Farming Video | Wettest April Ever? Layne Miles Battles Delays and Weed Pressure
1 Jun 253m 27s

Layne Miles shares a raw update from the field after enduring one of the wettest Aprils in Arkansas history. The extreme weather delayed post-planting herbicide applications on newly rented heavy soils, leaving several soybean fields with no preemerge protection. Despite the setbacks, early burndown residuals are holding up well, and Layne’s team is now finally making their first pass with herbicide and plowing just ahead of R1. With another rain on the way, they're hopeful this round will hold things clean through R3. It's a lesson in adaptability when weather refuses to cooperate.

00:00:00 Hey guys, lane miles here. Uh, little something unusual for, for us here at Miles Farms. 00:00:06 Uh, normally even, even in just say a, an average wetter year, not, not a history of a wet year like we've had this year. 00:00:14 It's, it's been, well, I think it's been the, either the fourth or the fittest wet fifth wettest April in, in the history of, of either DHA County or Arkansas E. 00:00:23 Either way, it's been really, really wet. But even in the past when we get rains and and whatnot, we, our typical ground 00:00:31 we can get back on within about somewhere between, if it's really hot, two or three days. If it's kind of mild, it could be 4, 5, 6, 7 days. 00:00:41 Just, just depending on time of year. This particular farm that we rented, where I'm at right now, it's probably not as heavy as it looks, 00:00:48 but we rented a farm's, got about seven or 800 acres of, of some heavier, pretty heavy soils. We planted these beans back in the, uh, 1st of April. 00:01:00 Some of them we got sprayed and some of 'em we didn't. This particular field I'm standing in and a lot of the farm that, that, that's behind me. 00:01:08 We didn't get anything in. We, we literally just planted these beans and next day or so we got a rain. 00:01:14 We weren't able to get any kind of sprayer in here. So there was, there was no type of residual or anything on this ground. 00:01:21 All we had was, was our burn down application back in the 1st of March, which, which had a, had a residual in that. 00:01:28 So all in all, I mean, I, I really feel like our residuals from, from burn down are really working, 00:01:34 but we're in a little more grown up situation than we like to be. Typically, we're able to get in into 00:01:39 different fields a lot faster. This particular farm we hadn't, so from time of planting, we're just about to hit R one. 00:01:47 We're getting, we're just about to start seeing flowers here. Uh, just about to hit R one. 00:01:52 So, so these beans have abso absolutely nothing done other than a, other than a planting going through. And we're almost to r one very, very, uh, abnormal for us. 00:02:03 Like I said, we're normally able to do just about what we wanna do most of the time, within about a five day period from a rain this year has been 00:02:12 really, really wet. Been really, really crazy and it's just not really kind of went our way Mo you know, in most places. 00:02:19 All in all, we still got a pretty clean, clean crop. This isn't the most growed up situation I've ever seen in the world, but it's more than what we, what we like, 00:02:27 you know, we like to try to keep, keep weeds down. No weeds are the best weeds. So from the first of, of April till May 22nd, you know, 00:02:36 two months of not being in here, we're able to come through now. Um, we put down our first, uh, shot of herbicide coming in 00:02:43 and, and plowing the beans. We hadn't been able to do anything, so we gotta plow some middle two, uh, coming in, 00:02:49 plowing the beans, waiting just a couple more, a couple days. We actually got a little shower on some of it, 00:02:54 waiting a couple days spraying 'em again with our residual 'cause we do have rain coming 00:02:59 On on Monday. So hopefully we get that rain. Uh, we hadn't been wanting all of 'em, but, but we do want this one and, uh, get this pretty much set 00:03:07 and hopefully the, these beans will be set till, till, you know, when we, we get to R three. That'll be our next pass. But stay tuned. 00:03:14 We'll, uh, we'll come back, we'll see, we'll see how this, how this works, and, uh, 81 00:03:20.185 --> 00:03:22.125