Posted by paul on September 13, 2019 at 07:13:23 from (76.77.197.114):
In Reply to: Soy Bean Farming posted by Married2Allis on September 13, 2019 at 07:00:46:
Location matters on questions like this, cold north, hot dry SW, humid SE, where?
Generally one does not need drying equipment for soybeans, they dry naturally out in the field 98 out of 100 years. Unless you are someplace really weird climate?
Beans are a ‘fussy’ crop, some years good some years bad, it depends on the weather in September usually. They don’t like being planted year after year on the same field in most locations, diseases build up in the soil and make them poorer. (It is much easier to grow corn on corn, beans on beans does work in some locations but is a disaster in others.) weed control in beans can be more difficult unless you use Liberty traited these days.
On the other hand they can be planted later, typically harvested earlier, they don’t need N fertilizer, you get less bushels per acre then corn so are easier to haul and store, and so forth. They don’t need drying equipment,
I would not want to plant 250 acres of beans year after year. I would want a crop rotation. Beans leave a little N in the soil, so rotating to corn or grass hay is a nicer plan.
Right now in the farm economy, bean provides suck, corn prices are scraping by, and hay prices are pretty good, so his choices seem odd?
I would do more of a 100 acres soybeans, 100 acres corn, 50 acres hay rotation if it were me. But maybe that doesn’t fit your location? Wherever that is. And we don’t know his motivation to change from mostly hay to mostly soybeans.
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