BIG TIME Oklahoma Cotton Planting

[@ronzerby5952]

Mike, You hit a home run with this one.. Oklahoma engineering, that's what we do, Make things happen.....

[@dwainavance]

My neighbor is from Roosevelt OK. He goes back every late spring to help his Dad with the wheat harvest. His Dad must be in his 80's but still farms away.

[@markreetz1001]

Great video Mike. You are so right about the giant tractors and planters, no matter the color, you gotta be inspired by machinery like that! Hey everyone, give Mike a "Like".

[@bobsmith1814]

Awesome video. Great seeing two JD articulated tractors in the same field.

[@chrisgossman6512]

I an just amazed at the farming implements you come across and share with us. Then when I was wondering what the treated seed looks and you grabbed a handful and showed me. I like Mike.

[@mikeconway9966]

Great video Mike. Be awesome to see a harvest video of the same fields.

[@ethienbuys6246]

Hi there Mike, I wouldn’t mind working on that farm learning all there is to learn….

[@OpunktSchmidt1301]

Great video! Thanks a lot for sharing!😊👍🏻

[@ScottPykare]

Big boys planting big acres. Pretty awesome Mike.😁👍👍

[@briand5521]

Great video Mike ,beautiful scenery love the big green equipment.

[@tonymckeage1028]

Good Morning, Great Mike less Video, Thanks for sharing

[@mickbennett2595]

People need to learn how to hit The like button Mike

[@Jd-bc1fz]

Mike I just amazes me how much farming has changed in 25 years

[@andersonbagents2963]

Boone Miller definitely has an impressive Instagram operation 👍🏽

[@darrell3927]

You talk about getting into your work, man those closeup views right at the back of the machine was it. Outstanding work sir. Really enjoy your work and effort in every video. Godspeed brother.

[@damianbuzon8119]

perfectionism

[@terrellfarms1]

Great video Mike. The cotton seed is actually a cotton seed coated to make it that size. Natural cotton seed is fuzzy and looks like a skinny football or a fuzzy oat seed.. They used to acid delint the seed before it was used as seed because the fuzz made it hard to plant. Now they coat it to feed better in the new vacuum planters.

[@farmhandmike]

Okay yes I remember seeing the cotton seed they use for cattle feed. I figured there was a process.

[@deplorablelibertarian]

Why are they planting directly into the cover crop? I guess i’m missing something….

[@csil2863]

Thanks for the info. I have known of acid delinted cotton seed. It’s interesting how seeds that are difficult to be mechanically planted because they are too tiny or too irregularly shaped are modified to work in the planting equipment.

[@sergeantwilliams8185]

@@deplorablelibertarian the cover crop provides moisture to the seed.

[@delbennett4745]

Great drone footage of both beast and planters

[@404nitro]

Awesome video Mike. Really enjoyed this one. Very nice there.

[@jeremyshoemaker1058]

I was thinking to myself I wonder what cotton seed looks like? Then Mike comes thru and shows us. Another great video Mike thank you

[@allenschmitz9644]

Yep 45 years ago I was moving lines in a cotton field in lost hills Ca. there were just Coyotes out there back then.

[@jamesharrier6633]

Eat in Mears when you're down in the Wichita Mountain area. You won't regret it.

[@SimonKL11]

The DB planter is an impressive machine👍😁 as always, nice video😉👍

[@kirklothert3435]

Cool. Nothing runs like a Deere. If it ain't green... It ain't mean!!!

[@marks_sparks1]

That is one good looking John Deere and air drill. Honestly, they look glorious

[@max-jc4wq]

those aren't air drills.

[@robertreznik9330]

In the Panhandles cotton is planted but one 500# bale is normal dryland yield on a good year. The most I have had near Texhoma is 1.8 bales Here the rainfall is 16 to 18" with elevation up to 3800' We use the previous years wheat and corn as a shepherd to protect the small cotton plant. at $500 a bag there is some expensive genetics going through those planters! Check out the Adobe Walls gin, The worlds largest.

[@boonemiller299]

We take our cotton to Lonestar gin which is the sister to Adobe Walls.

[@AerialAg]

I can see it says "cover crop" in the description.. but did they not harvest the wheat at all? I thought they'd harvest the wheat first. Unless my eyes are deceiving me lol..

[@jasonwilkins6908]

👍👍from oklahoma

[@allenmoore4186]

Nice job Mike!

[@alexthomson719]

Nice one Mike your videos shots a amazing will you be able to go back for harvest or not anyway thanks again 👍 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@farmhandmike]

That's the plan!

[@isacshephard5021]

I have personally harvested cotton in March due to having a wet fall

[@tsint]

I suppose they also have a 120ft cotton harvester that compliments the planter 😎

[@edniemyjski3303]

man that would be one long day in that field with my two 12 row planters.

[@jwedel1777]

That area has had 6-8+ inches of rain the past week, so the cotton should be off to a good start!

[@LtColDaddy71]

Very nice, it does take some horsepower with the bigger planters. I built two DB90' Exact Emerge units on 20's that started life as DB120's and I took the wings off. So far, the Max Emerge on 20" option hasn't been available on of the normal JD menu on anything over 80' and I'd say that is probably due to the fact that in certain conditions it can be tough to maintain the speed that's in the sweet spot for the best precision. They will do it as a dealer option. I planted 18k acres of soybeans as custom work conventional till and maintained the 10-11 mph with 570's that are turned up (NOT DELETED) to 675 and can do 725 for a limited time. On my organic no till green planting operation we could keep it over 7 mph, still a very notable improvement Their are piles of those big DB frames laying around ever since high speed precision became a thing. Why not deal with the ease of a 60' platform that can plant as much ground per day as you're 90 or 120 used to?

[@calvary1808farm]

Great video

[@Rick-kw3cc]

Enjoy the video thank you

[@sergeantwilliams8185]

The hugest planter I have seen and cool footage. Does this farm strip or pick their cotton, and how many acres do they grow?

[@curttang5787]

Almost everybody around here strips, only guys that I've ever heard of runnin pickers were doing it because a picker has a better resale, buy it new, run it one season and then sell to someone back east or way down south Texas.

[@sergeantwilliams8185]

@@curttang5787 thanks for the info! 😊

[@curttang5787]

@@sergeantwilliams8185 You bet, the other reason we don't pick, our climate makes pretty tuff cotton plants, bowls around here when they open look like popcorn, instead of a beard like the ones in Georgia. Seen fields that were picked and had a stripper come in behind it and made another 2-3 modules.

[@curttang5787]

@@sergeantwilliams8185 all that being said, i have no idea what this particular farm does as far as strip or pick.

[@sergeantwilliams8185]

@@curttang5787 thank you again!

[@tompreiss5010]

In Texas cotton is the first planting of a 3 to four year apart spreading of chicken manure.

[@samspade4634]

You are right I always thought Oklahoma was flat as a table. Thanks for once again opening my eyes to new things. I was wondering how big is a cotton seed? I imagine it's very small, like alfalfa or canola. Am I close? Thanks for sharing.

[@curttang5787]

No, its fairly big, lil bigger than a blackeyed pea and shaped like an almond

[@farmhandmike]

I show some cotton seed in this video

[@snekkerenp8036]

Hopefully they have a John Deere combine for the harvest

[@jodegroote2350]

Hé, Mike. Great job. These cottonplants in jour garden, can you harvest it, can you do somthing with that cotton? I work in a treenursery, so if you ever get to a nursery? ... . Greetz from Belgium.

[@jamespetty9545]

Maybe one day you can make it a little further south and film peanuts planting

[@misterb1080]

Wichita Indian here. That’s in Red Dirt country.

[@stumpy2816]

👍👍

[@karlrovey]

Since they're double-cropping, I assume they're planting into wheat harvested via a stripper head since it doesn't look like it was harvested via a conventional head.

[@isacshephard5021]

I think it was a cover crop and was terminated probably less than 30 day preplant

[@farmhandmike]

This is not double crop. They are planting in to a cover crop. I talked about this in the video.

[@karlrovey]

@@farmhandmike I misunderstood the in-video explanation.

[@bbye84ify]

#BDBS

[@greglester7666]

Great video Mike!

[@MrTomjohndeere]

Hello what is the field size please?

[@johnclarkkitner9556]

Why do they plant such wide rows. Awsome vedio

[@farmhandmike]

Lots of cotton is planted on 40 inch rows.

[@leeblack3216]

I know that guy!

[@hocahalil398]

👏👏👏👍

[@SlipShodBob]

You didn't go and visit Tim at the National Cowboy museum while down that way then..

[@farmhandmike]

Didn't know anything about that.

[@SlipShodBob]

@@farmhandmike Time even made the national newspapers here in the UK I believe even got a bigger write up than Tom Cruise with the whole #HashtagTheCowboy

[@i.ottowan5426]

hi mike. can i ask you small question :). Will this cotton planted land be irrigation? Or will it not be irrigation? we cannot produce cotton without irrigation in my country. If there is an irrigation system, what kind of system is it?

[@isacshephard5021]

Looks to me like it’s going to be dry land. Most of the cotton in the area is dryland.

[@farmhandmike]

This is dryland cotton.

[@i.ottowan5426]

@@farmhandmike In my country, it is impossible for cotton to grow without water. I was surprised to see the system in this video. This is a big revolution from the industrial revolution for me.

[@user-lk3nf3kj4f]

No-till?

[@Cenlafarmtoys]

Bet a farm that size has about 10 or more pickers.

[@boonemiller299]

We have 5 strippers.

[@kennethcarlton2860]

Great video Mike . How many acres are you able to plant when the planter is filled ? I know around Winfield Kansas is some cotton and I didn't even know that. I live 50 miles south of Topeka Ks & plant corn , wheat and beans ,, several farmers are double cropping wheat to beans & back to wheat constantly . Thanks again Mike for your great & informative videos .

[@isacshephard5021]

I don’t know how much tank capacity they have but most cotton comes in about 230,000 seeds per unit. At 23,000 seeds per acre a unit can do 10 acres. Most of the cotton seed usually costs anywhere from $350 to $450 a unit.

[@boonemiller299]

We can do about 800 acres per fill. Typically just put 1 pro box per hopper. Which is 37-40 bag count of 170k-230k seed per bag.

[@wilsonandrade6246]

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[@jimholty2274]

how do they get enough weight on the end of the bar to notil?

[@sche0707]

hydraulic weight distribution on the bars it moves the weight from the center to the wings

[@boonemiller299]

On the DB90 we added a few suit case weights to help in hard conditions. But they have plenty of weight to penetrate out soils. No till has help mellow the ground and we plant right back in the row of cotton from last year where it holds more moisture.

[@tompreiss5010]

How ar thay fertilizing that???

[@boonemiller299]

We sidedress typically. We ran some liquid back in the winter months figuring prices would rise.

[@deplorablelibertarian]

Why are they planting directly into the cover crop….am I missing something here?

[@tbasshole7316]

The cover crop is to merely conserve moisture in protect the plan and and give some shade during the early plant stage . The wheat is usually sprayed with round up and some pre-emerge chemicals before it heads . Down here we hardly see any rain so moisture is usually the make or break for us . Fortunately this year we have had above avg rain fall

[@franciscosandiego3026]

I like Mike less videos on KZbin.

[@richardspeakes2883]

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[@farmhandmike]

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