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Fresh Ayr Farm Crops
Sweet corn season is over. We had the best tasting sweet corn ever in 2011. Hope you had some. Come back next year for some more.
At Fresh Ayr Farm, we grow the best tasting Sweet Corn around. We grow it using environmentally friendly best management practices, like no-till planting, crop rotation, cover crops, and IPM scouting methods for pests, using low rates of pesticides only if needed. We pick it fresh every morning for the best tasting corn around . Our specialty is supersweet yellow varieties that taste better than the sweet corn you remember from last summer. Sweet corn picking season for us starts about the middle of July and lasts through Labor Day weekend. Come and buy some at Fresh Ayr Farm Market and at the farmers' market in Canandaigua on Saturday mornings.
Another specialty for us is our top quality alfalfa hay for horses. We also have long-cut RYE STRAW, which makes great bedding for horse stalls. Rye straw is mowed and baled in late May/early June just before it heads and starts to make grain. Wheat Straw is also available after wheat harvest in July. Hay and straw can be purchased and picked up at the farm by appointment with George. Call 585-329-4554.
Soybeans and wheat round out our crop program and are sold to local mills. After harvesting wheat straw, new alfalfa/grass hay seedings are made in some of the wheat fields, and tillage radishes and/or rye are planted for cover crops in the other wheat fields to build organic matter, capture left over nutrients and improve soil tilth for the next crop. Winter wheat is planted after sweet corn fields are harvested and in some soybean fields after harvest. Rye is planted in the remaining soybean fields after harvest. All of our fields have something growing on them all the time.
We believe that no-till planting is the heart of sustainable farming and cover crops are a critical part of successful no-till farming.