Seeding sloughs
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 6. 09. 2024
- * Seeding some sloughs đ
* Will probably seed the rest of what we can inside of June.
* Ashtyn wants to clarify that she is indeed lighter than me! đđ€·ââïž... Good job Mike đ đ€Šââïž
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Mike I just wanna say how much I love your genuine videos. Nothing like seeing some farming and hearing what you have to say without a bunch of random music and crappy cuts.
Haha thanks! đ
Mike itâs great to see you guys having some fun time. You guys do it right, when itâs time get on it, you guys get it done, and when a little slack time comes along it looks like your having some fun. Farming is really a great life.
I think I'm going to hear "seeding sloughs" in my sleep!! Lolđ very cool to watch. The more acres the better.$$ Thanks Mike. Have a good day and be safe bud!!đđ
I appreciate the more consistent uploads Mike! Youâre starting to be one of my favorite channels
Thanks Tyler!
It is so nice to see an hear how you drill such a big field.. I'm from Germany an i can't understand this.. we haven't so big fields.. but now i can
I love the way you talk Mike you're so full of it God bless you and your team
You forgot the S & the H when you described Mike as, "full of it", not to worry I'm sure you'll add them next time. đ
I love watching your channel.
Mike i have binged this for a week!! Thank You for your time and the process!!! Were in the hot spot of Covid in northern New Mexico!!!
when u were messing with Ashton it reminded me of sea shepherd against the japanese whaling fleet
Haha
Thatâs a good one âïž
For all the acres you farm is it really worth all the hassle to go over those again?
@@islaywhiskyfreak7229 Answer in video.
Islay whiskyfreak 8:14
I wish I could turn our family farm into what you have there đ....absolutely amazing.
You need a high speed air drill for the side-by-side. You could knock them slews out in no timeđșđș
4000 acres it may be tough. He is hoping to maybe get 2000 acres thatâs still a lot of planting with a side by side
@@vxnova1 was a joke at least i hope so we all know u couldnt hook a drill to a side by side
Always love watching the vids Mike, keep up the good work manđ.
Good Morning Mike.. You have perfect timing... Was just wondering when you were coming out with your next video. Have a great Monday and thank you for the ride... Watching it now đ
Thanks Hope!
60 acre slough!! That is impressive!
A little bit here and a little bit there adds up. Aggravating Iâm sure but worth the effort. May the rains be gentle and the wind stay to your back.
Looking forward to seeing your plants grow.
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Crops coming along nicely..
You guys farm alot different from our farm. Here we don't really have many sloughs, we do have wet spots. These are mainly due to variations in soil types and not so much in difference in hights. Though we also have to go back and plant these areas if it drys out. Here we use drones with thermal imaging cameras to detect moister variations in areas, so that we know when we can go back to plant.
Hope the season goes well for you..
Stay safe.
Great video Mike good luck seeding your slews
I love those great Prairie Skies
Ok, Mike. You showed us the Earth tractors, an air tractor... Now we DEMAND to see the rest. Fire tractor and Water tractor! (bonus: 5-th element, the legendary LOVE tractor).
Haha đ thanks!
Living the seeding sloughs dream!!đđ€Łđđđđ„łđ
Hey Mike
That's a slough of acres you could gain!!! đ Thanks for sharing glad to see you can get back and get some of those acres planted.
I grew up in SK and know what sloughs are all about but here where I am in MB now, some people just don't get it/understand it. First of all they say what do you mean you can't farm it corner to corner and why would you drive around a slough.
I remember back when we farmed in MB and we didn't have sloughs but until a certain point all of the fields were under water almost up to the road
đ Mike you are crazy, the funniest and onest youtuber
Good to see how you use monitors for Seeding Sloughs đ - Doug in Iowa
Thatâs big farming when seeding up the wet patches can amount to 2-4000 acres. Amazing. Different world up there. Hope you have a good season Mike.
Whatâs next?
Spraying
The honey beeâs love the dandelion!thank god for the bees or you wouldnât have a crop!!!
Honey bees arenât even native here. They are invasive to other pollinators
Mike it looked like she wasn't going to stop maybe she isn't the one for you lol . Best time of year when crops start coming up you know then you didn't put the seed in upside-down all the best mate from oz
A slough is just "A puddle of mud "đ”đ€
If you have some one come in and drill holes in the sloows when they dry up and drop dinamite in the holes it will brake up the hard pan and you will have no more sloows . Trust me it works.
It's a shame the best ground is also the hardest to get a crop off , makes sense the the best top soil has washed down in to the basins ! Certainly makes sense to try and get all you can if nothing else for the weed control as you said ! I think you left home knowing your run out quick and have a chance to play on the side by side !!! Hahaha
Haha yes! đ€·ââïž đ
You should hire a tiling contractor and put some lines in the low spots. A 6 inch tile will move a lot of water fast
But the cost.... I don't like the cost.. Haha
@@mikemitchell2554 Mike you have the biggest tractors . You can buy a plow for one of them and install it yourself . Right after harvest when it is dry ,put 6 inch tile through the low spots and they should be dry next year . Always buy tile with filters to keep the silt out ..
You need a good outlet and a lasser leveler .Maybe it is to flat there to get an outlet .There must be a river there some where .It would save alot a time spinning around all those low spots
Love this crazy Canadians daily adventures? Ashton deserves a medal ! Lol
Beautiful day!
Ashtyn wasn't throttling back for you in that tinker toy UTV, lol. Cool video. That first slough you hit was about the size of my whole piece of property, lol. But i'm not a farmer.
Done the same go back look for my hat and itâs in the box.
Hi Mike, thnx for informative and great video again!
like the speeding and joy with the quad in the field. Hard to compete with the Green monster, particularly with Ashtyn at the wheel?
Right, so with this sole rainfed based farming approach, ur using nature and the water available in the soil in best manner throughout the season this way! Giving sloughs a change too to generate substantial additional crop, wheat from the same field (and limit weeds to flourish there as well?). Great!
By the way Mikey, I like a bunch the yellow flowers at the side of the road ;). We call that nature and biodiviersity and that kind of stuff ;). Don't call those weeds okay :). It add some color to the area, which thusfar is mainly grey, isn't it? Further some insects, bees, caterpillars etc. may like these flowers. It allows to enlarge the animal family out there a bit ..;). Enjoy!
Mike has the last 20 years been wetter where you are??? A friend lives/farms in Alberta and he has sloughs that have hundreds of acres in them now that did not have water in them for the prior 50 years he could remember. He had some of them dry out some 2 years ago but a lot of them refilled in later 2019. Totally different style of farming when compared to my Iowa soils. I Thank you for your videos. I get a lot of enjoyment out of seeing different areas and farming styles.
Kiwi farmer breaks own world record with monster wheat crop.
New Zealander, - Eric Watson, has broken his own Guinness World Record for the highest wheat yield with a crop producing 17.398 tonnes per hectare.
www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/122074530/kiwi-farmer-breaks-own-world-record-with-monster-wheat-crop
Very interesting. Thanks for the video đ
âSafety Firstâ. A hat is NOT a helmet đ€Łđ
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It protects you from the sun sooo :D
You need a drone to fly the field before you go into it to replant the water holes. Save yourself some time and fuel.
You guys need couple 15 foot drills to go back and do all this hahaha
That some nice shots of the 9rxđ
Great video as always đđđš
Have you looked at using scrapers with your tractors and leveling the land and filling in some of the sloughs and low spots?
Very nice operation..
It would be cost prohibitive to do that on that large scale. You got to remember there growing mostly low value crops. Where they do land leveling for farming its mostly for high value crops or something like Rice that needs to be flooded.
I guess wells and pivots are not feasible? I guess land grading is out, I know the big hills are to much to cut, but if you have flatter fields?
Hey Mike..
*Big Job* I know, but over time should pay off.
But just wondering after next harvest, if a fleet of CAT scrapers, could take the top off them hills, and fill in the many low points you have ??? No more struggling up inclines, and no more circling ponds !! Winner Winner....
...no dinner. Would kill the topsoil. And the water would just pool somewhere else.
It's true, it wouldn't work, it would never grow the same again and cost you 200M...haha
Awesome video Mike!
Apparently no problem staying away from areas that would get you stuck.
Haha no, she's crazy like that! đ
I think a buddy loves to say slew.... lol thunder boomers. Geez your lingo gives a buddy a chuckle. Ole Johnny looked scared shitless alone in the feild with red by the way
great job
Looking good mike , great video
Have you thought about trying a Mobile track solutions tractor? They make them with tracks at 630HP . Cat C18 motors. Might be worth a look
Hey Mike Mitchell. Hello from Michigan.
Thanks Mike!!
Awesome video Mike
Thanks!
12:20...that tells you how your marriage is gonna go she'll always win lololol
Haha đ đ€·ââïž đ€Šââïž
Dam mike!...it looked like your going to play 18 holes..đ
Chicken??? đ€Łđ€Łđ€Ł
Nice video! đđ
Did you say 4000 acres of sloughs?!?!
Would running a subsoiler through the sleuth before you plant them help them to dry out the next year
Looks mint
Buddy. Choose yer battles. Donât piss off the better 3/4 as AvE would have us believe. Sheâs a patient lady.
Haha you are right good sir!
Hmm Speechless !! Economies of scale? Interesting to see how all you guys do things on that scale. Wondering who has lost the Plot, OR who hashe wisdom....... Better for the understanding, at least ..... Hope there's no Komatsus in the field - now that I know what Stuck is !
My goodness Mike what would happen if you're playing chicken you blew a front tire and Ashton sneezed and ran you over while a bus full of nuns are driving by with a bunch of orphans the bus driver being horrified what they saw smash into a truck hauling puppies and baby chickens. You need to think before you play games. Just saying.lol
đ đ đ! Well I would have inspected the bottom side of the John Deere tractor as she went over... Hopefully I wouldn't have found any greese zerts not greesed! đ€·ââïžđđ
The can am really can fly
did not realize how big sloughs really are
Great video
So the other day i inpected your videos in details.
I noticed that you like to run trails and muskeg with your fourwheelers.
You definitely heard of that crazy Canadian Dave,also known under name Ostacruiser.
Man,i'd soo wish you guys would come into contact somehow and make an awesome muddy video for us(something different from farming videos).
Ha! đ Never heard of him
@@mikemitchell2554 WHAAAT.
He's the OG of muskeg!!
Check his channel out.
It's just - Ostacruiser
2000 acres?? Unreal man
This is a good solution.
great video mike đ
Great vids there buddy keep em coming
crops look nice.
Very nice video Mike.Question,how many seeding saisons a Bourgault set (drill,airseeder) last? fertilizer is very corosive and every part thats in the dirt wears out. Exchange for a new set or big maintenance?
Would you ever use a fertiliser spreader and broadcast it onto your sloughs so you donât disturb what youâve planted or are they just too big and too many?
In this part of the world, the crop needs to be in the ground
Oh damn 4000 acres thats alot.
I suppose its also to prevent from weeds growing there, which would screw up even more
Jean-Paul 40,000 acres, you missed one zero
@@gavinperry7237 i swear he says 4000 acres on sloughs
@@gavinperry7237 15:30 he says they probably have a couple thousand acres to do.
Jean-Paul Misunderstand your question. 40,000 total acres, possibly 4,000 acres of sloughs to be reseeded.
Do you blade your roads? Gravel road in front of my place looks like a military test road. Wait, I live in California, never mind
The risk is worth the biscuit!đ°
I always risk for the biscuit đȘ! đ
Hi Mike, Just wondering if you had any canola seed left? Is it possible to seed a couple of big eye's, about 1/6 of a mile long ( see Bourgault for distance) facing your neighbor's across the fence so you can watch them watching you. Or just seed a big Hi so when it turns yellow we can see it from space. Thank you.
that atv shooting was cool
Wat up just getting time to check out video
Look at this one
Another nice Video ... and in germany we say: Wo Wasser steht kann man fahren... so lets see what the translater make from it đ
Water is not the issue... Mud is!
Would it not work to buy a smaller drill for the 720 or 930 to haul on a semi to those fields further away? Also a lot better control and speed in seeding small patches.
Mike reviews sowing his sloughs Full sloughs are potential profit margin. Plays chicken and loses.
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I thought slouths were đšđšđš slow lazy farm hands that just hang out in trees...đ
With all the Drilling You do you think those water ponds would drain . Drill a 36 inch hole in the middle lol
During your game of chicken you forgot to mention that Ashton is the boss as well.............obvious really
As your doing sloughs might you explain more on how long it takes for the different crops to mature?
I would expect the sloughs to Bo a week or so behind.. But not a month, they catch up fast
@@mikemitchell2554 I was thinking more on how long it takes lentils to mature vs chickpeas vs Durum vs .... etc.
Ahhh.. Yes.. I see.. Lentils would be first, followed by wheat.. Durum would be prb a week behind yet again, and chickpeas.. Well.... Who's saying đ€·ââïž could come in 2 weeks behind durum or 2 months đ
@@mikemitchell2554 So true about Chickpeas. My understanding is that they need good moisture to start and then lots of heat with no moisture anywhere near the end. And 110 days to mature. Basically if you don't get them in early your at massive risk of getting them frosted out in September. And then you are in real trouble.
Hi Mike. Would it be worth it to have a smaller, maybe 40 ft. drill for doing the touch-ups?
No, there's too many sloughs and it adds up.. 68ft drill is the smallest drill we have and it's too small.. We ll go out with a few drills to finish the sloughs.. Remember, if there was even 2000ac, that 2000ac will take you 4 times longer now because you have to move and hunt for them and you want this done in a week or so
What if you were to get a 40ft drill and pull it with the Fendt. And maybe you can with the lighter drill go faster on the road with that fendt. I mean if your only doing ~30 acres a quarter but you can move fast between fields it would be I assume beneficial.... idk what can a dealer loan u guys a smaller drill and do some testy tests?
Would a say 1895 be better for replanting vs a shank type drill?
Why do you call them sloughs, in Australia a water hole is called, wait for it----- âa water holeâ. ha ha
@@AceBaracuda What if you read Mike's reply to the comment :)
Next time you wanna move equipment up north call Fast Trucking we'll get your stuff moved
Any time i go back and seed low spots it always gets flooded out in 2 weeks from a heavy downpour. Excersise in futility...lol
That's why we farm! đ
@@mikemitchell2554 ...Yup...lol....I call those loow spots....my sloughs have cattails and are surrounded by dead poplars..lol
Thanks for the good video
When you update the sloughs, does it update the maps and then are those maps used when you harvest to know where there should be product to harvest? Or when you harvest, do you start over?
So you plant wheat into the sloughs regardless the crop in the rest of the field? How does that work come harvest when the crops are different (ie. a lentil field with wheat planted sloughs)? Do you just combine around it and then come back later?
Yes.. Because wheat is the shortest growing season crop we grow.. And it's the toughest, can handle chemical residues from different crops and can take that July heat when it's young (late) the best. We ll go around and then come back
2000 acres is dubble my farm đ
Hi. New to your videos. How many farms do you run and how many acres do you have out there. Thanks. Great videos by the way. From Wales, UK.
Hi Mike. Did you/ leave the land furthest from the farm to seed last so that you did not have to go back to seed sloughs, or was that how your crop rotation worked this year?
No, but we re happy it worked out that way haha
How many acres do u guys plant?
Not wanting to be that person but... wouldn't it be easier to get a smaller machine to do what your doing? I'm a row crop farmer and what you guys do is interesting to me, I plant 1100ish acres of soy beans and corn
Mike at about 12min 48 theres a building , what is it ? whats it history, ? Incredible scenery