Farming Video | Why Pan Testing Your Spreader Matters?

00:00:00 Hey guys, Jacob out here with Live Oak Ag. We're in a rise field today doing a couple things warm. We're just looking at the crop, 00:00:06 making sure it's going like it's supposed to. We got four leaf rice here, seven tillers on the off of one seed. 00:00:12 So we're doing real good right there. Everything's hitting its growth stage. Putting our last shot of fertilizer out with a ground rig 00:00:19 before we're gonna switch to an airplane, start trying to flood. We're getting a little dry. All the 00:00:23 crops are getting a little bit dry. Time to start doing our irrigation thing this morning. That was interesting whenever we were getting started on our 00:00:29 nitrogen application was needed to pan test. Obviously the pan test after you change products or anything like this. 00:00:34 Particular spreader was putting out potash earlier this week and a little bit last week. 00:00:38 Got the spreader out, put all the settings in there that we thought were gonna work. Went through the field with a, just checking everything out, 00:00:44 making sure it was good driver, thought it was good. I thought it was good. Got the tubes out to do the pan test. Had a bunch in the middles, 00:00:50 made some more adjustments, still had the same problem. Ended up looking around on the spreader, seeing if we had other problems. 00:00:55 Had one of little pin messed up that wasn't allowing everything to move like it was supposed to. 00:01:01 Got that fixed. Made a few more adjustments in the screen to get our settings right and fourth paying test. 00:01:06 Everything looked perfect, straight across, all that kind of stuff. The important thing here that I think is, is just 00:01:11 because you think it's good may not mean it's good. So always test your spreader. If you got the ability to do it, check it out. 00:01:17 Make sure there's nothing wrong if you can't get somebody to come help you. 'cause you could cost yourself a lot of money, 00:01:23 streaking your rice or not putting enough fertilizer out in the right spot and either having over 00:01:27 fertilized or under fertilized. And what we want is even spread pattern all the way you go to streaking rice. 00:01:31 You got a lot of problems down the road and obviously you don't wanna fight with. 00:01:35.135 --> 00:01:37.115