Current Season

There are two fields for the 2009 crop I will feature. One was an old wheat stubble field that had manure hauled on during the summer. I disc chiseled this field due to some recent tiling. After tilling and land leveling this field I broadcast on 12 pounds of annual ryegrass with 150 pounds 21-0-0-24 on the 25th of September. I used a Phoenix rotary harrow to incorporate the annual ryegrass mixture. This field will be no-tilled come spring.




The other field was soybean stubble that received the same mixture of annual ryegrass and fertilizer on the 25th of September. I used the Phoenix rotary harrow to incorporate the annual ryegrass. I followed with my strip till operation. This year the seed had not germinated yet, and I didn’t know if I would get a bare strip. As you can see in the pictures the strip is clean.



Unfortunately there wasn’t much rain this fall and November was pretty cool. Consequently there wasn’t a lot of growth to the annual ryegrass this fall. We’ll have to see whether it over winters.




When spreading the annual ryegrass with a spinner spreader your passes should be on 40’ and then double back and split the middles. The annual ryegrass is so light it doesn’t throw farther than 20’. Any granular carrier can be used. I use ammonium sulfate fertilizer to get the sulfur.
I’ve used pell lime and potash also.





A drill with a grass seeder attachment can also be used to plant the seed directly into the soil. You will get a quicker stand establishment, but it comes at a higher machinery and labor cost.

Aerial seeding is an option prior to harvest. I will show examples of this coming into next fall. It also can be pretty expensive.

My seeding rates are a little less than is usually recommended but that’s where I’ve found my comfort zone. The experts recommend about 20 pounds per acre of annual ryegrass.

YOU HAVE TO EXPERIENCE THE RESULTS