Originally Posted By: Turkey_neck
They're pretty green.except last year I had peas in this field that did great. It's a pretty hard field I think I may have to keep disking it pretty hard. I'll post pics in the morn I don't have enough service to get photobucket to work at the house.


The likely cause of it being "hard" is because its high clay content with very little organic matter in the topsoil. It'll take getting some OM over the surface and giving it some time before that will ever change. It'll also take more than just one or two crops of biomass. Its something that has to be changed over the time period of a few years. Continuing hard tillage will insure that you will always be doing so. You'll have to be willing to devote a couple summer crops to growing biomass instead of beans if you want to make a change in this manner on soil like you're dealing with.

Last edited by CNC; 06/14/15 03:06 PM.

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