Crop recommendation

So i just bought a 13 acres field 5 miles down the street. Would like a little input on what to plant. Field is oneida soil which is fertile well drained gravel. Ph is 6.3. Field hasn't been farmed in a number of years. It is grown up with weeds but no sumac or multi flower rose.

I can grow pretty much anything but silage isn't an option (too far to haul wagons ). I am not organic so round up will be in the plan.

Any thoughts?

More info please…
Oneida County soils?
Average annual growing degrees? Heat units?
Corn 75-115day, soybean 1.6-2.3 maturity ranges?
Cereal grains?
Well drained gravel, so what’s it Slope % ?

Here’s a Cornell Cooperative Extension Oneida County for ag crops general info.
https://cceoneida.com/agriculture/specific-crops

Edited by AC7060IL - 24 Jan 2024 at 8:49pm

If oats are tuff to sell, and you are not set up for on-farm storage for oats, skip that option. Until you get accustomed to the routine of this plot of land in your operation, I’d go corn the first year or two(maybe three) if you are comfortable with corn on corn on corn.
How good are the fences(if any)?
Is water available, either pond, creek, tap? If good fences, and water, why not pasture it?

yeah, trying to get anyone to do custom work around here is impossible for an operation my size, though I do agree oat balage is the cow equivalent of chocolate. Ithaca is usually about 2400 degree days growing season.

No fences, yet. And there isn't a lot of good tillable ground around here. But if it was the clay that most ground around here is, pasture is exactly what it would be

II meant rent from a dealer. Ya, they’d love to sell me stuff too!

I think corn silage might work. 5 miles isn’t that bad if you have help. Let you get the ground tilled and lots of options to get the weeds under control.

I would consider soybeans first, reason is you can preplant herbicides to clean up the field and find boundaries before planting and easier to see weed pressure during growing season, second you don't say if it is a square field, odd shape field take extra seed if doing corn. Soybeans could be harvested or if things go south plan B cut for livestock needs. Off season can get in there earlier to clean up field edges and repair any drainage concerns while there isn't much trash on the fields then follow up the next year with corn but this is just thoughts from a farmer in Illinois.

In our area (5 miles from the Quebec border), buckwheat is planted as late as early July. It's often plowed down as a "green manure" type fertilizer, especially on a field that has not been in production for several years.

Hopefully not any saplings in the average, depending on the thatch that is more likely present, is your first challenge. Burn off? Moldboard plow? Chisel?