Pretty well made harvest video!!! 16 x 30 corn head

JD Seller · Jan 10, 2014

I know the father of these boys. They are pushing the acres. I just met him at some JD customer meetings. Pretty well made videos. They farm around Perry Iowa if I remember correctly.

This JD is pushing that 16 row corn head at a good clip.
Harvest Video

IaGary · Jan 11, 2014

I hope they don"t always operate like they do in the video.

Packing the field by driving the loaded truck across or running corn from one grain cart to another.

Otherwise it looks like a nice setup.

Gary

Moline_guy · Jan 11, 2014

Great video, them boys are pounding out a lot of bushels in a short time. Unloading behind the combine header when opening the field is something I have never seen before, but then I have never seen a 16 row head either, well done. One of the neighbors uses a radio controlled airplane, probably with a wingspan 4' across with a camera to get a lot of neat video.

todd hamilton · Jan 11, 2014

pretty fancy operatin

JD Seller · Jan 11, 2014

Ia Gary: You surely can figure out they where just showing that for the video???? As much of the GPS toys they are using I would bet that the combine is controlling all the equipment speed running by it.

Jerry He · Jan 11, 2014

I know that we think that video is pretty awesome. Farming with this kind of equipment is certainly the end of the family farm as we know it. There is almost no need for a farm bill at this point. If a farmer can rent or own this type of equipment and need no skills to operate it,(gps ect) so can the Government. It is well documented that there are many more people on food programs now than were even two years ago. Rather than pay some farmer subsides to farm why not have the government do it? The government will own the food they are giving to folks rather than buying it from the farmer. I feel bad about taking a subsidy on my health insurance. I never felt bad about taking a government handout when I used to farm. Why is that? I do not like big government but big business has encouraged big government to grow. Farmers have always been their own worst enemy. I will find another forum to rant as to why the government should and soon will own all the minerals under the land and sea. Big business is also their own worst enemy.

Anonymous-0 · Jan 12, 2014

Real neat, too bad there's not more operations like that... I just can't understand these guys that want to farm the whole county. I'm competitive myself but at what point do they say enough is enough? If I didn't have other farmers in my neighborhood then what would be the fun? Just for example a 6400 acre farm would be 10 sq. miles of tillable ground if it was 100% tillable! So if that was possible then in the flatest best farm country in the US you wouldn't have a "neighbor" farmer within close to half a township. Beans are already below $11, corn at $4, the big guys are gonna eat it on a huge scale...

Chris95 · Jan 12, 2014

Yeah I agree it"s neat to see that big equipment but that"s not good for most of us. The bigger those operations get the more it drives the price of land and rent up. On years with marginal corn prices it makes it extremely hard for the small operator to continue going.

massey333 · Jan 13, 2014

Then read about the farmer in "Farm Futures"mag.whose is farming 85,000 acres.

fixerupper · Jan 16, 2014

Three things come to mind: just some ramblings.

1. that grain cart operator running between the combine and the standing corn is not a rookie by any means.

2. Seems like it wasn't too long ago when a 16 row planter was huge and a the few 12 row corn heads out there were over sized for the combines available.

3. He was moving right along with that 16 row what appears to be a chopping head (?). Or is 12 row the biggest chopping head? A chopping head takes a LOT of power. You can see the drought in the corn in the overhead shots. It could not have been yielding it's best potential. Jim

Pretty well made harvest video!!! 16 x 30 corn head

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