Burrus Seed Harvest

[Chris Taylor]

Well I spent they day with the harvest crew at Burrus. I asked at the office what field they were headed to and met the truck drivers at the field. They run 6 Sterling straight trucks all with Kann beds. I rode with a truck driver for the morning. We got lined up right after the pickers pulled in. Since it is dry they run the trucks out in the field and dump on the trucks















One dump fills the tandem and then we head through town to the plant. Once we got there we waited on another truck so I went up in the plant to take pictures.

These manure spreaders are for spreading husks on the seed feields. Alot of the husks go to a feed lot who puts them up in a silo














When we got back to the field I hitched a ride with one of the pickers. They run 2 Oxbo 8420s with 6 row 38" New Holland heads. They plant on 38"s and male rows are in between every onther row. That way they don't loose any ground with male rows.

[The Lunchbox]

looking good CT! you guys need to get into seed.

[djt14]

Never saw that before. It looks awesome! How many acres would one of those do in a day?

Thanks for sharing
Dallas

[jmillard]

Sweet pics man. Hope you enjoyed it, next time your down there give me a call, i might be around. What were the names of the guys you rode with

[Chris Taylor]

It was Doug in the picker. I cant remeber who the trucker was. I aint got yer number, pm me it.

Case the guys who raise seed around here all grow all their own except for the pioneer guys and I aint to hot on the idea yet, maybe down the road.

[ManitobanFarmerKid]

I've never gotten seed corn. Whats these male/female rows and why aren't there any tassles?

[brownswiss2013]

there is no tassles for pollination i think? And I wish had seed ground where I am its tons of seed I see them run 2 pickers with two dumpers usually 8000 series deeres. Did see what looked like an 8850 or some steigers its fun to go out by Constatine and see them all pick. In the spring they all use track tractors ad stuff so its big money hahaha.

[jmillard]

Sept 10, 2011 19:58:14 GMT -5 ManitobanFarmerKid said:

I've never gotten seed corn. Whats these male/female rows and why aren't there any tassles?

the female/ male rows are for pollination reasons.. In the summer they hire kids from the area, at least Burrus does, and they pick tassles for them. They will run a automatic pullers over the fields 3 to 4 times then the kids come in either walking or riding on a larson machine. They only pull tassles from the female rows, so the male rows pollinate the female rows. the kids are hired to pick the tassles before the pollination fully begins. they do a really clean job and pride themselves on like 99.8% purity. Then after the kids are done we come along with machines with 3 rolling knive baskets set up to chop out the male rows for harvest. all in all its a pretty neat process. I have worked out there for 8 summers, this summer i was moved over to the crop scouting side and then ran one of the choppers. I believe they hire like 550 kids during the summer, plus migrant workers. Its a family owned company, and they're really good to work for. It is maybe 5 minutes from my house.