The 2000 Mile Harvest

I do not own the rights to this video. All material is property of Greenbit Productions and Diamond Farm Book Publishers. It has been uploaded for educational and historical purposes only.
Every year ten of the world’s largest combines follow the cereal harvest of North America. Writer and Broadcaster Dylan Winter joins the team for the 5 month journey from Texas over the heartland of the United States to Lethbridge in Alberta Canada. The Payne family and their crew of 18 show what life on the road is like through their working days coordinating moves from site to site, coping with machinery on a grand scale, and progressing with humor and ingenuity through the unpredictable and evocative midwestern landscape. Dylan’s unconventional approach interprets this unique annual event as the ultimate harvest road movie.

[@countryguy72065]

This video is the reason i went out west to do it! After watching for several years i contacted Scott Payne and headed to imperial Nebraska. Scott and linda are the greatest of people and i am proud to call them friends! I first went on harvest in 2006, the best part of 2006 was doing this with my oldest son lee, I caught up with them a few different times for quick visits. But in 2016 i went out for 6 weeks with them in conrad Montana. Im so glad i did, because that ended up being their last year, i believe they had their sale in march of 17. Talked to him two weeks ago, he is doing well they are having their struggles with age,but they never let life get them down. Its their belief in our Lord that keeps them moving forward.

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

The amount of change that guy saw from when he first started with a couple super 92 Massey’s to finishing with S series Deeres is nuts.

[@countryguy72065]

@Oliver66FarmBoy oh you don't know how I enjoyed the conversations with Scott about how he started... His first year was an old Massey with no cab... The second year he upgraded to a ten yr old Massey with a cab! And how part way thru the second year he bought a fan for that combine, it was 16 dollars!!! And how ashamed he felt for spending that kind of money on a fan! He's a great guy... Much respect for he and Linda !

[@seanrhodes9718]

One of the best documentaries ever made, watched it all the time as a kid. Thanks for sharing and God Bless!

[@Deere70Diesel]

I worked for scott back in 2012. The best year and experience of my life. Excellent man and family to learn from

[@con4600hp]

I had a copy of this on vhs. I went on harvest in 98 and 01. Thank you for uploading it and bring back the memories.

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

This was a year before you. Says it was made on the 97 harvest run I believe.

[@con4600hp]

I remember seeing the Johnson crew when we got up to North Dakota in 01. At that time they had 2 experimental combines. Lots of equipment testing went on before it went into full production. Due the the hours those machines ran.

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

If you wanted to test a machine to the breaking point that would definitely be the way to do it.

[@tcpickering8507]

I had it also , this out fit S&l farms delivered winter wheat to the elevator i worked at in Alberta, Canada.

[@tamb0448]

That’s awesome bet the equipment was very different back then !

[@J.T.Thomas-v6d]

Best movie ever used to watch it all the time as a kid

[@EDBZ28]

what a great documentary. I've seen it before and I still watched it in its entirety.

[@TheFendt716]

Thankyou ethan for posting this video- searched KZbin for it so many times- I’ve got the vcr tape of this, it wasn’t harvest at home until I’d watched this as a kid!! 30 years old now and can still remember so much of the video. It was always the music that once I’d heard it I knew harvest wasn’t far away. Sam From the Isle of Man United Kingdom.

[@GNelsonFarms]

I hadn’t seen this before. Thanks for posting it, Ethan!

[@clinthochrein888]

Pretty cool seeing grain trucks trailering the combines. Never seen that before.

[@Machines85]

Farmers who use combines are ahead of the game!

[@CurtisGraham91]

I watched this on VHS when it first comes out, always one of my personal favourites.

[@adrianolima6225]

Watching here from Brazil I love agriculture and agricultural machinery in the United States

[@giriquero]

Também sou Br e trabalho com colheitas, sonhando um dia fazer isso nos EUA

[@45Deere9500]

Thanks for putting this out for others to see, Ethan. I went on the wheat run in 1994.

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

I always thought it would be fun to do at least once a

[@stevengerrard5836]

Awesome video! This was the reason I went out to do harvest in 2004,worked for rob sue Holland had the time of my life met loads of great people who I still keep in touch with,highly recommend doing something like this .

[@tamb0448]

Used to borrow this film along with custom cutters from my grandpa , these are my favourite films now watch then every year before harvest to get me in the mood

[@MrBigrobmjca3]

I literally just prayed to the Lord, that if it be his will, to please let there be work like this in Heaven.

[@andrewsamson9603]

Thankyou for posting this watched this so much as a kid you’ve brought memories back Thankyou 😊👌👌👌

[@hugoagogo9435]

I remember watching this year’s ago. Think it would be on vhs. I’m Scottish and the scale of everything was totally mesmerising to me.

[@loganbeedy5950]

Always love watching videos of the old harvesting crews, and some of the stuff they went through was wild to just get the crop in

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

For sure.

[@Ixlthim74]

Awesome to watch. Thanks so much for posting.

[@hallfarms]

Thanks for posting this, I've never seen it before but I enjoyed it.

[@jrgenthomsen3841]

Thank you for sharing Ethan,great movie

[@thedonleroy]

Thanks for sharing this

[@grayday8721]

This is a pretty damn good, and interesting movie, thanks for putting it on here, Mr Ethen!

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

Thanks.

[@michaelsheeder148]

Ethan, that was very interesting. Thanks Michael

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

Thanks.

[@millardhayes1884]

I enjoyed this film.

[@ericbauer2059]

Always loved the soundtrack

[@MrTGleaner]

This is amazing thankyou so much!!!

[@troyshoup3695]

So cool !! Thanks 👍🍻

[@GregWinnighoff-xx3vw]

Thank you for doing this

[@robertreznik9330]

Nice seeing the harvest equipment we had 30 years ago!

[@mathiggins4264]

Thank you buddy it was good vibes be safe out there your buddy from Nebraska

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

Thanks

[@JamesLTyreeII]

This is great. I think it is up to every community to feed itself to the best of its ability first and then work out from there. I don’t like the idea of people saying that Americans have to feed the world. The world is responsible for itself. If the world needs help, then it needs to help self and the crops grown should be food crops, but a lot of them are industrialcrops for fuel.

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

Ok. Get off your soap box.

[@ihguy2113]

i have this on DVD great movie

[@davebarnes9099]

Wow thank you for sharing this video

[@dennisneel9788]

Happy new year thank for the awesome video

[@paulborofka3269]

Made the run in 98 right outta high school. And again in 2000. Good times.

[@sherrymendizabal607]

You guys rock ❤

[@johnkissack5295]

Thanks for sharing

[@aahZeiK]

Very cool documentary!

[@multipower617]

Fantastic video One of my few regrets in life is to have not gone to work on the grain harvest when I had the chance

[@jaycow3154]

Thanks for taking the time to do this

[@rustyrelicsfarm2406]

I cannot imagine how many field miles a person would drive in a year.

[@JacoTruter-r7k]

Watched this as a 8year old boy on VCR today I’m farming my daddy’s farm with pride 🇿🇦

[@Jorrie86]

Lekker Jaco Waar boer jy ?

[@JacoTruter-r7k]

@ dagsê Jorrie! Tussen Delmas en Ogies mpumalanga

[@Jorrie86]

Nie te vêr my af nie ... Ek's tussen Cullinan en Bronkhorstspruit Hoop julle het 'n mooi oes hierdie jaar 😃👍

[@JacoTruter-r7k]

@ sommer omi draai Ja hierdie was nogals n uitdagende seisoen! Sterkte daar!💪🏻

[@countryboy3201]

Very interesting thanks for sharing 👍

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

Thanks.

[@sherrymendizabal607]

I appreciate it

[@DaltonStrnad]

Ive watched bits of this, my dad and uncle used to cut from texas to Montana, they ran 3-5 combines every year, nowadays we only have two stops and one combine

[@mrcrazy6278]

Excellent video, by Dylan Winter. I have this on dvd but unfortunately it got brittle and snapped into two halves when removing it from the case.

[@rustyrelicsfarm2406]

On KZbin there are 3 shows that cover Agriculture during the Victorian Age, Edwardian Age, and WW2. They are very interesting. They are called Victorian Farm, Edwardian Farm, and Wartime Farm.

[@GregWinnighoff-xx3vw]

I like thiskind of video

[@jeremynelsen4382]

I had this on vhs. Then I worked for Scott and Linda in 2004 and 2006

[@jamesbroughton9900]

This is my dream job

[@symbologee]

My families equipment was shown on this video in Munday, Texas.

[@Tinnunulus]

Yellow trail from Texas was a great video was about a man called Dale Starks, I see it back in the 70s and ended up doing harvest in 88 with Striets out of Vernon Texas, hard work long hours but at 63 I have the greatest memories of the US grain belt, all the best from the UK 🇬🇧👍🇺🇸

[@76860]

yellow trail from Texas was and is the greatest story told about the north America wheat run especially with those iconic massey ferguson combines

[@TommyYeager]

Worked for scott and Linda in 08

[@yeeyeetv8308]

Only have a Alberta and South Dakota cutting crew that comes out to Tribune ks these days. Us local farmers are the main ones doing the custom harvest work apart from the two out of state crews.

[@sherrymendizabal607]

God loves Munday

[@ErendiraAlcala]

Yo también soy operador y es el trabajo que mas mea gustado

[@logankramer7111]

This brings back a lot of memories from watching this as a a little kid with my brother, thanks for uploading this Ethan. Also, any update on the Kinze 400 cart?

[@farmerwright]

I still have my vhs of this, a great watch and fascinating for a young farmer in England seeing the large scale operators across the pond, does anyone know if they are still working as a business?

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

He retired a few years ago.

[@HeadleyFarms]

This is a good movie. I think my former coworker worked for S&L a few years back before he became a road tech for Deere.

[@todddressler123]

No electric tarps in sight

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

Or auto steer.

[@diersirrigation]

On July 4th, when Americans celebrate and Britain's don't, they should be glad that we became the superpower that we were otherwise Germany and Japan would have concured the world in the 40s.

[@robertbanik7879]

I took somehow lost my copy of this

[@4930driver]

My English teacher in high school was a sister to Linda

[@4930driver]

There was a waiting list in my day to get on Scotts crew

[@jamesforman6587]

I work at a car auction the word reverse is anathema

[@familyfarmertn8931]

Would you be interested in a Oliver 1250-A FWA? I understand there pretty rare.

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

That’s a Fiat not an Oliver.

[@familyfarmertn8931]

@Oliver66FarmBoy I didn't know that. It's painted Oliver green and has Oliver decals on it. I learned something new.

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

Some people like them. I think they are ugly as a mud fence. Parts for the majority of the Fiat models are hard to find without going overseas and since the only thing Oliver about them is the paint i have no reason to own one.

[@familyfarmertn8931]

@Oliver66FarmBoy I agree it's not a good looking tractor

[@isaacbrown9694]

Mate you’re a bloody legend🫡

[@craigadair128]

You may be too young to remember but in the 80's there was a movie called "Race Against The Harvest". Not a documentary but kind of entertaining at the time based upon 2 custom harvest crews, 1 of which was running Deere 95s and 105s and other old combines. The other 7720s and 8820s which were just released at the time.

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

Ya don’t say. m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/bV66d3ZsnNaYj7c

[@symbologee]

It was cheesy