Randy from Fieldrows
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first heard Sep 2024
last heard Oct 2024
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So we're kind of like, okay, we need to stick with the crops that we know are tough and can handle the drought. And when we finally get into a normal precipitation cycle, I think some of these other crops are going to be good. Because there is a lot of market for a lot of these crops. With Canada, Canadians are amazingly innovative. I would say a huge chunk of our tech originates in Canada.
It's unbelievable. A lot of the manufacturers are up in Canada. And they, there's farms, they're running eight, nine different crops in the same farm. And I just, it blows my mind. I can't imagine it, but they have got it down to an art.
So a lot of that market's kind of drifting below the border and a lot of them actually will send trucks down and pick up our product and take it back to the border across to Canada, so.
Well, we bin it typically first, put air on it. We don't dry anything, but we do sometimes get a little higher moisture, so we put air on it. And then while we have it in the bin, we then start watching the markets and start marketing accordingly. And, yeah, there's a local SNCC, Harvest States, a couple there. That then goes on trains, and it goes to the Asian nations.
elevator or something so no we we don't on the farm uh we come drive down the elevator it's a it's a mighty two and a half mile haul downhill oh that's not bad yeah so yeah we roll dump in the elevator and then the elevator when they're eventually full they then fill the the cars accordingly but occasionally there are times where it will feel direct to a rail car for certain crops they'll have a conveyor set up we'll just drive out on this load right on in yeah
So I still, I can't fathom what it's like to harvest 19 bush of wheat, 18 bush of wheat. How fast can you drive?
Oh, it's exhilarating. Tell them what we got on this. So normally when we're harvesting, our top speed's probably six miles an hour. And that's just because our header physically can't cut it fast enough.
it's starting to lay under the the cutter bar um and uh so this year we had the privilege to demo uh the 9260 case h9260 and a case ih af11 with a 50 foot fd250 macdon head and the header has 19 longer knives and redesigned guards and i didn't really think a lot of that but I pushed it up to 14 miles an hour and it was still cutting the crop with pretty even stubble behind.
And so we averaged about 11 miles an hour with that combine, about 55 to 60 acres per hour, burning less fuel than our other combines per acre. And it was quite remarkable. And I didn't break one guard on that entire header that entire time. And the other headers we have, which are draper heads, 45 foot,
MacDon design, case branded, and they, I mean, we're constantly out there changing guards, changing sections, but that new header, flex head. I'll tell you, it was like Speedy Gonzalez out there. Just dust cloud, just dust rolling off the combine.
It's pretty amazing. But I mean, that combine was outcutting our two class eight, 45 foot combines by itself. It literally over doubled our capacity.
You had to go 11 miles an hour to keep the sieves loaded. It has a gauge that says... with pressure sensor that says, you know, here's where you need to try to keep it to keep the sieves loaded properly. And about 10 to 11 mile an hour is where we had to keep it.
Oh, yeah. It doesn't like it otherwise.
Absolutely. There's no way physically. There's absolutely no way. I mean, what was a good day of summer following with a 50-some foot freak's dad?
And I'm doing 1,500, 1,800 acres in a day with a sprayer. Or in harvesting. I mean, it took a day to harvest a field, and now we are harvesting sections in a day. And so that, oh yeah, and the grain trucks. Our biggest truck growing up, the grain hopper on that new F11 is larger than the largest grain truck we had growing up. So the combine itself is bigger than the truck we had.
So it's just that level of... There is definitely still room to scale for size. I think we're getting towards the limit on some of the Like, well, there's only so big you can make a machine. It's got to fit down the road.
And so, but air drills, I mean, they're 100 feet. They're getting, yep. There's things coming down the pipeline, 1,300 bushel carts on the back. So, yeah, it's, I don't know where it's going to go. That's it?
Tiny. Two of them. Have you ever used one of them other bins?
Those look kind of cool.
Yeah, I was sitting there thinking about that. That would hold our years farming on it.
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