Bye Farms

Farm and Ranch in north central Montana. Currently growing cereals, pulses, and oilseeds. Always trying new intercrops and interested in anything soil health

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Need a hand Twitter. Looking for a straw walker shaft and blocks for a 960. RTs appreciated.

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Finally getting rolling good on separating the pea-tard! Right around 450 bu of peas/hr.

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@KowalchukFarms 600 quad
4585 Case cart
3710 Bourgault disc drill
2000 gallon liquid cart

[KW Insurance Inc @KWInsuranceMT]

Big thanks to @NRCS_MT for guiding us down this path. Conservation for the Future: Korey and Wendy Fauque, Sunburst, MT https://t.co/ry9PQ2BHuh via @YouTube

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First time cutting pea/mustard! Getting combines set has been a bit of a challenge. If anyone out there has any tips that’d be greatly appreciated!!

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Finishing touches on the new to us 3710 disc drill with a @NACHURS drill kit. Anyone else have any luck with a central manifold on an air drill? Hopefully easier to check/unplug & be able to use camera.

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@dustfrmer @steigertractor @danlakey21 @lstruckm We’ve only be able to do 10in, same row, this year will be alternate row.

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Finished separating our first chickpea-flax intercrop. Definitely nothing fancy, GCS scalper with a flax screen. Figure roughly around 850-900 total bu/hr.

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@steigertractor @dustfrmer @danlakey21 @lstruckm 100% agree with Brett on this, chickpeas definitely help thresh the flax on our 8240s, we threw small wires in front and large in the 2nd and that seemed to work really well, we’ve also only used desi chickpeas in the intercrop.

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@dustfrmer @lstruckm Flax was all really clean with the exception of some chaff, no flax really in with the garbs except for the few unthrashed flax balls that rolled off with garbs

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@bigbushelsag Nope, unloaded. Definitely going to be going through it throughly!

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“Hey, park that truck down by that shed”

Not too sure what happened. I set the brakes, fairly icey, rolled away 30 min after parked, ice in lines probably, believe it or not was not actually turned toward the barn. Thankfully no one was hurt. Everything can be fixed.

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@thompson_marni For sure! I don’t see us raising chickpeas without flax again. Will definitely be doing more acres and trying a couple others hopefully. Definitely tougher to incorporate them without being able to insure it.

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@bradywilliamj Absolutely, unfortunately we are without hopper bottoms and a small conveyor, we rent one from a neighbor and just try to make sure the chickpeas we do separate see an auger as little as possible

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New to us this year... First time bale grazing and also hoping to get some life back into a pretty worn out pasture. A little more waste than feeders but hope there’s more return in covering the ground and #SoilHealth

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@JakeVeikk Latches/lids don’t work at all so I don’t think that was it but it could of been I suppose 😅

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#spray19 off to a great start

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@RoncerayDan 38 years of rust I think, also was patched around there before we bought it an auction 16 years ago, just made a corner on county road when it happened

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Time to go to the bar! #shutitdown #winterbarley

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Are you really spraying if you don’t take off after a coyote?