Soil & Tissue Sampling with Andrew!

[@bradleysmith5161]

Awesome job Andrew for explaining what you're looking for.

[@Steelrailbearing]

I always enjoy these tutorials with Andrew every year. The in-depth analysis is incredible.

[@kenbowers8423]

I love the science of farming! Most people think farmers just plant, watch it grow and then harvest, how hard can it be? If they only knew the planning and preparation required, they might be more appreciative of where and how their food is grown. Kudos to all of the farmers of the world!!

[@marknewman5847]

Excellent video Ryan , Andrew is extremely knowledgeable you can tell he cares and enjoys what he does, that's a huge Advantage for all you Farmers in Wisconsin

[@glenrummel4483]

WOW! Professor Andrew provided a lot of very interesting information. The challenge is managing all this information and that should keep the professor in business..

[@FoolOfATuque]

I love the science of farming. Hearing Andrew talk about it all is very interesting. Thank you Andrew and Ryan!

[@ianhaggart1438]

Just like being on a soil sampling course. 😲 He knows his stuff👍 It's not easy selling to farmers though😁. Well done for putting this together for all of us to benefit from especially new farmers. Keep up with the great tutorials 😉👍

[@farmshoffman8475]

Great awesome video Ryan , I learn a lot when Andrew comes around

[@dennispowell1526]

It is amazing how much science goes into crop production these days.

[@cassiuspuckett8789]

Good looking corn field. Great video Ryan....

[@CopperBlood]

Just a suggestion, could you put a date in the vid on when you shot it?

[@ohiofarmlife4020]

Andrew is always very informative, we are having issues with uneven stand also.

[@newsouthernfarmer3499]

Wow I always assumed you guys had high cec soils with high ph, high organic matter soils. I really enjoyed this video.

[@SimonKL11]

Andrew knows what he is talking about👍 very interesting video😉👍

[@mikehendrickson8294]

When you harvest this fall please give us the details if there is a difference between the non cultivated and cultivated corn

[@bigt6359]

Love videos with Andrew...he’s always teaching me something

[@petruzzovichi]

Always a pleasure featuring Andrew. What a dude...

[@MatthewHoag77]

I saw cornfields already at tassel stage as I was driving eastward yesterday evening. This hot weather definitely makes the corn grow quickly.

[@sirvelliance9332]

Here in Maryland we've just started harvesting sweet corn

[@stretch5794]

This was a very informitive video, i enjoyed it thanks ryan

[@memyselfandifarmer]

I look at the saturation % on the soil test sheet.

[@tedb.5707]

The field behind my house is already 5 foot tall after 9-weeks (May 5th) here in Southern NJ. Lots of rain, sun and now 90-degree heat.

[@Jackc8201]

Very educational - thanks Ryan!

[@patkelly7999]

Good stuff Ryan ,Andrew, the fountain of knowledge, a man that sure knows his trade:)

[@kevinr.lemieux9982]

Very interesting he seems very knowledgeable great video Ryan thanks for sharing

[@brittblanton8342]

Thanks for the video Ryan, corn looks great very informative 👍

[@Irish_handcuff]

Great video as always! Keep em comin! 👍

[@gabehintzsche2064]

Fields over here in central are about 8ft in spots and already tasseling

[@bradchoq]

5.5 ph? that would explain why your calcium levels are low. Do you ever lime fields? Bringing your Ph up will help with P availability too.

[@scottschaeffer8920]

Organic matter is going to be a interesting topic from here forward, comparing tillage regimes, cover crops, no-till and rotations, etc.? Soil biology depends upon it, and farmers depend on their soil. Wonder if anything will change?

[@banjobenson9348]

Good Job Ryan

[@bigal2312]

Love getting down to the nitty gritty details of the soil nutrients. There was mention of improving these nutrients int he soil, what products or organic matter will be needed to do this ?

[@SawmillerSmith]

Corn here in southern Indiana is 8 foot high planted 15 inch wide rows

[@matijakovac9990]

Very interesting facts what Andrew said !

[@kevinwillis9126]

Great vid guys very interesting..

[@davedonnell1393]

Learn so much from Andrew

[@lstan444]

Like seeing t he details, and showing how to develop that 300 bushel per acre corn

[@SmallMartingale]

Let's go Redbirds ⚾✊⭕

[@highkicker11]

Just one down side to high production it lowers the price per bushel in the long run. After all if supply is high and demand normal or low prices drop

[@robertgale1759]

Good video, enjoyed the info 👍

[@jammiejames7219]

Does Andrew's service come with using his products or is there an extra charge. Great video as always.

[@clinthochrein888]

I was impressed with the fields of corn out by me while I was outstanding in our field that was planted corn. Most were waist high by the 4 of July.

[@heartwoodfarms9982]

Great video! I have a question for Andrew......5.5 ph, wouldn't it be beneficial to add lime?

[@Dan.Whiteford]

I am very surprised that Andrew passed no comment about that low pH. Admittedly here in the UK we commercially only grow maize for silage but in general terms most farmers would have a total dickey fit to see such low pH levels - for us most crops need pH of 6.0 - 6.5.

[@lukestrawwalker]

@@Dan.Whiteford Yeah and the lower the pH, the more nutrients become unavailable to the plant... and you start to see a lot more of the metals in the soil becoming more mobile and thus more toxic to the plants... You can have all the fertility or add all the fertilizer in the world to a low pH soil and it will STILL be deficient in the plants because they can't take it up; it becomes immobile in low pH soils! OL J R :)

[@farmingsa2194]

Hi, I love your video's. You inspired me to start my own channel on how farms work in other parts of the world. Keep up the good work and I would love a shout out..

[@mikebauer9202]

Ryan, Did you get new tracks for the JCB since you bought it?

[@fljimbo4572]

You guys did not discuss the soil pH (5.5) and what role that level of acidity plays with nutrient uptake. Is your soil pH at the level you wanted to be?

[@rogergaddy600]

Does anyone rake there hayfields after balling there hay to get up anything that was left on the field? If not why?

[@burkhardt7372]

Leave it and it serves as organic matter and as cover not to dry out the soil.

[@lukestrawwalker]

No... you wouldn't waste the fuel and wear and tear on the rake to drag up a little leftover straw (which would be over-cured and sun-bleached and nearly worthless for feed anyway after the hay had been baled and moved off the field-- the few extra days in the sun and weather GREATLY reduces the feed value of anything that would be left behind anyway). It would be VERY foolish to run your tractor and rake over an entire field to drag up enough hay for what, maybe **ONE** piddly little substandard round bale of bleached out crap?? I know a lot of guys around here that run their rakes SO LOW that they're basically doing "tillage" with them, trying to scrape EVERY LAST BIT OF HAY into the windrow... of course they're dragging along a LOT of dirt with it, and duff and other dead plant detritus that has laid on the ground (like shed leaves, etc) and is partially rotten or infested with molds/mildew and such, and they're wearing out and tearing up their rakes to boot, because rakes are NOT MEANT for the teeth to be constantly digging into the ground on EVERY TURN like that... sure they hit occasionally and dig in a little, on a high spot or when the rake tire drops in a low spot or hole, but rake teeth should ideally be just a LITTLE BIT off the ground, or just BARELY TOUCHING the ground... Will you lose a little bit of hay actually running the rake that way-- SURE, of course! Is it worth wearing the rake out three times as fast and tearing the rake up all the time busting teeth and bearings and other parts just to get *every last straw* of hay in the windrow, NO DEFINITELY NOT... You're not going to get every last bit of hay in the windrow ANYWAY, but you can DEFINITELY tear up a rake TRYING TO! I've seen too many at the action that were literally rolling heaps broke all to pieces and rewelded and bearings sloppy and/or knocked out and teeth wore off or broke off and all sorts of other problems caused by idgits running the thing like a tillage tool instead of like a rake, and accepting a little bit of NORMAL loss! AND, even *IF* you got "every single bit of hay" in the windrow, the baler will STILL miss SOME of it, either it'll not get picked up by the baler pickup teeth, or get missed on a turn, or the baler will pick it up but it'll get crushed up and drop out as "duff" or chaff and dust or whatever... you can NEVER get 100% no more than you can get 100% of the wheat or corn or cotton or any other crop that's on the field... there is ALWAYS *some* amount of "harvest loss"-- the key is having a GOOD OPERATOR that knows HOW TO MINIMIZE the losses *WITHOUT* damaging the equipment or wasting fuel and time... usually the stuff that "gets missed" is the short, small, or low quality stuff anyway that wouldn't add much to the "yield" anyway, so WHY BOTHER taking twice as long, burning twice as much fuel, and working the machine twice as hard to get that last little bit that's maybe 3% extra yield on a good day compared to a properly set and operated machine running at maximum efficiency?? It's throwing "good money after bad!" Later! OL J R :)

[@braxtonwist6623]

I love the vids goo$ job Ryan

[@rickduquette3399]

Well, thank you for that very informative bit of info. I personally am very interested in the technical side of farming. And you would think that as you look at farming from the business point of view, all farmers would want to know just what is in their DIRT, nothing wrong with knowing what you need to get a jump on the next guy. Or in this case, the plants themselves knowing what's in and isn't in the DIRT will help with crop production and better yields at harvest time. All of the information that you can gather, whether from word of mouth or from the very knowledgeable people at the different agencies that are out and available to farmers, just seems like a good bit of kit to have at your fingertips.Much more than in the past generations. Where most were done by trial and error, but I guess that's how we learn. Really great video Ryan. Thanks

[@landerson1012]

And that's where my neighbor believes in taking care of the soil which in turns takes care of the crop. Other neighbors focus on taking care of the crop despite the damage that can be done to the soil.....I mean dirt...

[@robertreznik9330]

If you take care of the crop it will take care of the soil. But the soil cannot do everything.

[@pd-ox1pd]

Ya should say the date you taped this cause corn it is alot further along then that

[@HowFarmsWork]

The date was in the beginning.

[@doclull1989]

Hey Ryan!!

[@theyarddogs4100]

Ryan does he work with you on the soybeans or just corn. Carl

[@ginggur17]

That AgFiniti is impressive!

[@TwoHappyChildrenFarm]

Thans for showing the tissue results. I guess you have low cec soils there otherwise a 130ppm K wouldn't make any sense.

[@mtpocketswoodenickle2637]

Hello two happy children. Would like to see some footage updates from your operation soon...

[@waterskiingfool]

Better charge Andrew for the crop he dug up. Lol. You can tell he loves what he does.

[@eduardorochin7601]

Hi everyone!! I want to know your opinion on some I work I'm doing. I'm a masters student who is developing a sensor that can measure the amount of nitrate in the soil, the goal is to develop a cheap sensor in order to put a lot of them in an acre of however you want to place them, the reason for this is that a map could be developed with the data given from the sensors, and that way you know the areas where you could apply more N or less. Do you guys think this is a viable solution? It would be very helpful to see your opinions. Thanks!!

[@galegregory97]

So that's how science works they can almost tell you how much you going to have what the weights going to be and everything time sure have changed from when I was growing up now you can ask me if you're going to have a good Christmas LOL

[@EtzEchad]

Yup. Farmers don't need to know much do they?

[@SJS-wq5wg]

No kiddin'.......(contrary to what Bloomburg would have u believe)

[@highkicker11]

Yeah kids in city schools and even most rural schools are taught that farming is bad crap job with next to no skill or brain capasity needed. So damned wrong i always get angry when i see city folks making farmer lives hell. In my country its like the pass time for city nubs that move to the rural parts to escape the city but then expect it to be fresh air an no noise from farm equipment.

[@Pinziee]

thx for sharing ;-)

[@noelmartyn9034]

Yes I hate when people call soil dirt.

[@jeffreyhouston2043]

Must've planted late this year, most farms have corn chest high by now.

[@jimwilliams2682]

I think this is from June 16th.

[@jeffreyhouston2043]

Yeah, I know that.

[@braxtonwist6623]

*good

[@bencramer5458]

Knee high by 4th of July 😂 southern Illinois corn is tasseling already

[@gerhardceronio7641]

First to comment. Love your visa and I am a huge fan. Keep up the good work. Also support one of my good friends channel "FARMINGSA"

[@stropolimadness3867]

Why not develop a double ear producing plant, making 400+ bushel. Definitely should be the next investment/invention

[@lukestrawwalker]

Corn naturally produces multiple ears per plant, but they've found that multiple ears usually does not yield as well in commercial corn production (ie modern farming methods and high-yield goals) as single-ear varieties, so that trait has been *largely* bred out of most modern hybrids... The top ear(s) are always smaller and later and do not mature at the same time, and tend to simply draw off plant sugars and resources that would go into filling a single large, healthy ear, which ultimately reduces yield. SO that's why the goal is to get a stand of the highest population of plants per acre that the soils and climate can reasonably sustain (correct population), to get all the seeds (as much as possible) to emerge all at the same time (or as close as possible, in the shortest amount of time) and for each plant to make the single largest, healthiest ear the plant can produce, and have *enough* nutrients available in the soil and plant to produce the largest, healthiest ear possible, while not leaving large "excesses" of nutrients unused, which represents wasted fertilizer dollars. Just because you double the ear count DOES NOT mean you double the yield. In *perfect* conditions corn is capable of producing well over 500 bushels per acre, **BUT** EVERY SINGLE THING has to go essentially PERFECT for EVERY SINGLE PLANT for that to happen. *ANY* stress, disease, insect pressure, lack of or too much moisture, wrong timing of moisture, basically ANY single agronomic factor being even slightly off will reduce that yield. That's why yield contests can produce some "impressive" results, BUT almost always ONLY on very small labor-and-management-intensive "plots" that are essentially "spoon fed" everything *exactly* in the amount they need and exactly WHEN they need it. Across an entire field, the variables simply add up and it becomes uneconomic to try to manage things THAT closely to replicate those extremely high yield goals across an entire field. PLUS, just because you *CAN* produce such high yields, doesn't mean it would be PROFITABLE to do so! My seed/chemical/fertilizer dealer who also farmed used to talk about "beer joint yields"; some of the big farmers in the area who constantly drove full-tilt for super-high yields, on at least part of their acres, essentially for "bragging rights" at the local watering hole... and of course to flaunt in front of potential landowners who they were trying to rent their farms away from whomever was currently farming it... It does NO GOOD to achieve 400 bushels to the acre in yield IF the expenses and inputs to do it exceed the value of the crop produced! You can have a super-high yield and STILL be in the hole at the end of the year, and go broke making record crops! It's like an article I read one time by a famous "cotton guru" researcher at Texas Tech... He wrote that "physiologically", there was NO REASON why cotton couldn't produce five bales per acre (which is about double current "good yields". My question was "WHY would you want to??" Cotton is the same silly 60 cents a pound average NOW that it was 50 years ago when I was a kid, and the costs for EVERYTHING ELSE needed to produce and harvest it have easily doubled, tripled, even quadrupled or more (particularly seed which is more than that!) in price! It would easily cost two to three times as much per acre in inputs to produce such a crop, if not more, and the micromanagement required to nurse the crop along would be absolutely enormous. Then, when you produce your 5 bales per acre, if most farmers were doing it the high yields produced would FLOOD THE MARKET and cotton would drop to 10 cents a pound!! You'd literally go broke producing the super-high yields of now worthless cotton! The same holds true for ANY crop!!! Later! OL J R :)

[@decland47]

CAN YOU DO A VIDEO LIKE THIS FOR BEANS!!!!!!!

[@jaketimmers7708]

Knee high by 4 July

[@bigmac_98-j2u]

Hello

[@karenjulien9907]

hi

[@gabehintzsche2064]

Fields over here in central are about 8ft in spots and already tasseling

[@bigmac_98-j2u]

Hello

[@bigmac_98-j2u]

Hello