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| Hi Paul,
Have you tried cereal rye planted into corn stalks preceding soybeans?
this is probably the most fool proof cover crop system and is how I generally recommend that farmers get started with cover crops.
making cover crops work ahead of corn in a corn-soybean or corn-corn system requires more management.
The attached pics show a nice stand of rye and radish planted with a air delivery system on a 30' vertical tillage tool just south of the Sciota elevator. I don't know the exact planting date but probably mid September.
The radishes didn't get too big but I think they got large enough to do some good... suppression of winter annual weeds by the rye and radish is good.
pretty sure that the field will be planted to soybeans in 2013.
Joel
WIU Agriculture
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Cover crops vs Fall burndowns
