It sure covers some acres in a hurry today. It’s hard to film these sprayers because they are so fast and wide. They can finish a field in a few passes.
Wednesday in Wisconsin, it was -28F actual temperature plus a breeze. I was applying flakes of big bales of alfalfa hay from a feed trailer to paddocks with hungry Welsh ponies, eager to see me. They had thick coats and so did I. Wished I could have been in a cab! The good news is the heated waterers didn't ice up, so was grateful for that.
Awesome video. Respect for the machines operators, especially when they are working in extreme weather conditions, deep cold, snow etc. Here in Romania we have 14 degrees Celsius, but the wheat is still very small. We have had a very rainy autumn. Congratulations BTP.
Great videos. Up here in NYS it's just amazing that western Kentucky can get to work so early in the spring planting corn like your vids have shown. We can't plant till mid May.
Yes that was an interesting video at a couple points in the video I thought those bones are going to hit the ground they were swinging back-and-forth pretty good thanks for sharing it
That thing sure beats the old Deere Hi Cycle I used to run! In 1975 I could only have imagined such a beast would exist in the future.I have even seen them with tracks. Those machines have pretty much grounded the spray planes around where I live. They hardly ever fly anymore.
@@bigtractorpower Yes it was and yes it would have been a bit chilly! It was open station with a cloth canopy top. I sprayed 12 rows of 38 inch cotton at a brisk 5 mph. It was a 4 cylinder gas burner. The gas tank was so close to the engine and would get so hot it would boil the gas when it got low in the tank! Sprayed 800 acres with that thing using an old converted gas hauler (1965 Chevy) as a nurse truck. I recently drove by the farm I worked for then and saw what was left of it sitting in a fence row. Times sure have changed...........
My favourite product to spray. Liquid fert with dribble bars. No drifting to worry about, boom height doesn’t matter with dribble bars, dust is no issue , no mixing so fill, hammer down and go.
Will they give a second dose in a few weeks? 17 gallons don't seem to be enough to do anything. We usually apply 30 gallons. Last year we applied it 15 gallons at time two weeks apart right after green up. Results were fantastic....
Yes they will spray in March just before corn planting. They don't want the wheat to jump too fast. It will head out in April but there is always a risk of the odd freeze in April. In 2007 there was a big freeze in April for 5 days it did not get above 20. The wheat was headed out, corn was ankle high and the leaves were on all the trees. The freeze killed the corn, killed or severely damaged the headed out wheat and all the leaves fell off the trees. You want to push up yield but time it right.
Thought at first "Roundup" those lawyers looking for victims/pay day always on tv. Cool JD Sprayer, looks like a moon vehicle. Be well, have fun watching the Superbowl tomorrow. Stay Warm 🚜👍
So did all 3 sprayers run for 48 hrs straight? I know it's a big family farm with lots of employees, but I can't imagine the hassle of having enough trained people to run all the equipment...but they obviously get it accomplished!
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Thank you for telling me about your channel. I am subscriber 51. I watched some of your videos. The self loading wagon is interesting. Thank you for following BTP. I am honored it has replaced TV. Your English is good.
If the ground was frozen and the wheat dormant this would be a very bad practice but the wheat has very obviously broken dormancy and is actively growing. Taking advantage of the frozen ground to get the job done is a good management practice and does comply with BMPs for nutrient management.
The exception to that is if the before the ground thaws a heavy rainfall event occurs. In that case a substantial portion of that nitrogen will be lost to runoff.
We had a nice light rain for two days after this was filmed. It jumped to 70 degrees for two days and the wheat jumped up a bunch. I posted an Instagram update yesterday.
I about passed out when you run the numbers. Comes out to about $100k for that much fertilizer. Then, fungicide on top of that. As the crop hasn't broken ground yet, why not use wider flotation tires? Huge operation. Thanks for the video
These wider tires stay on until April. The tires will spray the wheat when its knee high and apply herbicide on all the corn acres. In April the row crop tires go on for spraying the corn ones it's up. The only time bigger tires could be used is in January, then they would be taken off for trip two in wheat but then go back to a bigger floater for herbicide and then over to row crops in corn. Its easier running two sets of tires rather than three
@@bigtractorpower They are obviously going to apply a second app of nitrogen. 17gpa is only 50lbs of N. Wheat needs closer to 150. Wheat is an interesting crop. It responds so well to management that the more you do the more you get in return. We do 5 in season passes each year in the winter wheat in Ontario.
Never used liquid nitrogen used pellitizes 45 urea with a spreader buggy behind no cab JD4020 with canvass warmer during late winter when ground was frozen.. bitter cold days
Probably because they need to run the pump and every tire is run by a hydraulic drive motor as well as all the other hydraulic functions of the machine.
We have put nitrogen on frozen ground up here before but it was the 15th of April crazy how different the climate is usually we wait till end of April to do our nitrogen corn isn’t planted here before the 5th of May
Wait a Combine can weigh 50K Pounds from the factory, but a sprayer weighs up to 140K pounds?!? That doesn’t seem right to me unless im just stupid. Good vid as always!
I ran about 20,000 acres last year in a R4045 and about 19,000 acres in a case Patriot the year prior. The Deere's ride is 1000x better than case. Never once did my back hurt at the end of a day in the Deere. The case however..... That was a daily occurrence.
I calculated the fertilizer rate at 17 gallons per acre to be about 50.8 pounds of nitrogen per acre. Is that about right? The 28% liquid nitrogen weighs about 10.67# per gallon fluidfertilizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dale-Leikam-1.pdf so 17 x 10.67 x 0.28 = 50.8# of actual nitrogen. I assume they spread dry fertilizer just before planting also. Thanks BTP! Nice video...
Dan Kinnard 70 acres on a 1200 gallon tank load. They can get over around 100 acres in an hour in really good running ground (big long fields) in smaller fields with shorter passes, the efficiency starts to decrease
Dan Kinnard that’s 70 acres at 17 gallons of solution per acre on a full tank. At 15 gallons per acre you can get 80 acres on a full tank and at 10 gallons per acre you can get 1200 acres on a full tank
The 1,200 gallons will be applied in 15-20 minutes. This R4045 covered 1,100 acres in 14 hours with a breakfast and lunch break. The three machines tooling in that time cleared 3,000 acres with ease. They were getting there cut up acres. After these fields they went to 1,000 acre plus fields and really started rolling.
BTP, how many miles have you put on filming this past year? The footage has been most informing and entertaining. Great job and thanks for all the work bringing this content our way.
Thanks for showing him operating the 4600 display. I wrote some of the code in there, and being told that they run it while bouncing across the field just doesn't get the point across as well as seeing it. #deereemployee
That is a detail I would not have thought off. We are used to just touching a screen and seeing things work. Thank you for watching and designing such an advanced product.
It stays green be because we rarely have the ground freeze more than a few hours. Normally it’s in the 30s and 40s so the wheat is not growing buts it’s not froze. It’s 65 degrees here tonight. My lawn is the same way it’s green most of the winter in fact I could mow it this week and give it s trim.
The farm has the acreage that requires the investment in modern machines to get the crops planted, cared for and harvested. This farm has been around many many years and supports a big family. They run a good operation.
That is one fine video Big Tractor Power!Looks fun to be driving sprayer in January.The price in Canadian dollars for one of these machines with lots of options is in the $700 000 dollar range.That is the definition of OUCH!! There is a yellow spreader bar nozzle broken off on the end of the breakaway on the right hand boom.It is cold i can see how slowly the booms fold.
That is a big price tag. A few tips were broken or knocked off during filming. The operator just stops and puts new ones on. The booms wave up and down and the out side tips catch the ground from time to time.
What did you get down to? The ground rarely freezes here in the winter 16 degrees is low for Kentucky. I am thankful it does not get extra extra cold. It was tougher filming in the cold. The camera was a bit slower in reaction time.
Stanley Baker it’s called winter wheat. The plant it late in the year like November so they can harvest it and then plant soybeans in about May or June. Then harvest the soybeans in October to replant wheat. It’s called double cropping.
Yes I messed up. It should be 36,080 lbs. I had a typo in the specs listing and read that typo in the voice over not thinking about. These videos take about 4 hours to put together from lay out to voice over. That does not include filming time. Every once a while I flub a detail.
Impressive machines, questionable spraying strategy. I am guessing that if they did a soil analysis before, during and in the early spring they would find they are not going to get the #N/acre they want.
This spraying works great. They sprayed all 11,000 acres in 48 hours. The following day we had gentle rain fall for 72 hours. A week later the temp hit 70 degrees and the wheat jumped a bunch. See my Instagram video showing the result. They will apply more nitrogen and a herbicide in March. Then fungicide in April when the crop heads out.
Not saying all the N will flow away, just that rain on frozen ground is going to flush a good deal of it before the ground allows for sufficient infiltration. It is basic hydrology. Now if they have no problem with that money disappearing then so be it. Two things though: 1) Sooner or later someone is going to test their outflow and regulations will follow. 2) It is a lost input that reduces their output. Also rain and 70 degree temps are enough to make wheat jump w/o any other inputs.
Yes I messed up. It should be 36,080 lbs. I had a typo in the specs listing and read that typo in the voice over not thinking about. These videos take about 4 hours to put together from lay out to voice over. That does not include filming time. Every once a while I flub a detail.
Yes I messed up. It should be 36,080 lbs. I had a typo in the specs listing and read that typo in the voice over not thinking about. These videos take about 4 hours to put together from lay out to voice over. That does not include filming time. Every once a while I flub a detail.
There is a Bluetooth data transmitter that plugs into the cab and relays the data to the iPad. It’s a really nice and easy to use program. It can be used in all aspects of farming from planting, application, and harvest. Also reasonably priced.
Just me, why AREN'T they towing larger tanks behind them? Like 5000 gal. Seems like a lot of machine but, little tanks. G'day to you and yours! It's the SUNTORY whiskey that asks that! G'day again and again and again.......🤣😂😃😂🤣🤯😁😎 Still think a ancelry tank feeding the pump on balloon tires would be nice! Anselry,....auxiliary... you know what I mean! Damm Japanese whiskey....🙃😒🤯🖖
5,000 gal would be too heavy. That’s an entire semi tanker that will fill the R4045 four times. You can see the deep ruts 1,200 gallons can leave during the first harvest clip. It takes very little time to fill the sprayer up.
That's Christian and Logan county for you, always early, they have the soil types to get away with it too, the rest of us in Western Kentucky just wait till late February or March like you said.
Well here January is the time for fertilizer on wheat. By March corns going in the ground and wheat is putting on heads at the end of March into the first week of April. No time to wait.
Kind of difficult actually usually you just know the person who runs the operation. Larger farms though operate more like businesses and I have even heard of interns from south Africa working at some of the larger 30,000-acre farms. So just keep you eye out for internships or ask someone who works on a farm if they need workers.
I messed up on the weight. It should be 36,080 lbs. I had a typo in the specs listing and read that typo in the voice over not thinking about. These videos take about 4 hours to put together from lay out to voice over. That does not include filming time. Every once a while I flub a detail.
I messed up. It should be 36,080 lbs. I had a typo in the specs listing and read that typo in the voice over not thinking about. These videos take about 4 hours to put together from lay out to voice over. That does not include filming time. Every once a while I flub a detail.
Yes I messed up. It should be 36,080 lbs. I had a typo in the specs listing and read that typo in the voice over not thinking about. These videos take about 4 hours to put together from lay out to voice over. That does not include filming time. Every once a while I flub a detail.
No wonder the epa and water quality people are in a uproar putting 28 down on frozen ground ahead of a snow storm and expecting it to not run off is insane.... no wonder we get regulated.... pretty soon we won’t be able to put any on in the winter or fall....
It’s not a big deal. The nitrogen goes right down. You can’t even see it on the field after the sprayer passes. You can’t see where the sprayer has been. It gets the fertilizer right it needs to be. It’s not running off.
The EPA and "water quality people" are among the most clueless and counterproductive organizations out there. These are the same people who think pattern tileing poisons our waterways and that DEF systems turn diesel exhaust into magic unicorn breath. Do you honestly feel that the growers are going to waste their time and money in a current ag economy with VERY tight margins if there's any risk at all of the N not being available to the plant?
Justin D You know that and I know that my point is those dip sh!ts don’t know that..... so it’s prob not a good idea to put it on the Internet.... facts don’t matter but perceptions do and the perception is that 28 won’t soak into frozen ground which is why in my area know one spreads ammonium sulfate or 28 because it just looks bad and gives people something to whine about....
@@farmermatt629 Fair point. However, being buried in snow and likely not being able to turn a wheel for another couple months I love watching it. Thanks BTP!
Farm? 11k just in winter wheat? Thats a conglomerate. Are you young? Want to own and operate your own crop farm? Too bad, the big farms need more land.
This farm dates back to the 1800’s and has several generations of family members out the field every day. They worked and have several families that make it go each day.
@@bigtractorpower I'm sure; but there was other families from the 1800's who just couldn't pay the few extra dollars for rent who are longer in agriculture. Production agriculture has become centralized into a small ownership profile to the detriment of small and medium size operations. Already the average person is embracing ideologies like Socialism; if trends continue those voices will become louder. I myself will strive to still own my own farm and work it; but there's not enough oxygen out there for a person to become a sole proprietorship farmer these days.
I am glad to see family farms grow and continue the tradition, but yes I am sad that it is extremely difficult to start a farm today without millions just to get going. However I do not blame the family farmers who are this big, they've had to do what they've had to to survive, and that has mostly been due to the government and subsidies, the more land you run the more you get, and it does run out. It's not right, and yes there are farmers out there who are jerks and just land hungry and in it for the "be biggest" mentality, but not all are that way. It is what it is. My goal before I leave the world is to have my own small operation built and started, and to leave it to my kids or someone else who wants to do it when I go, itll be small but it's going to be a start. We all have to eat, that wont go away until we go away. I grew up in 13 acres, no agriculture just mowing and bush hogging, but had an incredibly wonderful farmer across the street who took me along any time I wanted to go, which was every time. There's. nothing like it. That's what I want, rhats what I'm going to do. Thanks BTP for filming for us.
@@jakeadair8292 the government really doesn't give to a farmer I started small and now harvest 11,000 acres roughly a year and growing all the time you just have to have the drive to do and willing to risk everything that you have to grow
Growing up in the 50's it is the ground speed of today's equipment that impresses. Thanks for doing the vids.
It sure covers some acres in a hurry today. It’s hard to film these sprayers because they are so fast and wide. They can finish a field in a few passes.
I definitely liked how you displayed all the sprayers information on the screen! Great video
Great to see all different aspects of crop farming. Cheers .
Thank you for watching. I always hope the extra season footage helps show the complete process.
Wednesday in Wisconsin, it was -28F actual temperature plus a breeze. I was applying flakes of big bales of alfalfa hay from a feed trailer to paddocks with hungry Welsh ponies, eager to see me. They had thick coats and so did I. Wished I could have been in a cab! The good news is the heated waterers didn't ice up, so was grateful for that.
Cold weather is sure tough on live stock and caring for them. I hope warmer temps have reached you.
Awesome video. Respect for the machines operators, especially when they are working in extreme weather conditions, deep cold, snow etc. Here in Romania we have 14 degrees Celsius, but the wheat is still very small. We have had a very rainy autumn. Congratulations BTP.
Thank you for watching. It’s always an honor to have viewers in other parts of the world. It was cold but offered a great chance to work.
Great videos. Up here in NYS it's just amazing that western Kentucky can get to work so early in the spring planting corn like your vids have shown. We can't plant till mid May.
Thank you. I grew up in Rochester, NY. I don’t miss the long winters. WKY has moderate weather for nearly year round field time.
Yes that was an interesting video at a couple points in the video I thought those bones are going to hit the ground they were swinging back-and-forth pretty good thanks for sharing it
The booms can sway quite a bit. Some times they do catch the ground in a rolling part of the field.
very educational video. thanks for your expertise in making these videos and thanks to all the farmers that cooperate with you to make it happen.
Thank you for watching. If it was not for the farming sharing their machines it would not be possible to have BTP.
That thing sure beats the old Deere Hi Cycle I used to run! In 1975 I could only have imagined such a beast would exist in the future.I have even seen them with tracks. Those machines have pretty much grounded the spray planes around where I live. They hardly ever fly anymore.
The 75 model must have been open station. That would be pretty cold running in January.
@@bigtractorpower Yes it was and yes it would have been a bit chilly! It was open station with a cloth canopy top. I sprayed 12 rows of 38 inch cotton at a brisk 5 mph. It was a 4 cylinder gas burner. The gas tank was so close to the engine and would get so hot it would boil the gas when it got low in the tank! Sprayed 800 acres with that thing using an old converted gas hauler (1965 Chevy) as a nurse truck. I recently drove by the farm I worked for then and saw what was left of it sitting in a fence row. Times sure have changed...........
We just got our liquid N put on during the freeze as well. It’s been about the only and best time to get it applied.
Very cool. RG700?
Yes. Still the rg700
@@adamrogers3946 very cool. I would like to catch it in action some time.
I am sure we can make it happen.
My favourite product to spray. Liquid fert with dribble bars. No drifting to worry about, boom height doesn’t matter with dribble bars, dust is no issue , no mixing so fill, hammer down and go.
It goes fast.
Will they give a second dose in a few weeks? 17 gallons don't seem to be enough to do anything. We usually apply 30 gallons. Last year we applied it 15 gallons at time two weeks apart right after green up. Results were fantastic....
Yes they will spray in March just before corn planting. They don't want the wheat to jump too fast. It will head out in April but there is always a risk of the odd freeze in April. In 2007 there was a big freeze in April for 5 days it did not get above 20. The wheat was headed out, corn was ankle high and the leaves were on all the trees. The freeze killed the corn, killed or severely damaged the headed out wheat and all the leaves fell off the trees. You want to push up yield but time it right.
Another great video.
Thank you for watching.
Thought at first "Roundup" those lawyers looking for victims/pay day always on tv. Cool JD Sprayer, looks like a moon vehicle. Be well, have fun watching the Superbowl tomorrow. Stay Warm 🚜👍
Round up will be sprayed in early March over corn ground. The R4045 is impressive.
Great video BTP
Thank you for watching.
Brilliant video 👍👍👍
Thank you for watching.
So did all 3 sprayers run for 48 hrs straight? I know it's a big family farm with lots of employees, but I can't imagine the hassle of having enough trained people to run all the equipment...but they obviously get it accomplished!
Yes all three ran solid until they were done. They run hard to beat the weather.
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I am from south tyrol, the northest part of italy, in the heart of the alps. 🏔
I subscribed your channel a few days ago and since then i do not use the television anymore. ☝️
Great footage, great machines, beautifull pictures. Thanks for your work!!!
I have a yt channel too, where i started a few months ago dhowing the vids that made/make my nephew. I‘d feel honoured if you would visit it! Maybe it‘s interesting for you how we farm in the alps. Thank you again and i hope you will continue...
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Greetings!
Wolfy
Thank you for telling me about your channel. I am subscriber 51. I watched some of your videos. The self loading wagon is interesting. Thank you for following BTP. I am honored it has replaced TV. Your English is good.
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Thank you for watching.
We also took advantage of the froze ground to apply poultry litter to our costumers fields
Good deal. Cold has its advantages. What do you spread with?
We use a STX 325 case and a MX 285 case with bbi pull type 22ft hydraulic spreaders
Great Video 👏👌🏻👍
Thank you for watching.
neat rig
Thank you for watching.
If the ground was frozen and the wheat dormant this would be a very bad practice but the wheat has very obviously broken dormancy and is actively growing. Taking advantage of the frozen ground to get the job done is a good management practice and does comply with BMPs for nutrient management.
It’s rare we see wheat or grass on lawns go dormer here.
@@bigtractorpower well physiologically winter wheat has to go dormant to trigger the reproductive cycle.
wish I could farm like that
The exception to that is if the before the ground thaws a heavy rainfall event occurs. In that case a substantial portion of that nitrogen will be lost to runoff.
We had a nice light rain for two days after this was filmed. It jumped to 70 degrees for two days and the wheat jumped up a bunch. I posted an Instagram update yesterday.
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Do they come back and fertilize the soybeans after they come up
No fertilizer on the soybeans. The nitrogen applied in January and April carries over from the wheat to help the beans seeded in June.
I about passed out when you run the numbers. Comes out to about $100k for that much fertilizer. Then, fungicide on top of that. As the crop hasn't broken ground yet, why not use wider flotation tires? Huge operation. Thanks for the video
These wider tires stay on until April. The tires will spray the wheat when its knee high and apply herbicide on all the corn acres. In April the row crop tires go on for spraying the corn ones it's up. The only time bigger tires could be used is in January, then they would be taken off for trip two in wheat but then go back to a bigger floater for herbicide and then over to row crops in corn. Its easier running two sets of tires rather than three
@@bigtractorpower They are obviously going to apply a second app of nitrogen. 17gpa is only 50lbs of N. Wheat needs closer to 150. Wheat is an interesting crop. It responds so well to management that the more you do the more you get in return. We do 5 in season passes each year in the winter wheat in Ontario.
Never used liquid nitrogen used pellitizes 45 urea with a spreader buggy behind no cab JD4020 with canvass warmer during late winter when ground was frozen.. bitter cold days
That is cold. Very cool set up no pun intended. 4020s are solid tractors.
It was a great video, I wondered why so many HP needed to run the sprayer, any reason why a 200 hp would not work
Probably because they need to run the pump and every tire is run by a hydraulic drive motor as well as all the other hydraulic functions of the machine.
@@Je-cm6fc thank you
Oddly enough, it takes lots of power to drive the machine fully loaded at that speed, plus run all the hydraulic functions
We have put nitrogen on frozen ground up here before but it was the 15th of April crazy how different the climate is usually we wait till end of April to do our nitrogen corn isn’t planted here before the 5th of May
Climate is a big factor in the farming season. By April 15 wheat will be headed out here in Western Kentucky.
Wait a Combine can weigh 50K Pounds from the factory, but a sprayer weighs up to 140K pounds?!? That doesn’t seem right to me unless im just stupid. Good vid as always!
The sprayer was 40,000 lbs. I miss spoke in the narration and did not hear the mistake until after the video was published.
You should show us how they mix the fertiliser
Great video. Sounds pretty loud and rough in that cab.
The cab is nice. The frozen ground makes for a bumpy ride.
Nice equipment being used. You had a late night or an early morning to get the 3a.m. shot
Anything to get the footage. The cold was harder to film in than the odd hours.
Very interesting video; thanks for sharing. Why do the sprayers sometimes go diagonal and not follow the wheat rows? Just curious.
It is about yhe program that the gps has writen to go to path
The seeder must had another pàth
The sprayer another but the both go straight
BTP, do they have to do anything to keep the chemicals from freezing in this crazy cold?
Steve Holsten if it's straight liquid fertilizer, it won't freeze at those temperatures
@@jwedel1777 Ok. Thanks for responding. I appreciate it.
Pretty jarring ride.
It was a little bouncey over 14 mph
I ran about 20,000 acres last year in a R4045 and about 19,000 acres in a case Patriot the year prior. The Deere's ride is 1000x better than case. Never once did my back hurt at the end of a day in the Deere. The case however..... That was a daily occurrence.
I calculated the fertilizer rate at 17 gallons per acre to be about 50.8 pounds of nitrogen per acre. Is that about right? The 28% liquid nitrogen weighs about 10.67# per gallon fluidfertilizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dale-Leikam-1.pdf so 17 x 10.67 x 0.28 = 50.8# of actual nitrogen. I assume they spread dry fertilizer just before planting also. Thanks BTP! Nice video...
Yes dry fertilizer in September before seeding and a second shot of liquid nitrogen in March.
With 1200 gallon capacity, how many acres can be covered and approximately how long does it take to apply 1200 gallons?
Dan Kinnard 70 acres on a 1200 gallon tank load. They can get over around 100 acres in an hour in really good running ground (big long fields) in smaller fields with shorter passes, the efficiency starts to decrease
Dan Kinnard that’s 70 acres at 17 gallons of solution per acre on a full tank. At 15 gallons per acre you can get 80 acres on a full tank and at 10 gallons per acre you can get 1200 acres on a full tank
The 1,200 gallons will be applied in 15-20 minutes. This R4045 covered 1,100 acres in 14 hours with a breakfast and lunch break. The three machines tooling in that time cleared 3,000 acres with ease. They were getting there cut up acres. After these fields they went to 1,000 acre plus fields and really started rolling.
What happens in freezing weather... does the nitrogen mix ever freeze up in the sprayer?
It does not freeze. It tends to melt the snow as it’s sprayed.
Do they apply post or pre-emerge through their planting rotation
Yes. Typically they apply herbicide in November, nitrogen in January, more nitrogen in March and fungicide in April.
BTP, how many miles have you put on filming this past year? The footage has been most informing and entertaining. Great job and thanks for all the work bringing this content our way.
A bunch. I put new tires on my truck last April and it’s time for a new set. Thank you for watching. It is fun filming and sharing these big machines.
How much nitrogen are they putting to the acre
I am not sure. I think Matt tells us in the ride along segment.
Thanks for showing him operating the 4600 display. I wrote some of the code in there, and being told that they run it while bouncing across the field just doesn't get the point across as well as seeing it. #deereemployee
That is a detail I would not have thought off. We are used to just touching a screen and seeing things work. Thank you for watching and designing such an advanced product.
Do you help the farm? or did they just let you take a solo joy ride at 3am in the sprayer? Great video.........hit negative 50 wind chill here.
I do not work on the farm but I am friends with them. I just ride in the buddy seat.
@@bigtractorpower Ohh, In the beginning it looked like you were operating the sprayer, that was pure dedication to be filming at 3am
doies that jarring throw your seed and fertilizer placement off a little?
They were using streamer bars on the sprayer and they always apply a constant stream no matter how bouncy the boom is.
It can. The smoother the better. Plus it makes a long day operating the machine.
Is wheat greening up there already? Or close to it?
It stays green be because we rarely have the ground freeze more than a few hours. Normally it’s in the 30s and 40s so the wheat is not growing buts it’s not froze. It’s 65 degrees here tonight. My lawn is the same way it’s green most of the winter in fact I could mow it this week and give it s trim.
Where do they get the money to buy all the brand new equipment?
Arik Huebner Loans, grants, etc
The farm has the acreage that requires the investment in modern machines to get the crops planted, cared for and harvested. This farm has been around many many years and supports a big family. They run a good operation.
That is one fine video Big Tractor Power!Looks fun to be driving sprayer in January.The price in Canadian dollars for one of these machines with lots of options is in the $700 000 dollar range.That is the definition of OUCH!! There is a yellow spreader bar nozzle broken off on the end of the breakaway on the right hand boom.It is cold i can see how slowly the booms fold.
That is a big price tag. A few tips were broken or knocked off during filming. The operator just stops and puts new ones on. The booms wave up and down and the out side tips catch the ground from time to time.
16 is t shirt weather. Was cold here in MN
What did you get down to? The ground rarely freezes here in the winter 16 degrees is low for Kentucky. I am thankful it does not get extra extra cold. It was tougher filming in the cold. The camera was a bit slower in reaction time.
I’m sure it causes problems down there. Think -20/25 windshield -50.
bigtractorpower 35 degrees below zero in Wisconsin 60 degrees below windchill.
What are they spraying?
Stanley Baker it’s called winter wheat. The plant it late in the year like November so they can harvest it and then plant soybeans in about May or June. Then harvest the soybeans in October to replant wheat. It’s called double cropping.
Nitrogen for fertilizer on winter wheat.
That's how my cousin works
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I think you meant 36,000lbs, not 136,000 lol
Loaded with 1200 gallons its 44,500. Its easy to get the weight wrong. But This guy does a great job as this.
Yes I messed up. It should be 36,080 lbs. I had a typo in the specs listing and read that typo in the voice over not thinking about. These videos take about 4 hours to put together from lay out to voice over. That does not include filming time. Every once a while I flub a detail.
@@bigtractorpower And we gladly look over your flub ups.
ya i had to look it up cause i didnt believe it weighed so much that is a fully loaded semi weight
Impressive machines, questionable spraying strategy. I am guessing that if they did a soil analysis before, during and in the early spring they would find they are not going to get the #N/acre they want.
This spraying works great. They sprayed all 11,000 acres in 48 hours. The following day we had gentle rain fall for 72 hours. A week later the temp hit 70 degrees and the wheat jumped a bunch. See my Instagram video showing the result. They will apply more nitrogen and a herbicide in March. Then fungicide in April when the crop heads out.
Not saying all the N will flow away, just that rain on frozen ground is going to flush a good deal of it before the ground allows for sufficient infiltration. It is basic hydrology. Now if they have no problem with that money disappearing then so be it. Two things though: 1) Sooner or later someone is going to test their outflow and regulations will follow. 2) It is a lost input that reduces their output. Also rain and 70 degree temps are enough to make wheat jump w/o any other inputs.
In Poland from this year, we can use nitrogen from March to October :/
Interesting. Is it regulated? As far as I know here in Kentucky you can apply it 365 days a year.
Its regulated by European Union law. And its all obout to prevent nitrogen flusching to rivers and lakes when the ground is frozen.
Somebody definitely added a 1 on the front of that weight. No way it weighs over 100K.
Just a small mistake,and what?This man does a great job with this videos,i wish somebody would do this type of videos in Europe
Yes I messed up. It should be 36,080 lbs. I had a typo in the specs listing and read that typo in the voice over not thinking about. These videos take about 4 hours to put together from lay out to voice over. That does not include filming time. Every once a while I flub a detail.
Looks a little cold
It was not easy to film outside but worth getting the footage to share.
Deere specs state that the weight with 120 foot steel booms is 35,000 not 136,000.
It should have been 36,000. I messed up.
Yes I messed up. It should be 36,080 lbs. I had a typo in the specs listing and read that typo in the voice over not thinking about. These videos take about 4 hours to put together from lay out to voice over. That does not include filming time. Every once a while I flub a detail.
Not trying to pick a fight. Just saw that and had to double check it.
What program is on the iPad
Climate FieldView
Thanks for the info Matt.
One of two sprayers running in the United States lol.
Three in this case on the farm. But every farm in the area where out this day rolling on wheat so there were dozens going I am sure.
@@bigtractorpower I love it I just love seeing it here in MN keep doing what you do cause I lOVE it
What app was he running on the iPad
It’s called Climate FieldView
Thanks Matt.
@@iamatt568 does it plug into the tractor port for sprayer data or just know where you drive by satellite
There is a Bluetooth data transmitter that plugs into the cab and relays the data to the iPad. It’s a really nice and easy to use program. It can be used in all aspects of farming from planting, application, and harvest. Also reasonably priced.
@@iamatt568 ok sounds like I need to look into getting one for my new holland sprayer next week at the farm show
492,440.00??.Sigh,most banks don't see that much in a lifetime anymore B.T.P..WOW!!.
It’s a big investment for a big job.
490000 ????
Omg
@@thomasstergiou1331 You left out the"4".Yeah,OMG is right.HAHA!!.
@@bigtractorpower That's a fact.
Wheres the big Brute sprayer? lol
Comander Mcgarrett in Montana
@@easchit funny.
Better hope they don't get a huge rain before that ground thaws or else that's going to be a lot of wasted money.
The good news is it was frozen three days and then we had a three days of light rain. It’s 65 degrees right now. Mission accomplished.
what nozzle is this one?
It’s a t shape nozzle with several holes to dribble out the fertilizers on the wheat.
I think they call them stream bars.
@@bigtractorpower does it has a pre orifice the restrain the flow? Do you know the manufacturer?
They are called chaffer stream bars and yes they have 4 different orifice settings
@@iamatt568 thanks!
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Thank you for watching.
Just me, why AREN'T they towing larger tanks behind them? Like 5000 gal. Seems like a lot of machine but, little tanks.
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5,000 gal would be too heavy. That’s an entire semi tanker that will fill the R4045 four times. You can see the deep ruts 1,200 gallons can leave during the first harvest clip. It takes very little time to fill the sprayer up.
Nobody runs in the cold like that here. We just wait until March like normal people.
That's Christian and Logan county for you, always early, they have the soil types to get away with it too, the rest of us in Western Kentucky just wait till late February or March like you said.
Well here January is the time for fertilizer on wheat. By March corns going in the ground and wheat is putting on heads at the end of March into the first week of April. No time to wait.
That buddy seat doesn't sound as comfy as the operator's seat!!
It would be a neat machine to drive.
How can a south african man get a job there on a farm like this one and how will a man know if they are hireing?
Kind of difficult actually usually you just know the person who runs the operation. Larger farms though operate more like businesses and I have even heard of interns from south Africa working at some of the larger 30,000-acre farms. So just keep you eye out for internships or ask someone who works on a farm if they need workers.
that weight, Jesus
I messed up on the weight. It should be 36,080 lbs. I had a typo in the specs listing and read that typo in the voice over not thinking about. These videos take about 4 hours to put together from lay out to voice over. That does not include filming time. Every once a while I flub a detail.
I find it hard to believe that sprayer weighs 136000 pounds
I messed up. It should be 36,080 lbs. I had a typo in the specs listing and read that typo in the voice over not thinking about. These videos take about 4 hours to put together from lay out to voice over. That does not include filming time. Every once a while I flub a detail.
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Something is goofy. No way in hell tbat weighs 130,000 lbs
Yes I messed up. It should be 36,080 lbs. I had a typo in the specs listing and read that typo in the voice over not thinking about. These videos take about 4 hours to put together from lay out to voice over. That does not include filming time. Every once a while I flub a detail.
No wonder the epa and water quality people are in a uproar putting 28 down on frozen ground ahead of a snow storm and expecting it to not run off is insane.... no wonder we get regulated.... pretty soon we won’t be able to put any on in the winter or fall....
farmermatt629 nitrogen is heavier than water, so not much run off
It’s not a big deal. The nitrogen goes right down. You can’t even see it on the field after the sprayer passes. You can’t see where the sprayer has been. It gets the fertilizer right it needs to be. It’s not running off.
The EPA and "water quality people" are among the most clueless and counterproductive organizations out there. These are the same people who think pattern tileing poisons our waterways and that DEF systems turn diesel exhaust into magic unicorn breath.
Do you honestly feel that the growers are going to waste their time and money in a current ag economy with VERY tight margins if there's any risk at all of the N not being available to the plant?
Justin D You know that and I know that my point is those dip sh!ts don’t know that..... so it’s prob not a good idea to put it on the Internet.... facts don’t matter but perceptions do and the perception is that 28 won’t soak into frozen ground which is why in my area know one spreads ammonium sulfate or 28 because it just looks bad and gives people something to whine about....
@@farmermatt629 Fair point. However, being buried in snow and likely not being able to turn a wheel for another couple months I love watching it. Thanks BTP!
Farm? 11k just in winter wheat? Thats a conglomerate. Are you young? Want to own and operate your own crop farm? Too bad, the big farms need more land.
This farm dates back to the 1800’s and has several generations of family members out the field every day. They worked and have several families that make it go each day.
@@bigtractorpower I'm sure; but there was other families from the 1800's who just couldn't pay the few extra dollars for rent who are longer in agriculture. Production agriculture has become centralized into a small ownership profile to the detriment of small and medium size operations. Already the average person is embracing ideologies like Socialism; if trends continue those voices will become louder. I myself will strive to still own my own farm and work it; but there's not enough oxygen out there for a person to become a sole proprietorship farmer these days.
@@nelsonwarren86 what's wrong with a farm getting bigger that means they are doing something right
I am glad to see family farms grow and continue the tradition, but yes I am sad that it is extremely difficult to start a farm today without millions just to get going. However I do not blame the family farmers who are this big, they've had to do what they've had to to survive, and that has mostly been due to the government and subsidies, the more land you run the more you get, and it does run out. It's not right, and yes there are farmers out there who are jerks and just land hungry and in it for the "be biggest" mentality, but not all are that way. It is what it is. My goal before I leave the world is to have my own small operation built and started, and to leave it to my kids or someone else who wants to do it when I go, itll be small but it's going to be a start. We all have to eat, that wont go away until we go away. I grew up in 13 acres, no agriculture just mowing and bush hogging, but had an incredibly wonderful farmer across the street who took me along any time I wanted to go, which was every time. There's. nothing like it. That's what I want, rhats what I'm going to do. Thanks BTP for filming for us.
@@jakeadair8292 the government really doesn't give to a farmer I started small and now harvest 11,000 acres roughly a year and growing all the time you just have to have the drive to do and willing to risk everything that you have to grow
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What an achievement
I like your enthusiasm.