If there is ever a fertilizer shortage, you will be set Old timers used manure fertilizer and compost, everything made on the farm. It's all about the soil health! Thank you for posting your results.
The corn and beans are looking awesome ! You can tell how green it is that it was lacking in nitrogen . I like how you got the strips of beans planted like that . I think your going to have an awesome crop this year . Thanks for sharing and have a great day !
Beautiful field! Corn and beans look great, deer have found it and I bet turkeys won't be far behind. that is an all around food field if I ever saw one.
That has turned out well for ya. Looks great. Going to be cover cropping a third of my small garden with crimson this year. The other 2 thirds will be all greens. Take care brother enjoyed video
Yes indeed. I've been spreading the word myself to all my friends. Had to get some covers in between the corn many years back. It keeps the weeds away and puts back so much for the following years. #coverlife 😂
Mr. Mcgie have you thought of getting a dog for your homestead and family. We raise and breed original Japanese ancient dogs here in Japan. The dogs are called Shikoku Ken and Kai Ken and are amongst the most ancient and loyal dogs and are great for homestead properties. Our dogs protect our homestead protect our chickens and land and give happiness to our family. The last puppy named Roga we shipped to Hawaii and they love him. Something to maybe think about.
Impressive! You might want to try using some of the soybeans for edamame. Edamame is green[immature] soybeans boiled in the pod. After cooking, you salt them heavily, then eat them by squeezing the beans out of the pods into your mouth. Delicious! You can
Your field looks great! I've never heard of Duran clover before. Im going to google it. You folks take care. Got 2 inches of rain lastnight. Thats over 5 1/2 in about 10 days.
We’re in the edge of the red clay and sandy loam. We have both depending upon how much erosion took place over the past thousand years. This land set unused for 50+ years and was able to regenerate pretty well……. Then I came along and started building it up even more.
I always learn something new, thanks for all the great information. Have the Buffalo run up the river, or did you miss them ? The old timers would plant the corn and let it get up a bit, cultivate it once, then run geese on the field to weed it and fertilize the field at the same time. I cant remember for sure, but it seems like they let the corn get 10 or 12 inches before they let the geese out on it, so they wouldn't eat the corn.
@@McGieHomesteadAdventures you should see if you can run a hoop net on that river for the Buffalo. A commercial fishing license in Illinois is about $36 I think. If you got enough you could trench the heads and guts to fertilize the tomatoes and corn.
I don’t! I’m still learning! And probably will continue for a long time! There’s many questions that need to be answered, but I’m watching something amazing happening as the corn has to be fertilized last year, but not this year……… so I’m confident that the improvements are substantial!!!
Durano clover is hard to get established unless planted early spring. Definitely not a hot weather planted clover. Summertime sunn hemp, or soybeans are your best bet brother. Try or experiment if you want, but on a larger scale, stick to what you know.
I told you about me planting sunn hemp after wheat and that I was going to follow the sunn hemp with crimson clover. Sunn hemp produces 120-140 pounds per acre and TONS of biomass. Besides my goats love it and deer love it too. Don’t get me wrong, Durano clover is heat and drought tolerant, but the timing and need for early establishment is going to be a slight set back for how we farm. Another drawback is that it’s a perennial. That alone is indicative of the type and timeline of establishment needed to get a good stand, and good nitrogen production. We need our fields ready to plant when we need to plant.
BTW your corn looks amazing!!! Can’t wait to see the harvest. My truckers looks good too. I still grow my conventional non-gmo hybrids. I’m a one man show and I have to make sure I maximize on the yield. I grow truckers every year just to maintain an open pollinated seed bank just in case I can’t buy my hybrid seed. But my truckers this year looks exceptionally good and my hybrid corn is some of the best corn I’ve grown in my life. I’m Pulling early corn now for feed and the ears are so big and beautiful, I hate even feeding it to the hogs. I almost want to hold on to it just to look at. 😂😂😂
@FarmallFanatic Well it’s like this, we got 10 deer last year…… they all gone and dat game warden just live a couple miles away……. So you right! I don’t want it that bad!😂😂😂
Did you know you can by packages of microbial fungi !! One can take poor soil plant the clover turn it under and spray the fungi and start to repair damaged soil from chemical ferts
Micah, I have been watching you for a while and need to ask you a question. The question is you introduced Jared the young man who cut your lumber for your smoke house can you tell me what happened to him never see him anymore. The last time was when he fixed his porch can you let me know please thank you.
Yes that’s the last thing he uploaded. It’s a very busy time up there and I would imagine he’s not had time to make a video…… he’ll put one out pretty soon I’d imagine.
The corn looks good. I assume you are making silage again this year. Instead of using that corn knife hacking at the stalks, I would recommend you try a garden hoe. Sharpen it good and keep a 10 inch file in your back pocket to keep it sharp. I can cut cut 4-6 stalks at a time. I'm shure Joel and David could do just as well. Keep it sharp and turn it at a slight angle to cut through the stalks. Just like a draw knife a little bit of an angle let's it work better.
Thanks! I’m not doubting you one bit, but you have to keep both hands on the hoe handle. We don’t like bending over to pick up the corn to make the piles. A machete is the ticket. We don’t use knives 😂😂😂
You need to go work for the department of agriculture cuz real world experience is better then reading a book and that is some good looking corn 🌽 proof is in the product. Have a blessed day
Micha, that corn corn is beautiful!
Thanks brother! I’m very happy with it!
If there is ever a fertilizer shortage, you will be set
Old timers used manure fertilizer and compost, everything made on the farm. It's all about the soil health! Thank you for posting your results.
That’s absolutely true! We’re very blessed!
I'm moving to northern florida next spring and the first thing I'm doing will be getting my fields ready and planting clover
Oh that’s awesome! I’m excited for you!
Awesome cornfield
I’m very happy with it!
I am really impressed with the crimson clover too! Looking forward to seeing what it will continue to do for my land.
Awesome! Keep me posted!
Nice brother thanks for the video 👍🌽
You bet!
Great stand of corn 👍💥🐝
Thanks 👍
Best wishes to you and yours McGie! That includes Frank.
Thank you kindly!
The corn and beans are looking awesome ! You can tell how green it is that it was lacking in nitrogen . I like how you got the strips of beans planted like that . I think your going to have an awesome crop this year . Thanks for sharing and have a great day !
I’m really looking forward to next year’s corn crop!
Outstanding job looking good thanks for sharing keep the cameras rolling from Florida
Thanks, will do! Ken!
Beautiful field! Corn and beans look great, deer have found it and I bet turkeys won't be far behind. that is an all around food field if I ever saw one.
Yes the deer and turkey have definitely been there! Thanks!
Excellent job Sir! God Bless you and your family
Thanks, you too!!!!
Good looking crops thank u for your videos my favorite
Glad you like them! I’m very excited to see how this works in the future!
That has turned out well for ya. Looks great. Going to be cover cropping a third of my small garden with crimson this year. The other 2 thirds will be all greens. Take care brother enjoyed video
Sounds great! Let me know how it goes!!!
Nicely explained, good work!
Thanks! I’m hoping that next year shows even more progress!
Man, awesome!!!
Glad you like it! It really worked great!
I guess I'm just trying to say I'm ready for some of yours good hunting videos
😂😂😂 Noted!😎
Look into fixation balansa clover
Thanks so much!
WOW Well done
Thank you!
Very good lookin stand
It turned out amazing
Yes indeed. I've been spreading the word myself to all my friends. Had to get some covers in between the corn many years back. It keeps the weeds away and puts back so much for the following years. #coverlife 😂
Mr. Mcgie have you thought of getting a dog for your homestead and family. We raise and breed original Japanese ancient dogs here in Japan. The dogs are called Shikoku Ken and Kai Ken and are amongst the most ancient and loyal dogs and are great for homestead properties. Our dogs protect our homestead protect our chickens and land and give happiness to our family. The last puppy named Roga we shipped to Hawaii and they love him. Something to maybe think about.
I love that! Yes we have two dogs that protect our property as well as the chickens and animals! Thanks so much for the comment!
Impressive! You might want to try using some of the soybeans for edamame. Edamame is green[immature] soybeans boiled in the pod. After cooking, you salt them heavily, then eat them by squeezing the beans out of the pods into your mouth. Delicious! You can
I’m not into eating soy personally
Looks great I’m surprised the deer doesn’t have them beans about gone
They ate a lot of them but I overpopulated the ground with them 😂
Your field looks great! I've never heard of Duran clover before. Im going to google it. You folks take care. Got 2 inches of rain lastnight. Thats over 5 1/2 in about 10 days.
That’s a lot of rain! Hope you were wanting it! We could definitely use it here now!
You must be in the black belt region of Tennessee? Our Soil is a little bit different down here in South Alabama.
We’re in the edge of the red clay and sandy loam. We have both depending upon how much erosion took place over the past thousand years. This land set unused for 50+ years and was able to regenerate pretty well……. Then I came along and started building it up even more.
Do you remember that old song probably around in the early sixties the lyrics were crimson and clover over and over
I have heard it, but not enough to know it.😂
@@McGieHomesteadAdventures where's the corn puddin💪
I always learn something new, thanks for all the great information.
Have the Buffalo run up the river, or did you miss them ?
The old timers would plant the corn and let it get up a bit, cultivate it once, then run geese on the field to weed it and fertilize the field at the same time. I cant remember for sure, but it seems like they let the corn get 10 or 12 inches before they let the geese out on it, so they wouldn't eat the corn.
The buffalo run happened when the water was up and muddy so we missed out.
That’s a very interesting idea! I like it!
@@McGieHomesteadAdventures you should see if you can run a hoop net on that river for the Buffalo.
A commercial fishing license in Illinois is about $36 I think.
If you got enough you could trench the heads and guts to fertilize the tomatoes and corn.
Please which one did you plant first, how old was it when you planted the other and why?.
Thank you.
Plant the corn first so it doesn’t get shaded out by the beans. Here’s how I did it! th-cam.com/video/fgYOa_7LqiA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=N7n7qms5ji8trIc-
Do y'all have a fall turkey season there squirrel season opens up in September
I’m pretty sure fall Turkey has been suspended because of declining populations. Our squirrel season opens here this coming Saturday.
That’s looking awesome. Do you know if the nitrogen cover crops will affect the pH over time?
I don’t! I’m still learning! And probably will continue for a long time! There’s many questions that need to be answered, but I’m watching something amazing happening as the corn has to be fertilized last year, but not this year……… so I’m confident that the improvements are substantial!!!
Looks like a pretty good deal you said the proof is in the puddin so make some corn puddin how long's it been since you had any of that
I’m not sure if I’ve EVER had that! Sounds good though!
What spacing did you use for the corn and what's the population per acre?
32,000 plant population- 30” spacing, but as you can easily tell, I didn’t do that with this field.
@@McGieHomesteadAdventures did you take both off for silage? If so, what was the tonnage difference between the different spacings?
Same tonnage per row. Just less rows. The point was to feed the soil. The previous year I had to side dress. That’s all a thing of the past now.
Durano clover is hard to get established unless planted early spring. Definitely not a hot weather planted clover. Summertime sunn hemp, or soybeans are your best bet brother. Try or experiment if you want, but on a larger scale, stick to what you know.
Thanks brother…… I’m all about experimenting….. but we’ll see! Someone else was recently telling me about sun hemp!
I told you about me planting sunn hemp after wheat and that I was going to follow the sunn hemp with crimson clover. Sunn hemp produces 120-140 pounds per acre and TONS of biomass. Besides my goats love it and deer love it too. Don’t get me wrong, Durano clover is heat and drought tolerant, but the timing and need for early establishment is going to be a slight set back for how we farm. Another drawback is that it’s a perennial. That alone is indicative of the type and timeline of establishment needed to get a good stand, and good nitrogen production. We need our fields ready to plant when we need to plant.
@@duncand5148 Very very convincing arguments indeed! I’m very proud to be part of a community of doers and action!
BTW your corn looks amazing!!! Can’t wait to see the harvest. My truckers looks good too. I still grow my conventional non-gmo hybrids. I’m a one man show and I have to make sure I maximize on the yield. I grow truckers every year just to maintain an open pollinated seed bank just in case I can’t buy my hybrid seed. But my truckers this year looks exceptionally good and my hybrid corn is some of the best corn I’ve grown in my life. I’m Pulling early corn now for feed and the ears are so big and beautiful, I hate even feeding it to the hogs. I almost want to hold on to it just to look at. 😂😂😂
That’s an amazing feeling! Knowing that you are producing top quality groceries for your animals and yourself out of the land God let’s you use!
Is the corn that's in this field. We harvest them to eat or is all for drying
Some for eating in corn bread and possibly fresh, but mostly for silage for the cows!
Wow these grow fast Evan taller than u 😂 I'm 5 foot 6 I'd looks invisible 😂
😂😂😂
@@McGieHomesteadAdventures ah you laughing at my height 🤣🤣🤣 only Jk I'm a short arse 🤣
Doin it in the dirt won't hurt now and then... 😂 Keep it natural 😅
I’m gonna just simply nod and keep walking!😂😂😂
Do u rotate rows also like we're soy beans r this year plant corn next year such big rows in between almost like ur taking time off own ur land ?
I’ll probably plant this field solid and do this in a different field!
Thank u for sharing I learn something new every time appreciate y'all sharing y'all adventures
Tell you what else they'll do...bring every deer in the county to your deer stand. 🦌 It's the unknown variables ahahahahahahaha 😂
That’s meat in the freezer! Gotta love it!
@@McGieHomesteadAdventures We will have at least four in the freezer this year
I just made 65 pounds of sausage….. not a drop of deer in it unfortunately
@@McGieHomesteadAdventures gotta want it! 😃
@FarmallFanatic Well it’s like this, we got 10 deer last year…… they all gone and dat game warden just live a couple miles away……. So you right! I don’t want it that bad!😂😂😂
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Did you know you can by packages of microbial fungi !! One can take poor soil plant the clover turn it under and spray the fungi and start to repair damaged soil from chemical ferts
Wow that’s incredible! I didn’t know that!
So it won't let me post a link, and the website is different since I bought some to put on my lawn but look up supersoilglobal
Right on👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼💯💯💯💯💯🤙🏽🌺🍍🌴✝️
Thanks so much!
Micah, I have been watching you for a while and need to ask you a question. The question is you introduced Jared the young man who cut your lumber for your smoke house can you tell me what happened to him never see him anymore. The last time was when he fixed his porch can you let me know please thank you.
Yes that’s the last thing he uploaded. It’s a very busy time up there and I would imagine he’s not had time to make a video…… he’ll put one out pretty soon I’d imagine.
The corn looks good.
I assume you are making silage again this year. Instead of using that corn knife hacking at the stalks, I would recommend you try a garden hoe. Sharpen it good and keep a 10 inch file in your back pocket to keep it sharp. I can cut cut 4-6 stalks at a time. I'm shure Joel and David could do just as well. Keep it sharp and turn it at a slight angle to cut through the stalks. Just like a draw knife a little bit of an angle let's it work better.
Thanks! I’m not doubting you one bit, but you have to keep both hands on the hoe handle. We don’t like bending over to pick up the corn to make the piles. A machete is the ticket. We don’t use knives 😂😂😂
You need to go work for the department of agriculture cuz real world experience is better then reading a book and that is some good looking corn 🌽 proof is in the product. Have a blessed day
That’s how I see it! However anything that starts with “Dept” doesn’t agree!😂😂😂
Touch down 🏈
Morning Tex!
Boom! Big Tex does it again!😂
7th!
Boom! You’re in as our final contestant in “the number of perfection!”😂😂😂
If anyway possible to get ahold of you through facebook it would be appreciated.
Love your videos
Thanks
Sure! @Micah Mcgie