Lentils - Worst Crop of 2022 😬 

I combined a few pumpkins once. The landlord had carved some pumpkins and threw the insides in the manure spreader. Next year they were growing in my soybean field. This was before Roundup Ready and they survived. I saw pumpkins coming in the header and for a second wondered if maybe I needed a little more sleep.

I'd spend $2 an acre over $60 any day. That's like us we double crop soybeans after wheat in late June to mid July . The double crop beans only yield 15 to 35 bushels an acre compared to 40 to 90 bushels they could do an acre if we plant them in April or May. but every bushel over 8 is profit . Great work !

Mike, I love how you ask the question and answer the question, Mike interviewing Mike love it.

Impressive how detailed you explain things it helps people understand how tough farming can be if you don’t know

The crop list is standard on all gen 4 displays so it’s nice to have those things in there when you planter, spray, cultivate, or pull your Amanda’s pnut combine to harvest.

Our reds are going to end up around 4 bushel. Tough year again. North of Glasgow

Thanks for your footage Mike. Love watching you guys all the way from England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

😂😂😂 Mike that is the funniest thing I've heard about. Thank you for the laugh

As always lots of great info and entertainment! Thanks Mike!

I agree with your thinking about still combining poor crops. I’ve cut full quarter sections that amount to 20 bales. Still better then nothing. Gotta do it

Nice liked the cost explanation and the mechanical explanation, very nice, it shows you arn't afraid to learn about your machine and its settings. information is power/key

Hey Mike The cutter bar won’t flex “UP” where you’re worried about clipping the fingers off your reel. Unlike hydro flex, the cutter bar on a HD50F will only DROOP it will not flex upwards, the header flexes upwards with the wings and allows the cutter bar to droop down to maintain ground contact. This will prevent any conflict between cutter bar and reel fingers. It also maintains the relationship between cutter bar and reel

Hey Mike give that million dollar Warren Buffett machine a break popcorn is actually harvested with a combine🤣...I just love how brutally honest and un-brand loyal you are keep the videos coming and safe harvest!!

Thanks for taking time to explain that especially when you need to go north asap.

Morning Brother Mike. God Bless you with a good day!❤️🇺🇸🖖🏼

Big ol fancy million dollar X9 with all its old school levers and turn buckles ☺️👌

Mike,"combined" Basil is the best basil. LOL Hope you, Ashtyn, and Chapel had a great summer. I'm sorry your red lentil crop was so weak. Better luck next year my friend. God Bless

That crop list literally made me die 😂🤣💀

Hey Mike as far as taking your shoes of … they make tractor mats just like weather tech. Awesomeness 👌😜

Mike if you go to your header auto setting there should be an option that let's you put your auto fore-aft tilt off, sp if that's off then you can loft you'd header up with the dial and not have your combine tilt forward it definitely saves your skid plates I did that this harvest with my combine seemed to work better if you manually ran the fore-aft rather that let the combine adjust it and pick rocks in flex mode.

If you choose orange or lemon option the combine will stand up right on its back wheels. Next corn harvest choose pop corn option and put your helmet and goggles on....🍿🍿🍿

You need to call your dealer n tell him you picked up some custom work this winter down south n what settings he recommends for pineapples and if John Deere recommends filler plates😂😂😂!

Great video Mike very informative.

Mike, your center is fixed and both sides flex from the center point. Just an engineering absolute.

Frankly I think the Lemmon tree would be a little hard on the header. And I’m sure the pineapples will make a mess in the rotors. But it your combine go for it! LOL

I feel left out. My combine doesn't have those settings ☹️ Although I am getting hungry watching that list scroll by 😃

i love your rant on the preset of crop types in your X9 combine LOL what the heck is -Montbretia -Mung Beans -Musk Melons and my favorite -Narcissus, what are theses LOL

Thanks for the video Mike

I'd like to see someone combine some grapes...LOL

Hello Mike great videos thanks for sharing 😊

Wish you had shown some more combining. Even in poor crop. I Enjoy watching

Sorry to see those fields. They do look like you have combined them already. By the way, peanuts are not far off. You only need a dif header and possible other screens.

LOL yes we have Harvest popcorn. With the combine. LOL definitely not peaches or oranges. But I get it that's for all types of machines. Thanks for sharing with us

hey lemons are good to harvest especially when they are my last name. great vid mike keep it up

You would really have to flex that header for Garlic since it’s underground 😂

LOOOOL at those options in the combine haha

Another cost you are incurring is ware and tear. If you pick up a stone you'll immediately see it. Either way I hope your North farm does great.

I maybe wrong but on our 640Fd I believe the platform is all the way up in ridged mode so I’m theory if your reel is adjusted correctly you can’t cut your fingers off in flex mode as it will never rise higher then it does in ridged.

Mike your air hose just tossed out on that platform is driving my OCD crazy! Surely there’s storage for it.

Please don’t cut off your fingers you can’t hold your phone and show us your awesome videos Mike. Thanks 😂😂

I went back through your video Mike and the center canvas was in slow beforehand. You can see it standing out at 11:50. Hope that helps!

That’s just the John Deere snack ordering list. Just tap and it will be delivered asap!

I had to look it up. Zantedeschia. A Calla Lilly from South Africa hahaha 😆!!

Magnifique vidéo et la récolte est bien intéressante

popcorn harvest will be starting in Nebraska this next week. very similar to harvesting yellow field corn

In Iowa we do infact combine popcorn.

Now that's funny as heck😆😆😆 pineapple and tomatoes 😂😂😂

Seems to me like I have actually seen "wild" cucumbers growing in a field or two that I have combined in midwestern Indiana.

Let’s just hope it rains like the Amazons rain forest in Saskatchewan next year

Wow! I thought you where sat on a harvested area until you set off!

I’ve personally had my fill of lentils for awhile. .32 reds are a joke, 55 last yr and crop really isn’t a standout this yr. Buyers keep texting looking for small greens at .42, told them call when they are at .63, which is what they were last yr. I want the same price… fert is the same so why should we get .25 lb less?? These crooks should be locked up. I get your point of getting something back, but would be a hard pill to swallow for me to be out there. If one thought this crop was at record levels to grow … wait till next spring.

thanks for showing the good and bad of farmin g

If it’s the same as an S series, there’s a diagnostic address you can change to shut off the alarm when you get off the seat with the separator still turning.

The cost of running your combine MUST be considered or cutting `on the ground` does have wear factor, I can see your rocks, but the impossible decision of whether too or not cut is a kin to flicking a coin up. I hope the roller did a good job !!

Howdy Mike enjoy your videos

Trying to imagine a hopper full of zucchini. Someone would be shoveling out that hopper for sure. I vote Frankels for that job.😂😂

What,…you skipped right over cantaloupe. 😂😂😂

Hi Mike The first years depreciation , is around 25% because the dealer has to make 15 % - 20% in margin. 5% covers warranty and 1st owners use , so effectively it has cost you around $250,000 to pull it out and get it dirty. I understand what you have to do , and I've been down that road before. My heart goes out to you.

Popcorn is an actual crop that is harvested with a normal combine😂

Mike there not enough to get seed or can you even do it like some other crops and use it for seed if not how you weigh out the cost of that much money in all that equipment taking such a beating for nothing let alone all the fuel and labor cost a lot of people will say I done it my self so no labor cost and I think that is wrong because weather you do it or someone else your time is worth something a lot of people don’t look at that way but your time is always worth something man I hope you all have a better year next year people think you and your family has lots of money weather you do or don’t is nobody business what I’m saying money or not there is nobody can keep taking hits like that the last two years that is a lot of bleeding out and sooner or later you run out of blood god knows what we need on these matters I hope everything works out good for you up north keep up the good work mike I hope you get plenty of blessings

There are many questions in the comments regarding farming revenue. I’ll explain that farming isn’t much of a profitable business, debt ratio is high. Although, insurance helps with bad yield, taxes are lower or none and much money is spent on machinery maintenance or for new purchases. That’s what I have heard.

I also spotted you could combine black eyed peas the band

Can the x9 actually combine quinoa? seems like a crop that can do decent in the drought. do any of your neighbors farm it?

Seems to me..if you planted a field of lemon, pineapple, and raspberry..you could make a hell of a mixed drink.

Selecting popcorn will initiate a toasty self destruct mode im sure

Ok I am curious, How do you think popcorn is harvested?

I find it quite Fascinating how different a British harvest is so much more thicker and you can see the dirt where you are

Mike's the funniest guy Mike Knows. Just ask Mike.

Cranberries would be hard since they grow in water.

"Forage Mix" had me, how on earth would you harvest "Forage Mix".

Great vid

Hi Mike, What do you think of the NEXAT system, and will it work in your fields? did somoeone propose you to test it?

I combined some apples yesterday

Ohhh !!!! Doesn't Chapel just love raspberries??

Hey Mike….. take care of that air hose on the platform!!!! Geez!!!!!

Mike maybe its time to try quinoa? Its fairly resistant to drought

Do you run a rock roller where you run the headers on the ground in shot crops like these lentils? We do it on a lot of our acres. It makes a noticeable difference hear in eastern ND for cutting soybeans and not picking up rocks.

Must need a heck of a filler plate for pineapples. 🤣

Popcorn?? That comes from corn. So you can't harvest them😅

Great awesome video mike, however John Deere makes harvesting equipment for those types of harvesting and I’m sure they have the same cab too

What is depreciation cost per acre?

Time to put up some more bins!!!

Farmers do harvest popcorn with combines in Iowa!!

Sounds to me that Macdon patents came off and John Deere copied a lot of their designs. typical..

Thinking Deere engineering learning from MacDon.

Breaking news, Mike is injured choking on bug, not falling off equipment or bins.

We grow spinach for seed and combine it with a S760.

They combine quite a bit of popcorn in Indiana

do you ever do anything to inprove soil helth to get better yields like growing cover crops and removing compaction

Hi Mike. Strange crops. What settings do they suggest?!!!!!!!

Morning, late morning but still morning

The depreciation of an X series per hour of thresher use is hardly negligible. It probably close to 5x what fuel costs are

combine those grapes without making wine lol.

They do combine popcorn where I live. But lemons and pineapples? 😂

Did you check what was under M in that crop menu? you might be able to harvest a crop of money? if you have no crop/product to sell for 2 years how does a company stay afloat?

How do you combine apples ???

Hey Mike, there should be rocks on your crop list. It makes me nervous seeing you running the header so close to the ground. It is like your rock picker, only 50 foot wide! 😱 Good news: With crop so poor, you see the rocks coming.

Hi Michael. I've been following your channel for a long time. In my humble opinion i think you would have a better chance of growing a crop in the Sahara desert than up their in Canada. I don't understand how you can afford it.I farm hear in Great Britain and grow Brewers Grains and milling wheat, if i had them kind yields you have the banks would have me sold out years ago.God bless you and the rest of your harvest

no you can not cut the finger off the reel with that header and run your feeder house in to float setting

i had lentil soup today !!!