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NE Iowa | Some of my neighboring dairy farmers have planted oats / peas as a nurse crop for alfalfa here in NE Iowa. They always chopped it and I would think that the peas would be very hard to get dry to bale. I've baled oats several times before and they are very hard to get dry alone much less with peas. Some guys cut the oats right before it heads for higher quality feed and that is around the first week of June usually, but the tonnage is really low. If you wait 10-14 days it seems like the tonnage almost doubles but that would be around June 20th and bean yields with that planting date would be severly reduced. In the future winter rye would get you more tonnage and an earlier cutting / baling date. | |
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