Harvesting No-Till Corn
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- čas přidán 21. 11. 2019
- We head to my 30 acre no-till corn field and find that the yield isn't much different than the year before.
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One factor affecting corn yield on no-till ground is how much slower the ground warms up which delays emergence and really effects how evenly plants emerge. No till scenerios can also negatively affect maintaining consistent planting depth as the row units cut across the field...that is where hydraulic downforce really shines. There is also a bit of compaction in this field...all these factors add up and detract from yield in a year like this year, but 200 bu/acre is still a decent number considering the weather we were up against. Keeping accurate yield calibrations has also been tough this year with such a range in moisture and crop flow. Many customers are calibrating their monitors multiple times throughout the season to keep up with the variability in the crop. Running different heads has also added to the challenge in keeping a good calibration.
Have you been experimenting with cover crops? I'm curious if there's any studies on ground temperatures of tilled vs no tilled?
Midwest Allis Acres cover crops/residue trap in the frost keeping it colder plus add to the expense. I’m sure it wouldn’t be hard to find data on temps of tilled ground vs no till but that’s common physics. No till has a higher density which requires more Calories to warm than a lower density composition.
All I see are negatives in this NO TILL field. Compaction as well as the corn stalks remaining are not decomposing enough causing a crust layer (like in a lawn thatch and compaction doesn't allow moisture organic fertilizers to soak in) instead of tilling can you AIRATE the field? I'm not a farmer I just know how to grow thick dark green weed free grass. All plants need air to get to the roots to grow
Christopher Berg the crop is rotated 50/50 it was soybeans last year so in reality there wasn’t much for previous crop residue. An Aerway or similar aerater would be nice but they are costly pieces of equipment.
andrew tucker. Excellent comments. The pros and cons are conflicting and I'm not convinced of one or the other!
When dad started row cropping he had an early K Gleaner with a 12ft sold gain platform, 2 row corn head, 2 barg wagens, and a 64 1ton Ford truck with a homemade woodin bed lifted with a jarie rigged sizer hoyest. He worked with that up in to the late 90s with the addition of another K Gleaner with a 13ft flex grain platform and a 3row corn head and 3 gravity wagens. Anyway the moral of all this story is he didn't have all this technology we have today he worked with what he had and didn't worry about the yeld tell a bet latter into harvest when he done the math.
I'm honestly glad to see y'all kind of working around the same principle thank you Ryan for the great video
No till corn will respond with putting your fertilizer under the ground, put all your dry fertilizer on with the planter, it will slow planting down but your yields will increase dramatically
Thanks Ryan and thumbs up on the video try an impact gun on the trailer and maybe a good grease job on those doors. Hope your “record year” (love that song) continues and keep on trucking with big red
I know all the farms are behind on harvest, I would finish yours up and start pulling for other farmers, just keep it quiet and get that truck paid off and buy your new trailer. Good luck.
I wondered how you guys split the costs for the equipment and maintenance. It's good to see how a family comes together to farm. Thanks for the video.
Most of it we don't really keep track of whose is whose. We all have equipment in the game and I'd say the amount of ground we farm is proportional to the amount of land we each run. We all help each other out too which is valuable in itself. The truck is different because it's got more than just fuel costs to cover, like registration, insurance, and the cost to maintain it with brakes and other repairs.
Just a little hint. Load the truck with grain cart on drivers side. Not the tarp side. You lose a few inches of visibility.
I like the aerial footage of the night time harvest. that was really cool. I was expecting a little more bushel per acre than that!! Those ears were huge for the most part.
consistency is the issue....
No-till works best if you stick with it year after year. I have fields that have been no-till for 25 years. The ground is much less compacted and will absorb a heavy rain without washing on hillsides. Of course you can’t tear up the ground at harvest. After about 5 straight years of No-till great things start happening to the soil. An explosion of earthworms and the hard pan from tillage is gone.
My buddies trailer gave us the same trouble, replaced the doors and track, works easy now.
Great video and nice work with big red! What a great addition to your fleet. I hope it’s doing everything you want it to. Take care buddy
I'm so glad you and Travis started your channels, wisdom is never neglected:))
Love the video Brian have good night guy's .
Love the night time drone shots 👍👍👍
Thank you guys for the good videos and keep up the good work
Ryan, the night time drone shots are fantastic. Great pilot and camera man. Keep up the good work.
Thanks Peter!
Really nice footage in the dark. Just the perfect amount of light.
My papaw has a farm and we do no-till on it, and it is really helpful in droughts and in preventing wash-outs/ runoff.
Watching your harvest makes my heart happy!!!
Yeah driving combine is fun but spending the day trucking your crop to where you get paid for it ain't a bad way to spend your time either... ☺
Great video Ryan!
Dandy music and video of course!
Love it, new video on a friday evening
Love that intro! Keep doing what your doing Ryan!
Awesome video thanks for sharing 👍👍👍👍
Very informational. Enjoyed
It is what it is !
Greetings from Romania
You should think about getting a drive over pit so you can unload into your grain bins instead of taking it to the grain elevator
Justin VanNatta
Need big enough bins and a dryer to do so
Man you gotta get those hopper bottom gates fixed! I couldn't stand to do that all day every day of harvest
Ryan, Haven't seen much of Jamie, is she in Hiding with the cold weather ? I see your Truck driving skills have gotten much better. Good for you !How is the new corn head working out for ya'll, Looks pretty impressive going through the fields and it looks like your not losing many ears. How does your Dad, Brother and yourself like the new corn head ?
Don't feel bad- my brother demotes me from combine operator to truck driver too. Don't knock free help. Also, cover crops, gypsum, and sulfur help increase water infiltration rates on no-till ground.
Really love your drone work. FANTASTIC shots, especially at night.
Always interesting stuff here!
When I farmed my no till corn was always a little less yield but income was still better
Thanks Ryan
if it took me all winter, i would fix the cranking system on the trailer to work easier
cuznjo1 I bet if he replaced the u-joints it would work a lot better
Yes I agree, I am surprised how hard it even closes. Something is going to give out at a bad time and could be bad for the person on the crank😱😱😱😱
Same! I’d have to get shoulder surgery after a few trips to the elevator!🤣😂
it seems to me that a couple coats of that graphite paint on the doors and tracks would make a lot of difference
Put some cylinders operated by air on them. Quit cranking all together.
Good video, thanks for the update
Hey Ryan, Mike From Michigan. Where's Rocket. You need to get a Cordless Drill with a Socket to open up your Shoots easier. Awesome Video. My Dad and my Brother and I use to farm back in 1990 was our last year of farming. If it wasn't for you and all the other farmer's we wouldn't have anything. So I Just want to Say Thank You🚜🚜🚜🚜!!
He's been staying in the house keeping Luna company. Just starting making her an inside dog so he's keeping her out of trouble.
I believe you going to need to rebuild those hopper doors this spring
Yield monitors not gonna give you any more or less corn. What’s there is there
I think they know that mr. Potato Head
Glad you got your 30 out. Got my How Farms Work cap. I wear a 7⅝ hat and your cap fits! Thanks for selling a good cap.
Excellent video'ing
Looks like a new header there
Dang I love Big Red!!! Especially as Ryan didn't want to get him for such a long time!
Snow! Ugh!
Ryan, you're sounding more and more like your dad every day. Whatever is messing up the yield monitor doesn't matter nearly as much as the receipts and checks from Gavilon. You'll get it figured out eventually.
looks good 🤙🏻
Ryan take a spray bottle with a 50 50 mix of atf and wd40 to the slides on your hopper trailer works great on my Merritt trailers
You ought to get that cousin of yours who answers all the questions to drive the truck. It would be handy having someone who knows everything in a position like that.
great video
Wow those deer hammered on those outside rows
Good work sod buster old red is doing dam good for you.
Not a farmer so I have a question. The NO TILL land can you AIRATE that land like we do for a compacted lawn? There is also something you can spray on the lawn to naturally fix the compaction (it foams up a bit when you apply it ) allowing water to soak in and stay put also there are products to help retain moisture in the soil during dry spells. Basically can what us Lawn Guys do for perfectly healthy lawns be transferred to your no till? When your planting does that airate the soiled enough to allow water to penetrate. The way I look at the situation in the no till is like MASSIVE compaction and thatch build up not allowing whatever fertilizers and water to soak in. It's all about the root growth for any plant so they can suck up the nutrients as fast as possible in our short growing season
When we visit our friends over there in Rochester, I’ll have to come down and say hi. Whenever that will be. That’s my plan within the next couple of years or so. I love big red. Right up my street.
Those grain dump doors on trailer need some help soon Nice video
In your area. I believe light tillage is a must. You don't have the extra weeks of decomposition as your counter parts do a little south of you. The rolling hills don't help either. Your yields will always be based off the soil web. The sooner you can get the byproduct to breakdown into its minerals. The healthier your soil web will be to feed your next crop. Just my thoughts. Best wishes.
We no-till corn on bean ground and have just as good yield as those doing recreation tillage,fall chop corn stalks and disc,plant beans without tillage
What is the combine monitor set on dry bushels because that would be pretty close to being right if you’re taking 20% corn to the elevator and get a set of scales on your grain cart then you can weigh every wet load and do the math for drying and shrinkage and also calibrate the combine numerous times throughout the year
With Big Red and the unverferth grain car, things seem to be going pretty well for u guys this year.
I'm very grateful Unverferth dropped the cart off for us, things would've been hectic without it.
The fields you stated no-till try the ripper on lets say half of it and plant over it to see if there any difference in yield.
Impressive, the corn cobs in my field ranges from 5" to 7-1/2" long.
If you need help thinning those deer out I would be happy to help. :) I prefer to take deer under 1.5yrs old. I tried eating antlers once, but it backed me up something fierce.
That moisture is great we still avg 31
Yep nothing wants to dry down in the field this year! Later! OL J R :)
Maybe your 35 acre no-till is a good candidate for the zone builder
Would the owner that you rent the 30 acre corn field from let you rip the ground? You can show them how little it disturbs the soil. They might be open to that.
I've discussed it with him, and he seemed okay with it, just doesn't want it ripped perpendicular to the contour
Ever think about getting a second trailer for big red? drop one in the field to fill while your gone.
Not a bad idea, though I'm not sure if the trailer's legs can withstand a full load, and there's also the issue of getting them in the field. We've had to load in the driveways and on the road for most of the farms so dropping them off usually isn't an option, but it could be on a year that's more dry.
Legs should handle the load, but I doubt the ground would support it.
90K pounds though. On soft ground that your foot sinks into.
I would advise against it, you can put larger pads under the sand shoes, but the bigger problem is if one side sinks more than the other, the stresses can break and collapse the gear, and then all the money on the trailer just went to the 50-ton wrecker you just had to call to lift the loaded trailer up, as well as major repairs to the trailer.........
Hey. You almost missed your train there....
Ryan, Ever have any close calls of deer or an wildlife almost getting harvested during combining corn or soybeans? 😳😬
You calibrate the moniter every year right. That new grain cart should have scales. Every year
That's the way to do it Ryan charge em that transport fee... get big red paid for... maybe next year I can loan you my truck and you can help me pay mine off. Ryan? Have you thought about installing a gearbox to gear down the hatch openers to give you more leverage to open them doors... they make a gearbox for those. I dont think tok
Would it help to vrip the no till fields like every 3yrs to break up the hard pan. You talked about some time getting a different trailer for red, I suggest you get a remote sherlock trap as it saves you time of getting in and out of the truck and they also make remote doors on grain trailers also. I like the footage of the drone filming the combine and grain cart at night. You do a awesome job of making and keeping us informed about farming. Where is the other elevator at that Travis was talking about that you were hauling to cuz Dubuque wasn't taking anymore grain cuz they were full of wet corn. Can you haul dry corn in from the bins so you can keep on combing to get done?
You just haven’t found the right variety of corn yet . No till varieties do make a difference . 😉
Do you know yield of no till corn please?
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Voice crack at the beginning..lol
Hey Brother don't be afraid to skip a gear when you're up shifting every now and again you'll get the hang of that no doubt and hey bro I bet you know where the John Deere dealership is in Dubuque I used to deliver caskets right there at artco casket been all up through your neighborhood do you have a good one man video was off the chain great footage y'all stay safe man 🇺🇸💪💪👍👍👍👍👊👊✊✊✌
I thought you guys put up the bins? Bins full?
Is there anything you can do to the opening of the trailer gates to make them easier, before you shoot a disc right out of your back ? lol Thanks and thumbs up !
I'll be fixing it in an upcoming video!
@@HowFarmsWork, Nice, thanks !
What do you think of the Capello head ?
I'm sick how are u guys
I would use that inline Ripper on that 30 Acres you won't regret it I know from experience if the landowner will let you
The subsoiler will take care of the compaction issue in the no till fields.
But then they won't be no till fields.
@@davidharris6581 no sir. That's incorrect. Subsoiling, DMI, and the like is not considered tillage. Even a turbo til machine is light tillage. There's no surface soil disturbance with these implements other than the furrows the shanks cut. The action is in the ground, busting the hard pan up to allow water drainage. Any surface soil disturbance is incidental and not intended. Therefore it is still no till.
@@rodneyjones8823 It may not be what you consider tillage but a tractor going through the field with seven shanks shoved in the ground is tillage to this old man. You can call it whatever you want. Doesn't matter to me.
Isn't there something you can do to have the trailer gates open and close easier?
Either more lubrication to the outlets on the trailer or also more muscle.
Wheaties!
What type of corn do you grow?
Do you ever hunt while you are harvesting?
Would you consider using the subsoiler once in your no till field just to see if it changes the yield?
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Wow i though that field was going to produce great yields better than all the others owell thats farming never know
Did you always want to grow up to be a train spotter?? :) What is it with those trains?
Do you have crop rotation on all of your no-till fields? By the way: the average yield for corn in Germany in 2017 was 156.13 Bushels Per Acre.
Do you think about tilling you no till
I have a question about the ads. For you to get paid for them, would I have to watch the whole ad, or do you still get paid if I click skip ad? I usually skip, but if it means more revenue for you, I’ll watch them, or at least let them play 😉
I get paid per thousand and per view, so watching pays more, but you’re already a member so I can’t ask much more from you 😂
Would a Battery Pac Impact driver work on the grain gate?
The one Cotontop3 has been using looks like a gem.
I've considered that, but I'm afraid the vibration and hammering will break bolts. Had it happen once already and the hole is getting pitted
Hey Ryan!! How is Big Red been running? Is it better since you worked on it?
She's been running very well!
Are you still making the farming sim map ?
I feel like no till is really only good for desert type of climates where the it’s dry and hot and the soil is eroded
Would a torque wrench by dewalt or Milwaukee turn that manual hatch on the grain trailer?.?
K trucker back it in
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