Cotton Harvest BEGINS! | Australian Cotton | Vlog 284

After a long wait we have finally started stripping the cotton. It was a busy week as we were also planting but it all came together in the end!
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[@farmerlamb2372]

What a great family! Nice to see the next generation pitching in and with fantastic manners too, well done Jamie 👏🏻

[@arffadailey8055]

How good are country kids. Productive even as teenagers.

[@Bluepillphil-d1w]

I used to roll and harrow paddocks when I was 13, rotary hoe at 14. Loved it, great way to spend school holidays or weekends.

[@ninataylor6180]

That was an awesome episode Jamie knocked it out the park 80 bales amazing

[@ewanstewart8011]

Your neighbour is a gent and amusing, Jamie played a blinder a real chip off the old block 👍🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@CharlesYeo-qs6nb]

I can just imagine the conversation over breakfast “ Dad the fastrac “ “ son too expensive “ 😂😂😂

[@andrewstevens5961]

Great to see Jamie helping out and enjoying the work, you have a great lad with good manners, you must be very proud of him, well done Jamie, thanks guys, cheers Andy

[@paulmisseghers9398]

Reminds me a lot of my childhood. Teaches responsibility and work ethic, and trust. Awesome job Jamie and all the Jackson clan from here in 🇨🇦

[@carltauber2939]

Fascinating video. Great work, Jamie!

[@user-md9fr2ci7p]

good to see the young fella having a go ,doesnt look like the easiest tractor to operate he did a good job

[@peterweber6963]

Well dun young man 😁👍 next is you working the D11😝 I have Fath in ya 🤑😁

[@MyPromixdirt]

Didn't really care what the task was it was ALL about driving the tractor, right Jamie, darn near the funnest thing ever.

[@blindfreddy]

Country folk could teach city folk a bit about community spirit. Your neighbour sounds like he could regale us with his knowledge for hours. Typical country hospitality, too. Well done to Jamie for his hard work. Take the week off school, Jamie, tell them your fan base gave you permission :)

[@JohnWood-ey4gk]

One of the best videos I have watched,you boys done a fabulous job👍

[@paulsharp1679]

Enjoying this as always, very informative, JCB 🇬🇧. All ever wanted to do when I left school in 87, was drive a JCB... Backhoe then. Now im a engineer in the food Ind, packing what farmers make to the general public 👍

[@LukeLong-oi4uc]

Great job on the bale moving and video. That is indeed a nice tractor! Safe harvesting!

[@charleswelch249]

Proud of you Jamie for helping your family with the cotton. Keep up the good work and keep your grades up. Cool video, I can't believe how much things have changed with cotton since I was younger.

[@paulbuckley7832]

The cotton stripper is a unreal piece of machinery. Also great job Jamie,do your dad proud and pop of course 😊

[@roberthocking9138]

Well done lads, I was worried we wouldn’t get to see cotton harvest in the middle of winter cropping, but you all did well. 👍

[@NZBear07]

Peter, you better run a head count or run the boundary fence. I think you are missing some of the crew. Actually ran into Matt, Brad and Josiah at Farmfest. They were kind enough to spend a few minutes chatting. You should be very proud of them.

[@martinu2725]

Jamie is a natural at this, well done keep it up

[@MrBusdriver63]

A job well done, Jamie. It is good to see the young ones helping out.

[@theabrooks621]

The cotton bails have been on the move through my local area in south east Qld. The sides of the roads look like there has been one huge pillow fight 😂 awesome work fellas

[@bobcrawford2105]

Those harvesters are something different. Jamie gets the dream after school job well done

[@NejMoss4873]

This is what happens when the family has good Christian values and trains their children the importance of family importance.

[@simontodd619]

Fascinating video once again and it's great to see the kids joining in too.

[@Muffin_Masher]

Good lad only going 40 in the JCB

[@colinkennedy8730]

Very well done team, Jamie 10/10

[@johnmilburn5715]

What a gent Jamie is turning out to be, testament to excellent upbringing. Useful on the tractor too! Beats school any day eh😅 What has young Riley done to deserve a pot on the arm?? 😮😢

[@laurencecharlton8760]

👍👍Very interesting,good to see a UK 🚜 showing what they were designed for!! George Saunders would be impressed!!🤔👍😂He's moved to a FW 30 now!! 🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@user-kf9fv1qj9u]

Awesome drone footage

[@aussiemate60]

Great content guys even though I don't know anything at all about cotton. Thanks for sharing 👍 Doug

[@peternewman958]

Watch out for power lines MATT, i saw them in the cotton.

[@thejacksonbrothers]

😂

[@wreckspec]

Upp it while it's dry young grasshopper . Good work 👏

[@gardnep]

Thanks for the video, seems to be going well, bales are pretty much in a line across the field which may show the yield is consistent so far. First time I’ve seen a cotton stripper front in action. Thanks.

[@stuartcarter3649]

WOW JACKSON BROTHERS FARMING…..👍🇦🇺👍🇦🇺👍🇦🇺

[@iant8310]

You nailed it again! Thanks Jackson crew👍

[@user-kf9fv1qj9u]

Great video Brad Matt JD Peter has Phil

[@duncanm6589]

Hi Brad, Great to see the cotton coming of and how it is done. Well done Jamie, top effort, beats home work 😂. Plastic wrap is super expensive.

[@jhanlarosh6620]

Awesome video great drone shots when I was a kid I would of loved to have gotten off school to help move the bales 👍👍😀

[@dmk1529]

Thank you from Minnesota.

[@ewanstewart8011]

Your neighbour is a gent and amusing, Jamie played a blinder a real chip off the old block, there seems to be quite a lot of waste in the picking process and what sort of weight is there in a bale guys 👍🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@thejacksonbrothers]

I think about 2 ton 🤔

[@grantgilbert2312]

Fantastic to see the youngsters interested and wanting to get on the seat.. so many now a days just want to go to university and not do any graft

[@bobearl7859]

It'd be nice to get two growing seasons. Were you guys have six rows we'd have 10

[@williamsmith5514]

Long time since I have seen cotton harvesting in Aussie back in Kununurra WA 20 plus years ago maybe , they had a real bad insect problem up there .

[@Bretto-mf2cb]

Great to see all the jean’s getting baled😂😂

[@rockbiterhd]

You bloke doing a great job

[@mr.lynnrosaasen8218]

Thank you from Alberta, Canada

[@alandawson2813]

Awesome

[@Murphyslawfarm]

G'day congratulations mates

[@vico100]

so soft and fluffy! hmmm...looks like another pass with the picker might get the leftovers

[@Earthau]

Good job you did there Jamie, I hope you are being paid well. What is your plans for your earnings, saving it or a new Motorbike?

[@markmcmillan5728]

Amazing.

[@albutterfield5965]

Y'all always find something to keep busy with

[@ricko3145]

Nice work guys

[@t000lish]

very cool

[@shantanubiniwale7638]

❤️❤️💕💕💕

[@harvestor63]

That was great to see guys. Just a question, maybe others has already asked but why do you leave the 2 row spaces? I note in some of the US cotton farms plant without the wide space between the rows. Love the channel, thanks for the great content and promoting Australian farming.

[@rodrod383]

on dryland cotton in an area that might not get a lot of rain you skip rows so the plants have less competition with each other and the roots can spread out especially if you get smaller amounts of rain that will only penetrate the soil a few inches at most.....so the plant can put out more shallow roots......it is a trade off getting some known yield vs. sacrificing some potential yield if you get better rains

[@GlobalistJuice]

Cotton. One of the many quirky little gifts given to man by God.

[@johngibson3837]

Hey up nice work you Jackson's, was really lookin forward to seeing all the cotton picking stripper's in the paddock and then you've used a machine instead well i guess time's move on thanks for another interesting video

[@kenweeks]

A great post. Never seen a stripper at work like that before - thanks. But one thing that I suppose amazes me is how much cotton remains in the field, how much flies out of the stripper and how much lies on the side of the roads on the way to the Gin. Around the Dalby Gin there is always a considerable amount of cotton. When harvesting grain there seems to be little wastage - I would have thought the value of the crop would encourage collection as much as possible?

[@thejacksonbrothers]

The next cotton video will explain it a bit more, basically to get every last bit means going a lot slower so it’s a juggling act👍

[@kenweeks]

Not wrong. Have a great one and thanks again for your posts. Wish I was there. Cheers

[@rodrod383]

in west Texas they have done studies on the amount of cotton on the sides of the roads and it adds up to a great deal less than it looks like.....of course they would like to get every bit possible to the gin, but it is a lot less than one would think......in the field some places they will run a picker and then run a stripper back through to get scavenge the leftovers, but you have to have a really good crop and prices to make that work......plus often times the quality of what is left is low enough that is will pull your grades down for the whole lot.......again it would be nice to get every last bit, but it is a lot less than it looks like driving by

[@Bluepillphil-d1w]

I’m surprised of the distance between the rows

[@coupster5464]

Love it.. Gee Jamie's a worker and does a great job on the camera... and the young bloke, been in the wars ? Neat to see a cotton stripper in action.. is there a loss with bits left, blown out, that is factored into stripping projections ?

[@danman2070]

Thanks for your videos... You guys often refer to the headlands.. What are they?

[@thejacksonbrothers]

Same as end rows👍

[@coenbroosh]

Is module building a thing of the past? Made quite a few back in my backpack ing days😂

[@thejacksonbrothers]

You do see the odd few still👍

[@rodrod383]

there are still a lot in west Texas.....a lot of farms have kept their old strippers running and there is a business of spare after market parts and same for some non-bale pickers too......but the round bales are ever more popular

[@coenbroosh]

@@rodrod383 did not know they grew cotton in Texas. But I only was in the panhandle with a combine crew. Only worked in cotton in Australia

[@rodrod383]

@@coenbroosh from about 200 miles south of Lubbock all the way to north of Amarillo is huge cotton country in Texas......then west to over almost to Fort Worth there are patches of it......then some north east of dallas as well there are patches......there are patches from Victoria, Texas all the way down the Brownsville too......a lot depends on if a good quality gin has stayed open in the patchy areas, but from south of Lubbock to Oklahoma it is huge cotton country.......there is a lot in western Oklahoma too and it is getting bigger in Kansas now too with varieties that can make good lint with fewer growing degree days and less heat (most people never thought that would happen, but there are some nice new gins up there and it gives them another crop rotation like The Jacksons are using it for).....I am a bit jealous most people talk about working on a combine crew for the rest of their life especially if they get on a good one.....fortunately almost all are good to great ones

[@gordonrichards8191]

Hi Matt or Brad just wondering how many acres/hectares it takes to roll a bale and what weight is it in a bale, thanks great video from a Vic farmer

[@thejacksonbrothers]

We got about 1 round bale to the hectare and they say about 2t I think👍😁

[@gordonrichards8191]

@@thejacksonbrothers thanks Matt I was just wondering about that. Use to see a lot along the Newell when I use to go to Brisbane

[@doclull1989]

Hey Matt!! How much do the bales weigh?

[@rodrod383]

average 4,500 to 5,500 pounds.....sometimes they can go over 6,000 it just depends.....if it is the last bale, a rush, or some other issue they can be made a lot smaller.....if not running a burr extractor (the burrs being the brown dried pod covers that Bradley commented on when he was next to the bale) then your weights will be on the lower end

[@johnjordan4647]

Hey Brad/ Matt do the cotton strippers work around the clock. When young Jamie and the next generation take over running the farm there will be three of you potting around doing projects like the old fella does at the present.😂😅😊

[@thejacksonbrothers]

😂😂 the strippers have to wait for the dew to dry up then know off when it gets too wet at night, usually between 9am-11pm or so

[@Bluepillphil-d1w]

@@thejacksonbrothersperfect working hours.

[@shantanubiniwale7638]

👌👌❤️❤️❤️💕💕🚜

[@stevetrowbridge7101]

Enjoy the video about cotton what is the row spacing 2rows of cotton the 2 Blanks the farms that have plant in 40 inch rows us dry farm er plant 2rows 1row blanket be safe Texas cotton farmer.

[@rodrod383]

🤠🐂

[@phill2009c6]

Do you have contractors pick the cotton and are the machines just for cotton? How heavy are the bails.Great job on the video

[@thejacksonbrothers]

Yep they are contractors and they can only do cotton. Bales are around 2t👍

[@TurkAyyildizz]

çok kirli pamuk topluyorlar

[@paulsmith4320]

Very interesting! Quite a bit different than the harvesting videos I've seen from Alabama. Do they charge you by the bale or by the hector-acre?

[@thejacksonbrothers]

Thanks! I’m presuming it will be per hour👍😁

[@paulsmith4320]

@@thejacksonbrothers Thanks

[@jetegtmeier71]

not a farmer here so...... why is there so much distance between every other row? I think here in the US the rows are evenly spaced. Just curious :)

[@thejacksonbrothers]

I think we talked with the agronomist about it in the everything about cotton video😁

[@jetegtmeier71]

@@thejacksonbrothers Oh ok guess I missed that one. I'll have to check it out. Thank you for the reply and direction on how to find the answer :)

[@obamabigears734]

What’s the reason for skips? For a non-farmer it looks like you are not using the paddock 100% but I know there’s a valid reason…

[@thejacksonbrothers]

It’s mainly so the cotton can access the moisture in the skipped rows later in the season when it’s trying to fruit👍😁

[@obamabigears734]

@@thejacksonbrothersNow it makes more sense 👍👍👍

[@Thegrim326]

Why do you guys skip 2 rows instead of planting a whole planter width like they do in the states is it lack of moisture that you guys skip rows

[@thejacksonbrothers]

Yes pretty much it means the cotton can access the moisture in the skipped rows later in the season when it’s trying to fruit👍😁

[@edwardmolloy7548]

Looks like a lot of yield left behind in the paddock. 😬🤔 Interested in why this is? I know from harvesting cerial crops this isn't good.

[@thejacksonbrothers]

Not sure of the ins and outs but it seems to be normal and probably looks worse than it is. I think in lighter crops it can be worse

[@edwardmolloy7548]

@@thejacksonbrothers that's good then!

[@sdp227]

One question I have is how profitable is cotton?

[@thejacksonbrothers]

All depends on the season, we are very thankful👍😁

[@rodrod383]

cotton cost a lot to plant and it can cost a lot to spray and in their case I think they were doing it for a rotation to break weed patterns and with skip row they probably had some extra spraying.....and it is somewhat labor intensive, but they have a strong hard working family and crew.....and some specialized equipment like pickers and bale movers......but with good management, a good crop and with a good price for seed (sold as cattle feed and dairy cow feed) you can do as well or better than other crops

[@carldurham5879]

Why is it that there seems to be so much cotton left behind. Is it reject or non viable cotton “buds”.

[@thejacksonbrothers]

It’s mainly just losses through the front, I’m not sure what the percentage of loss would be🤔

[@GlobalTriathlonNetwork]

How much is the harvester and front worth brand new?

[@thejacksonbrothers]

No idea, someone else may know though👍

[@benjaminbauer4883]

A new picker next season I think is 1.7 million delived. I have no idea but assume as a stripper is more complex it would be more expensive.

[@rodrod383]

@@benjaminbauer4883 strippers are generally less complex I would say and I think in the USA you are looking at $1 to $1.2 million new....I might be wrong on that prices can be all over the map depending on a lot of factors and because they are really pretty specialized and not an "all over the USA" machine

[@timharvey3061]

How many Kgs in a bale of cotton? Cheers

[@thejacksonbrothers]

Around 2000👍😁

[@michaelwright4847]

I still buggers me up watchin u guys drive on the wrong side of the road…and drive from the wrong side of the truck for god sakes

[@rodrod383]

😂😁😄

[@NejMoss4873]

Maybe you people got it wrong driving on the right side of the road.

[@edwardaw1]

$50 what a rip off get some glad wrap

[@zacdenley8527]

You would use 50 buks worth of glad rap just trying to cover it

[@SouthernFarmingTV]

Ill never understand how yall grow such low yielding cotton and get away with it. 800lbs per acre of picker cotton wont make money here .

[@thejacksonbrothers]

It would be about that yield per processed bale but it is about double that straight from the machine👍

[@SouthernFarmingTV]

That's hard to believe you can yield 800 lint lbs with that wide of skip. The world is very different compared to Tennessee. We plant 40 to 50k seed per acre on 40 in rows .

[@guyonabuffalo100]

Bam.