Re: Question for grain farmers
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It's hard to put a price on the value of a cover crop and it varies region to region. More are doing it in my area. Some say it adds value over its cost, some say it's about a break even and some say it's cost is greater than it's value in my area. We do some on the operation I work on but we graze it in the fall to help recover some of the input costs. PLUS you can deduct the seed cost from your taxes !!!
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Re: Question for grain farmers
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07/11/21 08:09 PM
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It's done around here a fair amount. Cereal rye will be planted in the fall and then a crop is no till planted the following year. Around here, the rye is ran over with a crimper roller to terminate it and leave a thatch for the crop to grow through reducing weed pressure. You gain organic matter and and reduce herbicide and fertilizer costs. My impression is that it takes some fine tuning to get it right.
It works well for food plots as well. I spring plant rye or oats, terminate aug. 1st and plant brassica and red clover.
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Re: Question for grain farmers
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07/11/21 09:49 PM
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In our operation, we plant cover crop behind all the corn acres every fall, as soon as the combine leaves the field. Cover crop is usually barley, but also use wheat, daikon radishes, crimson clover. -Cover crops aid in conserving moisture in the seed bed, by creating a mulch , while keeping the direct sunlight to the soil minimized. -Cover crops reduce erosion from both rain and wind -Cover crops hold your residual nitrogen and other nutrients in place. Also, the legumes will fix nitrogen to reduce applications for the following crop.
We’re seeing lots of benefits of planting cover crops on our farms.
It is killed around May 1st, as soon as the next crop of corn or beans is planted. Sometimes the planter chases the sprayer, but lately were trying to “plant green”, meaning no-till plant into the green standing cover crop, and spray it to kill it before the new crop emerges. It’s been working great for our operation.
John
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Re: Question for grain farmers
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07/11/21 10:24 PM
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In my area the only reason guys monkey with cover crops and minimal till is for the payments under certain programs through nrcs
I'd Rather Try And Fail Then Not Try And Succeed
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Re: Question for grain farmers
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07/12/21 08:17 AM
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I would check to see if it is not winter rye instead of wheat. Around here we don't plant expensive wheat seed instead of rye for a cover crop. We also have a lot of farmers plant winter rye or triticale and cut it mid-May and chop as silage and then plant corn for silage. Cover crop and also a way to get some organic matter back in the soil. They probably spray it to kill it so when they plant the spring crop you are not planting new seeds into live roots which will suck all the water out of the soil and really impact germination.
Bryce Thanks bblwi and JO MI BRO, You guys made the most sense and are speaking from experience I'm just amazed they dont cut it for straw as much as a bale of straw is worth. But then you loose the compose for the most part.
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Re: Question for grain farmers
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07/12/21 09:24 PM
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People bale straw in Page County VA. There is definitely a demand for straw.
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wanna be goat farmer.
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