hello welcome to Kate's Ag today is now our second day of 2022 spring wheat seeding and
it's very exciting i'm going to be in the roller again and we're just filling Darcy's drill
move that thing out of the way a little bit you're driving like chip used to drive him
oh you don't want to meet him he go clear down there and try and back into you
how's your day going so far darcy hasn't started yet yes a little bit late today
yeah i'm just waiting for seed yes how much seed does each tank hold in your drill 200.
i just headed back down the stairs and what's super nice about darcy's drill is
it has the whole platform with the steps mine only has a ladder so i really enjoy
going up and down the stairs now i'm just walking around the truck and the
implement of the tractor as you can see these are the chickpeas and the fertilizer
and this is called a boot right here where the seed drops out of this is called a shank and
this is the hose that the seed and fertilizer are funneled through 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 although
because of how windy it gets in montana and the dust bowl days we used a no-till method we are
using a 9430 john deere tractor and it has if i'm not mistaken around 530 horsepower and then it's
pulling this john deere implement and an implement is interchangeable with the word drill implement
just means something you're pulling behind the tractor and the drill is the type of implement
here are our rollers or packer wheels you can call them and after the seed is placed in the
ground with the boots and shank the packer wheel rolls over it and presses it down up here is
called a pod and this is where all of the seed and fertilizer come together and are distributed
so if you can see the pod has a big hose attached to it that takes you all the way back around here
and there's about five or so pods here and all the big hoses attached to the seed and fertilizer tank
so here we have seed and fertilizer that are joined together at the pods so the seed and
fertilizer is separate in the tanks but joined together through the hoses so that when it's
distributed it can be distributed evenly and together so we don't have one particular boot
that puts out seed and one that puts on fertilizer they both put on seed and fertilizer this year we
are seeding just a little bit extra because of how much spray is for our fields so we're hoping that
by seeding more there won't be as many weeds that are able to grow and that's something you have to
do in farming is adapt because prices change and there's so many variables and in order to stay in
business and like we have for four generations you really have to keep looking forward and adapting
now i'm going to take you back up by the tanks and show you what it looks like
we are using a traditional auger to take the chickpeas up to the tank and what would be
best for chickpeas is what we call a belt auger which moves them slow and a little bit gentler
and that's important for peas because they can be easily damaged and as you can see we're running
it at a slower speed so that we don't damage those peas now wheat or barley we can run at full speed
and auger up as much as we can because you really can't hurt that type of seed
we are using the red tandem truck again and this was the first truck i learned how to drive on
there are many happy memories associated with that and scary moments i might add
here my dad is flying on the drone so thank you dad this is what's called inoculant we also put
on the ground with the peas now i'm going to go head back up on the drill and see what's happening
so the broken peas in here will not grow only the ones that are fully
intact yeah that's really interesting i'm told anyway wow
does broken wheat grow oh you never notice broken wheat really true
i am now with my Kate's Ag tote bag about to get into the roller and start rolling for the
day Darcy's far enough ahead so i should have a while to roll this is what the roller looks like
it's really cool i'm gonna hop in the tractor this tractor isn't quite as challenging to get
into as the other ones just turned it on right now there's just a little stripe you can see it
right there that didn't get rolled at all came right to your right right now right there oh
okay um i don't think it goes all the way down i don't know what happened no it's it's corners
it's when we're doing the corners well how could that be way down there in the corner right it just
goes to right here i think i don't know what too can happens yeah so go roll that out and
then come up and start on your hand okay you know where you're at yeah i can see where it stops so
it just ends right here okay go roll that and get on here okay thank you so now i'm raising the rpms
in the tractor going to take it out of park and put it in forward and start rolling there's a
little portion here that didn't get fully rolled so i'm going to roll it and then i'm going to go
back to my pass oh there's a little bit right here that hasn't gotten rolled at all too so it might
be all the way down i'm going about eight miles an hour my dad's gotta move out of the way he
was trying to show me this little portion that was missed being rolled so i'm just re-rolling
i think all this has been rolled now so it still looks like there's some that hasn't been rolled
it ends right here though now i'm roting 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 pass oh
there was a rock right there hopefully got that one more into the ground now i'm about to make
my turn to start my new pass and i'm going again i'm headed 9.6 miles an hour so that i'm a little
bit easier on the equipment and i'm rolling the field there's a massive rock right here so i'm
going to slow down it got pushed down a little bit but that's why you re-roll i follow the
rolled part with the right side of my loader and the left side when i'm headed the other direction
just so i'm double rolling this half and then i'm newly rolling this other half and then i'll do the
same thing the next pass so each one of the passes gets double rolled there's my dad with the drone
sometimes it's a little bit difficult to see the rolled line it doesn't seem to be that hard today
although towards the end of the day yesterday it did get quite challenging i'm now going through
the very steep part of this cool leaf so i'm really going to slow down for this just so
that i can go through very gently the roller did come out of the ground in a place there but i
didn't see any big rocks so i'm not going to worry about it hugely so my dad's going to see the very
not straight line i'm driving right now we don't have the flex coil drill going yet so
i'll be in the roller until then i really enjoy rolling the fields or any tractor work rolling is
especially bumpy compared to seating and combining but it's still fun this tractor is super quiet so
i also really love that there's another little draw in the field here so i'm going to slow down
for that and then i'm going to turn my platform and watch the roller go through which it went
through all right so i'm going to speed back up to my normal speed which right now i'm going 9.6
miles an hour and i'm going to stay between 8 and 10 miles an hour i'm almost to my end here so i'm
going to start thinking about what my corner will entail we've got darcy right here he go he looks
like he's going way slow compared to me so i hope that i don't catch him it looks like the
world parts a little further out here oh there's a big rock there and a big very large rock in my
next house wow there's quite a few large rocks in my next pass so i'm going to take it a little bit
slower to begin with because i'm seeing some pretty gigantic rocks and then i'll probably
speed up as i get closer to the end of my pass i'm going to turn a little bit to the right so i can
i needed to slow down a lot more there this is bumpy yikes i definitely should
have slowed down a little more there so i'm going back into my pass right now
and i can see my line a lot more clearly now and it goes straight and then in and then out quite
a bit and then in again not even remotely straight that rock didn't even fully get pushed in and that
was the second time it's been rolled and i'm only going about 7.6 miles an hour right now
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