Drone interseeding cover crops into no till corn
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- Join along as cover crop is being aerial seeded into field of no till corn with a drone. The idea with doing it this way is to get next years cover crop growing earlier and to be more established going into fall. This is some what dependent on the rain to get good germination since the seed is on top of the ground.
Plus in this video there is a explanation of the seed blend that is being planted, (which I blended on farm), and also a
update on the corn crop.
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Thanks to Aero Ag LLC, of Seymour Wi
Is the seed laying on the ground enough soil contact to get good germination? How long does it take for a drone to cover each acre? Is the plot gps programmed into the drone or is it hand flown?
I do not own the drone. I custom hired it done, so I don't know all the technical details about the drone.
This was the first time I tried the drone seeding. If you get adequate rain fall, it should germinate being below the corn plant in the shade and moist environment. We were very dry until harvest time, so germination wasn't as good as I had hoped for. But there is a lot of hairy vetch that germinated and grew late fall and this spring. I am planning on doing an update video on the drone cover crop before I plant the field and spray it off.
It took them about 7-8 minutes, I'd say per acre. But I was putting a heavier rate on, so that determines acres covered. And required more refills of seed. It spread 40 feet wide. They manually flew the perimeter of the field to plot any obstacles and to set boundaries, and then the unit calculated the best route to cover the field and used GPS to fly itself. It even returned by itself to the landing area to refill and swap batteries.
Thanks for the reply. Seems like this technology could really be useful.
Hi, any further info after a while pls? How effective was this method? Did sufficient number of seeds make it through to the ground and started actually growin? How about this year? Are You gonna do it again?
Here is the link to a follow-up video from this spring prior to termination of th cover crop before planting this years corn. ua-cam.com/video/gf-Ke2yVIzs/v-deo.htmlsi=8pIZoPzx0XvYgwBM
I'm not sure if I will be doing any this year due to crop rotation this year and what is planned for next year's crop rotation.