NO TILL DRILL - Everything YOU NEED to know! | Iowa Whitetail

I’ve farmed & planted for 25 years now. I’ve done every type of tillage method known to man. There are reasons folks till & there’s reasons some folks give up on no till. Done correctly - you won’t give up on no till. Folks that give up almost always due to MISTAKES! The benefits to no till vastly outweigh the downsides or obstacles. no till is an art or skill like any other. Just like tillage - it takes time to understand your order, timing & obstacles in different planting conditions. There’s solutions to all of them. Take the time to learn it!! Our top soil is 50% less in 100 years. We are destroying our soil structure. Our soils can’t handle droughts. No till: keeps that soil moist. Doesn’t stir up the billions of weed seeds. Keeps the soil cooler & mulched. Often builds organic matter. Takes far less machinery, time, fuel & passes on a field. Improves the hard pan issues many fields face. On & on. The benefits are VAST. There’s benefits to tillage but the downsides are also VAST. Like anything great: it takes a bit of time to dial it in & figure it out. It’s not that complex & once you get it right- you likely will not go back. I’ll post more depth on no till in coming videos.

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[kurtcaramanidis]

Very good video. I've been using a very similar blend. I add a little sorghum for structure and a little dwarf essex rape/tillage radish.

[alexpinnow]

Great informative video Skip. The dream farm definitely includes a no till drill one day! In the mean time doing the best I can with the same blends you've mentioned many times.

[stevegermain]

Excellent information thank you so much

[gregoryandre]

Thank you for the practical information in this video!  

As I try to improve how I use my Great Plains drill (706NT) in northwestern Illinois, I watch many videos on the subject. I have yet to find a video, and really hope you will make one, that provides detail on setting the planting depth (beyond the basics of rotating the dial for the coulters and moving the T-handle for the openers to make them run deeper or shallower).

Perhaps you could video the process of setting up your drill for one or more common food plot crops, like clover, brassica or soybeans. Show how you initially set up your coulters and openers for a certain planting depth (like 1" deep for soybeans), whether you generally make the coulters deeper or shallower than the openers, how you measure the depth of your coulters and openers in the field and/or how you measure seed depth (actually video you doing it), and how you make adjustments to finally achieve the coulter, opener and seed depth you want.

Also appreciated would be your thoughts on how to deal with the ground never being perfectly flat and seeds actually being planted at different depths across the width of the drill.

Finally, please give us your thoughts on planting speed.

[davidlobaugh]

Excellent vid. You know some kinda chain lube that doesn't attract dust? Or...put some lube on there they looked clean like new. Or.. you maintain that thing to like aviation standards. 👌🤠

[triplelranch]

Great video - Thanks. How do you terminate your Rye, Oats and Winter Wheat in the summer prior to reseeding again?

[WHACKEManSTACKEM]

How do you prepare the seed bed?
Also, do you mix your fertilizer with the seed? Throw it on top couple weeks after planting? Liquid or dry?

[giuseppevitale]

I love your
Videos i just have one question when you plant in the fall with a no till drill do you terminate chemically your clover field or you plant right on top of the clover i will appreciate your answer

[guernseygoodness]

What do you think of Esch no till drills? Namely, there 12’ model that folds for road transport.

[travissmith-wznc]

Trace minerals for soil? You talked Trace minerals like zinc, manganese, boron ect. On exodus podcast. I added selenium 90 from redmond mineral at 75 lbs a acre and still very low Trace mineral soil content. I been researching adding micros. You have any recommendations on lbs to acre? Help needed.