Great job. It always amazes me how fast the grain stalks go into the much smaller opening to the combine. It looks even faster when you are sitting in the cab and looking down on it.
Long rice is what United States grows Arkansas grows 40% of the rice in the United States they plant the field with a planter like you use with wheat they flood the land and it stays flooded until it's ready to harvest right before Harvest they drain it and let the ground dry then they use a traditional combined with a draper head like you have shown in the video I used to live in Arkansas around rice Farms
@@teecuzbruh4058 Arkansas is roughly a square state. If you look at a map of AR, draw a line generally from Texarkana north east to Batesville. The portion of the state to the south and east of that line would be the farming area. This farm could be just about anywhere in that area, although the further west you go you have more timber and less farming. Again, that's very general, there's a lot of grain raised in the Arkansas River Valley through the Ozarks
So nice to see a touch of 'Class' in your videos. - Reminds me of around where I live, - why are they cutting so high, I know the 'crop' is at the top of the stalk, but then so are all cereal crops and that doesn't stop 99% of farmers cutting close to the ground. Or were they going to flood the fields immediately after and put a load of 'crawfish' in as a second crop and this gives them some 'shade'. 😊👍.
They don't farm crawfish up there in Arkansas.. I think they cut high to have less trash going through the machine.. Rice is a tough crop to process as is.
Ariel Ag was correct, the less straw going thru the machine the better. Crawfish would already be buried in the levees from previous stock if there was a crop of Crawfish to be had. The time to stock Crawfish during a crop would be before maturity of the crop, but after there is a good enough stand of the plant. With as little water as a rice crop requires for a flood, the crawfish would tend to bury immediately in the hot weather.
@@teecuzbruh4058 - Thank you for all that, - obviously I'm not from the USA and I don't know the fine art of raising Crawfish. All I know is what I've seen on YT, - me, I'm in the UK and we don't grow rice over here to start with, let alone Crawfish.
@@christopherlovelock9104 No problem at all friend, I'll answer any question you may have to the best of my ability. I am in Cajun country (Southwest Louisiana) and am the son of a rice and crawfish farmer. The farmer is now retired. I went into the oil and gas industry for my working career, but have dabbled in rice and crawfish farming since a young boy beginning in the late 70's on weekends (harvest during schoolyear) late august/early september. My dad always planted late as a non-landowner, renting land from crawfish land owners, before finally buying enough land in the 90's to grow rice and crawfish on our own land. Still have the land and crawfish farm, but we've got another rice farmer for growing a crop. Crawfish can be done with no rice also, need levees, a pump, boat, and traps. EDIT: I should add that a dozer and backhoe is pretty necessary also. Dozer can be rented (dad has one) but can be rented vs trying to buy that PLUS backhoe, all the land, etc. The land and pump is a massive investment to even think about trying to crawfish. Crawfish prices (wholesale) have been insane for the last handful of years, reaching $4.00 or $4:50 a pound for the fisherman early in the season (November/December is considered "early"). But bait ALSO is insane ($40.00 for a 45# box of pogy bait, also known as Menhaden)
@@teecuzbruh4058 - Thanks again, - I'll remember you if I have any more questions. - I should think the oil & gas industry are better wage payers than rice and crawfish. I didn't know you could farm the little fella's on their own, - bit like these Shrimp and Fish farms I suppose nowadays. - Do you find all this 'Climate Change' and varying Government policies is affecting your line of work or will you be retired by the time they finally realise they have left everything too late, and it will be our children and grandchildren who will suffer and we will be long gone from this World. - Well I will anyway.
OOPS! - Spelling mistake their. Did you know 'Claas' are still 'Family Owned', - their Grandfather started the firm. - I should think they must one of the last that haven't been 'swallowed up' by the conglomerates.
