Planting corn and soybeans

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Planting corn and soybeans

Postby sadie1 » Wed Apr 27, 2016 8:23 pm

I just picked up some corn and some beans from delta wildlife(thanks dan), but it will be my first time to ever plant either. I dont have my expectations real high just due to not really knowing what i am doing, but want to give it a shot anyway. I figure this to be a good learning experience and really just think it is kind of neat to try. I know i need to get the corn in the ground pretty soon, but i need some advice.
Should i begin with disking or should i spray before i disk?
What should i spray?
Do i need to do a preemerge?
When do i fertilize and with what?
If i plant 2-3 acres and have hogs, are they going to ruin it?
How often should i spray it.

Just general questions. Again, I am not really trying to have the best looking stand in the delta, and can only visit once or twice a month, unless it is just absolutely necessary, but i would like to start learning how to do it, so any advice is appreciated.
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Re: Planting corn and soybeans

Postby Wingman » Tue May 03, 2016 10:57 pm

Planted my Delta Wildlife corn last week. It's 2" tall now. I plant mine with a planter on 38" rows. About 2 seed per foot. I plant the seed 1.5-2" deep, no shallower. I'll spray roundup as a burn down (I planted mine in standing cover crop), then probably spray roundup again in 2-3 weeks. You want to keep it clean when the corn is small. Roundup has no residual effect so the next rain will bring a new flush of weeds.

Fertilize with liquid nitrogen or dry. You can put fertilizer on it right after it comes up, then again about 3 weeks later. Corn likes nitrogen. If you don't fertilize it you aren't gonna get much.

On the beans, I plant 8-9 seed per foot. Plant about an 1-1.5" deep, no deeper. Spray roundup as needed. There are tons of herbicides you can use on beans for different weeds. Roundup isn't the miracle herbicide that it used to be.
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Re: Planting corn and soybeans

Postby JMitch » Wed May 04, 2016 12:34 pm

If you have hogs don't waste your time planting corn in a food plot. It takes large acreage to have any corn left after they get through.
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Re: Planting corn and soybeans

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Re: Planting corn and soybeans

Postby Wingman » Tue May 10, 2016 9:37 pm

Yes. Been planting my duck holes like this for a while. Works good when soil conditions are right. I don't have a no-till planter and if it's too wet or crusted over, I have trouble closing the seed furrow.
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Re: Planting corn and soybeans

Postby Blackduck » Fri Jul 15, 2016 8:19 pm

Wingman- what was the stuff you were planting on a levee a few years ago. Seems like it was some type of permenant cover?
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Re: Planting corn and soybeans

Postby JaMak84 » Mon Jul 18, 2016 12:35 am

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Re: Planting corn and soybeans

Postby Blackduck » Mon Jul 18, 2016 1:30 pm

Yep. I think it was switchgrass. Signal ?
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Re: Planting corn and soybeans

Postby Wingman » Wed Jul 20, 2016 2:02 pm

Alamo switchgrass for screen. It's 6 years old now and spreading out from the 10' strips I planted.
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Re: Planting corn and soybeans

Postby Wingman » Wed Jul 20, 2016 9:28 pm

I have a good bit of partridge pea, both planted and natural. I planted a mix of partridge pea, western ragweed, wild sunflower, and Black-eyed Susan in some places. Other places I planted a mix of switchgrass, big and little bluestem, partridge pea, and black eyed Susan.
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