Combining Oats/Heifer Feed On Our Small Family Farm/John Deere 6600 Combine At Work

It's finally time to harvest our oats! To do that, we must wake the sleeping giant; the John Deere 6600 Combine. It's some old-school harvesting power, but it works well for us. Alan is straight-cutting the oats to avoid as many weed seeds as possible. The oats look good and are shoulder-high in many spots. Come along as we hopefully beat the rain and fill the grain bin. The oats will feed the heifers on our small family dairy farm.
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Alan Klejeski
PO Box 153
Sturgeon Lake, MN 55783
Trinity Dairy was established in 2006, in Minnesota. Alan and Jennifer farm with their 5 children; Jessica, Justin, Jordan, Joshua, and Jason. We milk a mix of 33 Jersey, Holstein, Brown Swiss, Guernsey, and Ayrshire cattle. We also enjoy sharing our family's love of Draft Horses and using them for logging and other farm work. Dairy Farming in Minnesota can be challenging, but it's a lifestyle we really enjoy. Subscribe today to watch our small family dairy farm and family grow while continuing to thank our Lord for the blessings we've been given.

[@adamkonopko3580]

Good summer work 👍

[@miwilia]

Alan, I’ve been watching your videos for about a year now. I also watch a Texas family do custom harvesting with new big and shiny John Deere combines and lots of support equipment and help. Your video takes me back to when I was a child on a small family farm. You do so much with old or “new to you” equipment. Your family is your help. While specialized harvesters are essential for the mega farms, you, and the farms like yours, are the backbone of agriculture in this country. ❤🇺🇸

[@markklumpp39]

@@miwilia do you watch Mike Mitchell. From up in Saskatchewan?

[@miwilia]

@@markklumpp39 no but I’ll check it out

[@DavidUpton-b9d]

We love oatmeal!!

[@AhTechus]

The agriculture technology featured here is revolutionary. It’s amazing to see how far we’ve come

[@sheilamclaughlin963]

Looks like pretty good oats, unless u have to pickup down oats try to raise the reel a little to stop the rapping, that straw should be going over the straw walkers? A hair more air might help

[@DavidUpton-b9d]

Great video! So glad you had a good harvest of oats! Thanks also for the scripture!!

[@ThomasDrehfal]

That 6600 was really a great machine, especially, after the much used 105's. Like you said, I would rather have the grain in the bin than on the ground. God Bless you and your family!

[@russellhansen7622]

That is a nice stand of oats it appears! Good to see the old 6600 still earning its keep, does a nice job.

[@dr.michaelr.foreman2170]

As a small boy on the farm, my favourite thing was watching the straw come out of the back of the combine. LOL

[@LukeLong-oi4uc]

Nice crop of oats. They look really good. Watching you reminds me of us cutting oats in the early eighties. All we had at the time was a 1960 -61 John Deere 45 open platform with a 10’ table. One year they made between 60-90 bushels per acre. We considered it a bumper crop. What a dirty and itchy job it was running that old combine. My dad had to wear a dust mask all the time. We augered them in a granary and later we augered them from the granary into a hammer mill grinding it up for feed . The hammer mill was an equally dirty job. Blessings to you and your family!

[@alecward-e3v]

Hi Alan great video good to see these older machines working there is still a place for the smaller farmer ,big is not always best i was only considered a small farmer at 300 acres in the U K but i made it pay for me when i was farming . It is funny how breakdowns come when you least want them when rain is imminent . All the best Alec.

[@dougpeterson5257]

Reminds me of combining back in the late 70's, brought a smile to my face 😊

[@toddgardner8316]

Alan love videos love seeing the old equipment still earning it's keep great job

[@nailbender7223]

Glad the rain held off and hope you were able to get the rest after the rainy weekend

[@davidkimmel5153]

Thanks for sharing this with us

[@donbarnes435]

Brings back wonderful memories as a boy I rode and steered the tractor and oats wagon with my Grandpa while my dad combined oats. Your AC doesn't appear to be working.

[@brucevrooman6107]

A/C ?? Not sure if that old girl was equipped with a/c at all. Nice to have a cab at least on old eqpt. , gives a break from direct sun. Nice to be able to do a repair without being a computer engineer, or calling one. Love seeing the old stuff still getting it done !!

[@canvids1]

Great video. So nice to see the oats just flowing in the bin. You seem very happy over all with what you are getting off your crop of Oats.

[@marshallsayre58]

Hi Alan, it's SO nice to see your family work on the farm, each with their own "chores" while always thanking God, Jesus, and Mother Mary suttley. Sharing our faith, our Catholic Faith can be a challenge, and its good to know your faith is strong to share here. PBJC

[@larrykluckoutdoors8227]

Great video, takes me back to the 60s as a teenager on the farm

[@paulaagaard7641]

Spent a few summers in a 7700. Brings back some good memories. Much better than my ih combine memories. Love the older equipment..

[@drknockers5716]

Love your videos thank you for feeding the world

[@johnplatt8369]

Here in UK cutting oats we would have that reel running lot slower, your is ripping at the crop, we would also cut lower and forward speed would be slower, you old John Deere is a cracking combine sound great, just back her off a bit....... Brilliant vidio Cheers buddy

[@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754]

Love doing oats! Nice weather, usually no mud, chopper shut off so the combine is nice and quiet. Looking good!

[@brucevrooman6107]

Really enjoy your videos, from here in Manitoba. Enjoy watching videos from small farmers, more than from large, Best of luck on everything !!

[@treyboeck1130]

We’re running our 6620 here in Wisconsin today in some oats 😁 great video!

[@trinitydairy]

@treyboeck1130 hope you have a good harvest!

[@truthandfreedom885]

Ran a 6,600 John Deere combine for many years with a 15-ft head on the soybeans. Usually picked up a swath in small grains.

[@mikebrown1188]

Very good video. That will make good calf feed. Cant wait for the baling videos.

[@jamesmorrison1884]

Hello enjoyed your video have a great day. Thanks to our Heavenly Father

[@terryfrazier2751]

Great show, thanks for the Bible verse. 👍🐄

[@stuartsplace100]

Yes,Debbie is coming,lots of rain here in Vermont

[@MorganOtt-ne1qj]

My Dad liked a few bushels of oats in the feed for the milking cows, more when we ran out of ear corn. The harvest of oats worked out well with the running out of ear corn. Great feed product, but not many people raise oats anymore. Great video!

[@clintonchristopher138]

Good Video like the Bible Verse at the end Amen GOD BLESS Y'all

[@ClevelandBaldwin-w2n]

You have a little straw in the oats but you are put a lot of them in the Ben combine is doing a great job

[@rowleydairy3254]

Nice crop of oats. In michigan the straw is worth more than the grain. We still plant 25 acres a year for the calves and a few brood sows

[@rubenmanitowabi5671]

Another good video keep on trucking with your harvesting and good luck oats looking good too

[@SteveGibbons-td9tk]

I can remember combining oats as kid absolutely hated it the dust made me itch all day long

[@MorganOtt-ne1qj]

Rye straw always got me. Like fiberglass 🙄

[@ralphriddle8864]

Very nice job and God bless y'all

[@jamesbreault5762]

Good video

[@stuartsplace100]

Happy Friday Trinity Dairy,Ed from Vermont

[@JulianKeller-om6wz]

Good job responding to peoples comments Alan. I was too thinking, wow, you could clean that tank dam0le up a little by closing your top chaffer a little and getting more straw. But you explained why you do it the way you do. It's your operation, and if that's what works for you , more power to ya buddy! Keep on combining those itchy oats! One question. Does that engine have a knock when it idles?

[@trinitydairy]

It sounds that way, but I think is something with the fuel delivery at idle.

[@JulianKeller-om6wz]

Could be a bad injector. Not spraying and atomizing the fuel properly.

[@KiwiJim13]

👀🙄🐾👍Great video Alan Jennifer and family Great camera work

[@williamkemm673]

That's just good wholesome stuff, wish I was there to enjoy the bounty!

[@Scotthobart1086]

Another great video! ❤️ the 6600!!!

[@farmshoffman8475]

Great awesome video

[@williammatzek4660]

Alan I think I read in a John Deere 95 manual they recommend 6 to 9 inches stalk under the head , .you leaving windrows for straw. Maybe a little less ground speed , maybe a little more air. The combine is set about rite.

[@tomconway8061]

Awesome love the action

[@charlietanner6211]

brings back memories you might slow reel sd down a bit to help with wrapping the amt of straw you are takeing in has a variable on clean grain might try more air i got somebody to drive i would walk along turn up air till i got grain blowing out then turn down a bit also if you have air deflectors under sieves might try playing with them my newest comb was 715 ihc had 5 of them

[@boe4448]

TD, Love your equipment.👍

[@FreeloaderFarms]

Glad to see you got some done. Always enjoy seeing some combining! We have a 4400 we're trying to sell, saving the corn head for the corn picker. Combine just got wore out. Maybe get another one someday.

[@heatherkohlwey8379]

I can just smell that fresh oat straw. Thank you for bringing back so many memories. Please stay safe, and God bless.

[@gsw313]

Good job my brother.

[@farawayfarm2520]

Very nice. I miss cutting grain. I guess I could fix that if I wanted to.

[@frankdeegan8974]

A harvest of tall oats, I have seen farmers cut the oats as tall as they can then go back against the grain and use a sickle mower to cut the stems off short and then rake and bale to get all the straw. Plus your oats in the bin should be cleaner, with less straw going through the combine.

[@johnbeam-d3v]

Really good video. But I do not miss farming! Guess I miss the farming part but do not miss milking. Hated getting up at 3:30 every morning. Every morning. 7 days a week.

[@ronniewayne5748]

Great video

[@ryanlesperance7926]

What a great harvest!

[@timothybrown579]

You’re probably already done but, slow the reel down so the auger can peel it away that will keep it from going back around the reel. Those oats look beautiful! You should have some decent straw also. Safe harvest

[@trinitydairy]

Thanks

[@anthonyhengst2908]

Yup, I thought the reel was a little too fast myself.

[@johnhenderson299]

Great video content

[@eddiebaughman2809]

Looks like you are going to get get some good oats straw. Decent feed. Don't envy you because oats are itchy to cut.

[@markklumpp39]

So I grew up on a 100 head dairy farm. We always needed straw. I am thinking you do as well? We would go out and run the haybine through the field. Allowed us to cut lower for more straw and softened the straw because it went through the rollers

[@karencary3312]

Amen!!!!

[@curtiswolf313]

Let the itching begin! Should make some good calf feed.

[@Josh-me7iy]

Some nice looking oats i would say slowing the reel down and bump the fan up some would of helped but for feed doesn't matter like you said

[@glennschlorf1285]

Just close your sieves a bit to keep the straw out... thats all itll take... I remember Dad running our 45 Sq back John deere open station... riding along I really miss them days... Dad is gone but those memories are not...

[@TomBean-qf6zv]

Them oats made me itch so bad when I was young, I was looking for the nearest water hole when I got off the combine for the day, had to leave the doors open on those old Gleaners, no such thing as A/C. Only thing worse than oats was milo...memories.

[@JandLVideos]

The last combine dad and his brothers farmed with was a 6600

[@Stephenklausmeyer-hr9rb]

So other than the grain, what else do you feed dairy heifers? Are you able to use the oat straw for bedding?

[@trinitydairy]

They get corn,and a concentrate pellet. We use the straw for bedding.

[@Rgusi]

With nice standing oats like that, we would just take the oat heads. Then go through with the haybine to cut the straw low. Get more straw and the combine doesn’t need to work as hard.

[@ronaldfeuerstein435]

Sure did enjoyed this video.. tks for sharing.. hope we can get a look on how much you get in the bin?

[@markcovault1413]

My dad put in a lot of oats when i was kid. And the two feed mills. Would ask him to bring a pick load . For the week end feed that farmer came to have ground.

[@lesterhertel2945]

Some very good oats there 😊😊😊😊😊

[@jamesbristow5740]

What an iconic American Farmer image, harvesting the grain and leaving the straw in windrows. Here in eastern Virginia they harvest in late April/early May I believe and plant soybeans right into the stubble. I saw that when I got called up into the Northern Neck for a repair. Do you replace hoses or tires/belts as maintenance as well or just when they let go? I've had my older Kubota for about a year and was thinking about that the other day because I only use it when I need it and it's not a lot of hours but seems like there should be a checklist of things to look at quarterly or yearly or every 3-5 years ect and inspect/refurbish/replace with signs of wear but I recognize that assumes plenty of time, money, or both to run that type of maintenance schedule. In my field of commercial/industrial equipment we have scheduled maintenance to avoid breakdowns and emergency service for the breakdowns that happen anyway.

[@trinitydairy]

Mostly when they go, but I do try to keep up on some stuff.

[@davidbarnes706]

Great video now it’s time to bale some straw

[@farmerbill6855]

No one washes that sweet old combine? Those are some tall oats, looks good. Best regards from Indiana.

[@anthonyhengst2908]

Looks great and it pretty much stayed standing. Prayers work. What was the bushel per acre do to figure? What will be the next crop once the straw is off?

[@trinitydairy]

About 30bu per acre. I'm hoping to plant some winter rye once the straw is off.

[@anthonyhengst2908]

@@trinitydairy that's pretty good. Rye sounds good it's really become popular as a cover crop. Triticale too.

[@Rollinghillsfarmsmn]

Nice to see the 6600 chugging along. I have a 4400 and hope to combine rye this weekend. Have to swath it first. Our oats are still green. Can you tell bushels per acre yet?

[@trinitydairy]

With a rough guess of what's in the bin,I would say about 30bu per acre.

[@nailedt0thecr0ss]

A wide wire mesh fence/screen piece should screen out all of the straw. I guess.

[@larryklostermann5779]

Nice video

[@normenheeb9628]

Bei uns in Old Germany würde der Hafer Hand breit über der Erde abgeschnitten mit dem Mähdrescher und die Haspel würde bei Hafer langsamer drehen so würde sich das Haferstroh nicht allzuviel in die Hadpel hängen.

[@International1066]

Danke

[@Thuy_Dailylife]

quality videos

[@jamesbkkr]

Oats look great, do anyone in your area ever combine barley? Most dairies here by Thunder Bay do

[@trinitydairy]

Yeah, we have a few around here that combine barley.

[@stuartsplace100]

Hi Trinity Dairy,are you going to bale the straw afterwards?

[@trinitydairy]

Some of it, and chopping Some

[@johndennison6093]

Did you get a different combine.

[@trinitydairy]

No this is my parents combine.

[@garybridger6707]

Will you back over the oat field with the haybine to increase your bedding yield? Weather permitting of course!!

[@trinitydairy]

I might.

[@colorado1088]

Do the weed seeds have a bad effect on the heifers if they eat too many in the feed?

[@trinitydairy]

No that doesn't matter much, but they can cause the grain to heat and mold, if they aren't dry.

[@dodgeramdiesel1734]

Great video. Will you do soybeans and corn for grain or pretty much stay with dry hay and silage?

[@trinitydairy]

I'm hoping to have enough corn for silage and ear corn.

[@joehorner2865]

The oats looks pretty tall

[@thomasdalton7539]

You should cut closer to the ground will give you MORE STRAW

[@trinitydairy]

I would have, but I was trying to stay above the weeds. And some places the oats were to tall, so I had to raise the head, to get the reel high enough.

[@Blazefork]

We can't raise oats like that in Kansas! 😊

[@robertvruwink2654]

You’re going to have a lot of straw!

[@bobwallace152]

Nice good looking Farm

[@Travis_Rivers]

Do you guys clean some for your own consumption ?

[@trinitydairy]

I'm planning on cleaning some for seed, but I've never used them for our own consumption.

[@williamkirby-wt7su]

Do you bale the straw for bedding or grind it up and mix it with your other feed hay?

[@trinitydairy]

It will all be used for bedding, some will be small square baled, and some we are planning to chop off the field and bag.

[@yugoyankoff-vh7in]

I wonder when this farm bought something new ?

[@trinitydairy]

We have bought a new individual bale wrapper, tedder, and vacuum pump in the last 10 years.

[@stevenhannan926]

So I’ve got a few questions for you, I know you’re in Sturgeon Lake just wondering how long the farm has been In The family? And how much of the history of the property you yourself know?

[@trinitydairy]

It's been in our family since 1951. I don't know much about the history before then, but I know a fair bit of the history since it's been in our family.

[@stevenhannan926]

@@trinitydairy my father’s real family the Folen’s I believe owned it before then. Wasn’t sure in what year or for what reason the family left the farm.

[@trinitydairy]

My grandpa said his parents bought it from Oscar Anderson, but it was 3 separate farms at one time. I don't know who owned the other 2, or who owned it before Oscar Anderson.

[@KellyBenedix]

Well, I spoke too soon. 6600

[@JustMakingIt-123]

Very nice oats! How much do you plant per acre?

[@trinitydairy]

About 3.5bu per acre

[@JustMakingIt-123]

@@trinitydairy thank you!

[@Stephenklausmeyer-hr9rb]

So may I ask you what exactly do you feed dairy heifers besides oats and will you bale the oat straw for bedding?

[@trinitydairy]

Thy also get corn, and a concentrate pellet.

[@Stephenklausmeyer-hr9rb]

But don't they get hay and sileage also?

[@trinitydairy]

@@Stephenklausmeyer-hr9rb yes, they get free choice hay. The older heifers get silage, but the younger ones don't.

[@jesseford7231]

😎👍

[@timlee2243]

Nice video but what model combine r u running it looks like a JD 3300 or JD 4400

[@trinitydairy]

6600