Emery Dudensing is a 5th generation dryland cotton and wheat farmer in the Rolling Plains of West Texas. After a 10 year career as a Texas High School football coach, the Lord called Emery and his wife Emily, along with their three boys, back home to take over the family farm. Follow along as Emery and the Dryland Dudes share about our operation, learn and grow in this profession, make mistakes, and trust in God for provision for our family. WARNING - Dad jokes likely.
If you ever have to stop real fast and throw your boy into the dash or floor you will wish that the seat belt had been installed! Take care of all your loved ones!
Good job on the buddy seat. I absolutely wouldn't have put the seat belt on either. Sounded like a lot of work for very little benefit and having to drill through the fender. No way. The boys will have a good time riding with you, and a wife wants to be with her man.....well, most of the time. Good video as always. 👍 🚜🇺🇸🚜🇺🇸🚜🇺🇸🚜🇺🇸
I'm tired just watching you have to go up and down the ladder, in and out of the cab. When things aren't going well, not having a helper just seems to double the frustration. Sure would be nice to have someone else there for that extra set of eyes and hands. I'm betting that air leak is probably that diaphragm. All you can do is keep plugging along, eventually with persistence and the Lord's help. You'll get things done. 👏👍
Lol, I was just getting ready to commend your ability to keep things family friendly (which you still do) because there is so often that I'd make an innuendo throughout. Then I see you give the camera a knowing look at the 19:10 mark that gave it away. Love it! Loved seeing you guys at the family reunion, and enjoy watching your videos. Keep it up!
Not sure about preventative if that’s what you’re asking. We can spray to kill and we can treat the seed so they will die if they eat the plant but even the seed treatment I’ve seen has been affected this year. I have heard guys spraying Seven dust around the perimeters of their fields before planting as a preventative so I may try that next year. This is an extreme year.
Meant to say this on the last video, but I'm liking that cowboy hat, Emery. We have tons of grasshoppers around our house up here too! Must be a heavy swarm year. Out of curiosity, what is your rotation on the fields? Do you take a year off on any field, or just rotate crops each year?
Thanks Spencer! We rotate between cotton and winter wheat. Cotton is harvested and planted immediately into wheat. After wheat is harvested, that ground will rest for basically an entire year and then we will go back with cotton. So, half of our acres are in cotton right now with the other half resting after having the wheat cut earlier this summer.
Thanks for watching the first minute of the video. Let me know what you think about the rest of the video after you watch - the audio is much better after the opening clip!
we had a half circle, about 58 acres or so, that we had to replant, that was real good in spots, bad in spots where it was up and just decided to replant the whole half circle instead of trying to patch in. It was our first replant in 5 years and before that, maybe another 5 years with cotton.
Correct but we are utilizing a strip til approach and has proven to be better for our dry conditions at conserving the little rain we get. We have just gotten too much rain too fast on sloping land.
Go out to unplanted ground and run your ab line for 50 yards. Then turn around and run through the same spot. If your tracks don’t match like in an inch it’s the gps.
The part you are talking about at 10:40 is called the ‘mustache’ 😊 Very good video. Thanks for sharing. I know some about planting corn and soybeans in the upper Midwest but nothing about planting cotton in West Texas. Keep up the good work!
I got them through Dynamic Ag Services/Precision Planting. They are still Keeton I believe but they don’t sell the white ones anymore. I was really pleased with these new ones.
Good video as always 👍 nice to see the family out there with you. As I was looking at the conditions, it looked pretty dry. Does that present a fire risk?
In the wheat field it is very dry which is good for harvest but surrounding areas are green and so overall we are not at risk of fire. Definitely don’t want to park a gas vehicle with a catalytic converter in tall wheat stubble!
I forgot to remind you about removing the cap at the end of the row. Good thing everyone else remembered. 😊 I'm not sure if placing the deer blind up high inside is a good idea. Probably not going to be many deer going in there. If they do go inside, close the door so they don't get away, then get inside the blind and have a good hunt 😊😅😂
We farm around waco and anytime the wheat starts to look rusty you better get the sprayer going because it won’t be long before it’s too far gone. Usually we put fungicide with our shot of fertilizer and then right before it heads out we usually have to hit again with another shot of fungicide so it doesn’t infect the flag leaf. Rust is a huge yield drag
We’ve never had to spray for rust. I guess the lesson from this year is to spray it as soon as we see it. I plant TAM 114 which is supposed to be rust resistant. Does that matter for y’all?
@@drylanddudes so far anywhere from 27 to 38 bushels which is a good crop for us. Generally below 20 bushels here behind cotton. Have some that should go around 50-60.
Good video, everyone is getting in the fields now. This time of year is my favorite. Seeing the crops going in the ground and starting to come up. It would be interesting to see a video about the costs associated with planting, seed, chemicals, preparing equipment, etc.
Oh, a new starter for the Deere. That sounds pricey. I put a new starter on my Silverado with the 5.3 liter, I nearly fell over, $278.00. I was shocked. As a teenager I remember things like starters, water pumps, alternators, etc costing $30-$40 when you turned in the old one for the core charge.
@@drylanddudes Permanent grassed waterways where you have washes . Would help to conserve the soil and allow water to pass through field in a more controlled way . Your local soil conservation folks could help you and partial help pay for it .
Rafe Hargrove, son of Raford and pretty involved in Hargrove Insurance, is also President and co-owner of the company I work for, AgWorks, LLC (also goes by My Crop Technologies). We usually end up discussing Aggie football or other sports, when I see him around, if it's not crop insurance related. Definitely good folks.
Small world! Raford is so good at what he does. I don’t know Rafe personally and I didn’t know about his involvement in AgWorks. What kind of work do yall do?
@@drylanddudes primarily build web applications for crop insurance companies to handle the full lifecycle of crop insurance (quoting, licensing, policy coverage, compliance, claims, premium billing, etc.)
I was planning on going to that same auction to see what the combine sold for but we were in Red River skiing instead. Do you happen to know what it sold for?
All the grain equipment was at or above market value in my opinion. I believe the combine sold for right around $115k and the header for $30k. Cotton stuff was cheap.
Went to a sale last week and they had a case 24 row 30” stackfold planter that sold for $2,500. They had two nice Sam Stevens boll buggy’s that went cheap also. Like most things though what I went for someone else wanted it more.
