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bjrogg:
It seems like the weather forecast has been for rain every few days but we haven’t been getting much.
Actually have been getting a lot done hurrying to beat the rain and then doing more work when it doesn’t.
Here’s a little of what I have been doing
This rye has been growing for six months. It’s been a great environment for worms, soil microbes, deer, rabbits, turkeys, pheasant etc.
It has protected our ground from blowing and save our small sugar beet seedlings.
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
The sugar beets I plant right into the living rye and then after they emerge I spray the rye to terminate it. This works really well and provides really good protection for the sugar beets seedlings from the wind.
The edible beans I have to terminate the rye before I plant the seed.
Either way the rye is all ready to terminate. I sprayed it all.
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
We also split apply our fertilizer for our wheat. It is used more efficiently by the wheat this way and if we get a big spring rain half of it isn’t out there getting washed away.
I put the second application of fertilizer on the wheat.
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
Different crops need there fertilizer at different times. Corn uses most of its during mid to later in the summer.
Sugar beets use it early to make tons and then you want it mostly used up by late season so they concentrate on making sugar.
I also put the rest of the fertilizer on the sugar beets.
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
I also planted my son’s corn and our soybeans
Bjrogg
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