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0:00Nothing quite wakes you up like a little
0:01exercise to start the work day. I'm here
0:04up at the Pioneer dealer's place before
0:06Wes is even here this morning. I have
0:08got to plant the Mattoon FFA plot for
0:11the first time. I forgot about that to
0:13be honest. And while I'm up here, I've
0:14got a field that has some low spots that
0:17drowned out. I'm going to replant them
0:18with a Pioneer 28Z30
0:22endless soybean. Originally, it was a
0:2431. When we replant, we always like to
0:26come in with a shorter maturity bean.
0:28So, hopefully at harvest, they're all
0:30ready at the same time or close enough
0:32that you can blend them together. It's
0:34on track to be a gorgeous day here. I've
0:36got to do some planting first thing, and
0:38then I got to hop in the sprayer and get
0:40a bunch of post corn sprayed. Not much
0:42wind, so it should be stress-free,
0:45right? Every day on the farm is
0:46stress-free. All jokes aside, it's
0:49really not that bad most days. Six bags
0:51haphazardly stacked on the back before a
0:5310-mi drive.
0:55Let's see if they make it to town. I am
0:57headed
0:58into the trees over there, south of
1:00Mattoon, inside of city limits. I've
1:03been planting this for the Mattoon FFA
1:05of corn and beans in rotation for
1:084 or 5 years now. It certainly doesn't
1:11help that the old DB60 is a mailbox
1:13reaper. The back of the planter's a foot
1:16and a half or 2 ft wider than the
1:19tractor itself. So, you got to be really
1:20careful estimating as you go around
1:23objects.
1:26Someone's farming.
1:31I plan to zip this out and get out of
1:33here before Canadian National shows up
1:35and starts asking questions.
1:38The 7-acre patch we're on used to be
1:41T-ball and baseball fields. [music] The
1:43city has long since built a complex on
1:47the northeastern side of town. When the
1:48opportunity came up for the original
1:52group that restarted the Mattoon FFA
1:54chapter about 20 years ago, 15 years
1:57ago, to have this field for projects.
1:59They came out, cleaned it up, made it
2:02farmable, so they had something that
2:04resembled an agriculture field to kind
2:07of keep that in the family, the
2:08bloodline of the FFA. The modern FFA
2:12isn't all about just growing corn,
2:14soybeans, and cows. It's about
2:15everything involved in agriculture, from
2:19growing crops to livestock to anything
2:22you can imagine, working any of the
2:24industries, food service, food
2:26production, all encompassing because
2:29there's way more to this than just
2:32planting and harvesting crops. If you
2:35look at the workforce, the farmers are a
2:37diminishing portion of the equation. We
2:40still produce the massive quantity of
2:42feedstock, yet the workforce is mostly
2:45concentrated in the secondary refining
2:48roles, although a large chunk are still
2:50directly involved with production
2:51agriculture. All of the inputs and labor
2:54are donated. This year, Brus and West,
2:56our Pioneer dealers, are donating
2:583706E's,
3:00what I happen to have in the planner
3:01from last night's field. South Central
3:04FS donates all the spraying, the
3:07fertilizer, and Greg and Skyler Rhodes
3:09do a lot of the tillage like this, and
3:11they also do the harvesting. My dreams
3:14are crushed. There wasn't a single train
3:17went through while I was here in this
3:19whole 15 minutes.
3:23There's a sleeping locomotive.
3:31Unless we get hired to do some custom
3:32work, which is unlikely, we are now done
3:35planting the first time.
3:36Got these beans on the back, so I've got
3:39to pull in and start replanting. I've
3:41got to take a phone call, too. I'll show
3:43you kind of what I'm doing out here.
3:46It generates an auto path line, but I
3:47don't have auto path activations. I
3:49snaked around to some of these low
3:51spots. Around here is just the corn
3:54stalks. So, in the bottom, there's a
3:56decent stand of beans. They're a little
3:57bit behind from the water damage, yet
3:59they're all there. The outside had a
4:01ring of corn stalks, so I just went
4:02right through them. Here is the hard
4:04part about replanting beans. If I took a
4:06stand count, there's probably adequate
4:08beans there. I'm in a tractor going
4:11sideways, they all start to look thin.
4:13Well, I'm out here with the planter and
4:14I just topped off with those 28s. 37s
4:17are out of the tank mostly. Might as
4:19well stop some in.
4:22I dropped 70 to 100,000 in the areas
4:25where I have to cross through that look
4:27all right. If I'm going sideways, you
4:29really won't kill more than 10 to 20%.
4:32If there's no beans, I'm dropping 160
4:34plus.
4:36Soybeans don't like a foreign drain.
4:40Some of these small ones will probably
4:42survive. They're going to be behind, and
4:43I got to go through here to get to a far
4:45corner anyways.
4:47This was a tough one.
4:49Just replanted
4:5018 acres out of a 68 acre field. How do
4:55I do that?
4:58See the map.
4:59Where does the water go?
5:01You tell me.
5:04These three are inlets. So, there's an
5:05inlet here, inlet here,
5:08inlet here. The rest is all natural flow
5:11to a drainage area down here. It's just
5:13not enough grade, the water sits. A
5:16ditcher would do some good there and a
5:18lot of tile. All comes off the neighbor
5:20to the north. Nothing against the guy,
5:22he's just got a ton of fall out there.
5:25The property line is right here. I'm
5:27right here on the north property line.
5:28You can see where all the water sat on
5:31him
5:32as it was trying to make its way to this
5:33shared inlet.
5:35A lot of fall. I think that's 120
5:37acres. Most of it comes here to the
5:39south through our 70. So, just hard to
5:42drain it all economically. It's
5:45possible, just expensive.
5:53Time to spray
5:55in the best weather we've had to apply
5:57chemicals in weeks.
6:00Helena's custom side dressing for us
6:02right now, so I'm going to skip this
6:03field and meet them on the back end
6:05somewhere. If I was going to get into
6:07the side dressing, I would most likely
6:09explore some kind of tool bar for the
6:13Hagie so I could run a little bit later
6:15in the season and not feel pressed for
6:16time like we do right now.
6:20I love spraying, especially corn on a
6:23pretty calm day. Auto Path makes it
6:25about as easy as it could possibly be. I
6:27don't even have to guess anymore.
6:29Everything's already calculated. I
6:31believe this was planted the 13th or the
6:3314th of April. It was in that first hard
6:35push of planting.
6:36Anything put in the ground that week
6:38looks impeccable.
6:40Everything planted right ahead of that
6:42big rain or a lot of it looks [music]
6:44questionable even still. I think the
6:46replanting discussion is still ongoing.
6:48No one's really sure what's going to
6:50happen because the low spots still
6:52haven't decided if they're going to come
6:53up or not.
6:56This corn doesn't look as good sideways
6:57on the light nerd as it actually is.
6:59It's got a great stand.
7:01There you go. The dirt looks a little
7:02better. The corn's a little greener.
7:04More contrast on the crop.
7:07Ah, the train we were looking for.
7:09Go figure. You see it when you're
7:10spraying the railroad farm.
7:16The tile repair guy's going to have to
7:18warranty this job. Still plugged here
7:21and then I've got a hole in that inlet
7:23bottom.
7:25That'll be my only repair job of the 30
7:27projects I dealt with last fall.
7:31Auto Path is also good to get a glimpse
7:33inside the mind of the planner operator
7:35if you even ever want to be there. This
7:37is an ornery little farm. Looks like the
7:41operator in this field turned their
7:42section control off and forgot to turn
7:44it back on. Those are all overlaps
7:46through the end.
7:47It's a bad field to not have your
7:49section control on. Really not that big
7:51of a deal. They did used to farm without
7:54it.
7:55That had it on.
7:57That had it on. I'm guessing
7:59somewhere around the oil wells or the
8:01lane he flipped it off for some reason
8:03and forgot to turn it back on. It
8:05happens. I told my wife I'd be home by
8:086:00 and it is 3:05. So, we're going to
8:10be cutting it close.
8:13Here's the difference the spring burned
8:15out made. I had a little extra 240 and
8:17Roundup, so I went around this till I
8:19ran out. You can see my 120-ft pass
8:22lines that perfectly went with the
8:23120-ft end rows and then the field
8:26cultivators worked it all. Even after
8:28being worked, a lot of that grass
8:31survived and whatever winter annuals out
8:33there. It makes a difference.
8:35Imagine if we sprayed in the fall and
8:37didn't have anything.
8:39Something to think about.
8:41Should I call Ali and tell her 7:00 is
8:43looking more realistic? I've got 300
8:46acres left.
8:47I've got the slowest fields out of the
8:49way. A lot of chopped up fields I got to
8:51fold up to get through spots. This one
8:53right here is a square 80, rectangular
8:5580.
8:56It's pretty fast.
8:59Jeff will have to go get another load of
9:00chemical and I don't know how long
9:02that'll take because Helena is probably
9:05swamped at the load bay. It's calm.
9:07Everyone's spraying. They've got side
9:08dress bars running all over including
9:11customers who are side dressing their
9:13own.
9:14Long waits.
9:16Can you spot the area with the drainage
9:18problem here?
9:21Usually they have an indicator like an
9:23inlet.
9:24They'll have to replant.
9:26Two acres in here. It's going to be
9:27annoying.
9:30With how much rain we had and water out
9:31here, it could have been much, much
9:33worse.
9:34I I off the big tanker's empty. I need
9:37to get it all the way drawn down so I
9:39know exactly what I should pick up so
9:41there's not a lot of extra, assuming my
9:43sight tube is accurate. That's always a
9:46big question mark. I did order the
9:49Simmons Innovation AccuVolume system.
9:51I've talked about it. So many of you
9:53said in the last video to buy it that I
9:56just went ahead and did it. Anytime I
9:57mention it, there's a positive comment
10:00down below the video. So definitely
10:01leave a comment if you've got any
10:02feedback. It may have actually just
10:04arrived today. I'm not going to get it
10:06installed. Perhaps tomorrow when it
10:08rains.
10:09He's picking up another 213
10:12acres.
10:13And that'll finish us off for now. I've
10:15got more to spray. I just don't have it
10:18ready or I've got too much to replant in
10:19the field. I only need 60 gallons to
10:23finish and based on where I think the
10:24sight tube was when I refilled, I've got
10:27100 gallons in the tank.
10:30Might be too high, might be too low,
10:31could be perfect.
10:33Knowing my luck with getting getting
10:35this, I
10:36probably won't even going to run out.
10:40I'm not above running the rinse tank
10:41through to finish.
10:45Come on.
10:46We're almost to the end.
10:50OH.
10:52NO.
10:54WHAT A cruel world.
10:58Rinse tank it is.
11:01The old sight tube let me down again. I
11:03was 40 gallons too high. I thought I was
11:07at 650 and it was at 610.
11:10Good thing we got that package at home.
11:12Hunter from Helena's been running this
11:14bar on us. I'm hoping he's got a lot
11:16done and runs late tonight because it's
11:18supposed to rain in the morning and
11:20after that rain, it's going to rain some
11:22more and then it's possibly going to
11:23rain even more. I'd like to get as much
11:26side dressed early while the corn is
11:28small. After a week of nice showers and
11:3180 plus degree temperatures, this corn
11:33will be bigger. When you run it over,
11:35less of it will come back.
11:37You're always going to crack a few eggs
11:38to make an omelet, and you're going to
11:39run corn over. I learned that in the
11:41sprayer.
11:42How much of it comes back? That's always
11:45the question mark.
11:49Yeah, that's Hunter.
11:51Speaking of side dressing, even if I
11:53wanted to do it, I couldn't because I'm
11:54spraying.
11:55Dad doesn't want to run a side dress
11:57bar. He'd rather pay someone to do it.
12:00Another level of complexity to making
12:01that decision.
12:05Out our left window, we have the March
12:07planted 40Z57s.
12:09Now, I'm not done.
12:11Jeff just went up to get the load of
12:13chemical to finish out the last 200
12:15acres.
12:16He may be another 20 or 30 minutes,
12:18perhaps an hour. They've got a lot of
12:20people running, so sometimes they're
12:22slow, even though they have two bays.
12:24Part of doing business.
12:26I get to spray the gauntlet here.
12:28Gardens on both sides.
12:30Wind is out of the
12:34east, and my wife, Ally, doesn't have
12:36her garden planted, so that works. I'm
12:38going to run a trial out here with a
12:40product that I'm super excited about.
12:42We'll talk about it as I go get it.
12:44Unless you've been living under a rock
12:45for the last couple of decades, everyone
12:47knows that Corteva is both a seed and a
12:50pesticide giant. Through the acquisition
12:52of other established and reputable
12:54companies, as well as their own in-house
12:56developments, Corteva has created what
12:59they call Nెక్stEra. That is their
13:01biological, nutritional, and plant
13:04hormone stimulant product line. As we
13:07finish up tonight applying Acuron on
13:10some Pioneer 13 777 planted on a
13:13beautiful farm right behind home, we're
13:16going to be throwing in a side-by-side
13:18trial on a large portion of the field of
13:20our normal herbicide program, and then
13:23our herbicide program plus Nెక్stEra a
13:26There's a lot of seemingly complex yet
13:28relatively simple ingredients in here
13:31formulated for the specific goals stated
13:33on the label enhancing the abiotic
13:36stress resistance of the listed fruit
13:38crops. Unlike many competitors in this
13:40marketplace, Corteva with their next to
13:43line of products are ensuring quality.
13:45They have an EPA registered label here.
13:47This is arguably one of the most
13:49important parts of the whole equation
13:50because there are a lot of snake oils in
13:53this specific market sector. Corteva's
13:56next to line has spared no expense to
13:58formulate the perfect ratio of all of
14:01these plant hormones to result in
14:04hopefully great abiotic and biotic
14:07stress mitigation for your crops. I've
14:09got no better way to put it than by
14:11stealing a line from my good friend Troy
14:13Applegate. He is a multiple time NCGA
14:16corn yield champion non-irrigated
14:19conventional tillage located about 25
14:22miles to the northwest of here. Now,
14:24he's not using Next to Stilt products. I
14:26think he could get even higher yields if
14:28he did. He summarizes the quest for high
14:31corn yields by claiming corn should
14:33never have a bad day. Part of it not
14:36having a bad day is maintaining specific
14:39levels within that plant whether it be
14:41nutritional, whether it be biological,
14:43or in regards to stress. I'm still
14:46waiting on Jeff, so I stopped by home to
14:48see the wife and kids and saw my package
14:51was delivered like 2 days after I
14:53ordered it. I figured with these small
14:55children it'd be best to get it out of
14:56the house because it was fairly
14:58expensive. It's not going on today,
14:59maybe tomorrow. We may need to give some
15:01Next to Stilt to our new chicks here.
15:05Hoping to move them in with the big hens
15:06in the next couple of weeks.
15:08They are five or six weeks old. They've
15:12almost overgrown their containment here.
15:15There was 15 of them. I was assuming
15:17there would be attrition and there was
15:19no attrition.
15:20Lucky knows that his invisible fence
15:22collar's not on.
15:24And I'm going to go supervise. What's
15:26going on out here?
15:29How do you have such a cute face?
15:34Can't believe someone abandoned you.
15:45I could not have timed that better if I
15:47tried.
15:48Got my water.
15:50Got a soda, little snack in me so we can
15:52run for a few more hours. And most
15:53importantly, our stilt next to stilt. If
15:57I've not made it clear at this point, I
15:59am in a financial partnership with
16:01Nexsta to promote these products to you.
16:03It does go beyond that. It is a
16:05curiosity quest on my own. I want to see
16:07how these perform. I don't believe in
16:09just using things for no reason and not
16:12without solid data on our own farm. I
16:13would recommend anyone to try new
16:15products, especially EPA registered ones
16:18that you know the contents are verified.
16:21And see if there's an ROI on your own
16:23farm. That's what we're about to do. Of
16:25course, there's about a 5-month wait
16:26after applying it see if there's an ROI.
16:30Got to make room for it in my supply
16:32cabinet. I had to get the Dawn dish
16:33soaps out of the way, the old chisel
16:35point, my mixing jug. Perfect.
16:39It'll ride there while we load up, spray
16:41the outside, and then get the trial set
16:43up.
16:48We're loaded.
16:49Let's ride.
16:51And not back into anything. Prefer not
16:53to back if I can avoid it.
16:57The side dress bar is putting on 70 lb
16:59of actual N through 32% UAN. Paid for
17:03last summer, thankfully.
17:06It's also adding in another
17:098 or 9 lb of sulfur with that and a
17:11little extra nitrogen, too.
17:15We upped our rate of anhydrous this year
17:16to compensate for the higher prices. So,
17:18we had more on in the fall. We cut down
17:20our 32 a little bit. The price spread
17:22between the NH3 and the 32% jumped to
17:26like 20 plus cents a pound of actual N.
17:29It's typically 10 to 11 cents. So, we
17:32just put more up front. I'm not sure if
17:34that's the best agronomic or
17:36environmental decision. It was the best
17:38economical decision.
17:40Do with that what you will.
17:42Stuck between a water treatment plant
17:45and a cemetery.
17:47I'm sorry. We got to get out and admire
17:49something. Look at this.
18:03That is our 13 triple 7. I reversed my
18:05order. I took the hard fields out first.
18:08We're going to finish with the 13 triple
18:097. I'm moving over there now. We're
18:11going to ring it with our herbicide and
18:13then we'll get the trials started with
18:14the stilt in the tank so we can see what
18:17it does on our farm.
18:18Oh my goodness, that looks good.
18:22Freshly side dressed. Hunter did a great
18:23job here on the ends. Not a lot run
18:25over. They're pulling the same auto path
18:28files I am. So, they download all of our
18:30planner data to help them side dress
18:33without running stuff over.
18:35If we're going to use it, they may as
18:36well use it.
18:38Yearly safety reminder for anyone
18:39working around power poles, farmers in
18:41particular. If you are near a pole,
18:44especially with a sprayer, before you
18:47get out and touch anything metal, always
18:50look up and ensure that you're not
18:52making contact with the lines. I don't
18:54need to explain what happens if you're
18:56touching the lines and then you ground
18:58yourself. It's not pretty. I avoid
19:00sketchy power lines altogether. Even if
19:02I think I'm clear, I get out, I stay on
19:05all of the rubber, and I look up and
19:07make sure there's plenty of room between
19:09me and the wires. A little extra
19:10diligence looking like that can make
19:12sure you get back to see your loved
19:14ones. Really important to stay safe.
19:36Those beans are great.
19:38I've got some Naxcel products to put on
19:39them as well. In due time.
19:49The planner was real squiggly again this
19:51year.
19:54Instead of doing this trial every other
19:56pass, I'm going to do more of a block
19:57style. So, a couple rounds treated, a
20:00couple rounds untreated. With the
20:01sprayer, I worry about
20:03cross-contamination from any kind of
20:05microparticle drift. We're going to
20:07eliminate that. Do maybe another two
20:10rounds somewhere untreated. This is all
20:13untreated still. We'll throw the Naxcel
20:16Stilh in here pretty shortly to get some
20:19comparables.
20:21Okay, I'm going to go ahead and add the
20:22treatment now. 700 gallons if I have my
20:25sight tube guess correct. And as
20:28evidence has shown today, I'm not very
20:29good at that. At the V3 to V6 growth
20:31stage, Naxcel Stilh is labeled for 4 oz
20:35per acre. 600 gallons would be 40 acres.
20:38I'm about 7 [snorts] acres 8 acres high.
20:417 acres high is right. I'll need to add
20:4447 acres worth. Quick math, that is 100
20:4888 oz. Am I correct on that? Let's hop
20:51out, throw it in really quick, agitate
20:54it, and get some data in.
20:56Ah, we'll look at the corn one more
20:57time. It is beautiful. Great time of day
20:59to look at it. It's getting its green
21:01right now.
21:03It's going to be very receptive of this
21:05Stilh. Could be an X factor for an
21:07already high yield potential farm.
21:10>> Every spring we play a game of roulette
21:12with Mother Nature. You check the 10-day
21:14forecast, it may look perfect, so you
21:17pull the planner out of the shed.
21:18Suddenly, the weather app decides it's a
21:20great week for a dynamic cocktail of
21:22freezing rain and 50 mph winds. We can't
21:25control the sky, but we can address how
21:27the crop handles the stress that's
21:29presented. That's where Corteva's
21:31N-Extend comes in. Now, this isn't some
21:34miracle cure you spray to rescue a crop
21:36that's already half dead and underwater.
21:38It's a plant growth regulator blend,
21:40often called a PGR, that you apply
21:42early, right around that V2 to the V4
21:45window. Think of it like sending your
21:47plants to the gym before they have to
21:49step into the ring. It triggers the
21:51plant's natural defenses early, so it
21:54doesn't have to play catch-up when
21:55things go south on you. Let's face it,
21:57there are always four stresses looming
21:59at any given time: cold, heat, drought,
22:02and wind. N-Extend doesn't magically
22:04make it rain or turn off the wind, but
22:06it does prime the plant's ability to
22:08endure these stressors. It builds up the
22:11baseline resilience, so when a late
22:13freeze or a July dry spell hits, the
22:15crop can take the punch and hopefully
22:17keep moving forward. Farming has no
22:19shortage of surprises. Being proactive
22:22with a PGR like N-Extend just means one
22:24less thing to lose sleep over when the
22:26local meteorologist changes their mind
22:28for the millionth time in one day. Talk
22:31to your local Corteva rep to see how it
22:32may fit into your mix this season.
22:35>> Big measuring cup's been sitting in
22:36there for a long time unused. It may
22:38have some biologicals of its own with
22:40it. There was a bunch of tassel anthers
22:42from last fungicide season, if not from
22:44two fungicide seasons ago.
22:47There's more than just N-Extend in there
22:48now, I can assure you that.
22:50Bam.
22:51Add that.
22:53Uh resume. Don't hit new, that'll get
22:55rid of all my mapping. There we go. I
22:57may even be able to change it
22:59to product view.
23:04Product.
23:05Background, no background, satellite,
23:07satellite.
23:08Once we start spraying,
23:11the Accuron and still should be a
23:12different color.
23:13Very important to get data, folks, on
23:15your own farm. I don't care what kind of
23:18promotion you're seeing, what kind of
23:19marketing you're seeing. There's no
23:21reason to spend money on a product that
23:23does not improve your bottom line. I
23:25know Jeff's probably over there in the
23:27tanker wondering what's taking so long.
23:30Science, Jeff, that's what.
23:32With the reclaim system, I can
23:35recirculate my boom
23:37all the way around. It's not in focus.
23:39Back to the tank, ensuring the minute it
23:42starts spraying, we are getting Accuron
23:44and still, not just Accuron still.
23:47The data right here may be irrelevant
23:48because of this washout we're dealing
23:50with. In case you're wondering what
23:52heaven may look like,
23:54probably similar to this.
23:56Rows are likely straighter in heaven
23:58than here.
24:00It's a beautiful.
24:01This 1377 couldn't look any better.
24:05Ooh, red.
24:07Pink and red tonight.
24:09These Gen 5 monitors are slick. I love
24:11the way they look.
24:14This data should be pretty good.
24:17I'm going to have a check strip there.
24:18I'm going to come spray off a lot down
24:19here.
24:21When I'm done, I'll fill in those with
24:24just the Accuron only.
24:26Wasting a lot of time doing this. That's
24:28okay.
24:30Quality takes patience.
24:32Right, Jeff?
24:36Almost out, and then we'll load back up.
24:39Do it over again.
24:47Go back to Accuron, resume work.
24:51Hit okay. Load up one last time. I've
24:54got another 70 acres to spray, I think.
24:5860 or so.
24:59I'll fill in all the strips here and get
25:01this
25:02buttoned up.
25:04Try this again. I think it's about
25:051,100. We'll do 1090.
25:09I promise you tomorrow, if it rains like
25:11it's supposed to, we'll go ahead and
25:12install that tank level indicator.
25:15The one unique challenge of this field
25:18versus all the others is an ornery weed
25:20called burr cucumber, and it is
25:23currently emerged.
25:25It's going to be dead within a week, I
25:26guarantee it.
25:28Should have the residual to hold it
25:29back. It's a nasty weed. Climbs up
25:31plants late in the season, wraps around
25:33your corn head reel, your corn head
25:35auger.
25:37You got to cut it off with a box cutter
25:39or a
25:40sawzall, whatever you have.
25:42It's a nightmare to harvest through.
25:45I had a brief chuckle with myself asking
25:47if we should just leave an entirely
25:49untreated check, then I realized I'm
25:51spraying a herbicide pass. Could be
25:53problematic.
25:55I don't plan on causing any extra
25:56trouble tonight. I told Ally I'd be home
25:59at 6:00, [music] and it's 8:30, and I've
26:01got another 50 acres to spray.
26:04Some lessons I just learn the hard way.
26:05I need to overestimate.
26:09I have roughly another 40 acres of Stilt
26:11left in that container. So, once that
26:13gets down to
26:15400 gallons, the bottom left corner,
26:19we'll dump that in.
26:21When I said 40 acres worth of product,
26:23[music] I really meant 33 acres. I'm
26:26actually a little shy of that 400
26:28gallons. So, this should be plenty
26:29stout. Get a good test here to finish
26:32this field. I'm really happy with how
26:34this turned out, and I should have shown
26:35you that other one before I switched
26:37fields. I'll show you when I'm done.
27:09>> Last pass of the night.
27:12Got one last field of corn to spray
27:14>> [music]
27:15>> where the corn is struggling to get up,
27:16so I'm not going to spray it yet. See
27:18what happens.
27:20There is the second trial I just
27:22finished up. The darker red color is the
27:25Acuron plus the next uh Stilt. We'll
27:28flip over to the first field we did.
27:33Zoom. Which one squares it up? Nope.
27:35Nope. Nope. Nope.
27:37No, not the Google Earth view.
27:41There.
27:43There's the first field.
27:44I'm done for the night. Helena's still
27:47out rolling. Hunter's on a 90-acre field
27:50right now. I imagine that's where he'll
27:52quit. Got rain moving in tomorrow. I
27:55will see you then.
27:57Happy to be caught up on spring. We've
28:00had a quarter inch of rain so far this
28:02morning.
28:03Sun's supposed to come back out. Wind's
28:05going to blow. It's going to get hot.
28:07This will dry it pretty quick, and then
28:09it's going to rain again tomorrow,
28:11allegedly.
28:13Here's my problematic corn field. I've
28:15not looked at it 48 hours.
28:19There's a lot more coming.
28:21I believe it will not be a total replant
28:24situation. Most likely spot in the thin
28:27spots. The rest, as long as it's over
28:3025,000 plants an acre, we'll just leave
28:33it. The corn plants will flex a little
28:35bit to compensate. It's the huge pockets
28:38with nothing that are concerning for
28:40yield potential.
28:41Here's someone else's farm right next
28:43door.
28:44A lot of folks are going to be in the
28:46same boat.
28:47You guys just follow me around or are
28:49there a lot of you?
28:52Oh, I probably ought to text you
28:54something productive.
28:56The sun's supposed to come out. Hard to
28:58believe right now. A little chilly.
29:01I'm starting the installation process
29:03for the Simmon's Innovation AccuVolume.
29:06I have a little bit of corn chemical in
29:08the sprayer still. I need to run it back
29:11into the tanker. I have a setup on the
29:12sprayer to do so. Once that's complete,
29:15I'll have to install this into the
29:17bottom of the solution tank, fill it
29:20back with water, and then use the rate
29:21controller to measure off the amount of
29:24liquid in the tank.
29:35Sure, it's a monstrosity, but it's my
29:38monstrosity.
29:41Reverse the flow.
29:45The line we're hooked into is my reclaim
29:47main return to the tank. We've got a
29:49selector valve on top. I either flow it
29:51back into the tank, or if I turn it like
29:54we just did, it goes into a new line I
29:57installed that just ties in and hangs
30:00off the back side of the machine. I can
30:02hook in a 2-in. The ugly looking 2-ft
30:05contraption coming off the tanker is
30:08actually a 2- to 3-in upsize into a
30:11check valve. So, the product won't flow
30:14back out of the tanker. I can use my
30:16main solution pump now to offload a
30:19majority of what's in the tank
30:22into the tanker. Got to have the check
30:25valve or it'll just flow out. Allegedly,
30:28138
30:30gallons.
30:31We'll see what it actually is.
30:34Or we won't. We have no idea if it's
30:35actually 138. It's going back in the
30:38tanker. Chris and Jeff were sweeping out
30:39the grain bin, so I've been going over
30:41to help when I have time.
30:43One load left in that one, and then we
30:45got that small Shivers bin, and then a
30:4848-footer on the south side. That's all
30:50the corn that remains here at the farm.
30:52Got a couple other bin sites with corn.
30:55This one, though, almost empty. Here we
30:57are, $3,500 later.
31:00A coozy for when you've had a long day
31:02spraying and you need a hard drink.
31:05So, the business cards are in the back
31:07of my truck bed now. Without having
31:08installed the system at all or used it,
31:10I've seen a lot of positive reviews. One
31:13aspect that really impressed me is that
31:14Steve, the owner and I believe the
31:17creator of this product, is readily
31:19available to talk to for any regular
31:21customer. I had a text conversation with
31:24him for how to do this on my sprayer. I
31:26assume anyone else could if they were
31:28looking at the product. I really like
31:30when a company supports their own
31:33technology to that degree. I understand
31:35some companies get so big it's
31:36impossible to do that. You need a chain
31:38of command.
31:39This seems like a relatively
31:42family-owned and operated company, so
31:43let's get her on. I spent a little too
31:45much. I definitely did not need the
31:47bulkhead kit. I wanted a flange fitting.
31:50So, this is coming off of the 1-in drain
31:52port on the side. That's what I'm
31:53working around, getting rid of. I need
31:55to step this up to that size of flange
31:58and then clamp it down. It'll sit on the
32:01side of the sprayer tank, assuming up is
32:04up, kind of at an angle, and the
32:06pressure of the liquid will push up
32:09against this sensor. I can't complete
32:11this install, though, cuz I don't have
32:12anything to get from here to this
32:16fitting, essentially, the stainless
32:17steel side on the tank. I'll have to run
32:19into the Rural King. They've surely got
32:21something that'll work. As is tradition,
32:23I ran into town, got all the parts I
32:25needed, then subsequently did not work
32:27on that project for the rest of the day.
32:30Fast forward through the weekend, I got
32:32to celebrate my 30th birthday this
32:34weekend. Very privileged to live the
32:36life I have and have such a great
32:38family. Everyone's healthy, mostly sane,
32:41and just in total, I really have no
32:43complaints about everything going on.
32:46I've been doing the videos here for 6
32:48years. This will be our sixth season of
32:50filming, I believe. You guys have been
32:52around for a long time. I've got a
32:54little bit less here to show for it. I
32:55don't know if that's from the farming or
32:57the videoing or most likely my wife and
33:00kids. Ali won't think that's as funny as
33:02I do. As I reflect back on everything, I
33:04just can't help but be appreciative of
33:07all the opportunities that have been
33:08bestowed upon me and all the fortune
33:10I've had to have a family that loves me,
33:13cares for me, an amazing wife, wonderful
33:15children, to get to do what so many
33:17people don't get to do either because
33:19they're not presented with these
33:21pathways or they don't have the length
33:23of life that I've had so far. I hope it
33:25goes for much longer. At this point time
33:27though, technically I have accomplished
33:29really some of the most important tasks.
33:31I'd love to be there a long time for my
33:33kids yet I got the privilege of bringing
33:35kids into this world and having an
33:37amazing wife.
33:39And I can't really say much more than
33:41that. Thank you guys for supporting me
33:42along the way.
33:45This rain looks kind of heavy.
33:57The timeliness of my installation makes
33:59this seem much more complicated than it
34:01is.
34:02If you had all this stuff ready to go, I
34:04think this is probably a 45-minute
34:06project not including putting water in
34:08your tank.
34:09Got this installed. There's the sensor.
34:11There's the feed that's going to run
34:13into the cab.
34:15I may have to clock out though because
34:18Mother Nature is sending another rain
34:20our way and this one's actually going to
34:22be pretty nasty. Hail,
34:24wind, lightning. The man in charge got
34:26in a little bit of a hurry this morning
34:27unhooking the field cultivator. He took
34:29the drawbar pin out, then he put the
34:31field cultivator down and it rolled
34:33backwards and the floating hitch just
34:35dropped to the ground. It's a classic
34:37Marty getting a hurry make a mistake
34:39type of deal. Yeah, that's a big rain
34:41coming. Look at that down there.
35:04It's awfully challenging to get anything
35:05done when your shop is outside.
35:09Anytime it rains or gets too cold or too
35:11windy,
35:13you got to quit or just get soaked, but
35:15nothing I'm doing is that important.
35:17Oh, someone's going to end up with a
35:18flood out of this.
35:20Please don't be us. We've already had
35:21ours.
35:23I don't want to wish it on someone else.
35:24I just don't want it for us.
35:29Looks like it's mostly going around or
35:30south.
35:32Not that those guys to our south need
35:33it.
35:36Thankfully, it was not us that ended up
35:38with the flood.
35:407/10 of rain.
35:43Pretty nice, really.
35:45How's my grade work looking?
35:47Decent.
35:50Head over to the Raindrop app. I like to
35:52look at the satellite imagery.
35:54This says we got 8600s at home. Weather
35:57station showed 0.69.
36:01Down here south of Effingham, they got
36:03hammered. 4 in
36:05in the last 24 hours. If you go to 72
36:07hours, oh, 5.5.
36:12There's the short straw winner of the
36:13day. Well, I'm in the project completion
36:16and engineering mood. I'm doing a few
36:18different things right here. I had my
36:20Midland radio on battery power. I think
36:23I'm going to switch it to key. So,
36:24here's that. I just had it wrapped
36:26around the lead. I'm going to put an
36:27actual clamp on it. Everything runs in
36:30back through the ports here. Need to do
36:32some work on my camera. Obviously, we're
36:34working on the AccuVolume 2. Need a
36:37bigger cap cuz I got a lot of things in
36:39here and a lot of them could spill and
36:40really upset me. Congratulations to the
36:43buyer of this sprayer in a few years if
36:45I ever trade it off. I've got this wired
36:47in down to the lower switch bank now and
36:50I think it's going to stay if I ever
36:53have to get rid of the sprayer.
36:55Here's the control box.
37:01Solution tank sensor is this one.
37:05There's a chart here on the side.
37:10My reasoning for going down here was
37:11just space. There's more space to put
37:13the box up in here.
37:21I think it'll just stay in there.
37:31There was just no way I could put it in
37:33here and also tuck the control unit down
37:36here. So, I ran that wire through there.
37:38I did still attach the Midland radio to
37:42the switch power up here.
37:45The ground is actually ran all the way
37:46down there. There's no grounds up here
37:48that I see unless I'm just missing them.
37:50I've got a lot of stuff packed in here.
37:52One eternity later, I've reorganized. I
37:55took the backup camera out. It wasn't
37:57working and I didn't want to mess around
37:59with it. The AccuVolume is mounted over
38:01here by my radio and extra display. It's
38:04on a phone holder, one of those
38:06grappling jaws. It came with a 3M
38:10double-sided adhesive sticker to mount
38:13it over here. I just don't really know
38:15how I would do that. The plug is on the
38:18backside, so I can't put it against a
38:20window.
38:21Don't really have anything I want to
38:22stick it to. You could probably fit it
38:25in there.
38:26That's adjustable. If I find something
38:28better, I can mess around with that
38:30another time. We are going to go ahead
38:32and program this. I'm full to the brim,
38:35which is more than 1,200 gallons. It's
38:37time for us all to learn together. This
38:40is the calibration page. I set it to a
38:431,200 gallon tank. It's assuming that
38:45the tank actually holds more than 1,200.
38:47It's starting us at 1,240. The current
38:50sensor reading is 2871.
38:52We are essentially going to spray off in
38:55increments you see here and enter those
38:57numbers. This will get us dialed in
39:00right now. It thinks we're at 2873
39:03and a full according data is 3,600.
39:07Let's get after it. To run this test
39:09using the rate controller sitting still,
39:12you essentially have to go to test
39:14speed.
39:15For whatever reason, it doesn't always
39:16take the first time.
39:18I put in 13.
39:21I think I'm too fast for it.
39:23Go slower. Nope, not that time either.
39:27Okay, maybe fifth time's a charm.
39:30Nope, sixth time.
39:32Oh, almost had it. Got to be quicker
39:34than that. It took me 11 tries for this
39:36to take. I have to do this every single
39:38increment and there is about 20
39:41increments I have to record. The sensor
39:43reading or the amount of weight it's
39:44picking up is there on the top, 1969,
39:471966. It's working its way down. After
39:51talking to Steve, he explained to me an
39:53issue I was having that I text him
39:55about. I'm going to hit the master
39:57switch right now. See we're at 1935,
39:59master off. Watch my sensor reading jump
40:02up. My question for Steve was, is that
40:05normal? Do I record where it's at when I
40:08stop or do I wait for it to level off
40:10over the next minute to two minutes? It
40:12goes about 50 points higher. Steve
40:14responded to my text message with a
40:17phone call in about 30 seconds. He
40:19explained to me that on my Hagie I have
40:21check valves both on the air intake and
40:24the overflow line. He said the sensor is
40:27so sensitive, as it should be, that the
40:29difference in pressure created by the
40:31suction in the tank [music] with no
40:34venting coming in or not enough venting
40:37actually messes up these readings. For
40:39this to work accurately, I either need
40:41to keep the lid open, which really is
40:43not a viable option field condition or
40:45as he recommended, I need to remove the
40:47check valve in the overflow line. He
40:49said I really need as much air as
40:51possible in there to make this accurate.
40:53So, I need to get the check valve off of
40:56the solution tank into the overflow
40:58line, so we don't get any kind of extra
41:01weight reading or lack of weight reading
41:03or any kind of lack of equilibrium in
41:05the tank. That's what we're going to do,
41:07and I appreciate Steve for calling me
41:10and telling me that before I wasted
41:11another 900 gallons trying to do this
41:14and not even get the right result. Here
41:16is the overflow and vent in question.
41:18Vent is over there, intake vent that is.
41:21The overflow's there, so if your water
41:23comes up, this is check valve, so it can
41:26only go in. You don't want to come out
41:27on top of your tank, it goes down to the
41:29bottom, dumps out the bottom. On the
41:31overflow, it's the opposite.
41:33Technically, it's not set up to pull in.
41:36However, we need more flow. It's a
41:38straight shot, but it's into the tank,
41:39so I think you'd be fine pulling that
41:42off and letting more air in if
41:57Yep, check valve.
41:59Right there.
42:00Here's the external mounting location.
42:02I'm not sure about that wire routing. I
42:04liked it at first. Looking at it from
42:06the ground, it looks terrible, so it may
42:08get moved. I load in both the front and
42:11the rear of the sprayer. Most of my
42:14loading is typically in the rear.
42:16Changes on every field though, so I put
42:17it in the middle. The only time this
42:19isn't going to be very helpful is
42:21fungicide season. I don't really need
42:23this for loading though. It's more of
42:26knowing the volume in the tank while I'm
42:28going through the field so I can make
42:30correct calculations, change my rate to
42:32not have a lot of overlap. Again,
42:35filling is not really where my concern
42:37lies.
42:38I know I'm full when it dumps out that
42:40thing on the bottom right there. I know
42:41this video's gone on for way too long
42:43based on how little space is on my
42:46memory card right now. Instead of
42:47dragging you on, I'll take care of this
42:49on my own and give you an update in the
42:51next video about the system. Hopefully
42:53we'll be out spraying either my last
42:56field of corn that needs sprayed or post
42:59spraying some of our March soybeans.
43:00They're getting pretty close to needing
43:02sprayed just on size alone. We're going
43:04to have good weather once the rains
43:06clear. I've got some replanting to do.
43:08I'm not looking forward to that. It's
43:10the nature of the beast and given how
43:12smooth our planting season was, little
43:14bit of spotting in isn't going to do us
43:16any harm. We may need the mental
43:17exercise. I'm going to end the video
43:19here though. I appreciate you all tuning
43:21in. I sure hope everything's going well
43:23on your farm or in your life and I'll
43:25see you in the next one. Have a great
43:26day everyone. Peace.
43:29>> [music]
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