Dukslayr
5 year old buck +
I was going to post my bean failure and then decided not to complicate things and make this its own post. While the farmer and I were doing a verbal autopsy of the bean failure we started discussing strategy for next year. First off, I’m going to have him plant whatever he is planting (brand/variety) of corn/beans next year. Much easier that way for him. Second we started talking about my potential desire to plant corn and fertilizer needs. This farmer also runs a couple of hog operations and has an abundance of hog manure. He has a spreader (some sort of a knife type that “no tills” the manure into the ground). He uses the manure on his bean and corn fields each year and supposedly has good results. He’s going to do all of my fields with it for free. So if we plant corn (or beans again) we shouldn’t need to put down nitrogen with it. The only drawback I see is that the cart is very heavy and might have some soil compaction risks, and all the crops will no tilled. I don’t plan to turn the soil unless necessary for some reason. You all see any downside to going the free manure route? Anything I’m missing here?