Broadcasting No Till Soybeans vs Tilling Soybean Food Plot - Side by side same soil

[@togo3624]

Your videos are always the best. Your time lapse views are incredibly helpful. Great explanations. Thx for sharing your methods and keeping it simple.

[@wisconsinwhitetail9744]

Thanks you 👍

[@longrangecrypto380]

Beans look AMAZEING!

[@wisconsinwhitetail9744]

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[@longrangecrypto380]

Best food plots vids in the game! Nice work.

[@wisconsinwhitetail9744]

Thanks 👍 kinda small plots and not planted the same day but a pretty good comparison video I thought. I still gotta get some more corn and bean videos out. Maybe next year I’ll have a direct side-by-side comparison planted the same day no-till into rye vs Tillage.

[@tjt1992]

Another great video! Beans look awesome!

[@wisconsinwhitetail9744]

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[@rfb7117]

Great info...keep up the videos. We will be planting no till today...a mix of annual clover, buckwheat, beans, peas, radish, rape, and sorghum (higher percentage of peas and beans). We will also be broadcasting a brassica mix including collards in a separate area. We lightly tilled up the ground before planting, as it was hard as a rock and we worried the no till would not penetrate the rock hard soil. Supposed to be getting rain tomorrow. Bob.....SW WI

[@wisconsinwhitetail9744]

Yeah usually helps to lightly loosen up the ground when it’s hard as a rock like you said. No till has its time and place but in all different soils and situations tilling is sometimes the better option. I’ve even heard that when no tilling the biomass and organic matter of the rye and cover crops only 10% of it makes it into the soil. Tilling in that green cover crop a lot more of it makes it into the soil and turns into organic matter. No-till is such a big buzz word right now.

[@outdoorzguy3091]

Looking good man! That should draw them in👍

[@wisconsinwhitetail9744]

Some of the neighbors are starting to feed them in the winter so last year they barely finished off what I had planted. This year I may have some left over corn if thats the case. A couple yrs ago I had pics of 10-15 bucks in the backyard and saw every one of them at lest once while shining from the living room windows LOL.

[@stevegermain1222]

As always an awesome job. Man those are thick

[@wisconsinwhitetail9744]

Thanks. Those tilled beans are Probably a little on the thick side. If you plant them too thick they will root lodge and hardly produce any pods. That tilled area is about as thick as I like to plant them.

[@jasonbroom7147]

It's interesting to me that you're seeing, with your own eyes, how easy it is to plant without tilling or discing, but you continue to do that in some places. Once you commit to the no-till process, and realize that you should always plant diversity to mitigate risk, your entire process will be easier, faster, and much less expensive. Keep up with what you're doing. Keep detailed notes. Patterns will start to emerge and you'll really understand how and why diverse, no-till plots are the way to go.

[@wisconsinwhitetail9744]

The soil in this video is extremely different from the soil at my grandparents farm where I end up with just as many weeds when no till. Different soils require different processes to get good results. A lot of wet ground dark soils do not work well when no tilling. If I were to continue no tilling at my grandparents in the wet ground soils I would need to hire out the spraying so they could spray a lot stronger herbicides than what I can buy to kill the water hemp another round of resistant weeds. And a lot of my plots they wouldn’t even get to with a big sprayer.

[@rolfnilsen6385]

Over here (Norway) herbicides are very restritriced. For non-commercial use it is virtually impossible to purchase and what is available (diluted glyphosate) is very expensive. Like US$80 for 3.5 gallons when mixed ready to spray. For that reason tilling is very attractive. I have done some tilling with a stone-burier but only one pass, and not repeating. It would be very interesting to find out if tilling 3 times with 14 days between each round made a difference in how much weeds you get. Of course, soil structure would be done for so there is that, and only for flat areas with low erosion. But after one round of tilling weeds and grasses really sprout. Perhaps 3 times helps to empty the seed bank in the soil?

[@wisconsinwhitetail9744]

If you till and disc in your seed in do not pack. Packing down will promote even more weed growth. Just leaving the ground light and fluffy after tilling is the best. The rain will pack it in eventually though. But packing the day you plant is not needed unless the seed is sitting right on top but if you incorporated the seed in, leave the soil unpacked. Yeah that sucks about chemicals being so controlled over there. Diluted glyphosate the premixed stuff it’s not even worth it.

[@rolfnilsen6385]

@@wisconsinwhitetail9744 Thank you for that tip! I will have to experiment a little with different plots and different techniques in the spring.

[@paulcrave3112]

You should get some electric fence up around your soybean plots. It makes a huge difference.

[@wisconsinwhitetail9744]

A lot of my small soybean plots recover from the browse at some point and almost always turn out ok. If I was in a northern woods setting or in an area where I needed to I would but here I’m usually able to get away with planting small sections of beans 1/2 acre or less as long as there is some ag beans close by.

[@paulcrave3112]

@@wisconsinwhitetail9744 ag soybeans close by would make a difference. I had all corn around me this year. The soybeans outside my electric fence are mowed down to the dirt. Half acre plot.

[@_DeFiNiTeLy_Not_BrAd_]

Do you know how to make charcoal? It may sound like voodoo bs, but its a great way to break up the clay. If you try it though, wait until after the growing season, especially if you put it on untreated. It will act like a sponge and starve your plants of nutrients until it is fully saturated. I like to put it on 1/4" or smaller chunks and disc it in the first few times. The difference after a few years is honestly quite amazing.

[@wisconsinwhitetail9744]

Definitely sounds interesting. Heavy clay sucks.

[@thetrooper1061]

Great video

[@wisconsinwhitetail9744]

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[@stevedenoyer5956]

Great success on the no till beans. Did you end up spraying the rye?

[@wisconsinwhitetail9744]

Yeah sprayed the rye a day or 2 after planting. After I got it crushed we got about an inch of rain.

[@yohjokromwood2327]

could you do a test with amonia as a weed killer since it wil break down with out any side effect?

[@wisconsinwhitetail9744]

I’ve never used ammonia weed killer

[@yohjokromwood2327]

@@wisconsinwhitetail9744 you have to buy amonia and mix it with water it the same stuf we pee out

[@clarkwheeler8764]

Are you still planting seed you get from a grain bin instead of buying expensive seed? I tried your left over corn seed trick this year (couple bags of left over deer corn) and lots of it actually did come up.

[@wisconsinwhitetail9744]

Yes, all the soybeans I’ve ever planted in any videos on my channel were harvested beans from a farmer my dad knows. I have planted a good amount of harvested corn seed in the past but the cranes and birds like to pull the corn out when it’s small so I like to plant strictly seed corn now. The birds don’t seem to mess with the seed corn as much.

[@georgehelzer7569]

Did you spray the rye after laying it down with the quad?

[@wisconsinwhitetail9744]

Yes sprayed it a day or 2 later because it rained right after I crushed it down

[@timmy2ride]

Do you inoculate your peas and beans?

[@wisconsinwhitetail9744]

No, I have never inoculated any of my beans ever. They grow fine without.

[@stevedenoyer5956]

You fertilize at all?

[@wisconsinwhitetail9744]

No fertilizer in the 3 yrs I have planted the spot in this video

[@mrgary6117]

Do you fertilize ?

[@wisconsinwhitetail9744]

No fertilizer