Picking & Packing Sweet Corn

Picking & Packing Sweet Corn | Columbiana Ohio

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In this video I an out at McMaster Farms in Columbiana Ohio and show the entire process how they harvest and pack their sweet corn and get it ready for market.
They space out their sweet corn planting in the spring and the first planted is generally ready in early July and they pick until early September every year. They start picking around 4AM each morning and then start packing corn around 6AM until all orders are full. The majority of their corn goes all over Ohio and many other states.
In the video they were running their Pix All Big Jack Corn Puller picker and pulling wagons with a John Deere 4455 tractor.

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@bestfriendhank1424 3 ай бұрын

Big thank you to all those migrant workers and all the others who do produce work!

@Zeke-yv3nw 3 ай бұрын

Mike I like how you get all the different videos. Most people just get the more normal kinds of farm videos.

@keithpowell2786 4 ай бұрын

Brother, that’s what I love about this channel. You get to see things you can’t see anywhere else. Raised up on a farm in North Carolina. We had a lot of sweetcorn, but it was pulled by hand. This was awesome to see great for other people to see they let them know that their food does not come from the grocery store lol. Keep up the great work.

@jeffrosen8237 3 ай бұрын

You forgot to do the up close of the new Oxbo picker. Thanks for showing the old pixall picker. I grew up in clear Lake Wisconsin where they make these. It's was fun seeing the Byron on on the new idea machine.

@131dyana 3 ай бұрын

Never saw this before thanks.

@JimBirch-ps2qx 4 ай бұрын

Another awesome video. Have never seen this process before. Fantastic.

@chrisgossman6512 4 ай бұрын

Once again, Mike, you made a video of a farming process that I have never seen before. That's why I like 👍 Mike. Happy subscriber 😊!

@LeroyLicht 4 ай бұрын

Like that smiley face fuel tank 😊 nice looking sweet corn field.

@AkbarMoncongloe 4 ай бұрын

Excellent video ❤

@daviddziomba9664 4 ай бұрын

Hay Mike , nice video, to bad its in Ohio, I been keeping up with Bell Farms videos here in Maine they pick sweet corn with very similar pickers, but theirs have a hopper on the picker, that they dump into one of their bulk potato trucks to haul to the packing house, which in the fall is used for the potato house, where they store their potato crop for the year, which will be starting soon, maybe you ought to try getting to Maine sometime. We don't have as big farms as you have out there, but we still have some nice size ones. Dave D.

@paulprigge1209 3 ай бұрын

I was thinking the same thing !

@bobtuckosh9870 4 ай бұрын

Very interesting video, glad you were there to video, and share with us.

@richardtutor8331 4 ай бұрын

I love sweet corn roasted or boiled. Nothing better. ❤🎉

@paulprigge1209 3 ай бұрын

As always thank you

@SimonKL11 4 ай бұрын

Sweet corn harvest is great😉👍 thanks for the video👍👍

@Jwoll944 4 ай бұрын

Awesome seeing a video coming from my hometown!

@ronaldpiper4812 4 ай бұрын

Smell a vision has he headed to freezer. Clean freezer vac bag. Then at use poke few holes cook mic. Good stuff. Bet they supply indy DC also

@RobertOndek 4 ай бұрын

What a boring life you have do you need a sidekick to have this much fun thank for keeping me amused for hours

@bobearthquakepumpkinfarm7455 4 ай бұрын

Nice that you have someone like McMaster's not far to go video. It is very critical to choose a sweet corn variety which meets the needs of their operation. I believe it wasn't long after Pixall came out with their strip style head that they merged with Byron to form Oxbo. Before, Byron was known for the sweet corn harvester, and Pixall for their snap bean harvester.

@joescheller6680 4 ай бұрын

must have a big air blowing system see the rows being blown side ways whiles passing through field

@garnetab 3 ай бұрын

Good afternoon Mike. Thank you for the trip down memory lane. My first driving job was hauling sweet corn from the pickers in the fields to the processing plant. The 2 main differences to your video being, the pickers had 8 ton power drive carts behind them, and our produce was blanched and frozen. Several of our pickers were the Unisystem with Byron picker and cart, and similar the the Byron in this clip. Thanks for the reminiscing. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fZCWn4R3a7F_opo

@stevebiddle8912 4 ай бұрын

Really interesting video Mike. Thanks for sharing!

@randywilson9611 4 ай бұрын

Great video good to see you Mike

@johnferrari6554 4 ай бұрын

Fantastic video! Thanks for sharing this one. I have seen combines picking corn for fuel and feed not human consumption. I just thought it was still done by hand for humans...

@mfreund15448 4 ай бұрын

I am a sweet corn snob. Anything not picked that day is too old to eat on the cob. Yep, I live in the Midwest

@Justageek0504 4 ай бұрын

We love it fresh too! Nothing better than right off the stalk

@paulreis1648 4 ай бұрын

Yum Mike great video

@RichardBurbick 4 ай бұрын

Mike. You were right behind my farm!! When were you there? They just started picking @ the Carroll farm early this week!?!

@farmhandmike 4 ай бұрын

@@RichardBurbick I videod this a week ago. I didn’t figure you were home but still got Burbwein Holsteins old farm in the background before you guys went huge in the dairy industry. Also pretty cool to do a video on the same ground Big Jim plowed.

@lynwessel2471 4 ай бұрын

The Oxbo header is called a sweet corn puller, the ears are cut off the stalk for fresh on the cob corn, vs a special snapping roll head used for picking commercial canning and freezing sweet corn, and also used for high moisture seed corn picking.

@farmhandmike 4 ай бұрын

I've done some seed corn picking videos a few years ago with Oxbo pickers.

@lynwessel2471 4 ай бұрын

@@farmhandmike Im in southern MN big commercial processor sweet corn area. it's more fun watching all those ears fly off the elevator, than shelled corn coming into the combine tank.. Pioneer had some seed corn production in the area in the 90s, but moved it south.

@lynwessel2471 4 ай бұрын

@AtherTech-8989They're harvesting now. They probably plant some every week in the spring so it doesn't get ready faster than they can harvest it.

@garymurt9112 4 ай бұрын

@AtherTech-8989 when I grew corn in the garden I planted two rows every two weeks, we had fresh corn from 4th of July till Sept.

@Justageek0504 4 ай бұрын

@@lynwessel2471 yea we plant every 5 to 7 days roughly, in the spring from April until beginning of June

@jayhuff4674 4 ай бұрын

Great video. How do they fill the cart when they are opening a new part of the field?

@farmhandmike 4 ай бұрын

Every so many rows they have a spray drive that the tractor and wagon can run along. It's tight but just enough room.

@Justageek0504 4 ай бұрын

@@jayhuff4674 I second what Mike said. We also have some fields that are too tight and we will hand pick to open up for the picker.

@hughmackellar7941 4 ай бұрын

Big time-we have a number of small sweet corn growers around our farm.All sell direct from a roadside stand. Good way for our kids to make a few bucks. $6.00 bucks for 6 cobs is what we are paying this year.

@carlwolf4865 4 ай бұрын

I drove a Pix All with the New Holland cab from 1988 to 1996 at our local canning factory every summer they could go through a lot of mud…

@frankscruggs4749 4 ай бұрын

Good video.

@eatingamandarin 4 ай бұрын

Thanks Mike. Corn looks great. Good color. Weed free. Even. Cobs look uniform. Obvious not making a lot of money though. Good farming, but selling is letting them down.

@Justageek0504 4 ай бұрын

We're mostly wholesale so the price definitely depends on what the market is doing.

@clintmeyer8029 4 ай бұрын

SWEET!

@Hinesfarm-Indiana 4 ай бұрын

Interesting video Mike 🌽🌽

@richardtutor8331 4 ай бұрын

Nice video

@franciscosandiego3026 4 ай бұрын

I like Mike less videos on KZbin from the imperial county California 👍🇺🇲

@WyattWilson-e7m 4 ай бұрын

Cool in North Carolina we do it by hand

@ralphmorehart 4 ай бұрын

How many acres of sweet carn do they have???

@Justageek0504 4 ай бұрын

@@ralphmorehart this year we're around 275 acres

@Jakethefarmboy 4 ай бұрын

Why don’t they run dual wagons to be more efficient?

@ScottPykare 4 ай бұрын

Hey Mike, I live in Trumbull County but my aunt lives in East Palestine. I'll have to ask her if she gets her sweet corn from this farm?

@Justageek0504 4 ай бұрын

We sell to the east Palestine sparkle 😊

@alliehunt 4 ай бұрын

Can you please go to Green meadow farms in Elsie, Michigan they used to be The biggest registered farm then have one of the largest herd of cattle in North America 9,500 cows and have 7,000 acres of land. Can you do a video to do with alfalfa please and thank you.