hello welcome to Kate's Ag today is the last day of seeding for 2021 we're seeding spring
wheat we did a bunch of lentils this year and this is my first spring wheat video actually
and our last day we didn't do as much spring wheat as we did lentils
but this is the field and as you can see the drill with darcy in it is over there
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technology that can be very helpful to farmers i think it'd be real helpful if he uses it
any tool he can get like this to market his wheat or whatever grain he has is a big plus
in montana that most you hear about is is is wheat they're in the farm magazines mostly carry corn we
we don't have much to do with corn in this country oh so there's not a lot of resources to find this
information and also farmers are very busy so this is something that you can just pull up on
your email and i know i mean you know grandpa farmers are always out in their field or doing
constantly different types of things so if you can just pull this up and have the information
it could be really great i would look and i'll be looking at it to see what it's going to do
some more information the more information you can get on selling wait the better off you are that's
the only way you make any money on a farm well that's fantastic advice grandpa thank you so much
i'm in the drill with darcy so this is awesome thank you for taking me for a ride no problem and
this is the last day of seating for 2021 so you're seeding spring week yeah what variety of spring
wheat ah i think this was uh 166 or something it's a clearfield seed cool yeah the last one well
coming up in september oh yeah oh i guess that would still be yeah 20 well last day
of spring wheat seating for 2021 i completely forgot it seems like it'd be a different year
are you excited to be finished seating no i don't know it's okay yeah you know i like seed you know
so it don't bother me if i had to see more did you have you seen any really cool animals i know
we saw owls i haven't seen anything lately i want to see a bunch of blackbirds one day out there
pretty big ones and that's about it yet i haven't seen no other wildlife what's the coolest animal
you've ever seen um in the tractor cap oh i seen a bunch of deer over here when i was raking one time
oh wow that would be pretty cool that one had a great big uh the whitetail had a great big rack
on it it was about five or six does with him and i got real closer with that picture right out of
the tractor that's awesome there was a coyote it was real hot then so the coyote wasn't trying to
chase him or nothing they were just too tired to do too hot to do anything that's good have you
ever seen a bear no no i haven't that'd be kind of scary yeah i keep thinking about it because they
have been around here but i don't know i wouldn't worry in the tractor i don't think it bothered me
no probably not something this big yeah if i was walking i'd be worried yeah yeah and we mostly
have grizzly bears which are much more scary than black bears what do you think was the hardest
challenge in seeding spring wheat and lentils this year uh nothing really it all went real smoothly
we had a couple breakdowns i hooked some wires on the cart that we should have put up earlier that
day i've seen they were coming loose and kind of let it go and the entire hook that when we turned
and we pulled them apart so we had to put them back together but that wasn't a real big deal no
big problems or anything that's really good that's what we always want yeah when you break down you
it's always hot you get takes time to fix it and everything yes definitely and it puts you behind
so you don't know what's going to happen with the weather yeah no it is real good
well i did have some company today up here at the corner the neighbor's house there i stopped
because it was wet and i knew i plugged up one of my shoots on there so i stopped to clean them out
and i felt something against my back i turned around your two dogs come to visit me oh really
oh my gosh they're real friendly and they sat and watched me and wanted me to pat them and i padded
them and i took off and they went home that is great well that's better than having coyotes or
something like that i've seen them dogs before they like picked the gap company
and somebody come to see him well i'm supposed to see that well that's wonderful
there's a little money down here i might have to roll it out i don't know yet oh it is a bit muddy
i've already seen it around it so i really don't have to see through the mud if it gets too bad i
just pull everything out of the ground and started eating but we usually go along the water the low
spots like that and then we see through it again would that be something you could get stuck in
oh you could i don't think it's that bad right now though a couple days ago could have been
i've seen where the spreaders yesterday sunk down while he sunk down right there
and then i seen some tracks from your dad sprayed here where he stuck
down but it's a lot drier now yes there's still a little damp
how much more seed do you have left right now uh i'm not sure how much i got seed on
it's uh that front monitors they goofed up on me and i just sometimes it works and sometimes it
doesn't i'm just about out of fertilizer in the center tank but i got the back when it's full
the seed i'm not sure like i say that the little sensors in there been goofing up the last couple
days we got to take a look at them when we're done sometime this summer and the sensors tell how much
seed is left to take yeah they do how much are you seeding per acre i'm taking 65 pounds of
wheat an acre and putting 100 pounds of fertilizer per acre
and then they top dressed this yesterday with fertilizer so i don't know what it
what the total equally if you see the white specks once in a while in the ground where
they spread it out yesterday oh yeah so what they did is the fertilizer spreader was in the same
field as you and they spread the fertilizer first and then seeded because then the seed goes on top
of it and it should melt in yeah and it mixes in with it it's a little different blend than what
we're putting away it's a lot of variables in that respect you have to field tests to see what the
soil is deficient in what it needs a lot of times weeds can tell you what your soil is deficient in
this field has a lot of coolies so how do you prepare to go seating in
this field or what are your techniques in this field compared to the other one
uh pretty much the same the only thing with these little crews are i work them ahead of time because
when your drill goes through it actually comes out of the ground when you go to one
so this way you're getting them seated oh yeah that's really good now i'm gonna cut
this field out because this grass here so i'm gonna cut it off here and that's a little muddy
i don't want to turn the corner i got to come in straight so i have to pull out and circle around
outside the cab is getting a little dusty now oh yeah i remember one time in combining there
was so much dust from the combines in front that and we were all right up next to each
other we actually had to stop because it was a pull kind of like a white out but with dust yeah
i've had that when i've been plowing you get so dusty behind you you can't see where you're going
no and that's never good especially even one of the combines with something on the green car
yeah so it's really important then you realize how important it is to see out the window yeah
you keep your distance from the one in front of you and plus it plugs your radiator up and stuff
dude oh yes definitely and especially the 9610 because it's got kind of worn out with seals
yeah yeah that's a bad one for collecting the dust in there so my yeah my temperature gauge
always goes right to the top and then um someone has to come and bring the service truck and blow
it out yeah i've had that was a tractor drill too where you have to stop and blow it bomb
now darcy watched the new tractor video i guess it's a new old tractor but it's new to the farm
and that's a 96 30 and this is a 94 30 what are the similarities and differences would you say
basically they're both both the same only the 96 30s got more horsepower and i don't know
about size i think they're about the same size but someday we get them together we can see what the
difference is and stuff yes i think it has 530 30 horsepower so this must have 400. it's got 400 and
some i'm not sure what it is uh i used to the horn i was trying to think of that the other day and
i was going to look up in the book and i forgot about it or check on the engine
what's empty now my middle tank just went empty on fertilizer so i switch it to the rear tank oh cool
is the auto track reengage yeah i got this it's got the this here was that last little
corner there when that's it's lit up green when the auto tracks on and those pictures
above show the tanks you're using yeah the way it looks now i think i got about 40
about 47 acres of seed left i hope if it is then i think i'll have enough to do
so this is a 150 acre field i'm not sure what it is it's somewhere around there i think so and
how many acres do you think you have left uh i'm just guessing about oh probably 47. it'll
be close with the seed there yeah yeah it'll be real cold so what would you do if you had
seven or ten acres left well we'll have to get more seed we have to get probably about
12 15 bushels i'm hoping you don't have to no because that's a lot of work so
as i told them before i say don't get any more seed because let's get down there and even if we
have to stop for a bit to get the seed we're not having to bag it up and then forget what it is
and then it sits and goes to waste yes definitely this takes a little more seat because all these
coolies and stuff you got to work separate and then go over it again
and these coins are a little more challenging to combine also you have to cut around yeah yeah they
usually cut around them and then instead you don't go through it with a call of mine no not at all
that'd be very bad yeah you wouldn't be able to you'd miss a lot
with the combine the swather will have to cut around the coolies and then there will
be a pass around or straight cutting then the a combine driver would have to yeah
if you have the smarter guy does it you cut around and the
windrows will be going alongside the cooling yes and that's if we have the swaths we
grows yeah and we still have to cut around them if they do the straight cutting thank you so much for
watching i really hope you enjoyed the last day of spring seating 2021 part one make sure to stay
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