For those wondering, swathing allows crop to cure down faster. Some crops like canola, flax, or oats the seed tends to be dry well before the rest if the plant, and you do not want to run green material through a combine or you risk bad weather by letting it stand for longer. Swathers cost money like anything else, but so does seed on the ground from shelling out from the weather. A lot would dessicate a crop instead with spray in today's modern age, but that's where issues can arise with chemical traces or some companies will simply reject the grain.
I find it interesting that here in North Dakota, they still straight cut canola. Is the growing season just long enough here that swathing isn't necessarily the best way?
So do you pick it up with a forage wagon and sell it like a combined crop or do you bale it and sell it as canola bales? (Sorry for the dumb question just trying to learn something new)
Very interesting to see the difference between worked up land and direct seeding! Looking forward to see the actual yield differences, if any. 🤔Good luck with the harvesting weather, canola seems to be a tricky one. 👍
It was set a side land of course it's going to grow a good crop that type of land always does! Looks like that canola is going to be your best crop to harvest this year!
The John deere A400 uses the honeybee header and it has a wider opening with no need for the optimizer. But its great to see a good looking crop for you
Hi Gavin, we are beginning to worry that you might be developing an Ashtyn fixation my friend, now Mike may appear a friendly happy go lucky type of fellow, but I've been told if you mess with his woman he ain't afraid to go back to jail again, so tread carefully is my advice. 😍😂😂😂
After watching you harvest thousands of acres of almost barren land down south I am surprised your were not laughing hysterically as you swathed that canola. HOLY CRAP! It’s so thick and it’s definitely going to be a bumper crop! Glad that the gamble to spread out your operation is paying off!
All the cleaning is really making a difference. Hope the new bins are ready for harvest. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cAbaru-diBA.html
At last a crop that’s worth harvesting. Hope the rest of the fields are as good as this one Love the way you can drive down the highway like that and only meet a couple of vehicles 🤣😮
I wasn´t here for quite a longe time, but hey....mad mike is still that wild guy witch drives with his case sprayer on ice over his fields and party hard like there is no tomorrow. Great to see u and your wife gets a little healthy new farmhand on this planet....and works up north....great.... I am now watching over 3 hours of your content ... men i need a ticket to the north 🤣
You should see the liberty, it's nearly ripe and swathing it.. 🤦🏻♂️ Should have started sooner I guess, and have been plagued with some swather break downs
Compared with your previous years shenanigans I'd say you're doing real well Mike, remember the tale of the tortoise & the hare, you'll get there when the work is done, we're all routing for you my friend!🤑😊🇬🇧
Hi if your interested have a look at Jackson Brothers on RU-vid they are in Australia you might find it interesting they are growing wheat and canola and peas as well I think. Have look 1700 hectare farm from memory
we always plowed or chiseled our crops rain was the only thing that stopped it from being good like yours, maybe a break of the ground may be good let that moisture in a bit, great vid 👍👍👍👍👍👍🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾
You need to stop the canola from growing, either by spraying expensive chemicals or cutting it into swathes (rows). As the canola lays on its own stalks it will begin to dry out (similar to making hay) & with the seed pods naturally dying & drying ready for the combine to pick up the swathes & thresh all those lovely canola seeds into the harvesters grain tank. 🤑🇬🇧
How many days do you think it will have to lay to cure. Fall weather can be an issue in that respect. Most around my country burn it down with Roundup or similar products then take it straight
Never pass a swather going down hill please i hate when that happens swathers like to pull left or right going down hill so pass at your own risk when im going down hill the john deeres are differently super nice but i love my new holland 8080
Saskatchewan is awesome. Ride your Sled (snowmobile) ride down to the Gas Station, no one cares. Do some ditchbangin’. If you like Sleds or ATV’s, Saskatchewan is your place.
So Mike I have a question: It seems like your swather was already struggling with the amount of canola. So how would you swath a field with a great crop? With a combine you could just drive slower. But if I am not mistaken that wouldn't work with a swather. So how do you swath if the swath gets larger than the "tunnel" underneath the swather?
A couple of options spring to mind, initially take a smaller cut, with Mike's 40ft head just cut 30ft so the crop isn't too thick to exit the head & if this was the case across the whole field maybe consider trading the 40ft for a 30ft head, also decrease your speed so as not to over feed the head.😊🇬🇧
@@Erik-ce3hq I am also a non farmer, so pure speculation: The crop has to go somewhere. I assume that the swath can only become so big, until it no longer has a place to go (the space underneath the swather is limited). That's what I was wondering and why I wrote the question :)
