welcome back to the rest of the story how's everybody doing we've been kind of
well not kind of we've been pretty busy here lately as I've said in the past I
don't know it's been a couple months probably but I said that when it comes
time to put oats or start planting corn and beans it usually does turn down to
more of a last minute panic kind of thing where it's the decision to start
planting is usually made the night before usually without any idea that we
were going to start that is exactly what happened when it came time to put oats
in the ground so what you're seeing we stored our oats in the basement and out
of the weather and where no moisture could get to it mm-hmm excuse me and
basically where is in out of the way now that we have our oats pulled out well at
least let's go ahead and say that we're putting down the on this pallet of oats
say this properly here this is about half of what we used to put down when we
used to seed when we were milking cows we used to seed 40 to 45 acres a year we
put in 25 approximately this season we are not technically done technically
we're not done yet we're done seeding all of our hay strips all that is left is
mmm all that is left are just waterways and really that shouldn't be too bad
it's going to be more of a tedious job than anything because we have three
different farms in particular that we have to get waterways seeded down on and
hopefully things will dry out here and warm up a little bit I mean as I'm
talking right now it's in the teens out right now but hopefully we can get a
little bit better weather going forward here I guess this next week well this
whole week here is supposed to be fairly cold and supposed to freeze fairly hard
at night so the ground isn't gonna be doing anything as far as warming back up
but I can deal with the cold at this point because if it's not snow
the cold isn't that bad especially for this time of year it's I mean we're
looking at April and it's honestly you know that the cold weather isn't gonna
be around for too much longer I mean we can have snow in April that's happened
before but once you get past March January February March means January and
February to me are like the worst months of the year and they're just there is
really dull but even March really once you get snow in March it seems like for
people in our area for our area snow really doesn't hang around that long
so this is the first time we've taken this out and really ran it this is the
first time I put seed in this grain drill we went through we put probably
two days worth of work into it it oh it got shined up really well I'll give you
a close-up look here once we get done putting oats and alfalfa seed in it
people were asking me how we fill this up and this is entirely how you do it
and it's by hand no seed tender or anything of course in this situation you
could say the seed tender is you know either my truck or either dad or I
now you're gonna see here towards the end of the video I guess we can wait I
do stand over on the back of this platform on the drill and make sure
everything's working we did go through we got done this day yeah we ended up
using up all but one bag of oats and we used up all the alfalfa seed we had
available but luckily for us we can just use grass seed for what we have left I
mean we really don't need to seed down waterways with alfalfa so at least that's
the plan anyway but the ground had to dry out because the end of tonight or in
this video you can see the clouds are actually clearing up they were saying
rain the whole night the whole day that we were gonna get rain that night and
ultimately we did but luckily it wasn't a gully washer and it really didn't wash
any waterways down that's happened to us before in the past and that's really
depressing you hurry through to get all of your
oats in the ground or get water ways seeded down and then you get them
all washed out after you have them all seeded and leveled off really nice it
doesn't happen very often and in the past where we knew that we were going
to get a bunch of bad weather we usually did hold off on putting oats in because
of that exact reason it doesn't take much to wash them out right now dad's
just looking at the seed tags as far as the pounds per bag and everything just
making sure because it's this has been the last time we put oats in the ground
was 2013 ourselves I mean we hired it done what was it last year and did we I don't
think we hired him the year before but as far as us I mean it's been a few
years now since we put any oats in the ground and looking into next year I
don't know none of us are really sure if we're putting down any more next year
this alfalfa ground we're seeding in right now should last us ideally for at least
four preferably five more years Unless the alfalfa gets killed out
I don't know if anybody's noticed the Aux beam addition to the 4020 here lately I
know I got some new viewers that 4020 with the Aux beam is a force to be
reckoned with you're allowed to work a lot later at night with it now this is
what the grain drill looks like full that's all the oat seed this is the
alfalfa seed that comes in a variety of colors depends on what they treat it
with it's that's not it's actually more Brown right there they're anything but
it does have seed treatment on it it's I've seen it yellow purple red like a
dark dark green and it's all just what they treat it with and here is
the 82 the window has been put in I'm sure everybody knows that now this is
the first workout we got for all the equipment that day and it was on the
630 ryan went through and he hit everything twice it worked up really
well the soybean stubble obviously worked
down really well the corn stubble that probably could have gotten hit one more
time to be completely honest but mm-hmm hey what can you do this is probably
shows a perfect example of well 80% of my childhood right here even as we were
kids this was a pretty common thing watching, keeping an eye on the grain
drill when we first start out making sure everything works
this is not something safe to do I don't recommend many farm kids to do this but
if memory serves me right no one ever told me growing up that farming was a
safe career choice to get into I'm not gonna get in any debates about how
dangerous this is but as you can see I'm looking right down that space between
the oats seed and the alfalfa seed you can see all the oats,.....................
alfalfa seed dropping down into the tubes the reason we do that is because
one was jammed we went through and cleaned them all out but I'm obviously
missed one because I'm the one that cleaned him out I'm I took a piece of
wire and it was just a little clump of alfalfa seed that got in there and it
worked great the rest of the day dad had no issues with it the oats tubes
didn't give us any problems at all even as far as the rate I think I don't even
think we adjusted the rate after we got going there is a graph underneath the
back plate there where I'm sitting on for the oat seed that's a graph that
tells you the rates and the pounds per acre and everything but I say I guess I
missed dad doing that and this is me I'm checking I'm looking for there's an acre
counter on the grain drill and that's what Dad was asking me how many acres we
covered because when you go through and you check to see how many acres you
covered and then you go to refill you cover a certain amount of acres then you
go through and refill the seed drill and you should have an approximate idea how
many bags of seed you're putting down per acre and we came in just under what
we wanted it to be and it was a good thing we did
plant them a little light we didn't seed these oats down as heavy as we used to
I mean the alfalfa was just as heavy if not a little heavier but the oats we are
not planning on combining these we are not combining these so the only reason
we're putting the oats in is more of a cover crop to get the alfalfa seed going
because we'll be cutting these oats off probably what June mid-june somewhere in
there probably right before the farm day the farm day is gonna be kind of hectic
this year because June is a very busy month for us so it might be all of us
kind of running around in circles trying to get ready for the farm day and trying
everything caught up on the farm but it'll be a different time of year this
year, two months earlier than last year so maybe you guys that are
returning viewers or at least you know watching the live streams or whatever we
end up doing you can kind of see the differences of the crops and how things
look around this time of year I mean you know corn will be shorter the beans
will be shorter hopefully I'm not replanting any soybeans or anything when
we're trying to do the farm day so hopefully all my replant days are behind
me but that's it for my seeding video guys that's all I really had on me or I
was able to take so until next time or tomorrow night Take care Take it easy
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