| jbgruver - 1/24/2026 22:52
Hi JD, I am curious if your crops will grow differently following a pollinator mix with some legumes vs. following native grasses.
Joel
WIU Agriculture
Hi Joel, I'll also be interested in the comp between the 2 fields. The native grass mix field is highly sloped light timber soil surrounded by timber while the pollinator plot is much less sloped with a variable but more prairie type soil. I think having a previous legume will help. I've before asked FSA/NRCS if adding something like sweet clover seed to CRP fields a couple years before bringing back into production would be ok but for the most part the answer is no. I have seen red clover added to CRP via FSA/NRCS do really well for a couple years.
I will miss the purple coneflower of which there were hundreds of plants in this 2 acres go away although I have some in other non crop areas.
 (partridge pea (full).JPG)
Attachments
----------------
 partridge pea (full).JPG (171KB - 12 downloads)
|
Priming the pump when converting CRP to crops
