Re: Doing research

Posted by paul on February 02, 2023 at 12:08:54 from (66.60.196.195):

In Reply to: Re: Doing research posted by paul on February 02, 2023 at 11:52:20:

For planting a grain drill will probably handle all your crops except corn. Pretty simple and easy and cheap they kind of spill out an amount of seed and kind of plant about so and so deep which is fine for most small grains and beans.

Corn you plant much less seed per acre and the corn is much more fussy about being planted the exact same depth and somewhat spaced apart.

The older plate planters need carefully sized seed; the newer finger or air plate planters dont mind just random sized seed; they often have much much better depth control as well. So you have to decide if you can get sized seed or just any old seed for the corn planter. Yes Im being very picky here you can get by blocking off 3 out of 4 holes in the grain drill with tape and grind your corn seed through the drill to plant some corn: but your results will show the lack of care with this!

As a farmer I try to say the right way to raise a crop. You can get by with less but it depends on what results you want to end up with. :)

Having both corn and (I assume) small grains makes for a lot more machinery needed, corn is different.

Im sure on 10 acres you will be told you could plant by hand and weed by hand and harvest by hand.... And you could. But Im guessing you want to spend your time with your brewing, not 10 hours a day in the field every day! :)

And one more time: weed control is going to be your headache. Once you see weeds enough to say oh I should do something.... you will be a week late and never catch up! Beginning farmer mistake #1.

Paul

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