Have any of you tried to grow these rascals? I had a fellow from Kansas tell me today that you can grow them with oats and combine the peas and oats together and one bushel of the peas and oats will produce in protein and fiber the same amount as a bushel of corn and a bushel of soy beans. Can this be true or is he pulling my leg?
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I"ve been planting "field peas" with my few acres of oats the past 2-3 years.
It seems I get a nice bump of N just as the oats is filling - the peas mature about then.
I do get a bunch of peas in the grain tank along with the oats. I haven"t fiddled with it much, mostly tried to get rid of the peas as I sell the oats. But my neighbor likes it with the peas, and I do too for my cattle. I haven"t tested it out or worked with it much.
Other than, you can get some peas in with the oats when you plant it that way, swathe it to let it all dry down, and combine it.
I only put a bu per - oh - 7 bu of oats, so I don"t get a whole lot of peas I guess, but certainly noticable.
--->Paul
It seems I get a nice bump of N just as the oats is filling - the peas mature about then.
I do get a bunch of peas in the grain tank along with the oats. I haven"t fiddled with it much, mostly tried to get rid of the peas as I sell the oats. But my neighbor likes it with the peas, and I do too for my cattle. I haven"t tested it out or worked with it much.
Other than, you can get some peas in with the oats when you plant it that way, swathe it to let it all dry down, and combine it.
I only put a bu per - oh - 7 bu of oats, so I don"t get a whole lot of peas I guess, but certainly noticable.
--->Paul
Paul, Do you think that your oats are helping with the P&K in your ground? Both of my new farms need P&K bad. My thoughts were trying to build it up in the spring with oats and second cropping it with beans, or perhaps letting it fallow, planting it with the peas for a cover crop,and maybe beans the following spring. On the home farm I want to use the oats as a green manure crop for this year. Do you think the peas that you grew were good enough for seed? The pea seed I bought was 62 cents a lb. and I would like to raise my own. Can you tell this weather is giving me way to much time to think, but that might not be too bad, as this delay has certainly played he!! with my original game plan.......
The peas that blow out of the combine reseed & were just blooming as this frost hit last week. So yea - good seed. If you have a good grain screener/ fan you could screen them out of the oats.....
I think the only thing that helps with P & K is to add P & K to the soil. N can be produced, but the P & K are going to get carried away with anything you sell, and needs to be replaced. If your soil is low on P & K, roots won't really pull much back into that same soil - nothing to recurculate. Farming really isn't sustainable unless you have people that eat your food poo in your fields, so to speak.
There are organic options for adding P & K, but they aren't real different from the commercial fertilizers. Just my opinion.
Yea, this weather is something. October 13th & I got 2 rows of corn harvested, no soybeans at all harvested. Ground too wet, crops too wet, forcast for more snow be4 it might warm up a tad for the weekend. Not unheard of to get a blizzard the last day of October 'here'. Thanksgiving is usually white. Wow.
--->Paul
I think the only thing that helps with P & K is to add P & K to the soil. N can be produced, but the P & K are going to get carried away with anything you sell, and needs to be replaced. If your soil is low on P & K, roots won't really pull much back into that same soil - nothing to recurculate. Farming really isn't sustainable unless you have people that eat your food poo in your fields, so to speak.
There are organic options for adding P & K, but they aren't real different from the commercial fertilizers. Just my opinion.Yea, this weather is something. October 13th & I got 2 rows of corn harvested, no soybeans at all harvested. Ground too wet, crops too wet, forcast for more snow be4 it might warm up a tad for the weekend. Not unheard of to get a blizzard the last day of October 'here'. Thanksgiving is usually white. Wow.
--->Paul
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