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East Central Illinois | Weed control has been good, but not always consistent. It varies with weed pressure, rainfall, a few variables like that. Typically it’s very good early, but might have some late season waterhemp come up. We’ve had fields that after our roundup pass to terminate the rye, we didn’t even have a post pass, to sometimes a pass around the border, and sometimes had to spray the whole field with a normal post pass. Most important thing with yield drag that we’ve found is terminating after planting as soon as you can. Never noticed yield drag until the last two years, we didn’t terminate a few fields right after planting, then it turned dry and the rye had taken too much moisture that the beans couldn’t get going properly. I can’t say that rye has ever caused a yield boost, just other benefits that are hard to assign dollars to(erosion, nutrient scavenging, weed pressure, soil structure, moisture holding for the beans and the next year for corn as we strip till into the rye mat, things like that) Definitely not a system without any risk, but we feel it’s great for our soil and is what we should be doing. | |
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Replant after rye
