Farming Video | Is Sesame the Double Crop That Finally Works in Texas?

18 Sep 251m 40s

Todd Kimbrell walks through a sesame field that’s showing big promise for a second crop in Texas. He’s not claiming to be an expert, but healthy plants and full pods have him feeling hopeful. He shares his thoughts on frost timing, weather conditions, and why this year’s double crop might finally work after years of frustration.

00:00:00 Todd Kim in Texas, extreme Ag out in the Sesame Patch. Gonna give you a sesame update out here. Just checking it today. The stuff has exploded 00:00:08 since we were out here last. I don't know what Sesame's supposed to look like, but it looks really good or it looks good to me. 00:00:14 Uh, we got pods everywhere, plants everywhere. They're up here now. I mean, in the last two 00:00:20 or three weeks, this stuff has just gone crazy. Pods, from what I can tell, seem to be loaded up, filling, still making pods on the tip. 00:00:29 The weather's been what I'd call pretty ideal. Maybe a little bit on the cool side, if anything, which doesn't normally happen. 00:00:35 Been getting a lot of questions. When are we gonna harvest? You know, what do you harvest it with? Where does it go? 00:00:40 All the, all the things. I don't know The answer is I really don't know yet. Best guess we'll take this to a frost or a freeze 00:00:47 or killing frost, which is Halloween. Here where we are. That's the average first frost. If we take it to frost, we won't have 00:00:54 to desiccate it or kill it. So that's kinda what it looked like the last time the rep was here from Sesco. 00:01:00 Right now, it's hard to say. Will we have to desiccate it and harvest it before frost? Maybe, maybe not, I don't know. 00:01:08 But as it looks right now, things are really promising. We did not out guess the weather, I guess you'd say. We got lucky and it's worked out really good. 00:01:16 I'm assuming this is good. I still don't know what I'm looking at, but there's pods everywhere. 00:01:19 Plants look healthy. Just really excited to see what turns out of this. We've never been able to make a double crop work here. 00:01:26 Tried many times over. It's never worked. Is this just the perfect year or is this the perfect crop, or a little bit of both? 43 00:01:32.425 --> 00:01:34.505