I'm here at Lennox Farms with Brian during Brussels sprout Harvest so
this is incredible thank you so much yeah you're welcome these are brussels sprouts
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PTO so it runs our grain vacculator which sucks the wheat out of the grain bin and augers it into
the truck so that we can load the truck and haul our wheat to the elevator to sell and that's what
I'm going to be doing today is Trucking again we will be hauling winter wheat it's a very cold day
here in Montana but it's not windy so that's just a miracle RC Hi how are you doing I'm great thank
you yeah how's your day been well pretty good today it's windy blowing welcome to Kate's Ag I'm
here at the Montana Farmers Union Booth with Rachel at the Maggie which is an Ag industry Expo
where people from all over Central Montana come to connect with other people in the agricultural
industry lots of folks are stopping by we've got our ATV simulator that we're talking to kids about
for safety oh and then we're also just talking to ranchers and producers anyone who wants to
chat with us and go to the side away from me so to lean towards yep now we're gonna go this way and
you're going to lean the other way great awesome so Kate's an expert now for ATVs well thank you
very much for all of the incredible training yeah I'm here at the Montana State University extension
Booth which is very exciting with Adrian good and you're going to be explaining a little bit about
how important MSU Extension is yeah for sure I am in Agricultural and 4-H Extension agent in
Ponderay County which is Conrad MSU Extension is a source for information regarding everything from
agriculture to gardening to water quality canning estate planning all sorts of things and we are
present in every County in Montana and you have so much fantastic information and we actually went
out soil sampling and I learned so much about the composition of the soil and how important it is
yeah we do have a lot of information we do tons of different things hello welcome to Kate's Ag today
I am in Denver Colorado at low Dough Bakery on the dairy block which is very exciting and we're going
to be taking a tour and learning all about the bakery now we are going to head inside the bakery
I am now inside the bakery with yon the owner of Lodo Bakery which is very awesome so thank you so
much could you give me an overview of what you do here yeah so our main business is uh we are
wholesale Bakery with a small batch storefront in our small batch storefront concentrates on local
organic grains that's phenomenal yeah so we get all of our flour freshly milled every week up in
Boulder and bring it down here and then make some delicious sourdough that you can see right behind
us there you go wow thank you absolutely oh my goodness this looks so delicious I cannot wait
I don't think I've ever had better bread in my life
right here I'm gonna let off the brakes put it in neutral
to pull this truck body into the center of this post to the box right now the
elevator is taking a sample of the grain we're bringing in and reach
up in there and see if you can find that card thing somewhere
okay you got a green light you gotta go catch the non-linking thing so thank you
yeah I'm going to tell you to clutch and you're gonna have to neutral to get out clutch okay
stuff we gotta back out of this remember what I told you about this Center okay you're gonna
have to get out of this okay and cards and just get out I gotta move this truck you can't do this
yeah we're here with him just tell them we got it back the truck out a little bit
to back the truck up a bit we're going this way you're not opening a break
today I'm here at an apple orchard in Ontario Canada with Greg Ardell partner
in Ardell Acres limited and you're going to be sharing a little bit about your family
operation and your apple orchard yeah that's right so we uh my dad my brother
and I all farm together here in the southern Georgia Bay Area of Ontario we grow about 330
Acres of Orchard about half high density half standard one up and down the louder every tree
so it uses a uh oh wow Auto steer yeah so it uses the vision system to
uh they got the road with so they can steer himself in different roads so that the apples
come in they're loaded gently down and it automatically adjust the knife on the
height of the fruit in the bin so it's never bruising anything wow ingredients
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today I am here with John Ardell Apple grower and one of the family owners of bay Growers storage
and packing so we are going to be touring the facility today which is very exciting and thank
you so much you're very welcome okay good luck a lot of it's all automated um something we kind of
work towards is uh using different robots and things like that little apples come in here
they're submerged in water because water is the safest way to transport the fruit so it doesn't
bruise because apples are so susceptible to bruising yes so the bin submerges and
the apples travel down through this fuming system it's called a pre-sort system which is a series of
blooms that you see over here and the apples are all sorted by size and color and great travel down
here they go into this Vision system which takes about 60 pictures of each apple and makes a 3D
image and it detects any uh defect in the apple or anything like that any barring on the skin
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hello welcome to Kate's Ag this is a very exciting weekend I'm at the national Farmers
Union convention with Montana Farmers Union and I'm so happy and excited to be here so I hope to
take you along and show how important it is to advocate for Family Farms I will also be
speaking on the engaging the next generation of Agriculture panel which is very exciting and an
honor so thank you so much for the opportunity and I'm so happy to be here and show you along
mentioned with Philip Pruitt who is a youth delegate with Montana Farmers Union which is
so amazing and you're going to tell me a little bit about your experience with Farmers Union
and here at the National Convention so far yeah so today is our first actual day at the
National Convention and we've had a really good start this is a great way especially as a youth
delegate to get involved in the AG community and the policies that affect young agriculture yes
young agriculturists you know they're really the next step into farming I mean it's not going to be
long and I'll be farming on my own and and that's something that I really am passionate about I'm
here with commissioner Greenberg of Colorado and you are truly an inspiration because you're the
first woman Commissioner of Colorado and this is awesome so thank you so much thanks for being here
could you uh explain to me your background about agriculture so I grew up in Minnesota both in the
city and Out in the Country in farm country I wasn't raised on a farm I actually started
farming when I moved out west and ever since then I've been in agriculture worked on various
Farms worked on natural resources in the U.S and Mexico and then got into policy with the national
young Farmers Coalition that's amazing and here a Pharmacy Union member as well what has been your
favorite part about being involved in agriculture uh the people the work we get to do the policy is
fascinating and it affects every person's lives across the country across the world so the work
that we do is fundamental it matters and the people working to shape it are just incredible
I'm here with the founder farmer and chief of sprout City Farms which is just incredible could
you share with me a little bit more about your farm and I'll actually be touring it today yes
I'm so glad you can make it out there when we got started I mean Sprout City farms in general
um got started in 2009 2010 and we just had this Vision that there is so much underutilized land
in urban centers in Denver especially what can we do with that let's really like there's a lot
of communities in cities that need more access to Green Space and nature and places to connect with
each other and their neighbors let's use Farms as a platform for not only food security and
food sovereignty but social cohesion and ways for people to connect with each other within
an acre we're able to supply food to about 70 households every year or every season we also
Supply food to the farm it's a school cafeteria program we donate to the food pantry and then
we also set up Farm stands kind of around the community to really try to get our food out
there as much as possible that's fantastic and the students are also able to come and help Farm
oh my goodness
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oh wow this is about to get fun [Music]
it's definitely going by a lot faster now
this is the good kind of fire that we like not the ones we don't start [Music]
it's really well contained too today I'm here in Ontario Canada with Phil French of Lennox Farms
the same farm that I got to see Brussels sprout Harvest at so this is just incredible thank you
and now you're going to be showing me rhubarb Harvest yep we've been wearing rhubarb for uh
four generations of my family I've been doing it for 45 years I've averaged around 18 to 24 inches
so anything less than 18 inches we leave for next Wednesday basically
if it's still if it's longer than up above my elbow I'll pick it
we're picking picking on the average every four to five days cruise at least an inch a day hello
welcome to Kate's Ag today I'm here in Ontario Canada at windley farms maple syrup with Peter
lorman that's awesome and we've done this for 30 years we'll take you from the beginning of the sap
in the Sugar Shack to the to the final product so we have two tanks the tank on the left is
the concentrate at eight percent and it goes into our evaporator just boiling the water off foreign
vacuator which is basically like a big vacuum to stuff the wheat out of the grain bin which
then augers it up into the trucks so that you can load your semi truck it's super fun to use and a
really fantastic piece of machinery for the farm because it can completely empty the bin
now I'm on the road again which is my favorite part I feel that I'm getting a little bit better
at driving the semi truck maybe not quite good enough to do it on my own but definitely more
comfortable and especially with the clutch there's a feel for it and I'm starting to
understand what my dad means by that I am driving the black semi truck today which is so much more
fun than driving the tandems although I do enjoy both I just have to really watch out
on quarters more because I have a much longer trailer and the semi truck is so much heavier
now this drill is called an air drill and what that means is it uses air to push the seed into
the ground and you're not tilling up the field other drills and the traditional method was to
till up the field so it still looks like there's some that hasn't been rolled it ends right here
though now I'm rotating back down well I guess it's not roading because I'm still rolling but
I'm going back down to the other end of the field to start my next official don't pass
I had an awesome flight with my dad so thank you Dad oh no so
I lifted the Implement out of the ground because I saw a metal piece
in the field that's really bad I wasn't seeding that whole portion of the field
sure I walk myself through everything that I have to do on the corner beforehand so that
when everything's coming at me fast I can make good decisions and keep the drill running and
make a good pass coming back so I just got a notification on the screen and that means I'm
about to come up to my head wall and a head wall is basically the part that's been seated that you
make your turn in I have some very exciting news to share with you today I am honored to
be the youngest person who has been nominated and received the Aspire award for women entrepreneurs
in the Golden Triangle region of Montana for the past two years I have been designing an advanced
contemporary handbag line focusing on Bridging the Gap between farmers and consumers through
fashion because not only food starts on a farm but also all of your natural fashion products
hello welcome to Kate's Ag today I'm here in Barrie Ontario with Morris Gervais owner of
Berry Hill Farms and you are going to be teaching me all about strawberry Harvest which is very very
interesting thank you yeah you're welcome this is an incredible operation you have here well thank
you it's uh it's we've been doing it here for a long time we've been growing fruits and vegetables
since uh exclusively fruits and vegetables since the early 1980s and uh yeah we're happy growing
healthy food for people you cannot get it any fresher than picking it and off the bush and
taking it right home so people really love it they really do enjoy connecting to their food
and I think it's really important that people you know are aware of where the food comes from in
incredible well I will definitely be back to pick strawberries awesome so here they come
all the boxes are scanned right
right and production and quality control and traceability that is very
very today so thank you thanks for having us might
get you a t-shirt you'll be part of the family here oh well I can't wait
it's a nice red stock we do have a green variety that we use for the forcing in the winter time now
I'm going to try picking rhubarb kind of twist yep slide your hand down a stalk and twist and pull
oh wow this is a bit tougher because we've had more rain so
if it's moister it's easier to pick wow this is super cool
today I'm here with Kevin vanderkoy a research technician at the University of Guelph and
today we are in Ontario Canada at the hall and Marsh and you are going to be explaining to me
everything you do here which is so incredible thank you thank you welcome yeah so we work
at the University of Guelph mostly on carrots and onions and a few other minor crops celery lettuce
we do a little bit of coal crop work and things like that and we're gonna go and have a look
at the different soil type that we have here and just go through some of the crops that we uh that
we grow so what crop are we looking at right now so here we're looking at a crop of head lettuce
that we grew from transplant so it's about four weeks old and maybe about
two or three weeks from Harvest right now so this soil as I said earlier is beta made
up of organic material it was a marsh so it's basically decomposed plant material
the swather with Uncle Chris so thank you Uncle Chris
you've already experienced that well yes last year which was quite fun everything's the same
accept the carpet that's good this year so this is the first pass in a new field today
I have some very exciting news to share with you I am launching t-shirts that are
both made and grown in the U.S they're my dad goes this looks a little better
but it's totally horrible this combine is cleaning the wheat fairly well while my
combine is cooling down I'll say goodbye thank you so much for watching today's video bye thank you
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