Hi Michael, I find it amazing how much fortitude you portray, when discussing drought damage. As things stand, you are going to experience hotter and drier seasons, therefore how can one survive, financially future operations, Best Wishes
Scientist discovered a beetle that has a 98% survival rate when after being eaten by a frog. The beetle just crawls right out the frogs butt. That is amazing.
Hey Mike, we have a large farm in SW Kansas. Wheat was awesome this year. It rained at the right times unlike last year. Praying you and your family have an amazing coming up. Stay safe my friend.
Allways enjoy watching you. I would love to see you have a perfect growing season. As a retired farmer it is allways about harvesting a good crop. More than the money.
Winter Wheat could be a good option,because you would cut it in July when the heat hits,so when it hits,it would just help mature the wheat because it's growing season has ended long ago.
They would have to have time to seed it in the fall first. And then It would have to survive the winter. Those are big ifs that far north with their short growing season and very cold winters.
Galloping crops. Moving right along. those wavy drought crops. We have plenty around here also. Not a year to recrop. chem fallow looks ok here if seeded early. North east of Shelby, MT
I remember we had drought 3 years in a row. Thankfully we had crop insurance, which just covered inputs. I sure don’t miss farming because of the commodity prices and the weather!!!
Our wheat and canola are ready to harvest and it rains every day just enough to not be able to harvest. We had nearly no rain in may and june and when harvest started it started to rain again.
8:52 So I'm from germany (getting to that in a sec.) and I've been watching Mike for years, but I still have no clue about average yields - especially in Canada :D - but I'm curious about the yields for the mustard. So as I wrote, I'm from germany and when we talk about yield we most often talk about it like so, tonnes per hectares instead of bushel per acre for example the average yield of brown mustard in germany is somewhere around 1t/ha (google says so) and since "tonnes" describes a certain weight and bushel describes a certain volume, it isn't that easy to convert if u do not have the bushle weight of brown mustard for example. I would really like to know the weight of a bushel of the mustard u planted right there, whatever type that is, so I can calculate what it'll be in t/ha (I guess it's brown mustard tho). I've googled the average weight of "mustard seeds" in bushel and google says it's about 22,67kg. So doing some quick maths 1ha is about 2.47 acre and we got a span of 5-8 bushel per acre, we end up at 12,35-19,76 bushel/ha, that would mean 279,97kg-447,95kg /ha = 0,28-0,45t/ha. In comparison it seems kinda little, but obviously there are a lot of factors which play into it, different country, climate, etc.,... At the end I would really like to know, if it's actually brown mustard and what the average bushle weight of it is? Does my math check out and is it a realistic weight? 113,35kg-181,36kg/acre or ~250-400 pounds/acre One more question, I would really like to know how many acres u are farming overall, since u acquired the northern farm and I think I missed out on an update :D Thanks for all the videos! Edit: "grainews.ca" reported that mustard yielded an average of 431pounds per acre in 2021, normally it yields just above 1000 pounds per acre, in conclusion either my math is wrong (due to wrong estimated numbers), Mike is very pessimistic about his mustard :D or the drought is even worse than in 2021.
Technically bushel is a volume measurement but often it is actually used as a mass measurement. E.g. if you report to crop insurance your yield in units in bushels, there is a fixed conversion from bushels to tonnes, based on tables of standard density. E.g. canola is considered to be 50 lbs/bu. So 44.1 bushels == 1 tonne. Quick math: 1 tonne/ha = 44.1 (bu/t) / (2.5 ac/ha) = 18 bu/a. Mike is expecting a very poor crop. Typically in Saskatchewan (and most everywhere) you would get less yield from mustard vs Canola. I'd guess 30 bu/acre would be a great yielding mustard crop. Mike is expecting 2 to 3 bu/ac. His south farm is experiences a really serious drought. Bushels are kind of handy in that often you putting your grain into containers (combine hoppers, grain storage bins) which have fixed volumes. So you can quickly estimate how many bushels you might have. It's sloppy though and leads to confusion sometimes when people don't realize if they are measuring volume or mass.
Morning. I have taken up your driving style, long drive short stays. Drove to Moab Utah from a small town near Kamloops BC. Started Friday morning, arrived in Moab mid afternoon Saturday, seen what I needed to see by Sunday night. Left Moab Monday morning at 5:30am and was back in my home 21 hours later at 1:30am Tuesday morning passing through one time zone. 2118kms each way.
Some people grow winter wheat, and it works good to suppress weeds because most crops on the Canadian prairies are spring annuals. Not too common here compared to other places where they also grow corn and soybeans
Hi Mike! I'm from far far away so can You explain me what does it mean 5 to 8 bushels (per acre) in tons per hectar? Bushel is due to my maths 25 kg so it's circa 0,5 t/ha ?
Serious question how long can you all legitimately continue to farm your south land with these conditions not looking like that are ever going to recover.
@@clearskiesranch1362you want to eat? Native grass isn’t even worth it,you can grow more crop on it for feed for cattle then the grass can produce,(family farmed and ranched) not to mention are you going to pay them for putting that land back into grass?
@clearskiesranch1362 wow do you sound jealous lol. Maybe you should stick to your acerage and 10 animals, and let us farmers worry about farming and how we do it. Also how would you like us to fertilize the crops and kill weeds. You want to come pull weeds by hand.
The one field of mustard he was in is 14 quarters which is three and a half square miles and that amounts to 2240 acres in that one patch. Look at that amount the land they own or rent would be a township (36 square miles) or more. That is a lot of real estate and work
Well happy birthday Ashtyn
Hi Michael, I find it amazing how much fortitude you portray, when discussing drought damage. As things stand, you are going to experience hotter and drier seasons, therefore how can one survive, financially future operations, Best Wishes
Winter wheat seems like a good idea. Go for it!!
It’s always amazing how grasshoppers can live going through the combine.
Scientist discovered a beetle that has a 98% survival rate when after being eaten by a frog. The beetle just crawls right out the frogs butt. That is amazing.
Deep respect your positive attitude, l would be very sick when l would see my crops like that, hope the price will compensate a bit.
Hey Mike, we have a large farm in SW Kansas. Wheat was awesome this year. It rained at the right times unlike last year. Praying you and your family have an amazing coming up. Stay safe my friend.
Mike, open the sieves to collect the grasshoppers, then clean them from the grains and sell them for veggie burgers
Castreau and WEF approved
Lol I love that idea and also claim it helps men with you know what 😜
@@jasonwilliams8016 Still having nightmares of trucker honks?
Free Range Grasshoppers... love it! 😂
Allways enjoy watching you. I would love to see you have a perfect growing season. As a retired farmer it is allways about harvesting a good crop. More than the money.
Looks like Swifty got some rain (hail as well?), hope it helped the crops without too much damage 👍
Trudeau wheat 😂😂😂 made my day!
Stand is clean! That's a plus for sure.
If the futures markets were listening to you they would be bidding up everything you have at the south farm. Good luck!
Hi Mike Mitchell we here in Ireland we have had rain ☔ for the last month
Winter Wheat could be a good option,because you would cut it in July when the heat hits,so when it hits,it would just help mature the wheat because it's growing season has ended long ago.
They would have to have time to seed it in the fall first. And then It would have to survive the winter. Those are big ifs that far north with their short growing season and very cold winters.
Galloping crops. Moving right along. those wavy drought crops. We have plenty around here also. Not a year to recrop. chem fallow looks ok here if seeded early. North east of Shelby, MT
I remember we had drought 3 years in a row. Thankfully we had crop insurance, which just covered inputs.
I sure don’t miss farming because of the commodity prices and the weather!!!
Another tough year for south farm- a hard watch 😢
I’m glad I took 80% on my canola with SCIC. Least I did one thing right this year. 🤣🤣
Ya i upped everything to 80% this year. I was worried but happy i did it now
I am workin right along the AB/SASK border in butstall, crops here are pretty thin and patchy as well. Sad to see
Our wheat and canola are ready to harvest and it rains every day just enough to not be able to harvest. We had nearly no rain in may and june and when harvest started it started to rain again.
trudeau wheat - nothing in the head - love it
We all need to be respectful of Justin's father's surname - Castreau
He has nothing anywhere, look how he sits. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Reminds me of Biden except he was born before Canada was a country...
Mike please can jou make a equpment tour😄
8:52 So I'm from germany (getting to that in a sec.) and I've been watching Mike for years, but I still have no clue about average yields - especially in Canada :D - but I'm curious about the yields for the mustard. So as I wrote, I'm from germany and when we talk about yield we most often talk about it like so, tonnes per hectares instead of bushel per acre for example the average yield of brown mustard in germany is somewhere around 1t/ha (google says so) and since "tonnes" describes a certain weight and bushel describes a certain volume, it isn't that easy to convert if u do not have the bushle weight of brown mustard for example. I would really like to know the weight of a bushel of the mustard u planted right there, whatever type that is, so I can calculate what it'll be in t/ha (I guess it's brown mustard tho). I've googled the average weight of "mustard seeds" in bushel and google says it's about 22,67kg. So doing some quick maths 1ha is about 2.47 acre and we got a span of 5-8 bushel per acre, we end up at 12,35-19,76 bushel/ha, that would mean 279,97kg-447,95kg /ha = 0,28-0,45t/ha. In comparison it seems kinda little, but obviously there are a lot of factors which play into it, different country, climate, etc.,...
At the end I would really like to know, if it's actually brown mustard and what the average bushle weight of it is?
Does my math check out and is it a realistic weight? 113,35kg-181,36kg/acre or ~250-400 pounds/acre
One more question, I would really like to know how many acres u are farming overall, since u acquired the northern farm and I think I missed out on an update :D
Thanks for all the videos!
Edit: "grainews.ca" reported that mustard yielded an average of 431pounds per acre in 2021, normally it yields just above 1000 pounds per acre, in conclusion either my math is wrong (due to wrong estimated numbers), Mike is very pessimistic about his mustard :D or the drought is even worse than in 2021.
Technically bushel is a volume measurement but often it is actually used as a mass measurement. E.g. if you report to crop insurance your yield in units in bushels, there is a fixed conversion from bushels to tonnes, based on tables of standard density. E.g. canola is considered to be 50 lbs/bu. So 44.1 bushels == 1 tonne. Quick math: 1 tonne/ha = 44.1 (bu/t) / (2.5 ac/ha) = 18 bu/a. Mike is expecting a very poor crop. Typically in Saskatchewan (and most everywhere) you would get less yield from mustard vs Canola. I'd guess 30 bu/acre would be a great yielding mustard crop. Mike is expecting 2 to 3 bu/ac. His south farm is experiences a really serious drought.
Bushels are kind of handy in that often you putting your grain into containers (combine hoppers, grain storage bins) which have fixed volumes. So you can quickly estimate how many bushels you might have. It's sloppy though and leads to confusion sometimes when people don't realize if they are measuring volume or mass.
@@nascheme Thanks for answering, appreciate it! 🙂
Morning. I have taken up your driving style, long drive short stays. Drove to Moab Utah from a small town near Kamloops BC. Started Friday morning, arrived in Moab mid afternoon Saturday, seen what I needed to see by Sunday night. Left Moab Monday morning at 5:30am and was back in my home 21 hours later at 1:30am Tuesday morning passing through one time zone. 2118kms each way.
Hey Mike. I don't know what the climate is up there in Canada is but maybe you should look into winter wheat
Some people grow winter wheat, and it works good to suppress weeds because most crops on the Canadian prairies are spring annuals. Not too common here compared to other places where they also grow corn and soybeans
Pretty dry in fall time to seed anything. That’s what stopping me from trying fall seeded crops
El Nino from what the NOAA says farmers he in Missouri are in the same situation as you are
Here in farm land, Massachusetts, rain and flooding destroyed many crops ready for harvest. How ironic.
We just ended up getting 4 inches if rain yesterday and overnight...little bit late but ill take it
That's awesome to hear!
@mikemitchell2554 my canola was seeded late..but my wheat and Barley will be ready to combine in 2 weeks
That's great news Tyson. Your cows will love the grass recharge.
Hi Mike! I'm from far far away so can You explain me what does it mean 5 to 8 bushels (per acre) in tons per hectar? Bushel is due to my maths 25 kg so it's circa 0,5 t/ha ?
Hi 👋
Why havent you tried to put in some winter wheat yet? Wasn there enough time or whats the reason?
Even if the ground has enough moisture, it’s still too early to seed that. Late August to early September.
I ques you need rain at the south farm.🤔
How come it's not that often then at the North farm?🤔
You & Ashtyn were unfortunately at different farm locations for your anniversary but it appears you got to see her on her birthday
Yes sir 🙂
We are kind of lucky this year cuse we have so much rain but the main problem whit ghat is that we can t harvest our grass because of that
Magnifique champ 😮😊
hope you did not get hit too hard by the hail
Mike since you bought the last farm how many acres are you farming now
All of it
@@delbutler885Except for the sloughs 😂
Yea the answer is all that we can
Looks like my canola
Serious question how long can you all legitimately continue to farm your south land with these conditions not looking like that are ever going to recover.
Until they stop or can't buy crop insurance
It’s ridiculous they’re allowed to farm that land in the first place. It needs to be returned to native grassland
@@clearskiesranch1362you want to eat? Native grass isn’t even worth it,you can grow more crop on it for feed for cattle then the grass can produce,(family farmed and ranched) not to mention are you going to pay them for putting that land back into grass?
@@SirHuddy They clearly aren’t growing anything on it. They’re just destabilizing the environment and pushing that area closer to desertification.
@@SirHuddy they don’t need to be paid for anything. They need to be permanently shut down. Sold out. Doors locked and chained. Throw the keys away
Hi i’m from italy….why irrigation is out of question pivot wells
Deep wells don’t have the quality or quantity of water required for irrigation. There are river water reservoirs nearby either.
How much is a quarter when sizing a field?
A section is 640 ac. So a quarter would be 160.
i belive its 160 acres
A section is one mile x one mile, a quarter is 1/2 mile x1/2 mile.
Who cut the Mustard!!!
Trudeau wheat, lol
Trudeau stand has nothing in the head.. 😂😂😂
How much land do you have? Hecter
It's not the quantity that counts, but the quality.
I think that my farm in size is maybe 1% of his, but makes more money
Who is Hecter
@freebooter247 virajkurund means; how many hectare, that is used in Europe 1 hectare = 2.5 acres
👋😊
Trudeau wheat! lol
Maybe covercrops should be implemented. The increased cover with protect soil moisture and organic matter increases water retention.
Don’t waste your breath. These guys will keep spraying chemicals and spreading synthetic fertilizer until they’ve turned Saskatchewan into a desert.
@clearskiesranch1362 wow do you sound jealous lol. Maybe you should stick to your acerage and 10 animals, and let us farmers worry about farming and how we do it. Also how would you like us to fertilize the crops and kill weeds. You want to come pull weeds by hand.
Trudeau wheat....😂
How many acres of land do you have?❤❤
The one field of mustard he was in is 14 quarters which is three and a half square miles and that amounts to 2240 acres in that one patch. Look at that amount the land they own or rent would be a township (36 square miles) or more. That is a lot of real estate and work
But no yield
@@LJ-zp7ij but even @5 bushel to the acre average it's still 11 000 bushels. Not much but it returns seed and a bit more
@carlfalt174 OK, it returns seed and a bit more, but you have to pay rent or mortgage, pay people, spraying and all other additional costs
@@LJ-zp7ij not questioning that which means they're running out of next year's to farm
Very unlucky ... Best wishes
Iwould say your mustard crop is a little better then mine. If yours does eight bushels an acre yours will double my yield.
Sorry to hear about your yields my friend...
have you a problem with Trudeau ? 😁
That is really poor crop, ridiculous.😢
This is too depressing to watch
Sell the hoppers to the WEF for Schwab