Massive program Mid West West Australia.

Daniel and Tim put in a massive program with their three machines working long daylight hours of Wheat and Canola to 100% of their farm.

[@ianrobinson9565]

RISING COSTS, FUEL ⛽, FERTILISER, PRICE AND AVAILABILITY OF IMPORTED MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT ALONG WITH SPARE PARTS, GOVERNMENT RED TAPE AND INTERFERENCE ARE ALL ADDING TO FARMING HEADACHES IN AUSTRALIA 🇦🇺. I GREW SUGAR CANE FOR YEARS, BUT SADLY I AM SICK AND OUT OF THE INDUSTRY.

[@brianwilliams3345]

Plus we don't even have the reliable power source for smelting our iron ore with the cheapest best coal in the world. No manufacturing base. Can't even manufacture our own defence requirements ie planes ships tanks let alone ammo or rifles etc. It has got to come to a head when we rely on o/seas so much when we could produce it here.

[@JohnWilliams-iw6oq]

Great stuff, just imagine trying this with battery power, what a joke!

[@BenCrosthwaite1]

Hard to imagine.

[@robman2095]

Wheat prices should be very good this year with the problems with the wheat from Ukraine and maybe Russia affecting the supply. so the more the Australian farmers can grow the better to help avoid world hunger and possibly even starvation in some locations.

[@anniebooo]

So nice to see your seeding operation Daniel and Tim! Thanks for the video Ben!

[@zatoichison6420]

What a great team !!! working to feed us. Many thanks. !!

[@dfwazz]

awesome stuff hope we have a good 2022

[@mickk3051]

Impressive scale and commitment.

[@josephhapp9]

Lest we forget,,,once upon a time it was scrub bush, trees and animals. First saw the evidence of “too many humans” when I drove by in the early 70’s heading East. Had an Uncle and nephews who sold the dairy farm in Balingup, moved to Muntadgin wheat properties. Wheat farming is hard work and reliance on big machinery.

[@BenCrosthwaite1]

What was their name?

[@josephhapp9]

@@BenCrosthwaite1 they were near Muntadgin somewhere,I only visited once back in the 1970s Uncle John Mauger,,,Ross and Raymond, as far as I know all retired or back near Balingup. May have sold up.

[@PencilProper]

As I grow older my respect for farmers only grows with me. Tough as nails folk who love the land and supply the rest of us with the food we eat, and no body seems to appreciate it! Thank you farmers! You do a great job.

[@austral7634]

Great video of a top operation and hope the season does it justice. By the way stubble has two "B's" to be grammatically correct.

[@nocotton]

They'll never be an electric tractor that can do that amount of work.

[@eggspanda2475]

never say never

[@JohnGeary12453]

@@eggspanda2475 yea right those things are sh.t

[@JohnGeary12453]

Exactly

[@alanswainson2683]

Wow , that’s some massive setup 😱

[@melhand3990]

Great Vid Lads.

[@ryankennedy2219]

Love the videos keep it up

[@alexandreviossat1164]

Ne rêvez pas trop tout de même... J' ai discuté avec un agriculteur du Queensland. Pas ( très...) loin de Cairns. Le gars viens en ville 2 fois par an, sinon solitude totale ! La route passe à 80 km de son exploitation. Lorsqu un JD tombe en panne, tu te dem***des...et tu vas chercher ta pièce a 80 km. Il faut apprendre à vivre en totale autonomie...

[@anniebooo]

They live about 90 km km from the nearest larger town and, oooo... 450 km from Perth. Don't know why your guy in QLD only comes to town twice a year? 100 km is fearly normal here in WA to do business on a weekly basis. Please come and have a look! Beautiful and wast part of the world WA. All the best, Annie

[@cbisme6414]

@@anniebooo we would drive from Perth to stay on the "farm" for the weekend, it took no time at all, both large family wheat and sheep farms were in Tammin and Yorkrakine, very fond memories.

[@lee-annelaws2707]

Thank god for the farmers still farming and bringing food to us. You are the backbone of this country. Keep up the good work and Thankyou 👍

[@kaizhongwang5285]

Impressive cool team work.thank you sharing

[@REwing]

Keep having new ideas, give them ago!!! All the best for the harvest. New Zealand.

[@desmahebiton4534]

All the best to you for the coming season, from an ex Three Springs person.

[@deltreka]

seeding done, maintance done, now get down to the ute muster

[@chrisbrown9999]

Got them big planters working

[@swenschadlich2869]

what's that. another star production ?????

[@yohannfoure3478]

hi from france very beautiful video

[@jimheath4200]

With Russia and Ukraine out of action and with all the rain we have had you guys are going to make a fortune. Good luck to you.

[@paulveenings6861]

A lot of things can happen between now and harvest . Good moisture now is great but no finishing rain can be a disaster . Frost can also put a damper on things . Farming , never count your chickens till they hatch . 🙂

[@davepayne9162]

very nice some out fit there,

[@barbarafitzpatrick]

Are the farms owned By Saudi they bought thousands of acres

[@BenCrosthwaite1]

All the farms that I take photos of are, family farms in the midwest of Western Australia.

[@lordoftherims436]

Are you still seeding on that farm. Its the last day of seeding where i am (3rd of june) in maracoonda where we have done 5800ha of seeding starting april 10th with a 48ft dbs bar and a jd9520r. That 80ft setup looks impressive

[@BenCrosthwaite1]

All finished with no night shift.

[@lordoftherims436]

@@BenCrosthwaite1 thats bloody good. Here we have been running with the 1 machine 24 hours since 10th april. How many hectares

[@Bluepillphil-d1w]

I’m looking to get into work driving those things.

[@BenCrosthwaite1]

Hi, there are two people you could ring. Rod Messina 0428611630 Daniel Critch 0429625045 All the best.

[@tandemwings4733]

Impressive.

[@mungogerryjnr]

Into it boys I sincerely hope the rains and prices keep up like last year All the best

[@rodneygillespie9212]

Who own's that place?

[@BenCrosthwaite1]

The Critch family from Tenindewa WA.

[@carlodelcorso6369]

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[@ashleyflint3501]

All this flash equipment thats not paid for to produce a loaf of bread and the margarine to put on it. How many of these toys are Australian made and keeping people in your towns to make up a local football or basketball club. Last time I drove from Wubin to Southern Cross , most of these what use to be farming communities in the sixty to seventy era are near ghost towns now . I have a farmer friend who cries as his football club has gone, but the same guy owns 15 farms, Seems Paint and Steel is more important than having a large community now , Pity though .

[@itchyvet]

You do realise farmers are committing an offence these days if they try to service their machinery which is protected by Copy Right Laws. If their machines break down, only the service agent is allowed to touch them. And a state that was only 3 or 4 such agents, it takes weeks to get machinery fixed, by then the season's nearly over and the opportunity for a good crop gone out the window.

[@ashleyflint3501]

@@itchyvet You are dead right in what you have said but a lot of these guys change their machinery more regularly than their under pants. The paint is not even burnt off the exhaust and they have signed up for the next model. The point I am making here is that they dont pay for them outright , they owe thousands on them and when a drought comes they want drought assistance. A local town business man gets no assistance what so ever , but has to pay for his equipment. Go buy your local grocery store and see what help you get compared to Mr Big Time Farmer with the beautiful paint jobs everywhere on the Banks property.

[@shovelguggelheim8454]

The smaller, family farms are disappearing because the farmers children don't stay on to run the farm. They are all heading for the cities to get their degrees in lesbian dance theory then staying because they like the lifestyle. As a result the farms are getting bigger (corporate) being operated by less people because they just can't find people to work on them. To run bigger farms with less people you need bigger and more modern equipment. This is just a fact of life. People don't want to pay $10 for a loaf of bread but they still have to eat. I too lament the decline in the small local towns but I can see why it is happening.

[@trevorslater2746]

@@ashleyflint3501 Farmers caught up in a cycle that's hard to get out of ,try getting labour to operate the gear.so they.get.more automated ,more $$ outlay trying to be competitive, plus more ,its not like they want all that debt around their neck eh

[@ashleyflint3501]

@@trevorslater2746 Trevor, farmers dont like paying anyone, thus , why they wont employ a person for years like other businesses have to, they have this opinion that there being screwed all the time. I sold rural merchandise to them for 26 years , and can tell you, I know who was being screwed all the time. Where we are you have the young ones who have virtually been given the farm debt free, them capitalise on the asset to buy either the neibour or flash machinery. No other business in Australia can just handball their business like Farmers handball their assets to family and then go on the pension. Also remember everything they buy is tax deductible, this doesnt apply to workers.