Made it out to check plots last weekend. They are starting to come together.
Pic 1: Corn – Planted nearly two weeks after the corn in the far right of the picture. Already canopied and doing well.
Pic 2: Soybeans – Planted up against Pic 1’s corn. Experimenting with 15″ rows on the beans this year. Looking to reduce browsing effect (all adjacent fields to the river in this 3/4 mile are corn this year) and reduce time to ‘canopy’ as a weed control. Back in the 90’s, 10’s of thousands of acres of soybeans were drilled around here and produced great; white mold ran people out of it.
Pic 3: Another 1 1/2+ acre bean plot growing nice and consistent.
Pic 4: Another plot that has many varieties. The pic shows a wide piece of visual barrier adjacent to an acre+ of corn. Corn is doing very well. Visual barrier is not necessarily needed here, however it provides a great access lane, distances our plot from an existing driveway, and provides great general cover and food source for other wildlife such as birds, pheasants, partridge, and more.
