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Faunsdale, AL | Turns out like a lot of things, it's been done here, just was 50 years or more ago!
I asked my father who is 88 this afternoon about soybeans for hay, because I remember cutting some that I think just got too much Johnsongrass in them back about 40 years ago. He didn't remember that, but started telling me about alternating rows of corn and soybeans. Of course back then it would have been in 40" or maybe even 48" rows 'cause I can remember when we went to 36" rows for a while before we finally went to 30's where we have been for the last 30 years or so.
His comment was the tonnage wasn't as good as all corn, but the biggest problem was the morning glories that wrapped everything up. Still have that today, even with modern herbicides and traited corn! Unfortunately, roundup doesn't phase a morning glory! Once atrazine came out, it has become the mainstay of our broadleaf weed control. Just recently began using Calisto/HalexGT, but still spike them with Atrazine and still have problem fields that need some kind of rescue treatment before silage chopping time and even worse by combining time if any goes that long. | |
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Soybean silage
