Brandt Field Day 2018 - David Brandt

I guess we're gonna have a little change in our operational plans for today because I didn't put the whole winter underwear on and it's blowing and cold out there so I think we're gonna try to show some slides and talk about planner equipment adjustments and doing the interceding is here later on if you want to see the equipment and I want to stand outside for about 10 or 15 minutes to look at it and go from there but to stand there for two hours this afternoon just may be a little chilly you know there's some snow flakes flying and I've had one field day one year back in early 70s and I don't know what bob was they were supposed to be in there I think we've actually had snow and we didn't have a facility like this as opposed to bars and Inglis that was a tough field thing so my son got it and for Christmas and he's really excited so he took some bourbon pictures and I thought you might like to see on the facility here so if you look if you look right here this is our house and the cornice is the old farmstead and then here we are in our machinery shed that become a warehouse which is real tough to find them room to work on equipment during a cover crop season that as you can imagine and then our new facility which is right here this is a clean facility and before you leave if you would like to see it the doors will be open and you can visually see our new clipper cleaner our banking facility up there James and Anne Anne has pretty well designed and worked on that was with me dragging my feet because I had to write two checks yeah daren't that si so I have to convince them they need to crawl a little bit and clean some seed before he goes by as a million dollar color disorder of some kind of gravity creator who runs things up he'll step down and whatever happens to it so if you need some seed cleaned let us know because we could then we could buy some more toys you know but what we want to show you was the cover you know and we try very diligently and for the past three to four years we've been 100 percent covered usually have it done by Thanksgiving this year we were awake with my wife of cancer treatment Sammy sir hip surgery and some other things that happened to us we didn't get done seating cover crops - the day before Christmas and guess what you're just now seeing a little red tint from the Rye crowing and hopefully before the first tomato will warm up it'll grow but you know but that's one of those years and you came there said you probably saw this pretty brown all the way around us so this is what's left after 10 weeks BC there's crimson clover hairy vetch winter peas and rye and what left with all the summer grasses and some of the games that we put in there after wheat harvest we try to do our big monster cover after cereal grains it used to be always after all the week but we're not growing as much squeeze we did we're growing more rise with fit Achilles Barney Oates for that seed business so about 70% of all our circles now are for the cover crop business and still don't have a background and so that's where right there this is just a field this was CRP clear up to 216 they came out with September of the 21st and 60 we were able to work with our NRCS office to convince them let us do it a chemical burn down of the ten-year CRP which was cool season grasses and multiple of wooded species you know and so in all of us we went in there with the court in half roundup or everything off and planted a ten waist BC this happens to have five species left if you remember last spring it was pretty nice in April so our conventional guys are all done planting the 21st of April the 22nd April we have a six inch rainfall event the 10th of May they reclaimed that corn 15th in May we had a 7 inch rainfall event they replanted the corn the last day of May and that's where we started so here we are the last day of a plant corn we took the corn planter down to the CRP field they had to cover it made a half around with the pattern of course we don't have guidance because I'm not smart enough to do that and Bruce about 35 shear pins and as big as I am and four steps in and out of a tractor I was getting a little upset as you can see so I call my wife and we said bring her over and we rolled ahead of plan this is the first year we ever roll the head of the planning we always a little afterwards because there's some secrets I'll show you later on here why we like to roll afterwards so here we are this we bought this 30 20 and 71 that's when I started no-tilling it has I don't know turned over three times on attacks or whatever that is but anyhow it's still rather than pulling the 20 foot roller she's running about five or six mile an hour and you can see it's a it was a mess because there's a little hairy back sticking on the wings of the rover but here we're rolling to cover just before banging you know I really like this design of this roller because it tends to look work like over hey mind it actually creepers it so every four or five inches it creeps up residue if that residue is in the boot stage or glue we can terminate with this ruler so what this does just saves us the first herbicide pass which every called you know burn down past or whatever now it does take about a week longer to turn it around and if you use a herbicide and that's my problem David as I like to see it turn brown immediately you know if it's green for three weeks you get a little worried I've got to learn to have patience you know or go fishing or do something you know yeah right so here you can see the every action and everything nixon's I'm doing a really nice job taking care of things and here we are planting to it we just got this is we planted four equals a corn last summer the last spring and this was one of the last fields of course the little one show you was look at the look at the planner there's no dust on it takes 20 percent less fuel for us to plant corn into cover crop than it does for us to plant I agree with my mumbles conventional stuff just because the planter sinks in at folks argue you know so to me that's a savings of about a quart and a half or two quart or diesel fuel per acre that don't seem like much but if you put that on a 500 or a thousand acres you know you can Li squat by a steak for supper tonight you know we utilize the blue decoder mainly because we've got a rock just underneath the surface about as big as a basketball we tried running you know we we've done the whole gamut you know whatever come out from 1971 till now we've had luckily two weeks ago we had an inventory reduction sale and we had like 60 some different row cleaners 45 different kind of spike wheels we had them on skids and guess what they've brought just about as much - they cost me when I bought a mirror so that was a good thing things stop that stop yeah so we're back to the fluted corner was a seat disc you find that and then rubber press music behind no they didn't see he's doing a nice job you can see that corner that's not treated chlorine in the box and we're off and running but what I want to show you is we're removing those soil you know I think it panics all our neighbors when I see just do this you know and they shake their head and of course I guess if you if you go down here to Carroll to the greasy spoon everybody meets for breakfast and you don't have time to go there but there's a big calendar it says how long will Dave Brandt be farming changing the years let's see but here we're just when to shoot a little movie we enrolled this the office direction you know we go to me but you can't you had a role the same direction you got to make sure you do it right and all this crap well here we're running against the way we roll you know the students aren't really smooth so we're running about four mile an hour to one half this happens to be the first year of no-till field it wasn't it's the artery so we're actually putting two and a half gallon of a starter fertilizer on the scene so we can go that direction right if it happens to spring up you can't do that because it will wrap on the shams and the change you know we found that we had river cleaners we could make a round bale about 300 pounds in about 600 feet well they wouldn't figure out the daughter said early on it to get it done so we can make eight at the same time you know but here's our slip why do I like it I mean to me it don't have to close just get it down there you know get it into three quarters two inches deep then use a crop roller to smack that cover crop down on top of it we don't have a certain light and wind bottom is so it don't dry it out if we don't have this rings twelve well what you do and just without covers you know it's important to closely talk but to me it's not important when I have this kind of residue you know so here's our results four days at the plant corn I hope you will see that corn plant hope you can see how green it is you know look at that residue guess what we have a three rainfall event and in 30 minutes we don't lose any soil you know just imagine how that we drop this set soca through that residue as it's soaking through that residue it's taken newton residue you know and they call that when they do that with burner piles or whether they're stirring stuff you know doing all this work composting you know talk about compost and it talked about compost to you well compost tea is just the nutrients running out of that pile to take the lap that use it in their fertilizer applications I think we do it here right when the rainfall happens you know because every time you get a rainfall event we see the corn getting greener you know and lipid soup this is morning you know this is 35 dry we're going back to 20 I think 20 is going to be enough for us yeah as long as you know what your herbicide program is you don't lose half of it because the herbicide talked about you know and we don't have trouble because we've got lots of organic matter we've got lots of critters it's helping to eat up some of the longevity of our herbicides there is a little later on the season look at the moisture on the leaves you know the real brown stuff is all the goom's so that means when it rains on it it's washing some of that nitrogen off of those plants down into the soil you know almost the biggest an event i i like picnic stands offenses but guess what in no-till we've learned to use varieties that tend to have flexible years you know i like some of these new varieties but you look at them and what they do they put on a two-and-a-half or three three-ounce here maybe two ounces well no what do they want 45 or 50 thousand plants per acre because it takes 50 tops of plants of an inch that I announced and a half here to make 200 bushels you do it's only that long we just call in the ovens you know we get a flexible corn variety that we miss a kernel may be once every 2 or 3 foot and the next thing you know you got an e regular and I inches long 2 weighs a pound you know maybe we should be going back to smaller densities so we can get our cover crops in on literal things you know maybe we should look at 30,000 of 28,000 it was an upright need if we're going to do enter CDs 40 inch corn you know we'd have trouble running over it that way I put this picture in just because this happens is the NRCS new employees we trained four times a year here we tried to get you boys to understand how important soil health is but I put that picture in there just to show you how dark that corn is after a cover crop with no fertilizer and no nitrogen if you can see those leaves there's not a lesion to them they're dark green no insects I'm like Lucas I paid that rawness and I think this is my last year but paying for this because he thinks we got to have all the herbicides we're gonna have all the newest corn we've got to come in and do fungicide treatments and the only way they want to do a fungi frequent here is do the whole field so it comes to me sits in the office here decent damage oh this is what you got it new this year because we're going to give you ten more bursts of the corn if you fly this boat aside on Isis when Alfaro how do I know that well it just says so in the literature boy says how about having that clean pilot leave half of it untreated well I don't think you can do that says if he can't do it don't do it we tried for years we treated half fields just one in a healthy soil fertility thing like we have when we do it in the safety side wait for a fungicide treatment that cost me 35 to 50 bushel corn you want to hear my promise talk to me after that corner of this time you know best thing I can do is climb up having said the kid you know look here this point is making 132 this corner entry to make a 200-mile you want to sell me that again don't build me for that plane ride soil temperature we have a lock that we're 20 degrees cooler we're not evaporate the water was in the soil we're having things grow I think Lucas has seen the same thing you know my neighbor's corn same day was 91 degrees this slope is 91 degrees look at that stuff you should fathers deficiency how could it be put 300 pounds of DAP on you put 275 pounds of nitrogen on it the vertical tilt four times deep ripped in the fall that's 16 now in diesel fuel per acre on it's got to grow you know what I want to show you look at that lead that leads right there's telling me act for these nitrogen and good Nanaki says he called he said what am I supposed to miss my corn look so bad I said she got her 1608 hydrous applicator he says what's that mean to you guy says just pull it out there's no putting in I was on get some air in that's all just what we did that in two passes and quit he said this is a bunch of crap guess what those 32 inches 32 rows make 44 bushel or corn with no nitrogen just add an air to it rope across you know there's our soils that's when we started 1971 after same work antique matter cart Eaton played these soils you know because all science has been here a few years to change you can validate what we're doing this is our stalls now eight percent organic matter you realize what eight percent organic matter means to Dave Brandt that's four hundred pound of nitrogen in the soil that's nine inches of water a year in hell do I have to every no I like the rain if it comes right you know I don't like it like it was yesterday you saw all the folks we have I hope when you leave here you don't see you puddles because that's how fast we're infiltrated after the quiz you know we talked about we see the slate test and we're not going to bother you with that this just happens to be our soils this is my uncle he's 96 years old continuous no-till soybeans 25 years this is one minute after the clod was quitting the soil why did we a mile this to happen with our neighbors you guys aren't doing any pressure here I know you've got cover crops why can't we tell your neighbor let's not lose the phosphorus of nitrogen to potash my farmer neighbor was here a week ago farms ten thousand acres he was over to brag cause he just finished putting on a hundred ton of anhydrous last week you know the Ohio River likes you bro well I guess that guy down there along the Ohio River that grows 500 acres this week to learn it's love today he's thrilled to death you know he's got all kind of nutrients why do you do those kind of things if we don't tell our neighbors so they know you guys aren't doing yeah we don't stop this and we happen to have an algae bloom Lake Erie because we're too far south of Lake Erie but let's just take it further let's just go down New Orleans and they have a larger peel they got now which is like ten miles outside the length of the ocean if you go to 50 or 20 miles DPA and everybody else is going to be telling us what to do you know but that's no fun there's my uncle this is a loon now this monthís oil just right down the road you don't believe me left hand turn right hand turn 500 feet down the road on the left-hand side you'll see it you know this is what we need do we need this then routing at 15 to 20 ton per acre guess what that's a flash for you it's not even highly erodible 15 tons of soil Austin here a ton of soil is worth $40 you know he's not concerned but you know 15 times 40 if you want to replace it then last year's beats with 25 you can't figure out why the yields are going down you know here we are this is fun let's our planner tractor if you can see the planner mark out there gets perfect you can see it right there it goes it's about that crooked I do that I couldn't have a lot more corn in the road as long as the tornado pull it off I don't care [Applause] but there's thirty six thousand his forty six thousand pounds of lilacs after the planning that's five inches thick to thatch we pull the sauce happens her to Ricky five days later you're coming back he's of David he says what you doing nicely I don't know I'm just having fun well you doing a field I saw you sent me this got 330 pounds nitrogen he says to what you do us as a planet horny says you put nitrogen on I said no he says dole don't need it I said thank you know we were lucky enough but Rick's has been our base for five or six years the Billy's database like it's sending samples don't cost big time we send you samples every month but here's the car from the no-till ten years of CRP there is a little bit of weed there just a little not enough for harvest you know I look this was a great resource up in a cab at my phone you know whoops yeah misty took it now you monitor we'll split up in the next picture that corn to you at 208 little Baker had non feed corn had no starter fertilizer no nitrogen no herbicide return and parade I got to tell you this no the net return for a four hundred ninety six dollars and eighty three cents most profitable field of corn I've thrown for years you know blue bags only ten acres right they're here but our plan means Lucas likes it big so why the bigger to ride a better it is you know planter green don't let me trouble going sir but now we depart this down three days ago that within turning light blue it would have been a did hair pins it does everything but what you want to do so if you're going to kill right make sure it's a brown before you plant the problem is the highest weather men don't get paid found because they'll tell us it's not gonna rain for ten days or two weeks so we go out there and spread at a time because when rise doing this going to head did reviewers have inch of rainfall out of the slow profile a day you know on a clay soils that don't matter to me put all the sandy soils that don't have a lot of water holding capacity you got to manage it so if it's going to be dry you killed ahead of time so it holds that moisture so our weatherman is always wrong seem to kill it and then it rains and guess what that would be an August or September picture plank week autumn a picture because it takes it that long to dry out we rule afterwards you know we got all kind of over both type of fun we get people on order stuff but once the tribes out more lyric so you know this has to be the roller of the gate Brown didn't like because gay to understand how to roll you know he says it never gets warm enough that's his problem you know so look like that cheap and resold it for lots of money that keeps baby checks every now and then but here's the soybeans for element no more white gold no more southern s you talked something earlier why the raindrop don't splash the soil that has the bacteria that creates of problems no holes in the leaves no flea beetles no soybean aphids because the riot is to take the soybean aphid away that's it yeah just you're to slip around would you rather see the green which this is triticale this was this was a December picture middle MJ this is December flight but look at the neighbors look at all around look at all the levels in the field you know and I say why why can't we all listen and learn why can't we teach everyone to think outside the box partly always comfortable because we could be you know as a conventional Attila

Channel: Brandt Farm

Views: 6,516

Rating: 4.8620691 out of 5

Keywords: Field Dayt, No-Till, Cover Crops

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Length: 25min 40sec (1540 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 14 2018