Good info, I never say never when it comes to techniques and procedures. Personally, we're no till, cover crops, plant green, land split into 4 crops including one massive forage crop for intense livestock grazing. Rotation is 1.) winter cereals interplanted with peas and other pulse crops, harvested together then sorted, then we go to crop 2.) 11 different varieties of dry beans that we're able to direct market 1 to 25 pound at a time. We drill late season covers, and early spring covers , then go to 3.) REST, FORAGE, we have a good direct marketing to consumer system for protein production and finally 4.) Custom Corn varieties grown per order. I'd like to see more presentations on upping value. If we didn't have the sorting, cleaning, milling capabilities, this would be a completely different story being 1st generation and having the expense of growth to contend with. In 20 years, I've been able to eat up a lot of the "drag" on yields as far as corn is concerned, but quite frankly, every other cash crop we have is about half of the yields seen in conventional farming. That's almost by design per say, we're growing ancient grains, really specialized stuff, and we keep back seed on those, sell the food grade, and hold back the rest to be part of our feed mixes. So much of what we do follow all the way through to the consumer, or at the very least, it's a sold crop before it even gets planted.
Good info, I never say never when it comes to techniques and procedures. Personally, we're no till, cover crops, plant green, land split into 4 crops including one massive forage crop for intense livestock grazing. Rotation is 1.) winter cereals interplanted with peas and other pulse crops, harvested together then sorted, then we go to crop 2.) 11 different varieties of dry beans that we're able to direct market 1 to 25 pound at a time. We drill late season covers, and early spring covers , then go to 3.) REST, FORAGE, we have a good direct marketing to consumer system for protein production and finally 4.) Custom Corn varieties grown per order.
I'd like to see more presentations on upping value. If we didn't have the sorting, cleaning, milling capabilities, this would be a completely different story being 1st generation and having the expense of growth to contend with. In 20 years, I've been able to eat up a lot of the "drag" on yields as far as corn is concerned, but quite frankly, every other cash crop we have is about half of the yields seen in conventional farming. That's almost by design per say, we're growing ancient grains, really specialized stuff, and we keep back seed on those, sell the food grade, and hold back the rest to be part of our feed mixes. So much of what we do follow all the way through to the consumer, or at the very least, it's a sold crop before it even gets planted.
I run a Hamilton cultivator in my sweet corn .double c shanks 10 shanks 12 inch sweeps
Good information Eric & Scott