Farm Tour

wow that's a very pretty Torah Lila let's see it one more time Wow I can't do that [Music] hey Internet about a month ago I went down to Mitchell Horace farm down in southeast Iowa Mitchell is my co-host for the field work podcast today he's actually coming up here he's going to visit my farm see what kind of conditions I'm farming him in and I'm gonna show him what real farm machinery looks like did we decide to get the deep bender out to show them we did what do you think I'll I do they want the wings up or the wings down down we should put them down okay go up all right we'll leave them up hi there we go should we show didge the camera see what she does ditch ditch don't you want to talk on camera want to say something no gun [Applause] how's the race track coming Onix good he had a packer out there last night this morning he was water in the track he's been working pretty hard on that thing well that was Oliver he was watering your friend Oliver Mitchell you better hurry up it's getting awfully dark to the northwest see that kid never stops on that thing lately all right it looks like Mitchell is just arriving on the farm by way of cornfield corny situation yeah well it's a big field of dreams isn't it you didn't pee in there right no I didn't do all right I'd found corn that's really thirsty oh and I watered up all right well I won't ask anymore so what's your what's the outlook on that I mean it looks fine it looks nice and long this one was on the end so I'm sure he's not very representative of the field but I think it's gonna be all right most the rest of them are double that double that yeah twice that size massive like yeah baseball bats baseball bat yeah good up done have your combine or le tuned in to be able to take all that corner it's a deer oh yeah it'll be good it's gonna be like all right I'm here with the Minnesota Public Radio field work crew yeah as you can tell looking professional and a few kids are trailing with we're gonna go for a quick tour around the farm I'll show Mitchell what's going on up here in west central Minnesota have you ever been this far from Iowa no no I don't know why you would never want to leave I but here we are we won't get into that yeah so this is obviously the grain setup we're building a new that's gonna be a new holding tank new weapon for us thirty feet nine ring about twenty thousand so we'll have the the new bin and the old wet tank here together they'll be both plumbed into the same conveyors yeah we'll have about thirty thousand bushels of up holding capacity then then everything ties together through the leg you're gonna need it here this year well we're gonna need it see you're in southern Iowa you don't need such a big grain dryer right we it's not uncommon for us we try not to but it's not uncommon to take 30% corn oh yeah yeah 30 32 at 34 we start shutting things down cuz then you just make an serialize if we've got it it is it's terrible I hate if we've got 24 percent 25 yeah I mean we'll do it but that'd be kind of on the upper end see if we start harvesting 24 percent corn you're like this is we are super excited harvest is gonna be easy yeah going fast Onix I should maybe just set that back you don't have that on video yeah I think he made sure he got it on video that's that's a lot of hits like yeah Onix picks up giant sledgehammer literally what happens go ahead and push some stuff see what happens well see it's farmer Todd it's it's good farmer layout red stop green go yep there's no green it's easier see it's the opposite of the Mike's at NPR where red means the mics are on yeah doesn't make sense no wonder all thrown off yeah so we've got the air system out the back of the dryer I don't remember how yours yours was it lager so we've got the air delivery to all the all the bins so we've got an exchanger back there to switch it around and move it to different bins which we don't have to mess with augers which is sweet yeah but it presents its own challenges then once in a while gets tough o'clock once every couple years of pipe will blow apart you end up with a thousand bushels in the ground you got a backup so you try to do we check on it three times a night all fall so we're out here quite a bit with that it's noisy oh yeah so that's a downfall it's really loud try to park the trucks around it at night to block some of the sound but I mean ultimately it's a lot nicer than dealing with augers yeah especially with this many bins around what you'd have to deal with right so condensed in that our augers are all super short yep so not nearly the whole different deal yeah what did you call that thing the cover crop cedar a cover crop cedar yeah so I mean a lot of the components are the same thing what we did here really essentially it's kind of like a makeshift stripped illness so we'll put our pea in RK RK in our beet we've got them separate and do all this yeah and then we variable rate each product by itself sure so there's a prescription for each one yeah and then what we do is feed it through this is a chisel pocket right I mean that's all it is is the chisel plow and we switched it around the back yes so what we did was we switch the shanks from I believe it was on 12 inch spacings we switched it over to 15 inch spacing and then every other one has an applicator tool on the back yeah so half of them are just doing tillage the other half are doing tillage and applying the P and K we did have when we first got it for the first year we put in on with it yeah what we ran into was the anhydrous applicators show the camera here the anhydrous applicators came down right here the problem was the air from this system was blown out a lot at the end so we were chasing that so what we need to do ideally the best thing to do would be to move the the end application to the shanks that are not running fertilizer but that's an hydrazine you have that other thing I'd more so you could run AMS or something like that or urea we have a 13 well but you could you could run them with your P and K or something like that if there was one of them that was gonna be kind of consistent right you know or you put your P and K together and you variable rate that on one and then you do your flat rate yeah that's our urea I think just because of what we save by variable rate on both the P and K and the variability of it it wouldn't work to blend them the same yeah I think a third tank would be the answer but then I then you get into putting urea on in the fall because we do this that's the other thing as we do this as early as we can to get it done oh yeah because otherwise we end up with a year like last year where it freezes out and we can't get to it all but you know you obviously you don't want to put in on when the ground is still 60 so that adding the end to it presents enough challenges where we just decided we'll put the P and K on yeah and put the N on later whether it's urea in the spring or anhydrous afterwards no it was when we put the nh3 tank behind it it was like a hundred and thirty feet long and it actually worked out pretty good the way they had it rigged up or the way it still is so the hitch comes out here you can pull it's just on a winch so you can pull it you can pull that out 30 feet hook to the anhydrous tank and then run the winch up and it pulls it up and then you just couple it to that yeah but yeah it's it's ridiculously long yeah and it looked even more ridiculous when we had the four-wheel drive with a 90-30 we pulled away that's a John Deere tractor yeah so this building this shed we built in 2013 actually 14 the old building that was here was actually open to the east it was an old cattle yard building so it was only ten feet tall so you couldn't get much in here okay and we had an ice storm in March of 2013 that took that down so we wiped that building out then the next summer we put this up and then another year later we finished off the interior in here so this has been huge for us to have something with sidewalls to get the big rigs in and actually work on stuff in the winter yeah which we couldn't do before we were working out is that cold yeah which is no insulation well there it is insulated and heated in there but you couldn't get anything in the door it was too small at this point so so this has been big for us been a big change for us so this is this is a real planter they paint them green just some of the viewers are gonna be all mad at me to settle them down everyone's gonna be the comments you just gonna be bad that's okay as long as there's comments they'll say what they want you can't stop them no they're animals so we've had this planter for six years now I think and we put the row cleaners on not supposed to come trash whippers in the earth they are role cleaners we got them from yet or so their era just up and down from in the cab so they are the Cadillac option but what I found actually was that on our conventional till stuff I really don't think I mean no you don't really need not really no I mean at times yeah what I found is if I'd run them just if I'd run run the soil right here yeah it would knock the rocks out and it did one thing it did help a lot for is knocking uh root balls out of the way the root balls from the corn because we have had problems with them plugging up the closing wheels so they did help that issue a lot I think in a situation where you're talking about no-till or planting through a cover crop and you want their huge for us yeah I would assume so actually yeah yeah they're huge for us ours are on that they are running hydraulic down port down pressure with the Delta Force yeah so years are built by yet no don't they're the precision isn't okay so I believe they're actually manufactured by ietters oh could be for precision sure I think maybe I got that wrong somebody a bunch of people will to me out was that if I did get that's well yeah so that helps us to be able to go through and cut through that layer yeah and essentially what it does is it just pushes everything to the side yeah and we found that with that living cover crop it actually just kind of like rips it to the side oh so I'm gonna clears things really well you know that it's actually like alive and then just kind of rips that out yeah and then I've got a nice little furrow so is it more important to have these are less important on planting green versus planting on no tilt more important with the planting grid think so okay probably and as far as being able to keep that consistency because you're going to be going through right where you do have well you know hail of roots or what or mounds and it's not gonna be super even yeah so having something that's adjusting and changing all the time helps to really make sure that we're getting consistency to that depth and to the seed placement and that's what I figured I didn't really have problems with them I just wasn't in certain situations a lot of our conventional tool stuff I wasn't sure we needed them or not a lot of there are a lot of guys that run them really instead of running the smooth clothes and wheels a lot of guys will get him spike yeah get something a little different oh yeah it was just the case like flat press wheel oh okay did you go to the spiked ones in nowhere you have it we still have just that flat closing wheel that's just right under the top but some guys will see that you know with a no-till situation you don't have the soil they're really loose yeah but something like this is easily just gonna push it back down together yeah we're with the no-till in the cover crops you don't have that loose soil to push back together yeah and so what we what we found in with the press wheel is we're we have enough that's kind of there that we press back in we're now we've got the structure built up so it does kind of crumble back in together but a lot of guys will use a little bit of a more of a spike something to kind of get it chewed up and yeah free up a little bit of soil to fill that furrow so I've got a good buddy that tried the spiked ones last year and took him off after 40 acres and chucked him behind the shed because all he did was gather rocks in a conventional field situation or sure so I always liked what we had but we have will go out to a two we've got seven acres of zero till I guess I'd call it it was CRP stuff that we planted green right in - yeah and we had a lot of trouble getting that furrow to close right so I had to really crank the pressure up on these but in a situation like that I think this bike the ones would be that's built well cuz I'd be very similar to our stuff there where that soil is all super held together by all the roots it's not just gonna like fall back in yeah yeah so and it's an easy change easy it's always very difficult but I think that's something though from this conversation that that's real money about - yeah you have to change it from every single unit right you know and it adds when you got a big plan Teresa Mitchell did you want to sit in the real treasure or are you scared it won't Lee look at that oh that's from the kid loosening it up oh yeah you got to play with this yes that's right yeah so I get kidnapped fun stuff oh so then the other set up has its own it's got its own screen which they said that they could it's pretty easy to get it run into the 2630 the deer monitor so I don't need that but at the time they installed it they didn't have the hardware in stock to get that onto there so I just ran with this screen next year I will put it down yeah so that is our sprayer 4830 it's it's the old-style deer sprayer we we don't put nitrogen on with it actually we don't do any split application almost nobody around here does at least not from here West so we put our nitrogen on in one shot before we plant the crop and then this is this is herbicides pesticides insecticides sprayed on what's that yeah boat now which we we actually talked this morning normally this week we are spraying for soybean aphids like crazy and this year we're gonna go out and try to find some but I mean we were talking 5 to 10 per plant yeah and it's late I don't think we're gonna have to spray the aphids yeah normally that's what we mix in our fungicide pass with so we're actually we were talking this morning about whether or not we're gonna throw that fungicide out there or not yeah why not really need it this year it's so late and like I haven't seen a lot of disease either there's guys talking about you still do it or not I mean a lot of times just for the health something I'd like the crop health side yeah it'll still pay for itself but it might might yeah now it's like kind of back and forth right well hopefully the crop will be kind of worth something this year yeah it's kind of worth something so hopefully be worth a little bit yeah make it a little bit more enticing today the economics don't work out somebody might want some of this crap maybe somebody will buy it that'd be nice if you keep it if we can keep on if we could keep the orange guy off at Twitter might help yeah see now I just made more viewers Matic just a joke guys okay Mitchell this is our most prized piece of machinery I like it this is an old bread truck that we now hold water and that's really all there is to know about that the brakes on it lock up every spring you gotta climb on your head and hammer on a 100 percent but it's a it's a necessary evil yeah bread truck you gotta have the old bread truck every time it blows the breaker every time you flip the lights on it we have too many lights on one all it does is trip it and then you flip it again and then you're good to go in the summer it happens right away in the winter it takes ten seconds yeah it'd be nice if I knew an electrician or something Tyrone or Corey he's a character well that's all that's cute you have rocks you can pick up by hand Wow baby rocks poor fella we have Volkswagens that we have to use this machine for to get them out of the ground and throw them in there and drag them to the edge of the field if you're interested in taking any with you you are yeah you are more than welcome put them up in a nice car I'm not helping you load them so we got the grain cart loaded up right now because we actually load soybean trucks out with this so that we can use the scale and know what's coming in and out yeah we've actually got these people watching don't even know this yet but we have a brand new grain cart coming for this fall I'm not gonna say where it's coming from or what it is that's a secret but it's big it's on tracks and it's built by the people that built this seed tender right there ask me that again okay what are you tendering with with this guy this was our seed tender for like 15 years but now we got the JM LC 290 so this just sat here this year yeah Bob you can tender like your P&K and so for this though - yes yeah we were yeah probably wouldn't have to bring it out that's the thing is the coop usually brings out the truck than you because we're I mean we're moving eight tons of it at a time yeah right not quite I mean you could maybe hold it with this guy but it wouldn't want to move it doesn't exactly I'm not gonna auger it all that fast I know it looks like a fancy hot rod but it's not as powerful as it this is what the YouTube viewers seem to love Green combines it's not a new series we don't have the S series because that series are expensive but this is uh this is a twenty twelve twenty eleven or twelve it's the last year of the old 70 series I've got a hopped-up we put we put a we reprogram it to add a hundred horsepower to it last year yeah so that was cool I wish I'd had tracks sometimes you have duels on yours mm no ours we used to have duels but now we just had the fat tires oh you do yeah like some old broad hogs okay those are cool too there's a lot of those around you just have GPS on it honest here yes so it's got row sense yeah yeah and then yeah so then it does also it'll track on your soybeans to ask the old one we had a second machine 9650 that one was 20 years old but it was low hour so we ran two machines on soybeans just to get us to corn faster sure we actually upgraded and sold our old our two auger headers for a 40 foot flex paper yeah so for anybody especially farmers know that those new flex Draper's are pricey yeah so we traded the two auger headers sold off that other machine and invested in the Flex Draper now so instead of having two machines with the old headers we'll have one wider head around this machine so it's just another it's one less hassle yeah well the biggest thing there being just the people side of things - yeah yeah the labor to get it all done adds a whole nother logistical complication once you have a second machine till Mitchell just told me he had a drone that came and you spread on cover crop into standing corn yeah so we've tried four times I believe it is now and we have spread using an airplane into standing corn and soybeans yeah and got me just about zero growth out of it right and every year we tried earlier and earlier thinking that was our issue we made sure we got it down before leaf drop on the soybeans we've got plenty of rain the one thing we didn't do is we've never tried rye because we're scared of it taking off in the spring yeah yeah but we've tried barley oats radishes turnips I mean we've tried a pretty good blend well I think it just hasn't worked out for me it's it's using the Rye but then you'll want to get it in there and terminate it really early in the spring in the spring yeah and that's what we're scared of is if it's too wet and we can't get out there yeah can't get it terminated because my buddy so my buddy Randy had that exact scenario they planted rye one fall actually put it on and incorporated it with the chisel plow yeah and the next spring they planted right through the stuff and it was beautiful yeah so the following year they did like 2,000 acres of this stuff and it was a disaster because it was a wet spring they couldn't get to it they couldn't kill it off stuff was like two feet tall clean they don't yeah they didn't know what to do they couldn't get in there they couldn't plant through it they couldn't fill it up yeah it was a disaster so ours we like to plant it into it when it's green and lay out eight to twelve inches tall yank corn into that and then switch is what they did the first year and we're within a couple days after that but yeah you have to be kind of careful because a lot of times in the spring when it's time to plant corn it's not a place it's time to go not slow down and try to spray yeah but it does take kind of that balancing effort there that's why probably the number of acres is critical too yeah to start really small and right they needed to work into it slower maybe right which is what the first year as well as it worked they were all excited about yeah yeah yeah we got this we're gonna plan try on everything for a cover crop yeah what we sow in our first year our first year is when we had the disaster okay here cover crop and we had rye we planted way too thick also yeah and didn't get it terminated correctly so not only did we have this massive stuff growing that's way too thick but then didn't get it killed off the right way either so now we've drastically lowered our rates also yeah now you don't have as much out there that even if you're not as timely with your termination you don't have to add so much to deal with yeah so that that's helped sure have you ever had to kill it with an airplane no no but we have the Hagee that will go over it and select on our corn this year we sprayed some of it like seven days later after play after planting after planting yes and then spray it off the beans we actually waited and didn't kill it for like forty days after planting the beans sure those beans were like v2 v3 they were coming pretty tall and then we sprayed it off the other one in order to not have as much material we used winter wheat instead of cereal rye shirts cuz awry we'll get freakin fine the wheat isn't gonna take off on the wheat only gonna get like three foot tall it's not gonna go as fast yeah it'll still grow and get obviously decent-sized but it's not gonna be as aggressive as that right yeah and for about the same price there's there's tons of milkweed around here like just in the last three years it's just exploded it came back we went for a drive I figured I better show Mitchell r0 til soybeans out here and way off we've got quite quite a mix I've had a lot of people asking online to about them but we got spots that look just fine and we got spots that look like it's almost dead and then we got this spot where I dumped the plant we were done planting for the years though so obviously not great not great no definitely does not look like the stuff across the road so how come your other some of your weeds are dying some of them are really not like the grant I can't believe be the grass to even get it better kill well yeah I can't either cuz of this actually this yeah this is round up so the drafts didn't kill very well I don't understand it some of its just a different bunch grass yeah I don't know if it was that thick or what happened but we used a high water rate and then we got spots like this where there's some beans that didn't even come up yeah then I mean these this looks okay but right way behind there's got to be an old strip of so oh I bet is there a wire buried here no no this is this is probably just planter tracks where I drove so when when I planted the strip that's going this way it's like right here that looks pretty good might be where I stopped and lifted the planter up sure weird so when we planted this it was obviously planted late it was our last stuff planted so it was planted June pride been just super dry and everything - and with all the grass pulling extra moisture that's what I think those roots are drying it out but so I carried well on it when I planted it but underneath an inch down it was muck just muck but it planted fine carrying on top of the grass and it came up right away so it they didn't lay in dry dirt or anything yeah I mean the spots where it got closed up it it looked pretty good yeah but just this tiny little patch yeah it's only this is only seven acres yeah Wow was in it was in CRP for 15 years so we had to tear some trees out and we left like Mitchell said the the marshmallow roast that'll be later come one come all come on come on this is this is for us this is sandier soil yeah because we're kind of on a ridge here yeah I mean I think just the inconsistency on being able to get it down in and like some of that something you got like this long well not right here then just with that error isn't gonna be you know it's not that responsive to getting it in consistently that's where you can have the tracks right right yeah it's clearly inconsistent obviously there's not really gonna be a soybean crop in the US this year so China you better hurry up and buy now it's all destroyed it's all destroyed there's gonna be nothing left I didn't get a lot of it on camera but basically what Mitchell said was I screwed up I did everything wrong and over the course of two years with enough equipment time and money I could make this all better again yeah it just just takes money and just time and I earn them and money and motivation so well the thing is that I don't want to have to get out of bed before 11:00 well yeah why would you want to do that no it'd be ridiculous I'm a millennial I deserve to sleep until lunch we've been somebody else to fix your problem for you that's right you're gonna go see my next amazing field yeah it's doing next ones it works just as amazing incision I am taking you to my absolute worst field size and I'm bringing the internet with it's not embarrassing it okay so do you see that that beautiful field off in the distance where there's nothing growing on it we got tons of ruts out there from trying to make anything happen by the way I am hands-free driving see see hands-free see these really nice beans across the road those are not ours this is this is ours this is ours over here you left yourself to go the history book on the oh there's my South Dakota history boy I think it looks fun and he's moldy so this was a new piece that we rented this year we've never farmed this still never have but it was wet needs a lot of drain tile or something it didn't get tilled up last fall so we came in here this spring and tried to just lightly scratch it and it there was nowhere in the field that I could go 400 feet and not plug up with much more than lightly scratched this spot yeah really itched it hard I was about that deep oh yeah it just started pulling and then as you can tell it's oh I lift it up tried to turn and go back the other way and I couldn't even even with the Tillich's tool up I couldn't drive across here no it was just it was leaking out of everywhere so you can see it's still an inch down it's still really wet even in the worm turn so yeah well worm turns you get worm turds anywhere I found worm thirds crow so we're going to dinner next lots of worm turns but yeah this stuff is super just like mucky right down in here too but this is that's the part that really surprised me is this is not that heavy of a field we shouldn't have struggled like this here so the only variable to this field is the fact that it was not tilled last fall that was the only variable that through this field off versus every other field around it and even with it being kind of like sloped and everything I would have thought it would be gotten home but the ditch no this dish doesn't it drain tile would definitely help it but there again we could put we could put 30 or 40 grand worth of drain tile in it and fix the field but we don't own this field it's a rented field and we've never farmed it before so you have to have that conversation with the landlord too and talk about you know what do we do how do you get stakeholders on board that's a very very good question Todd in fact if you're interested in hearing us talk about that you can check out the field work podcast wherever you get your podcasts somebody running this up what are they thinking well I had to make a good youtube video so I had to come in here and make some ruts and make everything look fancier complain about stuff a little well I mean but you can see that the corn the the volunteers corn from last year grew up better where I rutted it oh yeah that's our cover crop corn cover crop that's fine yeah so give me give me give me 30 seconds Mitchell what do you think so what should I do here okay so on this one I'm thinking that here this fall or you could do it pretty much any time now that you have time before harvest yeah come in and get this leveled off I don't have time today though cuz we're going down the lake minute yeah well we got to go time for this farm yeah yeah we got way more important but when I would get it leveled off and then come in with the cover crop or not probably like some clover and your radishes would maybe work here cuz you're good because you can do this like now so would you drill them in or would you spread it and then do a light to edit spread it and you can do a light the light tillage because if you're gonna run your deeper tillage here now run your cold you know run your strip tool rig essentially yeah to get it leveled out yeah and then spread it on over the top or you could spread see if I don't know what the lye means situation or anything like that would be we don't need any lime here you know everything is super high pH yeah it kind of looks like you can like see it in yes well that's a seven point eight oh yeah okay that's a brick is what they call that yeah or a gravel road so so yeah spread on that cover crop or I mean you can plant and plant out however and then yeah potentially just a light cultivator like a Harrow or something like that because you have a lot of these different clods and stuff to you're still going to provides after you right so you can level that out and most of that stuff will die here over the winter and but I'd be okay with a little bit of wheat or cereal rye or something like that that'll come back through in the spring wheat wheat okay and then you'll have your soybeans to go right into that but or you don't have you could have a cover crop that's not gonna survive the winter right right now yeah winter kills yeah you have time and you have moisture you know how heavy this camera gets holding it out there with one arm thirty seconds oh yeah me neither [Music]

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Length: 32min 12sec (1932 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 18 2019