What are guys doing for cover crops on PP acres?

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I’ve considered soybeans, oats, rye ect. Just curious what some others are doing.

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I'm planting a seven species mix that we will graze after the cattle come off grass. Should be good for the soil and the cattle. Going to soybeans next year.

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Daikon radishes and Austrian winter peas in alternating 15 inch rows. Corn will be planted over the radishes in the spring.

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Oats and soybeans used up extra bean 1 bu.oats 1/3 bu. Beans

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I tried Red Clover.  I forgot that it starts REAL SLOW.  I had dreams of planting into it next spring no till.  However, I may have to destroy it due to weed take over.

I absolutely want to avoid soybeans and even more so avoid sunflowers.  Sunflowers, I am told, are prolific hosts for white mold.  Regarding soybeans, I want to break the disease cycle of the beans.  I am ending up back to oats and winter wheat.  Due to wetness, my winter wheat cover crop was terminated later than I wished.  It appears there was a minor disease transfer from the winter wheat.  Next year if winter wheat cover goes to corn, it will be terminated earlier, somehow!!!

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I had a drone startup spread a small seeded mix of annual rye, radish, crimson clover, and dwarf essex rape in drown out patches a few weeks ago. I have been told a warm season mix would have been better over the summer but this mix is doing great in north central Iowa right now.

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I’m planting sunflowers then in September I’m getting my wheat started we planted so late don’t think I will have beans out before we can plant

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You will have to consider what herbicides you may have applied this spring. May prevent germination of some cover crops.
Also need to consider your objectives of your cover crop. Managing Cover Crops Profitably from SARE is a good publication that discusses cover crop selection.

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15# oats, 15# soybeans, 2.5# radishes

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We just planted soybeans.  Had the equipment, familiar with necessary weed control, frost will kill it, free seed due to treated seed that was returned.  Also a lot of oats going in in our area.

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Nitro mix from Agacy seeds.  If going to corn in 20

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Yes, Oats. I like the comments about using  up left over soybeans as a cover corp. I have some treated ones that I have heard do not germinate well if you hold them over until next season. 
Good place to put them and maybe get some "N" from it for 2020 corn crop.

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Oats and soybeans

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Cereal rye has worked well for me before beans. I have extra if someone needs some. 785-221-5566

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I planted sunflowers mixed with unused treated bean seed. 3 to 1 ratio sunflowers to beans. Doing great and the song birds will be very happy this winter.

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Consider what crop you will be planting next to avoid allelopathy.

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