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Boxed up my soil samples today. They asked me about crop codes? I am doing the rye/clover/turnips rotation more or less. They had Rye cover, Rye for Seed, Rye grain, pasture/legumes, intensive pasture managedment (control grazing), Wheat/legume, and oat/legume. They asked what was there the last 3 years and plan for next 3 years. I just put rye cover crop. They had a space for %legumes, I called it 25%.
They asked about tillage and drainage. I put the code for 1-7 inch tillage and inadequate drainage. I will be rototilling my little 1/2 acre plot 1/3 at a time every year. That's why I put tillage.
They told me to get the soil type by looking it up on the map. https://websoilsurvey.nrcs.usda.gov/app/
I sent them a sample of the apple orchard area. I sent them a sample about 2-6" deep. They had a apple tree crop code, They asked if it was pre-plant or maintenance. If you put maintenance, you need to send a 1-7 inch, and 8-24 inch separate samples. This is a new orchard, about 25 trees planted in 2023. Converted from lawn, 6ft daimeter spots were tilled up and ammended with lime fertilizer peat moss and some topsoil right where the rootball is. Soil samples were between the trees where no soil prep was done.
I used dairy one in ithaca NY.
I figured I mention the process to see if anyone put something different for the crop codes for their foodplots. In the past I have put oats with legumes, which is close to what I have planted most years.
They asked about tillage and drainage. I put the code for 1-7 inch tillage and inadequate drainage. I will be rototilling my little 1/2 acre plot 1/3 at a time every year. That's why I put tillage.
They told me to get the soil type by looking it up on the map. https://websoilsurvey.nrcs.usda.gov/app/
I sent them a sample of the apple orchard area. I sent them a sample about 2-6" deep. They had a apple tree crop code, They asked if it was pre-plant or maintenance. If you put maintenance, you need to send a 1-7 inch, and 8-24 inch separate samples. This is a new orchard, about 25 trees planted in 2023. Converted from lawn, 6ft daimeter spots were tilled up and ammended with lime fertilizer peat moss and some topsoil right where the rootball is. Soil samples were between the trees where no soil prep was done.
I used dairy one in ithaca NY.
I figured I mention the process to see if anyone put something different for the crop codes for their foodplots. In the past I have put oats with legumes, which is close to what I have planted most years.