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EC Nebraska | How many years did it actually get used? Maybe it was a great idea, everybody needed to try it out, and it didn't turn out so well.
Fads get recycled, maybe about every 130 years. ;)
Seriously, tho, I wonder about disease pressure planting untreated wheat seed into standing corn. Might not have been as much disease pressure back then as there is today, but that seems to be asking for it.
And what about nitrogen? Wasn't much synthetic fertilizer around in 1883 and the corn wouldn't have left much N out there. What did they do, spread manure on the wheat in the spring? Or in the winter?
I know the open pollinated corn didn't use N like modern hybrids but they didn't have that much to start with. It honestly doesn't sound like the greatest idea.
ETA: Maybe the idea was wheat for grazing. Get something green out there when you turn the livestock out into the corn stalks. That sounds like a much more productive idea.
Edited by NE Ridger 8/21/2015 21:57
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Here's one of the first cover crop inter seeders (pics)
