For 6:30 in the morning, you’re a very intelligent man. Great business sense.

The hockey comparison is GOLD! As a fellow Canadian I can appreciate that

Mike's discussion of any aspect of the ag business is always informative and entertaining. Thank you buddy!

I found this to be the most interesting vlog that you've done in memory. 👍👍

God bless us farmers as i myself too. But were planting rice in asia pacific here in the philippines.

Never touched a combine in my life but somehow feel like an expert since following your channel. Get me in the fields I’m ready!

Another great video Mike,and good to hear your philosophy on farming. The how's and why's very interesting.

Very informative video Mike, thanks for explanation about production years and differences !

Excellent video, good Sir! Really appreciate the information you provide 👍 Looking forward to harvest up north.

You did a great job explaining the circumstances. 👍

Well said said Mike. You explained this very well for my city slickers friends and relatives

After watching a lot of your videos I am always intrigued as how your family where your father and your brothers each run different operations that overlap

I always wondered about the difference in the model years...now I know! Thanks!

I appreciate your video. It's from the heart and soul, and it teaches us exactly what you tell us. You don't have to have all new. You need a mix, and that's what life is about. That's what businesses about keep on doing what you're doing You will see great things in the future. God bless

i had a neighbor that traded tractors ever 3yrs and i asked him why do you trade so often he said the muffler was rusty.

Still my favorite farm video on the tube. We have no crops in common, and when I farmed it was less than 1000 acres of corn, beans and winter wheat. Our operation was based mostly on repairing older equipment, but we would buy new when it seemed necessary so the discussion of new vs used was right on the money. Very entertaining and educational.

Thanks again for your knowledge and sharing.

A good pragmatic view of equipment allocation strategies!

love way you think mike, The way all new equipment breaks down and all parts so hard get at times, having few extra machines around get job done is great idea.

Great Video Mike, you explain it all so well. I totally get keeping a brand of equipment that is familiar. My unless is a Case guy for Combines, with the exception he does have 1 new Holland. He likes the New Holland, but always prefers to run a case, he has had so many, he just feels comfortable operating and maintaining them. He has demonstrated just about every brand, and after he gets back in his case he always says over the radio, OMG, I thought I'd never get back in here. So I get why you stick with Deers. Keep pumping out the videos, love them

Another combine is a good idea. It will help get the crops off the field quicker due to any weather faction you would face. Up North, weather can change quickly.

love your reasoning and critical thinking Mike!

Thank you for these interesting insights on your hows and whys

Great video Mike! Good explanation of your reasoning too.

One of your best videos.

Nice long video thanks mike 👍 🇬🇧

on our small farm we run a 9600 and two 7720 JD's

Nice looking combine Mike

Keep on rockin Mike Mitchell and family 😎🤙🏼

Good morning Mike, Happy Friday!! From Winnipeg

Wow, 10 combines at the south farm !

Great video and you clearly have a great grasp on buying machinery....:)

100% agree with everything you said 👍

Hopefully we will get to see Mike run an 8900 with the 7XL auger

You are very smart to buy used combines. And run used air seeders. Many farmer's equipment cost per acre is out of control.

Land over equipment everyday! Great video mike!

40 ft in that north canola is asking for a lot out of that swather. We use a 35ft Macdon and can have issues in getting it through the hole. So what I do is set my GPS width to 30 ft. Wow big difference. It flows nice through the hole, nice smooth swath Less trouble picking it up. If it's not a over heavy crop I go back to 35 ft. Experiment.

Fantastic video, thank you sir

in my olinion one of the best vidios youve made spot on . all the best from the uk

Hi Mike love your vids. Question here in Sweden our biggest crop is winter wheat, is it unusal to plant winter crops in Canada or why dont you? Here in Sweden we get better rut system and good weed controll with fall spraying. Would love to hear your thoughts.

Great video Mike

I think the easiest explanation is simply that time is precious in life and farming this is a tool that saves me time that I could be spending with my family. I had the capability so I decided what it cost was worth it for my time and as a bonus it makes me my money back

Mike we have June 2014 s series and have the new style air scoop and def. Also on 2012,2013 and early 2014's the rear panel is different, late 2014 and up the slow moving sign is not in the middle anymore,the rear brake/tailights stick out more and point down and the top of the panel has a different shaped slope,and there is a sensor below muffler and muffler is higher,only crazy people notice these things.

i enjoyed the ramble

Couldn’t agree more! Us like yourself has a great mix of new and used can’t have a stable full of connors and Gretzkys lol 👍👍

Another great Video Mike 👍

Well said.......

Hey man I watch all your videos I just took lunch and I was watching your video and I had a good lunch will say but I spent like 5 minutes sitting here trying to figure out who you was talking to when you was in the combine anyways thanks for the videos. Keep up the good work

Keep up the good work!

Would love to hear your thoughts on the new 715 Quad in some depth!

Good thing you had options image finishing lentils with plugging that every 300 ft

i think you're explanation of buying poicy and pricing of new equipment was exceptional as well as a asset in land increasing, and depreciating equipment full stop thanks mike

Love your videos. Make sense

Great comparison Mike. Go Oilers Go!

There are used X9 in Western ND for around 300,000.

Great job Mike! Common sense is hardly common these days.

Question: What do you think of Claas Combines in general?

Hey mike, just met you and Ernie east of the Big Speedy! Happy trails

Mike why not try going all over the states as well as Canada? I also am curious about your thoughts on Case’s 715 Steiger that they have come out with? And would you be willing to demo it?

🔥right on mike… Any of the 690 is just a all round great combine setup. You are making great financial decisions for your farm man, happy for you.. she’s got the big tires on her too, killer idea to update the throat with the for aft setup too. She’s a beautiful machine man.. 1500 hrs is gravy, here Ontario guyzz got 4000 hrs on em and still never touch engine on them 🔥👊🔥🔨⚙️🏍🚜and yes trade in the x’s get more 690

Actually Mike, I think you'll find the whole extension is a big top aftermarket, not just the top rail

great video mike

Id be taking 2017 north for sieve capacity...imo.

It's really fun that you talk about the X vs S in regards to how many S combines the X is designed to "replace" and then tell the story of reality. I just finished my Agronomy Certificate at Olds College and we had a presentation by the local dealer that will remain unnamed out of courtesy. The guy doing the equipment presentation was bragging up that the new X9 1100 was built to replace 3 S Combines. Three of them! I thought that was a bit hard to believe, but in my neck of the woods (hill country) we don't get the huge equipment like you have, so I didn't really have the background to challenge that claim. I guess sales guys are sales guy, so take their claims and cut them in half...

You were looking mighty magnificent while sitting in the combine cab and being hit by the Sunrise!

It's simple......an addict never has enough

Hey Mike Case IH just came out with the new twin rotor combine that’s comparable to the X9. It’s called the AF10 you should look it up when you are bored with all your green ones. 😂

great video what your temp there at south farm end of AUG and what it up north

Good Video! As you mentioned the Case 715…any thoughts on the new Xerion 12.650 ?😅

The x9 is awesome. But a million bucks is hard to swallow

Doesn’t hurt to have more than one header per combine especially when parts are usually 3-4 days away from the factory. At least a guy can just drop the broken header and hook the other one up and keep going instead of having a combine sitting

The scenario explaining the swather SITTING most of the year is what people don't understand. A lot of farmers have a problem with how much those expensive combines sit, they don't cover the ground of FHF, most farmers harvest under a months timeframe, and you still gotta have a combine to pick up the windrow

So Mike, have you ever considered Crary Wind systems for your combines?

Mike I have a question, don't you sell the straw that comes from the grain?🤔

Those s690 were a beast of a machine if you didn’t get a lemon

200k that’s a steal

In the UK we can tell easier than that how old the combine, or any vehicle is the number plate they since 2000 have the year in it.

given the short unload augur and the fixed header plate, the odds that this machine was used to pick up swaths and did not have a grain table on it. get it changed and you will be happy. you can replace those turnbuckles with two short large diameter cylinders.

I rhink it makes sense to stay with JD because all of the fronts are compatible and you have parts commonality and the staff are familiar with the machines.

good morning brother ❤

Oilers are where it’s at Mike.

How many acres is the north farm this year?

My question is. Since the shop is on the home farm. Why not take the newer equipment or equipment that's been gone through the shop up North.

Hello Mike good combine 💪👍🇮🇹

My mind is spinning with all the decisions that you are making. 🤪

I wish i would listen so carefully in school... 😂

Morning Mike

Hope your doing a good clean out on those units when you bring them north, try not to bring new weeds up their

You should try a case 9250. We run 2 of them with 50 foot heads. And have you seen the 715 quadtrac? You should get one for a demo to pull ur drills

Mike. I live and farm in South Australia, the driest state of the driest continent on earth. We don't run Deere because it is too dry to seed in November/ December down here. We have run every colour but New Holland Combines gives us lowest loss in all crop conditions and surprisingly, Gleaner is a close second. Not willing to learn something new and sticking to the "tried and true" is a terrible business case ....

It would be nice if the bulk of your land was north. It seems the weather patterns for your south land is not great. And that’s just how it is for areas. They just don’t get much rain. You can tell this by the kind of soil the north land has. It’s more of black dirt then the lighter soil which needs more rain

Have you checked out the Crary big tops? Really does make a difference on your capacity. I can’t believe you don’t have one on every combine in your fleet.

Wise man to buy land insded of shine equipment Great video

Good quality used is often times better than buying the latest and newest. Good used is proven working and everything that had a production error or was missed in assembly has broken and been gone through. Believe it or not BMWs engineers went through scrapyards buying up old V10s that had been heat cycled and the material has settled to build their F1 and DTM engines on the old blocks. 🤷‍♂

How many total acres do you guys own/work?

I wish you the best crop next year, so you can try claas combain! Claas is a big brand in EU :)

I have a question! What do you think of the Shelbourne stripper heads? Cleaner grain? Less waste?

Wow, super interesting hearing your business philosophy from my perspective as a NZ dairy farmer. Yep, all that big stuff l buy 2nd hand. It all depreciates turns into rust! Land is still there in 100 yrs time and appreciates in value. Way better investment. I think of the total dollars invested in machinery to run my farm. Some jobs are better done by a contractor, l don't wear out my tractor, or need extra equipment , or pay for fuel, or insurance, or need to store it, and l get my time to do other things. Only so many hours in a lifetime, so spend them wisely. People like us who try things out and experiment are called "early adopters", fun way to live.

I was with you until you talked about the Leafs, but at least I can handle disappointment as a die-hard Leafs. Growing up with Wayne Gretzky you think I'd be an Oilers fan but you got to cheer for the hometown and Toronto is only an hour from Brantford. You know you're not far from Winnipeg you could pick up the jets.

a lot of rambling yes Mike. 😂that’s ok😊 but very educational, if you’re a farmer. 👌also if you’re a business owner doing other work love your enology on how you can run a business, based on a hockey theme awesome advice, i never thought about it that way before, but your totally right 👍