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Western OK | located south of weatherford. the biggest reason for the covercrop is for cow food, usually make a bunch or wheat hay and we all know how thats gonna be this year. also everything i read on covercrops preaches DIVERSITY. thats where i got the idea for just buying good cowpea seed and mixing random stuff the cows would eat in it. call it being CHEAP or TO TIGHT but i think that the mark-up on the cover fad is way to much. as ffar as the moisture loss is consered i had a neihbor who told me when i asked him about the manoth clods he was bringing up with a big ox some years he said " if it doesnt rain enough to melt those clods by planting time there wont be enough moisture to plant anyways". point is we probly dont have anything to loose moisturewise anyway... our low <1 organicmatter red soils dont have very good water holding capasity. that might be another goal for the use of covercrops maybe. Thanks,
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Cover crop after burned up/ froze out/ hayed wheat
