Harvesting Soybeans
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- We harvest soybeans to be sold on our small Wisconsin dairy operation. These beans were loaded onto a semi and sold to a grain elevator.
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Nice job Ryan! Great video detail on how harvesting soybeans works from field to storage!
Your action shots were good even in the beginning of your TH-cam career
hey Ryan love your farm videos it brings me back to when I was a kid helping on my grandparents grain farm in Saskatchewan, just a question do u ever run the combine as its ether your father or brother running it, if you have could u tape it it would be cool seeing it.
man it bothers me the reels are so low lol. I'd imagine it would have been shattering beans out of the plant. but I trust you guys know what you are doing.
Incredible how many times the beans are augured up before they reach the end of the line! Pick 'em up and lay 'em down over and over again. :)
Yup! Let's see... 1) platform auger in the grain head, 2) grain pan augers in the Deere conventional combine, 3)cleaning shoe clean grain cross-auger to the clean grain elevator, 4) bubble-up auger in the grain tank, 5)unload auger from the combine, 6)swing-away auger into the main auger up into the bin. 7) Bin auger out into the truck to haul to town or into the feed grinder/mixer for making animal rations on the farm, 8) auger or conveyor out of the mixer into the feed bunk... or 8)auger out of the pit to the grain leg and into the elevator's bins, railroad cars, truck, barge, or ship. More augers every time it's moved after that usually...
Later! OL J R :)
Great video, can't wait fot part 2.
Please don't put your foot up close to the auger. I helped recover a man from an auger that demolished one of his feet and one hand as he tried to get out. Not criticism but do be careful.
Yes... a guard is HIGHLY advisable... the hand or foot you save may be your own! Not very hard to do. My BIL has nearly the same swing-away on the end of his auger, only his has a couple of 1/4 inch steel rods running over the auger with some steel storm fencing (diamond chain-link fence material) pulled over them, with 2 more steel rods running through the ends and pulled up snug against the sides of the hopper on the swing-away and welded in place. If you happen to fall or something happens, at least you don't go straight into the auger.
I'm not really a safety-sally, but it's just kinda stupid to take NEEDLESS chances!
One time I was unloading a pair of gravity boxes into the bin. I had pulled the 2290 Case with a pair of 350 bushel boxes up and had unloaded the first one, and then pulled the swing-away back, pulled up the second box, and shoved the swing-away back up to the box and had just about finished unloading it. The corn was very wet and wasn't cleaning out of the box corners very well, so I had grabbed a long 2x4 and when the box was nearly empty, I'd open up the door all the way, lean in over the swing-away, and reach up into the corners of the box with the 2x4 and slide it up and down to knock the corn loose and drag it down the corner to the door and out the slide. Well, while I was in the midst of all that (I was working by myself) I suddenly hear the tractor start up-- I instantly jumped back out of the door of the gravity box and leapt backwards about 3 feet (since I was standing over the swing-away, which was still running as I cleaned out the box). Turns out my BIL's 90 year old Dad had climbed up into the tractor and decided to 'help' by moving the tractor and wagons out of the way, without looking to see if I was in it! I leapt out of the way, and shouting and waving my arms, Grandpa took off with the tractor and ran over the swing-away before he realized what was going on and got stopped... flipped over the swing away and the grain cleaner, but fortunately didn't wipe out the drivelines and U-joints that drove the swing-away and grain cleaner and main auger into the bin... I shut down the other tractor running the auger, cleaner, and swing away, and he helped me get everything set back up properly, and beat the huge dent out of the swing-away he put in it by running over it with the wagon... Nothing bad happened, but it COULD HAVE... sure glad that swing-away had a guard on it, even though on that occasion I didn't need it... :)
Thankfully he doesn't 'help' anymore... other than running his Kawasaki Mule around the field chasing the combine, and driving right up between the combine and me in the 4wd Case pulling the 600 bushel auger cart while I'm taking grain off the combine on the go in the field... LOL:)
Later! OL J R :)
Puppy was real cute, probably a lot bigger now....
I take soybeans are a cash crop, but do you feed any corn to the herd or is it a cash crop as well? I like the soil conservation swath planting for your rolling land.
how wide are your rows ? most people here are putting them in 7 inch rows now, i use 14 but i might cut it down to 7 myself next year.
I am looking into growing Soybeans. We have mostly all the equipment to start. My question is can I lease a Combine or are there companies out here that will harvest your crops.
great vid thanks for sharing
Why is the reel going so fast? Is the control valve not working?
isnt it explosive inside grain silo? this dust looks dangerous
which platform do you prefer ryan...the 216 or the 920; cutting quality wise
Make a mini harvesters
How are the plants killed? Do you use glyphosate to kill the plants so you can harvest?
Senescence kills the plant, glyphosate kills the weeds.
Thank you.
Soybeans, like corn, naturally "dies" once it has reproduced (produced seed). Once the plant has pollinated and set grain, it naturally starts to pump as much of the remaining sugar that's in the plant's leaves and stems into the seed (storing it as starch and producing oil and protein). It scavenges the bottom leaves first (in corn) and works it's way up the stalk; as the leaves are depleted of food reserves they dry down, until finally the top of the stalk is depleted and dries down. In soybeans, it scavenges the nutrients from the plant leaves and stems and puts it into the grain, and then the plant naturally dries down and the leaves fall off. The stems and grain continue to dry until harvest. Wheat, rye, and barley follow a similar type of life-cycle.
Grain sorghum, cotton, and rice, on the other hand, do not. The plants continue to live after the grain has ripened and the plants remain green through harvest (unless a killer drought or killing frost kills the plant). Grain sorghum will bloom, set grain, and then transfer most of the sugar into the plant into the grain and store it as starch. Some of the older bottom leaves will dry out, but they're usually older and lower in the canopy and not getting much sunlight anyway; the younger leaves up in the top half of the plant remain green and vigorous. Cotton will bloom and set bolls, scavenge the plant of nutrients and food to produce lint and seed, and again the older bottom leaves tend to thin out in the process, but the plants remain green and healthy and very much alive. Rice does much the same. Grain sorghum and rice will generally ripen and dry down to harvestable moisture on the green plants, and then is combined with the header of the combine run just low enough to snip the heads off and enough material to thresh properly, but the combine header is run quite high compared to cutting crops like wheat or barley that have the grain head at the top of the plant but dry down completely. Since the grain sorghum or rice plant is still alive, it is capable of heading out AGAIN and producing a second crop, called a "rattoon crop". Sorghum used to be rattooned a lot, but not so much anymore (because the rattoon crop is usually much smaller than the first cut crop, and considering today's fuel prices and machinery expenses, rarely worth the effort to produce and harvest in grain sorghum). Rice was routinely re-flooded and a rattoon crop grown out and harvested-- in fact this used to be the rice farmer's main source of income! (Rice is a very expensive crop to grow and produce, but it's worth a lot more than other cereal grains as well, so even a mediocre rattoon crop produced a lot more money because it's worth more per barrel (rice is measured in barrels not bushels like other grains). Cotton will mature and pop the bolls open but remain fully leafed out... farmers spray the plants with defoliant chemicals to cause the leaves to fall off so they can machine pick the cotton more efficiently and produce a cleaner, more valuable crop. They typically spray boll openers to force as many of the bolls to open as possible so they can pick one time and be done; when I was a kid we always picked at least twice and sometimes 3-4 times, depending on the year...
Once corn, wheat, barley, and soybeans are cut, the plants are dead and do not re-sprout from the stubble. Grain sorghum and cotton, on the other hand, will re-grow after the top of the plants are shredded off just above the ground after harvest, and will grow an entirely new plant from the same roots (if freezing weather doesn't kill it, or unless it's plowed under after harvest). A lot of farmers nowdays will terminate the sorghum or soybeans in this area just to speed up harvest-- spraying Gramoxone or Roundup will kill the plants and force them to dry down faster. In the old days, some farmers sprayed chlorate on their sorghum for the same reason-- to kill the plants and force them to dry down... but chlorate basically acted like salt (drawing moisture from the air) and would rust out your combine and ruin it in just a few years... It's mostly the BIG farmers trying to get over a bazillion acres that kill their sorghum or soybeans early in order to force an earlier harvest-- small farmers can wait for the grain to dry down naturally in most conditions, and would rather save the money (and not spray the chemicals).
Later! OL J R :)
What classes did you take?
Sounds like a bit of grease is in order.
John Deere 9510 Maximizer combine.
Hi i like very much this. You should present it in India and how much cost will be of this machine.
What is that thing in the bin?
There's a distributor up there in the top where the auger delivers the beans into the bin, which kinda slings the beans all over the bin so it loads more evenly and has less of a pile in the middle... there's also the "stir-rator" up there, which in some of his videos you can see a couple of little augers hanging down from it to nearly the floor of the bin. These little augers are powered by electric motors, and are geared to slowly crawl back and forth along that beam-looking thing up in the top of the bin... as they spin, they constantly dig grain up from near the bottom of the bin and move it up to near the top, so that the grain dries more evenly... the stirrators also slowly revolve around a track at the top of the bin, like the hands of a clock going around in a circle, as they move in and out along the track from the center towards the wall of the bin and back again. This makes sure all the grain in the bin eventually and slowly gets stirred and moved up and down in the bin so it dries evenly... without a stirrator, when one ran the fans to dry down and cool down the grain, the grain on bottom would get VERY dry (especially with a grain dryer blowing hot air into the bottom of the bin!) and the moisture forced out of the grain in the bottom of the bin would be absorbed by the grain up on top, resulting it in being too wet... so to dry the grain on top to storable moisture, most of the grain in the bin would be TOO dry, which is a bad thing, because you don't get paid extra for grain that is too dry-- but it weighs less (because there's less water in it) and so you get paid LESS! Ideally, you want ALL the grain in the bin to be the SAME moisture, and be at the moisture level low enough for safe storage (without heating up, molding, or rotting) and at or just under the maximum level of moisture the elevator will accept without docking you for excess moisture (which you're harvesting and hauling and not getting paid for, which is wasteful-- and which the elevator has to get rid of by drying the grain with propane or natural gas fired grain dryers).
Of course, that's the "IDEAL" and not "real life"; in common practice the grain on the bottom of the bin is a little too dry, but the stirrator minimizes that...
Later! OL J R :)
Doesn't glyphosate increase the rate of Senescence?
Only in the target weeds.
Some people plant into rye or other cover crops, but they're terminated with Roundup before planting, generally... Or rolled with heavy chopping rollers to lay the rye down flat on the ground and chop it up enough to kill it.
What low-growing cover crops? I don't see how you'd grow anything under soybeans without hurting the yield, and making it a nightmare at harvest. Combines are made to process DRY material-- the wetter the material, or the more wet stuff there is mixed in with the dry stuff, the harder of a time they have doing their job without plugging up or having problems doing a good job, or breaking down. SO, in the end, you'd have to terminate the cover crops and allow them to dry down to harvest anyway, because you couldn't have green, wet material going into the combine with the dry beans-- soybeans will absorb enough moisture from the atmosphere and dew to become too tough to cut even in late evenings sometimes, and have to dry later in the morning to get rid of the moisture from overnight in order to combine. I don't see how you'd EVER get the soybeans out dry enough to store in a field with all the extra humidity from "low growing cover crops" and especially when the combine would be cutting off those low growing cover crops and running it through the thresher with the beans themselves-- the grain would pick up a lot of moisture just from being threshed with the green material... I know in grain sorghum if it was really tall and lush green at harvest, we had to wait a few days longer and get the grain good and dry-- dryer than what we wanted the final moisture to be, say down around 12% moisture, because when you'd combine all those green leaves and stalk going through the thresher with the grain would drive the moisture up to around 14-15% or so, and we DID NOT want to go over 15% because we'd get docked, because the elevator has to burn propane to dry the grain above 15%.
Beside, what's wrong with Roundup? Don't believe all that rubbish and psuedoscience that the enviro-whackos put out... Glyphosate isn't the boogey-man... Lot safer than the Gramoxone they use around here to terminate beans and get them to dry down...
Some ideas sound good on first blush but really are non-workable in the real world...
Later! OL J R :)
omg just realised this was just of a couple minutes old of 2 years
i thought yall had a 216 platform
I like to point out how many insects, rodents, varmints, and ground nesting birds are victims of tofu production. Bon appetite, my vegan friends!
I live in wi
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Got some smear upon my shirt
My husband and I are looking to purchase our first home and the one we really want is next door to a pretty big soy bean field. I'm just wondering if it would be too loud or off putting for our family. Does anyone live near a soy bean farm? if so what was or is your experience with it?
Living by a farm would be much more peaceful, quiet, beautiful, and good for children than any city or suburb could ever hope to be. Move there! You'll love it. Farm country is beautiful. And as the other guy said, there's not that much traffic going on in a farm field. Couple times a year there's action for planting, spraying, and harvesting, and tillage (if there is any done).
Thanks for the assurance. We decided to go for it and hopefully we'll be moved in by December of this year.
Only thing I would be concerned about is the aerial crop dusters dropping pesticides on your house. There is no invisible boundary for where it lands :(
Don't really see too many aerial pesticide or herbicide applications, at least around me you sure don't.
Hope everything works out good saw you’d got the house. Like everyone else was saying just depending on time of year is there a lot of traffic but it also depends on how close to the field the house is situated. House I grew up in was next to a field and we grow wheat/cotton so had equipment back there but we also had trees between the house and field so wasn’t too bad