Hand Versus Planter: Can Kevin keep up with the modern day planter?
Kevin Matthews provides an update on the corn he had to plant by hand earlier this season. How did he do?
00:00 All right, so y'all remember back in the, when we was planting, I had a row that, uh, drug up seed didn't get in the ground 00:06 and kind of got caught out here in the field planting it by hand early one morning. 00:10 I didn't want to see a mess here at my house or any field really. I, I do this when it happens. 00:16 I usually, it'll have it once or twice a year every year. And this is what I do. 00:20 You could easily just drive by and just leave that little area out. It's just an area for weeds to grow 00:24 and you're not gonna make no money unless seed's in the ground. So let's see what kind of job I've done. 00:29 Alright, so here's all the pile of residue that the planter drug up. I kicked it and spread it out. 00:33 So this decomposed them pretty good. This is where I picked the planter up when I stopped and seen. 00:39 It was dragging up. It didn't go far, but probably a hundred yards or more. But I planted this road right here by hand. 00:48 Yeah, on my hands and knees. And I blurt. I'm not into shape to be doing that like I once did. All right, so you can see, well I started 00:56 to say we got a little bit of a deviation there, but then when I go to the one where the planter planted, I see it there too. 01:01 That's odd up. I messed up right here. I missed a spot or so you got back on my game right here. Pretty good. Check the seed depths out. 01:09 Definitely got her two inches in the ground. You can tell by that. I would advise from my observation to continue with the planter 01:19 and not be doing this manual stuff, although would be a good way for commodity prices to get a lot higher. 01:25 If we did more manual, there'd be a whole lot less acres planted. Anyhow. This is what determination does. 01:30 This has got a chance. Had I left that seed laying on top of the road, we would've got nothing. 01:35 By the way, I am gonna give you a little sneak peek here. Uhoh. These roads are missing right in here. 01:39 Wonder if that's intention. Well, let's see. Whoop, got it right here too. Hmm. Ah, this might get interesting this fall. 01:47 You know how we guys are at stream ag? We're always trying something a little bit different. Y'all stay tuned.
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East Bend, NC