Soil life is what bonds soil to plant roots. For soil structure and tilth I will take corn one hundred times before I take soybean once. Corn puts down a mass of root system and then you have a large biomass on top to help feed the soil life. And put armor on the soil. Soybeans move our soil backwards up here.
Something I don't understand about farmers in the Midwest... they'll do practically ANYTHING to increase corn yields, even though corn is dirt cheap and yields are already high, meaning the "low fruit has already been picked" (meaning it's harder and more expensive to get even modest incremental yield gains) and even though corn is DIRT CHEAP... Meanwhile they just throw soybeans in the ground as an afterthought with no fertilization and much less management (other than weed control to make harvest easier and keep the fields clean for the following corn crop) and just take whatever mediocre yields they can get, while there is SO MUCH room for improvement, most of it EASY gains or improvements, and while soybeans are worth about 3-4 times as much per bushel as corn, meaning every extra bushel of beans produced brings in as much money to the farm as 3-4 bushels of extra corn... Kinda crazy... OL J R :)
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Soil life is what bonds soil to plant roots.
For soil structure and tilth I will take corn one hundred times before I take soybean once. Corn puts down a mass of root system and then you have a large biomass on top to help feed the soil life. And put armor on the soil. Soybeans move our soil backwards up here.
Something I don't understand about farmers in the Midwest... they'll do practically ANYTHING to increase corn yields, even though corn is dirt cheap and yields are already high, meaning the "low fruit has already been picked" (meaning it's harder and more expensive to get even modest incremental yield gains) and even though corn is DIRT CHEAP... Meanwhile they just throw soybeans in the ground as an afterthought with no fertilization and much less management (other than weed control to make harvest easier and keep the fields clean for the following corn crop) and just take whatever mediocre yields they can get, while there is SO MUCH room for improvement, most of it EASY gains or improvements, and while soybeans are worth about 3-4 times as much per bushel as corn, meaning every extra bushel of beans produced brings in as much money to the farm as 3-4 bushels of extra corn... Kinda crazy... OL J R :)