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Holland, Indiana (SW IN) | I had just sent an Email about being rotational year to year to Grain Trader we were discussing everything important :-)
Brian gives me ideas ---I try to return
Some what answers your question ----
I believe one should be 1/2 1/2 corn soybeans each year-- for storage --hauling and most everything
HOWEVER being one crop is so easy --we're making it work
Never clean the sprayer--change the planter, seed, combine, dryer, or mix corn and soybeans in the bin
FWIW we love raising soybeans (we're in SW Indiana --think latitude Louisville KY)
Here's most of the Email a long read
not the promoted idea ---all in one crop SB then corn
we years back split farms ----finally thought what a PIA ---move to harvest 50 acres then moved back to harvest the other
think split farms worked best for CI establishing yield and the years we took prevent
Much harder to take prevent these years--
Then we went to all farms in the northern area one crop south area the other ---then decided WTF --one crop is easy
we start planting in our rolling land Dubois county always with shortest season corn (107 day then longer maturities then finish 120 day under mostly irrigation) close to the Ohio river
Works good our small drying system at Holland Natural gas --we start at 30% can harvest "dry" 40 acres a day ---gets us going seeding CC
finish with the longer season corn our other drying system (close to Rockport) LP and a bigger dryer
Soybeans we do the same start with 2.5 maturities on the rolling ground finish 4.8 or so ---spreads harvest gets our CC planted early on the hills
We try to be there to harvest when or before soybeans are ready have a Case machine --straight cylinder bars in for corn --only short rasp bars soybeans ---green stems don't slow us down
Storage sucks with what we do had an extra driver this fall ---hauled 200K bu this fall--BUT we haven't got the storage bins empty yet :-)
It works but we are one of the last finishing harvest---I consider this a mental thing ---the way we spread our maturities we are timely getting the fields harvested
Made for a long harvest (heck we were harvesting well over 2 months straight) BUT ---didn't hurt us --soybeans are easy --we leave bins sit empty and only fill the 48' 12 rings 3/4 full
As everything on our farm and I'm sure yours as well subject to change
We have discussed 2 years SB one corn --with CC, fungicides insecticides (green stink bugs are our #1) and nematode controls --we don't think we would give up much yield
Good Farming
Dan
Edited to HOPEFULLY make easier to read
Edited by Dan Loehr 2/26/2026 16:21
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