2026 crop year
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10th Gen Dairyman is by far my favorite. No real ads, just information. This is how we do it, here’s why.
I’ve always used YouTube videos if I needed to replace a car door handle, fix the washing machine or how to route a lawnmower deck belt but I don’t know if I’d put too much faith in them to guide me in a farming operation
Really enjoying this newfound thread.
Again, "don't know jack about farming."
Regarding Laura Farms, a whole lotta family members tune in, whether farmers or not, young-old.
The farmers ***** n moan, the kids enjoy.
End-all, she and Grant have given me a far deeper appreciation for farmers.
Again, "don't know jack about farming."
Regarding Laura Farms, a whole lotta family members tune in, whether farmers or not, young-old.
The farmers ***** n moan, the kids enjoy.
End-all, she and Grant have given me a far deeper appreciation for farmers.
I like watching the Hilberts too. Brian’s Farming Videos is also great. It’s a family farm out in Ohio. They farm a lot of variable ground which is interesting to see how they manage it. I feel like a lot of farmers in Iowa take their soil for granted when it comes to farming.
Walked some seed yesterday in the hills of SW Wisco. The pics don’t really do the elevation change justice but it’s a gorgeous area.
Slow to adopt cover crops, a lot of guys still do heavy tillage, and a lot of let’s throw all our fertilizer up front and expect it to be there all season.
I don’t do cover crops but all data (and even soil sampling) says I’m building organic matter in the soil. Most of my fertilizer is upfront in the form of manure. I have notice huge difference in soil tilth and health when I went to manure versus commercial fertilizer. I do add N as needed through the year though, I’m not 100% N from manure.
That’s great. Manure is a great fertilizer source.
My larger point about guys who farm a lot of challenging ground is they have to adopt different farming practices because they don’t have the quality soil to their benefit. Minimal/no till, cover crops, multiple passes of fertilizer, etc
NC Iowa is pretty flat and tight soils.
I walked quite a few fields this year looking at Chemical effectiveness. The one consistency I saw in the fields was heavy trash residue. The chemicals seemed to be soaked up by the trash and didn’t get soil contact. All the fields were strip tilled or no tilled.
I have been playing with cover crops some. I fly rye grass on standing corn, hoping to see some growth in the fall? Hopefully that happens this fall. The rye comes up in the spring we plant beans and kill the rye. I use chicken litter and don’t buy much dry, unless I need it. I agree with BCClone my OM is going up and so are my yields. I do like notill drilling 15” beans. We will see, I am not 100% sure CC’s are the fantastic things we are told.
Seen this with heavy residue and cover crops. UW has an awesome program going right now where they are studying effectiveness of herbicides in heavy residue. Rodrigo Werle at UW is an excellent weed scientist
Planting Green into Cover Crops? Learn Which Soil Residual Herbicides Can Make it to the Ground! - Getting Rid Of Weeds
Learn which soil residual herbicides work best in corn and soybeans planted green into dense cereal rye stands in this article from the UW-Madison’s Dr. Rodrigo Werle.
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Before we bought our own Semi’s, I contracted with a grain hauler who was capable of filling our contracts with National Starch in KC, Terminals in Atchison, Kn & St Joe, Mo. He had a lifetime of knowledge of delivering corn over a vast area. He stated to me many times that corn raised on farms that used a hog manure program consistently had a heavier test weight.
