First Day of Swathing Wheat 2022! Montana Harvest 

First Day of Swathing Wheat 2022! Montana Harvest
Today I am riding in our MacDon swather with Uncle Chris and he is swathing our 2022 winter wheat. This is just like last year except the drought has really taken a toll on our crops. Dad's drone footage shows how much of the crop failed and how thin it is. We still have the Saw Fly problem this year. The wheat is not very tall, so Uncle Chris has to keep the swather really close to the ground. In Montana, we have a bug called Saw Fly that destroys the stems of the wheat and we cannot pick it up with our straight-cut combine harvester headers. If we didn’t swath it first we would lose most of our crop. We would prefer not to swath but we have no choice. Uncle Chris and I talk about the drought and how we only got about 2 inches of precipitation (rain & snow) this year in total. We also talk about the old days and about other years of drought. We also discuss that years like this are why we run old equipment so we have no payments to banks and we can survive a poor crop. We are also grateful for the years of good crops we have had. Uncle Chris seems to think I told him I would get him a rock picker for his birthday!!!! hahaha!!! Maybe I should get him a farming simulator rock picker!!! I hope you enjoy my video and thank you for watching!!!!!
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Hello. My name is Kate Stephens, and I am an 18-year-old 4th-generation Montana farmer. My family has been farming wheat in north-central Montana since my great grandfather immigrated from Denmark in 1912 and homesteaded our land. My family has been teaching me about farming since I was two years old. I run one of the combines on the farm at harvest. I believe that it is important for everyone to know where their food comes from and the families who produce it. I love our farm, and I hope that my Farm to Fashion and Farm to Table products can help educate people about where their food comes from in a fun way. That is how Kate's Ag - Farm to Fashion became a reality. I hope you love my products as much as I do because this is an extension of our farm and the grains we have been growing to feed other families for over one hundred years.