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I got a five acre piece of bottom land attached to one of my hay fields that is rough as a cob and in turn we have quit cutting it for hay. We've talked about needing to work it up and smooth it out but since we have plenty of any ground we haven't bothered with it and just bush hog it twice a year. Well today I had an idea and I thought I would see what you all thought. What if I worked the ground up this fall to smooth it out and then planted it in wheat. I could cut it for hay in the spring and then plant it back in corn. I could then either pick the ear corn or have it shelled. This would allow me to grind my own feed and reduce what I pay the local feed store every year. I have all the equipment to do this other than picking/shelling the corn. Do you all think this is a good idea or bad? Worth the trouble? Would you pick it or shell it?

KW
 
Being that it's not a big tract of land, and it's not really producing anything and you don't really need it, I would just summerfallow it all next year. Give you lots of time to do a decent job of creating a proper seedbed. But I am a dying breed - no one summerfallows anymore.
 
Aaron,

That's really not a bad idea. Would you plant it in wheat now or simply work it up now and lay open till next fall? I'm not familiar with the term summer fallow and had to google it. Explain to me if you don't mind the proper way to do it. Thanks.
 
With the price of corn and just five acres, it would be better to just buy the corn and keep bush hogging.
 
tnwalkingred":3a48r390 said:
Aaron,

That's really not a bad idea. Would you plant it in wheat now or simply work it up now and lay open till next fall? I'm not familiar with the term summer fallow and had to google it. Explain to me if you don't mind the proper way to do it. Thanks.
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If it were me, I would offset disc it heavily this fall, repeat in the spring, cultivate to keep the weeds down in the summer and then offset again in the fall before you start prepping it for seeding.
 

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