I Rented a Grass Seeder to over seed the hay Field. Hopefully the field will look better next year.
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Hi Evan!! I really enjoyed this video. That's a great machine and you really showed and explained the process well. I worked 26 years in a farm store. One of the most active parts of my job was selling lawn and pasture seed. Sure did learn how to teach folks the whole process. Back in high school I had to help bale hay every summer and found the seed selling end to be much easier than bucking bales 😄. I hope you get some good, deep soaking rains now and a have a good thick hay field next year.
Take care and have a great week.
Good job Evan and good on you for cleaning up the machine after use. We all need to think of the next guy more!
I enjoy your videos but the music detracts from the experience. Nothing wrong with letting the equipment be the soundtrack.
Nice job Evan and a real money saver to rent rather than buy - which you would probably not use very often anyway. As for amount per acre I always set far below the amount desired and just keep running over it until the seed/fertilizer is gone. That way you don't come up short AND it is well covered. Thanks for the video. 👍
Evan... I hate to tell you this after the fact ...but ! you rented a seeder that does not penitrate the soil ..so you must pre condition the soil for it.... till it the soil has to be prepared for the new seed to be ready to grow , other wise the old grass will take it over and your new seed won't stand a chance. there are seeders out there that will till the soil for you when you seed
they are the ones to get.... having to pre till the soil before seeding is a pain and almost always renders dubious results but without it your new seed doesn't stand a chance in growing....
leaving a field to grow on it's own ,after harvest does work and can produce great crops when fertilizer is used. there is no need to seed an already established grass field it will re grow !
however if you have areas that are sparce, then you should re plow and then re seed....
Just my opinion take it for what it is worth I am NOT an expert ! LOL
for what you did today you could have just ripped the soil 6" depth or so for the seed to get established in.... 1/2" x2" bar stock welded to a strong frame that are 6~8" long will leave slices into the ground and not disturb most of the established grass in the field ,but sense you have a disk your better off using that ! especially if you can position the discs so they slice the ground....... Just remember new seed needs to have soil that there is no competition in ...
in my view you just threw away all that seed by putting it on top of an established field.... next time discs it up and then seed !....
If that corrects the grass/clover mixture you should get that money back and much more from the hay crops next year. It's so important to have the right varieties of grass and clover to maximise the amount of hay you get off your land. Great video. All the best 🇬🇧.
Good morning Evan. You are one busy man, a farmer knows no rest. There’s always something to improve or fix. Rebecca is a real trooper, you’re one blest husband. God bless you both
Yes, they are both very hard workers and very kind to us, aren't they?
It's nice to see a green hay meadow, and a cornfield still producing in the background. We haven't had rain for months now in Kansas--one terrible drought here.
Good morning Evan! That will make a big difference in the quality in the hay! Always Love watching what ever you are doing on your homestead!
Another job well done Evan. Hope you get a good crop from this hayfield next year. Have a Blessed day.
Just seen your video on weed protection fabric, you might’ve interested to know I invented the product when I worked for AmocoFabrics in Europe. Initially it was developed for growers of commercial containers so that the containers could be evenly spaced when being laid out
Good luck with the seeding. Hope it improves your hay field.
Using the electric cement mixer is an excellent idea. I’ll have to keep an eye out for a used one.
Wow first comment. Good morning from Boston.
Good afternoon Evan! Glad to be early to your video for once! Always looking forward to your videos!
Greetings from Sweden! :D
Great video....Really enjoy how you explain why and what you do...Be safe and see you again soon, Thank You !
The tractor and seeder make the work a whole lot easier and quicker. Good reliable equipment gets the job done
Good job Evan, hope your work pays off next spring. Thanks for sharing with us, stay safe and keep having fun too. Fred.
I love watching your videos mate more please hope you all are doing well Joe from England Great Britain thanks again
Cotter pins on the job. One beautiful green hay field coming up.
Hello Evan will see how this turns out I'm interested. Have a great day.
I hope this works out well! You are working hard to improve what you have. I think that you are doing a Good Job!
Evan, Nice work! I'm in NE Ohio looking to switch from years of soybeans to pasture for hay and grazing myself. I'll be looking to rent but so far the nearest seeder is 2 hrs away. Still hoping for a co-op search to come through but I many have to buy a Woods, LandPride, or Brillion to get it done. Enjoy watching and the tech you use to film. Mike
Just a bit of info. 1st crop was a lot of grass, second was more clover because grass doesn't grow real well in the summer hot months
New subscriber 😎 have been watching your videos from the beginning to catch up 😎 love your posting ,,
I kinda watched your newist hay videos out of order 😂 I like the hay videos ,, not a farmer so what do I know 😂 I like the new field ,, should make a ton of new hay bales ,,
Hopefully you will be able to get the grass cutter & the bailer working right ,, those two pieces of equipment ,, they haven’t been cooperating 😩😩
Hello from the Netherlands .
thanks for the video.
Sincerely, Hollandduck
Can’t wait to see the results! Have a great Labor Day Brother 🤙
I used to add some dry sand to the mixture to spread it more thinly.
You did good Evan! That is the same way I use to do my over seed applications each fall ▪I always went by the philosophy of "I would rather put down too much as not enough"▪ Later; as you increase herd size; might I suggest adding winter wheat each fall ▪I actually doubled my hay yield with this method ▪Just a suggestion of course ▪
The drone shots really show just how spotty the growth was in that field. Hopefully this will help. I imagine you'll want to do this more than once. I have a field about that size that is the opposite...about 90% orchard grass/Timothy and 10"clover. Our horses gobble it up. Another thing that will help and is very important: soil testing. We do it yearly to guide us in deciding what to fertilize with in the Spring and whether we need lime etc. It has really helped a lot! Great video as usual!
I did a soil test last year. I will test it again in the spring.
Thanks for the video, always enjoy watching!
Great job Evan 👍 I will say a prayer for good germination 🙏 Love your videos and watching you build your future
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Hi Evan
.You could also use the Cement mixer to make urself a Cement pond...lol..sorry..a little Beverly Hillbillies joke..
Good planning for the extra usage on the seed, I can never get that right, at least when it comes to fertilizer. I really enjoy your video's, I think I've said that before, but just wanted to let you know. I hope everything is going good on the pond front, I have two that I need to work on, one dam broke and the other has a concrete bottom, it's spring fed. Thanks for sharing, I hope you have a wonderful week.
Most farmers shoot for 15lbs/acre, but we planted 8lbs/acre and that yielded 600 lbs of seed per acre. Why people plant thick is beyond me... you obtain better growth and health - utilization of water and fertilizer in the plant with lower seeding rates.
$300 aint bad for the amount of hay you should make. Good video.
Don’t forget to add your time in with the $300. Time is money!
Evan....this not a critcizm orcomplaint...it seems like when you do most any work on your fields you do it mowing yard. Suggest you try more traveling from end to end rather than mowing in a rectangle and/or square.
Could your renters or neighbors aerial applicators' have gotten spray on your grass and killed it?
Why are you tumbling the seed, are you blending different varieties?
This seeder slash spike aerator slash roller compactor is stupid to use; it's utter nonsense and a waste of time, effort, and resources. This is yet another example of why humanity needs to stop harming innocent and helpless children. And to the people who disagree and think I'm being hypocritical, well if so, then my point still stands to reason. smh
Know this is a stupid question, but what is the value of mixing the seed? Is it more than one type of seed, does the seed settle or what makes it needful? Not commenting that it is a good of bad idea, just want to know the purpose. Thanks.
Good luck with the field looks promising.
Overseed with what? Grass seed? You know you cannot overseed alfalfa, as the new
and old seeds will kill each other. Well anyhow.
Afternoon, did the grass come up and would you do the same again. Thanks
Red clover is the best hay you can make, apart from Lucerne
That grass will definitely come up as long as it rains.
Well, the upside to mostly clover is it will make a better food plot for deer season!
We use a 6" nail point when sawing grass seed or a pencil point old school
Did you have different types of seed? why mix it?
Good to see that you're using clip pins. 😊
Don't forget to Top Dress with fertilizer in the Spring
Too bad you can’t pump water from your pond to water the seed
Catching up since we left town ! That TSC fescue is goid seed...don't ever buy the coated seed though from there...bad experience...300 dollars invested with top soul and seed etc...what a fail ! Evan we just love watching alllll of yours and Rebekah's videos...you are both so pleasant and we just love listening to all you have to share ! Gentle better think that fan over again too ! Lolol
Awesome Job bro 💯✌️💚🌱
I own Ginger Snap Farm and Seed in North East Washington
Overseeding success is absolutely connected with moisture. You will spend thousands with very little or no success.
Hi Evan, always look forward to yalls videos. I don't know about your area, but here, the local Extension Agency has a grain drill they loan out for free to farmers. Just a thought, have a great day.
yeah, he should look into joining his local co-op. That way there's a number of useful implements he can potentially use. He may also need them to come and lime his fields from time to time, based on a soil test. Not sure he has enough acreage right now for them to do it, though. Around here, it's a 10 acre minimum, I think.
I have rented the local grain drill from the extention office a few years ago. It didn't work very well.
I just buy some land and I'll like to plant some corn for next season but I don't know where to find the seeds in large bulk any suggestions?
Thank you God bless you
K31 went up from $79 last year to $129 this year for a 50# bag in my neck of the country. Crazy.
Typically I've noticed on our new seeding we don't have grass coming in until the second year. We plant a clover alfalfa Timothy mix.
Those seed bags sure are awkward to handle above the mixer. Really good camera coverage. Nice music too. A very enjoyable video.
Wise to plow the field every 4-6 years to keep the yield high aswell. And its good for u as a smal farmer🤩 first offcourse to spray it all dead offcourse🤩 but looks good🤩
Can you tell me the advantages of this type of seeder versus a broadcast seeder? I realize this type has the spiked rollers, but the old broadcast seeders seemed to do the job and are certainly cheaper to purchase and I would assume to rent as well. Just curious. At any rate We'll keep our fingers crossed for a good stand of hay for your efforts and investment.
This seeder presses the seed into the soil for better seed to soil contact. A broad cast seed spreads the seed well, and then let's nature do the rest. A Broadcast seeder will work better in freshly tilled soil. And helps to roll over with a cultipacker afterwards.
A drill would be even better than both of these. Broadcast spreaders require you to use about double the amount of seed you would with a drill because a lot of it will never come up
When clover occurs in the lawn, it is almost always due to a lack of nitrogen in the soil. Nitrogen is one of the most important nutrients for grass. Nitrogen ensures that grass undergoes a healthy growth spurt.
Your outermost rows that were shaded had produced the best on the field… maybe next year start in the center and move outward.. that way if you run out of seed you’ve made sure to have the center covered (and if it goes on too heavy the first few passes, it’s not a total waste?). Also.. are there any dairy farms in the area you could ask to spread manure on the fields? Most would be glad to have extra acres to spread on.
Can i just disc and overseed ?
Good work Evan. We need to do the same thing to one of our pastors. From our experience, you can't put down to much seed. Being able to rent that seeder is a huge cost saver. Thanks for another great video and stay safe.
You need to reseed every spring. We usually harrow it first agressively to get the dead grass out, then reseed (we use our basic seeder, works quite well) and then use heavy meadow rollers. It will boost growth.
@@stubbi and again..... it does not need seeded every year. That’s the entire reason for using perennial grass 🤦🏻♂️
@@nalley6815 We had great success with reseeding every year. Of course we dont do a full reseed with plowing,/cultivating - we simply direct seed about 5lbs of different grasses seed per acre.
It helps re-establish the grasses that died over winter and reduces weed-pressure,
@@stubbi you do you. But it’s a cost that isn’t needed. And right now there’s no place for things not in necessity. Most people drill seed every 5 years or more
@@nalley6815 For us that little cost outweigh the plus in crop. We buy the seed in large bulks every once in a while, so no issue there.
I did it the hard way a few times. Pull a harrow behind the tractor and broadcast the seed by hand. I got some red clover growing where I seeded, which was what I wanted. My small pasture was brome, but I think it went to fescue over the years.
Scary places to trust the mag mount for the camera. Thx for the Vid!!
What were you mixing together?
Best of luck with th reading, I love watching your channel
Did you run out of dust masks Evan ?
you dont like clover for feed? hard to dry but makes excelent feed plus builds nitrogen in the soil doesnt it
Nice to see you cleaning the equipment. Anytime Ever lent something out it came back broken
Looks like your top link needs to be a little bit shorter to really .make the front rollers bite in better along with a tad more down pressure on the 3 point
What make of seeder are you using? Greetings from Alberta Canada
Woods seeder. Older model. They don't make it anymore.
hi evan now you know that farming is not cheap. Good luck.
Will be watching to see what it does next spring. We had a red clover break out this summer I think it was due to the drought as I have never had red clover like this in my grass.
Looks like you got the seating done just before all the rain that’s coming which should be good for you
Nice work!
How many acres did you seed?
That was only 3 acres.
Evan, what was the mix?
Pete
can't wait for you to get into her rebuild...
Seeing all that dust made me sneeze twice, no joke!
2 questions.... Why would you plant KY31 ?.... And did you calibrate the drill?
Why do think I shouldn't plant ky31 in a hay field.
@@CountryViewAcres It's a low quality fescue with endophytes.
@@bradjenkins932 even endophyte free tall fescue will eventually gets endophyte over time. There is a lot of controversy over that subject.
All tall fescue is low quality when compared to other grasses. But it is seems more durable than other grasses.
I already planted orchard grass, Timothy, and meadow fescue (has no enphophyite problems like tall fescue). It's time to try something different. And ky31 was what my local farm store had in stock.
And yes i did soil sample and amendments were done last year.
Evan just a suggestion. In the spring around end of March begging of April. Why don't you put Nitrogen on your hay fields. It will produce great hay.
The idea is to have the clover to add nitrogen to the soil. And I will add compost if I can. Ideally I want to not buy fertilizer. I want it to be a more sufficient process. I just need to more compost.
Noticed the property you rent to a neighbor, will you be taking that land back for CVA's use in 2023? 👍💪🙏
The land is corn this year. I think we will rent it again, so he plants in soybeans next year. It will be a lot easier to plant pasture over soybeans than corn. We can go ahead and work on some of the fence lines around it. And plant pasture in 2024.
Question, how are the ducks doing?
Good morning Evan! Just curious why are you seeding so late in the session? Do you get snow in the winter we’re you live?
Fall is the best time to seed fescue. It would burn up if planted in the summer....if it even germinated very well.
The grass is a cool season grass, it will germinate in mid September and grow till about December. It will stay green all winter. And as soon as it starts to warm back up it will start to grow again and be ready to cut in May. If I planted in the spring, as soon as it got a couple inches tall the hot dry summer would kill it off before it got good and established. Fall is the best time to plant cool season grasses.
And yes they get snow.
Great job good luck looks like this will work
Cool
Did you get any rain after seeding. Best of luck on your planting. ☘️🌱🌾🌧
Yes, we got a little rain the next couple days afterwards.
What would it cost if you buy hay?
What media did you add to the seed and ratio?
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What company did you use to rent your implements? Most places near me that I can find do not rent impliments
In Indiana one can rent a seeder from the county DNR group very reasonably.
If you have a good hay market, serve it well. Small square bales still have a market as well.
You can make some attractive $$$ if you grow a high quality horse hay and square bale it.
Thanks for sharing all this with us Evan. Iam in the process of moving to an area with some land. Ive thought about starting a small hobby based farm(hay, maybe chickins). But man! Its sooo expensive! I know see how its so hard for a farmer to make a living!
What is the cost to purchase a field's worth of quality hay? Is it more than the seed cost and rental fee of the seeder, the cutting and baling in spring and the cost of fuel? Don't you ever have to rake up that old dead grass? I would think it might act like a blanket. Hope you will get a great hay harvest!
That field could get 150 sqaure bales in 1st cutting. 4 dollars a square bale would be $600. Or 10 round bales $35 each $350.
@@CountryViewAcres we figure on good ground to get a hundred bales to the acre