Man that's an awesome looking plot regardless of the weeds. It's a refinement every year but them look beautiful best of luck getting them to finish all the way out.
Hey buddy your plots are looking great!!! Check into getting you a pre emergent application going at planting. I started doing that last year and it is so nice not worrying about weeds and knocking over crops spraying
I actually bought some Simazine this year I did use it on a small corn spot and a few rows of sweet corn. It seemed to work pretty good but there was still some weeds that came up. Maybe I didn’t apply it at the right rate. Which pre-emergent do you use and what rate. I know that there’s not that many pre-emergents for soybeans but do you know of any pre-emergents for Soybeans that you can buy without a license.
Doing a great job keep it up! One thing that might keep your beans from getting planted too deep is to pull a harrow or cultimulcher after you disk it really firms up the soil and makes it perfect for planting. Looking good 👍
Yeah that is a good idea. I could possibly run the cultipacker over a couple times over the ground to firm it up a little bit and then plant. Next year I’m going to be planting beans only two ways broadcasted very thick to get fast canopy closure. And beans on 38 inch rows so I can cultivate and get good weed control hopefully.
Looking good! I'd plan on planting some Enlist soybeans next year to deal with that water hemp. Trying mixing some ammonium sulfate (AMS) in your water before adding the glyphosate. Should help kill some of those weeds as well. Let's hope the timely rains keep up the rest of summer.
This year was the first year I bought a jug of AMS I think it helped a little but there was still some water hemp that survived. You need a license to buy Enlist don’t you? A lot of my plots are in areas that a big sprayer can’t get to. But yeah I would like to get better we control it seems like every year I’m ending up with more and more weeds. That’s why next year I’m going to try Planting my Soybeans two ways: 38 inch rows so I can cultivate and If I don’t do 38 inch rows I’m going to broadcast very thick so they canopy over quick.
Clover takes so long to get established and most of it would probably be shaded out by the corn. There would be little to no benefit year 1. Maybe some would survive and come back in the spring.
I really like the silage corn. Grows nice and thick and gets huge. Alot of the time you will have to mow it up to really get the deer on it good. Ears are 4.5-6 ft off the ground alot of the time. I think the seed kernels are more round, so our planter plants it a little thinker than the grain corn.
Great video looks like your corn & soybeans beans r doi g well.I have a 62 Ford tractor 800 Series.What year is yours?In 2 weeks I going to try no till for my Fall food plots.2 .ore questions for u.When r u going to start your fall food plots & How did u plant your switchgrass?Did u frost seed them?
The tractor we were using the plant in this video is an old ford 2N tractor from the late 30s I believe. I just planted one of my bigger fall plots on Thursday night before the Friday rain. I might be planting another tomorrow but not much rain in the next week so maybe not. I frost seeded that switch grass in late March into soybean stubble. It has worked pretty good so far hopefully next year the switch can really take off and get above the annual weeds. right now the switch is only around 6 inches tall and the weeds are growing much much faster. Next year I am going to spray some simazine to hold back the weeds too.
I went to 30inch rows and 6.25 seed pitch on my planter (JD 294 with undersized tires otherwise would be geared for 6.50in) and the corn is doing fine. You might try 30inch to get more leaf coverage and weed shading. Doubling your bean rows would get you 15inch rows you are targeting. Can your corn picker adjust to 30inch?
Our corn planter cannot adjust. I’m happy with how the corn grows on 38 in rows. Next year I’m going to try beans on 38 in some areas and cultivate. I’m sick of 4-5ft tall water hemp in my beans. Cultivating will really help and I can broadcast brassicas the last cultivation pass in mid to late July if the beans don’t canopy over.
What number fertilizer do you spread on the beans? How do you spread without killing the beans or burning your skin? What type of corn seed can be planted as a Heritage plant to be harvested and shucked for seed the next year? Is there a “round up ready” corn and soybean seed that can also be a Heritage plant? I would like to harvest my own seeds and save for planting next year. Sorry for all the questions
I spread one bag of 09-23-31 fertilizer primarily on the beans and some on the corn. Only one bag for an entire acre is a very low amount and I’m amazed how good the corn looks. The beans are a little weaker than I would like but it looks like they’ll turn out OK. I didn’t have fertilizer when we planted so that’s why it was not included in the video. I fertilized when the beans and corn were a few inches tall right before a good rain. I broadcast the fertilizer with my Earthway bag seeder That is how I’ve been fertilizing a lot of my plots I can fit about 30 pounds at a crack in the bag and then have to refill multiple times. It does kind of get irritating on the skin if you’re not wearing sleeves. I try to fertilize when wearing a sweatshirt. I am not really sure what you mean by heritage plant. You should be able to handpick and shuck off any corn crop and replant the following year and it should grow fine. I have had some leftover corn in years past when I planted too much for the deer. And then re-planted the same corn that I harvested in the in the spring and had great success. It grows just like the seed corn. The only downside is it doesn’t have a seed coating and the sand hill cranes sometimes can devastate a crop because there is no seed coating and they will pull the corn out when it’s only a few inches tall and eat the seed. Another downside is usually the harvested seed that you shocked from an ear has bigger kernels than the seed corn so it doesn’t run through the corn planter as thick. All the soybeans I’ve planted in all my videos I have ever done on this channel is only harvested soybeans that me and my dad buy from a local farmer during harvest season. I have never bought seed soybean from the co-op. I have had a lot of issues with cranes pulling out a lot of my corn in the past so from now on I only plant seed corn. But if you’re wanting to harvest and replant some of your own corn seed I would recommend planting a little thicker and if you notice the cranes starting to pull out some you can broadcast 100-200 pounds per acre of shelled corn on top of the ground so the cranes and other wildlife eat the easy seed right on top of the surface instead of digging up the corn you’re trying to grow that usually helps a lot.
You have come a long way from planting with the hand push garden seeder. Didn't you have another 2 row planter you used a few years ago? What's happened to it??
Yes we have an old two row planter at home that we use. And my grandpa‘s old two row planter on their farm that we use for almost all the plots out there.
Yeah, this plot they munched on at least half the plants pretty bad when they first came up but they were able to recover. One of my really small quarter acre or less soybean plots they ate to the ground. I rarely have issues with the deer eating soybeans to the ground even in smaller plots. But this year I have experienced more Browse on Soybeans than ever before it seems like.
Yeah I can believe it. I’ve had more browse pressure on my beans this year the I can ever remember but most of my beans have recovered. I’ll have more soybean videos coming out soon.
