You can LEGALLY manipulate a crop in any way shape or form as long as the crop stays in the field per DNR. You can top sow wheat on a plowed/harrowed/ raked field as long as it constitutes a good seed bed. I'll top sow wheat 10-1 and again 10-31 in a different area. You can also burn crops as I will my prozo next Saturday.
One problem I'm having is the pines next to my field are full of corn shucks. The squirrels are having a field day! As for the deer I put chipped soap and hair mix in the corn. Also I spray it with fabric softener with a side boom. If not the deer will eat it up at night..........Everything that breathes.....Eats corn.
You cannot STORE the crop to be distributed at a later date.
You can break the corn and run it through the chipper but it cannot go into a container (even on site).....FYI
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So how bout running it through a picker/sheller and dumping it straight on the ground?
I have a one row picker. It will shuck but not shell it......You cold dump it in the ground directly from the picker(whole ears)........The deer would love it....Now If you could get someone to combine it. They could open the screens and run it all shelled out on the ground.
Just go get you a silage chopper and be done with it. Several in the Florence area for sale right now.
Go to Craigslist, click Columbia, click Farm and Garden, open the search to all nearby areas. Quite a few are in there from projects to field ready. Its like going from a merry tiller to a 3pt tractor rotary tiller when comparing to all the other methods that have been discussed.
I'm sure it's the easiest way to bust up standing corn but when I try to amortize the price of a silage cutter against how many years of dove club dues it equals, it's hard to justify. My implement budget has already been depleted years into the future.
https://florencesc.craigslist.org/gr...949569711.html
This is what I had in mind. Silage chopper sounds messy.
Grow full field of corn. Pick off strips where you want clean ground and sell to deer hunters. Disc and till strips, then pick/shell corn directly on clean ground.
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Last edited by buckshot1224; 08-27-2019 at 09:22 AM.
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The problem with putting shelled corn on the ground is that it will sprout. Just look at all the corn fields that have already been cut. If they've gotten some rain then you see a lot of green and a dove isn't eating a corn plant. A silage cutter or wood chipper should crack or split most of the kernels which means they can lay on the ground till they are consumed or rot but they won't sprout after the first rain.
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