Fastline you are going back wards with your crop choices. Your earlier post about produce and all would might work in an Eastern state. If you are in Central Kansas there just is not enough people to make the produce type crop work at the scale you are talking. Also Kansas is pretty dry state in the summer. So unless you have irrigation the crop choices are pretty limited.
You need to research the retail market for a crop you can grow. The selling side is the hard part. Any fool can grow something but you have to have a crop/product that some one is willing to buy.
Saw a large field 50-60 acres of pumpkins grown close to here a few years ago. The guy though he could sell them to some processor. HE found out real quick that they are grown/sold on a contract. He sold some to a few local grocery stores and disk the rest under after they froze. He grew a great crop of pumpkins but he did not or could not market them.
There are literally hundreds of crops I could grow on my good ground here but there are just a few that you can sell and make any money on. So my planting decisions are made around what I can sell not what I can grow.
Oat hay is a low quality product. You usually raise the Oats and sell them as grain then have a straw crop. I only plant oats as a nurse crop for new hay seedings.
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