Posted by alskdjfhg on August 10, 2017 at 11:17:20 from (73.6.49.97):
Got a tenant farmer that was farming the back field of the farm before we got it. He'd put his inputs in when the property sold and Dad was too kind hearted to kick him off.
Long story short, the guys is a sleaze and I'm tired of dealing with him and he's not going to farm the property anymore
He'd been doing cotton for years before and is running Milo now. No idea of the yields, but I know they aren't great and the ground is tired.
Still not in a position to run row crops myself on it, and since it's so small I'd probably do something slightly exotic to get higher per acre returns to offset the small size. Still trying to find out what though.
So what would you do to make this tired dirt more productive and put some organic material back? Going to send off some soil samples eventually to get a real idea of what I'm dealing with.
Located about 20 miles south west of Houston, heavy black "gumbo" clay.
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