This past weekend I took a drive over to Union township to check out my fields there. I was surprised to see the stand and amount of growth that was there.
These pictures are of cereal rye seeded into harvested soybeans. The cereal rye was broadcast with pell lime. I used 185 lbs. per acre of pell lime and 40 lbs.per acre of cereal rye.
This was broadcast surface applied, than I made my strips. This result has been vary consistent in that I get nice cover with a bare strip to plant into.
This mixture was applied on 10-31-09. There was just a green fuzz of growth last fall and I didn't think any survived into spring. The pictures were taken on 5-9-09. This matches my experience with cereal rye in past years, it just seems to be more hardy and tolerant to later seeding dates.
There are still some thin spots here also, but still more cover than with the annual rye grass this year.
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