Swathing Canadian Canola with a John Deere W235

This is a video of a John Deere W235 Windrower near St. Walburg, Sask, Canada

[@johnkelly903]

1955 a 70 and #5 mower was a great outfit. Make me feel good to see it come to life.

[@MienTayTiVi]

where i am in vietnam, John Deere is a famous brand and its quite expensive, i alway go looking for them just to film because i love JD, and in that i live without JD like i hope that JD will become a close friend to vietnamese farmers someday, thanks !

[@JohnJenkinsfarmmedia]

They are expensive here as well. The strong dealership network in the midwest is what helps keep them on top. I hope they will come to you soon!

[@MienTayTiVi]

@@JohnJenkinsfarmmedia they are expensive because they are great machines, but to own them is a dream for the farmers in my place !!

[@Comet925]

So I've never understood the point of this, like does it not dry down enough or why not just run the head on the combine

[@kreed1004]

Let’s it dry longer days to weeks

[@willhartnoll]

So yeah for the pods to break open easily when combining canola it has to be desiccated, you can either rely on chemicals for this such as glyphosate or swath it like this and leave it for a couple weeks. Swathing generally means you can be a little earlier with your harvest.

[@yurizhivago4848]

With grain it also lets it dry faster so the combine does not plug up and you do not have to burn expensive fuel in a grain dryer to get it to the proper moisture level. The growing season is shorter in Canada so we have to swath it and speed up the drying process and harvest B4 it gets too cold or snows.

[@SilentShadows877]

@@yurizhivago4848 I've heard it also helps with feeding into the combine better?

[@strawberryroan1941]

Christian Gierach You swath it for a whole bunch of reasons. Biggest reason is most varieties of canola, including the most widely grown one, round up ready, will shell out way too bad and you will lose a very large amount of the crop on the ground as the reel on the straight cut header hits it. It also helps it dry lots, as soon as its cut it stops requiring moister and starts to dry out. Swathing also is very important because if you are planning to straight cut it there may be some of the crop left that is still green and it will have green seeds mixed in and cause it to spoil. Also for farmers like my family, we only have 1 30 foot straight cut header but we have 2 combines with pickup headers, so if you go along with our 25 foot swather it does not take very long at all and you are combining 50 feet at one time instead of 30 with one combine. For most farmers swathing is the most economical thing to do.

[@russellehler6706]

Excellent drone footage.

[@wolfgangkohler2508]

You must not get heavy winds in your area. Here in Manitoba if we don't run a swath roller behind the Swather the crop will ultimately end up bunched up in the Neighbours field 2 miles down the road. lol

[@4930driver]

Nice video!!

[@pinke28]

How come you don't roll your swath iam thing to tell me dad to stop that

[@schmidfarms1702]

Nice!

[@andrewoozoo]

How big is the header?

[@lielaisfans7321]

Why it is so satasfying?

[@0pvo0]

those back wheels aren't steered right?

[@landlifem5872]

Na they usually just castor on most windrowers.

[@papabarbu6679]

Impressionnant 👍🏻💪

[@russellehler6706]

Why do some swath and others harvest direct with a combine?

[@JohnJenkinsfarmmedia]

I think it depends on the variety of canola they plant. Snow was a factor for laying down the wheat so that it wasn’t all matted down from snow.

[@russellehler6706]

@@JohnJenkinsfarmmedia What is your growing season like? I was raised in east central Illinois, and we were in the field from around 3/15 to 12/1 depending on weather.

[@gib815]

You employed by John Deere ? If so, what's your job description ?

[@JohnJenkinsfarmmedia]

JGM Nah, I don’t work for them.

[@gib815]

@@JohnJenkinsfarmmedia Ok, you seem to travel around a lot. lol I help a farmer northwest of Ottawa, so know a few fields you filmed on.

[@peggyt1243]

@@gib815 Not many farms north west of Ottawa. Great for rock farming.

[@gib815]

@@peggyt1243 Ottawa, Illinois , not Canada

[@arnolamiroy5383]

Wat is the advantage of windrowing the crop first Now you have to make 2 passes over the field

[@JohnJenkinsfarmmedia]

They do it in the north because it helps to dry the crop down faster. Snow will also lay it flat if they get an early snow. Windrowing it allows them to still get the crop in even after a snow.

[@landlifem5872]

In Australia most people windrow their canola to help reduce shattering of the seedpods when harvesting. There is a few varieties more suitable for direct heading than others. Windrowers cereals can be a real risk here because if there is a heavy summer rain your whole crop is down in the wet, more likely to be damaged than a standing crop

[@danielwolfe8038]

Is this your farm

[@JohnJenkinsfarmmedia]

Nope, just a farm I worked on up there.

[@charliej3151]

I know that you worked for Danielski Farms I was thinking about going there for a summer how did you like it there?

[@JohnJenkinsfarmmedia]

Custom Harvesting, I loved it. I’d go back there in a heartbeat if it worked out. I learned a ton, met a lot of good people and got to run brand new equipment. You just have to stick it out the whole summer and it will be the best thing you’ve ever done.

[@charliej3151]

John Jenkins Thank you I am 16 but I think it would be good for me to get out there!

[@futureagcomm1616]

Do you plan on coming to Texas anytime soon?

[@JohnJenkinsfarmmedia]

Hopefully I will be for wheat harvest in May. But I cant say for sure yet.

[@analbertanfarmer574]

Yee Yee

[@whatyourname8547]

CANADIAN

[@jwald478]

Who still swaths canola, that’s a thing of the past!

[@vortexrace]

Just cause you don't doesn't mean the rest of the world it has followed. I've seen straight cut canola fields shelled out like crazy from a freak wind. And a swathed field beside it almost untouched in comparison. And vice versa.

[@Northern_Farmer]

I swath everything

[@jwald478]

Had 2500 acres this year all straight cut and our average was 57 bpa, nothing wrong with that 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@oilersridersbluejays]

Clearly, you don’t know what you’re talking about. I farm very close to this guy. I swath every acre of every crop I have. Straight cutting simply does not work well here, especially canola. Don’t mock what you clearly don’t understand, because you just come across as an ignorant numpty, which you clearly are.

[@leinie6683]

Why do people put such shitty music on their videos ? Nice swather though

[@liguobu229]

CANADA at attention! Beautiful ad for John Deere machines, us product build about everywhere but NOT IN CANADA. Expect Deere to be instructed to boycott Canada if you try to upset China over your silly puny canola stuff. At ease. For now. This is only a friendly warning. Abrams soon to be appointed to Ottawa to educate you.

[@carterk116]

You must be in grade six with brain cells like that?

[@donmacdonald7758]

@@carterk116 He s got that dirty Trump disease, see ya later JD

[@roadrash1282]

Carter K 😂😂😂

[@donmacdonald7758]

@@roadrash1282 Wow an emoji geneius.

[@roadrash1282]

Don Macdonald that might seem “genius” for you and by judging your brain power off the back your spelling, but for most other people it’s standard enough. Ya just tap the same key 3 times!