Arkansas Rice Harvest With a Claas Lexion 8700 4K

[@joseduarte176]

The farm life is truly a peaceful way to live.

[@tanviet76]

*Thank you for shearing and also thank to all the farmer for your hard work to feed us.*

[@joseduarte176]

Watching you harvest makes me appreciate food even more.

[@DonLuc23]

Great job. It always amazes me how fast the grain stalks go into the much smaller opening to the combine. It looks even faster when you are sitting in the cab and looking down on it.

[@DonLuc23]

Great sunset shot.

[@AerialAg]

@@DonLuc23 Thanks!

[@박병술-v9y]

😅

[@tsharp8320]

Passed by the Claas Dealer in Stuttgart the other day on a road trip. Had a couple with the Cat colors too

[@jerryedwards2418]

❤ great harvest

[@sergeantwilliams8185]

Pretty cool video. I like seeing rice harvest. It’s a rare crop to see on KZbin. The footage of the cotton field was icing on the cake.

[@AerialAg]

Thanks . One year I’ll have to try and catch them harvesting the cotton.. I have a bunch of rice harvest if you look through my videos , thanks

[@jchambers2586]

Long rice is what United States grows Arkansas grows 40% of the rice in the United States they plant the field with a planter like you use with wheat they flood the land and it stays flooded until it's ready to harvest right before Harvest they drain it and let the ground dry then they use a traditional combined with a draper head like you have shown in the video I used to live in Arkansas around rice Farms

[@AerialAg]

Planning on making another trip this year, thanks for watching!

[@kita139]

I love the scenery so much 🥰

[@tanviet76]

*And so do I. What an amazingly view.*

[@pakitomercante]

Super Lexion!

[@twinsfarm]

Very very nice!!!

[@BRPFan]

Thanks for the video buddy! You did a awesome at it like always!! 👍👍

[@jefferyhodge1945]

Awesome videos like watching that nice equipment

[@AerialAg]

Thanks , appreciate it !

[@matthewdickson7838]

Awsome set up and superb video thankyou ❤

[@oldthudman]

I recall (in the 1950's/1960's seeing "fields of rice" from just above little rock to almost Newport in Arkansas..........

[@marks_sparks1]

03:45 the money shot👏 I never knew Arkansas had prairie like terrain. Always thought it to be more broken in nature.

[@AerialAg]

This area was a huge 7500 acre field with rice and cotton. This was a massive farming area.

[@ProfessorTravis]

To keep it real simple. NW half of AR is Ouachita and Ozark mtns that look similar to Appalachia. SE half is essentially Mississippi River floodplain.

[@teecuzbruh4058]

@@AerialAg What area is that? if you can say, in the general area

[@bradleymcwilliams6348]

@@teecuzbruh4058 Arkansas is roughly a square state. If you look at a map of AR, draw a line generally from Texarkana north east to Batesville. The portion of the state to the south and east of that line would be the farming area. This farm could be just about anywhere in that area, although the further west you go you have more timber and less farming. Again, that's very general, there's a lot of grain raised in the Arkansas River Valley through the Ozarks

[@christopherlovelock9104]

So nice to see a touch of 'Class' in your videos. - Reminds me of around where I live, - why are they cutting so high, I know the 'crop' is at the top of the stalk, but then so are all cereal crops and that doesn't stop 99% of farmers cutting close to the ground. Or were they going to flood the fields immediately after and put a load of 'crawfish' in as a second crop and this gives them some 'shade'. 😊👍.

[@AerialAg]

They don't farm crawfish up there in Arkansas.. I think they cut high to have less trash going through the machine.. Rice is a tough crop to process as is.

[@teecuzbruh4058]

Ariel Ag was correct, the less straw going thru the machine the better. Crawfish would already be buried in the levees from previous stock if there was a crop of Crawfish to be had. The time to stock Crawfish during a crop would be before maturity of the crop, but after there is a good enough stand of the plant. With as little water as a rice crop requires for a flood, the crawfish would tend to bury immediately in the hot weather.

[@christopherlovelock9104]

@@teecuzbruh4058 - Thank you for all that, - obviously I'm not from the USA and I don't know the fine art of raising Crawfish. All I know is what I've seen on YT, - me, I'm in the UK and we don't grow rice over here to start with, let alone Crawfish.

[@teecuzbruh4058]

@@christopherlovelock9104 No problem at all friend, I'll answer any question you may have to the best of my ability. I am in Cajun country (Southwest Louisiana) and am the son of a rice and crawfish farmer. The farmer is now retired. I went into the oil and gas industry for my working career, but have dabbled in rice and crawfish farming since a young boy beginning in the late 70's on weekends (harvest during schoolyear) late august/early september. My dad always planted late as a non-landowner, renting land from crawfish land owners, before finally buying enough land in the 90's to grow rice and crawfish on our own land. Still have the land and crawfish farm, but we've got another rice farmer for growing a crop. Crawfish can be done with no rice also, need levees, a pump, boat, and traps. EDIT: I should add that a dozer and backhoe is pretty necessary also. Dozer can be rented (dad has one) but can be rented vs trying to buy that PLUS backhoe, all the land, etc. The land and pump is a massive investment to even think about trying to crawfish. Crawfish prices (wholesale) have been insane for the last handful of years, reaching $4.00 or $4:50 a pound for the fisherman early in the season (November/December is considered "early"). But bait ALSO is insane ($40.00 for a 45# box of pogy bait, also known as Menhaden)

[@christopherlovelock9104]

@@teecuzbruh4058 - Thanks again, - I'll remember you if I have any more questions. - I should think the oil & gas industry are better wage payers than rice and crawfish. I didn't know you could farm the little fella's on their own, - bit like these Shrimp and Fish farms I suppose nowadays. - Do you find all this 'Climate Change' and varying Government policies is affecting your line of work or will you be retired by the time they finally realise they have left everything too late, and it will be our children and grandchildren who will suffer and we will be long gone from this World. - Well I will anyway.

[@laszlovigh5303]

Very good video! 👍🚜🚜⛽

[@nguoiviethaingoai558]

Người ta quá thông minh để làm ra những máy móc tối tân này . Bái phục! Bái phục

[@MrDabaja]

great video!

[@natureslover]

SHOUT OUT FROM THE PHILIPPINES

[@AerialAg]

@@natureslover Thanks for watching !

[@natureslover]

@@AerialAg this is my first time to watch that the Americans have a wide planting of rice and i believe that you love rice to eat too,that as i know you are only eating bread coming from wheat grains. Thank you Idol.....and God Bless America...

[@Cenlafarmtoys]

Is this the same claas combine that was harvesting corn in your other video?

[@AerialAg]

Yes it is. They live in and do some farming in La. but the bulk of their farmland is in Arkansas

[@piperdoug428]

stunning footage, cool to get a ride along. wonder why he was steering?

[@AerialAg]

Thanks.. if I remember correctly we were heading directly into the same path as the other combine so he was probably doing some maneuvering

[@สุทธิพงษ์ณพัทลุง]

Hi. From Thailand

[@AerialAg]

Greetings!

[@gabrielbeyt6267]

Mann that is one big Claas Combine. Plus that John Deere 8RX is a sweet looking rig. I am surprised that the 8RX can catch up to that Combine

[@AerialAg]

Yea that Claas is an absolute beast

[@pakitomercante]

How many hectares have the field (or acres if you like more)?

[@termodynamics]

What is the tractor front liquid tank for?

[@tsint]

Doesn't look very comfortable driving against rows and tram lines :)

[@manuelk4511]

👌🚜🎥🎞❤️👍

[@Kamila1529]

🇰🇿🙋‍♂️👍

[@christopherlovelock9104]

OOPS! - Spelling mistake their. Did you know 'Claas' are still 'Family Owned', - their Grandfather started the firm. - I should think they must one of the last that haven't been 'swallowed up' by the conglomerates.

[@AerialAg]

Yep, family owned.. they make some great equipment.

[@hassocks1206]

I used to work with Claas. I knew Helmut Claas well. He was a great engineer and leader of the company.