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Jerrod Peters

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Pulse, grain and oilseed producer and custom grain hauler from SW Saskatchewan. Seller of Thunderbolt soap. Tweets can be sarcastic. #TillageIsTheDevil

Swift Current, Saskatchewan
Joined August 2013
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
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Jerrod Peters
11 months
I'm excited to become a dealer in SW Saskatchewan for Thunderbolt soap and Tru Pearl ceramic. DM me for pricing and products. Anything from 1 gal jugs to 55 gal barrels. #ThisStuffWorks
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Jerrod Peters
2 years
Who needs a grain cart when you have a skilled tandem driver? Just pulls up beside and matches my speed. No 2 way, just years of experience.
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6 years
If we have a breakdown, I can guarantee you it’s not DEF, DPF, EGR or SCR related! #bigbud #1150cummins
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Jerrod Peters
4 years
If anyone runs short on DEF, we'd be more than happy to come and custom seed for you. 😎
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Jerrod Peters
5 months
My wife commented this morning that I'm a much happier person when it rains. What a beautiful sound. 🎶
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6 years
That is one sexy 40 year old. #bigbud #1150cummins
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Jerrod Peters
3 years
Someone had the balls to raise a stink about Cargill's new "payment" system.
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Jerrod Peters
5 years
If you’ve ever plugged a combine, and lighting a match or trading it in we’re thoughts that crossed your mind instead of unplugging it, you’re a #RegularFarmer
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Jerrod Peters
2 years
Should I just call the tow truck for them? It's only been sitting here for 10 days...🙄
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2 years
Over 9" in the grass. ⛄️
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4 years
Awaken the beast. #BigBud
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Jerrod Peters
3 years
Getting our old junk ready to put another crop in.
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Jerrod Peters
4 years
Laying in bed and hearing the furnace kick in, I'm thankful for Canadian oil and gas that I don't have to chop wood or stoke a fire to keep from freezing to death. I'm doubtful our electrical grid could keep everyone safe and warm in weather like this.
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Jerrod Peters
6 months
Is it ok to put poor farmer pictures on here? # #slummingit
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6 months
The 3 most dangerous words a farmer uses in the spring I can multitask.
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Jerrod Peters
4 years
Twitter is a bad influence.
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Jerrod Peters
2 years
Besides drinkining, how do you deal with stress/anxiety?
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Jerrod Peters
2 years
I hope I'm not the only one who sits in the combine counting trucks and roughly figures out how many bushels on a field it'll take to pay for fertilizer, rent, machinery payments, etc and hope you have a couple passes at the end that'll be profit.
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Jerrod Peters
2 years
Just an interesting observation from our little area. You can sure tell when farming began to get profitable around 2007 and how bad it was around 2000 as there aren't as many guys my age (39) and into their 40's as there are in their mid 20's to mid 30's
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Jerrod Peters
1 year
4WD tractor + JD booms and tank = crazy idea?????
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Jerrod Peters
6 months
How many crops have you put in or been a part of? This is my 21st with skin in the game and the 33rd that I've run equipment.
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Jerrod Peters
10 months
Using $8 spring wheat to make payments on your $1 million quarter in SW Sask 😬
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When you are making your first mortgage payment ... 🤣
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Jerrod Peters
4 years
My brother is thinking of selling his Big Bud. What's it worth? Nothing to compare it to to value it. Basically $30k in new rubber. Aux hydraulics on it. Don't know exact hours, but judging by overall condition, under 6000 for sure. 1150 Cummins.
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Jerrod Peters
1 year
I used to think footpegs in combines, tractors and sprayers was just weird. Now after being in a cab that had them, then using them and feeling less leg and knee pain, they aren't stupid, they're a necessity
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Jerrod Peters
5 years
Probably wouldn't want it to be a daily driver, but it would be pretty cool to pull a couple loads with it.
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Jerrod Peters
8 months
Blizzard '24. We will rebuild.
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Jerrod Peters
3 years
I'd take $6 spring wheat, $4 barley and $10 canola over watching heat and wind decimate this crop. 🤮
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Jerrod Peters
6 years
If we were sending smoke signals, the #BigBud would be saying Good Morning!
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Jerrod Peters
2 years
Is it a no brainer if I can update combines for $65000 and gain 6 years, a class size, a newer series and 1250 separator hours?
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Jerrod Peters
2 years
Why didn't I make this sooner? Sure beats cranking by hand.
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Jerrod Peters
2 years
The Big Bud will be for sale in the near future. If you're interested, make sure you start saving your pennies. 😄😄
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Jerrod Peters
1 year
Stolen tractor was found.
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Jerrod Peters
9 months
FINALLY. It's taken way too much time, blood and tears to get to this point. But 👌👌
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Jerrod Peters
4 years
And just like that, apart from some sloughs, #harvest2020 is a wrap. Now to find misplaced vehicles and bunnyhugs and do some fall work that we haven't had a chance to do the past 2 years.
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Jerrod Peters
3 years
Anyone else get nervous until the crop starts to emerge? The thoughts that run across your mind.. Did we seed into moisture? What if the seed tests weren't right? This should've been up by now. We packed it too hard. Did we put the seed upside-down??
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Jerrod Peters
3 months
Pretty neat to have 2 of JD's experimental combines on our farm, still in camouflage. Truly great pieces of North American ag history.
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Jerrod Peters
5 months
It's always a relief to see the first seeded crop come up.
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Jerrod Peters
2 years
What does everyone use for cleaning your cab dashes/armrests/control panels in your tractors and other equipment?
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Jerrod Peters
10 months
Big shout out to Johnstone Auction Mart in Moose Jaw. I had trailer trouble on Saturday and they unloaded bales so I could make it home, and reloaded them today. Thanks!!
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Jerrod Peters
2 years
I wonder how many tonnes a year elevators get for free in samples. 🤔🤔
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Jerrod Peters
5 years
Finally getting starting with the Big Bud. Putting some Brandon wheat in.
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2 months
This is even more disappointing than I was expecting.
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Jerrod Peters
2 years
$200/ac cash rent in SW Sask just happened.....
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Jerrod Peters
2 years
For those of you who've run higher houred combines, where's the "tipping point" for hours where you can't justify the parts to keep it going?
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Jerrod Peters
3 years
We'll be seeding in 45 days, we'll be seeding in 45 days, we'll be seeding in 45 days.....
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Jerrod Peters
3 months
The first lentils going in the bin.
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Jerrod Peters
1 year
Looking for work after I'm done my harvest, which will probably be in 3-4 weeks. Can drive your equipment or can bring mine. Truck is commercially plated. I'm a one man show, so it would be 1 of the 3 options below. I would be needing lodging. Closer to Swift Current the better
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Jerrod Peters
1 year
My dad's little project is complete, minus painting the deck. '45 Ford cab on a '75 Chev 1 ton chassis. I think it turned out pretty good.
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Jerrod Peters
2 years
Go time! 😎
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Jerrod Peters
4 years
Definitely not something you see at the elevator every day. Pretty neat ride 👌👌
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Jerrod Peters
2 years
Should I put a For Sale sign in front of them? Cause that's what happens when I line stuff up along the highway. 🤔
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Jerrod Peters
11 months
With a good sprayer tender, would a 1000 gal/100' boom sprayer like a JD 4830/Case 3330/etc be able to keep up with spraying duties on a 4500-5500 ac farm? Wide open 1/4's or 1/2's, doing preseed, incrop and fungicide/preharvest on 25% of acres, and postharvest on 50-75%.
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Jerrod Peters
2 years
Looking at putting up a new shed, at least 8000 sq/ft. What's a nice, best-bang-for-your-buck size? What are things you wished you had done or things you love about yours?
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Jerrod Peters
2 years
I feel kinda helpless watching things unfold in E Sk and W Mb, but we do have 72' of Bourgault 7200 harrows with a 3255 Valmar on it. Could supply tractor and operator too.
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Jerrod Peters
2 years
Guys that are running stripper headers, what kind of fuel consumption, capacity increases, differences in wear component life, etc, are you seeing in your combines vs auger or draper headers in cereals?
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Jerrod Peters
3 years
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Jerrod Peters
2 years
Harvesting some high quality, high FN 1 CWRS so Viterra, JRI and Paterson will have something to blend off at the West Coast with whatever frosted, bleached, low FN, fusarium riddled wheat that will be harvested in Manitoba and east of Regina. 😄😄
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Jerrod Peters
2 years
A big shout out to all the guys that started cutting hay. 👌🥳
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11 months
My tip to young men and women. If you want to succeed in your career/business, show up on time and be ready and willing to work. It puts you in the top 20% right off the bat, no matter your skill level. There is nothing more frustrating when people don't show up or want to work
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Jerrod Peters
5 months
How fast do you road your tracked tractors? Pavement, gravel or both?
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Jerrod Peters
5 months
Last pass for #Plant2024 !! 🥳
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10 months
As we turn the calender to 2024, what is one thing you learned in 2023, and what is something new (crop, chemistry, equipment, etc) that you're using in 2024?
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Jerrod Peters
3 years
What's the best looking 4wd in your opinion? The 2 we have are 2 of my favorites.
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Jerrod Peters
7 years
Dear @JustinTrudeau Does this look like a face of a tax cheat? I've been working at my small business for 14 hrs already today. #5morehours
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Jerrod Peters
2 months
Last pass of Harvest 2024!
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Jerrod Peters
1 year
Just playing around on Deere's site building an X9 1100. $1.24 million US or $1.71 million CAD list price. So how many bushels of $9.25/bus spring wheat or sub $6.00/bus barley does it take to pay for one .......😳
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Jerrod Peters
2 years
It's raining during July in SW Sask! It doesn't mean we'll pull the sprayer out for fungicide in July, it just means we'll pull the combine out in August. 👌
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Jerrod Peters
1 year
Hey @JustinTrudeau , how many trees have you planted?
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Jerrod Peters
2 years
The cool factor would wear off after 4 loads
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2 months
Curious me wants to buy it and put it behind my Fendt. The CVT would be leaps and bounds above the 6601 that I ran with a 4440 and quad shift.
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Jerrod Peters
6 years
For Sale. Small electric batch grain dryer. No canola screens. Worked when last used. Stored inside. Lots of new parts. All around good condition. $1500 firm. No holds. 😁 #harvest18woes
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4 years
The faster I go, the behinder I get.
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Jerrod Peters
3 years
Sleep well my precious. 😴
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Jerrod Peters
3 years
Found some pics from when I went custom combining in 2002. I know there are a couple of guys on Twitter in here. 😎
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Jerrod Peters
3 years
If you were building a new home, what are some do's and do not's, and must haves and don't recommend on your list?
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Jerrod Peters
2 months
Anyone else's dealership harvest hours more like banker hours and not farmer hours?
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Jerrod Peters
1 year
Last pass of #harvest23 . 🏁🏁
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Jerrod Peters
1 year
Still waiting on exhaust, but she's finally together enough to try for the first time. 😎
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Jerrod Peters
3 months
Pics to remember what the 2024 crop looked like before the tank ran empty...
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4 years
Big Bud and Seedmaster teaming up to put some durum in today. #plant2020
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Jerrod Peters
2 years
All the snow harrowing we did is paying huge dividends.
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Jerrod Peters
7 months
Between 1000 gal tank, slip tank and 2 full semis, that's $460 of extra carbon tax on clear diesel that Trudeau and Freeland WON'T be getting.
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Jerrod Peters
4 months
Getting ready for parade season
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Jerrod Peters
5 months
This farmer wants to know if we get paid 1.5 or 2 x's for working on a holiday?
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Jerrod Peters
3 years
I will be 70 years old, a crotchety old man, and I'll still be telling all the young guys about 2021. And yes, that canola has sprouted without being rained on. 🤯🤮
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Jerrod Peters
6 months
Going to see wheat harvest in the Palouse is definitely on the bucket list.
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Jerrod Peters
2 years
The train is fueled, filled and finally ready to hit the field.
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Jerrod Peters
1 year
You might be a regular farmer if you stand with the front door open watching it rain. #regularfarmer
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Jerrod Peters
7 months
Time to put her to work. 😎
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6 months
First passes of 2024.
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Jerrod Peters
2 years
The most important piece of attire to leave the house with for the next 2 weeks. #LestWeForget
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Jerrod Peters
1 year
Can someone please remind me after harvest is done to not be so freaking cheap and actually invest in a real GPS for the seeding tractor? #WAASsucks #TrimbleSucks
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Jerrod Peters
1 year
After 55000 ac, our Seedhawk is starting to show its age. Frame is fine, just needs a rebuild. I'm wondering if I should sink money into it and make some improvements, or just move on? Can't afford new and would stick with a Seedtwin
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Jerrod Peters
5 months
I've been looking around at used HC sprayers, and the ones that are in my cash price range have at least 2500 hours on them. Am I gonna regret buying something that has 2500-3500 hours on it? Or should I just be looking for something newer?
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Jerrod Peters
2 years
Semis after using them 4 days in a row.
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Jerrod Peters
7 years
My great uncle is 82 years old. Still comes out for a couple loads with his 3 ton to "charge the battery". Still has the farming #itch . 😀
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Jerrod Peters
5 years
After 1 snowstorm, 2 rain delays, 9 breakdowns and 600 moisture tests, #harvest2019 is a wrap. You put up quite a fight #harvest19 , but we lasted the 15 rounds you threw at us. Very thankful for the crop we took off. What a turnaround from June 15.
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Jerrod Peters
3 years
Only the best can stop on a hoop.
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Jerrod Peters
4 years
I'm curious to see what other farmers/truckers units weight. Just post your trucks empty weight. Doesn't matter if it's super b, tri, tandem, tridrive, 3 ton. Our trucks are 13200-13350 kgs full of fuel.
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