Just last week the Mrs asked me where Id like to go for a holiday when our harvest is finished. Straight away I told her the Palouse region and do some harvesting over there. Im in West Australia. She said “for a holiday”. Lolol. Iv read you have some very fertile soils and great yeilds. How many ton to the acre do you get on a good average type year? Im a bit old school and still work in yards, miles, acres and tons and mpg. Even bags to the acre. Its what I grew up with and its stuck. Whats the most popular brand of header for that type of country, or is it fairly evenly mixed like over here? We only run older type gear, had a 1644 Case IH for a couple of years now and compared to our old Masseys we ran, the Inter does more work than the two Masseys combined. We only have 1500 arable acres out of two thousand. We also run 3500 sheep and fifty or there abouts cows. Its just me n m dad (87) working the farm, so its enough to keep me busy all the time. Another question, any erosion issues? how well does your gps auto steer work on hills like these? How far do yall have to truck the grain? Beautiful countryside. Top of my bucket list before I kick the bucket. Anyone have any footage of seeding time?. Thanks for posting this vid, ten outta ten. Hope its a good yeilding year for you and fire free in that sort of landscape. I bet it would go like hell if it got going. Cheers for the New Year👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks for the comment man I appreciate it...I'll try and answer all your questions here. I will say if you get the chance to visit here, do it and you won't regret it. Some of the most beautiful scenery year round, and we do have some of the best soil in the world where we are. We go by bushels to the acre and on an average year (like this year was, 2020) with winter wheat we will get 100-130 bu/ac. Thats on legume ground the year before, some farmers in this area see closer to 150 bu/ac on summer fallow ground. Not sure what those would equivalate to in tons, but a bushel is about 60 lbs. Most popular header by far is the MacDon flex draper, we've ran them for quite a few years and are very pleased with them. I can't imagine having as many sheep as you do but we are very similar with the cows, just enough to keep us busy on top of all the farm ground. Erosion can be a problem, but is not a major issue as long as it is dealt with properly. We try and "lay off" hillsides and slopes by following the contour of them with most field work. We definitely have to take into consideration the hills with the auto steer, but it does fairly well for the most part. It can be tricky with the combines with their leveling systems so we have to account for some overlap. Our farm has its own elevator with a set of bins and a leg and we are able to load rail cars there as well, so we store a lot of our own grain during harvest. But the co-op elevator is right next door as well as a new grain terminal that was put in about 6-7 years ago that is roughly 6 miles out of town. So never more than a 20 mile round trip for us from the field during harvest and a 12 mile round trip from our bins to the grain terminal for trucking in the off season. I have one video on here of some seeding that is not that great but it will give you a little bit of an idea. One of the very first drone videos I took so bear with me. You can check out FarmerSteveO on here, he is a good friend and farms about 10 miles away and has a few pretty cool videos. We did battle quite a few fires in this area during harvest, had one really bad one that wiped out 2 small towns as well as a lot of stored grain and acres. Thanks again for the comment and like I said, if you ever get the chance to visit here, do it. Take care man and God bless!
@@lancelindgren93 thanks for the reply mate, muchly appreciated. Makes me want to check out your hometown even more. Going by the footage of your vids which I give ten outta ten, that area looks like heaven to me. Easily the best harvest vid on UA-cam. Will try to look for farmer Steve o vids. I remember reading years ago about the accident rate around your area. Pretty high. Especially going back forty fifty years ago when sp headers and tractors were in the boom time of getting larger. Id like a set of triples on anything id drive on them there hills. Our farm has some hills that the combine wont get up for lack of traction, so i go round and go down them. But not across. Nothing like your area though. Thanks again for your reply and your vid. Ill be waiting for the next one. Safe happy farming mate, two thumbs up.👍👍
@@stevenowen4150 You like your History lessons, so allow me to contribute. My family started farming in the Palouse Country in the late-1800's. Coincidentally, my hometown was actually Palouse, in Washington State. Our farm was just a mile north of town. Some of the richest soil in the World, actually, but it is all on very steep hills. And it is Dry Land farming, which means all the moisture comes from Mother Nature and there is plenty of it in Fall, Winter and Spring. That means erosion of that soil has been an ongoing problem for nearly 100 years. And they fixed that situation by farming "on the contour". We seldom go up and down steep hills - always around the easy way.... Combines don't thresh efficiently when all the grain is sliding to one side, so the old combines, pulled behind a Caterpiller tractor, had a guy riding the combine with a big steering wheel in front of him. There was a rack and pinion device so the operator could level the machine, while the header followed the slope and stayed parallel to the grain.
@@stevenowen4150 Part Two (In case UA-cam puts my comments out of order)... In the late 1950's, a Farmer/Engineer from Palouse came up with a crude mechanism that used a mercury level switch to drive hydraulics that levelled the combine automatically. That turned into a more sophisticated system that levelled the big "self-propelled" modern combines gently and most perfectly. By the time I was old enough to drive combines in the early 70's, the air-conditioned cabs were the latest thing. My brothers used to drive combine under a canvas awning, with all that chaff coming off the header right in their faces! But you were interested in the sidehill situation and the accidents. We always heard about them, and usually it was the combine sliding sideways down the steep hills and then rolling over. Not good. It is a strange sensation operating that way. Especially in the dark! I drove for a farmer in 1978 and we had four machines working. After dark, and there are about 15 spotlights stationed around the machine. I was last in the line and they all started out cutting this steep ridge and I followed along until it got too freaky - I got on the radio and said I thought I would be more comfortable turning around and going back to cutting on the nice big piece we had just left behind, on a much gentler slope. As to crop yields - about ten years ago, I had a nephew by marriage who was farming our place. He had won some soil-conservation awards and one year got 100 bushels of wheat per acre! I visited a farm in the Dakotas once, and they said they got 40 or 50 bushels - sounded like worthless land to me!
Great video
Awesome drone footage
Great Video, I love Harvest Videos and I love the Palouse
Finally a new palouse harvest vid on YT. Thank you! Love it. Great vid.
ARRRrrr, me pirate grain cart coming to steal yer golden wheat
Just last week the Mrs asked me where Id like to go for a holiday when our harvest is finished. Straight away I told her the Palouse region and do some harvesting over there. Im in West Australia. She said “for a holiday”. Lolol. Iv read you have some very fertile soils and great yeilds. How many ton to the acre do you get on a good average type year? Im a bit old school and still work in yards, miles, acres and tons and mpg. Even bags to the acre. Its what I grew up with and its stuck. Whats the most popular brand of header for that type of country, or is it fairly evenly mixed like over here? We only run older type gear, had a 1644 Case IH for a couple of years now and compared to our old Masseys we ran, the Inter does more work than the two Masseys combined. We only have 1500 arable acres out of two thousand. We also run 3500 sheep and fifty or there abouts cows. Its just me n m dad (87) working the farm, so its enough to keep me busy all the time. Another question, any erosion issues? how well does your gps auto steer work on hills like these? How far do yall have to truck the grain? Beautiful countryside. Top of my bucket list before I kick the bucket. Anyone have any footage of seeding time?. Thanks for posting this vid, ten outta ten. Hope its a good yeilding year for you and fire free in that sort of landscape. I bet it would go like hell if it got going. Cheers for the New Year👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks for the comment man I appreciate it...I'll try and answer all your questions here. I will say if you get the chance to visit here, do it and you won't regret it. Some of the most beautiful scenery year round, and we do have some of the best soil in the world where we are. We go by bushels to the acre and on an average year (like this year was, 2020) with winter wheat we will get 100-130 bu/ac. Thats on legume ground the year before, some farmers in this area see closer to 150 bu/ac on summer fallow ground. Not sure what those would equivalate to in tons, but a bushel is about 60 lbs. Most popular header by far is the MacDon flex draper, we've ran them for quite a few years and are very pleased with them. I can't imagine having as many sheep as you do but we are very similar with the cows, just enough to keep us busy on top of all the farm ground. Erosion can be a problem, but is not a major issue as long as it is dealt with properly. We try and "lay off" hillsides and slopes by following the contour of them with most field work. We definitely have to take into consideration the hills with the auto steer, but it does fairly well for the most part. It can be tricky with the combines with their leveling systems so we have to account for some overlap. Our farm has its own elevator with a set of bins and a leg and we are able to load rail cars there as well, so we store a lot of our own grain during harvest. But the co-op elevator is right next door as well as a new grain terminal that was put in about 6-7 years ago that is roughly 6 miles out of town. So never more than a 20 mile round trip for us from the field during harvest and a 12 mile round trip from our bins to the grain terminal for trucking in the off season. I have one video on here of some seeding that is not that great but it will give you a little bit of an idea. One of the very first drone videos I took so bear with me. You can check out FarmerSteveO on here, he is a good friend and farms about 10 miles away and has a few pretty cool videos. We did battle quite a few fires in this area during harvest, had one really bad one that wiped out 2 small towns as well as a lot of stored grain and acres. Thanks again for the comment and like I said, if you ever get the chance to visit here, do it. Take care man and God bless!
@@lancelindgren93 thanks for the reply mate, muchly appreciated. Makes me want to check out your hometown even more. Going by the footage of your vids which I give ten outta ten, that area looks like heaven to me. Easily the best harvest vid on UA-cam. Will try to look for farmer Steve o vids. I remember reading years ago about the accident rate around your area. Pretty high. Especially going back forty fifty years ago when sp headers and tractors were in the boom time of getting larger. Id like a set of triples on anything id drive on them there hills. Our farm has some hills that the combine wont get up for lack of traction, so i go round and go down them. But not across. Nothing like your area though. Thanks again for your reply and your vid. Ill be waiting for the next one. Safe happy farming mate, two thumbs up.👍👍
@@stevenowen4150 You like your History lessons, so allow me to contribute. My family started farming in the Palouse Country in the late-1800's. Coincidentally, my hometown was actually Palouse, in Washington State. Our farm was just a mile north of town.
Some of the richest soil in the World, actually, but it is all on very steep hills. And it is Dry Land farming, which means all the moisture comes from Mother Nature and there is plenty of it in Fall, Winter and Spring. That means erosion of that soil has been an ongoing problem for nearly 100 years. And they fixed that situation by farming "on the contour".
We seldom go up and down steep hills - always around the easy way.... Combines don't thresh efficiently when all the grain is sliding to one side, so the old combines, pulled behind a Caterpiller tractor, had a guy riding the combine with a big steering wheel in front of him. There was a rack and pinion device so the operator could level the machine, while the header followed the slope and stayed parallel to the grain.
@@stevenowen4150 Part Two (In case UA-cam puts my comments out of order)... In the late 1950's, a Farmer/Engineer from Palouse came up with a crude mechanism that used a mercury level switch to drive hydraulics that levelled the combine automatically. That turned into a more sophisticated system that levelled the big "self-propelled" modern combines gently and most perfectly.
By the time I was old enough to drive combines in the early 70's, the air-conditioned cabs were the latest thing. My brothers used to drive combine under a canvas awning, with all that chaff coming off the header right in their faces!
But you were interested in the sidehill situation and the accidents. We always heard about them, and usually it was the combine sliding sideways down the steep hills and then rolling over. Not good.
It is a strange sensation operating that way. Especially in the dark!
I drove for a farmer in 1978 and we had four machines working. After dark, and there are about 15 spotlights stationed around the machine. I was last in the line and they all started out cutting this steep ridge and I followed along until it got too freaky - I got on the radio and said I thought I would be more comfortable turning around and going back to cutting on the nice big piece we had just left behind, on a much gentler slope.
As to crop yields - about ten years ago, I had a nephew by marriage who was farming our place. He had won some soil-conservation awards and one year got 100 bushels of wheat per acre! I visited a farm in the Dakotas once, and they said they got 40 or 50 bushels - sounded like worthless land to me!
Straight 90 ol son😎
That’s how it’s done in the Palouse boii
what does FYI mean?
Did your farm trade in your 450 to JTI there one simler?
We traded it winter of 19-20 but not to JTI
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