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Robison Farms in the Greenwood, Indiana area have been no-till farming since the late 1960′s. The field that these videos were taken from has been no-tilled for approximately 20 consecutive years. With the wet spring of 2011 the gentleman that now does the field work for dad decided to chisel plow and disk most of the . . . → Read More: Earthworm Population Corn Field Experiment  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 . . . → Read More: Cover Crop Annual Ryegrass – Kill it dead! As I take phone calls and conduct meetings I ask producers if they want to have the cover crop they are choosing to overwinter or die during the winter. I’d guess that the answer as split 50/50. The biggest reason for wanting the cover crop to die is that producers don’t want to have “to mess” . . . → Read More: What if a cover crop dies over the winter…was it still valuable? I was in western Pulaski County of Indiana again yesterday afternoon (11/16/2010) at the Leman farm. This is the third year that the Leman’s have used cover crops. Curt Leman dug some pits for us so we could see what kind of rooting depth we have achieved since the annual ryegrass was planted on Sept 4, . . . → Read More: Annual Ryegrass Roots Video – 40″ deep in 2 1/2 months! 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 at fields where . . . → Read More: Is Annual Ryegrass a weed – part 2 |
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