What’s up guys, Zach from EZ Custom Ag in the field today doing something a little bit different. We’re actually putting on some cover crop with a seeder we’ve had custom made for our sprayer. Let me flip this around for you guys to actually take a look at this thing.
Got the seed tank mounted. In the place of the solution tank and big fan blower that blows through a distributor to get the seed out to the boom there.
This is a pretty interesting concept. It’s a good way for us to get cover crop broadcasted pretty fast, pretty accurately, down a set of scales where it would keep rate very well. With this we’re getting about 40 pounds to the acre on and just really performing.
So it’s kind of the big swap of the year to get the spray tank off of the sprayer and put the cover crop seeder on, but we got it done. Got all these hoses pulled on this thing and actually happy to get her out here and humming today.
It’s a little rough today. This is towards the end of a long week. We started running some beans, and you know it’s fun getting started, but we’re also finding some things wrong and having to fix a few things. We’re just dealing with breakdowns as they come.
All the fun that comes with taking the beans off for us here on our own farm. We’re spreading chicken manure, we’re putting on cover crop, we’re sowing wheat on a few hundred acres this year.
So we’ve got a lot of things going on and a lot of boots on the ground, a lot of wheels turning so naturally things are going to break, but all in all things have been good.
For the lack of rainfall that we’ve had this year things are actually turning out pretty decent. We’re seeing some decent bean yields and really excited to get some of our test strips, and our test plots ran to actually get to share some yield data, and talk about some product performance on some stuff we’ve used this year, and some of our foliar products, starter products, and so on.
So it’s been a fun, interesting, and learning year. We’re excited to get the crop off and do something like this. You know, getting a cover crop on, that’s always a fun thing, and getting to see it come up and green these fields up again.
Just got to keep things growing. That’s the way Mother Nature intended. So, you know, I’m out here in the field, and wanted to give you guys kind of a report and show you what was going on out here at EZ Custom Ag, and that it isn’t just on the road.
We’re in the field, we’re on the farm, we’re putting in the work, we’re putting in the hours and we’re turning the wrenches and moving the machine. So, we really strive to kind of communicate with you guys that it’s farmer to farmer.
We live that every day. So we’ll catch you guys next time in the field, maybe if it rains, we’ll be in the office. So we’ll see you guys next time.