Well that speaks for it’s self. I struggle with all that bare soil between the rows though. Mother Nature never has bare soil. Could you narrow up your row space or maybe grow a non competitive cover in there?
Beans are tough, anything to put in between a guy would either have to mechanical or chemical destroy so it doesn't go to seed, if it's a low grass crop than it's a mess to try to combine. That's why I am thinking covers with row crop cultivating
Amazing video Jon. I love how foliar worked for you, I was a Debbie Downer until I got rain also. Interesting seeing the strip cart delay in delivery to shanks😮
Our second cut grass hay was excellent 47 bales per acre of heavy solid bales. On the down side I doubt we'll get a third off. The beans around here have really been coming on really good the last few weeks. One my corn fields looks awesome. Ten feet tall and two ears filling in. The other well, better luck next year.
Funny thing and food for thought. Strip till and no till all have the place. But watching everything on TH-cam it seems like the old moldboard plow has to come out about every 5 to 10 years. Weed pressure soil compaction and putting the organic matter in to the root zone.
I'll bring mine out to smooth up a field for taking out old fence lines. But then I'll probably be the last time them fields ever see the plow in my lifetime.
I would add calcium to those yellow area . Soil is too tight , due to compaction or salinity of wet soils . Just my thoughts . Enjoy your content keep up the good work .
@mattkavanaugh9550 ha funny you mention that. We actually had calcium in strip and in foliar feed. Also this fall these tough fields are getting a few hundred lbs of gypsum
Jon, a well laid out rebuttal video to the infamous stratification talk would be wonderful. My first thought was maybe they just want to expand their business from combines to tillage tools, get into strip till equipment, etc
@350moose that's a good point are you going to see a Marion strip-till bar It's also a great way to just create some Buzz around your name get paid huge speaking fees
Soil has to breathe for biology to wrk best . Cover crops w ill improve soil respiration . No iron needed . I would put on cereal rye plant green into then lay it down before r3 .
Yep! I'm going to bring lots of covers to this field next year. Our soil can get so hard that while transitioning I still have to help it some. That's why I strip till, if roots are going horizontal it's not good. Could almost make a series out if this field? Day 1 through its transitioning to healthy soil?!
It all seems to come back to strip till. I'd be interested in what your CEC is for the soil up there? Not sure if you get it in the test. Mine is 30 - 40 which means, very heavy. Subsequently to get potassium and phosphorous in a high enough concentration to get into the roots we have to get the soil pretty well built up (which is why I think strip till would be great). My soil that I worked on improving started at 4ppm P, CEC=35, 175ppm K (or about 1%).
Need to come up with a way to put cover crops, side dress , and cultivate all in 1 pass. Fenning equitment has a bar that put cover crops and side dress in one pass. Check it out , i think if you a rotary hoe with it could be what is needed
I will be following this for sure. I have a-lot of ground that is run down and no soil structure. Got to start somewhere!
Great video Jon. I like the positivity under what have been hard difficult circumstances. 👍
Well that speaks for it’s self.
I struggle with all that bare soil between the rows though. Mother Nature never has bare soil. Could you narrow up your row space or maybe grow a non competitive cover in there?
Beans are tough, anything to put in between a guy would either have to mechanical or chemical destroy so it doesn't go to seed, if it's a low grass crop than it's a mess to try to combine.
That's why I am thinking covers with row crop cultivating
Amazing video Jon. I love how foliar worked for you, I was a Debbie Downer until I got rain also. Interesting seeing the strip cart delay in delivery to shanks😮
Thanks. Hopefully we can move it forward in the future?!
Our second cut grass hay was excellent 47 bales per acre of heavy solid bales. On the down side I doubt we'll get a third off. The beans around here have really been coming on really good the last few weeks. One my corn fields looks awesome. Ten feet tall and two ears filling in. The other well, better luck next year.
Nice!
Funny thing and food for thought. Strip till and no till all have the place. But watching everything on TH-cam it seems like the old moldboard plow has to come out about every 5 to 10 years. Weed pressure soil compaction and putting the organic matter in to the root zone.
I'll bring mine out to smooth up a field for taking out old fence lines. But then I'll probably be the last time them fields ever see the plow in my lifetime.
I said it before and I'll say it again, cereal rye is your friend and your silver bullet, so to speak.
Setting up rotations to get it in the system!
I would add calcium to those yellow area . Soil is too tight , due to compaction or salinity of wet soils . Just my thoughts . Enjoy your content keep up the good work .
@mattkavanaugh9550 ha funny you mention that. We actually had calcium in strip and in foliar feed. Also this fall these tough fields are getting a few hundred lbs of gypsum
Great video!! Have you seen Marion Calmers YOU TUBE on fertilizer stratification?
I have, I did get to pick on Marion down at the striped till conference
Jon, a well laid out rebuttal video to the infamous stratification talk would be wonderful. My first thought was maybe they just want to expand their business from combines to tillage tools, get into strip till equipment, etc
@350moose that's a good point are you going to see a Marion strip-till bar
It's also a great way to just create some Buzz around your name get paid huge speaking fees
Congratulations
Soil has to breathe for biology to wrk best . Cover crops w ill improve soil respiration . No iron needed . I would put on cereal rye plant green into then lay it down before r3 .
Yep! I'm going to bring lots of covers to this field next year. Our soil can get so hard that while transitioning I still have to help it some. That's why I strip till, if roots are going horizontal it's not good.
Could almost make a series out if this field? Day 1 through its transitioning to healthy soil?!
It all seems to come back to strip till. I'd be interested in what your CEC is for the soil up there? Not sure if you get it in the test. Mine is 30 - 40 which means, very heavy. Subsequently to get potassium and phosphorous in a high enough concentration to get into the roots we have to get the soil pretty well built up (which is why I think strip till would be great). My soil that I worked on improving started at 4ppm P, CEC=35, 175ppm K (or about 1%).
Around 10 for the cec.
Need to come up with a way to put cover crops, side dress , and cultivate all in 1 pass.
Fenning equitment has a bar that put cover crops and side dress in one pass. Check it out , i think if you a rotary hoe with it could be what is needed