|
Blue Earth, MN | We've done 30' swaths of corn and soybeans. Second year doing such. Last year we had a large bushel gain on the corn compared to our normal corn on corn. BUT, the corn we had in the strip intercrop had some abnormal treatments that the other fields didn't get...thus we aren't certain how much we can attribute the yield gain to the sunlight interception effect. Soybeans were right with our farm average so we feel we didn't loose any yield, maybe a bushel at the most. Rows were N-S orientation.
We did more this year. We are treating the corn more like our normal corn on corn system. The one treatment that the corn may benefit from is the insecticide that will be applied to the beans. The corn is triple stacked corn but...
15' would be ideal from the yield standpoint but not very practical on a larger scale. 30' works pretty nice with all implements.
Considering current economics, it makes very little sense to raise soybeans. Thus doing the strip intercrop does show an economic advantage over solid soybeans but only a slight advantage over continuous corn.
 (IMG-20110723-00089.jpg)
 (Intercrop_Combine.jpg)
Attachments
----------------
 IMG-20110723-00089.jpg (90KB - 195 downloads)
Intercrop_Combine.jpg (24KB - 181 downloads)
| |
|
strip farming
