00:00 hello welcome to Kate's AG
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00:12 you gotta look at this big picture line
00:15 you can't look at just anything you
00:17 gotta look here there
00:20 what's happening here like drifting in
00:21 am i drifting out
00:23 okay start your turn about now
00:27 or r r
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00:53 just wait wait don't don't break unless
00:55 you're out okay
00:58 this is the part of the field that got
01:00 burned and you can watch that video in
01:02 my massive field fire video it burned
01:04 about 100 acres of our stubble field
01:07 this is the part that didn't burn and
01:08 we're just seeding into the part that
01:10 burned where they came in was this Kate
01:13 to put the fire out because that's where
01:15 the fire was so they got in front and if
01:17 they wouldn't have these discs here we'd
01:19 have to move the combines and let it
01:21 burn the fuel yes
01:24 that would have been very bad it burned
01:25 around probably a thousand acres and
01:28 because the stubble's not in the part of
01:30 the field that burned it's really
01:32 important we seedd to hopefully prevent
01:34 the wind from blowing all the dirt away
01:37 which was very common in the dust bowl
01:39 days
01:40 that's why there's stubble here instead
01:43 of that's why we do no-till because of
01:46 how much wind we get and
01:48 the amount of dirt that will blow away
01:51 it also does save moisture which we
01:53 don't get much of
01:54 so this is the part that someone discs
01:57 and then that up there you can see the
01:59 stubble
02:00 is black and burnt
02:02 well you can see the individual seeded
02:05 marks gate where the black lines are
02:08 yeah that's where it got that was the
02:10 seeded weight last year
02:12 we are planting winter wheat right now
02:14 and that's really all you plant
02:16 and the rest of our crops will be
02:18 planted in April which would be spring
02:20 wheat and
02:22 barley chickpeas lentils so all the
02:26 pulse crops there's the antelope in the
02:29 field
02:30 very cool
02:36 now i have to go down and help Austin
02:39 line the truck up
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02:49 the seed
02:50 tank
02:51 full of seed
02:53 the fertilizer truck won't start so we
02:55 have to go and see what's going on
02:58 austin's driving the seed truck away
03:00 they work or they don't they start
03:02 sometimes they don't start other times
03:04 so the truck started that is fantastic
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03:28 this is the field that
03:31 we are seeding this is the burned area
03:33 you can see how kind of where it burned
03:35 in the coulee and also all over here
03:39 okay Kate see that bar down there
03:42 yeah close to grab a hold that lift that
03:44 up put it in its cradle really you gotta
03:47 push forward while you're doing it
04:00 what do i do
04:06 like pull down on this
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04:18 i did it
04:19 you told me i couldn't
04:24 okay
04:26 i don't know that was pretty good
04:28 so um i cannot believe i just did that
04:34 so this is the auger
04:36 auger off
04:37 fan on wait for it to go up
04:40 bring the rpms up a little bit now i'm
04:43 going to go check to see if any of my
04:44 boots are plugged
04:50 i'm zeroing out the acres in my tank
04:53 right now this is how many i did since
04:56 last time i filled
04:57 put my steering wheel down i'm going to
04:59 close the auger hydraulic and the fan
05:02 hydraulics so i don't accidentally press
05:04 those put this in i'm in
05:07 eighth gear so i'm going to take it back
05:09 to fifth bring the rpms up a little bit
05:12 let it out and i'm off now i'm going to
05:15 gear up to eight and bring my rpms up a
05:19 little bit and now i'm driving back to
05:21 where my pass was my dad has to go do
05:23 some other farm work now so
05:25 i am doing the drill all by myself dad
05:28 picked somewhere kind of in the middle
05:29 of the field and we seeded there so i'm
05:32 working the east side of this field and
05:34 darcy's doing this field and then he'll
05:36 come over and work the west side i'm
05:39 putting my drill in the ground right now
05:42 and i'm now on the way it is around 1 40
05:45 pm so i think i'm going to have lunch
05:48 right now thank you to theVicarri family
05:51 so much for the lunchbox today i have a
05:55 kale salad that's my favorite lunch to
05:58 have on combine or tractor then i also
06:01 packed a fork oh i'm going to bring my
06:04 rpms back up to 1880.
06:07 did you get your plow in early enough
06:09 yes i did okay are you on guidance check
06:12 your tab check your meter and just do
06:14 what we did over and over again
06:17 yes i did and that's all looking great
06:19 thank you
06:20 remember when you get to this corner on
06:22 your passes things are going to get a
06:24 little
06:25 stupider feeling but you should have
06:26 plenty of room to turn around get mined
06:29 out drop your plow in plenty earlier yes
06:32 van
06:38 and then always recheck that it's in the
06:40 ground all the way you know don't plank
06:42 it but push it down yes it's in the
06:44 ground okay and you're not showing any
06:46 hydraulic flow to that auger right
06:48 correct on the gauge you know what i
06:51 mean right yes i know exactly exactly
06:54 what you mean it just shows the one bar
06:56 not the several
06:58 okay
06:59 my dad's going through my checklist with
07:01 me to make sure everything's going well
07:03 which i'm very thankful for and that
07:05 he's taken the time to teach me how to
07:07 run this drill
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07:18 i'm slowing down because there's a big
07:20 rock right here and i want to make sure
07:22 it goes through so i'm just watching it
07:25 and it went through so i'm going to
07:27 speed back up again rocks are always
07:29 things you have to be very careful of
07:31 this field right here is
07:34 320 acres so that is half of a section
07:38 and a section is 640 acres and a quarter
07:42 is 160. so most fields you'll see are a
07:45 quarter section take your time in about three
07:48 hours or three and a half is when you're
07:50 gonna need to fill again okay okay i
07:53 should have to fill it around five i
07:56 usually keep my radio over here because
07:58 it's so hard to pull off this
08:10 it's very very nice to have auto steer
08:13 and auto steer is also great because if
08:16 you're not super good at watching the
08:19 line and no one can be exactly perfect
08:22 don't want to double seed too much and
08:24 not just costs a little bit extra each
08:26 pass i'm coming up to the end of my pass
08:29 so i'm just going to continue straight
08:31 until
08:32 i'm positive that my
08:35 drill has passed now oh i didn't need to
08:38 do that
08:39 now i lifted my drill up
08:42 make a turn here and then you always
08:44 have to unsteer your turns
08:47 otherwise the tractor will keep winding
08:49 up i turned a little too far let's see
08:52 line up to guidance press my
08:54 auto steer button drop the implement and
08:57 now i'll just look and check my coverage
09:00 so 63 pounds of wheat an acre and 101
09:04 pounds of fertilizer which it should be
09:05 100 but it fluctuates a little bit and
09:07 then i check to make sure everything is
09:09 good
09:10 my fan speed rpm and it all looks great
09:14 very delicious
09:16 as you can see this part right here was
09:18 disked when the fire was happening this
09:22 is the part i've seeded
09:24 and then that is the burn stubble you
09:26 can see it really well here this is
09:27 where the disc was this is where the
09:29 fire burned and that's where i seeded
09:31 and then up there the fire didn't burn
09:33 my uncle Chris has an app on his phone
09:35 where he drove around the entire area
09:38 that was burned and he figured it came
09:39 out to be about a hundred acres of our
09:41 stubble field that ended up burning in
09:43 the at least one thousand acre fire
09:46 actually some of our neighbors wheat up
09:48 here that borders this field burned also
09:50 which is really sad so that's a little
09:52 fire update and if you haven't seen my
09:54 fire video definitely go check it out
09:56 it's called massive Montana field fire
09:59 Darcy is filling his drill right now
10:05 now i am making a turn and starting my
10:08 next path because we are seeding at a
10:11 three degree angle the pass starts to
10:13 get a little weird once you get closer
10:15 to the end as you can see the field
10:17 gradually gets wider and on my guidance
10:21 pass here the gray is where i'm missing
10:23 so i'm barely missing right here and i
10:26 will be a lot more at the top i won't
10:29 have to go all the way back to the end
10:30 again but i will have to go back far
10:32 enough to pick up that skip an area i
10:35 missed
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10:44 this area right here is a water hole
10:46 where none of the wheat grew the last
10:49 time we planted it and then you see the
10:51 stubble come back and the wheat probably
10:53 won't grow there again this year either
10:55 my passes aren't lining up very well
10:57 because i'm on this angle i have a lot
11:00 of overlap at the end of my pass and
11:02 then right here i have a huge gap still
11:05 lift it up make a turn i don't go more
11:07 than 90 degrees with the
11:10 tractor because that will wind the drill
11:13 up too much and i'll hit the hitch with
11:16 the back of my wheel i got that gun
11:18 inside perfectly now i'm driving back to
11:20 the end of the field again to
11:23 finish seeding the last part i just
11:26 shifted up a couple gears because i
11:27 don't want to go super slow over there
11:30 i'm hoping that this is the last pass i
11:32 have to do on this
11:34 to clean up this end i'm using my screen
11:37 for a bit of reference although it's not
11:39 fully accurate on where you seated
11:43 it looks like i will i'm not 100
11:46 positive yet i'm pretty sure though and
11:49 i did not make it so i will have to
11:51 circle around i finished everything so
11:53 you want me to just move up to kind of
11:56 where i started and work from the middle
11:58 to the other end yes
12:00 that's exactly what i want so just take
12:02 it right
12:03 on that end now i'm coming up to
12:06 the other half of the field and darcy's
12:08 working one side and then i'll work the
12:11 other side
12:12 see if i'll be lined up i might not so i
12:15 finished the west half of the field now
12:18 i'm starting in the middle where my dad
12:20 split it darcy's doing the over
12:23 there but he'll eventually work east to
12:25 west and then we'll meet somewhere in
12:27 the middle on my last pass i actually
12:29 noticed that i was skipping about six
12:33 inches
12:34 so i wasn't seeding in any overlap
12:36 whatsoever i was actually missing some
12:38 but on my screen it still told me i was
12:41 overlapping my dad told me that he
12:44 noticed that in his sprayer
12:46 not very often but sometimes in the
12:48 afternoons the gps is a little bit off
12:52 so i'm really watching that now i
12:54 wouldn't have noticed if if it wasn't
12:56 for this burned part because this is
12:58 where i can really see the edge as you
13:00 can see it is overlapping slightly now
13:04 so it's okay but i'm making sure to pay
13:06 close attention to it i am making the
13:09 turn for my very last pass of the day
13:12 it has been a wonderful day seating i
13:15 definitely put quite a few hours in the
13:17 drill today so i'm feeling even better
13:20 about it and just a little bit more
13:22 comfortable i think it'll just take time
13:25 and i'll continue getting a better feel
13:26 for everything i did quite a bit of hand
13:29 driving also so that's something that is
13:32 important for me to learn when you get
13:34 up here
13:37 dad just told darcy to stay in his cab
13:39 because there's a bazillion flying ants
13:41 and you said they'd bite that sounds not
13:43 very good there's a rock here i'm just
13:45 going to slow down for a little bit and
13:48 watch it go through the machine and i
13:49 think it went through so i'll speed back
13:51 up
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14:00 i'm running about 5.2 5.3 miles an hour
14:04 i am seeding around 33.6 acres an hour
14:07 my dad just said we are not filling the
14:09 drills tonight we'll fill them tomorrow
14:11 morning i have been really enjoying
14:13 learning how to drive the drill i've got
14:14 my key take tote bag here in the cab
14:16 with me it's got a wheat design of a
14:19 picture of swath wheat taken at harvest
14:21 and this wheat was winter wheat that i
14:23 took the picture of and that's what
14:25 we're planting in the ground today so
14:27 just one step in the process to put food
14:29 on everyone's table thank you so much
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15:10 thank you so much for watching bye
15:13 well i really hope you enjoyed today's
15:14 video i am headed out of the tractor now
15:17 gotta grab my Kate's Ag tote bag of
15:20 course i think i need to bring a second
15:21 one in the tractor i'll set my gloves
15:24 here for tomorrow or maybe i'll bring my
15:26 gloves with me sometimes i need them
15:27 other places all right i'm shutting the
15:29 tractor off now
15:32 today's day of seating is officially
15:34 over it's 6 30. sometimes we go a lot
15:37 later but this evening we're not so i'm
15:39 very excited
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