This is a YouTube video titled "The Colours of Your Land - James & Phil O'Regan" featuring a conversation between James and Phil O'Regan, Australian farmers, discussing their farming heritage, crop types, challenges of the climate, and the use of John Deere technology to improve productivity. The content was created in May 2015 and highlights the lifestyle and satisfaction derived from farming in Australia.
My great grandfather started farming about a hundred years ago. My father bought it with his brother in 1973, but we've been here about 40 years. Australian farmers are unique, mainly because of the unreliable climate. You never know how much rain you're going to get or how much you're going to grow. It can be a great year, it can be a poor year, but it's always interesting. We currently grow durum wheat, cotton, chickpeas, favour beans, sunflower, sorghum.
I suppose traditionally, wheat and sorghum would have been the end.
Wheat and sorghum, original crops. I farm because of the lifestyle and because of. We're lucky to have so much good dirt. So provided we can get some rain, it'll grow anyway.
It's nice to be your own boss. Well, I don't know whether I'm fooling myself or not. I think I'm my own boss. We feel as though we're providing service for everyone throughout the country, providing food and fibre and that, I guess it makes you feel good about what you're doing throughout the day. It makes you feel satisfied at the end of the day that you've. You've done something worthwhile.
The reason we run John Deere is the reliability, basically. And John Deere always seem to be leaders in the field. We also get good backup service from the dealership. You've got to use technology to keep increasing their production year after year.
Benefits we find by running John Deere is how well integrated the technology is and how easy it is to use. Greenstar makes our life a lot easier because it's such a good platform that we can switch between machines with ease and not have to rethink about how to use everything, because it's all the same.
We're Aussie farmers and these are the colours of our land.
