Early Spring Happenings & Shelling Corn for Wildlife Feed

[@jazzerbyte]

Great to see that the sheller can still be patched and perform well.

[@philipingram1667]

I like the way you and your Dad work together - reminds me of when I was a boy working with my father and grandfather on jobs - keep up the good work!

[@johnhall1614]

Yay, glad to see you back.

[@ravenviewfarm]

Glad to BE back! Thanks for watching!

[@ericanhorn811]

Nice to see you and your dad back!

[@freemanhochstetler9598]

Ben wondering what happened to your videos, thanks for the update. I hope everything works out for you to be able to work the farm full time. Love the old iron machines. Video when you can I’ll be watching.👍

[@ArmpitStudios]

Yes! A new (old) video! Love to hear you dad’s quips. 😃 Whoa, that gravity wagon lid is far out. A Ravenview Farms Special, with the Pettibone’s reach influencing the design.

[@millardhayes1884]

With the temps here in Tennessee in the high 90's that snow cooled me off. Lol.

[@mikeconway9966]

Good to see you guys back. Been wondering how the combine is working out for you and how your compost tea mix has worked out so far this spring.

[@maddog2771]

February video in June makes me feel cold

[@ravenviewfarm]

I hear you! It made me feel cold too! We’ll be caught up to the present soon. I’ve got all my clips organized and will be cranking out a bunch of videos over the next few weeks.

[@stephenrice4554]

Hey man , if you manage it you do , if you don't your as busy as you should be . Crack on mate 👍🇬🇧

[@benjohnson1082]

Just watching this in August and my children froze when the Santa reference was mentioned….

[@ravenviewfarm]

Eep! Make sure to tell them he was just joking!

[@cabinvibesebaystore8956]

New sub! Liked ❤️😊

[@peterzpictstube]

Great trip down memory lane. Pretty obvious why this is not standard practice anymore due to all labor involved in harvesting and handling air dried ear corn.

[@ravenviewfarm]

It's definitely labor intensive. For years we never made the transition to shelled grain, because this is what we had, and it worked. It was a shock to me in the fall of 2022 when I combined some of our own corn for the first time. I couldn't believe how easy it was compared to cribbing and shelling it later! You'd think that would be obvious, but it wasn't until I did it that it really hit me, lol.

[@bobe.johnson5586]

Hope y’all are doing well.

[@johnyreb5464]

Ya know you can use those cobs to heat syrup are old farm house has a cob burner to heat the house

[@ozz5350]

👍👏👏👏

[@RiverRatCatfishing]

Looks like the deer left the corn alone this year

[@ravenviewfarm]

They did! I'm not sure if it was because of having less snow cover, or if they were going after the cover crops in the fields, or some other reason I can't fathom, but they really didn't mess with the corn cribs at all this winter.

[@RiverRatCatfishing]

@@ravenviewfarm super weird. Rabbits destroyed all my trees i planted to the ground. Was a hard cold winter. But i think the lack of deep snow helped as deer can dig

[@SchuylerCook]

Thanks for the video. Might there be a market for the cobs for bedding?

[@ravenviewfarm]

Thanks for watching! I think there may be a market for the cobs, but the trick is getting them under cover or storing them somehow. Once they get wet it’s all downhill from there. A silage tarp might be our best cheap option. We’ve considered running them through a hammer mill with a really coarse screen and bagging them up for pet bedding, but we just don’t have the equipment or facilities to try it out yet. Until then, they go back on the fields to return to the soil.