Field Pea Cafe

Why grow field peas?

• Diversify traditional corn soybean rotations to increase agronomic sustainability
• Workload distribution
• Reduce risk to extreme weather events
• Consider all potential profits streams including the value of double crop forages, potential for N credit for double crop forages, improve yield of other crops in a no-till rotation
• Weed control, herbicide cost, resistance management options to help with troublesome weeds such as waterhemp and Palmer amaranth

Growing Field Peas in Eastern Nebraska

Variety Selection and Seed Sources

• University of Nebraska Lincoln Extension – Western and Central Nebraska Field Pea Variety Testing
• 2018 Eastern Nebraska Field Pea Variety Trial
• 2018-2019 Nebraska Certified Seed Book
• South Dakota State University – Field Pea Variety Testing

Planting Practices

• USDA RMA Crop Insurance Information for Nebraska
• Field Pea Seeding Rates, Seeding Depth, and Inoculant – CropWatch
• Video: iGrow Growth Field Peas – Seeding

Harvesting Field Peas

• Video: iGrow Growing Field Peas – Harvest

Selling Field Peas in Nebraska

• Gavilon Good Life Grains and Pulses
• Farmers Business Network FBN Yellow Pea Program

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