First Day of Swathing Wheat 2022 Montana Harvest

First Day of Swathing Wheat 2022 Montana Harvest Today I am riding in our MacDon swather with Uncle Chris and he is swathing our 2022 winter wheat. This is just like last year except the drought has really taken a toll on our crops. Dad s drone footage shows how much of the crop failed and how thin it is. We still have the Saw Fly problem this year. The wheat is not very tall, so Uncle Chris has to keep the swather really close to the ground. In Montana, we have a bug called Saw Fly that destroys the stems of the wheat and we cannot pick it up with our straightcut combine harvester headers. If we didnt swath it first we would lose most of our crop. We would prefer not to swath but we have no choice. Uncle Chris and I talk about the drought and how we only got about 2 inches of precipitation (rain snow) this year in total. We also talk about the old days and about other years of drought. We also discuss that years like this are why we run old equipment so we have no payments