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UP / Thumb of Michigan | So what if your following beets with wheat or corn what then would be a good cover crop choice?
I don't know.
Coming from someone who has ZERO experience with it- I'd be tempted to try Buckwheat. Very fast growing. No clue how it would take the traffic associated with beet harvest though.
Although I never tried Oilseed Radish after mid August, I suppose if the moon and starts aligned you might get something pre beet harvest, but I wouldn't plan on it.
Buckwheat or OSR won't make it past the first really cold day, so neither is probably a very good bang for the buck.
Someone was using oats in place of rye pre beet harvest, but I don't recall any details of how that worked. You at least wouldn't have the same issues with oats that we ran into with rye.
Back to rye- there are places where a grass following a grass works OK. We thought we checked all the boxes on additional management practices to make it work for us, and struck out every time. There was one key thing that kept it from working for us, just don't know what that is.
Edited by pat-michigan 9/14/2025 21:58
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Cover cropping after sugarbeet harvest