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| There aren’t many weed control options, pre or post, dual pre and pray it doesn’t rain more than a half inch before emergence, and only diuron for broadleaf weeds and clethodim for grasses but I think they both ding sesame pretty good.
My thoughts are that it has its place as a double crop, can’t pull its weight as a primary crop. Any early frost, even a light one, late October through early November, will kill most of it and really hurt grade and yield of double crop sesame. It doesn’t progress if it’s cloudy and cool, flip side is it won’t be ready to harvest until 10-15 days after it freezes. That probably puts you into December to harvest and they’ll want it at about 6% moisture. IF it’s sunny warm and low humidity, you’ll get about 4 hours to combine per day.
If it’s a good weather year for double crop sesame, it’ll be a good year for double crop soybeans too. Yes it’s heat and drought tolerant but it still needs about 8” in season and decent soil moisture at planting to make 800-1000# and if I can get that, soybeans will make 30-35 bushel. Seed price favors sesame over soy, just barely, but there are many headaches with sesame that aren’t there for soybeans. Two to 2 1/2# is the standard rec for it, but I think that a good planter set right can go down to 1 1/4 pounds of sesame, maybe even a pound.
It’s a pretty plant when it’s blooming, it’s always disappointed me though. | |
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