With the moisture content of the corn and those John Deere combines they are leaving a lot of corn behind the combines a lot of volunteer corn coming up
Great narration and a few good productivity details too. While watching, I rough calculated that the 5 machines could knock it out in 2-1/2 days, but must have overestimated the ground speed. That was with 100% productivity basically, but every now and then refueling, maintenance, etc. are required too, as well as lost time even turning around.
I think it takes about 5 days. They start at 7 am on maintenance and start running around 8 am and run until 1 am. The main factor is the trucks being filled and how fast the two drivers process the grain.
@@@georgemegas3691 - Converting US acres to metric hectares: 2,800 acres is over 1,100 hectares; this farm's 13,00 acres total in corn would be 5,260 hectares. For any country, that's a sizeable logistics challenge just to get it all planted, harvested, and in the granaries.
Thanks for making a video that u can here the sound of the machines live thanks for not drowning the sound out with music watching this video is right like I am out in the field
In the late 60's - mid-70's in Iowa my Dad harvested 1000+ acres of corn and soybeans every year with a 4-row JD combine by himself and with me and one other hand running the 300 bushel gravity flow wagons back and forth to the bins. And actually, prior to that, he even did an even more amazing feat: he harvested that much and more with a JD 55 combine, and then later with a JD 95, and then a JD 105, but just one combine at a time, and using old straight trucks with grain boxes on them. So I don't get too impressed with videos like this, but they are fun to watch.
Really awesome and alot of work, I think personally its still impressive though lol they are only running 5 combines for 13,000 acres, I mean the time crunch they must be on is crazy
I live in Illinois, but in the suburbs of Chicago. Like a lot of people in America nowadays, I've never had any real contact with the process by which I get my food everyday. Every time I've driven through central Illinois has been a somewhat depressing experience, particularly in the winter when it's just a flat wasteland of snow and dirt all the way to the horizon, but now I see why the landscape is so devoid of all the population density I'm used to. We need that land for massive farms like these and, honestly, this was just an astonishing video to watch. The sheer scale of these farms is really amazing. I'm a computer engineer and it makes me so happy to see the level of efficiency and automation these farms are working at today, all the technology and planning that goes into this. This is what America is all about and it's why only 1% of the population today are farmers opposed to 200 years ago when 95% of the population were farmers. Awesome!
Thank you for watching and for your comments. If you travel through IL in mid April and mid October all of those fields will be alive with tractors and combines. There is about a 10 day window to plant and to harvest for the best returns. The rest of the year is pretty quite in the fields.
Thank you for bigtractorpower for not ruining such a great clip with awful music. Please continue as you have, with the sights and sounds of the field. Kudo's to you for such a long list of awesome vid's
@@bigtractorpower I completely agree, thank you. I farm in western Canada and am considering buying a coulter drill to seed wheat...JD, Morris, Bourgault et al. Just wondering if many guys in Kentucky use them? Either way, I hope you're able to add a new crop of spring seeding video's 2019 and I'm very much looking forward to such. Thank you again for your great work!
The main 60 ft air drills used here for wheat and some times for soybeans are John Deere 1890 and Case IH 500. These disk drills do a nice job noticing wheat over corn stalks. One farm I film at used 3 60ft Horsch Panther drills with shanks. They use those to seed wheat in tilled ground and no-till soybeans into wheat stubble.
@@bigtractorpower thank you very kindly. Yes, I seen that great video(s) you have with the Horsch's but for my large acres of arid western canadian dryland that shank appears to be far too aggressive at speed to be suitable for anything other than my section of irrigated land. A neighbor of mine uses an 1890 but mildly complains that he is not sold on the economics due to higher year over year maintenance. I thank you again for your responses and your great video's, and again I'd like to briefly allude to your peers who tend to have great video footage which they tend to ruin with horrid music. At least put a good farming video to a good led zepplin song haha, jk, happy new year from Canada :)
I am guessing they have interseeded a cover crop in this field. Either that or they have a serious weed issue in this field. I would also love to see their grain handling facility to be able to process this amount of grain each day especially at 22% moisture. They have to have one hell of a dryer to handle around 600 acres of corn each day. If it was just 500 acres each day and the yield was 150 bpa that would be 75,000 bushels. One word sums that up DAMN!
The farm has a 3 million plus bushel grain bin system. I will do a video on it some time. Those are weeds you see. Once the corn dries down it opens up sun light and allows weed growth to start. Hot summer weather and rain allows weeds to grow well here in Kentucky. You see it in all the area corn fields. It's not a big deal as the stalks and weeds are disked under to make way for the wheat crop.
In one spot if the field it looked like tillage radish so that is why i asked. We see a lot of Tropic Croton and grasses start coming through once the fields begin drying down in South Georgia. The only grain elevator around our area that has that kind of capacity is the ethanol plant about 30 minutes from us. Corn and beans are minor crops for our area though. Cotton and peanuts are the kings here.
+Terry Presnal In August 90 degree heat mixed with rain and the shrinking corn leaves as they dry up depletes the shade canopy and allows weeds to take off. It's not a big issue the crop is made and the field is plowed up to sow wheat.
+Terry Presnal cover crops are gaining popularity here but most are planting cereal rye after harvest and mostly after beans. 95% of the corn acres are seeded in wheat.
It would be nice to see, off the fields what it takes to keep these big ponies chugging down the field. They must have one heck of a shop and field crew.
To be fair, JD's tend to be a bit more affordable than the Case/IH or Agco machines. We run JD equipment and unless something is completely out of stock, we can usually have parts the next day, where we might wait a week or more for Agco parts for our MF 383.
+Cam Kenimer thank you. I have been filming and filming and not had a chance to make video. October gets busy with soybean harvest, wheat seeding and tillage all happening once.
tanner hamrick //Just a part-time job. Just one notch above being pikers!! LOL. Actually a big operation. The largest I know of around here is 5-6000 Acres, NW Illinois.
Is there ever a time when the land does not have something planted? Is there a rest time? Thank you. I seem to remember hearing first is the corn then a wheat then a soybean harvest and they are one after the other. Then does it repeat back to the corn? Thank you.
The fields are in use each year. The residue left by each crop helps build the soil. The crop rotation is corn to wheat and soybeans double cropped behind the combines in wheat.
Those are weeds. The corn harvest where this was filmed in Kentucky starts around August 20. The corn starts drying down in late July. As the corn drops it’s leaves in the late summer it allows sun shine to work with late summer rains to germinate the weeds in the hot 90 degree days. The weeds do not hurt anything because the corn is done growing. As soon as the harvest is complete they disk the stalks and weeds under to plant winter wheat. Here is the same farm disking the corn stalks ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ONAD3OO-7rg.html
awesome, im in North east scotland where claas is king for combines but the john deere looks so much more robust, may not be the case i dont know......the fields here are much smaller and are more difficult to work due to elevations etc......fantastic video thanks and keep them coming sir
+ian matthew the Claas Lexion is one impressive combine. There are several here in Western Kentucky. Sales wise it would be John Deere, Case IH, Claas, New Holland and Gleaner. I only know of newer two Masseys in the region.
I would think they have a semi fuel truck to fuel all the combines and tractors everyday. They must go thru at least 7000 gallons of diesel a day!! Spendy!
You are correct. They have their own fuel trucks. You can see one in the morning service video I did on the corn combine fleet at m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qI7GEgRqYZU.html
The corn goes through a drier. This corn is shelled in August when it’s 90 plus genres out. The drier brings the moisture down quick. It’s not like drying corn in November with snow on the ground.
I noticed when you rode in the combine it was picking at a little over 3 mile an hour. That size of a machine should be able to pick corn at 6 mph no problem even in 200 bushel corn at 22% moisture. We have 2 9870's and can pick corn at 5 mph in 200 bus. corn at 20% and do a good job. So whats the reason behind that?
Thanks Ryan.. I know they must be a lot of extra expense to have tracks so I figured they had some advantage over tires. Now I'm wondering why the Combines didn't have tracks as well because I saw Combines that do have tracks up front. LoL
I think 4 days. I did a follow up video on this field giving more info on the harvest. You can watch that video @ m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QWs0sq_OIec.html
Great video, thanks. I think they need to re-evaluate their herbicide program. Late weeds like that are only going to make a heap of seed for next year. Would have hit this with some glyphosate out of the plane before they set seed.
+Kanlife the field is disked up and seeded to winter wheat. The weeds are gone as soon as harvest is over. Mainly the 90 degree heat of August, rain and the opening of the shade canopy as the cinema leaves pull back cause the weeds. It's common in every field of corn here. All the corn ground goes to wheat so the weeds don't last long.
No, Australian actually. I do work in the US though as an agronomy consultant and use that saying but maybe they know me well enough to know what I mean lol.
+Douglas Laramie it's a broad leaf weed. One the corn leaves dry up the ground loses the shade canopy and 90 degree days in August with rain let's the weeds grow.
Is one person coordinating the logistics? Who knows where the carts need to go to keep up up with the combines? Somebody must be holding the baton to make this orchestra work at full capacity.
+Rightsideofthegrass the farmer is in combine number 5 in this video. Everybody knows what to do there is not allot of coordination through out the day.
There's a lot of signaling done that isn't obvious, like the combine operator moving his auger out when he's getting full. Also they do the same thing in the same way so it's more of a dance than a concert.
Very interesting how they define the class of a combine by horsepower . I would imagine the cleaning area would be just as important as well ,in that case there probably wouldn't be that much difference between a class 6 or a class 9 because there is only so much crop you can only force over the sieves ,just saying.
How many acres is one combine good for before having to have another? Example the place you said is 13000.00 total and they have five. Really enjoy your vids; it is late watching thought I would ask crazy question. God Bless Joey Belk
+At Midnight the 1100s fill a semi. This way a truck rolls in and in 4 minutes is full and on it's way. With. 1300 or 1500 one truck would be full and a partial full one waiting.
Looks like they have each phase honed close to perfection to get the most productivity then....truckers not having to wait for a full load. Mention was made tho of drying capacity, which at 22% moisture is a tough one to keep up. Still tho....must have a darned good dryer(s). And again, I appreciate the great narrative. The more little details you add, the better it gets. The hookup to the head is fast,... a shot at the mating ends would be nice.
Fishingfool2017 probably because it equals up to planter so last row on head lands wont be a part header or else head lands last row would always be less than a full header the header has to calculate out to match with planter or your just wasting fuel
Another problem is that bigger headers mean slower ground speed; the combines can only clean so much grain at a time. Matching the header size to the planter size makes life much easier, even in the days of GPS. Also there's times you can go places with a 12-row header on the machine when you'd have to dismount and trailer a 16. And there's the extra 25% cost of buying the bigger header. Altogether the 12 rows are a better choice for a lot of people.
I'm a CASE IH guy and I find it funny how you failed to compare the case 9 series with the John Deere 9 series? Didn't want to make your green equipment sound inferior did you? Just saying you should compare apples to apples and oranges to oranges.
+Josh Koch watch our Big Tractor Power video featuring two Case IH 9240 Axial-Flow combines with 16 row corn heads. The 9240 is the biggest corn eating machine on the market. I mentioned the 8240 in this video to point out it holds more than class 9 John Deere.
Millions in equipment used a few weeks out of the year aside from the 4wd tractors, how do farms depreciate assets like this or are these rented for harvest time?
+ScottyRockTrains that's a good question. The class five combines of today were the biggest size combine on the market 20 years ago. The class size is a more recent term I think.
Great video but you guys need to invest in a drone....especially with this acreage being harvested so all machines could been seen, to at least get a better scale. Thanks!!!
I'm very surprised that Kentucky has so much corn. I always assumed corn states were Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Minnesota.. but that's about it. Like the traditional corn belt ya feel?
There are other big corn areas like Kentucky, New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Missouri, Texas, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina North Carolina and South Carolina. In Florida and Georgia they can double crop corn on corn in the same year.
Thanks for this! That is a pretty impressive operation. It would be interesting to see the other end sometime. Where does the corn go after it fills up the trucks?
+maddy s this group clip was filmed in September 2016. There are six combines there. You might notice the 4th in walk around has a 12 row folding head. It was an S790 being tested out. That's why there are six. You might notice the parked 9420Rs have the 2016 steel fuel fenders and the 2017 footage shows the new poly fuel fenders.
About 3.20 a bushel per corn, wetter than hell, big time drying costs.......wow......must be really counting on wheat crop to cover next year's equipment payments...
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Is there a point with herbicide where you could just spray a diluted mixture to the point any decrease in yield is offset by savings on expensive chemicals? BTP answered below about these being late growth weeds, but most fields you can see from one end of the field to the other without a single weed. Anyone know of any field trials?
Interesting, it takes them double the time to do it then the theoretical combine-capacity? How much of that is weather delay? I just wonder if the inefficiency or lack of supply chain gear is compensated by something else. Is it redundancy in case of combine failure, short weather window capacity, or what?
