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Long hours of seeding pulses at Welker Farms – now on to wheat

By SUE ROESLER, The Prairie Star
May 6, 2019
May 6, 2019 Updated May 11, 2019

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The Welkers farm with Big Bud Tractors.

Nick Welker in front of one of the Big Bud tractors and planting systems at Welker Farms.

Here’s the inside the cab of the Big Bud where the IntelliAg system is installed.

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By SUE ROESLER, The Prairie Star

SHELBY, Mont. – Every video created at Welker Farms opens with music that brings a rush of anticipation and excitement – storm's coming, lightning, thunder, and boom – gray clouds and gray wheat emerging into golden wheat and end-of-the-storm dark, grayish-blue skies.

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