I'm glad you explained that one. I was trying to figure out exactly how that worked early in the video! I hope the cotton issues are isolated. Don't like to see that.
I grew up on a small farm in Georgia. Then I worked an industrial job for 40 years. Now that I'm retired I live on a small farm of my own that I grow planted loblolly pines and a small field for wildlife conservation. Tiny compared to your farming. I watch lots of youtube videos now. Most about farming. Could you explain to me the concept of sand fighting? What I saw and heard in your video is very contrary to what our local practices are for fighting soil erosion. Here we practice no till farming except for peanuts where we turn the soil with what we old timers call a bottom plow or moldboard plow. We would never think of plowing soil during windy conditions. If the land is under irrigation we would irrigate it before the forecasted winds and not dare disturb the soil. Plowing here just drys the soil more and makes it more susceptible to wind erosion. And rain erosion as well. The debris on the ground from the previous crop holds moisture and prevents wind and rain erosion.
We are doing the same for peanuts but in this situation since it’s very windy and we don’t get rain the wind can actually destroy our crops. The wind has taken many acres through the years so since we have very sandy soil the soil blows away really easy. And with sand fighting we disturb the top layer to where the soil isn’t flat and the wind can’t take the soil and destroy crops. It really doesn’t affect the yield at all
@@conleybanman Thanks for your response. So it protects the plants from sand blasting? I understand now. But how does it actually do that? Are you covering the plants or making a soil barrier around the plants? Not questioning your practice, I'm just trying to understand. We have sandy soils here as well. Wondering if we might reapply the practice here. Thanks
Oh yea I understand. So it works best when the ground is already wet. And doesn’t cover the crop it just leaves nice clumps in between the rows. It basically roughens the soil enough so the wind can’t blow the sand away
Need to lean the difference between soil and dirt. Also look into no till that would help . I grew up in Morton Texas big lister rows is a plus . It is good to see that farmer is trying go by his HEL plan and stay at 5 T good job
Plants free of water deficit events more efficiently absorb available plant nutrients enabling plants to achieve their maximum genetic potential. SWRT membranes installed below plant root systems retain water where it falls, providing continuous delivery of drought-free periods up to 3 times longer than intensely irrigated control sands without root zone water retention membranes (Guber et al, 2016).
Funny thing is they get more precipitation than Montana with their big wheat fields. Still, when my dad who doodlebugged for oil in the late 40s through early 50s left west Texas, he wouldn't go back because of the wind alone. Moved to central Texas and never left.
Great video Conley
I'm glad you explained that one. I was trying to figure out exactly how that worked early in the video! I hope the cotton issues are isolated. Don't like to see that.
It is for the most part but we did lose a few acres of cotton
"I unhooked it thinking" well that's what you get for thinking lol...no good deed goes unpunished
I grew up on a small farm in Georgia. Then I worked an industrial job for 40 years. Now that I'm retired I live on a small farm of my own that I grow planted loblolly pines and a small field for wildlife conservation. Tiny compared to your farming. I watch lots of youtube videos now. Most about farming. Could you explain to me the concept of sand fighting? What I saw and heard in your video is very contrary to what our local practices are for fighting soil erosion. Here we practice no till farming except for peanuts where we turn the soil with what we old timers call a bottom plow or moldboard plow. We would never think of plowing soil during windy conditions. If the land is under irrigation we would irrigate it before the forecasted winds and not dare disturb the soil. Plowing here just drys the soil more and makes it more susceptible to wind erosion. And rain erosion as well. The debris on the ground from the previous crop holds moisture and prevents wind and rain erosion.
We are doing the same for peanuts but in this situation since it’s very windy and we don’t get rain the wind can actually destroy our crops. The wind has taken many acres through the years so since we have very sandy soil the soil blows away really easy. And with sand fighting we disturb the top layer to where the soil isn’t flat and the wind can’t take the soil and destroy crops. It really doesn’t affect the yield at all
@@conleybanman Thanks for your response. So it protects the plants from sand blasting? I understand now. But how does it actually do that? Are you covering the plants or making a soil barrier around the plants? Not questioning your practice, I'm just trying to understand. We have sandy soils here as well. Wondering if we might reapply the practice here. Thanks
Oh yea I understand. So it works best when the ground is already wet. And doesn’t cover the crop it just leaves nice clumps in between the rows. It basically roughens the soil enough so the wind can’t blow the sand away
Need to lean the difference between soil and dirt. Also look into no till that would help . I grew up in Morton Texas big lister rows is a plus .
It is good to see that farmer is trying go by his HEL plan and stay at 5 T good job
I'd recommend one of Gabe Brown's presentations.
No till, no synthetics, no herb/insect/fungicide.
You’d be surprised majority of what we do is no till
@@TheLoiteringKid Yeah i'm a new big fan of Gabe and Ray, plan to start using their teachings
Plants free of water deficit events more efficiently absorb available plant nutrients enabling plants to achieve their maximum genetic potential. SWRT membranes installed below plant root systems retain water where it falls, providing continuous delivery of
drought-free periods up to 3 times longer than intensely irrigated control sands without root zone water retention membranes (Guber et al, 2016).
That's neat. We used to use a rotary hoe in the corn for blowing sand.
Yea that definitely different than what we’re doing
Yeah in his equipment tour he has a rotary hoe he called it a chicken something
Chicken picker? Because we have one of those ours just doesn’t work for in crop use.
What a place to be a farmer
Always a struggle
Funny thing is they get more precipitation than Montana with their big wheat fields. Still, when my dad who doodlebugged for oil in the late 40s through early 50s left west Texas, he wouldn't go back because of the wind alone. Moved to central Texas and never left.
Conley where are ya'll located??
West Texas
Those are adverse growing condition.Farming is not as easy as it looks.
No it isn’t there’s new struggles every year
I know what your feeling friend.My father had 126 acres of tobacco 2 days from harvest ruined by a hail storm in one afternoon.
Oh nooooo that’s terrible
You and your family understand,tough times come and go,tough people can even fight the wind.
That’s so true