You truly are a gem, Tracy! I follow three custom crews on U tube, and I like your videos and narrations the best. I grew up on a farm/ranch in south central North Dakota and I always looked forward to combining. I miss it. When I was a youngster, we had a custom harvester in my hometown that always left for Texas in early May and worked their way back to ND. I always wanted to go with them just one year to experience the custom harvest trail, and he would have gladly taken me, but my dad would never let me go because we always had a lot of hay to put up all summer. I still have cows, but no grain farming as I work full time for Titan Machinery, a large Case/IH/New Holland dealer, and having cattle works better with the job than grain farming. I hope to retire in a few years. Maybe I can still have my dream of hitching along with a harvest crew. These new combines, no matter what color, just amaze me. I always think running a grain cart would be fun too.... Thanks for all your great videos. Makes me feel like I'm right there in the cab. Like I said in a previous comment a few days ago, I can just about smell the grain dust through my phone when I watch your videos. Thanks for all the great videos! Keep them coming! And you all stay safe out there! The world needs and depends on you all!
I chuckled at the sound of "Convoy" sung by C. W. McCall on the radio in your cab. That was a favorite song of my when I was a kid! Another wonderful video.
Tracy thanks for informing those that don't know about all the good info you revealed! We old farmers still need refreshing! We just need to hit our knees everyday in thankness and restoration!
One of your best! The pause with all the machine headers in position but standing still is phenomenal. Also appreciate the education segment. Good Job!
Winter wheat sprouts in the fall and comes up but has to go through a dormancy to produce grain. You’re still doing what I would love to do. Help harvest but not the headache of owning the machines. Mine machine is old, pretty well wore out and too old to think about spending that much money to update for my own use.
After a little longer drying time, it’s back to work for a normal day. Thanks for the lesson on Winter and Spring wheat. Also the damage from the disease. I see you got your Flag back, goody goody. Another beautiful sunset. Well lookin forward to another chapter in the Montana Wheat Harvest 2024. CYA
Hi Tracy I have a little more information on the winter wheat it germinates in the fall and needs to get at least three leaves on it for optimal winter survival and it needs the frost in order to make seed if it doesn’t get frozen it will not produce a head. Great videos really appreciate all your hard work to make them. George
I never saw winter and spring wheat up close like that...thank you Tracy! My Grandfather farmed but never grew winter wheat (although he could've cause we get real cold in MB Canada). Enjoying your videos and trying to catch up!
Thanks for your enjoyable video Tracey. Your filming today was amazing and you took in a great variety of scenes. Appreciate your work filming and running the combine both, not so easy. Appreciate your narrative on the winter and spring wheat and the sawfly. You did an excellent teaching class on these subjects, most interesting, thank you Tracey. Glad you all got back in the field even though you had to wait a while for it to dry. Looks like very nice wheat you are harvesting now. Thanks for everything today. Just seemed like a good quiet day harvesting and very relaxing to watch. I am hanging in there, not the best yet but couldn’t wait to watch your video and pick me up a bit!!!!! My blessings to all of you in Gods Country!!!!!!!! The Iowa farm boy. Steve. Thanks for your note yesterday Tracey about my health. Appreciated that very much!!!!! 😊😊👍💕💕🙏🇺🇸🇺🇸
Great video! The sawfly is a big problem. In other videos about agriculture I noticed that some farmers do swathing. But I guess when you have so much land it will take too much time. I also watch the video's of Kates AG, they are interesting too. As a matter of fact she uploaded a video about swathing today, it is in Montana too. I always follow two channels; your channel and Kate's channel. It is always fun to watch harvesting in the USA. Today I came across an ad for a yellow American school bus from 1997. I immediately thought of you. They are still worth quite a lot. Thanks again for uploading the video. I assume you sit behind a laptop every day to put together a video! Hope you got my mail, I send some pics of my garden. Greetings from the Netherlands!
I did get your email! Thank you. I just haven’t responded yet. I appreciate the pictures. It’s fun to picture in my head what you’re talking about. I don’t do my videos until we come in at night. They typically take me 2-3 hours to do.
Hey Tracy, thanks for the spring/winter wheat chat and showing us the sawfly damage. Never heard of the sawfly before, I see some farmers end up swathing wheat that’s lodged to reduce losses. Must be a pain having them chomp away.
You answered my question without me even having to ask Tracy! Had no idea there were diffrent varieties for diffrent seasons. Always learning! What a mess the sawfly makes. Another brilliant video much enjoyed. Thankyou!
🤣 Tracy I love reading some of your followers comments 🤣  Thanks Tracy for the additional educational difference between Montana winter and spring wheat. In Northwest Oklahoma we only planted winter wheat and would pasture off some for our Hereford cattle. Thanks again for Day 18 of your 2024 beautiful Montana harvest.👍👍👍👍👍
It IS fun to read everyone’s comments. I TRY to get them answered. But sometimes my days just get too long. We used to cut in Oklahoma. Lots of fun memories!
Glad to see you back at it. I like the shout out to the people at the Northern Ag Network a great bunch. Saw flies have always been a problem, expense of air application and the rewards are what it'll mean for the harvest. It's always about when to spray and for what. It looks like the people you work for have a great opperation. Like you said it's about profit/loss, cost of sell to make a profit for opperation. It's alot of work. The U.S. feeds the world. Jim and You have a great day. Be safe
thanks for another great video, when you said the radio announcer is my friend and he does not know it, I want you to know that is exactly how I consider you and Jim, you are my friends and you do not even know it, thanks again and see ya tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for the update I watched the sawfly video,in the UK there’s a major issue with Cabbage Stem Flea Beetle in Canola,Rapeseed the larvae feeding inside the stems.
Thanks for sharing. The old deserted farm house is beautiful to me. Farming flat land looks pretty easy. It's a little harder with steep rolling hills. I grew up driving John Deere 55's and 95's.
Thanks for the education. I attended Oklahoma State as a grad student in statistics so much of the data we used was based on crop yields but we never had time to get down to the field level. Very enjoyable even if it was many years ago.
@@ZeorianHarvestingTrucking I should have noted that the curriculum studied many fields who used statistics. I think a lot of data we used in learning was because it is pretty easy to design experiments in crop agriculture because most fields are somewhat uniform and lend themselves to subdivisions for experiments. We did have professors who were involved ag research who shared with us. If I had been in a pure agricultural field like my friend who ended up with a doctorate in poultry science it would have been more hands on. It would be interesting to be a student today with all the technology you have and the data that is being collected as you harvest.
4 grain to the mash on the HRW, no wonder it made so much.. Looks like close to the same on the spring too it's making well and the market is reflecting it. Great photo op with all 4 sitting and waiting!!
and also Rocky Erickson, Montana Sports! When you mentioned the other radio personalities, I had to include him. Last time through I heard all three of them. Brings back a lot of memories!
These fields are proof that the earth is not round nor is it flat. It is a surface of rolling hills. Actually there is not end, the hills just keep going.
We never grew spring wheat. Winter wheat harvest was always the best time. The many trips to the elevator and squeezing the truck through some of the older grain elevators was a test in itself !!
Ohhhhhhhhhhh those narrow elevators!!!! They weren’t built for the trucks of today! The experience of harvest gets stored somewhere deep in the soul and NEVER GOES AWAY!
Winter wheat doesn't require cold weather to germinate. It requires cold weather and a dormant period to produce a seed head. Winter and spring wheat will germinate at about the same temperature.
Vernalization (from Latin vernus 'of the spring') is the induction of a plant's flowering process by exposure to the prolonged cold of winter, or by an artificial equivalent. After vernalization, plants have acquired the ability to flower, but they may require additional seasonal cues or weeks of growth before they will actually do so. The term is sometimes used to refer to the need of herbal (non-woody) plants for a period of cold dormancy in order to produce new shoots and leaves,[1] but this usage is discouraged.[2]
Kate Stephens ( Kate's AG ) just posted a video about swathing their wheat, they do that every year, they are only 30 miles North West from where you are, close to Dutton, they use the pick-up headers for harvesting, sometimes they use the big headers.
They have saw fly problems. The fly chews and knocks down wheat stem. Spring wheat seems to be the worst probably due to the season they are most active.Areas of southern Alberta don’t grow much spring wheat
@@darrellmilne6877 Yep I know, but strange that the Welkers a bit more North (Shelby) don't have that problem, probably a local issue, other soil maybe ??
Is saw fly a big concern for them? I remember rising with Brad heil east of limon Colorado and how bad it was there the year he died, shocked how bad it is in areas
Thanks for sharing the difference between winter and spring wheat -- I had been wondering about that. Also, what is that old "house" sitting in the middle of one of the fields?
I look this morning & N-W $7.86 bu as of Aug9th & look further hard red winter wheat $5.53 bu They say a little over $7 different from last harvest season. Why is it so many different pieces ? Good video Tracy yal stay safe
How is your harvesting adventure going so far; have ya'll gotten used to harvesting with John Deere combines or do you still like New Holland better? I've been watching since you left home.
@@sambecker7826 not anymore. They even make a pasta from lentils. Get this, gluten free pasta involves sprouting!!!!??? Big discounts if you bring sprouted durum to market!!😫
Tracy you are the best story teller I know you always keep it interesting with some of the best video on you tube and always get the sunset Thank you for all the work you do outside the combine as well
Great Videos! Do they rotate fields from spring to winter wheat every year like with do with corn and soybeans in the Midwest? I guess why I’m asking is all that wheat year after year does it eventually cause a yield drag or is that where the barley comes into play?
Be careful Tracy, the Feds are out in their helicopters watching and listening to you. When you were talking about the powdery mess they thought you said powdery meth. Be careful out there! 🤫 😂
All of them. 🤣 I honestly don’t know how many acres they farm. A lot. I really have no reason to know this number. And if I did, out of respect for them, I wouldn’t share.
Is all the wheat in these massive growth operations bearded? I see both your winter wheat and spring weight have beards. Many decades ago, when I grew up in Oregon, we only had spring wheat. It was not bearded. We heard of bearded wheat but never grew it. All the barley was bearded. You had heads of both winter and spring weed, but you did not shell them out. Are the kernels decidedly different visually between the two?
Low grain prices and high fuel and fertilizer costs is why the equipment manufacturers are laying people off. Nobody will buy equipment for a while. I grew up on a farm and always wanted to farm but it was not in the cards. The government condemned 1 square mile of farmland and turned it into a lake and a park. My grandfathers farm was right in the middle. Now it is overrun with Deere.
Thanks for the shot of ol glory. Did you go to bozeman? I enjoy the explanation between the two different kinds of wheat every time I hear you do it. ❤️AMER1CA❤️
Rough estimate they probably cut 7000 so far. Mike Mitchell ch. from across the border in SK, family farms at least 60,000 acres.Welker Farms ch. not far away in MT they have about 12,000 acres. Most farms won't reveal exact acreage numbers, nobody's business. It's never a real comparison with another farm, anyway, could be one family operation or multiple familys/ generations involved.
@@easternshorefarmer The people who run the farms care and most don't talk about it. Tracy's been around farmers her whole life she and knows its not her place to give out info unless the farm tells her it's okay.
@@ZeorianHarvestingTrucking I`m german and we do have one JD T670 combine for 6 farmer with about 300ha=750acres. the CLAAS plant Harsewinkel is about 40km away 🤔
I have no idea how the markets work. I’m just a combine driver. Why last? Because I don’t mind picking up the smaller pieces left or cutting the edge of the field. They like to just GO! And besides that, I get good pictures being the last. 😉
You truly are a gem, Tracy! I follow three custom crews on U tube, and I like your videos and narrations the best. I grew up on a farm/ranch in south central North Dakota and I always looked forward to combining. I miss it. When I was a youngster, we had a custom harvester in my hometown that always left for Texas in early May and worked their way back to ND. I always wanted to go with them just one year to experience the custom harvest trail, and he would have gladly taken me, but my dad would never let me go because we always had a lot of hay to put up all summer. I still have cows, but no grain farming as I work full time for Titan Machinery, a large Case/IH/New Holland dealer, and having cattle works better with the job than grain farming. I hope to retire in a few years. Maybe I can still have my dream of hitching along with a harvest crew. These new combines, no matter what color, just amaze me. I always think running a grain cart would be fun too.... Thanks for all your great videos. Makes me feel like I'm right there in the cab. Like I said in a previous comment a few days ago, I can just about smell the grain dust through my phone when I watch your videos. Thanks for all the great videos! Keep them coming! And you all stay safe out there! The world needs and depends on you all!
I chuckled at the sound of "Convoy" sung by C. W. McCall on the radio in your cab. That was a favorite song of my when I was a kid! Another wonderful video.
It’s a GREAT radio station!
The Streak' was a great 70's song also. 😂😂😂😂😂
@@kevinnoah-i4o OH YEAH!
The house in the middle of the field made me think of how it must of been living there, back in the day. Enjoyable, as always.
Thank you!
Tracy thanks for informing those that don't know about all the good info you revealed! We old farmers still need refreshing! We just need to hit our knees everyday in thankness and restoration!
I love this!!! ❤️🌾
The sound of the wheat in the wind when you were filming up close almost put me to sleep it was so peaceful 😂
❤️🌾🌾🌾
Tracy you and Jim and all these people you are recording are the salt of the earth. We need more people like yawl!
Thanks! We’re just out here doing what needs to be done. 🌾🌾
Enjoying another great video. God bless you all as you harvest our true fathers bouny
One of your best! The pause with all the machine headers in position but standing still is phenomenal. Also appreciate the education segment. Good Job!
Thank you!
Winter wheat sprouts in the fall and comes up but has to go through a dormancy to produce grain.
You’re still doing what I would love to do. Help harvest but not the headache of owning the machines. Mine machine is old, pretty well wore out and too old to think about spending that much money to update for my own use.
😊 thanks!!
Another great episode and thanks for explaining difference in Winter and Spring wheat. Keep on harvesting, let your good times roll.
Thanks, Jack!
Love Ole Merle! Another beautiful Montana day 😊
ME TOO!
I found your explanation of the wheat types very interesting and informative. Thanks for that!
Awesome! Thank you!!
After a little longer drying time, it’s back to work for a normal day. Thanks for the lesson on Winter and Spring wheat. Also the damage from the disease. I see you got your Flag back, goody goody. Another beautiful sunset. Well lookin forward to another chapter in the Montana Wheat Harvest 2024. CYA
Yep…OLE GLORY IS FLYING AGAIN!
Hi Tracy I have a little more information on the winter wheat it germinates in the fall and needs to get at least three leaves on it for optimal winter survival and it needs the frost in order to make seed if it doesn’t get frozen it will not produce a head. Great videos really appreciate all your hard work to make them. George
I never saw winter and spring wheat up close like that...thank you Tracy! My Grandfather farmed but never grew winter wheat (although he could've cause we get real cold in MB Canada). Enjoying your videos and trying to catch up!
So glad you’re enjoying your time with us!
@@ZeorianHarvestingTrucking I am...I'm also surprised to get a reply...I follow a couple other custom harvesters and nothing, so thank you Tracy!
@@ronromkoz5995 - I have the BEST followers. And I want them to know how much I appreciate them!
Thanks for the lesson on winter and spring wheat. You guys are a book of knowledge.
😉 thanks!
Thanks for your enjoyable video Tracey. Your filming today was amazing and you took in a great variety of scenes. Appreciate your work filming and running the combine both, not so easy.
Appreciate your narrative on the winter and spring wheat and the sawfly. You did an excellent teaching class on these subjects, most interesting, thank you Tracey.
Glad you all got back in the field even though you had to wait a while for it to dry. Looks like very nice wheat you are harvesting now.
Thanks for everything today. Just seemed like a good quiet day harvesting and very relaxing to watch.
I am hanging in there, not the best yet but couldn’t wait to watch your video and pick me up a bit!!!!!
My blessings to all of you in Gods Country!!!!!!!!
The Iowa farm boy. Steve.
Thanks for your note yesterday Tracey about my health. Appreciated that very much!!!!!
😊😊👍💕💕🙏🇺🇸🇺🇸
I like the music you have on in the combine. Thumbs Up!
Thanks for the wheat lessons.
👍👍thanks for my daily wheat harvest fix 🤪
You’re very welcome!!
Great video! The sawfly is a big problem. In other videos about agriculture I noticed that some farmers do swathing. But I guess when you have so much land it will take too much time. I also watch the video's of Kates AG, they are interesting too. As a matter of fact she uploaded a video about swathing today, it is in Montana too. I always follow two channels; your channel and Kate's channel. It is always fun to watch harvesting in the USA.
Today I came across an ad for a yellow American school bus from 1997. I immediately thought of you. They are still worth quite a lot. Thanks again for uploading the video. I assume you sit behind a laptop every day to put together a video! Hope you got my mail, I send some pics of my garden. Greetings from the Netherlands!
I did get your email! Thank you. I just haven’t responded yet. I appreciate the pictures. It’s fun to picture in my head what you’re talking about.
I don’t do my videos until we come in at night. They typically take me 2-3 hours to do.
@@ZeorianHarvestingTrucking Wow that's a lot of work, but fun to do!
Some varieties of wheat are sawfly resistant. They'll have a solid stem, but don't yield as well.
Hey Tracy, thanks for the spring/winter wheat chat and showing us the sawfly damage. Never heard of the sawfly before, I see some farmers end up swathing wheat that’s lodged to reduce losses. Must be a pain having them chomp away.
You answered my question without me even having to ask Tracy! Had no idea there were diffrent varieties for diffrent seasons. Always learning! What a mess the sawfly makes. Another brilliant video much enjoyed. Thankyou!
Thanks!
🤣 Tracy I love reading some of your followers comments 🤣  Thanks Tracy for the additional educational difference between Montana winter and spring wheat. In Northwest Oklahoma we only planted winter wheat and would pasture off some for our Hereford cattle. Thanks again for Day 18 of your 2024 beautiful Montana harvest.👍👍👍👍👍
It IS fun to read everyone’s comments. I TRY to get them answered. But sometimes my days just get too long. We used to cut in Oklahoma. Lots of fun memories!
@@ZeorianHarvestingTrucking 🤣😂🤣
Thankyou .
Enjoyed the bit sbout the wheat , and wheat bug .
Take care .
Thank you!
Glad to see you back at it. I like the shout out to the people at the Northern Ag Network a great bunch. Saw flies have always been a problem, expense of air application and the rewards are what it'll mean for the harvest. It's always about when to spray and for what. It looks like the people you work for have a great opperation. Like you said it's about profit/loss, cost of sell to make a profit for opperation. It's alot of work. The U.S. feeds the world. Jim and You have a great day. Be safe
Thank you so much, Gene!
THANKS FOR THE RIDE WE LOVE
thanks for another great video, when you said the radio announcer is my friend and he does not know it, I want you to know that is exactly how I consider you and Jim, you are my friends and you do not even know it, thanks again and see ya tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for the update I watched the sawfly video,in the UK there’s a major issue with Cabbage Stem Flea Beetle in Canola,Rapeseed the larvae feeding inside the stems.
Sounds very similar!
Thanks for sharing. The old deserted farm house is beautiful to me. Farming flat land looks pretty easy. It's a little harder with steep rolling hills. I grew up driving John Deere 55's and 95's.
I THINK that old building may have been a school at one time (not sure) and also a granary.
Thanks for the education. I attended Oklahoma State as a grad student in statistics so much of the data we used was based on crop yields but we never had time to get down to the field level. Very enjoyable even if it was many years ago.
That should have been required (the field level)! I’m glad you enjoyed the video.
@@ZeorianHarvestingTrucking I should have noted that the curriculum studied many fields who used statistics. I think a lot of data we used in learning was because it is pretty easy to design experiments in crop agriculture because most fields are somewhat uniform and lend themselves to subdivisions for experiments. We did have professors who were involved ag research who shared with us. If I had been in a pure agricultural field like my friend who ended up with a doctorate in poultry science it would have been more hands on. It would be interesting to be a student today with all the technology you have and the data that is being collected as you harvest.
@@margaretbutler9528 I’m certain you would see a different world now compared to then.
Thanks for another great video Tracy! Wheat harvest and Peterbilts are impossible to get out of your blood,lol. ❤🎉
Truth!
Morning. Thank you.
Morning! You’re welcome!
4 grain to the mash on the HRW, no wonder it made so much.. Looks like close to the same on the spring too it's making well and the market is reflecting it. Great photo op with all 4 sitting and waiting!!
👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks for the video live in Michigan. Always wanted to come out and see that I could not it this year, but it didn’t happen. Maybe next year
👍🏻
Great video and tutorial, Tracy
Thank you!!
and also Rocky Erickson, Montana Sports! When you mentioned the other radio personalities, I had to include him. Last time through I heard all three of them. Brings back a lot of memories!
YESSSSS!!!
You all rock!
❤️
Very good Video 👍 👍
Thanks, Timmy!
Vernalization is the cold weather process required for winter wheat to be.productive. Spring wheat does not require vernalization to produce.
Nice fly over
Another great video.
It was kind of a short wait in the field for it to dry down a bit.
Thanks for showing us a issue with the bug in the fields.
Yeah, it wasn’t too long. Just long enough to tell stories. 🤣
Always enjoy being with you on the harvest . Stay safe and have a good night sleep
Thank you!
Convoy on the radio 😂😂😅😊
👍🏻 hope YT doesn’t pick up on it and mark my video with a copyright issue.
@@ZeorianHarvestingTrucking hope not great video as usual
@@MalcTyler thank you!!
I really enjoy you channel
Thank you so much for watching!
thanks again for the video the country side is amazing . take care .
It truly is!
Great video been a great vacation how much do like being finished be safe God bless.
About a week or so. I’m just not sure.
Thanks for the explanation on the diferences between winter and spring wheat.
👍🏻
These fields are proof that the earth is not round nor is it flat. It is a surface of rolling hills. Actually there is not end, the hills just keep going.
😊
We never grew spring wheat. Winter wheat harvest was always the best time. The many trips to the elevator and squeezing the truck through some of the older grain elevators was a test in itself !!
Ohhhhhhhhhhh those narrow elevators!!!! They weren’t built for the trucks of today!
The experience of harvest gets stored somewhere deep in the soul and NEVER GOES AWAY!
Y’all take care🌽🏈🌽
😊
Great to hear 560 KMON in the background, that has been a great radio station for years.
❤️
Good video
Thank you!
Winter wheat doesn't require cold weather to germinate. It requires cold weather and a dormant period to produce a seed head. Winter and spring wheat will germinate at about the same temperature.
It’s called vernilzation
Thank you! I figured if I didn’t tell the story quite right someone would set me straight.
Vernalization (from Latin vernus 'of the spring') is the induction of a plant's flowering process by exposure to the prolonged cold of winter, or by an artificial equivalent. After vernalization, plants have acquired the ability to flower, but they may require additional seasonal cues or weeks of growth before they will actually do so. The term is sometimes used to refer to the need of herbal (non-woody) plants for a period of cold dormancy in order to produce new shoots and leaves,[1] but this usage is discouraged.[2]
Your videos are very attractive ❤
Kate Stephens ( Kate's AG ) just posted a video about swathing their wheat, they do that every year, they are only 30 miles North West from where you are, close to Dutton, they use the pick-up headers for harvesting, sometimes they use the big headers.
They have saw fly problems. The fly chews and knocks down wheat stem. Spring wheat seems to be the worst probably due to the season they are most active.Areas of southern Alberta don’t grow much spring wheat
@@darrellmilne6877
Yep I know, but strange that the Welkers a bit more North (Shelby) don't have that problem, probably a local issue, other soil maybe ??
👍🏻
Yes, the sawfly (or wasp) lays its eggs on the green stems in the spring.
❓
Is saw fly a big concern for them? I remember rising with Brad heil east of limon Colorado and how bad it was there the year he died, shocked how bad it is in areas
Can you show us a sample of spring wheat and winter wheat to see the difference
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
👍🏻
Thanks for sharing the difference between winter and spring wheat -- I had been wondering about that. Also, what is that old "house" sitting in the middle of one of the fields?
Well, they call it a school house. But no one knows if it was. It was used as a granary.
I look this morning & N-W $7.86 bu as of Aug9th & look further hard red winter wheat $5.53 bu
They say a little over $7 different from last harvest season. Why is it so many different pieces ? Good video Tracy yal stay safe
Thanks!
Is next years crop planted in last years residue OR is there some form of tillage prior to planting for next year...???
They are no-til farmers. I’m just not sure of their rotation.
How is your harvesting adventure going so far; have ya'll gotten used to harvesting with John Deere combines or do you still like New Holland better? I've been watching since you left home.
Well, Jim’s been running JD equipment for the past couple of harvest seasons. Since we sold our combine. He’s okay with it. I miss the NH!
Those are worker hands. No manicured nails.
Very true! You’re getting the REAL me.
Great job on explaining the different kind of wheat. Under ideal condition how many acres can you guys cut in a day?
Depends on the condition of the field and the crop.
Thanks for your kudos for my attempt in explaining.
Winter wheat is used for pasta and bread. Spring wheat (lower protein) is used for cakes and pastries. 😊
Have that backwards.
Durum wheat is what pasta is made from, not spring or winter wheat.
@@sambecker7826 not anymore. They even make a pasta from lentils. Get this, gluten free pasta involves sprouting!!!!??? Big discounts if you bring sprouted durum to market!!😫
Yes!
How Long do they need to seed this lots of acres for winter and spring wheat
Good question!
Tracy you are the best story teller I know you always keep it interesting with some of the best video on you tube and always get the sunset Thank you for all the work you do outside the combine as well
Great Videos! Do they rotate fields from spring to winter wheat every year like with do with corn and soybeans in the Midwest? I guess why I’m asking is all that wheat year after year does it eventually cause a yield drag or is that where the barley comes into play?
They have a rotation set up with winter & spring wheat, barley and chem fallow. Not sure how the rotation works though.
Be careful Tracy, the Feds are out in their helicopters watching and listening to you. When you were talking about the powdery mess they thought you said powdery meth. Be careful out there! 🤫 😂
🤣😂🤣😂
How many sections of ground will u all end up cutting??
All of them. 🤣
I honestly don’t know how many acres they farm. A lot. I really have no reason to know this number. And if I did, out of respect for them, I wouldn’t share.
Is all the wheat in these massive growth operations bearded? I see both your winter wheat and spring weight have beards. Many decades ago, when I grew up in Oregon, we only had spring wheat. It was not bearded. We heard of bearded wheat but never grew it. All the barley was bearded.
You had heads of both winter and spring weed, but you did not shell them out. Are the kernels decidedly different visually between the two?
Yes, all the wheat is bearded. Very rarely see the beardless wheat. When the grain is harvested, it all looks the same.
👍 ❤
❤️
Thank you Tracy for another days harvest and so lovely to watch and enjoy and bring back my childhood memories wishing you a wonderful day and weekend
Thank you so much, John! ❤️
Did you and Jim ever think about settling down in Montana.
We actually did - well, I did. The kids always wanted to live here too. I do love it!
Are you a C W MCCALL fan? I had him on 8 track tape. 😂
Well, sure! Especially since he was from Omaha.
Do everyone Use the Same AB Line on Auto Trac?
We have to reset the line every time we begin a new cut up and down.
Hey Tracy do you ever read the comments and reply to them?
YES!
Do longer video on Livestream
Low grain prices and high fuel and fertilizer costs is why the equipment manufacturers are laying people off. Nobody will buy equipment for a while. I grew up on a farm and always wanted to farm but it was not in the cards. The government condemned 1 square mile of farmland and turned it into a lake and a park. My grandfathers farm was right in the middle. Now it is overrun with Deere.
The cost of doing this job is ridiculously high! Not sure how some are making it work. When the farms are gone, where will we get our food? Import?
Thanks for the shot of ol glory.
Did you go to bozeman?
I enjoy the explanation between the two different kinds of wheat every time I hear you do it.
❤️AMER1CA❤️
No. We were cutting wheat.
Start telling us how many acres these farms ur cutting are, 1,000 4,000 we have no idea how big these farms across the country are, I’m from Maryland
Rough estimate they probably cut 7000 so far. Mike Mitchell ch. from across the border in SK, family farms at least 60,000 acres.Welker Farms ch. not far away in MT they have about 12,000 acres. Most farms won't reveal exact acreage numbers, nobody's business. It's never a real comparison with another farm, anyway, could be one family operation or multiple familys/ generations involved.
@@lynwessel2471 it would be nice to know the size of farms out there, who cares who knows it’s not a big deal to know how much a size of a farm is
@@easternshorefarmer The people who run the farms care and most don't talk about it. Tracy's been around farmers her whole life she and knows its not her place to give out info unless the farm tells her it's okay.
Thanks for teaching a city guy about wheat varieties. You tube is overloaded with video and little in-depth information
SWEEEEET! I’m all about educating those who don’t know.
I'm just asking because no one replies to my comments on any of the channels I watch may be on my end don't know
Hello Randy sir, ..... let me say hello to you. 😉
Greets from the Netherlands. 👋
Love you a lot Randy ok
I think I respond to most of yours.
Vernalisation.
👍🏻
Thanks for clueing me in. And the fact you made me look up the meaning of the word. 😉
@@ZeorianHarvestingTrucking I`m german and we do have one JD T670 combine for 6 farmer with about 300ha=750acres.
the CLAAS plant Harsewinkel is about 40km away 🤔
Interesting info on wheat. Why the one dollar difference in the price? And why do they make you go last? Because you are a girl? LOL
I have no idea how the markets work. I’m just a combine driver. Why last? Because I don’t mind picking up the smaller pieces left or cutting the edge of the field. They like to just GO!
And besides that, I get good pictures being the last. 😉
How’s the weather Tracie. How’s Jim’s health holding up.
The weather has taken a turn for cool temps. Some humidity. Jim’s doing just fine! Thanks for asking!