I was just about to ask. The pilots that fly this Ag Cat, they are just regular pilots, gone through flying school, hold pilot licence approved by regulatory body, like FAA..? which means they can also work as pilots in other field (pun intended), like flying club, be a bush pilot, even small airlines, flying single-engine prop planes.. Yes??
Just a shout out to all ag pilots, they have nerves of steel and great skill. Flying at 140 mph at fifty feet or less, there is no room for error. Watching them fly under power lines and around towers and trees is terrifying. In many parts of the country they are required to apply pesticides at night to avoid killing honeybees. Imagine doing all that in the dark!
I was flying with a buddy from Lincoln to Redding on Wednesday (6/19/19). I looked down and there was this, or one like it, graceful little yellow biplane flying over fields. Was such an awesome sight to watch, and the fields are just amazing to see out there. Thanks for the videos and I hope you have a bountiful crop this year!
Reuben, that must have been awesome to see from above! Yes, this time of year with the rice popping out of the water is just an amazing sight, especially from the air. Thanks for the message. -Matthew
This video brought me back to my post HS days flagging for an operation that had two Ag Cats. Their power plants were Radial engines, loud and powerful but love these variable pitched turbo’s! Thanks for these great educational video’s for our city folk!
Loved this. I grew up in South Texas. My first job was a flagger at age 13. Did it for three summers. Best time of my life. I am a private pilot and still fly today.
Excellent Matt! The fuel management policy at Williams is top notch. As a pilot in such a high workload environment, getting fuel every hour removes fuel management from the equation and allows the pilot to focus on the demanding task of aerial application. (Like Matt said lol). Great camera angles, shows the physically demanding work of constantly hand flying at low altitude in rough air. Hard work. Rewarding. Juan-Nevada City, Ca.
Yeah, Shawn did me a big favor that day. He took the time to adjust the angles and everything. If it wasn’t for his care the footage wouldn’t have been as good. Thanks for the message, Jim! -M.
Another fantastic video Matt, this footage is just beautiful and Sunday morning is a perfect time to see it. Watching the ground crew loading the soaked rice into the plane it appears to be relatively easy to work with not to wet and sloppy, would enjoy seeing a in depth look at how it's prepared as this must be a specialty of the seed rice producer. Bet their yard is a very busy place during planting season as the window for use of the ready to plant seed must be short and everyone wants it now! Thanks
It's that a "Cool"" bus? Lol. Does the fact that lake Oroville was tipped off this season help you? Did you have to use the pumps? I like that rain water is used to fill your fields for the rice. I will watch episode 63. Looking for the link. Since blancorillio did a tractor rider maybe you can jump in the mighty luscombe for a joint video! Over your rice fields and dam. Maybe land on the airstrip! Hmmm. Learning and eating rice.
Wild that I found this channel from MN Farmer, I grew up in this area and ironically I'm at work nearby right now. I used to see this plane flying around all the time in the area. At least I think it was this one. Subscribed!
Rice Farming TV Hello, We are located in Rio Grande do Sul, in a coastal area, close to Lagoa dos Patos(Camaqua-RS).In our conditions the airplanes are permitted.But for chemicals there are some restrictions ,but the utilization is very common for rice seeding , urea and fungicides.
Thank you Matthew! Looks like a beautiful flying day was selected to fly on your 2019 Rice Farming TV rice crop! May those rice kernels turn into fields of productive eating and handsome yield profits. -Bob...
Love when you show us that beautiful RICE footage! New subscriber after you take over day of TDF Honest Farming Facebook page. Learn soooo much! Even went back and watched all your episodes! Keep up the great work on sharing information on Rice farming! I plan to follow from now on also! Take care and have a safe year!
Thank you so much for this nice message, Justin! So happy to year that you are enjoying learning about rice farming. Let me know if you ever have any questions. Take care! -Matthew
That's Clarence Williams Air strip isn't it?!! I work about 1½ miles west from there. My grandfather and Clarence were good friends. Jim Morris ( my grandfather) was a crop duster for over 60 years in Northern California and worked with Clarence a lot. My cousin Frank Bowels helped build the toy cat that's at Jones flying service.
Hi Matt, Got to admit, I'm a bit jelious to see how easy you guys fly the seed on to the bays.... we had a hard year this year with bogging tractors due to a early and heavy monsoon season... I've convinced the old man to take a look at how you guys fly the seed on, pleased to say that 2020 season we're going to trial some bays with airial application.. best of luck with your 2019 crop.. Keep on farming...🌱🌾💚🇦🇺🇱🇷
Awesome video Its so cool to see a old cat still flying so good. They were the best. My family used to own a agcat dealership down here in south louisiana. Thanks for the video. I love to farm and dream to fly
That was awesome footage! I could watch that plane footage all day. I love that farmland up by you. It's a nice change of scenery instead of seeing orchards all day! Keep it up Brotha! Hope to do some videos with you in the future!
Oh dude! That would be totally awesome but they are traveling 10x faster than the drone can fly and I would be too afraid of a collision. Not sure if Shawn would be up for that. I’ll ask though. It’s true, it would be awesome. -M.
@@Ricefarmingtv .. you can get the drone much higher than the flight level of the plane, stay stationary and let the plane pass by below. Also on the way up, the drone can get awesome footage of the vast landscape.. that would be awesome.
We used to have a couple plane applicators doing spraying in our area but now helicopters have taken that over. They spend less time flying around and land right on top of the nurse vehicle for refilling. Don’t need landing strips.
Thanks to Juan Brown who introduced me to the Flying Cowboys, I wonder what the stall speed is for the G164 Super B Ag Cat? Haha! And don't forget, for every rice seed that turns into a plant you get approx. 50 kernels of rice. GO RICE FARMING TV! I love it!
Our rice here in Louisiana is planted with a seed drill and the fields are flooded after the rice has grown a few inches. I have been up I-5 through California numerous times but I never noticed the fact your rice is flown in to flooded fields.
Well Matt great video. Really enjoyed all the aerial footage. It was pretty cool to see when he finished a run and shut off the rice it looked like it would end right at the road. When he finishes the field do they make a headland run?
Would LOVE to purchase a cap. .....I am not an applicator. Was a flagger for three summers. But flew as private pilot and then our Corporate aircraft for years. Now retired and just Sightseeing around southern Oregon. But got my license in Northbay so have flown around your neighborhood a lot.
2 questions. Thanks for answering them. When you measure the amount of stuff, ie rice seeds, fertilizer that a farmer puts into the earth and then subtract that from the weight of the rice you harvest and the leftover parts of the plant that are not used as rice, where does all the extra weight come from? Does it lower the level of the soil every year? What is the ratio or percent of the rice to the amount of plant that grows the rice that is not used for eating? For example, if you have 100 square feet of rice plants, you might harvest blank amount of rice and blank amount of green plants that is required to provide the rice, what ratio or percent is waste product and what happens to that waste product? Does it have other uses or is it tilled back into the soil or burned?
Mr. Grain, around us are grazing plains for cattle, corn, sunflowers, tomatoes, almonds, walnuts and prunes. Rice and the nut trees predominately. Here’s an episode that tours this, you might like it... -Matthew ruclips.net/video/jEr7gXhrQlk/видео.html
My first reactions to this latest upload? WOW! and...DOUBLE WOW ! ! Shawn was "rockin" it in the low flying Go - Pro Ag - Cat seeding machine, however I couldn't help myself and react to the ground crew who were in sync like an Indy car Pit Stop supporting the operation. Nice work as usual Sligar ! Hey, is the cockpit air conditioned?
I know y’all have reasons for rate your seeding but seems like a lot. Here in Mississippi delta we drill our rice at 50-100 lbs per acre. Our seed farm plants at 50 lbs. but we have done some at 15 lbs per on some breeder stock seed for foundation seed production and still yielded 150-175 bushels per acre. I grew up on a family farm and now work for seed company. My grand dad was an AG pilot.
I noticed your paddies have water when you seed them. How deep is the water at the time of planting? I'm amazed the seeds germinate so well under flooding!
Hi Thomas, no we do not. We only have two fields that are not in the air-zone and can’t have material flown on. For those fields we hire out Williams Ag Service’s ground sprayers. Otherwise, everything else is flown on. -M.
If you had to pay cheap labor to do all the work by hand that machines are doing today, how much would rice cost per pound? I think rice costs about $20-25 for a 50 pound bag, or maybe around 50 cents to $1 per pound if you buy in small 5-10 pound bags. Are their countries that do all the work by hand?
Hi Trevor, the pilot needs to do it and it’s fairly accurate. We order a high seeding rate with this under consideration. A farmer likes to see seed half way across the dirt roads around the field-that means it got all the away across the field. We like overlaps. If a pilot tries to get too fancy or precise-well then we may have not got all the way seeded. -M.
Rice Farming TV. Thanks Ok I think I understand. Where the rice grows the weeds don’t grow so well. So u want a full seeding cover. To cover the field and not fully cover the track the pilot must be fast and accurate on the switch . About +/- 5mil seconds is about all the margin he has.
Trevor, that’s right. He needs to be quick. Old farming saying, “best weed control is a thick stand.” Another famous farmer saying though, “wish I had a million dollars...I’d lose it all farming!”
Long tail tadpole shrimp are crustaceans and their eggs can survive from one season to the next. During pre-seeding flood-up with irrigation water the eggs hatch under the warm sun. They are native to the area, yes. -M.
Good day sir. I'm also an Ag pilot here in the Philippines. I fly AT-504 and turbo agcat. can you make a tutorial video on how you mount your gopros? thanks
Do you intentionally drop the seeds in a certain compass heading or do you fly into the wind whatever direction it is coming from on the day of seeding?
The direction the seed is flown on is best West East/East West because the wind is usually either coming from the North or South. We may fly North South if a neighboring field to the East or West is a seed field. We don’t want to cross contaminate varieties. -Matthew
Is there a reason why the Ag Cat is a by-wing. I have not seen them around here on the western high plains in may years. Is this because they are older aircraft. Or do they require less speed to carry the large amount of product per acre?
Unfortunately no. Our rice is commingled at the dryer with a dozens of other farmers. If it’s Calrose there’s a chance that one of the kernels came from our farm. For that reason and after a lot of requests I started setting aside some of my rice and freshly milling it to order. It’s available here: www.ricefarmingtv.com/shop -M.
@@Ricefarmingtv Are there larger rice companies trying to put the smaller rice farmer out of business by selling for lower prices or doing whatever they can to try to financially hurt you?
About 10 acres at 165 lbs an acre, Trey. Did you see the previous episode? That was pretty popular and covered a lot of the seeding process: ruclips.net/video/51Gma15dzWc/видео.html -Matthew
Yes they do, Peter! The GPS helps them line up there passes. They do not have auto-pilot or auto-steer so they are responsible for staying on the line. -M.
California rice is about 50/50. Some countries that have historically imported our rice are Japan, South Korea, Turkey, Jordan, etc. Much of the southern grown long grain is exported to Mexico. Great question. -Matthew
Nah, just like the red pistachios from Iran; long ago, since we don't trade with them anymore. Tasted the same, just stained your fingers. Like Flaming Hot Cheeto's!
Why not bring the plane around some more so the loader can bring the bucket to load on the opposite side of the plane and have 1 guy load the seed doing dumper loads @1850 so he doesn’t have to stuff (if he can control the sock) Its faster, Safer, and more efficient in a long day of seeding.
Ha! Oh yeah, just super soft engine/prop running. That would be an interesting test. Just snip off the intro, outro, Q n A and music. Re-upload with ASMR in the title! Gold! -M.
yep I did love that song though and I love your Q&As Maybe do a video like the nature segments at the end of CBS Sunday Morning- just set up the camera and get all the sounds of nature around your fields :)
It has always baffled me that white rice is cheaper than brown rice being that they have to spend more time and money to produce it. Why is this the case?
Special people flying those planes
Very true, PJ! Special people indeed.
-Matthew
For sure PJ
I was just about to ask.
The pilots that fly this Ag Cat, they are just regular pilots, gone through flying school, hold pilot licence approved by regulatory body, like FAA..?
which means they can also work as pilots in other field (pun intended), like flying club, be a bush pilot, even small airlines, flying single-engine prop planes.. Yes??
@@bahardin3992 yea there commercial pilots. You need commercial licenses and any chemical app licenses for states you operate it.
Just a shout out to all ag pilots, they have nerves of steel and great skill. Flying at 140 mph at fifty feet or less, there is no room for error. Watching them fly under power lines and around towers and trees is terrifying. In many parts of the country they are required to apply pesticides at night to avoid killing honeybees. Imagine doing all that in the dark!
I was flying with a buddy from Lincoln to Redding on Wednesday (6/19/19). I looked down and there was this, or one like it, graceful little yellow biplane flying over fields. Was such an awesome sight to watch, and the fields are just amazing to see out there. Thanks for the videos and I hope you have a bountiful crop this year!
Reuben, that must have been awesome to see from above! Yes, this time of year with the rice popping out of the water is just an amazing sight, especially from the air. Thanks for the message.
-Matthew
This video brought me back to my post HS days flagging for an operation that had two Ag Cats. Their power plants were Radial engines, loud and powerful but love these variable pitched turbo’s! Thanks for these great educational video’s for our city folk!
Loved this. I grew up in South Texas. My first job was a flagger at age 13. Did it for three summers. Best time of my life. I am a private pilot and still fly today.
Awesome Joe! You’re the man. What applications are you doing?
-Matthew
Excellent Matt! The fuel management policy at Williams is top notch. As a pilot in such a high workload environment, getting fuel every hour removes fuel management from the equation and allows the pilot to focus on the demanding task of aerial application. (Like Matt said lol).
Great camera angles, shows the physically demanding work of constantly hand flying at low altitude in rough air.
Hard work. Rewarding. Juan-Nevada City, Ca.
Captain.... (KPIT)
Sweet footage, thanks for sharing! Jim.
Yeah, Shawn did me a big favor that day. He took the time to adjust the angles and everything. If it wasn’t for his care the footage wouldn’t have been as good. Thanks for the message, Jim!
-M.
Thank you Shawn!!@@Ricefarmingtv
Another fantastic video Matt, this footage is just beautiful and Sunday morning is a perfect time to see it. Watching the ground crew loading the soaked rice into the plane it appears to be relatively easy to work with not to wet and sloppy, would enjoy seeing a in depth look at how it's prepared as this must be a specialty of the seed rice producer. Bet their yard is a very busy place during planting season as the window for use of the ready to plant seed must be short and everyone wants it now! Thanks
Air service always impresses, whether it's sowing, spraying pesticides or walking ... The questions were also pertinent. Fantastic this video !!
Please made a one episode on watering stages
It's that a "Cool"" bus? Lol. Does the fact that lake Oroville was tipped off this season help you? Did you have to use the pumps? I like that rain water is used to fill your fields for the rice. I will watch episode 63. Looking for the link. Since blancorillio did a tractor rider maybe you can jump in the mighty luscombe for a joint video! Over your rice fields and dam. Maybe land on the airstrip! Hmmm. Learning and eating rice.
Wild that I found this channel from MN Farmer, I grew up in this area and ironically I'm at work nearby right now. I used to see this plane flying around all the time in the area. At least I think it was this one. Subscribed!
the pilot looks young and has great stick and rudder skills...fly safe
Very nice video.In our rice area in Brazil the most common are Ipanema Embraer and Cessnas.
Obrigado amigo! The area in Santa Caterina with rice production that I’m familiar with has banned the use of planes. Are you in Rio Grande do Sul?
-M.
Rice Farming TV Hello, We are located in Rio Grande do Sul, in a coastal area, close to Lagoa dos Patos(Camaqua-RS).In our conditions the airplanes are permitted.But for chemicals there are some restrictions ,but the utilization is very common for rice seeding , urea and fungicides.
That landing was so smooth great flying !!!!!!!
Thank you Matthew! Looks like a beautiful flying day was selected to fly on your 2019 Rice Farming TV rice crop! May those rice kernels turn into fields of productive eating and handsome yield profits. -Bob...
Thank you so much, Bob!
-M.
Over 60 BBLs per acre? OUTSTANDING! You guys are doing it right for certain.
Love when you show us that beautiful RICE footage! New subscriber after you take over day of TDF Honest Farming Facebook page. Learn soooo much! Even went back and watched all your episodes! Keep up the great work on sharing information on Rice farming! I plan to follow from now on also! Take care and have a safe year!
And also break down free!
Thank you so much for this nice message, Justin! So happy to year that you are enjoying learning about rice farming. Let me know if you ever have any questions. Take care!
-Matthew
That's Clarence Williams Air strip isn't it?!! I work about 1½ miles west from there. My grandfather and Clarence were good friends. Jim Morris ( my grandfather) was a crop duster for over 60 years in Northern California and worked with Clarence a lot.
My cousin Frank Bowels helped build the toy cat that's at Jones flying service.
Thank you for including the bugwash. SAFETY FIRST!
Great stuff and yes awesome sound track. Thanks and wishing you an amazing yield!
Thank You Matthew for an informative video, great views from the plane, the pilot does an excellent job, looking forward to.the next vide, cheers.
Thank you for answering my question! Also, that "My California" is a pretty sweet track. Gonna have to add that to the playlist. Thanks!
Hi Matt,
Got to admit, I'm a bit jelious to see how easy you guys fly the seed on to the bays.... we had a hard year this year with bogging tractors due to a early and heavy monsoon season...
I've convinced the old man to take a look at how you guys fly the seed on, pleased to say that 2020 season we're going to trial some bays with airial application.. best of luck with your 2019 crop..
Keep on farming...🌱🌾💚🇦🇺🇱🇷
This is an awesome video. Love the flying and music to go with it. Makes me homesick for Butte County.
Awesome video Its so cool to see a old cat still flying so good. They were the best. My family used to own a agcat dealership down here in south louisiana. Thanks for the video. I love to farm and dream to fly
That was awesome, your friend can fly, he put the rice down very accurate, well to a nice video
Excellent video. Many thanks.
Thanks Waterman!
That was awesome footage! I could watch that plane footage all day. I love that farmland up by you. It's a nice change of scenery instead of seeing orchards all day! Keep it up Brotha! Hope to do some videos with you in the future!
Please do some drone footage of the plane. I think it would be awesome!
Oh dude! That would be totally awesome but they are traveling 10x faster than the drone can fly and I would be too afraid of a collision. Not sure if Shawn would be up for that. I’ll ask though. It’s true, it would be awesome.
-M.
@@Ricefarmingtv .. you can get the drone much higher than the flight level of the plane, stay stationary and let the plane pass by below. Also on the way up, the drone can get awesome footage of the vast landscape.. that would be awesome.
@die warlock why? Of course ypu cant fly close to the plane
@@bahardin3992 I think that would be cool. Only problem could be laws about maximum altitude or loss of signal and stuff like that.
Nice musical interlude there! Love the shots from the Ag Cat! Give one a good idea of the immensity of the work!
Another great video! Thanks! 👍🏻
Thanks BH!
From brasil exelent love ricer i plainting🌾🌾🌾🌾
Another great video and music choice. Thanks
Good lock and job
Great video! This should be the next simple gaming app for killing time on phones.
Ha! Lou, that would be a super sweet iPhone game. Seeding a rice field with a plane! Hmm...
-M.
With your logo on it...lol
Great video Matt
Very cool, Sligar! I’ve got video to edit of the beans we just had flown onto a wheat field. Maybe I’ll ask them to do GoPro next time!
Nice vid!
Has the “T” bar taken the place of the auto flager on most a/c or just pilot/ owner / operator? Great video.👍👍👍
What are the black spots in the grass at 9:06
Great vid.! What's with the LED in front of the pilot? Thanks and thanks for the video.
Duncan, that is part of the GPS guidance system. It’s helping the pilot line up on the correct path when seeding.
-Matthew
@@Ricefarmingtv Thanks.
We used to have a couple plane applicators doing spraying in our area but now helicopters have taken that over. They spend less time flying around and land right on top of the nurse vehicle for refilling. Don’t need landing strips.
Thanks to Juan Brown who introduced me to the Flying Cowboys, I wonder what the stall speed is for the G164 Super B Ag Cat? Haha! And don't forget, for every rice seed that turns into a plant you get approx. 50 kernels of rice. GO RICE FARMING TV! I love it!
About 65MPH. Interesting that the range is under 200 miles!
Great video!
Our rice here in Louisiana is planted with a seed drill and the fields are flooded after the rice has grown a few inches. I have been up I-5 through California numerous times but I never noticed the fact your rice is flown in to flooded fields.
Chisel, disc one or two times, tri plane, apply aqua and then roll it. After that we flood the checks and fly seed on.
Do they still use flaggers to help the pilot know where the next drop is?
Great footage. Thanks. How many acres of rice do you plant totally?👍🏼
Well Matt great video. Really enjoyed all the aerial footage. It was pretty cool to see when he finished a run and shut off the rice it looked like it would end right at the road. When he finishes the field do they make a headland run?
Hi Mathew got to you from outdoor chef website.... love California and everything in it. where can we get your rice?
Hi DN, thank you for the message and welcome to the channel. My rice is found here: www.ricefarmingtv.com/shop
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What kind of radio communications do you use on the farm ?
I'm impressed by the smooth flow of the seed out of the plane. Are flow agents added to the seed to help it run out smoothly?
Also..as you see..my name is Williams. I need a T-shirt from Williams flying service !!!!
We need to get you a Williams Ag Service cap because they don’t do shirts. Actually-the do coveralls!
-M.
Would LOVE to purchase a cap. .....I am not an applicator. Was a flagger for three summers. But flew as private pilot and then our Corporate aircraft for years. Now retired and just
Sightseeing around southern Oregon. But got my license in Northbay so have flown around your neighborhood a lot.
Great video. I love the these airplane videos
2 questions. Thanks for answering them.
When you measure the amount of stuff, ie rice seeds, fertilizer that a farmer puts into the earth and then subtract that from the weight of the rice you harvest and the leftover parts of the plant that are not used as rice, where does all the extra weight come from? Does it lower the level of the soil every year?
What is the ratio or percent of the rice to the amount of plant that grows the rice that is not used for eating? For example, if you have 100 square feet of rice plants, you might harvest blank amount of rice and blank amount of green plants that is required to provide the rice, what ratio or percent is waste product and what happens to that waste product? Does it have other uses or is it tilled back into the soil or burned?
are there other crops grown in your area or is it all rice. if so would be cool to see in a future video. love the videos
Mr. Grain, around us are grazing plains for cattle, corn, sunflowers, tomatoes, almonds, walnuts and prunes. Rice and the nut trees predominately. Here’s an episode that tours this, you might like it...
-Matthew
ruclips.net/video/jEr7gXhrQlk/видео.html
My first reactions to this latest upload? WOW! and...DOUBLE WOW ! ! Shawn was "rockin" it in the low flying Go - Pro Ag - Cat seeding machine, however I couldn't help myself and react to the ground crew who were in sync like an Indy car Pit Stop supporting the operation. Nice work as usual Sligar ! Hey, is the cockpit air conditioned?
How far in advance that you have to book the ag cat to plant and fly on your herbicide? Another awesome video Matt!
I know y’all have reasons for rate your seeding but seems like a lot. Here in Mississippi delta we drill our rice at 50-100 lbs per acre. Our seed farm plants at 50 lbs. but we have done some at 15 lbs per on some breeder stock seed for foundation seed production and still yielded 150-175 bushels per acre. I grew up on a family farm and now work for seed company. My grand dad was an AG pilot.
I noticed your paddies have water when you seed them. How deep is the water at the time of planting? I'm amazed the seeds germinate so well under flooding!
See previous Rice Farming films.
@@McNair1952any specific episode? there are over 100 episodes
@@@linacastano-duque4446 I don't remember the exact episode, but it was a recent one. Try ep 103 and work your way back from there.
I think he said 2 inches of water is ideal when planting rice from the air.
10,000 pounds per acre equals 220 bushels. A bushel of rice is 45 lbs.
Nice! We go by sacks out here. 100 lbs is a sack (cwt or hundred-weights). Slang term is bag.
-M.
Do you have a ground sprayer
Hi Thomas, no we do not. We only have two fields that are not in the air-zone and can’t have material flown on. For those fields we hire out Williams Ag Service’s ground sprayers. Otherwise, everything else is flown on.
-M.
If you had to pay cheap labor to do all the work by hand that machines are doing today, how much would rice cost per pound? I think rice costs about $20-25 for a 50 pound bag, or maybe around 50 cents to $1 per pound if you buy in small 5-10 pound bags. Are their countries that do all the work by hand?
Hi Matt
Great video. How accurate is the turn off and on at the ends of the field? Is it automatic or does the pilot do it? Trev
Hi Trevor, the pilot needs to do it and it’s fairly accurate. We order a high seeding rate with this under consideration. A farmer likes to see seed half way across the dirt roads around the field-that means it got all the away across the field. We like overlaps. If a pilot tries to get too fancy or precise-well then we may have not got all the way seeded.
-M.
Rice Farming TV. Thanks Ok I think I understand. Where the rice grows the weeds don’t grow so well. So u want a full seeding cover.
To cover the field and not fully cover the track the pilot must be fast and accurate on the switch . About +/- 5mil seconds is about all the margin he has.
Trevor, that’s right. He needs to be quick. Old farming saying, “best weed control is a thick stand.” Another famous farmer saying though, “wish I had a million dollars...I’d lose it all farming!”
Where do the Shrimp come from that eat your rice seeds/plants? Do they live in the river water? Are they native to this area?
Long tail tadpole shrimp are crustaceans and their eggs can survive from one season to the next. During pre-seeding flood-up with irrigation water the eggs hatch under the warm sun. They are native to the area, yes.
-M.
Another KOOL" VIDEO
Good day sir. I'm also an Ag pilot here in the Philippines. I fly AT-504 and turbo agcat. can you make a tutorial video on how you mount your gopros? thanks
Do you have to treat your rice seed with anything like we do with grain seed?
Hey Matt if you’re ever up for a discussion because here in Arkansas we farm rice way different than you in California
Do you intentionally drop the seeds in a certain compass heading or do you fly into the wind whatever direction it is coming from on the day of seeding?
The direction the seed is flown on is best West East/East West because the wind is usually either coming from the North or South. We may fly North South if a neighboring field to the East or West is a seed field. We don’t want to cross contaminate varieties.
-Matthew
Is there a reason why the Ag Cat is a by-wing. I have not seen them around here on the western high plains in may years. Is this because they are older aircraft. Or do they require less speed to carry the large amount of product per acre?
why did the person stand on the tank door when they were cleaning the window never seen that before
Christian, he was fueling up the plane.
-M.
Who makes the plane? What do they cost?
What percent of rice you produce is eaten as table rice as compared to other food products like rice milk, rice noodles, rice cereals...?
It seems like these ag planes can land and take off just about anywhere near a rice field.
If we buy rice at a store in the San Francisco Bay Area, are we able to determine by the label if it came from your farm?
Unfortunately no. Our rice is commingled at the dryer with a dozens of other farmers. If it’s Calrose there’s a chance that one of the kernels came from our farm. For that reason and after a lot of requests I started setting aside some of my rice and freshly milling it to order. It’s available here: www.ricefarmingtv.com/shop
-M.
@@Ricefarmingtv Thankyou for answering my questions so quickly. What percent of rice grown in California would you estimate comes from your farm?
Well, we farm 1,200 acres and the average state production is 500,000 acres. So, what’s that...about a 0.0024 chance?
@@Ricefarmingtv Are there larger rice companies trying to put the smaller rice farmer out of business by selling for lower prices or doing whatever they can to try to financially hurt you?
How many acres can he cover each load?
About 10 acres at 165 lbs an acre, Trey. Did you see the previous episode? That was pretty popular and covered a lot of the seeding process:
ruclips.net/video/51Gma15dzWc/видео.html
-Matthew
Rice Farming TV
I saw the other vid right after asking the question...guess I should’ve been a lil more patient. Thx for the vids!
Wow. We do this laboriously by paying persons to plant the field.
How many acres can you seed in one day
Do they use GPS on the plane?
Yes they do, Peter! The GPS helps them line up there passes. They do not have auto-pilot or auto-steer so they are responsible for staying on the line.
-M.
What percent of the rice is eaten as food in the US as compared to exported to other countries?
California rice is about 50/50. Some countries that have historically imported our rice are Japan, South Korea, Turkey, Jordan, etc. Much of the southern grown long grain is exported to Mexico. Great question.
-Matthew
Hi How you deal with rats ?
Please respon. From indonesia
Adi Irawan Rusdi cats
Does a red tractor give the rice an unpleasant flavor?
Nah, just like the red pistachios from Iran; long ago, since we don't trade with them anymore. Tasted the same, just stained your fingers.
Like Flaming Hot Cheeto's!
Just watching your videos makes me want to patronise your product. What is your brand?
Why not bring the plane around some more so the loader can bring the bucket to load on the opposite side of the plane and have 1 guy load the seed doing dumper loads @1850 so he doesn’t have to stuff (if he can control the sock) Its faster, Safer, and more efficient in a long day of seeding.
have the other guy working the belt
The rice goes in wet not dry so it clumps up in the hopper and can be a bitch to load sometimes.
you need an ASMR version :)
Ha! Oh yeah, just super soft engine/prop running. That would be an interesting test. Just snip off the intro, outro, Q n A and music. Re-upload with ASMR in the title! Gold!
-M.
yep I did love that song though and I love your Q&As Maybe do a video like the nature segments at the end of CBS Sunday Morning- just set up the camera and get all the sounds of nature around your fields :)
Need Camara on the ground much more exciting
Hi
I don't believe they've built a new Ag-Cat in the last 24 years!!
My dad work at the Rice to
Awesome! Where at? Here in California?
-Matthew
Yeah
In Colusa
My dad work at richter ag
Do you know RICHTER AG
Tell me a process to become a California farmer like you .
It has always baffled me that white rice is cheaper than brown rice being that they have to spend more time and money to produce it.
Why is this the case?
"we bought a bus" WHAAAAT? yet another TEASER by Sligar , M
Great presentation but you seem to be focussing on more on editing than real substance .... Try to talk more about agriculture and it's working ...
Ha! You watched the one video out of 116 videos that was like this. Here you go:
ruclips.net/video/51Gma15dzWc/видео.html
-Matthew
Why don’t you do an episode on modern agricultural aircraft? Ag cats are all antiques. Flying toy garbage cans.
P Wayne what is your reason to think or say that??
Do rice farmers still use STAM on rice?