Their growing corn that is bioengineered then genetically modified to be poisonous. The insects that eat it die. If people were to make it more than 60% of their diet they will die also. On top of which they spray 1000's of gallons of poisons and toxins into the soil and ground water to get record yields and maximize profits. Herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, weed killers, toxic fertilizers. The well water in most farming communities is classified as unsafe for human consumption not to mention the wildlife. What these people are doing is sick and evil and you think people should help them out? Currently 86 countries refuse or restrict importing American agricultural products because it's garbage like what these people are selling as food.
Hi Laura, I'm a truck driver who grew up on a farm in SW Nebraska. I noticed the tracks in your field the other day while driving back to my old hometown for harvest. The question about what people call corn harvest. I've noticed, is answered by location and the era you grew up in. For me, it was picking corn and cutting beans and wheat. My grandfather called it shelling corn and thrashing wheat. BTW, I was one of those watching and not subscribed, until today. You are doing a great job, keep up the good work. I'll be the truck driver waving like a fool at you and all your neighbors while driving down I-80 now that I know approximately where your fields are. Keep up the good work. 👍
Grant, might I suggest you pre fill that big oil filter with oil before installing on the engine . I don’t do this for my little diesel engines , however for the bigger engines it takes many seconds to fill that big filter and then supply oil to the oil galleries and the crankshaft.
Yup. Always a good practice to fill up all filters you replace (if possible). For those that are not viable, there's a trick where you modify the base to add two ports (an air bleed and a mini hydraulic push lock) that way you can put oil in after the filter's been set in place.
Gosh we drove by your farm twice about a month ago! We went to Gearing. We went to the State Department of Educations meeting. We visited also Chadron, and Kearny for the events that went on! Wish we could have dropped a visit with you all! We are a micro channel compared to you all! Lots of love to you all, always!
Laura, I have one thing I learned from this - I could NOT do farming. The worry I would have at how I can pay the bills, keep up with the enormous expenses and repairs that are constant, and be terrified if the crop failed. Oh my goodness, you two are the bravest people I will ever meet. And again, you two provide the food that I eat at my table so thank you for serving really the world with your production of food!
For me what I learned is farming is a unique type of wealth, because I think Grant and Laura have some fun money to buy toys with but farming usually isn’t what people think of when wanting to get rich
No it's called get corn and it is inedible of the way it is but it is used for livestock feed making ethanol it's used for also used in grit for grinding grits used for probably in your Doritos and corn chips a variety of uses it's not just table corn can also be used for livestock feed 🤠🥰😎🤠
Farming can be risky with crops as weather conditions play a big part but with nearly 500,000 subscribers I believe they don't need to worry about money which is a good thing and I see Laura farms channel getting bigger
@@phillipjgustafson9792that's field corn, it's used for ag like you said. The corn used for human consumption is different, & not harvested at the same time. Had a neighbor that used to grow white corn for Frito Lay, they had strict rules they had to follow throughout the entire process.
Decades ago, i was about 12, i was with our neighbor in the field harvesting sugar beets. It was october and the field quite muddy. That field was part level and part it had a rather steep slope downhill. The harvester was towed by the tractor. The harvester had a conveyor, about 6 feet wide, to the right side to unload it. There were a lot of beets on this conveyor, making it right side heavy. On the way back to the next row the tractor drove along the sloped part, the right side pointing downhill tilted i guess about 20-30° to the right, about a foot above the tracks it already had made into the field. Due to the mud the tractor slipped down into the tracks. The harvester slipped down, too. Because of all the beets on the conveyor on the right side and it already being tilted it lost balance and toppled over. There was an open air seat on the left side in the back of the harvester. I was sitting there. I got thrown up in the air, and landed on the wire mesh cage that holds the harvested beets. I got a nice pattern on my back from the wire (well it was not wire, much thicker) mesh. Luckily the seat was on the left side, not on the right side the harvester landed on. I´ll never forget that. So a tool to break a window to get out can be a life saver.
Yeah i grew up in farm country in the UK, my friends dads were farmers, but i never took interest, except enjoying fighting orcs around all the dangerous farm buildings and getting up to mischief as a kid. but this channel is in my mandatory watch list haha. Just a nice slice of life and hard work and learning every few days.
Ich bin aus Deutschland und erst vor ein paar Tagen auf diese Videos aufmerksam geworden. Ich finde es ebenso fesselnd und bin beeindruckt mit welcher Leidenschaft ihr das macht. Du bist absolut extrem sympathisch und das macht es so angenehm bei der Arbeit zuzusehen.
I grew up in Northern IL. When we picked ear corn to fill the corn cribs, it was called picking corn. When we used the combine for various crops, it was called combining corn, combining soybeans, combining oats, and combining wheat. When we shelled the ear corn out of the corn cribs, it was called shelling corn. Pepper and the kittens are adorable.
Great job on the videos. Really enjoy Laura how you explain everything. Its fun to watch you guys daily and see the farm seeded, growing and now being harvested.
I totally enjoy watching your videos. I appreciate the hard work you’re putting in not only on the farm, but in putting out the videos. You and Grant are awesome. Thank you
Watching you guys farm is amazing. I grew up many years ago on a small farm. Your equipment, because of the scale you farm at is huge. I picked corn with a one row corn picker, not a combine. Farming has come a long way. You are both a credit to farming and your parents raised you right!
Picking - shelling - harvesting. This is a grandpa question. Picking goes back to the days when corn was literally picked by hand one ear at a time. This migrated to when machines still picked the corn on the ear, typically with a pull-behind or tractor mounted picker. When the first grain bins arrived, most folks added an attachment to their tractor mounted picker to shell the corn before it was augured into the wagon - this was called a picker-sheller. Withe dominance of the combine, we began to call it harvesting corn.
hand picking is a lost art for those who are born after the Koren conflict. Father-in-law still had the equipment he used to do just that, except the horses. Talk about labor intensive to pick but also to unload into a corn crib. then when you sold it, you handled the ear corn again to shell it. all this is done in the fall, Spring was another labor intense effort to plant the corn
Wonderful video! I think we all enjoy having a reference to the time and date of each portion of the recording. It brings us closer to y’all by being able to imagine what each day was like very recently. Today is Oct. 6, we know you’re out in the fields harvesting and recording your next video, and we’re all looking forward to watching it. 👍🏻 and 🙏 for a great harvest!
I've been an active viewer since subscribing around 3 years ago. I was once a produce farmer but it was small-scale by comparison. And yeah, it was a lot of work, around 12 hours a day while I was still in grade school. I didn't learn a lot in school, but wasn't brainwashed either. I grew up to be a software engineer when my school told me flat out I'd never be more than "just a farmer" due to low test scores.
My wife's uncle (Atkinson, NE) called it "chopping corn" but that was a dairy farm and I believe they used the whole stalk for silage. We really appreciate the frequent updates. Thanks to both of you. We are telling everyone who will listen that you have a great channel!
Hard to believe that so many folks watch and don’t subscribe. It is such a free to us way to help you guys. That, and watching the commercials is so easy to do. Now, IMO, Harvest , as a verb, means to gather the crops. As a noun it names a time of season. In huge quantities, it is usually accomplished with machines. Pick as another way to harvest. Acres of sweet corn and green beans by hand. Loved the square body tee.
You guys are a pleasure to watch. I get to see the hard part of farming, the fun part of farming, and the love you both have for what you do. I know it's difficult but please keep up with the multiple postings per week. I live vicariously through you two.
Great job Love you guys....you restore my faith in your generation. That takes a lot for me to say that. If everyone was like you two the world would be a better place......
TIP: After I was asked by my allergist to stop taking Allegra, I learned that it was why I was having hour long sneezing fits after taking it. I became allergic to Allegra. He switched me to a nasal antihistamine spray called Azelastine and I haven’t had issues since. Switch to something else once in awhile and don’t let yourself get a tolerance to any one thing.
I enjoy your videos. I only have 20 acres which is probably less than a drop in the bucket for you. I grew & harvested hay for my 3 Clydesdales, 1 Sstandard Bred, 1 Gloden Palomino, 1 Arabian Welch & 1 Welch. Now at the age of 75, all of the children are grown & scattered, I am not doing much of anything in the way of farming. But I did watch the neighbor across the road harvest his 300 to 400 acres field the other day & it reminded me of watching you Laura & your husband Grant at work on your farm. Keep the great videos coming & I am subscribed. Thank you again.
Hi Laura if you ever have to use that hammer hit the glass near the edge by the rubber in the middle of the window it could bounce a bit and more chance of your arm going through the glass
I appreciate you taking the time to put out videos for us!! Love watching the harvest videos. Hope you reach your goal on subscribers,fingers crossed for you!!!
I had to subscribe, seeing youngster like you two putting in real work and doing the RUclips, awesome, there may be hope for us still!! Grant, dude you are funny as hell, you make me laugh all the time.Laura with all those kittens in a few weeks there won't be a mouse, vole or lizard anywhere near your equipment shed (aircraft hanger) 😂👍
Hey Y'all, When I was a kid on our farm in Upstate NY ( not far from NYFG) we just called it Combining, regaurdless if it was Corn, Soy beans, Peas, Wheat, Oats or Kidney Beans. When it came to Corn Silage, It was chopping corn or Hay. So many variation around the country. Sad to say I left the Farm in 1980 and moved South to Florida and rasie Qaurter Horses Now. Enjoyed your video, Thanks for sharing.
to save seed make a map to stop seeding a foot or 2 after point where you water. form vid looks like maybe 3 or 4 pounds would be saved to use elsewhere
They have commented in other videos that this was a dryer than usual year. I think they usually go ahead and plant those non-irrigated areas because those areas will produce some corn if they get decent rain. I'm guessing (though I definitely don't know) that, on average over the years, the extra profit in those areas from wet years exceeds the seed-cost and other planting/harvesting (glorified mowing) expense loss from dry years.
So fun to watch you guys farming a field I must have driven by a number of times, especially when I lived in Papillion, NE and went to visit relatives in Ravenna, NE from time to time. (Now live in Central IL where I farm with my wife). Your occasional Runza visits also bring up some of my NE memories.
Have you ever tried planting something like a drought resistant corn seed on the dryland portions of your fields? Also, as a data analyst, I've been racking my brain about the different bits of data that could be collected and then used to help get better yields or project the yield throughout the growing season. Is this something that is often used in the industry?
as to the latter, I can state definitely that YES, such data analysis is vital to modern day farmers. Correlation between soil composition, seed density, moisture and fertiliser deposition, and yield is gathered and analysed constantly. And as technology improves, this can be done ever more fine grained to where these days the water and fertiliser requirements can be tuned for every few meters of a field automatically by the computers in the machines, as can the seed density. Obviously sprayers for water aren't as accurate, but for fertiliser it is now distributed in precisely calculated doses so as not to waste anything (and to reduce pollution as a very desirable side effect, though the original goal when developing the tech was of course to reduce cost as fertiliser is very expensive). Different brands have different names for it, but they all do more or less the same thing. Soil samples are taken, combined with last year's yields, and used to compute the optimal seed density and fertiliser density for every spot of a field down to a few meters.
@@jwenting there is a huge amount of data collected by many of those electronic devices in the cab. I had asked my neighbor when I lived in Wisconsin about all the electronics.
Awesome video! I especially like the shot with the kittens and the sunset, it was spectacular. About the vernacular concerning corn, I was told that picking corn is plucking the ear of corn from the stalk, whether by hand or machine, then conveying it it to a wagon to be dumped into an inclined drag conveyor that filled the corn crib crib. Shelling corn is when the corn on the cob was stripped by a machine when it was unloaded from the corn crib. Harvesting corn is using a machine that "combines" both operations
Out of all the numbers and stats quoted in today's episode, the one I found most surprising was Laura's last pearl of info regarding how few regular viewers actually are subscribed. Had no idea there were so many SLACKERS out there! C'mon people!
Me, too. That caught me completely by surprise. Friends, RUclips sells advertising to companies, and pays revenue to creators, based on total views and on subscriber count. Alll those corners where irrigation doesn't reach? All that corn they "harvested" in this video that yielded no actual grain? This year has been tough for farmers across the Corn Belt, and Laura and Grant have been smart enough to develop their channel as, if you will, an alternative form of crop to farm. That's why you need to subscribe--it matters to their RUclips revenue.
Go to Napa, they have a whirlwind spinner type compressed air paper air filter cleaner - it's a air gun that sticks down the open end of the air cleaner and spins the nozzles and blow out the dirt -and I never bought one because my Land cruiser and Ford E250 Van didn't use a cylindrical filter element. state the full date in the video wrap-up 😁 21:12
Hope you get one half million soon. Love the corn harvest videos. Got to ride in a combine with a farmer harvesting corn once. It is awesome watching those corn kernels fill up the machine. Thinking of your planting videos earlier this year it does not seem like that long ago. Another year in the books. Don’t forget to let us know how many bushels you got per acre. Thanks for all you farmers do for this country and the world.
I ended up upside down in a Corvette in a cornfield once in my younger days. I didn't even spill my beer. Crawled out and had a few choice words for the guy driving.
Hi Guys, I live in western Massachusetts. Our larges farms for the most part are dairy farms and harvest corn and hay to feed their cows and sell what they don't need. The smaller farmers raise tons of vegetables to sell in the farmers markets, local stores and road side stands and they also raise corn a lot of them pick to sell for human consumption. They range in from Buter and Sugar corn, Silver Queen Sweet corn. These seem to be most popular around here. I will also for us there is nothing better fresh sweet corn covered with butter here in late August till the end of September. But thank you Laura and Grant for all your hard work to help keep America feed. Jeff Lane Lenox Dale, Mass
Diesel exhaust fluid is the EPA trying to solve a problem by creating another one. Let's cut down on truck carbon emissions but create just as much with the DEF's manufacturing, packaging, and transportation.
Next on CSI: Nebraska - Our intrepid investigators of Corn Scene Investigations tries to figure who or what trampled their field (or feild if your name is Laura.)
I am not a farmer but I really enjoy your videos and also have one of your T-shirts . I am a retired Master Diesel mechanic and I know that just keeping your equipment is a job in it self. You two do a great job running that farm congrats. Art W. Michigan
I'm a new subscriber, originally a farm boy, from Ont. Canada, U. Guelph, Crop Science. During my time at U. of G. I recall breaking the 100 bu. corn. That was a big deal. Most of my career was doing field research and managing 3rd party research for regulatory purposes in Western Canada. Live in Calgary. Now retired and enjoying you and other farmers while sitting on my chair.
I know your parents are proud of ya”ll. Good values and ethics as well as a successful result. Great job and thanks for sharing with us. 500k subscribers is good, aim for 1M!
Thank you to you both for all the hard work you do! Really appreciate the date and time stamping!! I often see older posting show up in my feed so it really helps. Love your spirit and positivity. Keep it up and good luck with the rest of harvest. Yes, I vote for “corn harvest!”
Well.... I never knew how much was involved in farming.... The both of you work very hard and always something to keep you busy.... Thank you for this as I have learned alot about the farm life!!!
We were just past your field last week. We were at the Buffalo round up in South Dakota. While we don’t know where your fields are at you’ll do a great job explaining the deferent processes needed to harvest your crops. Great job and Thank you!!
With the equipment you all use. I think it is all of those things, picking, shucking, and harvest in one shot... You two are the pros!! GOD bless farmers, they feed the world!!!
Thanks for another great video Laura and Grant. It was interesting. How interesting a vehicle of some type crashed into your field and destroyed a fair amount of corn. You would think they could have done the right thing and let you know they damaged your corn. Wow. What a deal. Keeping your machines going and serviced is very important. My compliments to you both for the excellent care you give your machines. I see you were blowing out the radiator screen and big air filters which is really important also. The tractors and combine operate in a heavy dust environment so my compliments to you for doing that. Laura my vote is harvest. To me harvest is the entire operation not just picking or shelling corn. See how you come out on this Laura. About it for now. Thanks for everything Laura and Grant. Take care and be safe. The Iowa Farm Boy. Steve.
If any commenters here have not subscribed yet, DO SO NOW!!!!!!!! Laura & Grant do such an amazing job @ posting, & doing so this time of year, their busiest time is remarkable! Get some good rest guys! Awesome job!!!!
Thanks to you and Grant. Farming is long and hard. But if you enjoy it, then it’s fun. I get the privilege to watch how you and Grant work the equipment and farm, it’s been a season of fun. 😂 thanks again
Pick beans, harvest corn. Been subscribed almost from the start. I am enjoying seeing how the production value and storytelling elements of your videos have matured. And you're right, those kittens are adorable.
You are combining corn, picking corn is harvesting the whole ear and putting in a corn crib to dry and then later using a corn sheller to take the kernels off. I have done all, and don't forget the harvesting silage where you cut off at the ground and dice the whole corn stalk and ear.
That brings back a lot of memories for me. Our old John Deere would let you know when it was full by the kernals falling on the cab. I worked from 10 am to 12pm most days during harvest. I would have to go back to the trailer to unload as we had no help. I skipped a few rows turning around a couple of times while learning to harvest. Good thing the boss didn't catch me harvesting just 2 rows of a 12 acre field. Counting rows to skip in the dark can be a challenge with poor lighting on the harvester. Some small fields we would leave 4 rows for the dove hunters to use as blinds. I liked corn more than soybeans. Regardless, it is way more work than most people realize.
big equipement uses big filters and lots of oil.. but that the way it is.. I find it helpful to fill or half fill the oil filter before screwing it on.. it help to build pressure quicker so less wear on the engine.. a old mech told me this yearssss ago.. LOL... keep oil changed adn good clean fuel and they will run a long time trouble free. Good job..
In my part of rural Nebraska. It's common for a car to drive off the road and through pasture fences. When the hog confinements were operating. It was a weekly occurrence.
Love your channel. Discovered you from the Off Road Games where you were awesome. I can’t believe how rude some people are. Crashing through your field and not bothering to let you know and just take off.
So amazing. Another GREAT video. Time seems to go by so fast as far as when I was following all of your planting to seeing harvesting now. So exciting!! Thanks again for another great, fun, entertaining video.
We started with a 2 row corn picker, eventually added a shelling unit on the back of the picker. We also harvested corn for silage. finally had a 4420 combine with a 38 " 4 row head So I can say we have picked, shelled, harvested, and combined corn and beans.
Laura, I understand your happiness when corn is picked, indicating the end of summer. Growing up on a cattle/row crop farm in Ohio, when hay making was finished, wheat and oats were harvested, silage corn was chopped, and cattle were moved to winter lot, summer was officially over and work days became shorter.
I grew up on a farm. We PICKED corn and COMBINED beans in Tennessee. One of our cattle pastures was on an S curve and we had people miss the turns and crash through the fences several times when I was growing up. Most of those incidents involved alcohol so my dad would let them cool their jets til morning before he would help them get out. Luckily, no cows were ever harmed.
Great info for us city slickers but definitely interesting to know how hard farmers work to product the products us city slickers use on all products we use daily. Thanks!
When it's fresh, sweet corn, I call it picking because it's selective and a smaller scale, but in your case, I'd call that harvesting because it's done in high volume and with machinery. Love you guys.
Great video. I am so glad you guys are doing so well. Get Grant to weld a ft. or so of pipe to the ladder door and lock so you want have to reach so high.
Thank you Laura and Grant for all the hard work you guys put into these videos ! I have worked around farming most of my life and wouldn't trade it for anything
Picking is just pulling the ear from the stalk, shelling is removing the kernel from the stalk (though it is called threshing and cleaning with the combine). Since you are doing the whole process in one sweep with the machine then it would be harvesting. That is the way it was always explained to me growing up.
Most Definitely!! Enjoy and Appreciate You Laura And Grant For Producing Videos Love Spending Time With you Two!! And Video Is The Only Way I can Enjoy time with you!! Thank You!! Keep Smiling On!! 😄👍👊❤️
I'm subscribed and always have been. Two beautiful things from today's video. First, the grass you and Grant planted looks fabulous. The second thing, the kittens are so adorable. Awesome video. Thank you!!
All depends on how you are doing it, picking is usually reserved for whole ears, harvest is combine, shelling is usually manual, I have been working in hay fields for a living for 30 years, but my grandfather was doing it back with horses and manually picking and "shucking" corn ears and throwing them onto a wagon.
All you people watching but not subscribed need to help Laura out. It doesn't cost anything but helps her a lot.
Their growing corn that is bioengineered then genetically modified to be poisonous. The insects that eat it die. If people were to make it more than 60% of their diet they will die also. On top of which they spray 1000's of gallons of poisons and toxins into the soil and ground water to get record yields and maximize profits. Herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, weed killers, toxic fertilizers. The well water in most farming communities is classified as unsafe for human consumption not to mention the wildlife. What these people are doing is sick and evil and you think people should help them out? Currently 86 countries refuse or restrict importing American agricultural products because it's garbage like what these people are selling as food.
Hi Laura, I'm a truck driver who grew up on a farm in SW Nebraska. I noticed the tracks in your field the other day while driving back to my old hometown for harvest. The question about what people call corn harvest. I've noticed, is answered by location and the era you grew up in. For me, it was picking corn and cutting beans and wheat. My grandfather called it shelling corn and thrashing wheat. BTW, I was one of those watching and not subscribed, until today. You are doing a great job, keep up the good work. I'll be the truck driver waving like a fool at you and all your neighbors while driving down I-80 now that I know approximately where your fields are. Keep up the good work. 👍
Grant, might I suggest you pre fill that big oil filter with oil before installing on the engine . I don’t do this for my little diesel engines , however for the bigger engines it takes many seconds to fill that big filter and then supply oil to the oil galleries and the crankshaft.
I make it a point to fill every vertically mounted filter, no reason not to!
Especially if it's a remote mounted oil filter
I was thinking that...
Yup. Always a good practice to fill up all filters you replace (if possible). For those that are not viable, there's a trick where you modify the base to add two ports (an air bleed and a mini hydraulic push lock) that way you can put oil in after the filter's been set in place.
Even horizontal filters can hold a good bit of oil without getting messy on install- lots of fiber - wise to prefilled.
Gosh we drove by your farm twice about a month ago! We went to Gearing. We went to the State Department of Educations meeting. We visited also Chadron, and Kearny for the events that went on! Wish we could have dropped a visit with you all! We are a micro channel compared to you all! Lots of love to you all, always!
Laura, I have one thing I learned from this - I could NOT do farming. The worry I would have at how I can pay the bills, keep up with the enormous expenses and repairs that are constant, and be terrified if the crop failed. Oh my goodness, you two are the bravest people I will ever meet. And again, you two provide the food that I eat at my table so thank you for serving really the world with your production of food!
For me what I learned is farming is a unique type of wealth, because I think Grant and Laura have some fun money to buy toys with but farming usually isn’t what people think of when wanting to get rich
No it's called get corn and it is inedible of the way it is but it is used for livestock feed making ethanol it's used for also used in grit for grinding grits used for probably in your Doritos and corn chips a variety of uses it's not just table corn can also be used for livestock feed 🤠🥰😎🤠
@@phillipjgustafson9792 Shows you how ignorant I am of our food supply. Thanks for the clarification.
Farming can be risky with crops as weather conditions play a big part but with nearly 500,000 subscribers I believe they don't need to worry about money which is a good thing and I see Laura farms channel getting bigger
@@phillipjgustafson9792that's field corn, it's used for ag like you said. The corn used for human consumption is different, & not harvested at the same time. Had a neighbor that used to grow white corn for Frito Lay, they had strict rules they had to follow throughout the entire process.
Decades ago, i was about 12, i was with our neighbor in the field harvesting sugar beets. It was october and the field quite muddy. That field was part level and part it had a rather steep slope downhill. The harvester was towed by the tractor. The harvester had a conveyor, about 6 feet wide, to the right side to unload it. There were a lot of beets on this conveyor, making it right side heavy. On the way back to the next row the tractor drove along the sloped part, the right side pointing downhill tilted i guess about 20-30° to the right, about a foot above the tracks it already had made into the field. Due to the mud the tractor slipped down into the tracks. The harvester slipped down, too. Because of all the beets on the conveyor on the right side and it already being tilted it lost balance and toppled over. There was an open air seat on the left side in the back of the harvester. I was sitting there. I got thrown up in the air, and landed on the wire mesh cage that holds the harvested beets. I got a nice pattern on my back from the wire (well it was not wire, much thicker) mesh. Luckily the seat was on the left side, not on the right side the harvester landed on. I´ll never forget that. So a tool to break a window to get out can be a life saver.
It's hard to explain why, but watching your daily videos is absolutely riveting for me. You guys do a fabulous job! Thanks!
Yeah i grew up in farm country in the UK, my friends dads were farmers, but i never took interest, except enjoying fighting orcs around all the dangerous farm buildings and getting up to mischief as a kid. but this channel is in my mandatory watch list haha. Just a nice slice of life and hard work and learning every few days.
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Ich bin aus Deutschland und erst vor ein paar Tagen auf diese Videos aufmerksam geworden. Ich finde es ebenso fesselnd und bin beeindruckt mit welcher Leidenschaft ihr das macht. Du bist absolut extrem sympathisch und das macht es so angenehm bei der Arbeit zuzusehen.
I grew up in Northern IL. When we picked ear corn to fill the corn cribs, it was called picking corn. When we used the combine for various crops, it was called combining corn, combining soybeans, combining oats, and combining wheat. When we shelled the ear corn out of the corn cribs, it was called shelling corn. Pepper and the kittens are adorable.
Love this channel... thanks for the ride along from a guy who grew up on a working farm.....i know how much work it takes to do what you do.......
Great job on the videos. Really enjoy Laura how you explain everything. Its fun to watch you guys daily and see the farm seeded, growing and now being harvested.
I totally enjoy watching your videos. I appreciate the hard work you’re putting in not only on the farm, but in putting out the videos. You and Grant are awesome. Thank you
Watching you guys farm is amazing. I grew up many years ago on a small farm. Your equipment, because of the scale you farm at is huge. I picked corn with a one row corn picker, not a combine. Farming has come a long way. You are both a credit to farming and your parents raised you right!
Picking - shelling - harvesting. This is a grandpa question. Picking goes back to the days when corn was literally picked by hand one ear at a time. This migrated to when machines still picked the corn on the ear, typically with a pull-behind or tractor mounted picker. When the first grain bins arrived, most folks added an attachment to their tractor mounted picker to shell the corn before it was augured into the wagon - this was called a picker-sheller. Withe dominance of the combine, we began to call it harvesting corn.
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Yes I am 67 so I am old enough to know what a corn picker was and what it did, so your explanation was accurate. Mine was similar to yours.
hand picking is a lost art for those who are born after the Koren conflict. Father-in-law still had the equipment he used to do just that, except the horses. Talk about labor intensive to pick but also to unload into a corn crib. then when you sold it, you handled the ear corn again to shell it. all this is done in the fall, Spring was another labor intense effort to plant the corn
I unloaded many corn cribs and now almost forgotten. We ground the ears to feed the dairy cows. @@cornflake73
I unloaded many corn cribs and now almost forgotten. We ground the ears to feed the dairy cows. @@cornflake73
Wonderful video! I think we all enjoy having a reference to the time and date of each portion of the recording. It brings us closer to y’all by being able to imagine what each day was like very recently. Today is Oct. 6, we know you’re out in the fields harvesting and recording your next video, and we’re all looking forward to watching it. 👍🏻 and 🙏 for a great harvest!
I've been an active viewer since subscribing around 3 years ago. I was once a produce farmer but it was small-scale by comparison. And yeah, it was a lot of work, around 12 hours a day while I was still in grade school. I didn't learn a lot in school, but wasn't brainwashed either. I grew up to be a software engineer when my school told me flat out I'd never be more than "just a farmer" due to low test scores.
My wife's uncle (Atkinson, NE) called it "chopping corn" but that was a dairy farm and I believe they used the whole stalk for silage. We really appreciate the frequent updates. Thanks to both of you.
We are telling everyone who will listen that you have a great channel!
"Someone crashed into our corn field!" My first thought = Where's WhistlinDiesel? :D
That would be right up that idiots alley
@@aboversite You simply do not get it yet, do you? lol
That is literally what I thought when I saw the title
Thanks for sharing Laura and Grant. We use to farm dry land crops about 70 minutes south of where you all farm.
Here in South Central Missouri, we call it Picking corn, combing wheat and soy beans commonly.
You pick ear corn u combine when it's shelled in the field
Hard to believe that so many folks watch and don’t subscribe. It is such a free to us way to help you guys. That, and watching the commercials is so easy to do.
Now, IMO, Harvest , as a verb, means to gather the crops. As a noun it names a time of season. In huge quantities, it is usually accomplished with machines.
Pick as another way to harvest. Acres of sweet corn and green beans by hand.
Loved the square body tee.
its combining corn, picking corn is when the corn is harvested with the cob (ear corn)
You guys are a pleasure to watch. I get to see the hard part of farming, the fun part of farming, and the love you both have for what you do. I know it's difficult but please keep up with the multiple postings per week. I live vicariously through you two.
16:10 they are on most visible places in every bus and train. So strange people asking this question.
i thought everyone carried one in their vehicle ,i always have since i found myself upside down in a cornfield hanging by my seatbelt ?
Great job Love you guys....you restore my faith in your generation. That takes a lot for me to say that. If everyone was like you two the world would be a better place......
4:33 This one who appears now is the luckiest creature on earth…He has a beautiful wife🥹🥹🥹🥹
Such beautiful sunsets there with that view of the horizon, I'm surrounded by trees where I live in central Minnesota.
guys, really appreciate all the content you put out, good job!
Farming tech has grown so much. My brothers and I helped my grandparents when we were little. Gand-dad would be impressed.
TIP: After I was asked by my allergist to stop taking Allegra, I learned that it was why I was having hour long sneezing fits after taking it. I became allergic to Allegra. He switched me to a nasal antihistamine spray called Azelastine and I haven’t had issues since.
Switch to something else once in awhile and don’t let yourself get a tolerance to any one thing.
I enjoy your videos. I only have 20 acres which is probably less than a drop in the bucket for you. I grew & harvested hay for my 3 Clydesdales, 1 Sstandard Bred, 1 Gloden Palomino, 1 Arabian Welch & 1 Welch. Now at the age of 75, all of the children are grown & scattered, I am not doing much of anything in the way of farming. But I did watch the neighbor across the road harvest his 300 to 400 acres field the other day & it reminded me of watching you Laura & your husband Grant at work on your farm. Keep the great videos coming & I am subscribed. Thank you again.
Hi Laura if you ever have to use that hammer hit the glass near the edge by the rubber in the middle of the window it could bounce a bit and more chance of your arm going through the glass
only takes a heavy tap to shatter toughened glass with that hammer - arm goes nowhere near it.
I appreciate you taking the time to put out videos for us!! Love watching the harvest videos. Hope you reach your goal on subscribers,fingers crossed for you!!!
I had to subscribe, seeing youngster like you two putting in real work and doing the RUclips, awesome, there may be hope for us still!! Grant, dude you are funny as hell, you make me laugh all the time.Laura with all those kittens in a few weeks there won't be a mouse, vole or lizard anywhere near your equipment shed (aircraft hanger) 😂👍
Amazing content! Thanks
Were you able to blow out the air filters?
Hey Y'all, When I was a kid on our farm in Upstate NY ( not far from NYFG) we just called it Combining, regaurdless if it was Corn, Soy beans, Peas, Wheat, Oats or Kidney Beans. When it came to Corn Silage, It was chopping corn or Hay. So many variation around the country. Sad to say I left the Farm in 1980 and moved South to Florida and rasie Qaurter Horses Now. Enjoyed your video, Thanks for sharing.
to save seed make a map to stop seeding a foot or 2 after point where you water. form vid looks like maybe 3 or 4 pounds would be saved to use elsewhere
They have commented in other videos that this was a dryer than usual year. I think they usually go ahead and plant those non-irrigated areas because those areas will produce some corn if they get decent rain. I'm guessing (though I definitely don't know) that, on average over the years, the extra profit in those areas from wet years exceeds the seed-cost and other planting/harvesting (glorified mowing) expense loss from dry years.
So fun to watch you guys farming a field I must have driven by a number of times, especially when I lived in Papillion, NE and went to visit relatives in Ravenna, NE from time to time. (Now live in Central IL where I farm with my wife). Your occasional Runza visits also bring up some of my NE memories.
Have you ever tried planting something like a drought resistant corn seed on the dryland portions of your fields? Also, as a data analyst, I've been racking my brain about the different bits of data that could be collected and then used to help get better yields or project the yield throughout the growing season. Is this something that is often used in the industry?
as to the latter, I can state definitely that YES, such data analysis is vital to modern day farmers.
Correlation between soil composition, seed density, moisture and fertiliser deposition, and yield is gathered and analysed constantly.
And as technology improves, this can be done ever more fine grained to where these days the water and fertiliser requirements can be tuned for every few meters of a field automatically by the computers in the machines, as can the seed density. Obviously sprayers for water aren't as accurate, but for fertiliser it is now distributed in precisely calculated doses so as not to waste anything (and to reduce pollution as a very desirable side effect, though the original goal when developing the tech was of course to reduce cost as fertiliser is very expensive).
Different brands have different names for it, but they all do more or less the same thing.
Soil samples are taken, combined with last year's yields, and used to compute the optimal seed density and fertiliser density for every spot of a field down to a few meters.
@@jwenting there is a huge amount of data collected by many of those electronic devices in the cab. I had asked my neighbor when I lived in Wisconsin about all the electronics.
There is tons of data collected and shared in these modern machines. This is how they grow 302 bushels of.corn an acre.
Awesome video! I especially like the shot with the kittens and the sunset, it was spectacular. About the vernacular concerning corn, I was told that picking corn is plucking the ear of corn from the stalk, whether by hand or machine, then conveying it it to a wagon to be dumped into an inclined drag conveyor that filled the corn crib crib. Shelling corn is when the corn on the cob was stripped by a machine when it was unloaded from the corn crib. Harvesting corn is using a machine that "combines" both operations
Out of all the numbers and stats quoted in today's episode, the one I found most surprising was Laura's last pearl of info regarding how few regular viewers actually are subscribed. Had no idea there were so many SLACKERS out there! C'mon people!
DEF for farm machinery is garbage!
Me, too. That caught me completely by surprise.
Friends, RUclips sells advertising to companies, and pays revenue to creators, based on total views and on subscriber count.
Alll those corners where irrigation doesn't reach? All that corn they "harvested" in this video that yielded no actual grain? This year has been tough for farmers across the Corn Belt, and Laura and Grant have been smart enough to develop their channel as, if you will, an alternative form of crop to farm.
That's why you need to subscribe--it matters to their RUclips revenue.
Go to Napa, they have a whirlwind spinner type compressed air paper air filter cleaner - it's a air gun that sticks down the open end of the air cleaner and spins the nozzles and blow out the dirt -and I never bought one because my Land cruiser and Ford E250 Van didn't use a cylindrical filter element. state the full date in the video wrap-up 😁 21:12
I was always taught it was picking corn and combining beans
Corn can be picked, combined and chopped. We chop the entire plant into silage and feed it to the cows for extra starches
It's picked by the ear...
@@danielrobey1759 And then run through the thresher of a combine to extract the grain from the cobs.
corn sheller@@asmrhead1560
Hope you get one half million soon. Love the corn harvest videos. Got to ride in a combine with a farmer harvesting corn once. It is awesome watching those corn kernels fill up the machine. Thinking of your planting videos earlier this year it does not seem like that long ago. Another year in the books. Don’t forget to let us know how many bushels you got per acre. Thanks for all you farmers do for this country and the world.
I ended up upside down in a Corvette in a cornfield once in my younger days. I didn't even spill my beer. Crawled out and had a few choice words for the guy driving.
I very much enjoy that you both work at this so hard to make this work. Farming truly is a family affair. Thanks for sharing!!!
I would have expected way more than that. 😮
Hi Guys, I live in western Massachusetts. Our larges farms for the most part are dairy farms and harvest corn and hay to feed their cows and sell what they don't need. The smaller farmers raise tons of vegetables to sell in the farmers markets, local stores and road side stands and they also raise corn a lot of them pick to sell for human consumption. They range in from Buter and Sugar corn, Silver Queen Sweet corn. These seem to be most popular around here. I will also for us there is nothing better fresh sweet corn covered with butter here in late August till the end of September. But thank you Laura and Grant for all your hard work to help keep America feed.
Jeff Lane
Lenox Dale, Mass
Diesel exhaust fluid is the EPA trying to solve a problem by creating another one. Let's cut down on truck carbon emissions but create just as much with the DEF's manufacturing, packaging, and transportation.
Yes and Mexico don't use def and Canada don't use def and China don't use def but WE are going to save the world on the farmers dime.
Harvesting. And can we just talk about that Sunrise at 6:27 in the video. Beautiful!!!
Laura, Grant and to all involved, thanks for sharing! Always a pleasure to watch your videos, wishing you a happy and fruitful harvest! ❤
Next on CSI: Nebraska - Our intrepid investigators of Corn Scene Investigations tries to figure who or what trampled their field (or feild if your name is Laura.)
I am not a farmer but I really enjoy your videos and also have one of your T-shirts . I am a retired Master Diesel mechanic and I know that just keeping your equipment is a job in it self. You two do a great job running that farm congrats. Art W. Michigan
Thanks for the nice videos
I'm a new subscriber, originally a farm boy, from Ont. Canada, U. Guelph, Crop Science. During my time at U. of G. I recall breaking the 100 bu. corn. That was a big deal. Most of my career was doing field research and managing 3rd party research for regulatory purposes in Western Canada. Live in Calgary. Now retired and enjoying you and other farmers while sitting on my chair.
I know your parents are proud of ya”ll. Good values and ethics as well as a successful result. Great job and thanks for sharing with us. 500k subscribers is good, aim for 1M!
Thank you to you both for all the hard work you do! Really appreciate the date and time stamping!! I often see older posting show up in my feed so it really helps.
Love your spirit and positivity. Keep it up and good luck with the rest of harvest. Yes, I vote for “corn harvest!”
Well.... I never knew how much was involved in farming.... The both of you work very hard and always something to keep you busy.... Thank you for this as I have learned alot about the farm life!!!
We were just past your field last week. We were at the Buffalo round up in South Dakota. While we don’t know where your fields are at you’ll do a great job explaining the deferent processes needed to harvest your crops. Great job and Thank you!!
Great video! In SE Iowa, we always called in picking corn and combining beans. :).
With the equipment you all use. I think it is all of those things, picking, shucking, and harvest in one shot... You two are the pros!! GOD bless farmers, they feed the world!!!
Good luck combining your corn Laura and Grant
Thanks for another great video Laura and Grant. It was interesting.
How interesting a vehicle of some type crashed into your field and destroyed a fair amount of corn. You would think they could have done the right thing and let you know they damaged your corn. Wow. What a deal.
Keeping your machines going and serviced is very important. My compliments to you both for the excellent care you give your machines. I see you were blowing out the radiator screen and big air filters which is really important also. The tractors and combine operate in a heavy dust environment so my compliments to you for doing that.
Laura my vote is harvest. To me harvest is the entire operation not just picking or shelling corn. See how you come out on this Laura.
About it for now. Thanks for everything Laura and Grant.
Take care and be safe.
The Iowa Farm Boy. Steve.
If any commenters here have not subscribed yet, DO SO NOW!!!!!!!! Laura & Grant do such an amazing job @ posting, & doing so this time of year, their busiest time is remarkable! Get some good rest guys! Awesome job!!!!
Thanks to you and Grant. Farming is long and hard. But if you enjoy it, then it’s fun. I get the privilege to watch how you and Grant work the equipment and farm, it’s been a season of fun. 😂 thanks again
WOW! Incredible amount of work involved.
Wonderful view from your porch. So happy for you both
This by far has been the best video you’ve put out. Thanks so much for explaining everything. Love how things work.
Pick beans, harvest corn. Been subscribed almost from the start. I am enjoying seeing how the production value and storytelling elements of your videos have matured. And you're right, those kittens are adorable.
Time to getter done! Good job you two! Wish I could come help. Always enjoyed harvest.
Love the videos. I live in Tennessee and I drove a truck for 43 years and have been by your farm on I-80 years back.
You are combining corn, picking corn is harvesting the whole ear and putting in a corn crib to dry and then later using a corn sheller to take the kernels off. I have done all, and don't forget the harvesting silage where you cut off at the ground and dice the whole corn stalk and ear.
On Delmarva, we call it picking corn, and cutting beans. But I have heard all the terms. Good luck with your harvest.
It is fantastic to watch your every day harvest videos - thank you so much. I just loooove the kittens 🙂
That brings back a lot of memories for me. Our old John Deere would let you know when it was full by the kernals falling on the cab. I worked from 10 am to 12pm most days during harvest. I would have to go back to the trailer to unload as we had no help. I skipped a few rows turning around a couple of times while learning to harvest. Good thing the boss didn't catch me harvesting just 2 rows of a 12 acre field. Counting rows to skip in the dark can be a challenge with poor lighting on the harvester. Some small fields we would leave 4 rows for the dove hunters to use as blinds. I liked corn more than soybeans. Regardless, it is way more work than most people realize.
Great job driving the combine Laura
big equipement uses big filters and lots of oil.. but that the way it is.. I find it helpful to fill or half fill the oil filter before screwing it on.. it help to build pressure quicker so less wear on the engine.. a old mech told me this yearssss ago.. LOL... keep oil changed adn good clean fuel and they will run a long time trouble free. Good job..
You two are just great together/and work together. Wishing you all the best.
In my part of rural Nebraska. It's common for a car to drive off the road and through pasture fences. When the hog confinements were operating. It was a weekly occurrence.
Love your channel. Discovered you from the Off Road Games where you were awesome. I can’t believe how rude some people are. Crashing through your field and not bothering to let you know and just take off.
So amazing. Another GREAT video. Time seems to go by so fast as far as when I was following all of your planting to seeing harvesting now. So exciting!! Thanks again for another great, fun, entertaining video.
We started with a 2 row corn picker, eventually added a shelling unit on the back of the picker. We also harvested corn for silage. finally had a 4420 combine with a 38 " 4 row head So I can say we have picked, shelled, harvested, and combined corn and beans.
Laura, I understand your happiness when corn is picked, indicating the end of summer. Growing up on a cattle/row crop farm in Ohio, when hay making was finished, wheat and oats were harvested, silage corn was chopped, and cattle were moved to winter lot, summer was officially over and work days became shorter.
❤ thank you for the time stamps. Wishing you a great corn harvest.
Grant´s head shaking at 12:18 (tire goes through the combine) is priceless
I grew up on a farm. We PICKED corn and COMBINED beans in Tennessee. One of our cattle pastures was on an S curve and we had people miss the turns and crash through the fences several times when I was growing up. Most of those incidents involved alcohol so my dad would let them cool their jets til morning before he would help them get out. Luckily, no cows were ever harmed.
Great info for us city slickers but definitely interesting to know how hard farmers work to product the products us city slickers use on all products we use daily. Thanks!
That's the best part about the fence like you said Grant its a State maintained fence and they will replace it
Hi Laura and Grant
I know you use ad blue in your header. I use it all the time in my fendt 1053 tractor.
The corn 🌽 looks great 👍👍👍
Great video Laura and Grant was greatyou need more help to keep up with the harvester thank you for sharing and your time can't wait for next video
When it's fresh, sweet corn, I call it picking because it's selective and a smaller scale, but in your case, I'd call that harvesting because it's done in high volume and with machinery. Love you guys.
Great video. I am so glad you guys are doing so well. Get Grant to weld a ft. or so of pipe to the ladder door and lock so you want have to reach so high.
Thank you Laura and Grant for all the hard work you guys put into these videos ! I have worked around farming most of my life and wouldn't trade it for anything
Picking Corn and you guys are freaking awesome. City boy all my life but I believe in in ANF on the Iowa Hawkeyes helmets. AMERICA NEEDS FARMERS!!
Picking is just pulling the ear from the stalk, shelling is removing the kernel from the stalk (though it is called threshing and cleaning with the combine). Since you are doing the whole process in one sweep with the machine then it would be harvesting. That is the way it was always explained to me growing up.
Most Definitely!! Enjoy and Appreciate You Laura And Grant For Producing Videos Love Spending Time With you Two!! And Video Is The Only Way I can Enjoy time with you!! Thank You!!
Keep Smiling On!!
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I'm subscribed and always have been. Two beautiful things from today's video. First, the grass you and Grant planted looks fabulous. The second thing, the kittens are so adorable. Awesome video. Thank you!!
Absolutely love watching you guys,hard work dirty hands clean money! And all with that beautiful Laura smile brightens my day!❤❤❤👍👍👍
All depends on how you are doing it, picking is usually reserved for whole ears, harvest is combine, shelling is usually manual, I have been working in hay fields for a living for 30 years, but my grandfather was doing it back with horses and manually picking and "shucking" corn ears and throwing them onto a wagon.
Another great day at Laura (and Grant) farms! Love it! Love you guys too!