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St-Eugene, Ontario | Why wouldn't you use it as a nurse crop? Lots of barley grown around here (spring barley though) and it is all underseeded to alfalfa. Since you get it off so early, the straw is still clean because the alfalfa hasn't grown tall and the alfalfa takes off right after. Works great around here. Another thing I have heard some do is take off barley, drill annual ryegrass, take a cut in the fall, a cut in the spring and no till beans. Works good if you have manure to put on before annual ryegrass. Barley (with underseeding) is easy to grow. We have used bin run seed for the last 5 years or so, no treatment just put it in the drill and go. We put manure on that's it and one pass of embutox leaves a clean field and we consistently get 70-80 bushels. Now that's a cheap crop to grow! | |
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