mhagny - 5/17/2016 19:03
kevkath - 5/17/2016 15:24 Looking at rotating some wheat ground to corn and soybeans for next year. Would like to plant a cover that I could lightly graze if possible. How does a person manage this without keeping a green bridge for wheat diseases? I am not only concerned about my own wheat but also my good neighbors.
if you have only broadleaf species in your mix, you can spray with clethodim or Assure and do a decent job suppressing the volunteer.
what works even better is to grow sudan or pearl millet, which will completely shade out volunteer wheat if the stand of those cover crops is adequate. If there are some gaps, you can spray atrazine & COC to kill the volunteer.
Or spray out the volunteer a couple times in the summer, and drill cereal rye about the time the first people in the area start drilling wheat.
Ummm... I don't like the idea of planting a grass like pearl millet or Sudan and then planting corn. atrazine sprayed after June 10th you can't plant beans next year....
? for experienced cover croppers
