Kansas Corn Harvest 2024 | FILL THE BIN!

I'm gonna take her out of the pen, put her over there, and then Nathan can take a look. It's a Sunday morning, so I'm putting her in this pen here, just a little bit closer to the chute. Man, that sun is bright. And I'm gonna have... Nathan doesn't leave. I think Nathan's leaving a little bit later for church than me this morning. So I'll have him take a look at her before he goes... leaves for church. All right, there's a calf born while we were at church. It's nursing. She's a good cow. I wasn't worried about her. Meet the Peterson family. Our dad, the three Peterson brothers, and our families farm together in central Kansas. Our family farm started in 1882 and has been raising cattle and crops ever since. Please subscribe to this channel and give us a like and a comment if you enjoy the video. Brighton, did you fill... why did you fill your boots with sand? Because it's your birthday? Working calves. Gotta swing this cane around here. Kind of crowd them up where they individually each walk through. Hopefully one at a time, facing forward. And so there they go. Once I get about four or five in there, I latch this in front of one of those, so then they can't push it back. You can only go forwards. And then I go and help give shots and the stuff to shoot again. So once we get this empty and the alley down to one or two head, I grab this, swing it around, open up for some more calves. And I'm looking to get, I don't know, six, eight. If there's just two of us, I take a few more. If there's just... if there's three people working, I only take like five or six at a time. Swing the cane back around and hopefully they just find it themselves. Then, you know, I don't have to push on them too much. I had a helper in my tractor this morning, Miss Ada, and we picked some flowers for mom, so I almost forgot them. All right, I'm back after lunch. I'm gonna listen to some K-State football post-game podcasts. Two and 0. You can see there, there's the two windrows. They're kind of... the sedan's growing up underneath them. They fluff up a pretty good windrow. You can see he's doing work there. Try not to scratch the ground too much, but pick up all the leaves. Holding up. All done. There's one more small field, but I'm gonna bail. I'm gonna bail this first before I rake anymore because it's windy. I don't want it to blow these windrows around. Got a bail. I'm going every other row cross field, then I'll do the other rows on the way back. Got a bail. Kick it. I'll be on my way here. I'm at 26 bales already, so it's gonna make over two bales per acre. Well, I think we're finally going to be full speed corn harvesting for a little bit. I mean, our corn harvest is always pretty short. We don't have that many acres, but we cut some for the neighbors. So this is, this is their irrigated. It's doing pretty good. It's making... I better stop. Oh, not yet. I'm good. I gotta pay attention though. It's making between, I think it's averaging about 225. I didn't get my calibration done right away, so the average is too high on there, but we're doing this today and then our irrigated tomorrow and putting it in the bin. This is right at 14 percent, so it could have gone probably Saturday, but today's Monday. And ours, ours was planted about a week later, so it'll be a little wetter, but we're putting it in the bin, so we should be fine. Dad had a little trouble with the trap door on the Tempty trailer, so our truck's got a little behind and then the grain, now the grain cart behind, but he's coming. So anyways, we'll probably have three good, good days hopefully of, of picking corn here. Hopefully, hopefully we don't have breakdowns. The trailer thing was hopefully pretty minor. And we have two, two more dry land fields, but they are what got planted later after Greg and I got back from Alaska. And so they're just still a little green with those late rains we had. There's gonna be stuff coming down the pipe, so we want to keep knocking things Nathan and I have been here picking this irrigated corn for a neighbor all day. About got this field knocked out. As you saw, Brighton's three-year-old birthday party was yesterday, so we had fun on Sunday. Just had some fun with family, had fun celebrating her birthday. And, but this week's going to be pretty busy with corn harvest. Dad's been hauling for us along with the neighbors. But Kendall, I think, has been doing hay work today. We haven't, haven't seen Kendall. It's just been Nathan and I and Dad over here, and Kendall's been doing hay stuff over at the home farm there. So this irrigated corn is yielding well over 200 bushel an acre. So irrigation this year, once again, proved to be very valuable for those who have it. We're hoping to cut our irrigated corn tomorrow, so we'll see if ours is kind of along those same lines we expect it to be. Feels, feels pretty good to go from 70 bushel an acre dry land on Saturday or Friday, whenever that was, to 200 plus bushel an acre irrigated corn. The grain cart has to work a lot harder. I've barely had any time to film. We're kind of winding down to the end of the field now, so I'm able to finally pull out my phone and film something. But the loads come pretty fast when there's that much corn out there. All right, heading to the next field. This one is our irrigated corn. I don't think we're gonna cut any tonight. We're just moving the equipment over, and we'll get started on that tomorrow. A lot of calves in here we need to have checked out on the green. These black, all black calves, they are that Angus Bull cross with those heifers I kept back. So they're 2023 or 2022 born heifers having a calf. Nice looking calf there. Okay, this is, they've stripped this down quite a bit. So this was double crop after wheat. This stuff in the slough headed out, and it's not double crop, so there's a lot more of it left. It took off and grew faster. They need to spend some more time down here eating this. Well, now that this grass is shorter, I got a count on all of them. There's 18 out here, 7 up there, and that makes 25 and 25. So now that I've got my count of 25 and 25, I'm ready to turn like six more pair out here. I thought it'd be easier to count 25 than 31. All right, that means we've got 20 left to calve. We moved out 10 pair. I underestimated. I thought it was like eight in there. So I'm gonna lock this chain back again, and this is still where they're coming in for water. They're sharing that water that's on both sides of the fence over there. So here you can see what's been grazed, and then this side ungrazed. That poly wire is doing its job so far, just a single poly. They'll have another 10 acres or something over there. I think maybe. Ooh, new mud grips. Now that is some tread. That is some tread. Three of them here. I didn't get my hanging done, and I got called to the cornfield. So I ran grain cart for that a little bit before lunch, and now I'm unloading. we're under that. In spots I'm at, I'd say I have been averaging over 200 going through the middle, but see this is a little lower. So hard to know. I did kind of, I mean I ran out of water slightly prematurely, but then we got those late rains that I was hoping kind of helped finish it out. But it also could have been, it just needed a little more nitrogen. But it's not too shabby for us for sure. It's got a big, put a big pile in our bin. So that's what we really needed. We were pretty efficient with nitrogen. We're averaging more bushels than what we put on nitrogen. So I mean we're over one pound, one bushel per pound of nitrogen. So that's, that's usually pretty good for us. Henley's riding with me. Are you waving at Uncle Greg? You got some chocolate chip on your face? Mommy made us yummy pumpkin cookies. Owen gets to ride next. What happened here? Did you get dead here? Well we ran out of truck, we ran out of people, and we're not out of corn. So I'm just gonna leave that grain cart with my dad. I'm gonna take this truck, go and unload it, and then go and start my chores. This heifer that's only been a mom for a week, her whole time staying with her cat. She's looking for it and I went and found it out with the group. So she, she's been upset. She's been walking around trying to find it around this pin where I took her out of. All right, here's the calf and the heifer is distracted by this other heifer. Hey, why are you fighting instead of finding your baby 6'10"? She's a pretty cow. Okay, she's right, she walked right past it. This is it right here, 6'10". That's your baby. That's your baby right there. There, there's your calf. It's been missing you. Heading down a dead end road to a field. I've got 92 plus uh 15 so 107 bales so far and I get to do one more patch. Got another patch to do here. We'll see if we can get to 140. We gotta fold up first. So I think Greg's in the combine. He topped off this grain cart. I gotta empty the grain cart into the Kenworth and then the rest should fit on the grain cart. Although those are pretty long rows, it'll be close. It'll at least fit on the grain cart and the combine. All right, we're back in the corn field. This morning we're just finishing up this irrigated corn. Just got a couple patches left and then we will be done with our irrigated. We've only got about 60 acres of irrigated corn. The rest is dry land so we'll be switching over to dry land now. We do have some irrigated left for the neighbor so we do still have some irrigated left to pick but none of our own. Today is September 11th which you know is a good day to to remember what happened all those years ago. It's also my daughter's birthday and so Brighton turns three today but she you know we named her Brighton hoping to kind of brighten the day that was a sad dark day back in 2001. So we're celebrating Brighton's birthday today and picking corn and yeah we'll see how the day goes. So this is our field by the interstate and the highway and so we've had to use the highway to access this field and it's been crazy to see how many impatient drivers there have been. You know we've obviously farmed at this field plenty of times before but for some reason this year we've had like three or four people honk at us or try to pass us when we're turning left into the field which is super dangerous. We're doing everything we can on our end. I mean we have to use the highway to get to this field. There's no other entry point but people have been pretty impatient and it's kind of sad to see and you have to be careful whenever you're farming to just drive defensively. But yeah just a reminder that during harvest if you're behind a piece of farm equipment or a grain truck or whatever it is slow moving vehicles especially when they first pull out you know just be patient and try to drive defensively on your end as well. That being said you know farmers aren't always the safest either so it takes both sides driving defensively and being safe and just being aware of their surroundings. So it's been a little frustrating this year with you know you're getting honked at and it's like what else am I supposed to do? Oh man everyone on the interstate So the trucks have gotten a little behind and I got caught here on the other end of the field and Kendall's bringing me the grain cart but I had to stop and wait. That's happened a few times because we're we're using our in-dump trucks to put corn in the bin and we're about eight miles from the from where the bin's at so it's been hard to keep up the trucks when we're averaging you know close to 200 bushel an acre. Eight rows left in this field In here we have less than 2,500 bushel to go I would say because each grain is about 2,000. All right this is parked at a pretty convenient location because I need to load another net wrap. They're right here our Tama net wrap here also as close as possible to dump the net wrap roll in the trash can here. I'm curious, we use these net wrap rolls for VBS dump stations this year. Have any of you guys used a net wrap roll for anything cool? They deteriorate out in the summer but they they could be used for something short term. This baler has made quite a few bales for us. I think we greased it before the last alfalfa cutting and then it made those 92 millibales so definitely need to grease it and oil the chains. So I pull it in the shade here I'm going to do that before I head out there. Getting this field mostly done. A little ways to go still. We are almost done with this field. We have made 31 bales here. We guessed. I think Blair is going to be right there's going to be 32 bales. Hey you lowered me down. Now I'm short. Okay we'll run the fan on this if you can feel heat coming up through uh it'll come up through all these gaps but mainly we're running the fan for getting the heat out of there or setting the moisture. Drinking some more. This is millet instead of sedan so it has a few less drying days but uh it should be ready to bale I think Friday. Today's Wednesday. I might get to it Thursday afternoon we'll see. So people have been asking uh what moisture we're cutting at because the plants are still a little green. This is a little under 16 percent which uh you know is drier probably than most parts of the country uh when the corn looks like this. But this corn you know our dry land corn kind of ran out of rain ran out of water so it kind of died and uh this is just kind of how it looks on those years where where it's droughty and it dies and it's kind of slow to dry down. Some years we're combining corn this dry earlier in the year so but it's a little misleading and then of course when it dies like it did a lot of the pigweeds start coming through there. None of these pigweeds were here you know a month ago or whatever so the weeds like to come through when it's when it's dry and the corn dies. Thanks for watching everyone. Check out our music videos linked in the description. You can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, Snapchat, and explore our website www.petersonfarmbrothers.com. See you guys next time!