hello welcome to Kate's Ag it's almost the end of harvest
it's around 9 a.m today and the sky looks so beautiful we're about to start for the day
we're just fueling up combines and getting everything prepared to start this morning
this is the field we will be in over here my dad is capturing some drone footage right
now so i am driving the 9870 i usually drive my uncle chris is driving my dad's
new combine so the 98-70 with duals and our employee austin is driving the 97-60 and
he hasn't been driving combine this harvest but he has driven that combine in the past so
it'll be pretty exciting we've got three combines going now so i hope you enjoy the drone footage
we are just finishing up this field and then we go to one across the road so it'll take a little
bit of roading to get there it is really dusty because all of the straw that is being chopped up
at the back of the combine is blowing forward and creating this big cloud of dust
we have put the straw choppers on the combine so we are not leaving rows of straw anymore
and the rows of straw are bailed we don't fail the straw rows ourselves though so if we don't
have someone who wants to bail them we don't take the straw choppers off
i'm going around 2.7 miles an hour right now the wheat should be dry enough today yesterday
it was on the verge of being too damp that beeping sound you hear occasionally is actually
my header if i lift it up too far you'll hear it here in a second
right there it turns off the header recording and then when i lower it it beeped again
and it turned it back on it's able to record data because the header has sensors on it
oh my gosh deer running through the wheat field that is so cool two deer just ran across all
the swaths oh my goodness oh i see more i don't know that they're going to run across this field
there's four more over there i am just making a turn to start my next row right now
it's crazy to think that harvest is almost over i'm a little bit sad but
also very excited to catch up on some rest it's just a phenomenal experience
being able to plant the seeds watch them grow into wheat and eventually be able to harvest
them and know that these kernels that we're harvesting right now are going to be ground
into flour and eventually made into bread and pasta and lots of different things that
will end up on someone's table i am harvesting food that is one day going to be on your table
i really hope you're enjoying my videos i'm trying to bridge the gap between farmers
and consumers so more people know about how their food gets to their table everything really starts
on a farm and that's how the farm to fashion aspect comes to play your fashion also starts
on a farm all the natural fibers of clothing are grown for example cotton there's lots of designers
who have never seen a cotton plant and i think that's really sad so i also hope to branch out
now you have to go up adopt the hill the north the east southeast corner i'm going through a
bit of a [ __ ] right now a coulee is a draw in the field where all of the water runs down
a little bit farther out awesome you stop as you have to my uncle chris just radioed to austin and
gave him a suggestion that he could stop rather than unload on the go because it is his first time
this year in combine do you mean so unloading on the go is always a little more challenging
that's what he means you don't have to but if you need to
for sure stop put your auger out for a month to shoot for i'm just gonna stay this speed
if you need to work the card at all you've got to move ooh he austin is third dump ooh
that's always hard i can't tell if they're dumping on the go or not i think they are
that's my grandpa i have a
when you come around the corner up here at this end i can see the weed in your combine and
cage combine but i couldn't just barely seen it in austin's combine
for georgia okay i was wondering the same thing uh doesn't this
combine have a bigger hopper yeah i think it holds like 50 more bushels
further on every path they fill up pretty much the same we are moving fields now so i'm just going to
follow my uncle chris i'm not sure how we're getting to the next field it's just over here
but oh wow okay it looks like there's a field road so i'll just stay in second
gear because you really can't drive third gear in the fields it's just too bouncy
see what i mean i have to air up my seat a bit mean
we'll be out there a couple miles in the corner of this field
where the combine is uh in front there's a dirt road there just come down through if you want
it's lunchtime so right when we get to the new field we're going to be able to
have some lunch which will be very nice the field next to us it looks
like they're bailing for him we've got a little bit of a trail to go down here
this is one of our spring wheat fields that we're going to pick up with the big headers
a little bit otherwise he's gonna drive in that row over there probably we just wrote
the combines to the new field and lunch is here so we're about to have lunch i'm pretty excited about
that i'm just cooling my combine down dean just pulled up in the black semi there's uncle chris
and then there's my dad there was this noise with the grain cart
so there might be something wrong or something that's not greased properly my uncle chris and
dad are just checking that out right now i'm unloading on the go right now on top of the hill
oh no the green's spilling out i filled it up a little too much
this is never good my combine might be a little full here i'm going through an area with some
weeds in it and you have to make sure to go super slow here because the weeds are usually still
green and they're really hard for the combine to process so it's easier to plug it up and then
they end right up there pretty cool view from up here we just finished this field driving up
to the grain cart to dump in the green cart put my auger out our grain cart driver is unloading into
the truck right now we've got darcy right here gotta always wave at darcy he's pretty awesome
he's been with our operation since before i was born which is really cool and the other
two combines just finished up so they will be unloading next it seems to be on level
ground because i am rolling backwards the sun was really in our eyes so it is very important to wear
sunglasses in order to see so now i just turned around to watch the other combines so that if they
leave they don't leave me behind but they wouldn't all of the combines and everything are arriving
so
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