911 on the grass?! 😳
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- ** As it continues to rain and rain Mike has now put a priority on getting the grass broke to make up for lost ground now due to water. But can he really get this project done while nearly running around the clock as it is already? 😬😳
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Might be a good idea to leave some grass headlands for the whole season. Will give you a place to turn drills, sprayers, combines, and grain carts
Looks like the right time to get the plough out. Let the fun begin.
Funny to hear somebody complaining about getting rid of alfalfa. On our bay farms here in Alberta, it’s tough to get the stuff to grow!
Brutal..........totally agree with you. I heard about the water in eastern Saskatchewan and Manitoba but when you see it in video it's a horrible situation
If you can get it disked and declumped to a half descent seedbed job with the Protill and the ground is still too soft, then fly the dang seed on.
All the best.
Up here in NE AB we’ve sprayed hay out and seeded right into it aswell as a lot of neighbour’s the key is to spray it in the fall tho the spray will kill everything spring is the worst we’ve tried it sprayed at the highest Roundup rate the alfalfa just comes right back
Hello Mike great videos thanks for sharing
Glade to see you get to experience some excessive moisture.
Wrong place though
Easy way to clean out your duals or triples...do what every one else does up here...drive down the road really fast
For many years we have taken grass land or hay land out with a tank mix that my field consultant came up with. Then we direct seed right in. We plant RR canola , that way you can still spray 2 morre times during the season. To get the grasses or alfalfa that come back. This usually gets a canola crop that is about 95% perfect. This leaves the field finish just about the same as the grass or hay field you had before. No need to worry about working after discing to get a seed bed created or loose moisture. I have been doing this for the past 15 years and successful everytime I did it this way . One year I really got behind to spray before the seeding . So I direct seeded right into the pasture (this time) and came in a few days later and spprayed the field . The pasture was by this time almosty 6-8 inches high . All turned out great
I think you've had more rain then we've had here on the island lol
In this area we've had over 12 inches since the snow melted. Its crazy, havent had this much in a few years
That J-D is real
ly working well pulling that big disc in wet conditions !
You are a legend Mike but really feel for you after all the hard work you put in
Can I borrow some of that water. Corn is curling up 🙈
On sandgrouds you may break grass only from feb.1 till may 10. here in the Netherlands.
Hello Mike 🇨🇦🌧️☔ 🇮🇹🌞🔥😁
So when we’re breaking grass or even something we’ve cleared we always do the long straight passes first then finish off with headlands
Hi from Polen 🖐🖐🖐😉😉😉😉🙋♂️🙋♂️
We ripped up so native pasture this fall and some old alfalfa sprayed roundup. Came back a week later and just used our speed disc hit it twice and cant tell there was any grass there. If I was you I'd do that going out with that thing is just expensive and a time waste
first time i heard birds sound on your video mike thats awesome
Little spray and seed into the grass. Long days of sun can make up the time
Isn’t possible to plant directly over the grass ? Like we do here in Brazil with a no till planter !!
Yes, by spraying to kill the grass so it doesn't compete with the crop. Maybe that is his plan now that it is too wet to disc and protill and late in the planting season.
That is possible, but the alfalfa is so tough that it will come back. So only possible when you plant roundup resistance crop, which is btw not allowed here in the Netherlands, should be forbidden everywhere so we get a straight competition.
Bye from a Dutch farmer
@@LJ-zp7ij its not our fault your clueless government banned RR crops and hurt you farmers from having tools like that to use. Glad our Canadian government still has half a brain to leave us farmers alone for the most part.
Southwest Ontario ducks unlimited has worked with municipal drains creating year round rain surge pond integrated into drainage
Can’t believe your working that , never get away with it in the uk , once moved it would take forever to dry
Looking like an Irish summer there bud. 🇮🇪🤦♂️😂🤣😂🤣
Crazy conditions in your area!!! Your dry in SW Sask, soaked up north,,, Welkers are dry, Tony is marginal... etc...
If ya watch BTP his buddys farm pulls Wishek 34' with their 620's.... so ya. your a bit under sized on the rental... LOL...
I know that pain 🤧 good luck for plowing
Scrapers between the triples-!!!
As long as the 'V' bar lugs on the tires stay clear you should have 'nuf traction to pull that 22 footer.
Put that thing on triple R2s and Let it eat
Well that will take 20 miles to come out between the tripples.
.....but only at at least 40 mph.
You might have to go get the old box drills to plant oats.
"foilage" 😆
Maybe rent a Horsch No-till seeder and just spray it off later on.
MAN I LOVE THIS SHIT. TURNING GRASS IN THE MUD, AWSOME TO WATCH NOT SO MUCH WHEN DEALING WITH PERSONALLY 😅 YOUR PAGE IS THE SHIT 👍🤙
as i watch this on catching up time... we're about to get, well they say we're looking at 400mm in the next 3 days, 20mm an hour and upwards at times... the farms already soaked from winter milking too. Bugger me
Hey Mike! Im not familiar with the kind of soils you farm. Does the frost take care of all the compaction created by tilling in the mud??
I sowed canola by plane once, followd by harrows.
Great video Mike
I bet your new dug out filled up with water.
I guess we might have found out why those sloughs we burned last year were left there by previous land users, maybe to suck up some of the water on these years.
Nope. Most guys just dont want to spend the money to mow and disk sloughs for them to possibly fill back up then next year. We work them though, gets rid of the grass, weeds, and cattails.
One of the worst things to do is plow or disc wet ground
Plowing or disking in general is ridiculous
@@Amaranthian450 no it's not
@@Northern_Farmer sorry Tyson I gotta disagree. Tillage totally destroys the home and habitat for nutrient cycling bacteria and fungi. It eliminates organic matter in the soil and quickly ruins water infiltration and water holding capacity. I’m a regenerative farmer so we are both on totally opposite ends of the spectrum here. I watch you channel and enjoy it though. Love seeing you cutting your always plentiful monster hay crops.
What about getting a bigger disk and covering more ground. That's a beast of a tractor I'd be suprised if it couldn't handle more.
i believe it can handle much more the. that but renting costs go way up if you go the next size up and pulling a bigger heavier disc means your tractor will slip more and you’d get stuck way easier.
Im pretty sure he bought this disk so the price goes up exponentially as you move up to higher sizes. Also as he runs to-till id assume that there isn't normally a need to disk except for the occasional acre here and there so he probably long term didnt see the point in investing in a big one.
@@massiveretard176 in his videos he said he rented it so that’s what i assumed he still did
With 10 percent slip already in these conditions there is definitely not enough traction for much more disk
Your comment tells us that you’ve never pulled a wishek disc before
So where exactly are you farming at for the north farm
Send some rain to South Carolina our farm needs it bad😫😫😫
Doesn't it create alot of compaction disc when it's that wet?
With those roots not really it needs alot of time it won't sit long.
If we did this to ground in Southern Ontario, in the spring, we'd pay for for the next 10 year's.. I'm guessing the extreme cold in the winter let's them.get away with this type of thing.
Way down in the comments someone mentioned ,this is why people dont like farmers . Im a farmer all my 34 years , it takes stamina ,guts and no glory to do this ,its not a money scheme like you think , its passion , integrity ,heart and soul comitment, seeing your granddads eyes tear up ,when he talks of the old days, they gave their all ,pushing 20hour plus days . If your not a farmer, then we dont care if you dont like us ,because ,son you will never understand anyways ,and you couldnt handle the pressure anyway, also its the only FREE, way of life left . Good job Mike , we understand , finally getting good rains by Eatonia Sask. Wish you some for your south farm.
My crystal ball always works better in reverse. It is what it is. Good luck!
Mike it’s raining give it up for the day!☔️
Not if you have a once in a lifetime opportunity to watch hayland turn black behind you on one pass
@@carlfalt174 Aw Carl Mike’s a young guy. He’ll have another chance. God willing. 🙂
Can you get an even seedbed behind the disc with the drill type you have?
It will take work but doable
Morning
How have the in-laws done? Have they managed to get much if anything done?
It was a struggle for the whole area up here but yes, they finished as well. 👌
@@mikemitchell2554 Will we see Ashtyn in a Case tractor pulling her dad's drill to help get the seeding done
very muddy, good vids
damn Mike i wish I was there to help you out
I once asked my farmer grandfather what's a farmer's favorite weather...
His response was: the one that that doesn't last too long
Amen.
Hey Mike, is your dugout full yet?
Call “911” Mikes rim is poopin.
Right?! 😆
why not kill the grass with round up and 2-4D and direct seed green that be the best seed bed
Why not put the Fendt on the disc and JD on the air seeder?
June 22 rain stop in Poland 😉
Go north and buy land they said. Moisture will be no problem they said. So we went north . . . .
End of October is first snow and September is first frost from my experience
420 on the grass!
Hey MIke, are you gonna seed this with autosteering? And are you gonna use same width planter?
Mike I reckon you are wasting your time till you fix drainage 🇦🇺
Get a plough the job will look neater
Did you get rain down South? Have you put glyphosate on that grass, i'm not as confident as you are about getting a decent seed bed in those conditions, especially in a hurry.
I know, I guess we ll find out 😬.. I sprayed it once it dryed yes
I would get a jug of captain Morgan and a few neighbors and play poker for cash. Be easier than what you are doing. Lol
Sometimes things just get dirty lol
Good luck breaking your grass Mike
I know there is a reason but why didn't you just spray the grass out and seed directly into it
Have you been gettin any rain on ur south farm? I’m hoping you are
Mike, is it better to have wheels on or tracks when pulling in slippery conditions like this?
Wheels
Stay out of field. Too much long term damage
Why is it that the grass soaks up the water and not the cultivated acres?
Grass still growing takes up moisture. Also grass is essentially a notill field so natural holes - worms, old roots, etc
@@deere7227 you can’t tell me that growing grass takes up enough moisture WHILE it’s still raining to make up the difference in being able to get a tractor across that field. Not a chance in this life. But to be completely honest I know the answer already I was asking a sarcastic question. The grass field has a higher organic matter level and more biology in the soil than the dead tilled land that farmers create and has a much higher water infiltration rate and holding capacity than a dead tilled field. Simple as that, but farmers don’t know how to use biology to work for them in their farming operation, instead they turn to chemistry to give their land and crop what they “need.”
@@Amaranthian450 essentially what I said. I can only imagine how many waching were yelling at this guy to get the hell out of the field
dont forget that the root system makes a massive difference in spreading the weight out and for traction . ( grass is not as slippery as wet ground ) .
The 2 part is the "grass " is tight or more compact , as soon as you "work " makes it loose . You sink , it just turns to mud .
thats at least 50 % of the difference, the other half is exactly what you guys are talking about with the plants sucking up the water , ect .
i don't understand why would you atempt to plow it when it so wet look how lumpy it's working up when it drys out you wont sit in the cab when u trying to work it
In germany we neeed rain
I woulda bought hayin equipment.
A plow can break extremely wet ground no problem.
We never plow pass april in the spring or before mid October in the fall because here in the central USA it can easily get 90’s in May till early October meaning that wet soil is gonna bake rock hard. That’s about the worst possible seed bed for corn or beans.
@@crandonborth it's a little different in northern Canada, the more moisture in the ground the better the plow job, when it comes to breaking ground. After plowing pull a power harrow through and directly seed.
@@FarmingBros so Northern Canada: I’m not real familiar with you’re weather. Do you guys have high humidity and pop-up thunderstorms all most daily?
@@crandonborth it varies from year to year, usually not a lot of humidity. Pop up thunderstorms but mostly only in the spring. Currently it's wetter than normal.
@@FarmingBros Summer for us has been total opposite, it’s been dry and very hot 95° to 100° and it’s only June.
But you have grass or a firm footing, why work it? Doing damage for years. Spray off and plant into it
Hi Mike, its beter you buy some Cows ;-)
Like I said once before, start planting rice, lol ! It kinda gives you a hint of why Ducks Unlimited once wanted that land though I suspect that ultimately it was too dry for them.
i don't think rice is good idea on freezing snow
great and nice work you do
Greetings from Hungary
Mike, a question, why don't you crow there alfalfa or oats for that matter and selling the bails to the cow farmers?
Then you don't have the matter all that water over there and the soil keeps remaining intact.😉
Mile, why don’t you glyphosate the grass before ripping it up? Would it not break up better and less pressure in next crop?
Or maybe spray and then No till when dries up a bit
Should have been done in fall then...he's sprayed it already
@@craigadair128 can't wait..it's already june
Don’t get why you are not burning it off with glyphosate and direct seeding it
Just out there packing the shit out of the soil. No real farmer would ever be discing that muck.
Each to his own, but it still baffles me that you're a farmer and you don't like getting stuff dirty.
It's not really about getting things dirty, it's about getting them cleaned up afterwards.
It's like anything else why would you get it dirty if you don't have to. Plus clean stuff is way nicer
Why not just desiccate it and drill straight in? I have done that with some success, not every year but if the conditions are against you...
I haven't had great experiences with it but I did do some in a few videos out for trial purposes
get a plow and fendt724 and you are golden
brain fart here but down here in the states we use disk opener drills i know that ground is not been worked in a bunch of years but something must be right that grass and cover is not shy about growing for the last few videos i have watched you up there i can see it getting taller here on yt could you get a disk opener drill and get some of it drilled to make a crop and burn it down in hopes next spring would bring better ground working conditions i do not know what that ground is like there i do not know i have seen sometimes looking in from different angle turn out pretty good and i have seen it flop like a dead cow
Hey Mike, is this raining/ playing in mud a norm here in planting season? If so, why bother?
That is not normal . But it still pays
Personally i would have disc seeded a canola crop in with triple disc seeder, wave disc up front. I farm in the wet and it aint easy, even getting a smaller rig to keep at north farm and go early if rain is more reliable. I feel your pain!!!
À quelle fréquence le brûlez-vous ?
You probably could make more money selling the hay
I love this shit. I literally smell the ground just like u on the last post
Have you ever heard him calling it shit? Didn’t think so
@@kenhofer8063 not only that butManure does not smell like the dirt! Lol!
@@kenhofer8063 THE SHIT HE POSTS IS AWSOME
Look at all those worms you are killing!!!
Oh they ll survive 👌 the country is full of them up here 🙂
@@mikemitchell2554 slmao, the biggest is JTC!
You are asking for the tap to be shut off as parts of Saskatchewan are in the midst of another MAJOR RAIN FALL.
You need to send the moisture south because even Saskatoon has too much moisture in some parts of the city.
will stuck count there ???
Mike is having trouble Farming the North Land. Maybe just stay in the South where your equipment won’t get dirty 😊.
jamais dechaumer ou preparer un sol sous la pluie, ton sol va s en rappeller Mike, et si il pleut beaucoup , tu n est pas pret d y revenir dans ce champs
Why??🤔🤣😯😂