Harvesting Oats 2018 John Deere 6620

- The farm I go to in North Dakota swaths them. The kids hate the extra step.
- Well dravis I would like to see you do a video enough cultivator and see what all are you gonna have to redo to it that sounds like a narrow resting project And keep up the good work God-bless
Więcej macie na tej stronie drukarniabeltrani.pl druk kraków , jak nie to nie wiem. - Another thing I remember about oat dust is there were a few instances where the dust caused a big explosion.
- Got really sick about 1970 shoveling oats being augered up into a granary. My uncle grew oats for seed that he sold along with his certified Wisconsin seed corn. When I was just a little guy my dad used to borrow my uncle's Massey Harris combine and we used a direct cut head with a sickle bar and reel.. But later on my uncle bought a swather and started combining like in this video. The dryer the oats the easier the grain threshed out and the weeds were dryer and the threshed grain was cleaner. My uncle had a big fanning mill set up in the seed house which he cleaned the seed oats with one more time (in addition to the fanning mill located at the bottom of the massey). There was a sack on the side of the massey that collected tiny green weed seeds that went through the sieves.
- Nice combine
- Swathing is common up in Saskatchewan for all crops. I grow wheat, canola, barley, flax, and oats and every acre is swathed. I don't even own a straight cut header. I don't have any livestock so my wheat and oats are for milling and barley goes for malting. Canola and flax are oilseeds. Corn is only grown here for cattle guys that silage it or leave it standing for winter grazing. Our season is too short to combine it and we don't get the heat units. Soys are somewhat of a minor thing in places here but the short growing season makes it risky. Different strokes for different folks I guess. Us Canadians like to be different sometimes but it's more out of necessity. Swathing crops here versus standing can mean the difference between combining in September or starting in October and praying the snows don't come before you finish up. Happy farming to you my American brothers!
- When we combined oats, we combined like soybeans. Not winrow them.
- Just curious, but does it really seem efficient in this day and age to swath then harvest instead of direct cut? The cost of the extra fuel and time expended for swath and pick up compared to direct cut?
- Going back even before my time (binding, shocking, threshing, etc) it was always said that small grains should be cut and then let dry before harvesting. This let the crop go through a "sweat period" that improved test weight and quality of the grain, whether true or not I don't know if there's data to support it. Nowadays weather and the time window for harvest dictates different methods of farming. Regards, R9n
- Never seen them cut like that.
- Nice looking oats, Ryan! The straw will be useful. Travis, are you buying straw again this year, or will it not be necessary for the number of cattle you are raising?
- My uncle has the same combine
- You wanna talk about itch growing up in the 70's when Dad and Grandpa did a lot of grain sorghum and a lot of custom combining... The Ford 640 (Claas Senator rebranded) had a cab but NO A/C... Dad got an old "under-dash" add-on A/C unit from a junkyard designed to add A/C to a car back when a lot of cars were sold without air conditioning and added it to the combine, but it couldn't really keep up just barely kept it tolerable in the cab, particularly in the 100 degree heat we have to harvest in around here in SE TX. Back then grain sorghum hadn't been bred to be resistant to "downy mildew" which grew a layer of basically itching powder right under the head of grain on the top of the stalk that got cut and ran through the combine with the grain as it was threshed, and then went airborne as dust. That crap got EVERYWHERE and since it was usually 95 degrees or above at 7-8 AM when we started combining of a morning you got covered in sweat and you were covered in sweaty dust in no time and itched like h3ll all day, which REALLY sucked...

Thankfully by the 90's when I started growing sorghum again after growing cotton all through the 80's and first half of the 90's, they had bred in resistance to downy mildew and the grain sorghum was only about 10% as itchy as it had been when I was a kid...

Later! OL J R :)
- LOL:) Love the bloopers... that's how it usually goes... sometimes more often than not.

Later! OL J R :)
- How many days did Ryan let it dry before combining?
- Your intro reminds me of the song On Melancholy Hill by the Gorillaz.
- If you think oats is bad for dust, I don’t think you wanna try barley anytime soon! That stuff is the worst!
- Great job in the video
- I knew I saw a yellow cab in that picture of you
- So when you plant new alfalfa land you add oats seeds as a cover crop