I stumbled onto you from Farm Sim 17 vids, I think you are so much a natural instructor! You have taught me more in 1 month than I have learned in 58 years. I am binge watching your videos in no order. Thank You for everything you do!
Thank you for putting out quality and informative videos about agriculture. We farm 2100 acres of corn, soybeans, and wheat in southern IL, and thought about making some videos during harvest this year. Such a disconnect between consumers and what were doing out in the fields. People seem to only listen to bias information about what we are doing instead of asking us who are actually using the chemicals.
There is a reason Dicamba has recently been banned in Three States by State regulated agencies.Thousands of acres in central Illinois have been effected by inversion/ volatization. Not to mention the human health issues being reported to federal agencies. We had a strange weather year here cool mornings lots of heat and humidity which exploded the inversion issue. Bottom line is Insurance companies around here I have been told will be placing a 10,000 deductible on your insurance if you spray dicamba. I've heard they are considering higher deductibles yet. Thanks for the video. I don't blame the applicator farmer or not. I believe the chemical was appliied properly, set backs need to be increased if it will be used around here again if you can afford to use Dicamba.
Glad to see a post from MNMF!! Say, we've got weed problems in Indiana, too. Ragweed is showing up in fields where they never were seen before and the excessive rain has made the fields a bear to get after them. Waterhemp is pretty tough to kill in a muddy field , too. Rotation is going to have to come back, I think. Stay cool, bud!!
Yea, manure, and disturbance can facilitate ragweed. A good sod with perennial grasses left to root-in helps us. We try to give the pheasants a place to nest too.
Isn't it amazing how y'all have drought issues up there and in southern WI & northern IL we have had way too much rain. Alot of flooding issues. For those who are making hay (like Wes- OneLonleyFarmer) it has been a horrible year. Best of luck for y'all.
Great videos keep it up, really enjoy the time you take explaining chemicals and plant health. Its been a strange year, we farm corn/beans in eastern Ontario and cant seem to catch a break from the rains doubling the average rainfall meanwhile your in need. Look forward to your harvest update
I work on a farm part-time and we had a huge problem a few years ago with weed control over because of ragweed. There were issues with Dicamba like you stated in the video and because of not enough testing...several states had major Dicamba damage and caused major issues. In my state (KY)...you have to have a special certification just to have the Dicamba in your possession. I hope that all is well and e safe and happy farming.
Thanks for sharing. I was learning about Dicamba application and it's problems but didn't know these details. Thanks for sharing and great video capturing and content.
Great video, very informative as always. As an Australian its crazy to hear about no rain for a few weeks being an issue obviously why we dont grow corn here but some farms here go for months with out any rain and years without any significant rain (and when it comes it tends to be devastating). Goes to show the importance of gmo crops and its ability to make plants drought resistant. Keep up the vids mate!.
Dicamba has been around since 1967 originally as BANVEL D. and it is a very volatile product, if you have any veggie farmers around you watch out, you'll flatten tomatoes over 5 miles away and uo to 2 weeks after spraying dicamba.
We switched to Liberty Link soybeans. Cleaned up out beans really nice and works like a charm. Just make sure you use the full 20 gallons of water per acre. We hired the co-op to spray some of our acreage and they used less then the 20 gallons and the weeds were much, much more noticeable.
Very interesting, thank you for explanation. I started watching your videos from 2019 and you are always talking about the high amount of rain you had. Now this video from 2017 and it was to dry. You got some crazy climate up there in Minnesota
We used Ultra Blazer (24oz/ac ) & Resource (8oz/ac) this year sprayed end of June (planted May 24) had really good kill on larger waterhemp in beans. I was surprised as well with little leaf burn on the beans as well.
Do you sit back and listen to the corn grow. Nice hot day. High humidity, light breeze through the field listening to the corn kind of pop as the stalks expand at the joints.
I work for a Mosquito control company and we use Bifenthrin 7.9. Its a very mild chemical and is biodegradable. It is a synthetic pyrethroid but derived from the chrysanthemum plant. Love the vids!
Have you made a video explaining the corn cob? I've heard you talk about mature corn, or the milk line I think you called it. I'd be interested in learning what the different sections of the cob are and what they do for the plant or how you know the age of it just by looking at.👍👍
I'm growing dicamba beans here in southern Illinois myself, I have had dicamba drift and burn my neighbors beans a week after spraying. Crazy stuff. Good luck to ya
Wow, different worlds, what you call drought we would call a good season by the look of it! What's your annual growing season rainfall? Ours is about 325mm (13"), last year was a decile 1 year (less than 5 years in the past 50 have had less rainfall) and it's looking really dry right now, no subsoil moisture left at all. Our farming systems are mixed (winter cereals and sheep) so we still have livestock to look after while we wait for the season break so we can start sowing.
our experience in ks is, the beans will no longer grow from the effected nodes. or likely set pods on those nodes. light dicamba damage is still terrible
Plant a vigorous cover mix like a grass and a thick clover. I’d say fixation balansa and cereal rye. Let them both drown weeds out and terminate them a couple weeks before planting. Plant into the dying cover and roller crimp it over the seed. Might get slugs, but beneficials will be there too.
Dicamba is not good it drifts and kills. Yes I farm 2300 acres soybean's and corn. I've been paying the Mexicans that own the local restaurants family members to walk my beans cheaper than spraying again.
Excellent info. On Bifenthrin. Check the prices on a web site called “Do Your Own” . You can buy direct. Serious lawn insects here in Florida and bifenthrin is only thing that works. Have to be careful with it however. I’ll bet Dad loves operating that sprayer. Way cool machine. Captain Al from Tampa. 😎
I have a private applicators permit for spraying my apple orchard. It really can be a challenge to educate folks on what's coming out of the sprayer and how careful I'm being. I really don't like spraying in the dark, but if that's when the wind is down, then that's when I spray. Good call that consumers get access to chemistry that we have to have permits to apply!
My family runs a 1500 acre farm and had a very bad experience with dicamba last year our neighbor who has many dicamba beans around one of our little 70 acre fields and it was fully cupped ,well we went to talk to him and he tried to blame it on Fs well fs came out and they were running the right amount per acre and the guy said that he was running a little too much per acre but finally paid us for the yield loss.
They were spraying by me in Wisconsin the other day and that shit was like a fog, it just hovered above the crop. I wondered what that was and well now I know👍🏻 I put my windows up because I figured it was toxic to breath in🤷🏼♂️
I bet the big manufactures are rushing to build your hundred gallon 4 wheeler sprayer right now. Of course they will add a optional two hundred gallon tank for a extra 50 thousand. lol
Great video, I have tons of comments. - dicamba beans aren't really growing in my area but I use Status on corn. Haven't seen an issue yet. I use First Rate on beans, do you have any experience with it? Also as far as the weeds on the buffer areas, I'm not sure if you are interested but I did a video called "weed control" to show how I deal with problem areas. We also have gotten the cool down at pollination, if I could share some of our rain we had this year, I would. 32" since Jan 1. Our issue is too much water. Best of luck to you!
MN Millennial Farmer also Status is my go to for corn, I heard it's still dicamba, do you have any idea if something like that has the potential to drift to beans? I seem to remember leaf cup but it didn't appear to damage them. You could probably do a video all on dicamba issues. Seems to be more reported on lately.
Do you ever scout for benifical insects in your fields? We started that in vegetable couple years back and sometimes have to adjust our threshold numbers
Watching this I can see the constant conflict of interest that farmers face. Maximizing every acre is imperative to remaining competitive and economic survival, but everything they do affects the environment and wildlife habitat etc. But wildlife and habitat is constantly evolving whether farmers do anything or not. I don't think any farmer wants to pollute the environment, but I can see how some might rationalize doing so. I appreciate your channel, I've learned a lot. And thank you for the food you grow.
Do you see the posibility of larger Farmers having larger Drones ,even on a shared basis, to do Aerial spraying. Maybe Farmers in the old days sharing threshing machines. Jim in Boise
Love the vids. Don't use or like poison, but when one mono-crops you need it. Of course it inevitably screws plant biochemistry and causes the problems that are being fought. Always. But I enjoy the vids a lot
Which Banvel herbicide did you use on your beans Xtendimax or Engenia? those are supposed to be low volatile formulations and not drift as bad, but still could move through temperature inversions, so looks like you followed the precautions on leaving buffer strip. As far as my experience goes in Southwest Kansas with dicamba drift on beans on effect on yield is variable and depends on the growth stage of the beans when they get the damage more crucial time would be flowering to early pod development.
Great video and that was interesting with the insecticide. I never would have thought they would have the same ingriedient, Ive sprayed lots of tempo and never gave it a thought.. Are you coming up to Ada tomorrow night
I dont doubt that any, works gotta come first especially on the farm. Im headed to Ceder Lake tomorrow for the nationals. Hope you come up for the Seitz race !
Isn't the difference between the Brigade and Talstar Bifenthrin the percentage of mixture within the product itself, thus the regulation? Brigade is like 25% while the Talstar is 8%. Doesn't that factor into it? Like actual RoundUp from Lowes usually will have like 3% as the active ingredient while something more commercial is north of 50% usually. Wouldn't that factor into cost as well as regulation?
James McKay Yes, we hire one sometimes for our aphid spraying but it's cheaper to spray ourselves. Basically, if we feel like we're doing too much damage, we will hire a plane.
Mark Askelson no deal in place. It's a big "gray" area right now. I don't believe he will see a yield loss in this case, but we will know more in 6 weeks!
I never have to worry about aphids in my garden. I use lots of flowers/insectary plants beneficial wasps to control them. Conventional ag sprays and kills everything.
Luke Morrison so, do you believe you would be able to use flowers, beneficials, and wasps to control zillions of aphids over 1,500 acres in an economical way? Because if I tried and it didn't work, I would lose tens of thousands. Also, you're not growing soybeans in your garden, so you don't have to control any soybean aphids....
ofc it wont work when your surrounded by square miles of people spraying shit. The sad fact is biodynamic farming works very well but takes extra water (for cover cropping, beneficial plantings, etc) and thats extra water the laws will NEVER spare. So soil raping conventional Ag giving us nutritiounless food for the coming decades is a certainty.
Luke Morrison so what's your idea for an alternative? Because humans need to eat, and not everyone is privileged enough to be able to grow their own food the way they choose. Also, the 'nutritionless' argument is just silly.
Food nutrition has gone down over the last century do to depletion of soils and farming methods. no till biodynamic methods will be the foundation of future farming. Tilling takes the carbon out of the soil. Spraying kills the soil life. fertilizing throws off balance kills soil life. If you can keep the carbon in the soil and the soil life alive then you'll have better results. The fact is everything is backwards from the ground up. Tractors compact the soil with multiple runs, high volume irrigation compacts and washes nutrients out, tilling takes out precious soil carbon, fertilization kills soil balance and thus structure. Mimicking nature is key. In nature a topsoil develops, there is little to no soil disturbance and the top layer is slowly fed by leaf matter. Soil is watered gently by droplets from rain/ tree canopy. TLDR; The alternative right now is permaculture food forest farming. It requires significantly more harvest labor, favors perennial crops and vegan diets (no animal feed) but produces higher quality, more nutrient dense food, builds the soil and protects our water table and soils. The future alternative is the same but with automated planting, harvest and maintenance.
Luke Morrison so how do I switch to a no-till, permaculture, natural way of farming and still stay in business? I can't. It's not possible here in my area. The neighbors would eat me alive in 1-2 years and I would lose everything my family has spent 142 years working for. I'm not disagreeing that heavy tillage and compaction aren't good for soil. But the world demands what we're doing, and we have an efficient business built around it. We have tried no-till and cover crops and lost a good amount of money trying both. At what point would you decide to stick with a model that is proven to work before you go broke trying to operate no-till crops in cold, heavy, wet soils?
Yea we have bright green aphid in the UK, they are so tough. I have tried drowning them under water for a long period and they survived like they had gills lol
Very interesting channel. You do a great job of making the videos and keeping them interesting. Not a fan of ethanol, but I'll enjoy your channel anyway. lol
I'm impressed with your knowledge and prudent use of chemicals. Your videos are very interesting...thanks! We're having thunderstorms in south GA...every single afternoon. I haven't checked with my brother in law to see if his peanuts or cotton are being affected. I know he has been spraying a lot...that darned crop dusting plane flies very close to my house(lol)!
I actually did 10 acres of canola knockdown with a 4 stroke weed wacker...I probably looked crazy from the highway...but 50bu drop in corn if I didn't.
I stumbled onto you from Farm Sim 17 vids, I think you are so much a natural instructor! You have taught me more in 1 month than I have learned in 58 years. I am binge watching your videos in no order. Thank You for everything you do!
Thank you for putting out quality and informative videos about agriculture. We farm 2100 acres of corn, soybeans, and wheat in southern IL, and thought about making some videos during harvest this year. Such a disconnect between consumers and what were doing out in the fields. People seem to only listen to bias information about what we are doing instead of asking us who are actually using the chemicals.
There is a reason Dicamba has recently been banned in Three States by State regulated agencies.Thousands of acres in central Illinois have been effected by inversion/ volatization. Not to mention the human health issues being reported to federal agencies. We had a strange weather year here cool mornings lots of heat and humidity which exploded the inversion issue. Bottom line is Insurance companies around here I have been told will be placing a 10,000 deductible on your insurance if you spray dicamba. I've heard they are considering higher deductibles yet. Thanks for the video. I don't blame the applicator farmer or not. I believe the chemical was appliied properly, set backs need to be increased if it will be used around here again if you can afford to use Dicamba.
Learned more in this video than a year in school.
iowadairyboys, that’s too true!
Glad to see you are responsible in using thresholds and understanding your responsibilities when using chemicals such as dicamba.
keep the videos coming....very informative. you do a really good job of explaining things
great job editing too
Thank you!
Glad to see a post from MNMF!! Say, we've got weed problems in Indiana, too. Ragweed is showing up in fields where they never were seen before and the excessive rain has made the fields a bear to get after them. Waterhemp is pretty tough to kill in a muddy field , too. Rotation is going to have to come back, I think. Stay cool, bud!!
Yea, manure, and disturbance can facilitate ragweed. A good sod with perennial grasses left to root-in helps us. We try to give the pheasants a place to nest too.
Isn't it amazing how y'all have drought issues up there and in southern WI & northern IL we have had way too much rain. Alot of flooding issues. For those who are making hay (like Wes- OneLonleyFarmer) it has been a horrible year. Best of luck for y'all.
Great videos keep it up, really enjoy the time you take explaining chemicals and plant health. Its been a strange year, we farm corn/beans in eastern Ontario and cant seem to catch a break from the rains doubling the average rainfall meanwhile your in need. Look forward to your harvest update
I work on a farm part-time and we had a huge problem a few years ago with weed control over because of ragweed. There were issues with Dicamba like you stated in the video and because of not enough testing...several states had major Dicamba damage and caused major issues. In my state (KY)...you have to have a special certification just to have the Dicamba in your possession. I hope that all is well and e safe and happy farming.
Thanks for sharing. I was learning about Dicamba application and it's problems but didn't know these details. Thanks for sharing and great video capturing and content.
Never heard of Dicamba before, thanks for explaining what it was.
Thanks for the Video and Information about the Chems.
Love your videos!!! Try to keep posting as much as possible!!! Very informational.
Great video, very informative as always. As an Australian its crazy to hear about no rain for a few weeks being an issue obviously why we dont grow corn here but some farms here go for months with out any rain and years without any significant rain (and when it comes it tends to be devastating). Goes to show the importance of gmo crops and its ability to make plants drought resistant. Keep up the vids mate!.
Dicamba has been around since 1967 originally as BANVEL D. and it is a very volatile product, if you have any veggie farmers around you watch out, you'll flatten tomatoes over 5 miles away and uo to 2 weeks after spraying dicamba.
thanks for this update and education of chemicals.
Ok. Ya we farm in a small town called West Concord MN. Southeast of MN
We switched to Liberty Link soybeans. Cleaned up out beans really nice and works like a charm. Just make sure you use the full 20 gallons of water per acre. We hired the co-op to spray some of our acreage and they used less then the 20 gallons and the weeds were much, much more noticeable.
Jeremy Foss yeah Liberty's have gotten popular around here too
Very interesting, thank you for explanation. I started watching your videos from 2019 and you are always talking about the high amount of rain you had. Now this video from 2017 and it was to dry. You got some crazy climate up there in Minnesota
We used Ultra Blazer (24oz/ac ) & Resource (8oz/ac) this year sprayed end of June (planted May 24) had really good kill on larger waterhemp in beans. I was surprised as well with little leaf burn on the beans as well.
Do you sit back and listen to the corn grow. Nice hot day. High humidity, light breeze through the field listening to the corn kind of pop as the stalks expand at the joints.
Glad to see you finally have a post missed your videos
With an additive dicambia was sprayed 10ft from many tomatoes..both crops did well
I work for a Mosquito control company and we use Bifenthrin 7.9. Its a very mild chemical and is biodegradable. It is a synthetic pyrethroid but derived from the chrysanthemum plant. Love the vids!
Dodgeguy 2271 awesome information, thanks!
Thank you i cant get enough of watching. Your video s by all means keep them coming
Have you made a video explaining the corn cob? I've heard you talk about mature corn, or the milk line I think you called it. I'd be interested in learning what the different sections of the cob are and what they do for the plant or how you know the age of it just by looking at.👍👍
I'm growing dicamba beans here in southern Illinois myself, I have had dicamba drift and burn my neighbors beans a week after spraying. Crazy stuff. Good luck to ya
Very interesting, thanks for your perspectives
You could go old school. Ice filled 5 gallon cooler and a weed hook. Walked many bean rows in the 70's, 80's.
Very good video, thumbs up.
Very informative.Thanks for making this video. The costs and risks of being a farmer seems overwhelming. ❤️ 🇺🇸 👩🌾
Your finely back!!!
As a teenager, I walked fields either pulling weeds or spot spraying Roundup on Johnson Grass.
A video about a farm who has value added products !
Wow, different worlds, what you call drought we would call a good season by the look of it! What's your annual growing season rainfall? Ours is about 325mm (13"), last year was a decile 1 year (less than 5 years in the past 50 have had less rainfall) and it's looking really dry right now, no subsoil moisture left at all. Our farming systems are mixed (winter cereals and sheep) so we still have livestock to look after while we wait for the season break so we can start sowing.
our experience in ks is, the beans will no longer grow from the effected nodes. or likely set pods on those nodes. light dicamba damage is still terrible
excellent vid as always . great information thanks.
Very informative and interesting video. Hope you get rain soon to help recover your crops.
Plant a vigorous cover mix like a grass and a thick clover. I’d say fixation balansa and cereal rye. Let them both drown weeds out and terminate them a couple weeks before planting. Plant into the dying cover and roller crimp it over the seed. Might get slugs, but beneficials will be there too.
Try a test strip
You forget we have 6 months of winter in Minnesota. Nothing grows.
were going dicamba soybeans next year. the giant rag weed is in almost every field i drive by around here.
BornToFarm101 our dicamba fields are very clean so far and the beans look great
good to hear. I'm excited to give them a whirl
Dicamba is not good it drifts and kills. Yes I farm 2300 acres soybean's and corn. I've been paying the Mexicans that own the local restaurants family members to walk my beans cheaper than spraying again.
Thanks also for showing a close-up of the Aphid's. Bad insect but interesting to see.
Love the education factor. Great job!!
Excellent info. On Bifenthrin. Check the prices on a web site called “Do Your Own” . You can buy direct. Serious lawn insects here in Florida and bifenthrin is only thing that works. Have to be careful with it however.
I’ll bet Dad loves operating that sprayer. Way cool machine.
Captain Al from Tampa. 😎
Parmer Amaranth down here in South Ga would be our water hemp. Very tough to control in cotton.
I have a private applicators permit for spraying my apple orchard. It really can be a challenge to educate folks on what's coming out of the sprayer and how careful I'm being. I really don't like spraying in the dark, but if that's when the wind is down, then that's when I spray. Good call that consumers get access to chemistry that we have to have permits to apply!
Great video as always very informative
My family runs a 1500 acre farm and had a very bad experience with dicamba last year our neighbor who has many dicamba beans around one of our little 70 acre fields and it was fully cupped ,well we went to talk to him and he tried to blame it on Fs well fs came out and they were running the right amount per acre and the guy said that he was running a little too much per acre but finally paid us for the yield loss.
great video,again really informative,hope u get some rain,
They were spraying by me in Wisconsin the other day and that shit was like a fog, it just hovered above the crop. I wondered what that was and well now I know👍🏻 I put my windows up because I figured it was toxic to breath in🤷🏼♂️
Do anyone remember putting root worm and cut worm pesticide in the planters with the gloves and respirators?
I like that you have some CRP-Good Job!
I bet the big manufactures are rushing to build your hundred gallon 4 wheeler sprayer right now. Of course they will add a optional two hundred gallon tank for a extra 50 thousand. lol
(Watching in 2019)
Thank God you got rid of that Gopro or at least found a way to stop that creaking plastic noise.
Bifenthrin is my favorite insecticide. same stuff as in ortho "home defense max" sold at the box stores.
Great video, I have tons of comments. - dicamba beans aren't really growing in my area but I use Status on corn. Haven't seen an issue yet. I use First Rate on beans, do you have any experience with it? Also as far as the weeds on the buffer areas, I'm not sure if you are interested but I did a video called "weed control" to show how I deal with problem areas. We also have gotten the cool down at pollination, if I could share some of our rain we had this year, I would. 32" since Jan 1. Our issue is too much water. Best of luck to you!
We have been using first rate with our pre-emerge application and it worked great this year.
MN Millennial Farmer also Status is my go to for corn, I heard it's still dicamba, do you have any idea if something like that has the potential to drift to beans? I seem to remember leaf cup but it didn't appear to damage them. You could probably do a video all on dicamba issues. Seems to be more reported on lately.
Very good video.
Do you ever scout for benifical insects in your fields? We started that in vegetable couple years back and sometimes have to adjust our threshold numbers
Watching this I can see the constant conflict of interest that farmers face. Maximizing every acre is imperative to remaining competitive and economic survival, but everything they do affects the environment and wildlife habitat etc. But wildlife and habitat is constantly evolving whether farmers do anything or not. I don't think any farmer wants to pollute the environment, but I can see how some might rationalize doing so. I appreciate your channel, I've learned a lot. And thank you for the food you grow.
Do you see the posibility of larger Farmers having larger Drones ,even on a shared basis, to do Aerial spraying. Maybe Farmers in the old days sharing threshing machines. Jim in Boise
Do you have a video of you running the new sprayer ? Thanks.
Love the informative videos... hope he gets better with using the mic though lol.
Dicamba has turned out to be pretty concerning to be involved with this year. Lots of unintended results.
Sure seems that way...
Thank God we don't have those last time we had them I worked for a co-op as a custom applicator
Good video and that stuff sounds like 2-4-D it’ll get up and walk with the fog .
Love the vids. Don't use or like poison, but when one mono-crops you need it. Of course it inevitably screws plant biochemistry and causes the problems that are being fought. Always. But I enjoy the vids a lot
Roughly what does it cost to spray an acre with pesticide? Liquid fertilizer? I'm talking liquid, fuel, M&R, labor, everything...
Which Banvel herbicide did you use on your beans Xtendimax or Engenia? those are supposed to be low volatile formulations and not drift as bad, but still could move through temperature inversions, so looks like you followed the precautions on leaving buffer strip. As far as my experience goes in Southwest Kansas with dicamba drift on beans on effect on yield is variable and depends on the growth stage of the beans when they get the damage more crucial time would be flowering to early pod development.
We used Xtendimax with the correct nozzles and everything....
everybody should make a video in the worst spot of the field and film it and send it to the usda and see if the markets go up.
Anderson Farms lol our knee high corn should do the trick.
Well said about the chemicals
I love your videos learn alot !
4wheeler sprayer AC with a cab and sat radio 👍
Awesome video!
Are you related to OLF? Cause you both say “can” the same way, ken
Thanx lovin’ your videos from the left coast near the Krapitol of California
When spraying, be sure to log your data. Check your Delta T before Spraying!: kestrelmeters.com/pages/dicamba-pesticide-spray-meters
First video with the music on the opener
Ted kahler if it is 10 mph or less wind no buffer needed
Great video and that was interesting with the insecticide. I never would have thought they would have the same ingriedient, Ive sprayed lots of tempo and never gave it a thought.. Are you coming up to Ada tomorrow night
Not planning on it, just have too much going on around here!
I dont doubt that any, works gotta come first especially on the farm. Im headed to Ceder Lake tomorrow for the nationals. Hope you come up for the Seitz race !
Mark Sinn We won't miss the Seitz!!
Tell me if im wrong please. Pyrenthene spray is made from daisys
what did it cost to aphid spray your beans per field?
Isn't the difference between the Brigade and Talstar Bifenthrin the percentage of mixture within the product itself, thus the regulation? Brigade is like 25% while the Talstar is 8%. Doesn't that factor into it? Like actual RoundUp from Lowes usually will have like 3% as the active ingredient while something more commercial is north of 50% usually. Wouldn't that factor into cost as well as regulation?
Down here in Arkansas where I am from you can't spray dicamba cause a lot acres were lost due to it moving through the air
What do you run for a pre on soybeans ?
Good video. Did you ever have problems using Status on your corn with beans nearby? I heard it's a dicamba relative. thanks
We haven't used status for a while but I don't remember having issues with it
thanks.
You may not see this but I've seen drones used for spraying. Might not be applicable but you might want to look into it
Just curious on the area that always burns up, have you thought of putting it into crp. Also look into harmony, works great on soybeans
It's just a small area of the field, and it's nice and square now. Working around the CRP would kind of be a pain.
Sorry to keep bothering with questions . Is using Aircraft to do your Spraying a consideration . It is common in Idaho. You never know. Jim in Boise
James McKay Yes, we hire one sometimes for our aphid spraying but it's cheaper to spray ourselves. Basically, if we feel like we're doing too much damage, we will hire a plane.
So if your neighbor has yield loss, what are your responsibilities to him? Do you have to provide some sort of payment or have a deal in place?
Mark Askelson no deal in place. It's a big "gray" area right now. I don't believe he will see a yield loss in this case, but we will know more in 6 weeks!
@@MillennialFarmer is there any follow up to this bud?
We have similar issues with weed control, except we dont get water hemp we get cleavers.
Great video!
can you bring good dirt into those bad spots?
I never have to worry about aphids in my garden. I use lots of flowers/insectary plants beneficial wasps to control them.
Conventional ag sprays and kills everything.
Luke Morrison so, do you believe you would be able to use flowers, beneficials, and wasps to control zillions of aphids over 1,500 acres in an economical way? Because if I tried and it didn't work, I would lose tens of thousands. Also, you're not growing soybeans in your garden, so you don't have to control any soybean aphids....
ofc it wont work when your surrounded by square miles of people spraying shit.
The sad fact is biodynamic farming works very well but takes extra water (for cover cropping, beneficial plantings, etc) and thats extra water the laws will NEVER spare.
So soil raping conventional Ag giving us nutritiounless food for the coming decades is a certainty.
Luke Morrison so what's your idea for an alternative? Because humans need to eat, and not everyone is privileged enough to be able to grow their own food the way they choose. Also, the 'nutritionless' argument is just silly.
Food nutrition has gone down over the last century do to depletion of soils and farming methods.
no till biodynamic methods will be the foundation of future farming.
Tilling takes the carbon out of the soil. Spraying kills the soil life. fertilizing throws off balance kills soil life. If you can keep the carbon in the soil and the soil life alive then you'll have better results.
The fact is everything is backwards from the ground up. Tractors compact the soil with multiple runs, high volume irrigation compacts and washes nutrients out, tilling takes out precious soil carbon, fertilization kills soil balance and thus structure.
Mimicking nature is key. In nature a topsoil develops, there is little to no soil disturbance and the top layer is slowly fed by leaf matter. Soil is watered gently by droplets from rain/ tree canopy.
TLDR; The alternative right now is permaculture food forest farming. It requires significantly more harvest labor, favors perennial crops and vegan diets (no animal feed) but produces higher quality, more nutrient dense food, builds the soil and protects our water table and soils.
The future alternative is the same but with automated planting, harvest and maintenance.
Luke Morrison so how do I switch to a no-till, permaculture, natural way of farming and still stay in business? I can't. It's not possible here in my area. The neighbors would eat me alive in 1-2 years and I would lose everything my family has spent 142 years working for. I'm not disagreeing that heavy tillage and compaction aren't good for soil. But the world demands what we're doing, and we have an efficient business built around it. We have tried no-till and cover crops and lost a good amount of money trying both. At what point would you decide to stick with a model that is proven to work before you go broke trying to operate no-till crops in cold, heavy, wet soils?
Yea we have bright green aphid in the UK, they are so tough. I have tried drowning them under water for a long period and they survived like they had gills lol
why don´t u use other insecticides with other agents? Deltamethrin or Thiacloprid?
Did you use adjavants with it aswell
That water hemp looks a bit like the soy so it threw me off when I first saw it in the fields here in Canada
Very interesting channel. You do a great job of making the videos and keeping them interesting. Not a fan of ethanol, but I'll enjoy your channel anyway. lol
Is water hemp the same thing as "pig weed"? (we have pig weed in GA) My brother-in-law has to hire people to pull it up.
They are very close but different. They're both an "amaranth". We have pig weed also but don't have big problems with it.
I'm impressed with your knowledge and prudent use of chemicals. Your videos are very interesting...thanks! We're having thunderstorms in south GA...every single afternoon. I haven't checked with my brother in law to see if his peanuts or cotton are being affected. I know he has been spraying a lot...that darned crop dusting plane flies very close to my house(lol)!
Have you considered using a hoe to eradicate the weeds & keep the $500?
I actually did 10 acres of canola knockdown with a 4 stroke weed wacker...I probably looked crazy from the highway...but 50bu drop in corn if I didn't.
T F Gotta do what you gotta do!
Clean ass truck.