hello welcome to Kate's Ag i'm here with farmhand mike and he has the most awesome youtube videos
has come out to visit our montana farm which is very exciting so yeah this is going to be
exciting i was working out here in montana and my daughter just lives over in west glacier so she's
out here with us and we're gonna film some montana wheat harvest today yes and this is my first video
collaboration ever so i'm just absolutely excited awesome i hope this works out and i hope when i
introduce you on my channel you get a lot more subscribers oh thank you and definitely go watch
farmhand mike's videos they are incredible and i'll link them in the description thanks
i'm in the combine here with farmhand mike and it's super exciting so you get to travel
all over the u.s and see all different types of farms that's incredible yes i do and i i since i
get to see so much with my job it's always cool to bring this stuff to youtube because a lot of your
youtube channels out there you know it's just a corn and soybean farmer or this or that and i get
to see so many different things so i like to bring a good variety to youtube and i say that's what
keeps my channel a little different than everybody else's is there's so much variety on mine of
different types of agriculture and you know this is new here i've never been out with a combine
that has swathed wheat and is actually harvesting with a pickup header so this is really cool really
wow that we do that because of a bug called soft fly yep and that's just amazing yup and i didn't
even know what soft fly was because we don't have it back home because there's not a lot of wheat
grown where i live but i just learned about sawfly really this summer and then it gets into the stem
of the plant and then it falls over so when you swath it you're actually beating that right
oh exactly yes and then it just it lays here and you swat this how long ago like oh probably two
weeks ago okay and then it just lays here and dries and and then soft flies can't destroy it
anymore i guess yes exactly and we're able to pick it up because when it lays flat on the ground we
can't get our headers underneath it yes right so i they had some of that in colorado when i was
down there a couple weeks ago and they were using those stripper headers and and and it was kind of
vacuuming some of it up but there was a lot of damage so i definitely got to see what soft fly
actually does that's amazing and the stripper header video was so interesting i love that one
yep and i got i actually got a couple more coming too it's just like i got all this footage and no
time to edit yes oh i completely understand that well that's super exciting i'll be looking out
for them okay and you are more than welcome if you and your family this fall want to come to ohio uh
we can put you to work in a combine uh shelling corn or soybeans i would love to thank you so
much yeah so oh that's exciting so you get a lot more moisture in ohio than we do here in montana
yes farming is totally different like it would probably be so hard for someone from
our area to come out here and farm because of the moisture uh you know we probably get 50
over 50 inches of rain a year so wow um and i was actually just talking to some guys in in the west
here i know there's not a lot of corn grown in montana per se but like in colorado and
north dakota and stuff and and the population of plants per acre like what we can plant versus them
so um that's crazy and and i know land costs are a lot higher where i live too another thing
is we get enough moisture that in our fields back home we actually have drain tiles down in
the ground about every 40 or 50 feet to help get rid of water and you guys do everything
you can to try to conserve all the moisture you get yes we do it's pretty neat uh i didn't see
i don't see so much of it now but the way you guys used to summer fowl and there was fields
you would farm like every other year and we still do a lot okay yeah so that's that's interesting
but you know you're not paying ten thousand dollars an acre for farmland like they have
to back home so it's it's just neat it's it's really cool that is just incredible
what has been one of your favorite operations you've been able to see i um there's so many
i i don't know i just everything everything and it's it's kind of neat with youtube like i try to
i know people like great big farm machinery new farm machinery but i try to find that oddball
stuff that like maybe is 30 years old that some people use but they don't use so much anymore i
like to bring that stuff back because a lot of the younger generations never seen some of that stuff
and has no idea what it does so if i can find some older stuff running in the field i'm always up for
that and that's the most fun it is yeah you know because really there's with new equipment you know
the manufacturers have their own youtube and stuff so you can find that stuff pretty easy on youtube
so i like them i like to have just different content so yeah yep and in order to keep the
farm in the family you really have to you can't purchase new equipment every year you have to run
older things and it makes it more relatable yes yep so and it's just just a good mix of everything
so your your wheat here that you're harvesting um you guys store this on the farm and then haul
it to market later on through the year do you take it right to the grain elevator from the field here
yes we actually have quite a bit of storage on the farm and we primarily store all of our crops
occasionally we'll um take it straight to the grain elevator um depending on whether or not
we have the storage for it that year and we'll keep it sometimes for a couple of years okay wow
how do you like montana i love montana this of course i've been been in montana a lot montana
is so neat because there's a lot of prairie but the mountains too in the west and um
as we talked about my daughter alexandria is just working a couple hours away here in west glacier
and of course we can't fit both of us into combine here with you there's not enough room
for three people but so she's uh watching from the truck now but i was able to i'm able to spend a
couple days with her while i'm out here too and she's working for one of the rafting companies
in glacier park for the summer and that's really great we we've been to glacier quite a few times
and was just out there a month ago went rafting and and uh pretty neat it's just sad that it's
all so smoky now with all the forest fires and stuff yeah it smells terrible um but no montana
is a beautiful state so big too yes it is yeah we have a lot of cool different wildlife as well
so what do you see running across the fields here i i'm sure there's a antelope or uh
speed goats as i like to call run across your fields and a lot of antelope yeah yeah do you
have any elk that ever get out this far yes we do have a elf we have pheasants actually okay
yeah probably have coyotes i would yes yes we do we have deer lots of different birds hawks owls
stuff like that is what we see in the field does a grizzly bear ever venture out this far from yeah
and we had a grizzly bear that had gotten into our neighbor's barley pile that was on the ground
just the other year it was crazy yes so we have to be careful about that watch uh don't sneak
in a barn or a dark barn or where you walk no yeah but i've never seen one in the combine
so i think it would be a little scary though but i think i'd be okay
yeah yeah it'd actually be pretty neat um i have you seen the movie uh
talladega nights i don't think i have okay so will farrow he's like a nascar driver and then he like
has an accident and he like loses his uh courage so his dad's trying to get his courage back so
they actually put a cougar or mountain lion in the car with them and uh he's scared to death at
first but he learns to drive with his mountain lion in there and i always say that would be
like so cool for a youtube video like if i could hire somebody to have like a pet mountain lion
to actually ride in the tractor combine so that's something we can think about and try to do in the
future maybe you get a grizzly bear up here with you one of these yes maybe that is really funny
back home we just have uh white-tailed deer uh
coyotes um fox raccoons okay uh there's some uh eagles popping up every now and then we're
seeing american eagle bald eagle pop up every now and then well this has been so fun thank you
yeah so i'm riding in the combine with kate right now and she is harvesting wheat
and i better put the camera down because she's got unload on the go right now yes
well thank you so much for watching today's video and awesome collaboration yes and it
was just a pleasure meeting you so thank you for coming out same here and who knows i may
make it back here some other time you're doing something different on the farm you never know
that would be just incredible well thank you so much oh thanks for having me
definitely go and check out the video on farmhand mike's channel
it's going to be just awesome so i'll link it in the description thank you so much for watching bye
you