Growing Sunflowers for Biodiesel
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- čas přidán 2. 07. 2024
- John Williamson is a Vermont farmer who's been growing oil crops for on-farm biodiesel and animal feed since 2005. Follow him as explains sunflower crop production from planting to harvest.
Hi,
Good morning, Happy to see. Great job performed.
Kind regards.
From time to time, good, efficient, farmer- friendly techniques for tillage can be need of the hour ... Some such techniques are: zero-tillage, minimal tillage ( for minimum disturbance to top soil ) .... . for protection from birds, drones, scarecrows &/ or sound of drumbeats / drumming from time to time, as the need may be. 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Hi. What is the shortest day sunflower you have found?
Do you reuse your own seed for next season's crop or do you buy it from a manufacturer every time?
You need to buy new seed .
What’s the approximate cost per gallon making fuel from sunflowers? How many pounds of sunflowers to make one gallon of fuel?
Is their an effective way to keep birds from devastating your sunflower crop?
shotgun
Owl houses.
Scarecrows + drum sound / drumming from time to time ⛪💐🌷🌹🌻🌺🌸🍁🙏🙏🙏🙏
By the way, drones can help as well 🙏
Dang the energy cost of producing energy is high
I've noticed in this video that the equipment is at least 3rd owner used, ten years ago. My guess is that there is very little margin available.
@@kellykopsa384 Only ppl who don't actually know what they are doing run new equipment. When you see someone running pre-emissions equipment that is a pretty good indication that they have good sense and probably know what they are doing.
Do you guys understand how much erosion you all are allowing to happen o your fields with all that tillage. Penn State did a study and found that several thousand pounds of top soil ( I can not remember the number. 3,000 seems to be sticking in my head) is washed away on 3% grade. You guys are much steeper than that and there study didn't account for the cultivation.
You must be a commercial farmer too. Please direct us to where we can see your successful farming operation and all learn from your techniques.
@@jjcross.echenterprisesllc sure. We farm out of if northeastern PA. Farm about 1700 acres. Next year we will over 2000 acres. We use no-till with cover crops. Run cattle and a few hundred head of sheep. We graze the livestock on the fodder after harvest. Tillage has its place but it’s just so bad for organic life in the soil and so destabilizing. Let’s not even factor in all the fuel that is consumed through tillage. Don’t take my word go too any ag university or go online too places like Ag PHD or Real Agriculture.