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| My personal opinion here and some experience too.......I worked in the vegetable (canning peas, sweet corn and snap bean) world for 13 years before coming back home fulltime farming. My experience is on irrigated sand and a lot of cereal rye was used for limiting wind erosion purposes. We often notilled sweet corn and snap beans into dessicated rye stubble. Part of my job was to scout fields for weeds, insects, etc and learned quick that armyworm will come into rye. The cost of the insecticide and application to smoke the armyworm is worth the benefits that the rye brings to the table (that is my opinion). You have to be on the lookout for armyworm. I use spring barley after wheat at home for a cover crop and have often looked for armyworm and have yet to find it. However, I will still keep on looking....
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The next time you think about planting cereal rye ahead of corn look at this
