Using Combine and Pick Up Head on Organic Wheat Swaths

[@GeigerFarm]

That sample is beautiful 👍🏻

[@grasscreekfarmturtlelake1741]

Yes, I was pleasantly surprised when I saw how much nicer it was than the direct cut wheat. I appreciate all the videos you've put online, so maybe now is the time to ask a couple of questions of you if you don't mind. I'd like to put red clover in this field next year - mostly to suppress weeds - but only have rough ideas on how to get any revenue from it. I don't have animals, but my neighbor does a some custom haying and thought I could possibly make clover bales and then try to sell them, at least with the first cutting. I watched the video you made on how to get the clover dry before making bales, and thought I could do that. Secondly, I was wondering how difficult it would be to swath and then combine the clover for seed next fall and try to sell it. (Maybe to Albert Lea?). What specialty equipment would I need? I was thinking of drilling the clover seed in the next week or so along with some tillage radish using my 750 drill, although I might have to disc it first because there is a lot of foot tall lambsquarter/pigweed still in the field. My goal is to try and reduce the weed population ahead of the beans I'd plant in 2025. The idea would be I could have a corn - wheat - clover - bean 4 year rotation.

[@GeigerFarm]

@@grasscreekfarmturtlelake1741 If you can produce quality seed, there will be a market. You would have needed to interseed the clover in the wheat, or in this case the same time as the wheat. Clover is a biennial. The second year is the seed year. It works great if you are after forage. Not sure fall seeding would work in your area. It doesn't work very well here. Clover hay is tricky, but doable. Why not do a CC. The legumes there are very forgiving! I don't fear weeds. If you concentrate on soil health, and have some luck with the weather, they aren't a problem. BTW, manure application brings a flush of weeds. If you would like to discuss, we could visit. Easier than typing ;)