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Again this May I plan to put one of my plots with soybeans. I plant by disking, broadcasting and then cover with either a cultipacker or drag. When do you guys think is the best time to apply the fertilizer (5-26-26)? 1. Spread fertilizer then disk (fertilizer buried by soil) 2. Broadcast...

Zone 5 with 3 PP = rejected this year. Try next year with 4 PP

Sligh1: Thanks. I did flip the soil with a plow two years ago on one plot but did not seem to help. I always rotate crop after brassica planting. Follow up with oats/clover, winter wheat or winter rye. Move brassica around depending on rotation. Usually try to put in a plot that has...

Sligh1: Typically plant brassica in very late July to early August. Prep is field sprayed with Gly about 3 weeks prior. Fertilize, Disk, cultipack, seed, cultipack. Few weeks later I’ll top dress with more urea. I do not have access to a no-till

Has anyone used treflan as a pre-emergent weed control for brassica plots? I have a problem that is getting worse with Pigweed in my brassica plots. I Googled for information and found this herbicide is for brassica but I can’t find any articles of plotters using it. Anyone have any thoughts...

I plan to plant an area of switchgrass that is surrounded by trees to make a bedding area. How shade tolerant is switchgrass? I see it mostly planted in fields but can it be used back in the woods. The area I want to plant is about one acre in size.