Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Crop Variety?

From USDA, via Big Picture Ag:


Wow, over 50% of farms growing corn have at least three different crops on the farm?  We technically qualify in that group, but we have one farm (mine) that has a corn, wheat, soybean rotation with a permanent field of hay, and all the rest of our farms are corn and soybeans.  If we broke it down by acreage, we'd have 1% of our field crops in hay, 5% in wheat, and the other 94% split between corn and beans.  Not exactly inspirational.  But, in general, that is farming in the Midwest.

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