Spraying Aphids and Scouting Crops With Our Channel Agronomist

[@georgewyrick1859]

The squirrel was a nice addition.

[@discountforbananas]

Was looking for this comment :D

[@Czecher262]

Farming appears to involve a lot of science. And math. And metal shop. And video editing. Keep the good stuff coming.

[@davidwoermansr]

Our family says as farmers we're a jack of all trades master of none because it's always changing to make it hard to master

[@wweoolofsson]

I'm living in northern Sweden and studying to become and engineer in industrial economics. But I love farming. Your videos are the best Zack!

[@nathantindall2068]

Your the most informative and honest farmer on KZbin. Keep up the good work, I've been a subscriber since the beginning. Great Channel! 👍👍

[@MillennialFarmer]

Nathan Tindall thank you!!!

[@jasonnorris2979]

Could not have said it better Nathen

[@nathantindall2068]

Thank you!

[@michielrossouw9314]

I am a farmer in South Africa,love your channel !!

[@thedonleroy]

The beans & corn are looking good. I hope people that think farming is just putting seed in the ground & then sitting back in the easy chair until harvest watch this and get an inkling of all the things that actually have to be done & the money spent between planting & harvesting.

[@MillennialFarmer]

thedonleroy agreed!! Its not as simple as it looks!

[@luma13]

Ha love the splice of the squirrel!

[@57fitter]

"In the poor spots" Yer killin' me, Zach

[@rustyschackelford9645]

White mold is bad here in Indiana. A lot of guys around here use a crop duster to spray for it. An air tractor AT-802 and that thing is a beast. Dad and I got to see it spray a small field 30acres maybe with woods on all 4 sides. He came in over the trees and dropped in like a fighter pilot avoiding radar and pulled up at the last second a few times, It was so freaking cool. I think he saw us standing outside our shop watching because before his last pass he flew over us, pulled up until he looped facing back the other way and flipped back over for his last pass. Its fun seeing them spray big fields but on that small tree lined one he was just showing off and that dude was GOOD.

[@cuznjo1]

i am amazed at what you have to know, and what you have to use, to make a good harvest. interesting

[@MillennialFarmer]

cuznjo1 it's always interesting!

[@dankinnard1833]

As a non-farmer still find very interesting and educational. Thanks!

[@peanut6726]

I've had frog-eye a couple times... usually after leaving the bar. Didn't know you could spray for it. Excellent educational video as always, Zach. I learned a lot.

[@MillennialFarmer]

Peanut 67 is that what that's called?!

[@raffy1ca]

Thanks for the update! Crops are looking great there! Unfortunately we’re in a drought here in Saskatchewan. Crops look terrible. Cheers from Saskatchewan!

[@MillennialFarmer]

raffy1ca that's a bummer. I feel for you.

[@chriswebb98]

Very nice video as usual. I wish I could keep my vegetable garden as weed free as your fields. Even after turning the raddish over I still have weeds uncontrollably.

[@MillennialFarmer]

Chris Webb they're always a difficulty!

[@chriswebb98]

MN Millennial Farmer thank you the reply. I have a small 1 acre family vegetable garden but I love driving by thise big farms. Do you have any tips for eliminating weeds? Thanks.

[@garencarter746]

love the headcam great addition to great videos

[@TheeTyroneShoelaces]

Kills the skeeters too. Love it

[@TheeTyroneShoelaces]

MN Millennial Farmer nothing ever does. But it’s fun trying

[@johngrober6244]

100 busels to acre ,you see bruce smile haha,thx for vlog learned a lot ❤️✌🏻👌🏻👍👍❤️

[@waterskiingfool]

He had a lot of good info

[@jamesmcclaren6534]

Didn’t understand a lot of it 2bh but what I did was very interesting and I appreciate you taking the time to give us the information good and bad alike 👍

[@westernstarlowmax599]

We're lucky in NW Ohio. We very rarely have aphids. I think we sprayed 5 acres total in the last 10 years because there was a alfalfa field next to our field

[@MillennialFarmer]

Michael Steffel crazy

[@stanleyjones4180]

great video zach thanks soyabeans look great

[@samueljoejr5191]

I love the technical prospective.Thx.

[@muscletractorfan2441]

Can’t wait to see your harvest. Welker’s are already harvesting. Big Tractor Power is already done with harvest 18. When will you be in the combine?

[@Jason-qb7zk]

We started spraying aphids last week in southern mn and there at the threshold here,where spraying brigade pesticide on our fields and it's working

[@MillennialFarmer]

Jason Lee nice, hopefully it stays that way for you!

[@melkebonde1969]

Educational and fun. Maybe the best out there mr MNmillennial👌👍🤠

[@IowaFarmer05]

Out here in NC Iowa spraying for aphids as well today.

[@firehawk4ya1]

If you need heat, we have had some down here in Texas I wish I could send you! But I have to say, baling hay at 114 degrees (actual temp) wasnt fun, so be careful what you wish for! Can't wait to see the final product here in a month or so. Keep you the great and informative work!

[@MillennialFarmer]

Matt Yowell I dont need THAT MUCH heat!

[@nickm8358]

It's been to wet for the longest time to spray but we started last week. Our beans are important because we clean and sell ours as parent seed or seed for other farmers to plant

[@jordanroberts1519]

Excellent video Zach. I'm not even a farmer, and I understood very little, but excellent video. Good editing as well. More silly squirrels please!!!

[@connorarnold8371]

U guys are lucky. Over here in ND we haven’t got a good shot of rain in over a month and the soybeans are hitting and the corn is shriveling up. We are also in a heat wave and was 96 yesterday.

[@MillennialFarmer]

Connor Arnold we havent had any rain for about a month either but everything is hanging in there pretty well

[@farmerstephen]

We went two months without rain her in the Uk now rained for last 4 days.

[@TheZwerfer14]

Thanks for the video, also a good crop you have from what I've seen!

[@mattyc195]

Great video and thanks for sharing

[@kristab8953]

The difference in crop development is crazy, my corn is between dent,and black layer and my beans which weren't hail stressed are up to my arm pits and the pods are almost completely filled. Probably start turning here real quick. West iowa

[@thomasmarti5856]

Thanks for the crop update :)

[@204Diesels]

Love the videos, keep up the good work!!

[@andywilkinson3792]

How do hope you get that nice hot weather we bin having over here i went a show at weekend and came home looking like a lobster that's how hot it is over here things must off dried up a bit over so u could get some spraying done. All the best from Andy in UK

[@Jackc8201]

Very informative and entertaining as always Zach!

[@jacobotes8443]

Chlorpyrifos is really effective, one of the best pesticides. We used it on peanuts to to control lice, it smells quite bad though. Unfotunately its banned now in South Africa and we do have a lot of problems with resistance to available pesticide

[@MillennialFarmer]

Jaco Botes I'm a little concerned that we may have that problem next year.

[@SoybeanFarmer3300]

crops look good. thanks for the update.

[@gkloepper]

Hi Zach, if you still read comments on old videos, I‘d like to know what you do for varying the active substances in your chemicals to prevent resistances? Is that something your agronomists ever encourage you to do? Because here in Germany it’s actually quite a big thing and we‘ve had a lot of success with it. In herbicides as well as in funcicides and insecticides.

[@jasonnorris2979]

The squirrel was cool but I wasn't getting bored honest lol

[@zacboekeloo4271]

Aaaah, what’s with the squirrel on the water skis?!?😂

[@MillennialFarmer]

Zac Boek it seemed relevant?!

[@rawhideadventures9515]

Great information.

[@tylerduchsherer5579]

Your corn and beans are looking a lot better than in central North Dakota. They are drying up, with no rain in the future forecast

[@MillennialFarmer]

Tyler Duchsherer I heard that...

[@tylerduchsherer5579]

It’s a shame they were looking to be the best crop we ever grown but it all went down the drain.

[@abelmarzi8481]

exellent video....greetings from a farmer from argentina

[@MillennialFarmer]

abel marzi greetings!

[@jakeruchti1]

That squirrel got me

[@AntonyMB]

'In Minnesota, as many as 13,000 soybean aphids have been found on a single plant.' Wow 😮 (that's from the UNL extension)

[@rickbrandt9559]

Informative as usual..

[@deanwest7623]

Yum the smell of lorsban

[@mikepagel1021]

I want a hat like Bruce has.

[@gerryheckmann3167]

What is the problem with white mold?

[@johnmora5830]

Hey man been watching your channel, love it. Have u ever tried to use baking soda mixed with a milk and water on bugs? Ive had decent results, just have to apply every two weeks or so ive noticed. Just a idea. Love the hard honest work, stay awesome brotha.

[@davidwoermansr]

On 2500 acres that would get expensive quick

[@austinfunny911]

I feel like I have seen your trucks on the road. I'm a trucker in Morris, MN

[@MillennialFarmer]

Topdrive03 you probably have! We haul to CVEC and Denco a lot

[@nashguy207]

Zach thanks for sharing I'M really learning a lot from your videos it amazes me how they can develop crop plants to be resistant to certain herbicides. As for the soybean aphids are they in the soil in the field or where do they come from I have dealt with aphids before on some ornamental and other landscaping plants. I'M like you I have problems pronouncing the names of the active ingredients in a lot of these products i don't understand why they have to make the names of the chemicals so difficult. LOL we use some of the same products you use for turn and plants the active ingredients are the same but they label and call it one name for agriculture and another for turf one example is Quadris we have the same fungicide to use one turf its the same active ingredient but its called Heritage and quadris is cheaper to buy than heritage but we can't use Quadris on turf because its not labeled for turf Crazy. Thanks for sharing and educating us . I really appreciate the time you and your reps take to make these videos for our education and entertainment. Have a great weekend. God Bless!!!

[@MillennialFarmer]

nashguy207 they migrate through the jet stream. I know that sounds like a joke but it's not, they travel thousands of miles!

[@fairviewfarmer924]

Holy Squirrel on a surf board!

[@bcslack09]

I have fought aphids in the garden. I have always found aphids UNDER the leaves.

[@tylerschultz1146]

Hello new subscriber here from sc mn. Love your channel. Do you plant mostly all channel? Good luck with it vs as grow or dekalb? Plant any hybrids that are less popular in our area. I’m thinking of trying Becks next yr. any experience with their soybeans or corn by chance?

[@MillennialFarmer]

Tyler Schultz we are 90% channel, we find them to be our best bang for our buck on our soil.

[@tannerthibault8893]

It'd be cool if I could send you a vid how I spray aphids on trees. Cool to see how everyone does stuff compared to trees!

[@AngelJimenez-to2ud]

Green for life my fRiend

[@mikebournival6932]

What is up with squirrel on water 🎿 lol 😂

[@MillennialFarmer]

Mike Bournival just keeping it interesting!

[@mikebournival6932]

That's awesome love your videos keep em coming

[@brandonwaldron2542]

I love the video zach teachs me good lesson for my career

[@Kingmidget71]

that’s an interesting channel hat

[@MillennialFarmer]

Kingmidget71 I dig it, do you like it yes or no?!

[@Kingmidget71]

MN Millennial Farmer I do

[@futurefarmers8218]

hey can i have some advice and help i am trying to start my own farm channel. thanks❤️. good video love watching your big equipment in action!

[@daverabuck]

What population are your beans planted at?

[@gpman3889]

You’re lucky you can still use Chlorpyrifos a.k.a. Dursban, because you can rotate between organophosphate and a pyrethroid product so that the aphids don’t build up resistance to the insecticide. I worked with Dursban for over 20 years I believe it to be a safe product.🤓

[@claytonstarwalt9914]

Do you ever use aircraft for your spraying?

[@jaredjohnston9549]

Did i hear you need heat?? Man has the heart of Missouri got a deal for you. Just 1easy payment of 1in of rain for 2 months and all the heat you want is yours. Extra charges apply for some states including California and Minnesota. Good info as usual farming up there almost sounds easy!

[@Gunnut880]

They are going to be outlawing lorsban now so next year you won’t be able to use it. Not sure if Sivanto is labeled for beans or not but it works really good on aphids.

[@MillennialFarmer]

Gunnut880 yeah, we'll have to find some alternative I suppose

[@rickfulmer64]

Love these videos wish we had a KZbin or around the Richmond Rosenberg area Texas keep them coming

[@strangefruit8776]

How do you see without your wide angle mirrors? It drives me crazy not having mine to use on the big trucks.

[@MillennialFarmer]

Strangefruit it drives me crazy too but I seem to be good at breaking them!!

[@strangefruit8776]

MN Millennial Farmer yeah they are a little tinder. Lol

[@noelhohberger1188]

Nice work sir!

[@peteandkatrina]

You talk about cutting back on seed rate for white mold. How low of population have you grown without weed problems?

[@MillennialFarmer]

peteandkatrina we haven't personally planted a ton of acres at real low rates but where we have testes down to 80,000 we haven't had any weed problems.

[@deecotton5435]

That's a sweet chemical water trailer setup.

[@MillennialFarmer]

dee cotton it's been good for us. Very convenient!

[@atmidnight8740]

Your Really Lucky the Squirrel was Wearing a Life Vest Zach. If he wasn't the Safety Trolls would of been All Over You.

[@gregstillman5197]

when you pulled up a plant to check for aphids, how much is that plant worth?

[@MillennialFarmer]

Greg Stillman maybe a penny

[@farmerallis]

We had a hell of a year for beans here in the mid-Atlantic last year--70's 80's 90's and a few 100's. Not so sure what this year will bring with our goofy weather pattern we've had.

[@MillennialFarmer]

farmerallis farming is always interesting!

[@chunkmen]

Zach i think next year one of the things if you are willing to try is dropping some lacewing or ladybeetle (or assassin bugs if you wanna get semi dangerous) larvae into the fields at the same cost of herbicide and see how effective they are vs spraying (last i checked you can get several thousand lady bugs for a few hundred bucks)

[@MillennialFarmer]

chunkmen interesting...

[@chunkmen]

MN Millennial Farmer a singular lady bug can prey on up to 50 aphids in a day.

[@kb9mgs]

Great video as usual! Do you use Field Health Imagery in FV to look for areas to scout?

[@MillennialFarmer]

Eric Turcotte I do. Usually it lines up with the areas I'm aware of but it's been helpful with finding haul damage a couple of times.

[@dschefers9700]

We used the Extend beans last year and this year. But the June 20 spray date has wrecked the technologies usefulness. We have a second flush of waterhemp now. I hope they move the date into mid July next year.

[@MillennialFarmer]

TrueBlue Farmer July would definitely help a lot

[@lgbadenhorst3101]

Did you take off the double wheels of the Sprayer?

[@MillennialFarmer]

LG Badenhorst yes, because at this stage we dont want to run over any more crop than we have to and the ground is dry

[@lgbadenhorst3101]

Yea I thoughy it would be something like that

[@calebgalecke4330]

Great vid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@markhertzog6636]

Any issue with you or anyone else in your area with off target movement of extendimax?

[@jamiebarker3049]

I grow soybeans in Kentucky and I’m having water hemp issues. What spray program helps take care of it

[@MillennialFarmer]

Jamie Barker we use fomasafen if we don't have Xtend (dicamba resistant) beans. It burns the beans a little and sets them back but its effective. Dont use crop oil with it when the weather is hot.

[@joeslont7510]

Jamie Barker u need a dicamba program

[@MillennialFarmer]

Yes, dicamba is very effective also! When used correctly it wipes out almost everything (except grass, which kills easily with other things). Our Xtend fields are all very clean this year.

[@jamiebarker3049]

Thanks for the info. I will look into the xtend beans for next year

[@PaulsonFarms]

Another option you can use is cobra or cadet. They'll burn the beans much worse then flexstar but they also do a better job on waterhemp. We have pretty much all xtends but still spray them with the normal program without dicamba. In the second pass we'll usually mix in a generic flexstar and save the cadet or cobra to be used as a resuce chemical.

[@2511jeremy]

I got a Farming Simulator 19 ad 👌🚜

[@basstrammel1322]

How is the whole soybean tarifs hitting the farmers across USA? Is pricer lower than earlier years? Does the goverment pay out the difference? I find it hard to follow this matter, media cover doesn't include a lot of numbers or cite sources. Any good pointers on where to keep updated would be apreciated.

[@MillennialFarmer]

Bass Trammel our prices have dropped about 20% in the last 8 weeks because of them. Farm incomes will be much lower, yes. The government is going to pay us some small amounts to make up a portion of the difference but it won't be as much as we've lost.

[@matthewwatkins3760]

My understanding is that chlorpyrifos is on the chopping block to be banned next. Thoughts? I'm in FL and own a golf course so a lot of these same chemistries I use as well and it's becoming a nightmare to manage certain things because of it.

[@MillennialFarmer]

Matthew Watkins I honestly dont know enough about that to comment yet. My guess is it will be banned for vegetable use first. If it's truly harming humans and ending up on the food, then we need to come up with an alternative.

[@banjobenson9348]

New leadership in the EPA should bring common sense and reason to the whole picture.

[@raymitchell4321]

You’re the best

[@DHcrazed]

Interesting. I'm a vineyard manager in California, also a millennial, or maybe a Xennial as some article I read claims. The pesticide discussion is an interesting one, I get a lot of shit from some friends. I also get to dispel some myths.

[@joeslont7510]

No aphids and we have never sprayed fungicide either corn or beans I'm sure some in my area do but we don't on our farm

[@MillennialFarmer]

Joe Slont where are you located?

[@deere2420]

Do you only use channel seed? I used to use them till about 4 years ago in my area they couldn't seem to match up against asgrow.

[@MillennialFarmer]

Rodney V we plant a couple other brands but only in small acres. Were always testing but we have found Channel to be the best bang for our buck on our soil.

[@Sl08556]

How fast are you going? What’s the application rate?

[@MillennialFarmer]

simon lieng about 12 gal/acre at 9-10 mph

[@Sl08556]

The product contact is still efficient going that fast ?

[@MillennialFarmer]

simon lieng yep. Actually if we drive too slow the droplets get too big and it's less effective.

[@AngelJimenez-to2ud]

good job men

[@robertreznik9330]

MN must be a nice place in Summer not to have an issue with pollination. We plant a month or longer after last frost to pollinate when we have 60 degree mornings resulting from our days getting to less than 13.5 hrs. Our high yield varieties (113-118 day) require 1400 DDU to fill after silk into Mid August to early October when mornings are down to 50 to 60 degrees. By doing this we can make 2/3 lbs of heavy corn grain per ear. I entered a field in the NCGA contest that 330 looks likely. Usually the Texas winner is 330 but 450 has been made. Interesting how crops are managed on Zack's crops.

[@WorldsOkayestFarmer]

Lol nice video a ton of good info from experts! Thanks for sharing learning every day! #WorldsOkayestFarmer

[@Jpsmoto]

Great video!

[@leandroaugustomoraesdemell3608]

How many hectares do you grow on your property?

[@MillennialFarmer]

Leandro Augusto Moraes De Mello about 1,000

[@leandroaugustomoraesdemell3608]

MN Millennial Farmer I'm from Brazil, and I do not know the English language, but anyway I put the caption in Portuguese to see your videos, because I think very top the crops of the USA, my dream is to visit there !!

[@joeslont7510]

I'm 5miles strait south of the bottom tip of lake Michigan in porter county Chesterton Indiana

[@awsomeman62]

Do you have any live stock at all or has your family ever had any on the farm in past years? If not then do you just sell all of your grain. Also do you make any hay?

[@MillennialFarmer]

Bryce Denen we had cattle and hogs when I was really young but not for many years now. Yes, we sell all of our grain.

[@777cascade]

Chlorpyrifos has been banned from residential use since 2001, and it sounds like it could potentially be banned for general use soon. How will that impact your operation?

[@MillennialFarmer]

777cascade it's still legal for sale for residential use, just not indoors. We will likely have to come up with a replacement next year if we can't purchase any. I'm not sure yet what that replacement would be.

[@777cascade]

MN Millennial Farmer thanks for the reply. Love your channel and look forward to your uploads.

[@willysworld4853]

How many acres do you have in total?

[@MillennialFarmer]

Willy's World we farm 2,500 right now