Soybeans and wheat

Jim SC · Sep 1, 2010

Son is a state trooper but farms part time. Has sixty acres available and has averaged close to two hundred dollars net per acre last couple of years growing non-ound up ready beans here in South Carolina. (with a little help from dad)

Could he increase the net per acre if he double cropped with wheat, assuming decent rains etc?

Anonymous-0 · Sep 1, 2010

Wheat will love the nitrogen that the beans leave behind.

Richard G. · Sep 1, 2010

It depends on where in SC your are.
Double cropping is a gamble in the upstate. You lose some off both crops and cannot get planted on time many times. Where are you located? We have a lot of experience in trying this.
Richard

IaGary · Sep 1, 2010

You need to have another crop or two in the rotation.

If we try to grow beans after beans after beans here in Iowa we run into major desease problems.

Maybe it's different in SC but it won't work here.

Just double cropping with wheat may not avoid the problem either. We can't double crop wheat and beans here in Iowa. Season is too short. One harvest a year is all we get. A few have tried it,and found it doesn't pay.

Is it common for continuous beans in SC?

Pair-a-dice farm · Sep 1, 2010

I'm not familiar with SC but here in north AR double cropping soybeans and wheat is fairly common but you'll only get a wheat crop every other year because of the beans after wheat usually come off too late to plant wheat. This year the beans after wheat didn't turn out well because of a very dry June. Like Gary said, disease can be a problem if you don't work something else into the program every few years.

Piddletime_SC · Sep 1, 2010

I'm not Jim, but I can answer for my area of SC. There are some situations where beans are run continous but usually that is on poor sandy land that would most likely always be a failure in corn (mostly a failure in beans too!). Most people try to rotate corn, beans, wheat. I'll bet 99.9% of wheat acres are double cropped with beans. Some people mess with cotton, peanuts are starting to make headway. It used to be that in my area tobacco was king followed by cotton. Beans, corn, and wheat were just an afterthought for rotation.

Piddletime_SC · Sep 1, 2010

Jim if you mind me asking, is he getting a premium for the nongmo or is he just selling them as gmo like everyone else. In my area I think nematodes can be a problem in continuos beans.

Jim SC · Sep 2, 2010

He has an outlet locally which pays current maket price for raising Hutchens, non-round up ready beans. It is illegal to sell havested r-u beans since once r-u beans, always r-u ready. The local outlet sells lot of beans for food plots, small farmers,etc, and has a hard time getting enough supply. In fact, 10 of his acres a from the buyer, free of rent. The buyer also provides the trucking during havest.

Son uses a pre-emergence and has an approved spray for cycle-pod. we also cultivate at least twice and some land is irrigated, if needed.

Jim SC · Sep 2, 2010

No, but he has only done this for two years. He is looking for options.

Jim SC · Sep 2, 2010

He is in Lancaster county in a small area of good land and intense farming.(20 MILES SOUTH OF CHARLLOTTE)

Vernon in Ks · Sep 2, 2010

Is Sorgum/Milo or sunflowers an option? I don"t know the first thing about the carolinas, but in Kansas sorgums and sunflowers are rotated in if they don"t want to do corn.

Bob in Oakboro · Sep 2, 2010

I live about 40 miles north of the SC state line East of Charlotte. We double crop beans and wheat every other year. In the off year we plant either corn or cotton.

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