Twenty Years of Vertical Tillage

[@duanestrickler6814]

I've been off of the farm for 50 years, and I still enjoy this video. You are definitely a trend setter.

[@LtColDaddy71]

What’s made me money year after year, and resulted in me buying more ground virtually every year for 22 years, and a debt to asset ratio under 15%, is never asking myself how to increase yield. The question is, how do I make more profit. Diversification and independence is the answer. My land is always producing something, whether it be a cash crop, cover crop for grazing, taking a year off of cash crop production and being grazed for an entire year, a little bit of dual cropping, companion / inter cropping. It doesn’t mean leaving technology behind by any means. As a matter of fact, the tech is what makes it possible. I have some of your products and really love them. So please don’t think I’m trying to contradict you.

[@oe542]

Why do I feel like I’m about to get talked in to buying a time share?

[@33butterzucker33]

In germany we say "tief lockern, flach wenden" ( loosen deeply, turn flat....I am not sure if these are the right words)

[@Sjanzo]

Let a Dutchman jump to help: Deep ripping, shallow turning... like my mate does: He ploughs about 22cm because covercrop is mandatory in Holland, and killing it with Roundup is prohibited. So you want to turn the soil to kill the cover crop. But when you use a ripper packer to create a seedbed after ploughing, why bury covercrop and manure so deep ?

[@conanvorloc5777]

Thank you. Excellent info!

[@johnwayne6778]

94 perfect growing weather also

[@MarkGueldenzopf]

Where is the nearest dealer in the thumb of Michigan?

[@brianjonker510]

You can give up a fair bit of population and still yield well with a fertile and deep root structure.

[@jarrodwemhoff7270]

Very interesting.

[@BernardPhife]

Recreational Tillage ruins the soil.

[@JohnSanders-q4h]

Very interesting. You explain the problem with roots growing horizontally at levels where soil layer is denser and the reason for this very well. However if deep cultivation in necessary in the previous fall then surely this same root problem will occur but just at lower depths. We grow corn in Poland, mostly corn on corn, we have tried it all . Deep tillage, shallow tillage no till . What about strip till ? We could plant between the old rows in order to leave the old root balls untouched but have not tried this yet. If strip till at 12 inches and thus corn roots start to wander sideways at 12 inches ( due to change of soil density ) they wont go sideways for long before they hit the edge of the tilled strip. Then I guess they have to go down because the penetration force required to grow sideways is no less .than the requirement to grow in a downward direction. But am I correct. ? Please let me know your thoughts on this. Vertical tillage equipment hard to find in Europe. What moisture content do you harvest at ? Here in November we get it in at 30 - 35%, thats as good as it gets for us ! Thankyou for a great video. I really want to improve our system but hard to find good advice. All my neighbours use the plough for corn on corn, at least I know that is a terrible idea : )

[@jerrylansbury9558]

He totally fails to mention even " once " that when you disturb the existing roots ( from a previous crop ) that you also destroy that same soil profile. The soil can no longer hold water as before it was tilled ! And new roots can not take and follow the previous crops root veins. Take for example......water ways. Over the years farmers will say the siltation filled in the water ways because they are higher then the surrounding crop areas. This is not true ! Its the grass in the waterway that has filled the soil profile with roots causing the soil to expand thus move upwards. Same is true when planting a garden in the middle of a lawn. After a year or two the garden area seems to be lower then the grass area around it. Thats because the garden area no longer has roots to expand in the soil ! A way to fix waterways from being higher ....or as farmers say they silted in is to .......in about 4 years spray and kill the existing grass in strips ( across the water way ) . Never till it. This way theres still a partial water way in place......and theres also grass seed already there from the previous years of seed growth.

[@jimmartindale]

How many houses do you see being built in cemeteries? Worst place in the earth to put a new root system is in the decomposing root channel in case you miss the point.

[@jerrylansbury9558]

@@jimmartindale No one ever mentions about cemeteries here.

[@jimmartindale]

Does anyone here think about decomposition of old root systems?

[@jerrylansbury9558]

@@jimmartindale Exactly ! People just dont get it ! After renting a nearby farm and going " total " no till..... they switched renters. The new renters just finished chisel plowing the entire 70 acres ! Highly erodible land totally exposed to heavy rains ! The new renters have no care for the land ! Its all about the organic matter I left on top.......for the last three years. All about money ! Just as the land is becoming like a soft sponge they destroy everything !

[@jimmartindale]

The new renter will look like a hero for a few short years as he oxidizes the carbon that you have sequestered@@jerrylansbury9558

[@MarkGueldenzopf]

Where is the nearest dealer in the thumb of Michigan?

[@360yieldcenter]

You can find nearby dealers here: www.360yieldcenter.com/dealer-locator/?gclid=CjwKCAjw3ueiBhBmEiwA4BhspIKpWlfn-2GXSveXGUkibx_jJRokKltCmVD82EDPKV452yoMJxi42BoC3RMQAvD_BwE

[@rokofarm]

Can you give a example of machinerys who are compadable for this work speccially in corn....i am from europe and like to invest in that kind of mmachinery..