Organic oats Grain Millers

[hobbyfrmr]

Greybeard,

A year of plowdown costs me $120.00/acre so I add that as a cost of fertilizer and weed control over 2 crops.
$60 fert/weed, $8 x 2 cultivate $4x2 harrow pack. $4.00/acrex2, $8/acre planting, post emergence harrowing . Seed cost 3 bu/ac x 5.00, $20.00/ acre harvesting, $2/ acre certification and office.
Apologies, that is $137.00/ acre.
Fast and rough math .

[hobbyfrmr]

There is a $4.00 x 2 in there, that's the cost of passing the rod weeder.

Furrow, My biggest tractor is 320 hp and 34 years old I suspect it might be too much draft.
Can you break up hay land with your turbo till?
Does it have the hydraulic adjustment to change the aggressiveness / gang angle?
I will study them more.

[furrowtickler]

Nope , on a few things
A Madako twister might work for you

[Braveheart]

We've used the Twister a bit as a rental from Flamans. It's a vertical tillage and we find works best above 10.5 mph.

[hobbyfrmr]

I am backwards, maximum disturbance , highly intrusive tillage. When my zero till neighbors drive by they cringe like they're looking at their fusarium riddled wheat at harvest.

[freewheat]

If the organic industry and regulators would let me to farm a bit of organic on the side, I would try a bit for the years the hayland is rotated out. But alas, they do not allow for that...

[hobbyfrmr]

Freewheat I dont understand your statement.

[freewheat]

You are not allowed to farm only a portion organically. It is an all or nothing venture from what I understand??

[hobbyfrmr]

Agreed, but start with one property/quarter and the expectation is you intend to bring the other properties into organic in a timely manner until the entire farm is organic. Its like weaning yourself "in". If you dont like it, it takes about 20 minutes to fill a sprayer and not be organic.
If, and only if your interested , goto an organic conference. If your not interested then its a waste of your time.

[freewheat]

And that is the problem. I AM interested, but not for my whole farm, just the portion coming out of hay or grass in rotation, and reclaimed acres that I will get back when it dries up sometime.

I think this should be more open on their part. One can take 4 steps into a crop and know whether it is organic or not most of the time.