Planting Double Crop Soybeans
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ก.ย. 2019
- We plant some winter wheat every year, and right after wheat comes off in early summer we plant soybeans in the wheat stubble. Double cropping is when two cash crops are taken off a field in the same year. These soybeans generally won't yield as well as beans planted several weeks earlier because they just don't have the time to accumulate enough resources, However they can be quite profitable with a decent yield because we can after acquire the seed at a discount late in the season, and the fertilizer and other costs are split over two crops rather than a single harvest.
This year we started planting the double crop on July 4th, but we only covered half the field. We sat idle and enjoyed the holiday weekend with friends because the wheat just needed to dry down a bit more. The moisture was high enough yet to where it was costing us too much in drying fees at the elevator. So we shut down the second half of harvest in favor of better conditions. Better to wait a few more days for a little more natural drying. We finished up planting 4 days later.
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Double crop beans make us able to exist with our limited land. Being organic certified thing for about 20 years now, we put the wheat in after corn. The soil is pretty nitrogen poor by then, so we wait until it's frozen 4-5 times at night, then we go in and drill different legumes 3 inches deep in to the wheat. It won't get out of the ground until the following spring once the soil starts to warm up. I was skeptical, didn't think the N would be available to the wheat, would be more of a delayed reaction, but it's a solid 10 bushel bump.
Our main focus is on two things, being a small scale feed mill, and that requires more products than the acreage can normally provide. We also need forage for grazing, so that 1/3 of the farm that is always in rest mode supports our other main purpose, livestock.
You make great videos, I love seeing how different people do things. Our thing doesn't bring the big yields, wheat will do 40-50, the field peas and rest of the legumes can be anywhere from 5-20 bushel crops, and the double crop beans are usually over 40, but not much. Corn is all over the place because the varieties are so specific for certain uses. A high protein corn will stop dropping protein levels as the yield pushes up past 125, the white waxy, the only human consumption variety we grow as a pretty good yield drag on it, but it can do 140 consistently, and I got 190 out of Pioneer 1197 untreated / conventional last year, 160 the year before that, and 140 2 years back. We make what a normal conventional farmer makes, even with 1000 acres in rest every year, but it's a lot more work, and it requires "value adding" to your base crops by milling and mixing, marketing feed and end user interaction.
Thank you for taking the time to show the world about farming.
Thanks, Brian. Using this in my class this week!
Sweet!
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