Wheat Fire

July 18, 2022. A fire started while the farmers were harvesting this years wheat crop. There were no injuries or loss of farm equipment. Crop loss is unknown.

Location: Crystal Road and Spencer Rd, Crystal Township, Montcalm County, Michigan

[ronnieam]

I remember seeing one of these kinds of fires in Illinois a few years back, and every farmer in the county started to show up with their equipment to harvest the filed. It was like a well tuned orchestra, watching all of them working together very efficiently!

[enriquejrvaldes]

Thank you guys for feeding the world👍👌👏🙏🌍
Hopefully everyone is safe. 🙏😇👏👌

[jonathanb.]

growing up in western ks, where it's dry and farming is 90% of the way of life - I learned farmers are some of the most genius and hard working. You can see it in this video - they keep harvesting to save the crop, they start disking to slow the fire. amazing

[popolosovrano]

Fratelli rischiare la propria vita per darci il pane, fratelli ho molto rispetto. Dio vi benedica e vi mantenga in salute! Grazie

[Jstblondie]

How painful to see this happen. I hope the farmer has many more abundant fields to harvest.

[susanleeling]

Thank God for the guy with the disk! Great job on staying ahead of it and getting the field cleared before it burned.

[sarafarms]

Goodness, this is heartbreaking… I cannot imagine the stress of disking and harvesting during a fire. Hopefully, everyone is okay.

[johnlindquist]

Nice work saving some of the crop and buildings.

[La-Mosie]

A very efficiently coordinated action by the farmer! Congratulations for being able to save part of the harvest

[PistoKTM]

When i start the combine there is always my Caterpillar with a disc harrow ready to go in action. Nothing fight a stubble fire better than a disc!!! Greetings from Italy

[darkooreskovic]

Ma bravo ljudi koja je to borba sa vatrom da se zaštiti hrana, veliki naklon vrijedni narode 👍!

[andrewfikoski]

Great job to the farmers and first responders. From the looks of it didn't look like much crop was lost in this. The good thing that comes out of it is next crop that's planted will benefit greatly from the burn out. Over the years have always noticed a big different in growth and yeild where a burnout was present the year prior.

[CORNDODGER]

DAMN GOOD JOB GUYS you all had this licked !!!! Its a TEAM EFFORT and to see them COMBINES running like the wind was amazing in front of the fire !!!! had to be a couple MILLION in EQUIPMENT out there working as a TEAM

[kayeninetwo]

Very sorry about the loss of the crop. Many prayers of thanks and hope for America's farmers.

[ronaldunderwood]

Hats off to the first responders and the workers that knew what to do and when to do it 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[stevenwilson]

That is heartbreaking to see. Farmers are some of my all time favourite people.

[DronescApe]

wow glad it all ended well, credit to to farmers hard at work to control the fire fantastic video 👍👍

[davidrobins]

Your video tells the story. Thank God for the excellent job of all those involved in fighting this fire.

[icebabysnocain]

Looks like a wind change helped some. That disk can be the make or break of a fire. Nice to have it there. Interesting video.

[bobdavidsonm.d.]

I hauled a load to the co-op, when I drove back to the field to pick up another load, a dot cop followed me, he wasn't to smart, he drives out in to the field and his catalytic converter caught the wheat field on fire.
The farmer I was hauling for invented new cuss words spilling out of his mouth at the officer.
Lol.