Harvesting 500 acres of Sunflowers!

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5 ай бұрын

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@theedumptruck4709 5 ай бұрын

We grow 250+ acres of sunflowers every year in wisconsin. We use 12 row corn heads as well. We also added a steel mesh backstop and sides to prevent the heads from hitting the header and falling out over the back or sides

@Null_Force 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for all you do its farmers like you who carry this country

@theedumptruck4709 3 ай бұрын

@olivermayo9687 we use a weed zapper and cultivator. Our sunflowers are organic so no herbicide or pesticide can be used. We use a regular corn header with side extensions and back extensions to keep the heads from falling out of the header.

@MysteryClown 2 ай бұрын

@olivermayo9687you like them organic dont you?

@5415zack Ай бұрын

What do yall use to keep grass out

@theedumptruck4709 Ай бұрын

@@5415zackafter we plant we run a weed tine over it. Then when the plants get tall enough we will run thru it with a cultivator then after they about knee high we will run out weed zapper thru a few times till they get to tall.

@joshuawesterfeld9897 5 ай бұрын

Those are so beautiful! 😮

@mitchelpohl8635 Ай бұрын

Need a 250glallon water tank on grain cart we use them in Alberta saves a combine every time. If cart water can’t stop the fire your loosing combine anyway. It the best investment many farmers have made. Hook up hydraulic pump to water tank and about 200 fee of hose on a reel and your made

@StandardAmericanFarmer11 Ай бұрын

Thats what we have for em. Fuckin dust

@bobbylewis9587 4 ай бұрын

You don't plant 500 acers for TEST😂

@GageParker-ns6qz 3 ай бұрын

You should try to get a sun flower head if you are going to continue on sunflowers if you use a normal corn head then you get the flower stuff with your sunflower seeds and then your price will go down at the plant

@hudedwards8943 Ай бұрын

Volunteer sunflowers forever

@cw93711 5 ай бұрын

If you loose them out the back you don't have them the screens, etc set up correctly.

@familyfarmlife 5 ай бұрын

We set everything as good as we could. Sometimes you just have to go slow

@theedumptruck4709 5 ай бұрын

Don't matter how tight the concaves and sieves are. The seeds so light the fan blows em out the back. It's a constant fight to keep the combine setup right.

@StandardAmericanFarmer11 Ай бұрын

@@theedumptruck4709 We always just said screw it and drove like normal. Still always at least broke even. I think the lowest profit we made was 500 bucks so.

@Chantel.34 25 күн бұрын

@@familyfarmlifeYes ❤

@eisenweg-ry7hf 3 ай бұрын

So was it better than growing wheat

@Old-truck-dude 11 күн бұрын

Just the other day we had a tractor fire not because of the heat or nothing but a bearing went out and started a small fire. While we were cutting wheat

@uniquesubstance2353 16 күн бұрын

Nice جميل

@aninditamodak7766 5 ай бұрын

Wow

@heavymetalbassist5 4 ай бұрын

For eating, birdfood, or oil? I grow pollenless for cut flower sales. What's your $/acre?

@StandardAmericanFarmer11 Ай бұрын

Most people do all three. Ik we did

@aliengamur7156 Ай бұрын

Enough for about a week

@forreststewart3969 20 күн бұрын

Row crop head never heard that before

@digimediadude786 2 ай бұрын

What happens to the stalks?

@calisingh7978 5 ай бұрын

So which one was better?

@familyfarmlife 5 ай бұрын

It was about the same. The cold didn’t hurt the sunflowers. However there was a lot of bad things like fires and losing a lot of seeds.

@deannelson9565 5 ай бұрын

@@familyfarmlifewell if you're going to use a corn header you're going to have basically the sunflower equivalent to butt Shelling

@StandardAmericanFarmer11 Ай бұрын

@@familyfarmlife You can't drive slow enough to have a low loss rate even with all the designated crap. I did the math one time and it came out to like 3mph to have a mid loss rate

@ryanm9838 4 ай бұрын

Very beautiful, but those Google voices are terrible

@Bunniesbmean 9 күн бұрын

Bet doves are all over

@StandardAmericanFarmer11 Ай бұрын

You are gonna have high loss with them fuckers. Hate harvesting em, but they where what I learned to run combine on. It also ain't the oils in em, its the dust