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Curt Cooke

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Planted too late in the season. What do I do with them? Plow them in? Let them stand for the winter? What do you recommend?
 
Are they green? When I was a kid, we put up thousands of bales of bean hay. Only one old farmer in the neighborhood that baled bean hay, and he kept us busy if the weather was fit. That was in mid summer. Drying would be an issue in October. . .
 
Yes they are green. It's only about an acre and I planted them after I took a little rye off. My mission was simply not to have bare dirt and maybe get some nitrogen fixing value from the beans.
 
Soybeans were originally brought to this country as a hay crop. If we get another break in the weather,bale'em up.
 
I agree with baling them. Its a very dusty dirty job; but cows love a good soybean plant on occasion! Chopping would work fine too.
 
I agree plow them under but I would let a hard freeze kill the plant first. Green bean stalks are gummy and tough. Freeze, chop, plow if it were me.
 
Find the nearest 4H club with calvs/cows/sheep to feed that are halter broke, invite them to field for a couple hours of grazing at end of lead. If you have a good fence- the little spring farrowed piggies could use a bit of finish feed and will till the ground for you. Anything in area that grazes could nibble a bit and trim the beans down. Here the usual drill is set up deer stand and harvest venison when main field are done picking- the deer then go to small plots and chew, then get harvested before they can kamikaze a new Prious. (partial Teasing Alert!) RN
 
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