Planting “Naked” Non-GMO Seed Corn into Thick Cover Crop!

[@meggawatts]

This got recommended to me and I couldn't have been happier. Seeing living soil applied to a real corn farm warms my Midwestern stoner heart. Great work!

[@gibbsfieldfarms]

Thank you!!!

[@kurtcaramanidis5705]

Outstanding.

[@gibbsfieldfarms]

Thank you!

[@bradlafferty]

I applaud your efforts in regenerative farming, and your willingness to experiment with non-GMO seed and reduced chemical treatments. This was a very informative video in how you integrated the different methods. Thanks for sharing!

[@gibbsfieldfarms]

Thanks for watching! I will be posting more soon and also integrating what I do into our family garden.

[@organicentourage]

I think you're doing great! Thanks for sharing the details of what you did and showing us the results.

[@jvin248]

You're doing all the right stuff! Last year I planted 'naked' Reids. This year I switched to high protein corn (Reids is 9% while dark blue/red/purple varieties like blue hopi bloody butcher jimmy red go 12-15%). One of the hog farmers I know switched to higher protein and saw his pig litters increase by 20% and less medications needed than when feeding gmo/hybrid 3-5% protein corn. Because of the six week drought we had right when the corn needed to germinate, I learned not to terminate the cover until after the corn emerges. The cover (winter rye for me) draws up moisture from below plus shades the ground and helped germination while shading out all the weeds until the corn was ready to go.

[@gibbsfieldfarms]

Awesome man! Thanks for sharing!

[@bradlafferty]

New sub. Can’t wait to see the results.

[@gibbsfieldfarms]

Thanks for subbing!

[@RubberDuckStyle]

It's all about the fungal network you have. Fungi is how plants communicate and help each other. When you get your fungal to bacteria to a 1:1 ratio you will have barly any weeds. Weeds don't like fungal Dominant soils. The number 1 way to kill the fungi in the soil is tilling.

[@smokyplantationfarms3806]

Beautiful stand

[@owendavies8227]

Looks very good. I can't see any nutrient deficiency issues except for pockets of phosphorus deficiency and a little more nitrogen could have helped. As far as getting 300bu/ac corn, you could have planted it a little more densely and sprayed fertilizer (maybe a 10-20-10 liquid feed or something like that) on during dry spells since the corn would not have had access to soluble soil nutrients during that time. For organic, I guess that may mean adding some rock phosphate. Adding subsequent nitrogen would be hard since organic rules wouldn't allow a follow-up manuring because of the 90-120 day rule. I guess you could theoretically compost the manure then spray compost tea, but the operational complexity makes me guess it wouldn't be profitable. What does your soil test look like?

[@mattkavanaugh9550]

Its all about soil health . No till cover crops and biology . Wrk on improving fungal part and you will see drastic improvement . Corn looks good . Fungus will improve nutrient uptake and water . Keep up the good wrk . Its gets better each yr

[@danielcastiglione5328]

Technically all corn is GMO. Corn was one of the first crops genetically modified by native Americans to grow bigger.

[@joshuakirby3531]

What are you burning down the over crop with? Could you not harvest or mow the wheat then drill the corn?

[@gibbsfieldfarms]

I didn’t want to cut and harvest the wheat cover crop mix because I am trying to build organic matter and use the dead flat cover as weed control in my corn. I burned down the cover crop with glyphosate and 24d. We are lowering our application rates every year and trying to go away from it.

[@RubberDuckStyle]

👍👍👍👍👍👊

[@hardcoreplayafromthehimala4888]

OLF "secret sauce" " is compost tea bacteria multiplied by shugar?

[@gibbsfieldfarms]

Bacteria and fungal food. Sugar is one of them

[@hardcoreplayafromthehimala4888]

No so "secret" now@@gibbsfieldfarms

[@dequavisjones4869]

I asked pioneer yesterday, can I get my grain sorghum and field corn "naked'', their reply no. We I guess I won't be buying them anymore

[@gibbsfieldfarms]

I was able to get some Pioneer but I had to order it and pay for it in the fall. They do t give a discount to not treat it since it is a hassle for them.