I liked this format of showing the different "steps" to planting. It's something you've shown multiple times across different videos but putting them all together in one video helps those who are confused understand which order you do these in and why. Great video as always Ryan!
Talk about No Rain, My Horses Pastures are as dry as a Popcorn fart, and there are brown spots showing up now And after I put down all the Fertilizer and sprayed. Got me a little worried. Enjoyed the video Ryan, Have a great Day. PS, enjoyed seeing Hannah on this video, even though it was only for a second or two. More of Hannah please !
You should do a trial next year; prep some ground with the harrow like normal and some with a roller (borrow/rent/demo). See if you can improve your yields with a roller over a harrow.
Yeah nice thing about a roller is that they push down any rocks on the surface. Doesn't drag residue around either. Read a study years ago that referenced a Russian crop study that showed that the heavier they rolled wheat the better the yield was. How that translates to soybeans, who knows, but a roller will DEFINITELY leave the field smoother than a drag harrow! OL J R :)
Moment I saw a ring on her hand. I knew people would be asking about it in the comments. if she's not in a few videos, people will ask if they're still together. If they are engaged, and if they want to share that with UA-cam, they'll make a video about it. So mind your business till then.
@@0xFF48 no need for the negativity. You post public videos and people are going to ask. It’s not like anybody else in the thread is getting bent out of shape or saying anything inappropriate. Who knows maybe it was a prop to get a rise out of people. So chill out
@@kb7722 it's not negativity, it's reflecting on how UA-cam viewers feel free to ask or comment on personal questions. Read the comments on any video, people will say they miss his ex, or that he should wife Hanna, etc. As if we know the details of their relationship, or know anything about their private lives.
I watched a family up the Road from my family plant corn every year when I was little here in Alabama. I wish I could have been fortunate enough to grow up on a farm. They also raised horses and I got to ride a few times.
@@WorldsBestWatcher - New Zealand farmer breaks world record with massive 17.398 tonne per hectare wheat crop.- www.ruralnewsgroup.co.nz/rural-news/rural-management/give-that-man-a-guinness-another-world-wheat-record
I would recommend trying a rock or land roller , That is if someone has them for rent. You may be able to plant beans where you weren't able to before. I'm able to rent one and it defentlly improves harvest.
Awesome video! I had a question I was hoping you might be able to answer. Is harrowing of the field typically done after planting the soybean or done directly after preparing the seed bed? I have seen it done both ways, but saw y'all did the harrowing after the planting in this video. Thanks for your help!
Around 7:40 you could see the difference in front of the tractor to behind the harrow. Here's hoping you get the right amount of rain at the right time.
Hi Ryan why do you guys still use and old johndeere box planter? we have run and international air planter on our since 1978 it was I of many smart decisions my dad today I run a 1255 16 row early riser and we love it now you probably would need something that big but mybe a 6or a 8 row would work you should look into trying one .
I'm assuming the planter covers the seed and harrowing doesn't uncover as many it looks like it might. Surely there's some percentage of exposed beans after harrowing?
It doesn’t go deep enough to mess with the seeds. They’re all at pretty well the same depth, the planter pushes the ridges out of the way so the down pressure is pretty consistent across the planter
No need... a corn head runs slightly off the ground (unless the corn blows down then you run the snoots down in the dirt to pick it up) but a soybean flex header uses a sickle cutterbar that slides right on the surface of the soil and "flexes" or bends (versus a "rigid" cutterbar header like typically used in wheat and other small grains and grain sorghum and rice and other crops where the plants are cut off higher up on the stalks). Because the cutterbar slides on the ground, and because soybeans typically produce pods full of grain right down to within a couple inches of the ground (sometimes right at the ground level but breeders try to develop varieties that don't do that so you don't lose yield since the sickle will only cut down to about an inch off the ground) you want it to be as smooth and level as possible, preferably with NO ROCKS or no exposed rocks-- that's where a roller is superior, in that it will PRESS DOWN the rocks that are laying on the ground surface so the cutterbar will just slide over them. Harrowing is the next best thing because it at least smooths out the surface of the field and drags some of the soil back into the depressions left by the planter unit gauge wheels and soil thrown aside by the residue wheels on the front of each planter unit, so the beans aren't growing down in the depression and producing beans low on the stalk that the cutterbar cannot harvest later on. PLUS, the cutterbar will run smoother with less wear on a level field versus one run on undulating ground where some of the cutterbar guards are running down in the dirt and plowing while others beside them are up off the ground-- this feeds less dirt into the combine as well saving wear and tear on it as well and producing a cleaner grain sample in the tank. Later! OL J R :)
In the fall, after we round bale our corn fodder, we chisel plow the corn fields. In the spring we: (1) use our high speed disc with a roller bar rear finishing attachment, (2) plant our soybeans in 31 x 15" rows, (3) then we use a land roller to roll/flatten the ground. If needed, we may lay down some dry fertilizer before step 1. Later on, we do apply liquid nitrogen & some other fertilizer and spray herbicide/insecticide/fungicide as needed. We plant soybeans into corn and corn no-til into soybeans. We do rotate in other crops such as hay, grain, etc.
Sure who hasn't... but like everybody who dreams of driving a beautifully restored Hemi 'Cuda or a Lamborghini, but still keeps driving their regular old car, the reason is obvious... $$$$$$$. Later! OL J R :)
Is it common in your area to harrow all your bean ground? In NW Ohio no one dose that here. Seems like your planter leaves ridges. That just doesn’t seem right
Hello. Could you not roll in the top after planting Cambridge roll style? Would probably save you some soil in the long run 🙃. Cracking work as usual and it's still nice seeing clean equipment being used. Stay safe 🏴
@@HowFarmsWork that is very true. But the do a very good job before and after the seeds are planted. They have come a long way from the old flat rolls. 👍 👌 Stay safe 🏴
30 inch same planter as the corn. Lots of guys here going back to planters particularly 15 inch planters because there's less problems from disease like white mold in rows versus drilled beans. Planters are also typically wider than drills and have much better seed metering and seed placement and closing of the seed furrow, so better, more even emergence of the seeds from the ground, and less seed used saves money. 40 years ago drilling soybeans made higher yields because of the old varieties back then did better spaced out more evenly in four 7.5 inch drilled rows versus two 15 inch rows versus one 30 inch row in the same amount of space, but that's not really true anymore with modern genetics. Plus, back then adding a cheap grain drill to plant soybeans meant the corn planter could be planting corn and the drill planting beans at the same time, which meant planting got finished faster. Nowadays, there are plenty of older planters that might be a little too old or worn for planting corn accurately that can be bought cheap and set up for planting soybeans and STILL do a better job than a grain drill planting beans, and usually twice as wide as the drill it's replacing so a guy would get done that much faster... Modern replicated field studies have shown that using modern varieties of soybeans, there's really NO advantage to drilling soybeans in versus planting them in 15 inch rows or 30 inch rows, but the wider rows DO have advantages in less disease pressure in bad years. The only real advantage a drill has is that the soybeans planted with a drill canopy faster than beans planted in rows, particularly 30 inch rows. Later! OL J R :)
Ryan, a (probably) stupid non-farmer question: would harrowing across the grooves like you appear to be doing at 7:22 do better at flattening the ground? It seems most of the time you're going parallel to them.
Question 1 - why don’t you get all of your seed delivered in boxes, why even have the bags at all? Question 2 - everyone around here rolls their soybean fields, why don’t you use a big roller instead of the harrow.
In the part of Missouri where I live the kind of pre planting tillage you do is almost unheard of. Everyone has been no-till min-till for several years. Are you unable to make this work in your area? Significantly reduces inputs to raise a crop and cuts erosion losses as well.
I’ve been doing it with reduced yields compared to our regular tillage for six years now. No-till makes sense on $2-3 corn and dry years it will outperform the tilled ground. We’ve had 2 years in the last ten that were dry. Our soils retain moisture very well compared to the rest of the state. Part of the reason I was fighting against a mega solar facility being built in this area. No irrigation required.
We don't have a long enough growing season to plant winter wheat. We typically don't get the crops off until September-December and by then it's below freezing.
That's because they farm in contoured strips... the strips are not perfectly even in places they widen out in other places narrow down, so some overlap is inevitable as the finish each strip. GPS won't fix that. OL J R :)
Wishing the best of luck and fair weather this year
That ending was a real drag!
Good Morning from New Zealand, Great how farms work Video, thanks for sharing, have a great week
I liked this format of showing the different "steps" to planting. It's something you've shown multiple times across different videos but putting them all together in one video helps those who are confused understand which order you do these in and why. Great video as always Ryan!
Wow, loved the video and music combo on the disking, very relaxing.
Hope you and all farmers have a blessed growing season. Thanks for taking us along.
Good job of Tell how crops get in the ground. Thanks.
Another awesome video👍😉 planting action is always great to see😁👍
Great awesome video Ryan , Travis , and of course Hannah , lots of planting to do
Another great video Ryan
Talk about No Rain, My Horses Pastures are as dry as a Popcorn fart, and there are brown spots showing up now And after I put down all the Fertilizer and sprayed. Got me a little worried. Enjoyed the video Ryan, Have a great Day. PS, enjoyed seeing Hannah on this video, even though it was only for a second or two. More of Hannah please !
Great video, informative and as usual your music selection is top notch with the drone shots…looking forward to the next.👍👏
Great video Ryan, hope you guys have a great crop and a bountiful harvest 👍
Hope you got that planter fixed and is running good
Great Video- and glad to see the Boss back (Rocket) lol. Be safe and God Bless :)
I am so glad God gave us something so beautiful like the 4640.
You should do a trial next year; prep some ground with the harrow like normal and some with a roller (borrow/rent/demo). See if you can improve your yields with a roller over a harrow.
Yeah nice thing about a roller is that they push down any rocks on the surface. Doesn't drag residue around either. Read a study years ago that referenced a Russian crop study that showed that the heavier they rolled wheat the better the yield was. How that translates to soybeans, who knows, but a roller will DEFINITELY leave the field smoother than a drag harrow! OL J R :)
Cool video never realized how tall.the seed boxes were
Wishing u the best with getting the crop out of the ground great video as always
Another great vid!
Awesome Video as Always!!
great video ryan did a good job plant lots of work to be done thats for sure thumbs up and shared
Is that an engagement ring ? Thanks for the videos.
I saw that too! Wondered if anybody else saw saw that.
@@kb7722 I saw it too
Moment I saw a ring on her hand. I knew people would be asking about it in the comments. if she's not in a few videos, people will ask if they're still together.
If they are engaged, and if they want to share that with UA-cam, they'll make a video about it. So mind your business till then.
@@0xFF48 no need for the negativity. You post public videos and people are going to ask. It’s not like anybody else in the thread is getting bent out of shape or saying anything inappropriate. Who knows maybe it was a prop to get a rise out of people. So chill out
@@kb7722 it's not negativity, it's reflecting on how UA-cam viewers feel free to ask or comment on personal questions. Read the comments on any video, people will say they miss his ex, or that he should wife Hanna, etc. As if we know the details of their relationship, or know anything about their private lives.
I watched a family up the Road from my family plant corn every year when I was little here in Alabama. I wish I could have been fortunate enough to grow up on a farm. They also raised horses and I got to ride a few times.
So, "Planting can be a harrowing experience."
👏👏👏
Dang, I was going to say that.
@@tedb.5707 "The early bird catches the worm."
- Abraham Lincoln 1974
@@WorldsBestWatcher - New Zealand farmer breaks world record with massive 17.398 tonne per hectare wheat crop.- www.ruralnewsgroup.co.nz/rural-news/rural-management/give-that-man-a-guinness-another-world-wheat-record
Cool video and informative. Thanks! Interesting to see the whole process in one sitting even though it is days of real work
I would recommend trying a rock or land roller , That is if someone has them for rent. You may be able to plant beans where you weren't able to before. I'm able to rent one and it defentlly improves harvest.
Awesome video! I had a question I was hoping you might be able to answer. Is harrowing of the field typically done after planting the soybean or done directly after preparing the seed bed? I have seen it done both ways, but saw y'all did the harrowing after the planting in this video. Thanks for your help!
Around 7:40 you could see the difference in front of the tractor to behind the harrow. Here's hoping you get the right amount of rain at the right time.
I hope y’all farmers get the rain you need
Great job People and Rocket:):)
Still the best farming channel on UA-cam. Great footage, thanks Ryan!
Thanks for riding along!
3:53 mark, is that an engagement ring on Hannah's ring finger?
Will be soon!
I think I saw a beautiful ring. Maybe an engagement ring? I hope so!
Around were I live in East Central Illinois, we usually use soil finishers for our pre plant tillage
Nice
Hey Ryan!! How's it going?
Hey Darrin! Pretty good!
Greetings sir .This is siraje from uganda,what is the best spacing would you recommend for soybean ?
Ever considered a roller to smooth it out?
Why don’t you use a land roller?
So is harrowing the same as rolling the beans ? Is it the same thing ? Just a preference great job
Basically... old school way of doing it before they started building those big land rollers... OL J R : )
Hello from France
I am my second crop of peas and getting summer squash in two weeks!
Hi Ryan why do you guys still use and old johndeere box planter? we have run and international air planter on our since 1978 it was I of many smart decisions my dad today I run a 1255 16 row early riser and we love it now you probably would need something that big but mybe a 6or a 8 row would work you should look into trying one .
I'm assuming the planter covers the seed and harrowing doesn't uncover as many it looks like it might. Surely there's some percentage of exposed beans after harrowing?
It doesn’t go deep enough to mess with the seeds. They’re all at pretty well the same depth, the planter pushes the ridges out of the way so the down pressure is pretty consistent across the planter
What a harrowing tale. What I want to know is," how does Anna fit into all of this?
Cool!
Dumb question, would a roller work better than a harrow?
You should rent or buy a land roller. A lot of farmers use them for their soybeans.
I’ve looked into it but they’re hard to find. We’ll eventually switch to one
@@HowFarmsWork how do you think that would work on the hills? I imagine those land rollers are pretty heavy!
just a question why dont you role it flat with a light roller
Almost splatted the drone. there
Whats better for the beans rolling or harrowing?
I really didnt know that it made a difference harrowing do you guys harrow the corn to?
No need... a corn head runs slightly off the ground (unless the corn blows down then you run the snoots down in the dirt to pick it up) but a soybean flex header uses a sickle cutterbar that slides right on the surface of the soil and "flexes" or bends (versus a "rigid" cutterbar header like typically used in wheat and other small grains and grain sorghum and rice and other crops where the plants are cut off higher up on the stalks). Because the cutterbar slides on the ground, and because soybeans typically produce pods full of grain right down to within a couple inches of the ground (sometimes right at the ground level but breeders try to develop varieties that don't do that so you don't lose yield since the sickle will only cut down to about an inch off the ground) you want it to be as smooth and level as possible, preferably with NO ROCKS or no exposed rocks-- that's where a roller is superior, in that it will PRESS DOWN the rocks that are laying on the ground surface so the cutterbar will just slide over them. Harrowing is the next best thing because it at least smooths out the surface of the field and drags some of the soil back into the depressions left by the planter unit gauge wheels and soil thrown aside by the residue wheels on the front of each planter unit, so the beans aren't growing down in the depression and producing beans low on the stalk that the cutterbar cannot harvest later on. PLUS, the cutterbar will run smoother with less wear on a level field versus one run on undulating ground where some of the cutterbar guards are running down in the dirt and plowing while others beside them are up off the ground-- this feeds less dirt into the combine as well saving wear and tear on it as well and producing a cleaner grain sample in the tank. Later! OL J R :)
Good video Ryan ! So how your neighbor the solor pannell electric farming doing ? Haven't heard anything lately
Daniel from central Mississippi
Did you get all your grain sold?
In the fall, after we round bale our corn fodder, we chisel plow the corn fields. In the spring we: (1) use our high speed disc with a roller bar rear finishing attachment, (2) plant our soybeans in 31 x 15" rows, (3) then we use a land roller to roll/flatten the ground. If needed, we may lay down some dry fertilizer before step 1. Later on, we do apply liquid nitrogen & some other fertilizer and spray herbicide/insecticide/fungicide as needed.
We plant soybeans into corn and corn no-til into soybeans. We do rotate in other crops such as hay, grain, etc.
Ever thought about getting a new planter like an exact emerge ccs?
Sure who hasn't... but like everybody who dreams of driving a beautifully restored Hemi 'Cuda or a Lamborghini, but still keeps driving their regular old car, the reason is obvious... $$$$$$$. Later! OL J R :)
Have you ever used a roller instead of a harrow/
Hi
I'm from Nigeria and I'm interested in owing a soya bean farm but I have to learn of course.
Can I Pls come for an internship
How did Rockey get his name?
Another great video, thanks.
You guys should get a roller for doing the beans instead of the Harrow
Yes indeed
Is it common in your area to harrow all your bean ground? In NW Ohio no one dose that here. Seems like your planter leaves ridges. That just doesn’t seem right
Yeah Ryan, for us it's only one step lol No-Till Plant! Unless the clay gets to hard. 🤔
Hello. Could you not roll in the top after planting Cambridge roll style? Would probably save you some soil in the long run 🙃. Cracking work as usual and it's still nice seeing clean equipment being used. Stay safe 🏴
I’d like to switch to a roller in the coming years, they’re just more expensive.
@@HowFarmsWork that is very true. But the do a very good job before and after the seeds are planted. They have come a long way from the old flat rolls. 👍 👌 Stay safe 🏴
Doesn't the harrow affect seed placement?
Not if you're running it flat or real shallow... just dragging off the top a bit to smooth it out. OL J R :)
I like your positive attitude! Much preferred relative to someone else’s.
I am Brazilian, i want to know which is the space between which you use to plant soybeans?.
30 inch same planter as the corn. Lots of guys here going back to planters particularly 15 inch planters because there's less problems from disease like white mold in rows versus drilled beans. Planters are also typically wider than drills and have much better seed metering and seed placement and closing of the seed furrow, so better, more even emergence of the seeds from the ground, and less seed used saves money. 40 years ago drilling soybeans made higher yields because of the old varieties back then did better spaced out more evenly in four 7.5 inch drilled rows versus two 15 inch rows versus one 30 inch row in the same amount of space, but that's not really true anymore with modern genetics. Plus, back then adding a cheap grain drill to plant soybeans meant the corn planter could be planting corn and the drill planting beans at the same time, which meant planting got finished faster. Nowadays, there are plenty of older planters that might be a little too old or worn for planting corn accurately that can be bought cheap and set up for planting soybeans and STILL do a better job than a grain drill planting beans, and usually twice as wide as the drill it's replacing so a guy would get done that much faster...
Modern replicated field studies have shown that using modern varieties of soybeans, there's really NO advantage to drilling soybeans in versus planting them in 15 inch rows or 30 inch rows, but the wider rows DO have advantages in less disease pressure in bad years. The only real advantage a drill has is that the soybeans planted with a drill canopy faster than beans planted in rows, particularly 30 inch rows. Later! OL J R :)
Ryan, a (probably) stupid non-farmer question: would harrowing across the grooves like you appear to be doing at 7:22 do better at flattening the ground? It seems most of the time you're going parallel to them.
It should do a better job, however in most situations with our strips we’re forced to go with the rows
How wide is your planter
12 30” rows
@@HowFarmsWork k thanks
So how does that not drag the seeds along with it
@@johnhaas2523 oh ok makes since thx bud for the info
how many acres per big black box of seeds
Roughly 40 acres
@@HowFarmsWork Thank you for answering!
y'all doing a good job man good video man
I tolled U when Hannah is there to help you ever thing works lol
what song were you using 7:49
Question 1 - why don’t you get all of your seed delivered in boxes, why even have the bags at all? Question 2 - everyone around here rolls their soybean fields, why don’t you use a big roller instead of the harrow.
CARLOS
In the part of Missouri where I live the kind of pre planting tillage you do is almost unheard of. Everyone has been no-till min-till for several years. Are you unable to make this work in your area? Significantly reduces inputs to raise a crop and cuts erosion losses as well.
I’ve been doing it with reduced yields compared to our regular tillage for six years now. No-till makes sense on $2-3 corn and dry years it will outperform the tilled ground. We’ve had 2 years in the last ten that were dry. Our soils retain moisture very well compared to the rest of the state. Part of the reason I was fighting against a mega solar facility being built in this area. No irrigation required.
with all the corn blowing down last year one would suppose there alot of trash in the feild
I really dig this video !
Early one again lol
3:54 that’s an awkward angle 👀
😂 it’s like the morning after taco Tuesday 🌮
do y'all not plant beans behind the wheat crop once it's harvested no till
We don't have a long enough growing season to plant winter wheat. We typically don't get the crops off until September-December and by then it's below freezing.
👍👍🇬🇧🇺🇸
Must be nice to have planting all wrapped up.have you got any rain yet?
Supposed to rain for 7 days in iwoa
Going way to fast with the Harrow
No, faster you drag harrow the better job it'll do until it starts bouncing. Chain harrows like that are meant to run pretty fast. OL J R :)
You guys over lap a lot need gps
That's because they farm in contoured strips... the strips are not perfectly even in places they widen out in other places narrow down, so some overlap is inevitable as the finish each strip. GPS won't fix that. OL J R :)
Never heard of harrowing after plant.
Pick your trash wheels out of the ground and you wont have ridges.