We do the same thing with our hay equipment after each farm is done

Thats what I use on my equipment. It is about 10,000 times better than an air compressor.

Yes! I'm really surprised they aren't using a backpack blower. I use mine to blow the combine off every night when I'm done for the day. It really helps to have a clean combine to check over in the morning and fire prevention. It only takes a minute or two with a good backpack blower. I have a Stihl BR600 which was the biggest at the time of purchase but now they have bigger ones.

For a million dollars it should have a lot more than a goddamn air compressor

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That is by far the fastest way to get done

I just got to use the new one that will hold two 12 amp batteries . Holy smokes that thing will blow a golf ball through a garden hose !!

Yep.......when guys like Mike start growing oats the price crashes as there isn't a huge market for oats. Last year oats were $8.00 and this fall it $3.75.

Because he also doesn't want to get other seeds into the field, he's trying to keep both the field and the product clean and pure.

Because it's hard to meet the conditions for GF oats, it comes at quite a premium, so if he had the perfect situation to do it (15 years in grasslands) it's kind of a no brainer to get that extra premium just for doing the work of blowing the machines out.

This is nothing time wise compared to bringing cotton pickers north out of the Rio Grande Valley from South Texas. They must be fumigated at the cost of thousands of dollars and at least a day or more loss of time to prevent the spread of boll weevils.

Look at the difference in price between a Gluten Free oatmeal, and a regular oatmeal lol

That doesn't mean the farmers going to get that price difference by any means. Look at a gallon of milk at the store and go find out what the Dairy Farmers getting. Nowhere close

Look at the market price of each will show you. And yes dairy farmers get about 2 dollars a gallon max. Most of the time less

It’s anywhere from 1.50 to 2.00 per/bu for gluten free

Yeah JD are so far behind. Every other manufacturer is using bluetooth to drive their headers.

We do 3 bus per acre.

As he said, he doesn't want to bring canola seeds into a field he's planning on planting mustard in next year.

@@ke6gwf ok I thought he needed a clean sample

No same tires. I’m guessing he’s running the 900’s wide.

He left the operation. Mike mentioned this during seeding, if I remember correctly

Thanks, I Must’ve missed it.

There could always have some volunteer previous gluten crops growing into the field, hence the reason of being 3-4 years without any gluten crops on it, also you will blow the machine out so then you don't bring any seeds into these clean fields that can sprout into the next season

@@WheissRS What about water fowl flying over the fields planting through waste etc??

@@mikemiller2246 good question, I don't know either haha, probably not as significant as volunteer crops, and against machinery dropping seeds, well at least we can clean them so why not, better safe than sorry i guess

Because some people are extremely allergic to it, even if you have like 1/100th of a percent of a wrong crop they can get ill from it

@@tjakko4659 I think we're a little over the top in some of this! Canada legalizes marijuana and then they go anal on gluten free! 10 and 12 year old kids brains will be turned to mush because of legalization and no it's not like alcohol and yes it's a whole different drug then it use to be! It will mess up your life!Corn gluten, maybe a tummy, maybe not!

how much money do you make in a year?

@@Drew-in-NoDak right? Haha anyone who asks how many acres they grow, should just go away. None of those acres represents how much money a guy makes, nor is it relevant

All of them

Enough that everything they own is new. It wouldn't surprise me if it was 50,000-100,000. Figure they're running 6-8 or so combines daily for 6 weeks or so. You can combine 100-150 acres per day with one combine.

@@mikemckinnis3877 where I work we get new equipment when its time, we farm 6500 acres . So judging equipment value against the acres means absolutely nothing

Are....Are you serious?

Well considering the base price for an X9 is $850,000 American dollars I’m sure it closer to $1,000,000 Canadian might something to do with it...

Some larger Registered Seed Farmers have designated equipment for certain types of crops to virtually eliminate cross contamination but this business practice requires additional capital investment which not always is practical

Considering the price for any new Combine, the additional cost for maintenances and service, one more combine to fuel, grease, oil (hydraulic, engine, transmission?). Yeah, that ain't gonna work for only one or few fields of special requests on the implement. Sure if half of the company grows the gluten-free crops and such stuff. So for Mike Mitchell here, spending the amount of hours cleaning one Combine would sure be much easier financially. Also, if he so decided to have one more new or used combine. He have to make sure that too need to be running and making profit. So that means he technically has to grow more gluten-free crops so that second combine could make some hours and profit. It's not always that easy in real life than what it is in your mind. I know this personally, so nothing to be ashamed of. I just explaining the top of a iceberg on the paperwork side of owning implements.

@@crestedkitty5457 well lets figure it out 1 north quarter equals about 6 south quarters then I say bring one from the south

Pretty clear that you don't have a friend or relative who is Celiac. At least read up on the symptoms of the disease/condition so that you can understand the seriousness and the reason such care is taken.

@@wssides Yep. I wonder how we survived before the gluten free diet. If you ever heard of the placebo effect you understand what goes on. It's just like the lactose intolerant crowd. How long ago was it that the food pyramid was the way to do it. It's called don't eat so much and act like it is the glutens fault. 20 years from now it can change to something else. I don't deny there are people affected by gluten, but I am willing to bet 80% or more like to say it, but have no clue if they are or aren't. Just seems like another scam to screw us farmers out of another penny or 10. Like falling numbers. Sure I always want to know what the pizza place falling number is on their dough because by god it doesn't seem as doughy as it should. Do we know it's gluten? Or is it blamed on gluten to distract you from the real reasons for their Illness. So spare me the obviousness of your conclusions. Care as much as you want but I don't think we should be catering to a very small percentage of the world population. If you were starving I bet that wheat would seem pretty damn good.

It sounds like the risk isn’t worth it to lose a whole load.

It's not the Oats I am worried about, it's bringing canola into a potential mustard field next year.