Posted 5/8/2016 10:14 (#5288471 - in reply to #5288243) Subject: RE: Strongest taproot?
mhagny - 5/7/2016 17:18
Yeah, you got me on that. I should say that alfalfa is easy to kill with herbicides if going to a grass crop, which is what 99% of people would be doing.
Mabe 99% of your experience is grass but here no almost one follows alfalfa with a grass crop. The closest thing would be interseeding a grass into the last year of your alfalfa crop for an alfalfa / grass mix or alfalfa oat mix. At that point the last thing you would want to do is kill the alfalfa.
I have followed with corn a few times and the wild alfalfa in corn yes could be controlled with chemicals however at the same time you are harvesting grain a good 18" above the ground or a few inches above the ground with silage and no one is going to cry fowl with some alfalfa if it were to go through the chopper. In some places after 8-9 years of feed alfalfa the last thing you want to do is rotate back through with corn you need to rotate back into higher value crops and that's where the problem arises.
The issue is when you are harvesting right on the top few inches of soil or you have a crop like cotton that gets stained by the alfalfa.
Strongest taproot?
