darcy's going to talk a little bit about seeding in the wind but you don't really notice it
but what about 40 miles an hour or when uh it wouldn't bother me any
wow the window bothers seating you get a little more dusty but we don't get dusty in the cab
how far do the tips of the drill go down into the ground ah probably about an inch or so an inch
yeah this drill we gotta adjust because the wings are going deeper than the center so we got doing
that to sever try and get it where it's level what what kind of drill is this the john deere uh i
know i can't remember the model number yeah it's a john deere grill are drills kind of like combines
or tractors in the sense where there's a good better models than others or is it pretty the same
they're pretty much the same a lot of these have the same pattern for you know building
and stuff i don't know if there's any good or bad in them this john here i like it it raises out of
the ground real high where some of those like the flex coil doesn't really raise that high
yeah this raises high out of the ground if you got to crawl underneath and work on something
you got room you're not crawling around that bad yeah that's pretty nice and also this one
is a toe behind so that means that the tank is behind the drill or implement and the flex coil
drill is a toe between which means that the pulls between this one is a you're able to see it a lot
better but the toe between means you don't leave any tracks after you go seating yeah and you gotta
get used to that between for two corners because you can't see where your corners are probably
it's a lot more tricky but then some people like not having any tracks left in their field yeah
i pulled that flexible for quite a few years six seven years oh wow i got used to it do you
prefer this one yeah i like this one kind of better i like the features of the carton stuff
i like better do you prefer the toe between your toe behind ah don't make no difference to me but
behind is nice so i like maybe that a little bit better how do you decide when to start seating
uh this is about when i spring we could get in the ground and there was no snow out
it's really a little cool but it isn't really going to germinate right away but it's
here if we get some moisture we'll have the seed in the ground already for it at what temperature
will the germination anything about freeze in that bag yeah i agree with you on that here you can see
the little fertilizer dots all those white little dots are the fertilizer that was put in yesterday
but you couldn't see it in my farming in the snow video because it was all light out do you have
to test the temperature of the ground or anything before you begin seating ah some people do i guess
we never do i just i go by what chris and mark say when they want to go seating that's what we do it
and either hollow you're ready to go well that's wonderful have you noticed many other people would
you say they're completed seating are we early for the area i think we were some of them are way
well into it some haven't even started yesterday when we got fertilizer because a lot of people
are waiting for the cheap grass to sprout and stuff so they're kind of holding off starting
so there isn't really that a whole bunch that have seeded but it's the best to get it in because
maybe one of these days it'll rain it needs to rain real bad right now it definitely does
and a lot of the time south of here we'll get rain and even in our south and we won't get rain
anytime here usually we get very little rain how many inches of rain would be optimal after you see
oh i don't know you got you just gotta get take what it gives you yes definitely if you get rain
get a lot of rain then you get long jobs fill it you really don't do that much good that'd be
spread out a little about like water to your lawn you know you can't flood it one day and then not
water for a month yeah definitely it should be equally distributed yeah those ever happens that
way no not at all a lot of the times it's too dry here it's never really too wet we don't have any
we virtually have no problems i know some people put tile in their fields and stuff we
don't have any problems like that no we never get too much rain we only get too little yeah
have you ever run out of seed in a part like halfway through a pass before uh yeah
in fact a lot of times i do but it lets me know and i just pull out and go back and get get it
filled up and then i come back up and continue where i left off how many acres would you say you
planted on this spring of lentils and spring wheat combined uh 1 292.7 acres wow we're going 1 321.
and that's less than we would normally plant for in the spring yeah sometimes a little more than
that probably maybe another thousand acres but i don't remember what i seeded winter wheat last
year but the two drill seasons so but yes what i had seen and i erased that when we started spring
we started the lentil this year was unusual because um i got a couple of questions on
if our john deere tractor that my dad just got is replacing the kcih1 and it is we're not trading
it in but my dad's going to sell it so it is replacing it and we usually have two drills going
at the same time so that's very unusual for us but we spent so much time getting this one already
putting the new hoses and everything on it we could get in the field so we just
got this going in the field instead of trying to get the other one going too we did have a tractor
at that time for the other one so yeah the tractor showed up a little bit later than we expected
now what is the difference if you plant your see if you put your seed in the ground
a little bit deeper or a little shallower uh a lot of people spawn shallower i don't know
if you go deeper sometimes it won't come out of the ground yes you got to get the right
magic place everybody does it different i let mark and chris do that deciding how deep they want it
because i that way if it's wrong i don't get to blame well that's a good idea that's
like measuring out and calibrating the drills i calibrated for spring week but
normally i let chris do it because then that way i can't get blamed if it is wrong
not that i'm gonna get blamed but no i just i just rather have the responsibility the expense on that
that i didn't do it yeah it's extremely expensive to seed and it's one of the most important parts
of farming because harvest is kind of the really fun part but seeding is really really important
because if you don't put a good seed in the ground the correct way you're not going to have a harvest
and be able to reap the benefits of that seed and sometimes at harvest time we won't sell
all of our crop we'll keep some of it and we'll get it cleaned and we'll plant it next year is
the native seed this year from the bins uh the lentils now between lentils and spring wheat did
you have to clean out your tanks yeah i didn't the fertilizer but the ladle and the inoculate had to
clean that out and i had to change rollers around i did that the other day and i blew the tanks out
and stuff yeah that's important and we do that with combining too before we move to different
fields yeah not if it's all if it's all winter wheat and it's all the same variety we won't do
that but sometimes if we have different varieties or from winter wheat to spring we will definitely
you've been a part of family farm operations for a long time what would you say is the most rewarding
and an amazing part of that oh i don't know i just do it's something i like to do i actually
retired but i don't want to be sitting around so i dread you as farmer yes and we love to have darcy
here so that's great and everybody's nice here you know they've been real friendly people and
i enjoy working for them keeps me busy whereas not sitting in my rocking chair or something
well thank you well i've had just a marvelous time with darcy here in the cedar and i'm going to
stop up there and that'll be the end of the ride for today today is also the end of spring seeding
yeah we'll be done after today it should be yes thank you so much for watching i really
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a-g thank you so much for your knowledge of the drill and planting darcy okay well thank you nice
talking to you yes it was wonderful okay bye guess who came to visit me on these beautiful doggies
i just got out of the drill and here they are you are so sweet this is the
best surprise ever where'd they go oh three dogs could this get any better
hi i don't know their names but they're our neighbors dogs and they're just adorable
i've never met them before either well what an introduction
well it was very nice meeting you i think i have to go on my way which is very sad
but it was just a pleasure
bye bye you're very sweet this field that i just went seating with darcy in is actually the field
that my wheel fell off in the combine so that i kept driving it's off and one of these coulees i
was cleaning up and it was just a bearing that was loose it was nothing that i could have prevented
but it made me feel really bad and so it came off in like one i think it was like this coolly
that i was cleaning up right here and then i drove all the way from there down to the end
and i also made a turn and started that way until the car guy noticed hey there's a wheeling
in the field is the new new ones and i said oh no thought that was a little fun kate's farming fact