hello welcome to Kate's Ag i am officially back on our Montana farm
as you've noticed i have been uploading videos in different parts of the world and i have been
traveling and exploring various agricultural operations to learn about how food is produced
in different areas and also share the stories of other farmers and producers because it's not
just all about montana agriculture there's so much more happening and i think it's
incredible that i have the opportunity to be able to share local farming stories everywhere
so now that i'm officially back i'd like to say in this video you'll see me on my first
day back on the farm i just finished disking today and it was really interesting being
back in a big tractor in a long time it's sort of like riding a bicycle but not quite
because i definitely needed a refresher i would also like to say a huge thank you to my family
i really appreciate all of your support and i just wouldn't be able to do it without you
thank you to my wonderful subscribers you mean the world to me and i am so thankful
for all of your support and extremely happy to be back now i'm going to grab my bag
and head down to the pickup truck
in today's video i will also be giving you a crop update and showing you some of our crops
and how we've been affected by the massive drought i'm now in the pickup truck with dad
and how do you feel about me being back on the farm i'm really super happy Kate
i love your enthusiasm yeah it means a lot
i'm sure it does so we're driving back to have dinner with grandpa and could you tell me a little
bit about the situation with the crops and the drought it's been my first time seeing the crops
in quite a while but it's looked the thinnest that i've ever seen any of the harvests in my
time yeah it's pretty thin it didn't rain hardly none so they didn't grow very good
but the weeds grew okay the weeds always grow well yes they seem to be pretty happy so we
were in a drought last year and we had maybe below average crops would you also say yeah it just got
hot and dry at the end last time yeah so spring wheat was really bad um winter we wasn't too bad
but those are our neighbors but we are experiencing a much worse situation this
year and that is something that farmers do prepare for although when you have such high
spray costs and fertilizer costs and farming becomes much more expensive
you don't and you don't get much crop it really is tough to keep going yes it's tough Kate
no it's just inputs are high and and yields are low you know not for everybody but it was
a tougher year probably for most people yes i'm looking at all the crops around and it's they're
just not doing very well so it's very sad um here we have some wheat growing which i can show you
and it's damp it's so sparse that it's almost non-existent i mean and then you have fuel
costs of harvest to go through and pick this stuff up and when you have such small swaths
it's really hard to get it off the ground so i highly doubt that there's much that's going
to be harvested here in that field yeah in some places it'll be okay
it won't be good it'll be you know so we're really excited up there oh yeah there are there
i'm sure the baby deer is right next to me in some so we're really hoping for better years
in the future um because we have not gotten a lot of moisture in past years dry land farming
really dry land yes it is very dry land we don't have any irrigation so we don't water our crops
at all other than mother nature yes she waters them yes yeah she just hasn't watered them that
much this year there was a lightning strike up there kate yeah i saw that earlier i don't see
any smoke though so here's the elevator right here also we had to reseed quite a bit as well
because some of it just didn't come up or grow so that's an additional cost as well yes and it
didn't grow any better after we receded it either so we've just briefly started swathing today
um i'm disking the field and to hopefully prepare it for our fall seeding or deer oh yeah there are
more deer maybe that one has the baby it looks like there's something underneath it
i don't know it's hard to do now i'm in the house with grandpa are you happy to have me back yes
really happy to get you back i'm happy to be back too okay but you went back and going right to work
yes jump on the tractor i just took a day off well that's my favorite thing to do to run the tractor
yes well actually the combine tractor might be second place what do you say dad boy it's all so
much fun i just don't know which one is more fun well we could have sent a combine with you over to
Denmark you could have drove it around that would have made me very happy well i'll be hard anyway
did you have a good time in bench in Denmark yes i did very much so did you learn any Danish words
i'm not sure i could say that why i can tell you something go ahead airport ...
airplane flew meschine oh he's just making that stuff up oh you're fluent dad car bill benzene
um dog hunter things like that i think he's just making it up
i think i don't think he knows well i don't think you know what the truth is
i was videoing agricultural operations in Denmark and that's where my great grandfather is from
and he came to Montana in 1912 and homesteaded our farm when did you see the house yes i did
so those videos will be coming soon you didn't find any any relatives over there no not i did
see a church with a graveyard that had jetson names but they may be distant relatives i'm not
sure he didn't ever say much he didn't hardly ever say anything about we give him a we sent
him a camera a polaroid camera and we sent it with him and showed him how to run it but he never took
one picture not one kind of mad about it but he didn't he didn't i don't know why he went over
there and i visited with the Tuft family which are very good friends of you grandpa so that was very
nice and a huge thank you well it was a very nice trip to visit with the friends that i've heard
lots of stories about and um it was very very nice did Jens tell you some stories lots of stories
actually some of the same stories you've told me so that was extremely neat to
see and hear how would you say the crops are being affected here in Montana i just come back from the
field from down north and that Chris is that chickpeas down there yeah there is practically
nothing there it isn't even worth cutting this is yeah yeah i there's nothing there there ain't even
worth cutting he should have tore it up or sprayed it out you should just get him to come zero it out
well i drove through the middle of a drove up one side of it
there's nothing that's really sad do chickpeas require more water than wheat yeah oh about
two-thirds of it never even come up some of it's coming up with about three or four inches high
yikes but he could he could run around the field and cut a few bushels maybe but i don't know
that that is really short stuff well this would be hard to cut that oh yeah i know i got a sample out
there but there's a lot of it's a lot of it's sprouted later it's about three or four inches
now you couldn't cut it if you wanted to thank you so much for watching today's video and i hope you
enjoyed the little update on being back on the farm make sure to like and subscribe okay bye
bye so here we're coming up to the farm Prius and the farm Prius had a little accident didn't it dad
yeah it had a flat tire on the side of the road
so now it's parked with like a little hitch right or what do you call that a jack yeah
what is this dad a torrential downpour
yeah like what is it five raindrops on the window
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