field so
04:47 Darcy would have the other four I've got
04:50 my gloves and radio over here when i put
04:53 my radio back on its mount it is so hard
04:57 to get it off I have to just squeeze the
04:59 button and talk from a distance because
05:02 it is super challenging remove from
05:05 there so I just keep it down here
05:11 Darcy already did the really close pass
05:14 around the power line I should just have
05:16 to drive past it I am right under the
05:19 power line now and
05:21 that's not usually very fun I've got my
05:24 Kate's Ag tote bag here in the cab with me
05:26 it holds lots of different things i
05:28 usually have my gloves in it too but
05:30 today they're sitting right here this is
05:31 what it looks like outside my front
05:33 window seeding I've got my monitor for
05:36 the tractor here and it shows where I'm
05:37 seeded which is the dark blue and then i
05:40 have my monitor for my implement
05:43 all of these controls here lots of them
05:46 my steering wheel
05:48 and this is what it looks like out the
05:50 back of the window now uncle Chris is
05:52 backing the truck up we're filling seed
05:55 first that's my first tank right there
05:58 so I just have to
06:00 help him line up now I'm going to the
06:02 top of the
06:04 fertilizer and seed tank
06:07 to help the seed come in and just kind
06:09 of watch it
06:11 [Music]
06:20 here's my drill it's 57 feet long
06:24 [Music]
06:32 the truck with the red stripes is
06:34 actually the truck I drove to Sunburst
06:37 and hauled malt barley in
06:40 i also stalled it out right over the pit
06:42 so
06:43 it took us over half an hour to get it
06:45 started again it was one of the first
06:48 tandem trucks i ever learned to drive
06:50 and now it's our fertilizer truck today
06:53 it has lots of different uses on the
06:55 farm these two tanks are fertilizer this
06:58 one's seed the truck backs up to this
07:01 hopper which is just a bucket basically
07:03 like this
07:05 and is it's augered up through here
07:08 into whichever tank you move this auger
07:10 into
07:17 [Music]
07:25 now I'm going to go check my boots
07:34 I'm good
07:35 yup
07:36 I just filled my tank with the great
07:39 help of uncle Chris so thank you now i
07:41 am driving back to where I was I'm just
07:44 double checking everything to make sure
07:46 I'm going to
07:49 be good when I get ready to start
07:51 seeding
07:52 checking my hydraulics making sure the
07:54 auger isn't running
07:56 double checking that I turn my fan on
07:58 which is super important that's what
08:01 blows the seed into the ground through
08:03 the hoses
08:04 I'm clearing my acreage on my tank
08:08 I select the tank and then I press minus
08:13 for five seconds so now my tanks are
08:16 clear
08:18 I picked the wrong one that's okay
08:20 just gotta do another corner
08:27 [Music]
08:34 Kate lift it out of the ground you wanted to go straight
08:36 You want to just pick up your line there 08:40 Ok you have to circle back
around here 08:44 I know I had a small skip
that was a little bit of a challenge it 08:47
was a successful pull Darcy had already 08:49
cut them out I just had to go around 08:51
them it's a little confusing 08:53
but i think i'll do better the next one 08:55
although i think Darcy's pass is the 08:58
next 08:59
full so we'll see if i get another one 09:01
this field oh big bumble bee outside the 09:04
window oh that's fantastic 09:06
we are just finishing up this field 09:08
there's probably 09:10
four passes left Darcy is very close to 09:13
me now well not super close but he's 09:15
right on the other side of me so that's 09:17
pretty exciting 09:19
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it's around five o'clock so i definitely 09:27
won't have to fill again tonight which 09:30
will be nice we usually end seeding 09:32
around 6 30 or 7 although there are some 09:35
nights that will go till nine it really 09:37
just depends on what's going to happen 09:39
with the weather and how much we have 09:41
left and how much seed we have 09:44
I don't think Austin's back with the new 09:46
semi-truck full of seeds so we won't 09:48
have enough to continue going after we 09:51
become empty I am starting my new 09:54
line 09:55
that was close 09:58
that was not good 10:00
well that went over pretty well I did 10:02
have a few skips along the power pole 10:03
and i wasn't even the one who seeded 10:05
right next to it but it's all a learning 10:08
curve and i know i will get better with 10:10
time i'm going to slow down a little bit 10:12
because Darcy is 10:14
right up there 10:16
give him some time to go around the 10:18
power pole 10:19
now i'm driving over to the 10:22
lentil field it doesn't have lentils in 10:24
it now but it was the lentils we 10:26
harvested this year 10:28
Kate drive over to the lentils and then come down the lentils
10:32 I just turned the fan off well it was
10:34 another wonderful day seating and i
10:37 learned so much even more comfortable
10:39 with the drill now thank you so much for
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