BIRDS ARE DESTROYING MY SWEET CORN BUT I'M FIGHTING BACK!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ต.ค. 2024
- Flimed on July 8, 2024. It's the start of another busy week harvesting, spraying, planting and selling vegetables on our Ohio farm. Sweet corn is one of our biggest crops and even after 35 years of growing it I'm still trying to figure out the best way to control bird damage in our fields. Have I finally discoverd the magic bullet? Tune in to find out my latest technique to keep these pesky avian at bay!
Build scarecrows from yard sale or Goodwill clothes. Hanging aluminum, as they turn in the breeze, pie plates is another suggestion that works for me, here in the state of Delaware. In the early 70s, produce growers here would use scare cannons, these days those are considered antiques.
I did that years ago and I attached radios to them to play talk shows all night, it works in a small area, but when you got acres, and acres of corn, it’s worthless. I never did buy any of the scare cannons, I was fortunate to have a neighbor and my son trap over 600 of them a few years ago so that really lowered the population.
I've watched your videos for a couple of months . You are one crazy hard worker!!! Enjoy the videos. Thanks, sir!!! From North Dakota.
Yes he is I have been watching about as long! He plays hard too!
Thank you I appreciate all the watch time and glad you enjoy the videos, that means a lot to me!
I remember picking cups and summer squash for years! My dad had acres of that stuff! Was overwhelmed at times! Many times we had to dump the stuff because you couldn't sell it!
Forget the birds and hope the racoons never get wind of your bounty. Stay safe.
Well, believe it or not the birds do more damage than the raccoons by far. A flock of birds can wipe out an acre in one day. Don’t get me wrong, raccoon can be bad too, but they’re usually isolated to hotspots in the fields. It also helps that my son and our neighbor trapped over 600 of them in the last three years but they’re making a comeback now.
i love farming job sir happy watching your videos,,
To get your balloons higher, you could drive the same stakes but then attach a long section of bamboo to those with 3 or 4 zip ties.
I love the sound capsicums being picked from the bush
It's a great sound!
Donate that damaged corn to a food kitchen - take a writeoff
Wow, after all that hard work to raise that beautiful sweet corn, bam, then the birds arrive. Had no idea birds did that much damage to sweet corn. Know about raccoons and deer and worms, birds are as troublesome or more trouble than the rest of the pest. My gosh you’re a hard working individual. You’ve been blessed my man with that kind of love for what you do to make a living. God bless. You.
the latest harvest was 40-50% bird damaged but fortunately we still were able to get enough, thanks!
We use Plastic Owls here to keep starlings away.. It seems to work here in PA anyway..
How much do the owls cost and how many do you need per acre?
New subscriber… love your energy and content!
Thanks so much!
i use the same scare eyes. I use three for three small garden areas. You'd need dozens of them the size your fields are. helium sounds like a good addition.
Get your balloons up as high as possible and long string so wind blows them around. Otherwise birds don’t care that they are there.
Great video. Seems like your Son may need to step up his.racoon program and.add birds to the list. :)
Lol, for sure! Thanks Becky
You can try carbide guns or carbide cannon. Best of luck keeping the birds out of your crops, Cheers!
Thanks for the tip!
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You can get a 10ft stick of EMT pipe to hold them up higher and add another piece if you wanted with a coupling
Thanks for the input, this comment just reminded me that I have numerous 15' sections of pipe leftover from an old produce trailer canopy laying in my barn, but I might just use some half inch rebar and put a little bend at the top to hang the baloons from.
Hell ya great video
Glad you enjoyed it!
Nothing like the sound of a pepper coming off the stalk. Thankfully I don't get too much avian pressure. The crows around me love pumpkin seedlings, so the ol' Marlin model 60 is pretty good at administering lead poisoning
You ever get true sweet corn from Zellwood FL it's the best
If you don’t mind me asking, what kind of cucumbers are you growing.
you forgot to clean the corn off your lips from the prior bite before recording the taste test! lol Sad for all the corn loss! Still Jealous I haven't had any sweet corn yet this season!
hahahah, yep you got me!
WOW the cucumbers and zucchini's look full and ripe 😀 how's the rains in your area? 💦 I am eager to try a raw sweet corn soon 🌽 Hope the birds back off lol awesome and excellent video 👍💯🙏
Got 6 tenths yesterday, very timely rains this season so far. Thanks!
What varieties of field tomatoes and sweet peppers do you plant. We run a produce farm over in Utah.
Seeds from Rupp and Gowan. Skyway 687, Rambler, Summer Pick, Roadster, STM2255, and BHN 964 Tomatoes and PS 09941819, Classic, Redfish and Palidin Bell Peppers.
Hope the balloons help. They worked for me for about 3 days then the damage resumed. I see some blackbirds in mine but my assailants are mainly swarms of the small sparrow type birds that leave the exact damage you show. I did not have much luck with the avian spray either. I only have to protect about 500 ears at a time so I use paper lunch bags to cover the ears when they begin to ripen. They have been fully pollinated by then and I've sprayed them with spinosad before this so it does not impact them to be covered. Most of the time the birds then leave them alone but there are some that will peck through the bag into the corn. It's more work so they usually give up. Obviously not a solution for you. Frustrating how fast they ruin so many ears. Best of luck!
I don't have too high of hope for them to work, but after a rain they do seem to leave it alone more. Probably need some bird cannons or other sounds that play over a loud speaker that I've heard other large farms using.
@@wishwellfarmsTry playing Maria Carey Christmas songs 😊
@@bobdoyon4275 that might just work lol, it would keep me out that’s for sure ha ha
Have you tried putting out a bird bath? If they are destroying crops for water, then that's a easy fix.
the more you offer the more you will get Maybe.. seems good tho
Good tip
Jason ,what do you spray your cucumbers with against antraknosis ( yellow necrotic stains on leaves ) ?
Nothing other than a little copper with the foliar feeding, we try to avoid conventional fungicides unless downy mildew gets out of control. In a few weeks will be in a new patch and will let that one go so it’s not too big of a concern.
What herbicide do you use on green beans? I remember you saying you were notill on your green beans
Dual and command. If we need a follow up post spray we use bassagran and raptor or reflex.
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Those peppers are putting on. What variety is that? Do you fertilize all the rows with the same fertilizer? That's horrible what the birds have done to your corn.
Only fertilized the entire field all at once before laying plastic, no fertigation as of yet. PS 09941819 is my favorite variety and we also planted Redfish this year. Normally we also plant Pallidin and Classic
@@wishwellfarms Much appreciated good sir.
What variety are those peppers
PS 09941819 is my favorite variety it has great disease resistance/tolerance. We also plant a little bit of redfish and paladin.
What variety of corn your growing?
Augmented SH2's. We've planted Sugary Enhanced and Triple Sweet synergistics but the Augmented supersweets are on another level.
natural gas will work if you have no helium. basically free such a small amount. yes its flammable :)
good tip!
Sorry about your corn. I pick them chop off ends and sell them half price.
For friends and family that works fine, but not for the other thousands of customers who don't understand and expect perfect looking corn unfortunately.
Let me just tell you that cucumbers of that size would be considered as inferior here in Europe. So you really have a break in US.And what do you do finding such a big cucumber ? Of course, hiding it under the leaves in order to not to get an earful from your boss ) That blond dude Daniel wasn't that lucky .
Lol. Sometimes it’s hard for me to not get on my field crew since they’re not as quick and thorough as me but I have to remind myself that they’re just 16-17 year old kids. Those cuke hybrids are only meant to be about 8-9” long.
Thanks for watching and commenting, always enjoy your comments.
We grow different varieties here in The States. Jason's cukes look perfect!