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Colby, Kansas | "60 bucks will buy a lot of N." Those were exactly my thoughts when I read it Phil.
Some cover crop work was tried here at Tribune in the early/mid 1990's. As I remember it the tradeoff between evaporation and water use by the cover crop didn't pan out, the cover crops just used too much water and the crop thereafter sucked. In our environment having surface residue pays much better than the cover crop deal (as I'm sure you know). The thing about evaporation is once you dry out that surface layer the moisture below is fairly protected, versus growing a cover crop where that deeper moisture is being extracted by a root system.
Hope you are surviving the wind alright.
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AC Greenfix in Kansas
