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<blockquote data-quote="stocky" data-source="post: 1163026" data-attributes="member: 1150"><p>I know people who sow turnips with an airplane into corn stalks in late August. I also know people who broadcast them into corn stalks with a 4 wheeler or tractor or even put them in lime or sand or fertilize and spread them with a fertize buggy behind a tractor. All of these methods work great around here, if we get rain. If we do not get rain, even preparing a seed bed and putting alot into it will not work. It is a cheap way to get some extra food value into the corn field, but you cannot wait too late, or it will not make enough greens. The cattle love the turnip root, so they will dig and eat them all winter. Purple top is the variety to plant. I sow some rye into some newly cleared sprout ground every fall and I add a couple pounds of turnips to the acre. If you are sowing other crops, also, you will want to limit the amount of turnips you sow, because they become big and kill out your other crops, if you are only sowing turnips, 5 pounds to the acre works well, although some people use 10. If you get them too thick, they will not do well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="stocky, post: 1163026, member: 1150"] I know people who sow turnips with an airplane into corn stalks in late August. I also know people who broadcast them into corn stalks with a 4 wheeler or tractor or even put them in lime or sand or fertilize and spread them with a fertize buggy behind a tractor. All of these methods work great around here, if we get rain. If we do not get rain, even preparing a seed bed and putting alot into it will not work. It is a cheap way to get some extra food value into the corn field, but you cannot wait too late, or it will not make enough greens. The cattle love the turnip root, so they will dig and eat them all winter. Purple top is the variety to plant. I sow some rye into some newly cleared sprout ground every fall and I add a couple pounds of turnips to the acre. If you are sowing other crops, also, you will want to limit the amount of turnips you sow, because they become big and kill out your other crops, if you are only sowing turnips, 5 pounds to the acre works well, although some people use 10. If you get them too thick, they will not do well. [/QUOTE]
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