Cotton Picking Time in Mississippi

John Deere

[@halfnelson6115]

I wish more KZbin farmers would explain thier machines like this man did in this vid. Im no farmer but farming channels are popping up in my feed and im hooked. Great vid, you get a 👍 from me.

[@southernfarmer]

Half Nelson thanks man, appreciate it

[@thomaswilliams2253]

New subscriber. I’m from Kentucky, but some of my people are in Tishomingo County. Great explanation of getting a cotton picker cleaned up for work. Thanks!

[@southernfarmer]

Thomas Williams thanks for watching

[@terrellfarms1]

Great channel man. Been around southern agriculture all my life. You explained the function of the picker heads as well as anyone i have been around. They are complicated. Loved the way you showed what all the displays in cab mean. It really helps the non ag viewers on what goes on in the cabs, I will be mentioning your channel in my upcoming videos because i like your content and i think most of my subscribers will as well. I subbed and have a lot of your videos to watch.

[@southernfarmer]

Thanks so much for the kind words. Glad you enjoyed the videos

[@kC-pt6kx]

It's my first time seeing cotton bales in real life (yes, first time in the South, lol). I was so dumbfounded by them I had to find a video to explain how it happened! Your video answered all of my questions, thank you!

[@williamcorleu5839]

You need one of them John Deere round bio cotton picker

[@jetegtmeier71]

thanks for the video I love seeing things I've never seen before :)

[@southernfarmer]

jetegtmeier71 thanks for watching

[@dmorgan28]

I just came across your channel and watched a couple videos. Really enjoyed them, so decided to subscribe. 👍👍👍❤️

[@southernfarmer]

Don Morgan appreciate it! Thanks for watching

[@jeffstone5554]

Farmers are so lucky, they get to have brief glimpses of the pretty plants between bouts of mechanicing. Interesting to see how those newfangled baler units work. I guess the module builder will soon go the way of the cotton trailer.

[@southernfarmer]

Eventually

[@tommygustavsson6990]

Thanks for the video. I remember when I was picken cotton 1970 with a Ben Pearson at McConnell farms Wasco California

[@southernfarmer]

Awesome

[@JonathanKnighton961]

GJ explaining that stuff. Always wonder about those heads. Good to see some good ole Mississippi accent on the KZbins! Good Evening from Lafayette County!

[@southernfarmer]

Jonathan Knighton thanks for watching

[@bennetts-revenge_2]

Just subscribed to your channel! This video is fascinating!

[@southernfarmer]

Brenda Renfree glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching

[@maxium4x4]

As a Corn & Soybean farmer from Ohio, quite interesting to see what you go through. My first thought was to power wash the head but I see you explained the procedure in the comment section. I would hate to guess what that head weights, looks like Deere could step it up on the lift cylinders. Our harvest season falls inline but I would like to see the operation in person. Don't mind if you see a Yankee at the end of your field watching......😁

[@southernfarmer]

Maxium4x4 com on down

[@JamesTyreeII]

Where in Ohio are you? I got to help live work stay for a week in Bluffton

[@southernfarmer]

@@JamesTyreeII Mississippi

[@georgeshotrodbarn2113]

I wish it would have been around two or three hundred years ago

[@southernfarmer]

George The Tar Heel Gardener it’s a heck of a machine

[@ethanboyne121]

i have to watch this for my homework and its very interesting😀

[@mikailsaboor6473]

Very Interesting and informative

[@jmccracken491]

In my area, we do not plant cotton. So I little knowledge of the modern way. But I do see it is amazing nowadays.

[@southernfarmer]

J McCracken thanks for watching

[@nelsonhendricks2684]

Can you show when you put the wrap in? Great video want to see more.

[@southernfarmer]

Nelson Hendricks it holds 4 rolls which picks 96 round modules, that will last about 2-3 days. Next video will have us loading some! Stay tuned and thanks for watching 👍🏼

[@chelseabowen7036]

Nice Channel! 😉

[@southernfarmer]

Chelsea Bowen thanks for the comment, how would you like to be featured in our next episode?

[@ohividy2093]

HEY! I'm from Mississippi! Meridan Collensvile area!

[@southernfarmer]

Howdy

[@ohividy2093]

@@southernfarmer Howdy to you too! I sure do miss it down there, I recently moved to Minnesota to take care of my grandmother.

[@southernfarmer]

@@ohividy2093 nothing like the South

[@Redmallard]

Amazing machines thanks for showing us how they work.

[@southernfarmer]

Nicolas Orozco your welcome, thanks for watching

[@jlyo1991]

Any reason the John Deere CP 690s are all around these parts but no Cases? (Nerd alert) I like Farming Sim, but I just can’t see the worth of paying extra for the John Deere.

[@southernfarmer]

J Lyons Time during a Harvest is so valuable, Deere round bale pickers can bale & eject on the move, never stop. Case has to stop to unload, then unless you want a square module on the center of your field you have to haul it to the end

[@TheGreatdane56]

Get yourself a trailer or truck with a water tank and hook a high pressure washee on it to clean the heads quick easy n clean fast

[@southernfarmer]

Da Grinch does it always get those hard to reach places

[@williamcorleu5839]

I'm sorry I thought we were still on the international cotton picker

[@novadevelopment454]

If you don’t mind me asking are you from Noth Mississippi? Like Tupelo earlier? Because it looks like a place like 10-20 minutes from me lol

[@southernfarmer]

Booboo 06 we work McCullough place on county line

[@novadevelopment454]

@@southernfarmer okay thank you

[@WhiskeyMaverick2025]

I'm 16 from Virginia and I've been very interested in farming since I was 13. I like this kind of content because where I live at all that ever grows is cotton, corn, wheat, & soybeans. But mainly cotton, I was wondering what the differences are between the Case IH Module Express and the John Deere CP690 other than the fact that one does square modules (Case) and the other does round modules (Deere). By the way all I've grown up around was Case equipment and honestly John Deere I've grown more fond of mainly because you just get tired of seeing one color and you want to see some diversity. Talk crap about Case all you want I don't care because I'll agree with ya. #JDSAREBETTER

[@southernfarmer]

Robert Riley that’s awesome man, thanks for watching, I’m not familiar at all with Case pickers, the heads I know are a bit different and I’m pretty sure Cases have to stop unload their module where Deere baler picker can unload on the go. We will average about 250 acres per day with 3 pickers. 2 690’s and 1 7760 John Deere

[@WhiskeyMaverick2025]

@@southernfarmer Thank you so much sir! Now I know what harvester to invest in whenever I get the chance to start my own farm! Btw your videos have actually taught me more than this youtuber I watch that says he knows everything John Deere but I can tell when someone knows everything and when someone doesn't know a damn thing.

[@mpstenz3520]

how many times a year can you pick the cotton?

[@southernfarmer]

Mp Stenz only once

[@josephlindsey5164]

Greenwood here. Where abouts yall at clarksdale?

[@southernfarmer]

Randolph, near Oxford

[@fireman_17]

@@southernfarmer Pontotoc area got family that lives over that way.. Lee county here..

[@garrettoglesby5211]

@@southernfarmer I’m from hurricane I think I’ve meet y’all before in the Feilds

[@williamcorleu5839]

I just looked at one of them module expresses it makes the module I can you take so long time unloading it a John Deere don't never stop it keeps on trucking I said John do for you

[@markives4642]

Why are they just 6 rows in those big fields seams like you could have a 12 row or 16 like in corn

[@southernfarmer]

mark ives some strippers are 8 & 10 row I think, but you also have to get down the road at some point from field to field

[@robwar2288]

What does a Cotton Stripper do that a Cotton Picker doesn’t? Do they still make Strippers?

[@southernfarmer]

Rob Warihay yes, many guys out west with smaller plants and narrow rows use strippers and I’m sure always will. They are in a dryer climate and the stripper takes lint, boll, and all off the stalk to my understanding. Actually never seen one first hand. So no real knowledge of a cotton stripper, but there are CS690 just like we have CP690s

[@prav287]

same doubt

[@robertreznik9330]

The stripper also uses a bur extractor. About 27% is lint for a cotton stripper...no pickers in the Panhandles.

[@dustingreer807]

I’m assistant manager at due west gin in Glendora Mississippi yaw keep us rollin

[@Len_M.]

Lots of Spiders in the Cotton Plants?

[@southernfarmer]

Len M. Some yes...

[@alexh7545]

Bud! Yer window/mirror cleaning technique ...oooof

[@southernfarmer]

Alex H can’t win em all I guess

[@cottondude3914]

The doffers pull the cotton off the spindles not the moisture pads the moisture pads clean the spindles

[@southernfarmer]

Cotton Dude exactly

[@jolietjohn8024]

That expensive machinery justifies a portable steam cleaner and tank

[@southernfarmer]

Joliet John we keep them pretty clean each day with high pressure blowers, we will clean the heads out once every week or so with a high volume hose, sometimes the high pressure may damage a moisture pad, water line or possibly even a doffer pad. But they are high pressure steam cleaned with soap at the end of every season

[@beforeyourimmigrants8471]

Was that farm at one point part of a slave plantation? I know the subject is taboo to some Southerners so my apologies if you are one of them.

[@southernfarmer]

Not sure of the exact history of that particular farm. Think it was actually mostly cattle in the years prior to 1970ish Haven’t seen any old structures that resemble any homes that slaves would have lived in.

[@rodom53]

Nasty job. We take a water hose and wash ours. Have plenty of help after heads are cleaned. It is craze how those doors pop open by their selves sometime.

[@southernfarmer]

rodom53 yep! We do too every couple of weeks. But mostly just hand clean them for daily maintenance. What type of picker you guys use?

[@rodom53]

@@southernfarmer 9996

[@dustingreer807]

Don’t know if you ever heard of us but I work for the Sturdivants if you know them

[@southernfarmer]

Dustin Greer I don’t know them, y’all getting close to the finish line with the Gin?

[@dustingreer807]

Yea man we finished last week 13000 bales ginning with lummus 128s averaged around 350 to 400 bales per day

[@brianyoung4659]

Grow organic!!!!!

[@southernfarmer]

Cotton?

[@subzerowlf6442]

I don’t live far from yall