Mike Plumer, an agronomist with the University of Illinois began to recommend annual ryegrass over a decade ago, when he discovered its value as a nitrogen-scavenging cover crop.
“When a soybean plant dies, it immediately starts to degrade. If you get any rainfall on the residue or through the nodules, it’s going to leach nitrogen quickly.”
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This was a forum posting I found recently on No-Till Farmer’s website (Farmer’s Forum)
I plant cover crops here in Michigan on all my farms. You can cut your cost a little by using annual ryegrass or wheat or cerael rye, with hairy vetch. I use 20 lb of annual rye and 60lb austrian winter [...]
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