MY DEVISTATING SWEET CORN SHORTAGE ON LABOR DAY WEEKEND!

[@OldPackMule]

Dude, you're the hardest working man on KZbin. Much respect.

[@rjaquaponics9266]

Hard work is only part of the story

[@dnawormcastings]

Great video doing all that work in the heat will keep u fit 💪🏻

[@wishwellfarms]

For sure!

[@tommathews3964]

Sorry about your corn loss! Man, I need to be selling corn in Ohio! I get $5-6/dozen here in Alabama. We grow a yellow, a white, and a bicolor. Best of luck the rest of the way! We’re burnt up down here!

[@wishwellfarms]

Thanks. We sold our sweetcorn for 5 to 6 dollars a dozen about a decade ago. We grew yellow and white corn for over 20 years but quit growing it about six or seven years ago just because of lack of demand and it makes my life of a heck of a lot easier ha ha

[@marialorenavillanueva5342]

Much respect.

[@bmanferlife]

Love the content as always bud!

[@redshepherdoutdoors7201]

I had to chuckle when you showed us your auto steer on the 3020. Something tells me that’s not the first nor last time you’ve picked corn while doing that. Actually, my son in law could help you with that if you want. He’s an AMS guy for a Deere dealership locally. He wants to put auto steer on my old Super88 Oliver just for rubberneck looks and grins lol. Was wondering what is your all time favorite determinate field tomato variety? Thanks for the all the time and effort you put into your vlogs of your operations. I don’t know how you have time for it all.

[@wishwellfarms]

Ha ha yeah when we’re picking corn and we’re shorthanded sometimes my brother or I will hop off the tractor and pick a quick dozen or two then hop back on or just correct the steering and keep going. I’m not sure I have an all-time favorite, seems like I’m always trying a few new ones every year. Will probably just plant roadster, rambler, Skyway 687 and red deuce next year. STM 2255 wasn’t that great for us this year Three videos a week is starting to take a toll on me and now that the season is starting to slow down I’ll probably go to two videos a week.

[@bobdoyon4275]

A while back you requested topics for future videos. Maybe sometime discuss the cost /benefits of vegetable farming vs field corn or soybeans. Details like labor hours differences, up front costs, machinery differences, market price considerations, crop risks (weather, insect, disease), acreage required to make it profitable, employee level comparisons. You also mentioned you previously had a dairy operations. That would be interesting to hear the details of that and what it takes to be profitable. Thanks again for keeps us entertained and educated!

[@wishwellfarms]

Thanks for all the suggestions Bob. I will definitely add those to my list of video ideas. After the season ends, I’m going to set up a recording studio with proper sound and lighting in my old farm market for recording more in depth, videos of things like this.

[@markkallstrom5672]

We tried working on Labor Day picking and selling , but stopped . [ on Labor Day ] The day before and after Labor Day is great ! On Labor Day everyone is where they want to be and not traveling . We have six roadside locations on the streets .

[@wishwellfarms]

Oh, I totally hear you, it’s the same thing for us and on the Fourth of July as well. Even our Friday sales at one of our roadside stands was much better than Saturday just because so many people were already in route to their Labor Day destinations. I hope I get a chance to come and visit your operation Someday.

[@markkallstrom5672]

@@wishwellfarms Yes we also stopped selling on the 4th of July , it is so dead , people already where they want to be . Yes come see us . I see you are a hiker [ im not really ] there are some really good hiking trails in Washington . There is one about 1.5 hrs from our farm at a town called Leavenworth . Check it out .

[@TwoHappyChildrenFarm]

Worst corn mistake I made was planting cold/wet with a full rate group 15 pre on top. That corn struggled and ears were about 2 inches from the ground. The other one is it get's too high and the growing point is getting up there and whacking it with callisto. It'll bleach and stunt, again not a good ear. Happiest now with plant health on the liberty system, not the greatest on grass but better than the ALS group. I hate to spray overtop sweet corn either way. We don't need more mistakes to learn from, we're full up!

[@wishwellfarms]

yeah, that's a bad one!

[@davelafreniere8215]

With all the vegetables you run drip lines on,how do you manage all the watering. Do you have a well dedicated to just the vegetables. Maybe you could mention something about it in a future video. Thanks

[@wishwellfarms]

We had a new well drilled about 15 years ago and put a 2 1/2 horse pump in it that can put out 33 gallons a minute and I can irrigate about 16 rows at a time. I talked all about this in prior videos but I’ll try to mention it again in a future video

[@MikeEdwards-pc4qf]

I know all about the skeleton crew. All my crowd went back to school or college too and we just started pulling pumpkins too Makes me feel older every day when I’m by myself.

[@wild_insomnia]

Corn: I won't handle two herbicide doses Jason: Yes,you will ! Jokes aside,such things just happen.You gotta roll with it.But,of course,after Saturday's live stream we all know that Labour Day weekend was a succes.Way to go !

[@wishwellfarms]

🤣, love your comments

[@rjaquaponics9266]

@@wishwellfarms He was condemning your GMO "radioactive" sweet corn, or at least making light that you obligated your Profits using persistent herbicide trying to grow viable GMO sweet corn! How can you "love" his comments?

[@wishwellfarms]

@@rjaquaponics9266 I dont' grown gmo sweet corn, why do automatically assume that I do? There are only a few varieties on the market that are gmo that are tollerant to Liberty and Glyphosate and I've never sprayed those items over sweet corn in my life.

[@rjaquaponics9266]

@@wishwellfarms Any treated seed or crop that requires "cides" to grow are not healthy to eat. Call it Liberty Link or Round UP Ready. It is all chemicals that don't wash off as it is sold to the consumers. You put profits ahead of Health. You work hard but that doesn't make the crops you grow healthy to eat. If you use chemicals to grow the crops, the chemicals are part of crops you sell. Your customers eat the chemicals you use on your fields.

[@paulprigge1209]

Thankfully you You I don’t have field corn. I think 350 bushel what it is now.

[@wishwellfarms]

We grow about 400 acres of field corn and 900 acres of soybeans

[@ManMountainMetals]

Seems like the blight comes back year after year in my little garden. I get about 1 or 2 pickings, then the tomatoes 🍅 start having spots, and the leaves die from the ground up. What do you treat blight with, and is it available to an individual with a garden?

[@wishwellfarms]

There are several different fungicides that anyone can buy to treat for blight and other diseases. But the first step is using seed that has disease resistant characteristics bread into the hybrid, and that can help quite a bit, but no matter what it’s hard to ward off diseases on tomatoes, especially during wet, humid, hot weather.

[@Richard-p8i]

How can you prevent blight on your tomato 🍅 plants?

[@wishwellfarms]

Spraying fungicides every week after transplanting. There are some organic options but they don’t last long and can be expensive. Tomatoes are very susceptible to many diseases and if they are not sprayed consistently throughout the season 9 times out of 10 they will be attacked by one disease or another. We spray very minimally and we pay for it sometimes too. Farmers that have perfect looking tomato plants are spraying on a regular schedule and often won’t talk about it.

[@rjaquaponics9266]

@@wishwellfarms What affect does all those "cides" have on your consumers? Vegetables are supposed to be healthy to eat! Or, are you saying it is impossible to grow/sell vegetables without using "Cides" ? Healthy veg comes from healthy living soils, not antibiotic chemical dead dirt. Sure the products might look good but are they safe to eat? "Good enough" products to sell, spells Profits!

[@wishwellfarms]

@@rjaquaponics9266 I was just answering her question, I did not say thats what I do...we have very alive and healthy soils with high organic matter full of biodiversity and thriving with earthworms, sure there is more that I could do but i'm pretty happy with what I've builit them to be over 25 years, using composted poultry litter and gypsum, pelleted lime and other soil admendments.

[@CurrentChoices]

a demand/market for green tomatoes?

[@wishwellfarms]

Not too much around here just a few boxes a week at a couple of our markets

[@rigger314]

We all make mistakes my friend, glad you still have some more corn to fall back on. Alot of the farmers here in Autralia are caught up in the monopoly of the 2 major supermarket we have here and basically pay peanuts for goods. My farmers cant even brake even on the cost of growing the crops. We also have the problem of cheap imports from overseas countries that are vertually destroying our farms livelihoods and our scumbag government doesnt care one bit.

[@danrussell9207]

Lol I see why you didn't answer my question on the live video about how the corn for labor day did! Didn't want to ruin next video!

[@wishwellfarms]

Haha, I didn’t purposely ignore your question I just got sidetracked trying to remember what all I wanted to talk about and trying to keep up with chat comments…it’s not easy 😁

[@danrussell9207]

@@wishwellfarms lol all good it wasn't while you were live. I would never be offended if I didn't get a response!

[@RonaldEdmonds-wi5sn]

Do you use the soft tomato for your salsa ?

[@wishwellfarms]

No, it just takes far too much time to chop and cook it all down and since the tomaotes are only available for such a short period of time the supply wouldn't be consistant enough for making salsa for 4 months so he buys large cans of chopped tomatoes for his salsa...I will have him explain all of this in more detail when I film the commercial kitchen.

[@robinstanfield1699]

You sent me a message I can't find it now but you said that you did a burn down on the ground before you planted corn and what did you say that you sprayed on it when it was around 6 to 8 inches tall I can't find my original conversation

[@wishwellfarms]

We use impact with atrazine and MSO. Another similar product that works just as well is Laudis and Callisto.

[@mydraftable6526]

With the bean picker, why not build a cage at the back and let the beans land wherever. Instead of opening shutes alternatively. In fact, leave both shutes open at the same time, if possible. Not sure if you get what I'm saying. All in all, you do good work.

[@wishwellfarms]

I get ya, believe me I've tried many different methods...sometimes when I pick solo I would put a melon bin down there which is as big as you can get and still fit on a pallet to be forklifted to the cooler or the packing area, but that only holds 15 bushels, which is only normally 1 round around the patch and about 12 tubs, not an efficient way to pick a lot at all, and then they have to all be picked up in handfulls to be packed into bean crates for washing and selling at markets...a 15 bu bin cannot go to market, hope that makes sense.

[@tobiastho9639]

Next time try mechanical weed control? How would it compare?

[@wishwellfarms]

Doesn’t work with the no till system. We don’t plow or disc our fields so there’s no soft dirt to move around and cover up weeds.

[@johnsandell4501]

Recover well👍👍👍

[@wild_insomnia]

Jason just forgot to pay the provider for GPS services ,that's why auto steer didn't work)

[@wishwellfarms]

lol!

[@rjaquaponics9266]

@@wishwellfarms It's all about Profits!

[@wild_insomnia]

it seems to me that overall Jake is the fastest picker( excluding Jason). He just yanks those ears with vengeance.

[@wishwellfarms]

he is darn fast, I've only had two workers in the past 25 years and out of 300 employees that were as fast as him...he even kept up with my cousins landscaping hispanic migrant crew that helped with garlic harvest!

[@dylanhall1798]

Is ur wife able to come out and help u so ur not by urself ?

[@wishwellfarms]

I'm not going to ask her to come out and sweat her but off with me when I know I can get it done....she's plenty busy with her own things around the house inside and out...she has done an amazing job beautfying our farm property and all around our home and that is her happy place working in her landscaping, not in the veggies. She helped me for many years before we had kids planting and selling at markets.

[@dylanhall1798]

Understandable ,I was just curious...thanks for the videos

[@timothykrott7248]

Put that shirt on your putting us guys to shame 😊

[@wishwellfarms]

😂

[@wild_insomnia]

that wasn't a skeleton crew,that was a ghost crew ! ))) Man,why do kids need education ? Pink Floyd were right.

[@jacobpoucher]

Rodger Walters basically predicted the future with that one. All pubic schools do now and days is push the agenda.

[@wishwellfarms]

hahahaha! Thanks, now I have pink floyd in my head...