[Syrupmakers] Crop rotation

[Charles Graf]

If this group is still active, I would like to join.     Charlie Graf      
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Sent: 8/17/2011 9:54:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Syrupmakers] Crop rotation



Here at home a rotation from corn or grain sorghum would be some form of 
legume.  Initially after harvest   - -a small grain like wheat, oats, barley 
mixed with clover over the winter.  If with clover and a good stand then no 
spring legume unless you disk it up or cut for hay.

If disked or cut for hay or grazed heavily then a legume in the late spring or 
early summer.  Examples maybe: soybeans, peanuts, clover, cowpeas (black eyed 
peas, Crowder, pink-eye purple hull etc),  butter beans, snaps, October beans, 
string beans - -alfalfa (for a 5 year period or so rotation).

May help enrich the soil and help with disease control.

Just some thoughts

Bill

In a message dated 8/17/2011 10:40:05 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
jim8544 at yahoo.com writes:
Most Ag. services would most likely recommend rotating into a different plant 
family.Some crops in the same family as sorghum would be rye, oats, wheat, 
corn, barley millet, etc. Other crops that might be good to rotate into would 
be cotton, soybeans, peanuts, watermelons and a lot of the vegetables. 
Sometimes it is just not practical to rotate.
Jim Henderson
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