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Callao, Missouri | Biggest differences:
1. Root system. Rye will easily have 4x the root mass of wheat. You can dig 24"+ in the spring and find roots. Wheat calls it quits just below the surface. The more we use cover crops the more we understand how this affects the next crop.
2. Vigor. Rye is a force to be reckoned with when it grows, wheats more or less there, adding a little plant mass along the way.
3. Ability to suppress weeds. Rye will suppress weeds. Wheat is kind of like a democrat candidate...better together.
I went cheap last fall, spread 2-3bu of wheat. Planted it green into beans this year. Waterhemp showed up about 3 weeks later. Beans into rye had maybe 1/4 of the waterhemp except for the field that I grazed into may.
Contrary to agtalk opinion, I have better luck planting corn into green wheat than green rye. Search my posts for my rye mess ups this year. I'm planning to plant all corn into wheat next year, beans into rye.
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Wheat vs rye as a CC
