Getting Our Great Plains No-till Drill Ready For Spring Seeding!

Today we are getting the Great Plains 1006NT Drill ready for work this spring. We go over what type of rates and mixes we like to use. Along with the challenges that change year to year. Let us know what types of grass mixes you plant. Thank you all for watching!
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[@SouthDakotaTT]

Love the Trinity Dairy hoody!

[@alfredomarotta6604]

Thanks for sharing another great video. Always enjoyable and look forward to your next one.

[@_Elijah_1979]

Hope your family has a good planting and harvesting season

[@stanhensley3082]

My 7000 planter when I farmed would easily put 350 lbs of fertilizer and it had regular augers.What always got me was if I was almost done planting no matter how much I slowed the augers down I would run out with just a few rounds left to plant.So off to town to get a few sacks of fertilizer. And yes rain was coming too. Fun on the farm!!! Thanks😊.

[@br927]

Back in my day, when we wanted to seed on some pasture, we took hay off the barn floor, because late cut hay went to seed and there was a lot of hay seeds, so you pitches stuff off the upper barn floor into the spreader with manure and spread it!

[@markenge9348]

My dad said he was sometimes sowing oats and the snow flurries began to fall before he got done. He said the oats did fine.

[@daleberghorn6504]

That is a nice no till drill we have planted oats when snow flurries where falling in April and had good luck as long as didn't get a lot of rain and cold weather to rot the seeds great videos

[@clinthochrein888]

Trying to think back I don’t remember my dad seeeding down oats or alfalfa w/Timothy grass early in March April possibly. But I sure do remember the summer of ‘88 . My neighbor dairy farmer was out last week disking up couple fields a seeded down alfalfa.

[@clayknobfarms8069]

We have heavy clay ground and birds foot tree foil is an awesome pasture. It is a high protein legume always tender. Very leafy and not much stem. It does not do good in wet areas. Is not the best for hay if the field is straight tree foil. It doesn’t grow tall and is hard to dry. The best way to seed it is to bale some up in the fall when it is in the seed pod and feed to the cows around February and then spread the manure.

[@danielhurrle7008]

I have started using Tall fescue in my mix along with orchard grass as it grows throughout the year and can yield almost as good as alfalfa. I put it in with the oats and broome grass.

[@randycharest4507]

Ì ENJOYED WATCHING THE VIDEO AARON 😊

[@johngerlach4580]

My 7000 has the high rate augers and is putting down 235 pounds of starter on the 214 pound setting in the book. I believe that most of the planters were equipped with high rate augers. They were available with low rate high rate and extra high rate augers. Thanks for all the great videos I always enjoy watching you and your Dad working the farm.

[@harveypenner2386]

Great Video!

[@darrenbock4953]

When we seed Alfalfa we add Turnip seed. When they both come up and cut . Eventually the Turnip bulb will rot and leave a small cavity in the soil and not let the soil get so hard and tight. And for cover crop we plant Triticale and graze cattle on it . Then after pulling them off we have a couple of options can swath and bale it . Or we even chopped it for silage.

[@Josh-me7iy]

Alot of stuff happened here in mid march in South Central mn south of the cities , alots of manure was spread, oats planted, and co-ops out doing stuff also. Got snow end of March and been raining now here

[@marshallpaul3677]

Dad always said April 10 for oats. If it snowed after you put them in you were said to have a good yield

[@dominikpiskoric9649]

When we used to use ryegrass and lucerne we mixed in concrete mixer dad sayed bucket of ryegrass and 2 bockets of lucerne. Now we seed just ryegrass we get 3 years out of it we harvest seed ourselvs and we seed sometimes lucerne

[@DonWelter]

Hope you're able to get to field work in a timely manner. In our part of Ohio we've gotten to where things are reasonably dry, then get into rain events. That's quite a drill...looks very versatile to handle a variety of field conditions. My typical meadowcrop seedings include alfalfa, orchardgrass, and perennial ryegrass. Sometimes put in a little med red clover to handle tougher areas. Like to seed with oats to get a quicker ground cover.

[@paulreis1648]

I used cropland hay and pasture and put 10 # of alfalfa to the acre to bring the protein up a little it made a lot of nice bales great video

[@kevinanderson89]

Like having a mix of orchard, brome and alfalfa. When alfalfa is getting thin like to add orchard to it. Put oats in with all new seedings to get a crop the first year.

[@guydaubenspeck9206]

I always grease mine at the end of fall seeding. Then we run it for probably all told only about 30 or 40 acres all year then we wash it and grease it and vacuum it out and fall again so then in the spring it's ready to go

[@user-du1um2pl4g]

❤😊I JUST HAVE AN OLD IH M GRAIN DRILL ON HIGH STEEL WHEELS AND ROPE TRIP AT THE LE SUEUR COUNTY PIONEER POWER GROUNDS !!!!😊❤

[@EpicWhitetailHabitatLLC]

So far, your April weather prediction has been correct.

[@MorganOtt-ne1qj]

I never ran a Great Plains drill, but I recommend calibration to make sure the chart is correct. It's a simple formula, and (big shock) it's available on KZbin. Seems like every year, the chart gets further off from what the calibration shows on a 13 year old JD drill. Great video,guys! God luck and God Bless!

[@danw6014]

I remember seeding alfalfa and in the middle of March. It got snow on it but the oats did well and so did the seeding. In fact, I think seedlings with oats make the best seedings. I'll have to look at what I'm going to put down with my 7000 because I think I'm only going to get Nitrogen and some micros down. I don't need to push the yield and corn really isn't worth what it costs. Be sure to check the distance off the row that your fertilizer opener is. Don't want it to close at a heavy rate.

[@johnhenderson299]

Great educational video

[@MrTonyharrell]

At the beginning of your video as you were passing the corn cribs I noticed a lot gone in one crib. I thought it would be pretty cool if you included a brief thing every video about the corn level so far. I don’t know, it seems like it would be fun to see and something to look forward to. By the way, it was actually 80 degrees here in the foothills of the Blue ridge mountains, Cana VA.

[@dannygerrits1157]

Buddy of mine up in Auburndale put in 7 acre test plot of soybeans mid March

[@anthonylawless8496]

I use winter king rye and turnips for winter pasture

[@burtzorn4059]

Your best oats are the ones that get snow on them. Them 30" rows going in were probably soy beans. Early beans really yield good. And it's free bushels, no extra seed or fertilizer. Good luck on your oats.

[@bryanolson2289]

I run 200 lbs an acre on my JD 7000 using standard fertilizer augers with no issues.

[@mihandsplitters705]

Indiana and Ohio along I-70 there is stuff planted on 30” rows although a lot of it is very very wet-under water

[@larryklostermann5779]

Nice video Aaron

[@trentonromig9765]

We just planted oats in south central Pennsylvania on the 31th

[@johnhatt1219]

They have corn here in tx already coming up

[@dansfarmingandfishingadven2835]

I've been watching your video for almost 1 year I've worked on dairy farm 400 cow farm to 7000 farm feeding most farmers don't have a beard I do in the winter

[@MasterDunia292]

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[@gordoncarpenter1552]

My dad planted oats in February years ago he wanted to get snow on them made better oats this was in South West Michigan

[@frankdeegan8974]

Southcentral Wisconsin, I was married on February First 1968. My step Dad planted about 40 acers of oats, with no problems that year. I don't recall what type of year 1968 was.

[@stephaniebowers9543]

cool😃

[@randysimon7633]

Hi im in michigan when i plant a new hayfeild i do 18 pounds alfalfa 3 lbs orchard grass about 70 or 80 lbs oats then i small sqare bale the oats .have to cut just before heading out or turning yellow or realy realy hard to get dry

[@TroyVincent-km8gx]

I thought no we tried to get 200 pounds of fertilizer on with our 7000 planter. Usually it was light maybe 180 pounds.

[@Gunnar-Hanson]

Where is your farm at? Im near lacrosse cool to see you guys are pretty local!

[@burtzorn4059]

I was never a fan of handling bags. 150 lbs of starter through the planter always gave me a great crop.

[@reginabraok939]

First viewer😊

[@Pileits]

Where is your most important employee? Your Saint BarnYard Dawg. I haven't seen her in forever, where has she been?

[@daspicsman]

10 years old! I figured it was brand new.

[@paulr7829]

Have you used an aerator? RanchWorx.