Planting My Heirloom Corn (Jimmy Red & Hastings Prolific)

Great video Joey! I really enjoy your videos. It's good to see someone on YouTube with Christian values, morals, and integrity! Keep up the good work and thanks for sharing with your viewers and subscribers!

Doesn't matter how long or short the videos are. I really enjoy them. Thanks for talking the time to show us. All the best 🇬🇧.

Your videos are fantastic. It’s great to see how folks do things differently in other parts of the country. Here in central Alabama my grandfather planted corn in a furrow in mule days. Then when he got a new Super A in 1951 the used the front mount planter and opened with a shovel and scrape and planted in a furrow. My dad did the same and I plant corn the same way as well, with a Super A and front mount planter. Each time I cultivate I move dirt toward the stalk up support it and keep moisture near the roots. We have to plan for a drought every year.

Thanks for the video, I'm blessed that I stumbled across your channel 👍

Thanks for sharing the video Joey. Really enjoyed watching you plant. Nice looking job. Hope you have a great growing season.

Those Rows are going to look amazing. God Bless

Great video. I love watching those planters work. I just plowed my Jimmy red Friday afternoon and fertilizer down. It’s about 10” to 12” tall. Also transplanted 40 tobacco plants yesterday and have about 40 more in the greenhouse. Keep the videos coming and god bless

Just planted my jtwes jimmie red corn Tuesday of last week. Thank you Joey.

Joey I went picked up me an International 140 yesterday. I am going to rewatching a lot of how to videos. But I am a happy camper.

A story my father told often while we were setting up the cultivator was his older brother was sent out to cultivate corn as a teenager and got a crick in his neck watching the pin on one side of the tractor so he moved it over to the other side, not setting it up as carefully as it should have been and buried half the field of corn. He spent all 4th of July uncovering corn while the family did the holiday stuff. You really need to double check the setup before starting and periodically during.

What seed spacing did you end up with for the planters, wheels/sprockets/plates, test effective drops on hard gravel drive? Since you have quite a large field of both varieties to grow this season, I'd try marking off random rows in each and experiment with half/quarter/no fertilizer drops you plan for cultivating and save the best seed from those rows to replant and repeat next year. A lot of our seed has been bred to survive with high fertilizer and in the future we may not have access (physically short or price driven) to that fertilizer when the corn is no longer just a hobby.

Looking good Joey. Talking about grease, my old 140 has grease on it from 30 years ago. Sammy can cultivate. When I was 12-13, Daddy put me on Grandpa's Cub and I plowed a row of English peas in Grandma's garden. When I got to the end of the field, I looked back and knew right then I had graduated.

Looking good Joey. I re-installed the rolling cultivators and got the side dressing done yesterday. I only managed 150# of 10-10-10 with micro nutrients on 15 400' rows First bag was light so I opened the fert gate a little wider. I barely had any ground clearance on the cultivators again and one kept turning sideways. I went back and watched your videos again and realized I still didn't install them correctly. I'll pull them off first chance I get and redo them. I had the top of the bracket on top of the cultivators, and realized they should be tilted over and the bracket turned toward the front. We should start cutting about 60 acres of hay tomorrow if Pa is feeling better. God Bless, Ken

Looks good Joey. Got my Jimmy Red planted here Friday afternoon. Using my neighbors new walk behind planter sure beats doing it by hand. It didn’t do a great job covering the seed up, but I threw the rolling cultivators on the Super A and made a quick pass and that did the trick.

I absolutely love watching you out working and planting Joey!! Between you and couisn Scott the experience is second to none!! I can't wait to see how things turn out!! Love the explanation of the bedding with the super A and how you were correcting that! Look fwd to seeing what's next!! 😁😁👍👍🌽🌽

I'm not "hard core" anything. I just enjoy watching most of everything you do on this channel. Get Sammy on that Super A. right now. If he wants to do it, of course.

Pretty work! Looks like somebody is going to have a lot of corn to pick. I planted my Silver Queen yesterday before the rains came.

I enjoy watching your videos and learning about your methods. As I found out last year the spacing isn't as easy as it sounds, I may or may not of taken out an entire row of red beets the first time I tried cultivating with my Kubota which isn't as good for that job as your tractor is. The rear tires are very wide.

It doesn't matter the age of the planter, it did a great job

Man that looks pretty. All the best from Greensboro NC.