Spring Park Farms putting the new 80' Morris 970 10 series through it paces.

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Ай бұрын

Photographing farming in the Mid West of Western Australia.
Spring Park Farms is opening up its new 2,000-ha farm to fit in with its 16,000-ha program.

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@elmton.john.1961. Ай бұрын

Great story and filming Ben, looking forward to another season of videos.

@BenCrosthwaite1 Ай бұрын

Thanks.

@user-kf9fv1qj9u Ай бұрын

Awesome looking airseeder

@user-lj6qj2cz3u Ай бұрын

Wonderful photography young Ben, it brings out how beautiful that country can be at different times of the year.

@BenCrosthwaite1 Ай бұрын

Thanks, I like the young bit.

@MarkLynskey Ай бұрын

Nice to see an Irish Limespreader in the video.

@mickperry2712 Ай бұрын

Great video as usual Ben. Looks like they run a great operation. Thanks very much and God bless.

@pompy65 Ай бұрын

No DEF/adblue on those big red tractors👍🏻💪🏻

@user-kf9fv1qj9u Ай бұрын

Great video Ben

@BenCrosthwaite1 Ай бұрын

Thanks!

@laurenmau6895 Ай бұрын

Impressive operation.

@user-kf9fv1qj9u Ай бұрын

Great job spreading lime

@sharpshooter470 Ай бұрын

Ben, Thanks so much for sharing the progress at Spring Park Farms. The quality of your work is a pleasure to see and hear. I hope you can continue for years to come. I only dream about coming to WA now, last trip was to Queensland. That was fun and interesting also. Good on you Mate! Chuck

@BenCrosthwaite1 Ай бұрын

Many thanks.

@TrevorStruthers Ай бұрын

Congrats again on this one Ben! I am getting some unexpected time off and will be running around our valley talking to farmers and riding along with them as well. Your videos numbers are quite impressive. People must like the authenticity. Cheers!

@BenCrosthwaite1 Ай бұрын

Thanks Trevor.😊

@TrevorStruthers Ай бұрын

Also, Loretta said she likes a certain S. Korean harmonica player from the 90s. Thats her exception to her dislike of it. She has a banjo and wishes to learn it. My grandpa would come home from drinking and play the harmonica and do a jig sometimes when i was a kid so i like it. I convinced a local guitarist to play me a bit of an intro that sounded blue grassy. He doesn’t have a banjo. I am fond of real sounds from the field if i got them.

@TrevorStruthers Ай бұрын

@@BenCrosthwaite1 the shot of the ripper and tractor at night are awesome

@jensn5909 Ай бұрын

great content as usual

@anthonyfraser7965 Ай бұрын

Great video keep them coming

@BenCrosthwaite1 Ай бұрын

Many thanks.

@BenCrosthwaite1 Ай бұрын

Many thanks.

@edelm6062 Ай бұрын

As usual, Ben another great video. Is there any irrigation on the farm? Just curious when you were talking about finding water on the farm.

@BenCrosthwaite1 Ай бұрын

Very little irrigation, some on intensive crops on a small scale. This is to have a supply of good water for spraying.

@FalconXE302 Ай бұрын

How are the farmers viewing the potential for this season... with NO rain, I'm guessing that no one is even looking at planting yet... Does anyone know when the first good rains are potentially forecast to hit the Wheat-belt...?

@BenCrosthwaite1 Ай бұрын

Farmers are a bit nervous because Canola is planted so shallow, but starting to make move now. We’re getting pretty close to the 25th by which time most people will be going. The average opening of the season is around the 20th of May so no need to worry about wheat just yet.

@LRFtheLion Ай бұрын

You got some great shots in this video. Very cool lighting! It would be cool if at some point you could teach us about what kind of trees are used as the windbreaks around the field. Are those trees native to Australia (and specifically that part of Australia)? Is it challenging to get trees to establish on that land or are those species adapted to it pretty well? I'm in southeast Washington state, USA (Trevor is my sweetheart, so I watch your channel with him), and here the farmers have historically planted locust trees (I think specifically it is the Robinia pseudoacacia locusts, but not 100% sure) as windbreaks. I also see some junipers (not sure which juniper species). Here, we get really strong, drying winds from the southwest especially, so the trees planted for the windbreaks have to be able to take very high wind speeds and also very desiccating winds, especially in winter, when both the dryness and cold of the wind can do a number on any kind of delicate trees. Junipers are probably one of the only conifers that can take it as trees growing out in the open like that. The locusts in the wheat field windbreaks here look like haunted house trees in the winter...very cool gnarly, asymmetrical, branches that seem to not mind the abuse. I hope to travel to Australia someday and look at all the trees. I used to do some research and grant writing for the cattle and agriculture interests in Queensland. That was fun to do from America... Trying to make sense of local government jurisdictions in Queensland and trying to mimic Australian spellings in my writing. I learned some interesting things about the ag and livestock industry there and have wanted to come see it all in person and learn more. Keep up the good videos!

@BenCrosthwaite1 Ай бұрын

Hi Loretta, this country is fragile, but the farmers are gradually learning how to farm it without too much erosion. The previous owner of this farm had sheep, which is challenging in this type of country. As you can see by the natural shade belts, the sheep and wind have nearly wrecked them. The new owners will crop 100% with deep ripping, lime, stubble retention and timing to keep erosion to a minimum. The big trees are eucalyptus, which are pretty tough, but there must be bigger shade belts to do any good. The original shade belts have mainly Tammar, Pear shrubs, wattle and bank-shire shrubs, none of which would make much of a shade belt. The eucalyptus is tough and relatively easy to establish in this country, which has a 15' rainfall mainly in the winter and is pretty reliable.