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NE Iowa | I just read the article about that this morning and it seems to me like the downsides outweigh the benefits. Very limited herbicide options, need to spray growth regulator on alfalfa, and it mentions corn silage yields being reduced 7%. I'm in NE Iowa and what has become popular in my area is seeding alfalfa after corn silage. Instead of planting late maturity corn for silage they plant more like 102-105 day corn. They try and get it chopped the first week of September and seeded to alfalfa with no nurse crop immediately. Most years it only gets a couple inches tall before getting froze but it seems to survive the winter. Then the next summer it seems to yield like established alfalfa. | |
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alfalfa interseeded with corn?
