Latimer, Iowa (north central) | We will combine the oats about the 10th of July, earlier because running through the grain dryer. Then I spray the field with a burndown of some sort. Liberty has been working well for us as we don't use it any where else in our rotation. A day or 2 later we will plant the soybeans, radishes, and turnips. Running a 1910 cart I will put a mix of radish and turnip in the front hopper and seed at 4 lbs per acre with a yellow roller. In the back tank will have whatever free/cheap soybeans have been returned to the seed dealership and plant those at 50-60 lbs per acre. Everything on 7.5 inch spacing and seeds in the same furrow. All 3 grow, after we get a few hard freezes in the fall, everything dies and then harvest the beans with round bar concaves. Will say this has worked the past several years, depends on when it freezes and rain for bean yields. I have done 160 acres of this the past couple years and going all in this year as comfortable with doing it. We are busy harvesting other crops until November anyway so its froze a few times by the time we get to the double crops and rad/turnips flow through. Volunteer oats are my biggest weed issue as other weeds don't seem to germinate later in the year. |
High yield/high managed oats
