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@joeclark6043 it's a transition from full conventional farming (using full herbicides and commercial fertilizers) to transitioning to using much less herbicides/ commercial fertilizers, then one day we may find a way to regeneratively farm, at scale across millions of acres with very little to no herbicides. Were not there yet. Its a process. Thanks.

@EMMANUELNSUBUGA-iz5kc Thanks for watching!

@growthefarmup2606 do you apply fertilizer Which equipment do you use to apply fertilizer tractor or drone?

@Al_Nunnery friggin bonehead truckers. C'mon who hasn't taken a piss between on the duel? Lol. Ike has some wierd bathroom fetishisez. Hahhahahaha

@growthefarmup2606 I'm just laughin at the video In general... we've all pissed somewhere we wasn't pose to .

Because they simply are bigger tractors

No doubt! That's about as long a line I've ever seen! It was a good hopper bottom, extra axles truck show tho! Edit. It would be nice to just get a sprinkle of rain would it? Dry dry dry in Nebrasla.

Have you ever seen so many hoppers lined up in one place? It was like a truck show!

Pull out on the air brake button a second time and it opens a secret bypass-the-line pass! :)

Lol, about a day! ADM Lincoln Ne, it's actually not as long of time as you'd think, some days are contract fill days or last delivery day and I happened to forget to check the schedule and I showed up at the back of the line its was about 3 hrs from driveway in to driveway out. have you ever seen so many Hopper bottoms lined up???

​@TheFarmacySeedsNetwork i wish, its more like guys yelling at eachother trying cut in line! It's comical.

@growthefarmup2606 no sir I have not. I've only been to a big grain terminal a couple of times. A friend of mine drove truck for a neighbor and we hauled ear corn down to The Andersons in Toledo Ohio, in a Freightliner cabover. That was in August so they weren't very busy. They stopped taking ear corn around 2000. Now they get cobs from seed corn growers. They used to pay a 25 cent cob premium back then.

@666bruv I don't share all my secrets. Lol. I will say both the Haney and conventional soil samples tell me there is some good stuff going on. I will add organic matter is the biggest yield limiting factor, I've found once get your organic matter above 3 or even to 4, well... farming will never be easy, it makes farming much more forgiving! You can make those 2 little mistakes, and your soil will help you out! Compared to chemistry farming anyways. Our row crop soils are literally screaming for carbon... it brings everything else into alignment naturally. That's why cover crops are such the buzz these days, it's not new. We been doing it for decades and it's just different. Learning to integrate covercrops into cash crop operations is the hard part for the first few years. This advise is worth what you paid for it! Lol. Thanks

@@growthefarmup2606 oh yeah, I'm only small, but a mulch layer seems to help things proliforate. A microscope is a useful tool, just need a cheap way to measure soil carbon

@notsimplyorganic1053 no cell phones!!! I do however enjoy current climate control cabs, but over all, was it worth it? Lol

@mystic24100 whenever the guys and I are sweating fixing a gearbox or flat tire on a pivot, if any of the young guys complain, I stop work, explain the way we used to throw pipe 12 times a year, cuz nobody coukd afford "enough pipe" we did alot of gravity in my area, fairly flat, boy we destroyed alot of top soil leveling 3 feet off the top so we could push water to the back 30-50 acres etc. Totally agree, I don't know how we kept up, I Wil say once you got a good gravity run thru 1 time is seemed to be good for 2 weeks! Really soaked into that soil better than any pivot. I also recall moving those giant lawn sprinklers pipes up over the corn! Our advantage was at least we were seec corn so, the cut tops of the corn plants just cut your arms up and onky had to lift 5 feet! Lol. Also growing seed corn we would have to throw pipe for detasseling machines! We tried ramps but they really didn't work unless the operator was good, I would turn around the machines for alot of the drivers. About same amount of work, 4 guys always moving ramps, machines in field waiting on their ramps. It's almost easier to just pickup the pipe and lay it back out. I tell the young guys complaining about a bad center pivot gearbox how the rows used to run and how each field had 8 runs and we would be lucky to get across the whole field 2 times a summer. We had a crew of 20 ppl and could barely keep up irrigating begore center pivots while growing seed corn, seed soybeans and all types of seed before the amazing center pivots! What do you think about swing arms? I like the additional acres irrigated, but they sure add a layer of difficulty! Swing arms are heavy, they go over in the wind alot in SE Neb. They don't water even. I dunno, I have alot of both. I'm all Reinke. What's your brand? Thanks. Got me reminiscing

@@growthefarmup2606 I don’t remember right off. Dad bought it used years ago. It is not made anymore. The tenant takes care of all that. I now live 200 miles away, in Iowa. I have not worked on the farm in years, I liked doing mechanic and welding work in town. I will be 80 in a couple of months. I only know about the “ good old days” on the farm.

@mystic24100 enjoy the peace, u earned it! Thank you and good for you.

@gladysorama Thank you, I use a combination of broadcasting liquid nitrogen and humates (biologicals). With some herbicide. The 15-20 gallons of liquid 28-0-0 as a commercial supplement pretty well terminates rhe cover. If needed will come back with low rates of herbicides post emergence of the corn for any needed weed control.

@farming4g it's a very simple trade off for the big 3. Chemical sterilized female does not require walking crews and saves them on all the liability... the big 3 have been sued so many times they are actively seeking ways to replace people with technology.... at the cost of the prodict quality. Your correct... always more than meets the eye. I have tried the Roundup spray sterilization process and it turned the corn white, it quit growing and the seed yielded about 1/3-1/2 the units per acre of the conventional detasseled same inbreed cross. And the quality was many % pts. Less than the conventional detassel. They themselves suggest not using the chemical sterilization when independent seed co's buy their seed stock, yet they use it them selves. Hmm... Edit: they will not take liability for quality if you use the Roundups sterilization system, so they activley encourage independents to not use it. They will take the liability, like they always have, when you use the conventional detaseling. That pretty much tells you what you need to know without saying itm. Lol

@apn42 yes it does, they were having some problems with the electric wheel motors heating up in 110° rye field. In the middle of Midwestern summer.

@@growthefarmup2606 That is to be expected on a pre-production unit. Hopefully they sort it out before serial production.

@apn42 totally agree, I like the diesel electric drivetrane combo alot. Electric drivetranes are much more efficient and easier to maintain.

@danw6014 in a simple answer yes To add some context. You can go to most major universities (For example Iowa state) I always thought had the best open pollinated inbred corn lines available to the public. That said... open pollinated do not come close to matching the modern genetics that the big 3 own and won't allow us to plant without paying royalties. I would estimate that open pollinated hybrids would have a 2nd generation pedigree that would have about 2/3- 3/4 the yield potential. That's the reason we don't see farmers running to open pollinated seed. On the other hand, Seed is your biggest expense in the corn game and if your trying to grow the biggest net income, having seed that you grow yourself and only have to pay a moderate fee to the university extension programs is a heck of a savings. Then your run into the harvest issue. Seed corn needs to be harvested before a freeze, so your gonna be picking it on wet, at about 30-35% moist the ear and need a place to dry it with heat and air.... after drying on cob then shell it off the ear and run thru a cleaner and boom you got your own line of "free seed" If you get fortunate and it doesn't freeze you could absolutely combine your female rows and run them thru a cleaner and have good quality seed, but its rare that a seed corn crop will dry down to 12% moistire in the field. Things to consider, it's not insurmountable, I know a guy that has a $900 dollar set up that he picks with an old side mount corn picker and he made a 8×10 air floor bin and then just comveyers the seed to his combine header and dumps it in a truck off the combine auger. We all need to start growing our own seed. Now if we could grow our own seed utilizing the latest cutting edge genetics, and do the prodiction ourselves, I think every farming operation would be planting seed grown for their farm, because it was grown on your farm, not 4 states away. Not grown by a huge conglomerate... the larger the seed co. The lower the quality tests I've found. Don't misunderstand, there are alot of great modern big seed companies out there, but you pay thru the nose for somthing that we can all really do by ourselves for much less costs. There's a reason they like to lock the farmer out of controlling their own germplasm and see lines. They know what their doing. These days it is actually easier for independent regional seed companies to out yield the big 3 in yeild trial after trial. The farmer likes there seed brands like thw color of tractor! Lol. Great question and exactly the tangent I went off on in the video! Lol. I'm not for spraying your seed sterile. I've seen the test results. It's really not good. Thanks.

@growthefarmup2606 thank you for more explanation. Years ago before hybrid seed, how did farmers go about "saving" seed. All they had to work with was a corn crib. Did they walk their fields and pick the best ears ahead of time. One thing I do have is a Minneapolis Moline Model D sheller. But for the amount of seed corn I need an old hand sheller would be big enough.

@danw6014 farmers would just plant the corn kernels from the year before harvest, the problem with that is only about 40-60% would germinatem. That's why we hybridization almost all modern row crop staple seeds

@dwightl5863 yea seed corn production is the definition of time sensitive! It can't be done early, it can't be done late, it can only be done at the exact moment it's needed to maximize. I try to stay a day ahead, farming will happen and you will fall a day behind lol! To answer your question we still use walking crews to come in behind 4-6 machine (cutters and rollers) passes thru the field. I tell everyone that asks how labor intensive is seed corn prodiction? Answer; every plant is inspected 4 times by a human in the field and every ear is inspected by a combo of people and automated sorters on the ear, then every kernel is inspected in the conditioning facility. So yea, to do it right and make the highest quality as an independent seed company to stay in business you have to do everything right. We still use conventional detasseling techniques because the chemical sterilization *as you put it, I like that BTW I may steel it from you if that's OK?) I've seen how the sausage is made and the chemical sterilization does totally unnatural things to your seed inbred plants and effects the seed badly. Edit, detasseling in the 60's was a totally different time, were you full pulling every tassel by hand? Or did you have any mechanical help in the 60's. My grandfather started using Larson mechanical detasslers in early 60's. Thanks.

@growthefarmup2606 I had a friend on the west side of Michigan. Her daughter worked on a detasseling crew in high school. That was 10 or 12 years ago.

@danw6014 that was at a time when about 60%+ of industry was still using conventional detasseling. Now it's less than 15% using chemical Roundup sterilization.