easymoney - 11/4/2026 06:14
nilbart - 11/4/2026 05:03
Looked to be damp when you were combining. Was there enough grass to give problems feeding into the head? Will cattle be grazing the stalks? And will the field be rotated to another crop next year? Congratulations on succeeding with you project.
Yeah that's mother nature's. Sense of humor. Let's make you live through a drought and then give you a bunch of rain delays for harvest. Lol
There was a couple patches of foxtail. Nothing plugged up a roll but one time on the headland I just stopped and ran the head in reverse and forward a couple times to clean them rolls off.
Overall the weed control was really good except for the extremes. So the very East edge of extreme drought. The foxtail came in them first 12 rows pretty good and then continued East into that soybean field. That's soybean field laid there for a month before it germinated. That's not good
But then the rest of the field was fairly clean other than random little spots. And then the west side where it gets really fertile ground. That's where I say, Lamb's quarter follows the cow or the manure spreader. Lamb's quarter loves fertile soil and it loves disturbed soil. I gave it both. And that ground had enough moisture for it to germinate.
I put a perforated screen on the combine to help clean some weed seed out of the clean grain.
Lamb's quarter was my Nemesis this year
the cattle grazed on this field before planting the corn. I forgot to add that to my profit. Thanks for reminding me.
We will make bales off of this field. All the weather people are saying we might have a warm winter. That means we're going to need lots of bedding.
Next year it might go back to corn, probably soybeans though. The alfalfa still breaking down in the soil. There is a mountain of good fertility in this field. That's usually a really good setup for a soybean field.
After that it'll go back to Alfalfa for about 5 years for grazing
We've got five pastures so I'm trying to set up my rotation
So as someone with lambsquarter pressure what was your % loss due to weed pressure in that area? What would you do different to attempt to minimize the weed pressure next year. Was the net ROI still a positive in this part of the field due to the decrease yield. What if a normal rainfall growing season.
I entertain the organic concept as I grow a decent amount of Non-gmo corn and soybeans with great success, but my weed banks are relatively low.
First time no input organic corn. 1950 style corn!
