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- Опубликовано: 7 янв 2025
- We're baling something different today! I'm sad to say it's not our cotton this year, but let's take a look at the John Deere CP690, and see what we can learn from my neighbor Todd Rovey with Flying R Farms about cotton and picking. He's kind of a big deal around here.. people know him. Hope you all enjoy the short break from hay!
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Never thought about Cotton plant fitting into the Row Unit! Learned something New!!!!
I started farming in the late 70s ang grew my first crop of cotton in 1984.
For the first 3 years we hauled cotton to the gin in wagons. We got our first module builder in 87 and we used modules til 2012. In 13 we bought a 3 year old 7760 round bale picker for just a shade under 1/2 mil. It just finished it's 11th crop for us.
Thanks for menching the Roves,went to hischoool with Larey and Dan,Don ,worked with teem in Glendale. Hope you all had a good holaday.
One of my uncles worked in a cotton gin. Probably in the same town, Bokchito, Oklahoma, where his farm was near. Thanks for sharing.
Happy New Year Trevor and Family. Yes when I was over there in 07 the balers were few and far between. Thank you for the ride along. Keep up the great work mate from New Zealand. I chopped corn on that very test farm in Aguila. Please get me an H2a visa! Jeans, belts, collar shirts, big arms.. man I miss Arizona. .
I worked at John Deere Des Moines Works working with the cotton design engineers in developing new parts back in the ‘90’s. Some of those same parts are still used today, primarily on the picking units. My role changed as they were beginning work on the concept that became the round bale picker. Very nice video. Keep up the good work.
Interesting info on the quality of our AZ cotton. FYI Jason Rovey was just pictured in the Wickenburg Sun making hay. I know he was also involved with the Deere test farm in Aguila. Thanks!
Great video, I remember when they used to grow a ton of cotton and corn here in Glendale back in the 70's and 80's. Nice trip down memory lane.
Row guidance sensors for corn look like whiskers on combine snoots.
Trevor, I really like videos like this that explain mild specifics about different chops and procedures such as this. Great video!!!
Thank You for taking the time to share with us
I see that machine often pretty incredible.. I live close by theirs were he farms .great video also wonder how that worked im a Truck driver and operated heavy machinery so it's pretty awesome
I wanted to see some more of that. Interesting
Another video coming
Hello from Moosomin,Saskatchewan, Canada great videos thanks for sharing.
Always enjoy seeing your greeting!
The cotton farmers here in Alabama don’t like high cotton. It’s harder to pick. Those are some nice yields you guys have in Arizona. Thanks for the video. I have worked at Pala Verda and saw the alfalfa fields in that area.
Awesome video Trevor!
Thank you!!! How did we do compared to you guys?
I found you from off the husk pod cast and started following you thanks for sharing your business!
Oh man! Hope you enjoyed the podcast!
Yes, the podcast was fun and it is great to see many different farmers get together and laugh.
So cool... a combine for cotton who woulda known...
Very interesting. Thank you for the content
most of my neighbors are now buying the John Deere CS770 with 12 rows. They harvest charge 13 cents/ lb in the round bale. We are in the upper Panhandle using a corn cotton rotation. We put on about 5" of water in the summer to make 2.5 to 3 bales per acre. My grade is 21 color, 37 staple, 44 mic, 34 gpt 40 staple is the min for Pima cotton. Is your AZ upland cotton much different grade?
What does the grading show for your cotton.
Here in west Texas we have cotton strippers, it’s just a different header and a burr extractor behind the cab. John Deere just started building a 12 row folding header for strippers.
I'm a farmer from central ND and was down in Phoenix last weekend and wanted to see some farming down in that area. Actually ended up driving by your place too. Very cool and different from what we do up here. Really neat seeing the cotton fields and bales also.
You didn’t come find me?!??
@@BalesHayFarmandRanch Didnt know you lol. I just saw the name was familiar then I figured it out after. Next time I will and take a squeeze for a spin😂
Fantastic video gentlemen!!
Glad you enjoyed it
Very interesting , I don't know much about cotton but I know the dairies feed it. So does the seed go into the bale or do they have to harvest it separately?
Whether it's a round bale of cotton or cotton module (L 32'x W 8'x H 8'-10') it is completely raw cotton. Cotton Lint, Cotton Seeds, leaves from the plant, sticks & stems, cotton bolls (unopened cotton pod/Bloom) even rocks.
There are some videos on RUclips that will show how a cotton gin works. The type of cotton and how it is Ginned. Irrigated cotton typically picked by a spindle cotton picker. Whereas in the Southern plains they typically use what is called a stripper cotton picker.
Cotton seed makes excellent cattle feed when it's mixed with grain and/or silage.
It's high in protein.
We use a mixture of corn silage, ground corn, cotton seed and peanut hay. And we typically add molasses to the mixture.
It allows for faster weight gain and better marbling.
Nice, so interesting.
Interesting! My wife's family grows dryland stripper cotton in West Texas. With the drought over the last 5 years or so they've had more crop failures than crops that went to the gin. They have also had plants that grew too tall in wet years. Very interesting crop.
Thank you. that was pretty cool
Back in my day these were free
Back in my day they weren’t green
fuck yeah - fuck yeah guy
Very GOOD video Trevor
Yep, Jim (& Randy😂) at #FieldRows(w Florida farm) is where you can watch a cotton module being built. Pretty much all I know about cotton I learned from Field Rows & Conley Baman, like cotton is actually more like a tree which is why they treat it to with to stop it’s growth.
Love that guy
@@BalesHayFarmandRanch everyone likes Randy much more then Jim! 😂
That’s a good one, liked it alot
Great video
If you want to know about cotton and peanut growing Field Rows is a good place to start.
I talk to Jim and Randy often. Did a podcast with Jim.
@@BalesHayFarmandRanch Randy, he's something else ain't he. Can see why they try to keep him away from machinery.
When you say a bale, what is the weight of the bale? Back before the 70's mint used to be chopped into open tubs and guys would spend all day tromping it down.
A gin bale is about 500lbs.
The gin bale is 500. The round bale is 4,000 to 6,000 depending on machine and moisture.
Trevor
Do you use breathable tarps on your stacks? I too hate tarping hay. Here in PA it's very difficult to get conditions dry enough to tarp successfully. I am considering trying the breathable tarps and looking for feedback. Thanks
Really enjoyed the video ! Farmer from SE ND vacationing in AZ city, Would love to meet you ! Is there a day better than others for me to meet you ? Should I call your office ?
Thank you!! It’s so difficult to say. We’re still busy. I’m usually able to meet people. We are open to the public. Come over. 8:00am to 5:00pm. You’ll see the store, equipment and people.
Why is there still cotton on the plants after the picker goes through it?
Hey Trevor, was wondering if you are going to be at the World Ag Expo in California this Febuary
Not this year. Baby coming soon.
Oh congrats!! BTW you have the sweetest merch.
As he was picking cotton and the drone was giving us a view. It look like there is a lot of cotton left in the field. Do they have a acceptable amount of waste?
Is there no way for them to get more of the cotton off of the field?
There is. I talk about it in the next video.
Mr. Bales, those are cotton modules. They are not bales until the cotton is ginned.
Todd said they were saving the seed,is that taken out at the gin?
Yes. That video is a few weeks away
Hello, good time. How many tons of cotton do you harvest per hectare?
Oh man, I don’t remember.
@@BalesHayFarmandRanch Thankful
more videos like this one...
If your interested in cotton harvesting check out Triple R farms channel.
I grew up in Selma and worked on a cotton/corn/bean operation south of Triple R near Sardis AL. It's also very near the Alabama River, as they are. I enjoy watching Daniel, his Dad, and his crew farming my homeland. I miss those central Alabama cotton fields!
How does a guy get a job in ag these days ? I’m looking at local farms and it seems like nobody wants to talk to anyone unless there family in my area , It’s mainly vegetables in my area but I saw a crew picking broccoli and I asked if they are hiring and I was told to go away lol
It depends I guess. Everywhere is different.
We used to pick with 2 row and haul to gin with wagon s that aweser some things I wonder about a good video
Oh yeah! When I was young, my dad would leave my brother and I at the trailers and make us pack them by foot.
Done that plenty of time when we were young we thought that was fun that for telling us about cotton there they a lot better yield then we could grow short er season here
@@BalesHayFarmandRanch Packed a lot of trailers by foot. But it was stripper cotton and didn't have a burr extractor so lots of burrs and sticks.
How much Corn is grown down there
🤷🏻♂️
wrong video ask it on a corn video duh
7 bales * 2400 acre/year * $2400/bale = $42,000,000/year
Just to put the value of the crop into perspective to the $1M cotton picker.
So what we learned is that the cotton that's used to make your underwear isn't grown in Arizona and is probably grown in the hills of Kentucky. LOL
KOOL video. 🚜🚜🚜
Really? whats so funny? LOL? pipe down
Cotton picking supposed to be my job
Really?
@@BalesHayFarmandRanch No i was joking
350 years too late.
Cotton picking cotton picker
bet you think youre reeeeeeal funny huh
I think they prefer to be called African Americans.
No
@@BalesHayFarmandRanch Man, I just came back to see what comment your replied to.
Just about choked on my drink.
@@HaggisMuncher-69-420 were you being racist? I haven’t watched that video in a while. So I am guessing you are making a very bad joke.
@@BalesHayFarmandRanch If you wanna says jokes make people racists, then yeah, I'm the biggest racist you'll ever speak to.
On the other hand, you could grow a spine and some thicker skin...
NAH, right?