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DiSc0Rd

DiSc0Rd

5 year old buck +
A buddy called me today and said he had a left over bag of beans I could have. It's it to late to use them and if not how well do they broadcast plant? I don't have a way to plant them unless I dug rows and dogs it by hand and that's not happening. It's it even worth the time? I have ag corn to the west and beans to the North.
 
Are you saying you can only broadcast them without being able to till the soil?

You can TNM them If you have heavy thatch and get good rain on them. I wouldn't do a stand alone crop with them but they will be good green forage for early bow season. Do a mix with beans, sunflowers, peas, radishes, oats, and rye mid august and you will have a killer early season plot.
 
S.T.Fanatic said:
Are you saying you can only broadcast them without being able to till the soil?

You can TNM them If you have heavy thatch and get good rain on them. I wouldn't do a stand alone crop with them but they will be good green forage for early bow season. Do a mix with beans, sunflowers, peas, radishes, oats, and rye mid august and you will have a killer early season plot.
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Correct, I have no way to till. I planned on putting rye down in August so I'll give that a go
 
you can broadcast them if you get lucky. i've never had beans fail in a spread and pray. I've even gotten them to go just off the morning dews in August.
 
Definitely need to get lucky, but I've heard plenty of times where field conditions are too wet for a needed soybean planting and an aerial spreading gets the job done. It's a last resort.
 
As Mortenson (above) stated, farmers have broadcast beans via airplane when the ground was too wet to get into the field. As with everything else, just need moisture!

I'd plant at the same time as your rye.
 
Key term here is Free. If you have are ok with terminating existing plants with a herbicide, you can broadcast and roll/spray to try to create a thatch for the beans to grow through. Try to plan around some moisture.
 
BTHUNTING said:
Key term here is Free. If you have are ok with terminating existing plants with a herbicide, you can broadcast and roll/spray to try to create a thatch for the beans to grow through. Try to plan around some moisture.
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Agreed, it's no cost to me. I'm going to spray the buckwheat b4 I put the rye down anyway so I'll throw it down and if it goes, awesome. If it falls flat oh well I'm not out anything. I just wasnt sure if I missed a planting window. All the fields near me are prob 12 -15 inches high
 
DiSc0Rd said:
Agreed, it's no cost to me. I'm going to spray the buckwheat b4 I put the rye down anyway so I'll throw it down and if it goes, awesome. If it falls flat oh well I'm not out anything. I just wasnt sure if I missed a planting window. All the fields near me are prob 12 -15 inches high
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You've missed the planting window if you want grain. You haven't missed the planting window if you want high protein, high quality forage :emoji_sunglasses:
 
I planted beans on July 8th of '19 and they got chest high and would've yielded very high had we harvested them. Guys in the bottoms here used to try beans as late as early August.
 
So just a follow up. Did some work today and spread the free beans. Turns out it was a hodge podge of random seeds. I know there was beans and corn. But, it also looks like wheat, some peas and maybe some rye. What buckwheat is left they are eating to the ground so maybe some of this will come up. If not oh well, planned to spray and seed rye in September anyway.
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Hopefully there is no rye grass ...
 
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