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*tries to make perfect loop* soybean harvest
Satisfying last pass. Cutting canola in preparation for harvest. The rows are called swaths (or windrows if u wack)
Google street view for bugs
Hard read spring wheat in flower. Keep baking people!
Yellow peas in bloom
Yellow pee harvest
Canola carcass harvest feat. snow
poor quality content harvest. Fun fact: this machine is called a Spudnik
My first post. All OC. AMA ag related if u want. Or fk it downvote me. Enjoy
JZKillaT68
@op there’s something wrong with your tractor. It’s the wrong color.
blueishskies
Essential worker working!
WisdomThumbs
Greetings from an ex-farmer and fellow farmer. Texas here, hanging out drinking. Windrows and swaths are regionally interchangeable.
WanPannnnnnnnnnnnch
2015Camry
I planted 5 garbanzos and 8 lentils a month ago.
MeBJP
Thank God for farmers!
YourInternetMom
Love driving past farm land! It's so pretty and useful! Keep up the excellent work, and more content please!
Mr920
This nation needs to relearn to respect and love our farmers. You really are doing one of most necessary jobs out there: feeding the masses.
mgm2112
Grew up in a small farm town (Italy, Tx) and did a bunch of harvesting. I miss it.
Rockitthepomsky
This is a really cool perspective of my own country I’m eager to visit in the not-too-distant future?? Thanks for sharing it, fellow Canuck
ItsReallyNotThatDifficult
I pee yellow too.
Fivegoldentoques
"welcome to crack an ag, and umm...betcha can't"
Reykja
Farming is hard as shit. Thanks for growing my food!
dumbledoreismyfather
How did you get into farming?
CrypticalEnvelopement
OP grew into it
thesleeve3d
Thank you for what you do.
Rockafella83
Crop it like it's hot
MDWitCommunityMagnet
I have a yellow pee harvest coming up! Doc says it’s my prostate.
DB4289
Isn't that a Migos song?
skhenry1101
I wanted to be a farmer growing up but told I was stuiped now I have a high paying IT job and as I look out the window /1
skhenry1101
I still want to be a farmer and own my own farm :( maybe in the next life or in freyjas fields
8BitFist
Dude keep this coming. People's lives are interesting as hell.
KaptainObveeus
what do you do?
8BitFist
I work for FCA. Nothing interesting. Believe me.
joe6paques
Upvote for “street view”.
iamsecretsquirrel
Me too. You're adorable OP.
SoggyBurrito33
I liked “yellow pee”
CptRobotNinja
That made me chuckle too
pistacher
I planted a garden!
ruffneckred
North Dakota?
InAMellowTone
The fields of canola in Alberta and Saskatchewan are amazingly beautiful. I've driven right by acres of them in the summer. It's so calming
pleaseuseotherdoor
These gifs and pics look so much like my family farms. Now I'm sad.
CrypticalEnvelopement
Fun fact: It's called canola because no one wants to buy rapeseed oil. Canola= Canadian Oil Low Acid
ihearcrazypeople
I love how pretty canola fields are. But OMG do they make my allergies kick when they are in bloom. The worst!
DeflatedWalrus
Yellow pee.
SeeMyVests
If you can’t harvest it yourself, store bought is fine
PopliKid
-Ina Garten
AgentFour
I would keep baking if hoarders would calm down with all the flour snatching!
CueEyeRoll
Found some yesterday at a 7-11, live in a city and was walking by on my way to get takeout and just wanted to check... hit the jackpot!
jamessadia
And yeast! Damn there's just no yeast.
CaptainSpazzo
If you have a GFS or restaurant supply store check there. I was able to buy a 25lb bag of all purpose and a 2lb bag of yeast.
jakrabid
+1 for title
JaydaMang
Really interesting. Good post
tocfanke4
I call them windrows. You're wack
KarenFromTheHOA
The windrow is the pile of cuttings dropped next to the cut path, where a scythe would throw material after slicing
KarenFromTheHOA
A swath used to be the area cut by just one swing, I think.
KarenFromTheHOA
A wabe is the area around an obstruction like a sundial where a scythe can't cut effectively, so the grass gets long.
themunneyshot
One farmer to another. That’s a shit ton of crops
LooseyGooseyBrett
Extra work on other fields
Travelcedric
I was thinking the same
LeChez
From a guy that eats vegetables, that's a lot of vegetables.
makingmywaydowntownsteppedinglassbleedingfastandimdeadnowbanana
Is that a field of excellence?
Flowerlady0
Only if he's out standing in it.
makingmywaydowntownsteppedinglassbleedingfastandimdeadnowbanana
Finally, a man of culture
Musterpoint
Could have wheat, canola, peas, lentils, durum, flax, oats, barley, mustard, sunflowers or soybeans on any given year
Tasha1978
Where do you live, or if that's too private, what's your soil zone?
Musterpoint
Dark brown soil zone just north of 49th. Go riders!
ElbowDeepInASeahorse
Yes. One or two crops is more economical and efficient than a dozen. Why diversify?
Musterpoint
Rotating different varieties of crops greatly reduces disease and pest risk. The same crop over and over allows disease and pests to thrive
wandergeist
In addition to the value to the land of crop rotation, you have to adjust to (anticipated) market forces.
Crazyaussiecanadian
It's really only the taters that require specialised machinery. Diversification spreads risk and harvest timing.
ChoovaMonster
Also there is a chance these aren't all the samed famers fields. Typically wheat/canolal/beans doesn't grow as well as where potatoes grow
ChoovaMonster
Soybeans would be really unprofitable to farm in the same land area as potatoes cause potatoes need cold and soybeans can't grow in cold
Andytasteslikecandy
Because an enormous amount of pesticides and herbicides is required to grow monocrops. Diversity prevents this and is better for the world
Musterpoint
I wouldn't say an "enormous amount". These tools are obviously utilized but only when completely necessary and at appropriate/safe rates.
Musterpoint
But yes, diversity is KEY!
Yargghh
I am not a farmer, but I read somewhere that monoculture farming was actually a main cause of the bees dying off. Also bad for the soil?
Musterpoint
We rely greatly on beneficial insicts to pollinate all of our crops. We help protect them as best we can as they are a necessity. Would...
Musterpoint
be counterproductive to use practices that harm the benefitials
Musterpoint
On that same note, using practices that are bad for the land are bad for your finances. It pays to protect your most important assets: land.
Tasha1978
Also helps to keep several different lines of income for different markets and weather conditions.
huraee
No, it's called taking huge swaths of land and stripping native ecosystems is bad for all native Flora and Fauna. Imagine that.
bazookasquirrel
Not like we have much of a choice.
themunneyshot
I’m not knocking it but that a ton to keep up with.
juicynibbler
Could be a custom harvester
WisdomThumbs
Probably a mega-farm. Note the safety uniform.
The8obman
I mean, I guess if you own THAT much fertile land you can probably afford an army of farmers
themunneyshot
Problem is finding people who wanna help
juicynibbler
Make slavery great again
ChoovaMonster
Most likely the beans and canola are used for rotation crops for the wheat and potatoes because they are grow differently (deeper in soil,
ChoovaMonster
Different nutrient usage, canola and mustard have glucosinolates that kill weeds, lower water usage, etc.) In return the cash crops would
ChoovaMonster
Make the most money, such as winter red wheat and potatoes. But the land needs a rest from them every once in a while
ElbowDeepInASeahorse
Good points
drawoheitak
In soil science class, we learned that rotating crops helps add different nutrients to the fields! So if they have this many fields, they 1/
drawoheitak
2/ probably rotate all the crops through their fields to continue to pack the soil with different nutrients!!
DoctorInsensitiveAssHole
Different plants don't add nutrients, they just take different ratios out of the soil compared to mono-culture. Change my mind.
emerson430
If they plant legumes in the rotation they definitely add nutrients back to the soil in the form of fixed nitrogen. Hence the yellow peas.
CrypticalEnvelopement
Fun fact: It's called canola because no one wants to buy rapeseed oil. Canola= Canadian Oil Low Acid
Surisuule
Canola is specifically bred subspecies to be low acid. Same plant family (cabbage, mustard) though.
CrypticalEnvelopement
Yes it's rapeseed with low levels of Erucic acid, named for Canadian Oil. So basically exactly what I said
ChallengerDeep
CrypticalEnvelopement
That's like 1/5th of a Mike Tyson
TheBlueMuppet
That's T then?
Duendes
I remember the 1st Master Chef season- The posh douche kept calling it rapeseed, and Ramsay would always say "Canola" right after him.
Griff3923
It’s still called rape/rapeseed (the plant) around me. But then it’s very rural around here and everyone understands what you mean
lilshawwwtyyy5
Would it kill people to change the name from Rapeseed? To uhhhhh anything less “rapey”?
Tasha1978
It's because of the scientific name brassica rapa
lilshawwwtyyy5
This is actually very informative. Thank you! Rapseed Oil would sound pretty gangster though... haha
Frederf
The naming board never consents.
CrypticalEnvelopement
That's why OP said they were harvesting canola when that's not really the name of the plant but rather the name of what they make with it
lilshawwwtyyy5
Right. But can we still change it? Consentseed?
Techpriest93
Hmm I think you're onto something. We should change it from rapeseed to cumseed to make it more marketable to a modern audience.
CrypticalEnvelopement
Weinseed? Wait that's not any better....