I have grown what many call weedy corn for years and still average between 175-200 bushels to the acre and one thing I have learned in my years is on dry years I don't have to worry about water the weedy ground seems to retain more moisture and on wet years the weeds seem to soak it up. I'm completely chemical free and grow 100 acres of sweet corn I only use cultivating as weed control to a point. In my years and through soil sampling I have learned for my area and type of soil I also need less nitrogen than many other farmers cause of the weeds and organic matter from the cultivation only. This is what I was told and believe it "If you use a Chemical to kill weed you burn of that plants nitrogen when it dries up and shrivels but when you let grow and it is green and you cultivate it under the soil to decompose it releases it nitrogen through decomposition into the ground for the other plants to use" I believe it to be true because we have been growing corn on the same ground for well over 100years and the only fertilizer we use on the ground is cow manure spread a month or so before we plow and plant we don't sidedress or use anhydrous on our corn just weeds and cultivation and our corn is just as big and tastes better than many farms around us that spend thousands to the acre on chemicals and fertilizers.
Yes, my neighbors make fun of me for my corn, but I do the best I can with the time I have. The only real problem we have is giant ragweed. That has to be pulled by hand.
@@farmcards We had poison Hemlock a few years back I hired a couple guys with push mowers to go down between the rows and mow we disced everything under after we picked and I planted the cheapest grass seed I could buy which was a conservation mix haven't had a problem since except the ocasional morning glory vine or bur cucumber but my kids usually walk the fields and pull thing off the corn before I pick it.
2 weeks ago - the maize is sooo short? - hope for mine yet then in the garden this hot summer - was expecting your corn to be couple a metres high by now! what a difference that pass makes ( on camera). Hope you get the rain + heat to grow the crop on. thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching and commenting! Yea this was filmed a while ago but I just got around to putting it up two weeks ago. Now that corn is looking good! It’s been in the 80s here this week, so it’s good. I see you said meters, what country are you in? Thanks for checking out the channel!
Hahaha ! Did I say meters? Naw - I said Metres ! I use a meter to measure stuff ( olde english language? ) With a twinkle in the eye, I'm from Europeshire, hopefully for not much longer - Scotlandshire is my usual abode! and I am fully conversant in yards n feet - but altho' I know what bushels and thousands of pounds weight, etc, I prefer to use Tons & Cwts per acre and the 57lb bushelweight of our Malting Barley - and that three grains of barley weigh the same as four of wheat !! So, I thought your Maize will / would have been 6' to 8' high by now? will it make 10ft? dunno aboutthis Organic stuff in difficult growing times -- Weeds will always compete very hard - and harbour pests n Diseases. My Potatoes get mineral fertiliser ONLY - minerals ARE natural, aren't they? :-)
Haha thanks for watching from across the pond! I’ve never been to the UK but from what I’ve seen in Braveheart Scotland looks like a wonderful place. From the analytics page I see England is the second most popular viewing country after the United States. I would say it’s 7 ft tall now depending on the spot in the field. The neighbor across the street is conventional and we are organic and both fields are about the same height. How do you feel about Brexit? Will it affect you in Scotland?
What !! ? little englund is 2nd most pop. ? surely you must mean UK or even GREAT Britain :-) - would you believe it? - when I was on t'other side of that big puddle, folks in what is now Donal' John's land, asked us why we BOTHERED to come over there for a holiday !!! eh? Scotland, Where's that... so explained further - then they thought North of UK was somewhere in the Atlantic !! oooh what DID they get taught ? . well I'm for Brexit and NOT independence - Is that being "binary" or what ? Don't see the point of Brexit and then Scotland rejoining EU after fighting for INDEPENDENCE... If you don't like London aka inglish, the why WOULD you like to be told / governed by faceless Eurocrats. Many reasons I have but don't want to air them here! Basically EU politics + satellites telling us what and when and where to produce whatever. ... so what is point of being educated to think and work for yourself and know right from wrong..... Nights are still generally cold here this past few years andmy flowerpot of maize is shrinking this year - last year was more sheltered part of field and we actually had a small crop. Don't keep all the eggs in one basket .. Slainte or slangevar !
Wow! Looks like it would be nice to have an old SC or 200 with individual row control to work out those cross rows. This is the way I remember doing steel weed control. You put the unit in gear and get on down the row. These want-a-be farmers with there Mac-35 and Pittsburg frames plowing in creeper gear would see the corn tassel before they got over in a single plowing of even a quarter. If they do not know what they are doing why do they post video's?
Fuel is cheaper and that corn will do much better being cultivated. Cultivated corn yields many more bushels per acre over non cultivated. Aaand that rogator is also waaay more expensive than that cultivator and tractor. If you do the simple math.. Roundup would cost about 5.25 an acre plus 6 bucks an acre for the machine, thats 900 bucks to do 80 acres.. at $2.50 a gallon diesel you could buy 360 gallons of diesel!! You know how many times you could cultivate that field with that setup with 360 gallons of diesel!!? And guess what! Itll rain again! You need rain to raise that corn with or without spraying! So whos the smart one! Guarantee the guys that say "Just spray it" profit waaaay less per acre when its all said and done.
I miss the old days.
4 row slow go. Miss those days
Thanks Scott!
Why that's unheard of. Just spray gobs of weed killer on like everybody else. Good to see someone doing it old school.
Thanks Kevin!
Wow, that cleans it up real well ..
Goos job brother.. 🙏
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I have grown what many call weedy corn for years and still average between 175-200 bushels to the acre and one thing I have learned in my years is on dry years I don't have to worry about water the weedy ground seems to retain more moisture and on wet years the weeds seem to soak it up. I'm completely chemical free and grow 100 acres of sweet corn I only use cultivating as weed control to a point. In my years and through soil sampling I have learned for my area and type of soil I also need less nitrogen than many other farmers cause of the weeds and organic matter from the cultivation only. This is what I was told and believe it "If you use a Chemical to kill weed you burn of that plants nitrogen when it dries up and shrivels but when you let grow and it is green and you cultivate it under the soil to decompose it releases it nitrogen through decomposition into the ground for the other plants to use" I believe it to be true because we have been growing corn on the same ground for well over 100years and the only fertilizer we use on the ground is cow manure spread a month or so before we plow and plant we don't sidedress or use anhydrous on our corn just weeds and cultivation and our corn is just as big and tastes better than many farms around us that spend thousands to the acre on chemicals and fertilizers.
Yes, my neighbors make fun of me for my corn, but I do the best I can with the time I have. The only real problem we have is giant ragweed. That has to be pulled by hand.
@@farmcards We had poison Hemlock a few years back I hired a couple guys with push mowers to go down between the rows and mow we disced everything under after we picked and I planted the cheapest grass seed I could buy which was a conservation mix haven't had a problem since except the ocasional morning glory vine or bur cucumber but my kids usually walk the fields and pull thing off the corn before I pick it.
How much manure are you spreading? And does sweet corn require similar fertilizer requirements that field corn does?
Id love that set up
It works well for us.
Es muy bonito ese trabajo cuando lo haces con mucho cariño, Its really pretty when you do it with love, 🌽
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Looks good!
Thanks! We appreciate it! Hope you are having a great summer!
That cleans it up real well
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Great weed control!
Thanks for watching and commenting Tyler!
Birds nest Fishing no, it’s not good weed control.
Lots of grass in that corn
Corn is grass
we do the best we can with the time we have!
how big the corn field and doing a nice cultivating the corn.
2 weeks ago - the maize is sooo short? - hope for mine yet then in the garden this hot summer - was expecting your corn to be couple a metres high by now! what a difference that pass makes ( on camera). Hope you get the rain + heat to grow the crop on. thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching and commenting! Yea this was filmed a while ago but I just got around to putting it up two weeks ago. Now that corn is looking good! It’s been in the 80s here this week, so it’s good. I see you said meters, what country are you in? Thanks for checking out the channel!
Hahaha ! Did I say meters? Naw - I said Metres ! I use a meter to measure stuff ( olde english language? ) With a twinkle in the eye, I'm from Europeshire, hopefully for not much longer - Scotlandshire is my usual abode! and I am fully conversant in yards n feet - but altho' I know what bushels and thousands of pounds weight, etc, I prefer to use Tons & Cwts per acre and the 57lb bushelweight of our Malting Barley - and that three grains of barley weigh the same as four of wheat !! So, I thought your Maize will / would have been 6' to 8' high by now? will it make 10ft? dunno aboutthis Organic stuff in difficult growing times -- Weeds will always compete very hard - and harbour pests n Diseases. My Potatoes get mineral fertiliser ONLY - minerals ARE natural, aren't they? :-)
Haha thanks for watching from across the pond! I’ve never been to the UK but from what I’ve seen in Braveheart Scotland looks like a wonderful place.
From the analytics page I see England is the second most popular viewing country after the United States.
I would say it’s 7 ft tall now depending on the spot in the field. The neighbor across the street is conventional and we are organic and both fields are about the same height.
How do you feel about Brexit? Will it affect you in Scotland?
We can use some nutrients that are organically approved. Every farm gets certified organic after if I remember right
Is a 3 year process.
What !! ? little englund is 2nd most pop. ? surely you must mean UK or even GREAT Britain :-) - would you believe it? - when I was on t'other side of that big puddle, folks in what is now Donal' John's land, asked us why we BOTHERED to come over there for a holiday !!! eh? Scotland, Where's that... so explained further - then they thought North of UK was somewhere in the Atlantic !! oooh what DID they get taught ? . well I'm for Brexit and NOT independence - Is that being "binary" or what ? Don't see the point of Brexit and then Scotland rejoining EU after fighting for INDEPENDENCE... If you don't like London aka inglish, the why WOULD you like to be told / governed by faceless Eurocrats. Many reasons I have but don't want to air them here! Basically EU politics + satellites telling us what and when and where to produce whatever. ... so what is point of being educated to think and work for yourself and know right from wrong.....
Nights are still generally cold here this past few years andmy flowerpot of maize is shrinking this year - last year was more sheltered part of field and we actually had a small crop. Don't keep all the eggs in one basket .. Slainte or slangevar !
Buen trabajo
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Wow! Looks like it would be nice to have an old SC or 200 with individual row control to work out those cross rows. This is the way I remember doing steel weed control. You put the unit in gear and get on down the row. These want-a-be farmers with there Mac-35 and Pittsburg frames plowing in creeper gear would see the corn tassel before they got over in a single plowing of even a quarter. If they do not know what they are doing why do they post video's?
I spent a huge amount of my childhood on a SC Case tractor with a two row cultivator. I do not remember those days fondly.
Is this a no till crop?
no. Unfortunately everything we do is till so far.
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Yes we do have a plow. We only use a chisel plow with discs on the front.
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Thanks!!
What kind of yields do u get?
We are getting about 140 bushel per acre. Thanks for watching and commenting on our channel!
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Como cortando as raízes do milho a erradicação fica fragil
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Hasta las huevas
could spray that whole field and not lose all that moisture in like 10 minutes with a Row gator
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Cultivating is good to keep the Moisture in the Ground because it cuts the "Kapilar Efect" in the Dirt
Fuel is cheaper and that corn will do much better being cultivated. Cultivated corn yields many more bushels per acre over non cultivated. Aaand that rogator is also waaay more expensive than that cultivator and tractor. If you do the simple math.. Roundup would cost about 5.25 an acre plus 6 bucks an acre for the machine, thats 900 bucks to do 80 acres.. at $2.50 a gallon diesel you could buy 360 gallons of diesel!! You know how many times you could cultivate that field with that setup with 360 gallons of diesel!!? And guess what! Itll rain again! You need rain to raise that corn with or without spraying! So whos the smart one! Guarantee the guys that say "Just spray it" profit waaaay less per acre when its all said and done.
A bit too deep
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