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Western OK | I will echo what the others have said about lack of chemicals and the next crop increase in weed pressure.
Generally if you can get a stand, you can get a crop. It is cheap to put in, wild hogs and deer don't bother it much. Harvest can be a bear, sesaco it a stickler on moisture and docks.
We have done it I think 4 times. 2 complete disasters, 1 break even, and 1 bumper.
My biggest problems with it are, it is a food crop and they expect you to handle it as such, moisture, quality grades, and dockage, but they don't pay enough in my opinion for your troubles. Also, harvest can be so late that it puts wheat planting behind it so late that it can hurt your wheat yield potential.
Like was also said above, if it's a good sesame year, odds are it would be a good cotton year.
If possible even with single crop sesame, we have found it better to delay planting to try to get more weeds up and killed, but with that it puts you in a Generally hotter period of time where planting shallow into moisture with our hot wind can be an impossibility, so you end up planting deeper than desired. | |
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