North Central Ohio, across the Corn belt ! | JDH SE IA - 4/14/2010 09:31
If going to beans on CRP ground, using inoculant is a must, even the universities suggest that. The reason is that the native strains in the soil will be seriously depleted, if not extinct, by being out of beans for so long. Twice the normal rate of inoculant is also recommended. Same situation also applies to beans going into continuous corn ground, hay, pasture, or ground that has been flooded out or had water laying on it for awhile. Reason for the latter is that the water turns the ground anaerobic, and the inoculant bacteria is an aerobic critter. It needs oxygen present in the soil in order to survive and operate, and dies off in an anaerobic environment.
Use of an inoculate on CRP ground will be a big help to your beans, if you go that way. Good luck.
JDH
We took 100 acres of pasture that had never been in a row crop of any kind on a Long term dairy farm.
Took the 1st cutting of hay, Grass off, drilled S.B. with NO seed treatment and they sold across the scale at 58 Bu. per acre. 2 over the Co. average that year !!!
Unless you have sever compaction, Poor drainage and Physical & Biologically Dead soil You do not need an Inoculate at All
( ONLY Persons that Manufacture, and or SELL these products may think So ? )
Over the years we have brought many acres out of CRP and never used an inoculate !
Because of the good soil structure and exelent Oxygenation of Set Asside ground I see Exelent Yields on Most soils where the weeds are controled
Weed control is the number 1. issue for Excellent S.B. Yields Most seasons
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20yr. CRP???
