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N.W. Illinois | If you plan on growing corn on corn in Northern Illinois a cover crop is not going to cut it. First thing I can think of is trying to even get one established. There is not enough growing season left most years to harvest corn and seed it down. Also you certainly do not want to no-til a cover crop into standing corn stalks. You are just asking for a disaster doing that.
Livestock farmers that chopped off corn silage are the only ones in my area that can get away with cover crops. However most of those guys should kill the rye in the Spring much sooner then they do. They took a big hit this year costing them in grain and silage by waiting to kill the cover to close to planting. They ran out of moisture in the early part of summer.
Edited by mounder 10/19/2012 10:52
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making 200bpa ground out of 150bpa ground....
