Dormant seeding, or “frost seeding,” - a cover crop is much less common than seeding in late summer, after harvest. But Michigan grower Larry Bonnell shared his dormant seeding success with No-Till Farmer magazine this week. He is talking about annual ryegrass. Here’s an excerpt, which you can access by logging on to No-Till Farmer.
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Most of the farmers I’ve met this week at the Pennsylvania No-Till training are in the dairy business, even though some are getting out due to the low price of milk the last couple years. Some are putting in row crops, which would change a lot of management practices.
According to folks from Penn State, the [...]
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The late harvest, combined with a wet fall, has made conventional tillage more difficult. Those risking tillage would probably add to compaction issues. But late harvest has also hampered planting cover crops this year. Here are a couple of things to consider, either for later this year or next summer.
1. Dormant seeding of annual ryegrass [...]
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A Hudson Valley (New York) newspaper reporter in a recent online article advised a reader to use annual ryegrass on an area being prepared for a lawn. The reader wanted to know whether seeding it this late in the fall would be valuable.
Here’s what the landscaping/gardening reporter of the Times Record-Herald said:
You can try broadcasting [...]
Continue reading about NY Residents Advised to Use Annual Ryegrass Over Winter
As of late last week (Oct 17), less than 10% of the corn and soybean crops in the Midwest had been harvested.
Many of those interested in planting a cover crop this fall have been frustrated by the lateness of harvest. Some decided to fly their annual ryegrass or other cover crop into standing corn and [...]
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