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| I love reading old posts like this. Wish there were more. I was reading threw a study done in Akron Colorado. Akron is just west of us. I guess they were playing around with triticale, forage oats, and Sudan grass in a rotation on dryland. I didn’t read anywhere that they had a fallow period. But I guess if you think about it, Sudan and forage oats are typically a short season crop. So you’d have 10 months “rest” between them. And drill your triticale that fall after one of them. This is interesting to me coming from a grain background. Dryland corn, millet, wheat fallow. We get 6-12 inches of rainfall a year.
How would that work with no real fallow year.? I know if you swath and baled all of those you’re not really leaving any stubble behind like you would for corn or wheat. Would that be relatively hard on the ground? I would think so. Majority of everything is no till out here. I’m curious about this rotation mostly for our cattle close to home. Dryland corn is just not working out for Silage these days. | |
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Dryland crop rotation fun
