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North Central KS | Local FSA office will be able to assist you in looking into the cost share for pasture conversion. If you want to build a house, maybe you’d like to have some grass around your place? Maybe you’d rather have crops, something to consider.
If wanting to farm it and it’s coming out in March I’d agree that you should plant soybeans also. Obviously wheat is out and corn is too risky. Like said below, there’s a big yield penalty so low input soybeans to get the ground properly cycling again. You could then drill wheat and get some fertilizer down infurrow to jumpstart the soil system. You also could leave it open and plant corn the following year, personally I’d probably try to drill wheat and really set the corn up for a home run the following year, I’ve seen CRP come out in these last couple dry years and I’d much rather lose a low input bean crop then a high input corn.
You will be at a disadvantage in the spring because you will not have been able to fall spray and kill the grass ahead of time the first year farming. You’ll have trouble getting everything killed and then be at a moisture disadvantage when you plant beans a couple months after it comes out. Focus on getting it killed, and have very low expectations for year one. I think manure helps if you have it. Also do not use tillage unless it’s rougher than heck, you have a lot of soil health benefits being notilled this long. Carry those on and you’ll see a reward in the end. Good luck! | |
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