Finishing 2026 Soybeans with 1990s Farm Equipment

Added: 2026-05-11

[00:00:06]We're down to less than 200 acres of beans and 2026 crop will be in except for the double crops.

[00:00:27]Robert had a lot of trouble yesterday.

[00:00:32]He shared some teeth off a sprocket in the transmission on that planter.

[00:00:41]Had a flat tire on front of the tractor.

[00:00:49]There was something else he had trouble with.

[00:01:03]That's the beauty of planting beans. You can just plant them however you want to.

[00:01:08]You don't have to worry about how your rows run.

[00:01:13]Planting on some uh Don Mario beans.

[00:01:16]This first year we've uh had any Don Marios.

[00:01:25]Well, I understand that these beans are out of Brazil. Bred down in Brazil.

[00:01:33]That's my understanding. Don't hold me to that.

[00:01:40]I know we're going to have 160 acres of them anyways cuz I got I picked up four boxes.

[00:01:52]We got 170 acres of 47 strokes planted going entirely extend flex beans this year. past two years we've been about half extend flex and half enlist beans and although I don't think anything is wrong with the enlisted beans they yield just as well as the extend flex beans I feel like the extend flex beans have a lot more vigor coming out of the ground we don't have near the trouble getting them up as we do in list beans They just come up and they grow off better seems like to us and we don't have near the trouble.

[00:03:08]We're in cotton country so majority of your cotton is extend.

[00:03:15]So there's a lot of that that to get sprayed on or off label.

[00:03:25]We used to be Liberty Lane and Extend come along ru that for us.

[00:03:38]Best beans I ever made was Liberty Links.

[00:03:43]And I ain't been able to find a best bean I ever planted was a 4866 crop in Liberty Lane.

[00:03:53]And I ain't been able to find a bean that would keep up with it yet.

[00:03:59]We sailed some mighty fine corn down through this little creek bottom last year. I mean, just 300 from one end to the other.

[00:04:13]We chisel plowed it before we planted corn last year.

[00:04:18]Of course, it's got a lot of moisture holding capacity.

[00:04:32]We ran that 330 true tandem and double basket crumbler over this one time and now we're planting it.

[00:04:52]I'll say this. I wish my corn planter had that same type marker on it as that Kinsey planter.

[00:05:00]them markers on my planter, corn planter, is about the sorryest excuse for darn set of markers I've ever used in my entire life.

[00:05:50]Heat. Heat.

[00:05:58]Y'all see we got the row cleaners raised all the way up.

[00:06:03]I've about decided the best planter attachment is just work your ground and not have any planter attachment. That's what I've decided the best combo is.

[00:06:16]It is a beautiful Sunday afternoon out here working some corn stalks down.

[00:06:24]This is the last field of beans we lack.

[00:06:27]75 acres on this farm.

[00:06:32]Big open nice running. Not typical of the farms we work here in West Tennessee. Here comes Robert in with the planter listening to some Braves baseball beating the Phillies six to nothing right now. Top of the fourth inning.

[00:06:57]This is uh the days that make you really really enjoy farming.

[00:07:15]The ground is working dang near perfectly.

[00:07:23]Got Big John set up there about 2,000 RPM. Not having to run her wide open.

[00:07:30]Running 6.7 to 7 mph B3.

[00:07:37]Chewing through some uh chewing through some acres pretty good.

[00:07:42]Right there's what the ground looks like after one trip over it.

[00:07:48]That's all I'm making. One trip and then he's planting it. It's what we wanted to do.

[00:07:55]Cleaning the ground up. No. Pulling out any remaining weeds.

[00:08:01]Few scattered may tail out here.

[00:08:04]Little bit of volunteer corn.

[00:08:12]You can see that crumbler throwing them stalks and clides up in the air and breaking them up.

[00:08:30]This is about the best angle I found to run this 330 at.

[00:08:36]What I'll do is I'll set my a point on the far end of the field back there and then I'll go down run with the rose and go down there and turn around and get headed back up and then hit my B point and then that'll put it at a little bit of an angle to the rose.

[00:09:00]Uh, this tool it is not a perfect tool, but I I really like it. What I found is if you run with the rolls, it don't really pull the stalks out. It just kind of rides them over and it doesn't shred them up. See right there? We're shredding them up pretty good.

[00:09:23]But if you get too much of an angle, it kind of wants to walk around with you and it'll throw up some ridges just from the just from the outside blade and the speed you run. So, I found that that amount of angle right there is what works best. And what that does probably be too shaky, but it lets that blade it let them blades run direct over a roll and it'll shred it'll shred them suckers up. Boy, got a couple of pages here on my run screen. That's the one I run most time.

[00:10:09]Got my speed. shift my line if I need to and then my farm and my guidance screen.

[00:10:15]I'm not doing any coverage logging cuz there ain't no sense in wasting memory on the display for just telling you where.

[00:10:25]Then got my auto steer set. You can kind of see, you know, it's showing which direction the steering wheel needs to turn there.

[00:10:37]and then got that screen. But full guidance, but I like this one right here. Just got my speed the best. Of course, as usual, I like to skip a pass because you don't have to turn so tight with the crazy train.

[00:10:57]What I'll do, I'll skip this pass.

[00:11:00]I'll skip over one more pass and then I'll circle back around and fill that gap in. And that way I'm constantly working across the field. Uh keeping it worked across the field.

[00:11:18]That's all there is to be told.

[00:11:21]I'm going to cut the camera off and listen to the Braves game and enjoy my Sunday afternoon.

[00:11:32]Heat.

[00:11:50]Heat.

[00:12:09]Heat. Heat.

[00:12:35]There's a drain right there. He's having to ease across.

[00:12:42]Boom.

[00:12:59]Heat.

[00:13:11]Heat.

[00:13:23]Well, as much as I'd like to stay over here and watch him plant, I got him the truck and the seed tenders over here. I had my pickup on the seed tender. So, got it unhooked and got the service truck hooked to the seed tender.

[00:13:41]I got to go load a load of hogs to take to the butcher in the morning. I got to be in Paris at 8 at the butcher delivering them hogs and uh I guess I'm going to go load them and then I might drive the 30 minutes back over here and check on him.

[00:14:08]Might bring him a soda pop.

[00:14:15]Well, with a uh pass and a half, the 2026 soy bean crop will be in the ground.

[00:14:25]Well, I say that will be planted up to the canola and the wheat.

[00:14:32]It is a good feeling.

[00:14:36]I think the good Lord knew we needed a good spring after the past few springs we've had.

[00:14:45]Um we've got,00 acres planted and it is April the 28th I believe.

[00:15:03]started planting soy beans March the 27th.

[00:15:08]Uh had a few rain delays, had some, you know, fairly big rain events. Got good moisture over here, but we've had some good rain events. We've been blessed with rain. A lot of people around needing the rain, but we've been blessed with rain. We could use a shower.

[00:15:36]Just need a shower though cuz I really don't want to have to come over here and plant these beans again.

[00:15:44]But with that, we're all shuttered out. I'm going to call her a nine.