5/19/21: We Have To Replant?!? AAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!

remember how i told you in the last corn planting video that that extra 90 acres i was gonna plant was gonna come up out of the ground running yeah well i lied i was wrong it did not i would rather take a good hard kick in the nuts than do and that's this right here [Music] [Applause] replant [Music] [Music] i told you we were done i told you i didn't want to be with you anymore i told you i wanted to move on to others so why can't i seem to break away from you it's not you it's me i just need a change in my life uh another day of planning today unfortunately we are doing what is perhaps every farmer's most hated task replanting today some years we can get away without having to replant and other years things just don't go your way and today and this year is one of those years so let me get the planter changed over get to get everything serviced and i'll give you give you a little explanation what's going on [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right everything is loaded up ready to go let's go get this over with all right while we're out here today planting corn is we are actually replanting corn you remember how i told you in the last corn planting video that that extra 90 acres i was gonna plant was gonna come up out of the ground running right now the soil temperature is sitting about 65 to 67 degrees and it's going to be warm from here on out it looks like so this corn it ought to germinate quick and it ought to come up out of the ground running yeah well i lied i was wrong it did not you know three weeks of saturated weather cold weather just it did a number on this corn you definitely wouldn't expect that planting corn you know around around the first part of may but that's exactly what happened normally we'd expect that corn planted early april mid april but what we got out here we got quite a bit of it you can see right there corn come up good then oh we got a stretch nothing come up then it started coming up another stretch didn't come up and then we got whole areas like in the lower part of the field like where my tractor like where my planter's sitting that nothing came up and then you get up on uh going up the hill uh it did pretty good so i mean i got several options here i could either keep what i got which wouldn't be a good option because our yield will be hurt tremendously i could just drop in and try to spot plant the parts that didn't come up and leave the good parts or we could just kill everything out here and start over from scratch i really debated a long time about options b and c uh it didn't take me long to decide we need to do something out here the problem is b and c you know we've got a lot of dead cover crop out here and trying to judge from the tractor as i'm going through the field where i've got a good stand and a bad stand be really difficult because i'm not just having to watch a couple rows what we're seeing out here is i might have three or four good roads now i'll have a couple bad roads and it's just that way across the entire field so i'd likely do a probably a pretty poor job of replanting now the parts that i kept if it had a good stand would probably out yield what i'm going to replant but there just be so many holes out here and i mentioned in the past that pigweeds are a problem especially on this farm we've been cleaning up pigweeds for the last five years on this farm and if i left any holes out here it'd be a spot where pigweed could germinate and i never see it because once corn gets head tall i mean unless you walk down every road you're just not going to see it so that really played a factor in my decision so what we're going to do is that's going to come out here and spray and kill all the corn and we're going to start over from scratch now really the corn ought to come up running out of the ground this time i mean we got 80 degree temperature sun dry weather getting a stand this time should not be a problem and ultimately based on prior experience i'm gonna be a lot happier with it looking at it all year long will be it's gonna be a nice uniform stand applying herbicides at the right time applied fungicides at the right time fertilizer at the right time all that's gonna be easier where you just got one maturity out in the field rather than just two maturities scattered throughout the field so uh ultimately our yield on this is definitely not going to be what it could have been i mean we're now into late may i've never actually planted corn this late except for in the corn maze so i mean maximum yield on this this type of ground if everything goes well i'd say probably 135 140 bushels i don't know what it's going to do i'm i'm this year seems like every call that i've made has been the wrong call no matter how much i thought it out i've made the best decisions i thought possible with information at the time there's just so many things out here we can't predict we can't foresee and all it takes is something go opposite the way what you thought it would be and i mean you're screwed you so anyway uh we planned a little strip here we'll check the depths make sure we got it set right and then we're gonna roll on we're gonna go down one more quarter of an inch here we got it set pretty close that got filled up i'm gonna burn this uh corn crop down man this sucks ain't nothing worse than having to destroy a crop you've already planted all right i think i got everything set we got 90 acres cover i'm tired of going home real late at night i'm not gonna waste no time on getting this in the ground well everything's going wrong relatively smoothly we got oh we're about a third done what we got to get planted i'll tell you what i'm sure most any farmer would agree with me you know there's a lot of tasks a lot of chores on the farm i mean we just really we really just don't care much for what we do because we got to be done but there is one task on the farm i would rather take a good hard kick in the nuts than do and that's this right here replant i mean from there's just so many different things about it that i hate for one thing i actually despise having to redo something i've already done something i put a lot of time a lot of effort a lot of thought into and i actually had to have to go back and redo it just frustrates the heck out of me all right there you know two ways about it i mean here's one day that we can be focused on doing something else but now i got to go back and redo something i've already done the other frustrating thing is this is one of those times come back to bite us you know about things that we can't control and we can't predict we've had probably one of if not the most coldest and wettest maids that i could ever remember i mean literally from the time i got this corn planted up until about four days ago i mean it was cold and wet it was like late march early april weather than it was mayweather and that's what did this corn in just being in those cold saturated soils got got seedling disease some some of the seeds came up and some uh some of them uh germinated but didn't have enough power to get but didn't have enough energy to get get through the ground and some of the seeds just plain old rotted yeah it's kind of funny you get on the hillsides that's facing the south the way the sun shines well the few days the sun was shining was able to warm that ground up enough that that corn came on up and did did pretty good but then right on the other side of that hill you had the complete opposite and then you know places where water throat flows through the field or uh you know it just stayed wet for it could just stay cold and wet for so long the seeds just just didn't come up and it might only be affecting two or three roads out of the entire pass i mean it's killing me when i get old when i go over the good spots you know watching those row cleaners back there just chew up all the good corn plants you know it makes me question the decision on the completely replant it all right than just try to spot plant but then you know i go 10 15 feet later and then i see a bad spot and it's just painful to come in here and destroy a crop that you've already planted even though you know it's the best thing to do it's just really aggravating and disheartening to have to come out here and do it i really debated about you know just doing away with the plan to have corn on this ground and either plant soybeans or cotton behind it i quickly dismissed soybeans because we had soybeans here last year we had double crop soybeans here so you're going to take a yield head having the same crop following two years in a row by not being able to rotate it down so i quickly dismissed that cotton you know i really thought hard about going back with cotton because it's not too late to plant plant cotton it's right the tail end of the of the platinum window for cotton but it's not too late then i just got to thinking all the agronomic decisions that went into me deciding to change this from cotton to corn all that's still in effect we need to rotate this ground down we need to have corn on it to help to help build the soil up you know i'd like to have an earlier harvest i'd like to be done with har you know i'd like to be done with this year earlier than earlier than normal i'd like my uh you know i'd like to be able to set this ground up for cotton next year because i'm going to need some good corn ground going into cotton for next year so all that stuff was still in play and then i analyze the the financial aspects of it you know all right we're going we're going to have reduced yield on this it's almost guaranteed we're going to reduce yield but i'd say we can still make you know if we have a decent year we could still make 135 maybe 140 bushels per acre on this type ground you know if we were to switch it to cotton i mean we could count we could probably count on a thousand pounds maybe a little little more and well uh 135 bushel corn at six dollars a bushel you get the same about the same revenues which you would at a thousand pound cotton and uh at uh you know probably about 75 cents a pound so you know initially i switched these acres because i thought i'd make more money off this ground with corn well now we're probably gonna make maybe about the same amount of money on this ground as we would cotton but we've set ourselves up in future years uh very very well in building this ground up and i have cotton on it next year i was like even though it sucks having to replant there is one good thing coming out of this literally other than my time and the cost of running the tractor over the field it's really not costing me anything pioneers got a good replant policy they pay 75 of the suggested retail price of the seed and within all of my volume discounts and everything and the discounts i get for putting in test plots for them and everything uh you know the my actual what i actually pay is uh significantly lower than what the suggested retail price is so you know it's really not costing me anything extra in seed cost on this on these two farms so at least there's that uh one bright side to look at i still wish the first crop would come up though you know normally uh making the decision whether you need to replant or not is usually one of the most difficult decisions a farmer has to make year in and year out you know there's so many different factors you got to take in to consider you know how much of your first plenty crop is actually out there how uniform of the stand it is do you have these big holes or do you just have you know individual plants missing down down the road you know what's your uh what your original planting date was what your potential replant date was because as you get later in through the replanting season i mean your yield is obviously going to most likely going to go down so you got to weigh a lot of those factors you know you got the forecast you got to look at the potential impacts to your harvest schedule you're going to be harvesting a replanting crop usually later it's going to be higher moisture you know do you have the ability to dry down your grain uh you know what are the discounts going to be at the elevator for higher moisture grain you gotta look at the potential increased bug pressure i mean there's so many different things you've got to look at and weight fortunately for us it wasn't a hard decision that we needed to do something to this farm but the hard decision for us was was how we were going to replant our spot planted were we going to jump in there and just terminate it all and start over from scratch we had a look at our harvest schedule because this corn is most definitely going to come off later than what our first planted corn is the way our harvest usually works is we'll start off on corn usually in early september maybe the tail end of august but usually the first part of september around labor day and once we get our corn we switch our combine over for soybeans and then you know once our soybeans are done then we turn our attention to harvesting cotton and then after that double crop soybeans well now we've got this extremely late corn that i don't really know when it'll come off a lot depends on the summer the especially the august and september we got on [Music] [Applause] especially on how quick the corn matures and then dries down i mean we just don't know but this corn potentially might not be ready to come off until you know real late september early october then it could be interfering with soybean harvest or the beginning of cotton harvest which we don't have we don't have a lot of soybeans so it's not like you know we got to try and fit it in but what we got to look at you know there's quite a few things you got to do to a combine to switch it over to harvest a different crop you know we'll set it up for corn and then once we get on corn we'll have to swap it back over to soybeans well if we got to do that and then we got to switch it back over to corn to get this 90 acres and then after that then we gotta switch it back over to soybeans to get our double crop soybean harvest so it's more extra worth there uh and some of the things on the combine is definitely not fun to change over so so you know having to replant this 90 acres is it really impacts our operation for the rest of the year in a large way now obviously it wasn't the right decision to plant corn on this ground when we did i'm sure hoping it's the right decision to plant to replant it into corn and i'm hoping a few months from now i'm not saying well i wish i planned that in the cotton i've had enough mistakes for for one year with this crop plant and i really don't want any more what zak spraying to terminate the crop is a gramoxone and a light rate of atrazine fruboxone is non-selective it'll kill everything out here it's a contact herbicide it does fairly well by by itself on killing the corn but to improve the efficacy of gramoxone that's why we're putting the atrazine in there because it's the type of chemical that it will kind of slow the activity down within the corn plant and let it be translocated through more of the plant giving you a greater kill now when we're on long straight roads like this the planter itself is actually doing a pretty good job of taking out the taking out the existing corn because we're on rtk and we've got sub each accuracy and with the combination of the road cleaners the disc openers and the closing wheels and back it's doing a real good job of taking out what what's there however this farm does have a lot of places where the roads are curved especially around the inroads and even with rtk it's really hard with when your planters way back there and trailing behind you to get it lined up exactly on the road to where you take out the existing corn plants so that's uh so that's why we need to burn down plus our cover crops starting to put back out and we're not ready for our post emergence herbicide yet obviously because we're replanting you know we need to the gramoxone will really do good on burning the cover crop back it'll kill and kill a lot of it and it'll should hold it by until we get ready for our post-emerge application and then the last last benefit of the hexabox zone is i've mentioned we've had a lot of problems with pigweeds on this farm the last four to five years and uh the temperature has gotten right if there's any pigweeds out here they're definitely emerging and that garaxone will completely wipe it out and that will lower the seed bank even further than what it is then hopefully you know when we do come back with our post-emerge application of roundup realm q and uh adrazine you know any more pigweeds that have come up we will completely wipe them out if i got a good stand which i should the the shade of the corn plant after that ought to keep any more from coming up to where hopefully we don't have any pigweeds on this farm at the end of the year and we're just that much closer to getting it completely weed free of pigweeds i'll tell you something's really aggravating are you ever lined up for the perfect drone shots you got the equipment position just right the light just right the right part of the field everything just right and then you forget to press record yeah i hate it when that happens yes sir well ever since uh your granddad's place fell through for you to farm man i found i found you some more ground to rent where's that at uh you want to farm that old farm their own road right outside oh yeah the guy the guy that owns it picked up like 2 000 more acres and doesn't want to travel all the way from the pool with it anymore and he's looking for somebody to rent it out hell i thought it was in wetlands i don't think so i don't think nobody's planted anything on it in a few years because i don't want to know if somebody wanted to farm it and get to take a guess what he wants for land rent he wants cash or if he wants shares he wanted cash rent he wanted money 175 acres it says it's about 400 acres uh what do you want 125 130 acres 188 an acre 100 how much 188 dollars an acre he wants 75 grand for that 400 acres [Laughter] yeah and uh the fact the farm is going to need some work it ain't been farmed in a few years and even after all that work you're still prone and prone to flooding and losing your entire crop i told you i told you i told a man i might consider it for about half that but i was going to tell you thanks but no thanks at that price that's great that's kind of that's kind of what i thought that farmer made hell the farming been spraying what three is big weeds freaking everywhere out there oh yeah i know it ain't had nothing on it in two years it might be three i don't know i guarantee you someone will probably do it but it ain't gonna be this old boy they they're just ain't ain't near enough reward for all the risk of farming down there in that flood plain yeah i'm always looking to pick up new ground if it's in the right place the right type of ground has the right type of landlord who's really interested in building up a farm but looking to rent 400 acres on the banks of the that even with a good levy system has the potential to flood up until about mid june or so that's way too risky for my taste because i mean right now i'm having to replant corn on ground that ain't risky if i were to wait until early to mid june and plant a crop there and then have a flood come in a couple weeks later and wipe it all out when you talking about flooding that's definitely one thing you can't control and then pay a hundred and eighty eight dollars an acre to boot on top of that and cash rent that's just crazy i don't make maybe some of you guys up in the midwest you jump off or jump all over that was y'alls enormous cash rent prices but there ain't no way i'm paying that kind of money for them i just i just said we'll pick it up 20 acres here 50 acres there a lower rick ground that doesn't have near the risk associated with it but hey on the other side at least i wouldn't have to worry about that ground being sold for development like just about all my other farms though [Music] well we're moving right on alone we got done with my mom's house so that was right at close to 60 acres done where he's got moved over here to ellington 30 acres here unfortunately this one's going to take quite a while there's a not a single easy field to plant over here they're all kind of small and cut up took a while to plant would do more turning around over here than we do anything then i think we're going to finish off the evening by heading up the border cable on some of that first planting that we did there in the bottom next to the hill where it just seeps out the hillside we're going go drop in there and spot plant what we gotta do there unfortunately we you know we got like a nine mile drive back into jackson to get there hopefully we'll get get this knocked out here before long and be able to park this planter for a few weeks i'm about tired of riding on it that's for sure all right guys 90 acres later here we are we're at the end one more pass down over here in this little corner and we'll be done i'm not going to make it up to porter cable tonight because it's getting close to dark and i'm going to have to spot plant that in and uh no way i can do a good job of that in the dark you know seeing what's up and what's not from the cab but i mean it's just not much of anything up there probably got three or four acres max i gotta replant over in the wet spot and plus found out today that the road to get there the main road is closed because they're doing uh some repairs on a bridge down there so that means i'd have to take the long way around through all the suburbs of jackson to get there and that's really not something i want to do at night so i reckon we will leave it for tomorrow morning i will be so glad to get off this dane planter for a while be able to get caught up on some stuff around the shop that's been lacking for the last few days also maybe get caught up on some videos because we've done a lot of recording over the last what five or six days but i hadn't been able to put any videos out because i don't even have time to download footage let alone actually make a video so i know it's going to be a while before y'all see this but uh that little break that we had in videos that was a reason why all right i am glad this is done i hate replanting and hopefully this is the only replant we're going to have to do this year hopefully all the cotton will come up to a good stand and won't have to do anything about it so hopefully this does it for planting until we get our combine out get and get started cooking some wheat to get our soybeans planted behind that but hopefully this is all the planting that i will be doing this year because once we start planting double crop beans behind wheat that's going to be kelly's job so she gets to join in the fun on that meantime while i got this i got a pretty long drive out to the road i think kelly packed me a goodie down here in my lunchbox i'm going to enjoy she must have felt sorry for me wait for it that's a wonderful sound yeah guys i appreciate y'all riding along with me today i'm gonna go ahead and close out this video for the time lapse of us on driving on into the shop it's gonna be a pretty sunset tonight let you all enjoy an outside view of it on the way home i'm gonna close it out here we'll see in the next video you

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Keywords: corn planting, replant, soil health, plant green, corn, farming

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Length: 27min 49sec (1669 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 04 2021