Cover Crop Recipes: Post Corn, Going to Soybean: Use Cereal Rye
DOWNLOADAugust 23, 2019 - Author: Dean Baas, Christina Curell, Paul Gross, Monica Jean, Philip Kaatz, MSU Extension, Elizabeth Schultheis, Michigan State University
This recipe provides an introductory approach to integrating a cover crop into a corn-soybean rotation. Planting a cereal rye cover crop ahead of soybean is a way to introduce cover crops into your rotation. (Note: Cereal rye [Secale cereale] and annual ryegrass [Lolium multiflorum] are different species and are not interchangeable.)