When terminating a rye cover crop, if the cover is 12 inches or more and you’re planning on a residual herbicide, consider waiting on the residual as a second pass after the rye starts dying. We ...

Wondering how and when to terminate your cover crop? Perhaps planting green is right for you. This practice involves planting your corn or soybean crop directly into a cover crop like cereal rye or ...

HAMPTON — Deciding the most effective way to kill a cover crop can be a challenge. Winter-killing, tilling, mowing and herbicides are four common methods, but not all work equally well with all types ...

LAKEFIELD, Minn. — Cover crops present opportunities to build soil health and maybe even get a secondary crop off a field. They also canbe challenging, considering they leave behind residue and ideal ...

The map below was created a few days after spring termination of the cover crop. Treatments consisted of several different cover crop mixtures, as well as no cover. The field was then planted to corn ...

After corn silage comes off, dairy farmers will often consider seeding fields to winter rye as a cover crop. It’s an easy, familiar option that establishes reliably in the fall and helps take up ...

Cereal rye is a go-to cover crop for many producers, including organic growers looking to avoid a chemical method of weed control. Eric Yu is a University of Minnesota Extension educator on crops ...