17 Replies to “Freitag Farms, 2013”

  1. Greener as in more John Deere green? The local John Deere dealer must be richer than an Indian Chief.

  3. Thank you Kate.
    That Bourgault seeding outfit is sure different than the 12′ IH discer I started with and the harvesting machine JD 7720 combine I retired with.
    There always was tension during harvest…will the weather cooperate…will the yield and quality pay the bills, etc. Kudos to my wife as she drove the truck and could take a hopper full off the combine even around corners.
    But it is a great life.

  4. There is no doubt that John Deere excels at marketing….
    They even sell Green a$$wipe and the fanatics buy it….I kid you not.
    BTW Ken when I was a piston pusher, my line up was technicolour…..including a Muir-Hill….
    I have driven Fords, GMs and Chrysler products…even a Peugeot….

  5. Agreed that John Deer does excel at marketing. Their service centres have no end of toys for kids and retired farmers, as well as all sorts of clothing. In Saskatoon they even open a store in November for the Christmas season that is full of all sorts of items. Playing cards, puzzles, different gauge size miniature farm equipment and so on. But, Green A$$wipe, that I have not seen. Best send me some to sit on the shelves with my various tractor and combine models.
    The Athern HO scale model train manufacturer occasionally comes out with a flat car with a couple of excellent John Deer tractor models. They are not cheap to buy.
    However, truth be told, all the different brands do their jobs in the field. In the old days some brands were cheaper to buy but the quality was also cheaper and these brands fell by the wayside. Allis Chalmers, for example, produced great equipment for many decades but got into financial difficulty and the products became junk.
    Of the brands today, all are good and a farmer usually stays with the dealer that gives him good service.

  6. Heh, John Deere should be happy with the gay music…maybe that’s why they put those little passenger seats on the equipment…encouraging brokeback farming. The broke part, anyway.
    Interesting though, how much technology can be put into dragging a piece of steel through the ground…and better ways to beat on a head of grain.
    Meat is better, anyway…efin sodbusters. 🙂

  10. Hats off to Freitag Farms.
    I was sitting in the bar with a John Deere salesperson many years ago during the era of the 4440. A Case-IH fan asked the salesman; ”Why is it that the John Deeres always burn an extra gallon of fuel per hour more than the Case?”
    He looked at the guy and said: ”That would be because they’re usually pulling an extra ten feet of cultivator more than the Case!
    I sold Ford cars and trucks. When someone would ask me, ”Why is it that we see more Chev and GMC pickup trucks on the highway than we do Fords?” I would answer, ”That’s because the Ford owners are out in the oilfield, and on the farms and ranches working while the Chevy guys are driving around on the road looking at the crops.

  11. The watermelons surely screwed up by not putting their efforts into banning diesel tractors, rather than merely banning insecticides, chemical fertilizers, or GMOs; they would achieve their goal of destruction of lesser mortals far easier if they banned the diesel tractor.

  13. So, the brief glimpse of a “Pre-harvest treatment” in the Schultz video….
    Safe to assume that’s Roundup?

  16. “But, Green A$$wipe, that I have not seen.”
    Can’t remember….sometimers….it wasn’t green but had JD logos all over it. Maybe TSC.
    Haven’t seen it fer a time but then I’m retired…from a lotta stuff…
    Probably JD figured out it didn’t help the image er sued for trademark infringement.
    Plainzdrifter
    “……during the era of the 4440.”
    Yeah I remember them…ya had to shut them down to fuel them up…..

  17. Freitag farms 2013: that’s my home place. I helped as a teen ager to build that barn – Emil Krause was the head carpenter. That’s a well built 32’x60′ critter. Even withstood a tornado. The house, 26’x36″ two storey is now in Lampman. It was built in 1945, one year before the barn. Harry West owned it before the depression – he just moved away to Kisbey because of the drought, and my dad bought the 1/2 section paying the taxes owing. I met Kurt on that farm last summer (2014). What a nice man he is. I will forever remember how gracious he was showing us around. It was hard to drive away, because the place has been so well kept. Many of the old wooden structures are gone, this includes the stone barns that Harry West built before 1939 when we bought the place. The garage, 16×20 is still there as well as the chicken coop. But the 32 volt wind charge tower is gone too. Used to be a land mark in the community. As I watched the video, my head spun to see the changes in farming. From a sp115 cockshut combine, (what a piece of junk that was), to I guess at least a 36′ foot header. From a 14′ IHC cultivator to, O man, probably 60′. From an LA case vulcan purple gas guzzler to a 500 HP JD all wheel monster.The rest of the story would take a book to write. Blesings Kurt

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