Yeah nice thing about a roller is that they push down any rocks on the surface. Doesn't drag residue around either. Read a study years ago that referenced a Russian crop study that showed that the heavier they rolled wheat the better the yield was. How that translates to soybeans, who knows, but a roller will DEFINITELY leave the field smoother than a drag harrow! OL J R :)

Thanks for riding along!

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Dang, I was going to say that.

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Sure who hasn't... but like everybody who dreams of driving a beautifully restored Hemi 'Cuda or a Lamborghini, but still keeps driving their regular old car, the reason is obvious... $$$$$$$. Later! OL J R :)

It doesn’t go deep enough to mess with the seeds. They’re all at pretty well the same depth, the planter pushes the ridges out of the way so the down pressure is pretty consistent across the planter

Hey Darrin! Pretty good!

I saw that too! Wondered if anybody else saw saw that.

@@kb7722 I saw it too

Moment I saw a ring on her hand. I knew people would be asking about it in the comments. if she's not in a few videos, people will ask if they're still together. If they are engaged, and if they want to share that with KZfaq, they'll make a video about it. So mind your business till then.

@@0xFF48 no need for the negativity. You post public videos and people are going to ask. It’s not like anybody else in the thread is getting bent out of shape or saying anything inappropriate. Who knows maybe it was a prop to get a rise out of people. So chill out

@@kb7722 it's not negativity, it's reflecting on how KZfaq viewers feel free to ask or comment on personal questions. Read the comments on any video, people will say they miss his ex, or that he should wife Hanna, etc. As if we know the details of their relationship, or know anything about their private lives.

No need... a corn head runs slightly off the ground (unless the corn blows down then you run the snoots down in the dirt to pick it up) but a soybean flex header uses a sickle cutterbar that slides right on the surface of the soil and "flexes" or bends (versus a "rigid" cutterbar header like typically used in wheat and other small grains and grain sorghum and rice and other crops where the plants are cut off higher up on the stalks). Because the cutterbar slides on the ground, and because soybeans typically produce pods full of grain right down to within a couple inches of the ground (sometimes right at the ground level but breeders try to develop varieties that don't do that so you don't lose yield since the sickle will only cut down to about an inch off the ground) you want it to be as smooth and level as possible, preferably with NO ROCKS or no exposed rocks-- that's where a roller is superior, in that it will PRESS DOWN the rocks that are laying on the ground surface so the cutterbar will just slide over them. Harrowing is the next best thing because it at least smooths out the surface of the field and drags some of the soil back into the depressions left by the planter unit gauge wheels and soil thrown aside by the residue wheels on the front of each planter unit, so the beans aren't growing down in the depression and producing beans low on the stalk that the cutterbar cannot harvest later on. PLUS, the cutterbar will run smoother with less wear on a level field versus one run on undulating ground where some of the cutterbar guards are running down in the dirt and plowing while others beside them are up off the ground-- this feeds less dirt into the combine as well saving wear and tear on it as well and producing a cleaner grain sample in the tank. Later! OL J R :)

I’ve looked into it but they’re hard to find. We’ll eventually switch to one

@@HowFarmsWork how do you think that would work on the hills? I imagine those land rollers are pretty heavy!

Basically... old school way of doing it before they started building those big land rollers... OL J R : )

Will be soon!

Not if you're running it flat or real shallow... just dragging off the top a bit to smooth it out. OL J R :)

I’d like to switch to a roller in the coming years, they’re just more expensive.

@@HowFarmsWork that is very true. But the do a very good job before and after the seeds are planted. They have come a long way from the old flat rolls. 👍 👌 Stay safe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

30 inch same planter as the corn. Lots of guys here going back to planters particularly 15 inch planters because there's less problems from disease like white mold in rows versus drilled beans. Planters are also typically wider than drills and have much better seed metering and seed placement and closing of the seed furrow, so better, more even emergence of the seeds from the ground, and less seed used saves money. 40 years ago drilling soybeans made higher yields because of the old varieties back then did better spaced out more evenly in four 7.5 inch drilled rows versus two 15 inch rows versus one 30 inch row in the same amount of space, but that's not really true anymore with modern genetics. Plus, back then adding a cheap grain drill to plant soybeans meant the corn planter could be planting corn and the drill planting beans at the same time, which meant planting got finished faster. Nowadays, there are plenty of older planters that might be a little too old or worn for planting corn accurately that can be bought cheap and set up for planting soybeans and STILL do a better job than a grain drill planting beans, and usually twice as wide as the drill it's replacing so a guy would get done that much faster... Modern replicated field studies have shown that using modern varieties of soybeans, there's really NO advantage to drilling soybeans in versus planting them in 15 inch rows or 30 inch rows, but the wider rows DO have advantages in less disease pressure in bad years. The only real advantage a drill has is that the soybeans planted with a drill canopy faster than beans planted in rows, particularly 30 inch rows. Later! OL J R :)

Yes indeed

Roughly 40 acres

@@HowFarmsWork Thank you for answering!

I’ve been doing it with reduced yields compared to our regular tillage for six years now. No-till makes sense on $2-3 corn and dry years it will outperform the tilled ground. We’ve had 2 years in the last ten that were dry. Our soils retain moisture very well compared to the rest of the state. Part of the reason I was fighting against a mega solar facility being built in this area. No irrigation required.

@@johnhaas2523 oh ok makes since thx bud for the info

12 30” rows

@@HowFarmsWork k thanks

We don't have a long enough growing season to plant winter wheat. We typically don't get the crops off until September-December and by then it's below freezing.

Supposed to rain for 7 days in iwoa

It should do a better job, however in most situations with our strips we’re forced to go with the rows

😂 it’s like the morning after taco Tuesday 🌮

No, faster you drag harrow the better job it'll do until it starts bouncing. Chain harrows like that are meant to run pretty fast. OL J R :)

That's because they farm in contoured strips... the strips are not perfectly even in places they widen out in other places narrow down, so some overlap is inevitable as the finish each strip. GPS won't fix that. OL J R :)