The Finish Line Is In Sight!! The Last Passes Of Weed Control.

Well hello there YouTube. Welcome back to Ferris Farming Organic. I'm sure you guys can never have guessed it, but today we're going to be cultivating some soybeans. I'm actually quite confident this is the exact same pass or area that we finished the last video in. That video was filmed on a Monday. Today is Friday, so however many days that is after Monday. And these beans are still looking awesome. You can see they're really starting to fill out, look nice and even. The stand looks awesome. This field is looking really good. Now you may be thinking to yourself, Thomas, if this field looks that good, why are you doing another passive cultivation on it? And I'll quick show you that. And that's because all these little white roots right there are going to turn into a million weeds if we don't stay on top of them. They're also going to turn into weeds if I don't get back in the tractor and keep doing my job. Now from the camera, I'm sure you guys can't really tell or see all those white roots coming up or all the little weeds that we are covering up and taking out. But that is what we're trying to accomplish with this passive cultivation and this cultivator. I'm going eight miles an hour right now. We are pushing a good amount of dirt into the row, just right up through the row of beans, covering up everything in the row of beans. It's hard to hand weed obviously, so trying to maintain a good head start, a good lead on those weeds. So say if we went to the lake for two weeks and we didn't do anything in these fields. If we came back in two weeks, probably two things would happen. The first thing that would happen is the beans would probably be too tall to really get a cultivator in. Ideally, they'd be shaded in by then. And second thing is all the weeds that we're covering up and killing right now would probably be just as tall as the weed or taller because weeds grow very fast. Kind of a quick little rule of thumb for organic farming. If you think you should be in a field, you should definitely be in the field. And if you think you should have been in the field, it's probably too late. But anyway, these, like I said already, these beans look very good. The cultivator is working really good. Hopefully everything just works really good today. As always, I hope you guys are all doing fantastic. Comment down below if you're a farmer how things are going in your area. And if you're not a farmer, you can still comment down below how you guys are doing. I know I've mentioned before that we use autopath in all of our fields. Sometimes when the planters were full of seed and they were super heavy, they wouldn't lift up high enough that it would stop recording or stop recording the autopath. So sometimes if they turned really good, which Maverick and Iceman didn't always do that, you have nice smooth turns like these end rows did, where I don't have to turn. I can just pick up and let the autopath do its thing. Not really sure if the fuel will reach that far, but we're going to find out. It barely does, but the depth sure won't. So we got to move closer. This one right here is for the guy that said, you always talk about manual labor, but you never do any. Hope that made you happy, bud. In other news, we got one round of headlands here and we're going to move south to a quarter to knock that out quick. It's only 1130-ish. We should be about noon by the time we get down there and get going. There is an irrigator on that field. I'm not sure which way it's pointing, but we're going to have to move that. The goal today was to get three fields done. I'm not sure we're going to hit that, but we're sure going to try. All right, so it would appear that they are not quite done hand weeding on this field, which is honestly not that big of a deal. But unfortunately, the irrigator is facing to the northeast and I need it to be facing straight north because I don't really want to move it twice. But we're just going to go start on the east side and work west because they have probably, I'm going to say, two hours left here. Hopefully, everything just works out fine. I'm not going to try to over explain what I'm going to do. This is probably our grassiest field of beans, and I mean, it's cleaned up very nice. So we'll get out later and show you guys. A little Philly cheesesteak action for lunch today. Easily a five big boom type of lunch. I'm going to save future Thomas the hassle of having to come switch the direction of his irrigator and just going to switch it now since I'm right by it. I will say one thing I am kind of concerned about is how much grass there is in this field or dead grass at this point, but I don't want the cultivator to plug up when I'm going. Don't get me wrong, I'd much rather have it pulled and not growing as tall as the beans, but there is a lot of weeds in these rows. I mean, not so much like these rows, but like this row, it's a lot of grass right there. You can also see, look at all those little weeds coming in that we're about to kill. And to do that, we're going to use our cage-free, cruelty-free, non-GMO, gluten-free cultivator. See this, this right here is what I'm concerned about. When it starts plugging up right there and just pushing dirt, it's not quite as effective. You also don't want big clumps of weeds everywhere in your field, so you might have to re-evaluate this. Yeah, I don't know if you guys can see behind me, we have a lot of weeds on here. We are not going to be able to get through this field without plugging up and making a mess, so we will move fields. I think we're going to bring a Henneker up here, which is a single-sweep cultivator, so there's a little less plug points, I would say, than a three-sweep cultivator. These also have gauge wheels on them. Hopefully that works. Poor guys, I didn't want to make them move while they were eating their lunch, but they had to move. So we made it in here, let's see if we can make it out. Bus is kind of in the way. I don't really want to hit Jacinto's pickup. Well, we got a car coming that way. Alrighty, so this field was also just hand-weeded, but thankfully there was not nearly as much grass or really any other weed pressure in this field compared to the field we were just at, and this should work pretty good. I mean, there's definitely weeds here, but I mean, these are much drier. That grass in that last field was just, it was pretty thick grass, so it's going to take a little while to dry out. This field was cultivated a little bit over a week ago, so I'm surprised there's not more weeds that are, you know, poking through already. I'm sure there's quite a few white roots, though, in this field that we're going to be taking out. Overall, the last time I was in this field, it was pretty clean besides this northeast corner and the east ends. Probably had by far the most, or not probably, they did have the most weed pressure and grass pressure. So we'll see what it looks like when we get over there, but I think this field will clean up pretty good. Yeah! What a day it has been, ladies and gentlemen. We are on our third field, technically fourth field. We didn't do much on that one, but we were in it. We definitely could finish this field tonight, I think if we pushed, but they still have a little bit to hand weed, so we're not gonna, we're not gonna go crazy with this. Oh, we're getting a phone call. Anywho, back to what I was saying, not really sure what I was talking about. I'm sure it wasn't very productive or informative, but we are going quite a bit faster the past couple days than what we had been going. We were going six and a half to seven miles an hour, and now we're going closer to eight, which is about a 10 acre per hour difference, which across the week or even across the day is quite a bit. And that is why, this isn't the last past cultivation, but towards the end of the growing process for these soybeans or before they get shaded in, we're doing these weed control passes. It's a lot more fun because you can get a lot more done. Now is what's really nice is when the whole field of beans, kind of like what we're working with right now, is all the same height of beans and there's no skips. The stand's really good. This field, thankfully, has a pretty good stand of soybeans. There's not a lot of skips in all the height. There's not a bunch of variation in it, so I should be able to consistently go the same speed across the entire field and not have to worry about covering up one row or not pushing enough dirt into another row, if that makes sense. I know I just said this field looks pretty good, but there's a few things in this field I don't like. The first thing is the tornado generators in here, the path they always take to get to them to service them, which seems to be a lot, always seems to interrupt my TikTok video at just the worst time possible. How about if this video gets, we'll say, 15 likes, we'll run into the big white tree here. For legal purposes, that was a joke. It would appear the hand weeding crew is making its way back towards the south end, which is where the bus is parked, so we'll make a few more rounds here, top off the fuel in depth since we have the fuel trailer here in this field, and call it a day. All righty, ladies and gentlemen, we're gonna call it a day. 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