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Ossian, IN | Last weekend I was at a seminar with a session presented by the regional NRCS rep. He was basically speaking about no-till, conservative, cover crops...basically quit using the ripper. Anyways, a question was brought up to him but he didn't go into detail since it's still being studied and no real results. It had to do with using soybeans as a cover crop, or just plain standard cover crops as a cover crop in the end rows of your corn fields, basically being drilled/planted when the corn is around V5.
Has anyone tried this practice? We haven't done any cover crops in our time, so this concept would be all new to us. I guess why would you only do the end rows and not the entire field. And then upon harvest, do you allow them to continue growing or plow it under in the fall or burndown, which ever your tillage program? | |
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Soybeans as a Cover Crop
