Again thank you for the content of this video my family has been farming rice in brazoria county tx since 1921 amazed that its taken this long to let the rest of the farmers out there that we exist
We are very used to combining flooded field crop in Arizona/California. It's crazy how quick the fields get knocked down and leveled for the next crop!
Thank you for coming down to the south to see what we go through in the rice production of rice. there is more to the food supply than soybeans and corn.
Need to make a visit to Mississippi again Mike and get some more big tractor video doing land levelling. Come in mid August and get some rice harvest video too.
Mike, Looks like pretty clean harvest. Working in mud would take a heavy toll on the equipment. But it sounds like it wouldn't matter to the field, because it's going to be flooded anyway! Great video, thanks!
Yes Mike makes excellent videos and I enjoy looking at them. The Imperial valley is an impressive farming area in CA; and the Central Valley also very impressive especially Boswells spread at Tulare lake.
Just a quick correction so that people know. Macdon D series are not flexible it’s a rigid head. Only thing that moves is feeder house hookup. It would be called and FD if it was flexible.
Little known fact… you won’t see a transverse rotor Gleaner combine in a rice field. When Gleaner introduced the transverse rotor machines they lost all their business in rice country.
Totally different from what we're used to in Ohio. Looks like a tough environment for machinery...especially if they were fighting mud. How is rice yield per acre figured?
Hello everyone good vidéo mike less can't wait next year I'm going to Ranthoul Illinois to go to the half century of progress show if you haven't already heard of it and I even have the opportunity to drive a JD 6030 in the morning and in the afternoon an international Cummins 903 cubic inch repower Detroit engine diesel
@@farmhandmike I'm French I live in Alsace it's a friend of ours who is the owner of a farm in Ranthoul who invites us and my boss and I can even drive a few tractors I'm so impatient and maybe I'll come across some RU-vidr American that I am frankly I was there in 2015 or 2016 nothing comparable in France it's the best show especially for people like me who love us equipment frankly I love this event and have you seen the 3 new tractors announced for 2023 a big bud 700 caterpillar engine 18.1 liters with a displacement of 750 hp a quadrac 715 case 19 liters displacement 8 cylinder 715 hp and a jd 9rx 830 18 liters displacement jd 830 hp personally if in France nothing would hold me back without hesitation I will settle in the us because there is too much to see down there every time I go there I find it difficult to leave America
Rice harvest is usually done in muddy and extreme conditions. You use the tractors you have. Yes a smaller tractor would handle the cart in most conditions but what if they don't have anything smaller? I personally like pulling a grain cart with an articulated 4WD tractor just for the visibility.
As Mike mentioned, it's whatever is available at the time. Many farmers in SE Texas team up to harvest so it may just have been what that particular farmer brought to the show. Also, we've had a very dry summer here in Texas. It's not typically like this so, as Mike also mentioned, it is often much wetter than this at the harvest and you need the power and size to get through it when it's softer.
@@boomerang379 you can grow rice without levees 0 grade where its perfectly flat you have a road all the way around the field that holds the water in with drop tiles. Row rice you plant on last years bean beds and you have one levee on the bottom end of the farm with a couple of gates in it
Don't know anything about growing rice. Are the stalks muddy full of dirt? Be like running sandpaper through the machine. See any wild hogs running around? I hear they love the rice fields.
