The family tried to start a small cattle farm in 2000. We didn’t have very good luck. Drought, mad cow and hoppers shut us down. Always loved farming.

Thanks for the video, Tyson. The grasshoppers are easy to see on your video and wow there are LOTS of them! Hang in there!

@Northern_Farmer

11 ай бұрын

Thanks 👍

Be thankful for what you have .....its not all gone....GOD BLESS us all

Little buggers. We sprayed ours but they are moving out of the neighbors now. More of a salvage mission now before they eat it. Hoppers are way worse than the drought itself. Starting to clean off crops that are beside grass and hay fields that weren’t sprayed west of us. Buddy is spraying his canola trying to save it. I sprayed polecki which is a contact spray where coragen I believe is more of a residual but costs a lot more. It was costing about 3.80 an acre in spray for polecki. Too late once they are flying though. That’s my experience anyway.

@Northern_Farmer

11 ай бұрын

Yea that's what I read about Corrigan...it's like 1400 per jug and the bigger they are the stronger you need to mix...and it's harder to kill em

Yeah we don’t have that much grasshoppers over here you have nice equipment👍

We unroll our messed up bales with the bale beds on our ton trucks.

To spray here in Minnesota, chemical coat 1.63 per acre to spray grasshoppers

I feel ya. I’m just east peace river . The hoppers and cutworms in garden . I will take a hit in field and garden. Where are you guys ?

Extremely wet here in Ireland supposed to be summer.

Good to hear from you Tyson, worried about farmers north and south of the border, stay safe buddy. ❤

Same story here on the other side of the river. We've had a lot of drought and grasshoppers finished it off so we're looking at about 1/2 bale an acre on most quarters. Good thing we had some carryover bales from last year or it would be really bad shape.

@Northern_Farmer

11 ай бұрын

Same here...I'm still worried that the pastures won't hold out till sept

@Zach-ju5vi

11 ай бұрын

@@Northern_Farmer My neighbor said he will be feeding bales in August and selling the cows he can't feed. I will probably green feed bale some oats to make up and we planted some oats late for fall grazing. I just hope its enough to get by, this year has been tough.

@Northern_Farmer

11 ай бұрын

@@Zach-ju5vi that's a pretty good idea...oats for fall grazing...

Ya same conditions here in Kansas. Hay is barely big enough cut!!! Damn dry....

Goo d Day Tyson Boy Canada is really get hit hard this yr. I seen on news how hot it was up north, To bad about hay crop. But having left over will help. I am 73 & I remember many yrs ago having grass hoppers. You don't about your dad anymore , how is he doing, 770 reminded me about him Thanks good luck

@Northern_Farmer

11 ай бұрын

It's been very hot way up north..never seen before Temps....dad's alright...he's just not very mobile anymore

Never thought grass hoppers could be such a problem, no such issue in europe thankfully.

We just started cutting hay and have a pile of them as well. We usually don't have that issue here.

@Northern_Farmer

11 ай бұрын

Yea they are nuts at sunset house...I should have sprsyed there at least

Oh no grass hoppers all over the place. Shawn needs some grass hopper killer. Right Shawn. Anyway stay cool and hope you get some rain asap.

I guess the cows are gonna have to eat bugs like us according to WEF lol

Oh ya I remember that parking spot lol

@Northern_Farmer

11 ай бұрын

Haha yea we were working in that area for a couple days

Great video Tyson

@Northern_Farmer

11 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Great job cutting hay Shaun

@Northern_Farmer

11 ай бұрын

Thanks 👍

I cut a field a few days ago, center of it was full of grasshoppers.. only place I've seen them.. thankfully!! Just finished cutting the last field a little bit ago.. everything has been half of normal, as we are in our fifth year of summer drought. It's getting OLD!! At least your hay is still nice and green!!!

@Northern_Farmer

11 ай бұрын

Usually they are all on the sides

@GosselinFarmsEdGosselin

11 ай бұрын

@@Northern_Farmer we rarely see them in the hay, usually just in wheat..

high protein hay

Family in Beaverlodge and Berwyn are having same luck! We got one decent cut here in North Texas and that was the end of it Before the grasshoppers and mother nature said that’s it lol

@Northern_Farmer

11 ай бұрын

I'm not that far from them...specifically berwyn

Man, the hoppers were bad there! Need to order some praying mantises

Hey Tyson is it just cause of the dry spring that the grass hoppers are so bad. Does all of Aberta get them. Where we buy the 80 acres in Caslan looks pretty good for hay crop, that's what the old owner told me, I will come August 1st because we leave Ontario next Friday. Hopefully you get rain, we here in Coldwater have been getting pounded, the other day got 4 inches in 6 hrs. A lot of winter wheat is laying flat like you went over it with a roller. Take care

@Northern_Farmer

11 ай бұрын

Yea pretty much it has a lot to do with the drought....in caslan area they have gotten way more rain...I drove by the westlock county yesterday..their crops are awesome...got tons of rain last night again.

Have you looked at putting a high moisture kit on your balers? It puts a knife in it that keeps the hay from wrapping on the front bottom roller.

Same here in Manitoba,bale to the acre

@Northern_Farmer

11 ай бұрын

Ugg

Hoppers have been brutal here since 2020. Really bad in the pastures.

You need some bullfrogs!

Dang little monsters

Just your luck Tyson as soon as the cattle market starts to get higher no hay huh Tyson

@Northern_Farmer

11 ай бұрын

I know right

Are grasshoppers good protine for the cows just like some asians and africans eat them for protine i don't mean farm them but the ones that get stuck in the baler should be ok do you think

May be Mother Nature is hitting back. Take care. ❤

@kieranosullivan02

11 ай бұрын

Yes this year I've seen way more bugs, insects, flies around. Good to see tbh but they are damn annoying 😂

Hopper are nasty here to near westlock, how much rain you guys get Monday?? 5 inches here

@Northern_Farmer

11 ай бұрын

Nothing

I suggest u spray they will destroy ur crop. But u got to kill them before they Start flying

THANKS

@Northern_Farmer

11 ай бұрын

Welcome

Well Tyson, as I sit here eating “rabbit” food, I think,your just going to have to teach your cows to eat grasshoppers. Google says they are high in protein. 🤢🤢🤢 thanks for the update, stay hydrated in the warm temperatures coming up this weekend.

@Northern_Farmer

11 ай бұрын

I see the seaguls landing on the hay but they could never eat enough

@brianzybura8633

11 ай бұрын

I am sure as hell NOT going to eat beef from any cow that eats grasshoppers. Besides, Google is headquartered in a big city --- San Francisco I believe. Most big city people don't know about farming worth a damn.

If you get rain in the next days or weeks, is there hope for a second cut?

@Northern_Farmer

11 ай бұрын

Maybe

Hi. Are the hoppers in the rest of your crops or just your hay? Hopefully you get some rain. Thanks for the video. 🇨🇦🌧

@Northern_Farmer

11 ай бұрын

They are just on the hill where half of my hay crops are...the rest is fine....the south farm however is bad!...they are in the wheat

@Northern_Farmer

11 ай бұрын

The south farm is good that it's getting rain

@duncanmcleish3683

11 ай бұрын

@@Northern_Farmer Thanks for the update.

Where about do you farm up north I know you’re close to me up by wanham area hopefully you guys cause these rains we got the last 3 weeks cause it been so wet the last week I haven’t been able to lay any hay on the ground finally going cutting again tomorrow

@Northern_Farmer

11 ай бұрын

Not to far...we missed all that rain...just sideswiped us last week..got a few drops ...I'm north of HP

Hello from Alberta

@Northern_Farmer

11 ай бұрын

Hello from alberta too

If you don't take care of them this now what will happen to the crop next year?

@Northern_Farmer

11 ай бұрын

Hopefully the eggs die out

Grasshopper pie.

Man, if it ain’t one thing, it’s another. Too hot, too dry, stupidly high input costs, smoky, and now grasshoppers. 2023 has just been a shit burger. Hope you got a big dump of rain like we did a couple days ago in Edmonton.

Is there anything you can spray to kill the grasshoppers.

@Northern_Farmer

11 ай бұрын

A few products..Corrigan is one but pretty expensive

Is it normal to have them that far north?

@Northern_Farmer

11 ай бұрын

Oh yea..just this is the worst I have seen them...

@hughperkins707

11 ай бұрын

@@Northern_Farmer I’ve never seen that many around here, Camrose area. I worked for Monsanto years ago and saw lots of them 100 km. east and south of here

@Northern_Farmer

11 ай бұрын

@hughperkins707 there has always been a few...but one year about ten years ago they were bad....and this year just as bad

Grasshoppers are a pain ! I'm afraid you may have to spray anyway, If you don't they will mature and lay eggs and you'll have a much bigger infestation. Just my experience. Here they had to spray to kill aphids after first cut alfalfa, They eat it faster than it can grow.

Do not understand why all of the guys north of Kentucky are always complaining about this bug or that bug that’s called farming. When you sit on the closest hard top road and watch 1000 acres of rice get blown to the ground at once really grasshoppers 😂

Have the fires gotten away. Sorry I haven't kept up

@Northern_Farmer

11 ай бұрын

There are tons burning still all over

$23 / acre for Coragen

man that sucks .

@Northern_Farmer

11 ай бұрын

What can you do...

More grasshoppers = more protein in the feed ??? 🤷 😅

@Northern_Farmer

11 ай бұрын

Lol yea should be some

❌❌❌closed captions please for us faithful fans who hear poorly ❌❌❌

@Northern_Farmer

11 ай бұрын

Can't you just turn it on?

Your shaddering heat records treaduos computers put as records lol