What a beautiful spring morning to talk maize with Father. Tom, lean on those who have planted maize in YOUR area. They are your lifeline to a successful harvest. Prayers for sunshine and warm temperatures.
Looks like the ginger guy is well into his recovery, which is great to see. Please make sure he knows that we’ve all been thinking positive thoughts and sending all the prayers we can for his healing after his surgery. I hope you made it home on time so Joanna could go out, be well be you
Great seeing your dad out and about👍 hope you feel as good as you’re looking Andrew? Obviously Hannah has got loads of experience to draw on with her dad, your dad and yourself Tom. Great video as ever
Hiya Tom and to your dad.. Great talk about the preparation for your new fields.. not many people who are not in the farming community understand what you have to do to get fields ready for things to grow.. Great your family giving everyone the chance to experience everything through your eyes.. bless you all..
The more muck (farm Yard muck ) you can apply to better for maize , the old saying of the maize being “knee high by the Fourth of July “ usually means you’ll have a good crop, lots of slurry and lots of calf cot muck and you can’t go wrong really 👍👍
Agree, Think I would say Subsoil or Sward Lift at 90 Degrees to the Planned Angle of ploughing first. Going in after Ploughing will Pull up loads of Sods, Especially if using a Grubber. Cleaner seedbed & Easier weed control if subsoiled first I would think.
So nice seeing you out on the land Mr. Pemberton, hope your healing well. Love listening to you two strategizing and planning for your year. It just blows me away at how much your farm has grown over the years, lots of hard work and stress but I love how you show to move forward in sections to get where you want it to be. And it certainly has made me appreciate our farmers more than I already do. I look forward to seeing the maize crops. ❤❤
I am lucky in that my soil PHs run in the 6-7s naturally. I rarely have to apply lime. I do have rented farms that have low PH issues. I have found that the Pelleted lime and Gypsum products are great for getting short time results. The gypsum is just lime plus sulfur. Your maize will help you out in the energy level in the cattle ration. It will be interesting to see your results. We have used maize/corn silage my entire life (74 years). Your land/soil is different than mine. I worry about being too dry where you worry about being too wet. Really glad to see your Dad feeling better.
sir Tom! Trust your Old Man you can by a cow with money, but never experince! You are a Great Team😊, family Pemberton! Best Regards Peter Eriksson Sweden Europe ❤❤❤!
Maize is great stuff. We only grow 5ha(12acres) here in nz. We use it for autumn and early spring. Great for cow condition. We're a irritated farm and we yeilded 22t/dm a hectare.
So happy to see you growing maize, Just make sure when it's getting chopped by the combine make sure you test the cornel processor inside the machine and it set right to make sure each bit of corn has been Crushed in a good percentage like 8/10 cornels, WHen we looked at the maize crop you got to test when we watched the harvest video it looked like the cornel processor wasn't set up right and alot of the corn wasn't crushed making it hard for the cows to Digest if the corn isn't crushed
Since that fields been grass so long if you plow it and flip that grass/organic matter under so it can decompose and wake up the microbial life in the soil you’ll grow good corn. Corn likes nice soft ground so its roots can grow good to.
Is there no way you can get proper ground lime on after ploughing ? 8t/ha is 3t /ac. Well do able, you have the ph fully rectified for the next crop. I think you’re mad to spending money on such short term product Tom
To grow good maze you need to have plenty of sh1t put on the ground before ploughing the land after it is ploughed you need to roll the furrows to keep the moisture in the ground and then use a disc harrow and just before planting drag a set of chain harrows over the ground and you will most likely have to use a maze seed coated with anti wire worm because you are growing maze after grass.😊
FYI some of the USA dairies plant in 15 in rows trying to produce more tonage,could experiment with a few acers,if your planting on 30 inch rows just more over 15 inches and plant again,but you will need a forage harvester with a kemper head to havest
Good video. Love the soil science explanation. And good to see Andrew - not just back, but in cracking form. In six months time mebbe a bit longer it might be interesting to see a full costs /benefits analysis. Not everyone's cup of tea I know, but I'm a glutton for analysis and numbers.
Keep an eye out for crows pulling the maize seed out of the ground a few days after planting,they will follow the row when the seed is at the milky stage!
pH correction in the soil prior to growing corn should more than pay for itself. pH correction will free up tied up P and K in the soils. I would cut back the fertilizer in favor of the pH correction.
Good morning from New Zealand. Maize has only just been harvested here very late and we are already feeding out as there is no growth in the paddocks. Wet wet wet here too.
Have you heard of the Carbon Cowboy? Have some v interesting ideas. Do you put probiotics in your soil? Are you companion planting your maize? The companion plant will either keep pests away (less chemicals = cheaper) or will be sacrificial so the pests eat that instead of maize. For instance, carrots and onions, smell of onions keeps carrot fly away.
Thanks for the video Tom. Your dad is awesome. It’s good to see he’s doing well and back to farming. So are you going to tell how you put the hole in the roof?
Best muck is loose box muck for ground thats going to give the maze the best of start and keep it growing till cutting time it lasts all through the year and give the best results
We were wondering why that field was very yellow compared to the other side of the track , we have our horse stabled on your neighbours farm . I think I saw you when you were getting stuck with your spreader , Around 4,30 I think when I drove out of the farm .
What an a-maize-ing video. Science the 5h1t out of this. Soil analysis, agronomist, and a great team of people working together to learn from. Fantastic. I find this so interesting. How far back do we have to go to where farmers planted and hoped for the best.
Hi Tom you and your dad are going for it this year. Growing your own maize is a brilliant idea. I don't know why but I can't find the video of the cows going out. I checked RU-vid & Instagram 🐄🐮🐄
Hi Tom, we first spread slurry and muck then we use a rotary tiller after that we use the plow and as last we use a cultivator to smooth it out. After that its ready for planting. I beleaf you have the exact same variaity as we are ging to plant. We are currently still waiting to go we are propperly late this year
good choice of fields to work on because it's heavy machines going over the ground again and again getting it off, even considered making your own super charged compost over the winter, save all the solids from the manure separator as a growing media mixing in box muck, leaves, cuttings, left over cow rations etc and make a massive pile of compost just letting it and let the microorganisms do their thing making food for the plants? My granddad used to make compost taking soil sample from the most fertile of best producing areas of his farm supercharging the whole process, it would be steaming over winter and he would spread it only after soil temps had come up. He used the rational that the soil microorganisms needed a growing media where they could perform the same job they normally do in the ground but do it over winter in the muck/compost mixture where they would normally be "dormant" over the winter with lower temps he picked the best areas of his land to take soil samples and get the best performing micro organisms making the entire field perform better. He used it for large fields of vegetables/plants but the same rational must go for grass and corn/maize especially if maize is a crop large positive returns that can take everything you throw at it and deliver if you can get it off that is.
Hi Tom Love your video and your enthusiasm for your new undertaking .Best of luck with it, but your knowledge will make it a winner. Wondering how your super soil results were ?? Cheers .west of ireland
Just wondering how ploughing & turning the existing vegetation/grasses into the soil, would end up affecting the current tested pH levels? Though 8t/ha for the lime, wouldnt the quality & performance of high quality miaze from the first harvest not be worth the investment as it immediately boosts land and milk & setups up for the long term from the start, without paying in twice into turning the fields to maize. Good to see your dad back and recovered/recovering well. Love the imagined picture of footage of teh calves being put out on the pasture, to use and minimise the impact 🐮😎
Tom you are great. Good to hear from the Ginger Warrior. You can tell the warrior has a lot of wisdom, knows just what needs to be done. It is not his first trip in to battle. Can’t wait to see how it turns out this fall. Wasn’t that the field you got stuck on the hill one time with the muck spreader?
I love following farm fieldwork, especially when we can use technology like Google Earth to actually look at this land from above. If you haven't yet explored the pastures and land that Pembertons use, give yourself a real treat and go to the map view.
140 tonnes of milled limestone on your maize ground. You should get quotes from lime spreading contractors in your area. Calcifert is an expensive stop-gap solution. You could mix the lime into your box muck and spread both at the same time.
If your trying to grow maize/corn just remember it likes a soft seedbed, another thing it likes is a lot of fert but balanced , it needs npk and s but in ratios, the best info on growing corn over Al comes from the United States we find, although Alberta Canada vs Britain may be quite different, best of luck with corn, maybe you can graze it standing like we do here
My uncle used to run a limepsreader for the family rural carrying company back in the 60s and 70s here in NZ. Pretty sure they were Merceds Benz back then. Not a hard job on flat ground. On the hills... managed to roll his truck more than once. There's a reason NZ pioneered top dressing. :)
Ginger you look fabulous how much weight did you lose during your recovery. I hope that the surgery was a success. Also I wish your corn 🌽🌽 as we yanks call it (maise) harvest is a big success
nice to have some extra land especially when it's joining what you've already got.......i wouldn't rush at the field work.......i'm guessing the ground is still pretty wet.......get it ploughed and leave it a few days to dry out a bit ......don't want to compact the soil
Studied hort in Tasmania and was taught that PH is only a real issue in soils with minimal organic matter as different minerals are locked up at different PH levels but as long as you put plenty of organic matter into the soil profile those minerals are freely available through cation exchange . Good luck and great to see the ginger warrior in the thick of it again you cant keep a good man down
Tom my boss as soon as we take corn silage or maize as you call it off we plant tritacale or rye in right after then we chop it for silage in spring then corn planted
Tom, have you done or heard about Rotational Grazing? There's a RU-vid channel called the Carbon Cowboys that has a series called Roots So Deep (you can see the devil down there). It sounds like the benefits are extraordinary.
Great Video Tom!!! I watched one of your older videos (from 7??yrs ago) yesterday. Oh My…. How things have changed. The episode was the day a red CanAm and a red Ferrari arrived.👀
