Florida Watermelon Harvest
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- Watermelon harvest in north Florida
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🇺🇸Thanks so much for checking out our channel! MY name is Jim. I was born and raised on a Peanut and Cotton farm in north FLORIDA. My dad started this farm 45 YEARS AGO. As a kid I always loved cameras and was making random videos throughout my childhood.So i've decide to get back to my roots.I hope you enjoy the videos! PLEASE SUBSCRIBE------
These are some hardworking fellas. God bless 'em.
Thanks for the watermelon information. Didnt realize you needed a seeded variety to pollinate a seedless. Thanks to the dedicated farmers.
Boy, I LOVE watermelon! I remember when they were a buck or so apiece. Everything goes up, though. IF this is Florida, it has been wet much of the year! And I thank you guys for doing it!! Farmers are much appreciated, in THIS old man's heart! God bless all of you.
Hats off to the people working the fields , worked loading watermelons when I was in high school in Southeastern North Carolina ,good training for football in the fall thanks for the video
I had a really good water melon last week all the way up in Canada, thanks to all who worked to get it to me.
Being Hispanic, it sure seems like we are the only ones willing to work the fields to make money. Everyone says there’s no jobs but that’s not true. You just don’t want to have a hard days job for a fair days pay.
My dad used to pick crops, they would travel to Travese City MI to pick cherries as a family. It was a 200 mile trip or so for them.
Hats off to farmers/ranchers and workers on those facilities!
Hispanic workers are some hard working people! I know I would be spent working in the watermelon fields.
It really doesn't matter your race, just how you were raised. Too many assholes in our society look down upon manual labor. Same story goes for the trades.
half the reason is because people think of themselves too highly and want $20-$25+ an hour to pick lettuce, or in this videos case, watermelon.
but the same ones who look down on immigrants who do these types of jobs also look down on people who are in a trade, like a plumber for example... but they're the ones paying him $120 an hour to unclog their shitter while they make $18 an hour after wasting $40k-$45k on useless degrees.
And I can promise you 14 yr old me cultivates from 6 am to 9pm and I hate the fields with rocks but sure I pick the rocks
Use to drive a 40 ft. trator trailer through watermelon and cantaloupe fields with 8 guys on each side. They could load me in 40 minutes. It still amazes me.
Thanks for the road trip. Great video. 😎👍👌
Thanks to the Hispanics that work and not steel from stores like other people
Just ate a watermelon like those and boy was it good! Thank you farmers!
Another great video.
Really appreciate the workers who pock the melons so we can enjoy them.
I remember the summer of 1986, slung cantaloupes for about 6 weeks. Every teenager should experience that kind of work.
God bless the watermelon farmers, I love my watermelon. Great video, can't wait for the one on the bees, lol. Thanks for sharing.
That is some hard work. I remember working in the watermelon fields when I was 12 and my arms were so tired slinging those melons. God bless!
Yep no conveyor to unload on and box's to put them in . for sure .
That was the worst. So hard for me at that age. E
I remember as a kid working the watermelon fields . There was no black plastic and drip hose's . No germinated plants just to drop in . We did have a hoe and a hot sun with cool irrigation pipes to sit on for a short break . Working the field trucks during harvest was fun . No school bus just stake body trucks some one cut the melons the rest of us would pick them and send them down the line . Everyone would pick a cull and when the truck was loaded we would bust it and scoop the heart out . Then we would head back up to the semis and they would load out of the field trucks straight onto the floor of the semis .
Hard work!!
Thanks for sharing. Watermelon is my favorite fruit and hope they come to my neck of the woods. God Bless 🙏✌❤😊
Thank you guys for your farming!!
Awesome Video and Much Love as Always, God Bless!!!!
Thanks for the Mexican people harvesting you have food on your table 👍🇲🇽
NOT ONLY MEXICANS, BUT HISPANIC OR LATINOS!!!!!!!
Thanks for the Watermelon video tour. I enjoy your channel.
Another great video! I always learn something,thanks for bringing us along
Thanks again for another informative video for someone who knows nothing about crops grown in the south.
Notice that just Mexicans are doing all the hard labor what would the farmers do without us! I too have worked the fields! Viva Mexico!
For sure! Hispanics are not afraid of hard work
im sure they are illegal!
You guys have loaded my trailer hundreds of times. I appreciate your hard work and fast loading.
@@animalcrackrzz so?
They would Adapt, Improvise and Overcome.🇺🇸
Green Card? Nope, Green Watermelons!
I appreciate you having full view of the operation.
I'm sure the workers are grateful for the opportunity they have to work with yall.
I started in the melon fields when i was 13 in east texas, all the high school kids from surrounding towns would work from around the first of june through the end of july picking and in the barn doin it the same way. It sure would have us ready for two-a-days football practice, i was smart after two years i went to work for an electric comany in town and to this day hate water melons but have respect for those doing the work. They farm around 600 acres to this day still of water mellons and cantalopess peas and more.
These episodes are just great!
Good to see other farming operations. I had to look up and see how the plant watermelons and the machinery. Great video . I have a cotton plant in my front yard that i planted and didnt know what it was until i watched one of your older videos.
Awesome video Jim! Good information. Thanks
Did an entire season in Cordele Georgia. Planted seedlings riding on the back of a tractor inches above the field sticking them in the ground. Weeks later flipping the vines every 4th row back on itself (kept path clear for tractor when harvesting). Hail storms killed the value of the melon if it happened. EARLY summer morning you wear flip flops (dew meant wet boots all day). Pick ‘em and sling it to the next guy, place on ground on cleared path. Do about 3 acres, rest, here come the carts, 2 guys in cart catching, everybody else tossing them up. Cart full, here comes another. Rest. Takes like 10 carts to fill an 18 wheeler. Trailer AND a PACKER arrive. Form a chain to the front and toss the em. The HIRED by the buyer packer, places them amongst hay for cushioning and only about 5 high, additional weight could crush lower melons. Did 2 semis by noon and you were DONE ! Plus the heat, oh man!!!!
If the melon price went up .02 cents overnight farmer would want 3 or 4 completed the next day. I did the July 4th planting and the next one was Labor Day and season over. The farmer was a millionaire and RAN that town, all the businesses depended on him. What he’s said and did wasn’t questioned.
Sounds like the south in a nutshell.
Good video, we are in the Produce belt in NC. Tons of Melons come out of our county. I love how similar everything is between Eastern NC and Florida
Honestly, I've always been watching all your videos and whenever I watch, it's giving me a calm and relaxing vibes and a positive energy. Also, your videos help me relieve my stress. Always take care and so is your family. Thank you for always giving us these wonderful videos ❤
Wow, thank you!
Thanks! This was very interesting and informative.
Thanks for the video Jim 👍
Amen🙏🏻✝️🙏🏻 God bless our Farmers🇺🇸✝️🙏🏻
That was a great video.
Thanks
Keep up the good work guys. I love eating those things
That was my first paying job at 13 picking,wind rowing and loading semitrailers.
Hard work!!!
Loved the video. I pass several fields of melons going to school in Albany on 300. I thought they used the buses for worker transport…now I know. Keep up the good work
Glad you learned something new
I just got a watermelon from a road side stand here in Indiana lol can’t wait to eat it later after it cools down in the fridge and I got some fresh peaches yummy 🤤
Bet it was good. Some of the best melons come from there
Thanks mate
around my area they use school buses when they are harvesting the tobacco, they are such a useful truck
YOU should have introduced PEDRO, JOSE, JUAN, CARLOS, RAMIRO, OSCAR, MANUEL, ROGELIO, ETC, ETC, ETC.
Nah anyone can do their job
Need to Introduce them to Cesar Chavez maybr they will quit working for next to nothing and stand up for them selves and make a better wage and have better conditions
@@jamesrivers919 You have a point, but this country needs immediate attention because the citizens are being abused by it's own government to a point that it will be a third world country before you know it.
@@jamesrivers919 they're here illegally they don't deserve shit. We don't hire any ever.
@@islami658 bs I drive trucks and been to plenty melon farms in fl and south ga it’s hot af and them amigos run full throttle all damn day until late at night nobody else goin out there doin that type work close to slave labor but we need our melons
Another great video I am late to the ride today lol now I need a watermelon 🍉
Just discovered your channel! Loving it!
Awesome! Thanks for watching
Great videos 👍😊
Great video! We have a few watermelon growers up here in IL!
Fascinating
Thanks for sharing.
We grow everything on drip puts the water right at the roots no waste and we also can fertilize triple 20
Very interesting! Never seen that before as there are no water melons grow here in Southern Manitoba. Yes Jesus loves you all as well!
Damn, that school,bus needs to hit the race track! demolition style👍
You got your 36,45,60 gotta love watermelon season greetings from sunstate Harverster beautiful watermelons we do melons here in lenox and tifton ya should do a video of us one day brother 🤘😎🍉
I have a friend who used to grow some produce on plastic. Seems it was about as much work cleaning up the plastic and drip tape as it was growing the crop. Hard to beat some cold watermelon this time of year!!
Given the scale these guys are growing on, I'd speculate that the plastic mulch might be biodegradable and the drip tape can be rolled up mechanically because it's a little stronger than the mulch.
Your right when we grew melons it was a heck of a job getting the plastic up.
I wonder if they search everyone for salt shakers? 😂😂😂
Never thought I would see an ex school bus working like this. 😮👍🇬🇧🇺🇸
You aren't from the south are you?
@@robertclark4929 defo not lol, I’m over in the UK. I normally only see those buses on the road when we visit Florida. 👍👍🤜🤛🇬🇧🇺🇸
I work on a watermelon packing facility but we repack everything by hand not in the watermelon machine that separates the bad ones from the good ones.
Very Interesting. Thanks for taking the time to make this. I guess they're still working on a machine to harvest watermelons. Looks like hard work. Technical note: couldn't hardly hear the guy getting interviewed.
Yeah my mic messed up
Mellow all day everyday
Nice video Jim. I'd probably be sick eating the watermelon they bust. Hahaha stay safe and God bless
For some reason this year I’ve had a watermelon addiction,not lying past 1 1/2 months my house has eaten like 30 watermelons 🍉🤣😋🍉
Nice! Keep eating them
I figured out why you wanted to go check out your friends' watermelon patch... you want to do the "Watermelon Crawl" soon.. lol Just kidding, though. Great outfit, and great guys are running it. Watermelon doesn't really grow in our area, as our growing season is really short compared to yours. Have a blessed weekend!!!
number one rule when pickin melons at my farm was
1 : IF YOU DROPPED ONE AND BROKE IT
You had to eat it :)
I would be full melons by the end of the day
D and M farms is in Bascom Fl Down below Dothan Alabama.
My family is from Dothan , Alabama. We are Malones.
That was informative
I'm doing my part. I eat 2-3 watermelons per week.
It's the watermelon man from the watermelon land ! Get em while you can from the watermelon man 🍉🍉
Nice rap!
@@FieldRows a friend of mine used to live in California. And a truck would drive around like the ice cream man. And that's what he would say over the loudspeaker when he turned onto every block my friend said. To this day I remember that saying. And his stories. He was killed in Iraq. But I always remember his stories like this one. Lol
My dream - Before you can eat watermelon you first work harvest and distribution. I don't know much but I do know U.S. consumers have it easy. Watermelons are valuable enough in many countries the juice is a seasonal favorite.
If you can farm labor many opportunities become available (not always).
"Somebody has to do it."
Merci!
That is how they harvest watermelons here in Southern Ontario, Canada too.
Florida has the first melons of the season, but they taste like sand and fertilizer. They are not sweet and have very little watermelon flavor. I worked the watermelon season from Bel Glade all the way to Vincennes Indiana. The further north we went, the better the melons with the Indiana melons the best by far. Georgia, Alabama, and the Carolinas grow some decent melons in their clay but the brown earth up north is the tastiest. The Mexicans do a great job of harvesting and loading the melons on the trailer. Ten wide from front to back with the highest in the middle. Occasionally the trailer would be a little overweight. I would tell the DMV officers that was because I brought them all of the watermelons they wanted. I never got a weight ticket.
Thanks fir sharing. I’m not that big fans of watermelons. I’m more of an apple/grape guy
Flavor has more to do with what is being injected in the water lines. The southeast has a lot of black and sand dirt not all clay. The blackbelt region in Alabama and Georgia has some of the richest soil on earth. Indiana is mostly sand glacier till.
Id never stop eating watermelon if i had that job.
That neat use of a old school bus
Back breaking work...just as bad as laying irrigation pipe and pulling citron vines back in the day. My family farms over on spring creek/Lake Seminole.
If you like to eat, thank a farmer or those that work on the farms! Thanks!
hi mind sound silly wouldnt they be better to.put single (big foot style which would help.the bus be able to handlethe wet ground also if thry put a transfer case you can get 2 more gears to handle the wet conditions
what is the best month to plant watermelon seeds in south Florida?? first timer here.
thanks great video its nice to see how things get to publix ha ha ha
We had huge labor problems a while back, had to switch to h2a workers it got so bad.
I'm seeing melons going for $8 in Ohio I can imagine sales are slow. I once paid $12 for a water melon at Cleveland Market in Feb.
The way shown here is a lot of double handling for no reason. The farms I've transported of here in Australia have a trailer towed by a tractor with a conveyor running out the side so the pickers only have to lift the melon up and onto the conveyor instead of playing pass the parcel with it. From there when it goes on the conveyor someone is sorting the melons directly into the produce bins that take it to market in. the conveyor is able to be attached and detached very quickly from the trailer so when the bins are full the next tractor comes along to be loaded, back in the shed its just a matter of forking the bins off, loading empty's on and sending it out again, while the loaded bins are weighed, stacked 3 high and loaded onto the semi trailer ready for market
how do you plant seedless watermelons?
This field mi want live inna lol
Watermelons!! Does anyone grow cantaloupes down there?
Ice Cold Watermelons!
You know that’s right
Threw a many watermelon as a teenager working for Wayne Singletary.
amen jesus loves ya
Salt and watermelon good for you
If you ever get the sound figured out I think you'll have a channel worth subscribing to..
The mic messed up, turn the volume up you can hear then if you aggressively press your ear to your speaker
WOW THAT'S A EASY OPERATIONS WE USED TO HAVE TO PACK THEM IN A TRUCK AND NOT BOXES FOR WALMART........
👍👍
So much hard work and cost ... I think it's much cheaper for us to buy $3.89 each 🇨🇦$
Here in Canada, they are 10 USD a pop
we grow melons lot of hard work a lot of hard working people in this video
When do the stickers from the screenshots come?
So, that's where they come from?
Yeah been there got loaded and sunk my truck on the way out of the field but I got it out without a towtruck
Good video but I watched it 6 times and each time I could not make out what verity of seedless watermelons they planted, you mike did not pick that up clear. Could you tell me the verity??
I find the use of school buses for harvesting in the field quite interesting. Do they actually run or are they just a rolling chassis? The partial roof removed one was interesting to look at. How common is the use of old school busses as farm harvest vehicles for product?
Oh yeah they run
Very common back then it was a tractor and a wagon now we got buses were depending if full you average about 25 boxes each bus
And they run just when we cut the roof of we go back and deal with all the electric wiring
Does anyone know where to get the sweetest watermelons. The melons they sell in supermarkets wal mart are not very sweet.
I’d kinda like to see how they harvest peas.
Probably by hand but they might have a machine
Where can I take my mom to see water mellos forms in Florida?
I have a question. If they grow seedless watermelons, where do they get the seeds to grow seedless melons, since there are no seeds in a seedless melon. LOL
Jesus for sure.