For the record since this video has been made that country got between 2 to 3 inches of rain.

Praying for rain 🌧️ for all the farmers that need it

Dang that looks pretty dry. We were fortunate enough to get just enough rain to get it into moisture pretty good. This drought is really getting old. It will change someday hopefully. Best of luck on the rest of your planting season. Sending prayers from SE Colorado 🙏 '16 was a great year for us too, we averaged 95 bushel dryland winter wheat that year.

Well, if the farming thing doesn't work out Mike, you can always sell calendars with pictures of those beautiful skies that seem to go on forever. Northern Ontario here, we all wish you and all our farmers across our country the best. Rain is coming.

Prayer for rain ⛈🌦🌧 for all farmers who need it which is essential for successful production.🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Mike,have you ever tried to sell rocks?

I remember on May 7 all of sw SK including the south farm was under a heavy rain warning. I sure hope Mike got that and I look forward to that video if they did.

Here in the Netherlands we can't get the corn in the ground becouse it's to wet. Way to much Rain for the last 6 months!

In ‘88 we had our first decent rain in the last week of Aug. The crop came up 1st week of Sept. It was a decent cover crop and prevented soil erosion.

I really hope that you all get some of that rain if it materializes. A lot of hard work, you guys deserve it.

That is God awful dry. For all you guys sake I hope you get the rain and not piddily showers that only wet the surface. All the best of luck with your seeding Mike

Can't finish seeding here in the Edmonton area due to too much rain. Happily share the rain we have gotten.

Same here in Finland. Too dry 7th year a row. Spring wheat and barley has shitty yields, but winter wheat goes strong.💪

You ROCK Mike 😅 You can have some of our rain , We are getting soaked ⛈( Southern Manitoba )

I love when people who don't have rocks just say to pick them. If you have rocks you will always have rocks. Plus the rocks procreate under the snow every winter to produce new rocks.

Mike we would gladly send you all the rain we have forecasted for the next 8 days in north east North Dakota. We are starting to run out of growing season here

It is going to get better!!

Seed in the dust, the bins will bust! Waiting to see some May video's! I predict that some rain will come your way in May!

Hi from france. I'm in the complete opposite, we pray for stop rainning... 120 mm in 48hrs in my area. Can't seed mais and sunflowers. weat and canola are swimming😢

WOW Mike, instead of chunky, that's lumpy.

Great video! When you started talking about the bad years then good years and even the get by years, then rain or no rain years and now planting again in rock hard soil... the real farmer in you has shone thru. That couple of segments was factual with personal family memories and naming daily operations team/ family members was a nice yearly update. Really enjoyed your talk. Old Timers say "plant in dust...bins will bust" Hope you get some rain. It's May 20th,pm

Meanwhile in calgary we are soaked. We need some fans to push the rain east

Good luck seeding your 2024 crops Mike

Feel the pain. We in western Australia are going through record dry. Can't even see the seeder. Praying for rain to.

That's what it looks like in West Texas!!

We love to hear you talk

7:31 Mike.....nice back-pedal on 2020 being a special year!! 👍🏽

Hi Mike, I wish I could send some of the rain we have been getting in Great Britain over two you since the new year. I think we've got four good days. Good luck with the planting. Good luck and God bless you and your family

Great video Mike

I once did try to set-up our planter row shut off when planted canola. I did give up pretty fast.

That hard ground would be tough on equip. We seem to have 'new' rocks each season - we think the freezing & thawing pushes them up. NW Iowa is getting rain every other day - struggling to finish planting.

Great awesome video Mike , so dry not good . Real hard ground, hard on equipment too , causing more wear than anything,

Rock picker like "Kivi-Pekka" could be nice to harvest those rocks, even it would take considerable time with that large fields. Hope that you receive proper amount of rain over this season.

Who has ever said they want you to talk less I love your commentary… also if you need trucking help during harvest I have trucking company down here in the states

Prayers

Welcome to Australia. 😅

Its OK Mike, it rained a heap later 😁

must be our shared Scots ancestry Mike...the 'Spring Chickens'....haha

Hopefully you get rain soon!

I have never seen a tractor before. You’re hired

Praying for an abundance of rain... !

Horrible drought 1961 in western North Dakota. Started to rain Mother’s Day weekend 1962 and yep didn’t quit.

Rooting for rain for ya Mike

Now, how does a guy get a job with faith hope farms? As a previous farm kid, i would LOVE to get back into the hustle and bussle of farmin!

Prayers for rain dude! Seems like you and the welkers are having the same problem.... Sucks

we are all hoping you get rain mike

2016 I was making hay off of my dryland pasture. I didn't have to buy hay that year. It's been dry as a popcorn fart since, in Brooks AB.

61 Mike. Never rained til fall. Rivers went dry. Bad year

Brother, I’m surprised you’re even bothering. That’s brutal. Meanwhile down here in bc we’re still cold as heck at night and rain for the next week strait

How do you like the new tractor

Mike magnifique vidéo et le tracteur et le grand semoirs et bien et champ et dur 😂😮😅😊

Hey Mike, could you somehow “show” or clarify how the seed gets going and somehow survives in dry farming? I assume once it gets going it reaches down and gets the moisture it needs even in dryer years. But working my farm that is 4 planter boxes 4x2 footers is “a little easier “ to get the water to the seed I drill in. And my equipment for seeding and harvesting fits in my back yard shed that is 8x 10’. I enjoy your channel..

5.2 mph will really pound out the acres. I didn't think you went that fast when seeding. As for peak-demand help, I'm a year or two from retiring. When I do I may contact you about helping with seeding and/or harvest. I'm an east coast US guy and I want to collect some different experiences!

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In Wisconsin were getting that infamous Canadian wildfire smoke. I'm not a fan of it but understand now if it's that dry why it's happening. I hope the rains come for you. Do you think you see the new drone/GPS rock picking operation?

Wish you could have some of the rain from Eastern Central Alberta ... we have a nuts amount day after day of rain...fields are a total mess

I know the feeling of training someone to learn how to run a piece of farm machinery. I run a agrifac sprayer on blueberry land in Prince Edward Island.

Hi Mike, i would find rain updates in your region really really interesting. I started looking on some Rain Radars for southwest sask, but can´t look back a few weeks on them to see if there was any rain. Maybe you could show us some possible apps or websites to monitor the weather in your part of the world :D

They make a crusher that goes on a 3 point that works like a rototiller

you guys planting into dust and rocks and here in bread basket were putting solar panels on thousands of acres

Too much rain in the Netherlands. 2018/19/20/21/22 were dry years. Its still wet on the land from october 2023. We would be finished with planting mais, patatoes. Patotoes half way, and mais a few places.

Would you consider getting a drone for some aerial shots?

When ground is that dry, is it a lot more effort to pull the drill?

I think its time to have native grass there for a few years. I'm pretty sure if you had taken a height GPS reading ten years ago and again this year you'd see the ground receding.

There is an old saying from the 1930's 'sow in the dust and your bins will bust'. There is some science behind it in that if your root system is strong from germinating in dry conditions it'll chase any moisture that sinks further into the subsoil.

That area looks like it's in the beginning stages of becoming a desert, to trees or plants to shade the ground and allow groundwater to accumulate.

Just keep buying new tractors. You'll be fine. J/K. Hope ya get some moisture soon

What do you all do about braking up the hard pan well and all the compaction I’ve never seen a disk a plow or any kind of tillage tool on any of your videos of the south farm seen it on the north farm that would help on your weed pressure

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What area can I put in my weather app to see when it rains and be happy with Mike when there is rain coming ?

Time to bring back the pet rock craze.

How is the tractor running mike

Keep talking mike. If we didn't like it we wouldn't watch

Those rocks would work for landscaping.

I see you doing a rain dance in your future. Maybe even some snow dancing. And it will work the dancing I mean.

Wish I could help! Having it so dry is no good. Looks like you got some rain in new videos. Do you guys have any irrigation?

I think 61 was the dry year way back

Hey Mike! in purely economic terms, how many more years can you manage the drought? Here in Sweden, we have suffered for a few years now with drought. We get some support from the state and the EU, but modestly so. How do they work for you? A country has to eat and it should be in the country's interest to support years like this so that you can continue. Or does the state rely entirely on imports then?

You need a hay buster going picking those

I’m hoping you guys got that big rain fall at the beginning of may im guessing we will see a video on it

How do you like the case so far? Seems like a nice tractor!! And quite too 😊

You would be fortunate if anything came up in that dry ground.

Talk away 😊

Everywhere this year.. Is either too wet, or too dry

South east sask has been blessed with lots of rain last few weeks, have you guys gotten much out west?

Looks like you will need another set of points for next year:

Mike i have a question; hows the tanksize . U can do a whole day? Didnt hear u €%^

They're not rocks, just little stones.

This may be a silly question, but would it be worth investing in some sort of irrigation system for the driest fields? Not sure if it would be feasible given the size of the area you farm?

With 200 thousand subscribers I can’t wait until your first commercial my bet is that it will AG1 or Factor meals.

Are you guys putting any fertilizer on this year?

here in Europe we have rain constantly almost since last october wish we could trade...

Hello from fife lake area Im sure dad talked about 62 that way ,another farmer here always says it won't grow if it's not in the dirt

Try find sorghum seed it’s terrible to find

Need an elho scorpion rock picker

I've never been so invested in rain. I checked the rainfall for the swift current areas lol. Spoilers

How many acres can you plant on a fill up?

Mike you should pack it in and start farming rocks! Already got fields planted I see.

Have you got any rain yet? In south Alberta we are waiting for it to stop raining to get the potatoes hilled🙈

Is there a rock picker with a walking floor like a patatoe harvestor?