Posted by paul on October 09, 2011 at 21:04:29 from (66.44.132.6):
In Reply to: Sowing beans posted by David G on October 09, 2011 at 19:31:31:
If you could work in a grass crop - like corn - in your rotation I'd understand.
But - beans make their own N, so the first crop plowed down will not really help the 2nd crop of beans.
I think you are just lowering your bean yields for no reason....
Now, if you planted oats or wheat with a cover crop - alfalfa/clover/peas, and then follow the next year with an early plowing and corn.....
Or if you harvested corn silage a little early, and planted rye & clover in fall, harvested that for silage again in spring and planted more corn dfor silage, or soybeans - you would get 3 crops in 2 years, and the legumes would help build the soil, as well as the manure from the livestock - if you are harvesting all that silage obviously you have livestock....
Those are ways to build soil.
I'm not sure you get much with 2 shots of beans in the same year, it doesn't seem like it will gain you anything.
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