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southern MN | We are cold and wet and short on sun up here, you have to remember a lot of people promoting cover crops have a lot less winter than we do, they can let rye get stemy and break it off and plant a soy crop timely yet.
Where I am we are trying to plant corn before the frost is out of the ground and beans before any rye is ankle high, we need all our sun and heat for the crop.
It’s a different world the farther north.
Can still use covers, but it’s different in the north, it won’t work the way it does for these guys. Much less growth and much less benefits. Need to work in a special nitche; small grains, canning crop, silage, to make the cover have some growing time. Interseeding is interesting, but costly to seed and growth is very random, good catch one year, poor and early frost the next......
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Fall cover crops
