Southwest Kansas Milo Harvest
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- Опубліковано 19 жов 2024
- Southwest Kansas Milo Harvest - Video I shot near Johnson Kansas of a Gleaner S67 Combine with a John Deere 1293 corn head that has an ARRO Milo conversion. In this video they are harvesting Milo (Grain Sorghum) This is a short video with good aerial and on the ground footage of all of the harvest action
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Never saw Milo harvested before. Good to see that Gleaner hard at work. Awesome video as always Mike. Thanks 👍 👍
The gleaner doesn't look too bad with a green header😉👍 cool to see some milo harvest👍😁
Nice video👍
We used to have a local dealership outside Elizabethtown, Pa named Hernley’s who used sell Gleaner combines about 20-25 years ago. Always enjoyed seeing them sitting outside! Thanks Mike for the great footage!
Mike you got a lot of grain sorghum harvest video I started harvest on a Massey-Harris Combine in 1957 as a 12 year old. In the Panhandles irrigated milo made 4500 lbs per acre. Then hybrid seed sorghum was developed and we made 7000 in 1958. Corn and Sorghum made about the same. In the mid 1960's green bugs adapted to infest mjlo resulting in a big switch to corn. We had a farm average of 167 bu corn using a JD105 to harvest 20" row corn. .
Never saw Milo Harvest bevor, thanx for showing, stay safe and have fun whit greeting from Germany ;-p
We need to get this channel to 100k
I’m getting really close now.
@@farmhandmike meh. "Heading for a million" no problem. Make interesting oddball "tires" these for a while now for i think heavy equipment operation (mining) but not sure about that. No air, kinda "plastic-eee" with a honeycomb structure that has if successful awesome implications for the Tractor Market as
A: no sidewall
B: no air
C: "naturally flat" at ground interface so no need for a tracked vehicle
D: very light weight
E: incredibly durable
F: obviously far superior traction to a purely round tire
G: far less material needed in order to produce
H: far greater "tractive control" and effort for hills, corners, turning etc
I: much superior weight distribution without the expense of fully tracked
J: still a tractor not a bull dozer
K: not sure about on road performance, tread design, design life etc etc so the devil is in the details absolutely but been out for a while now too, should be great in all weather and soil conditions plus handle "the hard stuff" (ye olde Rock, stubble upon stubble upon stubble upon stubble, etc) so I think anyways something you might start seeing "out there" as costs surge must higher than than the price of product can be produced and sold for.
As with lumber, iron ore, steel now aluminum i think oil prices could get really pounded hard this week but I've been wrong about oil all Year 100% not even close to being right so we'll see.
Great time to be selling Harley Davidsons in Europe and Russia at the moment tho!
So at least "some" good news for the Badger State.
Ford F750 ready to take on the *ENTIRE* US Trucking Industry so that's good news as well.
Another great vid Mike. You understand how to film in sunny conditions so the lighting works.
Very interesting for someone not familiar with milo.
The Gleaner is a smart looking combine, nice colours & the green header adds to it. Cool looking tractor too.
07:10 that is one good looking tractor and graincart! Sorry Mike😄
Seriously, the JD Soundgard Cab series are one of the most pretty tractors ever made
Deere Row Crop heads were the *53 series heads. Used gathering belts and had star shaped knives. They cut crop off at front of row unit where the ARRO conversions cut back towards the auger trough. The benefits of the arro are you can pick up downed milo and still leave 8-12” of residue standing vs the Deere row crop heads cut things off right at ground level if you were down getting lodged crop. The arro heads are far less maintenance as well.
Another awesome video, Content that you can’t see anywhere else.
That was neat!!!! One of my top 21 Harvest Favs!!!!
It's amazing how much these ARRO head work. My neighbors have one and compared to their 30 ft platforms, they can run at least 1 mph faster consistently with these heads than the platform because they're not taking in near as much milo stubble. The $1,000 a row to convert these heads is completely worth it. Glad you could film one in action! Also, I hope you enjoyed itching the rest of that day from running in the milo dust
With a Gleaner as a videostar there's nothing wrong with it!😉
Thanks a lot for the video! 😊👍🏻
Awesome Mike! Great video 👍👍
I have seen Gleaner combines in Michigan with a Deere row crop header running sunflowers.
My brother ran a Deere 6 row crop header in soybeans back in the early 80’s on a 6620 it did a good job but was pretty heavy.
Mann Family Farms runs. 12 row row crop header in beans
We saw a slightly older Gleaner just like that one out harvesting soybeans today which was a nice find as most all anywhere around here are JD with a few Case/IH mixed in along with much older Gleaners. That 8560 looks to be in excellent condition for its age.
In 2000, 2001, and 2002 I worked for Newhouse custom harvesting and trucking. We cut wheat, sunflowers, corn, and Milo around Johnson Kansas.
If you worked for Britain, than you probably cut this same field. This was the Teeter farm
@@budless74 yep i sure did. I waa hoping and planning on going on harvest with Britton this past harvest season but on my way out to Oklahoma from New Mexico where I've been living the past 19 years I got a call from my Dr. telling me I had a cancerous tumor on my right kidney which was discovered from a MRI I had done on my hip. The tumor has been taken care of now so I'm going to try and go next year with him. I really enjoyed being in Johnson during wheat, sunflowers, and corn harvest. I enjoyed working for Britton too.
Bet that will be a good field to dove hunt. Thanks for the video.
Great awesome video mike
Great video Mike!! A great watching the harvesting of crops we don't see a lot of. Not only did you get to see the JD combine run, they kept the Versatile out of the game! Not Fair!! hope to see you "over the top" of 100K soon!
My home town is Johnson! Very cool to see harvest from out there. Wonder if I knew who this was? I thought I recognized the farm?
Great vídeo Mike.
Thats my favorite year and model of gleaner
Great video Mike👍
My dad told me the header you’re talking about that Deere made for row crops was called an all crop, it was used for sunflowers and back when soybeans were planted row crop, as well as other crops. It had the cutting blades as well.
My Neighbor Had a 4 row one....It used the gathering chain belts like were used on the silage cutter heads.......Worked good on soybeans until you picked up a root of some type then it would barber pole the hex drive shaft...... requiring a cutting torch to remove.....
@@farmingforfunandprofit940 we never had any problems harvesting. corn, soybeans. or milo with the John Deere headers we had
@@kennethcarlton2860 A lot of our land was cleared yellow pine Even to this day there are certain parts of the trees that were Terpintined. in the last century that have. knots of highly concentrated pitch... which will never decay....(rot) They are very tough to even destroy with an axe......And that pitch will gum up any kind of saw
Yep, and guar and sesame as well as sunflowers, milo, and row-planted soybeans....
Wonder if there were any “rejection issues” - JD header on an Gleaner, maybe they gave the Gleaner immunosuppressants....
You always have a wide variety of crops & equipment, I learn something every vid. I’ve heard of Milo, but never saw it & looked it up. It says a “drought resistant grain”, too bad the Montana farmers didn’t plant it this year.
It might be risky planting Milo in Montana. Frost kills it. So there might not be enough of a growing window to ensure you get it planted late enough to avoid spring frost while also ensuring that it reaches maturity before you start getting frost in the fall.
Great video!! They could use stalk stompers on the header...
The biggest reason farmers in this area do not run stalk stompers is because winter cover and having those standing stalks is super important for catching snow and holding the soil in place. This area only gets 16-18" of rain yearly and what snowfall we get we want to stay on the field and not blow away since we normally get 60 mph winds with snowstorms. I would personally never run stalk stompers just for that reason alone. I'll take the tire wear if it means winter precipitation holds on the ground.
Was just out there in southern Kansas and North east Oklahoma at my family's can't believe all the beans out there never used to be any beans
Buen trabajo 👍 amigo MEKY
Watching this makes me itch
This is a good one
Great. Well done.
Nice!
Closing in on 100,000 fast which is good to see.
What fertilizer do you use, are the prices starting to stabilize?
Seeing a Gleaner with a John Deer header is not on the list of things I expected to see today.
gleaner is showing JD HEAD HOW ITS DONE
Great video Mike but could you include a little more information about the crop - uses etc. I'm sure a lot of viewers from outside the US (like me from Northern Ireland) have never heard of Milo and would love to know a bit more about what the combine is actually doing. Strangely two of my latest additions to my 1/32 collection has been a Versatile 570 and a JD 8760!
Milo is used for a lot of the same things as corn, livestock feed and ethanol production being the main uses. It is popular in the drier areas in the west-central US since it requires far less water than corn. In our non-irrigated conditions here in central Kansas we would consider a yield of 80 bushels per acre to be very acceptable but if the rains come at the right time it can easily go over 100. The seed head is at the very top of the stalk so if it is standing nicely a regular platform header like you'd use for cereals works fine since you only clip the heads off. If it goes down due to bad weather or insect damage a header like the one shown is very useful to lift the heads up off the ground so you don't have to run all the residue through the combine. Milo is interesting because the seed can be dry (under 14% moisture) while the stalks are still green so it is common to see combines running through fields that are completely green except for the seed heads. If it is still warm and moist when cut the milo can actually try to send up a new seed head but these sucker heads would never be viable to harvest a second time. The stalks are killed by the slightest frost so late harvested milo will typically look like what is in the video, completely dead and brown.
@@bn4172 Wow, Thank you for that very interesting and informative reply.
@@bn4172Well, not profitable to cut NOW with the cost of fuel and machinery wear and tear versus the price of grain... but in the 50's and 60's the sorghum that headed out a second time, called the "ratoon crop" was cut if the rain came and it made good enough because it was just pure profit. Rice made a ratoon crop as well (headed out a second time) and back then the farmers said, "the first crop rice pays the bills, the ratoon crop is the profit!" Course we used to pick cotton 2, 3 sometimes even 4 times back in the 80's and into the 90's as well, before fuel and machinery costs as well as ginning got SO high that it was simply unprofitable to do anymore... times change I guess... Neighbor of mine who I used to bale for, he was still piddling about with some cows on his place up the road, and we'd visit... he told me how they picked cotton at least a half-dozen times BY HAND between about August/September and Thanksgiving or so. Then after Thanksgiving they'd go pick it one last time, and his Dad allowed all the kids (there were a bunch of them!) to keep the money from the cotton they picked-- that was their Christmas money. They'd usually finish maybe a week before Christmas and his Dad would give them time off through the week after Christmas, but the day after New Year's, he'd tell them it was time to hitch the horses up to the one row rolling stalk chopper and get to chopping the cotton stalks down in preparation for plowing... time to start getting ready for a new crop!
@@bn4172A lot of guys now have started "terminating" the crop by spraying it with Roundup (milo unlike most other crops is not genetically engineered-- it's too closely related to johnsongrass and some other things that they're afraid the resistance gene would jump species and they don't want that to happen, so it's stayed GMO free). Some do soybeans the same way in our area, only terminating them with Gramoxone (paraquat) to kill the stalks to dry them down, which freezes the leaves to the stalks (they don't have time to form an abscission layer and naturally senesce off the leaves like normal soybeans) and so they just run all that trash through the combine along with the beans and stems. Anyway, in the old days (early 70's for me) a lot of guys used sodium chlorate to terminate the crop... problem is, chlorate is next of kin to sodium chloride, and it has the exact same effect on your combine as road salt does on your vehicles... it eats them all to pieces. Dad's first combine was a rusted out old Case 660 that a guy had used to combine chlorated sorghum for years and it was rotted to the gunnels.... he spent all winter after he bought it pop riveting tin into the auger trough in the head, and had to replace the entire shaker pan under the straw walkers with a sheet of tin because it was completely rotted out... When he and Grandpa finally bought a new combine, they SWORE they would NEVER combine anybody's crop that had been sprayed with chlorate because of that (they paid for the machine in one year doing custom work, but that's another story).
Another use for grain sorghum grown in our area is, they ship it to Mexico to make glue for making plywood...
I attended a meeting a decade or two ago where they were singing the praises and trying to raise interest in getting farmers to raise white grain sorghum (which this looks to be white sorghum rather than the regular "red" sorghum which can vary from a rusty brown color to a dull red or even a bright orange). White sorghum is considered "food grade" sorghum because it can be ground into pure white flour virtually indistinguishable from wheat, unlike red sorghum which would have red flecks or be off-color due to the red seed coat. White sorghum varies from a cream color to various shades of tan. They served us brownies made from grain sorghum flour-- they were indistinguishable from wheat flour brownies, but sorghum has a health benefit-- it contains no gluten, unlike wheat flour, so it's ideal for people with celiac disease that cannot eat gluten, and for those with gluten sensitivity or who are looking to eat healthier grains without gluten. Basically you can bake with it just like with wheat flour, but of course the consistency of the baked good may be different from its wheat flour counterpart because of the lack of gluten giving a different structure, texture, or "mouth feel' of the finished baked good... bread which relies on gluten for its structure (thus why it's kneaded to link up the gluten and give it "tooth") is much softer and "looser" or crumblier... but it tastes much the same, and lots of folks who cannot eat regular bread or wheat like it.
Another use of the white sorghum they were touting was finishing off meat birds before slaughter. They kind of let the cat out of the bag when they told this story-- see meat birds, such as chickens, turkeys, etc. are usually fed grain sorghum feed for most of their lives because grain sorghum is typically priced at 4/5 the price of corn, so 20% cheaper than corn, and the feed value is similar. BUT the last week or so before the birds are scheduled for slaughter, they switch to feeding them corn. The reason for this is, when the birds are slaughtered, the line is moving SO FAST that the usually minimum wage making illegal aliens or green-card recent arrival to the USA emigres end up with about 3 seconds to gut a bird as it comes down the line... so it's basically 'slash and yank' butchery... which of course ends up perforating the intestines and slinging the contents of them all over the plucked bird, who's white skin will show the fecal matter under certain conditions, resulting in the USDA inspectors rejecting the bird because of "fecal contamination". Red sorghum has the problem that the glumes, the two tiny husks that enclose the immature seed until it fills and is ready to harvest, a certain amount of the glumes ALWAYS end up in the harvested grain and feed, and when these glumes are digested by the bird in its feed, they turn BLACK... and then when these black flecks of chicken poop are slung all over the bird when its butchered, it sticks out on the white skin of the plucked chicken like a cockroach on a white carpet! So the inspectors see it and reject the bird, which has to go to dog food. SO, they switch to feeding corn so that over the next few days before the bird is slaughtered, the glumes work their way out with the bird's poop, and the corn, which doesn't have glumes per se ("bees wings" or the red or white fluffy stuff on the cob after the corn is shelled off the cob is a similar type of structure) the corn seed coat on the kernel, which is in the feed, is digested by the bird, but the seed coat turns CLEAR when it's digested, so a clear fleck of poop on a white bird skin means the inspector cannot see it looking at dozens of chickens a minute on the line, and they all pass... NOW OF COURSE the birds STILL are covered in poop flecks from the too-rapid shoddy butchering job, BUT it's not noticeable to the inspectors so they pass it on as "okay" and "certified" as inspected.
Now, white sorghum would be a cheaper alternative than corn to feed the meat birds, because unlike red sorghum glumes that turn black when digested, white sorghum glumes are light in color and turn whitish-tan when digested, again, so they cannot be seen even though they're present in the poop slung all over the bird by shoddy gutting. SO if the birds are fed white sorghum, they'll pass a USDA inspection despite being covered in white chicken crap... because of the additional demand, white sorghum usually sells for a premium, but you have to have a buyer willing to segregate the grain, as mixing it with regular red sorghum would defeat the entire purpose... even with the premium above the normal red sorghum market price, it's still cheaper to feed white sorghum than corn to meat birds. SO they wanted farmers to plant more white sorghum.
When I asked, "Why not just slow down the abattoir line and give the minimum-wage workers doing that job enough time to gut and clean the chicken properly, rather than making such a hack-job of it... I got this blank stare like I beamed down from Mars... why do a job CORRECTLY when it's more profitable to CHEAT on the process and stick the money in your pocket, I guess...
The main thing I learned was, WASH YOUR CHICKEN before you cook it!! LOL:) Later! OL J R :)
How much was that crop yielding, bpa?
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Only problem I see with that head is I see it throwing things forward there in middle. Maybe that stuff is still recovered but it looks like some is thrown forward enough to maybe be lost.
Do they use Stalk Stomper on the Gleaner too, unusual not to and only have on tractor ?
See a Kansas farmers comment below about that.
What's the Chicago futures on Milo?
What! No Milo CAB?
Deere use to make a row head for soybeans as well
According to my dad it was called an All Crop, it was also used for sunflowers.
We still use row crop heads here in ga. They just dont like weeds
If it's the mikeless channel why's there a mike in it?
Ive seen guys run milo with a platform.
Ok just curious why are they using a corn head to harvest Milo it's cool but weird
As you could see in the video, the deck plates and the snap rollers were removed, making way for the rotary cutting disks up near the actual header frame. This header will no longer effectively cut corn. These heads are better than a traditional platform header because they can pick up down milo while leaving stalks on the ground for winter cover which is so important to everyone out here. Old corn headers are cheap and instead of rebuilding it with new snap rolls and deck plates the best thing to do is ship them my way and put this conversion kit on them, which is about $1,000 per row, but it is worth every penny.
What’s average yeild for milo ?
Anything is popular in Kansas……. Especially that far west….
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I like Mike less videos on UA-cam, from the imperial co California.
But I wanted to see the John Deere
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