Southern pea harvest has begun!

Picking SaDandy peas with Oxbo Pull Pix.

[@RichardThompson-gc1cf]

Very smart you man. He is a great tractor operator KEEP the good work Love your videos

[@PatrickShivers]

Thanks for watching!

[@joesanders652]

Hard working man

[@hectorescobar7782]

HELLO FOR PEAS IT WORKS, THANK YOU!!

[@mcdowellfarm23]

Man love this..brings back memories of being out in the field driving the tractor with my dad as a kid.. it seems like Kids don't learn that kind of good responsibility any more ..thanks Patrick..

[@PatrickShivers]

Thanks for watching/commenting! I started driving (trucks) on my own in the 3rd grade. By 5th grade they would send me to town to get parts….but that was in the 90s. Most young kids are to wrapped up in virtual world these days.

[@Zeke-yv3nw]

Good job young man running that tractor!

[@nonyadamnbusiness9887]

Except that he's absolutely stupid to allow anyone near his farm equipment wearing sandals.

[@ricardodavis4863]

Definitely a lot more efficient than picking by hand 💚💚🇯🇲🇯🇲

[@chrisfrench8511]

Patrrick..Great job.

[@ricardodavis4863]

Looking forward to seeing the shelling process...

[@peiskos7456]

Use a thumbnail of the harvested vegetables it will give you better click-through rates. I love watching your videos ❤.

[@PatrickShivers]

Thanks for the tip

[@Kenny-ed1zi]

Picked a few green beans with my oxbo last weekend. Should start in some peas in about a week. This will be my first year picking with it so I'm nervous as when to start...not to early not to late...great video!

[@k.p.1139]

Ummm Umm! A southerners dream right there....Bags of pure goodness! We have a guy here local that does/did this same practice. But, he doesn't understand the pea harvest. The last time I got peas from him, they were sour. We tired to explain the heat they go through. But, he wasn't going to be told anything. So, he lost a lot of customers over that.

[@blakegibson2654]

We tried a water bath once to pull the heat out, to many issues. We would just stack crates in a cooler 1 row deep with widow fans pulling cold air thru. It did good job, still by late morning early afternoon we just quick picking in heat.

[@PatrickShivers]

Water causes problems with shelling. Blow air across them for several hours and they shell way better.

[@markisb3585]

We plant dixie lee peas up here in Eastern North Carolina. They are a bigger pea but good and sweet. We usually get two pickings off of them. Sometimes three.

[@PatrickShivers]

If we hand pick most varieties will continue to make until frost or disease gets them as long as you don’t let any peas mature on the vine. We picked cream 12 by hand every 3 days for a month before we mechanized harvest

[@markisb3585]

@@PatrickShivers OK. Gotcha. We hand pick our peas. Always have. We also let them dry out and pick them for seeds to plan next year

[@ricardodavis4863]

**Perfect Timing**

[@patmccauley3885]

Nice video do you grow dry peas

[@PatrickShivers]

The market around here demands fresh. I might do some fall dry this year

[@ricardodavis4863]

How #slow or how #fast the #tractor was travelling? #PeasHarvesting

[@karenfrench4094]

Patrick, they look like green runner beans to me. If they're peas what sort are they. I'm in southern Australia so unfamiliar with this crop.

[@PatrickShivers]

SaDandy peas

[@karenfrench4094]

Aha, heard of black eyed peas, cow peas and field peas. There you go, learnt something today.

[@PatrickShivers]

“Cow peas” are also called “southern peas” and those terms encompass 20+ varieties ranging from tiny cream peas, like these and lady fingers to large crowder peas like purple hulls and blackeyes.

[@ricardodavis4863]

How #old is the #driver? 👏🏾👏🏾

[@PatrickShivers]

10

[@mynameisearl2626]

appreciate peas more but don't see how 100 bags a day pays the bills not like soybeans semi load after semi load

[@PatrickShivers]

$30 a bag. Margin is slim.