Thanks for the kind words! I usually get ridiculed for driving into the mud in the first place ha ha

Thanks, we’re doing our best to raise a good Crop, but there’s always setbacks every year, and every year is a learning experience that you can hopefully learn from an implement the following year.

small to some, big to others. 1,300 acres of field corn and soybeans and 65 acres of vegetables.

Glad to hear that you and enjoy the Farm content AJ, really appreciate you watching. The Channels finally taken off a little bit. It’s actually getting similar views and watch time as my personal channel and soon will be exceeding it.

You are correct, an unbelievable blunder, but also an ingenious way to get out!

I never would’ve thought of it, glad Joel decided to give that a try because I’m not sure what else we would’ve done without another 4 x 4 I’ve never tried using 32%, definitely don’t hear about it very often. The tomatoes are starting to ramp up pretty good, been picking over 100 ten lb boxes every other day. We were hoping to plant the onions yesterday, but got rained out so maybe tomorrow

Thank you for watching

Yes, it was a crazy busy day at 4 markets and I filmed it all, should be out on my channel middle of next week, Thanks!

Yes, I was astonished! Very thankful we didn’t destroy Equipment during that rescue!

Thanks Bill, definitely not a normal day but when something like that happens, you just have to film it ha ha

Yeah, I’m sure that was a little rough on the hydraulics but fortunately nothing was destroyed!

We keep our temperature at 60 F, I would prefer to keep it a few degrees cooler, but that’s as cold as our air conditioner will go. For 20 years I used a normal compressor/condenser unit and coil to cool the room but it started going bad on me so we just put an air conditioner in the wall and it works great. I know there’s something out there called the cool bot that can make your air conditioner go colder, but I just haven’t purchased one yet. As far as humidity, I have no idea, I know in our big cooler that we keep at 36 for our other vegetables would be nice to be able to add humidity to it because so much moisture is removed during the cooling process. I’ve never thought of adding humidity to the tomato cooler, now you have me wondering if I need to. I wish I had a better answer for you.

Thank you Jason, your response is much appreciated! If it works well for ya I'll likely shoot for the same thing and I'll look into humidity a little more. Thanks again!@@wishwellfarms

Greenhouse indeterminants or field determinants? Greenhouse: Big Dena and Geronimo and now maybe the new one I trialed this year, Ondero. Field: Roadster, Rambler, Summer Pick, STM2255 and Skyway 687. Sorry, I don’t know which ones I like best…hopefully I can figure it out this summer.

Hi Frank, no, you cannot use impact on anything else other than corn or it will kill it as will the atrizine. There’s not too many post application herbicides to control weeds in vegetables. Sandea is one that can be used on Vine crops. I’m not aware of anything to spray over the top of peppers and tomatoes other than a grass control like post or select or volunteer, which is all the same product. Now there are several things for beans, raptor, and reflex work really well as long as the beans don’t have buds out or flowered out yet. Hope that helps!

Yeah, getting out of the mud that way was something I have never seen before, but glad it worked without destroying any equipment. You always have great questions that Get me thinking about why I do things the way I do. As far as side dressing 28% nitrogen, that’s just the way I’ve always done it and I have the equipment for it, but I’m not saying that that is the best way to do it. We still have a lot of farms that knife in anhydrous ammonia before planting season, but our farm is not set up to do that. On our 400 acre field corn operation we stopped side dressing 28% nitrogen a few years ago and now use dry urea instead, that is spread right beside the row and not broadcast. We hire that job out and I’m guessing that is probably a more efficient way to have your nitrogen slow release and stick around longer. For sweet corn I don’t think it’s as critical because in 70 to 75 days after planting your harvesting, unlike 120 days for corn. I don’t know how long the nitrogen sticks around, but I know there’s been a ton of research on it out there and there are answers to that question. I know a lot of people do a split application in research plots and that is great in theory, but very difficult to implement in the real world with the timing of rainfall and other variables. Hope that helps a little, thanks again for the great questions Eric!

@wishwellfarms thx. I ask the questions because the way u do things is the closest way to the way I want to do things in the future. Alot of the procedures I've been researching before I found your channel, u do. So any info I can gain from u, who had been doing it successfully for so many years just seems like a no brainer. So I'm gonna pick your brain as much as I can. It's just gonna add that much more success to my future farm. I think my problem with liquid fertilizer, is that I had a bad experience with it last year. I found a company that had, for what I thought, was everything I needed in a liquid fertilizer. But I couldn't get much, if any, info from their agronomist of application per acre. So I had to do alot of it myself. Well, because I just don't quite understand the math on utilizing liquid, and not alot of area to test over, I had a spectacular failure last year. Major nitrogen deficiency, and just not much yeild to talk about. So it put a really bad taste in my mouth about liquid fertilizer. I understand the math on granular, for the most part. Not sure yet if I applied to much or too little yet, and if the way I applied is going to work, but I tried a few different things to kinda see what happens later in the year. It still blows my mind, that using the products that farmers use ( urea, MAP, and potash) and at the rates that I have found through multiple sources( u r one of those sources) will amount to anything. It seems like I didn't even put anything on the ground compared to typical garden fertilizer where u put tons on per 100 sq ft. Thus transition from backyard gardener to large scale farmer is quite daunting, so any and all info I get from your videos I'm gonna take and run with. In the end, we can only go up from here. Every failure, is just more knowledge going forward.

Hey Mark, impact and atrazine and MSO does not need watered in, this is a post application product only and irrigation or rain would render it effective. I was just checking my corn today and it is 100% clean, the application killed everything even the nuts sage. I used to put down a pre-emergent with 28% nitrogen as the carrier but I’m not doing it this year. I just spray a burn down with round up and 24D along with the nitrogen. My sprayer is set up to use 23 gallons of water per acre. I don’t think 23 gallons of water is necessary that’s just what my sprayer is set up to spray at 30 psi at 6 miles an hour. We have no irrigation for our corn and have been fine for the most part. Probably only had a bad crop 3-4 times in over 25 years. Hope that helps.

Our field corn is GMO, but not our sweetcorn

In the greenhouses, we use the Dutch Bato bucket hydroponic system. In the field, we just use the regular raised bed on plastic mulch was drip tape system planted with the water wheel transplanter…. doesn’t really have a special name or method.

Thank you very much... I am really inspired by your work.

Yes. Sometimes it depends on how many branches you have below your first cluster. I was told that if you don’t have seven or eight branches, then you’re gonna stress your plant out by leaving four or more tomatoes, some of ours only had six this year so we actually trimmed some down to even three. In a perfect world with perfect light and temperature and proper fertilization with no plants stress you could leave five but when we do that we pay for it later on with lots of blank cluster Once we hit cluster 7, 8 and nine. After some heavy pics, they usually bounce back.

I just watched your previous video explaining your thinning methods, thanks for the great explanation and your tomatoes look awesome.

@@wishwellfarms Thank you for the reply and explanation. That explains why I am starting to see some blank clusters in the 7th cluster or half cluster lookin like only a few of the flowers got pollinated. I am trying Caiman because of Big Dena being unavailable this season in my High tunnel and the growth seemed slow compared to the other varieties we have going, but I only thinned down to 5 fruit per truss. So I am sure I am stressing the plants. I just went through and thinned the trusses more so hopefully this will help them bounce back. Our farm is in Saginaw Michigan and this is only my third season with the high tunnel so I am definitely still working out the bugs. Thank you again for your help!

@@BenjaminBrandt-nu1jy love that area of Michigan, I’ll actually be driving through there next Saturday or Sunday on my way to Mackinaw. I grew caimen once about seven or eight years ago and they did OK but nothing I wanted to grow again. Hopefully your Tomatoes will bounce back. I sure hope Big Dena is available again next year that is probably my favorite variety How big is your operation? And where do you market your tomatoes?

@@wishwellfarms Hopefully you had a great time in Mackinaw, it is a great place to take a break at. We are only actively growing on 3 acres and I am trying to just gain a bit more experience and plan to expand in the near future. My wife and I bought an old farm market/greenhouse business about 4 years ago and have been fixing up the infrastructure and we now have the market and greenhouse side of the business running well but am still working on gaining knowledge on the farming side of the business. We have one 120x30 high tunnel and am going to add another this fall as I am buying way to many tomatoes from my local Amish auction for my farm store. I agree I don't think Caiman will make the cut next year not overly impressed so far at all. Hopefully your farm made it through the crazy weather ok and we can get through this crazy heat wave ok...

I would recommend Gowan seed, which is a nationwide company in the US and I would recommend Oxbo corporation who makes sweetcorn and green bean harvesters.