Hey guys, Evan here with EZ Custom Ag. Finally back in the field today after a rain delay and then a fog delay. It’s not only the kids that got the fog delay this week. We were slowed down quite a bit by the fog that didn’t burn off until about two o ‘clock in the afternoon a couple days ago. So, finally getting back in these beans.
We’re ready to get some wheat planted here. Tomorrow’s the first of October, so basically perfect timing. Still a little dry. Hope we can get the wheat to germinate, but I guess we’ll see what happens. It’s not very often that you’re praying for rain during harvest season, but we will see what happens and hope the wheat comes up anyways.
Let me show you a little bit of our setup here. We’ve got guidance, a camera running, and a 2020 seed sense here; monitoring yield coming through field view on the iPad. Then, here’s where all of our settings come through. If you guys have not been in a combine before this is where we see all of our readings of what the combine’s actually set at, and how we’re actually threshing the grain.
Pretty excited to be back out in here. Hope I can get some good views for you guys. We’re actually running Xitavo 31 /31 right now and Enlist bean. Been very good for us the past couple of years. We try to plant them in front of wheat, so we can get them off early, but they’ve had really good performance the past couple of years and probably going to continue to plant them.
I want to try to give you guys as many updates on varieties and hybrids as we can. They’re going to not only be what we sell, but also competitor products. I’m just trying to give you a broad spectrum of what we’re using on the farm, and give you an unbiased opinion as best as we can. Doesn’t seem like a lot of people want to give that in the world today, so hopefully you see us as salespeople and farmers.
Hope we can give you guys some good information along the way So we’ll try to get some cool shots for you here. I’m not going to be out of the combine much, so this is probably the view you’re going to get to see most of the time. I hope you guys enjoy and Stay tuned. There’s a lot more to come.
Pulling up beside us. We have three generations, my uncle Brian, my cousin Cody, and Cody’s son Stetson. Stetson just turned a ripe age of One in August, so he’s learning early. Cody is now the Regional Sales Agronomist for Stein, so if you guys are in need of some Stein you can hit him up. We’re living the life.
Not sure who all will be watching these videos. Probably from 10 year old kids to 70 year old men that just enjoy farming in the wintertime, but I guess we could talk a little bit about our our program that we run on these beans. All of our soybeans get an in-furrow treatment with a base of 318 -18 because our soils are lower in potassium, so we like to use the 318 -18 as a starter just because it’s a little bit higher in potassium. We like to use that as a base because it seems to give us better results than 624 -6, at least on our soils where we’re at here in southern Ohio. We always add in Environoc 401 from Biodyne and BWFusion as our soybean inoculant. It does so much more than soybean inoculation, but it’s really been a rockstar product for us doing phosphorus solubilization, knocking some potassium off the colloid, making it usable, fixing nitrogen from the air, making nitrogen available that’s in the soil already through organic matter. Just a great overall product that we like to put in. Those are our two biggest products that we put in. We like to add a little bit of zinc, a little bit of calcium, manganese, copper, hitting all the micros just in very small doses, and a pound of sugar. It’s a pretty good cocktail but seems to give us pretty decent results.
I’m not going to complain with 77 bushel soybeans especially when we haven’t had a drop of rain until two days ago since the middle August, so I think we probably could have had definitely 85 pushing 90 bushel soybeans out of these things if we could have got a couple more rains towards the end, but hey can’t complain got to take what the good Lord gives you.
On the corn side, we’re all no -till on our soybeans so we run meltdown to help break down the corn stover from the year before. I don’t know how well you’ll be able to see it but those corn stocks are just non-existent. We put it on in the spring with our burn down pass, and after all summer it really works on them. I have a lot of guys with success doing it in the fall also when they’re able to do that fall spray application, but we actually have a cover crop seeder on our sprayer in the fall, which I hope you guys get to see here pretty soon. After we get the wheat planted that’s why we’re not able to spray in the fall. We’d rather have something grow.
Then, they do that fall application of herbicide, but a lot of guys that are doing that fall application of herbicide know they’re gonna come in no -till in the spring. They love the meltdown on there. So, that’s just another pass of biology trying to keep that soil as active as possible because our soil biology is so important. We’ve learned so much about it in the past five years on our farm.
There’s been pioneers that like Dave Brant, God bless his soul, that have been working on those things for years. Ray Archuleta, some may think they’re crazy, but once you get into the the biological farming practices, it’s amazing how much you’re able to cut back on other things and still increase yield.
You got to keep watching your soil fertility. I’m not one that’s gonna tell you. Hey, let’s just quit all of our fertilizer in the first year, but maybe we can cut back on some things, utilize what we’ve built up in the soil over the years, and actually get our money’s worth from all that drive that’s been put on through the years. I had a lot of success with our in-furrow program, and our burn down program and as we go on through the season we’ll explain a little bit more about full years where we’ve got some different trials and things.
Glad you guys tuned in today. I think this is where we’ll cut it off for today, but can’t wait to talk to you guys more about what we’re doing. Hopefully, show you some results, good, bad, or indifferent. Like I said, I want to try to be as non -bias as possible, and show you guys as much of what’s going on as we can. So, please be sure to like and subscribe to our channels. Kind of follow along, and we’ll learn this YouTube thing together.