I watch a lot of UA-cam videos and get bored watching the same thing over and over, but videos like these are never boring as you’re family life is the best and your explanations of the farming side is always great cheers guys 👍🏻🏴
What a great sight, the little fella going off with his grandpa on the farm. And to see all your kids tagging along. You probably don’t realise how lucky you are to be working with your family on the land, most of us never get the opportunity to.
Great vlog. The remote sensing robot sprayers are pretty amazing as your footage demonstrates. All plants are not the same, even though we would like them to be. So there will be a range of susceptibilities to herbicides across a plant population and variety. When RR first came out, the crop had to be sprayed within 8 weeks, if I remember, any time after or either side could cause some mortality. As well as residual chemicals it may also be due to genetic variation to susceptibility within the plant population.
Great role model. Your kids learning very early on that grown ups go to work. Such a simple thing that eludes lots of children today. I can still remember sitting on the tractor mud guard of a John Deere model G as Dad pulled a set of disc's working new bush ground on West Coast of SI NZ. OH&S would have a fit if they traveled back in time...Still working full time and I'm on the pension too! That 2 cylinder JD ran on power kerosene. Dad bought it for tender from govt. It had 38000 in the log book. We owned it for 14 years and only breakdown was a front tyre and broke a rocker adjuster but I drove it home on one cylinder.
Hey Matt , can you explain what the gassing is for ? Good to see the youngsters riding shotgun with dad . They are fortunate to be able to spend time hanging out with their dad and pop during working hours , their mum is probably gratefull for the break.😊🇦🇺😉
Be interesting watching the cotton grow through to harvest With all your youngsters in the family Matt predict you’ll have to purchase a lot more tractors for them to help out
I understand that this method of spraying weeds has to have lots of advantages not the least of which is money savings in chemical costs. However isn't this method more difficult to know how much chemical to have in inventory? When you're simply applying X gallons per acre the chemical math is pretty easy (but expensive and wasteful). When you're applying chemical to the individual weeds the math depends on the weed pressure for a given year (much less expensive but variable). How do you estimate your chemical needs? You would not want to mix up too much chemical and be left with a lot of hazardous liquid to store or dispose of, I would think.
Yep you are correct, you get better at guessing and sometimes we will just mix up 1000l and see what percentage is being used then we can have a pretty good guess, if there is any left over there is usually another paddock it can be used on to run the last bit out. Most times it’s only 200l or less left😁👍
There are go-pro shoulder camera mounts. Gives the cameraperson two hands to farm with again. Would ridging (maybe something that makes shallower ridges than a Grimme furrow ridger for potatoes?) help the cotton for storms/ excess rain in the early phases of growth? Considering the atmosphere is 78 percent nitrogen, one might hope something other than using anhydrous gas (or in addition to anhydrous gas to be able to use less gas) might be able to be done in the future.
That is what’s happening, the ammonia is pulled out of the air but it takes a lot of energy to do it. That’s where gas comes in but the wingers are trying to stop that. No nitrogen and a lot of people will starve.
Yes but they soak up knowledge like a sponge at that age. Beauty of modern tractors is they are safe in the cab, it’s generally the driver that gets fed up before the kid runs out of questions 😂😂
Not really sure what your doing with the gas rig? Being from the uk 🇬🇧 never dealt with anything like that. As usual keep the vids coming, love the content 👌
NH3 (Ammonia) for fertilizer....you have a tank full, it opens a slice and it is injected and since NH3 loves water it pretty much immediately binds to the soil and you have your Nitrogen fertilizer out and in the ground
The ammonia has a higher nitrogen content than urea which is 46% so it is more efficient but the equipment to put it on is more technical and expensive. Suits larger areas better.
I have to ask! How come you guys can still get gas but others in NSW can't? They're never too young to go on the tractor Matt 😊. Just have to time the nappy changes! (When mum can come and pick them up 😅) I'd love to talk to you about the weed-it. I do wonder is it accurate enough to get everything?
it is the fabric of your life!.....he said in the tractor cab it is to give a crop rotation away from grass/grain type crops (cotton being a broad leaf) because the weeds that came into the field from the flood will be grass type weeds and thus you cannot spray chemicals that will kill them without killing your chickpeas, or wheat or whatever narrow leaf crop you are growing is....cotton can handle the exposure to the chemical that will kill the weeds they are having issues with
I guess it is all "elementary" to you . . . but to the "totally ignorant" (me) . . . I wish you could explain more re what you are doing and why. And the uses for various equipment. I was not sure why you were going over land that looked as if it had the dried dead remnants of the previous harvest. Do you turn the soil enough to put that dried stuff into the soil? Or do you loosely go over the last year crop and then just drop seed on the ploughed land. Sorry I am so utterly ignorant.
Leave the residue of last years crop there. Zero or minimum till is all about not disturbing the soil and thus not loosing moisture which the new crop will need. The machinery involved is designed to handle the old crop residue without blocking up. Every time soil is disturbed you loose valuable moisture which may not de replaced by rain. The last season was a good example, no or very little in crop rain but acceptable yields, which in Australia you would not expect because the spring and early summer can be harsh and that is the critical time for finishing winter crops (wheat, canola and other crops) which are considered to be summer crops in the northern hemisphere. Conserving moisture and weed control for summer crops such as sorghum and cotton is even more critical. To achieve good results with min or no till chemicals must be used to control weeds as weeds are the enemy to good yields because they use valuable moisture and contaminate the resultant grain. Jeff
ag chemicals are one of the major things responsible for the massive quality of life improvement in much of the developed and even semi-developed world.....one need only look a the yield differences between their organic crops and their conventional crops to see the benefits of ag chemicals
@@guyonabuffalo100 World food supply cannot be maintained without the use of chemical controls but there are choices here for broadacre farming. Remember that If the weed pressure is too great there is no crop. Broadacre farmers can: 1. Go organic and cultivate soil to keep weed pressure down. If this is done long term the soil drys up and top soil blows away. Jacksons (and many other farmers) use organic methods when its suitable. ie the development block. 2. Rotational cropping with minimal chemical input. Always remember that weed chemicals are horrendously expensive in a broadacre situation and use is minimised whenever possible. This is reflected in the "weedit" system of applying chemicals. Only live weeds are sprayed reducing chemical use sometimes by 90%. If you are wealthy enough to buy organic wheat locally and make your own pasta, bake your own bread, process your own breakfast cereal etc that's great but the rest of the world doesn't operate that way.
@@guyonabuffalo100Organic food is way more expensive and the quality is often not there. Organic wheat is a good example, the protein will be down, the yield will be less and the grain itself will weigh less. Don’t be fooled by the popular beliefs, the ‘experts’ are often way wrong and organics are a very good example. Farmers cannot feed the world by using organic methods, they are only for the wealthy consumer. Look at the Jackson’s harvesting their organic wheat, it was way behind the conventional crops. I will acknowledge that it was sown last. Jeff
I watch a lot of UA-cam videos and get bored watching the same thing over and over, but videos like these are never boring as you’re family life is the best and your explanations of the farming side is always great cheers guys 👍🏻🏴
Wow, thanks!
What a great sight, the little fella going off with his grandpa on the farm. And to see all your kids tagging along. You probably don’t realise how lucky you are to be working with your family on the land, most of us never get the opportunity to.
Shout out to Liza Clara and Eddy for helping Dad get the work done. You are all good helpers and i hope you help mum at home too.
You guys just don't stop, when all the city folk were lying in their beds with hang overs you fellas are out there working. God bless you.
You are doing a great job of keeping us updated with your farming skills as lots of us would never do it
Great video, great background music, great to see the whole family out and about,a real blessing, THANK YOU!!!
Great video Matt Brad Phil and Peter
Awesome drone footage Matt
You live in a beautiful place, love the views 😍
I absolutely love seeing all the videos that you guys do there. Thanks for sharing 👍
Great job putting anhydrous on Brad
Cotton is looking good Matt
I laughed at Dad's comment "Why are you holding the camera and not working?"
Great vlog. The remote sensing robot sprayers are pretty amazing as your footage demonstrates. All plants are not the same, even though we would like them to be. So there will be a range of susceptibilities to herbicides across a plant population and variety. When RR first came out, the crop had to be sprayed within 8 weeks, if I remember, any time after or either side could cause some mortality. As well as residual chemicals it may also be due to genetic variation to susceptibility within the plant population.
Great effort Matt excellent informative video,look forward to the next one.
Great role model. Your kids learning very early on that grown ups go to work. Such a simple thing that eludes lots of children today. I can still remember sitting on the tractor mud guard of a John Deere model G as Dad pulled a set of disc's working new bush ground on West Coast of SI NZ. OH&S would have a fit if they traveled back in time...Still working full time and I'm on the pension too! That 2 cylinder JD ran on power kerosene. Dad bought it for tender from govt. It had 38000 in the log book. We owned it for 14 years and only breakdown was a front tyre and broke a rocker adjuster but I drove it home on one cylinder.
I’m really interested in watching the cotton crop! Thanks for keeping us in the mix.
Love your videos, love seeing your families, keep up the good work
Thanks for the update. -30f this morning. Your videos keep me excited for spring.
Hey Matt , can you explain what the gassing is for ? Good to see the youngsters riding shotgun with dad . They are fortunate to be able to spend time hanging out with their dad and pop during working hours , their mum is probably gratefull for the break.😊🇦🇺😉
Hi, the gassing is putting nh3 in the ground for nitrogen👍😁 yep it sure is
Good job guys
Be interesting watching the cotton grow through to harvest With all your youngsters in the family Matt predict you’ll have to purchase a lot more tractors for them to help out
No, he will just be doing less driving but more fixing.
@@seanworkman431 great to see a family working together on the farm with Peter the star
Another awesome video guys, from kiwi land
Thanks Rod Rod
Good content team well done
Great commentary and content guys!
Great job 👏 👍
Happy New Year 🥳 all the best in 2024 Matt Brad Phil Peter and employees
I understand that this method of spraying weeds has to have lots of advantages not the least of which is money savings in chemical costs. However isn't this method more difficult to know how much chemical to have in inventory? When you're simply applying X gallons per acre the chemical math is pretty easy (but expensive and wasteful). When you're applying chemical to the individual weeds the math depends on the weed pressure for a given year (much less expensive but variable). How do you estimate your chemical needs? You would not want to mix up too much chemical and be left with a lot of hazardous liquid to store or dispose of, I would think.
Yep you are correct, you get better at guessing and sometimes we will just mix up 1000l and see what percentage is being used then we can have a pretty good guess, if there is any left over there is usually another paddock it can be used on to run the last bit out. Most times it’s only 200l or less left😁👍
There are go-pro shoulder camera mounts. Gives the cameraperson two hands to farm with again. Would ridging (maybe something that makes shallower ridges than a Grimme furrow ridger for potatoes?) help the cotton for storms/ excess rain in the early phases of growth? Considering the atmosphere is 78 percent nitrogen, one might hope something other than using anhydrous gas (or in addition to anhydrous gas to be able to use less gas) might be able to be done in the future.
That is what’s happening, the ammonia is pulled out of the air but it takes a lot of energy to do it. That’s where gas comes in but the wingers are trying to stop that. No nitrogen and a lot of people will starve.
Hey Eddie.
You're youngest is old enough for the tractors my 18 month old loved being in machinery at that age
Hey up matt why is the boom on air cart so narrow compared to headers/sprayers must mean different tram tracks happy new year back to youse
As a young fella out in Central Western Qld I used to get extra money during school holidays hoeing Noogoora burr. Don't care for that again.
Lucky man having little helpers
Yes but they soak up knowledge like a sponge at that age. Beauty of modern tractors is they are safe in the cab, it’s generally the driver that gets fed up before the kid runs out of questions 😂😂
Good
Not really sure what your doing with the gas rig? Being from the uk 🇬🇧 never dealt with anything like that. As usual keep the vids coming, love the content 👌
NH3 (Ammonia) for fertilizer....you have a tank full, it opens a slice and it is injected and since NH3 loves water it pretty much immediately binds to the soil and you have your Nitrogen fertilizer out and in the ground
The ammonia has a higher nitrogen content than urea which is 46% so it is more efficient but the equipment to put it on is more technical and expensive. Suits larger areas better.
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I have to ask! How come you guys can still get gas but others in NSW can't?
They're never too young to go on the tractor Matt 😊. Just have to time the nappy changes! (When mum can come and pick them up 😅)
I'd love to talk to you about the weed-it. I do wonder is it accurate enough to get everything?
Not sure about the gas🤔 the weedit will get 99% of coin sized weeds😁
With the gasing do you skip over half a row or a third of a row?
It’s 13 units over 12 meters so it doesn’t line up perfectly with the rows
Why cotton?
it is the fabric of your life!.....he said in the tractor cab it is to give a crop rotation away from grass/grain type crops (cotton being a broad leaf) because the weeds that came into the field from the flood will be grass type weeds and thus you cannot spray chemicals that will kill them without killing your chickpeas, or wheat or whatever narrow leaf crop you are growing is....cotton can handle the exposure to the chemical that will kill the weeds they are having issues with
is your cotton planted on 38 in. rows or what
1meter rows double skip I believe 👍😁
Do you apply much N to cotton compared to a crop of rape?
I think we did a similar amount😁
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I guess it is all "elementary" to you . . . but to the "totally ignorant" (me) . . . I wish you could explain more re what you are doing and why. And the uses for various equipment. I was not sure why you were going over land that looked as if it had the dried dead remnants of the previous harvest. Do you turn the soil enough to put that dried stuff into the soil? Or do you loosely go over the last year crop and then just drop seed on the ploughed land. Sorry I am so utterly ignorant.
Leave the residue of last years crop there. Zero or minimum till is all about not disturbing the soil and thus not loosing moisture which the new crop will need. The machinery involved is designed to handle the old crop residue without blocking up. Every time soil is disturbed you loose valuable moisture which may not de replaced by rain. The last season was a good example, no or very little in crop rain but acceptable yields, which in Australia you would not expect because the spring and early summer can be harsh and that is the critical time for finishing winter crops (wheat, canola and other crops) which are considered to be summer crops in the northern hemisphere.
Conserving moisture and weed control for summer crops such as sorghum and cotton is even more critical.
To achieve good results with min or no till chemicals must be used to control weeds as weeds are the enemy to good yields because they use valuable moisture and contaminate the resultant grain. Jeff
Chemicals are a horrible way to farm. Like the channel, but i disagree with the chemicals.
ag chemicals are one of the major things responsible for the massive quality of life improvement in much of the developed and even semi-developed world.....one need only look a the yield differences between their organic crops and their conventional crops to see the benefits of ag chemicals
@rodrod383 yes i do agree. But at what cost? I personally buy local and organic. It is not expensive.
@@guyonabuffalo100 World food supply cannot be maintained without the use of chemical controls but there are choices here for broadacre farming. Remember that If the weed pressure is too great there is no crop. Broadacre farmers can:
1. Go organic and cultivate soil to keep weed pressure down. If this is done long term the soil drys up and top soil blows away. Jacksons (and many other farmers) use organic methods when its suitable. ie the development block.
2. Rotational cropping with minimal chemical input. Always remember that weed chemicals are horrendously expensive in a broadacre situation and use is minimised whenever possible. This is reflected in the "weedit" system of applying chemicals. Only live weeds are sprayed reducing chemical use sometimes by 90%. If you are wealthy enough to buy organic wheat locally and make your own pasta, bake your own bread, process your own breakfast cereal etc that's great but the rest of the world doesn't operate that way.
@@guyonabuffalo100Organic food is way more expensive and the quality is often not there. Organic wheat is a good example, the protein will be down, the yield will be less and the grain itself will weigh less. Don’t be fooled by the popular beliefs, the ‘experts’ are often way wrong and organics are a very good example. Farmers cannot feed the world by using organic methods, they are only for the wealthy consumer. Look at the Jackson’s harvesting their organic wheat, it was way behind the conventional crops. I will acknowledge that it was sown last. Jeff