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Northwest Illinois | I've got a wacky idea I'd like to try this fall, and would enjoy any thoughts. I want to try some cereal rye cover crops on my low o.m. Irrigated sands. I understand this is a common practice, but I'd like to incorporate a fall strip banding 2 bushel of soybeans with an air cart. I want the rye to help break down my corn stalks with some broadcast N. In the strips, the 120 lbs of soybeans could either grow or rot or hopefully both if done in an early enough fashion. I would be planting corn in the strips the following spring. I would think the best case scenario would be for the beans to sprout before a killing frost. I feel like I would be temporarily raising the organic matter in the zone for the seedling to get started on. Would the 2 bushel be enough. Anybody tried this? Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks.
Edited by winner2011 2/19/2015 20:15
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Cover crop with a twist
