Beer and Birdseed
Wheat harvest is done and Temple just finished planting his double crop into the wheat stubble. This year he is trying something completely different...Sorghum/Milo. Here is his plan for making it work.
00:00 Well, weed harvest is over. We finished planting yesterday. It's July 15th out here. It's, uh, some areas have been really wet, 00:07 some areas have been dry. Um, but this is a little different video. Um, this actually the field that I'm in, 00:15 we have got terrible deer damage in this area. We've got another extreme ag member that's down here in this area. He's replanted his beans two, three times. Um, 00:26 we can't get any beans to grow down here. My father actually thought it was a good idea to just cut the wheat, leave it fallow, and don't do anything with this farm. 00:34 And that's not the way that we can't make money like that. But we can't make money by letting a deer eat the crap off either. 00:41 So this sorghum market came about, you know, sorghum, milo, whatever you wanna say. Um, 00:47 they're making Chinese beer and bird seed out of it. I, I, I don't know. I don't care. It was a good market. Uh, it's gonna sell well, 00:55 I think we're gonna store it. Um, anyway, here's what we got. So we planted it behind wheat, which is, 01:04 it's not something that I would ever do. Um, but I don't know if you can see it. You know, that's, it's a pretty good stand. You know, 01:14 it was a tremendous amount of residue. I was worried about it a lot because we didn't bail the straw this year. We just, um, we blew the straw out on the ground. So what's the next plan? 01:24 Right? So the next plan is, is how do we fertilize this? You know, we didn't put a popup in. We didn't put a tube of two on. Uh, 01:32 I was worried that on a two by two on top the ground, it would get tied up into the stroll too much. So I didn't do it. Um, so how am I gonna fertilize it from here? 01:41 So I'm gonna use the Johnny Verres way of side dressing, and I'm gonna start side dressing this corn with stream bars or stream tips. 01:49 Um, that's what we're gonna do. We planted in a 15 inch row, not in a 30 inch row. So I don't know how much of this this plant can take. So, 01:58 um, I know that the corn took it very well, what we ate at Seacat, and we added sugar to it to help buffer that salt just a little bit. 02:05 So we're gonna do the same thing here. I might add just a little bit more to this. Um, I'm probably gonna put some type of a, you know, residue eater in there. 02:13 I call 'em. And I'm gonna try to break down some of this straw. Maybe that way I can get a little bit of that fertility back in the plant. 02:20 Maybe I can get some of it broke down before it goes into reproduction stage. Reproduction stage. I'm gonna need a little bit of phosphorus. 02:27 So I'm also gonna put, uh, I'm gonna put Nutri charge in there as well. So, and that'll help stabilize the fertility. 02:33 That will help get me some more phosphorus into the plant. We're gonna see how it works and, uh, this is something totally different. 02:39 We're gonna follow it all the way through.
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Centreville, MD