Maize Farming: Army Worms Keep Attacking our Crop: How We Defend our Maize Crop against them.
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- Опубліковано 9 бер 2023
- One of the biggest jobs a farmer has, is how to protect their crops from effects of insect pests. An infestation of army worm can quickly devastate grain fields, leading to major losses. Farmers need to know how to identify this challenge, and then what to do about it.
This video shares some basics about the army worm, which is now spreading across the globe. and then how we have been defending our crop of maize at Kimberley against it. - Навчання та стиль
I'm an Organic Farmer, But honestly Pa, I love this video Good job sir ..... My team will be ready to fight these DEVASTATING pests...
All the best.
Thanks for sharing this information, as a young farmer in Nigeria, I find this information very educative. Keep it up.
Thanks for watching
The videos on Maize farming are both informative and educational. I appreciate the valuable content provided. Love from Uganda.
Thanks Mr Benjamin
Greetings from Ireland, as usual, a fascinating insight into an increasing worldwide problem, keep up the good work.
Thanks.
I loved the content in this video. I’m planting some maize this year, so I need here how to go about the army worm. Thanks 🙏🏿 a lot.
You're most welcome.
All the best.
i love your objectivity and praticality. We need to solve problems of today,them we can deal with what we face tomorrow.
Indeed. That is one of my general approaches to life and all that it throws at us.
But we all know that this problem of all the chemicals that we use to sustain humanity will have to dealt with sooner rather than later.
Hi,I’m a farmer from Haiti, and in my North West area where I am we have the same worm issues,so thank you for your information, I appreciate you, warmest regards to you and your family .
Glad to help
I love ur videos and they very informative..thank you keep it up
Thank you! Will do!
Chisha, as always sir wonderful presentation and invaluable information on how you stay ontop of the crop day by day, because clearly it does not take much for total devastation (that word again) ;-). If you miss the army worm by a week or two it could mean complete annihilation of the whole crop, very scary.
Indeed, frontline farming is quite difficult. Devastation is always just around the corner...
A dry spell with no rain at the wring time
A pest infestation you can't or don't control properly
A weak market with prices below production costs
Success depends on a combination of luck, skill, and experience.
Its not a lot of fun with so much at stake all the time.
So many times each and every year, every single farmer I know regrets one or two of their decisions 😕
Many, many give up by choice or necessity.
Hi Mondo Farms, Great work. But I think your team is moving too fast with the pesticide spray. The aim is to let the liquid drop in the middle part of the maize where the worms are mostly hiding and have their eggs. The mist blower needs to also be adjusted a bit to condensed a bit the water its blowing. Thank you. Great efforts.
Thanks. Our spraying is a work in progress.
Good job 👏🏾
Thank you
Interesting to watch
You're most welcome
You sound like you are a overall Nice person. Great Video
Thanks
Hello Mondo Farms, am new to your channel and have found it very beneficial. i wanted to known what your yield per acre really is. and what do you put in place to insure a good yeild
Thanks Preston. Welcome aboard.
Sorry, we don't share numbers, yields, costs, etc. on our channel. That is a choice that I have made regarding the style and content of the channel.
But plenty of other channels will share such details.
All the best.
THANKS🙏🙏🙏
You’re welcome 😊
In Kinshasa DRC we suffer a lot as well with these worms on our maize fields.
Great video again brother.
I THINK YOU CAN USE SHUMBA FROM ZAMBIA AND DO THE ROTATION OF DIFFERENT CROPS IN THE FARM
All the best
keep hard working and education for other framers
Will do
I love your animation of army worms zombies "I want to eat or I like to eat" 😁
LOL
Brother you are right farmers simply cannot grow enough food to feed the world without chemicals.
It's a difficult paradox we face
I used Neem oil. I am a proponent of organic methods and even i was pleasantly surprised. It doesn't kill on contact. They have to actually ingest it but in my case it totally...devastated them 😊
Indeed, we use some neem oil products from time to time.
What is the distance per row and per hill in meters, please, thank you.
80cm in our case, but people choose different lengths.
Pls research more on row spacing for maize to get a better picture.
All the best.
what are those pumps on their back? what are they called? were can i buy some?
We discussed the petrol sprayers in the video
ua-cam.com/video/7M5QSSidz3w/v-deo.html
Do you also grow brussels sprout? Does Zambia use Monsanto seed? I hope not😕
No, there is little market for Brussels sprouts here in Zambia.
As far as I am aware, Monsanto makes GM seeds, which are not permitted in a Zambia. Yet.
The manufacturers are lobbying hard and will probably be allowed to come in the next few years, like elsewhere in the world.
@@mondofarms4343 omg! They shouldn’t be allowed 😢 they cause so much cancer!
❤❤❤
Thanks 😊
I am also curious, you've grown and grow such a wonderful wide variety of vegetables. Which crop would you say is your most profitable? I mean maize is the staple and looks like the president is trying to incentivize maize production, both for export and the local market for good measure. Do you think maize would be something you would want to expand on, or will you keep growing all the vegetables you do whilst looking to grow more hectares of maize? Its a long way to ask a simple question I guess, you favorite vegetable crop, according to profitability and ease of care, as well as what do you think of the future of maize on Mondo farms. Man that was long winded.
Hi Jason. Sorry I haven't responded to your questions.
I keep planning to address them in a video, rather than here in UA-cam comments.
But the summary is this:
We grow maize because it is our staple food here in Zambia, and main source of starch. Rice is also grown in some areas, and wheat is produced during our winter at a commercial scale. We grow maize to eat as the prices are subject to political interference. Commercial maize needs way more hectares than we have.
We grow soya beans as a legume crop that we rotate with the maize. It usually has a more stable price than maize. Though last year was a disaster for Zambia's soya farmers as the market was flooded from a bumper harvest. But were committed to soya beans and will grownit again this rain season.
And we grow vegetables throughout the year to keep the lights on. Especially eggplant, which has a very stable price.
Thanks, eggplant, that wasn't one in my mind but now ive read a little about it, makes sense. That was a succinct round up, @@mondofarms4343
What is the name of the chemical you used at the second application?
Hi there. These are good questions for an agronomist. Most of the reputable agrochem companies and farm supply shops employ them to address such issues.
We find them very useful.
How many times can you spray on farm were is fall army worms
Hi there. These are good questions for an agronomist. Most of the reputable agrochem companies and farm supply shops employ them to address such issues.
We find them very useful.
what is the name of chemicals and what they are used on i need information like these please i need to no thank you daddy in jamaica
The chemical is described in the video.
Pls watch it again as necessary.
All the best.
😂 brother. I see you don't hate anything .Except Army worm 😅
Good luck, brother
Too much
Could you tell us the insecticide you have sprayed.
Hi Florentino. The insecticide used is clearly included in the video. Pls watch again as necessary.
Apologies, but it is quite a challenge for us to spend hours and hours filming and editing the videos, then after publishing them, have to say again what was already included in them.
It's a bit triggering as today is Easter Sunday, and I am having to spend the whole day, and most of tonight, and some of tomorrow, working on some new videos.
You will also do well as an actor.😁
Thanks 😊
What chemical do use to spray on maize to kill fall army worms
Hi there. These are good questions for an agronomist. Most of the reputable agrochem companies and farm supply shops employ them to address such issues.
We find them very useful.
Will they eat onion and garlic?
Not army worms as far as I know. But allium have their own insect pest challenges.
How can I prevent cows from entering my Maize farm?
Its hard to comment, without knowing your circumstances.
We have a rule in our area that cows must be accompanied by a herdsman during the growing season. They are only allowed to be left to roam from Aug-Nov.
But rules are rules, and not always followed. Humans are not always good to each other. We put up fencing to block cows and goats from entering the fields with vegetables.
But of course, that is difficult to do with larger areas where field crops like maize are grown.
We also speak and engage with our neighbours repeatedly and have our guys keep a look out for their animals.
Its not easy.
Can it be revived
I'm not sure what you are asking. please rephrase.
Thanks
Spray during the coolest part of the day and beware that worms don't fall to the ground while spraying. You will get better results.
Thanks. In our meeting at Winterthorn, we were planning next rain season crops and
discussing our sprayers capacity.
We accepted that we don't have enough of the petrol sprayers to cover the ambitious hectorage of crops we plant (in order to make enough return at current grain prices).
Once we get some more sprayers or can upgrade to some larger capacity ones, we will be able to spray more effectively.
I'm sure you are aware of the dilemmas that we farmers face.
If people are worried about organic, they should invent ways to mass produce those things organic in order to bring down the costs.
It's an interesting issue. 🤔
One wonders what stops one of the big agrochem companies developing and pushing organic products that are as effective as the synthetic ones.
I remain pragmatic as ever, but all while I pray that they do that soon. We simply can't keep on pumping these dangerous chemicals into the environment and ultimately into our bodies.
A few weeks ago, we were discussing the number of dead birds we find around after fields after spraying insecticides. They die after eating some of the dead insects lying around.
Quite worrying 😟 😓
Scisntists are right to call this the Athropocene Extinction.
Try companion planting
Thanks
Papa my request to you is if you can begin writing the name of that pesticide u use there will be better for us
The main chemical we used against army wormnin this video was emmamectin benzoate
Pls google it to learn more.
All the best
They looked more aggressive that second time.
Agreed. It was like the generals in charge of the army worm army sent in commandos for the second attack! 😆 🤣 😂
@@mondofarms4343 Hahahaha!
Maize is chiefly British, Corn is American 😀
Yoh. The transatlantic culture clash continues to be waged across Africa...
But the US seems to be winning thanks to the default settings on laptops we buy everywhere.
You are planting fields of one thing
That is often the case at this level of farming.
Let some chickens loose in the field, save money on sprays and free food for the birds
I love the idea, except that some chickens feed on maize/corn leaves
@@wumioyerinde6691 only if the combs are laying on the ground, they won't bother with maize with all those bugs, and much cheaper than spraying toxic chemicals on your food ,ever better to try companion planting, am sure there are some plants that those worms hate
Thanks Dwayne.
Dont tell a long story of the worms, tell us how kill.
We did share the chemicals used. Pls watch again carefully.
Please could I get your number, I am an aspiring farmer with 14Ha of land and planning to go into crop farming. I need a mentor and I would love to learn from you and share my ideas too
Hi there. Our contacts are available under the details of the channel.
But honestly, we struggle to find time for all the various questions and engagements we get every week.
That's why we put so much effort into the videos as our contribution towards helping other farmers
hi~I have a trichogramma throwing device which can put trichogramma into a ball then released by drone.Trichogramma can fight with caterpillars and moths in the farm land,especially the fall armyworm.Use no chemical,its environmental friendly. If you interested, contact me ~
Thank you for your valued contribution.