FROM SUNRISE TO SUNSET: A VEGETABLE FARMER'S DAILY GRIND

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Ай бұрын

Filmed on June 12, 2024. Another busy day on our vegetable farm, spraying sweet corn weeds, applying 28% nitrogen to the sweet corn, repairing plastic mulch that blew up during a storm and much more.

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@hydrodude2948 Ай бұрын

Liquid shade cloth comes off in the rain. It only works in areas where you get zero rain in the summer

@wishwellfarms Ай бұрын

thanks, good to know!

@michaelcurran98 Ай бұрын

We use a product called Stinger for thistle, can spray it right over top of corn works great! Recommend it

@wishwellfarms Ай бұрын

yes, i used it for years on my strawberries, but unfortunately it doesn't get anything else other than thistles on corn so that's why we use impact and atrazine and that combo kills everything.

@renanjacob6791 Ай бұрын

Chemicals are the Best. We should hail to Germany and Switzerland, Bayer and Syngenta, we Love you

@wishwellfarms Ай бұрын

They certainly have their place and are very useful tools if used correctly

@beckyumphrey2626 Ай бұрын

Great video. Thank you for.all the.information. Your channel is steadily growing. Awesomeness going.on.

@wishwellfarms Ай бұрын

Thanks Becky, happy to share it!

@mikewalter8547 Ай бұрын

Great video. I wish I could no till we have heavy clay soil if I dont plow the corn wont get a deep root and will blow over usually a day or two before harvest of course. Good job with the plastic looks great.

@wishwellfarms 29 күн бұрын

I’ve been in that same field chisel plowing and laying plastic for 24 years now it could use a good deep rip or just rotate out of the field completely for a few years. Thanks, Mike.

@wild_insomnia Ай бұрын

Father and son wearing the same sunglasses (looks like ) and both looking cool .

@wishwellfarms Ай бұрын

😂 not quite, if you were to see a close-up, you would see how different they really are ha ha, but either way it’s certainly nice to have them out there in that bright sun! ☀️

@Countryroads1776 Ай бұрын

I just sprayed my sweet corn patch today makes me nervous every time i use liberty. Im a small scale farmers market guy im trying to grow an make a career out of it only thing i love to do lol but maybe one day time isn't on my side anymore so trying to hurry i like your videos big thanks from Missouri

@wishwellfarms 29 күн бұрын

Thank you, glad you enjoy the videos! I know what you mean about spraying herbicide over the top of corn it makes me nervous too. Believe it or not I’m actually trying to get out of this career. It just beats me down so much so next year we are going to be scaling back at least 50% and starting to look for a full-time employee to fill my shoes for the future.

@mountaineerpicker9811 Ай бұрын

I wonder if you could cut the end off that draw bar and have someone fabricate a end attachment for the draw bar that you could flip over . It would help withthe crawling under the tractor

@wishwellfarms Ай бұрын

Oh, I’m sure I could easily be done. Just haven’t moved forward with making a change, seem to always forget about it during the winter time when I could be fixing it.

@hawkeye7435 Ай бұрын

😊😊😊😊😊

@RayHChemEng Ай бұрын

Hey Jason, my dad sprayed lime water solution on his plastic to help keep.it cool. Obviously the rain would wash it off. He didn't grow during the summer in his greenhouse however.

@wishwellfarms 29 күн бұрын

Thanks for the tip!

@RayHChemEng 28 күн бұрын

@wishwellfarms Sorry, wish I could remember the details. I'm sure he just used his garden sprayer to spray the plastic down with the lime. If my dad did it, it had to be easy and very cheap!

@mikehunte398 Ай бұрын

Liquid Shade with either come off in the rain or some applications are paired with a removal agent.

@wishwellfarms 29 күн бұрын

I appreciate the info!

@suave47 Ай бұрын

Your years of experience and knowledge definitely show here. Your fixed up rows look great. The little bit of effort def seem worth it long run. Question about the herbicide. R u using a herbicide ready type sweet corn variety (varieties). Since corn is technically a grass, I've always heard and been told that controlling grasses in it is quite expensive, since u need something that won't affect the corn but will kill the grasses. Newly reclaimed ground that has been in pasture for years is horrible for crab grasses and a bit of a nightmare to plant corn in because of that. Thanks for the video. Love your content. I've been noticing I will set aside time to sit down and watch your videos when I won't b interrupted. Got to say something about the content u produce. Thx

@wishwellfarms Ай бұрын

Thanks Eric! Our corn is not roundup ready corn, I use impact, MSO and Atrazine and it cleans up everything, even grass. If for some reason I need even more grass control I throw in some Primero, which is generic Accent. There is only one Attribute corn variety out there that meets my expectations for flavor and texture and that is Matriarch, which is what I use for my final few late plantings. Really glad you have been enjoying the videos!

@OhRonaldo Ай бұрын

Just wondering if theres an attachment for your drawbar like a "hammerstrap" that could allow you to adjust height without having to crawl under the tractor? I went looking for something but there are 1,000 drawbars on deere's website. Some of the drawbars have obscene prices on them for what seems to be a length if steel. 😢

@wishwellfarms Ай бұрын

Yes, I’m sure we can fabricate something fairly easily. I just always seem to forget about working on it during the winter, kind of one of those things that’s out of sight out of mind during the off-season.

@newoldvideos989 Ай бұрын

Why don't you make a 4 to 5 inch extension bar that would sit on top and connect to the bar you have now, so you can just swap it out without crawling under it ? I'm sure a welder could whip one up in less than an hour..

@wishwellfarms Ай бұрын

I’m sure it could easily be done, but don’t have time to mess with it during the summer, definitely a winter project! I can’t believe people are commenting about the drawbar thing. Maybe I should change my thumbnail and title to something about that instead ha ha

@newoldvideos989 Ай бұрын

@@wishwellfarms LOL... Yeah, winter project. It'll be ready for next spring. Cant wait to see the video on it working :) Great Videos !

@stephenbradbury460 Ай бұрын

It rincess off or you can wash off with pressure wash

@wishwellfarms Ай бұрын

Ok thanks 👍

@funnywolffarm Ай бұрын

Watched a few of your videos now. Curious if you're trying to get out of such a dependency to spraying (cides and ferts) - seems like its a theme in most of your videos so I thought I'd ask your perspective on it.

@wishwellfarms 29 күн бұрын

I can’t get away from using herbicides unless I purchase lots and lots of different types of tillage equipment and even that is tough especially when you’re using no till. What a lot of people don’t realize is that even organic growers still spray they just use OMRI labeled products which are organically labeled products which is what we do for our insecticides and fungicides on most our vegetable crops Just not beans and corn and pumpkins. For many years we even used composted poultry litter as our fertilizer, but I was getting too much compaction when they spread it. Of course I would love to never use any conventional synthetic fertilizers and chemicals but at this point in my life as I’m starting to wind down my vegetable career, I’m not willing to jump through all these hoops to try and figure it out. Hope that makes sense.

@wesleymarr8116 Ай бұрын

Does your sweet corn post-emerge program require roundup ready traits?

@wishwellfarms Ай бұрын

No, we do not use gmo varieties for 90% of our acres because our customers don’t want them and we advertise our corn as non gmo. However, for the last few plantings we do plant a few acres of the Attribute 2 corn because of the heavy worm pressure but since it’s right next to our other corn we use regular herbicides on it. Impact with MSO and Atrazine will clean up the corn patch perfectly.

@wesleymarr8116 Ай бұрын

@@wishwellfarms Thanks for responding, I have been trying to find better options for post emerge on sweet corn, I will have to try it.

@nedlavery5078 Ай бұрын

hi can you not weild a bit onto your drawbar one on top one underneith or buy a second hand tracter

@wishwellfarms 29 күн бұрын

Can’t have a high and a low drawbar at the same time or still cause clearance issues with all my equipment has to either be one or the other. We have other trackers on the farm, but they’re often being used for other things.