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| Jim,
This is a snap bean grower of mine. I was trying to get him into the pluribus unit for a couple of years and finally succeeded this fall. They are mainly a potato farm and then grow snap beans and seed corn for us on their rotational ground along with growing sweet corn and a little cash grain crops also. They seed rye in the fall to prevent the wind from blowing the sand and losing the topsoil. They do not leave the stalks standing as corn trash is very bad in harvested snap beans and the processor has and will reject the load due to too much extraneous vegetable material (all the other stuff that is not snap beans). We decided strip till was the way to go because it leaves the cover in the middle of the row intact and we have a nice worked seedbed to plant it. Not disturbing the rye seems to help our weed control also. Our goal is to burn the rye down all the way before we run the unit but in a cold wet spring that is difficult. Thanks for posting the pictures. | |
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Strip tilling into VERY green rye cover crop (pics)
