Seeding corn or soy's into alfalfa that was not killed last

Dave from MN

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fall? Regardless of the reason, did not get done. Is hilly and sandy soil. Alot of gopher damage, plant loss and the usual rough ground, then add the coyotes holes trying to find the gophers. was a thin stand. Every one says you HAVE to put in corn, why waste all that available N. Well, rent is very reasonable, and the balace of this farm was corn, so I am thinking just ptuuing soybeans on the whole darned farm. IF i were to no till, and hit with spray to kill the alfalfa/grasses as well as a preemerge, would that be a good plan? Preemerge would be just prior to a rain for incorperation. Once beans are off poultry litter and cover crop would be seeded, following with no till corn in 2015. Any advice?
 
Neighbor did exactly that last spring. Hit his pretty good alfalfa stand with RU in mid April, and had one of the BTOs use a good no til planter a week later.
Sprayed it again in early 4 leaf stage and had 165 bu corn. No Light MAP application.
 
Beans are a good plan especially this year. (price and cost to plant) Spray it as early as possible and no-till. Work it a little may-be next year if you decide to go to corn. Or disk and plant to wheat.
 
Still throwing a lot of money away not using the free N you have there.

As well as rough to harvest the beans, will leave a few out there from the rough ground maybe.

Beans will work, but corn would be the more profitable route most of the time.

If it were easy, everyone would farm. Do you want easy, or profitable?

But then, I am sitting here easy for me to type with no skin in the game, you might have good reason to just run beans on it, and yes you will get a crop of beans from it.

Paul
 
Dave I have trouble with gophers as well on my sand hills in alfalfa. Those little buggers just love alfalfa roots.

Whether you plant beans or corn here is something I have done in that rough ground.

Take your field cultivator and set it on top of the ground to maybe an inch deep and run over that field. It will level the field a lot.

I have even done it when leaving it in alfalfa to make it smoother for mowing. Works good.

Gary
 

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