I discovered a new way of farming that is either going to make millions, or be a gigantic bust. I decided to give it a try, to see for myself.
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Cole The Cornstar, aka Cole, is a 4th generation family farmer from Central Iowa who is the life force behind his family’s 2,000 acre farm. Cole promotes agriculture by filming his day-to-day adventures with his Dad (Daddy Cornstar) and brother (Cooper aka Magic Mullet) on the farm. With a lot of help from family, Cole instills humor and education into his videos fit for viewers of all ages.
Despite being 25-years old, Cole has an old-fashion work ethic with an innovative approach toward agricultural technology and practices. Cole’s mission is to prove the American Dream is not dead and be a megaphone for agricultural education and innovation, from technological advances in farming equipment to conservation practices.
I Tried A New Farming Practice
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40 comments
Why did you do the integrated crops? You mentioned so many hurdles to overcome.
Up here in North Dakota we have a lot of rocks and we use rollers to push the smaller rocks down in the ground so we don't wreck our headers on the combines. it also closes all those little gaps in the ground.. After rolling you don'thave corn row ditches from previous years.
use a sulphur on the corn ground too bust up those stocks
Have ya'll started seeing any of those hammer head worms in your soil, we're already seeing them here in central texas, wondering if they'll harm your crops any……………….
Cole, can you see the parts and actions you described for the planter closing wheels? That sounds like a discussion you and Cooper need to have- your idea and his fabbing skill and surely you have some parts and pieces of old planters to start from. People have made fortunes from just kitchen gadgets. Besides, you have a real liking to solve problems. Awesome to see the first emergences. Has the lawyer brought you the heads of the bin installers yet? At least their pocket books?
I absolutely love the way you are approaching these issues scientifically to enhance your harvest. Good research and follow up makes all the difference. Keep up the great work you are doing.
With this wanna be head guy. It won't be very long until I see an auction on his dirt and in his zip code I'll be keeping an eye out for your land online I might rent your house back to you but the barns is mine.
Someone planted too early
I have a question. I know I am a city boy, but a big fan. You mentioned that you planted in the same row you did last year and are concerned about the emergence of the seeds have to fight their way through the old roots. My question is why do you plant in the same direction every year. It seems to me that if you planted your seed rows north to south this year, couldn't you plant them east to west next year. Wouldn't that be a better system?
I don't know if I asked this but can't you use a rotary hoe on your crusted areas?
You will fail miserably just can't wait. It's just like idiots that plant twin row corn lol. It doesn't double yield like you would assume. Actually if you break even you'll be lucky. The real kicker will be next year when you go to plant again in that field 😂😂😂 I won't spoil the surprise
Do follow up talking about how the 8mph had 35 emergent sprouts vs 30 and 29 in the slower. I'm interested to know if that kind of disparity is statistically significant, or if it can be ignored due to other planting conditions.
This episode reminds me of the time my dad planted four rows of cotton between a new almond orchard. The cotton that was planted with the orchard produced taller and much higher yielding cotton compared to the conventional planted cotton. It was believed the extra airflow allowed by the six foot gap between the trees and the cotton allowed the cotton plants to do much better the normal. The following year, the entire cotton crop was planted in rows of two with a skipped row in between. The results were good but increase yield did not overcome the loss of the skipped rows.
Doesn't no-till have a bigger problem with crusting?
A farm I worked on does this, it is more work but the corn yields were definitely improved although with some reduction in yields of the soys. Definitely a very interesting way to crop. We also looked into upping the population on the outside 2 rows more than what was typically planted (we did a 9 row corn 9 row soys plot) and that also showed increase to the yield further than the regular population to the field.
Hand pick the corn for best results
Love the energy, but harvest is going to suck. Good thing near home, your wife will hand you two 5 gallon buckets as you hand pick some of those rows. LOL Baby looks great, glad family life is all good.
Cooper thrown under the buss
How far along are you with your interior house renovation? It's been a long time since we've seen anything about how far you've come
I'm going with coop on this one it's easy to tall smack behind a desk haha
Coop is the one doing all the heavy lifting sometimes things just gotta get done
Hey Cole on our new exact emerge planter we have air down pressure on our closing wheels that seem to good!
Don't drink Rock stars you'll slow down..
Very interesting video. Keep them coming
Fungal growth is benefited from minimal till in Australia the seed is planned in the top of a mound not in the bottom of the furrow to help seed develop down and moisture retention
I still don’t understand why you don’t plant your beans at a 20 -30 degree angle to last year’s corn rows. Yes there will be a few point rows on the sides of the field but not that big of a deal
Trying not to get stuck on the speed of planting to much I think you're going great 👍
it looked like 6mph was the sweet spot since you only had 2 less Green but 4 more blue and the same amount of red
Is there a large scale Mycorrhizal fungi additive you can add large scale to boost the seeds absolute potential for growth? I use it on my small garden (Root Grow from the UK) and it gives me exceptional yields of abundance and flavor. I love your channel and your family!
Good content Cole sounds like a good challenge for y’all bless y’all out there
nothing ventured nothing gained
Hey have you ever tried running the rose North and South so as the sun passes over the corn more light gets down between the rose. Kind of like they try to possession solar panels to capture the most light possible
I think you should talk about what went on with the row crossing
Bad idea? Yeah probably.. but wait! What if it’s not? I’m genuinely interested to see how this pans out.
Minimum tillage will have those issues, old school farming they would have been out with rotory hoe
As someone Who have small fields, from 12 to 50 rows max is our field size here in Serbia, I can tell you that narow fields dont do as good as wide ones… if it is a dry year outside rows just get burn… sorry for my bad english, this is my expirience, i work a lot of small fields, that is just haw land is devided here….
Why are you wasting time with a no till field? No till will hard pack soil to the point nothing can grow. After several years, yields will drop drastically.
Cole the cornstar didn’t plant his grass seed right
Cooper🤦♂️
What are we going to do with that rascal?
Is it to soon for a rotary hoe?
It probably would have been better for Cole to talk privately with Cooper rather than blasting it to hundreds of thousands of strangers.