Farming Video | Chad Henderson Breaks Down Double Crop Bean Results in ADS Tile Trial

19 Nov 252m 4s

Tiling Our Way to Better Beans: Chad Henderson’s Take

When you’ve got a flat field and a history of wet pockets, double crop beans can be hit or miss. Chad Henderson’s been there—and this year, he's seeing big improvements thanks to his ADS tile trial.

With setups like four-inch on forties and three-inch on thirties, Chad’s putting tiling spacing and diameter to the test. The result? A strong, even stand across a field that used to be a patchwork of thin spots. He even saw beans near the drainage ditch yield just like the rest—proof that the water’s moving like it should.

One low green spot remains, but it’s nothing like the three or four wet holes they used to fight. With harvest data logged and ready to analyze, Chad’s on track to figure out which tile setup brings the best ROI. If you’ve got flat, wet ground, this is one trial you’ll want to follow.

00:00:00 Hey y'all, this's Chad Henderson with XT Extreme Ag. And we're out here, we're gonna give y'all a look at our, 00:00:04 uh, double crop beans that is in our a DS trial plot. So this trial, as we've talked about, we've had two of these, but this trial 00:00:11 and got four inch foam forties, three inch on thirties and three inch on forties. I'm just going to give you a look at 'em. 00:00:18 They look pretty good here, which these are irrigated. And Kyle, we've just had the best stand since we've tiled this that we've had a long time. 00:00:26 We'd usually get the pockets out here and it would end up being to where, you know, you had pockets for no beam, 00:00:31 but now it's a good uniform stand. So we'll keep you posted on the tile project, which way to go, what size, what, what's facing. 00:00:38 Stay with us. So let's take one more look at Des Tile Project. So we look in here and it has, this is four inch on forties, 00:00:46 three inch on thirties, and three inch on forties. Out here in these zones, in this field, the first thing I'm looking at is the uniformity 00:00:53 of the straw that's behind it. That tells us that we had uniformity plants out here, right? And then we have a drainage ditch as you can kind 00:01:00 of see going back and forth. Well, that drainage ditch, it yielded the same beans as the other. So we was able to keep the water off of it. 00:01:07 So those are some of the things we look at as farmers. That's out here in the field. Now we got one spot here that's green. 00:01:14 So see we're still working on one spot and it's in that kind of low area. It's hard to tell, but it's in a low area there. 00:01:20 So where we would've had three or four of those spots and this ditch would add that spot. Now we don't have that anymore and it's all 00:01:26 because we was able to put the tile in and to be able to get the water off of it. And as flat as this farm is here, we kind 00:01:33 of have to have lift stations. So the lift stations down there is drawing the water off, but we're anxious to put this. 00:01:39 We have the harvest data recorded, so now we're gonna be able to pull the data back and let's start looking into which one is best for us. 00:01:46 ROI wise, whether it was three inch on thirties, three inch on forties, four inch on forties. 'cause you know there's some money savings there 00:01:53 with the pipe diameter. So y'all stay tuned. Here's another view at it. 00:01:57.835 --> 00:01:58.685