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jbgruver

Posted 9/24/2016 21:05 (#5547082)
Subject: Lynx winter peas, sunn hemp, no-till soybeans and pumpkins (lots of pics)

A few days ago, we planted ~ 5 acres of Lynx winter peas on 30" rows (~ 170k/a) using soybean plates in our old 4 row corn planter. Tonight I drilled the same field to a mix of old seed (soybeans, sunflowers, buckwheat, oats, radish and mustard) that I needed to clean out of a storage container to make room for rye that we just had cleaned. Its too late for the clean-out seed to grow much but I am hoping that the mix will grow enough to help the peas survive the winter. This field will be planted to corn in 2017.

The cover crop mix (sunn hemp, sunflower, radish, mustard & oats) that we planted on 8/15 is enjoying the warm weather. This field will be planted to pumpkins in 2017.

The leaves on our pumpkins have finally died back enough that it is now possible to see that we have a good crop.

The 3.4 beans in our organic no-till bean experiment are turning yellow while the 3.9s are still green as grass. These beans were drilled into triticale the last week of May. The triticale was rolled with a culti-mulcher right before drilling and then about a week later.

Joel
WIU Agriculture

Edited by jbgruver 9/24/2016 21:45