Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

Black eyed peas for market? Let's see. Subtract the costs just for black eyed 
peas from the gross income from just that crop. Divide that by the total 
number of hours you spend growing, picking, shelling and selling them. That's 
what you're paying yourself to grow black eyed peas. Is it more than 10 cents 
an hour?

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 7/5/2008 at 1:25 PM mcoldiron wrote:

>I'm pretty sure I know how to modify my buster planter to a no till
>planter.  So let's take black eyed peas, for example.  I usually pick 4 or
>5 bushels a day for market.  It usually takes a week or so for the peas to
>grow again, so I pick different rows each day.  I plant enough so I'm
>starting over at first set of rows at the beginning of the next week. I
>sell them shelled or by the bushel.  I know black eyed peas will grow here
>without irrigation.  If I use your method of no till and grow a cover crop
>for mulch for next year, should I plant fewer rows of peas to get my 4 or
>5 bushels a day?  The last time I planted peas, it took about 3/4 of an
>acre to get my daily quota.
>
>Thanks
>TxBeeFarmer (Mark)
>West Texas Zone 7b
>
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: Ken Hargesheimer
>  To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing
>  Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2008 10:23 AM
>  Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] No-till planting
>
>
>        To plant a field [as opposed to a garden planting by hand] use a
>no-till row-crop planter or a no-till vegetable planter or a no-till
>drill.
>
>
>
>        Ken H