Living in Scotland, UK 🇬🇧 this Rice farming is all new to me. We always joke about planting rice when it is very wet in Scotland but I think it is too cold here . Great rig Jole. 😊😊😊
This is GREAT!! With you, Joel, Juan Browne, and the Millenial Farmer I have so much information in my head that my hair hurts!! LOL Seriously, it is a pleasure and a privilege to listen to people so well qualified AND articulate enough that even I can understand them. Thank you for all you guys do. I enjoy all these channels VERY much.
Thanks Joel for allowing the viewing public to gain some valuable insights into "stomping" and the long term benefits to those rice farmers who have tapped into your expertise.
Could you to get a shot of that field once it is drained? Would be cool to see the affects of the stomping and what it looks like. Thanks for another great video!
Joel is very cool, like all you rice guys. My uncle Wesley Samuelson who farmed rice with his brothers in Richvale in the 50's always came in the back door of his house dripping with mud. I never saw him out of his overalls, they were either very muddy or very clean which was my aunts job, and yes I believe she ironed them!
Hi Rick! Glad you enjoyed. It was a fun video to do and you're right, Joel is very articulate so it made for an interesting video and it was easy to edit. -Matthew
I have to say that I just love all the specially adapted farming machines. And some of them have been adopted by the farmers themselves and not produced by large companies
As a fellow farmer I absolutely love what you're doing for our industry! I just wish we had someone like you back here in white corn country aka south central Nebraska.
Always wondered what those 6 foot wide metal wheels were made to do... and now we all know... thanks Matt for all your super powers. The Sutter Buttes in your shots are gettin' green.
Mr. Rice Farmer, I'm totally digging the vids. Here are some of the reasons. 1) You are videoing just how innovative farmers have to be to survive. 2) you are showing that farmers have to be smart. Lots of regs, farming techniques, etc. Gotta evolve or die. 3) you didn't show any action shots involving hands (LOLs). Thanks and keep up the excellent, professional work!!
Thanks SB VOL! You don’t like hand action shots? Man, that’s hilarious. You know I was looking for the hands-on-wheel action shot but it just never happened. Thanks for the cool message. -Matthew
Thank you, brother! My battery was low to start out with so that was all the shots I got! Wish I could have flown closer to the steel tires. Glad you enjoyed. -M.
Hi Matt...🇦🇺 Joel's got it right, the stomping is a one pass operation... Very interesting to see the depth of the steel wheels as they pass over the stubble layer.. looks like very good incorporation of the stubble back into the field.👍
I did that back in the '70s thru the '80s in a place called Bara-Bara, Mahaicony River, Guyana, South America as a rice farmer. We all have unique ways to get the soil ready for planting.
I have a farm in Uruguaiana, Brazil, our rice production method is little different, but the mud and dirt is the same. Congatulations and good harvests.
I am going to guess they have a special low bed for moving that rig? Steel wheels on a steel deck sounds difficult to move. Thanks for another great video.
I never knew rice could be so fascinating! Great shots of the tractor ‘floating’ across the field and the Ibis looking for a meal (we don’t get them here). California Soul (Joel)!! 🙃
Man I like that idea. We pull what we call a water buffalo. Same principal but it's a big drum pulled behind with angled plates welded to it on edge. Plus it's on hydraulics with travel axles so you can drive it down the road with no need to trailer the equipment.
Dude. I was showing my dad your videos and he knows who you are!! I was kinda star struck lol. His name is Wes. He works for Kramer's manufacturing in orland.
Very cool dudes! I had no idea that rice was grown in California. One question I had was, how do you get from field to field ? Can you drive on the road with the steel wheels?
That looks fun to drive the stomping tractor in that deep of water. The owner of the tractor has a good idea on cutting cost in raising rice. Matt have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Here in Arkansas we grow alot of rice , never seen a tractor set up like that , here we use a roller that has cleats on it called a stubble roller pulled behind a rubber tire tractor to do the same thing. And the roller is 20' with loft wheels so it can be moved from field to field
This looks like a efficient method for dealing with the straw. Guess every option is a compromise as you mentioned in the previous episode that cutting very low that you need to do for this puts more wear on the internals of the combine but when compared to all the other activities you are not doing it would save? Thanks
This video is the first of yours to be recommended to me. To be honest I am surprised that California allows rice farming because of the amount of water required to do it (that is a comment towards leftist politicians, not rice farmers). Also, I am surprised that they allow such an old tractor to still operate due to emissions but I am glad to see the tractor still working hard. Great video. Really neat to see.
Have seen wet-field prep in Thailand, but the gear is not quite so big. Could we see the effects of 'stomping' after the fields have drained? Would be interesting to compare to chiselled/disked ground. Keep up the good work!
It’s really just smushing, Skinner. The chopped straw I grabbed into frame was cut back during harvest by the combine. The stomper is pushing the straw into the mud. -M.
@@Ricefarmingtv I'm running this thing behind me and I wish I could send you a picture/video. Maybe I should upload it to youtube. It's sizing up stubble in 2 x 2 pieces. Cross cut and it's obliterated. The only downside is the Phillips harrow as it wraps straw or grass. But at 30 foot, I'm making time. And sometimes the axles are under water. This thing might could be up your alley
Matthew, isn’t it possible to just let the straw decompose naturally? Then incorporate it into the soil during your first land prep work for the next season. Filipino farmer here, I enjoy watching all your videos.
Jonas, with out some form of incorporation the straw will not fully break down and form a blanket of sorts over the top of the soil. When spring rolls around it is very tough to get this old straw blanket worked into the soil. Thanks!
Very interesting method of late season soils conditioning Matthew! Is there a sufficient tillable aspect to the stomping method that removes a chisel step in the spring? Or does the volume of winter water compress the soil too much during the winter's rest phase? -Bob...
Hi Bob, the stomper primary goal is to mix straw and soil. I don't think there's a sufficient tillable aspect that removes the chisel step in the spring. In fact I would think that, in the spring after chiseling, the discing, land planing, fertilizing and flooding of the field we already settle the soil and any chisel marks. As Joel mention: one aspect that aides spring work that the stomping accomplishes, is filling in any drains or harvest ruts made by tractors. In the spring the field will be a nice even plain to run tractors across. -M.
Good point, guys. But I would imagine the trailer is heavy enough to push soggy straw into the mud, all under water. Definitely not getting the same compression. I wonder if that’s noticeable come spring tractor work. -Matthew
In some fields the trailer could use more weight. You will see a “mow hawk” behind the rig. However after a winter worth of decomposition it has very little effect on spring ground work.
California rice farming...how much has your land subsidance have you seen from all the groundwater your pumping? If you haven't maby you should look into it.
The local mechanic must love responding to calls from the field:) Also interesting that the tractor wheels stay free of debris, the trailer wheels however seem to collect a lot. Wonder what the difference is?
The mechanics are never to excited to come out to the stompers! If the trailer is directly in the path of the harvesters tailings you will see the straw build up on the trailer, however if the tractors wheels are in the path of the tailings you will see build up on the tractors wheels. Thank you!
north east arkanas and south east Missouri use a roller with slats or steel plate 6 to 10 in. deep and the rollers are up to 40 ft. long ,, thay do fold so you can get down roads .. thay travel fast enuf that through mud over the tractor . in spring thay pull a land plain if needed. or just plaint. gumbo ground .
