Intercropping

Prior to 2021, a majority of our 180 acres had bean planted to soybeans. I'd had the west side of the farm in corn for two years. Part of it for three years. It was a good to rotate out to help get rid of certain weeds and bugs. So on the east side (of the road) I intercropped corn, beans, corn, beans, six rows of each over about 60 acres. That enabled the corn to get more sunlight on each edge. The average corn yield across all varieties was 278 bu. One 101 day variety didn't yield well or it would have been higher. 27% of the yield monitor spots had yields between 350 and 399. The beans went 55 bu.

I regrettably stopped farming at the end of 2021 after running a hand into a table saw. See www.sawstop.com. We now have two of these saws in the family.

Yields: One at 315 Bu/acree

Combining a strip at 313 bu/ac

Flag test results

Some ears on intercrop edge

Sept 17 - harvest time

Aug. 20: Large ears on inside 2 rows!

Large ears - July 17, small 5 days earlier

July 19 beans

Every other Monday morning tissue and soil samples sent to the lab.

June 28th intercropped corn / beans

Made 15' boom for spraying waterhemp in beans.

Waterhemp with Enlist.

Y-drop setup for applying Nitrogen (32%) to intercropped corn.