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[ponytug]

Wanting to avoid crushing plants makes sense to me. The area might have white mold, and need post canopy closure spraying of fungicide.

Thanks!

All the best,

Peter

 

[MossRoad]

We see them spraying both corn and soybeans in our area. No idea what they're spraying for, but it's this time of year.

 

[MossRoad]

I have a friend that rents out his famlily farmland. He doesn't farm. He said one day he was in his house and heard a plane fly over low, then a few seconds later it sounded like hail on his roof. He went out and found that the person leasing his land was having soybeans planted by crop duster plane in the winter wheat that was not yet harvested. He talked to the guy and they said dropping it in by air a few weeks before the wheat was harvested would allow for head start on the beans and they'd harvest the wheat before the beans were tall enough to get damaged by the combine.

 

[ponytug]

The diversity of farming practices never ceases to amaze me.

I'm not going to comment on the accuracy of that broadcast seeding. Ok, maybe. That pilot couldn't aim well enough to hit the broadside of a barn...oh wait, he probably did.

Some rice farms in Louisiana broadcast seed the rice from helicopters, and usually broadcast young crayfish at the same time. For many rice farmers there the net profit on the crayfish exceeds the gross sales on the rice...

All the best,

Peter

 

[MossRoad]

The diversity of farming practices never ceases to amaze me.

I'm not going to comment on the accuracy of that broadcast seeding. Ok, maybe. That pilot couldn't aim well enough to hit the broadside of a barn...oh wait, he probably did.

Some rice farms in Louisiana broadcast seed the rice from helicopters, and usually broadcast young crayfish at the same time. For many rice farmers there the net profit on the crayfish exceeds the gross sales on the rice...

All the best,

Peter

There are a few videos out on youtube that show the process. The fields are not uniform like a planter would do, but the farmers seemed pleased with the process.

 

[MossRoad]

I think they did beans into wheat right before wheat harvest, and wheat into beans right before bean harvest. Kinda interesting.

 

[Jstpssng]

They've come up with some pretty innovative ideas. The days of turning the sod twice per year are changing.

 

[bigtiller]

Wanting to avoid crushing plants makes sense to me. The area might have white mold, and need post canopy closure spraying of fungicide.

Thanks!

All the best,

Peter

Yep ^^^

Two years ago, the soybeans in my field were aerial crop dusted with an insecticide, and fungicide. The planes are expensive, but sometimes soybeans are also. Wheeled sprayers can destroy a lot of beans, even with a 120' boom.

It's all a numbers game and the luckiest, sharpest pencil may get the most profit.

 

[Complete Turf Care]

Some rice farms in Louisiana broadcast seed the rice from helicopters, and usually broadcast young crayfish at the same time. For many rice farmers there the net profit on the crayfish exceeds the gross sales on the rice...

I live in the middle of rice and crawfish farms, and have been involved with both for all of my life. I have never seen or heard of seeding rice or crawfish with a helicopter. Rice is very often seeded with airplanes. I don't think crawfish has ever, or could ever be seeded with an airplane or helicopter.

And you are correct, many farmers grow rice to make a better crawfish crop and will accept a lesser rice crop in order to make a better crawfish crop.

 

[Doorman63]

Still working the field next door. Approx 60 acres total. Tree lined.





Here he is turning right next to our barn




Still working a couple hundred acres to our south now.