hello welcome to Kate's Ag 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 in and in order to have your wheat grow really really well your soil
needs to be really really good because that's the start right here we're at grind fertilizer
and that's the company we use for fertilizer and i'm here to show you what it looks like
a semi that's going to our farm our montana farm what it looks like to fill it up with fertilizer
it's still very very snowy out and very cold it's about it was 30 below last night and there's still
lots and lots of snow i'll have to get some good views of the snowy fields i'll even get to ride
in the truck that's spreading the fertilizer in the field i hope you enjoy make sure to
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i'm here with chris from grind fertilizer and he's going to be taking us for a ride
and cutting fertilizer it's going to be super fun so thank you
now the wings of the fertilizer spreader are folding out
field gear turn my auger on you'll see it starting to fill up back there
all right i think we're ready to go you have a huge screen yeah it's nice it's just where
i turn the autosteer on just press the button and i'm good to go and the green says where you
fertilize yeah green shows when it's purple it means it's putting a little a little too
much on when it's red it's not [ __ ] just when you do corners and stuff right yeah
it's a little slick out it is i might have i'm not sure if i'll make it up the
oh my hill oh wow gotta back up
let's turn your fertilizer on and off that turns the fertilizer on and off yeah yeah
very cool i hope i'll make it out this one oh my gosh yes
that's crazy so right now you're spreading the fertilizer and you can hardly see anything
yeah yeah you can really can't really see it coming out of there because it's
white yes white on white do you often spread fertilizer in the snow that's actually the first
first time i've done it was over the last couple weeks i guess when i get it on wait
it's not going to rain or something so they want to get it on the snow what type of fertilizer
are you putting in the ground right now if you're we just did a gentle
going this way and now we're going to do a pass going up here we're going super fast
what's the normal speed you usually go at i usually just try to stay around 20 miles an
hour i'm super fast compared to combine oh yeah and it can really lay down some acres
what would you call this machine it is a longer truck i think is what they call it what kind
is it case ih you gotta make sure you gotta check and make sure that fertilizers still coming out
everything get plugged up especially on days like this right this is where we
spread earlier but we spun out going up the hill
how many acres of fertilizer have you spread today
all of it that's awesome
how much fertilizer does the tank hold it holds around eight tons of sixteen thousand pounds wow
that's what they normally put on anyway other than that i don't want to put too much more than
come off the side yes that would not be very good
all the fields are completely white everywhere
yeah it's kind of hard to tell sometimes where if you're in the right field still but yeah so i
didn't even think about that that's very true yeah so it's just kind of go off the stubble i
guess it changes colors where it's not seated and yeah now we're coming up to the big hill again
yeah it's so i can't see anything yeah it's hard to tell the depth of the hill too yeah and there's
a ditch running through here i think as you can feel it yes i think this is going to be our last
pass
here with vern grind from grind fertilizer and he's going to be teaching us all about fertilizer
yes we're loading a truck right now to go out and put on the winter wheat that has been seeded
already we're making a blend purpose of making a blend is because just like our bodies the plants
need multiple nutrients we've had a soil test done and we're matching the soil test with the
needs of the soil for what the crop yield should be so that's what our purpose is today that's
great thank you why is fertilizer so important just like we eat those plants have to eat and if
the nutrient isn't there they can't be healthy and grow properly and the soil can be deficient
in certain areas and that's what fertilizer does is you put that nutrition nutrition yes
back into the soil just like when we sat down to eat a balanced meal we have our phosphorus
our potassium and our sodium as a balance the soil is needed as well thank you so much
you bet i'm putting the the sulfur in to blend with the nitrogen to make a nitrogen sulfur mix
for top dressing that's amazing and then the scale is controlling what we're putting in
a healthy plant is a prosperous crop along with the moisture yes and it all starts with the ground
the plant grows in so that's so so important in order to have a great harvest that's for sure
and then we need god's blessing with the water yes exactly what time of year is best to put
fertilizer on the best time is when the plants are growing but the multitude of acres that have to be
covered today we have to spread that workload out as much as we can and get it as efficient as it
is possible yes efficiency is very important efficiency is important because the price of
wheat dictates whether we can make a profit if we don't have the proper efficiency of nutrition
then the moisture can't do it as efficient as it needs to that's a great point thank you in
the nutrition field for years and years and years that wasn't paid attention to it we did what dad
did today the profitability of farming is so thin that it needs to be as precise as
possible because with the moisture you have to have the nutrition as close as you can and as
reasonable as you can to make the ultimate crop yes exactly and the amount technology has come
in farming makes it so much easier as well and it's always timing timing timing yes i'm showing
a nutrition table which call a soil test nutrients that we test for to bring a healthy crop variables
in agriculture can come from the different crops that are being raised putting different
nutritions or taking different nutritions out of the soil to create different environments
for the next crop so rotation has become very important in agriculture or the reason of the
uptake of nutrition for an example after a wheat crop raising a pulse crop or a barley crop after
a wheat crop and then a pulse crop yes and cover crop cover crops as well can be used because cover
crops put nutrition in the soil and then you don't have to buy as much attrition to put back in this
in montana we don't always have enough moisture to put a cover crop in and still come back and have
enough moisture to raise a full crop of wheat or barley because we have limited rainfall here yes
and i know that my dad noticed when he planted his chickpeas and then planted wheat he noticed that
the wheat did much better because the chickpeas were great for the soil thank you so much for
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