MACDONS JUST RUN BETTER AND IF YOU ARE A CONTRACTOR THAT RELIABILITY IS IMPORTANT.
With almost 20 years in the business, not many custom harvesters in Australia can claim as much swathing experience as Warren Roberts. In fact, swathing itself only really started to become popular in Australia in the late 70s, so when Roberts decided to sell his farm to start his custom swathing business in the mid 90s, he was in on the ground floor of the new profession.
On March 25th 2014, The Great American Wheat Harvest documentary film made its national debut in Washington, D.C. A crowd of about 250 people gathered at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian on a snowy morning for a celebration of this film on National Ag Day; the film screening was an official part of the National Ag Day festivities.
EVERY OPPORTUNITY TO IMPROVE EFFICIENCY AFFECTS THE BOTTOM LINE AND THAT AFFECTS SUSTAINABILITY.
IT’S SAFE TO SAY I’M PICKING UP TO FOUR BUSHELS MORE AN ACRE IN THOSE AREAS AROUND THE WOODS WHERE THE BEANS NEVER GET VERY TALL.
The Tankard's have been farming near the town of Bath at the historic junction of North Carolina’s Pamlico and Pungo Rivers for at least five generations. This coastal land was the first in the state to be settled by Europeans back in the late 1600s, and Bath itself can lay claim to not only being North Carolina’s first town but also the home of the notorious pirate Blackbeard.
OUR GIRLS KNOW THAT WHATEVER THEIR JOB IS, THAT IT IS AS IMPORTANT AS MOM’S OR DAD’S JOB.
The caravan of custom wheat harvesters that moves northward from Texas every summer contains many family operations; but none smaller or tighter than that of the Zeorian family. With just one combine, Tracy and Jim Zeorian and their two youngest daughters Taylor (19) and Callie (16) are continuing to prove that it is possible in this world of big agriculture – and big expenses – for a single combine custom cutting operation to still make a success of it.
IN A FIELD THAT’S BEEN DAMAGED YOU CAN GRAB AN ARMFUL AND IT’S JUST LIKE IT’S BEEN SWATHED. PERFECTLY NICE CUTS.
Sawflies. They’ve stolen profits from farmers across the North American prairies, and in Central Montana on Jerry McRae’s family farm they are as bad as anywhere. If you’re not familiar with what the little scourges can do, imagine a perfectly ripened field of wheat lying flat in the field just as if someone had gone through it with a sickle.