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  • From: Two Onion Farm <farmer AT twoonionfarm.com>
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  • Subject: [Market-farming] dealing with rye
  • Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:53:07 -0500

I had good luck this spring with rye that was about 5' high. I mowed it twice with a brush mower (i.e. two passes) to chop it fine as possible. Then I was able to turn it under well with a mouldboard plow. The key was to chop it very fine with the mower. Footlong pieces of raw straw plugged up the plow. A flail mower would probably chop it up as well with fewer passes but I do not have one.

Chris

Chris & Juli McGuire
Two Onion Farm
www.twoonionfarm.com
19638 Cottage Inn Road
Belmont, WI 53510
(608) 762-5335
farmer AT twoonionfarm.com




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Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:44:44 -0700
From: <sunnfarm AT netscape.com>
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] dealing with rye
To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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John, When you bush hog tall rye and plow, the plow rakes up the straw and created giant "rye gobs".
I bush hog then if Im in a hurry I Howard rotavate it about 2" deep then plow which is what Im doing today with a vetch rye mix that I let go late into the season for its nitrogen value...One thing you can do is wait a month and let the rye straw weather then it will cut up with a disc harrow then plow... Bob.
Sunny Meadow Farm
Bridgeton, NJ.

--- john AT seldomseenfarm.com wrote:

From: John Ferree <john AT seldomseenfarm.com>
To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [Market-farming] dealing with rye
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:05:21 -0400

last fall i put in about two acres of rye vetch. . .

may was cold and wet. then in june we got 13" of rain in two weeks. so
the rye is probably at or past the milky stage and 6' tall. i bush
hogged 3/4 of it. . . will hit it again, and probably overseed clover in
august. Since the spring has been messed up due to rain, a cold may,
etc. I was hoping to recover some losses with expanded fall plantings
in the last 3/4 acre patch of rye.

borrowed a 3 bottom plow. . . got it setup, and made a mess. the rye is
too tall and clogs the plow 50' into the field. plowing after mowing
creates a similar problem.

suck it up and buy the bagged fertilizer for a clear field? or is there
a way to salvage that 3/4 acre field?

really makes me wish i had a howard or spader. . .


thanks
john
danville,in
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