Combining hard red spring wheat near Redberry Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada. I hope you enjoy the videos that help reflect a day in the life of our operation!
I'm a southern Alberta farmer, and am wondering ... in those absolutely stellar countryside videography, how many of those cropped acres had to be cleared of brush before it could be cropped, in terms of percentage? Was it all, or mostly, brush before being broke for the first time as crop acres? Or do the crop acres generally follow what would have been virgin prairie rather than virgin brush before being broken for the first time?
I have been enjoying watching your videos after finding them following "rabbit trails" one afternoon. I live not far from you, just a few miles northeast of Petrofka Bridge. I am a retired farmer who spends my fall in a JD S690, and a lot of my winter on a Polaris sled. I've probably been on some of your fields in winter. Great snowmobiling hill country. It sure beats the flat country where I live. Maybe we'll meet on top of a hill someday.
Hi neighbour! Crazy how RU-vid works like that sometimes. I also spend a lot of my time in a S690 in the fall and wouldn't want it any other way. Great country in the hills to combine and snowmobile. Thank you for watching!
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What would the cost be for me to hire these machine and drivers per hour? Let's say I had 700 acres of wheat. I'm interested in getting into farming but wondering how the numbers work. Thanks for the video
Hi in this video we have 2 Class 9 combines with 40 foot headers. So the custom rate for 1 of these combines with the header to combine your wheat would be about $500/hr. That would include a driver and fuel. There is a Farm Machinery Custom and Rental Rate Guide on the government of Saskatchewan website that has tons of info about custom farming rates for various sizes and kids of equipment. I hope that answers your question!
As beautiful as it is and as energetic as it has put forward this farming is a self destructing system generating semi nourishing food in the cheapest possible way to make a few chairman of the board even more wealthy. Applying chemicals to the land to kill everything plant and insect while applying more chemicals to enhance the growth of a single type of plant is shortsighted. These chemicals take around 30 years to leech into the water and cause the lakes to become fouled. The water cannot be drank without being processed. That was not the case prior to 150 years ago when we introduced the cash crop farming methods currently considered to be "normal". I have learned to view this type of "beauty" as perversion for profit which is actually sterilizing the land making it become worthless. Yet so many hard-working well intending generations are brainwashed and financially rewarded for thinking that this is the right thing to do. It is wrong. It is destroying the land and future generations will suffer. Recent problems with gluten for some folks are evidence of this. The gluten intolerance is because of our farming methods and food processing system is providing less than nourishing stomach filling "food". This industrialized raping of the land probably will not be stopped until the population consuming it becomes reduced by sickness so that the land will no longer be cut up to profit a few and is able to return to its natural sustainable condition. This will happen in 150-250 years as future generations become sicker and sicker from the garbage they are being told his food.
Good evening. Farmers are putting hundreds of dollars per acre into the land hoping to make a profit. The furthest thing from producing food the cheapest way possible. Farming practices are advancing at a rapid pace. A hundred years ago we used mercury and lead sprayed at an unknown rate and poor accuracy to protect crops. Now, we can spray low-dose effective pesticides for protection. We can use wavelengths to seek chlorophyll and identify weeds to spot spray a field at 15mph at 120ft wide, reducing usage and combating resistance. Also, using beneficial insects to help control pest insects is an option instead of spraying an insecticide. When making a pesticide application it is important to consider the economic threshold of the pest. Just because we find weeds, insects and disease in our fields doesn't mean we always spray for it. Only if the cost of crop damage exceeds the cost of controlling the pest, then a farmer would spray. Farmers use integrated pest management (IPM) and agronomic practices such as scouting, crop rotations, resistant varieties and setting thresholds to protect the crop even before spraying. After all of those preventative measures, farmers still need to spray their crops. When they do, government regulated maximum residue limits (MRLs) are in place to ensure the safety of food products in Canada. The standing water is a slough and no I would not drink it. Not because of the pesticides but because of the moose, deer, beavers, muskrats and birds all happily living in it. Land values are constantly going up. Over the last 10 years (2009-2019) farmland values in Canada are up on a yearly average of 12%, and here in Saskatchewan they are up 14.3%. Every year! Pesticide usage nor a global pandemic can even diminish the cost of farmland. Wheat has been grown for 10,000 years. Since then we have increased yields and protein levels to keep up with our growing population; projections show as high as 10 billion people by 2050. With increased protein can come increased gluten levels, useful for its baking qualities. People who are Celiac or gluten sensitive can react to the protein and can cause health problems. Varieties have beed bred for higher protein levels but protein levels in wheat can differ year to year, even differ from field to field more than the levels in the different varieties. We take pride in our land and farm it with sustainability in mind. I hope that I addressed your concerns. Thank you for watching.
Dustin Bezugly I agree with your reply. My disagreement with the industry is that we ignore centuries of historical context that are available to guide us into the centuries of land use ahead for the sake of short term profit into the hands of a few wealthy that don't care much beyond if their cup of coffee is warm enough on their private jets. I'm an aerial photographer and the drone shots are lovely. Kudos to the editors and your efforts. I'm a town boy and have done some open air swathing more than 40 years ago. It is a lovely experience on beautiful sunny days.
