2010 Wheat Harvest

Harvesting wheat on the Branch Farm in Appling County, Ga. After harvest, the wheat straw is burned in preparation for cotton planting.

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Science & Technology

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• harvest
• wheat
• cotton
• georgia
• branch
• farm
• combine
• john
• deere
• burn

[johnb32xq]

the hippies will be after ya for burnin that and did u guys have it controlled as in somthing to spray on the fire to keep it away from the woods and ull be safer plowing it

[rbranch2008]

@johnb32xq Ha ha. Yea, you're probably right. We harrow around the field before burning and keep the harrow close in case we have trouble.

[Kistaki79]

To burn the wheat straw is sillyest thing I have ever seen.You ruin the micro life in your soil and you take organic part from the soil unnecessarily.

[rbranch2008]

@Kistaki79 I agree. However, our wheat acreage is only a small portion of our farming operation and we are not set up to plant directly into the wheat straw. And due to a need to get our second crop in on a timely manner, it is the best option we have.

[Porschedrivers]

Idiots keine Ahnung von Ackerbau, hier wird gerade die Zukunft verbrannt!!

[thesunsetreptiles]

wish we could do that in cali.

[Cougfan63]

The smoke clouds are a common site here in Eastern Washington state during the spring and fall.

[starfroggie]

My kids really enjoyed this video, thank you for posting it.

[levike75]

In a civilized country you would go to jail for something like this. 

[TheSalemski]

very nice vid!

[7crazy4u]

nice vid. bro. thx for posting

[JayceRuzicka]

I think you might be a little overweight on your semi lol.



[Kistaki79]

@hogzilla22 I'm not saying that u r stupid or something,i did not want to be rude to you at all, I understand that you said.Sometimes we face the same problem after we harvested wheat or rapeseed,only we can do,wait for some rain to come.In your case I guess you cannot wait for rain because of short time.

[hogzilla22]

@Kistaki79 actually burning the straw is necessary. Sometimes you can plant directly into it but it takes a no till planter that will go through concrete. June is when we harvest wheat in arkansas and usually by then the ground is hard and dry. sometimes if the ground is too hard to plant into we will burn it off, work it with an implement to get loose dirt, and then plant our soybeans. Trust me if it wasn't necessary we wouldn't do it. We're not that stupid.