Killing Cover Crop Annual Ryegrass – How Are We Doing?

By Dave, on April 16th, 2012%
This Annual Ryegrass plant was almost killed. But almsot is NOT good enough!

Over the winter of 2011-12 I did nearly 55 cover crop meetings across the Midwest.  And one of the “hottest” topics was how to kill annual ryegrass in the spring. This topic is almost like the Tim Tebow of the cover crop world. Some have no problems managing it and some hate it (cannot get . . . → Read More: Killing Cover Crop Annual Ryegrass – How Are We Doing?

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Formula for Killing Tall Annual Ryegrass

By Dave, on May 7th, 2011%

These varieties of Annual Ryegrass were already knee high on April 28th in Lexington, KY in the U-K Annual Ryegrass trial. On that date there were already some seed heads starting to be visible.

It’s May 7, 2011. I received five phone calls yesterday from farmers that have wet fields…flooded fields, and knee high annual . . . → Read More: Formula for Killing Tall Annual Ryegrass

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Cover Crop Annual Ryegrass – Kill it dead!

By Dave, on March 28th, 2011%

By mid-October it was very evident that there was A LOT of volunteer annual ryegrass in this field. At that time the question was whether it would survive the winter…the answer was "yes it would". So now what? KILL IT DEAD this spring!

I was recently in a field of ryegrass cover crop . . . → Read More: Cover Crop Annual Ryegrass – Kill it dead!

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Is Annual Ryegrass a weed – part 2

By Dave, on August 5th, 2010%

These annual ryegrass seedlings were around 3-4" tall underneath the soybeans. I'd imagine they could be 2-3 feet tall at harvest.

The soybean field looks great! But underneath the green foliage you will find lots of annual ryegrass coming.

Today, August 3, 2010 I visited some fields in Whitley County Indiana to look . . . → Read More: Is Annual Ryegrass a weed – part 2

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