Harvesting Sugarcane
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
- Harvesting Sugarcane in the Florida Everglades. The Johnson's and Nessman's spent a day touring a lettuce and sugarcane farm. The Sugarcane burn was hot and intense. Do you know where your lettuce comes from? A mountain of sugar twice the size of our largest farm shed!! #holdontoyoursunburn
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Great content Zach. Keep 'em coming and your channel will grow. I also watch Rice Farming TV. I don't farm, but I source my pork, beef, eggs, and dairy direct from local farms. There are a lot of people out there who want to know where their food comes from. Most of us are aware at some level that if you don't farm, we don't eat. Thank you and blessings for keeping food on my table!
Thank you very much Timothy!
Timothy Pirnat
- very nicely said Timothy. 😎🚜🚛
@@SoybeanFarmer3300 There are a lot of beans, corn, and winter wheat grown around me in southwest Ohio.
@@timothypirnat3754 - there is some really good soil in that region.
@Utah Car Wash channel are we not gonna look at the date posted?
That's the sweetest thing I've ever seen.
Big Bud on that terrain would be buried up to the axles.
@@jasoncarswell7458 naaaahhhh
Is that a full pun intended
Really?
Same
I just purchased a John Deere Garden Tractor from Everglades here in Palmetto, FL. I went with John Deere in part because of you - and trust me that was not easy because I've been a Toro man my whole life! 🤘
Nice, congrats!!
Just saying, no harm meant. I drove a kubota a few years back, the hydraulics really seemed to lack the power to get the job done
@@MrMwurm I know Kubotas skids have excellent power hydraulics. Bucket goes up so fast compared to most skids.
It never gets old hearing you say:
"That's what she said."
I laughed out loud.
Hell I thought he said "It wont'ed that wide," and hell I was gonna say it was like a board 9 X 6......but hell I had my protective head gear on......
You should see how Australia does sugarcane harvesting (June to December) and planting (March/April autumn plant and September to November spring plant). Where I work, we just planted 52 hectares or 128 acres in 4 days with 6 workers (including a breakdown). One, harvester, 4 haulouts and 2 for the planter. I prefer blue and red intercase. Good video
Thank you to everyone involved in the production of this video. Time very well spent showing the working side of production agriculture that is often misunderstood by the general public.
Awesome welcome to my part of the country, I moved here 10years ago from a large farm in Kansas and was quite shocked at the different types of agriculture here. Everglades Equipment is a awesome company and has supported other youtubers as well and we appreciate that about them!
I grew up in Belle Glade and went to school in Pahokee.. the next town over.. I moved to Texas 7 years ago .. Florida will always be my home.
One thing we don't see on UA-cam Farming is sugarcane farms,
Someone should start a channel on it 🙂
ua-cam.com/users/al91176
search for "colheita cana açucar safra usina" in youtube for some Brazilian harvests.
@@Ridg.e great shots but i meant someone should do a vlogging style channel with sugarcane farms
Same with potatos
Daniel J You can't expose all those poor illegal immigrants so ICE can deport them. Then we wouldn't have any lettuce to eat because you sure as HELL won't find any Lazy Ass American millennials to do that hard labor work!!
Finally something I can relate to, I grew up in the Burdekin in QLD Australia and it’s amazing how it’s exactly the same 15,000km from home.
Take the van to the Freedom Factory. They’ll let you do donuts.
Danny Rockey I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought that
Good call! It's over here on the West Coast not far!
Hell yeah brother.
I thought I was the only guy that watched Cleetus and millennial farmer the same night. Do the donuts.
Awesome video, I'm a sugar farmer right there in Belle Glade and it's great seeing someone show us to the world because people don't realize what we do down here in south Florida. It's not just beaches and sun. Hope you had a great time.
This was a good video, love seeing different types of farming throughout the country
back in the old days when they cut cane by hand my dad said one other benefit of burning the cane fields was to chase the wild life out of the field , snakes wild cats etc . Great video by the way its always fun seeing how other locals across the country make a living at farming Thanks !!
I heard stories of posting kids with .22s around the perimeter of a field to be burned to pick off the critters. Wearing shorts into a cane field? No way. I would worry about the snakes.
Muck city..google football and cane fields=your welcome
@@cyrilhudak4568 Fact, I used to do it. Damn good hog hunting.
Yup! Here in Qld Australia the snakes are all through the cane. My granddad cut cane by hand. Back breaking hot labour with wildlife out to get you.
Those lettuce harvesters work harder than anybody, holy cow!
Thank you for taking us along. First off, I had a whole different thought on what sugar cane looked like! And I didn't know they burnt it first. Second, I'd like to know what those people picking the lettuce make an hour, because wow, what a back breaking job. I think I'll appreciate my lettuce more, now.
Shout out to all my people working hard out on those fields day in and day out so we’re able to buy it at the grocery stores. 👍
The people in the field that had their heads and face covered? Doing working no Americans want to do... Didn't notice them 😬
@@mitchmoe6224 , very sad seeing people work like that . Was not the best part of the video . Sort of brings you down
@@BenDover-069... We've all done it, I did in high school anyway. Have you ever heard of detassling corn? Hot, humid, muddy and just miserable work in the corn fields. I wonder if they still do that by hand or if machinery has been developed for it. Anyway, It taught me at a young age to get my shit together. But yes, those people were older and I'm sure they aren't enjoying that job.
@@mitchmoe6224 They still hire college students to go detassel during the summers.
@@karlrovey... I remember in high school getting $5 an hour in 81, 82 and 83. There were also college students working with us, not sure what their pay was. We had some good times working in those not so ideal conditions.
There was this time my buddy had to take a dump, so he went into the next field over and took care of business. The field hadn't been detassled so we knew there was a chance someone might step in it and we were sad because we'd never know the outcome of this sick idea. The next day we got our answer to the mystery as we picked up our half frozen gallon jugs of water to take a drink. Mine tasted weird, smelled a bit like piss. As I looked over at my buddy to ask him where he filled the gallon jugs up, I noticed him looking precariously at his bottle as well. We didn't have to say a word to each other as we started freaking out 😂.... We ran to the truck where there might be the possibility of fresh water. As we walked back to where our crew had just came out of their rows and were starting to drink, they to had a weird look on their faces as we warning them "no no no don't drink the water!".... They all freaked out and wanted to beat us up. They thought because we were laughing that we pissed in their water. 😂 It wasn't until we handed them our plastic milk jugs (with our names) that they smelled ours and knew we didn't do it..... We never told them what led to us getting our water polluted like that 🤣
Everglades equip group has now helped 2 of my favorite channels. You and Cleetus Mcfarland. It just goes to show that family owned businesses still know customer support and community engagement are key. They haven't posted the videos on their page or anything, they just help out when they can. I wish i lived closer, I would buy my tractor from them in a heartbeat.
I was hoping you would find an alligator and poke it to see if it was ok?? Maybe next time. Cool stuff from Florida.
😂 😂 😂 Pocking the alligator... 😂 😂 😂
Nice catch
That's my industry! I haul bulk sugar and love the spotlight your visit placed on it. Thanks for what you do!
Aw, man, you're playing _vanilla_ Farming Simulator 19. You need to get some mods to speed up the cane harvesting.
Growing up in Puerto Rico besides sugar cane fields fifty years ago, I saw the whole process done by hand by macheteros (machete wielders) and ox-drawn carts. The cut cane was taken to the refinery in railroad wagons and most ended used in the making of rum. My mom hated the burnout days because the ash landed on her laundry. Lots of good memories. Thanks, guys.
I was so excited to see sugar cane harvest in Australia during our work and holiday. Massive train systems across the area towards the Destillerie 👍👍👍
There are some nice videos of the arrow gauge sugarcane railroads down there.
Thanks for visiting my native state and showing something other than Disney world. I was born and raised in North FL. In a very rural area of FL. Glad y’all had a great time and come and visit again!
Zack that was an impressive look at something most people will never see! Highly informative and entertaining sir! And with you’re custom brand of humor it made for great watching! Wish I could join you guys on that Alaska trip it sounds amazing, I have bad depression though and don’t get out a whole lot. So it would be a lil much for me prob. Thanks for doin what you do, I’ve been a big fan for awhile, you’ve provided me with endless hours of depression slaying enjoyment good sir. 🤘😎🇺🇸
It’s good to see the compliments for the people working there, when my mother used to work in the fields people would drive on the side and stop and tell her to go back to Mexico, this brightened my day
Everglades equipment also hooked my other favorite youtuber cleetus McFarland up with some John deere stuff to manage the race track he bought! Good guys!
I'd love to meet this Cletus fella!
Should have met with him down there he is is Bradenton! Wonderful guy with some sweet toys! 1500hp corvette 1000hp crown vic Cummins swapped ford galaxy!
another Cleetus fan here too....I just made the same comment, before i saw this one
@@MillennialFarmer channel is Cleetus McFarland
@@MillennialFarmer ua-cam.com/users/results?search_query=cleetus+mcfarland
Growing up in guyana next to sugar fields brings back alot of memories when driving through the ochobie lakes .
The cane all twisted and laying down kind of reminded me of someone else’s corn last fall?
#toosoon
Lol
Ouch! rofl
@@MillennialFarmer LOL
Thanks for sharing, Zack. It was a subtle change from the farmers in the north. Having to NOT deal with snow must change the whole operation and schedules of planting and harvest.
Can't wait for planting to begin back in Minnesota
Those folks doing the lettuce don’t have to worry about calories. Wow I’m impressed with the amount of work.
Kids climbing a mountain of sugar- "Man Willy Wonka ain't got nothing on these guys" lol
Love your videos on how food is grown and what the farmer has to do to make it happen. I thank all farmers through you for what they do.
I also watch Ryan's How Farms Work. Both sites tell a great story about the young farmer. Get er done...you are what is great about our nation.
Interesting take on a totally different scenario.....well done everyone and thank you
im 100% sure farmers are the #1 most hardworking and wholesome people ever
Welcome to my neck of the woods, I was raised in that area. Hope you enjoyed seeing the true Florida!
Yup, Pahokee Here.
I love that Randy is sporting the Kensington Fire Department shirt. Way to represent Randy.
Randy has one of those Gucci hats that are clear
Those kids will never forget that trip, well done guys and gals.
I can't believe how rich that soil looked in the lettuce fields.
Imagine that much green stuff buried there twice the season.. it WILL do some good to the soil...
But yeah that soil looked pretty.. pretty awesome.. it would be lovely to plant some wheat on that.
We call that "Muck" It is high in plant matter, that is why it does not need Nitrogen added to it. I have yet to find a better soil to grow in.
Now try to believe that topsoil is 10 feet deep.
Always exciting to see Millennial Farmer notifications. Thanks Everglade Equipment enjoyed the tour, very entertaining, so sweet! Like honeymoon salad, "letus alone with no dressing!"
Was good meeting you guys last week! Muddy muddy is my middle name on our farm too! Thanks guys! Josh @stoneyridgefarmer
Good to meet you too Josh!
Zach... THIS IS AWESOME CONTENT!!!!
Thank you for all that you and Mrs. Millennial are doing for all farmers and the AG industry by documenting what real farmers do.
Thank you for watching!
Florida wanted to make sure you felt at home with the weather 😂😂 great video
That Everglades guy looked so so similar to the manager of the Leesburg branch. Last time I was in there looking for models, about 18 months ago, he gave me some free stuff. A good man. Hoping to get back there to them this October again.
Have to laugh as usual, HONESTLY looks like the griswolds on vacation. Loved the VIDEO GREAT job
I have driven that road so many times. We use to live in Naples, Florida and we would go over to visit family in West Palm Beach. We are now in Northwest Georgia.
This is the sweetest videos you’ve done
I see what you did there....
I always find it amazing how fast these field workers go and make it look so easy. Your videos hopefully help people realise even with machines how hard all types of farming are on the people who own and work on farms. Being from the midwest I always grew up knowing we wouldn't be anywhere without are farms!
those red things that are called Gator Grinders Zach.HAHA!!🤣👍
If you ever fancy a trip to the UK let me know or give Forces Farming a shout! Great job!
I bet that made the biggest mess,a gator going through a forage harvester Zach.🚜💥🐊
I live in Fl & watch you all the time I used to live in Mn
I can tell you we have great weather until someone comes to visit
17:03 cheaper AND less expensive?! Amazing!😏
Equipment dealers are the best place to go to for advice on which farms to tour in an unknown area
Hmmm those lettuce harvesting people with their faces covered I'm guessing that their documentation isn't quite in order 😁
That whole crew was way out of order, hard working but...
Awesome! Thanks to all.
When you said “Creepy uncle Van” I literally spit my coffee across the room! Now my wife is mad at me! Can I get you to call her and explain that this is your fault? Thanks in advance.
That cracked me up too , Zach never fails to deliver :)
i cracked up at that as well lol
I just want to say thank you for always making me happy and i wish i could meet you.
No auto-steer!?!? Oh the struggle 🤯
First World Problems 😑🤦♂️
Belle Glade, Florida, that is where I was born in 1948. Yes the sun does shine there. Fun to see your video.
You sure can tell the northern's to the southern's. Shorts vs coat's hahahaha
It just shows class that you recognized everyone involved in your trip.
Just a quick question thoughts on "right to repair?"
You were saying that the cane harvester cab is similar to what your harvester has, that's because John Deere and Case use combine cabs. They're good for looking down at the crop, but here in Australia our crops can grow taller the the harvesters and we usually have to watch out for power lines over head, and you can't see up very well in those cabs. The visibility was good in cane harvesters until manufacturers got lazy and started using combine cabs.
I was wondering how you felt about the right to repair movement since most of your tractors are computer controlled
the right for the dealer to repair it and charge you for it.
You have the Right to purchase Brands that share software.. There are a few Hackers out there..
Growing up around sugarcane farms in Central Queensland, Australia. I always loved harvest time from June to December.
The fires of the feilds was always a highlight seeing the power of the fire.
Another highlight was coming home from school we had a narrow gauge rail network so would have bins and bins waiting in sidings ready to go the mill. I would climb the bins and take some lengths peel the outside skin off (with my teeth) and eat and chew on the sugary fibers.
Still have good teeth too i might add...
Thanksfor the content, brings back some memories...
My chickens would be heaven in that lettuce field
Woooooow this is my hometown and I did not expect to see you here while watching your videos and my dad drove tractors all his life. Especially sugarcane equipment
I've always wanted to see this done
Glad to see you made it down here to beautiful sun shinny Florida . Dont worry about the weather give it a few minutes and it will change . I know that area well and have hauled from Dixie before . Glad you all enjoyed your trip .
my lower back would be fried after a couple hours of that 6:15
Mine began to hurt just watching...I had to look away!
Agreed! HARD working people for sure
I was a consultant down in Florida for a few years, seeing those guys and gals harvest lettuce, sweet corn, tomatoes, melons, etc. is nothing short of amazing. Hard working folks that’s for sure.
@@JStorm2244 Yeah but why bother to do all that work, just go to walmart, everything comes from the shop isn't it? Crazy people these doing that..
I'd have to say I know very little to nothing about farming but you guys would be fun to hang out with. You know how to make learning fun which will payback big for your kids. One thing I did think of watching this was I see videos here on UA-cam from the Amazon warehouse workers claiming their pushed to hard etc.... I would suggest Amazon as part of their training put each of them out in the fields picking and processing that lettuce for a day or two. I'd bet the complaints would pretty much disappear.
Come to Germany and see how hop is harvested. Believe there is nothing more complicated.
(If you include the process at the farm)
JustSomeGermanGuy Have seen video of the process done at hops farms here in the state of Oregon USA. Your not exaggerating. Worth it as long as it produces great German and Oregon beer
Hops in Idaho also, next stop
In the late 1950's I worked on my uncles farm. He had a two row corn picker that fit on the front of his IH tractor, it would pick whole ears and throw them into a wagon, the wagon would be backed up to a corn sheller, He would hook the wide PTO belt up to the sheller and I would have to shovel the corn into the sheller. When I was done I had to also grind up the corn cobs and mix other things with them and make pig slop to feed the hogs. Things were way different then.
Being from the western Lake Erie area, I have to point out that the drainage from Cane often ends up in Lake Okeechobee. The Lake drains east and west. This causes the green algae blooms in the Atlantic and Gulf similar to which caused Me to be without drinking water for three days several years ago. Okeechobee is virtually dead. Plans to divert the water to the Everglades where the nutrients would be used up has been stymied by political influence. I respect the hard working farmers but the environmental damage is severe in this case. Still enjoy the hell out of your channel Zack.
Thomas, You have no idea what you are talking about. The water from the lake flows to the south not to the east or west.The Cane fields that Zack visited are to the east and south of Lake O. When the lake levels gets above a certain point MSL, then, depending on the time of year, the USACE will discharge out the Caloosahatchee river to the west and St Lucie canal/river to the east. The biggest problem was the straightening of the Kissimmee river (which allowed all the runoff from the orange groves to the north to flow straight into Lake O) and the building of Alligator Alley. FYI, I live on a man made canal off the south fork of the St. Lucie river abutting the St. Lucie canal in Stuart. Dan in Jupiter is just my moniker.
Dan in Jupiter
So you’re saying sugar production does not produce runoff?
@@sprout5199 I saw the green algae in the atlantic while visiting Stuart. boatloads of phosphorus draining into the lake . not NEARLY enough going south. my facts maybe out of date. whats become of the money you voted for when scott was gov. to add storage? that was to help prevent the everglades from drying out and filter the nutrients. restoring the kissimmee was a great idea. how about the south side of lake O getting something similar, drain tiles in the farm fields, limiting phosphorus. can you update me. i'm a native of fla. 30 years before the development drove me out.
@@AusTexish boatloads runoff
A coworker & I rented a Ford Explorer when we had to go work in Phoenix for a week. We figured we'd take a tour of the Apache Trail and other dirt trails. When we got back to the hotel and opened the back up, we had like 4" of fine dust/dirt/sand in the "way back" and the middle row! Uffda. I bet Enterprise was not pleased!!!
Id love to look at the soil sample results of that field..
thanks for your different farm visits
I would have loved you coming to my citrus grove in lee county.
Zack, from a native Floridian, thanks for showing Belle Glade(Belle as in Liberty BELL) on your channel(love to hear you say Pahokee, Okeechobee, or Immokalee). I grew up in Palm Beach County (Jupiter to be exact). Just wish you would have grabbed a stalk of cane and tried a bit right after harvest---SWEET. The Muck (soil) out there can be 30+ feet deep in places. They can grow so many different crops its unbelievable. The sweet winter corn from the Glades is the best.
Again, Thanks for showing my part of the country.
Dan in Jupiter
Not a single question about problems with ants with all that sugar. : P
That's about the age, maybe a little younger, this ranchland boy from Texas got to gnaw on his first field cut chunk of sugarcane. It's a fond memory I hold to today about 60 years later. You and Randy are to be commended getting Onyx and pipelayer junior into dirty fingernail memories at their ages.
Eats sugar: "tastes sweet"
Typical millennial just had to taste it. 🤣
Thank god it was not tide pods.
What an awesome adventure and to be able to share it with not only family but us. I grew up in that world down south Florida and you want find better people always ready to help. God bless
4:24 I.C.E. Has entered the chat
Lol! 😂
These days they're mostly Puerto Rican. The rest are H-2A.
Did someone say I.C.E. 😲 🏃♂️🏃♀️ 💨
Amazing video, lots of hard workers in those cabbage fields. Never knew the burning of the fields. Thanks for sharing.
I didn't know sugarcane was being produced in USA.
"The largest facility in the world" - Who knew?
valter 9350 south Louisiana, south Texas, and south Florida
I love that Onyx is giving his old man some lip. It's hilarious. Great video Zach, i've never seen those products farmed on such a massive scale. A+ on the Comedy with you and Randy.
Just type ‘Case’ on the van and then it doesn’t matter that it gets dirty, just sayin’🤷♂️
Family Vacation part two. Zach and Randy invade Florida!
Sweeeeeeet............"who wears shorts to a Florida lettuce facility" LMAO
Great seeing how it’s done over there, but you need to Come Down Under🇦🇺 and we’ll show you how we grow sugarcane.
TTTTTHHHHUUUUNNNNDDDDDEEEERRRRR.... =)
Interesting to learn something new in farming. First time I’ve ever seen lettuce 🥬 harvested. Seen the sugarcane harvest
I promise you that if it wasn't for the migrant workers that job would be a lot harder and more expensive to get done
Why would the job get harder ? The job would still be the same, and as long as they are LEGAL migrant workers, it's all good.
I live in Florida about 2 hours from Everglades Equipment and if you don't like the weather you can just wait 10-15 minutes and it will change
No way Zach does this editing. Nice job mrs.millennial farmer or maybe Zach does but great video
This one was all me! -Zach
ANOTHER AWESOME VIDEO ZACH! Always puts a smile on my face to see a notification that MN Millennial Farmer has posted again!! Your humor is GREAT, and the content is even better. Perfectly timed trip and video for us here in MN that are sooo riddled with spring fever and desperate for warmer snowless, iceless water and weather. By the way, You are Killing it with the views! 143K on the first day!! Love to get your posts and proud to watch your channel grow! God Bless and keep 'em coming!
Thank you!