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Get the moldboard plow out.

Keep up with the good work love watching you on KZfaq god bless

Deer have ruined the beans in my well fenced in garden this year. This fall I will act accordingly

its all a learning process keep up the awesome work cheers

The 'Prescription Tillage Technology' (Iowa) discs/ openers - (serrated STPS for rock soils)on the John Deere planters/ seeders might be worth a try next season. The STP discs were developed due to slow corn emergence in wet Iowa spring conditions. Claims - to have less seed trench sidewall compaction, less hair pinning for no till, U shaped seed trench to allow the Keeton seed firmer to press the seed to the bottom of the seed trench etc. Aussies always trying different things, e.g steel rod in a ring for planter gauge wheels. "RYAN NT Gauge Wheels on Double Disc Planters, including John Deere and Kinze"

Heavy residue keeps ground cooler early season so the roots aren’t deep enough to get to the N yet. Just my thoughts

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When vertical tillage first came out everyone in my area bought one and was the only thing we used. Well fast forward 15 years and we’ve found out it created a hard pan much like the moldboard plow did just not as deep. There a great tool but most people here have gone to a rotation of ripping or some sort of chisel plowing on certain fields every few years. We’re also on heavy red clay. Maybe not your problem but might be something to look into.

6:00 I like your theory on the "too cold for the corn". Residue shades the ground retaining moisture; which is a huge benefit later in the dry hot summer where you may measure 70deg shaded soil vs 120deg bare cooking dirt in July torching the corn. This year has been a cooler spring but just wait it will be super hot again and need that cover. .. Chemistry courses taught that for every 10deg rise in temperature you get twice the reaction rate; which carried over into practical bread making and home brewing that reveals a similar activity with yeast (which are plants). Keep it in the right range and the conversion is fast while colder definitely slows it down. .. You're on the right idea path with corn leaf temperature, I've seen the same thing in my system which has a whole lot more cover than you have here (I'm planting into standing rye, then knock it flat after corn emerges).

Wouldn't it be better to till it 4" or 5" deep and put seeds 2" deep?? The roots would have an easier the in its 1st stages.??

Hi, one lonely farmer. I'm not a farmer, but I remember back in the seventies, all framers ploughed their land, and there were no problems with compaction on their crops. I think these clowns in government don't have a clue how farming works.That's my ten cents. Good luck with the crops, and God bless you and your family from across the pond in Great Britain

Great stuff, just growing pains they go through certain conditions but they will yield good

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Good video.

Wes, just a silly question, how often do you take soil samples? If your issue is a compaction problem, this is where you need to use a deep ripper or moldboard plow followed by a chisel to break up the shearing from a moldboard plow does. It's what we've done here, of course, we'd plow about every 5th -7th yr of planting. Can't help much with your slug issue, never had that issue here where I'm at. Aphids however, spray now before it really becomes a bigger issue for you. Do you spread manure on this particular field? If not, you should and work that into the soil along with gypsum, will help loosen the soil. Great video as always, cheers :)

Maybe they look better cos uncovered soil warms up faster. Try putting a thermometer in the soil at those places.

I think by reading a lot of the comments that people don't understand that this will take a long time to establish a soil structure where compaction will be a minimal problem. One of the videos I saw on some of Dave Brant's practices. He had set up a White corn planter to plant tillage radishes in wheat stubble, then planted corn down those rows the following spring. Tillage, especially full tillage, means starting starting from scratch when it comes to using the covers for soil building.

Vigilant Wes, vigilant.

Don't comment much but Marian colmer that makes the upgrades to the combines was no till for 30 year's but he is seeing that no till is okay but might have to do tillage every few years

I agree with some compaction

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Wes, what gets rid of the slugs ? They seem to be quite a problem this year and I don't recall you saying they were an issue in the past. Thanks and good luck with finding something that WORKS ! 👍👍😊😊

Hi Wes, another great video. Wandering what you are planning to do to solve your compaction problem? Are you planning to put in a form of tillage radish in the fall as a cover crop? Deep ripping? As your SOM increases, so will your soil structure and aeration, but I image you will be planning a more pressing solution to this issue. Thanks again, and good luck to you.

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Nice video

we growed the same exact corn every year for 10 yrs used the same fert, plowed, done the same every year only diff was rain hoping it would rain at silk to get the best crop

Good morning. This spring was a nightmare

I'm no cornexpert, but decomposing residue consumes nitrogen... if you have other issues like compaction fields with heavier reidue can suffer more.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, ideas and videos. Don’t know if you saw, millennial farmer last video was visiting John Deere research farm. Had some novelty automated tractors but more interesting was a sprayer that has two parallel sprayer systems two allow multiple products to be sprayed at the same time. One as a normal sprayer would apply and the second using cameras and computer automation to automatically detect unwanted plants and spot spray them individually reducing product used and only targeting problem spots. Looked a bit like a giant inkjet printer going across the field. Overall seemed interesting then came the deal breaker, oh ya the boom is so heavy we had to upgrade it to carbon fiber. Didn’t look very inexpensive or repairable. 😂 Glad to hear the crops are coming around and looking better. Wishing you and your family the best.

What is your population goal with the drill? I shoot for 160,000 with my 1590 drill. With 90% germination that gets me roughly 145,000 stand or better if the germination is better than 90%

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Sulphur moves all over. Other nutrients like calcium only go one direction. Calcium moves down.

That's why I don't believe in no till especially corn, corn root don't like Competition and compacted soil, best I saw on internet for now to Bridge that gap is Brazilian planters.

Have you thought about doing what Dave brant use to do .He plant tillage in rows in the fall then in spring plant corn on top of radish row. Helps I guess.

Vigilant

Have you noticed any difference in the farms and places that you used the ripper you wnt and bought a couple years back? I know you ran it some. Just curious 👌

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Can't remember the guy that says you need to plow every 3 to 4 years to get the nutrients in the root zone. Other years you can do what you are doing. Or you can do what I suggested yesterday and run a subsoiler foot deep. Goes back to if you ever mudded a field in or a harvest. I takes that ground especially if it was done at harvest 3 to 4 to heal/recover from it . Many guys like you are doing something every 3to 4 years

Your corn needs some water and you have bad soil compaction

Row crops in your area are a bitch to grow with the deer problem. Hope things turn for you.

Why does there seem to be so many dead trees surrounding these corn fields ?

Yellow corn all across the US, but we’re going to yield an average of 181😂😂😂😂 can you say we’re getting f’cked?

Its the rain

cold and wet.

Around v3 the plant switches from living off the contents of the seed and transitions to living off photosynthesis and root uptake. The sins of spring often are on full display at this point. I'm guessing you have quite a bit of hatchet root going on in the discolored areas. The VT tool you own is notorious for creating a compaction layer at 2" deep that roots in the right condition can really struggle with. You need to bring a shovel with you EVERYTIME you walk a field. The root structure can tell a lot.

focus on the problems, not the issues.

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Hey you didn't use your secret sauce this year call Gary

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I thought it might have been Mg, thats from my vineyards experience. SOA was hard on my soils, I stopped using it due to Ph problems and locked up minerals. However we are all unique and so our our soils. I put Urea on now and use Serpentine as my main fert as our serpentine has Mg and is slow release . Good luck with the season.

You might should take some farming lessons

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