Great start to good crop. 24 corn. Drone R2 feeding and V5 feeding did it yield?! test plot results
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- Опубліковано 24 гру 2024
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Trying to emphasize how big a small gain on this field this year really is.
Like I said, take it with a grain of salt, but we really moved the needle on the soil test in the root zone and added an impressive yield bump.
Let's do it again at a little higher level of management. Bring in more plant testing and different levels of applied fertilizer trials.
Great info . A steady diet in season very beneificial. I also have found drone apps in mornings and evenings more beneificial. Great video
Thanks.
I'm excited because this is new to the area and it worked
Exiting stuff! Good corn, great test plot response. Great weather. Combine on tracks, puberty kicking in.... All good stuff 😂😂
Well, that's an exciting little plot response 😎 I'll clear my schedule for another fun visit and video 😊
Thank you for all this research. It is financially prohibitive to do a lot of experimenting when I only need to grow 15 to 20 acres for feed. I fortunately have an agronomist willing to work with me who's not on a sales commission. The products they sell are in line with what i'm trying to do for my soils.
Another good one
Nice work Jon! taking the time to do those trials benefits us all. Jealous of your old dryer. Gotta try and fire up my old American Automatic if I can
Do you know how many years I went to Federated and simply wrote them a big check every spring. And then whenever asking them questions on stuff like this they would just simply dismiss it. It won't are soils are too tough are climates are too cold
They even said one time that I might think strip till works but it ain't going to work
I'm just trying to bring what other people are having success with to our area
@@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754 i think we have an epidemic of unadventurous farmers who are basically not motivated to try very hard by bad economics. Then they turn around and tell you it's a waste of time to make themselves feel better
Need to watch the first part again, my head is still trying to digest the results.
I tried to describe it as cleanly as I could.
I want to go back onto Ag talk Intel about a half a dozen of them guys to go eat a bag of dick last winter they were talking about this kind of stuff and of course liquid fertilizer is a scam foliar is a scam this is how you get 30 bushel of corn and depleted soils. I don't know about your opinion but I think there's a lot of curmudgeon closed-minded people
@@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754 Remember most farmers are GDI. god dam independent. Then you mix in snake oil and you get funky results.
@@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754 I'm a spreadsheet guy, show me the numbers. 😂
@M8Stealth next years plots I will ask if they can do it in spread sheet form.
2" of rain in Aug would have given me a 20 bu response.☹️
We're close to 6 in now in the last couple weeks during Harvest
Yep if we would have got that rain through July and August I would have had a fantastic soybean crop not a disaster and I probably would have had a lot of record corn
I myself would suggest soil testing every year on the test acers where you are replacing nutrients with biologicals to see if you are mining your nutrient levels down,I have heard of a few farmers doing this and the first several years yield is good but after several years the yields deminish and there nutrient levels are also very low,and I use some biologicals when cost effective,I feel I need to double my investment in them,and its a lot easier when corn is $5-$6 then $3-$4
Absolutely in general we need to be doing more soil testing I have a video a while back trying to mine a field for 9 years and the phosphorus level and the pH stay the same
@@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754Interesting,on my ground I try to replace crop removal every year,and when fertilizer prices are a little lower a little more ,was that 9 year test done on notill ground?
@billsauberlich7337 no till strip-till.
P is easy for plants to get. After doing that 9 year trial, and now a few years of plant testing, I will never spend a nickel on removal rate phosphorus.
Corn variety?
Peterson 20Z96
Interesting Jon. Maybe I've missed this from past videos but before you were banding your dry but you mentioned broadcast this year? Any particular reason for not banding the dry?
I still banded with the strip till but like I had mentioned with all the rain this year I didn't know if we washed the fertilizer out of the soil
@@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754 Okay thanks. So the broadcast was in addition to the banded amount. Do you mind sharing what you had initially banded for rates?
@natelegler on this field 25lbs potassium chloride, 25 gypsum and 100 urea.
Any tar spot in your area? We had plenty in ours with little effect in yield. I've heard of 30-40 bu increase with fungicides. It depends on when the tar spot arrived.
@patgreen6313 it's moving in. To the west and south it has been found.
Looks like i might need to find a local person with a drone!
@@mn-1381 or become the local drone.
This is just one test. I personally am not running out to get a drone just based off of this but it's enough data to really make a guy excited to try it again
@ well honestly that has been a thought too. We have enough smaller fields that planes do not want to mess with
Wonder if this resultcound be replicated in a grassy alfalfa mix?
Funny that you asked that Padawan
Next year I want to treat an area and then do a feed analysis to see if we gain anything in the nutrients and maybe tonnage
Yep harvest is just starting here in Victoria Australia. Bad drought conditions for our winter and spring so yeilds and quality will be low. We're waiting for it to get hot to get going and your harvesting when its near freezing. WTF.
I would hate to experience what you would call a drought. You measure rainfall in millimeters.
In the matter of a few weeks we had 300 mm this spring. At one point we had a 100mm in a couple hours
@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754 it's not to bad, you just have to put up with nice sunny days every day.
Jon: this video is a strange cross between high school chemistry class and Sunday school😅. How did harvest turn out in the end? Good luck in 2025.
When you get up in the morning do you put on the veterinary hat, the agronomist hat, the mechanic hat or are you a heavy equipment operator today or is today the day that you can just be a farmer
@Rollinghillsfarmsmn I thought I was responding to your video when I responded to this comment. Way to go genius
I find this stuff very fascinating that by learning how a plant grows and when it needs nutrients can make these kind of changes
"Like Herman Warsaw combining 300bu corn". Think serious about that. There are a few channels doing very well on youtube by farming with equipment salvaged from fence rows "will it start and drive thirty miles home?". Channels Vice Grip Garage and Junkyard Digs. If you get down time this winter maybe look around town for an abandoned kit. Show the homesteaders how to Regen Ag / Strip Till their way to success on low budgets. "Pffft, all these guys with their million dollar A/C combines; be out there on a 1950s tractor pulling an Allis Chalmers All-Crop with the wind in your hair like a real farmer." That would be fun. The serious part about it: all the new farmers we need are out there with no cash trying to get a kit together and find some ground to rent. Used antique tractors with repairs are less than the down payment on something 'new/used'. Get them started on the no-till / regen ag systems with recipes on smaller equipment.
I had a lot of people comment that with some stumps and Jax out in the pasture I swapped front axles on two combines when a lot of these big farmers use their big fancy shop to keep tillage equipment warm
Not too many years ago I was posting DIY strip till videos
Hey John give me a call please
@@troyremmers6223
Do I have your number?