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Barry County, MI | I quit growing beans 2 years ago as we are organic and my beans are really beans and weeds , decided to give them up the weeds won
now we grow corn and disk corn stubble and plant spelt or rye or wheat and frost seed clover in spring
then we brush hog the stubble and clover and Canadian thistle and a place or two cockabur You have to fight cockaburr and gypson weed up here or you will be out of the business of organic pretty quick
that means we pull by hand and so on go around a plant if we see when harvesting and go back and pick corn by hand and gather up the seed from the cockaburr
but we bush hog 3 times after small grain harvest to try to kill the thistle and so on then we will plant corn on June 1 st time plow 1st of May
so about 17 months without being worked I wish I would of don't that 20 years ago you talk about building mass and a 3inch mat plus nearly knee high clover when we plow . I put 200 lb potassium sulfate with boron and a couple other traces
and mixed Mycrizzie with the seed corn and about waste high 330 lbs of chicken pellets over top not really the way I wanted to get it on but anyway probably the best corn we ever grown but it was a really good grown season till it got pretty dry in August and Sept. I thought the crop had had it as it got pretty brown but we got a 2,3 inch rain later in Sept and the corn benefited from the rain / so that mattof clover and the mycrizzy must of really helped/ ps we don't really worry about a yield with small grain so it cattle feed what ever it makes archie | |
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