Welker Farms

Moving bins! Slowly but surely we'll have this yard ready for the big year!

We're done!! Acres are seeded and now we begin the wait...for rain. It's horribly dry and the outlook isn't good. But all we can do is push on!

Wrapping up spring wheat and bam...engine trouble. Hard to say what is wrong without opening it up.

Alright champ, it's your turn! You've earned your keep but why stop there?

Climb aboard as we take the CVX 540 Steiger to the fields to plant spring wheat. Both rigs are running! Let's get this spring wheat in the ground!

We tracked down a second used CASE IH 700 FLEX HOE 70ft to match our other one. With 140ft of drills we should be able to maximize our time and bust out big acres!

Wrapping up what's left of the pea acres. Already seeing some green here and there in the field as plants wake up after a long winter season. We spend vasts amounts of time growing our crops but sadly at home our lawns do not get the same attention. Probably because lawns can't make money 😂. But really I would like to change this and have a healthy yard where the grass is thick and dark green. It's time to give Sunday a try, improvements here we come!

Last of the wheat! Barley worth harvesting? Beastbine finished for the season?

This tractor is only running an auger and it over heats? Something isn't right. We still do not have our CASE IH Magnum back from our dealership so the JD is all we have (thankful we do). Need to find out what is going on and fix it! With that said we are ready for spring wheat. Repaired the headers, bolted on some new May Wes skid shoes, I think it's go time. Going to be very interesting to see how yields turn out as we hit the fields.

We've entered the hailed wheat acres 😬. Leg Arms modifies a new water pump to fit the 4520 in hopes that it will stay cool when unloading trucks. Dad shares some history as to how our fields came to be!

Thank you Billy for choosing us to be your wish. We are honored to have hosted you today. Keep being awesome buddy!

Can't harvest due to rain, might as well repair instead! It's been over a year since this coil packer tore in half. Leg Arms can fix it!

Rocks! Everywhere! Normally not an issue but being that the crop is unusually short our combine headers are taking a beating. There is nothing we can do other than keep fixing when things break. Overall our machines have been running well with minimal breakdowns. Keep pressing on!

Finished with peas, now to get ready for spring wheat. Wtih down time between crops we replaced the rollers on the TV380 and hauled all our pea crop in! In this video we welded flat iron on skip wire modules and installed them in 3l 3r 4l 4r. The reason for this is to control the mog, chaff, trash that fall through onto the cleaning area worsening the grain sample. This is NOT recommended for yields above 20 bushels an acre. Because our spring wheat is running 10-12 bushels this modification worked very well for us. If you are in crops yielding 20+ bushels then use small or large wire modules as you'll need more opportunities for grain to fall onto the sieve. The best setup would be small wire modules instead of our modified skip wire modules but unfortunately we did not have enough small wire on hand so we modified our skip wire to get the job done. We are now in 25 bushel wheat so we replaced 3l & 3r with large wire modules (as we have those) and are having excellent results. Unfortunately did not make this very clear in this video so I wanted to make sure everyone understood why we did what we did and why this was recommended to us. Okay harvest on!!

What should have been two weeks worth of pea harvest turned into just a few days. Once we hit the hailed ground it was apparent attempting to harvest what was left didn't make sense. Beastbine had a potential nasty breakdown but thankfully it was caught and repaired in time!

It's here! Harvest 2021 is underway! Peas are up first, then spring wheat, then canola, then barley. So far the yields are as expected in ground that wasn't touched by hail, the hailed studs though isn't good.

It was great having the Titan Tire crew out to help setup Clifford with LSW tires. Now our machines are mostly equal 😂.

The only time a farmer is happy to have his crops hailed is when he gambled and paid for the highest hail insurance policy available and the price of grain is low. Then let it get destroyed, collect, have an easy harvest. But most don't come out like that. We took the minimum policy so we will get some but it won't be significant in any manner. God is good though and we'll make it to seed another acre!