Sprigging Wheat Creates Ideal Corn Seedbed, Cuts Weeds
This is what our fields look like the next spring from relay wheat. I call this method sprigging or “hot ice” A vertical till pass in the fall distributes the straw from wheat and both plants and thins the volunteer wheat The result is a perfect seedbed for 🌽 The wheat grows instead of winter annual weeds. A manageable “cover crop” that I can’t get reimbursed for at the local FSA office…but that’s ok.
Testing 8-Row Gaps for Higher Corn Yields
Will 8 rows with big ☀️ gaps win the high yield 🌽 plot? Well weight it and see this September https://t.co/GYu0XUhXSt
Rethink Yield: Embrace Polycultures Over Scale‑Driven Monocultures
This is the formula… Agriculture is obsessed with yield + economies of scale What delusional is we’re diluting each plant’s yield. The alternative is polymath through polycultures. I’ll be here…cranking out the research until it’s seen as relevant in the lens...
Drone‑planted Alley Corn Doubles Yield without Tillage
Alley crop corn project is an epic success. This was droned on seconds before the chopping corn head collapsed that 2x corn yield on 1/2 space on top of the seed The denser stand is where the corn was last year...
Wider Rows and Manure Sidedress Boost Corn Yields
Planting our manure sidedress plot. 60” blocks of corn consistenting of 4 20” rows Outside rows at 53,400k Inside rows at 37,400 34k /ac Will give us a wide 60” tram rows 120” on center for manure tank traffic Long term idea is getting this dialed in...
Wider Rows and Adjusted Spacing Overcome Late Sidedress Limits
For your information. How we get around the late sidedress impediment of 20” rows… we plant 40” rows 140” on center to allow the sprayer to @360yieldcenter y drop every 60’ as well as spray every 120’ We increase tram rows to...
Fewer Plants, Less Nitrogen, Same or Better Yields
Wheat or corn doesn’t matter the less plants you have to “feed” the less Nitrogen it takes because the ☀️ does more of the work. The biohack is going well below the “optimal” plants per acre for a monocrop to be...
Early Corn Hybrids Avoid Late‑season Losses and Delays
I was asked how much yield we give up with early 🌽 hybrids. This is why we do it. I don’t like harvest past mid-October it gets cold and wet and I start making more compaction… and the...
Minimal N+S Boosts Wheat Yield via Residue Cycling
Our relay wheat is greener than our solid wheat we have as a 💩 mngmt safety plan (in case we can’t make it till late fall. I break down how we intentionally break down 🌽 residue to nutrient cycle it. ...
Relay Cropping Boosts Corn Yield and Soil Health
Same field behind my house. Last year 75 bu wheat with 25% seeding rate and 75 bushel soybeans. This year going to 104 day corn… to set it back up for next year. If you do the math 75/75...
Interplanting Dual Crops Boosts Yield and Margins
What is the phi philosophy? Plant sequencing is the understanding of plant phenotyping (expressions) created with lower plant densities overlayed with the equity of interplanting. Together 2 different crops create more margin through dual revenues and the synergies created. Eliminating the...
High‑speed Liquid Manure Application Integrates Cover Crops
How could you sidedress liquid 💩 at a much higher scale with high speeds, lower rates, Just in Time…while integrating cover crops for water and soil quality? We parlay what we learned with our “602” bu footprint corn and set up...
Twin Wheat Rows to Scalable Corn Manure S
Relay crop schematics today. What we’re doing this year is primarily twin 45” on center wheat with an interior tram line and outer tram line for the combine and sprayer In the future I want to go to a...
Skipping Meals Boosted My Farm’s Productivity
I stopped eating breakfast and lunch…brew a big gulp of coffee at home and roll Sure I might go golfing on a Tuesday when we’re rained out. When it’s time to get things done you have to have your ass in the...
Own Mistakes, Learn, and Never Repeat Them
My dad who passed in 2011 from a quick cancer left me with 1 saying I think about every day “You’re going to fuck up, but that’s how you learn. The important thing is to just not do it again.” Agency...
Relay Cropping Wheat & Soybeans Cuts Costs, Boosts Resilience
A living farm system weather that’s relay cropping, alley cropping, or @stockcropper means we don’t kill anything. The wheat here we will keep… and harvest it. Between harvest and saving the $ in glyphosate… that’s a $500/ac difference. The math becomes...
Controlled-Traffic Farming Should Be the New Normal
Year #11 of #farmweird Tram stamps for controlled traffic, planting green, and letting it all live agriculture… if our goal is to turn 💧 and ☀️ into food why isn’t this normal? https://t.co/JoL79vPQXl
Relay Cropping Adds $300+
Our relay system that is around $300+ more profitable per acre than our normal soybean production acres..but it took a decade to “dial in” Here a video from this year vs 2016, 2020, and 2022 Farmonous balance. Too wet or too...
Relay Wheat Boosts Soybean Yields and Soil Health
In 2018 I realized that I can grow higher yielding soybeans with wheat than without and just soybeans. I proved it to myself for 3 years straight growing 17 varieties of soybeans monocrop vs relay. While most...
Simplicity Shines in Nebdel's 100 Landscape Photo Book
Very cool book from @Nebdel Around 100 pictures of landscapes as a result of rest… and the occasional impact of ruminating bovine. We do all these schemes that require all this noise… but it could be that simple and beautiful. https://t.co/htpg0FYTfU
Stockcropper Drive System Lets You Move Any Crop
Anything you want to move will be possible with the @stockcropper drive system… I can’t wait to get mine to move things between alley crop corn… or perennial food crops, etc https://t.co/zjfxJiRD2g
Relay Wheat Boosts Profit, Cuts Costs, Enhances Soil
Made some infographics tonight to explain our relay wheat system. The main idea is we can grow 70 bushel wheat and 70 bushel soybeans and make about $250 more revenue per acre than pushing wheat yields up over 100 bu/ac and...
Wheat Doubles as Living Cover, Boosting Soybean Yields
Relay wheat growing to 12” tall and closing the 15” twin rows. Looking like planting will be possible later this week. Wheat will act as living pattern tile and weed control for soybeans…. Naturally maturing w/o herbicides unlike traditional cover crops providing...