The Wheat Farmer (1956)

An educational film about raising wheat in the 1950s. . To license footage from this film for commercial use visit: www.travelfilmarchive.com.
1950s, 1956, agriculture, farming, wheat, wheat belt, Kansas, farmers, harvesting, tractor, plowing, harrow, harrowing, seed bed made ready for planting, drill seeding, family visiting town, farmer and wife doing bookwork, milking cows, doing repairs around farm, 4-H club meeting, farmer examining wheat by crumpling heads to separate chaff from grain, winnowing, combine harvesting, combining, combine harvesters, cutting, grain elevator, lunch break, wheat fields

[@SantasWorkshop1964]

Nothing tasted better than eating lunch in the field ,great memories.

[@conmanumber1]

Yes just simple bread with butter, ham or corned beef and a little cheese and a cup of tea with milk and sugar.

[@CharlesCanary]

As a former FFAer and 4her, it's cool to watch the old demo tapes of farming in the 40s to the 90s. I was born in 2009, and our farm runs allis chalmers equipment.

[@LIBICU812]

That boy helping his dad would be about 80 years old today.

[@farmcentralohio]

You learned how to add and subtract, congrats.

[@johnallen5996]

@@farmcentralohio aren’t you smart

[@dreisternehof]

Maybe he only wondered how fast time goes bye?

[@herbhouston5378]

Boy, this brought back a lot of memories! Those were good days back in the 40's and 50's. I'd got go back in a heartbeat.

[@Ozzypants2020]

I’m currently working harvest and it’s a fun job. I drive truck and on average I’m hauling 440 bushel a load and sometimes I take 15 loads in a day. We have 45 foot headers on the combine and have bankout wagons to go into the hills where the trucks have a hard time getting to and fills up to then fill up our trucks. It’s long hours and usually no days off unless it rains.

[@lawrencegreenwood4760]

The elevator in the first part is Carlton ks my uncle help build the main house in 45 or 46 the annex was around 1950 or 51 I still haul grain out of that elevator to this day the elevator later in the video is Talmage my mother's side of family is from there thank u so much for putting this out there I have watched it over and over

[@victorriceroni8455]

I am grateful to our farmers past present and future.

[@eutimiochavez415]

The family working together ❤❤

[@eutimiochavez415]

Good time when people love to farm and work!❤

[@dreisternehof]

A Massey Harris 27 harvests acre for acre... this year my 1979 MF440 did the Job as well! Nice Video, thank You!

[@manhoot]

This film helps me separate the wheat from the chaff

[@cullenosbourn3304]

Oh my gosh, I’m loving this . ❤️

[@davepayne586]

nice good old days.

[@Donner906]

1:00 Three cultivations for one planting. That is what caused massive topsoil loss over decades. But with the technology they had, it was the best they could do.

[@TheBinderBoneyard]

Anybody notice the old mans missing finger? Thats how you know he was a legit farmer...

[@ArmpitStudios]

Yep, a farmer friend of my parents' had a stub.

[@joeguzman3558]

Beutiful farm life

[@djsimonrossprice9400]

That lads working life is now well behind him..😢

[@indie9hippie]

Does the Travel Film Archive ever project these on a film projector for viewing?

[@gussyt1761]

Thats crazy that Australia was still bagging wheat off whilst Americans we’re leading bulk handling

[@deflokoding8847]

Until now days, farmers in my country still use traditional ways, the only one technology that they use are hand tractor to ploughing.

[@oldtruthteller2512]

Dad had a 44 Massey Harris like the one seen here

[@ImperialDecree]

How was wheat farming done in 1850s to 1860s without any machinery?

[@temogen2]

They were all thin... They ate a lot of fats... Saturated fats.

[@graveyardelf6765]

non-gmo

[@davidwpinkston4226]

the men were thin because the worked hard and smoked

[@ralphllivrah9551]

@@graveyardelf6765 You don’t have a clue. Tell me what food isn’t GMO,then tell me why GMO foods are bad. You’re just spouting out crap you’ve heard.

[@thorsten2022]

Hard work from sunrise til sunset

[@ArmpitStudios]

@@graveyardelf6765 As if GMO anything is a bad thing.

[@JustinFisher777]

Anybody know where exactly in Kansas this was filmed? I saw K-4, which I'm familiar with, but I didn't recognize any of the towns.

[@danmekeel7758]

Just a little north of the Texas North side.

[@timothyhays1817]

K4 is about 370 miles long. Most likely in the central part of the state. The north eastern part has more trees and hills.

[@abdk6005]

@@danmekeel7758 Do you mean north Oklahoma ?

[@gmg9010]

The breadbasket of America

[@davidagostinho1807]

Damn, at that time they were already growing massively GMO wheat, look at how short it is! Hope the future goes goes back to ancient varieties, like emmer, einkorn, korasan or spelt

[@JonesDieselPerforman]

That’s definitely not a GMO wheat variety. Didn’t exist until recently. In October 2020, Argentina approved the world's first genetically engineered wheat for cultivation and consumption We have a few growers here in the Canadian prairies that produce Red Fife,Einkorn,Emmer,etc for specialty flour companies.

[@bikingwithcamo5469]

No, nonexistent, brainwashed you may be.....

[@SkyDavis100]

Yea that is not GMO wheat. We still do not grow GMO wheat in Kansas and we probably never will because too many of the countries we export to would not accept it. The wheat is most likely Turkish Red wheat from Ukraine or a dwarf variety which is not a GMO but the result of selective breeding.

[@davidagostinho1807]

@@SkyDavis100 wheat that short? that's definitely not organic, go see those old varieties, like spelt, emmer and einkorn, they are super tall, short wheat is a work of science hybridisation.

[@SkyDavis100]

@@davidagostinho1807 dude it is Kansas. It does not get much rain and back then especially when the tillage practice was to use a oneway, you don’t conserve much moisture. The wheat does not grow tall at all. It does not matter if it is Einkorn wheat or Spelt. I have grown those in test plots on my farm and they did not get very tall at all either because of moisture. Hybridization is also not some lab thing and neither are dwarf wheats. Hybridization occurs naturally in nature and is just the cross pollination of two different breeds of the same crop. Dwarfism in plants is also a natural genetic defect and does not need to be created in a lab. Plant a field and you will find some dwarf plants. Then just select the dwarfs and replant them. It is not some boogie magic science.

[@mohamedshakaal1545]

At that time There was No Pornography 😭

[@andrewdishman26]

Haha. It all comes back to porn with some people, lol

[@lindasue4237]

I would say in those times there were no street drugs. The downfall of our communities now.

[@TheErikM]

Pornography and street drugs both existed.

[@mathewjames7553]

Ha! ha!The women brought out lunch! The modern women would never do that, that's abuse!The modern farm wife goes to town and spends the money and does TicToc videos.Cook,clean or help out?Hell no! Can't have that!

[@mattdwyer8242]

My wife and mother in law both bring lunch to the field.

[@mathewjames7553]

@@mattdwyer8242 That's rare.You are fortunate.Bet if you look around you won't find ten others that can say the same.

[@peterveldman9498]

In Europe we had bigger combines and tractors,and better crops

[@abrahamanthony7106]

I'm blocking this channel because of the annoying watermark.

[@davidwpinkston4226]

i turned 9 the year this film was made. some films shown at school had the counters visible.

[@BBICubicle]

I didn’t even the watermark. Some folks just like to find something to whine about!

[@teecuzbruh4058]

This is awesome! "The family goes to town". The phrase "goin' to town" had to come from somewhere right?