It would be interesting to know how much corn is required to produce the amount of plastic you used and to determine if the early harvest pays for the plastic.
Nice video on the biofilm, what product is that? I was reading an article on Canada's ban on some of these products.... broadforkfarm.com/biodegradable-plastic-mulches-no-longer-allowed-in-canadian-organics-what-now/ What do you think of the long term effect will be? Thanks for the presentation. I've only seen it used for strawberries around Virginia.
Don't put too much faith in the fact that it was made from corn starch. It doesn't necessarily mean that it would degrade into starch or anything close. Most likely it breaks down into micro plastic as opposed to decomposing.
i had a good belly laugh.. our hanging tomato's sell really good so we try and hide them ( because it would be silly to make money selling them and plant enough for everyone to give us their money for them ) haha
10th Generation Dairy Farmer brought me here :P I've watched over a dozen of your videos so far, been interested in finding a channel that grows veggies. Already been a long subscriber to farmers who do corn and wheat but it's all dried up, so it's refreshing to see veggies and fruits that are picked to be served at the table, rather than dumped into a train car for mill processing.
@@haveaniceday3290 The cost of a few bullets vs the cost of miles of fencing... I think I know which one the farmer chooses. In South Africa we have animals that easily jump over most farm fences ruclips.net/video/HCKojJ4jvIw/видео.html ruclips.net/video/0Y3V4KE5r2E/видео.html. Or they just go through them: ruclips.net/video/kZedgKylfqE/видео.html
try peaches and cream sweet corn you will love it so will your customers thats what we plant here on the homestead for our selfs and farmers market and it sells fast and tastes great we freeze dry, it we can it, and dry it to grind make sweet cornmeal.
Donald Kasper it’s not the same as plastic for strawberries. Strawberry plastic is not biodegradable and has to be removed after strawberry crop in order to plow up and get the field ready to plant in September again. Big difference between the two products
Really a pleasure to watch the family working together, and I learn more and more with each video. I just started watching, so I'm interested in finding out just where this farm is.
Your family has a very impressive operation. The variety and diversity of what you are producing and selling is amazing. To keep all the moving parts in healthy production and sales is a huge task. Who is in charge of all of this, Dad, or Andrew, or is it coordinated among the group?
My favorite - Sweet Corn. Howe long does it take for the plastic covering to deteriorate? You weren't kidding, the green house is loaded with colorful plants. Well done
SB90 sounds like the item number. is it a hybred corn seed? loving the plastic. will try it this next planting. lol. do not have the machine, but the plan os the same. what is the chemical in the tanks?
Another good video. Thanks, I only have sugar corn for my own use and sowed part 5 weeks later like the rest last year. It was a great success and had fresh corn until late in the season. Now you already have so much work that I understand you are not doing this.
That’s how I plant my sweet corn man. I usually beat the other local growers by a couple weeks. That gives me a chance to sell my corn when no one else has any. I’ve never heard of biodegradable plastic that’s interesting!! I usually just plant my corn on the bed with used plastic from pepper from the year before. That way I don’t have to lay out new plastic for sweet corn, I just plant it on the used plastic where I grew my peppers the year before.
i worked on a farm in southwestern PA we did biodegradable black plastic for early sweet corn. worked very well! but i dont see any drip tape under your plastic. once that corn get a few feet tall your not gonna get enough rain water in the holes of the plastic, gonna have a lot of dried tips.
Bro your dad alone i've learned so much wisdom from him. "Don't stick your finger where it doesn't belong!" "Wash your hands!" and today "Wear your mask, be safe!" love it haha
My Father and I built a number of those plastic mulch applicators for the Saskatchewan government, about 20 yrs ago. It's a very good weed and moisture control method. Works very well with truck crops.
Britton Mueller i agree to an extent, however when you plow the ground surface temp is 10 degrees warmer which is ideal for starting seeds earlier than normal. Which is what we’re doing in this video.
Fair enough. I've recently gotten into growing more organically and learning how to mitigate water loss due to evaporation and everything points me back to no till. I think the native Americans had it figured out when they would grow corn along side climbing legumes and gourds. I understand it's not that simple when you're trying to grow mass quantities and harvest mechanically, but I wished we could develop types of harvesters that would allow this type of growing. New methods new problems! lol
Britton Mueller I appreciate your time and consideration! It really shows that you care and I appreciate that. We live close to the Chesapeake watershed so we are held to different standards than normal. We have many stipulations and it’s interesting because we can’t plant things in certain areas because of run off. There’s a lot people don’t see or understand, but I appreciate that you do research.
@@theveggieboys I like to toss out my opinion freely and it's not meant to discredit anybody else for what they do or how they do things. I do it to maybe spark conversation and possibly ruffle some feathers from time to time. I'm certainly no expert either! Keep working hard! I know farming isn't easy by any means. :)
I have noticed the opposite. Deer eat stuff to the ground and rabbits eat a leaf here and there. I watched a group of them munching on dandy lion. They would eat 1 or 2 leaves off of each plant then move to the next.
Root growth is probably more important than photosynthesis and keeping the roots warm will allow a healthier and quicker plant development. Laying down plastic for the commercial grower or larger gardens are a very practical and smart method but the backyard gardener will be pleased with results of using 5 gallon fabric or vinyl bags, preferably black, which allows more radiant heat into these bags. For those who live in a cooler growing zone...this method is the smartest way to grow without a doubt.
Looks good. We got sandy soil here in NE Georgia. Grow some of the prettiest silver queen. First gust of wind it just topples over every time. I've ran string tight tight never helps. I've dug 9in deep furs still blows over any ideas?? Lol I'm out if ideas
I have a question, if you wouldn’t mind answering, how did y’all get started? I’m looking into expanding and doing market type gardens but I’m so lost. Any advice?
Long story short, our family was contracted raising tomatoes and peppers for a cannery. A lot of people wanted vegetables from our family (before I was born) but due to being under contract we couldn’t sell to them. So our family started raising vegetables for people and it went from there. My advice is raise the things that other people aren’t lol, it’s a pain, but it pays off.
You do not need a giant fence to keep deer out just a dual row of electric tape fence about 2-3 feet apart. It works very well I have used on a 7 acre food plot for deer to keep them out until plants large and can stand the foraging . You might go to some of the Quality Deer management forums to learn more about it. It would take 100 rabbits to equal the damage 2 or 3 deer could do and you might well have 20 or more deer using a plot but not 2,000 rabbits.
Plastic works for early tomatoes as witnessed by the famous Washington Boro Tomato Festival in Lancaster County. One ear of white is tasty but starts the migration to bicolored for the next 3 months. Without the plastic roasting ear duration would Be a month! Cut off corn for cooking can be white. A friend looses 10 rows of corn from deer damage next to his neighbors woods each year!
I know I'm behind on latest seed strains. How do you keep the corn from cross pollinating?, And reverting back to field corn? And Seeds that are cross pollination resistant? Thank you .
Farmer Dre Yes sir, one of the tanks on the back has fertilizer that feeds to a trickle line and the other has some weed spray in it. It sprays along the edges of the plastic and even on the hump underneath. It really prevents the weeds from sprouting up early. Also I checked out some of your videos and I enjoyed them! I love seeing people do something similar to us haha
@@theveggieboys well we have a small greenhouse and we are in Ohio so we may have to try that. We sell hanging baskets but only flowers in the past and we do sweet corn pumpkins and various other things. New ideas are always helpful being that farming feed corn soybeans and grain isn't profitable. We also aren't the most efficient. We still run Gleaner combines. Lol how much does the sweet corn implement increase yields on average and was it worth it?
We had deer eat 6 acres of watermelons this year. They actually are all the leaves and blooms off. Stripped me down to nothing but vines 😡. We live on a big river with huge wildlife management area that butts up to our home farm. Sucks bc the deep population has exploded in past 10 years. We’re seriously thinking ab putting an 8ft fence around it. I’m not much of a deer hunter, but I’m thinking ab starting and hunting em hard.
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The “plastic” is made of Corn starch. Which makes it EXTREMELY biodegradable.
It would be interesting to know how much corn is required to produce the amount of plastic you used and to determine if the early harvest pays for the plastic.
Nice video on the biofilm, what product is that? I was reading an article on Canada's ban on some of these products....
broadforkfarm.com/biodegradable-plastic-mulches-no-longer-allowed-in-canadian-organics-what-now/
What do you think of the long term effect will be?
Thanks for the presentation. I've only seen it used for strawberries around Virginia.
Thank you for stating that it is corn starch plastic. That was my first question. Standard biodegradable "plastics" just turn into plastic sand
Don't put too much faith in the fact that it was made from corn starch. It doesn't necessarily mean that it would degrade into starch or anything close. Most likely it breaks down into micro plastic as opposed to decomposing.
How did it work out?
Felt like some binge watching on reruns ( for me, I love your channel).
Thank you for sharing.
i had a good belly laugh.. our hanging tomato's sell really good so we try and hide them ( because it would be silly to make money selling them and plant enough for everyone to give us their money for them ) haha
Oh so such beautiful greenhouse ... ;-)))
I like the green house . Lot of nice flower
The green house looks like paradise !
10th Generation Dairy Farmer brought me here :P I've watched over a dozen of your videos so far, been interested in finding a channel that grows veggies. Already been a long subscriber to farmers who do corn and wheat but it's all dried up, so it's refreshing to see veggies and fruits that are picked to be served at the table, rather than dumped into a train car for mill processing.
Hi I am watching u guys from Belize central America I love all them
Amazing amount of work every day. We thank you farmers for providing so much to so many. We could not live as we do without you!
I enjoy watching your videos keep up the great work. We Can't get by without our farmers. Thank you.
Not sure why but this video is peaceful. Probably because of the great views in the backround
Stay safe brother.new friend from the philippines
Top class farming guys. I am loving the videos so keep them coming
You guys are on the ball! Thanks for sharing your work with us.
I love the starry night petunias I have them.in my garden in the UK
A 86 year old man told me that the only way to keep deer out of your garden is put them in the freezer
It works , trust me .
high speed lead poisoning works too!
You can put an 8ft fence around your land.
@@haveaniceday3290 The cost of a few bullets vs the cost of miles of fencing... I think I know which one the farmer chooses.
In South Africa we have animals that easily jump over most farm fences
ruclips.net/video/HCKojJ4jvIw/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/0Y3V4KE5r2E/видео.html.
Or they just go through them: ruclips.net/video/kZedgKylfqE/видео.html
Moose bumper on my truck does the job.
try peaches and cream sweet corn you will love it so will your customers thats what we plant here on the homestead for our selfs and farmers market and it sells fast and tastes great we freeze dry, it we can it, and dry it to grind make sweet cornmeal.
You have so many beautiful flowers, I love it
Wow looks good. Loved the plastic on the corn you’ll have to let us know how it works
I was going to ask how they keep it from blowing around if it gets windy.
Good thing this isn’t ‘ Smell-o-vision ‘ with all that manure.
Donald Kasper it’s not the same as plastic for strawberries. Strawberry plastic is not biodegradable and has to be removed after strawberry crop in order to plow up and get the field ready to plant in September again. Big difference between the two products
Waw,,, amazing
Where can I buy a planter and plastic system like the one you have for Sweetcorn?
Great work and a lovely place you have.
Your flowers like it 🌷🌹🌺🥀🌻🌼🌾💐🍃🌸🌺
That is very interesting first time seeing sweet corn planted that way
I adore flowers and yours want me to have them all.
Really a pleasure to watch the family working together, and I learn more and more with each video. I just started watching, so I'm interested in finding out just where this farm is.
So cool !
Your family has a very impressive operation. The variety and diversity of what you are producing and selling is amazing. To keep all the moving parts in healthy production and sales is a huge task. Who is in charge of all of this, Dad, or Andrew, or is it coordinated among the group?
My favorite - Sweet Corn. Howe long does it take for the plastic covering to deteriorate? You weren't kidding, the green house is loaded with colorful plants. Well done
Ken Lynch About 30 days and then it starts to break up. Thank you for always supporting the channel
Great episode guys!
The slugs and snails are what ate my garden.
I love watching the manure spreader in action.
A lot like Japan,well done ✅,you and your family stay safe Welsh Lyn
WOW Great idea...
I’ve seen this done in England and always wondered what crop they would use this on. Thanks guys for the upload.
Hi all been watching for ever , what’s the name of your harvesting knife , thank you Richard Uk 😅
SB90 sounds like the item number. is it a hybred corn seed? loving the plastic. will try it this next planting.
lol. do not have the machine, but the plan os the same. what is the chemical in the tanks?
Another good video. Thanks, I only have sugar corn for my own use and sowed part 5 weeks later like the rest last year. It was a great success and had fresh corn until late in the season. Now you already have so much work that I understand you are not doing this.
Learn something new everyday.
Did it work like you hoped?
Thanks for the video...interesting and informative.
Worked very well
But will you do it again?
My grand-dad and uncle always said the outside 4 rows were for deer and rabbit's. His reasoning was they would get bigger for the dinner table.
Very interesting video, thankyou.
That’s how I plant my sweet corn man. I usually beat the other local growers by a couple weeks. That gives me a chance to sell my corn when no one else has any.
I’ve never heard of biodegradable plastic that’s interesting!! I usually just plant my corn on the bed with used plastic from pepper from the year before. That way I don’t have to lay out new plastic for sweet corn, I just plant it on the used plastic where I grew my peppers the year before.
i worked on a farm in southwestern PA we did biodegradable black plastic for early sweet corn. worked very well! but i dont see any drip tape under your plastic. once that corn get a few feet tall your not gonna get enough rain water in the holes of the plastic, gonna have a lot of dried tips.
It breaks up enough
no hot dogging Daniel…lol
Wow...amazing n inspiring agriculture👍👌keep it up..👍
Who makes this sweet corn planter and mulch layer combo?
Bro your dad alone i've learned so much wisdom from him. "Don't stick your finger where it doesn't belong!" "Wash your hands!" and today "Wear your mask, be safe!" love it haha
He cracks himself up
This is awesome!
👍👌🇨🇦❤, well done boys
Literally the coolest thing I've seen in awhile +1up 💆
My Father and I built a number of those plastic mulch applicators for the Saskatchewan government, about 20 yrs ago. It's a very good weed and moisture control method. Works very well with truck crops.
I would like to build one for myself. Are there any plans or videos of what he built?
@@jamesharder5643 I don’t have the plans anymore, however if you contact the Saskatchewan dept of agriculture, I’m sure they can supply them
That's good video.
No till is the way to go friend.
Britton Mueller i agree to an extent, however when you plow the ground surface temp is 10 degrees warmer which is ideal for starting seeds earlier than normal. Which is what we’re doing in this video.
Fair enough. I've recently gotten into growing more organically and learning how to mitigate water loss due to evaporation and everything points me back to no till. I think the native Americans had it figured out when they would grow corn along side climbing legumes and gourds. I understand it's not that simple when you're trying to grow mass quantities and harvest mechanically, but I wished we could develop types of harvesters that would allow this type of growing. New methods new problems! lol
Britton Mueller I appreciate your time and consideration! It really shows that you care and I appreciate that. We live close to the Chesapeake watershed so we are held to different standards than normal. We have many stipulations and it’s interesting because we can’t plant things in certain areas because of run off. There’s a lot people don’t see or understand, but I appreciate that you do research.
@@theveggieboys I like to toss out my opinion freely and it's not meant to discredit anybody else for what they do or how they do things. I do it to maybe spark conversation and possibly ruffle some feathers from time to time. I'm certainly no expert either! Keep working hard! I know farming isn't easy by any means. :)
where do you get the machine To lay the plastic for the sweet corn
I have noticed the opposite. Deer eat stuff to the ground and rabbits eat a leaf here and there. I watched a group of them munching on dandy lion. They would eat 1 or 2 leaves off of each plant then move to the next.
Root growth is probably more important than photosynthesis and keeping the roots warm will allow a healthier and quicker plant development. Laying down plastic for the commercial grower or larger gardens are a very practical and smart method but the backyard gardener will be pleased with results of using 5 gallon fabric or vinyl bags, preferably black, which allows more radiant heat into these bags. For those who live in a cooler growing zone...this method is the smartest way to grow without a doubt.
That is awesome!
Any more space between those rows and you can open a bowling alley. Why are you not using half your planting space?
where can i buy that greenhouse plastic roller thing that is awesome
Looks good. We got sandy soil here in NE Georgia. Grow some of the prettiest silver queen. First gust of wind it just topples over every time. I've ran string tight tight never helps. I've dug 9in deep furs still blows over any ideas?? Lol I'm out if ideas
Hmm that’s really interesting, maybe there is a variety with a more aggressive root system you could try.
Good video thanks
How far apart are the 2 rows planted under the plastic?
Awesome video. Does the corn do ok when its sprouted under the plastic? Do you have pictures of the corn coming up under the plastic.
I actually have some footage in other videos to see how it came up, it worked well
What I would LIKE to see is for small scale farmers adapting riding mowers and ATVs to prepare soil, plant, and cultivate.
Andrew what verity’s of Tomatoes do you use in the hanging baskets
Where do you purchase your plastic from? Looks great
Rain flo irrigation
What an interesting channel!
Klaus
stella farms south jersey been planting early sweet corn under plastic for years
amazing video 😁
Thumbs up !
I have a question, if you wouldn’t mind answering, how did y’all get started? I’m looking into expanding and doing market type gardens but I’m so lost. Any advice?
Long story short, our family was contracted raising tomatoes and peppers for a cannery. A lot of people wanted vegetables from our family (before I was born) but due to being under contract we couldn’t sell to them.
So our family started raising vegetables for people and it went from there. My advice is raise the things that other people aren’t lol, it’s a pain, but it pays off.
How does the corn get through the plastic?
You do not need a giant fence to keep deer out just a dual row of electric tape fence about 2-3 feet apart. It works very well I have used on a 7 acre food plot for deer to keep them out until plants large and can stand the foraging . You might go to some of the Quality Deer management forums to learn more about it. It would take 100 rabbits to equal the damage 2 or 3 deer could do and you might well have 20 or more deer using a plot but not 2,000 rabbits.
Hi I enjoy watching your farm. I am just curious to know how much land do you guys have?
We farm 400 acres and 80 of that is vegetables
The Veggie Boys that is awesome! I wish I can visit one day
we have been planting sweet corn this way for 10years works very well grows much faster and produces a much stronger plant
Awesome to hear, we usually plant with our corn planted, however we wanted to see how this works. It’s very effective
How long to recover the machine and presumably disposable plastic cost though?
5:52 Gorgeous petunias!!
Plastic works for early tomatoes as witnessed by the famous Washington Boro Tomato Festival in Lancaster County. One ear of white is tasty but starts the migration to bicolored for the next 3 months. Without the plastic roasting ear duration would Be a month! Cut off corn for cooking can be white.
A friend looses 10 rows of corn from deer damage next to his neighbors woods each year!
I know I'm behind on latest seed strains.
How do you keep the corn from cross pollinating?,
And reverting back to field corn?
And Seeds that are cross pollination resistant?
Thank you .
Was there follow up vid yo yow these corns turned out?
How do you enrich the soil putting nutrition back into the soil? Do you turn the corn stalk under to help restore it?
Does that plastic help with weed control? For the first few weeks?
Farmer Dre Yes sir, one of the tanks on the back has fertilizer that feeds to a trickle line and the other has some weed spray in it. It sprays along the edges of the plastic and even on the hump underneath. It really prevents the weeds from sprouting up early. Also I checked out some of your videos and I enjoyed them! I love seeing people do something similar to us haha
@@theveggieboys thanks man. I love seeing your operation. Do you have social media?
Hey guys love both your channels does corn come thru the plastic or does it deaerate that quick
We have had luck with low electric fence around perimeter along with a spinning red light on a scarecrow and a radio set on talk radio playing loud.
Hmm the hanging tomato baskets are a good idea. Are they cherry or normal and what do they sell for?
They are cherry, we sell orange,yellow and red cherry and they. Sell soooo fast
@@theveggieboys well we have a small greenhouse and we are in Ohio so we may have to try that. We sell hanging baskets but only flowers in the past and we do sweet corn pumpkins and various other things. New ideas are always helpful being that farming feed corn soybeans and grain isn't profitable. We also aren't the most efficient. We still run Gleaner combines. Lol how much does the sweet corn implement increase yields on average and was it worth it?
Where is this plastic mulch available to purchase?
Just found you guys, nice channel! Where are you guys located?
North east Pennsylvania
Have an Idea think if went to local barber shops gather the hair they have I have heard works as an natural Deer repellent
For a while then deer get used to it.
Ребята, какие же вы молодцы и труженики. Поучиться бы у вас.
You may want to get some "over the tire" tracks for that skid steer loader. You would get much better traction.
Wet cow shit and shitty wet hay will slide under anything, speed is your only ally.
Where do you buy your seeds for starry night
Where did you guy's buy your early sweetcorn planter from?
the gap between rows seems very wide, just to allow for the tires.
Can you tell me the planter you are using?
does the wind blow it off?
How deep are you planting your sweet corn seed? Ive heard everything from 1 inch to 3 inches haha
Where do you get the biograble plastic from
Rain flo irrigation
We had deer eat 6 acres of watermelons this year. They actually are all the leaves and blooms off. Stripped me down to nothing but vines 😡. We live on a big river with huge wildlife management area that butts up to our home farm. Sucks bc the deep population has exploded in past 10 years. We’re seriously thinking ab putting an 8ft fence around it. I’m not much of a deer hunter, but I’m thinking ab starting and hunting em hard.
Where can I buy this planter
Where does one buy this corn plastic?
How does the corn get out through the plastic?
Its BIODEGRADABLE.
Irish farmers have been using this method for years.
Irish and EU Citizen
@@derekmulready1523 Yea but how does the corn get through the biodegradable plastic? Does the plastic degrade around the same time?