I use plastic also , I mounted a Kenco plastic layer behind two John Deere 71 flxi planters . Used it for many years very successfully , . My corn grows under the plastic , not through it , we pull plastic when corn is aprox.. 12 inches . Here in Ephrata , Washington
Would be a lot of work pulling all the plastic but I guess it works? Nice to get rid of it, the biodegradable stuff breaks down but you still get some of it lingering around.
@@macfarms I'm thinking of trying to catch some of the early corn market here in Manitoba. It sounds like we might actually have a little more summer heat than you do but I see my best results from mid-June seeding dates. Early May just doesn't have warm enough soil. I little help from mulch might push it over the top! I have my best results with a 74 day variety from Stokes Seeds. Last spring I seeded my garden in mid-June and was harvesting corn in mid-August and into very early September.
@@jamesharder5643 I’ve grown sweet corn in my garden with the black plastic mulch, good crop but bugs got to it before I did that year unfortunately. I didn’t like the black plastic much, maybe this year I will try to plant a couple rows of sweet corn with the Samco planter.
Seems like we can plant 2-3 weeks early. Really we should be planting the middle of May. We were a bit late planting this year but not as bad as last year.
Jacky, Scott used this planter last Spring, it was built in Ireland, for their weather conditions. With Mac Farms sitting on the North edge of an island off the coast of Nova Scotia, it has some interesting weather. The plastic warms the soil to help germination in those conditions.
I was up helping my college friend this week finish planting. We are in the southern tier of New York and we just finished planting corn on the June 8, lol
I vaguely remember the old 175 Massey had those curled metal strips in the rims... never dawned on me when I was younger that's how you would narrow or widen the rear tires.
Great job on the video! Have you considered re-useable frost blankets? My neighbor uses them to get his sweet corn growing faster, and we use them occasionally for some vegetables. You would plant with a traditional planter, cover the fields with blankets, and then when the corn is at an acceptable height fold them up.
Curious about two things. 1. Does the corn sprout grow up thru the plastic, or do you have to manually go back and split the row to allow it to come thru ? 2. How do you deal with the old plastic next year ? Does is merely dissolve to the point you can plow it under with clogging up plow/disc/etc then or something else ? Thanks !
The corn will push right through the plastic as it grows. The plastic breaks down and just disappears for the most part. It breaks down with the sun, so anything that is covered won't break down, like where its covered on the edges and ends. Ideally you'd disk it up in the fall then it would have the winter to finish breaking down. I did a video a couple weeks ago raking rocks in a field we had corn in last year, I showed in that video what was left of the plastic. Thanks for watching!
Yes, you really did have some rain from the previews you did on the rock rake and rock picker. Great editing, splicing in narrowing up the MF375 from last Spring, plenty of drone shots and music. Just have to keep the dang crows out of the corn this year and your Illustrious PM has banned the "no I haven't, HA Ha" shotguns so that you could fertilize the corn with their carcasses! Have you ever watched Quick Dick McDick? His latest is another good one, "Tufnell at 10, part 2"
Pretty soon they’ll have nerf guns banned too lol the crows have been at the plastic but so far not as bad as last year. I’m sure they are just working up to it. Yes watch quick dick haven’t seen his latest one though.
I haven't watched your videos in a long time. You have really improved on your editing. Good job and keep it up! What do you use for a camera and editing?
Glad you're back, I've been trying to do a bit better job editing and switched up my cameras this year. Using a Canon M50 as the main camera, and a GoPro Hero8, editing done with Premier Pro.
@@macfarms editing isn't easy, I did it for a bit and it's alot of work. Kind of like anything the more you do it the better you get though. Keep up the good work, I'll try to watch your videos!
I use plastic also , I mounted a Kenco plastic layer behind two John Deere 71 flxi planters . Used it for many years very successfully , . My corn grows under the plastic , not through it , we pull plastic when corn is aprox.. 12 inches . Here in Ephrata , Washington
Would be a lot of work pulling all the plastic but I guess it works? Nice to get rid of it, the biodegradable stuff breaks down but you still get some of it lingering around.
were do you put fertilizer
We broadcast it before we plant. You can also put liquid fertilizer in the tank instead of herbicide
What row spacing are you running?
30”
@@macfarms I'm thinking of trying to catch some of the early corn market here in Manitoba. It sounds like we might actually have a little more summer heat than you do but I see my best results from mid-June seeding dates. Early May just doesn't have warm enough soil. I little help from mulch might push it over the top! I have my best results with a 74 day variety from Stokes Seeds. Last spring I seeded my garden in mid-June and was harvesting corn in mid-August and into very early September.
@@jamesharder5643 I’ve grown sweet corn in my garden with the black plastic mulch, good crop but bugs got to it before I did that year unfortunately. I didn’t like the black plastic much, maybe this year I will try to plant a couple rows of sweet corn with the Samco planter.
how many acres under plastic?
I think in the year of that video we did 16 acres.
Sooo much fun it was
t'was
nice video
Thanks for watching Ewan.
How much extra time or maturity does the plastic give you?
Seems like we can plant 2-3 weeks early. Really we should be planting the middle of May. We were a bit late planting this year but not as bad as last year.
How long does the plastic stay on for?
By the time we chop it there isn't much left of it. I can't remember exactly at what point it was "gone" though. It just kind of slowly disappears.
What I was wondering was do you cut the plastic open at some point to allow the corn to grow through?
I enjoy seeing all the different ways farmers adapt to fit there climate and growing season. We’re get rain here about every day. Have a good one
Yeah that rain really slows things down when you're trying to plant. Thanks for watching Jacky.
Jacky, Scott used this planter last Spring, it was built in Ireland, for their weather conditions. With Mac Farms sitting on the North edge of an island off the coast of Nova Scotia, it has some interesting weather. The plastic warms the soil to help germination in those conditions.
I was up helping my college friend this week finish planting. We are in the southern tier of New York and we just finished planting corn on the June 8, lol
June 8th wouldn’t sound too bad if it was up here haha we finished June 20th last year lol thanks for watching Rich.
Mac Farms you’re up early my friend, lol oh that’s right you are a farmer! Good talking to you and thanks for always replying!
I vaguely remember the old 175 Massey had those curled metal strips in the rims... never dawned on me when I was younger that's how you would narrow or widen the rear tires.
Yeah the old power adjust rims are pretty handy, don’t see them much anymore.
Awesome work Mac do the odd video of the crop growing and cutting great stuff
Yeah for sure, be out of the plastic before we know it. Thanks for watching!
The field does look impressive when finished. Great vid, thanks.
Thanks Don.
It's like growing in a greenhouse to start it
Yep exactly, it's creating it's own micro climate.
Awesome! Great editing. Few fields under plastic over on the island as well.
Thanks! Yeah I guess it’s used a few places in the maritimes.
Nice video!, what happend with your old ,,Case vs JD'' videos?
Thanks, took them down for a bit, they weren’t really doing much for the channel to be honest.
Really a cool video Mac, awesome stuff
Thanks for watching Jan!
Video quality is amazing! Really nice work with this video!
Thanks, glad you like it!
Have you found a way of keeping the birds off the seed other than the lead poison route? Autosteer is working flawlessly. Thanks.
So far high speed lead poisoning and the sight of their carcasses is the only proven method...lol
Great job on the video! Have you considered re-useable frost blankets? My neighbor uses them to get his sweet corn growing faster, and we use them occasionally for some vegetables. You would plant with a traditional planter, cover the fields with blankets, and then when the corn is at an acceptable height fold them up.
Thanks! I haven’t heard of the frost blankets I’ll have to check them out.
Had frost here two days ago. Finished up my potato planting today. 8 sixty foot rows.
Do you or have you ever growin potatoes.
Just grow a few in my garden not many, I need to get that planted too I’ve been too busy with farm stuff haha.
Definitely keep us updated on this corn. Would like to see the process.
Of course. Thanks for watching!
Plastic biodegradeable or have to remove later?
biodegradable
Yep biodegradable.
How far are you from aroostook county
probably 9-10 hours. It was 8.5 hours when I was up to St. Stephen last fall so not sure how much further than that it is.
Curious about two things. 1. Does the corn sprout grow up thru the plastic, or do you have to manually go back and split the row to allow it to come thru ? 2. How do you deal with the old plastic next year ? Does is merely dissolve to the point you can plow it under with clogging up plow/disc/etc then or something else ?
Thanks !
The corn will push right through the plastic as it grows. The plastic breaks down and just disappears for the most part. It breaks down with the sun, so anything that is covered won't break down, like where its covered on the edges and ends. Ideally you'd disk it up in the fall then it would have the winter to finish breaking down. I did a video a couple weeks ago raking rocks in a field we had corn in last year, I showed in that video what was left of the plastic. Thanks for watching!
This is very interesting! I have seen this before, but never seen the crop getting planted.
It seems to work pretty good for us, definitely an interesting way to grow corn. Thanks for watching!
Never seen corn planted that way. Why do you do it this way?
We live in a cooler climate, the plastic allows us to plant a little earlier and gets the corn off to a good start.
You get more corn in a crocked rom. Just saying.
Exactly. Straight rows are overrated
Yes, you really did have some rain from the previews you did on the rock rake and rock picker. Great editing, splicing in narrowing up the MF375 from last Spring, plenty of drone shots and music. Just have to keep the dang crows out of the corn this year and your Illustrious PM has banned the "no I haven't, HA Ha" shotguns so that you could fertilize the corn with their carcasses!
Have you ever watched Quick Dick McDick? His latest is another good one, "Tufnell at 10, part 2"
Pretty soon they’ll have nerf guns banned too lol the crows have been at the plastic but so far not as bad as last year. I’m sure they are just working up to it. Yes watch quick dick haven’t seen his latest one though.
With your editing ability, you will become a YT star now!! :) hope things are well.
LOL unfortunately I can't edit every video like this or we'd only see one video a month haha. Thanks for watching!
Could do without music
Turn the volume down then.
I haven't watched your videos in a long time. You have really improved on your editing. Good job and keep it up! What do you use for a camera and editing?
Glad you're back, I've been trying to do a bit better job editing and switched up my cameras this year. Using a Canon M50 as the main camera, and a GoPro Hero8, editing done with Premier Pro.
@@macfarms editing isn't easy, I did it for a bit and it's alot of work. Kind of like anything the more you do it the better you get though. Keep up the good work, I'll try to watch your videos!
Thanks! And yeah it takes some practice for sure.
the music in the video does not match the content. just sayin
Well now I'd file that under "your opinion"