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My fenced beans look amazing inside fence close 3ft tall . Starting to make fence disappear .
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Does anyone else notice your fence becoming less effective after a few years? I've got a 3 acre field on its 3rd year of being fenced. It was almost perfect the first year but I'm seeing more intrusion every year.
On the other hand, I fenced another 1 acre plot for the first time this year. That plot is on the same farm and has had zero intrusion.
I'm thinking I may have to come up with a more effective fence.
 
hillrunner said:
Does anyone else notice your fence becoming less effective after a few years? I've got a 3 acre field on its 3rd year of being fenced. It was almost perfect the first year but I'm seeing more intrusion every year.
On the other hand, I fenced another 1 acre plot for the first time this year. That plot is on the same farm and has had zero intrusion.
I'm thinking I may have to come up with a more effective fence.
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Interesting!!!!!!!! Curious what others say!!!!
I haven’t noticed that. BUT- I did notice that when I accidentally left the switch off on one of my energizer/electrifier - they destroyed that plot!!!! ;)
 
I forgot to snap a pic but my Eagle Mid West blend is pushing over 4ft tall and loaded with pods, don't have a lot of experience to compare if it would be equal to ag bean production , but they look amazing . Ill take a pic in a few weeks when I get back . I will tell you that they engulfed my inside fence and are laying over it pushing it down which has allowed some deers to get in . Not sure much I can do at this point with that problem . Learning for next year .. I also have a few acres of unfenced which got browsed pretty hard say mid calf height I am going to drill Double tree Mix right into them in September and let her eat ... Love no tilling what a game changer .. Planted 4 acres big n beasty in record time started popping 4 days later.. ANy body want to buy a disk or tiller :)
 
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If I wanted to put some corn in a new area that hasn't been planted in years ,CRP . Can I still no till it in or is it best work the ground up for corn . I like no till the best .


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Jbohn said:
If I wanted to put some corn in a new area that hasn't been planted in years ,CRP . Can I still no till it in or is it best work the ground up for corn . I like no till the best .


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I am not an expert, but where I have done just what you have mentioned above, (CRP to corn) I have had trouble with first year corn even when I worked the ground and incorporated fertilizer pre-planting. In the future...I will probably "bean it" year one and then rotate to corn. Again, not an expert, but I do have experience. :)
 
It seems guys that go corn first year after crp have to use a mold board plow and I hate having to use one. Makes everything so soft and prone to erosion. Much easier to do beans year one
 
I suspect it has something to do with the microbes needing a lot of N to metabolize all that carbon from the grasses.

If going corn, I bet you’d have to use more N due to feeding the microbes. Maybe even a split application. But I don’t have the experience to have tried, only a theory.. Perhaps why beans tend to do better year 1 :)
 
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