Prevented Plant
What Comes Next?
Prevented planting should not be a lost opportunity to plant a cash crop, but rather the perfect opportunity to explore options that may not have been present in other planting years. Here are a few ways steps to capitalize on a prevented planting situation and strengthen your farming operation.
Don’t Go Fallow
Like your best horse, your fields like to work. Despite always being up for the challenge, delivering crops season after season, it may be time to give your ground a break. Resting soil does not mean not planting anything, but slightly changing the type of work, it is tasked to do. Just like when people do a repetitive task over and over, a simple change in crop species can be all that’s needed to rejuvenate and reinvigorate. We, of course, suggest planting cover crops to avoid Fallow Syndrome and strengthen subsequent plantings/yields.
Contact Your Crop Insurance Agent
Your insurance agent will be able to tell you what is and isn’t possible within the limits of your policy. Dates that you can plant an alternative crop, how it might affect your yield history, and how it might affect any insurance payments are all items of concern that your crop insurance agent is best suited to assist you with.
Contact Your Local Bio Till Cover Crop Expert
Your Bio Till Cover Crop Expert will be able to help you select an alternative crop to plant that will work with your farming operation. Even though a cover crop isn’t a cash crop doesn’t mean that it’s not a crop requiring some of the same considerations a cash crop requires for maximizing contributions to the soil health of prevented planted acres. Herbicides utilized in previous plantings along with plans for subsequent crops will affect the number of successful options available to your operation.
4. CHOOSE YOUR PREVENTED PLANTING SOLUTIONS
Multi-species cover corp mixtures present a holistic approach to enhancing the soils on a farming operation and should be used instead of a single species planting whenever possible.
