Mike is a great guy. Fantastic outlook and attitude. Wish I was half as good as he is!

I do think this picture might be created by the media a lot of times. At least it is where I live. When media contacts you for an opinion on the season or the harvest, they´re always after anything you say that can be controversial. And for farmers, this is always the case, you have some things that went really well, and some others that didn´t luck out! This is exactly why we spread our bets, right? So what Mike shows you is pretty much how every farmer thinks, or they´d just leave the business. If they had no confidence about what they´re doing is right, or it won´t bring them any money, they´d leave the business.

Absolutely!

​@@mikemitchell2554I ran an Oliver back in the day ,no cab and the dust and noise was unbelievable, I would love to drive an S690 they are awesome! I am from Australia and love your channel.

As someone from Australia who spends too much time in a new Holland tr98. I'd prefer to eat dust then be in the glass box when the AC dies which happens on a regular basis

​@@samuelsutton8299is is the extreme heat or something else that usually causes the failure? I heard from a mechanic that some of the old combines that use R12, will not be a sealed system if you use r124a. The reason is supposedly the R134a molecules are smaller

Haha a fertilizer from loading 😆

Compared to what the crop has been that is a very bad crop

@@Louis-B-53Better than the last two years but yes still very poor

If you were churning out half a dozen you tube videos a week they would have been all over you.

@@TheMRSTEVEN haha probably I guess I need to get on that lol

He tried a 60 ft Honeybee. Said it didn't follow the terrain well enough. It would need to be a hinged flex draper like the John Deere HD50F he has on the X9.

No it isn't

Total waste of time and money. Half the size of his current equipment

Mike says he is not even considering it Stupid machine

Does that one have a flexible cutter bar or just hinged?

@@lynwessel2471 hinged like mikes headers on the x9s but the cutter bars are rigid

Total lack of effort from case ih. They should’ve pushed to design a new tractor with 800+ horsepower to qualify for the decreased emission requirements. They would have easily topped the market for large frame tractor sales. The same engine that will be in the new Quadtracs is pushing over 1000hp in marine applications so Case IH completely dropped the ball

A Marine application is a completely different thing compared to agriculture or construction application for the same engine. For Mike and his family chasing horsepower for a few steep hills. It's really only an issue for a very small percentage of their total acreage doesn't make economic sense.

Enough is enough when I say enough that means you shut up first of all green is more expensive cuz you get what you pay let me ask you is it any of your business what combine Mike runs shame on you

I've had both and those red cotton pickers had the half-life of the green ones. But who remembers the blue Rusk ones?

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@@tonyphilbrook8650 delete that comment immediately I mean emoji

Might as well go New Holland, that's all a Case combine is anyways. Just a New Holland with inferior parts.

I know they have one thats over 2 miles.

Yep. This is nothing but environmental destruction

They’re made to order only so unless Mike already put in an order and dropped a hefty down payment a big bud isn’t happening. Furthermore the engine, transmission and axles are all proprietary to Caterpillar so he won’t have anyone locally who can service them

@@clearskiesranch1362 Finning could do the work but hate to look at there rates

Finning in the UK charges harder than an angry rhino.

@@carlfalt174 They could….but will they? Locally,for me at least, the main focus for repair work is oil/gas, construction, and mining. No dealership or even independent repair shop that I know is going to take the time to work on a Frankenstein tractor cobbled together by some company in Montana when they have job sites with 50+ machines they need to get working

@@clearskiesranch1362 👍 true. But if there well built they could last for awhile

You can get 10 690s for the same price, not worth it unless it's free.

Its nothing but a mildly interesting novelty. Half the size of their current equipment and it’s made for controlled traffic and that’s mostly irrelevant in Saskatchewan

He said he didn't like it

@@Mygirlfriend3141😅

Yep, Mark is Dutch. 😉

Find another occupation because guys like Mike will grind you under their boot heel first chance they get

Pay no attention to Clearskies, he likes to troll.. But my recommendation would be work for a farmer and cultivate a great relationship with him and talk to him about land opportunities. Then save up to buy a 1/4 of land. Once you have done that, most likely the farmer will allow you to use his equipment to cover it for limited acres. Second option. Look for land rental opportunities, buy some older cheap equipment and start out that way. It can be done 100%! All the while saving up to buy a 1/4 of land the area where you are renting.

@@mikemitchell2554you said it yourself…you’re aggressively expanding the north farm. Can’t “aggressively expand” without displacing someone else. Most likely young farmers who aren’t in the financial position to compete with you

@@clearskiesranch1362 you can expand without "stomping" on people, I have two young neighbours right beside me and we have discussed expanding. I told them when (x) package comes up in the future, let's split it. I also asked what they were paying for cash rent and told them what I was paying to be in the "ball park". At the end of the day, it will all depend on what they can cover or even want for that matter. But I actually work with the people who befriend me and my neighbours. Treat people how you want to be treated is my rule of thumb. I have turned land away because it was getting pulled out from under someone. You can be aggressive, but you don't have to be a dick.

Ya my family does have a smaller operation here in Alberta.... I know lots of good opportunity to our good eastern province my dream would be to one day expand out to Saskatchewan to farm lol

Not every field can match up perfectly, plus he says he doesn’t have auto steer, and the honeybee is 50ft and he is 45ft. So the passes just won’t match up

most likely way too dry

They get about 12” of rain a year so a tad dry

@@eric2895 oh. Thanks for letting me know the only way corn would work is with pivots but I don't think it's possible with that size of fields lmao

X9 has auto maintain once u are happy with the sample hit the button and it will keep the sample the same all day and night automatically its a cool gadget

I live 2 hours or so east of Mike still in sask, I can count on my two hands how many corn crops I have driven past in my life. And my town is the largest inland grain gathering point in Canada

AND MAY THE WEATHER BE FAVORABLE!! :)

I can put a Gen 5 in? I knew I could use a Gen 4

@@mikemitchell2554 I think that should work. You can install a Gen5 in a T-series from 2012 and they are pretty much the same as the S-series from that model year. I'll check again tomorrow but I think it has to work.

@@schwabischeagrarfilme8667 good to know, thankyou!

You have to harvest it.

What the previous video

Mike and his crew know JD in and out. That's why the stay with JD. In germany we have an idiom "Was der Bauer nicht kennt, das frisst er nicht." "What the farmer doesn't know, he doesn't eat"

how stupid, the answer is NO. All farmers producing grain are receiving 1990 income with massive expenses and massive droughts everywhere. Joe wants to break all farmers and all real Americans but he loves the illegals that hate America and hate English

You have never met a farmer apparently

Im sure he has someone driving it, while he makes this one work with some problems.

That's most likely the flag of flag of Saskatchewan.

@@sirbuandreigg Might be, but there are also a ton on Ukrainians that have moved to Saskatchewan over the years. Either way, I like it and think it is shitty for some tools to invade their neighbors just because they are an insecure failed state. Mike on the other hand is doing great growing the family farm and supporting his community despite the struggles of a drought. Stay positive and stand up for morals. It's a good message!

@@letsgetsteveNaw mate Russia is on the right track. All foreign support for Ukraine needs to stop immediately.

@@clearskiesranch1362 If you believe that you are a fool. Plain and simple.

@@letsgetstevelet it burn. Not our problem

Yields for what crop? Yields on the Canadian prairies are lower than other places because they are both cold and dry. Yields elsewhere in Canada and America are higher. Remember that both countries are much bigger than dinky European countries and have a range of climates. The prairies are just one of those climates.

Because his South farm is in it's 3rd year of severe drought!

When you have very short growing seasons and long winters, combined with drought and no water for irrigation, and relatively poor soils because they haven't had much growth on them since the glaciers passed over, you get much lower yields. On the other hand, you have vast stretches of open land, so it's worth growing there even if the yields are lower.

Don't dare say that again if red leave it in the shed

Its Saskatchewan flag!

Mike has better things to do than publicly support that corrupt cesspool.

What about it?

@@bigcheese370 its a nice flag!

I like to see that flag..@@bigcheese370