Farm Flooded with Cornstalks
24 Feb 241m 35s

Every flood's a little bit different and so is the inevitable mess they leave behind. Kevin is dealing with the aftermath of flood waters this past winter, leaving behind an unusual deposit of cornstalks clustered at one end of a field.

00:00 Ever flood's a little bit different. They always leave a mess. You never know what it's going to be. 00:05 This time, the, the creek going into the river right there, uh, and the river moving south, it, 00:12 the way the water rec resided it, let all the cornstalks float to one end of the field. Got about four or five acres here all the way up. 00:21 They're about two to anywhere from two foot to four foot thick. You got me a nice kayak out there that, uh, was left for me. 00:29 Uh, certainly won't be needing that, but maybe I can get Timothy to take it and go duck hunting or something. 00:34 So we're taking that bulldozer. We'll push all these corn stalks to the edge of the field. We'll get them so they pile up. 00:42 And then, uh, over the summer we'll spray some nitrogen on there. We'll spray some other products on to help break 'em down. 00:51 And then next year we'll have really a big berm of top soil right there. And, uh, we'll spread that back out. 00:58 Uh, barring that, a flood does not wash it into the river. And that could happen too. But that's kinda what's going on. 01:05 There's no way we can plant this without getting it outta the way. We got logs in there. Just you name it, you can imagine it. 01:11 That's floated and drifted in. But this is kinda what you have to do this time of year after you've had some floods during the winter. 01:18 We talked about drift piles. This is a little bit excessive of a drift pile, but we're gonna get it cleaned up 01:24 and we'll get some corn planted here in a couple months and we'll do a report this fall and see how it turns out.

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