Establishing a winter rye cover crop between corn-soybean rotations in tile-drained fields (meaning, those using a system of underground drainage pipes to remove excess water) reduced nitrate ...

Winter rye is planted in the fall. It will overwinter and begin to grow again in early spring. ... The furrows in a typical field of grain range from 7 to 10 inches apart.

The rye protected the pinto bean plants during windstorms in spring and early summer 2022, and those fields did not have to be replanted like many others did, said Brad Brummond, NDSU Extension ...

Sweet Corn: No-till Planting after Winter Rye Cover Crop Liz Maynard and Dan Quinn, Great Lakes Expo, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Dec. 6, 2023, ... The research site is on a sandy loam soil with 1.5% ...

3. Planting is flexible – As long as soil contact is available, winter rye likely will grow. It’s a cold soldier, and has been shown to grow at temperatures as low as 33°F. In fact, for ...

Cereal rye is a winter-hardy, cool-season grass that is generally planted in fall and terminated in spring. A cereal rye cover crop can confer a host of benefits to the area in which it is planted.

“Got a little bit of growth going in the fall and the winter there, and then of course, it starts coming up in the spring,” Bretz said. He plans to harvest the rye in July. But it’s not the only crop ...

UW Extension Sauk County, Farmers of the Lemonweir Valley & Producers of Lake Redstone present Winter Camelina Cover Crop Field Tour from 3-5 p.m. Wednesday at N3097 Highway K, Mauston.

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