Picking & Packing Sweet Corn near Columbiana Ohio

Picking & Packing Sweet Corn near Columbiana Ohio
Video from a farm near Columbiana Ohio as they are picking and packing sweet corn for market. In this video I start out in the field as they pick the sweet corn then go inside the barn where the corn is sorted, packed, chilled and put in the cooler before being sent to market.

[@andyschad6882]

I was the lead project manager on the development of this very unique harvesting concept. It was originally developed as a smaller two row machine by a grower in north Florida. He had too many problems keeping it running and eventually it ended up in the weeds. Our local dealer heard about it and we eventually had the machine shipped to WI where we further developed the concept and adapted it to our larger corn harvester chassis. We also created a one-row configuration for smaller fresh market operations. It has changed how fresh cob corn is harvested World-wide, providing for the first time a viable alternative to hand harvesting fresh market corn.

[@chaddeplazes]

I find these types of videos fascinating. Thanks Mike! These facilities take great pride in providing a quality product and provide employment to so many good hard workers!

[@dsnicker9719]

The camera work and drone footage was outstanding! Also, thank you to the farmers and hard-working processors who bust their butt every harvest to help feed this hungry nation.

[@scruffy6151]

I like the 🙂 on the fuel tank.

[@miguelamaya6246]

Thank you for sharing your video with us...

[@Jwoll944]

I live near here, love looking at the farm on the golf course next to it. Glad to see them finally getting the appreciation they deserve!

[@shobuddy]

I love your narration. I watch so many combine/harvest videos just cuz it's entertaining and hypnotic. Watching your videos, I actually get an understanding of what's going on.

[@farmhandmike]

Glad you like them!

[@thr8061]

We love grilling corn on the cob. We usually peel off most of the husks and silk, then soak the cobs in warm salted water. Then throw them on the grill. Yummy!

[@rogereide]

I am really enjoying seeing all the variety of new (to me) planting and harvesting videos. Very interesting how they handle the produce.

[@m.webber5118]

Great video! Thanks Mike, always good to see something a little different.

[@samson1200]

Many thanks Mike for taking the time and effort to include crops that are popular but a little different. This is a great break from the gray, gloomy sky here in Oregon the past couple of weeks. Thanks.

[@markreetz1001]

Good show Mike. Always good to see "eatin' crops" being harvested.

[@stanhensley3082]

Oxbow makes some great machines. I live 30 miles south of Clear Lake Wis. where this picker is made.

[@keithsteck432]

Great video! Really interesting to see some of the different types of agriculture you put on KZbin.

[@southaussiegarbo2054]

Lol the picker is happy

[@YeshuaisYahwah]

My grandma used to grow sweet corn,we actually had a family event where we whould pick,peel,cook,and chop the curnalls.

[@theotherfinnegan9955]

you said it mike I can't eat enough sweet corn in the summer.

[@ollie-lk5dx]

First thumbs up wow, always wonder how the harvest it , Now I would love to see it go to processor and see it canned- frozen.

[@WarEagle225]

I wish you could smell a video because I bet this one with sweet corn would be amazing lol Weird comment, I know 😂😂

[@chrismanning1746]

I live in Connecticut The white corn and yellow sweet corn was awesome this year Great video thanks

[@matthewlatzy4307]

I've always wondered how that is done. Thanks Mike. Great video.

[@landerson1012]

That is quite an operation. The sorting house reminded me of doing that as a teenager...lot of work. Don't miss it neither. Now I know how it's done! Interesting equipment.

[@larrykluckoutdoors8227]

Thanks Mike for making the video

[@cesmith4566]

Good to see you were home! I think I've worked on every hydraulic motor on the pixall and that whiney hydraulic system in the corner! Dave is a good guy he spends lot of money keeping that operation in good condition!

[@Snowtruckdriver]

Very interesting. I never saw that model of picker before. Keep up the good work.

[@jgvgjv2980]

Love your luminous green t-shirt, Mike!

[@timberhills1778]

Awsome video

[@davidwachob9404]

Awesome Mike, I live in Boardman and know where this was, really great job.

[@marks_sparks1]

I do like these genteel videos on slowpicking crops. Do a few more please Mike

[@jenniferpablo1973]

Hi Mike what a nice bit of kit you have done a good job video it Graham uk 👍

[@jarrettgfeller3341]

very interesting video,close to home and close to where you used to call home,keep up the great work!!

[@farmhandmike]

Hey Jarrett what's up?

[@barrybardo3249]

Another great local video Mike🖒

[@SimonKL11]

We don't see that every day👍😉 interesting video👍

[@joevenasco297]

I just hauled calves from New Castle Pa to the Columbiana area and saw this operation!

[@Hulktom2000]

that is an awesome set-up!!

[@marklepage4334]

That’s really cool always wondered how they did it thanks

[@franciscosandiego3026]

Great videos i like, keep them coming. From California.

[@michael2444]

In my neck of the woods!! Nice

[@carlwolf4865]

Wow ! You don’t see many of those ole Big Jack pickers around anymore, I drove that model and the newer model when I worked summers for Friday Canning...

[@shawnfox8002]

Cool machine , id beg them corn stalks will make some nice sweet feed for cattle and horses.

[@trtj200]

Hauled sweet corn out of Imokalee Florida years ago wasnt hardly any machine harvesting back then.

[@zchburke]

They still pick by hand.

[@timloveless5409]

I love to go to that market to see the bounty and variety of all the different produce and to take some home of course.

[@onealfarms9967]

What’s up mike you got the coolest job in the world

[@halfdollar86]

I would be curious to know what variety they raise. We only raise a little sweet corn on the farm but the varieties we raise seem to have multiple ears that are ready at different times. It would be nice to have a variety that only puts on one ear that is all ready at the same time. I’m sure these guys have it down to a science and have varieties that do just that.

[@lynwessel2471]

The thicker you plant would make it more likely to get one ear. Plants maybe 8 inches apart in the row. Rows 30 inches apart.

[@michaeleaston547]

Good stuff. Thank you

[@rockeerockey6941]

I bet they get.lots of road raiders at night! 😆 We had many midnight raids on our 40 acres of sweet corn every year! Great video, excellent content

[@Philm88]

Not a bunch

[@Robertdrivesaway]

thank you for doing this video I really liked it

[@clintonstubbs2319]

Hey there is a lot of sweet corn grown around Bainbridge, GA, in the Southwest part of Georgia. Lot of different kinds of equipment. Check out South Georgia Farming on KZbin too about sweet corn harvesting. I think Big Tractor Power has some videos about it too.

[@zchburke]

Mule Train

[@mikegravitt8374]

This machine makes light work of this task....compared to 5 gallon buckets and a tractor with same size wagon.

[@trevorlbeck]

Thanks for the great video Mike! But kinda sad that since covid is going on they can't put on the Sweet Corn Festival in Millersport, Ohio. You should check it out Mike since you like sweet corn.

[@JDrostAgricultureVideoNL]

Great video, greetings Johan

[@user-snowman5]

Some nice handi work in back ground

[@danw6014]

There was a farm in my neighborhood that grew sweet corn. They used to go out and pick at 3:00 am with a WD Allis Chalmers and a mounted picker. I don't know if the husking rolls were covered or removed from the picker.

[@hughwhaley3179]

I drove tractor for a farm just down the road from us doing sweet corn 🌽🌽🚜🚜👍

[@it899]

I've been there to buy pumpkins in the fall

[@CMDRSweeper]

Thank you for at least showing somewhat how that machine worked... I was a bit perplexed at first as to how it picked the corn until that quick shot from the back.

[@willr69420]

I'm a recent subscriber and really enjoy your content!!

[@farmhandmike]

Welcome aboard!

[@fisherh9111]

You won't be disappointed. Mike is great.

[@waggtech8793]

That’s as American as Apple Pie right there!

[@christopherlovelock9104]

Good video - really liked it. I was surprised at the low sides on the trailers and the quantity of them they had, I presume it is a fairly 'delicate crop' when freshly picked for resale to the public, as opposed to it being picked for animal feed or is that a different type altogether.

[@meganmcmaster1331]

We try not to fill our wagons too full so we don't loose any coming from the field. But yes, sweet corn is for people to eat and what gets picked for animal feed is field corn which is harvested by a combine.

[@mobeydick37]

Back in the late 70s a friend that decided he was going to Truck Farm as we called it back then. Watermelons, Cantaloupe, Snap Beans Blackeyes Okra, and Corn. Back then you could get human labor to work in the fields. Man to have had a picker like that.

[@allenschmitz9644]

Packing house job..did it once on off season..in california...nope, never again.

[@zchburke]

Sweet corn was bringing $45+ a crate (48 ears) back in early summer.

[@epiccsx]

Getting it fresh! I live near there, and it's a lot of fields out that way. There is a field right near my house where they have grown corn or soybeans every year, I even filmed it being harvested last year. However, this year it has not been planted/prepared yet, it's just gettin covered in weeds. Is that normal for them to abandon/not plant a field?

[@meganmcmaster1331]

It may be a field that we no longer farm or it was too wet to plant at the time we tried to plant it.

[@epiccsx]

@@meganmcmaster1331 Ok, that makes sense. This one is noticeable when it's wet, especially the southwest corner. It could be either one, as there is a part of grass (about as wide as a typical combine) they have left for a few years that splits part of the field for some reason, and the corn doesn't seem to grow much in the southwest corner.

[@meganmcmaster1331]

@@epiccsx yes, sometimes there are wet spots that we will go around and not plant because it gets to wet for anything to grow and we don't want to get stuck 😉

[@epiccsx]

@@meganmcmaster1331 Yes

[@kennethcarlton2860]

Great video Mike , If they start at 3 am when do they shut down or do they pick 24 hrs a day until the corn is all picked ? Just wondering Thank you

[@Philm88]

We pick along as we need to. Usually pick at least 8 hours then pack for 12 hours plus

[@Aspire2Cycle]

Very cool! But did you get to take any sweetcorn home with you?

[@farmhandmike]

Yes I bought two dozen to take home. Its was delicious.

[@kennethdrovdal1082]

On average, how many ears are on a stalk? Great shots, great editing. I love the drones.

[@nicolemcmaster1987]

There is 1 good ear and 1 ear we call a sucker ear that is too small

[@jimpolk]

How does that picker work? I don't see where or how it pulls the ear off the stalk. Looks like it just cuts the stalk then throws it back down.

[@billsmith8739]

How many acres do they plant each year? Good Video!!

[@nicolemcmaster1987]

We did about 320 acres this year

[@billsmith8739]

@@nicolemcmaster1987 that is a lot of sweet corn!! Thanks!!

[@Philm88]

350 this year

[@deandenby8405]

What is an average yield ? Great video

[@andykolb263]

Mike, I hope you received some advertising $$ from Croke! (on the railway car) 🤣

[@farmhandmike]

LOL I wonder is this will ever get viewed by the person that painted that graffiti.

[@andykolb263]

@@farmhandmike Perhaps the 'artist' enjoys farming videos in his/her/they/their off-time. We may never know, but I hope they comment here. LOL.

[@millardhayes1884]

Another great video. Hopefully millennials can learn where there food comes from instead of believing it grows in a can.

[@Binkahoona]

A general question, after being picked could the chopped stalks etc be chopped for sileage/feed?

[@farmhandmike]

Yes probably could be but I think most is just worked into the soil.

[@Philm88]

Only if your willing to pick them up off the ground

[@jefferyhopcus8300]

I have 2 questions...how does the picker work? Are or can the cornstalks be gathered up for silage or fed directly to animals?

[@meganmcmaster1331]

The head pulls the stalks in and removes the sweet corn from the stalk. Conveyers inside separate the corn and the stalk. The stalk stays in the field for compost ( goes back into the soil). We hand grade out within our building and the scraps or less than A grade corn also goes back out into the field as we grade it out. We do have some farmers that will come in and load there trucks up for hogs to get those scraps.

[@rightsideofthegrass8114]

it was not obvious how the ears are snapped from the stalk. the process must simple as the mechanism was sparse. it looks like the stalk is dragged through a narrow channel of some kind. can anybody explain? thanks

[@jgvgjv2980]

Hey Mike, is this sweet corn a particular variety for this kind of market ? Thanks from JV of North Devon in England

[@farmhandmike]

I think they grow different varieties

[@tomdeweese9463]

Well in all my years...

[@luisnunes7933]

Hello!

[@markkallstrom5672]

I'm looking for a sweet corn picker , do you know of one for sale ? Kallstrom Sweet Corn

[@curtweatherbee2523]

👍🏻❤️

[@Дмитро-к9т]

Що за комбайн для збирання качанів цукрової кукурудзи?

[@tillndrillfarms]

Wonder how they keep raccoons out of corn field lol

[@1982MCI]

You don’t, you learn to share

[@landonbeers3724]

Yay new video

[@mjscorn7943]

Doesn't seem as efficient as harvesting feed corn, but 2 different markets.

[@ashleywynn4923]

It is still kind of feed corn isn’t? Lol just for humans not cattle.

[@jbbrown7907]

Do they have to hand unload the wagons? It looked like they did.

[@jamesmurney1374]

If you look close there is a rubber/plastic sheet under the corn on the trailer. That gets wound onto a drum at the back which pulls the ears off with it. It looks like it is had cranked though.

[@nicolemcmaster1987]

The tarp under the corn is slowly wound in by a machine but the corn is pulled off by hand in chunks to avoid too much corn from pilling up on the line at once

[@robwoods5537]

Where's everyone watching from, Goderich Ontario Canada

[@jefffraser6666]

Kingston Ontario

[@danvanninhuys745]

Sarnia, Ontario

[@rockeerockey6941]

Tampa Bay

[@chiefwahoo1196]

Ohio

[@landonandrews3013]

North Carolina

[@shealy265]

Why don't they cut the stocks for silage?

[@farmhandmike]

This farm does not have livestock.

[@shealy265]

@@farmhandmike thanks for responding While on an equipment tour of a Green Giant canning plant they mentioned their stocks , reject ears, husks, cobs were all sent to local feed lots for chopping/feeding.

[@ivan11h]

why do they pack in wirebound crates?

[@farmhandmike]

Some of their customers prefer crates over bags

[@ivan11h]

@@farmhandmike do they put the wire bond crates thru the same hydro cooling unit or do they have another type for ire bound boxes?

[@ivan11h]

@@farmhandmike do they put the wire bond crates thru the same hydro cooling unit or do they have another type for wire bound boxes?

[@ivan11h]

@@farmhandmike is there a way to get a make name and model number for the hydrocooling unit? Who makes it?

[@ivan11h]

@@farmhandmike is there a way to get a make name and model number for the hydrocooling unit? Who makes it?

[@liliasims1197]

why?

[@Philm88]

Why what?

[@asepnurhasan2278]

Subtitles are so annoying.....

[@brucewelty7684]

Not impressed with the velocity that the ears hit everything with.

[@Philm88]

Why is that?

[@Philm88]

Can u explain?

[@brucewelty7684]

@@Philm88 the cobs are thrown rather violently

[@Philm88]

Only a problem in young corn

[@brucewelty7684]

@@Philm88 AND? Sweet corn IS young corn and it can be bruised.