What is double crop? This is when a farm harvest two cash crops from the same piece of land in one season. We grow a field or two of wheat every year, and we always like to double crop soybeans right after the wheat is harvested.
See the evenly spaced diagonal lines running across the wheat stubble? That’s where the planter has been through planting soybeans after wheat harvest. We try to get beans in after wheat if we think it’s early enough, and we’ve been having good luck recently. Last year they averaged 34bu/A which isn’t bad for relatively cheap beans and a short growing season. The rest of the farm averaged about 50bu/A last year.
Below you can see after a few days in the ground the double crop soybeans have just broken the surface and their green cotyledons are poking out of the wheat stubble. Much of the area got 4″ of rain when most of the beans were planted, so I was worried they would swell and rot, but the area right around this field only received 1″ of rain. I’ll let you know how they turn out in a few months!
Been working on the same thing here!
So far so good!