Advocate for soil health, farm resiliency, rural economies, and Michigan quality of life. Views expressed here are personal.
Stockbridge, MI
Joined July 2009
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Nope, not me. I haven't done the strip cropping for a few years. Hard to rotate wheat in the system and getting the extended rotations w/ a small grain for better soil health trumps the shorter term profitability gain from the strip crop.
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Once I started planting relay beans as the first crop in the ground in the spring, yields became much more stable. Raised the floor from 0 bu/ac to maybe 20 bu/ac
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Wow, 70! That’s awesome. Ours went around 25. Considering that I thought they died during the drought in June, I’m satisfied. Still money ahead.
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We use them for relay beans. Very easy to mount and use, lots of adjustment for height. The 10” deflector pan isn’t quite wide enough if the beans are big. They definitely work, but are not cheap.
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Tim Boring retweeted
Ryan and Melissa Shaw of Marlette, Mich., had their fair share of anxiety when going all in on strip-till in the fall of 2014. Their 3-person operation gets the most out of every acre with strip-till, twin-row planting & cover crops.
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I've been around town a while, but only recently heard about Chunky's Pub. Must be pretty good to make it on TV.
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Thanks Conan- looking forward to working with @MichEnvCouncil as an important partner!
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I can see now how that might be a bit confusing with strip cropping. For me in this context, it's strip tilling.
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When we started stripping, we'd have the retailer fill old gravity boxes on the farm and bought an old almost junk 30' auger to fill the Montag. Can buy a lot of well used gravity boxes and augers for the price of these fancy tenders
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I thought at first the Sparrow Lab was one of the stops. Which considering this is Frandor, seems entirely logical
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