I will say this, I am just Fascinated with the new Equipment that is invented every year to make farming so much simpler, My Grand Father would be amazed at the high tech there is today. Hell I am admazed.
Yesterday four different sprayer-rigs drove past the house, a definite sign of spring here in rural South Jersey. I haven't needed to mow the grass this-early in years. Last year it was mid-May.
That was a really cool looking Fertilizer Applicator. Half tractor/Half track! Loved you're drone work! Thank you for sharing! Stay safe and healthy :-))
Thanks for sharing, good to see the field work getting started. That spreader was an awesome looking machine. That undercarriage would make an amazing off road mobile home 😂. Stay safe, wishing you and your family the best.
Would be interesting to see the progression over the years of farmers learning how to farm the land. Every area is different and it interest me how it was started farming and how it was learned what was right and wrong. I know I'm still learning on mine.
Definitely time to get going now. Travis and Brittain did some chisel plowing in last night's video, so I'm sure there's plenty more of that to do along with running the VT for you. You're gonna need a lot of coffee to get through this spring! (I've never been one for it since it makes me jittery.)
Built cheap and priced like gold... Yeah my nephew sheared the mirror off his brother's Ford, had them power telescoping trailer mirrors with the heaters and turn signals and the whole 9 yards... those things are $900+ YIKES!!! OL J R :)
I've often wondered how cost effective organic fertilizers would be, like meat processing waste, kelp meal and fish emulsion compared to conventional fertilizers.
Not very... "organic" fertilizers are usually sold at a premium. Years ago, I was doing the numbers on getting chicken litter from a local egg farm about 13 miles away to spread on a 20 acre hybrid bermudagrass field I had for hay... I went and talked to the company rep and he ran some numbers for me and told me basically I'd need FOUR SEMI LOADS of chicken manure for the 20 acres (well, just over 20 acres) and they'd bring out a spreader for me to use... my tractor was on the small side so he recommended filling the spreader only half full at a time so it'd handle it better. He told me the analysis (actual nutrient content of the manure which IIRC was like 3-2-2 (3% nitrogen, 2% phosphorus, 2% potassium-- NPK) and the price per ton, and tons per acre I'd have to apply. SO, I went home and did the math, plugging the analysis into the data... I kept coming up that it was MORE expensive to use the manure than to use regular granular dry fertilizer from the local ag supply delivered in a pull type hopper spinner spreader. I did the numbers three times and I kept getting the same result, so I called the guy back, and asked him to run my numbers and tell me where I was screwing up... He did and said, "Nope, you're numbers are right-- the chicken litter IS higher!" Now I was a bit flabbergasted-- used to be MANURE was the cheapest fertilizer you could get, because 1) big operations have SO MUCH OF IT the have to practically give it away to get rid of it all, and 2) it's a PITA to handle and deal with-- instead of a couple hundred pounds per acre of dry or liquid fertilizer, spreading manure to get the same nutrient availability requires TONS of manure per acre! That's a LOT of material to have to handle... plus it stinks like h3ll for a long time after you're done... ANYWAY, he then tells me WHY it's MORE EXPENSIVE for manure than for regular dry or liquid fertilizer... "Yeah, we got all these ORGANIC rice farms around here now, and they CANNOT use regular liquid or dry "chemical" fertilizer on the organic fields and maintain their certification, so they HAVE to buy manure, so we can charge a PREMIUM for it ABOVE what you'd pay for regular dry or liquid... " I was like "Okay, thanks!" and that was that... I called the local ag supply and they dropped off a spinner spreader full of about 2 tons of dry fertilizer that I spread in about 2 hours and called them to get their applicator back... and for LESS MONEY than the stupid manure would have cost, and NOT having to deal with FOUR SEMI LOADS of chicken crap to do the SAME JOB, which would have probably taken me a couple days to get applied once it was delivered... a veritable MOUNTAIN of sh!t piled up on the edge of the field to be scooped into the machine and spread. SO, yeah, litter and waste and other stuff CAN be cost competitive, BUT it can also be higher, if there's a "captive market" like "organic production" nearby that the capricious rules state *must* be a certain thing to comply with or lose the certification... Kinda crazy, because the CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS are the same... and the plants DON'T CARE what form of nitrogen they get, or P or K for that matter... OH, there's *slight differences* in availability to the plants, persistence, and solubility, things like that, but for the most part, N is N the plants don't know the difference or care. Liquid or dry "chemical" fertilizers are just WAY more concentrated, so you're NOT spreading TONS of sh!t to do the same job that a few hundred pounds of chemicals can do... Plus the manure is FULL of bacteria and viruses and fungi and insects and weed seed and drug residues from the livestock producing it, heavy metals or other contaminants, etc...lots of other UNDESIRABLE stuff that you really don't want to spread on your land and can cause you a lot of problems later on... I've heard of several guys I or my family have known that either died or gotten severely ill and been damaged for life from breathing dust or fungi and stuff off of dry chicken litter... It's nothing to play with, you have to be careful... Just because it's "NATURAL" doesn't mean it's BETTER... Personally I'd rather eat vegetables from a field where clean CHEMICAL NPK was applied to the soil than were TONS of manure were spread, full of bacteria and other bugs, which is constantly blown around and sprayed around by rain drop splatter and wind every time a rainstorm comes through!!! Later! OL J R :)
Great video man. Spring is definitely here I’m excited to get out myself. Congratulations on being a fellow caffeine addict. You will now find the rest of your life with coffee to be much more enjoyable and when you don’t have it you will be miserable and difficult to deal with😂
@@HowFarmsWork Thats sad to hear. I wish the dairy industry would start going back to smaller herds. I miss seeing all the barns lit up in the evening and early mornings and cows actually out grazing.
Can you explain to us non-farmers why you side dress some corn and not others? That spreader seems more efficient than the rotary spreader. Great video as usual.
Crops need different amounts of nutrients at different times... when they first come up out of the ground, they're like little kids-- they need to eat often, but not very much because they're SMALL... as they grow, they eat a LOT of nutrients to keep getting bigger, so they eat MORE fertilizer... as the plants approach full size and/or the beginning of "bloom" or early reproductive stages, (late "vegetative stages" of plant growth prior to entering the "reproductive stages" the fertilizer use drops off somewhat... sorta like how teenagers will eat you out of house and home, but when you're 25 or 30 you usually don't eat as much... Anyway, once the plants bloom and start to develop seed or grain or lint (for cotton) or whatever, the demand for fertilizer increases as the plants are producing as much sugar and starch and stuff as possible to put into the grain or crop. Once the crop is made, the grain has gone through the "grain fill" period (in corn, the "blister" stage, "milk" stage, and into "early dough" stage of the ear) the nitrogen demand drops off again, and the plants pump whatever they reserves they can into the grain to complete their life cycle, and since it's only the crop you're interested in it's actually a GOOD thing to just about "run out of nutrients" at that point in time... (otherwise, it just is available and encourages weed growth!) Nutrients like nitrogen have a DEFINITE limited lifetime in the soil... which greatly depends on the FORMULATION of the nitrogen... Urea, for instance, needs to be moved into the soil as soon as possible after application, either by disking it in, or by rainfall to dissolve the pellets and move it into the soil with the rainwater. Anhydrous has to knifed into the ground and the slit sealed behind the knife to trap it in the soil, so the 'smoke" has time to dissolve in moisture present in the soil itself, binding it to the soil. Liquid is usually pretty readily available since it's already usually just dissolved ammonia in water as a carrier. Dry fertilizer like ammonium nitrate (and many other formulations but that one pops to mind) has to either be dissolved by rainwater or irrigation to move into the soil, or disked in so it can dissolve in soil moisture and become available to plants. Bacteria and fungi in the soil are constantly using and breaking down nitrogen as well, so the warmer the ground is, the faster the fertilizer is "used up" Rotting vegetation also soaks up nitrogen, and then releases it as the rotted organic matter turns to humus and returns to the soil. Nitrogen is also prone to leaching in extremely waterlogged soils or in heavy floods with lots of runoff. SO, it's better to kind of "time" the application of the nitrogen as close to the times when the plants will actually NEED it and USE it as possible-- BUT, you never want the plants to be SHORT on the nutrient, or that will stress the plants and reduce the yield potential considerably. Some guys, aiming for MAXIMUM yields and returns-per-acre on input costs, will "spoon feed" the crop, applying the fertilizer *just before* the plants actually need it, via various soil pre-plant spreading of fertilizer, knifing in or dribble applications in-furrow at planting (pop-up fertilizer), side-dressing via knifing in fertilizer in-season, or applying it as foliar sprays later in the season during the early bloom and early grain or crop development (early reproductive stage) to maximize the yields and get the best 'bang for the buck" out of the fertilizer... course you have to MANAGE CAREFULLY doing it that way and TIMING IS EVERYTHING-- fertilizer applied a little too late after the plants have become stressed for lack of it and it's too late-- you've already hurt yields... Plus there's application costs and often things like pop-up applied in-furrow and foliar sprays are more expensive fertilizer formulations, ie "low salt" fertilizer that is required to prevent killing the germination of the seeds (when in-furrow applied) or burning the leaves and vegetation (when applied as a foliar spray). Plus, the different methods also sort of have "built in limits" to how MUCH you can safely or effectively apply at one time, depending on the formulation and application method... knifing it into the soil beside the row is basically virtually limitless how much you can put in, where in-furrow and foliar applications can hurt or kill the seed or injure the plants above a certain level, and/or be ineffective above a certain level. We used to side-dress our crops, usually knifed in half the fertilizer recommendation for the crop pre-plant knifed in directly under the center of the beds where we would plant the crops a week or two later (on average), and then knifed in the other half in-season sidedress with back-swept knives running about 6-8 inches off the row on the side of the beds... We did that for our cotton, grain sorghum, and corn. Beans usually didn't require any fertilizer, or maybe a shot of preplant phosphate... that was about it. Later! OL J R :)
You don't want to know how much that cost (it's a company that applies it for a fee) and it's basically the same as what you'd do applying it with the planter, but applying with the planter slows down planting and is a big pain in the butt because of having to refill the little hoppers all the time... Later! OL J R :)
Hey Ryan, What is the upside of using a graduated fertilizer verses a liquid one? In my mind I would think the liquid fertilizer would be faster to be absorbed into the soil verses the granular. Glad to see Rocket get to take a ride on the farm too. Please be safe and thanks for the video :)
They're about the same, actually... the liquid has to dissolve in soil moisture and move out by osmosis and wicking through the soil with the moisture. Dry has to either be incorporated by disking or mixing with soil, or dissolved in rainfall or irrigation water and move down into the soil with the water. Anhydrous is knifed in and the "smoke" anhydrous vapors are drawn to soil moisture and dissolve in it, and again have to move out from the knifing-in point through the soil profile through dissolution (greater concentration to lesser concentration). It's all pretty much the same, not a HUGE difference. Dry is easier to move and spread IN BULK with relatively simple equipment (hoppers and augers, spinner spreaders), or can be a total PITA (bags and planter fertilizer boxes). Liquid is pretty easy to handle, just requires nurse tanks and gas-powered pumps, but hoses and connections and stuff to maintain and that occasionally fail. Metering it out onto the field is usually done by sprayer-type controllers or variable-displacement pumps (or variable speed constant displacement pumps like squeeze pumps) and either dribbled or knifed in or sprayed on... Anhydrous is self-pressurizing so just has to be pressure-regulated to deliver the correct rate, and injected into the soil and immediately covered up to trap it in the soil long enough for it to dissolve in soil moisture... Later! OL J R: )
No anhydrous is usually cheaper, but harder to handle... has to be KNIFED into the ground and the tracks SEALED to keep the magic smoke from blowing away in the wind... Anhydrous is popular in row crops, particularly ones with high nitrogen demands (rates) but those fields are usually much easier to knife it in and seal the ground behind it to keep it in the soil til it dissolves in soil moisture and is trapped... Dry and liquid can be spun on or "dribbled" on or sprayed on and then carried into the soil by rainfall or irrigation. We used to use liquid fertilizer on all our row crops because it was just so much easier to handle-- Dad nearly got gassed by a busted anhydrous hose when I was just a lil kid in the early 70's, so he said, "Nope, I'll just pay a little more per ton for the liquid where it can't gas you!" We knifed our liquid in the beds for cotton, grain sorghum, corn, and beans, and often sidedressed with a knife applicator in-season running sword knives about 6 inches off the rows... worked good. Half pre-plant half sidedress is what I'd usually do. We also had an old dry fertilizer machine Grandpa got from somewhere and I did dry fertilizer a couple years, but dealing with all those 50 lb bags sure cured me of that! Went back to liquid and never looked back! OL J R :)
You can tour the plant in Ankeny, Iowa where they're built... same works they build their cotton pickers and chisel plows and cultivators in... I toured it back in the 90's... just gotta call ahead and make an appointment so they can have a volunteer to take you through the plant. I always wanted to see where they built the cotton pickers... Toured the Kinze plant as well, and of course the Deere combine works.... Later! OL J R :)
Dig samples in several spots in the field, mix them all together, then bag up a soil sample bag and send it in to the local university, usually drop it off at the local extension office. They prepare the samples and do a chemical analysis showing what nutrients and elements are present in the soil, along with organic matter and some other measurements of the soil traits (like cation exchange capacity, a measure of how readily nutrients can dissolve, be held in, and released from the soil and made available to plants, among other things) and then make a fertilizer recommendation for a specific crop and desired yield that you specify in advance... then they send you the results. Many co-ops and ag suppliers now also offer the service, doing "grid sampling" over many areas of the field and doing many more soil tests and making "soil maps" and "fertilizer maps" for each field or farm depending on the nutrient needs in each small sampling area, which is a lot more detailed than just a single-field fertilizer recommendation, and can save the farmer quite a bit of money by not underapplying fertilizer to good soil with high yield potential, which limits yields, or overapplying to poorer soils or hilltops or whatever where the yield potential is limited anyway by other factors, and the plants won't use a heavy dose of fertilizer to produce a crop ANYWAY... Such grid sampling is often done by 4 wheelers with GPS equipped sampler units that can then correlate where a sample was taken from in the field, so that when the results are returned, those results show up in the map for THAT spot in the field... which allows an application map to be made for variable-rate controllers to apply larger or smaller amounts of fertilizer across the field as they go, using the GPS and map to control the rate applied... Later! OL J R: )
Hey Ryan, I was just curious as to the product being loaded into the sprayer hopper looks dry, but the spray looks like a liquid.... are my eyes playing tricks on me or does it get liquefied before coming out of the nozzles... thanks you... retired construction worker in Idaho
It's granules, granular dry fertilizer... little bitty prills of material, like BB's only about 3/4 the size of BB's... the big fan in the middle blows them down individual tubes from the center running out toward the ends, evenly spaced openings where each tube ends in turn, so the stuff is divided up equally among the tubes under the fan and then blown by air out the end of the tubes, and the granules bounce off those little angled metal plates over the end of the tube hole so they "splatter" out into a cone-shaped pattern to distribute evenly across the ground... Later! OL J R :)
Little of both... too much fertilizer can "burn' the roots but usually when it's disked in and spread out through the soil by rainfall, it doesn't... just kinda "wasteful" if the plants don't use it all... Later! OL J R:)
Blows the dry pellets out the tubes and bounces them off the metal plates just outside the holes... stuff bounces off the plates into a "spray pattern" as the pellets splatter off the metal plates... Later! OL J R: )
See a few people feet and scratch in around pretty wet over all we been slow been neb sd mn ioway kan but far and in between hopefully this co19 gets gone bull racks been real slow hard to pay drivers
Yeah I can drink one SMALL Tervis in the morning... I get two, my heart races half the day... feel worse not better. Lil coffee wakes ya up, for sure, but don't become a coffee addict. Later! OL J R :)
I don't like the looks of ANY of the new trucks... them big honkin chrome grills, and they're ugly AF to boot, like my old man used to say "looks like a smashed catfish!" Huge honkin' chrome grills look like a d@mn Tonka truck, but then again, that's who these trucks are really made for... overgrown kids who want a jacked up truck that looks like a friggin' TOY... and it shows in how they're built! 20 inch donk tires on a frigging work truck and these new ones are SO high off the ground I swear I can climb into a semi easier than my nephew's friggin trucks... and what they charge for them... just nuts... I'll keep my old truck thanks! OL J R :)
Shame on chevy for putting a non functioning hood scoop on their truck, shame on people for thinking farmers are stupid, and shame on John Deere for not giving farmers access to the diagnostics of the machines they paid for. What has America come to
No social distancing with Andrew is a no-no Ryan!
I will say this, I am just Fascinated with the new Equipment that is invented every year to make farming so much simpler, My Grand Father would be amazed at the high tech there is today. Hell I am admazed.
Yesterday four different sprayer-rigs drove past the house, a definite sign of spring here in rural South Jersey.
I haven't needed to mow the grass this-early in years. Last year it was mid-May.
Absolutely loving that F4365 spreader! Hopefully it gets turned into a mod for FS19.
That spreader looks meaty on those tyres Ryan. Good to see you are getting on the land again my friend.
I know
Them: “The field needs potassium” Me:”K”
Ryan, I really enjoyed this video, I hope you and your family are doing well and staying safe during this pandemic. thanks for the satisfaction!
That was fun to watch! I liked your picture of your pup on Facebook with the sprayer in the background.❤ beautiful photography 😉
Snowed in NY this morning
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That was a really cool looking Fertilizer Applicator. Half tractor/Half track! Loved you're drone work! Thank you for sharing! Stay safe and healthy :-))
nice drone footage. loved the john deere green!
Thanks for sharing, good to see the field work getting started. That spreader was an awesome looking machine. That undercarriage would make an amazing off road mobile home 😂. Stay safe, wishing you and your family the best.
Always enjoy your videos. Excellent drone footage. Andrews input is an added bonus and interesting. Look forward to the next one
Amazing drone footage thanks
Very nice truck Andrew 👍🏾 Coffee is my number 1 drink in the morning an afternoon.
Would be interesting to see the progression over the years of farmers learning how to farm the land. Every area is different and it interest me how it was started farming and how it was learned what was right and wrong. I know I'm still learning on mine.
would like a walk-around of the spreader
Great video thanks Ryan 👍
Isn't it nice how he lets the dog come with.
I’m always happy when Rocket lets me tag along!
Pretty sure rocket makes the rules! Obviously he is the boss
When I am reincarnated I want to come back as a farm dog.
Love the vid keep up the good work
Get a weathertech floormat for that truck!
Definitely time to get going now. Travis and Brittain did some chisel plowing in last night's video, so I'm sure there's plenty more of that to do along with running the VT for you. You're gonna need a lot of coffee to get through this spring! (I've never been one for it since it makes me jittery.)
Remember I forgot to like video came back ended watching it all agin great video
Great job on the social distancing! Very responsable of you! well done! :'(
I think I like everything about this video, from the vehicles all the way to the thumbnail
We make the tires for that new Chevy here in SE Alabama
Johnny Dean Thanks for making the tires for my truck!
Nice to see the start of the fieldwork!,
Wow what a nice piece of equipment
Ryan- have you thought about doing promo videos for equipment manufactures? The footage of the Deere air fertilizer applicator is really good.
I have a 2019 GMC just got my mirror busted off the dealer said it is $647.98 . They may look cheap but there not. Thanks for the videos.
I dented my bed and they said three thousand to fix it so I didn't.
Built cheap and priced like gold... Yeah my nephew sheared the mirror off his brother's Ford, had them power telescoping trailer mirrors with the heaters and turn signals and the whole 9 yards... those things are $900+ YIKES!!! OL J R :)
Nice Chevy and Deere commercial .
Back in the day, we spread and sprayed with foam markers.
I do love the American pick ups.
Me too
Great video Ryan!
great work good driver
I've often wondered how cost effective organic fertilizers would be, like meat processing waste, kelp meal and fish emulsion compared to conventional fertilizers.
not near enough supply
Plenty in the Northeast we use a lot of residuals
Not very... "organic" fertilizers are usually sold at a premium. Years ago, I was doing the numbers on getting chicken litter from a local egg farm about 13 miles away to spread on a 20 acre hybrid bermudagrass field I had for hay... I went and talked to the company rep and he ran some numbers for me and told me basically I'd need FOUR SEMI LOADS of chicken manure for the 20 acres (well, just over 20 acres) and they'd bring out a spreader for me to use... my tractor was on the small side so he recommended filling the spreader only half full at a time so it'd handle it better. He told me the analysis (actual nutrient content of the manure which IIRC was like 3-2-2 (3% nitrogen, 2% phosphorus, 2% potassium-- NPK) and the price per ton, and tons per acre I'd have to apply. SO, I went home and did the math, plugging the analysis into the data... I kept coming up that it was MORE expensive to use the manure than to use regular granular dry fertilizer from the local ag supply delivered in a pull type hopper spinner spreader. I did the numbers three times and I kept getting the same result, so I called the guy back, and asked him to run my numbers and tell me where I was screwing up... He did and said, "Nope, you're numbers are right-- the chicken litter IS higher!" Now I was a bit flabbergasted-- used to be MANURE was the cheapest fertilizer you could get, because 1) big operations have SO MUCH OF IT the have to practically give it away to get rid of it all, and 2) it's a PITA to handle and deal with-- instead of a couple hundred pounds per acre of dry or liquid fertilizer, spreading manure to get the same nutrient availability requires TONS of manure per acre! That's a LOT of material to have to handle... plus it stinks like h3ll for a long time after you're done... ANYWAY, he then tells me WHY it's MORE EXPENSIVE for manure than for regular dry or liquid fertilizer... "Yeah, we got all these ORGANIC rice farms around here now, and they CANNOT use regular liquid or dry "chemical" fertilizer on the organic fields and maintain their certification, so they HAVE to buy manure, so we can charge a PREMIUM for it ABOVE what you'd pay for regular dry or liquid... " I was like "Okay, thanks!" and that was that...
I called the local ag supply and they dropped off a spinner spreader full of about 2 tons of dry fertilizer that I spread in about 2 hours and called them to get their applicator back... and for LESS MONEY than the stupid manure would have cost, and NOT having to deal with FOUR SEMI LOADS of chicken crap to do the SAME JOB, which would have probably taken me a couple days to get applied once it was delivered... a veritable MOUNTAIN of sh!t piled up on the edge of the field to be scooped into the machine and spread.
SO, yeah, litter and waste and other stuff CAN be cost competitive, BUT it can also be higher, if there's a "captive market" like "organic production" nearby that the capricious rules state *must* be a certain thing to comply with or lose the certification... Kinda crazy, because the CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS are the same... and the plants DON'T CARE what form of nitrogen they get, or P or K for that matter... OH, there's *slight differences* in availability to the plants, persistence, and solubility, things like that, but for the most part, N is N the plants don't know the difference or care. Liquid or dry "chemical" fertilizers are just WAY more concentrated, so you're NOT spreading TONS of sh!t to do the same job that a few hundred pounds of chemicals can do... Plus the manure is FULL of bacteria and viruses and fungi and insects and weed seed and drug residues from the livestock producing it, heavy metals or other contaminants, etc...lots of other UNDESIRABLE stuff that you really don't want to spread on your land and can cause you a lot of problems later on... I've heard of several guys I or my family have known that either died or gotten severely ill and been damaged for life from breathing dust or fungi and stuff off of dry chicken litter... It's nothing to play with, you have to be careful... Just because it's "NATURAL" doesn't mean it's BETTER... Personally I'd rather eat vegetables from a field where clean CHEMICAL NPK was applied to the soil than were TONS of manure were spread, full of bacteria and other bugs, which is constantly blown around and sprayed around by rain drop splatter and wind every time a rainstorm comes through!!! Later! OL J R :)
Would that not have GPS wite section controle like a sprayer to prevent overlap
Yes it does
Great video man. Spring is definitely here I’m excited to get out myself. Congratulations on being a fellow caffeine addict. You will now find the rest of your life with coffee to be much more enjoyable and when you don’t have it you will be miserable and difficult to deal with😂
What did you guys do about the big sink holes in your field's ?
Love the thumbnail!
Yeah how do you get the thumbnails to be such high quality
Happy birthday Ryan
Thanks for the vid Ryan..
Nice on both counts, Well wear Andrew:):)
Ryan Give us updates on the Bartles (?). Are they going to be able to get crop in, neighbors help? etc.
They’re selling their dairy here on auction today.
@@HowFarmsWork Thats sad to hear. I wish the dairy industry would start going back to smaller herds. I miss seeing all the barns lit up in the evening and early mornings and cows actually out grazing.
Can you explain to us non-farmers why you side dress some corn and not others? That spreader seems more efficient than the rotary spreader. Great video as usual.
Crops need different amounts of nutrients at different times... when they first come up out of the ground, they're like little kids-- they need to eat often, but not very much because they're SMALL... as they grow, they eat a LOT of nutrients to keep getting bigger, so they eat MORE fertilizer... as the plants approach full size and/or the beginning of "bloom" or early reproductive stages, (late "vegetative stages" of plant growth prior to entering the "reproductive stages" the fertilizer use drops off somewhat... sorta like how teenagers will eat you out of house and home, but when you're 25 or 30 you usually don't eat as much... Anyway, once the plants bloom and start to develop seed or grain or lint (for cotton) or whatever, the demand for fertilizer increases as the plants are producing as much sugar and starch and stuff as possible to put into the grain or crop. Once the crop is made, the grain has gone through the "grain fill" period (in corn, the "blister" stage, "milk" stage, and into "early dough" stage of the ear) the nitrogen demand drops off again, and the plants pump whatever they reserves they can into the grain to complete their life cycle, and since it's only the crop you're interested in it's actually a GOOD thing to just about "run out of nutrients" at that point in time... (otherwise, it just is available and encourages weed growth!)
Nutrients like nitrogen have a DEFINITE limited lifetime in the soil... which greatly depends on the FORMULATION of the nitrogen... Urea, for instance, needs to be moved into the soil as soon as possible after application, either by disking it in, or by rainfall to dissolve the pellets and move it into the soil with the rainwater. Anhydrous has to knifed into the ground and the slit sealed behind the knife to trap it in the soil, so the 'smoke" has time to dissolve in moisture present in the soil itself, binding it to the soil. Liquid is usually pretty readily available since it's already usually just dissolved ammonia in water as a carrier. Dry fertilizer like ammonium nitrate (and many other formulations but that one pops to mind) has to either be dissolved by rainwater or irrigation to move into the soil, or disked in so it can dissolve in soil moisture and become available to plants. Bacteria and fungi in the soil are constantly using and breaking down nitrogen as well, so the warmer the ground is, the faster the fertilizer is "used up" Rotting vegetation also soaks up nitrogen, and then releases it as the rotted organic matter turns to humus and returns to the soil. Nitrogen is also prone to leaching in extremely waterlogged soils or in heavy floods with lots of runoff. SO, it's better to kind of "time" the application of the nitrogen as close to the times when the plants will actually NEED it and USE it as possible-- BUT, you never want the plants to be SHORT on the nutrient, or that will stress the plants and reduce the yield potential considerably. Some guys, aiming for MAXIMUM yields and returns-per-acre on input costs, will "spoon feed" the crop, applying the fertilizer *just before* the plants actually need it, via various soil pre-plant spreading of fertilizer, knifing in or dribble applications in-furrow at planting (pop-up fertilizer), side-dressing via knifing in fertilizer in-season, or applying it as foliar sprays later in the season during the early bloom and early grain or crop development (early reproductive stage) to maximize the yields and get the best 'bang for the buck" out of the fertilizer... course you have to MANAGE CAREFULLY doing it that way and TIMING IS EVERYTHING-- fertilizer applied a little too late after the plants have become stressed for lack of it and it's too late-- you've already hurt yields... Plus there's application costs and often things like pop-up applied in-furrow and foliar sprays are more expensive fertilizer formulations, ie "low salt" fertilizer that is required to prevent killing the germination of the seeds (when in-furrow applied) or burning the leaves and vegetation (when applied as a foliar spray). Plus, the different methods also sort of have "built in limits" to how MUCH you can safely or effectively apply at one time, depending on the formulation and application method... knifing it into the soil beside the row is basically virtually limitless how much you can put in, where in-furrow and foliar applications can hurt or kill the seed or injure the plants above a certain level, and/or be ineffective above a certain level.
We used to side-dress our crops, usually knifed in half the fertilizer recommendation for the crop pre-plant knifed in directly under the center of the beds where we would plant the crops a week or two later (on average), and then knifed in the other half in-season sidedress with back-swept knives running about 6-8 inches off the row on the side of the beds... We did that for our cotton, grain sorghum, and corn. Beans usually didn't require any fertilizer, or maybe a shot of preplant phosphate... that was about it.
Later! OL J R :)
Hey how’s Dad like the new truck? I’m in the market. Thank you
That's a nice sprayer👍
Love the video
As I watched them spread that a question came to mind. Does that have GPS to maximize coverage? I'm thinking it does but unsure.
Eric Beightol yeah it does. Looked to be running greenstar
Yup you can tell by the little yellow globe on top of the cab.
@@tannerkrcil1021 Missed the globe on top. Thanks
I have noticed you are often running with flashers on in the field. Is it mandatory in the USA?
No... lotta guys just don't turn em off... OL J R :)
@@lukestrawwalker and depends on the job most likely, how long it’ll take, too but yeah.
Nice you guys are able to get in the field. Wisconsin farming
How much did that cost and is that a better way than using pellet fertilizer in your corn planter when you plant corn?
You don't want to know how much that cost (it's a company that applies it for a fee) and it's basically the same as what you'd do applying it with the planter, but applying with the planter slows down planting and is a big pain in the butt because of having to refill the little hoppers all the time... Later! OL J R :)
Hey Ryan, What is the upside of using a graduated fertilizer verses a liquid one? In my mind I would think the liquid fertilizer would be faster to be absorbed into the soil verses the granular. Glad to see Rocket get to take a ride on the farm too. Please be safe and thanks for the video :)
They're about the same, actually... the liquid has to dissolve in soil moisture and move out by osmosis and wicking through the soil with the moisture. Dry has to either be incorporated by disking or mixing with soil, or dissolved in rainfall or irrigation water and move down into the soil with the water. Anhydrous is knifed in and the "smoke" anhydrous vapors are drawn to soil moisture and dissolve in it, and again have to move out from the knifing-in point through the soil profile through dissolution (greater concentration to lesser concentration). It's all pretty much the same, not a HUGE difference. Dry is easier to move and spread IN BULK with relatively simple equipment (hoppers and augers, spinner spreaders), or can be a total PITA (bags and planter fertilizer boxes). Liquid is pretty easy to handle, just requires nurse tanks and gas-powered pumps, but hoses and connections and stuff to maintain and that occasionally fail. Metering it out onto the field is usually done by sprayer-type controllers or variable-displacement pumps (or variable speed constant displacement pumps like squeeze pumps) and either dribbled or knifed in or sprayed on... Anhydrous is self-pressurizing so just has to be pressure-regulated to deliver the correct rate, and injected into the soil and immediately covered up to trap it in the soil long enough for it to dissolve in soil moisture...
Later! OL J R: )
Does spreader have auto steer?
Yes runs green star like every other Deere
Is dry fertilizer cheaper then anhydrous? Does it work just as well? All we have is hay ground for our horses and we broadcast dry fertilizer.
No anhydrous is usually cheaper, but harder to handle... has to be KNIFED into the ground and the tracks SEALED to keep the magic smoke from blowing away in the wind... Anhydrous is popular in row crops, particularly ones with high nitrogen demands (rates) but those fields are usually much easier to knife it in and seal the ground behind it to keep it in the soil til it dissolves in soil moisture and is trapped...
Dry and liquid can be spun on or "dribbled" on or sprayed on and then carried into the soil by rainfall or irrigation. We used to use liquid fertilizer on all our row crops because it was just so much easier to handle-- Dad nearly got gassed by a busted anhydrous hose when I was just a lil kid in the early 70's, so he said, "Nope, I'll just pay a little more per ton for the liquid where it can't gas you!" We knifed our liquid in the beds for cotton, grain sorghum, corn, and beans, and often sidedressed with a knife applicator in-season running sword knives about 6 inches off the rows... worked good. Half pre-plant half sidedress is what I'd usually do. We also had an old dry fertilizer machine Grandpa got from somewhere and I did dry fertilizer a couple years, but dealing with all those 50 lb bags sure cured me of that! Went back to liquid and never looked back! OL J R :)
I didn't know JD made sprayers..
have for a while
Ryan Levis lol not a sprayer
You can tour the plant in Ankeny, Iowa where they're built... same works they build their cotton pickers and chisel plows and cultivators in... I toured it back in the 90's... just gotta call ahead and make an appointment so they can have a volunteer to take you through the plant. I always wanted to see where they built the cotton pickers...
Toured the Kinze plant as well, and of course the Deere combine works.... Later! OL J R :)
Nice video
How do you test soil?
Dig samples in several spots in the field, mix them all together, then bag up a soil sample bag and send it in to the local university, usually drop it off at the local extension office. They prepare the samples and do a chemical analysis showing what nutrients and elements are present in the soil, along with organic matter and some other measurements of the soil traits (like cation exchange capacity, a measure of how readily nutrients can dissolve, be held in, and released from the soil and made available to plants, among other things) and then make a fertilizer recommendation for a specific crop and desired yield that you specify in advance... then they send you the results. Many co-ops and ag suppliers now also offer the service, doing "grid sampling" over many areas of the field and doing many more soil tests and making "soil maps" and "fertilizer maps" for each field or farm depending on the nutrient needs in each small sampling area, which is a lot more detailed than just a single-field fertilizer recommendation, and can save the farmer quite a bit of money by not underapplying fertilizer to good soil with high yield potential, which limits yields, or overapplying to poorer soils or hilltops or whatever where the yield potential is limited anyway by other factors, and the plants won't use a heavy dose of fertilizer to produce a crop ANYWAY... Such grid sampling is often done by 4 wheelers with GPS equipped sampler units that can then correlate where a sample was taken from in the field, so that when the results are returned, those results show up in the map for THAT spot in the field... which allows an application map to be made for variable-rate controllers to apply larger or smaller amounts of fertilizer across the field as they go, using the GPS and map to control the rate applied...
Later! OL J R: )
Hey Ryan, I was just curious as to the product being loaded into the sprayer hopper looks dry, but the spray looks like a liquid.... are my eyes playing tricks on me or does it get liquefied before coming out of the nozzles... thanks you... retired construction worker in Idaho
If you watch carefully you can see it is still solid as it comes out. It is just how they air distribution system makes it seem
it is a dry spreader, uses air to blow the product through each small pipe on the booms
would be nice to see a walk-around of it
@@johnsummers172 Thanks John... I appreciate the info !
It's granules, granular dry fertilizer... little bitty prills of material, like BB's only about 3/4 the size of BB's... the big fan in the middle blows them down individual tubes from the center running out toward the ends, evenly spaced openings where each tube ends in turn, so the stuff is divided up equally among the tubes under the fan and then blown by air out the end of the tubes, and the granules bounce off those little angled metal plates over the end of the tube hole so they "splatter" out into a cone-shaped pattern to distribute evenly across the ground...
Later! OL J R :)
Wow now that’s how you spread fertilizer 😲😂
Is it harmful to cover a small area twice, or just sortof wasteful?
Little of both... too much fertilizer can "burn' the roots but usually when it's disked in and spread out through the soil by rainfall, it doesn't... just kinda "wasteful" if the plants don't use it all... Later! OL J R:)
So is Andrew an independent agronomist or does he work for a company and that’s how he can get you guys equipment?
Zeus Macafee I’m with Nutrien Ag Solutions
Ok how does that work I notice putin powder fertilizer but it is spraying
Blows the dry pellets out the tubes and bounces them off the metal plates just outside the holes... stuff bounces off the plates into a "spray pattern" as the pellets splatter off the metal plates... Later! OL J R: )
How do you know if you missed a spot?
It’s all GPS
Mr jitters lol keep a cool on the coffee ☕️
coffee, the legal drug for many.
Hola amigo soy de chile Saludos
Hola. Mi caga en las pantalones
You guys think you'll start planting corn this early?
Not till the ground is ready. Also, since they run insurance they have to go by that window of opportunity.
Brandon Caldwell and they have to wait after April 15 because that’s the insurance date
Rocket was the one who gave this video a thumbs down because he was in the thumbnail and not the video.
Hey Rocket.
Randys FiftySevenChevy - Rocket is almost always in the background. I do not think Ryan goes anywhere without Rocket.
See a few people feet and scratch in around pretty wet over all we been slow been neb sd mn ioway kan but far and in between hopefully this co19 gets gone bull racks been real slow hard to pay drivers
Sweet thumbnail
i think a nuclear bomb went off at 2:54 eh?
Fantastic
Hey Ryan!!
2wd or 4wd?
RK Harm24 2 wheel drive
10:07 4×4 decal on bed
SJS we talking truck or spreader? The Deere is a 2wd truck is 4
@@andytuck13 sorry, I meant truck also
Get suma groulx and put it on your fields.
Super
you're lucky that you can drink coffee sends my heart into a panic attack
Yeah I can drink one SMALL Tervis in the morning... I get two, my heart races half the day... feel worse not better. Lil coffee wakes ya up, for sure, but don't become a coffee addict. Later! OL J R :)
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Hello my brother
why silver? cause it's a silverado ...
Want more thumbs up, put rocket in the passenger seat! 🐶👍
Devil's brew....lol
Hi
I still like your truck better
I hate those new Chevy trucks. The whole thing looks upside down. Nice video.
Yup, usually like the way Chevy trucks look but this new generation is just the definition of butterface
I don't like the looks of ANY of the new trucks... them big honkin chrome grills, and they're ugly AF to boot, like my old man used to say "looks like a smashed catfish!" Huge honkin' chrome grills look like a d@mn Tonka truck, but then again, that's who these trucks are really made for... overgrown kids who want a jacked up truck that looks like a friggin' TOY... and it shows in how they're built! 20 inch donk tires on a frigging work truck and these new ones are SO high off the ground I swear I can climb into a semi easier than my nephew's friggin trucks... and what they charge for them... just nuts... I'll keep my old truck thanks! OL J R :)
Shame on chevy for putting a non functioning hood scoop on their truck, shame on people for thinking farmers are stupid, and shame on John Deere for not giving farmers access to the diagnostics of the machines they paid for. What has America come to
You own cattle and you're not much of a coffee drinker? Wait, what?
O M G Thats a fugly truck
First
Your not 6ft apart . Lol.
Shity over priced crap !!!!!
Hello