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"Craig R." wrote in message m... (Brett) wrote in message . com... Greetings: We have a farm in Northeast Illinois and have traditionally grown soybeans and corn - alternating fields yearly. I have been considering adding Winter Wheat as a second crop. I have heard mixed feelings on this...some saying this would bring down the yield of the traditional crops. Does anyone have any opinions or reference material on this? Thanks, Brett -------------------- We experimented aerial seeding wheat or rye in corn in September in SW Iowa, USA. We interseeded the soybeans in the live wheat the next spring. We combined the wheat in the standing soybeans in July and combined the soybeans later that fall. The years we tried this were not good wheat years. I think that maybe it could have worked in the right year. In a dry year the wheat will hurt the soybean yields more. Good luck, Steve McGrew farm web page http://showcase.netins.net/web/mcgrewbr/ |
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"McGrew Brothers Farm" wrote in message ... "Craig R." wrote in message m... (Brett) wrote in message . com... Greetings: We have a farm in Northeast Illinois and have traditionally grown soybeans and corn - alternating fields yearly. I have been considering adding Winter Wheat as a second crop. I have heard mixed feelings on this...some saying this would bring down the yield of the traditional crops. Does anyone have any opinions or reference material on this? Thanks, Brett -------------------- We experimented aerial seeding wheat or rye in corn in September in SW Iowa, USA. We interseeded the soybeans in the live wheat the next spring. We combined the wheat in the standing soybeans in July and combined the soybeans later that fall. The years we tried this were not good wheat years. I think that maybe it could have worked in the right year. In a dry year the wheat will hurt the soybean yields more. If you had irrigation it would be a lot more likely to pay off. But I would sure try it on a small scale before spending a lot of money or see how someone else did it. Irrigation in your part of the world is not very common and at $40,000 for 160 acre plus the cost of wells you need to have something that makes it pay off. On my wife's place 40 miles east of the New Mexico border it is not to difficult to justify if you have the water but in Iowa you have to look at opportunity cost a lot more carefully. Is a irrigation system the best use for that money. It takes a lot of $2.00 wheat to pay for it. You would also have to look close at a long term rotation plan. One cropping and herbicide program won't work forever. Something will screw it up sooner or later. If the weeds don't get resistant a disease, nematodes or something will mess things up. How much do you have to pay for aerial seeding? -- Gordon Gordon Couger Stillwater, OK www.couger.com/gcouger |
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On 9/28/02 9:44 PM, in article , "McGrew
Brothers Farm" wrote: -------------------- We experimented aerial seeding wheat or rye in corn in September in SW Iowa, USA. We interseeded the soybeans in the live wheat the next spring. We combined the wheat in the standing soybeans in July and combined the soybeans later that fall. The years we tried this were not good wheat years. I think that maybe it could have worked in the right year. In a dry year the wheat will hurt the soybean yields more. Good luck, Steve McGrew farm web page http://showcase.netins.net/web/mcgrewbr/ I think this was in western Nebraska. The farmers were aerial seeding turnips into their cornfields. They ran their irrigation systems around immediately after seeding to get the turnips growing. I want to say the seeding took place in early August but I'm not sure. Turnips make good cattle feed after corn harvest. Dean |
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"Dean Hoffman" wrote in message ... On 9/28/02 9:44 PM, in article , "McGrew Brothers Farm" wrote: -------------------- We experimented aerial seeding wheat or rye in corn in September in SW Iowa, USA. We interseeded the soybeans in the live wheat the next spring. We combined the wheat in the standing soybeans in July and combined the soybeans later that fall. The years we tried this were not good wheat years. I think that maybe it could have worked in the right year. In a dry year the wheat will hurt the soybean yields more. Good luck, Steve McGrew farm web page http://showcase.netins.net/web/mcgrewbr/ I think this was in western Nebraska. The farmers were aerial seeding turnips into their cornfields. They ran their irrigation systems around immediately after seeding to get the turnips growing. I want to say the seeding took place in early August but I'm not sure. Turnips make good cattle feed after corn harvest. Turnips would be pretty cheap becase the number of pounds per acre are low. With wheat were your seeding rate is 40 to 100 pounds per acre the air strip has to be close to the feild or use a helicopter so the ferry time is as close to zero as you can get it. We use ground rig dry fertilizer spreaders to seed wheat but not in a growing crop. If you had dry conditions and could put narrow tires on a high clearance rig and run at an angle to the rows the losses wouldn't be very high. I don't know of a commercial rig that is made that way but a high boy sprayer could be modified to do the job with out much expense. If the beans were planted flat it would work. If they weren't I wouldn't want to be the one driving the rig. Gordon |
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