Florida Watermelon Harvest

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------

[bubblesmckenzie]

Thanks for the watermelon information. Didnt realize you needed a seeded variety to pollinate a seedless. Thanks to the dedicated farmers.

[papabits]

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.

[davidfite]

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

[Tonetwisters]

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.

[Tonetwisters]

These are some hardworking fellas. God bless 'em.

[chesterraybon]

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. 😎👍👌

[SbrGrendel]

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!

[Sellerss]

Another great video.
Really appreciate the workers who pock the melons so we can enjoy them.

[parsons]

Just ate a watermelon like those and boy was it good! Thank you farmers!

[sandrathomson]

Thanks for sharing. Watermelon is my favorite fruit and hope they come to my neck of the woods. God Bless 🙏✌❤😊

[bootlegger]

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 .

[pennyhaldeman]

God bless the watermelon farmers, I love my watermelon. Great video, can't wait for the one on the bees, lol. Thanks for sharing.

[DB_Cooper]

I remember the summer of 1986, slung cantaloupes for about 6 weeks. Every teenager should experience that kind of work.

[noonerstrickland]

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!

[csalinas-sfjg]

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.

[michaelmuniz]

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!

[jeremiahjohnson]

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.

[trevorwatson]

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.

[normakers]

Another great video! I always learn something, thanks for bringing us along

[garyberg]

Thanks again for another informative video for someone who knows nothing about crops grown in the south.