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Pilot Grove, Missouri | I have grown some every year for the last 4 years. I have settled on 80# per acre for seed on bean stubble. I topdress nitrogen a little later than I would wheat, to try and keep the rye standing better. It seems to work ok. I figure on a yeild of about 1/2 of a good wheat crop and fertilize accordingly. If I try to push the yeild much it seems to all end up on the ground and that is a lot of straw to run through a combine and is painfully slow. The first year I grew any for seed it cost me $2 for a 50# unit of seed. Now you can get it for about $10-12 and I'm not so sure it pays for itself. I do double crop beans behind it. Last year I took 30 bushel rye and 46 bushel double crop beans off a pretty poor piece of ground. This year the rye was around 35-40 bushel and no clue on the beans yet. It always seems to be a week or two behingd the wheat for harvest timing. Patrick | |
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Growing my own cereal rye, is this worth the effort?
