Crop Talk

	Subject: Beans following sod
	Posted by: ramlamb
	Date: Posted 2/5/08
	Message: [6564.1]

Our neighbor has 300 acres near our farm in central NY that is in sod - 40% grass and 60% weeds. It's been that way for a few years. Midwesterners (I was one once) that saw the land would think it was CRP ground. Unlike the midwest there is a lot of farm land in NY that doesn't get farmed. With the price of beans we thought about plowing up the sod and putting in beans. We would burn down the sod with round up, moldboard plow, disc (twice probably) incorporate weed killer and plant round up ready beans. Can we follow the sod with beans or are we nuts? For a number of reasons we aren't planting corn on the sod ground and planting beans where we intend to plant corn. Any advice would be appreciated.

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If your land is level and and can get...	frankne	2/5/08	12:15:52 PM
I would consider using both an innocu...	MNRRV	2/5/08	5:19:35 PM
If you can get the planter over the l...	jim Kentucky	2/5/08	6:54:48 PM
Second the insecticide treatment plan...	2cheap2Brich	2/5/08	8:38:26 PM
what's the varmint population? Deer, ...	pharmerfwd	2/5/08	9:10:22 PM
I hear you about deer, and I was wond...	jumpinfarmer	2/6/08	1:01:13 AM
Thanks for all the advice. Also good ...	ramlamb	2/6/08	7:15:11 AM
send me an e-mail via my profile. I w...	pharmerfwd	2/6/08	7:56:59 AM
We found out that if you plow it unde...	tim7781	2/6/08	12:41:31 PM
plowing the sod under? probably shoul...	notill4me	2/6/08	8:17:08 PM
Funny you should mention fire. I burn...	ramlamb	2/6/08	10:22:43 PM
ramlamb I am currently in central pa ...	jesse1029	2/18/08	7:25:52 PM