Looking forward to see what happens here. Listened to all John kempf’s podcasts and him talking about the SAP analysis it’ll be real interesting to follow here. Keep it coming sir. 👍👍
Thank you. I'm excited but there's a small part of me that still skeptical. Am I getting into real science-based farming here or somebody else's magic juice and a jug
I've got some corn that I've been saying all summer is what the heck is going on???? It's probably something I did but makes a feller wonder?? Thanks for sharing Jon! Good luck?🤔🤣😂 There's no such thing as luck!
Hey Jon, I recently found you’re channel and am really enjoying the content. Say any chance you had cattle out there and these are the spots they liked to gather? Neighbor had this problem but his cows were eating pasture hay that had been sprayed with graze on as well. Interested to see what you find. Keep up the good work.
There is no comparison growing corn organically than with chemical ferts. Organic is expensive but much easier, less issues with deficiencies. It tastes better as well imo.
Just a thought, ever look into corn nematodes? Friend had a problem area could never figure it out. Used NEMA strike on half a field of beans. Could see it right to the line the next year in the corn.
I found this year a 3/8's diff in seeding depth in my notill soybeans on last years corn stubble is a problem. On my beans on bean land the 3/8 diff didn't show any diff. So if I had checked the true planting depth before planting my bean crop would look more even. New blades for the front planter this winter. I run a twin bean 7000 planter. Little things that are easy to over look. Next year there will be a new problem I bet, that's farming.
@@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754 If you watch my intro on my channel there is a stripe in the alfalfa behind my farm. It didn't respond to anything fertility wise and yellow short plants. Soil tests showed over a point difference in organic matter witch is huge on releasing and holding capacity of nutrients and water.
Great video Jon! Always learn something when I watch your content. I guess I missed something in a previous video you said fraudulent business network is that a dig at FBN? What did I miss?
Yeah, so many things I don't like about that company. Since day 1 the owners were shady, they got in trouble for selling old chemicals or something like that. You know that they are using all the data they are collecting they are playing the market for themselves, suppose to do farmer to farmer marketing, the hole trip had 0 customer photos or anything to do with customers,
@@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754 That’s a shame that no one can be honest in this profession. I’m a younger farmer trying to figure things out. I just don’t understand why people can’t just be honest.
From the day that company started I remember people scrutinize the founders of it. I'm going to start trying to find good speakers to bring on to the channel from the industry. Might not be many out there. LOL
To much money to chop corn silage, and then I am stuck with daily feedings. Love silage but only silage will be if I get a precutter baler.. Wait for the follow up video...
Yes, in 20 years when I can afford a baler I would try silage. But we cab make silage quality feeds with other grasses, so why go through the hassle of corn?
Going out on a limb... could have been a lightning strike??? Maybe there's some buried treasure underneath, or maybe a large rock growing underneath lol
It will be interesting to find out what's going on I had problems with corn and we never did find out what was going on.we had light and dark streaks going catycornered across the field . They were in a strait line in a direction the field has never been tilled .
Very much so. When we moved away from intensive tillage we had a wire worm and grub problem. It shows up early and them plants were dead by late June, the bugs ate the roots right off.
I would pull an ear leaf from the good area now and from the bad area and get the tissue tested. By now it should be showing some divergence. The tissue test you send in are compared to the other 1,000s of samples sent in. So the company has no idea if the number is good, you are just compared to the other guys. In other words, what makes a good tissue test is unknown. The database your company has could be from a bunch of 80 bushel farmers, who knows? I saw this from veg crops with a small database size and also our magnesium levels suck here, but don't seem to matter for yield. Typically down here everyone has great tissue levels up to v10, they start seperating quickly at silk. My problem was K, on good yields it's >2.2% on bad it's 1.7%. My special olympics field turned around by: getting zinc to P ratio up, getting P up from 4ppm to 20ppm. On paper I got K up from 1.3% to 4%, about a 300ppm jump on paper. We have CEC=35 soil. Getting there took 500# MAP, 1000# potash, 50# Zinc sulfate. I saw a difference the first year. On the remaining part of the field, it looks like getting zinc more inline with P has helped as well. My yields improved, next is to get low pH fixed.
One thing i noticed this spring is when we planted we still had frost in the ground in places and those areas where definitely behind the others
Looking forward to see what happens here. Listened to all John kempf’s podcasts and him talking about the SAP analysis it’ll be real interesting to follow here.
Keep it coming sir. 👍👍
Thank you. I'm excited but there's a small part of me that still skeptical. Am I getting into real science-based farming here or somebody else's magic juice and a jug
@@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754 one way to find out.
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Thanks.
I've got some corn that I've been saying all summer is what the heck is going on???? It's probably something I did but makes a feller wonder?? Thanks for sharing Jon! Good luck?🤔🤣😂
There's no such thing as luck!
Ha. Sometimes you wonder.
Hey Jon, I recently found you’re channel and am really enjoying the content. Say any chance you had cattle out there and these are the spots they liked to gather? Neighbor had this problem but his cows were eating pasture hay that had been sprayed with graze on as well. Interested to see what you find. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for joining. No cattle field was pretty abused for a lot of years before we got it
There is no comparison growing corn organically than with chemical ferts. Organic is expensive but much easier, less issues with deficiencies. It tastes better as well imo.
Just a thought, ever look into corn nematodes? Friend had a problem area could never figure it out. Used NEMA strike on half a field of beans. Could see it right to the line the next year in the corn.
Good thougt, when I pull samples I will ask how to test for it.
Did you spray flexstar on the beans in that field last year?
Yes. And had drought,
I found this year a 3/8's diff in seeding depth in my notill soybeans on last years corn stubble is a problem. On my beans on bean land the 3/8 diff didn't show any diff. So if I had checked the true planting depth before planting my bean crop would look more even. New blades for the front planter this winter. I run a twin bean 7000 planter. Little things that are easy to over look. Next year there will be a new problem I bet, that's farming.
It is farming. Just when you think you have it figured out...
@@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754 so true
What did the organic matter look like on the soil tests of the good vs bad spots?
Have to do the test yet, that will be after harvest
@@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754 If you watch my intro on my channel there is a stripe in the alfalfa behind my farm. It didn't respond to anything fertility wise and yellow short plants. Soil tests showed over a point difference in organic matter witch is huge on releasing and holding capacity of nutrients and water.
@@e.a.bfarms absolutely!
Jon, you didn’t have some old Kura clover in those areas or would this have been a 60” corn area last year?
Beans last year. I gave up on kura for a couple years, to expensive, but next yes I need to get it in a mix to get a small field started
Great video Jon! Always learn something when I watch your content. I guess I missed something in a previous video you said fraudulent business network is that a dig at FBN? What did I miss?
Yeah, so many things I don't like about that company. Since day 1 the owners were shady, they got in trouble for selling old chemicals or something like that. You know that they are using all the data they are collecting they are playing the market for themselves, suppose to do farmer to farmer marketing, the hole trip had 0 customer photos or anything to do with customers,
@@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754 That’s a shame that no one can be honest in this profession. I’m a younger farmer trying to figure things out. I just don’t understand why people can’t just be honest.
From the day that company started I remember people scrutinize the founders of it. I'm going to start trying to find good speakers to bring on to the channel from the industry. Might not be many out there. LOL
Chop the field and feed it to the cows. Plant a cover crop after the corn comes off!
It will be interesting to see what is learned from this spot!
To much money to chop corn silage, and then I am stuck with daily feedings. Love silage but only silage will be if I get a precutter baler..
Wait for the follow up video...
@@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754 are you eluding to something?!
Yes, in 20 years when I can afford a baler I would try silage.
But we cab make silage quality feeds with other grasses, so why go through the hassle of corn?
Going out on a limb... could have been a lightning strike???
Maybe there's some buried treasure underneath, or maybe a large rock growing underneath lol
It will be interesting to find out what's going on I had problems with corn and we never did find out what was going on.we had light and dark streaks going catycornered across the field . They were in a strait line in a direction the field has never been tilled
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Did the next year crop do good?
There's not any pipelines or something buried underneath?
@@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754 not really we had about 4 years of lower yields
@@farmingnodak no this was across the whole field
I have some straight line like this also in random spots
Don't some type of wire worms demage plants in rows?
Very much so. When we moved away from intensive tillage we had a wire worm and grub problem. It shows up early and them plants were dead by late June, the bugs ate the roots right off.
I would pull an ear leaf from the good area now and from the bad area and get the tissue tested. By now it should be showing some divergence. The tissue test you send in are compared to the other 1,000s of samples sent in. So the company has no idea if the number is good, you are just compared to the other guys. In other words, what makes a good tissue test is unknown. The database your company has could be from a bunch of 80 bushel farmers, who knows? I saw this from veg crops with a small database size and also our magnesium levels suck here, but don't seem to matter for yield. Typically down here everyone has great tissue levels up to v10, they start seperating quickly at silk. My problem was K, on good yields it's >2.2% on bad it's 1.7%. My special olympics field turned around by: getting zinc to P ratio up, getting P up from 4ppm to 20ppm. On paper I got K up from 1.3% to 4%, about a 300ppm jump on paper. We have CEC=35 soil. Getting there took 500# MAP, 1000# potash, 50# Zinc sulfate. I saw a difference the first year. On the remaining part of the field, it looks like getting zinc more inline with P has helped as well. My yields improved, next is to get low pH fixed.
Very good explanation thank you.
Can't afford to put 1000# of anything a today's prices. Yikes!