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Can Cover Crops Become Weeds?

Annual Ryegrass, cover crops, cover crops becoming weeds, managing cover crops, Radishes

In a previous post I wrote that cover crops can suppress weeds. And many farmers are planting them with that primary benefit in mind. But, can cover crops become weeds? Unfortunately, the answer is “yes, they can.” Obviously we never want this to happen on our farm. And with good management practices, we can lessen […]

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Terminating Cover Crops – Use Residual Herbicide

Annual Ryegrass, cover crops, cover crops becoming weeds, herbicides and cover crops, problems with cover crops, Radishes, residual herbicides

Terminating cover crops is part of the “stepped-up management” that using cover crops requires. Over the past month I shot videos about killing annual ryegrass, killing crimson clover, and about the difference of killing cereal rye and annual ryegrass. In each of the videos I examined the importance of killing the cover crop…and killing it

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