Harvesting Pumpkins in Central Illinois - November 2017
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- This video is showing pumpkins being harvested near Princeville Illinois. In this video I explain the process as these pumpkins are being harvested in the field and hauled off to the processing plant to be made into pumpkin pie filling.
Thanks Mike, These farmers deserve a Rube Goldberg Award for the design of their pumpkin picker. Great landscape, pumpkins as far as the eye can see.
Always nice see how crops are harvested. Thank you stay safe.
Thanks for posting this Mike. This is the first time in my life I have ever seen this done. Wow amazing.
The amazing thing to me is the kind of yield that they're getting out of that field. Can you imagine the tonnage involved with hauling and processing that material
Really nice to see that there is some kind of food grown in America other than corn and soybeans.
Very interesting. I saw some of this in southern Illinois this year and wondered how they wind-rowed these. Thanks for the video. Great work as always
Great vid thanks for the interesting look on how pumpkins are harvested!
The 'Great Pumpkin' can be heard sobbing.
pumpkins around here are picked by hand, but they are also the ones that you buy to decorate. Melons are the same way.
Looks like those pumpkins would burst open when they dump them on the carts and trucks
I even don't dare to imagine how a pie made of pumpkins will taste . They belong , in my opinion , in the soup . Despite ,i liked this video. 😊
Wow, ... never have seen anything like this! A couple of questions: The pumpkins seemed different than most I've seen - oblong, and not round. The variety must be unique being grown for processing. Secondly, I see a wheel (40" diameter?) behind the picking tractor, running in a plane perpendicular to line of travel. The wheel was rotating, kicking the pumpkins onto a conveyer chain, that moved them toward the front, to be dropped onto the loading elevator. Do you know more about the wheel that was doing the picking? Did it have simple paddles? Did it have spiked teeth that grabbed the pumpkins?
Like to see the custom built gear, made for a specific purpose. Innovation at it finest, when the need arises to do a task more efficient.
Thank you for sharing this unique job.
Thank you for feeding us! Jesus is coming soon! Are you ready!!?
Illinois is also the state that grows the most horseradish.
I lived on a farm outside of Deer Creek il we had a contract with libbys and it was my job to get the pumpkins out of the ditches.
But did you see the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Mike? Great stuff. Real livestock fodder. The commercial nursery across Alum Creek from me will rotate pumpkin crops that they plow down for fertilizer on fields they let lie fallow for a year or so. Of course, they sell some during late October, too.
Of course I saw the great pumpkin. In fact I saw many of them that day.
Great video.
To aid with pollination bee hives are placedin some of the fields .
It's possible there are no Vines because they spray salt or something else natural on them to kill the vines. Someone asked about where all the vines were. That's what they do in California to prepare the rice field for picking. They use aerial salt spraying equipment
Really! I have never heard of spraying rice before thrashing. Where did you find that from?
Super video
Nice! We don't live far from there.
Punkin Chunkin At Its Finest!
What's the variety of pumpkins are they harvesting?
Who makes this type of machine
Im from a town 20 minutes away from Princeville
3:00: What does the little wheel dragging behind the New Holland tractor achieve?
To hold up the attachment they built. The wheel and conveyor belt are all hooked up to the tractors PTO
@@ryanfox8582 Thanks! Understood, I think. It wasn't totally clear. Looks to have lower arm on a hinge and upper arm on a threaded tension rod so it can be adjusted. Obviously works.
do they ever have a problem with squashed pumpkins?
I'm no Pro but I'm going to say it really doesn't matter. The first reason is when they go into the plant they are thoroughly washed and any dirt or sand would go through a screen where the pumpkin would not. It's probably some sort of detergent that's safe to use around fruits and vegetables in combination with very hot water so by the time they get cut up and processed I'm sure there's not much sand or dirt left. Just a guess
It looks like pumpkin chunking
Hello, cool video! Could you share please the name-brand of this equipment for harvesting?
@JessPrelovskaya it is custom built .
Lots of fields end up not harvested and tilled under. How are the producers paid?
That I don't know. They said they will keep picking until they get a hard freeze then it's over.
Mike Less, thanks. I enjoy your videos.Illinois is really diverse agriculturally across the state.
today i learned
That is awesome
Where are the pumpkins processed?
All I remember is that some turn into dog food
Where did the vines go
I wondered the same thing. Must be a hell of a burndown
The plant dies off but the actual pumpkins will keep and they keep on picking until they get a really hard freeze. I also believe the windrower that ran ahead of the harvester helped beat the vines down.
TwoHappyChildrenFarm , these pumpkins are organic. They cultivate several times for weed control. I could be wrong ,but idoubt anything is sprayed to kill the vine.
Douglass Wilkin
In a different video showing the harvesting of pumpkin seeds, the wind row machine also mulched the Vines up as it put the pumpkins into a windrow.
East of Morton, Il smells terrible while Nestle is processing pumkins.
Brian Webber I live just outside of Morton and can't say I've ever associated a smell with Libby's. The ethanol plants, foundries, and other sure... but never Libby's.
Parker Cline , Libbys/ Nestle owns ground off of Harding road with irrigation . On hot days while they are processing and pumping "water " an intense rotten odor can be smelled for miles. . Yes the ethanol plants have their own fragrance.
Brian Webber I have often wondered what that area was used for when I've driven by, but I've apparently managed to miss the smell. I always thought that area might be a sewage system similar to what some other municipalities do in central Illinois.
Who wants a blue tractor. Lol paint it red to make it look better.
Maybe...Ford!
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pumpkin is a fruit ?? i wanna die
Technically a fruit AND is a BERRY❗
Dog food??
Good for their digestion
I know right