Corn Belt Harvest

Harvesting corn and soybeans near Sleepy Eye Minnesota, November 2009 and taking the crop to market. These scenes are typical of life in the Corn Belt. In spite of near-drought conditions this summer and heavy rains in October, these farmers were still getting corn yields in excess of 175 bu./acre

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• harvest
• corn
• soybeans
• Minnesota
• grain
• elevators
• trains

[Archivesman1]

Great job, I loved the music. This reminds me of the beauty of farming. Thanks!

[eltechno]

@Archivesman1 Once, the harvest was an occasion for community-wide celebration because a good one meant that no one went hungry during the winter. Now that so few people actually farm, there aren't so many that understand what that joy must feel like. I sure am glad Beethoven wrote his tribute to the joy of the harvest so that even we city-slickers can have a little feeling for what once was probably the most important occasion of the year.

[pentax2]

I've seen dozens of harvesting videos and your has the most original soundtrack, how refreshing, thanks.

[eltechno]

@pentax2 I am glad you liked my choice of sound. It is from the final movement of Beethoven's 6th symphony (the Pastoral) and is about the celebration of the harvest. I spent part of my childhood a few miles from where this video was shot. These are amazing people who grow our food. And in my humble opinion, "my" people deserve a Beethoven soundtrack! And I bet Beethoven would agree.

[jeff04pred]

I'm just north of sleepy eye, north side of the mn river. we haul all of our corn to christensen farms. neat video

[eltechno]

The video of the field work was shot about 8 miles north of Comfrey MN--the grain elevators are in Sleepy Eye itself.

Glad you enjoyed the video.

[Quebjac2011]

Dam freightshaker

[123legodude]

you should get rid of the fruitliner and get a pete or a mack

[HondaQuality]

Lots of nice well taken care of equipment here.

[eltechno]

@waagii

I am pretty sure Beethoven could have figured out the machinery pretty easily--he WAS a genius after all. Greetings back to Austria (thanks for Beethoven!).

[britishbeatles]

nice video. the landscape looks a little like our area in beecher, il.

[zilla200644567]

super cool