Experimenting with Wheat Broadcasting: Lessons from the Field

00:00:00 Hey y'all, this is Chad Henderson with Extreme Ag and we're gonna talk a little bit about my wheat. Okay? We are doing something here with our wheat 00:00:06 that I have never done. Now this is what most people do, but I have never done it. So we, uh, ever since I've been farming, 00:00:12 we've always drilled our wheat. That's just what we do. That's what my dad said is what we're going to do, you know? And then as, as we kept going, you know, it, it evolved. 00:00:20 But we started out, you know, we had a seven 50 drill and then we had a 1590 I think, or 1560 and then up to a 1990, you know, so 00:00:28 with all these drills we've always drilled to wheat with, so this year, um, Stewart had wheat left over in the bin 00:00:35 because of what he was gonna market. So Stewart does all marketing, he does all our grain bin stuff, you know, 00:00:40 and he said, Hey Chad, hey Mike. We're gonna have some, uh, wheat left over this time. It's going to be uh, October delivery. 00:00:46 And then he pushed that back. I think it may be December delivery. So Stewart done a good job with that, you know, 00:00:51 picked up some dollars, got us some bases because look at where the market's at. So with that being said, I know that kind of got off topic, 00:00:57 but with that being said, here's why we did it. So we had this wheat left over in the bin and so I said, look, you know, we could save some money, 00:01:04 you know, by looking at this wheat. I'll pull some wheat outta the bin. We going to, uh, 00:01:08 spread about a hundred fifty five, a hundred sixty pounds of wheat. We put out a 35 50 50 blend with it. We blow this wheat out. 00:01:17 I had two, uh, vertical tillage tools run this wheat in. Done a good job. It looks good. 00:01:22 Now we're gonna talk about the rest of the story. We're gonna take you to another farm. Stay tuned. I'll show you how I messed up. So I'm standing here now. 00:01:30 I'm in my neighbor's wheat because you'll see that it's drilled this year. We didn't drill any wheat, um, except for 00:01:37 what we may have replanted. So that's the next story. But we're here and we're gonna look at this wheat and it does a great, it looks awesome 00:01:45 and he done a great job and my wheat's all broadcast. So it takes, it's gonna take me a minute to visually accept the fact 00:01:52 that I just throw this wheat out. So here's the second part of the story. You've seen the other wheat 00:01:58 and we've seen how we had a pretty, we had a good stand of tillers, like the wheat's coming along great. And this wheat, 00:02:04 this field was planted the day before that field. This field was planted exactly the same, uh, seating rate, exactly the same fertilizer blend 00:02:15 and run over with exactly the same, uh, VT tools. We run a two different tools. So we ain't gonna save one tool's better than another tool. 00:02:22 Both those tools had rolling baskets, one has double rolling baskets. It's not the tool, it's not have anything 00:02:28 to do with the tool. It's, I think, and this is me the first time, I think it's the amount of corn stalks we have on top. 00:02:35 And I think that the season that I had, it was really dry. I think that I had got a lot of the seed 00:02:40 that was broadcasted either on top of the corn, shucks underneath the corn, shucks. But I didn't have seed to soil contact. 00:02:47 Uh, I think that's a lot of what went on. Then we got a couple of showers of rain. I think it might have sprouted a bunch of my seed. 00:02:53 I just think I had a, had a conundrum of stuff going on, like it was terrible. So This is what we ended up with. 00:03:00 Now this is the recipe of what we've done. This is going to be even better. We come out here yesterday and planted 1 million seed. 00:03:07 We come out here and drill this and we drilled right into this and we planted a million seed. 00:03:13 And so we've got these out here that are tilling in places and we've got seed that's just planted either way. 00:03:19 You gotta have so many heads in the field, y'all. So we come back, we just add some more seed to it. But if you'll look where we didn't have corn, 00:03:26 this is actually the field day plot where we didn't have corn st shovel down the road. We've got a pretty good standard wheat. 00:03:32 So it had to have a lot of, to do with how, how much shovel we had and fodder we had on top because of the irrigation system 00:03:39 and the corn, you know, as stick as the corn was here. So better luck next time. Chad wheat crop one, Chad zero. 00:03:48 The things I thought about, if I'm gonna continue down this road with broadcast some wheat 00:03:51 is I need some kind of roller. Either I need a flat roller or I need a color packer. I think that would help a lot on the seed to soil contact. 00:03:58 So if anybody out there is trying this and they do that, um, holler back at us, tell 'em what the results are, because I think the stand's a whole 00:04:06 lot better when we can match that thing down. 00:04:09.965 --> 00:04:10.085