Red Combine In the Beginning, Green Combine At the End

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[@jeffreynolds6804]

Picking corn has come a long way since my days in a 2 row 55 John Deere and my dad's Case 960!!! Our GPS was a tree or fence post on the opposite end of the field!

[@glennspreeman1634]

grew up on the same quipment plusa 227 on a JD 70 diesel

[@djamesthree]

We still use a tree or fencepost! Just be careful not to line up on a cow, sometimes they move and your row winds up being a little crooked! Oh, and we used a 1960s Gleaner E combine back in the day :-)

[@davidshumski4629]

@@glennspreeman1634 if only could afford a 237 then we'd show em

[@trangia12]

I would pay to drive that awesome machine with your guidance. I don’t know why so many people crave the “city life” and traffic when the country / farm life is so much better and individually rewarding.

[@jgaa5045]

Say that when you have to drive 40+ minutes to go a store.

[@sterlingspencer2934]

@@jgaa5045 better then having to drive 2 1/2 hours to get to work like some people.

[@jgaa5045]

@@sterlingspencer2934 Huh? Who tf do you know that drives 2.5hrs to work?

[@garywatts8543]

Your flighting broke free from its weld and then all sorts of happiness ensued. Bizarre things happen when welds break.

[@sheph7]

After spending hours and hours looking out of airplane windows at the vast farm fields below, I find these videos revealing what’s happening on the ground absolutely fascinating. It doesn’t look simple from the air and it is far more complex than I could have guessed. I wonder how the John Deere (any mfg) repair guys handle the stress of a dozen broken pieces of equipment spread over hundreds of square miles and a bunch of farmers panicking about getting the harvest complete. Great videos thanks!

[@richardwilson4379]

Happiest farmer I have ever seen, nothing gets you down 😊

[@calebcaudle460]

So I had to pause the video and say Bravo for shutting it down while you clean the head out, great reminder for all of us, good job Laura.

[@joefudd]

Laura, the fact that you are so genuine and your bright bubbly cheerful and adorable persona are mostly why I watch your videos plus they are informative/educational. There are dozens of other farm girls making videos and they are nice, but you're really special, girl! I also am a fan of your family as well! Your dad is a man's man and is as cool as ice. Grant is a really cool easy going industrious guy. Your mom (in the few videos I've seen of her) is also awesome. I can imagine how papa Curt is also the standard for awesome? Most of my family are all gone (all of the farmers are), so it's nice to watch other nice down to earth unspoiled people out there making positive entertaining videos that I can appreciate. I can't stand TV or movies anymore. Thanks for all that you do!!!! :-)

[@DavidDragonhammer]

I live in a farming community, seeing equipment is way of life, I remember way back when when we closed school so all of us could help with the harvest ,those were the days. I enjoy our state fair, do love telling people how brown cows give chocolate milk, many believe, the laughs we get.

[@johnwyoder]

Thanks to Grant, I now know what it's like to be almost run over by a massive tractor. 😅 Also... Laura's whole "root slicer/stubble pile/didn't plant corn/weed patch" story is symbolic of how bad things in life, left unresolved, keep affecting us later.

[@TeriRH]

Wow, that was fun to watch. I retired 10 years ago from being a combine driver, I too ran Case IH. I was a dry land farmer in NE Montana raising Wheat/Durum. Fun to see a different crop being taken off the field.

[@jeffwhite4477]

Laura, I’m a 64 year old male from Mississippi. My Dad and later my Step-Dad taught me on a Massie Super 92 (I think). No cab no glass. At the end in the day I remember talking about 2 or3 showers. Great video!!!

[@guyronkar1160]

You always seem genuine and authentic, that‘s a big part of your success! Just keep doing what you‘re doing, it‘s perfect.

[@davidwilliams26]

@BrightForest why did that make you happy we all know what life is just chill

[@smoker3998]

You speak so well You have a great affect as well. Good luck!

[@DaHund]

12:00 mostly workers didnt do this itself, this shows you are good loyal worker. do your job, clean up if you have to wait (doesnt matter if this from you or not), etc. your boss should be proud of you. keep it up

[@manelson647]

Your videos just keep getting better and better. This was a wonderful combination of work, progress, cooperation, good ethics, communication, job pride, and love for each other. Family farming at its best 👍❤️ Thank you Laura, Grant & Cale! Love ❤️ you, Grammy

[@vk2ig]

That reminds me: have you ridden with Laura in the combine yet? :)

[@manelson647]

@@vk2ig not yet, but she working on making that happen 😊

[@vk2ig]

Thanks for explaining how you're running the combine, Laura. And, as your Grammy attests, what we see on the video is what you're like in "real life". :) Looks like Grant had a pretty good day.

[@joefudd]

Look at all of that golden goodness going into the semi trailer! :-) Grant, Erin Holbert would probably LOVE that Coke-A-Cola display that you were carrying! It's her favorite! It used to be mine too for many years!

[@Lothramir]

This must be what overall happiness looks like.

[@skeeter9252]

Laura, I'll take you okay day any day of the week!! You both look like you very much enjoy farming, as a West Coast person I can only say thank you to all the farmers for what you do!! And thank you again Laura and family for sharing what farming is like.

[@samspade4634]

In Ohio, we call it "shelling" corn and "running" beans. I'm not saying you are wrong, it's just interesting how each area has different names for the same things. Thank you for sharing as I feel I learn something new every time I watch you. Keep up the great work!

[@joefudd]

The picking corn to me is more like what the seed corn harvesters were doing with the machinery that picked and saved the corn still whole on the cob. The combine does indeed shell the corn, but it picks the cobs from the stalks as the auger screws pull them in and down through the stripping grooves/channels in the front of the head. I don't see how the corn stalks get sheared off at the ground level since the head just pulls the stalks down? The combine does actually cut the soybean plants off with the sickle bar. I need to watch more videos to see this in action up close. I must be missing something?

[@InquisitiveSearcher]

@@joefudd : Yes, in my day the field looked the same after it was either 'picked' or 'combined' with the corn stalks more or less in one piece, just leaning over pointing in the direction of the implement travel. The only part of the corn plant that was collected, picker or combine, was the ear of corn itself. These stalks are obviously cut off by the combine but does the combine really ingest the whole corn stalk?! That would seem to be overkill and a lot of extra work to separate the grain from all that bulk/trash.

[@joefudd]

@@scottsoper I see that the spiral cones/rollers pull them straight down, but I wasn't sure if the edges on the screw were sharp enough to cut through them too because the stalks are so strong and tough? That answers my question. Thanks! These are wonderfully designed machines.

[@joefudd]

@@InquisitiveSearcher it looks like the stalks get cut up and fall under the combine while the corn on the cob, husks and leaves pass though into the combine. Also Laura has mentioned harvesting the stover with hay rolling machines. From what Scott Soper says the roller screws that grab and pull down on the stalks also slice up have sharp edges and slice up the stalks. Makes sense to me now. Also makes sense why it is desirable to have the corn plants brown brittle and dried out to make it easier for the machine to process it. Green corn stalks, husks and leaves are fibrous and very strong/tough. I pull up lots of volunteer corn along my fence lines (thanks to birds eating corn and depositing it there later as they sit on the fences) and know how amazingly strong and tough that corn plants are. The same goes for bamboo, birds eating the seeds and bamboo is very invasive and hardly any herbicide made will kill it. I HATE it. Some dumb trendy city slicker brought it in, no doubt.

[@InquisitiveSearcher]

@@joefudd : I grew up on a farm so I am very familiar with corn plants and, thanks to a friend, who hated the bamboo his neighbor planted, I am slightly familiar with bamboo. The friend had a yearly battle with all those rhizomes. :-( I have great sympathies for your hatred of bamboo. I suggest a 3 foot tall cement wall, 2 foot of it below ground, that is 6 inch thick and vinyl lined, as a bamboo barrier. Or you could try photon torpedoes and phaser cannons. ;-) I wish I could examine one of those corn heads and observe it working up close to see exactly how it is handling the bulk of all those corn stalks. I worry about farmers bailing up the corn stalks as in my day it was considered necessary to work those stalks back in to the ground to maintain a healthy biological/microbe environment in the soil.

[@kennethcarlton2860]

Laura it's fun picking corn that has had water over it , you're only making ruts tire deep with the combine . It's just another day of farming

[@crash_davis]

The editing, music, and camera angles on Grant’s segments are getting awesome 😎 Way to go Grant!

[@lesstout5195]

In Indiana, we cut beans, SHELL commercial corn, and PICK seed corn !! Love your videos, keep up the good work 🙂

[@guydaubenspeck9206]

Back here in the eastern part of the country in western Pennsylvania if we're running the combine through a field of corn we call it shell and corn we call it cotton beans and we call it picking corn if we're picking with acorn picker on this farm we're a little old school we do both our ensiled fade is made up of village this time of year we green chop usually our third cut sometimes fourth cut sometimes our new seatings and feed them green right away as soon as they're made that stretches Baleage into later in the fall or grain that we feed to the cattle herd she's made in two different formulations one for the mama cows and little calves, and a different batch for the steers. Both these batches utilize 🌽🌽 corn which is harvested with a picker similar to what they harvest your seed corn with. We also do custom ground feeds here for horses, poultry, and hogs that utilize a shell corn and we harvest most of it with our old gleaner f2 combine in a four row head much different than what you're used to I'm sure but it serves as purpose here and as I said when we go to the field with coal mine we call it shelling horn when we go to the field with picker we call it picking corn

[@chrispurvis1719]

Laura, your combining both beans and corn. Picking is the old way with corn with full ears going in to the corn wagon going into the corn elevator going up into the corn crib. Speaking from a Iowa farm boy grown up in central Iowa in the late 70's to mid 80's.

[@jasonhummel3865]

Great video as always.Nice to see a young lady that is nice these days and likes to work hard

[@psg6314]

Not every day is perfect but you are good luck with your harvest and the cab looks good 👍get well grandpa God bless you and your family

[@flyingguitars3470]

Watching from Melbourne Australia......This girl needs her own TV show

[@fergywurst]

Ain't nothing like people named Wilson using Wilson Truck Trailers. 😎

[@chessie0]

Hi Laura Farms. You all are devoted I’m glad to se your hard work!! Thank you for what you do for our country. God Bless you all

[@toddeppley]

I love that Grant wears Roadkill tshirts. Very cool and good taste

[@joeldepas9928]

Every time we check in on Grant - "food has arrived....a ham sandwich" lol

[@15Med3]

lmao literally 70% of grants segments begin....."lunch has arrived" love it tho, its almost like a running gag in the vlogs

[@joeldepas9928]

@@15Med3 consistent and predictable 😂

[@joefudd]

I've eaten so many ham sandwiches for lunch lately that I'm turning into a ham. LOL

[@jleeraske6122]

Grants a ham so

[@vk2ig]

@@15Med3 Yep. I think there are some standard Grant-isms now: "Lunch has arrived" "Use the loader tractor"

[@streamer47]

Thank you guys for putting out awesome content! We appreciate your hard work in bringing us these highly entertaining videos. God bless!

[@danfinley3690]

So fun watching you 2 please keep up the awesome videos ya do and keeping us up to date on your harvest

[@whitebuffalo6071]

Red in the morning farmers take warning. Green at night farmers delight 😂

[@vk2ig]

Or, as was the case in Europe in the mid-90's: "Red sky at night - GM trial crop's alight!"

[@asmrhead1560]

Love seeing the grain tank fill up in the time lapse!

[@kbird2828]

That single corn stock you took down was the corn maze for old people!

[@2020Tundra]

Congrats on 200 K 👏 I’ve been a subscriber since very early on right after you started the channel. You’ve really come a long way since that first video, for sure!! Keep up the great videos.

[@jshelby78]

yall are awesome! I always look forward to your videos!! keep up the hard work

[@THESPECTER1984]

Teasing the combine with corn.....She shakes it like here ya hungry come on I know you want it.. here ya go.

[@johnpatterson7033]

Love your channel it brings back my favorite memories as child, I grew up spending summers on a New England ,(Grandmother’s farm), as a child, then moved to So Cal in the 60’s (lost all connection to farming) but not my loving memories of the farm, especially the smells, the animals

[@terrykline1358]

That’s awesome you are picking so many rows, my grandfather had a single row pull behind picker, pulling a wagon behind the picker and the corn was still on the cob. Then using bushel shovels, we had to fill the corn crib. My grandfather only farmed 50 acres. This was in the 60’s through the 80’s. It was a very physical but rewarding job. I miss it. And if I had the equipment that you all have I would’ve never left farming. Lol. Stay safe and enjoy the beautiful days and hopefully a prosperous harvest

[@Travisav]

Cut beans and shell corn!!!! Always love hearing how terminology changes. Kinda like how we call the red flakes bees wings but Canadians call it Red dog.

[@mr.n-plays6328]

How nice to have this kind of farm , a modern farming ,using high technology. Proud farmer

[@patmushan2032]

Great video!!! Enjoying seeing the harvest in full swing. Just watch those hydraulic hoses to the RHS auger of the header, they are pulled super tight when the crop sweeper was raised @15:48.

[@BK-oo1bl]

I’m so happy for you I have grown up farming with my dad most of our ground has been sold by family it’s sad but still have 1 field left and I will do it till I keel over!

[@budlvr]

Congrats on the 200K !

[@jerrydowell1660]

20 percent moisture let it stay in the field another couple weeks and let it naturally dry be down to 15 or less and save drying cost

[@dannydelvalle2259]

I love picking corn and there is something about corn being suck in the Combine it's awesome 🌽 🌽

[@davegift197]

I can remember back when I was a kid on the Family farm in southeast Kansas we had a hand crank corn sheller. I don't think that was used a lot except possibly for chicken feed. But I was so young I wasn't aware. It was fun cranking that sucker though. I do enjoy the vlog approach in addition to your standard videos, Laura. It shows some of the details to farming.

[@vk2ig]

When I was a kid, there was one in barn up from the house. Fascinating to watch it work. There was also a WW2 morse key, which I still have. Don't have the sheller, though ...

[@islanderdraws]

Super informative video from the start... "Cut beans, pick corn" got it! 👍🏼🌽

[@jasonmcmillan9554]

I'm loving this Grant Farms channel... 😆

[@emadeldinhessain3272]

Great. Well done.

[@dislikebutton5537]

I'm new to the channel, but Laura is absolutely stunning and seem even smarter! Very good narrator to whats going on aswell, for us who doesnt know the indepth logic behind whats happening..

[@jdkpalmeira]

You guys have such a different set up but so similar to us in the uk. We are all but done with harvest. Just so wet for planting season now.we are waiting for it to dry off.

[@joeyiriarte6400]

MORNING wow amazing corn farm it's so beautiful shout out from Philippines......

[@fowllab]

Harvest time to me is always a nice sight. Where I am at in Michigan if your picking corn your taking the whole ear. Shelling when it’s just the kernels. For beans it’s either running beans and some will say picking beans. But in the end it’s all the same hard work. Keep up the good videos.

[@jasonbaier6204]

I could seriously watch the corn stalks bending into the header all day long. It’s so relaxing

[@stephenpikaahu8883]

Thank you for the share awesome content and being the real deal blessings from New Zealand

[@Pilledskin]

12:45 Definitely the work of a rat king. They like to get stuck in pipes and the like until they get clogged and blow up. It's very likely still hiding in the combine cab.

[@darrellblair1162]

looking good

[@shealy265]

Look forward to seeing corn reel in action on downed corn.

[@joefudd]

Same here!

[@dougrogillio2223]

Watching these harvest videos gives me a sense of gratitude learning what it takes for that corn to make it to my lunch box in Texas.

[@1984shadow]

Check your fluids: oil & water levels at each fuel/DEF fill up, and air filters including the tractor cab filter.

[@HisWayHomestead]

you two are so cute! thanks for sharing your day!

[@chipb7431]

After watch all that corn being picked, I'm in the mood for popcorn. 🤪

[@FreedomRock44]

You are actually talking to us Laura so it is like we are in the Buddy seat. Kinda cool!

[@franciscobritolopez7831]

Holaaa familia feliz navidaaaa un fuerte abrazo para ti y fami😘😘❤️👍👏👏

[@littletime8849]

Often tell my kids the story of myself driving combines without cabs and power stirring during wheat harvest to pay for college.

[@rdyardie]

Thank you for sharing and explaining as you combine. Have a great day. Harvesting time is always a wonderful time of year.

[@larrybender7333]

Here in Pennsylvania, we can this "shelling" corn. "Picking" corn is when we just take the ear off in the field. But then, we're a long way from Nebraska. Have a great day in your rolling office. :)

[@turdferguson1044]

When's dinner? Laura's cab beans WITH Grant's engine corn. mmmm mmmm You guys are all awesome, God Bless

[@JohnStright]

General Mayhem T-shirt appearance for the win Grant!

[@markhayes9114]

Wise choice deere has made the Cadillac of combined for years

[@josephdemarco2643]

Grant, is that a Roadkill Garage t-shirt? Sure looks like the General on there! Ya'll are just awesome people! Thanks for helping to provide us entertainment, and food to our table! #Farmerslife!

[@LauraFarms]

Grant loves roadkill garage!

[@williamking2249]

Great update! Its fun to ride along with both of you. I never knew what a combine actually did, until now. Thank you for sharing today's work. In the 60s° here this morning in NH.👍

[@davidarnett5113]

Picking corn is removing the ear from the stalk. Laura, you are shelling corn. You are removing the ear from the stalk and then removing the corn from the cob.

[@asmrhead1560]

It's a regional affectation, sort of like soda vs pop vs coke but way more regional.

[@samdevine9988]

Laura, Grant another great vid. We watch these video snippets not so much for the farming or equipment, although they are interesting, because of you two. Thank you. Congratulations on the 200K milestone very happy for both of you.

[@frankhartmeyer9841]

I think this is very interesting. Good job be safe.

[@ScottFree4all]

Look at you! You’re teaching us how to run a combine and pick corn. I remember last year you were so nervous trying it for the first time.

[@dantomlinson4407]

Excellent safety! Turn the Machine OFF before exiting. My best friend almost lost their life by not turning it off before clearing the head. Safety FIRST!!!!!

[@randyschultz4549]

Red is really good!!!

[@rickharms1]

Watching the corn stalks go down reminds me of the movie “The Day of the Triffids”, an obscure reference to a classic SciFi movie.

[@matthewramos6030]

Thanks Laura love your video love it 😊

[@badencraig7778]

I’m not a farmer but I think the bearing in the auger went out and the auger just jumped around freely in their

[@Dannyp8038]

Loving all these new VLogs, Grant is posting. Keep up the good work

[@jim6070]

I would like to see how you take care of that weed spot this fall.

[@mikedaniels9823]

You and Grant need to watch Millenial Farmers vid "Working Hard or hardly working? Love your vids keep up the great work and its awesome to see the next generations so enthusiastic about farming

[@floydferguson5366]

Great video!

[@cD-vg5go]

Hi Laura , so might be time for one of those corn rake things spins around slow and works great... and a dirty cab means all the trash makes it Home :) we Luv You n Grant ! Grant wasting corn at every transition?

[@jeremyprice255]

love your content thanking you from fort McMurray alberta canada 🇨🇦

[@johndavidson6867]

Great video, it's nice to see the differences between Laura and Grants farms, Grant seems to have a more rolling type to Laura's more flat. I had just assumed that you were always kind of bubbly Laura, knowing that can't be 100% of the time. Your kind of happiness just can't be turned on and off, LOVE IT. Hope that the rest of harvest goes well. Looking forward to more of your harvest experience.

[@diablomes]

Love the ground shot- i thought the camera was going to be toast...lol!

[@jackwinters3036]

Grant is getting sooo much better with his videos. Only thing I can think of to make them better is more drone footage. Go Grant. Kate's Ag Dad does great drone footage.

[@waderue]

we are here with you

[@randyc5650]

Laura, please take us through or show us how the combine works with corn. We see whole corn plants going in and little corn kernels coming out. Are there little farm elves inside working real fast? I am retired from the communications/networking and I/T business so this farming stuff seems like magic. Thanks for all your hard work.

[@benfairhall5331]

Hi mate if you look up John Deere crop flow s series or x series it gives you a good understanding of the internals without being too in-depth

[@randyc5650]

@@benfairhall5331 Thanks, I'll check it out.

[@dannyroach8743]

You guys are awsome

[@terrancesnyder9323]

Have a great day

[@brianb7085]

You and Grant are the best! If there were more people like you two, the world would be a much better place. Thank you for all you do.

[@virendrachandravansi2405]

Wow nice