Soil Condition Is Everything

good morning welcome back talk in a row where i talk all about agriculture and other things like my empty cup of coffee dog garnet all right so yesterday um well day before yesterday well let's go back what is today sunday so wednesday wednesday morning i got up four o'clock in the morning i think i've already talked about this but uh we're going to talk about it here got up for about four o'clock in the morning it was 3 30 took off with a load of hay down to the mushroom barn dropped the hay off loaded up with spent came back dropped that off and then me and my father jumped in his car and casually drove to oklahoma yes all the way to oklahoma one thousand four hundred and i think 38 miles from home is what that was the way we went uh yep paid the bill picked up the motorhome i drove the motorhome back dad drove his car back not an ideal situation but the the problem we had was we could not get the uh we could not get enterprise to accept a car in oklahoma they don't need more cars in oklahoma and i mean it's understandable because there's really not that much tourism in oklahoma there's nothing there really unless you like cattle and oil wells and there are some parks that are nice and stuff and i do have those uh on here someplace i could probably i do actually have my trip to oklahoma here and maybe on my only farmer channel i'll put that up but uh yeah so yeah so that was it and got back day before yesterday we got back on friday night so we left on wednesday back here by friday night yesterday i worked you know yeah i went a little bit late to work but i went i worked and it was just a few things that needed to be done and i'm gonna go back to work right now it's actually almost nine o'clock i'm still lazy uh but yeah is what it is gearing up for spring we i really truly need to get some of this stuff done uh waiting for parts uh shipping is paying the ass from germany uh for chrome bits and pieces uh at least i think they're coming from germany but it'll be here just well to be here this week should be here maybe wednesday uh to finish up the baylor that's in there it is raining right now so really can't do anything in the field so i'm just going to run hay and bring compost back or just go get compost whatever i have to do i'll do it you know it's not that big a deal the you know equipment needs to have oil changes and stuff like that which is going to have to happen pretty quickly you know i got to get some oil ordered in from shaffer some a little bit behind on that order and who knows it'll they'll ship it free i just got to make the phone call tomorrow and get that engine oil in here usually buy 110 gallons of engine oil and run out before the end of years i should probably buy three of them what is that 165 gallons yeah yeah whatever 100 yeah 65 gallons 165 gallons probably better to do it that way anyway i like the schaefer's oil but i'm kind of behind uh this motorhome thing really screwed me up um i'd had that walking floor two weeks ago i'd had you know it just it just really screwed me up louis having covered screwed me up which it's not his fault it is what it is that thing is a sneaky bastard and it gets you when you're least expected so yeah but anyway uh that's what the deal is what yeah anyway that's what the deal is it's just now we're getting into rain which is going to make dropping off uh compost a little more difficult and i wonder what the hell i'm coughing about it's going to make that a little bit more difficult and uh you know you just deal with it bring a tractor to the field and do that uh you know pull it out just back it in pull it out back and then pull it out it gets greasy and i don't have super good tires on that on that uh truck for mud i mean they're good for highways it's not a big deal they're a cold shoulder tire about a hot shoulder tire probably come out of there a little better but i don't i don't got cold shoulders on there um the uh they're they're good uh they're good tires just not for off-roading unless it's dry uh there's a lot of interest in the walk-in floor trailer that i bought and uh you know that's that's good because uh i am going to show how we load it it works very well this trailer i could not get an extraordinarily tall trailer i didn't want one uh there's just no use for it they can't get over it at the at the composter they can't get over to dump it now they're afraid of hitting the hoops um i think they'll come really close but i let the air out of the bags and drop it down and then make it he could dump it but he's really careful the loader operator um i could bet i could probably pull the hoops out that are up there but it's a pain he has to do that because i just it's just a pain in the ass to do that it'll cause flap in the in the tarp when i get down the road and i don't want to do that but uh anyway uh it holds we put 20 bales in there i could put more in but we just stack them too high and walk them forward you put 20 bales in there and you have like 13 14 tons in the in the truck in the trailer so that's fine now what i could do is set two bales on edge walk them up and then slide one bale on top and then keep doing that and keep them tight but that'd be a pain to ask for the loader operator when they do come out because he waits till they come out and grabs them and then stack some grabs and stacks grabs and stacks it's pretty quick and it works out just fine but um you know it's not uh it's not a uh you got to be comfortable for every everybody's got to be comfortable doing with the walk-in floor so i'll just put 20 bales in it and be happy with what i take down because it's like this dual purpose i take the hay down yeah it's cheaper to run it down with only 20 bales in it because you know the truck is 475 horsepower just rolls then i load up with the compost at the maximum with the maximum amount that i can put in there and life is good you know i drag it home so i come home heavy uh you know heavy 80 000 plus or minus uh when i go just a little bit over you know um no big deal it's within percentage so because we don't have i don't have the ability well they do they could scale it i know what it weighs when we leave and uh but anyway i don't have to cross any scales on the way home i cross scales in a way down so you know put 20 bales in here i'll roll across their scale no big deal and we're good to go uh so that's just the way it is and but it's working it's it's working well i need to get somewhere around 60 loads of this material home in the next month uh month and a half month six weeks i mean literally i need to get a lot of material home and i'm hoping i can do it in the time that i need to do it but i i just don't i don't think i'm going to get it all home i'm just going to you know do the best that i can with what i've got and shoot for the moon next year i just keep bringing every load i take is going to go on that walking floor every single load it's going to be compost compost compost compost so take 20 bales down bring a load compost back and that should work i like it when it's broke down a little bit more than fresh out of the barn personally that's just my opinion it's better because it just i had really good luck with it and i need to put that organic matter back in the soil because the former farmer on that property while the one property and the a new property that i have that one is just neglected to the end of the earth there's nothing there and i'm gonna put corn on it i just i was gonna get soil test today but that isn't working out too well because well let's face it it's pouring rain right now soil testing is very important if you're going to be growing a crop in the uh in this area maybe not so much out west where they're pretty you know you don't have to test every year i mean some guys do but there's a lot of people that don't test every year it's like one in five you know take a test to see what's going on because they're growing a rotation of corn soybeans going soybeans going soybeans and possibly wheat in there every once in a while so you pretty much know how much comes off of those fields to put back what you take off you know and it's pretty simple that way uh most people anymore do not do nutrient management or nutrient building uh if i'm worried about doing nutrient building and losing a piece of property because it gets very expensive it's easier to build a base in your soil than it is to you know just put on the bare minimum and the you know it's not as available when you put the fertilizer on right away you know it's like okay so i'm gonna put fertilizer in a row if i need just say you need on that farm i need 60 units of potash to grow a crop 60 units of potash a unit is a pound uh so i need to put a hundred pounds of product on to get that 60 units or six yeah approximately 60 units uh that 60 units is not available today it's not it takes a little while for it to break down and become available for the plant the same thing with the phosphate nitrogen's available right away unless you're using the esn or or something with an inhibitor you know whether it be sulfur coated sulfur coated actually reduces the release rate because i think the sulfur is a bacterious microbicide and microbacteria doesn't grow and break down or it doesn't live there and it doesn't break down fast enough and i've used that those are your nitrogens what they call nitrogen stabilizers they actually are a microbicide or a bacteriocyte yeah microbicide and it kills all the bacteria around that nitrogen allowing the nitrogen to seep in and then as that microbicide dies or disappears dissipates then the microbes can come back in and break down that nitrogen allowing it to be absorbed by the plant that's what a nitrogen stabilizer is uh it's what it is so years ago i put down uh with stream bars or stream nozzles on my hearty sprayers i thought it was doing great the problem was that we were using a nitrogen stabilizer and you would see streaks of green and then in between you would see just not so green not just yellowish well the fact of the matter is the green was where was the space between the stream bars where the microbicide didn't kill the bacteria in the soil and it allowed that's where the green was so that nitrogen would hit kill everything in those rows where it hit and then the green was in the middle where it didn't hit so it was like man and my yields did suffer in hay because of that i stopped using them i stopped using them i stopped using the bars i stopped using the uh microbe or the the stabilizer which we were using now what were we using we were using ag routine and we were using nutrisphere we did both of those i don't recommend them i really don't uh at least in this soil and i may be in sandier soils it's not so such an issue but uh if you're going to use anything use ammonium sulfate ammonium nitrate esn in your urea esn is a wax coated or even even a sulfur coated urea if you if you're short and sulfur and i can almost guarantee you everybody in this country is short on sulfur because we no longer burn coal for generating electricity not much of it anyway and they've taken the sulfur out of the diesel fuel so diesel when you burn diesel fuel all those trace elements that we would normally get from pollution are no longer you know from diesel fuel and coal it goes to the ground gasoline is a hydrocarbon it goes up uh it goes up so it's a lighter the exhaust from gasoline is lighter it goes up into the atmosphere so but diesel fuel is heavy it comes to the ground uh we don't get that anymore no more sulfur no more yeah no more sulfur so if you are doing soil testing do check for sulfur look at your sulfur levels and ammonium sulfate is a good it's probably the best way to get sulfur levels spiked back up i used a fair amount of it uh because i i just i use a fair amount of it because uh we have low sulfur levels years ago we didn't have nearly the problems because we're in new jersey and everything from the west falls on the east and uh the prevailing winds is from the west and you know if it the california pollution falls before the mississippi river the chicago the you know all those other cities that are this side of the mississippi river they fall on us and uh it used to be if you worked a piece of equipment like the combine you know you go through the year the combine knocks the paint off the the corn heads are nice and shiny uh get one rainstorm acid ring would rust it well that acid rain was uh you know sulfur and whatever else was in the air and we don't get that anymore it doesn't rust like it used to i mean it would rust like rust and it we don't get that anymore so the air is definitely cleaner than it was in the 80s and 90s definitely cleaner i bought a combine out of iowa back in 2000 right 2000 yeah i think it was in 2000 and it had set outside in iowa but the inside the grain tank was his whistle clean as fresh steel off the mill brought it home we had a little bit of a spritz of water you know rain little shower and a hole inside of the tank turned red rust that easy that's how much acid we had at that time now i know i mean just overnight it rusted overnight now if it happens today like the grain augers that sit outside nobody puts them inside but a grain auger sits outside the the flooding at the bottom is nice and polished used to be rust just like that rust right up now i could go over to the farm right now look at the polished steel because it's still polished it doesn't rust like it used to so if you're going to do your soil testing check check your sulfur levels zinc manganese magnesium all these different different elements trace elements you can add trace into oh it got dark you could add trace elements into your soil or into your fertilizers and uh i have done that last year i did that and uh quite happy i was quite happy with it with the results of it uh you know i couldn't be unhappy with what i got if i was unhappy with what i got i would not be planting corn again this year so anyhow um on the better ground that i have i will you know the better ground that i have i will be using more compost and less commercial fertilizers because there's a lot of a lot of nutrients in that compost i'm not going to give the analysis out if you're suave you can find it online i'm not giving the analysis of the compost out because it would take me too long and i don't care i know it's in it because i have it and i'm just not into you know i'm not into sharing that information uh i don't need to run on the run on the compost because fertilizer price is getting high and not that a lot of people would be close enough to get it at a at a uh well let's put it this way because i'm a vendor i get it for less and i don't pay much for it and i'm happy about that um if i wasn't a vendor it would be you know marginal would i do this or not but the crazy thing is there's a lot of people going in there and getting this stuff and they're reselling it for garden centers and things like that for uh to mix into their soil for potting soil for their plants for um you know homeowners i guess uh i actually had a call from a friend this morning and he's coming to get two wheelbarrow loads for his vegetable garden i told him where it was he's like okay cool thank you and he took it lifelong friend i mean met him in kindergarten known him for geez 43 years 43 years 43 years and i'm not charging him for it but yeah anyway yeah because it was just what was left in the bottom of the trail uh what else would i gonna say about that uh yeah soil testing uh the other thing is there is a there's such a thing if you don't know about soil testing you can pull soil tests and not even know how to read them you can look down the sides of them and be like oh well i've got plenty of copper i got plenty of zinc i got plenty of sulfur i got plenty of this well there's a very important part of that and that is ph your ph which is the acidity of your soil plays a big factor in the uptake of those nutrients okay if you have a low ph uh there's two things that are going to happen to you not may happen to you but are going to happen to you one is all those nutrients that are in your soil may not be available to your plants uh ph and clay content uh the lower the ph and the higher the clay content the harder it is for those plants to grab those nutrients and use them so you really need a new a ph of no less than six four if you get below six four your plants are going to start to suffer it's going to start to cost you more in fertilizer to get that as available nutrients to that plant all right now compost i shouldn't even talk about the compost because not too many people have used you know of the availability to but i will say this the compost the nutrients are available readily available and they are available for throughout the season as the compost breaks down and those roots will go right to it and grab it now the one thing about compost is it takes nitrogen to break the compost down all right so if you're looking at this like wow i got a nutrient pack here in the compost that is top shelf right it's up here and there's nitrogen in that compost funny thing about the nitrogen that's in the compost is that the composters put that nitrogen in the compost and that is to aid in the decomposition process so that nitrogen that is in the compost you're not going to get that in your plants you're just not you may get a portion of it but it's not it's not there so that nitrogen is there to decompose the the new the the compost now if you if your goal is 250 bushels of corn to the acre your goal is 250 bushels to the acreage think about this for every bushel you want to produce you got to put a unit of nitrogen a pound of nitrogen so last year my goal was 220 bushels to the acre okay on some of the ground i got over 300. all right some of the ground i got below 200 but i was always in that 175 to 300 bushel range by the time it was done my average was 216 bushels to the acre on only i only did 140 acres so this year we're more than doubling that and that's fine because it was the plan see how it goes get the bin up and running and the trailer that i bought is going to be hauling grain wet and dry to and from the from the field to the mill and everything and i'm going to sell through a couple of other companies that i that i work with and have worked with over the years and have a good relationship with so that's just that's me and it has to be done it has to be done that's just the way it is so the ph level is very important now you can you can slip past the ph if you got soil that's below uh 6'4 and you haven't got a ready source of lime or soil conditioner to bring the ph up to that level six four to six eight is ideal for growing corn and soybeans um i like six eight better than six four uh but the compost has a product in it that will allow nutrient uptake uh below six four which i have some ground that is below six four and i am getting lime i just haven't gotten to it yet i'm trying to get egg shells i want eggshells terribly and i have a phone number and i'm going to call that tomorrow and i have a couple phone calls that i have to make but tomorrow is my egg shell phone call day egg shells work really good because that is where i got well over 300 bushels to the acre where i put eggshells and yes i put eggshells i don't know if you saw me do it on a video but i did there's a farm over that i rented from the county and someone had put eggshells there and never spread them and i just went and grabbed the load of eggshells we're looking at probably 10 15 tons of eggshells that i grabbed i put them on the lower end and let me tell you where the lower end was holy moly it was good but in the compost there's a product that they use it's gypsum okay now gypsum will not raise or lower the ph it will maintain your ph i guess it won't change the ph but it will allow the nutrients to be slippery from the clay particles and the plants will then be able to to uh to to take up that those nutrients so that's a plus with the uh with the gypsum i still would like to get some lime in there as well and i will uh whether it's eggshells or whether i got to go to martin's creek and buy 10 ton gray lime that is really fine talcum powder and i can get that it's no big deal what i'll do is i'll leave the tarp out of the uh i'll well i won't even leave the tarp but what i'll do is i'll take a scoop load of uh compost put it on the back end of the trailer and then walk it forward once it gets all the way forward then i'll put the uh tarp down and then get them to put uh 20 ton of lime in there and then i'll i'll bring it home and drop it off now 20 tons i only need a ton of the acre uh there's a lot of people out there to think oh well if your ph is below six four or six two or six one or five eight you need to put two ton to the acre well i'm here to tell you that i was always taught and i was taught by some of the people that have told me you really need to hammer this with lime like now get it all on now well this line will only break down at a certain rate and that's it if you put two ton or three ton to the acre which they want me to do from the fertilizer plant on two of these farms if you do that you will get no more benefit than if you put a ton to the anchor all right per year uh so i'm sure there's some guys fertilizer plant that are just screaming at the screen right now but that's okay um my grandfather did it i did it my father did it we did it on alfalfa we used to grow some wicked alfalfa did it on soybeans did it on corn a ton of the acre per year uh so and that will raise your ph it'll raise your ph and you will be a happy man ton ton and a half to the acre no more than a ton and a half to the acre uh because you're not going to benefit from it you go come in the next year and you do it again and after you get three years in one two three tons to the acre over the course of three years you don't have to look at that ph for several years then uh i've even done a half a ton of the acre and been very happy with the results because you don't want to spike that because there's always a spike there's always a spike with with uh lime so you put it on and boom it goes up and then it comes down the spike you know so boom you put it on your chisel plowed in and then it comes back down usually in that you know then that nine month range so you got a line i'm going to use my hand here and you have to watch so i put it on boom it goes up and nine months it comes back down and it's here here and then next year you boom and then it comes back down again and it's here so every time it spikes it'll always come back down a little bit but then it goes up again and then down a little less and down a little less until you're at that goal of six four to six eight and it will maintain that and then of course after this the nine months goes over then she'll start to drop again and so on and so forth and that's that's how that works um the second thing that happens with low ph and uh that that's one of those things that a lot of people don't really understand why is it that when you put herbicide on field a it works perfectly and then you go down to field b and you get a few mixed weeds and then you go to the farm down the road where you know that they haven't had lime on it in like 20 years and a ph you pull a test and the ph is five four five five and you're like uh oh this isn't good and your weed control is deplorable at best so you're going in with a recovery all right so and this is the this is where you really need to get smart about your your limiting or your your ph in your soil so we all know that herbicides expensive sprayers are expensive tractors are expensive fertilizers expensive lime not so much but that herbicide bill okay so you go in and you put your herbicide in it costs you let's just throw a weird number out there just say it cost you 15 an acre for the for the herbicide all right and you're you're a smart farmer you're using a stacked um a stacked variety of seed that has you know both liberty or liberty and roundup resistant genes in it you're in that area you're like man there's weeds to start the grass is starting to come according to this height grass is here this is definitely going to impact my yield in the end we really need to take care of this so you come back in with a recovery and it costs you say six to eight dollars an acre if you're spraying it yourself it's going to cost you four to six dollars an acre um just in the herbicide or the roundup itself with the surfactant that you're gonna put in it and a little bit of array that you're gonna put in there just to make it work a little better and uh you're gonna run over some corn which is gonna impact you just say four to six dollars an acre for that now if you you have to hire somebody to do it it's going to cost you um eight to twelve dollars an acre eight to ten eight to twelve dollars an acre in there to recover that so a ton of lime is ten bucks if you get it from a quarry uh if you get egg shells you can pretty much get them for the trucking cost so they're pretty reasonable all you need is a spreader of some sort which you can rent from somewhere or you maybe you've already got one as a matter of fact the side sling and [ __ ] spreader will do an okay job with eggshells it's not going to be accurate but it'll work you could do that uh so if it's gonna cost you that that eight to twelve dollars an acre you've paid for your total line in the recovery cost of your herbicide and possibly the the custom operating rate for those for that for that recovery so you're there uh and the great thing is if you only put it on one year and you put a ton of lime to the acre and you raise it up and it actually stays above that six four uh ph uh you can get two or two years of at least two years without worrying about your herbicide not working as well as it would if you were already there at that level of ph so that's food for thought uh lime is very important and soil testing is more important than a lot of people think now you can also go into a field and your your nutrients are there your ph is not very good you know just say it's let's just say it's a six six l your ph is low um your corn is looking like it's got yellow leaves but you've put all the nutrients there what is going on you know um what's what's the problem well the nutrients are there but they're not available to the plant because the ph is low and your clay content is high you'd never get rid of your clay content you just have to make that clay work for you and there's two factors there organic batter which if you do beans after beans after beans after beans and even wheat and bale the straw off of it look at that sexy woman right there holy [ __ ] i think that much i don't see that you think you got a fat belly yeah see it no well this is your underwear so that's not rolls now if you take your underwear off i'd be happier but the uh oh i'm sorry is that terrible yeah she's matching up so anyways uh organic matter is another one that will tie up your nutrients as well if it's too low you need organic matter and that means tilling in your corn stalks a lot of guys already know this stuff oh the boy's awake um so till in those stalks get that soybeans good rotations do away with poor uh poor uh uh yeah organic matter compost will will boost that organic matter and that will you know make things more available to the plant so if you're looking at your plants and they're looking peaked and they're maybe you know up to three feet tall you can get a foliar applied nutrient pack and you can spray that on there again it's going to cost you money it's cheaper to buy lime it's cheaper to pay somebody to put lime on at that point because those nutrient packs are pretty expensive 50 pound bag god i don't even want to know what they cost anymore last time i bought them was for soybeans and i always had to put that on soybeans on farms that i got from other farmers in the area it's like this ground is bad i can't make a living on this ground where's my boy what is that come on sleepy so anytime i ever got ground from somebody else it was just a depleted mess uh we put hay into it and it wasn't such a big deal uh it wasn't such a big deal and with the mulch hey business you really don't want to be dumping a bunch of line and stuff like that because the profit margins are thin it's a volume deal well everything's a volume deal now so anyway those nutrient packs we used to put them on for recovery uh because once that corn is up and growing you can't put lime on it as a matter of fact the lime spreaders the like martin's limestone is a local one we have here i say local it's two hours away but they'll come out and put limestone down line down uh they won't even go on to a plowed field if you chisel plow the field they either won't go on it because they don't want to get stuck or they'll charge you more money because they don't want to be on rough plowed ground i chisel plowed a piece of property last year and i wanted it on there and they're like well they're not going to do it they got too many unplowed fields to do they don't want to mess with yours and it pissed me off and i'll never ask them to do it again and that's fine it's fine i don't care i'm a man of my own means i will figure it out right well you look like you just woke up my little boy huh he's a handsome young guy is he looks like the wolverine with his hair though he does you just gotta get him some pork chops right you like pork chops yeah okay such a handsome guy so anyway uh lime lime is your friend organic matter is your friend um rotation is your friend uh uh full uh yeah tissue sampling will let you know if you soil test and your plants are still bad not doing well you can tissue sample and you can figure out what's in the soil what's in the plant what do i need to recover this what's it going to cost is it feasible to do so and if it's not then you're just going to have to get smart the next year you cut your losses on it don't if it's going to cost you your profit to recover a field of corn or soybeans that won't work dude if it's going to cost you the profit to recover a field of soybeans or corn you're better off just not doing it let it go do the best you can with what you've got but plan for next year in a positive way like okay i got this i got a ph of five eight i've got nutrients that are in this soil and i need to get this soil up and running get it to six four get it to six five get it to six six get it up there um as far as the uh area as far as the uh organic matter that's a that's time it's going to take you time to get that up but anyway i don't know if this has helped anybody i don't know if it matters to anybody i know that these are my experiences here over the years and years and years that i've farmed my whole entire life and the things that i've learned and some of the [ __ ] that i've learned nobody will ever learn you know it's like it's lost art it's lost lost uh just lost uh no-till is a big thing right now uh no-till farming i've done it here i think it was probably the worst thing that i've done in all honesty uh it's not for corn so much but in soybeans we have a heavier clay soil and i always notice you know a lot of guys like oh it's only a three to five bushel yield drag well a three to five bushel yield drag right now it's over a hundred bucks um and i didn't experience a three to three to five bushel yield drag i experienced much greater yield dragged than that uh the the early plant vigor is not nearly as good as works ground um the i don't know it just seemed like that plant was was fighting to get through the hard soil here and again organic matter and ph makes a big difference as to how the clay sets up uh you know the soil conditions for that for that ground now zone tilling i would i would do that i would do that i was actually thinking of getting a making a rack of rippled kohlers and wading the [ __ ] out of it and just punching that into the ground before i planted soybeans and uh i know that the guy that the guys that i bought my grain drill off that they had a what was that thing universe earth or overfirth uh soil uh prepper thing and it was just rippled colders all in front of the 15 foot grain drill and it was bolted directly in front of the hose so you had this like six foot long or eight foot long piece that went between the hitch and it was an extension of the hitch for the drain drill and they took it off and they put it on their brand new 1590 um that's what they had bought in replace of the 750 that i had they bought a 1590 which had better uh openers uh you know the the the row units were much better than the 750 even though the 750 had a really a decent design but it has flaws i figure if i'm going to go back into the soybean business i'm going to pull all of the 750 row units off because my drill there's nothing wrong with my drill it's perfectly fine it's a you know it drills beans and the worst thing is that the row units have a lot of play in them now and it's just not nearly as good as they should be so i would put 15 90 row units on there they'll bolt right up no problem bolt right up no issues just put them on go for broke it would cost me about half of what a new grain drill would be and you can put them on there so anyways that's just what i would do uh there would be some repair parts but i'm not into that soybeans just yet years ago we grew peas peas peas and oats might look into the peas welker farms you grows peas way out way out in where they montana north or south dakota montana some [ __ ] like that and i'm not even sure whether i think you're in north or south dakota north dakota wherever they are somebody's going to tell me anyway we grew i grew peas 30 years ago for the cows we we milk cows now we use peas and oats i remember combining peas with oats in them just to grind them and uh yeah it was pretty pretty good it's a good protein source uh yeah good protein protein and energy baby that's what it was for cows we milk cows off of them i only did that once on a small piece and it was just an experiment and you know the peas the oats were there to hold the peas up but the peas cowpeas or yeah cow peas is what they were canada peas or cow peas is what we called them they will grow as a standalone and the deer won't penetrate the field to eat them off because it's a tangle foot mess if you've ever seen peas in your garden grow they have all these little feelers and they grab one another and they they just they lock [ __ ] up and deer they'll jump they'll jump but they're lazy animals they don't really want to fight for their food so they'll just trim off the edges and that's that's just about it so i was thinking into that but i'm not sure anyway i think this is long enough i hope you enjoyed it if not you know i'm sorry if you did hey give it a thumbs up give it a like or whatever you want to call it and you know you can hit the subscribe button it doesn't hurt anything and it doesn't cost you anything um yeah i should do a podcast and you know i don't even know how i'm just mentally [ __ ] when it comes to that and it would just be me talking but i would love to do like a podcast with other farmers from other areas to get different views on how farming works out there i mean i look at the other farm channels from time to time welker millennial how farms works is probably more i view those more than most um northern farmer a b and uh yeah i like i like to watch bain farm bain farm is really where i was when i was his age or younger and it was just like that gluing [ __ ] together to make it work and you know he he needs to he's doing okay let's put it this way he's doing okay but i'd love to go help him sometimes it's like my god you're still combining corn and it's march let's go you know that's just me though but i like i like jacob he's a good guy bandit farmer i watch him uh he's you know just these small channels of course timmy corn picker he doesn't post as much as he used to but you know he's my neighbor he's a couple three years younger than me and we went to the same school i think i was a senior when he was a freshman but uh might have been a sophomore but we didn't have anything to do with one another in school but we've become friends and friends are hard to find and you know his farming is very different than mine and that's okay because it doesn't matter we all have to do what makes us feel good and what makes us the money to support our family and he's in a situation uh where he's happy and happiness can't be bought just so y'all know you can't buy happiness you have to find it and if you're looking for happiness and you're not happy with what you're doing it's okay to change what you're doing to find that happiness whether it's you're in a bad relationship or whether you're in in a in in a working relationship with you you work with a bunch of morons or if you're farming and you're just not meeting your expectations of what you want to be it's okay to change it's okay to think outside the box and tim does that he does that a lot um i think it's funny because he posted on instagram that he was gonna put these peas and i'm like well [ __ ] i did that 30 years ago and he's done it in the past too and growing oats in this area is uh it's like a a wave you know sometimes there's a wave of oats that are grown and then the tide goes out and then nobody grows oats for four or five years and uh i haven't grown oats now in probably 15 years and i i really don't have a desire to grow oats it's just not not that i couldn't or wouldn't it's that i would have to plant those oats where i had corn uh and where i have corn i have used atrazine and oats hate atrazine so if you're going to plant oats and you've used atrazine on your corn don't do it it will severely impact your oats you will not know what the problem is because it doesn't it doesn't even say on the atrazine don't use don't plant oats after corn it just it doesn't it's an experienced thing and some people know it and never tell anybody and then laugh at them when the oats don't do well after they put it in after corn and we used to do it every year and it was like man these don't suck why does everybody else have decent oats and we got [ __ ] well what is that a spoon oh thank you oh thank you so much this keeps my gut healthy and my little boy brought it thank you so much anyway i will eat it and i'm going to do that now so thanks for watching don't forget to subscribe if you want to if you don't want to don't do it but yeah there you go

Channel: Ag Talk In The Raw

Views: 3,849

Rating: 4.9501386 out of 5

Keywords: soil, soil sample, field prep, corn, soybeans, crop farming, field crop, tractor, sprayers

Id: 7clghLH3mpw

Length: 45min 30sec (2730 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 28 2021