North Central Illinois | jbgruver - 2/12/2021 14:56
My experience with cereal rye is that it doesn't have great shade tolerance and is not likely to consistently survive when planted into a good stand of corn at V6 - with or without a residual herbicide program.
Joel
WIU Agriculture
I would agree with this. I do have a little in some corn stubble, but I think it came up later. Annual ryegrass is a better choice for early interseeding. I interseeded annual ryegrass at last cultivation (no herbicide) around V6-V-7. If I get adequate moisture for a few weeks after broadcast seeding annual ryegrass I generally get decent establishment. This year one field was dry at seeding and had just enough rain the next day to sprout, but then dry again so very poor establishment. That field had a lot of cereal rye seed from the prior year (most germinated in the previous fall). However, some must have germinated after we got rain again in July, as there are probably 5-10 cereal rye plants per square yard throughout the field. |
seeding cover crops V 6 or so
