Day 19 (8/10) - Highwood, Montana Harvest
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- Day 19.
We finished the field of spring wheat we left at the end of last night.
The rest of the spring is too green.
So, we moved to barley.
And clipped away acres all day.
Kudos to Katie for the drone footage!!!!
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This is the first time I've watched a series all the way through. Inspiring and interesting. I've a lot about the people called "wheaties" and come to love them :)
It gets stuck deep in your soul!!
Good day to all of you!!! Thanks Tracey and Jim and ALL of the harvest crew for absolutely wonderful videos. The combination of your filming and Katie’s drone footage is just incredible and beyond words!!!!! Combined with the music the video today was marvelous!!!!!! Time for tears. !!!!!!!!
I would imagine Tracey it is interesting how they have you do the rows that start the field as that gives you wonderful views as what is on the other side of the field!!!!!!
Thanks for talking about barley. I helped a neighbor combine barley and learned real about how terrible itchy that barley dust is-wow!!!!! You were really in the thick of the barley dust in your video. The barley you are combining looks nice and thick and standing good. Nice fields of barley.
Thanks to Katie again for her amazing drone footages, she does such a beautiful job!!!!
You mentioned a road day to far away fields. I am certain that is quite the process also. Do you drive the equipment or load everything up on trucks for the journey????
Sorry to hear you are losing some of the crew. Takes a number of people to make all of this work. Know all of you adjust for that situation.
Well, enough said for now. Anxious for the next video, especially if it is traveling a distance to other fields.
Thanks Tracey and Jim and everyone for another fantastic Ride Along Day!!!!!! You all take care and be safe. See you tomorrow.
My blessings to all of you!!!!!!!
The Iowa farm boy. Steve.
Tracey Note; I am some better today but have a way to go yet. But felt good enough to type again/ha!!!!!
Glad to hear you’re feeling a little better, Steve! We rode the combines and all other equipment to Big Sandy. The headers travel on a trailer. You’ll have a better idea of what’s going on with Day 20 video.
Great video Tracy, those are some of the best drone shots I've ever seen. Thank you
Agree! Katie does a wonderful job with the drone shots!
I've been watching your channel for awhile now and I can say in my humble opinion that last video was fantastic. The music was very moving to highlight the hard work it takes to harvest in the West. That footage should be on Network Television. Great job Tracy
@@kenmiller8057 oh my!! Thank you so very much!
Great drone pics .THANK YOU!!!
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Good Videos. I really enjoy them. Thank You for making them. (The true "Heros" are those Grain Cart Drivers. Need more Videos of them) Again, Thank You!!
Cart drivers and truckers! I only see the cart drivers when they’re practically next to me.
You play the perfect music with your videos.
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Brings back memories from when I was a hired hand on a wheat barley canola operation. Looks amazing shots ! Good job
Thanks so much!
I’m glad Jim’s health is good for sure
Those Missouri flats are just amazing scenery. Love your videos, I’m a retired farmer enjoying and envying your “retirement dream job”.
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My wife Christine and I (Paul) watch all your videos. You do a great job. The scenery is sure different than La Crosse WI.
You do a good job of answering the questions we have. I really like your music. Wow, those dinners look great each day.
We both grew up on WI dairy farms so understand farming but yours is a different variety. My Dad had a Massey Harris pull type combine, a 77 I think. We are both 71 now. Thanks. Just wanted to reach out.
I seem to remember combines when I was a kid, 1950s, had their headers offset. So you had to cut the field in circles from the outside in and couldn't just cut straight across thru a field like I see you do. They also didn't have a cab. Just a seat out front with all the heat and dust. The fancy ones had an umbrella over the driver. Great overhead shots and interesting country.
You pick interesting music that goes along with crossing the field. Nice job, Thanks. Thumbs Up!
My dad tells me stories about those days. He went with grandpa when it was like that. Talks about waking up and not being able to open his eyes because they were “glued” shut. Sleeping in a truck full of wheat. Or spending the day under a truck because it was raining all day - no camper. Taking a bath in the river because the shower house had a line. We’ve got it made today!
😃👍👍awesome as always been a long time since I been around barley harvest probably as a kid raised it for the milk cows 😃
I bet you’re missing it by now. 🤣
@@ZeorianHarvestingTrucking you know it 😂
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Thank you for letting us ride along
I really enjoy it
God Bless from Omaha
Omaha! Awesome!!
Thanks for the kind words!
Another great video. The drone footage is my favorite
❤️ thanks to Katie today!
Absolutely beautiful country
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Drone footage was 2nd to none…take care and God Bless all y’all…GBR🌽🏈🌽
Thank you!
Watching the heads of grain moving in the breeze...and then the grain being combined and gathered into the platform is peaceful, relaxing, hypnotic, and mesmerizing to me. Thanks!
Very satisfying.
Thank you Tracy for another nice days harvest on your lovely big farm and the small farm i helped on when i was growing up we used to harvest the barley before the wheat we used to do seed crop of pea first then the barley and then the wheat and in our barley we used to get thousands of ladybirds our farm was in Essex UK
Not our farm. We are just providing labor during harvest. This video will give you a better idea of what the heck we’re doing.
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Thanks for the ride along. The barley you are cutting is feed barley, or brewing barley. I hope the weather gets hot again to turn the grain. Jim and you have a great day and be safe.
It’s feed barley. Thanks for the well wishes!
The barley looks like a really good yield from the combine cab. Another good video. Stay safe!!
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Love your content. I never knew the massive undertaking it is to harvest. Thanks for sharing.
Looks like barley is similar to wheat, that the combine settings would be similar. Just a presumption on my part. Keep up the good work and videos.
It’s sorta similar but also different. Barley has a “husk” on the grain. Wheat does not. But, it’s bearded like wheat. Thanks for your note!
That first song was really nice. Another great video. I hope the harvest lasts longer because I love these videos. I hope you get harvest work in the fall. Thanks for sharing the video. God bless all of you.
Fall harvest will be pretty boring compared to these days. There’s only 4 of us on the crew. Combine - me. One truck driver. 2 people taking turns with the tractor/cart. But I plan on sharing my days.
@@ZeorianHarvestingTrucking But you still make great videos.
Absolutely great video. The scenery is incredible. This beautiful country God has made and allows us to enjoy. God bless the entire crew with a safe harvest
Thank you so much, John!
What a great retirement job! I have a similar retirement plan here in Indiana. All the fun, none of the stress! Congratulations 🎉
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Good video good to see y'all
Thanks, Randy!
Beautiful field and Git-R-Done
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This video gets top marks for editing Tracy. Very good.
Thank you so much!
I very much enjoy your videos. Thank you.
Thank you so much!
Video is just awesome tracy
Good video awesome drone footage it's beautiful !
Yal have a safe work day !!
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I figured it was about the week that some of the "younger" help would be leaving for school!
When the time comes (if it works for all) please give a shout out to each of the kids and their school and area of study.
Is there a lot of chatter between the combines & carts about where to go or do the good cart operators get into their "groove" and just know where to go?
If it works out, I will. The cart drivers just know. And they do an amazing job!
Mightily impressive
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Beautiful video and loved the music. I was about 14 years old and drving truck for an uncle in Southern Alberta as he combined his windrowed Barley. In those days, you would wait in the field and when a combine was full, he would honk his horn. You needed to pay attention and figure out which combine it was. Then you drove to the combine, taking care not to get straw into a place it shouldn't be on the truck, to prevent a fire. So I heard the horn, drove to the combine, appropriately parked, the operator engaged the unload auger, then he hurriedly left the cab for a #1 bathroom break in the barley straw. He had no toilet paper and a handful or two of barley straw, was his only cleansing option. He was pretty miserable for the rest of the day. By the way, I did get the truck on fire that season because of straw around the exhaust pipe. I stopped at the first smell of smoke. Fortunately there was enough water in my water jug to put it out! Harvest memories!
Ohhhhh…great memories! Too bad for that combine driver! 😳
On this very farm, growing up we had Gleaner combines with no cabs but an umbrella. There was a spring loaded flag mounted on the platform that was put up when the hopper got filled and the truck driver would spot it and go unload the combine. The trucks back then also did cause an occasional field fire and neighbors from miles around would come help put the fire out. The straw that was left behind the combines back then was set on fire and burned and at night it was beautiful to see.
@@daleneb24 wonderful memories! ❤️
Such beautiful country. Thanks.
You’re welcome!
Thanks again the video Tracy is all of the crops summer fallow . take care looking for another video .
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Great video!, good exclamation of winter vs spring wheat Tracy! Great scenery and I will share on Facebook. Thanks Mike Townsley
Thank you!!
Such a nice field. Fun watching it. Be fun to be cutting it. Absolutely harvesting bliss. Thanks again from New Zealand.
Awe inspiring!
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Awesome drone footage and video I always look forward to your videos about how much longer are y’all going to be cutting I know it’s probably getting closer to the end of harvest 🙁 thank you again for taking us along
Unfortunately, the end is coming quicker than I will be ready for. The end of harvest is always a let down for me. Always. Maybe another week.
@@ZeorianHarvestingTrucking yes I know I will hate to see it end
@@chuckrobinson6244 me too
Rained out one day and in the barley dust the next, harvest season, prepare for everything, another great video. Thank you
YEP!! Thank you!
The barley crop looks really good as well Tracy glad to see Jim again Awesome views from the drone they were fling high today its great to see all of that country thanks for the ride
It’s BIG country!
so peaceful
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Jim and Tracy that looks like beautiful stand of Barley what is yielding to the acre .I always enjoy your videos it's hard to believe the kids will be back in school here in about a week and half.where has the summer gone .keep the good work .I would love ❤️ to meet you and Jim sometime . I always wanted to try a wheat harvest tour.that was always a dream of mine as I say on my bucket list to Runa combine or even a grain cart.
Love every second of it.
Thank you!
Yeah, good ol barley chaff down your collar first thing in the morning just gets your day off to a great start! 😂
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Agree. Seems malt barley is way itchier than feed barley. Don’t know if this is malt or not.
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Good morning. That's a corner office with a view!
Beautiful video once again Tracy. The drone footage is incredible! Love the footage of the Missouri River. Really like the music. Has kind of a medival tone to it. Where do you find all of that music? You put so much thought and effort into your videos. You shoyld sell them to farm broadcasting networks. ..Yes, barely dust is very itchy! You all stay safe out there!
I can’t take credit for the drone footage. That’s all Katie. She does a wonderful job today. The music comes from the UA-cam audio library. I can’t just use any music due to copyright issues. Thanks for your kind words! I DO put a lot of thought into my videos. I want them to tell a good story.
A lot of great Drone shots and a lot of Beatiful scenery. Looks like Jim is enjoying the Snacks. I see old Glory Flying again. A lot of round and round for a great day of production. It could get ichie with all the dust fling around. Great Grain Cart pictures. You do a great job of covering the operation.Lookin forward to the next edition of Montana Harvest 2024 CYA
Thank you so much! I do love capturing the day!
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Tracy here at home farmers planted barley to grind with feed because it was higher in protein.
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Morning.
My dad usually raised some barley in NW Kansas along with the wheat. The barley never looked as good as the fields you are cutting. Then also the barley seemed to rippen just before the wheat. Must have been a different variety or due to different climate.
barley is an interesting grain....beer drinkers are familiar...but there are multiple other uses too.
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Does the farmer have a channel that we could watch them plant all this winter wheat Tracy?
No they don’t.
thanks for another great video, see ya tomorrow!!!!!
Yep! See ya tomorrow!!
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The barley looked like it was yielding good. I've never been around it before it looks very dirty. It looks as bad as milo which is super itchy!😫😫
I think it was doing better than expected.
Oooh yes, itchy barley dust. That was uncomfortable to say the least. But I think the milo dust was even worse. At least my dad said so. It ripened in October to November so I was in school. That was how I got out of milo harvest. He usually had to harvest in the morning while the frost was in the ground. By afternoon the ground turned to mud.
I remember Milo harvest. Used to help my dad and grandpa. I know it was itchy but I don’t have much recollection of just how bad.
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I guess the schools in the USA start sooner, as a teacher I start in the first week of september but in the south of the Netherlands the schools start one week earlier. Is it ok you don't have to drive the schoolbus yet when the schools are starting? The drone footage is realy great again! Amazing how high the drone can fly. The fields looks like a carpet from the sky!
Some schools have already started. The school at home begins on the 15th. I’m just a sub so they won’t be waiting for me to get back.
The drone shots are amazing, very well done, and they add a great perspective to the harvest process. Going to miss seeing the young'uns head back to school. Jessie's smile lights up the room!
Couple or three questions: Are the Peterbilts retired OTR tractors? Seems so given the sleepers on all of them. Also wondering about the Meridian hoppers in the yard. Are they for fertilizer or seed storage, or just what? Are the different grains (winter wheat, spring wheat, barley) planted with an eye on expected time of harvest? It would seem that if all acreage was planted in winter wheat, it would require more machinery and effort than is already on site to get it cut before it reaches the point of having been left standing too long.
You and Jim have helped this retired CPA learn a lot about wheat, soybean, and corn harvest. And I'm really enjoying seeing parts of Montana which my wife and I explored 2 years ago. I distinctly recall the rail-served Carter elevator complex and the view down towards Highwood from US 87 right outside of Fort Benton.
Best to all.
Drone shots along the Missouri river were spectacular! This is day 19, has it all been on the same farm?
Yep, same farm. We’re here strictly to help them with their harvest.
Check this video out to understand more about what the heck we’re doing.
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You can make a evening filling film about it, so beautiful the shots are.
Compliments for Katie, these drone shots were fantastic again, you and tracy should team up and make these kind of films all the time.
Later on Corn Harvest, Potato Harvest in Idaho, Onions Oregon, and so on.
Send it in for the Oscars, if they have a brain the should give you Lady's the price.
Stacy, did you ask the farmers something about my questions?
Further: Wheat yield in France is bad, Holland Belgium also average to negative, but the whole of Europe is about the same as last year.
But I think that the numbers will be lower...
Ukraine is also lala, and in East Russia it is still growing a bit.
Thanks for your kudos and, hopefully, Katie is reading all the wonderful words said about her drone abilities.
No, I haven’t sat down with them for questions. Been pretty full days.
Hola de nuevo desde España gran cosecha de cebada como granjero ciento una gran admiración por el trabajo que realizan
Why thank you!!
Tracy, can you explain the seeding process of Brett’s farm ? Chem fallow anything ? Is it all cropped every year ? Wheat on wheat ? No pulses ? Just curious how they do their rotations. Great crop down there this year too. Is that above the 10 year average for them ? How much rainfall is normal for them ?
You should come visit them when they’re putting in winter wheat. Thanks for your daily updates. And very Beautiful country. Keep it up Tracy !!!
Oh gosh…lots of questions that I just can’t answer.
! Qué bonitos videos hace usted! Gracias
Thank you!
Yes I know the feeling of being itchy from harvesting oats and Barley with a pull type Allis Chalmers all crop 60 combine which is a 5 foot cut and it was a combine that you had to put burlap sacks on fill them tie them shut with cotton strings and push them off the shoot and pick them up out of the field when you were done 80 to 100 lb sacks those were the days oh yes and there was a sack for the weeds that the scour cleaner that was mounted on the combine for ragweeds.
Those are some long ago memories! What year(s) would that have been?
How many people help’s Brett get everything planted ? 👍✌️🇺🇸
He and his dad.
Beautiful country ! Love the harvesting scenes! Are there cattle in the rough country beside the ravines, coulees and river? Sometimes it seems there are fences and other times no.
Good video
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Great video and drone videos. Could it be possible sometime to have you do some type of video of Jesse and or Nick flying the drones? I think that would real interesting to see as they do such a great job!!
Hard to do when I’m in the combine. They just basically stand there with the control box in their hands watching the drone through the screen. Where the drone goes depends on the move of controls.
@@ZeorianHarvestingTrucking Thanks Tracy.
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How many beers per acre is that barley making?🤣 Excellent video!!
It’s feed barley.
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Just think Lewis and Clark floated up the Missouri River where y’all are at and saw the same fields y’all are working in now
There is actually a Lewis and Clark float trip that they do along the same route as Lewis and Clark took.
@@daleneb24 I bet that would be fun
I know, right!!! This area is full of Lewis and Clark history. I love thinking about this.
That would be awesome!
I like your peterbilts beautiful
Well, they’re not ours but they’re nice, aren’t they!?
The grassland along the Missouri is it used for grazing or federal land or what. Thanks for great videos.
I honestly don’t know.
Love your videos. Please explain about the axle configurations on the trucks. Some tractors have a pusher axle, there are 3 axle trailers. How much can be legally hauled on a tractor with a pusher pulling a full trailer and a pup? Are the scales at the elevator long enough to weigh all axles at once or do you split weigh? If you split weigh, how do you split? Steer axle, then all the rest, or tractor with full trailer then pup.
Just an old trucker wondering. Thanks for the entertainment.
A few days ago they were at the elevator in Carter. The scales weighed the rig with pup on the looong scale. Probably common in that area...
Yes, the scales are long enough to weigh the entire truck/pup combo. Not sure what the legal weight is. I’m guessing someone on here will know.
How much you cut in a day and now 17 days. Very impressive the team work. Love
The footage and wish I was there.
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Can’t help but notice the barley is being harvested different from the direction it was planted. Does it feed better or just the lay of the field?
Pretty sure we’re just cutting in the direction that we can pick up as much as we can in a straight line with auto steer.
It actually helps the sickle bar knives wear in a more uniform way...
Tracie do they plow or spray the ground after harvest great videos be safe God bless.
They are no-til farmers so their fallow is chem fallow.
I imagine Lewis and Clark and Corps of Discovery trudging up that river 220 years ago......
EXACTLY!! I love it!
Oh how I hated the itchy barley! Hope for malting my dad would say!!
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@@ZeorianHarvestingTrucking thank you for all you have done to do these videos! So wish we could see seeding done as well. I know you are all extremely tired. Great job and very blessed to have all of you on a place my family still loves.
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I’m glad you’re enjoying them!
Is that feed barley or malt? Carter, only a few miles away but you have to drive over 30 miles to get there.
Right!! Its feed barley.
Haven’t raised barley in years. Talk about itchy on an open combine. Is that feed barley or malt barley. Looks like feed to me but have never seen malt before.
It’s feed barley.
Hi Tracey, good videos, got several to catch up on, did you and Jim used to harvest Barely in Colorado? Or am I thinking that was someone else. Does the barely go for alcohol production or feed? Sat safe happy harvesting! X
We did go to “the valley” (San Luis). It was a great experience. And, yes, we cut Coors barley.
@@ZeorianHarvestingTrucking I thought so, thank you
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Love the videos.
Wondering how many acres you all are cutting?
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.
What kind of yeild difference is it typically between winter and spring wheat
It depends on the year, of course. Maybe about 1/2.
Amazing drone footage, Tracy which river is that in the background, is it the Missouri? Finally got a big rain in Ok. 4.40 in the last 36hrs. at my home. Further south 7 plus inches since midnight, flash flooding happening. Back into the oven next week.
The drone footage is thanks to Katie. I can’t take credit for that but it sure shows the countryside. Glad you got moisture!
Missouri rvr.
@@John-nc4bl thanks!
No concave swap to go from hard thresh wheat to barley?
All settings are done with a poke of the finger on the monitor.
@@ZeorianHarvestingTrucking Did the combines need a deep cleaning to rid it of all traces of wheat? Since it is feed barely, is some cross contamination acceptable?
@@rightsideofthegrass8114 nope. We just changed settings on the monitor and went to work.
Another awesome video.. just can't express how beautiful that country is.
Ol Glory so beautiful.
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I’m in total agreement with you!
And what yield is it?
Who does all the drone flying
Jim and Tracy what river is that in this harvest video.such beautiful country
Missouri river.
@John-nc4bl thank you for your response
It’s the Missouri River
@ZeorianHarvestingTrucking thank you for that answer I pray for a safe day of harvest today and this week.
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What do they use for Barley?
It’s feed barley
Beef-Barley Soup is one of my favorites 😋
Irish whiskey is mine!😎🥃
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How many acres do you harvest in Montana
We’re only here at this farm.
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.
How many acres can you harvest on a good day
Depends on a lot of factors.