South Farm - Burning up
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ค. 2023
- So this is the start of the crops burning up at the south farm.. It's all been all down hill since this video 😆😢
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Mike’s agriculture school-thank-you mike
Your love of farming is shown by the fact that you try to keep positive when Mother Nature just isn’t helping out again this year
We have farmed for over 100 years across the border from you and to be honest this ground should have never been broke. 60,000 of pasture and we raise 4 cows.
Where are you? Glasgow?
SW Sask corner Golden Prairie, Fox Valley our crops have been done for weeks. Here’s to next year👍
We already suffered from the drought in Argentina. God grant that it is not as strong as here. This year it seems that we are going to have more water. Your videos are a month late. I hope it rained during that time. I wish you the best. You're a great guy😊😊😊
Been there, now retired. The one thing that I can think of is: You have a wonderful family, go home and play with Chapel and give your wife a big hug. Praying for rain for you.
The clouds at the beginning look like a painting!
This is heartbreaking mike. It’s been raining every day it seems here in Mississippi.
I don't call it heatwaving. I call it where the snow laid and then melted into the lower areas of the field. We are suffering even worse in our area of SW Sask.
You make your videos so so informative and easy to understand. As a corn and soybean farmer in the central Indiana really enjoy them. 👍
Prayers to You guys
Good interesting video
Mike. Farmer-persistence is essential. I notice your farm is 'Faith-Hope' Farm. We need both with the challenging conditions of climate change. Without the former in God there is no hope at all. God bless you all.
I am learning from your knowledge, thank you from a yery wet NH.
awful mate. Here in Finland we have almost completely lost our spring crops. got some rain but way too late. our what and barley almost decided to stay at 3 leaf stage, there no booth at all, just a bush. devastating. all good luck to you and your family there good sir
Ahoj Mike. Pšenice se brání suchu jak jen může. Tohle asi bude častý pohled na pole všech farmářů na severní polokouli. Naděje však umírá poslední. God bless. Wish you more rainy days. ❤
Mike that was an education video. How many years can you be without a good crop and still farm? Thank you for taking the time to teach us.
I have been watching this channel for about four years and and they have only had one good crop in that time,they are good farmers to keep in the game and I wish them all the best.
At least all your wheat came up. I have stuff not far from you where the it didn't all germinate because it was so dry.
We haven’t had any rain where we are either. We do have irrigation but Saskpower can’t supply enough power to the pump site to put another pump in to keep the canal full. Eventually I predict that WSA will force growers onto irrigation rationing schedule and fine those who don’t adhere to it. Guarantee it’s coming.
Mike you should try quinoa next year, its more resistant to drought
Sorry for that Mike, here in Quebec around Montreal we have a big shower since the last couple days , you probably heard on tv , many rivers flooded out roads washed out , evacuations , 200 mm of rain in a days the next day 100 mm , it’s like that since one week , we have 2 break then it will rain hard for one week again and thunderstorms and lots of rains , many rivers just barely lower a bit and it will rain for one week … let’s see how it will go ….
Prayers for rain for all the farmers that need it.
Prayers will sadly do nothing more action on climate change is needed to prevent this.
@@weirdo1083So called "climate change " has nothing to do with this. This is a semi arid area you can tell that from the landscape, very few if any trees ie not enough moisture to support even brush. This landscape has been moisture deprived since millennia.
Hopefully you will get some rain before it’s too late to get a reasonable crop cheers mate from Bundaberg Australia
I was raised in Sask and can remember lots of drought in 60;s - now I live in northern bc and it has,not rained for a year and we have BIGTIME FIRE
My crop looks the same way as well as my hay ground in northern Missouri love being a farmer
The weather in Europe is also a mess. Last year we had no rain for 8 months in a row and we experienced one of the major droughts we have ever seen. This year it's constantly raining and some areas have been impacted by floods. In my region Piedmont in the north of Italy we currently have a good week of sun then rain again for a day or so since March.
E qua in friuli non riesco nemmeno a lavorare da quanto piove quest'anno
Wow 8 months how scary haha try 2 to 4 years in Australia. I don’t think I’ve seen a wheat crop burn like that so early but we do winter wheat here. We run off a lot less moisture then you. If it’s doesn’t rain for 3 days in Europe you call it a drought
@@26dato I live in Europe not in the desert like you probably do. 8 months without rain it’s not normal for us but maybe in your situation it’s quite common.
Mike here in Wisconsin we are in the same boat… our corn is basically dead and our alfalfa is brown as it hasn’t rained in over two months. Since April we picked up 7/10’s of and inch we would normally would have gotten around 4 or 5” at this point. 😔 This year is a write off for us as well.
Over two months? JFC
@@Victor_Victory Yeah it’s not looking good in the forecast either as we are expecting .10 in the next 10 days. 😬
@@crandonborth
Take some of ours here in Ontario, hasn’t stopped raining here….. for a month. Things are looking moldy
Paying for your family. Hope you get some rain before it's too late.
Bummer about the lack of rain.☹️
You hit the nail on the head with layering especially in these drought type conditions. It's just like medications. Take them then eat and drink to get what's left of them out. It seams like farmers are like doctors. There's a pill for everything but no one knows exactly what side effects.
It’s all poison ☠️
Good luck
So sorry Mike, we'll get the rain one of these days!
Right?! More like one of these years 😬
@@mikemitchell2554 @fastagmontana needs to share the wealth! 😂
@@WelkerFarms agreed! 😆
We have had a rough few years that's forsure, next year! 😉
@@mikemitchell2554 as long as he keeps the boat fueled for us when we visit it's all good 😁
Your rocks look like the kind that could be sold for landscaping. Maybe you should switch from growing crops to harvesting the free rocks.
It always a battle
With all the draught years together I don't know how ye survive financially
Hope some rain comes to save this one
Hello Mike 👍🇮🇹
July will make or break the crop. A few thundershowers will help but with no reserve below it will have a struggle to make it. It's disappointing to say the least.
There goes hart work during seeding Mike.
That is really bad.😢
Hey Mike does anyone plant Safflower up there. Amazing drought crop. Tap roots will get over 10 feet deep.
Mike, thanks for your videos, really enjoy them. Seeing your challenges you have growing a crop I have a question. Have you ever considered switching one of your air hoe seeders out with a single disc air seeder. Everyone in my area uses a single disc air seeder and no hoes. The drills disturb less soil than the hoes and would conserve more soil moisture by leaving all the residue on top instead of incorporating it into the soil, and not open up and stir the soil like your hoes do, kind of like a field cultivator. Less weed pressure because you are leaving your weed seed on top of the soil instead of stirring it into the soil and planting it, instead, leaving it on top to rot. All the residue on top also shades the soil to help hold down weeds and maintain lower soil temperatures during the afternoons. They may cost more to maintain and don’t handle wet planting conditions as well as hoes. Caseih model 500 DS and John Deere model N560 are which I am speaking of. But both of those are limited to 60 feet. There may be larger available that I am not aware of. It would be very interesting to see the results and differences if you ran only one in with you fleet of hoes.
Morning
Well Mike you better get the well water pump going 😂
Yea you can see the leaves burning off
Mike, question. Over there in future land, have you gotten your rain yet?
I am hearing that Crop Aid Plus is having some very good results with reducing/eliminating chemical carry over.
Unfortunately, Crop Aid or whatever your poison of choice is only works when it rains. Everyone has grand claims but I have used lots of different companies and when it's dry, nothing works.
Very sorry to see this and for the second of third year in a row, but we have to get used to it in the future and even worse.
But when l see those enormous fields of monoculture, that will also worsening it. All those areas where for no reason pastures in the past, we cultivated it and in the first 5-10 years you have the advantages of the past, but after those years it's getting worse.
When l see this and read other stories and still a war, then l don't understand that the price of wheat has declined so much.
I hope you'll get some rain
The field looks like windows 98 Home Screen 😅
Mike, I've got a question. Do you remember all of this, what has been sprayed over the last days and years on every field, or do you have some kind of database?
Sorry to see what the lack of rain is doing. Sending my best wishes that things improve for you very soon! 🫂
Well, that isnt the news you want to hear. I keep hoping the best for you Mike. It isnt easy feeding the world. Stay positive, the rain may still come.
Can you spray the kocia along the sides of the road?
Mike did you use authority with your burn off? Field looks clean from broadleafs
3 inches in two days slowly raining would be prefect
Looks like that area of Canada 🇨🇦 just does not have the climate for this type of farming 🤷♂️
IT looks thin soil is it sandy loam ? july 14th England uk it has rained to day and tenp is 16`c and i should say below seasonal average ,we did have a hot June hope weather changes for you in time to save your crops
How is the canola g(r)o(w)ing?
Did you get any rain yesterday? It poured from moosejaw to Morse yesterday. We got 10 drops here at IH over night lol
We got 2 tenths is all
@@mikemitchell2554 shit
when you spray several applications of fungicide do you use the same product? At $28/ac I assume you are spraying Miravis Neo.
I’ve put one application of Delaro on and not planning to go again with the drought. But was told to use different fungicide products if I do.
Always, always and always use different groups of fungicides and herbicides. Never put them back to back unless it's a 3 in fungicides realm as they are the least likely to build a resistance. Didn't use Neo no.. Great question tho! 🙂
Do you ever spray your verges for weed control?
If you put your phone on the wide angle lens then you can zoom in real real close
Isn't hemp supposed to be drought-tolerant? Any thoughts?
Saw you got rain recently
Did you get rain in following 3 weeks
Just curious, what is your percentage of soil organic matter?
No idea, but some of his land will be a really high quality soil with silt and clay, some will be more marginal but also a clay loam
it's called mosaic-y ground
It’s not a problem unless it’s a problem
What are the chances of putting irrigation in some places, would that be a viable option
You need a water source!!
It doesn’t sound like chick peas are ever a good thing to seed with all the spray needed. Very expensive
Or you can use the sprayer big tank and spray the plants like a normal spray
27000 gallon/acre = 1 inch rain. Sprayer typically applies 10 gallon/acre
Hey Mike why you never buy a class 8900 that combine is the biggest in the world.
Western Canada in a whole is in big trouble. We got half inch yesterday. Suppose to stay cool which will help.
Did you get rain yesterday?
Prices aren’t going up like they should in this drought.
2 tenths, but 2inches wouldn't bring our crops back. Ours are set and done for similar to no yields like last year and the year before. Hope you guys can get something over there!
Sorry to hear that Mike.
Strong start to the growing season and now this.
Disheartening to say the least.
Work so hard for so little at the end.
@@mikemitchell2554 What about up north?
👋😊
July 12 today. Any better now or a lot worse?
Far worse... he was saying he's hoping to at least get the seed back. 5 Bushels avg at best he figures maybe 10 to 15 in the good spots.
Could irrigation be a solution?
Not feasible. Some is done but you need large water source that doesn't exist in most of Saskatchewan.
Have you considered fallowing some land. May be more chance of at least 1 crop every 2 years. I know old school but ……
That would work, if the government would make the wind stop blowing to keep the dust storms down. But then all the climate change nutcases would complain because their windmills wouldn't be turning to produce electricity to save the planet from the burning of coal which is a fossil fuel. In other words, no matter what you do, there's always a side effect.
The sad part is that you guys are running out of next years to keep operation going with these droughts. I hope you guys got some rain in that few days
Exactly!
@@mikemitchell2554 Since this vid is few weeks old, how is the situation now in mid July?
@@ivvan497 very little crop left, looking at 0 - 10bu yields again
@@mikemitchell2554 :( Sad to hear
Same weather here in North Dakota
Have Trodew give you a discount on some Biochar
Mike.. is this the year you call..The do more agriculture foundation ..? Or is talking to a phone camera your form of therapy 🤔😁
Dry land farming
Oh just plain water sorry I forgot to tell you that
I run 1 shirt. Lol. Hygiene at the ranch is real low
It sure would be nice to have an update this is 40 day old news just saying
🤔 Actually it's only 20days old 😆 which is pretty normal for summer videos. If you want daily updates, those are on a different platform. 🙂
He replied a few questions ago crops are all burned up. Almost as bad as last year.
LOL I'm working to hard I don't have time to keep up with you guys all the time but I sure try to look at your video your way of farming is very interesting unlike the southern us .
Mike you always talk about "next year"... Um buddy you are running out of next years!! I often see all the struggle you guys/"other TH-camrs" face up there and am wondering if that ground should have ever been broke. It just seems like a tremendous amount of work and stress to hopefully get a crop... would definitely explain why most of the old timers just left and moved else where.
Why don’t you and your family plant native perennials and harvest the perennials with livestock
mike can you guys go back to chem fallow every other year probably doesnt work from finance stand point
Why don't you irrigate your crop
No ground water to irrigate.
Save your money. No use spraying that crap
Irrigation would help but you're not ready to talk about it. Just ask the rest of the world
No ground water to irrigate in this part of the country.
@@crandonborth that's why you dig a well. Canada is a swamp country the water table is so high
@@minergate4066 Nope... You could dig a well 700' deep and not hit water. There is no aquifer that far north. Plus with mountains to the west the rain is squeezed out before it ever get there.
@@crandonborth what are you talking about, you hit water after 6 feet. I literally dug a well by hand with a fence post digger in Saskatoon
@@minergate4066 Mike has said numerous times that if there was water down below he would dig a well... there is none. The Welker Farms have the exact same problem in Montana as there is no ground water. Plus the water that is way deep down is way to high in salinity to be effective anyways to grow a crop.
Call up Justin Trudeau Castro and tell him to declare it to rain!
If it doesn’t rain Trudeau better freeze Mother Nature’s bank account 😂
That would be racist to the people who don’t want it to rain
We could just trade Trudeau for biting at Biden at least he wouldn't know what's going on
All these carbon taxes were going to make it rain I thought.
Chemical chemical and more chemical. I think your in the wrong business bud
hes talking about a T-shirt. Imagine how long he is wearing the same underwear
If there’s no poo or pee stain than you’re good