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keh

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Neighbor near me has rented his pasture for cropping. This is the place that I posted about earlier where the tractor burned up. It's still there. Anyway the renter has bush hogged the place with another tractor and has no tilled soybeans. The fields were full of fescue, briars, weeds and tree sprouts. He has sprayed the fields, the grass and weeds are looking stunted, we have had a lot of rain , more falling now BTW, and I'm not sure the chemical is working good. The beans are not up, I only know there are beans because I could see some beans at the corner of the field. Beans have been planted a week or two. The fields have been in pasture 30-50 years.

We'll see how it turns out.

KEH
 
Somehow, I don"t think I"d do no-till on an old pasture. Probably would want to hit it pretty hard with chemicals and then till it up good before cropping it. See a bunch of no-till/chemicals around here on existing cropped fields, Not real impressed.
 
That field will be a pretty good spectator sport for you this summer.

I hate to see anyone waste money and have trouble - there's a field like that by me. Seems like picking a few brains would have been a good idea before throwing money at it.
 
We regularly no-till into pastures to bring them back into crop production. We have a twelve acre field that we planted to corn this year that has been pasture for many years. We sprayed glyphosate, 2-4,D, and atrazine this spring and it is dead. The corn is looking better than we expected. We will disk-rip it this fall to get the root balls from the briars and multiflora rose out of it.

Jim
 
Round here, they don't have much luck getting beans to pop up through dead sod. They'd put it in corn first.
 
that is pretty standard procedure around here for converting crp or pasture into production.

I did it last year for a 15 acre field and planted winter wheat. (though our county extension office recommends soybeans as the first crop after conversion)

I mowed my ground twice then waited 90 days for new growth and sprayed glyphosate and 2-4-d.

wheat crop is about 2-3 weeks from harvest and as weed free as any.

-paul
 
Several year's ago I no-tilled beans into 15-20 year old set-aside ground. Beans did great, the only problem I had was where the ground was real uneven and rough, and the beans did not get into dirt, otherwise would do again in a heartbeat. Yield compared about equal with tilled ground.
 
That is the preferred crop and preferred method to bringing CRP ground back into production, from what I hear.

Bushhogging might not be so good, baling it off would be better, and the spray needs to wait a week or so for regrowth, but otherwise that is what the experts say works best.

In my location plowing it in fall would work better, but that is frowned on in some areas any more....

Paul
 

I never did see him spraying so I don't know the interval between bushogging and spraying, but Im guessing as much as a month.

He notilled wheat in another field that had not been plowed in a while last fall. Not the best stand that I could see from the road, and Johnson grass is higher than the wheat. I don't think that field has Johnson grass all over it, however. Don't know if his spray got the wild oninions or not.

KEH
 
We put set aside back in production in 98 and 99 with round up ready beans. It will look real ugly until they canopy. We had good rains that year and some of those beans made 65 to 70 bushel. I agree with post below though I would not have bush hogged it first. Too much cover on the ground. Might help later in year though if season is dry. Keep spraying on schedule.
 
Not eligible for crop insurance if it is broken out of sod that does not have a crop history.

Now if it has been in CRP, that is considered "crop history"

If not CRP though, they can apply for a Written agreement and request special rates and guarantee and get insurance, although many dont know to do this and wait till the deadline has passed and then tell their agent what they did.

Gene
 
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