Spraying corn with Round up

How we spray our corn.
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[@andrewcollins6525]

Its nice to hear from a farmer on something they don't seem to be well represented in. I don't understand how anyone would believe you would waste money drenching your soil with expensive chemicals

[@jasperkelly6705]

You make some amazing videos zach I'm a huge fan and I have worked on a few farms but never really understood how the sprayers worked I kinda just ran them lol but I like how you explain it so thanks

[@benpattinson1]

You were very serious back in the day Zach. 😉

[@MillennialFarmer]

Old school!! Has my on-camera presence changed?!

[@benpattinson1]

MN Millennial Farmer for sure fella. Been watching your videos for a few months now so given it's a slow (ish) period video wise I looked back to the start. You're more relaxed and humorous these days. You do a great job with keeping it interesting. I was brought up on a small mixed farm in England so seeing what you do these days on a much larger scale is really interesting. E.g., the Claas combine I used to drive didn't have a cab👍👍😂

[@robertzandonadi4247]

Greetings from Australia. I'm also a farmer growing sugar cane in Nth Queensland and I've recently subscribed to your channel. Interesting to see we share some of the same issues. (1)....nitrates leeching into our underground water and (2)..... chemical run-off which is destroying our Great Barrier Reef, mainly Atrazine and Diuron. The majority of farmers are complying and doing the right thing by getting accreditation for" Best Farming Practices", and then there are those that don't give a rats ....... Keep up the good fight and I'd love to visit your farm if I'm ever in that part of the woods. BTW.......love your humor.

[@57fitter]

Nice "boom management" on the waterway, there buddy. I need to get back into the groove with my chemical knowledge. I'm gonna start back farming for real instead of just a handful of acres. When I knew "what from what " , we were using Lasso/ Lorox and Treflan/Sencor or Lexone . Been a few, huh? Going to the other end of the state tomorrow to get a JD 7000 to replace the 494. WOOOOOO HOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! Later, man.

[@allenschmitz9644]

I was working on a industrial farm in california in the 70's when round up came out 1974, you know what they used to use for road side field weeds before that...Diesel fuel..I kid you not..round up was the best thing to them since white sliced bread.

[@roynelson7613]

Man you got one hell of a setup that's for sure and you educated a lot of people on the chemicals and stuff which needed to be said cuz most people don't talk about it all the chemicals nowadays like you said our way safer than back in the day for sure keep it safe man will see you on another one

[@hoboedan]

Great video, and you did a superb job on explaining the benefits of glyphosate and the nonsense surrounding GMO's. Really enjoy all your videos and appreciate you taking the time out of a busy schedule to educate the multitudes who just frankly have never had someone explain modern agriculture the way you do. You do a great and needed service :)

[@jerrypelletier2328]

You guys have that farm set up awesome, that's how only two guys can farm 2400 acres.

[@petemiller2598]

Best way for most people to understand a surfactant--it's what Rain-X is. When you put Rain-X on your windshield, that is a surfactant. Also, Jet Dry in your dishwasher is a surfactant. It makes water bead off of stuff.

[@erikwibholm2813]

We spray 32oz Roundup Powermax at 10 gal/acre, plus 3oz Callisto, 2oz surfactant. 9.71 gallons water, 0.29 gallons herbicide per acre. Wish people understood what volumes are actually used.

[@justlooking2013]

Great footage, can you get more of the sprayer. I didn't know those tanks where that big. I never looked it up. I was very amazed when you said 1600 gallons.

[@MillennialFarmer]

You bet, I will hopefully get some when we start spraying the beans.

[@karljacobson1575]

I run 3 inch plumbing on my tender setup! Twice as fast filling!!

[@Vaneps0]

Nice set up you got there

[@scottkailey1]

Thanks for another great video😊

[@benacheson8410]

congrats on a 1,000 subs. That was fast

[@farminginiowa3199]

ya I started a youtube about 3 mounts ago and I have only 5subs

[@22vx]

Every food crop in the modern world is a GMO crop. If not for the human-devised, human-initiated GMO process, an ear of corn would still be as small and hard and brown as a head of wheat.

[@SaneNoMore]

While GMO food has helped millions by increasing our capacity to produce crops it has lowered the overall nutritional value of that food (per capita) , but then again, I would rather take a multivitamin verses starve to death hehe. There is no evidence it is not safe.. in fact GMOs have been studied more than any other food product in history.

[@ktms1188]

It’s not the gmo many have issues with it’s the round up ready crops from Monsanto. Every hybrid is gmo and the corn and soybeans that are the issue.

[@pumpkinglobe]

You are confusing GMO's (which are done in a lab with different species that could never combine in nature) with hybridization and selective breeding.

[@annafraley5388]

Very good, I’m impressed...!! ✅ That trailer is Top Notch 👍 did you all design that layout.??

[@waterskiingfool]

I'm surprised the spray trailer has stayed the same

[@SteveC84]

I'll take my chances on the caffeine lol. No round up for me

[@mikek8594]

Awsome video keep em commin!

[@polie67]

I know this is an older video but how does a home farmer get gmo seeds? Seems like a win win being able to use a herbicide to kill weeds but not the crop

[@smacinskyjr]

What is that red thing getting pulled behind that green tractor? Why is it red? Shouldn't it be green?

[@geebskerbal2771]

Two things can be true at once. It can be very bad for us. But it could also be the best option.

[@ud4458]

Hi Millennial Farmer, what is the frequency of application? Once in the summer, and once in the Fall? Is there any time of year where you apply more herbicides ?

[@AndersonFarms]

same stuff we use, halex, atrazine, and dispatch

[@justincase2830]

I thought that the surfactant might help with drift control also but I am not sure this is the case. Thanks for the education.

[@MillennialFarmer]

Some surfactants have a drift retardant mixed in with them. This specific one does not. We have added some drift control product at times if we have to spray during a breeze.

[@skyquest7333]

Halex GT is a brilliant product.

[@bobrobert6277]

im sorry but roundup... we dont know if its safe because like when they said lead in fuel is ok... we don know until we know if it ok or not

[@69druth]

Good vid. What tips you using on the Hardi.

[@augustreil]

I realize this as an old video but what's your ratio/ounces of Round-up per gallon of water ? Around my home and garden, I use 1.5 oz per gal of water. Thanks.

[@tkalmi09]

nice job

[@matthewsminkmanor9926]

Do you know if the farm implement companies like John Deere are working on computerized selective weed sprayers? For example a sprayer which "detects" a little weed in the field with video recognition software and triggers a sprayer to only spray a tiny part of the field as it passes by a weed? it appears that only a few little weeds are coming up and you don't really need to spray 100% of the ground. Would that be effective or do you need to spray everything?

[@AntonyMB]

I saw something like that, might have been JD. They said it still needs improvement before it can be used reliably. It's going to happen no doubt, part of the larger 'farm automation'.

[@hashdfw]

surfactant is essentially soap

[@22vx]

Allen Hansen in a medical context, surfactant - produced thru lung lining cells - is what facilitates lung pliability and elasticity. It's remarkable to me that the word is used in agricultural contexts.

[@kristygoodman4477]

Why don’t the chemicals kill the corn that is coming up?

[@johndantice2577]

It may help to inform people that an acre is the size of a football field.

[@andrewsarles3520]

I thought it breaks the plants nature wax off the leaf so the spray can penetrate it that's how it was explained to me? Very educational though! Round up should not be used on every lawn by every person some people are not very responsible with dosage that's the harmful part!!!! Let's hope they don't start selling all chemicals like they do round up!!!!

[@brandonclontz2416]

Not sure if this has been asked before or discussed in a later video as I just came across your channel but is there a specific reason you prefer a pull type sprayer over a self propelled?

[@MillennialFarmer]

There was at the time, but we have now upgraded to a Deere 4830

[@howardyounger5456]

Great video I farm a small place and work a job also . I hear about GMOs from a lot of people ,and I get tired of it . I don't beleave a farmer could stay in farming right now if he didn't use them. It seems like the chemical company that I will not name rammed that down the farmer thoats. Don't atrazine have a carry over for other crop other than corn?

[@57fitter]

It's pretty rough on Oats the following year...

[@diepenj47]

There are lots of factors involved in carry over such as herbicide rate, soil type, soil pH, weather conditions and which follow crop is planted. The MMF fields are in a corn/soybean rotation and they have probably used atrazine for many years so they know the proper rates to use so they don’t have carry over issues. By the way, atrazine is one of the best ways to control those little weeds that Zack pointed out in the previous video.

[@Thats_Unfortunate]

Hope you don't get NHL... Monsanto's primary interest is profit

[@MillennialFarmer]

gyuuk isn't that the primary interest of most businesses? And isn't it interesting that most of the people involved with the class action lawsuit are from the West coast, and not from the Midwest where glyphosate is used much more extensively? I don't know anyone with NHL, and 80% of the people I know work with glyphosate....

[@scotthag1993]

gyuuk ...... just stop

[@BrandaleaFarms]

How do you like that tractor for spraying? Would you rather not have duals in the rear? I am currently looking for a tractor solely for spraying with a Fast 1400 gal sprayer, what would you recommend?

[@MillennialFarmer]

We like the tractor. in our area the duals really help at times because sometimes we end up having to spray when the fields are not ideal (wet). we do run over a fair amount of crop on the ends though. we are considering getting a self propelled at some point. I would think any good tractor would pull a fast 1400 as long as it's got enough power!

[@BrandaleaFarms]

Thanks for the reply !

[@AndersonFarms]

+MN Millennial Farmer we got a JD 4920 self propelled. it can go through pretty much anything

[@hss2004]

Hi Chad, I truly want to know more about GMO and Glyphosphate, especially now since monsanto settled with the cancer lawsuit. All I know is the science, since I am a science major and only understand the studies I've seen and the adverse affects from those consuming produce high in glyphosate. I would love to know more about why you think that it is hype. Thank you!

[@andrewthomas9598]

He literally said in the video that he doesn't know the science behind these chemicals so there's not much more he can teach you glyphosate causes skin cancer and Lymphoma it's just the facts that's why Germany right now is Banning along with a lot of other European countries that have brains now all we need to do is get North America on board to get these cancer-causing chemicals out of our f****** food enough is enough

[@patriotsfan1236]

@@andrewthomas9598 yeah that shit is terrible for humans.

[@hummell9]

you have GMO-corn and you spray more chemicals then i do? o_O all i use is SL 950 ( Nicosulfuron) and dicamba.

[@tMatt5M]

Zach Johnson #73/6x right?

[@MillennialFarmer]

You got it!

[@Pawel_Agro]

Why do you use Halex gt? I was thinking that in the USA you use only Roundup. Halex gt is better and cheaper?

[@MillennialFarmer]

Paweł Kędziorski Halex GT has other chemicals to help control some of our weeds that have started to become resistant to Roundup. We started having some resistance issues about 3-4 years ago. Before that, Roundup controlled everything really well.

[@Pawel_Agro]

OMG! We do not have GMO corn in Poland. We have to use other substances than glyphosate. How old are using Roundup? In the year introduced GMO plants?

[@MillennialFarmer]

Paweł Kędziorski Shortly after. We have been using glyphosate and GMOs for 20 years. The technology has been great and allowed us to be more efficient and better to the environment.

[@Pawel_Agro]

Better to the environment, because you use less herbicide? Well I understand?

[@MillennialFarmer]

Paweł Kędziorski Yes. we use less herbicide, less harmful herbicides, no insecticide, and irrigated land needs less water.

[@rogerwilson9361]

your smart person explain why a bonding agent is applied with round up. I will say this herbicide in which round up is for kills the roots applying to a plant shouldn't hurt anyone; but taking a mouse which is one hundredth the size smaller then a human; and giving it substance and it dies then from scientific calculations comes up the mount that would kill an normal sixed human. One can question it by say not so fast due to the fact of the size of a mouse and how much it would take to kill it without looking at possibility what kills a mouse or a rat it would take or could take several to a million time the amount calculated would kill human for the test of what it would took to kill a mouse or a rat from that calculation could be wrong.

[@MillennialFarmer]

I'm not sure I understand what you were trying to say...

[@rogerwilson9361]

MN Millennial The size difference of the rodent and that of a human what it take to kill the rodent it may not be as harmful to a human as it would have been to the rodent because of size of rodent just looking at the size difference to say it's harmful to human could be wrong

[@57fitter]

It's a HERBICIDE. It interrupts the growth cycle of PLANTS. Does not affect mammals in normal doses.

[@w056007568]

Good video, very good explanation but I envy you having GMO plants, glyphosphate, atrazine and simazine - GMO, atrazine and simazine now banned and it is likely that the EU will ban roundup products in the near future! The big nightmare for us is over slug pellets usage and flea beetle control for oil seed rape.

[@MillennialFarmer]

Dan Whiteford Our consumers here think the EU is great for banning those things. It's too bad for the farmers because they are incredibly valuable and efficient for us.

[@joeleroy1857]

Why are you putting chemicals on the food...

[@qiangzhang5497]

to increase yield

[@finchharper4647]

🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘 A safe Poison is still Poison even if its salt or caffeine.

[@Cragified]

You can poison yourself consuming enough pure water. : Water Intoxication . Nothing in excess is safe.

[@myfreckels]

@@Cragified seriously the most ridiculous response. I better watch out so someone doesn't poison me with water!

[@dmack6198]

In your 1st video you said you wanted to make videos because of the disconnect between farmers and consumers. Here's the DISCONNECT: You & your accomplice (Monsanto) are killing the consumer to make more money. Spraying roundup and using GMO seed...you're not a farmer...you are a corporate hitman for Monsanto. It is so sad... You are brainwashed. The market is growing fast for safe food...As consumers get educated about the deadly chemicals "farmers" spray directly on the food we eat. We need help, be a Leader, stop using these deadly chemicals and stop making excuses before it is to late. God bless you and your family!

[@pumpkinglobe]

Exactly!

[@WorldCollections]

Congrats on maximizing your crops and RUINING my health. Keep believing we need inflammatory and carcinogenic chemicals in our food! Edit: it’s not for food, ok, so where do all those chemicals end up anyway? 😝

[@Ormathon]

What he grows is not "eating" corn. Good try tho.

[@myfreckels]

@@Ormathon HAHAHA....... goog try being witty....

[@pumpkinglobe]

@@Ormathon What is it for?

[@Ormathon]

@@pumpkinglobe Most of the corn he is producing is for bio plants, fuel.

[@vancouveralan]

remind me to never buy corn again

[@bobrobert6277]

not gonna say what they do is bad but they are evil the monmmmm......

[@Marek-xx6ot]

Lepiej dosycha jak się opryska randapem