Spring Park Farms putting the new 80' Morris 970 10 series through it paces.
2024 ж. 16 Сәу.
27 724 Рет қаралды
Photographing farming in the Mid West of Western Australia.
Spring Park Farms is opening up its new 2,000-ha farm to fit in with its 16,000-ha program.
Awesome looking airseeder
No DEF/adblue on those big red tractors👍🏻💪🏻
Impressive operation.
Great video as usual Ben. Looks like they run a great operation. Thanks very much and God bless.
Great story and filming Ben, looking forward to another season of videos.
Thanks.
Many thanks.
Wonderful photography young Ben, it brings out how beautiful that country can be at different times of the year.
Thanks, I like the young bit.
Great job spreading lime
Ben, Thanks so much for sharing the progress at Spring Park Farms. The quality of your work is a pleasure to see and hear. I hope you can continue for years to come. I only dream about coming to WA now, last trip was to Queensland. That was fun and interesting also. Good on you Mate! Chuck
Many thanks.
Nice to see an Irish Limespreader in the video.
great content as usual
Great video Ben
Thanks!
Congrats again on this one Ben! I am getting some unexpected time off and will be running around our valley talking to farmers and riding along with them as well. Your videos numbers are quite impressive. People must like the authenticity. Cheers!
Thanks Trevor.😊
Also, Loretta said she likes a certain S. Korean harmonica player from the 90s. Thats her exception to her dislike of it. She has a banjo and wishes to learn it. My grandpa would come home from drinking and play the harmonica and do a jig sometimes when i was a kid so i like it. I convinced a local guitarist to play me a bit of an intro that sounded blue grassy. He doesn’t have a banjo. I am fond of real sounds from the field if i got them.
@@BenCrosthwaite1 the shot of the ripper and tractor at night are awesome
Great video keep them coming
Many thanks.
As usual, Ben another great video. Is there any irrigation on the farm? Just curious when you were talking about finding water on the farm.
Very little irrigation, some on intensive crops on a small scale. This is to have a supply of good water for spraying.
You got some great shots in this video. Very cool lighting! It would be cool if at some point you could teach us about what kind of trees are used as the windbreaks around the field. Are those trees native to Australia (and specifically that part of Australia)? Is it challenging to get trees to establish on that land or are those species adapted to it pretty well? I'm in southeast Washington state, USA (Trevor is my sweetheart, so I watch your channel with him), and here the farmers have historically planted locust trees (I think specifically it is the Robinia pseudoacacia locusts, but not 100% sure) as windbreaks. I also see some junipers (not sure which juniper species). Here, we get really strong, drying winds from the southwest especially, so the trees planted for the windbreaks have to be able to take very high wind speeds and also very desiccating winds, especially in winter, when both the dryness and cold of the wind can do a number on any kind of delicate trees. Junipers are probably one of the only conifers that can take it as trees growing out in the open like that. The locusts in the wheat field windbreaks here look like haunted house trees in the winter...very cool gnarly, asymmetrical, branches that seem to not mind the abuse. I hope to travel to Australia someday and look at all the trees. I used to do some research and grant writing for the cattle and agriculture interests in Queensland. That was fun to do from America... Trying to make sense of local government jurisdictions in Queensland and trying to mimic Australian spellings in my writing. I learned some interesting things about the ag and livestock industry there and have wanted to come see it all in person and learn more. Keep up the good videos!
Hi Loretta, this country is fragile, but the farmers are gradually learning how to farm it without too much erosion. The previous owner of this farm had sheep, which is challenging in this type of country. As you can see by the natural shade belts, the sheep and wind have nearly wrecked them. The new owners will crop 100% with deep ripping, lime, stubble retention and timing to keep erosion to a minimum. The big trees are eucalyptus, which are pretty tough, but there must be bigger shade belts to do any good. The original shade belts have mainly Tammar, Pear shrubs, wattle and bank-shire shrubs, none of which would make much of a shade belt. The eucalyptus is tough and relatively easy to establish in this country, which has a 15' rainfall mainly in the winter and is pretty reliable.
How are the farmers viewing the potential for this season... with NO rain, I'm guessing that no one is even looking at planting yet... Does anyone know when the first good rains are potentially forecast to hit the Wheat-belt...?
Farmers are a bit nervous because Canola is planted so shallow, but starting to make move now. We’re getting pretty close to the 25th by which time most people will be going. The average opening of the season is around the 20th of May so no need to worry about wheat just yet.
Did they get rid of the Versatile Delta tracks Ben ?
Spring Parks Farms have always had Case; I think you are thinking of Erangy Springs.
@@BenCrosthwaite1 You are correct Ben Sorry mate Great videos by the way! Love watching them when you upload mate makes my day
Did the Lime came from Australia or Overseas?
From the sand hills near the ocean.😊
I thought they ran Alpha discs now?
They still do but only on wheat.
Great video mate. Cheers from Nz
Thanks.