Harvesting Soybeans and Planting Cover Crops - Part 1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 พ.ย. 2024
- I finally manage to get into some soybeans with the combine. Naturally, we had a few kinks to work out before things started to go smoothly. Dad and I picked up our cover crop seed, and he started getting that in the ground almost immediately.
I promised I would list the cover crop mix. It is as follows:
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Per Acre
60lb Cereal Rye
2lb Tillage Radish
2lb Rapeseed
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Part 2 will be along shortly, with more and better harvest footage.
Love your positive attitude. Just keep moving forward through the learning curve. Very nice seeing your dad and daughter both included in the farm life.
Nice looking soybean plants
I’m new to your channel enjoyed watching you operate theJD 55. We had one exactly like it, as well as a 45. One season we used both of them to harvest about 350 acres of soybeans. They worked very well and were relatively easy and inexpensive to maintain, it left more $ left for us for other things. Keep up the good work! Thanks for sharing
I think I may know who you bought that machine from, looks very nice! I live about 10 miles from your farm, I do some farming too with old and small equipment, but am scaling back some now. I had a Massey 410, similar size and vintage, was always enjoyable to combine crops. Good luck to you
Just wondering if you have ever considered having your fields rolled after planting? We started doing this on our alfalfa and small grain fields about 6 years ago and it really makes a big difference.
We’ve talked about it. We don’t own a roller though, and we aren’t aware of any neighbors that have one either. Given our small size, it never seemed worth the effort, and I don’t mind picking the medium and larger rocks, as they’re useful for other projects around the farm.
If we adapt a flex header to our combine we might rethink that though.
What are the benefits you’ve experienced from rolling your fields?
@@ravenviewfarm First of all I would like to say I just found your channel last week and I have been really enjoying your videos and commentary. Thanks for sharing your family farm with us. We farm about 350 acres and didn't think that we could justify one either. We finally decided to buy one this summer after our neighbor who owns the land roller told us that he quit farming and was trying to sell his. He wanted 24k for his and this was way out of our price range. I have seen rollers made by Harms manufacturing in Bertha, MN advertised in the Dairy Star, so I decided to investigate them. I found that they were quite a bit cheaper then other brands on the market. I called them to find out why. They told me that there drum size is half the size of the big rollers. Since there is less steel involved to make them the price is a lot cheaper. They told me where our closest dealer is. This summer I went to go look at a new one that they had sitting on their lot just to look it over but not to buy. They just happened to have a used 45' on the lot that they had just got in. They want 23k for the new 45' and 9k for the used. We didn't have to have a 45,' a smaller one would of been fine but the price was right we felt so we bought it. The smaller drum size works great as it actually applies more pounds per square inch on rocks then a bigger drum that spreads out it's weight over a larger surface area. It doesn't really pack the ground very much like a guy thinks and pushes the rocks right in. I hardly ever replace any knives on our disc bine now due to rocks. Harms manufacturing has a website that explains some more of the benefits. My brother Paul also has a TH-cam channel called organicdairyman. We did a video of it back in July showing it in use and explaining some of the other reasons why Harms rollers are cheaper and work just as good. You may be able to find a used smaller one at a price that would fit your budget.
@stephen fonder - Thanks Stephen! I'm glad you found the channel, and I appreciate all the insight about the Harms rollers and your experience with them. I'll have to check them out and give them some consideration. Like with all equipment, there are so many possible things to spend money (and time) on, and it's tough to decide what should be the priority.
You really gave me an "ah ha!" moment there, because I've been following Paul's channel for quite awhile now. I haven't seen all the videos - life gets busy after all - but I catch them whenever I can. You guys have a great operation. The videos always make me sentimental, because our farm was a dairy operation until 1993, and a lot of the daily chores and activities you guys do remind me of growing up in that setting. Of course there have been a lot of changes to dairy farming since then, but it's got the same feel to it if you know what I mean. Much respect to you for doing what you do. We buy a lot of Organic Valley products, and are happy to do so!
@@ravenviewfarm thanks so much for your support!
Nice video
I am new to your channel i have a 55 corn special i run a 444 corn head but we have a m and w header control on for flex head
Sweet combine I would buy one like it to go with my John Deere 45EB combine.
Are you in Scott County, Minnesota?
Yup! We are indeed!
@@ravenviewfarm Back in the 70's if farmed about halfway between Jordan, and, the little town of Lydia, just a bit south of where the old St. Joes church used to stand. Later afte a divorce i got into cabinemaking, and, worked for a time in Jordan, then at my own shop just west of New Prague on Highway 13. I did a lot of work for John Schumacher, for his apartment in the old hotel, and, in a house he bought with his first wife out on the edge of the golf course. I loved the life, but, i got out just as the farm credit crunch hit in 1980. It is fun to see things like the New Idea picker, and, your Moline sheller. I had a 1200 as well but mine was a little newer model, i had those big long narrow cribs, so i had to have about forty feet of drag to pull the corn into the sheller. Lots of work, but, you do not have to pay for drying. Of course now all the farms are so much bigger, and, so expensive for the new modern equiptment. I ran a 4020 diesel with cab, a 2440, and, a beautiful 530 John Deere,i wish i had that 530 now, they are worth a lot more than they cost when i owned one. I grew up with those two cylinder John Deere, and, i still love the sound of them. That is a beautiful area, i live on the north shore of Lake Superior, just outside of Grand Marais, i have had my own cabinetmakiing contracting business up here for almost forty years now. But, i still miss the smell of new mown hay, or freshly plowed soil in the fall.
@@keithkuckler2551 Thanks for that awesome story Keith! You farmed just a stone's throw away from us. We're off of County Road 8, over by Sand Creek (and the tail end of Raven Stream where they join together - hence the name Ravenview). I take 15 over to St. Joe on a regular basis.
My folks went through the credit crisis in the 80's. They spent the next decade just recovering from that. From a financial perspective, might have been a blessing to get out when you did, but of course there's a lot more to life than just money too. ;0)
Sounds like you ran a lot of similar equipment. It's a testament to how well those things were made, that we're still putting them to good use today. Cribbing corn and letting it dry down naturally is still a great solution. Most farmers just got so big that the logistics of it became impossible, but for small operators like us it still makes good sense financially. And I firmly believe those long narrow cribs like you describe are way better than our round ones!
I wish you still had that 530 too, lol. Dad always said a 630 would be a perfect tractor for our place. I agree with him, but they're too dang expensive to justify getting one, especially when we already have plenty of tractor power that works well for us. Still, a guy can daydream.
@@ravenviewfarm Part of the home place of my half section bordered Porter Creek, if flowed though a part of my pasture. Yes, i know your corner of the county very well.
I have 3 things to blab about for this one.
1. The dinner bell. My grandparents in Washington, IA had one mounted on a post. My cousin in WI now has it, and rings it in memory of family members.
B. Do the ribbed marker tires on the drill still work well when planting into a cover?
III. Are any of your gravity wagons Minnesotas, from the prison? I don’t recall if we spoke about that before.
I’m still slowly (obviously) making my way through your videos.
The dinner bell is great! We got that about 20 years ago. It was given to my Dad by one of his construction customers, who was a collector of WWII items. Apparently it was on a Navy ship, though we don’t know which one or from what era.
The ribbed marker tires SORT OF work in a no till situation, though it’s easier to see the coulter marks than the tire marks. We use our no-till drill to plant cover crops in the fall now, and that leaves a much more obvious disturbance path to follow.
We for sure have one Minnesota running gear. It’s under one of our gravity boxes. There might be a second one, but I can’t recall. I’d have to go look.