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Crop after Alfalfa ~ no-till corn or no-till wheat?
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Posted 7/31/2006 20:50 (#31565)
Subject: Crop after Alfalfa ~ no-till corn or no-till wheat?


Aflalfa not thick enough and too much orchard grass fill in (most places about 10-13 aflalfa stems per ft, in alot of places just pure orchard grass - about 1/3 field end up in orchard grass). The market for this is primarily dairy and they want pure aflalfa, so I want to start over. This soil is primarily clay - silt clay, not wet though. High fertility levels and the ph is corrected to 6.4 (plan on adding a couple ton per acre) location east central mn. I haven't grown corn for 15 yrs or so - no drying equipment or combine, I normally been working bean - wheat rotation ( recently picked up this farm, other land I farm is sandy loam and sandy soils, no-tilled - corn didn't work there). What do you think, no-till wheat then replant that late summer (2007) to alfalfa or no till corn then direct seed alfalfa spring of 2008? Would there be problems with reseeding alfalfa that close or early to the previous aflalfa crop? Thanks for your opinion.
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