Farming Video | Why Are These Rocks Here?

10 May 251m 4s

Chad Henderson of XtremeAg discusses a real-world example of how field management practices evolve over time. He explains how limestone rocks were previously placed in a zone to aid irrigation flow but are now being removed after tiling the field improved drainage. Henderson illustrates how tiling changes soil conditions, allowing fields to return to full production without additional surface modifications.

00:00:00 Hey y'all, this is Chad Henderson with Extreme Ag, and I thought I'd shoot this video because Jackson ain't real happy with me. 00:00:05 So you see these rocks we've got here, and we're in this, they're just here in this one zone, and we're picking these rocks up with a backhoe. 00:00:13 And he said, why are these rocks here in this zone? I said, well, I put 'em here. He said, you didn't what? He said, I, I said, I put 'em here. 00:00:19 So as you notice, these are limestone rocks, and we, we put these rocks here. Years ago, we was having trouble 00:00:25 with irrigation coming through here. Well, this circles back to the a DS to, we tiled this field, and we no longer need these rocks out here. 00:00:33 So this is full circle in a farmer's life a whole lot of times, you know, we put some out the field, we pick it back up. 00:00:39 All my life on this farm that my dad and granddad bought, that we have picked these rocks up, you know, and then I come out here 00:00:45 and pour something out to get to pivot through it. Then we tile it, then we don't need 'em no more. So that's a perfect example of a tiling illustration. 00:00:52 You know how it'll work the ground, dry it out, and you can get production back in where you put rocks before. 28 00:00:57.565 --> 00:00:59.745