When it comes to forage and cover ... a spring rye forage harvest, dual cropping with corn, soybeans or alfalfa is possible in most climates. If the rye crop is taken all the way to seed harvest ...

The problem of “not seeing the forest for the trees” may have a solution with 3-D technology being used to estimate biomass ...

Cover crop treatments are highlighted from right to left which corresponds to planting time. The cereal rye and hairy vetch cover crops on the right side of the image was interseeded into corn at a ...

To achieve earliest planting date of soybeans, plan to use Aroostook or Elbon cereal rye ... a crop builds a canopy to fill rows and cover the soil, the less impact weeds will have on the crop.

Sow the cover crop seeds at the recommended depth and ... on the type of cover crop and your specific garden goals. For instance, winter rye and hairy vetch can be terminated in early spring ...

Cover crops such as winter rye, winter wheat ... They often reseed in the garden, and when they go to seed the seeds can be collected for planting in late fall. These can all be sown in autumn ...

These include crops such as barley, oat, wheat, rye, canola ... a green manure. Both cover crops and green manures can have weed suppressing qualities. They may shade the ground, thus reducing ...

especially for his seed corn crop. “We come in as quickly as we can behind the corn pickers at harvest and plant a cover crop, typically cereal rye,” says Hamer, who farms in northeast Iowa.

Both crops emerge and the flax grows erect and above the rye. As the fall rye has not vernalized, it grows vegetatively and remains prostrate to the ground where it acts as a cover crop ... in flax ...