2025 field work
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That would make it easier. Some guys that try putting P & K in strips seem to take forever to get things done. We put NH3 down with a regular applicator and no additional tillage on the bean stubble.
What do you put down on corn stalks going to beans?
Do you need a strip till bar if putting NH3 only down on bean stubble? We field cultivate the bean stubble ahead of the planter, but we could put on straight and use planter lines. I would probably want a 60 foot NH3 bar then
Nothing to do with 2025 but on this day in 1987 I drilled 40 acres of oats (Black Hawk Co). We raised a lot of non-confinement livestock and needed the straw for bedding and a place to haul manure in the summer. If I remember correctly we got a couple snows on them pre and post emergence, but weather was ideal and we combined them the last week of June, bailed the straw, hauled stockpiled manure, disked it up and planted a 2.6 bean before July 1. Three inches of rain shortly after planting so they didn't sit in dry dirt too long. Got an earlier than ideal frost that year and even though they were left till the rest of the corn and beans were done, we still ended up dumping some green beans in the bin. Threw air on them and most ripened in the bin--not enough green ones left in them to take a dock at the elevator. They yielded 28, and if memory serves me correctly, 35 was probably a good yield in those days. Don't know if there has been 100 acres of oats planted within 20 miles of me the last few years.
Is the yield increase from strip till or the tile? Anything I’ve pattern tiled has shot ups exponentially. I have a small tiler guy who I give work to every year, even doing ground I don’t own out of my own pocket. Fastest return there is.
I will be seeding my small plot watermelon and tomatoes early next week. They need about 6 weeks in the greenhouse before going out... Vincennes, IN is my big growing region. Bell peppers and speciality peppers after that up in Michigan but we have a late last frost so they will be a bit....
our sweet corn port is a working progress. Its hard to beat Obsession.
our sweet corn port is a working progress. Its hard to beat Obsession.
A neighbor does a one pass NPK and tillage. The thing is a beast. Has a 12 row because he only has roughly a 500 hp tractor to pull it.
if anyone is interested in a little diversification on your farm.... i know a guy!
Who wouldn't wanna see 40 acres of Bell peppers
Who wouldn't wanna see 40 acres of Bell peppers
Build a big greenhouse and grow REAL tomatoes all year round, not the crap hard as rock and tasteless crap in all of the produce aisles. The regular tomatoes LOOK like tomatoes but are actually crossbred with a #3 billiard ball and a pile of scrap cardboard.
Started buying heirloom tomatoes this summer at my local grocery and was surprised to see them still there this fall and winter. I figured they were greenhouse tomatoes and probably local (being real tomatoes they aren't like the rock hard ones made for shipping) but looked at the tiny sticker label and they are from Canada, regional but maybe going to get even mo' spendy.
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That is what I think. Trying to get PK & N done would take a lot of time filling tenders and switching NH3 tanks. Plus the horsepower to get it done in the Fall and sometimes not having ideal conditions. I would be nervous about throwing anyone in that rig, since you are using those lines in the Spring with the planter.
the majority of openfield (large summertime fields) tomatoes are pretty much dead. Tomatoes have been brought into high-tech greenhouses southern ontario and now into the upper midwest.... the gas green is still in the south with fast food getting the majority.
the tomatoes are hard because they are being bred to be shipped hundreds or thousands of miles. They only want them to look like tomatoes. Taste isn't really considered.
the best tomatoes are from your own or a local roadside.
