I've been thinking about making my lawn into a wheat crop. It'd take less water and chemicals than my pristine green lawn of grass, and I could probably keep myself in bread, year-round. I grew up mowing lawns and tending gardens. Now that I own about an acre, I just sort of want one big garden.
@@harrymills2770 I'm with ya. Moved back in to my childhood home with my parents as they are getting older. We have an acre in the back that I mowed religiously since age 5. This year, I started slowly but surely transitioning to garden and a small wheat plot. I have my own timelapse going right now, the wheat just popped above the soil! Pretty exciting stuff for a newbie on such small scale.
@@jayteaman I've got the notion but not the motion. Good on you! I still want to do that, but I ain't up to it and my Man Friday needs more oversight than I'm up to at the moment. LOL! Thinking back to the lawn care Dad received for free all those years! A good 14 years (Age 12 to age 26) before I moved too far away. Mowing. Pulling hose to water the huge lawn, once spot at a time. Took hours. As soon as I moved away, Mom got tapped for the chores! smh Then they installed automatic sprinklers, because it was too much work! It was never too much work as long as I was around!
Thank you for this beautiful video. While I understand the difficulties of growing huge amounts of commercial cash crop, I would like to encourage you to please steer away from chemical pesticides, herbicides and fertilisers. The reason being, even if I don't eat your wheat, those chemicals go into the soil, into the ground water, into rivers, lakes and the oceans, so I still end up eating the chemicals. Companies claim that their poisons break down after however many months, but I am very sceptical. We all want to grow food and people in harmony with nature, but that is not profitable... However it is possible to make some compromises to reduce the amount of damage being done to the planet by industrial farming. I wish you and your fields well
Really like the video and I plan to do a similar video in wheat this spring/summer to capture a new herbicides efficacy and performance. I was wondering what heights you set your camera at throughout the season. It is clear that as the crop grew you would move it up on the post. Also, did you have any complications with the lens getting dirty (I will have mine in a weatherproof case that came with the camera)
+Michael S. I used a hunting trail camera. I checked the camera every 1 or 2 weeks and made sure the lens was clean. I used a surveying stake and drilled dry wall screws at different heights to attach the camera strap to. As the crop advances it grows taller more rapidly so just make sure you raise the camera up sooner then you think you should. You can see there are some shots where the wheat is covering the camera.
Hi Jay , I am a masters student in Kansas state university, In our research team we work with 3D modelling of growth of a wheat crop. We find that your video would be helpful to our research and educational purpose. I would like to have an email exchange with you and seek permission to use your video for our research goals.
Hi there, great video! Any chance would you consider sharing this footage for an educational farming activity for kids in Sydney Australia? Unfortunately i’d need to know in the next 12 hrs though. Please let me know thanks!
As long as the video would be respectful and not used to show farming in a negative way I would be ok with the video being shared. If you have any questions you can email me at jayschultz105@hotmail.com.
