We Were Forced To Stop Harvest
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- On today’s episode, we started our adventure at the main farm for day 16 of harvest, for a full day of combining corn at Zach's farm. I started the day by trucking semis to the bin site, plus I got corn dust in my eyes, started hiding equipment in the shed before it started to rain, got rained out, cleaned up the corn mess under the grain dryer, did a workout, took care of some errands at the bank, visited with the lawyer, and bought supplies at the Case equipment dealership. While we were rained out, I spent a lot of time in my office planning for the future of the farm, and discussing my future plans for addressing the soil fertility in our fields. The weather ended up straightening out and we were able to get Zach's done and head over to tackle the mile long rows of the North Farm. Today was a really fun day, and I am looking forward to another great day on the farm!
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I never knew how much is involved in growing crops as a business! I’m astounded how detailed it is and amazed at how knowledgeable you are about it! Thank you for feeding us. Without farmers we would be in trouble-and hungry!
Their corn is not used to feed people to eat it is used to make fuel. But I'm not sure what their soybeans are used for.
Well, farmers in general…we’d be in a world of hurt without them!
Cole hats off to you. Using your education to build your family’s business. Cooper your skills and mechanical knowledge are just as impressive. Together you are unbeatable! I’ve watched Cooper’s welding and diesel mechanic skills progress, is there anything Coop can’t fix. Every business needs a neat nick, a MacGyver and an old schooler you’ve got them all. Let’s not leave out the ladies Momma Cornstar puts up with shenanigans, Nave who is a little busy birthin babies has a great work ethic, Summer the comic relief and bright smile, last but not least Gramma Judy who puts up with everyone and has no cats. Thank you all for sharing your story.
All of his family's knowledge and all the different hats that his different family members wear makes me wonder about all the other farmers around him. What I'm wondering is are their farms running as efficient as his farm or are they all just blundering along somehow!?
NICE TO KNOW THAT THE YOUNGER GENERATION LIVING IN THE CENTER OF THE COUNTRY HAS ENOUGH SMARTS TO TAKE CARE OF THIS CRAZY WORLD. WHEN I HEAR COLE SPEAK OF DEEP THINGS I'M GRATEFUL THAT SOME OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE ARE WIMPY WINEY BIG BABIES. I LIVE ON THE COAST, IT SEEMS LIKE THE YOUNG FOLKS HERE DON'T HAVE THE SENSE TO GET OUT OF THE RAIN.
Hard working family. Hope you get it all harvested and dried before the winter rains.
I hope you get all your money back plus more for that bin site!! I hope you have excellent attorneys!!
Thank you Cole! God bless your family!
What is also very important is the weather.
Remember that the climate is changing with wetter winters and hotter summers
My daughter calls the time after lunch but before dinner- lunner 😂😊
The struggle of your youth makes you a better man and more successful as an overcommer
My farm family from Illinois say Linner.
Cole my husband said he wished we lived near y'all, he would of cleaned the corn meal up for free if ya had let us take it for free food for our birds😊😁😁 But we live in Pennsylvania 😔 . We love watching the progress your doing on the farm and love ❤️ the videos
We call it afternoon tea
Those late night dryershack chats with your dad one day will be precious, if they’re not already.❤
Is it just me or do others think you've had more than your fair share of issues with your combine? Granted every color has problems from time to time, but yours seems to have had a bunch all within a relatively short time. I hesitate to use the "L" word, but I can't help but think it. Maybe it was built on the day before a long weekend/holiday, or on a Monday morning after a superbowl party.
Hi Cole, why didn't the security lights come on when you were walking across your property toward the end of the video?
Cole to bad you don’t have a pig to feed all the corn fines and hearts too!
That slab cracked because it is concrete they will guarantee it to get hard and crack especially if there is no control joints to help keep the cracks from spreading all over the slab.
The one under the hopper bottom didn't have enough rebar or screen reinforcement in the structure of the frame work to give it tensil strength and the field went poured thick enough to handle the weight.
Once the spring comes and the big bend are emptied they need to be inspected under the ventilation system in the floor they may also be cracking and failing.
moisture/fat? Really Cole you need to explain % moisture?
Ludder lol
We are so sorry about all your new bin construction issues. I hope that through the legal process, you get things resolved soon. I am appalled at all the safety issues you are experiencing. That bin slab is a big issue. You'll need to pour a new foundation and move the bin.... do much work.
Love Ricardo’s smile with his Dr. peppers. It’s the small things. The man gets it. The motor ramping up is called a VFD (variable frequency drive) it controls the hertz. Another word the sine wave makes it ramp up slow. It’s also good for the motor but it’s good for all components involved.
Off topic here. Been away a bit what ever happened to Sabine? ( sp?). Did she go off to school or something? Yeah, it's been a while.
@@toddmeier9743she got a job at a co-op near them
Seems like he's always in a good mood. People like that are rare!
@@toddmeier9743went to work at the local coop? I think…
Not all are like that with he motors. We had soft starts and then some VFD two totally different things. VFD are for speed control soft starts are to start motor slowly usually using a double contractor to do it. VFD is a actually drive that can do soft start and speed control.
I love that all the family work so well together.!😊
Thanks for explaining the dryer. I had a whole different concept of how it works.
I forgot about the corn on the shed!!!
W/ 23 years in cremation machine manufacturing and service (basically the same type of burners you use in dryer, but run MUCH hotter), I can explain the questions you had at 8:54 :
The rusting areas you are seeing are because those areas are cooler than the rest of the metal - so they will rust. Metal can't rust when it's hot.
Also the little parts of your grain that is poofing out - it's smaller - so the air pushes it much further than the rest - you will probably notice the smaller grains are towards the backend (yes, you'll also have larger parts there as well as it all moves that way, and goes thru the bend to the auger) but most of the smaller stuff near the flame section (read: the area you have less rusting from the outside perspective) is just burned off if has access to direct flame (this is most likely your 'popcorn' smell - the finer bits of the grain being burned off inside), and what makes it past get pushed to the end to fall out - which explains the 'more debris as you go'. The most debris will be at the end as it stops and drops down to auger area, which looks exactly like what's happening.
The picture @8:34 shows the backend of the dryer. An inclined auger brings the wet corn from the cone-bottomed bin to the top of the dryer. As the corn piles up, it covers the leveling auger which augers the corn the length of the dryer. The whole kernels of corn are moved, and the pieces drop below the leveling auger and move to the bottom of the dryer.
The files would have less air flow thus with less hot air passing through making the temperature would be lower.
More fines are at the backend because of where the corn enters the dryer, not because of your explanation.
@@ronsommer9409Excellent explanation! I've never had to work on a dryer system before, so could only assume how the internals work for auger placement.
@@MrWashingToad A cross-section of that dryer would look like a doughnut. The corn surrounds the air plenum (open area in the center}. The leveling auger is at the top and the unloading rolls are at the bottom. The plenum air goes through the corn and out the sides.
The plenum air is the same temperature at the front and the back of the dryer, so the lower temperature would have to be due to less air flow.
Nice to hear so many experienced people in the comment section regarding the drying process. Just adds to the Cornstar channel.
Grain dryer tech here, theres so much more to explain with the drying process lol.
The fines under the drier are great for chickens hogs or just for winter bird feed.
You could probably make cornbread or corn mush with it, too, if you pick out the trash first. LOL
It’s only through those hard times that you can appreciate and be thankful of anything really.
A big hello from a small town Thurles in Ireland 🇮🇪
i worked for a old chicken farmer when I was a young man. He had a deal with a local corn farmer and they let us come and clean up the area around the dryer. I helped bag I don't know how many loads of screenings and he feed that to his chickens. Everyone got something out of the deal.
Waste not, want not! 💙
why were you forced to stop me...
I used to feed the fines from the dryer to my chickens. Had an old oblong water trough that I kept the fines in.
Those cracks in your concrete you should put a sealer into them to at least preserve the pads until insurance or you replace them. Use some kind of caulking to keep the water out before it gets in then freezes. If that happens then it will expand and break it up more as the ice expands. Always like your vids. Farming is hard work that never ends but satisfying
Don't do anything with the build until the lawsuit is resolved or they will use it (However small) as an excuse to try and skip liability.
The problem with the bin is the site prep, when the ground was built up the dirt was not compacted correctly. The concrete and bins were built to spec, adding all that weight to the dirt caused the settling. Caulk is not going to fix the problem.
Sucks having to be bottlenecked because of the bin site. I pray that it gets resolved soon. I know it means having to tear everything down and restart but it be best
I think Cole needs a cheeseburger😅
Cole, I love your remembrance. How did they do that? Hopefully someday Edward and your other kids will share stories of you, Uncle Cooper and Grandpa Corn Star the things you did. The olden times. 😂😊
When did you and Cooper start REALLY helping on the farm? You both seem to have experience beyond your years!
Farm boys start learning from the day they are old enough to tag along with dad, so basically 5yrs old! Personally I started cultivating on my own at about 11 or 12, so I imagine they are about the same. My older brother started earlier than that.
We were in the field with blocks bolted to the pedals so we could reach....if something went way wrong we were told to pull the fuel shut off. Dad used to give us jobs that probably slowed him down just so we had a understanding that no matter what the livestock came first. So in our case, 4 years old for the cattle and pig barns, at 5 or 6 we were running the "small" tractors by ourselves.
Cole what year semi truck Volvo ,Freightliner, other semi truck? What year Dryer ,how much money is new Dryer cost ? Thanks again answer my questions great video keep up good work.
You and your family have come so far since we’ve been following you it’s amazing. Thank-you for bringing us along.
I wish I was closer, I would come over and clean up under the dryer for free. Then feed it to my cattle.
As a real estate investor, not a farmer I appreciate your analogies. Though I have fun with my 5 acres of corn, yes I realize that you waste more out of augers than I grow, but it’s still fun!
Cole, you and your family are truly amazing. I feel your compassion in all that you do. God bless y'all and please stay safe. Lots of love to you and the family.
Cole, if the high/low switch on the shifter is blue, it’s a 15 speed. Red is 13 speed and gray is 18
I Love Eduardo's videos. Looks like mom. Good looking kid.
I could not think of what my families farm would be like today. I do remember complaining about the cold, open air Farmall 806 and the kilbros gravity wagons swaying away as you are well at that age flying down the fields. I mentioned to a cart driver, you have it easy these days. I miss it a lot. RUclips is all I get now.
So thankful for having a day off
Careful with those pushes, you'll need your back for much longer to last
Right time for vid!
Bag that dryer residue up and sell it as chicken feed….
I have a feeling you are a student in land conservation, Cole. And you are in touch with the agricultural gurus. Farming is such a fulfilling profession. You’re fortunate to be born into the right generation to have the equipment and materials and solutions at your disposal. And your family is blessed to have sons that love the land like they have. Hope you always have a profitable adventure and never lose the desire to learn new techniques and ways of doing a job well done. Really enjoy your vlogs.
A really good and enjoyable video today. ❤️
God bless all y'all 🌽✨
Cole, does planting the rows in (some) alignment with the compass (North,South,East,West) have a better/worse result on the crop? I am sure it complicates harvest but would each plant get a bit more sun exposure if its row had a decent angle on the sun?
High Fertility Plan 😂😂😂😂😂, with 2 little ones in 18 - 20 months looks like you have that pretty much handled
I love your positive attitude…never change 🥰 🙋♀️💖🇨🇱
It’s good that you enjoy the memories 💖
The cracks in the concrete ate the ben site is caused by the high water table that you have where you built the gran site. That is all that water you got into at about 10 feet when you dug your pit. All the massive waght of that site is slowly moving down hill. That's why you have a architect that specializes in gran fasilits to create a blue print of it because thay would of told you to get a soil compaction test.😳😳😥😥😥😣😣😣
More along the line of not removing bad soil and installing properly compacted base material at the right depth.
@@johnunsicker7440 that or pouring reinforced concrete pears down to solid ground. Eather way is expensive and would of been better to find better ground.😓😓😓😓😓
All the responsibility still falls on building contractor. They should of made sure of that before one yard of concrete was poured
@@bren-xmotorsports55 No, this is a commercial project thay did exactly what the blue prints told them to do and in this case the blue prints where produced by the contractor. The contractor was told that he needed to cut cost and he did.😥😥😥😥😥😥
Do you usually say 'dinner' the last meal of the day? We still call it 'supper'.
Not too many farmers try out no till cover crop farming. Like Cole said, profit margin. What if your inputs are $500/acre and you profit $700/acre. You may get 1/2 of what you normally get, and spend hundreds of less hours. But at the end, you're still making a profit. $1800 inputs to make $2000 or $500 input to make $700 it's the same.
Farming looks tough and is tough, but the bright side is you have something to do that has meaning to it.
Love your words Cole, your such a great soul!!!❤🙏👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
You made me hungry talking about all that beef now I need to eet my choppie😅😅😅😅❤
"You always get want you want but always get what you need" 🎵!! Hey, I got to see Mamma Cornstar for the first time 🎉! Love your advice at the end of the videos, they are always inspiring to me!!
Cole I love your approach to experimentation. Would love to see you try playing music to one of your crops. I have seen a number of stories which purport to improve yield and would love to see this done on a large scale.
If he did that on a large scale for a very large field, several Acres, I would think that would have to be some very loud music!
@@julien2912 Its less about the volume and more about the frequency of the sound being played ,selecting 1 acre in the middle of nowhere is not a big ask
Regarding training, you might want to look into the training routines used by Worlds Strongest Man competitors, evidently they are pretty good for the sort of functional and core strength that you might be interested in, better than the more commonly known 'bodybuilder' style routines that are designed to create visually attractive muscles.
I'm looking forward to seeing what you learn about maximizing your ROI, it's an interesting subject. Growing things experimentally outside is fascinating. If you start when you're 20 and retire when you are 65, then you get about 45 seasons during your lifetime to figure out what works. That's a lot of complex and seasonally variable interactions to try to optimize in such a small number or trials. Kinda reinforces how important it is to draw data from other sources, record as much data as possible, and run multiple different trials each season.
I think you spent enough money on that green site You don't need a tower dryer Get a brand new one, just like what you got. They cost about a 100 grand versus 200 some 1000. Guys only Combine Nine 2 Is ten hours a day You're not pushing five thousand bushels an hour to that combine So the dryer can dry corn the 14 hours that you're not combining. Bill, you're a wet bend for the night It's not like you're gonna double your land in the next 100 years. Ground over there is going for $30000 to 20. So you don't need to waste your money on that big overdrive think about it
Was just reminiscing about Mayor Michael Bloomberg talking about how easy it is to be a crop farmer. Take some seeds, toss it on the ground, water it and have a big harvest. Clueless. It’s constant learning, adapting to the always changing conditions, taking risks and making marginal improvements where you can and when it adds value to your farmland and production output.
PS I would have guessed three rows of corn, three or four rows of beans
The other thing aswell ...... have u considered a bee hive and making manuka honey, 1 u xan sell it and 2. Bees will polanate at massive level ..... and have u looked at local collection of manures and conpost and mixing that into the soil and crop rotation. Its massive and u may find with the soil turn ovwr thos settles things and...u have higher crop numbers. Its something europe does alot of.
We make improvements to our home to improve our comfort, and its functionality. Also because we make it suit our taste. While I won't overbuild for our neighborhood. I don't worry about its value as we live there. Your home isn't a business and IMHO shouldn't be thought of as such.
It seems like it would be really incredible to have some kind of machine that had soil analysis components, that could crawl the field and get a really granular measurement of soil condition. Then, those measurements could be fed into the AgLeader software to give you the condition of your fields, down to the square foot and then utilized within an improved sprayer system, that could supply tailor made nutrient mixes down to the square foot or so. Think, taking the chemical mixing system you have on the flatbed and building that into the sprayer and the sprayer becomes sort of like a massive inkjet printer of nutrients for your field. It would be the ultimate combination of the AgLeader software, the combine yield software and the chemical/nutrient mixing software, in order to systematize the management of your crops. The final piece would be the machine that crawls your fields for the soil sampling, pre-planting, could also crawl the crops, sampling things like moisture conditions and any other important metric, maybe including early elimination of extra nutrient stealing plantings and identifying weed, for needed additions to the sprayer recipes, all down to the square foot. The fact that crops are planted in such regular rows, the field/crop crawling bot wouldn't be that difficult to run, like a roomba, all the time. Imagine doing watering on a square foot by square foot basis, based on the needs of the crop in that square foot, all in a automated, self driving way. Really, AgLeader needs to expand their software to include a more centralized base station that allows for the control of all systems (machine, control systems, etc.) so a farmer can pull all of this information together to do better planning and control. Maybe they have or are already working to do this and I just am ignorant of that, but it seems like technology is really starting to align so farmers can really step up their technology based planning and running of their farms, it just requires that many of the existing technologies be pulled into the same ecosystem and play well together. Really, it would be a whole farming ecosystem, much like the crops you are planting and harvesting are an ecosystem. Now all that sounds like a really interesting project!!!
Automation of functions is excellent, until it stops working at an inconvenient time. Just had that with my alarm system, was tight for time, jumped into the car and, 'No Signal', jumped out, opened up the door, set the system manually, locked up, and tried again. I found out later when I had time, that one of the access methods was turned off for some reason
Linner. 11:35 halfway through lunch and Dinner. A lunch Snack. We understand. 12:43
Cole, do you do anything with ISU College of Ag or your local ISU Extension Office as a resource for your research?
Love the new angles seeing into the top of the equipment. Maybe the new dryer will come with a drone................
My memory on the farm ... how in the hell did us kids survive? Storms, cattle & equipment.
Back to back to back Hertz ads suck. All within 90 seconds. Don't mind one, once in awhile.
if you had chickens the corn fines would be great food for them
I am not bodybuilding expert or anything like that but I would advise focusing on the negative portion of the movement and form. A lot easier to lower a heavy weight than lift it and muscle growth is stimulated by stretching out that muscle. And form of course we do not want any injuries.
I’ve been watching you for a few years now and I’ll be honest I’m getting tired of the Clickbait photos and stuff. I liked it better the way you used to do it and congratulations on the baby girl.
I hesitate to say anything. You obviously do tons of research on everything. You need to be doing a powerlifting workout and up your protein. What’s with all the rice?
Makes me cringe to see you walking up on the top of the trailer. I fell off of a garbage container 30 yard box broke a couple ribs, laid on the ground gasping for breath . years later fell and landed on top of my head off a garbage truck. please don’t walk up there.
Beef the more fat the better- corn if it's to moisture you have to dry it, doesn't really follow hand in hand! Wygu is a perfect example!
Do you want to get one cow? You can feed them all that corn to scooped up the last probably two or three days. Maybe a couple chickens. It wouldn’t be too much upkeep.
Hope you get your bin site problems solved soon! Obviously poorly designed and built with bad concrete maybe?
I haven't seen anything about the law suit. The totle said you won. Explain we hsve beed rooting for you.
Lots of work done today !
Good stories too, Cole ! 👍
Adversity builds confidence and solutions. You only know that when you look back.
What's 6 year old is allowed to drive a 4010 tractor down a regular Road?! Please tell me you are sitting on your dad's lap while you were doing that !
Couldn't the fine bits of corn be given to the wildlife? Maybe be spread out into the ditches or waterways?
I dare u to try cross fit! If you have a competative edge..... and you will build at a healthy rate!
Do what the electric company does here in Illinois when a pole starts falling towards the road a truck with an extension ladder against the pole so it doesn't fall on the road it's a small fix until they can get it replaced you should Park equipment next to the concrete base so it doesn't keep moving
Next time you pour concrete mix in fiberglass . You will be amazed at how strong it will be.
You already have a high fertility plan!!! Nivea is already pregnant for the second time!!!!
Cole u should be a university professor at the University of Iowa in the ag dept and get some surcurity for your nu family
Working out soils and what to put in where is a lot of number crunching and at the end of the day studies have a somewhat good idea and already high yielding soils will of course benefit more from higher inputs, finding out return on investment is always a farm around and find out kinda deal.
you need more trailers Cole, leave them in the field for them to be filled while you are transporting them back to the bin site, that way there the harvesters will always bew going and empty.
Cole you could feed chickens this crushed corn. Doesn’t you sister have chickens?
So are you thinking of putting in more than just corn and beans 🫘 maybe wheat or other beans such as navy or cranberry beans or is it out of the question just old timers thought 💭
I have an older model of Tyler Patriot self propelled sprayer than that unit. One of my favorite pieces of equipment to run on the farm.
That corn chaff would be awesome for some shine!
Cornstar 🌙 shine has a nice ring to it.
If u extended ur conveyor under the drier and left the conveyor open to the top the fines wud fall into the conveyor an Ther wud b no mess an Ther wud b that little fines falling in at any time u wud never c it in the bin. And if rain it the bother just box in the drier. It b a lot cleaner
How do you choose what field will be Bean and what will be Corn. Do you go by what it has always been or do you change it up.
The mid afternoon snack is known as tea in England, or is by me. Get yourself some scones and jam next time
Can anyone recommend a good grease gun? The one I have is the old style gun that always has issues with getting stuck on the zerk.
Get roman to scoop that stuff up, can feed it to his chickens! Theyd love it 😅