Organic Row Crop Farming Fighting Off The Weeds

Hello and welcome back to Fehr's Farming Organic. After some problems with some video storage we are back up and running. With about one week left before the corn gets to tall to get the tractor in the field I shot a quick video covering some points on how we fight off the weed pressure during these summer months. Enjoy the video and leave and like and share and show to all your friends! Follow us on Instagram @fehrsfarmingorganic

[jakelee]

I grew up on a cattle and wheat farm. We raised Milo several times. Used to cultivate it at least twice. And step dad planted with a 4 row John Deere planter without row markers. And he could make the straightest rows ever. Made cultivating so easy. Great to see folks still doing this. We even plowed every other year.
Before my real dad passed we lived for 6 years in Sloan Iowa. He worked construction and we were up there. He rented a house out in the country and I loved watching the man that farmed that place cultivating. He ran nothing but IH.
Thanks and good luck!

[dougmaiden]

Good to see good old fashioned cultivating. We used a John Deere 3010. You have a sweet setup. Glad to see Organic farming. Keep up the great work.

[kurt-reynolds]

How do you handle the headlands, just run over the crop as you reposition?

[Edward-tpnc]

Most farmers never did much hand weeding. I remember. They’d rotary hoe then cultivate the corn and beans and yes walk beans and I didn’t mind as a kid. We did 150-180 bushels per acre on corn in the 70s through 1990s. It’s simply old fashioned farming. My dad also spread manure over about 80 acres of farmland because he had a hog operation and that really helped push out sometimes 200 bushel to the acre in the 1980s already. Today’s farmers must stop the poisonous sprays. It’s killing peoples and insects trees! I hate it.

[JoeSmith-lpol]

What is fertility program. Are you non GMO? This year your cost savings on inputs would be incredible!

[eliseemeboh]

Bonjour je suis intéressé le saclobinage
Et je suis basé au Cameroun

[bruv]

Organic, just as desteuctive as chemicals