Why are we seeding wheat now?

[@TrevorStruthers]

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[@ElsaLay]

Hi from Western Australia.... We're well into our harvest Season and this year will be a good one... Our family farm has seen the good and the bad in terms of crop yields... It never gets any easier, the next coming season is always an unknown... People in the cities will never fully understand the hardships that farmers endure when a bad season turns up...yet farmers live to farm the land....

[@TrevorStruthers]

Yes we do live to farm the land. For pay or not it seems! Thank you for the comment.

[@rickdavidson3534]

As always terrific Drone work.. Your commentary, and facts, made this a great video.. Well Done.. Dont let winter stop you..

[@TrevorStruthers]

Thanks rick. I will keep making videos, but it will be a bit more youtuber and a little less farmer.

[@AK-FS]

Beautiful footage, and well said, Trevor! I find it incredible what you're able to get the soil to produce with so little rainfall. That's some incredible soil there in the Palouse. 😉 I knew a farmer near The Dalles, Oregon, who spoke of a similar rotation to what you described - one year on, and the other year fallow. I think the rainfall was even less where he was, under 10 inches per year on average. I seem to recall him saying that it wasn't even 'how much' rain fell (though that was a good thing when it did), but more 'when' it fell that truly made the difference. Thanks for doing what you do.

[@TrevorStruthers]

Thanks AK-FS. Yeah there are regions that get less than here that grow wheat as well. Its a desert plant, but it sure does need some timely rains to produce much grain.

[@TrevorStruthers]

The year of 9-11 we got 9.11 inches of rain that year according to the log bookd

[@charlestibbey2666]

Thanks Trevor, very informative. I am not a farmer but am aware of the popular misconception here in the UK, that just because a farm utilises expensive equipment, they are returning a good profit!

[@TrevorStruthers]

No thanks to the expensive equipment for sure. Modern farming is bigger money in equipment than it ever was in horses and manpower

[@joelg8004]

I’ve been getting in some pretty heated arguments with Seattle folk lately who seem to think farmers are filthy rich and too greedy to pay better. Knowing almost all of them are a bad year away from bankruptcy I always try to vote for things that favor farmers. Sadly none of the deaf hippies out here want to listen to facts or reason.

[@TrevorStruthers]

They are too in their feelings and don't realize that the food needed to feed this many people is not all going to be Organic. The yields wouldn't sustain the population we have today if we all went without the chemicals

[@joelg8004]

@ way I look at it is you guys are driving through it while spraying, loading it and essentially eating the same food. Most of y’all are living long and healthy lives. Organic is just a waste of farmable land producing less.

[@TrevorStruthers]

@@joelg8004yeah, maybe not our mental health, but our physical health isnt bad. a lot of everything health wise seems to be genetic. There is a halflife on all of the chemicals applied. None of it lasts long out in the light of day after diluted and applied. We are the ones being exposed and not the consumer. I dont miss being the head applicator for a big operation though. That was non stop chemical warfare on many different fields and i was always the one doing it.

[@JoeBachmann-ry7wm]

Thanks!very pretty country you work in.

[@TrevorStruthers]

Thank you! Yeah, so i have been told. I have gotten used to it, but when coming home after being gone for so long, i surely see it as a unique and beautiful area.

[@tractorchasers]

Very enjoyable to learn about winter wheat in your area! Great video!

[@tonymckeage1028]

Great Video Trevor, I have heard of the bi-annual fallow but mainly further North, where the Wielker's farm in Montana I think, thanks for sharing

[@TrevorStruthers]

Its dry in our part of Washington. Very similar to western montana in their rain shadow of the rockies. Thanks Tony!

[@va3kbc]

Thanks Trevor. Always enjoy your drone videos!!! I would love to see these fields first hand. But alas I will just watch your videos.

[@TrevorStruthers]

We had someone come from Wisconsin to check out the area. If you ever do come, I would suggest coming around the end of august because everyone is harvesting at that time.

[@va3kbc]

@ Thanks Trevor. Sorry to say our traveling days to the U.S. are over. Our pass ports are expired and at this point we will not be renewing them. But thank you for your wonderful videos and especially the drone footage!! I just can’t get over the beauty!!

[@johannbuer1727]

Epic drone shots Trevor 👏👍 and a lot of interesting Information about the agriculture in your country. Thank you and greetings from 🇩🇪

[@TrevorStruthers]

Many thanks Johann!

[@williskinder7794]

Thanks Trevor another great and interesting production 👏 👍.

[@luisnunes7933]

Hello! Another fine video! Awesome landscape...

[@TrevorStruthers]

Thank you Luis!

[@luisnunes7933]

@@TrevorStruthers 👌

[@John-nc4bl]

Another excellent video Trevor and thanks for it. Hopefully some of the city slickers see it as all they ever see are grocery shelves.

[@TrevorStruthers]

Agreed! I hope at least one or two of them realizes this is how they get their food and stop telling us we are the devil for feeding them.

[@John-nc4bl]

@@TrevorStruthers Concur, 'brother'.

[@WheelingDairyFarmer]

Trevor - Great video! Nice drone work and lots of information. Thanks At the 6:17 spot what are the lines in the field from? Looks like some sort of marker lines.

[@TrevorStruthers]

They harrowed it before seeding it. Theyre the AB lines from that i believe. Thanks Bruce!

[@fredericdelage1542]

Magnifique vidéo et le tracteur et le semoirs et bien équipés et les pentes 😂😮😅😊

[@TrevorStruthers]

Merci Frédéric! Les tracteurs étaient faits pour ce type de travail. Ils aiment les collines.

[@odirleycunhaagro6850]

Está semeando trigo? Que imagens fantásticas. Região bem ondulada tbem.

[@TrevorStruthers]

Sim, trigo. Trigo de inverno branco e macio. Em 8 meses colheremos esse trigo.

[@odirleycunhaagro6850]

@TrevorStruthers demora pra colher, vai emergir após inverno?

[@TrevorStruthers]

@ a maior parte do trigo já surgiu. leva cerca de 7 dias após a precipitação para que ela surja. pegamos um pouco de chuva

[@odirleycunhaagro6850]

@@TrevorStruthers entendi, mais ciclo muito longo, aqui colhemos trigo com 4 a 5 meses no maximo

[@michaelproust7891]

Ok

[@TrevorStruthers]

Thanks for the comment!

[@lynwessel2471]

Winter wheat has to go thru vernalization , that's why its planted in the fall.

[@TrevorStruthers]

It's certainly true that winter wheat cultivars require vernalization(an extended period of cold weather) to have the correct timing for the switch from vegetative to reproductive growth, but there are other benefits of planting winter wheat as well. Winter wheat has the whole winter to build up a deeper root system, which makes it more resilient to drought during the summer growing season. Thank you for the comment Lyn!

[@lynwessel2471]

@TrevorStruthers You made it sound like planting winter wheat in the fall was unique to the area. Everybody plants winter wheat before winter. lol

[@TrevorStruthers]

@ i gotcha. I was referring to wheat in general when talking about planting in the spring vs fall.

[@zzzzzz1220]

Wir in Deutschland bzw in unsere Region sähen hauptsächlich Wintergetreide. Weil das Wintergetreide einfach eine bessere Wasserversorgung hat bei Sommer Getreide fehlt einfach im entscheidenden Wachstumsphase meist das Wasser

[@opiegm29]

Potatoes

[@TrevorStruthers]

Wheat but yeah. Potatoes

[@ForrestHaynes-u6h]

I'm a small eastern wa farmer and wonder why you don't want to take over your dad's farm some men like me who are not born into money and machinery whould not complain and love to spend every hour working on a farm like that.

[@TrevorStruthers]

Have you ever heard of the prodigal son? If not, then read your bible. I wasnt a good son. There is no farm for me. I lived in Detroit and Tijuana after losing my daughter and the farm. Im back now but still dont get a farm or a daughter.

[@TrevorStruthers]

I have nearly 6 years without drinking or drugging and do not plan on ever returning to that.

[@TrevorStruthers]

You assume a lot though bud. Im glad you think i have hella money

[@ForrestHaynes-u6h]

For those who believe our reword is not on earth but in heaven. Im glad you stopped and are doing videos instead. Keep them coming, and I just subscribed.

[@TrevorStruthers]

@ I am glad to hear you decided to subscribe. There is a video named ride along in a case combine where at like 10 minutes into it, i get a bit into the moment because i can see my dads farm from the seat of one of out old combines while working for the farm next door. That farmer next door ended his career with a self inflicted gunshot to the head in april of 24. I work for another farmer now. If it was as simple as just going back and working..i would do it. Ride along in a case hillside combine kzbin.info/www/bejne/naC9gqNrnMdpnrM