Questioning The Slake Test

[@larrybg9293]

No anger just love and respect. Keep up the great videos. Good stuff

[@jankotze1959]

Thanks Jacob, love the vintage tractor farming

[@countryboyfarming490]

I love how you just called out just about every family farm youtuber out there 😂

[@boehmfarm4276]

It's monkey see monkey do. Like OLF was one of the firsts, but he's in charge, it's not Tim following him around with a camera. Now every farm kid is dumping videos on KZbin. But I want to see the numbers, and it takes someone in charge to know what the population is, how much their hand cramps writing the check for fertilizer, what they're really making per acre. That's what I want.

[@NEAFarmKid4010]

The thing I see with no-till (in Arkansas at least) is that it helps hold in moisture (opposite to y'all a lot of times we don't get enough rain lol), but yet the cover keeps the ground firm enough on top that you can get over it with equipment. Still wouldn't want to plant into a super wet field, but you can get across it with other stuff if it gets a little wet.

[@Hinesfarm-Indiana]

We do notill for corn and beans when we plant our muck.

[@BedeMeredith]

A few local growers here cover the ground in plastic to get the ground temp up after planting, then pull the covers off, they do a few rows and space planting so they get variation in harvest dates for same variety

[@ghorner11]

I used to pull an International disk the same as that with an IH 3288. It would pull it but it was so much better with duals on that we always put them on. I didn't have the benefit of having hydraulics on the wings though so I had to lift them over each way (spring assist only) and to lock them down I think it was threaded eye bolts that swung in and out and then you had to use a wrench to tighten/loosen the nuts.

[@craighinshaw2437]

What i understand is the fungi in soil makes a glue like substance that bonds the pieces of soil together in notill soils, tillage breaks bond up..

[@Hinesfarm-Indiana]

We’ve run notill for a good 10 years on our muck ground and it works great, we do it because when ya work the muck up it gets really lose and fluffy, the notill keeps it more firm and easier to work with

[@justinmiller8562]

Getting dry here in Holmes County!🤤 🙏4rain Jacob..😂

[@Hinesfarm-Indiana]

Yep we’re dry also north central Indiana

[@Hinesfarm-Indiana]

Looks great Jake 👍. Send some of your moisture up this way, we’re dry here in north central Indiana.

[@boehmfarm4276]

This video is a month old. I wouldn't be mad if we got an inch.

[@robmiller2919]

I tried the notill , cover crops , gabe brown farming , I love the concept, but it didn't come to fruition. I can farm a lot cheaper with my old plows and cultivators , and still use cover crops . I prefer to lightly incorporate instead of burndown.

[@PAYNEKILLER..]

I couldn't care less, you know what works for you better then I could ever tell you. I live in Maine 😂

[@trevor7918]

We need rain so bad in Central Minnesota. Dig down 8 9 inches and nothing

[@thesmallscalefarmer1849]

We havn't had rain in almost a month here in Michigan. Corn is up nice but won't last long with the heat and lack of rain.

[@glenshepard6960]

We are quite dry in south central Illinois. The corn and beans are quite short for being in the ground for 6 to 7 weeks. Wheat has short heads. We should be cutting wheat in 10 days or so. Lawns are dried up. We've seen this before. Hopefully, not another 2012.

[@jvin248]

Also Michigan. Where I have cover I have moisture, where I have bare earth it's scorched hot and dust-bowl dry.

[@Hinesfarm-Indiana]

North central Indiana we’re dry too

[@thesmallscalefarmer1849]

@@jvin248 same, my shaded spots on my headlands are way taller than the rest of the field.

[@jackyeakey6905]

Did I miss the 2+2 repair or leaving. I enjoy all your videos keep it up

[@Ghettocowboy33]

I think he said in one video he kinda lost steam on that project but still has it.

[@jackyeakey6905]

@@Ghettocowboy33 sorry to hear that, I was enjoy him overcome the challenges of fixing it. I could tell he liked operating it too, but you have to do what you feel good about. Thank you for your reply

[@matthewdavis4081]

I am surprised with the amount of dirt work that you do you don't put dauls on? I use dauls from heavy tillage all the way to planting. And putting dry fertilizer on as well. Great video Jacob

[@stevewesley8187]

Duals ?

[@jvin248]

12:30 cold ground temps... You mention early may planting and video is posted early June ... all university research I saw on corn revealed a major yield drag from cold soil temps (starting temp or cold rain dousing it after planting). Since I'm using cover crops, every week through May doubles the weed fighting biomass build up so I'm pushing corn late into May now instead of trying to be first out of the gate and instead pulling soybeans into early/first for Late April/Early May planting since the same research showed beans are fine with cold temps.

[@boehmfarm4276]

This is sweet corn. Gotta be the first one in the neighborhood out selling in July.

[@ghenry85]

I think the residue cover in notill conditions do more for erosion control. A friend of mine is doing notill with barley and soybeans with generous cover crops. I tend to be in the "kiss of tillage" camp. So minimal vertical till or strip till. Need money to properly test my notions out😂

[@gregwalter7228]

I thought we were looking into a toilet bowl lol

[@jayamd3579]

evaporation or drinking doggos? lol

[@eastcorkcheeses6448]

Different ground conditions , different methods , Once the aim is for long-term healthy soil then youre all good , If you can come up with a cheaper/ better way of doing that then all good

[@waynejones5239]

Nice video

[@tapertrain1614]

No tell works in certain dirt and won’t be as prodding others. You have to know your dirt, the equipment available, Mother Nature, and timing.

[@dertrommler2112]

Have you thought about as a test to moldboard plow one of your small fields then disc, followed by rotary hoe and row crop cultivation after planting to see what the yields would be compared to your normal practices?

[@boehmfarm4276]

Well, I do have one field of corn that we plowed up sod.

[@dominikpiskoric9649]

Here in Europe least at Croatia notill its starting to show up but it works well i saw copereson betwen two wheat fields one notill in silage corn stalks and other in conventional tillige Moldboard plowd powerharowed and seeded that conventional tillige have some dead spots becouse wet year and notill has none

[@dehavenfamilyfarm]

We actually were getting quite dry here in NEPA, but had over half an inch of rain the other day. Do you still have the hero 8 gopro batteries? One of mine came apart and another one isn't looking good.

[@Hinesfarm-Indiana]

We’re dry also north central Indiana

[@boehmfarm4276]

Yep, still have the batteries.

[@dehavenfamilyfarm]

@@boehmfarm4276 did you want to sell them?

[@frankscruggs4749]

Good video.

[@TheFarmingLife]

How are the weather conditions for you today. Did you get some rain yesterday?

[@boehmfarm4276]

We had ten drops yesterday.

[@jvin248]

Here's the thing: in the spring everyone is trying to dry things out and then by mid summer they are crying about no rain. Cover crops smooth out those peaks and troughs. That is all that happens, that is the magic and the mysticism, for getting the seeds in the ground. Whatever planter you have will dictate what ground prep you need to do. I have a 1950s check-planter with ski-shoes and while I'm trying no-till and strip till my planter only works properly to plant into tilled ground. It's just hard spending more on a planter than I did on the tractor. .. Because we haven't had rain in a month, where I disked down my winter rye it's a dust-bowl and all the good bacteria and worms are both vaporized by the hot sun while where I flattened and crimped the rye or left standing rye there is moisture at corn planting depth with all the bacteria and worms that will assist the crop later in the season. Worm castings are the most valuable fertilizer you can put on a field -- so don't kill your worms. They live in the top five inches of soil along with the microrhyzal fungus.

[@tcityfarms2838]

I've honestly been wondering which is better tillage with covers kinda like what you do or true no till with covers I live no to far you in Kentucky and one of our fields was straight soybeans for 30 years then I got it and left it fallow for a year just mowed it off and the weeds/ covers came in good and then I moldboard plow and disc and it seems better now then it did last year. So not sure which is better yet but I'm looking into that side on our place.

[@robmiller2919]

Letting that land lay for a year and grow up in weeds did far more good than if you just simply went to notill.

[@tcityfarms2838]

@@robmiller2919 that it did I'm also seeing that tillage helped it out a lot as far as compaction because it was notill or limited till for 40 years and was in continuous beans that whole time

[@curtisowens4588]

Jacob, do you miss the chickens?

[@andyg3240]

Both systems have there places.

[@PaulHigginbothamSr]

Where ya'll hammered that metal u shaped bar would before ya'll climb into the captains chair to spray a little lube on it then no climbee back down.

[@french-canadianfarmer5049]

Nothing like doing those tests yourself on your farm.

[@jonyknoxvil]

In the furure. It may be drier than you plan(plow) for...

[@boehmfarm4276]

In college, all the preaching was for more people to feed and more drought. Global Population growth is starting to level out, and usually Ohio is not overly dry.

[@Hinesfarm-Indiana]

Is that a 9 inch spacing on your disk? Btw if your one of those hot shot KZbinrs at least your not doing drama, exaggerating and wearing pit vipers lol

[@BedeMeredith]

more calcium, or calcium sulphate if you can get it.

[@michaelbodhaine4182]

Or 2+2 would work

[@joelmollenkopf3767]

Interesting

[@train1962]

Starting to get a little dry.

[@Hinesfarm-Indiana]

We’re getting dry here in north central Indiana

[@boehmfarm4276]

Yeah..... If we got an inch I wouldn't be mad.

[@nealturner7463]

@@boehmfarm4276 You said You hated rain.

[@bradjenkins932]

Watch Gabe Brown.

[@craigflatley7370]

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[@francislahey7981]

You, Catholic School educated, realize that in this context, drug is not a verb. Correct? 3:03?