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| So my HEL type timber fields can now compete with more prairie type fields much more consistently. In a wet year, they may outperform, but I don't think i said that my timber type fields outyield prairie type fields very often. If I did, I shouldn't have, although take away the timber line and wildlife damage ............. it'd be really close with the timber having an adv. in extremely wet years.
Don't take as many pics as I used to (gets kinda redundant) but here's a few from not too long ago. Without strip till, I probably wouldn't use cereal rye ahead of corn, but with strip till (NH3) am very comfortable doing so with no bad experiences with it, but I don't like to let it get much taller than what these pics indicate. Knee high the top end of my comfort range for corn, with beans am comfortable to waist high. Have been cover cropping with c. rye and planting/drilling green for over 15 years with both C and SB's.
My SB yields have been trending up, while my corn yield trend has been relatively flat for a while now, which I'd blame on myself for not being more aggressive with using fungicides, etc., especially on irregular shaped timber fields that planes can't get down on very good. I know, drones would work much better in those situations, but I tend to be on the low input side, and perhaps a bit stubborn.
What I might have referenced, is my 1 NHEL field, and the only one I don't use cover crops on, and most would think should be my best yielding field is now just kinda meh yieldwise comped to my HEL fields.
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