I’m Direct Drilling My Maize Crop This Year!

[@baniagojherwinjohn4765]

Im in love with the drone shots. Nice job mate

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Thanks!

[@tonymckeage1028]

Great Video OADF, you answered a couple of questions i had about drilling maize, thanks for sharing

[@Agriculturespotter]

Great video!

[@markphilpott9531]

Class video Andrew 👍

[@MarkDonnelly-j9v]

Hi I like your video

[@jamesbkkr]

So cool my favourite KZbin channel right now

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Thanks 🙏

[@justinwenzel8459]

beautiful looking soil and planting job

[@brycekirby1567]

Great video as usual

[@johnjordan4647]

Thank you very much for a very informative video Andrew. Your enthusiasm for always trying new and better ways of doing things should be applauded 🙏👍👌And I will drink to that 🍺😂🤣🥹

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Thanks John 👌😂

[@bazzosullivan]

Looks a class job Andy. Tillage work changing all the time, even since I was last out 3 years ago

[@cdemo1186]

Technology is constantly changing for everything Andrew,great to see it move ahead in agriculture too. Serious job,looking forward to seeing it grow. 👌

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Yep and it’s only going to get better and better over time which is pretty cool 👍

[@yvonneward]

What a fantastic idea great video once again x

[@georgedunn2450]

Excellent video

[@thomasforbes8904]

Very interesting video keep them up Never saw maize sowed this way before and no ploughing

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

It quite new to us here but definitely looking like it’s going to be pretty popular

[@jacktaylor4455]

@@TheOnceADayFarmer actually very popular in the waikato we actually do a fair bit of strip till (I work for neven grainch) even seen a lot of strip tilled fodderbeet

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Yep becoming very popular, they way of the future hopefully 🤞 Had a mate txt me saying that’s how they plant there’s down south like that

[@willyfindlay4398]

Great to see you let the Brits come and help you out on your farms. Great to see you using lots of modern technologies to grow crows for your cows.

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Yeah they love coming to NZ 😂👍

[@Dozerthefarmer]

Hey mate. Just mentioning landing maize on a soil that has a lot of competition will produce short maize. As it has alot of competition. Tell ya what come see dozer the farmer and see how we do it. Based on a peat farm with full tillage as it will have little to no competition with full spraying.

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Won’t have competition as the grass will die but I get what you mean, they trialed some last year and couldn’t see a difference compared to the strip tilled stuff so hopefully it goes alright. Cultivations all good if it’s flat, but I’m looking at other ways around it as I hate seeing top soil run off. Where abouts are you?

[@Dozerthefarmer]

@@TheOnceADayFarmer hey mate. Saw your face on the cordon maize ad too. That’s mint. It’s great to see different plots and how they go. I have a rugby mate who does all different trail plots with different varieties too. Always great to see how his maize goes at the field day. That’s true thats true. We are very flat on the Hauraki Plains. So very little run off. We roll our maize after it’s been planted with a Cambridge roller. It’s meant to help. Hauraki Plains.

[@yvonneward]

Ever thought of doing bed and breakfast Andrew , because if I ever visited your country I’d love to stay on your farm lol x

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

I have thought about the glamping option but don’t really have a nice spot for it 🤷

[@brendont1082]

Another great video love the drone shots I know it's move work but love to see more drone shots

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Yep noted 👌👍

[@jasontootell3006]

We strip till ours in also but it has the planter mounted behind and plants in the same pass. We have had very good success from it here in the manawatu

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Quite a few planters around here are like that too, I’ll have to find out why he doesn’t do that, but I’m guessing it’s so he can have options around planting 🤷

[@alastairduncan1944]

Shit that does a good job alright and plenty of sky beers on the way this weekend 👌

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Beautiful rain over the weekend! Got 55mm 👌

[@paulhannigan7302]

The 107crm doesn’t mean it’s ready in 107 days, it’s a comparative tool and is an accumulative heat days figure (or there abouts), I reckon it will be 130 or so days before you chop it (mid-late march)

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Ah that makes sense then thanks 🙏 I reckon it’ll be ready late Feb early March, but really depends on the weather 😅

[@paulhannigan7302]

@@TheOnceADayFarmer our 99 day stuff is generally ready late March if we can get it in early November……….been too wet here last few years to get in early

[@drdulas5055]

This strip experiment will be very interesting. The bully surrendered to the challenge of the tractor. lol It appears you might kave had so erosion over the water pipe. Is your seed grown in New Zealand? Also will be interesting where you changed your seed population with ear and stalk size. Thanks for showing things many never see Andrew.

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Yeah hopefully it works out all right 🤞 I think it’s only going to get better and better over time. I’m pretty sure all the maize seed is grown here, mainly over gisborne way on the east coast. I didn’t change it I just planted the whole lot at 90,000 👍

[@shaynelammas9413]

Really interesting Andrew your Video. I like this. That you are trying different methods too grow the Maize. And the drill they are using looks really expensive if you were too buy it tho . So it’s cheaper to use Contracters to do the Work Andrew???

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Yep way cheaper to use the contractor than buy all our own gear that we would get very little use out of, plus they can afford the newest flashiest gear which do an awesome job. Always got to try and improve things 👌

[@davidporter4162]

It'll be interesting to see if there's a difference in the weed growth between strip till and DD since the strip till was sprayed before you disturbed the ground again whereas the DD will be sprayed after drilling. Most interesting will be forage and grain yield though!

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Yep I totally agree, I think over time it’s only going to get better and better. I’d like to think in the near future I’ll be able to DD the whole lot with little yield loss but time will tell 🤷

[@MartenDykstra1]

Any idea what kind of speed you can plant directly into the sod? I’ve been told no faster than 5mph even with a high speed planter. Thoughts?

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

to be honest I have no idea sorry, All though the new planters generally plant pretty fast

[@shaneowens4998]

Looks good. How are the collars going

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Yeah going good, just needs time to gather data to get more and more accurate

[@michaelodonoghue7464]

For several years (whilst in High School) My Summer Holiday Job was Connecting, Joining and Repairing underground Agricultural Irrigation and Drainage Pipes. My Boss loved having Me do the Job because he could always Tell where I was in a Paddock by Spotting My Beach Umbrella (I refused to Burn under the Australian Summer Sun).

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Fair enough! The sun down here’s brutal aye

[@will7359]

Watch out for slugs in the direct drilled paddocks with grass still growing

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Yep definitely, hopefully slug bait keeps most of them under control

[@daves3259]

G’day Cuz, what are you doing in terms of nitrogen? I note you’re not drilling into clover paddocks so was curious about your fertiliser regime.

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Just the same as normal, so put a base fert on and then DAP gets drilled with the maize seed down the spout. We also irrigate the maize ground with effluent which helps.

[@marcamp5450]

Who is the singer of the song in this video? Love it

[@robingooding2029]

Only a Jersey bull would square up to a f***ing great tractor 🚜 like that !! 🤣🤣🐮💪

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Haha I know they’re becoming big buggers at the moment!

[@KiwiJim13]

👍👀 Great video Andy have you increased your area of maize?

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Yeah did 6ha last year and 8.3ha this year, just putting feed in the bank 😅

[@KiwiJim13]

@@TheOnceADayFarmer It's never a bad idea will you still be buying some maize in ?

[@engbertdijkstra6242]

A maize ing

[@brianjonker510]

Is that a blended fertilizer? My guess is DAP and ammonia sulfate.

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

I’m not sure, I think it’s just straight DAP tho 🤷

[@caveweta]

All we’ve got to do now is wait 107 days for the harvest!

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Haha sure do 👍

[@charlieboy9297]

Hi

[@folkertvisser5294]

keeps the carbon in place super technologie!!