Thank you for the video. It's good to see Travis rolling this out to more and new acres as the benefits of side dressing with cultivation are proven in his yields. The focus fade at 4:13 starting with the weeds and ending with their executioner was a great technique. So was the slow motion. You two definitely know what you're doing.
The corn looks great Ryan! I like the way you have the cultivator set up with the fertilizer sidedress system. Doubling up two tasks at once is always a great thing!!
There is no other way to say this, VIDEO PERFECTION! Never stop doing what your doing guys, from a loyal fan in England, I hope one day I can come out to the states and experience your way of life.
Sure beats the JD "A" / 2 row that I grew up with back in the day. Cultivation aerates soils, reduces weed competition. Like the side dress application on the 6 row. Cheers!
I put many an hour on a 4020 Deere doing everything from planting, side dressing, bush hogging, spraying, baling hay, and dern near everything else when I was younger. All we had was the 4020, a Fordson Dexta, and a Super A Farmall. Those were the days.
Wisconsin blacktops, haha. I need to make a run across the border to get some Spotted Cow and some Potosi Beer. Yet again another quality video, keep em coming neighbor across the river:-).
Hey Ryan good video. I’ve been a pretty dead subscriber lately but I’m definitely still here! I’ll have to get caught up on some more videos!! They’ve been keeping me pretty busy at work and just haven’t had much free time.
There WAS one about custom harvesters (guys hired to combine crops, travelling across the country from south to north and back again) but it was only like 6 episodes and then disappeared... shame, because it was interesting! Thing is with all these "reality" shows anymore, if there's not enough "drama" in it for the goofball Hollyweird producers, they start doing a lot of BS stuff to "make it more dramatic" instead of just showing life "how it is"... I used to watch "Ax Men" until it go to the point it was just a nonsense melodramatic screaming match in the woods between a bunch of guys... Guess it's not even on anymore. There was a reality show filmed on the same road my wife's Aunt lives on in southern Indiana, "Porter Ridge"; they LOVE to find some people willing to act like nuts on TV for their "fifteen minutes of fame" and when it gets old or the ratings drop, they're off like a shot looking for the next group they think they can make some money off of. My daughter and I BOTH used to REALLY enjoy "Swamp Loggers" following those guys out in North Carolina logging out really waterlogged, swampy ground nobody else could get to because their equipment would sink, and they had a nice show, but I noticed the producers seemed to really be pushing the 'drama' angle and then suddenly they were canceled at the height of their popularity. I'd bet that the producers started pushing them to do a bunch of nonsense "antics" to increase the drama and they told them "no", so they just canceled it. Same sort of stuff has gone on with MOST of those "reality shows", from Ice Road Truckers to Deadliest Catch-- always gotta have some arguments or people trying to screw each other over to create "drama" to keep those Hollyweird people happy-- they don't realize that people watch those shows to see HOW IT IS DONE and the typical day/lifestyle of folks with those jobs, NOT to see a bad remake of "Dallas" with a bunch of arguments, intrigue, and drama crap... Later! OL J R :)
That corn grows fast in Wisconsin. Our corn is at V1 here in Texas because our Springs are too dry and hot to plant early. I used to take my 1000 gal to the Coop and get fertilizer but now there are very few places that sell less than a transport load. We have two 3,000 gal. on each farm so we can take a delivery.
End rows... It was an education for me when I started helping on my BIL's farm in Indiana. We always planted on raised beds, and left about a 15-20 foot or so "turning row" on each end of the field, with the rows strictly running back and forth across the field. Usually we have a bar ditch cut across each end of the field where the middles can drain excess rainwater into it, which then runs to the county ditch to keep the fields from flooding, which we cut and maintain with a 3 point blade like their Rhino blade they grade their driveways with. Anyway, "up north" they flat plant-- no beds. Doing it that way, it just makes more sense to plant a couple passes across each end of the field, and then plant the rest of the field between those "end rows" back and forth (like it was on beds, but flat ground). Then you just turn over the end rows when you spray or sidedress fertilizer or cultivate or whatever. Sure you kill a few plants, but the rest still go on to produce crop, so the loss is minimal/ inconsequential... My BIL thought that all these wide unplanted turning rows down here in the South are a HUGE waste of good farmland... and to an extent he's right. That's why a lot of guys would hip or plow up beds across the end of the field to plant "end rows", or just flat plant those end rows (though flat planted stuff doesn't do as well down here.) That way you minimized the amount of ground left "out of production" for the ditch and turning row, and got some crop off those end rows, without having to jump rows (beds) to turn at each end of the field like you would if you bedded it all up right up to the bar ditch at the end of the field (which can get TERRIBLY rough, like going cross-ways across chisel plowed ground!) Later! OL J R :)
So when was the last time the field was sprayed, or are those just resistant weeds. Looks like it could have used a dose of roundup. But hey, not putting down chemicals and adding nutrients at the same time I guess would be a better option!
it depends also on the soil your planting in..... and what the plant needs, and so on. if you use TO MUCH fertilizer its just wasted money, + you risk killing the life in local rivers-ponds
Good job guys.... Like the tank setup. How many gallons and are you using a pto or electric pump? Great camera work too. That corn is going to take off now. Don't think you could have waited much longer or it would have been too tall. Did mine much the same way this year only used granular. Hope you get the rain.
Only a few people cultivate corn in central Illinois. Nice unit (4020) but why is there carpet on the side and what year is the 4020? Love the videos and keep making great videos
Ryan what program are you using to record your audio on the phone and how hard is it to marry back to the video in post? For video all I have is a Mavic Pro Platinum and have no way to get audio recorded. Thanks!
See a few spots... who knows... planter ran out of seed on one row, plugged seed tube/opener (yeah the monitor should tell you) or who knows what... I've never seen a field that DIDN'T have at least a *few* spots where stuff didn't come up or got wiped out for whatever reason... Later! OL J R :)
The fertilizer is being dribbled by drag hoses right next to the planted row, by the front sweeps of the cultivator. Soil thrown by the middle row of sweeps and the rear sweep helps cover it up and mix it with soil. This practice is also done by some folks without the cultivation-- it's called "Y-drops" because it uses a sprayer (usually) with an inverted "T" shaped fitting with a pair of drag hoses that split the fertilizer and route it over to drag hoses running on either side of the planted row, applying it on top of the soil right next to the stalks (and hence next to the roots). It then relies on irrigation or rainfall to wash the fertilizer down into the root zone. I agree with you that it's best to actually put the fertilizer into the soil, since it protects it from the sun and elements, and water runoff in heavy rains. The fertilizer must be down in the root zone to actually get taken up by the plants anyway. But, for guys practicing "no-till" farming, it's a viable way of fertilizing. We always knifed in our fertilizer about 6-8 inches off the row when we sidedressed using a side-dress applicator... Later! OL J R :)
When Travis had to make that turn in the part of the field where the corn was planted in a different direction did he actually have to run over some of the corn or was he able to miss it?
Wow! I love watching the 4020 work but especially cultivating. I’m 13 and this year was my first year cultivating and I did ok but it would’ve been easier if there wasn’t so much play in the steering wheel on our 2020 that I was using. I only tore up a few plants lol 😂. Really great video and music!
He'd knock down too much corn with a 12 row... particularly on all those curvy strips they have... If it was all straight back and forth, then yeah... Later! OL J R :)
No, it's like KJ said above... the outside middle (ground between the planted rows) is worked twice, because the outside gangs of the cultivator only have sweeps (and a fertilizer drop hose) next to the row going under the toolbar... Look at it this way-- there are 6 rows of corn going UNDER the cultivator with each pass... each row has a drop hose on both sides of it, for 12 total drop hoses. SO the row of corn plants are getting fertilizer dribbled on BOTH sides of the row as it's cultivated. The outside middles get worked twice by the sweeps, true, BUT, there is only a fertilizer drop hose on the side next to the row going UNDER the cultivator bar, NOT on the other side in the adjacent row, which got fertilized in the pass before... SO, each row is getting equal amounts of fertilizer, regardless of whether it's an "inside row" or an "outside row" next to the middle that was worked by the outside gang on the last pass... Later! OL J R :)
Yeah, typically the ag supply would have the tank topped up and ready to go... BUT a lot of times the guys don't think about it and out it goes with no/low gas... Later! OL J R :)
Yeah, cultivating used to be one of my favorite jobs on the farm... the field is smooth and the crops are growing and you can really see how things are going with it as you cultivate... Later! OL J R :)
Impressed with production quality. Good shots showing before and after between the rows.
Thank you for the video. It's good to see Travis rolling this out to more and new acres as the benefits of side dressing with cultivation are proven in his yields. The focus fade at 4:13 starting with the weeds and ending with their executioner was a great technique. So was the slow motion. You two definitely know what you're doing.
Very relaxing watching that cultivator do its job. Thanks. Have a great evening
The cinematography has really improved man!! Love these upgrades to the videos. Ready to see some Hay videos! Keep up the awesome work
I love to see the 4020 out in the fields doing what it was built to do, work!
It nice to see you use the older , smaller, tractor for this job!
In my opinion Ryan your vids are getting better and better every time i watch.. Keep up the excellent work...
The corn looks great Ryan! I like the way you have the cultivator set up with the fertilizer sidedress system. Doubling up two tasks at once is always a great thing!!
There is no other way to say this, VIDEO PERFECTION! Never stop doing what your doing guys, from a loyal fan in England, I hope one day I can come out to the states and experience your way of life.
The 4020 is a classic
Sure beats the JD "A" / 2 row that I grew up with back in the day. Cultivation aerates soils, reduces weed competition. Like the side dress application on the 6 row. Cheers!
Yes! The corn does look good. HAPPY FARMING.
Awww cute lil baby corns😁
Love the interviews with the external mic!
Love watching the field reports!
Great job on the video Ryan! It turned out amazing! You are getting so good at it that I would pay to watch your videos.
Travis can never decide if he's hit or cold. Hoodie one day muscle shirt the next. Great video Ryan
Great Video. Really cool shots, great editing.
Very cool video Ryan.
Love your truck, always a thumbs up if you include it in your videos
nice .. i like that you are changing allways the way you film ...
I put many an hour on a 4020 Deere doing everything from planting, side dressing, bush hogging, spraying, baling hay, and dern near everything else when I was younger. All we had was the 4020, a Fordson Dexta, and a Super A Farmall. Those were the days.
Nice clear shots....I love how your shots really captured the terrain up there, Thanks Ryan
Great camera angles!
The joy of pull start
Great vid... Did a fair amount of cultivating 40+ yrs ago, JD 4010G narrow front, no cab, with 6 row IH cultivator.. Fun times!
Wisconsin blacktops, haha. I need to make a run across the border to get some Spotted Cow and some Potosi Beer. Yet again another quality video, keep em coming neighbor across the river:-).
Your corn looks nice in growth and healthy!
Hey Ryan good video. I’ve been a pretty dead subscriber lately but I’m definitely still here! I’ll have to get caught up on some more videos!! They’ve been keeping me pretty busy at work and just haven’t had much free time.
2:46 Great photography!
Thanks, Ryan. I like the cultivating camera work.
Great video picture quality everything top notch good job
My uncle has a 4020 and he loves it
Love that 4020.
great video loved the music great drone skills
I hope that you get it done before the rain I love your videos
nice tractor your corn is growing pretty good better than ours
Man I swear they need to make a TV show about farming and they need to put it on History Channel
There WAS one about custom harvesters (guys hired to combine crops, travelling across the country from south to north and back again) but it was only like 6 episodes and then disappeared... shame, because it was interesting! Thing is with all these "reality" shows anymore, if there's not enough "drama" in it for the goofball Hollyweird producers, they start doing a lot of BS stuff to "make it more dramatic" instead of just showing life "how it is"... I used to watch "Ax Men" until it go to the point it was just a nonsense melodramatic screaming match in the woods between a bunch of guys... Guess it's not even on anymore. There was a reality show filmed on the same road my wife's Aunt lives on in southern Indiana, "Porter Ridge"; they LOVE to find some people willing to act like nuts on TV for their "fifteen minutes of fame" and when it gets old or the ratings drop, they're off like a shot looking for the next group they think they can make some money off of. My daughter and I BOTH used to REALLY enjoy "Swamp Loggers" following those guys out in North Carolina logging out really waterlogged, swampy ground nobody else could get to because their equipment would sink, and they had a nice show, but I noticed the producers seemed to really be pushing the 'drama' angle and then suddenly they were canceled at the height of their popularity. I'd bet that the producers started pushing them to do a bunch of nonsense "antics" to increase the drama and they told them "no", so they just canceled it. Same sort of stuff has gone on with MOST of those "reality shows", from Ice Road Truckers to Deadliest Catch-- always gotta have some arguments or people trying to screw each other over to create "drama" to keep those Hollyweird people happy-- they don't realize that people watch those shows to see HOW IT IS DONE and the typical day/lifestyle of folks with those jobs, NOT to see a bad remake of "Dallas" with a bunch of arguments, intrigue, and drama crap...
Later! OL J R :)
Great camera action, good job!
Ryan love the video it's amazing .
Its better quality than quantity... keep up
Watching you use that external mic, I'd say you've got a career opportunity as a TV reporter. Haha! Enjoyed the video, Ryan.
Great vid Ryan
Great video work, keepem coming.
Every Farm should have an old tractor to play with.
Awesome video man👍👏
Great job looks like that will be last time to cultivate that corn.
I really liked this vedio just so chill amezing camera angels relaxing music realy nice :)
Great video! Might want to invest in a gas can and check the gas before leaving for the fields though. ;)
Love you r video s
Nice video
That corn grows fast in Wisconsin. Our corn is at V1 here in Texas because our Springs are too dry and hot to plant early. I used to take my 1000 gal to the Coop and get fertilizer but now there are very few places that sell less than a transport load. We have two 3,000 gal. on each farm so we can take a delivery.
Quality of sound is much better with the external mic
Good corn
Have you guys thought of upgrading to a 12 row cultivator or do you feel its easier with a six row
Can you do a walk around of the cultivator?
How do you keep your new truck so clean?
I just want to know why have your rows that run into the side of other rows love the videos
End rows...
It was an education for me when I started helping on my BIL's farm in Indiana. We always planted on raised beds, and left about a 15-20 foot or so "turning row" on each end of the field, with the rows strictly running back and forth across the field. Usually we have a bar ditch cut across each end of the field where the middles can drain excess rainwater into it, which then runs to the county ditch to keep the fields from flooding, which we cut and maintain with a 3 point blade like their Rhino blade they grade their driveways with.
Anyway, "up north" they flat plant-- no beds. Doing it that way, it just makes more sense to plant a couple passes across each end of the field, and then plant the rest of the field between those "end rows" back and forth (like it was on beds, but flat ground). Then you just turn over the end rows when you spray or sidedress fertilizer or cultivate or whatever. Sure you kill a few plants, but the rest still go on to produce crop, so the loss is minimal/ inconsequential...
My BIL thought that all these wide unplanted turning rows down here in the South are a HUGE waste of good farmland... and to an extent he's right. That's why a lot of guys would hip or plow up beds across the end of the field to plant "end rows", or just flat plant those end rows (though flat planted stuff doesn't do as well down here.) That way you minimized the amount of ground left "out of production" for the ditch and turning row, and got some crop off those end rows, without having to jump rows (beds) to turn at each end of the field like you would if you bedded it all up right up to the bar ditch at the end of the field (which can get TERRIBLY rough, like going cross-ways across chisel plowed ground!)
Later! OL J R :)
Great music at about 4:30
What pump do you use?
What Cameras / Drone are you using now?
Does the nitrogen gravity flow and how is it metered
So when was the last time the field was sprayed, or are those just resistant weeds. Looks like it could have used a dose of roundup. But hey, not putting down chemicals and adding nutrients at the same time I guess would be a better option!
Is that herbicide in the tanks on the cultivator?
32% nitrogen liquid fertilizer... OL J R :)
How's that new calf doing ryan
Be a good time to put cover seed down for when corn is cut off
How many times do you need to fertilize a field , Ryan?
Once, but if you want better yields, typically some farmers will follow up with sidedressing like we are here.
How Farms Work what is sidedressing?
John Haas how many times do you need to fertilize?
it depends also on the soil your planting in..... and what the plant needs, and so on. if you use TO MUCH fertilizer its just wasted money, + you risk killing the life in local rivers-ponds
samkom33 how are you going to know when to fertilize?
Good job guys.... Like the tank setup. How many gallons and are you using a pto or electric pump? Great camera work too. That corn is going to take off now. Don't think you could have waited much longer or it would have been too tall. Did mine much the same way this year only used granular. Hope you get the rain.
Ide Really like to see if there is a yield difference of cultivation vs cover cropping with the same amount of nutrients applied.
Is the Denali yours or is the old Sierra yours i like either one
You do such a great job with your video filming and editing. How long does it normally take you to edit and put together a video like this?
On your pastures for the cattle feed; Do you have a problem with Noxious weeds?
When Travis runs over the plants does it topically die?
Only a few people cultivate corn in central Illinois. Nice unit (4020) but why is there carpet on the side and what year is the 4020? Love the videos and keep making great videos
how far apart do you plant your rows from each other?
Bdog 30 inches.
Ryan what program are you using to record your audio on the phone and how hard is it to marry back to the video in post? For video all I have is a Mavic Pro Platinum and have no way to get audio recorded. Thanks!
Fun times
Hi ryan, did you guys ever own a 30 series when you were doing dairy? I mean the 30 series from 2008-2010 like a 7530 from OLF
Is it just me or are there a lot of blank spots or places where rows are missing for a while?
See a few spots... who knows... planter ran out of seed on one row, plugged seed tube/opener (yeah the monitor should tell you) or who knows what...
I've never seen a field that DIDN'T have at least a *few* spots where stuff didn't come up or got wiped out for whatever reason...
Later! OL J R :)
Who's truck mounted sprayer?
How many acres do u guys have in corn?
Porque no inyectar al suelo el fertilizante ? Lo veo que lo tira por encima?
The fertilizer is being dribbled by drag hoses right next to the planted row, by the front sweeps of the cultivator. Soil thrown by the middle row of sweeps and the rear sweep helps cover it up and mix it with soil.
This practice is also done by some folks without the cultivation-- it's called "Y-drops" because it uses a sprayer (usually) with an inverted "T" shaped fitting with a pair of drag hoses that split the fertilizer and route it over to drag hoses running on either side of the planted row, applying it on top of the soil right next to the stalks (and hence next to the roots). It then relies on irrigation or rainfall to wash the fertilizer down into the root zone.
I agree with you that it's best to actually put the fertilizer into the soil, since it protects it from the sun and elements, and water runoff in heavy rains. The fertilizer must be down in the root zone to actually get taken up by the plants anyway. But, for guys practicing "no-till" farming, it's a viable way of fertilizing.
We always knifed in our fertilizer about 6-8 inches off the row when we sidedressed using a side-dress applicator...
Later! OL J R :)
When Travis had to make that turn in the part of the field where the corn was planted in a different direction did he actually have to run over some of the corn or was he able to miss it?
Kevin Zeh run over it....because its impossible to missed them
Kevin Zeh that's what the headland are there for.
Typical RUclips farmer just records whole his brother does all the work. Lol always like seeing the 4020
You should get a 5310 jd
Wow! I love watching the 4020 work but especially cultivating. I’m 13 and this year was my first year cultivating and I did ok but it would’ve been easier if there wasn’t so much play in the steering wheel on our 2020 that I was using. I only tore up a few plants lol 😂. Really great video and music!
Almost ran over some stalks with the left front @ 6:43!
Cool
you really should get a gopro mount to the side of your truck and other angles. your risking breaking it lol. it would make a funny video though
Looks like the drop rate on the 3 point could be slowed down a bit.
How many money you sell the corn??
How you have time to work on the farm and make videos?
Easy, I have no personal life
It about time for a 12 row cultivator, don’t you think?
He'd knock down too much corn with a 12 row... particularly on all those curvy strips they have...
If it was all straight back and forth, then yeah...
Later! OL J R :)
Carl childers says it ain't got no gas in it!
I see he overlaped the cultivater, so that row got twice the fertilizer, will it make a difference?
I`m just saying he does the outside row twice. So more fertilizer on those rows? I don`t know just wondering.
Could be half rate nozzles on the outsides.
No, it's like KJ said above... the outside middle (ground between the planted rows) is worked twice, because the outside gangs of the cultivator only have sweeps (and a fertilizer drop hose) next to the row going under the toolbar...
Look at it this way-- there are 6 rows of corn going UNDER the cultivator with each pass... each row has a drop hose on both sides of it, for 12 total drop hoses. SO the row of corn plants are getting fertilizer dribbled on BOTH sides of the row as it's cultivated. The outside middles get worked twice by the sweeps, true, BUT, there is only a fertilizer drop hose on the side next to the row going UNDER the cultivator bar, NOT on the other side in the adjacent row, which got fertilized in the pass before...
SO, each row is getting equal amounts of fertilizer, regardless of whether it's an "inside row" or an "outside row" next to the middle that was worked by the outside gang on the last pass...
Later! OL J R :)
nitrogen?
👍👍👍
You got some real nice up-close shots there, wait, you didn't have a can of gas with you? That's a rookie mistake bud!
John Haas that's why you check it before you leave home.
Yeah, typically the ag supply would have the tank topped up and ready to go... BUT a lot of times the guys don't think about it and out it goes with no/low gas...
Later! OL J R :)
撒的是液体肥料吗？
That's a lost art any more guys just want to spray if an forget! I'm a firm believer in culivating help the crop out
Yeah, cultivating used to be one of my favorite jobs on the farm... the field is smooth and the crops are growing and you can really see how things are going with it as you cultivate...
Later! OL J R :)