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Offline Cornbelt

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any harvesting ideas for buckwheat?
« on: April 10, 2012, 03:50:20 PM »
We planted a patch of buckwheat the other day. If the birds don't eat it, maybe we'll get a crop, but is there a good way to harvest it w/o a combine?
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Re: any harvesting ideas for buckwheat?
« Reply #1 on: April 10, 2012, 07:48:12 PM »
cut it with a Scythe or sickle, and stand it in shocks to cure, then thresh the shocks, and winnow to separate the grain from the chaff

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Re: any harvesting ideas for buckwheat?
« Reply #2 on: April 11, 2012, 05:10:17 PM »
 Shocking it green might be a way to keep the seeds on the plants. Hadn't thought og that, but letting it dry laying down is a good way to reseed  wherever its laying. Found that out last yr. I might just try shocks. Then I could always haul them over to the neighbor's and throw them in the combine.
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