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Ryan, since Travis said the other day you haven't ordered your seed corn yet, try Pioneer P0825AMXT, a 108 day number, which for your area is good. I planted some of it, 252 bpa, in continuous corn field, far SEMN. 31,900 population., 36 inch rows. 4 rows @ 4 mph, 9500 JD hillside. Number of kernels around the ear, 22. It a fully stacked variety at $315 a bag, with mid-Nov discounts & 92 bag volume. Try it you might like it. I know Travis said he would never pay that much, but look at the yield. Nov. 3rd weigh wagon test@ 23%. Fertilizer was spread in April with air flow spreader, also use AMS @ 100# per acre for 20 # of sulfur, try it you might like it. Greg
Saw farmers behind the house I am framing harvesting their corn aswell today, their tractor was pulling an auger wagon with tracks on it... never seen one like that.
As carts have gotten bigger and bigger (some are upwards of 1500 bushels now) and figuring a 56 lb bushel of corn, that's 56,000 lbs for every 1000 bushels of *grain alone* on the cart... not including the weight of the cart itself (which can be upwards of 15,000-18,000 lbs or more). For soybeans that could be 60,000 lbs per 1000 bushels in the cart. That much weight can create a LOT of compaction in the soil being carried on just 2 or even 4 tractor tires (on carts with duals or walking tandems). PLUS, if conditions are wet or you hit a 'soft spot' in the field, it can EASILY go down to the axles and then you REALLY ARE in a pickle, because now you have to unload all the grain off the cart to get it out, plus you've damaged the field and will have to fix it. SO, it's becoming more and more popular to buy these larger grain carts equipped with tracks instead of tires, because tracks usually spread the weight out more, minimizing compaction, and float better in soft soils than even multiple tires do. Even then there's SOME types of soils or soft conditions which you don't usually dare take a completely loaded large cart across, even with the tracks... I've got videos on my channel of us harvesting in muck soils in Indiana... muck is basically "peat" soils-- think "loose potting soil" and it STAYS that way, and is usually very damp/wet (though dry muck is fluffy and loose as quicksand almost). The ground is SO spongy that basically in the worst spots, the combine will pick down into the soft area and (hopefully) return, then unload *even though* the grain bin on the combine has only 75-100 bushels or so in it... you don't DARE go back down there because by the time you harvest ANOTHER 75-100 bushels on the next pass, you *almost certainly* will get stuck! Even the cart will usually take a load or two off the combine (maybe 150-200 bushels or so) and then run it out of the field to the truck, tracks or no tracks, rather than take on a full 50k-60,000 lbs of grain and risk sinking like the Titanic out in the middle of the field... Only thing bad about the tracked carts are the PRICE-- those things are EXPENSIVE! Later! OL J R :)
Thanks for very good video Ryan. There's always next year on your crops better luck next year. So I think your buying that 8r your bother look at or that 6m it was at the farm day or better yet a ring for Jamie
Jamie procarione I figured so you're missed still and I know what you said to me before. When you and Ryan get ready you do it. I Bing hopeful that 's all
I've gone back and watched a bunch of your older vids looking for an answer to a question. How many acers do the 3 of you farm in total? 500,1000? Just curious.
I think the next video is involving a john deere 8370R :) You guys either bought it or leased it, kind of curious to know can't wait for the next video. Keep on making your videos like this
With all the inputs y'all did this year I figured y'all would have great yields what happened did y'all not get much rain? An that's a nice Henry you got I love mine their excellent guns
& giving the rain you had in your area, late season / August, your yields should of been great. It was very dry here, drought, big time. But our yields were better than last year, which was 232bpa.
Maybe I'm the only one but I sure would love to see an update on Jamie and video of her in her classroom. I'm sure it's all going well and her kids probably love her and enjoy being in her class. If you read this Jamie could you get Ryan to shoot a little video segment of your work. :)
No pictures at work is smart! Doing that could possibly cause a young woman like you to have problems. If you will, just jump in and let us know how it's going. My wife is a 34 year elementary teacher normally from Pre-K to 1st grade. She's getting tired after all of those years and kids but she's still at it. I don't think she would know what to do if she retired. :)
Oh I severely doubt that would be allowed even if she wanted to... got to have permission to record video in a school, basically. We used to have video recorders on the school buses when I was driving a bus and we really weren't supposed to take the tapes home but sometimes we did to watch it at home trying to figure out who damaged a seat on the bus or something like that, when you might have to watch the entire route to figure it out... Beat sitting around at the school watching it for hours... Later! OL J R :)
Don't do Facebook Snapchat etc. what about a dryer for the corn be worth it? How much does it cost to have a trucker haul it away. Would it be feasible to buy a trailer and lease a truck for a month or two.
Hello Ryan. I know for you all in the Midwest 189 bpa is not so good. 45 bpa is great for us here in WV. I mean yes it is horrible. But to harvest 45 bpa Is the best we can usually get. What are some of your alls practices to get those kind of numbers. I've read in the successful farming magazine about the farmer in Georgia winning the growth award for 550 bpa. Thank you for you time.
Just so long as you can make enough money to plant again next year you will find a way to continue farming. Farming is in your blood. It's not just a job and a hard job at that but a life style. Corn should be $10.00 a bushel and that would still not be enough to pay you for your time. Because you would just put that money right back into the economy up dating equipment. Farming is and always has been the backbone of America. My respect goes out to all farmers and veterans. Doctors, School teachers and Lawyers are at the bottom of my status because of how we need more farmers than we need them. I wish you and family a Happy Thanksgiving and good health Ryan.
I'll agree with you on the lawyers... but the doctors and schoolteachers we need... Schoolteachers have it just about as bad as farmers-- my wife's a teacher and sure the pay is no doubt better than farming, the kids nowdays are a NIGHTMARE... (I know I drove a school bus as a second job for 9 years before I couldn't take it anymore). Plus the schools are a total PITA; all these "new fangled teaching ideas" and all the state and federally mandated BS, which is mostly worthless nonsense... "team meetings" and "outcome based education" and all this jingoistic nonsense that basically contributes NOTHING to actually getting the job done of actually "teaching kids" but that the schools and the gubmint INSISTS *must be done*. She has to be at school at **7:30** am and works til about 5 most nights, then comes home and usually grades papers or does planning or any of the other BS minutia that the school requires and then goes to bed at 10 pm... SO it's basically a 14 hour a day job during the school year-- plus the "bus ramp duty" or "cafeteria duty" or "car rider duty" or "hall monitor duty" or whatever else; sometimes she doesn't even get time for lunch... then of course parent meetings, usually during the 'conference period' (planning period, when you're SUPPOSED to be able to do your "paperwork" for the gubmint/school and the written classroom planning you have to do) so you can't even get the paperwork done because you have to listen to some whiny parents who are upset with *YOU* as the teacher because their "little angel" is in trouble for being a TURD who won't behave properly, or is flunking out because they refuse to do their work... and it's "all your fault". Course then everybody cusses you because "you get ALL SUMMER OFF, WITH PAY!" Yeah, it BEGINS to make up for all those 14 hour days you pulled THE OTHER 9 MONTHS SCHOOL WAS IN SESSION, and the Saturdays and nights you didn't get home til 10:30 at night (or later) because you had to work at a football game or the prom or some debate or computer club competition or something as a "sponsor", or they had open house til 9 pm for the parents to wander in and glad hand a little bit... *BUT* even then, while you have this 'fabulous ALL-SUMMER off', usually you have to drive 50 miles to some stupid training or other or sit in days of meetings and BS sessions learning about all the "latest FADS" that are sweeping through education, which you'll be expected to do next year... Most of which is just pandering nonsense to nursemaid kids along who are too lazy to actually do the work and EARN their grade... Then you get to return to school a few days to a week early, to attend MORE meetings and time-wasting nonsense, and then "prepare your classroom" into a "nurturing little nest" for the babies to return to... A LOT of teachers have to do all this while working around their SECOND JOB they take during the summer just to make ends meet... (if they don't work year-round second jobs, like my wife did when she taught in Tennessee...) No sir, I thought about being a teacher one time-- I wouldn't do it for all the tea in China... I've seen the monkey show and believe me brother, you don't want NO PART OF IT!!! Later! OL J R :)
Thank you for taking the time to share your opinion on the side of teachers. There's a few good ones. Perhaps one out of ten maybe as well as doctors. Lawyers maybe one in a thousands. We shouldn't have to go to Mexico for decent affordable health care and Public schools in the United States are a joke. Of course it all starts at home with the parents and the way they parent. The difference between a farm raised egg and a farm raised child...... Is it whole milk or raw milk? To much government control?
Yes, too much gubmint control in EVERYTHING. Agree on the affordable health care and having to go to Mexico... my old boss went to Mexico to get his teeth fixed-- cheaper and faster than using the "good" insurance he had here with the school. Lots of stuff like that. Public schools, well, it depends on the state. Texas is pretty good if you are not in the major cities (inner cities). My wife got her teaching degree in Tennessee, and they were paid SO poorly she had to continue working the same retail job she worked in college just to keep her bills paid with a 1 bedroom apartment and a used car. She finally got SO disgusted with teaching she quit and went into management training at the store she worked at. After we married, she transferred down here to Texas and then when we later learned we were expecting a little one, she decided to get her alternative certification and start teaching again here in Texas, which was MUCH better. (and less crazy hours than retail, but at least as much work if not more). Her best friend from college is still in the Nashville area, she's a nurse and busts hump to pay for private school for her son, who's just a bit older than our daughter... Tennessee public schools are a bad joke. The problem isn't the teachers, it's the SYSTEM. Whenever gubmint gets their fingers elbow deep into something, they make a complete bloody mess out of it. Between the gubmint and liberals, they've RUINED public education in a lot of places and it's an absolute disaster. Same thing with agriculture... it's why things are as skewed and screwed up as they are... gubmint meddling and mess-making. That is true of a LOT of things... *most* things I'd argue, in fact... Later! OL J R :)
hi Ryan do a video of the day in life of a farmer like getting up in mourning and showing what you do and what gonna do that day and so on,and that would be interesting to see later enjoy the videos,later Ryan.
Brewing some coffee and vicariously farming with all my farms subs. on a saturday morn.. @ 2:11, I've always wondered in this example, why does the combine not directly pump into the trailer? Instead of into the cart then into the trailer? Someone enlighten my day please,.
Grain carts speed up harvest because they allow the combine to unload "on the go" while continuing to combine the grain. Even if they stop the combine to unload, it still speeds up harvest because the combine can get right back to work when it's finished unloading. If there were no grain cart, the combine would have to stop harvesting, drive from the part of the field he was working in to where the truck or gravity wagon was parked, and then stop and unload there, which takes a couple minutes usually to unload the combine. Then he'd have to drive back to where he was working in the field to continue combining. Another big advantage is, the auger cart acts as "grain storage" in the field. For instance, when harvesting with my brother-in-law this past fall, I was running BOTH the auger cart AND the semi. He was running the combine. I'd haul a load of corn into town, and both the auger cart and the combine would be full, and he'd be sitting about five minutes or so on average waiting for me. I'd park the semi on the edge of the road by the field, and he'd pull up with the combine and start unloading since the combine was full to the gills with corn. While he unloaded, I'd go get the 4890 with the auger cart and pull in next to the truck when he went back to the field to start combining again. I'd auger about 600 bushels out of the brimming-full cart into the semi, by which time the cart was unloaded, he would be at the far end of the field, having combined his way down there, and I'd take off across the field after him. He'd have about 3/4 full grain tank on the combine, so he'd unload into the cart on the go as we headed back down the field combining back toward the semi. Once he was unloaded, I'd take off across the field back to the semi, auger most/all of the corn out of the auger cart into the semi (leaving the cart empty or nearly empty), and then "stage" the cart next to where he was harvesting, park it, and go tarp the semi, jump in it, crank up, and head for town. Meanwhile he continued to combine, unloading at the end of each round (or whenever he got full) into the parked auger cart. By the time I got back from town having emptied the semi, he'd be sitting for about five minutes or so full-- wash, rinse, repeat, about 6-7 times a day... Now, on days when my nephew was off work, we ran quite a bit faster-- I would usually be in the cart all day, with the BIL in the combine and the nephew in the semi... I'd follow the combine in the cart all day and take corn from the combine until the cart was full (full enough to stop running across the field) and then he'd continue combining; I'd 'stage' the cart next to where the semi would be expected to pull up for the next load, and wait. The combine would usually stop and completely "top up the cart" until it was brimming full, and he'd go combine another swath across the field. When the combine was brimming full, he'd pull out of the field (if the semi hadn't arrived by then) and he'd stage to unload into the semi as soon as it arrived back. If the semi arrived back at the field edge while he was still combining, I'd pull up to the semi and start unloading, and the combine would usually then just pull up beside me and unload into the cart as I was filling the semi. Then he'd go back to the field and resume combining. As soon as the cart was empty, I'd chase down the combine and take off another nearly-full load off the combine, and run it out to the edge of the field and unload it onto the semi... by that point the semi was full and the nephew would tarp the load and take off for town, while I returned to take another load off the combine down somewhere in the field... Without the cart, it would slow the entire operation down tremendously... even with just me and the BIL most days, we could run *almost* nonstop, with only about a 5-10 minute stoppage of the combine between loads. With no cart to dump into, the combine could only harvest about 250 bushels (with the bin topper extensions brimming full to overflowing) and then he'd have to stop and wait for the truck to return to unload into. THEN he would be able to resume combining, pick another 250-ish bushels, and he'd have to stop AGAIN to unload the combine directly into the truck. Then go back and get another 250 bushels, come unload that into the truck, go back and pick another 250 bushels, come and unload that into the truck, at which point the semi is full and I'd tarp it and head to town. He'd go back to the field as I left and pick another 250 bushels (maybe a round or so in the field, IOW, maybe 16-24 rows, done in about ten minutes I guess) and then he'd be FULL and have to park the machine and wait for me to get back with the empty semi. WITH the auger cart, he could pick 250 bushels, dump it in the cart, pick another 250 bushels, dump that in the cart, pick another 250 bushels, dump about maybe 1/4-1/3 of that to fill the cart brimming full, and go back and pick another 100 bushels or so til the combine was full to the brim, then ease out of the field and wait for the truck to return. Now there's about 600 bushels in the cart, 250 or so bushels in the combine, all ready to go on the truck as soon as I arrive back at the field. He can unload in 2 minutes and be back in the field, and I can unload in about 4 minutes, by which point I go back into the field and take off the 150-200 bushels he's combined while I was unloading the cart, and then I can run that back out of the field, dump it on the semi, and be ready to go to town with the truck again... See how that works and how much faster it makes things?? Later! OL J R :)
wonder why the yield contest has to be verified by a person, when you have all the gps, digital footage from your drone and yield monitor, plus the weight and moisture content is monitored at the grain elevator... just wondering. building inspectors are relying on digital photos and video clips.
To prevent cheating... not everyone is on "the up and up" some people will stop at nothing to win, even cheating... the only way "to be sure" is to have someone watching and keeping track while it's being done... Later! OL J R :)
Those brush chains they installed to save kernels-- I noticed that too and I think the stalks are simply breaking about the first node that goes through above the stalk rolls... at the very least, those brushes are pulling off nearly all the leaves and shucks along with the ears and feeding all that plus the tops of most of the stalks into the combine... Course they say they're saving enough grain from butt shelling or header losses to pay for the chains and stuff... so that's a good thing. So long as the combine can handle the extra "trash" without putting it in the grain tank or floating corn out the back... Later! OL J R:)
How Farms Work hello. I ordered a new 2005 duramax GMC and had it 12 years. I'm thinking of getting a new Denali duramax. Do you have any regrets or advice? Would you buy another Denali?
I'm disappointed that top 20 bu. appears to be missing. What your average non-farmer viewer may not realize is that missing 20 bu. is literally coming off your profit for the field. What I'm trying to say is the field may have yielded 10% less then expected but your profit is not just 10% less, it's considerably more. You know what I'm trying to say, no matter how badly I say it. At $4.00 corn that $80/ac is coming right off your profit. Right out of your pocket, so to speak. !85 bu. corn is a respectful corn yield regardless, but that $2700 would have bought Jamie a lot of boots and purses. I'm not making fun of the situation because I've BTDT many times. KIT d
Most likely that 20 bushels IS the profit... can easily mean the difference between a profit and a loss. BUT, you can't control the weather... The yield mapping and technology and planter improvements and soil testing program and all these other things allow you to micromanage a lot of things going on in the field, but ultimately the one thing you CANNOT control that is the biggest factor is the weather... Later! OL J R :)
The head looks like it's pulling in way to much trash, no wonder you have to go so slow, did the other snapping rolls do that as well or the new ones worse?
How Farms Work man that sucks they pull in that much fodder, that's extra wear and tear on the machine and has got to be hard on fuel, I hope they are worth it
Not to rekindle any family rivalries or anything, but just doing the math, it still beats 30-bushel beans. Better luck next time. In all things, there is a lesson. Seek it.
dude! speed the feeder house up a bit, looks like the corn head is running way slow and keeping you from driving a bit faster. We were around 4 mph or a bit more with a 6 row on the 9500. Run a 6 row chopping on a 9600 now at 4.5 mph and not pushing the speed at all.
Watching you and Travis's videos it seems like your agronomist missed a little bit. Not saying that you guys have not learned a lot but it seems you guys had better yields before you hired him. Not bashing but in the end it is about the bottom line. Thanks for the videos!
Buckhorn Cortez I agree, just they both seemed a litttle disappointed. Just saying that's got to be tough when they seemed to go out and changed some of their practices to get a little less than they have had in the past. I like these guys very much, both have very good videos.
Did you ever heard about Terra Preta to increase yield for a long time to come? If not what do you think about trying it on (a part of) a field out? You could just mix Biochar in to the cow bedding an would not have to do anything diverent then usual and by the way the cow manour would not smell anymore. If you want more information there are many very good RU-vid Videos out there about it like this one. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-arTAwCNAaFA.html
Every one wants you to upgrade tractors and the combine or buy a grain truck but with 20%+ corn moisture a drying system would pay for itself in no time.
K J no doubt I run about 1100 acres and they have newer equipment for the most part but taking that hit on moisture when the prices are where they are hurts. I think these guys are doing a good job especially considering the situation we are all dealing with now, low prices high inputs and rent where they are is out of hand.
Don't sweat it Ryan, there wasn't a thing wrong with the video today, as it always is. It's just that some commenters can't find anything better to pick on, so they find the smallest of things to complain about.
