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BKR Farms Soil 4 Life
Приєднався 4 бер 2022
BKR Farms is a family farm in Grace, Idaho. Kyle and Ryan Christensen are 5th generation farmers on the same land that was homesteaded in the late 1880's. Over the last 5 years they have taken their farm from a conventional, heavy tillage operation, to a reduced and no till operation. Their practices include stripper headers, cover crops, diverse crop rotation, water management, disk drills, and much more. They have created this channel to share their farm and research projects with the world.
Allan All Electric Potato Harvester 2023
BKR Farms introduces the all Electric Allan Harvester to the potato capital of the world. Potato harvest was very successful. Thank you to Allan Equipment for having trust in BKR Farms.
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Caribou Highlands Husqvarna Robotic Mowers
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Caribou Highlands, a division of BKR Farms LLC, has gone 95% to robotic mowers. Greens and tee areas are the only areas not mowed by robots.
Allan Equipment Electric Potato Harvester
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BKR Farms has purchased an Allan Equipment, built in Prince Edward Island, Potato Harvester. What sets this harvester apart from anything in Idaho, is it is powered by electricity. A 150 KW generator powers this machine to provide limitless cleaning possibilities. This will our potatoes travel from field to storage, faster, cleaner, and safer. We are excited to show the potato capital what Alla...
Spudnik 8908 Belt Potato Planter
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0:00 to 0:20 Intro Spudnik takes European technology, adds American engineering, and creates a new planter with greater capacity, greater planting speeds, and the ability to plant potato seed with the need to cut the seed. Comment with any questions.
No Till Grain Planting 2023! KHart Industries cutting through residue
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0:00 to 0:20 Intro Grain planted started a little late this year. Due to the late start, I did not get to post this video until after we were finished planting. This video will show you the equipment that we use to plant grain and how effective our K-Hart industry openers are at cutting through our heavy residue!
Green Jacket Greens Covers
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0:00 to 0:20 Intro In addition to BKR Farms, our family owns and operates Caribou Highlands Golf and RV. In 2022, Green Jacket covers were used to protect our greens from winter snow damage. With our record snow fall, the covers performed quite well!
Potato Season 2023 Begins
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0:00 to 0:20 Intro Every potato growing season begins with acquiring quality seed. This video shows what it looks like to bring in our seed and where we store it until we are ready to plant. We also show different types of potato transportation; hopper bottom trailers, walking floor refer trailers, to tote bags.
Spudnik 8908 Potato Belt Planter Arrives at BKR Farms
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0:00 Intro 0:20 Video Spudnik’s new 8909 Potato Planter arrives at BKR Farms. This planter will eliminate the need to cut our potato seed, thus reducing chemical usage, risk of disease, and healthier plants. Subscribe now so you will be able to see this planter in action when we hit the fields with it.
TOMRA 3A Optical Sorter Overview
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In this video, BKR Farms gives an overview of the TOMRA 3A optical sorting machine. I show the controls, how to feed the machine, and how to maximize the machine. I finish with my 1 to 3 week review of the machine.
How to Use Drones for Spring Field Scouting?
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Drones are awesome! They take amazing videos and photography, but at BKR Farms they are a tool to save time and money. In this video see how drones are used to find areas that need to be replanted due to the wheat dying from the snow. Check out www.dronedeploy.com to see for yourself how they can help you scout your fields faster and easier.
What are the benefits to a stripper header?
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BKR Farms shows the advantages of the shelbourne stripper header in their first season of use. They show how the stripper header speeds up harvest, improves planting, improves cover crops, and increase snow retention.
Does no till farming conserve water?
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In this video BKR Farms shows an on farm observation research project. Using Meter Group soil sensors, BKR Farms compares a conventional tilled field with a no till field over the course of the winter. Volumetric Water Content (VWC) and soil temperature is compared at 6 different locations and at 3 different depths.
Who is BKR Farms?
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BKR Farms is a family farm near Grace, Idaho. They have created this channel to show the world how they are transforming their farm to a soil focused operation. This video gives an introduction on who they are, what they are trying to do, and what their channel is all about!
Those fruits are a true testament to your efforts
Dear BKR farms - great educational and honest video on the capabilities of the TOMRA-3A! Now being used globally to educated growers/farmers alike. BIG THX. I have companies in Australia and NewZealand looking at your video and are amazed on your presentation skills, but also how simple you explain teh sorter functions and use. Appreciate your support.
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Good video! I enjoyed it better with the sound off, but it really was a good video.
Holy crap. No thank you. Spudnik has nothing to worry about.
What don’t you like about the harvester?
@@bkrfarmssoil4life495 I like them simple. That’s not.
seeing you be upset about the noodles but then immediately going to improve them is amazing and inspiring to me! i would've given up but you didn't and i really respect that! I love your videos. And it's an honor to have you visit our channel, we can discuss more about our experiences in harvesting and building farms.
seeing you be upset about the noodles but then immediately going to improve them is amazing and inspiring to me! i would've given up but you didn't and i really respect that! I love your videos. And it's an honor to have you visit our channel, we can discuss more about our experiences in harvesting and building farms.
have you ever planted into thick green residue? great video by the way, it shows all the angles I want to see but we do a lot of planting into living cover crops that are an inch or two think, how do you think these openers would do?
I have not planted into that thick of a living cover crop before, but I have planted into 130bushel wheat stubble that had been hailed on so the volunteer was very thick. These openers did just fine cutting through that field.
@@bkrfarmssoil4life495 thanks for the reply thats good info, congrats on 130 bu wheat thats inredible
Unreal I’m from pei about a 45 min drive from where there manufactured we run one on our farm and we love it
Thank you for checking out my video! My brother and I visited PEI last October and seeing the island and the machine in person is what sold us on this machine. PEI is amazing, immediately fell in love with your home are!
How many lbs and hour can this machine do?
1800-2500 depending on the type of the potatoes
Just new to your channel, how did you retrofit the new K Hart openers on to your John deere dril
We ordered the openers from KHart. Then unbolted the old John Deere openers leaving the spring. The KHarts bolt right up to the John Deere frame. Took 4 of us about a day to do it
This is a much better video. The explanations are just enough to understand what is going in.
i used on to harvest switchgrass and blustem
You may be going to fast did you notice a lot more volunteer wheat?
Not all. Use a bushel plus pan tester. Less than 1 bushel/acre loss. Less loss then a standard header or a pickup header.
@@bkrfarmssoil4life495 I mean header loss not machine loss
I have a friend who worked at a farm that ran the Shelburne head, after 3 years they had wayyyy too much residue. It couldn't be planted through.
Going on 4 years. Dry farm, no issues at all. Irrigated, fields I’ve had for 4 years without a spud rotation, average 100 bu/acre crops, with the k hart industry opener, no problem cutting through residue.
Shelbourne Reynolds are a British company. The header was launched in 1989. It’s success is down the the fact that it reduces the amount of material other than grain MOG into the Combine reducing the MOG load onto the sieves. It is the perfect example of ‘Thinking outside of the box’ insofar that most of the MOG never enters the Combine. Not of much use where the straw is required to be baled and carted off the field. A compromise was New Holland’s Dual Stream Header, but unfortunately NH decided not to put it into production because it’s main advantage was only on CX Straw Walker Combines, because these are the output limiting factor and that adding a Dual Stream meant that capacity increases were so great that farmers needed much cheaper, smaller range Combines to achieve the same capacity. Which dealers and NH itself would rather not sell, preferring instead to sell their bigger flagship CR machines. Having proven the massive advantages of Dual Stream, NH developed its CH ‘Crossover’ Combines that produce virtually identical capacity output, without the need for the Dual Stream system, but ironically at a cheaper cost than a CX fitted with Dual Stream. 11:40
The long straw is very desirable for mushroom farmers. I sold a field of standing straw to a contractor who paid me a premium for the straw and did the windrowing as well
One of the main problems with them here in western australia is trash flow, we mainly use tine seeders. Also getting pre-emergent herbicides to the ground in tall stubble is hard. Not too many problems with snow cover here
Use a green leaf dual fan nozzle. Helps herbicides penetrate the canopy.
@@bkrfarmssoil4life495 yeah ill have to look into them. Still have problems with trashflow at seeding though
what is the range of size is the seed your planting?
I grow chip, russet, and yellow varieties. My chip and yellow varieties were all pretty uniform at 2-4 oz seed size. However, my russet varieties were variable from 2 oz all the way up 14 oz.
@@bkrfarmssoil4life495 thanks for info, russets you must cut some to plant. Is the belted planted pretty accurate for spacing?
Yes, very accurate. This planter has some automatic features that adjust spacing on the fly. It measures the seed pieces as you plant and so if the average seed size gets bigger, it widens the spacing (big seed pieces need more space). If the seed sizes get smaller, it narrows the spacing. It has another plant mode called weight average. There is an onboard scale and it has the ability to give an average seed piece weight. Once again, if the seed gets heavier, spacing widens, if the seed gets lighter, the spacing narrows.
@@bkrfarmssoil4life495 wow impressive !
@@bkrfarmssoil4life495 something i forgot to ask, how wide are your planter rows? 36" or 30" or something inbetween?
Would be interested in understanding the cons of this header. Great content - keep on being awesome.
Thank you for the future video material. There are definitely some cons, like with all things. The long wet winter will test some of those cons with the surplus of residue on the surface.
Amazing technology
2023 will be the year of amazing technology! More things to come!
how much snow are the cellars rated to be able to hold?
They are rated around 40lb snow load. The concern is the life expectancy on a cellar is around 30-40 years. The cellar in this video is 45 years old. We are on borrowed time!
Southeast Montana We'll see if we can get the peas and lentils in early enough. Not sure I'd say that my powder snow has that much water to trickle off in the spring. Well I hope we all have good luck
watch : cover crops on wheat challenge excepted........nrcs noah willams great comparison of cover crop versus chem fallow about 4 minutes long. enjoyed your story, keep up the good work.
Great video! Would like to hear more about your challenges with the Shelbourne!
Too much of your mug, need more of header
Hey there Would like to hear about the drawbacks of the stripper header. Thanks
This is the first study I found regarding till or no till, that show me some serious data. Very very good work 👍
More about stripper header’s please 👍
No they're not made in Australia they are made in Stanton Suffolk England
Thank you for the correction! The UA-cam videos of them and the salesmen in my area had me believing they were from Australia.
Looks cool!
Hallo BKR Farms Soil 4 Life . Ich komme aus Germany . Ich gerne mehr über deine Farm erfahren. Freundliche Grüße Friedrich Balder
Was möchten Sie mehr über meine Farm erfahren?
@@bkrfarmssoil4life495 Hallo Ich würde mich auf ein langfristigen Austausch sehr freuen. Landwirtschaft in Germanny / Niederlande und Europa und Datenaustausch aller Art . Freundliche Grüße Friedrich Balder
Great video, thanks for sharing Marlon Winger
Thank you Marlon! Hoping to post more soon.
That is so cool! I know so little of the technology being deployed these days in agriculture, so that was really interesting.
Thank you! Hoping to share a lot more of the technology we use as the farming season starts!
LOVE this! So glad you are sharing. I grew up in southern Idaho, too. I love that you are making real changes and sharing about it! NRCS is amazing!! I recently finished a permaculture design course and saw a lot of the good that they do. I'm on a little suburban plot but my heart still loves the Idaho farmer and I'm really interested in following your journey.
I hope to share a video once a week or at the very least every other week! My NRCS agent has been extremely valuable to the process our farm is undertaking!
Thanks so much for starting this channel! I am looking forward to seeing where you take this!
Thank you for commenting! Hoping to share weekly are the very least every other week!
One of the most important developments in agriculture. We were losing our soil--eroding into the Gulf of Mexico etc. But, reduced and no-till have largely stopped this crisis.
Thank you for sharing this. With potatoes in our crop rotation, we are unable to be completely no till on our irrigated ground, but with going no-till where we can and reduce till everywhere else, we are seeing huge benefits.
I assume the residue is taller? If so, any worries about increased shading for young plants?
That is a concern, but from other farmers that I have talked to and researched online, the benefits of less wind damage, cooler temperatures, and more water for the young plants help outweigh the less sun light. This is our first year so we will see if that becomes a concern.