We Use the Coolest Machines for Seed Corn Harvest

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2 жыл бұрын

My seed corn fields are harvested!! This was such a cool process to watch and be a part of. Thank you so much to the amazing crew for letting me be involved as much as I was! You guys are amazing.
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@mbatson13 2 жыл бұрын

As I guy who has lived his whole live in the San Diego area, it's hard to comprehend how much land is out there. Makes you appreciate how much work our farmers do to put food on our tables. Thanks for the perspective on where our food comes form!

@phongon2005 2 жыл бұрын

You should dress like Daisy Duke for Halloween. I am still wondering how did I end up on this channel.

@TheTubaEmporer Жыл бұрын

Truly impressive it’s like driving through the Central Valley in Ca

@mikebunner3498 Жыл бұрын

That dump cart is full of money, so to speak. Thank you for these videos. Best of luck and please take care. I so enjoy your can-do attitude. I think you are doing just fine. Take your time. Be safe. Thank you to all of our farmers. USA! USA! We still feed the world.

@steveschilt7217 2 жыл бұрын

Thank y’all have a beautiful day ❤️

@iVenge Жыл бұрын

I am a 100% city boy from one of the biggest cities in the world, and I am addicted to these videos. Everyone in the country needs to see these videos. They are informative beyond belief, entertaining, and they teach anyone who watches them to appreciate the farmers in our society. Keep up the good work on both fronts!

@johnkrauss4178 2 жыл бұрын

The last year I farmed 1978 we grew seed corn for pioneer. We grew sugar beets as well. One uncle had dairy/crop farm the other an orchard. Both gone now to homes it breaks my heart. I am new to your channel but have fallowed Kate from Katesag. You both do a great job of showing how our food gets to our table. Thank you our farms were established in 1862 my daughter would have been 5th generation as well.

@vk2ig 2 жыл бұрын

That's like a friend's parents' farm - used to go there in highschool. Now a whole lot of houses. I guess the problem 20-30 years ago was the cost of living went up, many farmers didn't have much funds stashed away for retirement, the pension didn't make ends meet, and the kids didn't want to farm like their parents did. The developers started eyeing off farms within easy reach of the city and would make the farmers an offer they couldn't refuse. It's quite understandable, but I find it ridiculous that we build houses on good farming land. :(

@mat1500 2 жыл бұрын

And engineered inflation Steals and taxes spending power security from everyone's retirement funds or Pension funds so they ultimately in most periods of time become not even close to what the earner thought they were going to have to retire on in terms of Financial security through purchasing power just like now many retirees increasingly are going to have to try to earn more money to get by one way or the other social security has never kept up with inflation nor proper investment interest return and it is not now as ever keeping up guess who botches it the worst which party just look at what's happening now and you know

@1972Showtime Жыл бұрын

I have learned so much about farming watching your videos. So cool. Keep up the great work you two, it is awesome.

@brucelloyd7496 2 жыл бұрын

Praise to the Farmers of the world. We all need to eat.

@rob6154 2 жыл бұрын

Without y'all , nobody would get there 🌾 grains and food and corn and all...🤠👍

@brianscharsch9767 2 жыл бұрын

Thank God for our farmers ! Thank you Laura farms 🙏 We pray for your Grandfather 🙏🇺🇸

@hugeblue Жыл бұрын

7/12/23 - Thanks for the education on the seed corn! laura is truly a farm girl! Great job laura.

@edporter9355 Жыл бұрын

We NEED our hard working, knowledgeable, farmers and appreciate all of them. Thank you Laura , Grant and all of the family. We are grateful...Michigan

@lancecornell5371 2 жыл бұрын

I remember the old days when we picked all our corn on the ear, with a tractor mounted corn picker. Amazing to see 14 rows at a time done.

@RustyCarnahan 2 жыл бұрын

The old days are still alive and well on Sunny Grove Farm in Ohio. Last year we picked almost 3000 BU of ear corn with a pull type. This year we have a JD 237 picker on a 3020 gas tractor

@southernjoes8372 2 жыл бұрын

I admire your willingness to conquer your fears.

@jimsmirh2406 2 жыл бұрын

Every man needs himself a Laura. She’s a one of kind.

@nerfherder5569 2 жыл бұрын

Very cool. People underestimate what it takes to grow crops and to be a farmer.

@rcairflr 2 жыл бұрын

Yes they do, but they always underestimate how rich many farmers are. If you listen to the press you would think it is 1960 and they all work 12 hours a day 7 days a week, 365 days a year and they are all out in their B John Deeres plowing 10 acres a day.

@tedhansen3846 9 ай бұрын

Seeing the beautiful yellow ears of corn makes me hungry

@paratrooperlane7022 2 жыл бұрын

Your smile is Contagious, I pray life! Never takes it from you.

@familygene9030 2 жыл бұрын

Laura's smile makes my day

@rodfaragini7110 2 жыл бұрын

Isn't that a fact

@Plowguitarist 2 жыл бұрын

Warms my heart to see you so excited and happy about working the family farm. Beautiful farm btw, and congratulations on finishing school. Your parents have to be sooo proud.. hell I’m so proud.

@eagle___shadow 2 жыл бұрын

Good morning everyone...but actually afternoon 😁😁

@johndavidson6867 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome, it was a joy to see you in a different type of farm machine Laura. Great to see Grant's pride in his wife and the work see does, and for me the adoration in the eyes and facial expressions of you both as you interact with each other, a match surely made in heaven. I look forward to seeing you both in your roles as harvest masters on each farm as harvest moves into high gear.

@rudyrodriguez8432 2 жыл бұрын

You guy's are "AWESOME!"

@kylewilliams956 2 жыл бұрын

Thats nice machine

@johnwyoder 2 жыл бұрын

I have to say, I've been watching your video and farming journey from the beginning, and this??? This video is, IMHO, your best one yet. Really loved seeing the seed corn harvest operation, and absolutely loved you guys together at the end. And huge props for having the guts to talk about not working on Sunday. That's unfortunately a principle that has been mostly lost in today's busy society. Blessings to you and your families as you get rolling on this harvest! ❤️

@jessiegoss3712 2 жыл бұрын

We use to gather sweet corn on the Cobb in a horse drawn wagon . Some of it was to eat and some was for the animals. I was about four years old then. Almost 60 years ago. But that was the last time my Dad raised it. Lol

@barrygrant2907 2 жыл бұрын

Watching the harvest puts a smile on my face . . . and I don't even have to get my hands dirty.

@OutThere5 Жыл бұрын

That’s a lot of corn! Good job operating that beast. You guys are awesome

@inscrutableone 2 жыл бұрын

Gosh darn it, you two are so adorable together, and that is not the sort of thing I would normally say. Of all the wonderful things about you Laura, it is that you picked Grant, a more supportive and kind guy I could not imagine. I truly hope you are both as blissfully happy together as you seem to be. Sweet corn harvesters, I never knew that, I and I used detassle corn every summer!

@robmeng9416 2 жыл бұрын

kudo's to Laura & Grant so inspiring, keep up the good work, our world needs more younger folks like yourself ......

@richardclark9027 2 жыл бұрын

Pure talent. Beautiful. Very exciting

@rickstrandberg6398 2 жыл бұрын

God bless you, I love America!

@davestevens4263 2 жыл бұрын

Your a perfect you tube person, easy on the eyes & bubbly & great at talking to the camera / us . Keep up the great content & entertainment.

@joefudd 2 жыл бұрын

All of Laura's videos are good, but that one was extra informative IMO. It answered a lot of my questions about seed corn harvesting and why it is done this way. Just look at the smiles on her and Grant's faces when they got to run the combine! Kids on Christmas morning! Nothing faked about those smiles, yee naysayers/Debbie downers out there! I know it's hard work (not everything is as easy as driving a machine as people assume and we don't always see all of the hard work that's being done off camera) and the grass is always greener in other pastures so to speak, but the more of these videos that I watch, the more that I become envious and jealous of this kind of life. I think that many out there would agree. Thanks again Laura for another awesome video and teaching this ol' boy something new! :-)

@westrotter7847 2 жыл бұрын

Those sweetcorn harvesters are really different and super cool to watch !!!!👍👍🌻👍

@frankdank7507 2 жыл бұрын

"Seed Corn"

@blazz573 2 жыл бұрын

What a great video. I have to show it to my little son - he is already a huge JohnDeere fan.

@lewthrasher5865 2 жыл бұрын

I think both your parents have so much enthusiasm has made you 2 have a great spirit in doing farming. Keep it going.

@joemac3118 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing your cool adventures with us 👍

@kellywilliams1265 Жыл бұрын

Love your man's shirt 🇺🇲💯 God bless y'all and thanks for sharing 🙏🇺🇸🤙😎

@stephentebbutt7161 2 жыл бұрын

Way to go Laura, beautiful eyes and smile, you nailed it. I'm fascinated by what happens on your farm. Love from Australia 🇦🇺 xx

@davidbudka1298 2 жыл бұрын

I worked in a seed corn plant for a year and a half, and I was a seed sampler. In your video I get to see what went on in the fields. I mostly sampled the sorted and treated corn, sending the samples to laboratories in Iowa and Minnesota. I now work in a flour mill in Omaha! Hi neighbors in Clay County!

@rockmack7343 2 жыл бұрын

well, thanks for taking us along for the ride. You two always leave me with a smile on my face.

@peer_64 2 жыл бұрын

So cool to see you harvest your own seed corn with a big smile on your face and Grant supporting you. Brings back the old times when I helped out my friend on his parents farm. The whole neighbourhood helped each other and was like one big family; best time of the year🤗

@vk2ig 2 жыл бұрын

That's what happened during harvest time in my neighbourhood, too. None of the farmers owned a harvester, so they'd pool their funds and hire one, and go around each others farms as a crew and get the harvest in. All these farmers (or their fathers) had gone to school together, so they'd known each other for donkey's years. :)

@kryptoskaos6214 2 жыл бұрын

Laura...he's a keeper, hell yeah

@nelsoncreekfarm 2 жыл бұрын

Yay. Great job driving that picker Miss Laura. Whew. For a second there I thought Miss Laura hadn't shaved her legs. Thanks for that view Grant. LOL : )

@SU-vy8nb 2 жыл бұрын

damn, idk why but i miss these 14 hour days, no overtime pay, no AC in most of the combines i worked in. We were chillin.

@mikebunner3498 Жыл бұрын

Don't worry, Grant will be ok. Best of luck to each and every one of you. THANKS!

@mtnviper1963 2 жыл бұрын

Grant is a really, really, really, lucky guy! Really!!!

@user-iy9pn1um7k 9 ай бұрын

Laura and grant get all harvested with fantastic machines we need excitment and you both can do it keep woorking norman donegal ireland

@lincolnshirepoacher894 2 жыл бұрын

Crikey Laura, you are a doppelganger for the Duchess of Cambridge.

@clayrowden3916 2 жыл бұрын

Cool stuff LFs. High end stuff run by high end folks. Thanks for farming!!! Keep em comimg.

@blainelanders2361 2 жыл бұрын

Wonderful driver in a wonderful harvester.

@fredtucker9236 Жыл бұрын

Awesome that you were allowed to run the cob picker!!

@rosematz9276 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you inviting us along your interesting and important farming work. I hope all your hard work will reward you all greatly. Best to a wonderful couple.

@stevendewell5505 2 жыл бұрын

When I was a kid this was how we did it. I spent many hours riding in the wagon playing at dodging the corn ears with my siblings as they come flying out of the picker. We dried the ears in what is now an old fashioned slat sided corn crib. Back then it was also later in the year and we did it in the snow . I remember when I was older waiting to switch wagons with the corn picker and standing up close to the motor on the tractor to stay warm. No cabs back then.

@steven.h0629 2 жыл бұрын

makes you wonder what another hundred years of farming (feeding humans) evolution brings

@stevendewell5505 2 жыл бұрын

@@steven.h0629 Another 100 years! I'm only 70 man! But your right. Probably be all computer run Farmers will only be there to unclog the headers and fix the chains and belts.

@ronaldrankin9918 2 жыл бұрын

We picked 2 row at a time. It was work but some how satisfying

@cdjhyoung 2 жыл бұрын

Steve DeWell - ear corn was picked later in the year to let it dry down farther before cribbing it.

@michaelfranz6937 2 жыл бұрын

This was really interesting to this city boy! Thanks guys!

@johnmyles1497 2 жыл бұрын

Well done all the way from Ireland 🇮🇪love your KZfaq OXOX

@melkingrealestate 2 жыл бұрын

Love this video. Brings back memories of working on my Grandpa's farm when I was a youngun. We hand picked and dried in a slatted corn crib as well. Grandpa would start the old John Deere and hop off and pick with us. Thanks Laura and Grant.

@suspiciousperson5324 2 жыл бұрын

One should not forget the design engineers who's ingenuity made all this possible. Whilst all this looks easy, we must remember it is a high risk industry.

@vk2ig 2 жыл бұрын

That was a great video, Laura and Grant! Thanks for posting. It's very impressive how you can be shown how to run one of these machines, and then you do it as if you've done this job before. Your ability is reflected in the fact that this crew trusted you to do the job. Well done!

@johnsollazzo1142 2 жыл бұрын

Laura i live in New York im so proud of you and your family for following your family tradition my wife and I travel through a lot of farmland and always wondered how it is to work on a farm you and your husband make it look so easy but I'm sure it's hard work good luck always keep smiling 😃

@Timothy-NH 2 жыл бұрын

Those dump carts are really cool.

@j.darrenwright1708 2 жыл бұрын

What a fun couple!

@siriusgremlin5998 2 жыл бұрын

Fine NY built machine 20 miles from me went to Nebraska just so Laura could test drive it. Looks like she likes the machine. BTW Laura, you gotta supervise Grant a little tighter. Caught him snoozin on the machine cutting beans. He's got time for naps he has time to clean the glass. Best to Grampa.

@bubbaray2240 2 жыл бұрын

It's so cool to watch this. And to see how much work goes into farming.

@carlaustin7398 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent job. Great to hear the pride in Grant's voice when he was talking about you operating the havester.

@mikeapenhorst7706 2 жыл бұрын

You looked nervous but ya did a excellent job n had fun too

@vk2ig 2 жыл бұрын

Her dad speaks about Laura with a similar note of pride. Very impressive.

@williamrandall6472 2 жыл бұрын

So cool to see Grant's appreciation of his wife's accomplishments, Bravo!

@roses5831 2 жыл бұрын

Love this video. My dad works for Oxbo In Illinois

@richletram539 2 жыл бұрын

You two are the most adorable farmers in the world! You are such a cute couple. I could watch these videos all day. 😁

@JohnDoe-jq5wy 2 жыл бұрын

This all GREAT!!! Wonderful to see you both so full of alignment and joy

@ajayr8781 2 жыл бұрын

Cool people using cool machines

@randallbyrd1973 Жыл бұрын

That was awesome TY for sharing

@reginaldhall6041 2 жыл бұрын

Go Laura go Laura go Laura go

@choiricefarming5927 2 жыл бұрын

America is great and you are even greater

@jeanburgin160 Жыл бұрын

So amazing to see your process of growing the different corns!

@guydaubenspeck9206 2 жыл бұрын

Laura for a very informative video. I have sold seed for 35 years, and I have not ever seen how they harvest it in order to have it usable for drying and grading and I never knew just quite how they kept a variety separate now I know. We harvest part of our crop on the ear and part of it with the combine for our cattle and our feed and grain business we also have a neighbor or two that you sweet corn pickers for sweet corn. I knew that they harvest seed corn on the ear but I never do quite how so again thank you

@hazeltonfarmsllc7490 2 жыл бұрын

Been farming all my life never knew how did seed corn great video I'm 68 yr old

@johnsson55 Жыл бұрын

U did good!!!!!!

@joelfeiock4718 2 жыл бұрын

ready to go with you all on the wild harvest ride

@donwaggoner2454 Жыл бұрын

You are doing a bang up job running the seed corn combine. YOU GO GIRL!!!

@andytidwell4148 2 жыл бұрын

Me and my brother grew up on a farm the first tim we planted corn us and about 7 more boys that lived close picked it all by hand and hauled it to town in pickup trucks along time ago

@johnkabel285 2 жыл бұрын

You guys and gal have clearly established trust with the seed company, to be contracted for such a specialized large crop. Good QC, excellent destroying back when, and now picking right on spec. Way to go!

@alanmccoy8924 2 жыл бұрын

After running the 2 row mounted New Idea mounted picker years ago, that was absolutely awesome seeing all those ears flying off the elevator.. WOW! Thanks for taking us along.

@davidwilliams26 2 жыл бұрын

Nice video enjoyed. Wish your grand dad a speedy recovery from one bee to another. May you all stay safe and healthy.

@wardshigaki6439 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Laura, just started following your channel and it brings back so many memories when I use to help my Father on the farm in Northern California. As a teenager I harvested his corn, wheat, milo, safflower and beans in his John Deere combine. The machines are definitely way more high tech than the ones I use to ride in. I love all of your fabulous content.

@rypkepaulusma 2 жыл бұрын

Funny to see a John Deere cab on an Oxbo machine. Good thinking 💪

@gold-diggersanonymous1085 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Laura! Certainly one of your coolest videos so far!!! That seedcorn picker is one heck of a machine to operate! well done girl!!

@terrencejohnson85 2 жыл бұрын

Horses sweat, men perspire, women glisten!

@b_lumenkraft 2 жыл бұрын

Oh my gosh, every time i watch a farm video & the wind is going i am like "why wouldn't you do a voice-over for god's sake???". And you are, doing it! You actually did eeeet! THANK YOU! :D

@michaelhansen5555 2 жыл бұрын

Laura I appreciate the explanation of why you don’t harvest your own seed corn. Great video

@nevrock1 Жыл бұрын

Killer drone shots! Active Track would be a plus!

@VirgilKane1865 2 жыл бұрын

There are a bunch of seed corn fields around here and we always see corn husks flying around this time of year!!!

@MatamLenba 2 жыл бұрын

Enjoyed the video 👍

@rafaeltorres9399 2 жыл бұрын

I heard there were these machines to harvest your crop, never saw one in action and what a pleasure to see such a down to earth, beautiful Laura describing how you do it. I love your video 👍

@jamesola7968 2 жыл бұрын

I swear that kids smile could make world peace

@SuperScottschannel 2 жыл бұрын

We really appreciate you sharing your knowledge with us. These machines are incredible. I love learning about the process.

@secretpowerinu 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome video Laura; so educational as well. Saludos de Texas 👋🏻

@kevinmonahan2783 2 жыл бұрын

I never saw how sweet corn/seed corn was harvested. I assumed it was with the conventional combine. Thanks for the lesson, heavy equipment operator myself, dozers, excavators, road graders, dump trucks that sort of stuff. Never got to play with much for farm equipment, some great stuff there.

@ArmpitStudios 2 жыл бұрын

Cool, I had no idea there were modern machines to pick ear corn. Love watching old corn pickers, shellers, and grinders, so this is close.

@simonmain4767 2 жыл бұрын

Loved this. Hello from New Zealand.

@lewthrasher4194 2 жыл бұрын

I find it very cool watching you 2 in your daily ventures. I lived on a horse farm with some cows and pigs. We grew alfalfa to feed them and to sell. Those bales are dam heavy. In my day all bales were put on a trailer by hand.