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Shawn Feikema

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
456 total appearances

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Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms

So we just fill in them holes with a little bit of P and K and, you know, just little low spots. But for the most part, we maybe put, you know, fertilizer on 10 to 15% of the acres of the field, you know, just to even it out. Um, and then, uh, and then, yeah, we just roll in, in the spring and plant our corn on corn acres. We do freshen if we didn't bail the stocks off of it.

Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms

So we just fill in them holes with a little bit of P and K and, you know, just little low spots. But for the most part, we maybe put, you know, fertilizer on 10 to 15% of the acres of the field, you know, just to even it out. Um, and then, uh, and then, yeah, we just roll in, in the spring and plant our corn on corn acres. We do freshen if we didn't bail the stocks off of it.

Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms

So obviously we bailed a few acres of corn stocks for bedding and stuff. So we'll, uh, we'll, uh, yeah, so we'll have, when we do corn on corn air, we don't bail it. We don't run a freshener strip through, um, or trip, but, uh, if it isn't bailed off, then we'll, we'll freshen freshen that corn on corn strip in the spring.

Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms

So obviously we bailed a few acres of corn stocks for bedding and stuff. So we'll, uh, we'll, uh, yeah, so we'll have, when we do corn on corn air, we don't bail it. We don't run a freshener strip through, um, or trip, but, uh, if it isn't bailed off, then we'll, we'll freshen freshen that corn on corn strip in the spring.

Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms

So obviously we bailed a few acres of corn stocks for bedding and stuff. So we'll, uh, we'll, uh, yeah, so we'll have, when we do corn on corn air, we don't bail it. We don't run a freshener strip through, um, or trip, but, uh, if it isn't bailed off, then we'll, we'll freshen freshen that corn on corn strip in the spring.

Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms

Which machine do you have?

Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms

Which machine do you have?

Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms

Which machine do you have?

Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms

Yeah, it doesn't.

Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms

Yeah, it doesn't.

Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms

Yeah, it doesn't.

Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms

No, no. Hence the reason I have the Coulter machine, because that one don't plug. What we did when we had that machine, so we ran that machine for like four years, I think, chopping corn head, But the biggest problem was always on the end rows when you let that machine down and you almost have to stop on the end headlands, drop it down and then go because there was never...

Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms

No, no. Hence the reason I have the Coulter machine, because that one don't plug. What we did when we had that machine, so we ran that machine for like four years, I think, chopping corn head, But the biggest problem was always on the end rows when you let that machine down and you almost have to stop on the end headlands, drop it down and then go because there was never...

Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms

No, no. Hence the reason I have the Coulter machine, because that one don't plug. What we did when we had that machine, so we ran that machine for like four years, I think, chopping corn head, But the biggest problem was always on the end rows when you let that machine down and you almost have to stop on the end headlands, drop it down and then go because there was never...

Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms

the the the coulter comes out of the ground as you lift that machine before the knife does and then that knife just acts like a dump rake yep you know so that's that's you know we some of the things we learned was like literally you stop on the end rows like the you know like you used to do way back in the day with a planter you know so you didn't overlap that's how you had to do it to keep it from plugging yep i do that but then even then is it that's not even foolproof

Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms

the the the coulter comes out of the ground as you lift that machine before the knife does and then that knife just acts like a dump rake yep you know so that's that's you know we some of the things we learned was like literally you stop on the end rows like the you know like you used to do way back in the day with a planter you know so you didn't overlap that's how you had to do it to keep it from plugging yep i do that but then even then is it that's not even foolproof

Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms

the the the coulter comes out of the ground as you lift that machine before the knife does and then that knife just acts like a dump rake yep you know so that's that's you know we some of the things we learned was like literally you stop on the end rows like the you know like you used to do way back in the day with a planter you know so you didn't overlap that's how you had to do it to keep it from plugging yep i do that but then even then is it that's not even foolproof

Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms

Yeah. No, no, you're absolutely right. Yeah. All of a sudden you look back and you've got a Volkswagen plugged up underneath that thing, basically, you know, and you're dragging it along.

Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms

Yeah. No, no, you're absolutely right. Yeah. All of a sudden you look back and you've got a Volkswagen plugged up underneath that thing, basically, you know, and you're dragging it along.

Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Shawn Feikema - Feikema Farms

Yeah. No, no, you're absolutely right. Yeah. All of a sudden you look back and you've got a Volkswagen plugged up underneath that thing, basically, you know, and you're dragging it along.