Harvesting Cotton in Southwest Oklahoma

[@1murder99]

When I was growing up on a farm 35 miles west of the farm you are on here, all of this was done by hand.

[@markreetz1001]

Anotherr gem, Mike. You have a very "Versatile" selection of crops and equipment.

[@michaelbaumgardner2530]

As a truck driver for 7 years I've hauled some cotton and saw it harvested,however I've never saw one of those...I can see the labor and fuel savings,Interesting video...👍👍

[@ScottPykare]

I've lived in Ohio for many years but grew up in Arizona where they grew a lot of cotton. Really good to see a cotton harvesting video Mike. Appreciate it!!!😁👍👍

[@clintonstubbs2319]

I’ve been in Georgia all of my life and I’ve never seen a cotton stripper. Here I have seen the module builders and boll buggies like many still have in Middle and South Georgia but many others do have the cotton picker balers. You are correct that most of all of them are made by John Deere. I grew up seeing all of this and I do remember that International Harvester made a lot of them years ago but John Deere took over.

[@OpunktSchmidt1301]

Maybe you should just call it "cotton harvester" so you shouldn't get in any trouble...😉 Thanks a lot for the video! 😊👍🏻

[@farmhandmike]

That’s what I do know

[@douglaskauffman2692]

Thanks Mike, ive watched cotton videos before but yours has the most info and explanation👍

[@farmhandmike]

I appreciate that!

[@robertdehring8471]

Thanks Mike for interesting video of them harvesting cotton

[@farmhandhank153]

Wow. That's a neat operation and four machines in the same feild.

[@louispaparella5766]

About 7-10 days prior to harvest, a defoliant is sprayed on the cotton plant. It reduces trash going through the pickers.The leaves fall off and the boll opens up.

[@landtechnikmv-agriculturalvide]

Great video and machines. Greets from Germany

[@paf950]

I have never seen cotton harvested! How interesting.

[@TheBillw88]

I live in southeast Missouri down at the bootheel of Missouri we grow cotton but we use a cotton picker CP690 is what we use around hear and we have lots of peanuts being grown hear now

[@gerryspang5917]

Funny Mike just finished watching a video of the Cotton Pickin Kids, now a cotton harvest, first time I’ve seen a video of cotton harvesting. Thanks, enjoyed your video as always. Cheers my friend.

[@kennethgreen2829]

Something that we will never get to grow in the UK sadly but I love the cotton harvest videos and this one is a great one Mike.

[@bobwest2807]

Conley Banman has some good cotton and peanut harvesting you tube videos.

[@kutzeeuw]

Realy nice too see Mike. Nice the diversety of your video's.hope you do someday a video of the big potato harvest in the us.

[@noahater5785]

I was actually in the process of binging one of your older videos when I got notified of this!

[@chrisgossman6512]

Another video of farming Technics I have not seen before. Thanks Mike for sharing. I like Mike. Happy subscriber 😀

[@reimerdairy7080]

Thanks for sharing!

[@sergeantwilliams8185]

This is some of the best cotton harvest footage I have seen. I was waiting for you to post something like this.

[@lennissytsma5503]

Exactly, Sarge! Mike does not dwell on just Corn and Soybeans. Good for him.

[@sergeantwilliams8185]

@@lennissytsma5503 it’s great that he went outside of his shell to show something different. A lot of farming channels that usually show just corn and soybean harvest are showing cotton harvest this year as well. Maybe big tractor power will follow suit…

[@farmhandmike]

I think when it comes to farming videos on KZbin my channel has one of the biggest varieties and all stuff I filmed myself. I don't get other people to shoot video for me.

[@bama18ful]

Case has a cotton picker. Cotton square baler. Haven't seen much down here in alabama and Georgia are.

[@farmert7959]

Great video! I live in Northeast Arkansas. Cotton has been King here for years. A brand of sandwich meat out of Memphis is "King Cotton". My grandparents picked cotton with a 2 roll Farmall picker back in the day. They used cotton trailers to haul the cotton to the gin. When you ran out of trailers you were done until the gin caught up. Next came the Module system and now the picker bales it. Case IH also makes a picker that makes a square bale. 👍 Around here the cotton gins use the trucks that were designed to pick up the modules from the field to pick up the round bales. It can haul 4 bales per load so you will see the bales arranged in the fields in groups of 4.

[@gusmengers5454]

As a cotton farmer myself, keep up the cotton videos!

[@michaeltablet8577]

Great video! I miss the cotton harvests. I used to live down in Louisiana just about a mile from Texarkana. Would love to go there again but I'm stuck in Lodi.

[@ollie-lk5dx]

Love the diversity of your videos!

[@jimmystrain883]

I really enjoyed this video Mike, thanks for sharing 👍

[@SimonKL11]

Very interesting video👍😉 cool to see how cotton gets harvested😁👍 Nice work👍

[@tonycoupland6281]

Really neat to see a cotton being harvest!! Thank you you for sharing this video!! Much appreciated!!

[@tonycoupland6281]

You very welcome!!

[@samspade4634]

Another great video. I imagine they calculate by yeild per acre and get paid by the hundred weight? I have no idea this is my first cotton video as well. Thanks Mike for yet another educational and enjoyable lesson I had no idea the plants are like little trees. Very cool!

[@allenrnewbauer]

This is a awesome video Mike! Thanks for posting and all the work put into it.

[@farmhandmike]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@marcelocunico6119]

Great vídeo Mike.

[@formerfarmer1718]

I’ve watched several cotton harvest videos and this is by far the cleanest I’ve seen! They’re not leaving enough to fill a pill bottle ‼️ I’d say “strippers” outdo “pickers”. Don’t know about the cost and maintenance but I’d bet “strippers” pay for the difference and then some. Good job Mike. EC Illinois Corn/soybean farmers love learning about different types of crops.

[@chuckwillcox1930]

Nice video. Your a little off in how the seeds are cleaned when they are used for seed. Pretty interesting process, if you want to learn more, let me know. Could get you into a seed processing plant. A step beyond the gin but has a lot of value in the end product.

[@farmhandmike]

Okay well I've never seen the process just hearsay.

[@norbertlackenbauer294]

The next step in the production would be interesting.

[@essexfarmer9610]

Many thanks Mike. I really appreciate you reaching out of your normal comfort zone to bring us this niche agriculture story. I used to work on a farm in Zimbabwe that did cotton, and that was still picked all by hand and baled up to be sold on central auction floors in the capital, Harare. Not sure if you have done sugar cane yet, but that would be fascinating if possible? (I saw your sugar beet one!) Tobacco would also be another great topic if you can find a place. All the best from the UK

[@lennissytsma5503]

This is another good one, Farmhand Mike! I grew up on a small farm in Nebraska, so no cotton. But I spent a year with a job in Kern County, California. I saw cotton crops for the first time, there in Kern County. Actually, the wife of a semi-retired couple who be-friended me had been a little girl in OKLAHOMA and she had HAND-PICKED cotton as a little girl. Also, Mike, I was waiting for a mention of the Boll Weevil. That would be a whole other subject! Also, Mike, I was at a Nebraska farm machinery show a few years ago, and one of the combine salesman told me that even more expensive than a corn combine is a COTTON PICKER!

[@johnsimms6778]

Great video.

[@Zero01k]

Case makes a cotton picker with a module builder built into the machine, so technically not a baler, so you are correct about Deere only having a baler on their cotton pickers

[@Gugernoot]

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[@williamjacobs236]

Another great video Mike .

[@LaHaSi4208]

First Cotton for Mike! 😁🤣😉👍👍👍

[@emadeldinhessain3272]

Great. Well done.

[@isacshephard5021]

Most of cotton planted around and north of I 40 are on 30 inch rows south of I 40 mainly on 40 inches

[@benhall2146]

Cool to see machines built in my home area at Ankeny Iowa

[@harrymiller3986]

the cotton plant being so bushy and tuff was amazing to me but the deer on a farm where I had the privilege to hunt u had to see to believe, when the plants are mowed down u had to be ready deer everywhere

[@csil2863]

Very interesting video!

[@terrellfarms1]

Nice video Mike. The difference between the strippers and pickers is pretty major. The strippers do just what the name says it strips all the cotton, unopened bolls, remaining leaves and anything else on the plants. The pickers just remove the cotton and some of the leaves and other trash. From what I have heard the cotton off strippers get less money per pound due to the amount of foreign matter in the cotton. Picked cotton is much cleaner. We don't have cotton strippers in our area of South Georgia. I've also never seen strippers working in the in any tall really high yielding cotton, just the shorter stuff grown dryland in Texas and Oklahoma areas. If someone knows why i would love to hear the reason.

[@leduckkid3567]

Case makes pickers and strippers with balers built in too just square bales

[@roziershaun7243]

Most is on 36 in row spacing but depending on state and area 38in and 40in is very common as well. Cotton is very picky and demanding and needs space

[@peteparker7396]

You said the correct part. Depends on area. Most are on 40’s in Texas.

[@iruhato.ramuko]

I still remember the good-ol days

[@todds4101]

Great video! I'm like you, have never been around cotton harvesters. Man they are expensive! I was looking at the JD website and it appears that the strippers are cheaper than the pickers, but it still looks like a stripper will drop you around $900K! Crazy! Keep up the great work as always.

[@joelg8004]

Really amazing machines. Has to be hard to keep cool while in operation. Seems like a lot of blown away crop left over, is it good for whatever they plant next like peanuts?

[@koofdome]

And think. This used to be done by hand. 😢 also, I need to sneeze just watching this for 30 seconds

[@robertwilliamsjr.9195]

cotton strippers look way more efficient than spindle pickers...

[@donmedford2563]

My first cotton video. I know NOTHING about cotton. I was amazed at the crop loss though. Looks like 10-20%. I can not think of another crop where that would be acceptable. One question. How much does a JD cotton stripper like that cost? Great video Mike.

[@franciscosandiego3026]

I like Mike less videos on KZbin, from the imperial co California.

[@cleberrighi718]

No brasil produzimos muito algodão também. É bonito.

[@404nitro]

Mike- if you know, what is the reason for them stretching the rear of the machine out like that for transport down the road? Seems like shorter would be better for roading?

[@4BLivestock]

It’s a height issue, so you don’t hit any power lines or overhead signs while in transport mode.

[@404nitro]

I appreciate the replies guys, but that doesn't seem correct, at least not when you watch the video where the machines pull into the field after going down the road (around the 6:50- - 7:10 time frame). The two sections that move back into place are no higher than the section of stationary machine just behind and above the cab, so they would clear the same obstacles as that section does.

[@404nitro]

@Bowhunters Cool! Now that shows something that I didn't see in this video- the area right behind the cab also drops straight down. That all makes more sense now. That you for looking that up.

[@amossamuel7655]

Hi Mike. you did not showed the Hader how it pick or strip the cotton. Thank you

[@JesusPRIETO-lp2st]

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[@deancook6832]

I've never gotten a clear answer on the stripper versus picker question. Why is one used sometimes over the other? I suspect that the answer is that a picker must be used in higher yielding areas but someone tell me if I'm right or wrong.

[@treydudley2036]

Yeah pickers are typically used in higher yielding cotton they can handle the much bigger stalks way better than a stripper could

[@douglassellers7528]

How many acres can they cover in one hour?

[@barrybardo3249]

Did I miss the part where you say approximately how much one of them Bales weigh

[@farmhandmike]

Yes when I was riding he kicked one out that was around 5700 pounds.

[@MrTomjohndeere]

@farmhandmike what is the size of the field and what is the next crop coming after Cotton please ?

[@jamiemangum6216]

Mike we do 38 here in Mississippi

[@isacshephard5021]

I farm cotton in west central Oklahoma all of my cotton got hailed out.

[@landerson1012]

Came a long way since Eli Whitney.

[@farmhandmike]

I have no idea who that is?

[@landerson1012]

@@farmhandmike He revolutionized the cotton harvest with the cotton gin. Early 1800's or there about.

[@louispaparella5766]

@@farmhandmike He is credited with inventing the cotton gin. You might have heard of Pratt & Whitney...same family. Also developed interchangeable parts

[@richardhoover880]

I want to see real harvesting go to Blythe California when they harvest the amount of cotton they can produce the amount of alfalfa they can produce and grain can blow your mind for such a small valley

[@cliffordgiffen4015]

Izata collapsed grain bin across the road?

[@tylerflinn8952]

That’s my home town in Snyder

[@janicewilliams6820]

they wait so long to harvest i saw fields south of Lawton not get picked till after CHRISTMAS...way to much cotton on the ground IMHO.

[@petergardner2334]

interesting video

[@sharafzadehamin3037]

Hello, good time. How many tons of cotton do you harvest per hectare?

[@peteparker7396]

Cotton is a tree,,,,, if you want to see cotton, high plains cotton, Snyder Oklahoma isn’t the place. You need to come south. Modern strippers have burr extractors. Where a picker has spindles and it pulls the fibers and seed out of the bolls. Deere is the only ones that build bailer machine. Money has cotton in it believe it or not. Odds are that’s a custom harvest crew because those are 800k machines. Usually in west Texas we are on 40’s. But there are everything from 48’s, 36’s, 32’s. Hardly anyone is on 30’s in our area. The main reason is lack of rainfall. That’s why the stand also seems skippy, your population is low. If it’s solid planted isn’t around 32k per acres and skip row can get down in the 20’s.

[@Shelton-EZE]

Hey man, are you a cotton farmer?If yes, can i add you?

[@1murder99]

Those machines are insanely expensive.

[@bryanpeeters9534]

i think case ih also makes cotton harvesters but the balls are square

[@killianfritz5840]

CaseIH has a cotton harvester too

[@farmhandmike]

Yes but I didn't think they had one that can make a round bale/module of cotton is what I was saying. I see them shipping the basket harvesters still but I was told those are for overseas.

[@killianfritz5840]

@@farmhandmike ah ok

[@brysonriley4490]

Are they all c5690

[@shaneproctor4998]

What's the best way to find a farm job in Oklahoma looking to hire help

[@jimmystrain883]

The cotton strippers look like they do a better job than a picker

[@clintonstubbs2319]

I have to agree with that.

[@Shelton-EZE]

But more expensive

[@tractorkubotafans1040]

Wow

[@TommyGaming-h6m]

Harvester model ?

[@valdemirpereiranunes703]

Vidio TOP

[@brianhansen826]

40 inch rows to conserve moisture

[@TRv20]

What is the name of cotton seed?

[@theeaskey]

It dont sound verry funny,but we didnt make a whole lotta money In them old cotton fields back home.

[@samspade4634]

Was that an old lane or railroad

[@farmhandmike]

a lane only I believe.

[@waggtech4883]

Harvesting marshmallows

[@chuckkerr2784]

Case ih makes one too

[@farmhandmike]

Not with a baler though as far as I know.

[@Agromenon]

6:50 a 4,000,000 dollar worth in machines

[@maroloansihaloho2739]

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[@mrih1586]

Why not tell your viewers why cotton pickers are perfered in some areas and strippers in other areas?

[@farmhandmike]

Because I have not been around enough cotton harvest to know why. One farm that was running close by to these guys has both. Maybe next season I will visit them and find out or maybe a cotton farmer will comment on here.

[@chuckkerr2784]

Doesn't case ih make a cotton harvester

[@farmhandmike]

They do but not one with a baler on it. Still several old Allis Chalmers Cotton Harvesters running in these parts of the corn try as well.

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[@zethkingstongaines]

Mike Less? I only listen to Mike More. Boooooooo.

[@spanowski]

бавовна

[@Gugernoot]

bump

[@greglester7666]

Another great video Mike!