Rush Farms and Waltz Farms Hay Harvest Season Missouri 2017 - John Deere 3020, 7710, 7210

Drone video showing 2 local farms haying operations. Rush Farms and Waltz Farms. Tyler Rush cutting hay, Jonathan Kohley on the rake tractor, and Seth Hall and his son Easton in the baling tractor. Just another video that shows how beautiful agriculture is and how important it is to keep feeding and fueling America.

[@jrbpa5775]

Looks pretty easy today compared to the 50's thru the 80's, better mowers and rakes. Try baling all that in small square bales, no cabs or air conditioning. Bale 1000 bales a day and put up in the barn. I'll do it your way all day long... great video!!

[@tallfarmboy]

Jrbpa 57 Couldn't agree with you more. I baled a lot of hay in the 90's...Lots of small squares and sweaty days. Not as difficult nowadays.

[@MajesticSkywhale]

go look up the Krone Big M 500 and weep at how easy they have it today...the thing is really cool though

[@baylerrobertson7129]

I still do it like it's the old days, averaging 1200 small square bales a day, and I do all the stacking. I'm 14, too.

[@MrScott4020]

Use to put up 24-36,000 small squares for years. Now we round bale half our hay and use accumulators and grapples for the squares. Can't find the help.

[@f-j-Services]

This is how I still do it, used to have no rops on 1066 but got canopy recently. NH baler knotter always breaking. Use a 65 cub to rake it with a small wheel driven rake it works great though 3rd gear at idle moves a lotta hay! Have to go full throttle on the hills and lug it hard but it does it.

[@johnmyers8488]

Sure brought back some good memories of summer haying. Myself, my favorite job was round bailing and wrapping. I didn't like taking to much. Thanks for the nice visit.

[@banksjim]

From Monett but live and work in Dallas now. Need more videos like this to remind me of home... and comments like those in this thread to also remind me of how fun and hard handling hay was as a teen in the 80's. Great work!

[@StJamesCustoms]

I love it! Thanks for sharing! Brings back memories.

[@johnmoore8016]

Thanks for a very good video, it made remember when I worked on a farm as a teenager.

[@drewwilke1733]

Love the video. I'm in Mt Vernon Missouri making hay is my favorite job. We put up about 5-600 bales a year and wrap about 4-500 of them

[@jwbfarmservices4696]

Hi there my name is john i am from Bedfordshire in Gt Britain . I love your film and Missouri look beautiful it's what i call God's country I hope the hay season goes well for you and your family's. And you have a good season I look forward to seeing more thank you .

[@tallfarmboy]

+JWB Farm Services John, thank you so much for the comment! Glad to hear from you. It's nice to hear from folks on the other side of the pond. Take care!

[@jimmyjolly4184]

@Steve Slade actually SC is Gods Country from the mountains to the Sea . Not too many places you can drive 4 hrs or less and be at either one

[@daveknepp7718]

Nice video, thanks for sharing.

[@Drizz52]

Drone pilot doing a great job

[@tallfarmboy]

+Drizz52 I appreciate that, thank you!

[@jayrock4ya]

Awsome!!!!! Great video!! Watched chuke2009 fix his round balor, then wondered how it worked, so I watched a cgi video of its insides. Know I'm watching this. Holy crow alot of processes. Thx!!!

[@21492005973494]

I just came across ur channel today. and realized y'all are really close to me i live in Carthage. I grew up in ash grove mo most of my life. That's cool as hell to have a KZbinr so close :-)

[@tallfarmboy]

+Billy Bell Good to hear from you! I wouldn't call myself a "KZbinr", though... Just a common guy that has a nerdy habit of flying drones and telling the story of Agriculture.

[@bronney]

Love the closed captioning. For those of us that knows nothing about farming they're really informative :D Nice hair cut on the kid btw. :)

[@tallfarmboy]

bronney Thank you so much for the comment! Appreciate the feedback. Best wishes!

[@merlenewalker8997]

Beautiful to watch and do harmony is glory

[@bmbpdk]

Really good video and love the descriptions 👍

[@tallfarmboy]

+GamerBrian81 Thanks for the comment, I appreciate the feedback.

[@johnnybarbar7435]

Can the swing stops be adjusted on the trailed mower so you don't have to drive on the edge of the cut crop?

[@tinhhuynh2699]

Yes, thank you farmers

[@tomjones8209]

I’m not a John Deere fan but that was a great video!

[@thomasleight7200]

I all ways liked riding when cutting hay

[@robhayes5154]

good looking operation. I'm looking at a 7210 4 wheel drive has yours been a good tractor. Anything I should look for.

[@AndersonCattleCo]

Good hay making vid I hay by myself so the hay gets raked in the dark or in the morning with the dew but it is also Alfalfa. Mind you I bale most of it in the dark to. Any how it looks like good feed I love drone vids of tractor work

[@tallfarmboy]

AndersonCattleCo. Doing it by yourself would be a challenge. Keep up the good work, someone has to keep feeding the world!

[@whataguy7032]

Man, that is some nice looking hay and high yield, too. Looks like he was getting a full bale about every 500 ft.

[@bigears4426]

Does anyone know where to buy the little canopy the john deere raking had

[@shereemorgan1430]

I love the round bales.

[@alexborash9833]

Great video!

[@sairaqsa]

Well done guys.

[@dwightarnold6980]

AC is also nice to have John Deere's really have a good AC system

[@hankelling5833]

great video. i rode a horse drawn mower with my dad.

[@KevinA-zp4li]

Love the drone footage. Awesome views. One question, with disc bine, why windrow, instead of laying hay out flat.

[@KevinA-zp4li]

Not even same field. Different machine cut that hay. Good quality video, just not realistic. Thanks

[@tallfarmboy]

KevinA 1962 If the hay were not in windrows, the tractor would drive over the crop when cutting it. It would compress it into the ground. The width of the tractor wheels allow it to travel over the windrow without damaging the crop. Much of the high yield hay around here gets tedded to spread out to dry more.

[@grantdubridge7995]

I noticed, on the first curve in the video, the mower did not just follow the tractor but turned only enough to follow the grass edge. Is the mower directed separately with a joy stick or something?

[@tallfarmboy]

Grant DuBridge The mower is controlled via a hydraulic ram to change the offset of the mower to the tractor... So, when turning or transporting, the mower can be ran either straight behind or at an angle, offset to the path of the tractor.

[@grantdubridge7995]

tallfarmboy and I see the skilled tractor driver used that ability to control the turn.

[@finlandfarmer1860]

Nice drone footage and good looking, flat fields you have there. How many hay / silage crops do you harvest per season?

[@tallfarmboy]

Finlandfarmer Well, we have a big variety of forage crops. Usually our cool season grasses like fescue will only give 1 harvest. However, we have Bermuda and some other warm season grasses that will yield 3 or more cuttings depending on our rainfall. Our good legumes, like alfalfa will yield several cuttings as well. The flat fields are very nice and well suited for cropping, but our soil depth isn't as good as some other states like Nebraska, Iowa, and Illinois.

[@adrianwurtz9506]

For how long are you letting it dry?

[@danvanhoose6783]

What is the average weight on the round bales?

[@brianlb78]

What does a round bale usually sell for in MO? There a decent demand in that state?

[@jucatorro]

Nice Video, question, how long does it it typically takes for the hay to be curated ? do you leave it there until its REALLY dry ?

[@tallfarmboy]

Depending on how much sunlight and humidity there is, sometimes 24 hours will cure the hay properly, but usually 2-3 days of dry time is needed for the hay to cure properly.

[@billcoley8520]

This is all fine and dandy unless you have hay fever,,, I can’t remember how many times I sneezed and blew my nose. My father n law bailed square bails and loaded them in semi truck trailers,,, that’s where it really got bad

[@tallfarmboy]

Hay fever is no fun. There are great allergy medications now... I personally take a Zyrtek pill every day.

[@northernvirginiahayandstra5570]

Good video

[@perryspradlin9356]

I thought where i used to farm had point rows . That one big point row!

[@tallfarmboy]

The dang railroad runs just west of this field and makes a mess of many fields. This is a HUGE point row, you are right.

[@jackiejohnson6064]

Your operation. is not much different then how we harvest Alfalfa in California. I've been doing it most of my life. The only difference is we do 3 twine square bales and we use New Holland bale wagons to.remove bales from the field. love your video

[@cielopachirisu929]

It’s almost harvesting season

[@codyludwig2811]

how fast do you go when raking hay with v rake like that I know if its heavy crop they can plug up Im getting into starting a hay farm but I dont know much about hayrakes I was gonna get a v rake and a trailed one to so if I only have flip over one swath I can lower the side the swath is on a leave the other side up

[@tallfarmboy]

You kind of already understand the speed limitations of a V-rake. The rake that is being used here can be adjusted much wider or narrower depending on field conditions. If the hay is very dense, we narrow the rake down to only windrow 2 cut passes of hay. If the field is less dense, we'll widen the rake out and can take 3 cut passes into a windrow. The wider the rake is set, the slower you must travel because the hay has to travel across the rake in a much flatter plane than when the rake is narrowed up.

[@glaciersridge5737]

What modle is that cutter?

[@vtec-woof4773]

What's the price of a big square bale ?

[@JohnDoe-jq5wy]

Make a round baler that will continue baling and drop the finished bale. Cut baling time by 15-20 percent.

[@tallfarmboy]

Continuous balers are on the market now. They definitely save time.

[@KaerntnerLandwirtschaft]

We dont have those problems with the baling tractor, we have a big maschine park with around 20 balers 8 times roundbalers of the type Krone Ultima and 12 times square bales. Our main job is to be a maschinering for the farmers around our place (austria)

[@46rambo49]

what's you % of alfalfa? we went all grass, count your blessing manual tractor my favorite the new ones monitor everything for you "if you keep equipment updated" and the cost that involves, and you have to have a "service technician" work on it because they have the codes, sad not be able to work on your own tractor

[@tallfarmboy]

46Rambo This is all grass hay. Several local farmers still bale alfalfa, but not nearly as much is raised as grass hay in our area.

[@jakegardner160]

46Rambo I'm a feild service mechanic and farmer myself. Just remember you'd be nowhere without us "service techs" and u can work on your own stuff it's just going to be more time consuming without the computer I've worked on many case tractors without and use of computers or scanners

[@Knidix]

That's almost harvesting season

[@rodrigoastinzatostado9766]

That's a nice head you have on your shoulders

[@Knidix]

Away with you vile beggar

[@randymaylowski2485]

that is a nice video of that, and yeah farmers have to deal with that hard work, which I should say its not near as ward how farming once was before, when they inveted machinery. cause sometimes I feel bad for the old timers who did farming in the past in the old fashioned hard way. but now I thank it's kinda funny, cause nowadays well"! at least my area people don't wanna stay in the farming business. cause I don't mind to farm, I rather to farm them living in the city and working in side of a office building...lol but that's my opinion. so I'll say farming is a perfect thing to keep doing. so good work guys.

[@tallfarmboy]

Randy Maylowski You are so correct... Farming has changed so much from years past. Used to be so labor intensive and now it is becoming more and more automated with less and less people producing more and more food. Quite amazing. Thanks for the comment!

[@randymaylowski2485]

tallfarmboy well you are welcome, for the comment, and Yeah I also thank its just that nowadays young kids just don't wanna get dirty A's in farming whys, and yeah that's another thing I thought of before, ever since they maded machinery they probably thought something like they didn't need to help other people out anymore, which is sad. but inerways again your welcome for the comment.

[@PriceBrosEqAG]

Cool video! Is that a Sitrex Magnum?

[@debackerfamilylivestock4680]

What are you getting far as tons per acre?

[@tallfarmboy]

It depends on the crop, but our cool season grasses in a good year will yield 2 to 2.5T per acre. In a bad year, lucky to get 1.5T.

[@vladghelu516]

I'd like to be a farm boy one day!

[@lakestl5000]

What part of Missouri? St. Charles area here

[@tallfarmboy]

+lakestl5000 Southwest corner of the state.. Between Carthage and Lamar.

[@ChrisWilhite]

How does the driver of the baling tractor know when the bale is ready?

[@tallfarmboy]

Chris Wilhite In the cab of the tractor, there is a digital monitor that shows the pressure inside of the baler and progress of the bale. They also have an audible buzzer that goes off to tell the operator to make a bale.

[@grantdubridge7995]

My dad just bought a brand new John Deere 3020 last month. But he only has five acres and doesn't do any haying.

[@tallfarmboy]

Grant DuBridge They are excellent older tractors. They hold their value very well and are very sought after here in Missouri.

[@thomasthompson1444]

So why is it so hard running the baling tractor ?

[@tallfarmboy]

Mainly just a more important job. You are weaving back and forth on the window to make sure that the bale forms properly, also closely watching the monitor to see when the bale should be wrapped... Also, if the bale isn't made properly, it makes for more problems down the road with crooked stacks and loose strings. A good bale makes everyone else's jobs down the line easier.

[@chisonlin]

💖

[@Railfanable]

How many acres of hay do you process a year?

[@tallfarmboy]

This is actually 2 operations. But, combined between the 2 of them, they bale over 1000 acres a year. We've got a lot of cow/calf operations in our neck of the woods. This year (2018-19) has been tough to find enough hay as we had a pretty good drought during our prime hay cutting season.

[@bestfriendsforev7500]

Where is this in missouri

[@tallfarmboy]

BigG Just north of the little town of Jasper, MO... In the southwest corner of Missouri.

[@ValleyFarm]

very informative and I love the footage. our small operation is in the southwestern corner of Pennsylvania so we don't have the nice laying ground like you guys got. your lucky lol. we bale on steep hills with all 4 wheel drive tractors (except the ford 4600). love that old girl. anyways, it was a fantastic video. thanks for sharing. feel free to subscribe to my channel. I try and post farming videos myself when I have the time.

[@HayMap]

Looking good! Check out our hay baling drone videos!

[@kalvinhrutkay7350]

I have a the same 7710

[@nathanratchford9996]

Hay!

[@tallfarmboy]

Nathan Ratchford You weren't the first comment this time... Slacker.

[@nathanratchford9996]

tallfarmboy it was past my bedtime....

[@bmbpdk]

You dont ted it before raking?

[@tallfarmboy]

GamerBrian81 It depends on the humidity and the weather forecast as to whether or not it gets tedded... Also, the density of the crop has an impact on that as well. The field that got mowed in this video got tedded the next day.

[@bmbpdk]

Okay, thanks for the explanation

[@alphasxsignal]

I can see robot machines doing this in the future running off GPS and camera detection.

[@shafiqchak20]

sir price

[@Amaranthian450]

Are you feeding beef or dairy?

[@tallfarmboy]

This is for beef cattle. There used to be several dairy farms in our area, but most have disappeared or given up milking in exchange for beef cattle. We are right in the middle of cow/calf operation territory.

[@Amaranthian450]

That’s great I prefer watching feed be put up for beef. Dairy guys do things a little “weird” for my taste. Haha I also farm a few beef cows mysel

[@iveyfarms2524]

Where are located at?

[@tallfarmboy]

Southwest Missouri.

[@JohnDoe-jq5wy]

HEADS UP, buy a Claas Cougar, efficiency BEYOND

[@bnsfbandit9807]

Yes because money grows on trees

[@decnijfkris3706]

What's on that land beside? Potato?

[@tallfarmboy]

It was freshly germinated Soybeans across the road, and wheat in an adjacent field as well.

[@decnijfkris3706]

We don't do soy beans anymore. Agriculture is heavily subsidised in Europe. In the past they started with subsidized soy beans to make petroll out off but that did not come of the ground. We hardly consume soy oil in Europe. We have some wheat and some corn to feed cattle. But it ain't much. Indeed hay is the nutrient in winter to give to eat to livestock. Indispensible to have something green and fresh next to processed cattle fodder. And feeding them too much with mais will get meat with mais taste. Some farmers do only potato but this year yield was very low due to lack of rain so very small potatoes.Last years farmers could survive here on cultivating only potato. But the crops change practically from year to year here according to what is subsidized most. All at the sudden they all do green peas, then they all plant mais,then they do leek, there is no line in it. I live in a region where chicons originate from. Every household held small chicon beds in the seventies and then it all disappeared first to water culture @@tallfarmboyand later to greenhouse culture in France. But I remember the time especially in winter when the vegetable companies came on Friday night at home to load chicons that were shipped right into the States by boat. Agriculture ain't simple today even with the money farmers get from Europe they have hard to cover costs. Farmers here mostly can't count. They have big John Deeres, much bigger than yours, to work on a good 20 acres of land. You can see from here, or there, that that is all oversized and that paying off loans gets difficult. In nothern France farmers have much more land. There they do much sugar beets. We make our sugar from beets. In the States they make that from cane. But I like sugar cane sugar too….on all homemade pancakes. Most people in Europe think milk bottles grow on trees. Bye baby & Succes!

[@thomasleight7200]

And guy rakes really slow

[@STEVENRAY18]

yes that's what I'm saying there's nothing rough about making hay nowadays we all have tractors with cabs and air conditioning and a little refrigerator cooler in there to keep our water and stuff in really the only time we have to stop is to use the restroom because for some damn reason they haven't put a restroom in the cab of these things yet I'll never figure that one out LOL but I was farming in the sixties and I know exactly what it's like to spend 12 14 16 hours on a tractor with no cab and it being a hundred plus outside so yeah whenever they said on there that bailing the hay was the roughest part or whatever that was that they said it's like oh my God how old are these kids they obviously know nothing about life 30 years ago 40 years ago

[@jamesrivis620]

Thankyou to all the farmers BUT ...... NO ROUNDUP PLEASE.

[@STEVENRAY18]

oh yes nowadays making hey is just a rough such a rough a stressful job I just don't see how those farmers do it all of that time that they spend setting in that air conditioning tractor and monitoring all of the functions of the Baler on the computer screen I'm just I just feel so sorry for them it's just it's just just the roughest hardest life of of anybody on the planet it is the roughest job of ever yes I'm being a smart-ass there's nothing rough about it

[@vvojtek4242]

am polish boy am searh farmergirl

[@Sirisma]

Hey just a protip, figure out how to add outlines to your text. White lettering with a 3 pixel black outline works well. It's hard to read some of that text otherwise especially on mobile.

[@tallfarmboy]

That's a great suggestion. Most appreciated!