Grain farmers here have a corn-wheat-soybean rotation that they use. Corn planted in the spring, harvested in the fall, followed by wheat planted as soon as the corn is shelled, then after the wheat is cut in June, soybeans are planted. Three crops in two years. Even when grain prices are down, they still stick by that rotation. The only exception is on land that is too wet for wheat, then it's a corn-soybean rotation.
Around here they do the same thing, except they bail the wheat stubble and sell straw to contracted highway departments and commercial landscapers. Kinda like having four crops in two seasons. For the longest time they let the combine spreaders scatter the straw, now it is worth almost what the wheat is when small square bailed. Straw goes for $5 a bail retail around here. About what alfalfa did a few years ago. Second crop soybeans generally have a lot less yield than early crop beans, but works out with the extra crops associated with it. Just a hell of a lot of diesel fuel planting, spraying , combining, bailing, picking up straw used with that much crop rotation.
