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| I am in western Ohio 10 miles north of I70. I have notilled corn since 1978 and soybeans since 1980. Over the years I have used rye for a cover crop a few times-planted corn and soybeans into rye that was 7 ft. tall also when the weather did not cooperate to spray earlier. Also tried Austrian winter peas and tillage radish after soybeans that did not winterkill. Planted nice after I used a stalk chopper to grind up the pea vines.
I am wanting to use a cover crop to capture nitrogen from poultry layer manure applied after soybean harvest. My thinking is to use 35-40 lbs of rye and 1.5 lbs of rape seed per acre either broadcast with a little potash and lightly disc the ground to incorporate the manure. My other thought is to drill the cover crop after the manure application using a Great Plains notil drill.
I want to look at some cover crop fields this spring to get an idea of what I may be in for. What are your thoughts of my plan? What would you recommend? What seeding rate?
Thanks, Jim | |
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Rye Cover Crop with Rape Seed
