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Finney county, kansas | Crop rotation on dryland in this area is for the most part wheat, plant corn or milo into wheat stubble, then chem fallow for a summer if you can kill the kochia. Looking for a crop to plant in fall after corn or milo comes off. It would have to be pretty drought resistant and be able to handle wide ranges of temperatures throughout winter. In the spring it would prolly either need to die off or be killed off somewhere between the 1st of may and 1st of june. Would like to accomplish two things with this shade the ground to keep kochia from coming up they are getting resistant to everything out here and if you dont get them the first time you cant kill them especially when it is hot and dry which is quite frequently. The second one would be to keep the ground mellow to plant wheat into and maybe conserve moisture that we recieve throughout the summer and also right before wheat drilling. Our soils can hold about 3 inches of water per foot. I was thinking a winter legume that would maybe also fix some nitrogen and be some thing other than a grass.
Here is our avg rainfall by month:
Jan.- .4 in
Feb.- .7 in
Mar.- 1.1 in
Apr.- 1.9in
May- 2.9in
Jun.- 2.9in
Jul.- 2.6in
Aug.- 2.3
Sep.- 1.7in
Oct.- 1.2 in
Nov.- .7 in
Dec- .5 in
Total- 18.9 in
Avg rainfall between crops- wheat to milo-11.2 inches
milo to wheat- 16 inches
Any advice would be much appreciated | |
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Cover crop for Southwest Kansas Ed Winkle others?
